Living From the Spirit and Not the Soul

In most of our conferences, we speak more or less the same thing. Different aspects of the New Covenant. And there are people who feel that we always need to hear something new. I want you to look at a verse in Acts 17.

In the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 17, verse 21. It says about the people in Athens, you know, the unconverted philosophers in Athens was the center of philosophy and a lot of education in Greece. It says, all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.

And that's how a lot of worldly people are, because they want their intellect to be stimulated by something new. But God hasn't written the Bible like that. Do you know the amount of repetition there is in the Bible?

If you compare Kings and Chronicles, you wonder why so many things are repeated. Why four Gospels? For example, the feeding of the 5 ,000 mentioned four times. And even in the Epistles, there's so much of repetition.

I believe that is God's way. The great man of God, Charles Finney, after many years of preaching experience here in the U .S. in the 19th century, he said that he believed people don't understand something unless they hear it 10 times.

And I've come to see that's true. The important thing is not whether we hear a truth five or six times. The important thing is whether we have experienced it. I remember the story of D .L. Moody, the great evangelist, when he went to England once and he had a week of meetings.

And every day he was preaching on, you must be born again. And there was a man there who was nominal Christian. He got fed up of, you know, clever intellectual guy got fed up of listening to the same thing.

And he went up to Moody and said, why do you speak every day about being born again? He says, because you must be born again. That's why I speak. So people ask me, why do you keep speaking about victory over sin?

Well, till you get victory over sin, we've got to keep speaking about it. Because God's ultimate aim is not to get us to have more knowledge. That is part of the world. You know, when God sent Adam into the garden, there were two trees in front of him.

One was knowledge. The other was life. And you know how Adam went towards knowledge, because the devil knew, if he goes there, I can trap him and lead him astray. If he goes towards the tree of life, I won't be able to get him.

I want to say to you, this book, the Bible, can be to you a tree of knowledge of good and evil. It will tell you what is good and what's evil. And you can die, spiritually die, because it says that in 2 Corinthians 3, the letter kills.

And in Jesus' time, you have the example of the Pharisees who were killed by the letter. There was nobody in the world who knew the Bible, the 39 books of the Bible in those days, like the Pharisees. And they were so dead that the Bible, which spoke from Genesis to Malachi about Jesus, you know, in Genesis, you read about the seed of the woman and Malachi, you read about the son of righteousness and every book speaks about Jesus.

We read that when Jesus went to Emmaus, he talked to the two disciples from the entire Old Testament, showing how every book spoke about him. Every book spoke about Jesus in some way. And yet, when the person about whom the Old Testament spoke came into the synagogue, the Pharisees who had studied the Bible called him Beelzebul, prince of devils.

Now, that's a very serious warning for those who pursue Bible knowledge, that you can be so completely blind to the real Jesus that you can go astray. And I see multitudes of people today, Christians who are going astray with preachers who are preaching another Jesus.

And you say, how can you know who the other Jesus is? Well, compare him with the real Jesus. When you hear somebody speaking and if you have read the Gospels, compare him with Paul, you read the Epistles and see, can I imagine, can I imagine if Jesus or Paul were there standing there or sitting there speaking like that?

You have to compare every preacher you hear with the Jesus you've seen in the scriptures or the apostle Paul, the example the Holy Spirit has given us. And if you find it doesn't fit, you've got to be careful.

I don't care what fantastic teaching they are teaching. You've got to see whether what they're saying and their life is backing up what they're saying. I'll give you one simple example. Jesus never once in any of his sermons asked people to give money.

Never. Paul in all his sermons never asked people to give money for himself or his ministry. With that one test, you can rule out 90 of today's preachers. Just that one single test. But do you think Christians see that?

No. How is it so many, even born again Christians are taken up with these people who claim to be apostles and healers and it's amazing. I mean, if you go into Christian TV, almost everybody's asking you for money.

Every single one of them. And they're asking huge amounts to buy airplanes and things like that. It doesn't, I mean, they're asking me doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is how millions of Christians are so dumb to accept this and so foolish to send these people the money.

That's what surprises me, to tell you honestly. These guys haven't read the Bible. They haven't read the Bible. The average born again Christian today spends more time watching television than reading the Bible.

I hope that is not true of anybody sitting here. If it is, I can tell you, you are a prime candidate for deception. You can wake up in eternity and find you're in hell and not in heaven because you followed another Jesus.

Why is there so much? Why are there four gospels? Isn't one biography enough about Jesus Christ? Why four to show you what the real Jesus is like? I hope you will see that, that the tree of knowledge of good and evil can lead you to death.

So what is the purpose of our coming together in a meeting? Not like the Athenians, always to hear something new. Let me show you a passage in 1 Corinthians in chapter 14. For many, many years, I was trying to understand what is the mark of a new covenant church?

I mean, there are many marks like we heard today already. But I have come to this conclusion that a new covenant church meeting should lead to this conclusion. 1 Corinthians 14, it says about the whole church assembling together, verse 23.

And if everybody speaks in tongues, they'll say you're mad. I mean, there are churches like that today where the whole church comes together and everybody speaks in tongues and there's no interpretation.

You have to really say, according to 1 Corinthians 14, 23, you guys are mad. That's scripture. But a lot of those people who are going around speaking, I'm not against speaking in tongues. I have the gift myself, but it's always, I use it always in private.

But when people use it like this in public, you have to say, brother, this is madness, according to 1 Corinthians 14, 23. That's not the mark of a new covenant church at all. Yet the millions of Christians who think, wow, that's the Holy Spirit.

That's not the Holy Spirit at all. It's madness. How is it they don't see it? Because they haven't read the Bible. But if, on the other hand, we prophesy, that means prophesying is defined in verse three as speaking to people for edification, exaltation, and consolation.

That's the definition of prophecy. Before you understand, before you explain verse 24, remember what it refers to, edification, exaltation, consolation. And if there's a spirit of prophecy, one or more than one, and then what is the end result people who don't believe or anyone who sits there, they fall on their face, verse 25, and worship God, saying, God is certainly among you.

I have come to see through many years of studying the scriptures. That is the real mark of a New Testament church meeting. The mark of a New Testament church meeting is you go away with the secrets of your heart, verse 25, disclosed.

Not that you wonder at some healer who's like some modern day magician trying to do some tricks on the stage, and you say, wow, what a miracle that is. Not that, but you go away feeling, boy, there were things in my life I never knew that were wrong, and God disclosed them to me.

Not in a public way to humiliate me, but in a quiet way that the person sitting next to me did not hear what God was speaking to me. That's how God does. God doesn't humiliate us by exposing our sin publicly.

Never. Human beings do that. God never does it. He speaks secretly so that even the person sitting next to you, your husband or wife, doesn't know what God is saying to you. The secrets of your heart are made manifest.

That is true prophecy where you feel convicted, but not discouraged. Discouragement is never the end result of the Holy Spirit's ministry. It's conviction that leads to deliverance. So the secret of your heart is disclosed and you don't go away discouraged.

No, you say, boy, God is here. So how do you know whether God is in a meeting or not? According to this verse, it's not by speaking in tongues, that's madness. It's by recognizing that God's light was so bright in that meeting that I saw something of the darkness within my heart.

And I met with God. And I believe that every church meeting must be like that. That to me is the clearest definition of a new covenant church meeting, where people feel I met with Jesus today. And he spoke to my heart and he showed me what was inside, which I didn't know.

And it's the presence of the Lord there. You know, God is certainly among you. See, though we can listen to a message like this on the Internet, for those who are viewing it or on a DVD, there's something a DVD and an Internet can never do.

And that is bring the presence of God. No DVD or Internet can ever bring that. The presence of God is where two or three are gathered together in Jesus name and they come together. And there the Lord is in their midst.

That's the difference between listening to a message on the Internet or listening to a message on a DVD. It is second best time if you're not able to go for a conference. But when we go for a conference, we are mingling with people who love the Lord and their presence there, combined with the word of God that is proclaimed, brings the presence of God.

And we're able to sense God's presence and meet with Jesus going away. Otherwise, we could all in this day of the Internet, we don't have to come for any more conference. We just sit at home and listen to a message.

You don't even have to come on Sunday morning. Why do we come on Sunday morning? Is it only to listen to a message? No, if it's only to listen to a message, there are probably hundreds of interesting messages on the Internet.

You can sit at home and listen to them. But it's the presence of God. And if you are part of a local church or you're meeting together, this must be your goal. Lord, I want the presence of God. I want every meeting, not just once in a while.

No, but in every single meeting that we meet with God and God speaks to us, the secrets of our heart are made manifest. Why not? Does God turn up only once in a while? No, he wants to turn up in every meeting.

And if your church is not like that, I want to say to you, you're missing something. You are missing something. You may say it's a good church. There are good people. They care for us when we are in need.

That's a club. You know, people care for one another and help one another. There are good. I mean, the Freemasons are like that. They care for one another. They don't believe in Jesus. So we need to understand what is the purpose of our coming together like this.

So I want to share something with you today about three types of Christians to begin with. In 1 Corinthians chapter 2, 14 to chapter 3, verse 3. 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 14 to chapter 3, verse 3.

You see here the Holy Spirit mentioning three types of, we'd say believers in one sense. In chapter 3, verse 1, Paul says, I could not speak to you as to spiritual men. That's one type of Christian, a spiritual Christian.

They're very rare. Paul says to the Corinthians, he doesn't say you're not born again. No, they're born again. Okay. They love Jesus. But he says, they're not spiritual. And he says, because of that, I can't speak to you like I speak to spiritual men.

With certain other Christians who are spiritual, I can speak as I speak to spiritual men. But to you, verse chapter 2, verse 2, I only know Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Now, some people think that's a great thing to say, I don't know anything except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

But remember, that is for those who are not spiritual. For those who are not spiritual, you say, in your midst, I determined not to know anything except Christ died for your sins. And your sins are all forgiven and on your way to heaven.

That's not something to boast about, that I determined to know nothing except Christ and Him crucified. He says, but we do speak wisdom, chapter 2, verse 6, among those who are mature. When we go to mature people, we don't just speak about Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

We go on to other things, how you are crucified with Christ, which is a deeper truth than Christ being crucified for us. So he says, I can't speak to you as unto spiritual men. So that's one category.

That's the highest, spiritual men. The lowest category is chapter 3, verse 1. Men of flesh, or as the King James says, carnal men. So there are carnal Christians. He says, you Corinthian Christians, you're born again, okay, but you're not spiritual, you're carnal.

Now, between carnal means men of flesh, that means they live according to the lusts of their body. Now, these are Christians, they've accepted the Lord, but they are constantly defeated by sins of the flesh.

And they live in an endless cycle of getting angry, lusting after women, watching pornography and repenting and asking God to forgive them. And again, getting angry and again, lusting after women and again, watching pornography, again asking God to forgive them and the occasional cheating in their offices.

And they ask God to forgive them. It's an endless cycle. You know, the Bible speaks in Hebrews 12 of a besetting sin. The besetting sin is different for each person. You know what your besetting sin is.

But if it's an endless cycle, and if it's a sin of the flesh, you keep on doing it. And then you ask God to forgive you. And the devil has convinced you that this is how life is going to be till you die.

And like a fool, you believe the devil. That's not true. It's because you haven't understood the full riches of God's grace. You haven't understood what your father in heaven has written as a in his will for you.

This cheating devil has robbed you of your inheritance, of a major portion of your inheritance. He allowed you to get a little bit of that inheritance. It's like a billionaire father who's left a huge inheritance in a will for his children or say one child if you're the only child with bank accounts here and there and different places and property here and there.

And some cheating lawyer robs you of most of it and gives you 10 of it and you live on $10 ,000 a year when your father was a billionaire. I don't think any of you would allow a cheating lawyer to do that for you.

You know why? Because when it comes to money, we are all sharp. But we allow the devil to do that to us in spiritual things because we don't value spiritual riches as much as money. Do any of you allow a cheating lawyer to rob you of your billionaire father's inheritance which he's written to you?

No. Why do you allow the devil to cheat you of the inheritance that God has given? By the way, his will is written here in this book. Would you read it carefully? Would you read your billionaire father's will carefully to see which old banks has he put his money?

Where all is their property? Carefully read it again and again and again and again. I don't want to miss out. One of those banks where my dad's put money for me. I don't want to miss one of those properties that's now my inheritance.

Why don't we read the scriptures like that? I'll tell you why. Jesus said there are only two gods, God and money. And it's because most people do not worship the true God that they're cheated of their inheritance because money is more important for them.

So this is carnal people and the spiritual people and in between there's another category which many people don't recognize. It's called soulish. There's a spiritual christian, there's a soulish christian and a carnal christian.

Now the soulish christian doesn't look so dirty and living in obvious sin like the carnal christian. So he himself thinks he's spiritual but he's not spiritual. The word here used in chapter 2 verse 14, the natural man is a greek word which could probably be translated as soulish.

It's from the word psyche which we use in english. It's a soulish man cannot accept the things of the holy spirit. They are foolishness to him because he lives in his mind. He's not the carnal person who does dirty things.

He's very upright in many of these external things but he lives in his mind. He's an intellectual christian and he's soulish. He doesn't overcome inward sins of the spirit. So this is what I want to share with you about today.

So I want to show you a few screens up there. Can we go to the next one? 1 Thessalonians 5 in verse 23. This is the clearest verse in the bible which says that man is made of three parts. Spirit, soul and body.

That's the order. It's not body, soul and spirit. Spirit, soul and body. The one who's governed by his spirit is a spiritual christian. The one who's governed by his soul primarily is a soulish christian.

And the one who's governed by his bodily desires is a carnal christian. So these are the three categories of christians. See when god is a trinity, three separate persons, father, son and holy spirit.

And god made man in his image. Also a trinity, not as three persons, but as having three parts. And if you don't understand that, you won't be able to know fully what it is to be a spiritual christian.

You can overcome a lot of sins of the flesh and get a good testimony in church. But you will never be a spiritual christian if you don't understand the difference between being spirit, soulish and spiritual.

Okay, the next one. Hebrews 4 and verse 12. Here we read in Hebrews 4 12. I think I've got those things here. All those powerpoints. Yeah, Hebrews 4 12. The word of god pierces as far as the division of soul and spirit.

So there's a division of soul and spirit. Soul and spirit are not one. The word of god, if you value it, will divide and show you what is soulish and what is spiritual. And not just the written word, but the holy spirit taking that word and showing it to us.

That's why Jesus said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god. See, this is just printer's ink and paper. You can read this and believe that Jesus is Beelzebul.

But when the holy spirit takes this and speaks it to your heart, then it becomes alive. There are multitudes of people. Why is it there are so many hundreds of denominations in christianity all holding the same book and saying, we've got the truth.

It's not a different book. They've got the same book and they say, we've got the truth. There are people who take this book and believe in child baptism. How is that? And there are others who believe in believers baptism after they're born again.

There are people who read this book and say, speaking in tongues is of the devil. And there are others who go to the other extreme and say, that's the only sign of being filled with the spirit. All with the same book.

You see how easy it is to be deceived. If you live in your intellect and seek to understand the bible with your intellect, you can get hundreds of denominations and all holding the same bible. It's very, very important to distinguish between a spiritual christian and a soulish christian.

I think a spiritual christian and a carnal christian who lives according to flesh, you'll easily be able to distinguish. A person who's living with the sins of the flesh in your church, you'll never think he's spiritual.

But you can very easily be deceived by a soulish christian, a soulish preacher. You can easily be deceived thinking he's a spiritual person and you keep following him, you'll be soulish yourself. That's the danger.

Okay, the next verse is from John chapter 1 and verse 14. The actual translation of this, and if you have a margin in your NASB, it's written there in the margin, the word became flesh and tabernacled in our midst.

That's the word used, tabernacled. That refers back to the old testament tabernacle. That means Jesus, he was the first really spiritual man that walked on the earth. The old testament people were wonderful people, godly people, but they could not come into this spiritual life.

You know, many people ask, what happened on the day of Pentecost when the holy spirit came? Why does it say in John chapter 7 and verse 39, the holy spirit was not yet given? Have you ever thought of that verse?

John 7 39, the holy spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. Many people have that question. You mean the holy spirit was not given to David and Gideon and all these people? It says the spirit came upon them, spirit came upon them, spirit came upon them.

What is the difference on the day of Pentecost? I use the example of a glass of water to illustrate that. If you have a lid on top of this glass of water, this glass is empty and there's a lid on top and you keep pouring water on it, it'll flow over it.

It will not flow inside it. It will flow over and flow out to probably blessed millions, rivers of living water, like the great prophets in the old testament blessed people, but their inside could still be dirty like Samson.

Samson was a great man of God on the outside, but his inside was dirty. David was anointed, but he fell into adultery and murdered people in order to marry the man's wife. There was a lid on top and the holy spirit could really be upon, upon, upon, upon.

And that's why even Moses, when God told him to speak to the rock, he hit the rock, but the water still flowed because God blessed the people. Millions of people got the river of water, but Moses was disobedient.

It's very important to understand this is the old covenant ministry of the Holy Spirit. But what happened on the day of Pentecost? That lid was removed and I'll explain to you in a moment what that lid is and the Holy Spirit could come in and dwell within.

In this way, John 7 39, the Holy Spirit was not given because Jesus was not glorified. Until Jesus was glorified, the Holy Spirit could not come and dwell in anybody's heart because our hearts were dirty with sin.

The blood of bulls and lambs could not cleanse anybody's heart from sin. It could cover it. That's why the Old Testament says, blessed is man whose sin is covered. You know, if you got sin written out here and you cover it, now you can't see it.

That was Old Testament, but it's still underneath. That's all David experienced. Psalm 32, blessed is man whose sin is covered. But the blood of Jesus does not cover us. You know, there are people who sing the song saying I'm under the blood.

I'm not under any blood. That's why the Israelites in Egypt, they stood under the blood. I'm cleansed by the blood of Jesus. That means it's not covered. It's wiped out. I'm justified. My past is as if I've never sinned in my life.

That's what the blood of Jesus does to me. And many Christians haven't understood that. That's why they live so often in condemnation over some terrible sin they committed in the past, which they keep on confessing hundreds and hundreds of times and never seem to be free from the guilt of it.

That's exactly what the devil wants you to do. Live in the constant guilt of some sin that you've confessed 100 times to the Lord because you don't believe in the power of the blood. You glorify your sin more than the blood of Jesus.

Do you know the number of Christians who do that? I did it in foolishness for years till God showed me from Scripture, your sins and iniquities, I don't remember anymore. You're justified by the blood of Jesus.

It's wonderful to come into the new covenant. So when the heart was cleansed, then the Holy Spirit could come in. And then it's as the glass is filled and overflows, that's the rivers of living water.

So there's a lot of difference between rivers of living water flowing in the old covenant, which is over upon a person and flowing from within. Jesus said, if any man thirst, let him come to me and drink from his innermost being.

Rivers of living water will flow, John 7 38. The important thing is not the rivers of living water. Moses blessed millions of people with that water, but it didn't flow from his innermost being. The difference in the new covenant is it will flow from our innermost being.

In other words, ministry will not be just ministry. It will flow from our life. And the first person who lived on earth, who lived like this, a spiritual life was Jesus Christ. He was filled with the Holy Spirit within.

Nobody before him was, not even John the Baptist. When it talks about those people being filled with the Spirit, it was upon, upon, upon. The Spirit was not given till Jesus was glorified. But when Jesus came, He inaugurated a new way of life in the Spirit from within, from within flowing out.

That is the life that He offered the disciples and they were introduced to on the day of Pentecost. The Spirit came within. I'll show you one more verse, John chapter 14. In John 14, where Jesus is speaking for the first time about the Holy Spirit, He says, I'm going to pray to the Father to give you a helper.

Whenever you read a scripture, try and read it in this context. Helper for what? You just go to the previous verse. If you love me, you'll keep my commandments. And His commandments are so impossible to keep.

Never to get angry, never to lust after a woman, never to love money, to do everything for the glory of God, even your eating and drinking, to love your enemies, bless those who curse you, pray for those who persecute you, never to give money in order for people to be seen, never to let your praying or fasting be known to anyone, never to judge people.

What a high standard. You say, Lord, I love you, but I can't keep those commandments. So He says, don't worry, I'm going to ask the Father to give you a helper. A helper for what? To keep my commandments.

These very commandments which you're trying to keep and you're not able to keep because you're under the law. I will give you the spirit of grace. Like it says in Zechariah 12, 10, I will pour out the spirit of grace upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

That's what happened on the day of Pentecost. The spirit of grace was poured out, grace that would give them power to overcome sin. And this spirit, now listen to this last part of verse 17. At the moment, He's only with you.

But in that day, He will be in you. It couldn't be clearer than that. Right now, He's with you, old covenant. In that day, He'll be in you. Have you experienced that? And if you allow that Holy Spirit to lead you from within, this living water will overflow.

And you can be a channel of blessing to hundreds and thousands of people. That is God's will for every one of His children. He who believes in me, out of His innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.

My brothers and sisters, that is your birthright. If the devil's cheated you of it, don't let him cheat you anymore. So that's what I want to explain to you. So we'll be looking at John 1, 14. The word became flesh and tabernacled among us.

So I want to give you a few lessons from the tabernacle. Let's move to the next. Lessons from the tabernacle in the next slide. So here is a picture of the tabernacle. This is what the Old Testament tabernacle was like.

So when it says Jesus' tabernacle, that means He lived among us. And Jesus is our example. So this tabernacle was a picture of Christ and of us. And just like we read in 1 Thessalonians 5, 23, man is what?

Spirit, soul, and body. The tabernacle had three parts. The tabernacle had a most holy place, a holy place, and an outer court. It was an exact picture of man. The outer court is the part that everybody could see, corresponding to our body, which everybody can see.

And the covered parts, there were two covered parts, symbolizing soul and spirit. It's where God's word is very exact. And you may not have seen this before, but that's exactly a perfect picture of what man is.

Spirit, soul, and body. The body visible to everyone. The spirit and soul hidden, covered. So you got to go inside to see that. From the outside, you won't understand the soul and spirit. You got to go inside.

Now, when you go inside, you go to the next slide. And here you see the outer court corresponds to the body. The holy place corresponds to the soul. And the most holy place corresponds to the spirit. And between the soul and the spirit is this thick veil, marked there in black.

That was closed off in the old covenant times. And the high priest could go in just once, which is a picture of one day Jesus would go in, but nobody else could go in. And the interesting thing in the old covenant is the pillar of fire and pillar of cloud, which symbolized God's presence, dwelt over the most holy place, not over the outer court, not over the holy place, teaching us God does not dwell in our body, does not dwell in our soul, but dwells in our spirit.

It's very exact, the Old Testament picture. You need to understand that. If the body is called the temple of the Holy Spirit, it's because right in deepest part of me in the spirit, the Holy Spirit wants to dwell.

But it's very important to understand this. The Holy Spirit does not dwell in our body, not in our soul, but in our spirit, symbolized by the old covenant pillar of cloud and fire, always on top of the most holy place.

You know, everything in the tabernacle could be copied. If the Philistines had got a copy of Exodus chapter 25 to 40, they could have made a tabernacle exactly like the one Moses made. You know, the same structure, the same size, the same color of curtains and everything else.

But there's one thing the Philistines could not duplicate. That's the pillar of fire. And that was the most important thing that marked that tabernacle as being God's dwelling place. There are many things in the New Testament church pattern that you can see a wonderful church being built somewhere.

And you can say, boy, I'm going to copy that. When I go back to my hometown, I'm going to sing the same songs and I'm going to save the same pattern of meetings. And I'm going to preach the same message.

I can listen to a lot of Brother Zach's messages on YouTube and preach it all. It'll be a very exact copy of the tabernacle. I'll tell you what will be missing, the fire. The Holy Spirit. The Philistines couldn't produce that.

That had to come from God. You can duplicate everything that is human. And the most important thing will be missing. And you can fool yourself all your life thinking that you got a new covenant church.

It's not. The Philistines could say, we made a tabernacle too. But where's the presence of God? Do people come there and fall on their face and say, God was here. He spoke to me. No, that is the mark of a new covenant church.

And if you go into a meeting, whatever church it is, and you didn't meet with God, he didn't disclose the secrets of your heart. You got to go in and say, God wasn't there. The tabernacle is the right pattern.

Everything. Everything was right, but the fire was missing. That happened to Israel very often. You read in Ezekiel's time how the glory just departed. So it's very important for us to understand this.

This veil was symbolizing there's something in you. God was telling people in the Old Testament times that prevents you from coming into my presence. And there's something in you that prevents me from coming and dwelling in your spirit.

There's this thick veil. What was that? Nobody in the Old Testament understood until Jesus came. And we read when he died on the cross, the veil was rent from top to bottom. Opening up that most holy place, showing us two things that one, now you can go into the immediate presence of God.

And secondly, showing that God can now come and dwell in your spirit, which he could not do until now. That's what happened on the day of Pentecost. That's the significance of the rent veil. We go to the next slide.

Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 20. Here's a verse that many, many people haven't understood. One, they read it, they skip over it. I'll tell you something. When you read a verse in the New Testament and you don't understand, don't skip over it.

Say, Lord, I'm determined to understand that. That's how I studied the Bible. I started studying the Bible 57 years ago. And there are many, many things I didn't understand then. But little by little by little, when I'd come to a verse I didn't understand, I say, Lord, I'm going to get to the bottom of this.

I'm not just going to leave that. You know, I want to plow through this. I don't want to leave that thing untouched, ununderstood. I want to compare scripture with scripture and seek God for light in my spirit.

Have you ever understood this verse, Hebrews 10, 20, that Jesus inaugurated a new and living way for us through the veil that is his flesh. What is his flesh? I put there self-will. There's one thing that Jesus had, which you and I have.

There are many things we have when we are born, which Jesus didn't have. You know, the angel told Mary, that holy thing that shall be born of you will be called the son of God. He wasn't born in sin like we were, because he didn't have a human father.