WEBVTT 00:30.000 --> 00:44.280 All right. 00:44.280 --> 00:49.280 On the 1st, 169. 00:49.280 --> 00:58.280 Come out. 00:58.280 --> 01:03.280 My heart to sing my grave. 01:03.280 --> 01:07.280 Streams of mercy never seen. 01:07.280 --> 01:11.280 Call for songs of loudest praise. 01:11.280 --> 01:16.280 Teach me. 01:16.280 --> 01:20.280 Song by claiming tongues above. 01:20.280 --> 01:26.280 Praise the mountain, fix the fog. 01:26.280 --> 01:29.280 Meet me, meet love. 01:29.280 --> 01:34.280 Here I raise my Ebenezer. 01:34.280 --> 01:37.280 By thy help I'm covered. 01:37.280 --> 01:41.280 And I know by thy good pleasure. 01:41.280 --> 01:45.280 Safely I'll arrive at home. 01:45.280 --> 01:49.280 Jesus taught me when a stranger 01:49.280 --> 01:53.280 Wondering how to be a good friend to God. 01:53.280 --> 01:57.280 He to rescue me from danger. 01:57.280 --> 02:01.280 He took host in his precious love. 02:01.280 --> 02:05.280 Oh to grace how great a death. 02:05.280 --> 02:09.280 O daily guide the strength to be. 02:09.280 --> 02:13.280 Let thy goodness like a feather. 02:13.280 --> 02:17.280 Find my wandering heart to thee. 02:17.280 --> 02:21.280 Throw to us the murder, Lord I feel it. 02:21.280 --> 02:25.280 Throw to me the God I love. 02:25.280 --> 02:29.280 Here's my heart, O take it to seal it. 02:29.280 --> 02:33.280 And may it be your home in thy courts above. 02:33.280 --> 02:36.280 All right. 02:36.280 --> 02:39.280 All right. Welcome to Spring Crest. 02:39.280 --> 02:45.280 Today is March 29th. Our services are right there on the left. Sunday morning, 1030. Sunday evening, 430. 02:45.280 --> 02:48.280 And Wednesday's service is 530 p.m. 02:48.280 --> 02:52.280 Our sole waiting time is 2 p.m. 02:52.280 --> 02:57.280 on Sundays. And then the chapter of the birth of the week is Philippians 121. 02:57.280 --> 03:00.280 For it to me to live is Christ, and to die is gained. 03:00.280 --> 03:03.280 Currently we're at 262 souls, one for the year. 03:03.280 --> 03:06.280 But we're going to tally up. I think I got two. 03:06.280 --> 03:09.280 I'm sure you got one, right? 03:09.280 --> 03:15.280 That's three. One over there. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 03:15.280 --> 03:20.280 Wow. That's great. So we got ten more for the week. 03:20.280 --> 03:24.280 We got ten out. So that was a good receptive place. 03:24.280 --> 03:28.280 And that there was a lot of Spanish speakers, but there was still a good mix. 03:28.280 --> 03:31.280 You guys ran into you still spoke English to a lot of people, right? 03:31.280 --> 03:34.280 Yeah, so. 03:34.280 --> 03:37.280 By the way, it's good memories for my wife and I, you guys all get excited. 03:37.280 --> 03:40.280 That's where Giselle and Renee used to live, Pastor Cop. 03:40.280 --> 03:43.280 We were so waiting at their old apartment complex. 03:43.280 --> 03:45.280 Where Giselle and Renee used to live. 03:45.280 --> 03:48.280 And then we got birthdays and anniversaries coming up. 03:48.280 --> 03:52.280 And then we've got the big soul winning mega marathon. 03:52.280 --> 03:56.280 So I encourage everybody to come out. We'll have plenty of everything. 03:56.280 --> 04:00.280 The biggest the biggest thing, you know, when encourage new soul winners. 04:00.280 --> 04:05.280 So, you know, we had a lot of visitors, if any of them, if you got in touch with anyone, let's get them out there. 04:05.280 --> 04:10.280 But regardless, we're showing up. We're going to go do the work. Whoever comes out. 04:10.280 --> 04:16.280 And what we're going to do is we're probably going to soul win near the University of Houston. 04:16.280 --> 04:19.280 And that way we can actually scout out. We're going to kill two birds with one stone. 04:19.280 --> 04:26.280 And scout out for the April 18th soul winning marathon that we're having at the University of Houston. 04:26.280 --> 04:30.280 If nothing else, let's pray for the expecting mothers. 04:30.280 --> 04:34.280 Haley Malutich, Christian Rogers, Marcel Wycliffe. 04:34.280 --> 04:40.280 Also pray for brother Matt. He went to the dentist and said his tooth was fine. 04:40.280 --> 04:44.280 And now he's like he's in pain. Just pray for him. 04:44.280 --> 04:51.280 Pray for him. Sometimes dentists make things work. Just pray that he can get that result sooner than later. 04:51.280 --> 04:59.280 In the back, I went ahead and updated all the prayer requests and then just the housekeeping rules. 04:59.280 --> 05:05.280 I think we've gone through that pretty thoroughly. I appreciate everybody being here. 05:05.280 --> 05:09.280 I appreciate all the soul winners. And, you know, I appreciate everybody. 05:09.280 --> 05:13.280 That's cool that everybody would kind of bring some food, hang out a little bit before we go. 05:13.280 --> 05:16.280 I mean, if it's possible, right, every time it's different. 05:16.280 --> 05:24.280 But thank you guys for that. And before the week's over, once again, it was fun last weekend. 05:24.280 --> 05:30.280 And we are going to have more activities like that. I think the next one, I don't know if I'll have anything set up before that. 05:30.280 --> 05:34.280 But for sure, Pastor Shelley will be preaching for us in the summer. 05:34.280 --> 05:37.280 And then we have the anti-Israel conference coming up. 05:37.280 --> 05:42.280 So just plan on those two things as we go about our business. 05:42.280 --> 05:47.280 But let's turn our hymn of the order to page 147 and then we will be in Leviticus 17. 05:47.280 --> 05:53.280 147, leaning on the everlasting arm. 147. 06:04.280 --> 06:13.280 What a fellowship, what a joy divine. Leaning on the everlasting arm. 06:13.280 --> 06:22.280 What a blessedness, what a peace of mind. Leaning on the everlasting arm. 06:22.280 --> 06:40.280 Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arm. 06:40.280 --> 06:49.280 Oh, how sweet to walk in this field of quick leaning on the everlasting arm. 06:49.280 --> 06:58.280 Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day on the everlasting arm. 06:58.280 --> 07:15.280 Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arm. 07:15.280 --> 07:24.280 What have I to dread? What have I to fear? Leaning on the everlasting arm. 07:24.280 --> 07:32.280 I have blessed peace with my Lord to me. Leaning on the everlasting arm. 07:32.280 --> 07:41.280 Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms. 07:41.280 --> 07:51.280 Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arm. 07:51.280 --> 07:59.280 Alright, we'll have brother Jerry read for us Leviticus 17. 07:59.280 --> 08:03.280 Leviticus 17. 08:15.280 --> 08:26.280 Leviticus 17. Open your Bibles to Leviticus 17. 08:26.280 --> 08:37.280 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying, 08:37.280 --> 08:50.280 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 08:50.280 --> 09:02.280 to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, blood shall be imputed unto that man. He hath shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people. 09:02.280 --> 09:13.280 To the end, the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 09:13.280 --> 09:27.280 unto the priest, and offer them for a peace offering unto the Lord. And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 09:27.280 --> 09:38.280 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a-whoring. This shall be a statue forever unto them throughout their generations. 09:38.280 --> 09:57.280 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which shall adjourn among you, that offer a burnt offering, or sacrifice, and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord, even that man shall be cut off from among his people. 09:57.280 --> 10:13.280 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which shall adjourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood, I will even set my face against that soul, that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 10:13.280 --> 10:23.280 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 10:23.280 --> 10:32.280 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. 10:32.280 --> 10:46.280 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall even pour out the blood thereof and cover it with dust. 10:46.280 --> 10:51.280 For it is the life of all flesh, the blood of it is for the life thereof. 10:51.280 --> 11:01.280 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no man or of flesh, for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof. 11:01.280 --> 11:19.280 Whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 11:19.280 --> 11:27.280 Then shall he be clean. But if he washeth them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity. 11:27.280 --> 11:36.280 Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for the souls that were saved today and we just pray that you continue to bless here at Spring Crest Baptist Church. 11:36.280 --> 11:48.280 Be with Pastor as he brings this message, Lord, give us ears to understand, and we pray that we can take what we learned into the world with us, Lord. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. 11:57.280 --> 12:07.280 Before we do that, I just want to say, if Leviticus, you guys can hear me, but nobody can hear me on the live stream. 12:07.280 --> 12:12.280 That's just so we want to test the viewer. 12:12.280 --> 12:23.280 But what I wanted to say was we're there in Leviticus, but we are going to be covering that in between those two chapters in between the first part of Leviticus. 12:23.280 --> 12:35.280 We covered that last last time. It's a few weeks ago. I think it was like something like 11 through 15, where it seems like it's talking more about your personal sense. 12:35.280 --> 12:43.280 It's dealing with that. And then we have the Day of Atonement and the rules that come with that. Verse 17 just kind of continues building on that. 12:43.280 --> 12:56.280 And then the rest of Leviticus is more of dealing with the congregational stuff and some of the famous verses that we love to quote in the Bible, like Leviticus 2013 and even in Leviticus 18. 12:56.280 --> 13:06.280 You know, come as a after we read some of this. But the title of my sermon this afternoon is No Blood, No Atonement. 13:06.280 --> 13:13.280 And I thought it was appropriate. I know it's Palm Sunday, but next week is the the resurrection. Right. 13:13.280 --> 13:19.280 And we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We celebrate the death burial of Jesus Christ. 13:19.280 --> 13:31.280 But one of the things we also celebrate is the blood. Right. And a lot of modern churches, you know, especially Calvinist, John MacArthur being one of them, always downplayed the importance of the blood. 13:31.280 --> 13:37.280 But I guess they just didn't read the Old Testament. If we go here, we see that there's a lot going on. Right. 13:37.280 --> 13:48.280 It says there in verse three, because I don't want to forget to come back to this, but there in verse three says, What man soever there be of the house of Israel that killeth an ox, 13:48.280 --> 14:03.280 or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or that killeth it out of out of the camp, and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, 14:03.280 --> 14:11.280 blood shall be imputed unto that man, he hath shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people. 14:11.280 --> 14:20.280 God is not messing around when it comes to the things of God. You know, here, obviously the tabernacle is where God lives. 14:20.280 --> 14:27.280 What is modern day, the modern day tabernacle is we are the temple of God, and the congregation is the temple of God. 14:27.280 --> 14:37.280 So the things that are offered unto idols in the New Testament, the spiritual application is when we come, church is not a place for us to just kind of hang out. 14:38.280 --> 14:47.280 It's not like the social club or the things that, you know, it's like the place where we come to be serious about the things of the Lord, right? 14:47.280 --> 14:53.280 We come to do the work of the Lord. We come to worship the Lord. Look, there's no other place where that is required. 14:53.280 --> 15:00.280 You know, at your home, you can do whatever you need to at work. I mean, I'm pretty sure they have rules, but you show up to do the work. 15:01.280 --> 15:09.280 But God, he says here, hey, if you even sacrifice incorrectly, you're cut off. Now for us, what does that look like? 15:09.280 --> 15:20.280 Well, we reject the Lord Jesus Christ, we're cut off. But if you're saved and you reject the things of the New Testament church that's actually preaching the Bible, you should be cut off. 15:20.280 --> 15:24.280 Now we've already touched on that. I'll continue that series on 1 Corinthians 5. 15:24.280 --> 15:31.280 And you know, the things that need to be that churches can kick people out of. I mean, the reasons people get kicked out of church. 15:31.280 --> 15:36.280 But, you know, it's derived from the fact that God established this from the very beginning. 15:36.280 --> 15:40.280 Right. And a lot of times you've heard me say this term like we don't play church. 15:40.280 --> 15:45.280 But maybe I'm not emphatic enough. Like the reason we don't play church is because God doesn't play around. 15:45.280 --> 15:53.280 Right. God is serious about the things that he set up. As a matter of fact, verse seven, it says, and they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto the Lord. 15:53.280 --> 16:00.280 They shall no more offer their sacrifices unto the devil, devils after whom they have gone a-whoring. 16:00.280 --> 16:04.280 This shall be a statute forever unto them throughout their generations. 16:04.280 --> 16:13.280 And thou shalt say unto them, What's over a man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers, which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, 16:13.280 --> 16:21.280 and bringeth not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord, even that man shall be cut off from amongst people. 16:21.280 --> 16:27.280 So what's going on here? Right. They're going through the wilderness and what they're doing is they're taking matters into their own hands. 16:27.280 --> 16:33.280 It's kind of like what we saw this morning with King Uzziah. You know, he decided I'm going to be the priest. I'm going to be the one to offer. 16:33.280 --> 16:39.280 People were sacrificing, but they were sacrificing to false gods and they were doing whatever they wanted. 16:39.280 --> 16:43.280 And you know, if you've ever studied any history, you know that that's a very common thing. 16:43.280 --> 16:50.280 Today, even today in modern 2026 world, there's countries, you can go to Africa. 16:50.280 --> 16:57.280 I remember we were just at those apartment complexes and there was a couple here that was from Cuba and Haiti. 16:57.280 --> 17:01.280 And I remember talking to the guy from Haiti and Haiti is just a cult, right? 17:01.280 --> 17:05.280 They sacrifice unto animals and they do voodoo and all that stuff. It's the same thing here. 17:05.280 --> 17:14.280 It's the same thing here. God says, Hey, if you're sacrificing and it's a spiritual sacrifice, it better be unto me or else you're cut off. 17:14.280 --> 17:16.280 You're out. Right. We I don't want to deal with that. 17:16.280 --> 17:23.280 The verse I want to focus on right there is also I don't know if I gave you the title of sermon, but it's no blood, no atonement, no blood, no atonement. 17:23.280 --> 17:27.280 And verse 11 deals with that says there for the life of the flesh is in the blood. 17:27.280 --> 17:38.280 And I've given it upon you. I've given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 17:38.280 --> 17:43.280 Hey, Jesus isn't just the saving grace. It's also the blood of Jesus. 17:43.280 --> 17:47.280 It's all of Jesus that atones for the soul. Right. 17:47.280 --> 17:55.280 And then this made me think as as we were out soul wedding, we ran into a dad and a son who were Catholics. 17:55.280 --> 18:02.280 And I guess the son's going to like Catholic school and he was kind of piped up and he thought he was going to get me in a gotcha moment. 18:02.280 --> 18:04.280 Right. And I'm preaching the gospel. 18:04.280 --> 18:09.280 He's like, well, you know, you don't even preach the right Bible because you guys have taken stuff away from the Bible. 18:09.280 --> 18:14.280 You know, my Catholic people and I was like, oh, yeah, you know, like the Book of Maccabees and the Apocryphal. 18:14.280 --> 18:17.280 Yeah. Yeah. I was like, yeah, you know, that's that's wrong. 18:17.280 --> 18:23.280 It's not scripture. It even says there in the actual print that this is not scripture. 18:23.280 --> 18:25.280 I said there's no social media at the time. 18:25.280 --> 18:28.280 There's no way to get news and world history. 18:28.280 --> 18:34.280 So they added this as an add on to basically, you know, bring you up to speed as to what's going on in the world. 18:34.280 --> 18:37.280 But it literally says not inspired and not scripture. 18:37.280 --> 18:43.280 He's like, oh, yeah, well, you know, Martin Luther came up with the term saved by faith. 18:43.280 --> 18:47.280 And, you know, that's not even found anywhere in the Bible. 18:47.280 --> 18:49.280 And I said, well, actually it is. 18:49.280 --> 18:51.280 And he goes, oh, yeah, you're talking about the Book of Romans. 18:51.280 --> 18:55.280 I was like, actually, no, I'm talking about the Book of Ephesians where by grace or you say through faith. 18:55.280 --> 18:59.280 And when he saw it, he's like, you know, he did he kind of did one of those like. 18:59.280 --> 19:01.280 But then he tried to get me in at this point. 19:01.280 --> 19:05.280 I was like, I'm not going to argue with like so I think he was like a 13, 14 year old kid. 19:05.280 --> 19:09.280 I was like, if he doesn't get it, you know, his dad's like real impressed with them. 19:09.280 --> 19:11.280 And, you know, it's just one of those sad things. 19:11.280 --> 19:18.280 But at the end of the day, you know what it is, is this verse 14 reminds me of the Catholics because it says, for it is the life of all flesh. 19:18.280 --> 19:20.280 The blood of it is for the life thereof. 19:20.280 --> 19:29.280 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, you shall eat of the blood of no manner of flesh for the life of all flesh is in the blood thereof. 19:29.280 --> 19:32.280 Whosoever eateth, it shall be cut off. 19:32.280 --> 19:42.280 I guess the Catholics didn't read this chapter because they literally teach that when you drink the wine, it turns into the blood of Jesus Christ. 19:43.280 --> 19:50.280 And that if you eat the, you know, the wafer, it's it literally turns into the flesh of Jesus Christ. 19:50.280 --> 19:58.280 Jesus, why would Jesus contradict himself say, hey, don't eat any blood, but then part of your traditions will be to drink my blood. 19:58.280 --> 20:02.280 It doesn't even, you know, and I really that is a side note. 20:02.280 --> 20:06.280 But, you know, it's important to say, no, because what is God addressing here? 20:06.280 --> 20:12.280 He's like, hey, don't go whoring after other traditions, after just do what I say. 20:12.280 --> 20:19.280 You know, one of the biggest challenges that I struggle with lately, maybe because I'm getting old and I don't know if I'm getting old and ordinary, 20:19.280 --> 20:26.280 but I do get ordinary sometimes is I just like I just tell people just, you know, in my work life, I do with my children. 20:26.280 --> 20:29.280 I'm just like, do what I say, not what you think I said. 20:29.280 --> 20:31.280 Just do what I say. 20:31.280 --> 20:34.280 Just execute exactly as I asked for it. 20:34.280 --> 20:39.280 Don't infer, don't add or take away what you thought I missed or didn't miss. 20:39.280 --> 20:42.280 Hey, if I mess up, I'll own up to it. 20:42.280 --> 20:47.280 But just do what I say, like just just the exact thing that I say. 20:47.280 --> 20:51.280 And then, like literally five minutes later, they're doing like the complete opposite. 20:51.280 --> 20:52.280 I'm like, did I say that? 20:52.280 --> 20:53.280 No, I didn't say that at all. 20:53.280 --> 20:55.280 Don't do what I didn't say. 20:55.280 --> 20:56.280 Right. 20:56.280 --> 21:02.280 I can imagine if I get frustrated in my flesh and I know that I don't do everything the Lord says, 21:02.280 --> 21:05.280 can you imagine how long suffering and patient the Lord is with us? 21:05.280 --> 21:09.280 I mean, literally, this is one of the greatest examples because the Old Testament, 21:09.280 --> 21:11.280 especially the first five books of the Bible, 21:11.280 --> 21:18.280 which is interesting that the modern day nation of Israel would focus so much on only those first five books 21:18.280 --> 21:20.280 when in the first five books of the Bible, 21:20.280 --> 21:25.280 the one thing that's evident is that people are hard headed and their hearts are hardened 21:25.280 --> 21:28.280 and they don't harken to the word of the Lord constantly. 21:28.280 --> 21:31.280 He's like, if you would only listen, you didn't listen. 21:31.280 --> 21:32.280 You didn't do what I said. 21:32.280 --> 21:33.280 You're screwing up. 21:33.280 --> 21:35.280 And this is why I got to get on to you. 21:35.280 --> 21:36.280 Right. 21:36.280 --> 21:37.280 But let's go. 21:37.280 --> 21:38.280 Let's go to the points. 21:38.280 --> 21:39.280 Go back to Leviticus 16. 21:39.280 --> 21:41.280 We're not going to be in a lot of places. 21:41.280 --> 21:43.280 We're going to cover a lot of scripture. 21:43.280 --> 21:44.280 But just so you guys know, for the most part, 21:44.280 --> 21:47.280 we're probably the majority of the time of being Leviticus and Hebrews. 21:47.280 --> 21:51.280 If you want to keep your fingers there, obviously, I have other scripture that we're going to add. 21:51.280 --> 21:54.280 But those are the main places we're going to jump around to. 21:54.280 --> 21:55.280 But what is that word of tongue? 21:55.280 --> 21:56.280 Right. 21:55.280 --> 21:58.280 Atonement to atone for something. 21:58.280 --> 22:04.280 And it's just all it is is a conventional requirements as to social behavior, 22:04.280 --> 22:09.280 proprieties, I mean, properties of conduct as established in any class or community or 22:09.280 --> 22:17.280 for indication, but also a prescribed or accepted code of usage in matter of ceremony as at a court 22:17.280 --> 22:19.280 or an official or other form of observance. 22:19.280 --> 22:24.280 But also we see this. 22:24.280 --> 22:25.280 The code of. 22:25.280 --> 22:26.280 You know what? 22:26.280 --> 22:27.280 I don't think that's the word atonement. 22:27.280 --> 22:28.280 I'm going to have to look this up. 22:28.280 --> 22:35.280 I think I need to not write stuff for 10 late at night because I'm like, this does not sound like let me let me let me verify this for you guys today. 22:35.280 --> 22:40.280 I don't usually do this, but I think I might have copied another one of the things that I'm going to do. 22:40.280 --> 22:41.280 I'm going to do this. 22:41.280 --> 22:42.280 I'm going to do this. 22:42.280 --> 22:43.280 I'm going to do this. 22:43.280 --> 22:44.280 I'm going to do this. 22:44.280 --> 22:45.280 I'm going to do this. 22:45.280 --> 22:46.280 I'm going to do this. 22:46.280 --> 22:47.280 I'm going to do this. 22:47.280 --> 22:52.280 But I think I might have copied another. 22:52.280 --> 23:01.280 Thank God that his saving grace has nothing to do with my works because we make mistakes because I remember specifically. 23:01.280 --> 23:06.280 Yeah, I don't even know how how we got this. 23:06.280 --> 23:07.280 You know what? 23:07.280 --> 23:09.280 I copied and pasted, but it didn't paste. 23:09.280 --> 23:11.280 This is an old definition from another word. 23:11.280 --> 23:12.280 This is the definition. 23:12.280 --> 23:13.280 I know what word was here. 23:13.280 --> 23:14.280 Etiquette. 23:14.280 --> 23:16.280 So all I just told you is the word etiquette. 23:16.280 --> 23:24.280 The word atonement means satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury like an amends. 23:24.280 --> 23:25.280 Right. 23:25.280 --> 23:41.280 It's something like the doctrine concerning the reconciliation of God and human mankind, especially as accomplished through the life, suffering and death of Christ, which also requires what the blood. 23:41.280 --> 23:42.280 Obviously, this is dictionary.com. 23:42.280 --> 23:49.280 But I just want to let you know that even modern dictionaries have to give you that definition because that's where they get the word atonement from. 23:49.280 --> 23:50.280 Right. 23:50.280 --> 23:54.280 The experience of human kind unity with God exemplified by Jesus Christ. 23:54.280 --> 23:55.280 What is it? 23:55.280 --> 23:56.280 It's a reconciliation. 23:56.280 --> 23:57.280 Right. 23:57.280 --> 23:59.280 We teach the doctrine of reconciliation. 23:59.280 --> 24:00.280 It's the agreement. 24:00.280 --> 24:02.280 It's what needed to be done. 24:02.280 --> 24:03.280 What's to reconcile? 24:03.280 --> 24:05.280 If you've ever had to do any. 24:05.280 --> 24:08.280 Our kids won't know this, but my mom taught me this. 24:08.280 --> 24:09.280 My first checkbook. 24:09.280 --> 24:13.280 She remembers in the back you had the little ledger on the checkbooks. 24:13.280 --> 24:15.280 Whoever used the ledger in the back of a checkbook. 24:15.280 --> 24:16.280 Just right. 24:16.280 --> 24:17.280 Yeah. 24:17.280 --> 24:18.280 Remember that. 24:18.280 --> 24:19.280 Did you guys do that? 24:19.280 --> 24:20.280 You didn't do that. 24:20.280 --> 24:21.280 Rather Jerry, you never used it. 24:21.280 --> 24:22.280 OK. 24:22.280 --> 24:24.280 So my mom, you know, you get a checkbook. 24:24.280 --> 24:32.280 You know, remember the little checkbook and in the back is a ledger and you would write the check because you remember it took like two, three weeks to get the check cash. 24:32.280 --> 24:33.280 So you were right. 24:33.280 --> 24:35.280 You know, starting balance, $2,000. 24:36.280 --> 24:39.280 Then you write a check for $200. 24:39.280 --> 24:42.280 So then you have to put the date and what you wrote it for. 24:42.280 --> 24:46.280 Then you put current balance $1800. 24:46.280 --> 24:55.280 The reason you did that is so that you didn't overdraft because in your mind your bank account is $2,000 and you're just spending two grand for getting you. 24:55.280 --> 24:58.280 You know, you didn't you know, you wrote those checks that you couldn't cash. 24:58.280 --> 24:59.280 That's where we get that term. 24:59.280 --> 25:00.280 You know, he's writing a check. 25:00.280 --> 25:03.280 Can't cash because he's literally writing a check. 25:03.280 --> 25:06.000 He's literally writing a check, he can't cash, 25:06.000 --> 25:07.840 because he doesn't know how to reconcile his book. 25:07.840 --> 25:10.900 But reconciliation was that you went on, 25:10.900 --> 25:11.880 you got your statement, 25:11.880 --> 25:14.400 and you verified that those checks came out, 25:14.400 --> 25:16.640 and on occasion, there might have been a check 25:16.640 --> 25:18.780 that just for some reason got lost or something, 25:18.780 --> 25:20.320 but it was still owed, 25:20.320 --> 25:22.360 and so the balance is showing on your current, 25:22.360 --> 25:26.040 let's say it was 2,000, you wrote $500 worth of checks, 25:26.040 --> 25:27.900 but your statement says 1,800, 25:27.900 --> 25:30.280 so there's $300 that aren't accounted for, 25:30.280 --> 25:32.160 and you either had to call the bank, 25:32.160 --> 25:33.840 or call the person you issued the check to 25:33.840 --> 25:36.000 and be like, hey, I wrote you a check. 25:36.000 --> 25:37.480 As a matter of fact, I still do this to this day, 25:37.480 --> 25:40.440 if I write a check, I'm like, cash the check immediately. 25:40.440 --> 25:42.320 Pastor Cobb has done that with me, 25:42.320 --> 25:44.680 he's like, hey, cash that check immediately, 25:44.680 --> 25:47.280 because we need to reconcile the books. 25:47.280 --> 25:49.080 I don't remember for what, this is many, many years ago 25:49.080 --> 25:51.200 when I first started helping with the finances, 25:51.200 --> 25:53.300 like he always wants the cash, the checks immediately, 25:53.300 --> 25:54.680 because we want everything in balance, 25:54.680 --> 25:57.960 it means that everything is accounted for. 25:57.960 --> 26:01.160 So what is atonement is the blood is what accounts 26:01.160 --> 26:05.440 for our sin, the only way we get saved is by faith, 26:05.440 --> 26:07.880 but the reason we have the faith is on the work, 26:07.880 --> 26:11.160 on the paid work of Jesus Christ on the cross. 26:11.160 --> 26:12.900 I know that was a little bit longer explanation, 26:12.900 --> 26:16.400 but I had to because I can see the older kids are like, 26:16.400 --> 26:19.100 reconciling a book, a checkbook, we'll show you, 26:19.100 --> 26:20.480 it's real easy, as a matter of fact, 26:20.480 --> 26:23.120 y'all should learn how to reconcile a checkbook, 26:23.120 --> 26:24.760 even if you never write a check, 26:24.760 --> 26:26.800 because it'll just save your life later on, 26:26.800 --> 26:28.360 but anyways, that's a whole other, 26:28.360 --> 26:30.680 financially, not physically, you're not gonna die 26:30.680 --> 26:31.520 or anything like that. 26:31.520 --> 26:34.360 But point number one, go back to Leviticus 16, 26:34.360 --> 26:35.640 I've got only a couple points for you, 26:35.640 --> 26:37.840 but I wanna tie this together, 26:37.840 --> 26:42.840 is that atonement has to come before any action. 26:43.640 --> 26:46.640 Before any of us could ever get saved, 26:46.640 --> 26:49.560 Jesus Christ had to be the one to atone for our sins. 26:49.560 --> 26:53.320 We can't just believe on just some general thing, right? 26:53.320 --> 26:56.080 That's why we're so specific, when we're out so many, 26:56.080 --> 26:59.120 we ask people, people say, oh, I believe, 26:59.160 --> 27:00.760 okay, what do you believe in? 27:00.760 --> 27:03.440 Oh, I believe in God, no, no, no. 27:03.440 --> 27:05.520 What do you mean by you believe in God? 27:05.520 --> 27:07.400 Well, you know, just God, I believe in God, 27:07.400 --> 27:10.540 I believe in the Bible, I believe in spiritual things, 27:10.540 --> 27:13.200 no, we believe in Jesus Christ. 27:13.200 --> 27:15.000 Bible says, I have the way, the truth, and the life, 27:15.000 --> 27:17.680 no man cometh unto the Father, but by me, 27:17.680 --> 27:21.400 the reason we're so specific is because without that, 27:21.400 --> 27:23.040 there is no atonement. 27:23.040 --> 27:25.080 People believe in a lot of things, 27:25.080 --> 27:27.240 all those things will never get them to heaven, 27:27.240 --> 27:28.760 the only thing that gets you to heaven 27:29.400 --> 27:30.440 is your belief on Jesus Christ, right? 27:30.440 --> 27:35.440 It's the foundation, the only way that sin is atoned for 27:35.640 --> 27:37.720 is it must be dealt with first, right? 27:37.720 --> 27:41.780 Jesus, Bible says that he was before the foundation 27:41.780 --> 27:44.800 of the earth, he was already sacrificed, right? 27:44.800 --> 27:46.800 I don't wanna butcher that, so I'm just paraphrasing this. 27:46.800 --> 27:49.880 But there in Leviticus 16 verse 30, the Bible says, 27:49.880 --> 27:54.140 for on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you 27:54.140 --> 27:57.420 to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins 27:57.420 --> 28:01.180 before the Lord, it shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, 28:01.180 --> 28:05.940 and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute forever. 28:05.940 --> 28:09.200 Now before that, you're there in Leviticus 16, 28:09.200 --> 28:10.540 and it's a couple of interesting things, 28:10.540 --> 28:12.860 this is actually a couple, these two chapters 28:12.860 --> 28:14.700 are really interesting, because there's a lot 28:14.700 --> 28:15.660 that has to happen, right? 28:15.660 --> 28:18.460 In verse one, it says, and the Lord speak unto Moses, 28:18.460 --> 28:20.620 after the death of the two sons of Aaron, 28:20.620 --> 28:22.940 when they offered before the Lord and died, 28:22.940 --> 28:25.980 and the Lord said unto Moses, speak unto Aaron thy brother, 28:25.980 --> 28:28.900 that he come not at all times into the holy place 28:28.900 --> 28:31.020 within the veil before the mercy sea, 28:31.020 --> 28:33.380 which is upon the ark, that he die not, 28:33.380 --> 28:36.140 for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy sea. 28:36.140 --> 28:37.460 And I don't wanna go through all this, 28:37.460 --> 28:42.320 but basically before Aaron could ever make an atonement 28:42.320 --> 28:43.760 for the sins of the people, you know, 28:43.760 --> 28:45.780 the people would bring the sacrifice, 28:45.780 --> 28:47.740 and there would be an atonement for sins, 28:47.740 --> 28:49.220 what did he have to do? 28:49.220 --> 28:54.220 He had to bring his own sacrifice and atone for himself, 28:55.060 --> 28:58.860 and once he was atoned for, then he could turn around 28:58.860 --> 29:01.500 and do the same, right? 29:01.500 --> 29:02.380 And why is that? 29:02.380 --> 29:04.940 Because there's only one that can do it without doing that, 29:04.940 --> 29:06.260 and that's Jesus Christ. 29:06.260 --> 29:10.260 Like, he had to cleanse himself and then be able to, 29:10.260 --> 29:13.540 like, you can't just randomly cleanse people, you know, 29:13.540 --> 29:16.140 even in the Old Testament, like it just doesn't happen, 29:16.140 --> 29:18.180 but I like, the reason I picked, 29:18.180 --> 29:20.060 right there in verse 13 and 31 is, 29:20.060 --> 29:24.140 that once the atonement, the priest was atoned, 29:25.060 --> 29:28.900 and then he made an atonement for you to cleanse you, 29:28.900 --> 29:29.740 what did the Bible say? 29:29.740 --> 29:34.260 It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you. 29:34.260 --> 29:35.900 That's how you know that the Jews don't understand it, 29:35.900 --> 29:37.300 because what's the Sabbath? 29:38.780 --> 29:40.380 The atonement. 29:40.380 --> 29:42.620 That's when you get rest from what? 29:42.620 --> 29:45.100 From the condemnation, right? 29:45.100 --> 29:48.660 Jesus Christ, Jesus God, well, he is God, 29:48.660 --> 29:51.660 but that sounds weird, but God is our rest. 29:51.660 --> 29:53.780 The Bible tells us that in Hebrews, right? 29:54.620 --> 29:56.700 He says, you know, if you go to Romans 5, 29:56.700 --> 29:59.500 go to Romans 5, right? 29:59.500 --> 30:02.700 But God doesn't address what the behavior, 30:02.700 --> 30:04.300 he starts with the atonement. 30:05.540 --> 30:08.500 He starts with the cleansing, right? 30:08.500 --> 30:10.460 We believe in the power of God, 30:10.460 --> 30:13.940 we actually believe in the supernatural regeneration 30:13.940 --> 30:14.780 of what? 30:14.780 --> 30:15.620 The spirit. 30:15.620 --> 30:20.620 We go from a corruptible soul to an incorruptible soul, 30:20.620 --> 30:21.460 right? 30:21.460 --> 30:22.900 That's something we don't see, 30:22.900 --> 30:24.700 there's evidence of things not seen, 30:24.700 --> 30:26.300 but that's what we have the faith on, right? 30:26.300 --> 30:29.780 That Jesus cleansed us, he paid for the sins, 30:29.780 --> 30:32.700 but the minute that I said I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, 30:32.700 --> 30:35.820 now that transformation has taken place, right? 30:35.820 --> 30:37.780 Romans 5 verse 8, we know these verses, 30:37.780 --> 30:41.300 but it says, but God commended his love toward us, 30:41.300 --> 30:45.500 then while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, 30:45.500 --> 30:49.340 much more than being now justified by his blood, 30:49.340 --> 30:52.580 we shall be saved from the wrath through him, 30:53.260 --> 30:57.780 for if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God 30:57.780 --> 31:01.860 by the death of his son, so much more being reconciled, 31:01.860 --> 31:04.100 we shall be saved by his life, 31:04.100 --> 31:06.820 and not only so, but we also joy in God 31:06.820 --> 31:07.840 through our Lord Jesus Christ, 31:07.840 --> 31:11.460 by whom we have now received the atonement. 31:11.460 --> 31:13.940 Why do we have joy in God? 31:13.940 --> 31:16.780 Because it's through our Lord Jesus Christ. 31:16.780 --> 31:19.420 That's why I don't buy into this crap where it's like, 31:19.420 --> 31:21.540 oh well, you know, when Jesus walked on this earth, 31:21.540 --> 31:25.900 he was divine sometimes, and sometimes he was all divine, 31:25.900 --> 31:28.180 because the only thing that makes us even divine 31:28.180 --> 31:31.580 is the work that Jesus did, his blood is what cleanses us, 31:31.580 --> 31:35.220 it's the only way we get to the Father, period. 31:35.220 --> 31:38.220 Hebrews 9, go to Hebrews 9, go to Hebrews 9, 31:38.220 --> 31:42.680 we're there in verse 7, and we see in verse 7 it says, 31:43.580 --> 31:48.580 but into the second went, and this is into the veil, 31:49.020 --> 31:52.220 he said, but into the second went the high priest alone 31:52.220 --> 31:55.540 once every year, not without blood, 31:55.540 --> 31:59.260 which he offered for himself, and for the heirs of the people, 31:59.260 --> 32:02.620 the Holy Ghost this signifying that the way 32:02.620 --> 32:06.520 into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, 32:06.520 --> 32:09.320 while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, 32:09.320 --> 32:13.140 which was a figure for the time then present, 32:13.140 --> 32:17.060 in which we were offered both gifts and sacrifices 32:17.060 --> 32:22.060 that could not make him, that did the service perfect 32:22.400 --> 32:25.820 as pertaining to the conscious, which stood only in meats 32:25.820 --> 32:28.500 and drinks and divers washings and carnal orniths 32:28.500 --> 32:31.460 as imposed on them until the end, 32:31.460 --> 32:35.560 until the time of reformation, but Christ being come 32:35.560 --> 32:39.240 in high priest of good things to come by a greater 32:39.240 --> 32:42.700 and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, 32:42.700 --> 32:44.900 that is to say, not of this building, 32:44.900 --> 32:48.300 neither by the blood of goats and calves, 32:48.300 --> 32:52.100 but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, 32:52.100 --> 32:55.700 having obtained eternal redemption for us, 32:55.700 --> 32:58.980 for if the blood of bulls and of goats 32:58.980 --> 33:02.700 and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, 33:02.700 --> 33:05.780 sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, 33:05.780 --> 33:07.260 and by the way, what did it purify? 33:07.260 --> 33:10.820 The flesh, but it did purify the flesh, 33:10.820 --> 33:13.340 how much more shall the blood of Christ 33:13.380 --> 33:15.780 who through the eternal spirit offered himself 33:15.780 --> 33:19.100 without spot to God, purge your conscious 33:19.100 --> 33:22.100 from dead works to serve the living God. 33:22.100 --> 33:25.300 Hey, it's a serious thing, not only the salvation, 33:25.300 --> 33:29.660 but even the etiquette and the decorum of what we do in church. 33:29.660 --> 33:32.200 Now the works don't save us, but if we want to have 33:32.200 --> 33:34.580 that sanctification, yeah, we need to clean up. 33:34.580 --> 33:37.000 That's why we preach sanctification. 33:37.000 --> 33:39.420 That's why we preach clean up your life, 33:39.420 --> 33:42.220 fix the sin, especially the besetting sins in your life, 33:42.220 --> 33:46.220 do the things because we know that if that worked, 33:46.220 --> 33:49.060 how much more will the blood of Christ work in our lives? 33:49.980 --> 33:51.980 Right, Titus 3 verse 5, the Bible says, 33:51.980 --> 33:54.900 not by works of righteousness, which we have done, 33:54.900 --> 33:57.700 but according to his mercy, he saved us 33:57.700 --> 34:01.060 by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, 34:01.060 --> 34:03.660 which he shed on us abundantly 34:03.660 --> 34:06.100 through Jesus Christ our savior, 34:06.100 --> 34:08.380 that being justified by his grace, 34:08.380 --> 34:11.180 we should be made heirs according to the hope 34:11.220 --> 34:12.780 of eternal life. 34:14.900 --> 34:19.900 Look, if you try to fix your life before salvation, 34:21.380 --> 34:23.100 you're just gonna fail. 34:23.100 --> 34:26.260 These self-help gurus, these people that are like, 34:26.260 --> 34:28.340 I'm just, who's ever gone so in it, 34:28.340 --> 34:30.060 and they're like, oh, I want to believe, 34:30.060 --> 34:32.740 but I just gotta fix some stuff in my life first. 34:32.740 --> 34:34.400 No, you're setting up yourself for failure. 34:34.400 --> 34:36.620 Nobody's gonna fix anything in their life. 34:37.860 --> 34:40.140 As a matter of fact, I'll just be really honest with you. 34:40.140 --> 34:42.980 One of the things that I, I don't know that I hate, 34:42.980 --> 34:45.780 but I definitely dislike about being a pastor, 34:45.780 --> 34:49.320 is that I make mistakes, right? 34:49.320 --> 34:52.700 And I want to help people out, I want to help myself out, 34:52.700 --> 34:53.700 but we're gonna fail. 34:53.700 --> 34:55.300 It's one of those things. 34:55.300 --> 34:58.420 And so then, you're caught between, 34:58.420 --> 35:00.340 hey, I just gotta stick to the word, 35:00.340 --> 35:02.420 then playing this game where you're constantly 35:02.420 --> 35:03.700 second guessing yourself. 35:05.900 --> 35:08.440 There's nothing that I'm gonna do to fix your life, 35:08.440 --> 35:10.280 and there's nothing you're gonna do to fix my life 35:10.280 --> 35:11.640 without the word of God. 35:11.640 --> 35:13.160 We've gotta stay focused, 35:13.160 --> 35:15.720 and it's very frustrating sometimes. 35:15.720 --> 35:18.400 I'll get up here, and I'm trying to address things, 35:18.400 --> 35:21.840 and maybe I don't see those things, or vice versa. 35:21.840 --> 35:24.140 I'm the one that's like, okay, I want to do this, 35:24.140 --> 35:26.000 or I'm trying to do that, or I have this, 35:26.000 --> 35:28.200 I'm trying to build these types of relationships, 35:28.200 --> 35:31.260 and then I'm going behind my own back, 35:31.260 --> 35:34.260 second guessing my own self, and be like, 35:34.260 --> 35:36.360 what am I doing, am I focused on the things of God, 35:36.360 --> 35:37.880 or am I focused on myself? 35:37.880 --> 35:42.840 This constant battle where when I take my eye off the ball, 35:42.840 --> 35:45.680 I just know that I'm already in bad waters, 35:45.680 --> 35:47.000 I'm already failing. 35:47.000 --> 35:50.160 Everything's just constantly in disarray, 35:50.160 --> 35:52.280 but then the minute I just get back on track, 35:52.280 --> 35:53.320 I just forget everything else. 35:53.320 --> 35:55.520 I'm like, you know what, let the Lord sort it out. 35:55.520 --> 35:59.060 And so we're constantly playing this game. 35:59.060 --> 36:01.600 Think about how sad it is for the people who are lost. 36:02.760 --> 36:05.780 That Catholic kid and his dad, I feel really bad for them 36:05.780 --> 36:10.780 because they left and they thought they got one on me, 36:11.300 --> 36:13.500 and they're going to hell. 36:13.500 --> 36:14.700 And I mean, I wasn't trying to, 36:14.700 --> 36:17.160 I honestly, I wanted to give them my best. 36:17.160 --> 36:18.780 Today was one of the most frustrating days. 36:18.780 --> 36:20.380 I had a guy, the first guy, 36:20.380 --> 36:22.260 I think Brother Jerry picked up on that. 36:22.260 --> 36:25.060 I don't know if the guy was understanding anything I said. 36:25.060 --> 36:26.660 I finally just had to stop, 36:26.660 --> 36:28.960 because I mean, every time I checked him on stuff, 36:28.960 --> 36:30.360 he was like in another world. 36:30.360 --> 36:32.700 I don't know if he didn't understand basic Spanish, 36:32.700 --> 36:35.220 if he was uneducated, or maybe he was on drugs, 36:35.540 --> 36:37.020 but I just couldn't get him to be like right here 36:37.020 --> 36:38.200 in the moment. 36:38.200 --> 36:41.300 Then I met the Catholics, then I met this lady 36:41.300 --> 36:43.660 who just like talked circles around me. 36:43.660 --> 36:45.460 And you know, the sad part was like, 36:46.740 --> 36:48.740 I'm like, okay, I got to stop 36:48.740 --> 36:51.000 because there's other people that can get saved, 36:51.000 --> 36:54.140 but I don't want to stop because I've got to give it my all. 36:54.140 --> 36:55.780 But I don't know that I'm getting through to these people. 36:55.780 --> 36:58.300 Like, you know, and you know why? 36:58.300 --> 37:00.620 Because they're trying to fix stuff in their own way 37:00.620 --> 37:02.180 instead of listening to the word of God. 37:02.180 --> 37:04.780 Let's go to point number two, go back to Leviticus 16. 37:06.220 --> 37:08.220 You know, people try to put the cart before the horse 37:08.220 --> 37:10.100 is basically what's going on, right? 37:10.100 --> 37:13.360 The second point is that we're going to take a look here 37:13.360 --> 37:15.260 at the high priest. 37:15.260 --> 37:16.740 And what does the high priest represent? 37:16.740 --> 37:20.740 The one man that stands between God and man, the mediator. 37:20.740 --> 37:21.700 What does it represent? 37:21.700 --> 37:25.260 It represents Jesus Christ, the ultimate high priest, 37:25.260 --> 37:27.100 the mediator between what? 37:27.100 --> 37:28.460 Man and God. 37:28.460 --> 37:32.580 And you know, we constantly need mediation in our life. 37:32.580 --> 37:34.820 I mean, I preached about it last year. 37:35.420 --> 37:36.780 I even preached about the what? 37:36.780 --> 37:39.480 The prayer of intercessory prayer, right? 37:39.480 --> 37:40.940 We mediate for others. 37:40.940 --> 37:43.260 We're constantly, my wife and I are constantly praying 37:43.260 --> 37:45.600 for our kids or for the church 37:45.600 --> 37:47.380 or for the members of the church. 37:47.380 --> 37:49.860 And I'm constantly asking you guys, hey, pray for me 37:49.860 --> 37:52.420 that I can speak the word of God more boldly, all right? 37:52.420 --> 37:55.040 That we can do these things, pray for each other. 37:55.040 --> 37:59.400 But God sent Jesus to be the mediator for us. 37:59.400 --> 38:01.260 And we see this picture in the Old Testament. 38:01.260 --> 38:04.220 Luke 16, I mean, Leviticus 16, right there, verse 17, 38:04.700 --> 38:07.140 it says, and there shall be no man in the tabernacle 38:07.140 --> 38:09.500 of the congregation when he goeth into making atonement 38:09.500 --> 38:11.580 in the holy place until he come out 38:11.580 --> 38:13.420 and have made an atonement for himself 38:13.420 --> 38:14.860 and for his household 38:14.860 --> 38:17.260 and for all the congregation of Israel. 38:17.260 --> 38:19.540 The difference is, what is this talking about? 38:19.540 --> 38:23.220 Aaron couldn't even address anybody else 38:23.220 --> 38:25.820 until he cleaned up his own home 38:26.880 --> 38:29.680 and then he was able to then atone for other people. 38:30.680 --> 38:34.080 That's why that system didn't work 38:35.080 --> 38:38.360 because Jesus Christ did it once and for all, right? 38:38.360 --> 38:41.300 But if we were to apply this to modern day times, 38:41.300 --> 38:44.060 well, here in the church, hey, before, 38:44.060 --> 38:45.400 that's why the Bible says, 38:45.400 --> 38:48.540 if the bishop can't rule his own home, 38:48.540 --> 38:50.820 how is he expected to rule the church? 38:50.820 --> 38:52.940 It's basically the same concept, right? 38:52.940 --> 38:55.560 If I'm not ruling my home well, 38:55.560 --> 38:56.960 and well does not mean perfect, 38:56.960 --> 38:58.680 but if I'm not ruling my home well, 38:58.680 --> 39:01.080 then how do I expect to rule the church well? 39:01.080 --> 39:03.380 You know what, it does actually translate 39:03.380 --> 39:05.680 because running a church at times 39:05.680 --> 39:09.960 can feel like you're parenting other church members, 39:09.960 --> 39:11.340 not talking down to them. 39:11.340 --> 39:13.000 I'm not condescending, by the way, 39:13.000 --> 39:15.760 but just dealing with the things that you've got to deal with. 39:15.760 --> 39:19.040 As a matter of fact, I hate dealing with issues in the church 39:19.040 --> 39:22.820 just because I don't wanna do that. 39:22.820 --> 39:24.800 But at the end of the day, you know what? 39:24.800 --> 39:25.960 I have to do that. 39:25.960 --> 39:28.320 Like, if I don't address things, 39:28.320 --> 39:29.520 you know who I'm responsible to? 39:29.520 --> 39:30.360 God. 39:30.360 --> 39:31.920 And if I don't address things, 39:31.920 --> 39:34.000 then God's gonna beat up on me, 39:34.000 --> 39:37.280 or beat up on me and on the issue that I'm addressing. 39:37.280 --> 39:39.760 I'd rather just him not beat up on any of us, right? 39:39.760 --> 39:41.360 Like, just let's get it over with. 39:41.360 --> 39:46.360 But Aaron, you know, the hard part was Aaron had to go in, 39:46.640 --> 39:48.060 think about how much work, 39:48.060 --> 39:50.280 I'm so glad that we don't live in Old Testament. 39:50.280 --> 39:52.360 Like, you have to carry your own, 39:52.360 --> 39:55.600 you gotta go in there, you gotta sacrifice, 39:55.600 --> 39:57.220 take care of your business, 39:57.220 --> 39:59.100 make sure that your house is in order, 39:59.100 --> 40:01.820 and then you gotta, this long line of people 40:01.820 --> 40:04.340 that are coming to get atoned for their sins. 40:04.340 --> 40:05.300 It's a lot of work. 40:06.380 --> 40:09.180 I mean, the hardest thing I had to do is read my Bible 40:09.180 --> 40:12.840 and then prepare sermons, you know, three times a week, 40:12.840 --> 40:15.060 which is still hard work, don't get me wrong, 40:15.060 --> 40:17.180 but it's definitely not, you know. 40:17.180 --> 40:19.620 And God's like serious, and then the worst part is, 40:19.620 --> 40:21.940 you know, obviously God's serious all the time, 40:21.940 --> 40:24.100 but he's long suffering, and in the New Testament, 40:24.100 --> 40:25.780 we have a different grace, right? 40:25.820 --> 40:27.780 The thing is, in the Old Testament, 40:27.780 --> 40:30.580 he like, he takes people out constantly like that. 40:30.580 --> 40:33.100 Now I'm not saying God doesn't do that now, 40:33.100 --> 40:35.740 but if he's doing it, it's just not as evident to us, right? 40:35.740 --> 40:39.180 Like back in the Old Testament, like the earth opens up 40:39.180 --> 40:41.260 and people get swallowed up right in front of your eyes. 40:41.260 --> 40:43.620 That's not happening in 2026. 40:43.620 --> 40:45.780 I know that God's taking people out, 40:45.780 --> 40:49.260 he's just not making it as evident all the time to us, 40:49.260 --> 40:50.940 we're just living it by faith, right? 40:50.940 --> 40:52.460 Now other times he's making it evident, 40:52.460 --> 40:53.540 I've already preached those sermons, 40:53.540 --> 40:55.220 but you know, you got some of these guys 40:55.220 --> 40:59.620 who got like these strange diseases of the skin 40:59.620 --> 41:01.860 that only one person in the world has it, 41:01.860 --> 41:03.820 and they were people that went against the men of God. 41:03.820 --> 41:07.740 Like, I mean, if you think that's a coincidence, 41:07.740 --> 41:09.300 you know, I don't know what to tell you. 41:09.300 --> 41:12.100 So, but go back to Hebrews nine, go back to Hebrews nine, 41:12.100 --> 41:13.700 we're gonna repeat a couple of verses, 41:13.700 --> 41:15.220 then we're gonna go further down. 41:15.220 --> 41:17.580 But in Hebrews nine, right there, verse 11, 41:17.580 --> 41:20.740 the Bible says, but Christ being come and high priest 41:20.740 --> 41:22.420 of good things to come by a greater 41:22.420 --> 41:25.540 and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands. 41:26.580 --> 41:28.980 And sorry, let me go there in Hebrews nine, 41:28.980 --> 41:30.260 somehow I cut this off. 41:31.420 --> 41:33.180 Nice thing we got it right here. 41:45.140 --> 41:47.820 But Christ being come and high priest of good things 41:47.820 --> 41:50.460 to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, 41:50.460 --> 41:52.980 not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, 41:52.980 --> 41:55.020 neither by the blood of goats and calves, 41:55.020 --> 42:00.020 but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, 42:00.540 --> 42:03.460 having attained eternal redemption for us. 42:03.460 --> 42:04.940 Now go down to verse 15, it says, 42:04.940 --> 42:09.820 and for this cause, he is the mediator of the New Testament, 42:09.820 --> 42:12.540 that by means of death, for the redemption 42:12.540 --> 42:16.100 of the transgressions that were under the first Testament, 42:16.100 --> 42:18.780 that they which are called might receive the promise 42:18.820 --> 42:21.980 of eternal inheritance, for where a Testament is, 42:21.980 --> 42:26.900 there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 42:26.900 --> 42:30.380 For a Testament is a force after men are dead, 42:30.380 --> 42:32.780 otherwise it is of no strength at all 42:32.780 --> 42:34.780 while the testator liveth. 42:34.780 --> 42:36.620 Whereupon neither the first Testament 42:36.620 --> 42:40.540 was dedicated without blood, for when Moses had spoken 42:40.540 --> 42:43.140 every precept to all the people according to the law, 42:43.140 --> 42:46.060 he took the blood of calves and of goats with water 42:46.100 --> 42:50.060 and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book 42:50.060 --> 42:51.940 and all the people, saying, this is the blood 42:51.940 --> 42:54.940 of the Testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 42:54.940 --> 42:58.540 Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle 42:58.540 --> 43:00.220 and all the vessels of the ministry, 43:00.220 --> 43:05.220 and almost all things are by the law purged with blood, 43:05.620 --> 43:09.580 and without shedding of blood is no remission of sin. 43:10.780 --> 43:11.900 Hey, we need the blood. 43:12.760 --> 43:14.980 I have a sermon I preach, I probably ought to update it, 43:14.980 --> 43:17.500 because it's when I first started preaching, 43:17.500 --> 43:20.980 it probably just didn't have the oomph that we needed, 43:20.980 --> 43:25.980 but, and it was talking about the power of the blood. 43:26.180 --> 43:28.140 As a matter of fact, Pastor Cobb, when I first got ordained, 43:28.140 --> 43:32.940 gave me a book by a doctor and a preacher, 43:32.940 --> 43:34.580 and he wrote about the power of the blood. 43:34.580 --> 43:36.860 And literally, the blood is just like one of the most 43:36.860 --> 43:41.420 interesting bodily functions in the entire body. 43:41.420 --> 43:42.700 I'm not gonna even go into it right now, 43:42.700 --> 43:44.300 just because I'd probably butcher it. 43:44.300 --> 43:46.220 But just the fact that it has all those, 43:46.220 --> 43:47.540 it carries all the oxygen. 43:47.540 --> 43:50.420 I will say this, the only reason you're even alive right now 43:50.420 --> 43:52.540 is because there's blood in your body. 43:52.540 --> 43:55.100 I mean, without the blood, you wouldn't be, 43:55.100 --> 44:00.100 every ounce, every corner of your body has to get blood. 44:00.520 --> 44:04.380 The delivery of oxygen to your body is through the blood. 44:04.380 --> 44:07.860 You're not just breathing, and you're like, oh, I'm alive. 44:07.860 --> 44:12.060 Like that oxygen has to quickly have that chemical reaction, 44:12.060 --> 44:15.100 reach everything, and then deliver that oxygen 44:15.100 --> 44:16.020 to the right places. 44:16.020 --> 44:18.100 It's not just like air comes in. 44:18.100 --> 44:20.500 That's why if somebody doesn't, once the spirit leaves, 44:20.500 --> 44:22.060 you can pump someone full of air, 44:22.060 --> 44:22.940 and they're not gonna live, 44:22.940 --> 44:26.980 because there's no more life to exchange that, 44:26.980 --> 44:28.300 to have that exchange. 44:28.300 --> 44:31.700 Go to Hebrews four, go back a couple pages to Hebrews four, 44:31.700 --> 44:34.460 but it's 1 Timothy two, verse five, the Bible says, 44:34.460 --> 44:39.140 for there's one God, and one mediator between God and man, 44:39.140 --> 44:43.820 the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all 44:43.820 --> 44:47.380 to be testified in due time. 44:47.380 --> 44:49.580 And then in Hebrews four, right there in verse 14, 44:49.580 --> 44:53.920 it says, seeing then that we have a great high priest 44:53.920 --> 44:55.660 that is passed into the heavens, 44:55.660 --> 44:59.660 Jesus, the son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 44:59.660 --> 45:02.200 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched 45:02.200 --> 45:03.860 with the feelings of our infirmities, 45:03.860 --> 45:06.340 but was in all points tempted like as we are, 45:06.460 --> 45:10.100 and yet without sin, let us therefore come boldly 45:10.100 --> 45:13.080 unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy 45:13.080 --> 45:17.140 and find grace to help in time of need. 45:17.140 --> 45:19.020 Oh, you know, that was one of the things, 45:19.020 --> 45:21.300 just talking about mercy, you know, it's interesting, 45:21.300 --> 45:23.620 because the Catholic, this kid's been taught by Catholics, 45:23.620 --> 45:25.460 oh yeah, the Protestants, 45:25.460 --> 45:27.540 because obviously they think that's a Protestant, 45:27.540 --> 45:30.220 they believe in just faith alone. 45:30.220 --> 45:32.460 And so it's funny, because I read him in Ephesians two, 45:32.460 --> 45:33.860 by grace are you saved from faith, 45:33.860 --> 45:35.740 and he's like, oh, well see, you said earlier, 45:35.740 --> 45:37.420 it was only by faith alone, 45:37.420 --> 45:39.780 but now you're saying it's by grace and faith. 45:39.780 --> 45:44.780 I was like, son, like grace is the thing that God gives us, 45:45.540 --> 45:49.780 it's the faith to believe in that grace that we get saved. 45:49.780 --> 45:51.180 And I gave him the example, I said, 45:51.180 --> 45:55.540 if I leave you this present, this gift here, 45:55.540 --> 45:59.100 and I'm like, that is yours, and I walk away, 45:59.100 --> 46:01.640 you have the choice to take it or not, 46:01.640 --> 46:03.040 that's the faith that you believe 46:03.040 --> 46:05.060 that this gift is worthy for you, 46:05.300 --> 46:07.500 and if you don't take it, well then you just rejected it, 46:07.500 --> 46:10.740 but it already exists, I don't need to, 46:10.740 --> 46:14.220 grace and mercy exist independent of us. 46:14.220 --> 46:15.220 But you know, it's interesting, 46:15.220 --> 46:17.900 because Catholics have a resurgence 46:17.900 --> 46:19.340 in the younger generation, 46:19.340 --> 46:21.160 and they're feeding them all the wrong junk, 46:21.160 --> 46:24.580 like we need to get more stuff out there 46:24.580 --> 46:25.500 from the word of God, 46:25.500 --> 46:30.380 destroying the stupid, demonic Catholic religion, right? 46:30.380 --> 46:32.060 And you need to call it out for what it is, 46:32.060 --> 46:33.780 the way that I'm saying it, 46:33.780 --> 46:35.380 because the only way you're gonna get a Catholic 46:35.380 --> 46:37.100 to open up their eyes is to obviously, 46:37.100 --> 46:40.340 harshly offend them, you know, I mean, God, 46:40.340 --> 46:43.260 Jesus Christ defended people all over the place. 46:43.260 --> 46:46.660 People were like, oh, Jesus would never talk like that. 46:46.660 --> 46:48.380 You know, I don't know why I'm getting off on this, 46:48.380 --> 46:49.940 but just as a side note, 46:49.940 --> 46:51.860 especially for the younger generation, 46:51.860 --> 46:54.820 hey, don't be a jerk, don't be mean to anybody, 46:54.820 --> 46:57.380 just for any reason, but if it's for the cause of Christ, 46:57.380 --> 47:00.460 go to town, destroy them, decimate them, 47:00.460 --> 47:02.660 people say, oh, that's not how people are gonna get saved, 47:02.660 --> 47:03.980 people are gonna get saved more 47:03.980 --> 47:05.340 because you're tough on them 47:05.340 --> 47:07.020 than because you're nice to them. 47:07.020 --> 47:08.500 And if you tippy toe around people, 47:08.500 --> 47:11.440 they're just thinking they're all just like, 47:11.440 --> 47:13.460 singing around the fire, singing kumbaya, 47:13.460 --> 47:15.940 going to heaven, and I think to myself, 47:15.940 --> 47:20.260 that father and son duo, at least we planted the seed, 47:20.260 --> 47:24.380 and he did have a moment of like, I kind of threw him off, 47:24.380 --> 47:27.280 but unless somebody comes around and reemphasizes that, 47:27.280 --> 47:28.700 they're going to hell, 47:28.700 --> 47:30.620 because they don't read all this stuff, 47:30.620 --> 47:32.140 they just read all these other books, 47:32.420 --> 47:34.060 and they don't do the things that we need to do. 47:34.060 --> 47:35.380 So sorry I'm getting off on these tensions, 47:35.380 --> 47:36.220 but some of these, 47:36.220 --> 47:38.220 today was just like an interesting experience, 47:38.220 --> 47:39.660 out so many. 47:39.660 --> 47:41.100 Point number three, go back to Leviticus, 47:41.100 --> 47:45.580 so we see here that we see the atonement, 47:45.580 --> 47:47.980 we see the mediator, right? 47:47.980 --> 47:49.740 And of course, the ultimate mediator, 47:49.740 --> 47:52.340 so Jesus Christ, the high priest, 47:52.340 --> 47:56.180 and then we also have the scapegoat, right? 47:56.180 --> 47:58.420 When they brought sacrifices, they brought two, 47:58.420 --> 48:00.360 one was to be sacrificed, 48:00.360 --> 48:02.760 the blood for the remission of sins, 48:02.760 --> 48:04.040 and then you have the scapegoat, 48:04.040 --> 48:07.600 which represented the sins were leaving the camp, 48:07.600 --> 48:09.900 and they were never to return, right? 48:09.900 --> 48:12.800 And so we see that right there in Leviticus 16, 48:12.800 --> 48:15.580 it's, and we see the substitution, 48:15.580 --> 48:18.560 the sins removed, and it's not just covered, 48:18.560 --> 48:19.600 but it's removed, 48:19.600 --> 48:22.480 which is something that's really important, 48:22.480 --> 48:23.520 when we're preaching stuff, 48:23.520 --> 48:26.680 because people will still sometimes mix these things up, 48:26.680 --> 48:29.380 especially if they've been really harshly indoctrinated, 48:29.380 --> 48:32.940 they think somehow that they have to constantly be asking 48:32.940 --> 48:35.180 for forgiveness of sins, or, 48:35.180 --> 48:38.260 hey, God's forgotten it, it's over. 48:38.260 --> 48:40.720 Once you, first of all, he paid for it, 48:40.720 --> 48:42.900 but then when you ask God for forgiveness, 48:42.900 --> 48:44.340 the Bible says he is just and faithful 48:44.340 --> 48:45.620 to forgive your sins, 48:45.620 --> 48:47.860 but the Old Testament gives us clarity on that, 48:47.860 --> 48:50.060 it says, hey, as far as the east is from the west, 48:50.060 --> 48:51.820 he's forgotten that. 48:51.820 --> 48:53.380 That's why we don't beat anybody up, 48:53.380 --> 48:55.260 or we shouldn't beat anybody up 48:55.260 --> 48:56.780 for any sins that they've committed. 48:56.980 --> 48:59.460 If somebody's asked you for forgiveness of something, 48:59.460 --> 49:01.180 you've gotta move on. 49:01.180 --> 49:02.960 As a matter of fact, I don't do this very often, 49:02.960 --> 49:05.100 but I will give you parenting advice, 49:05.100 --> 49:07.560 hey, if your children ask you for forgiveness, 49:07.560 --> 49:09.700 you need to forgive them and move on. 49:09.700 --> 49:12.140 Especially if you're Hispanic, don't be passive aggressive, 49:12.140 --> 49:14.940 or Hispanic and probably Filipino, 49:14.940 --> 49:15.860 because it's very similar. 49:15.860 --> 49:19.140 I don't know, white people that I've met 49:19.140 --> 49:21.180 don't seem to be as passive aggressive. 49:21.180 --> 49:22.300 My daughter, when she was little, 49:22.300 --> 49:24.380 she would say, daddy is passive aggressive, 49:24.380 --> 49:26.420 and mommy is straight aggressive. 49:27.420 --> 49:30.020 I was apparently the one that had the problem. 49:30.020 --> 49:31.860 I do, I have to work on that. 49:31.860 --> 49:33.780 I am passive aggressive at times. 49:33.780 --> 49:35.260 Point number three is the scapegoat. 49:35.260 --> 49:38.640 Let's look at the scapegoat here, Leviticus 16 verse 21. 49:38.640 --> 49:41.720 The Bible says, and Aaron shall lay both his hands 49:41.720 --> 49:43.520 upon the head of the life goat, 49:43.520 --> 49:46.060 and confess over him all the iniquities 49:46.060 --> 49:47.360 of the children of Israel, 49:47.360 --> 49:50.060 and all their transgressions, and all their sins, 49:50.060 --> 49:52.020 putting them upon the head of the goat, 49:52.020 --> 49:55.300 and then shall send him away by the hand of a fit man 49:55.300 --> 49:59.220 into the wilderness, and the goat shall bear upon him 49:59.220 --> 50:02.780 all their iniquities unto the land not inhabited, 50:02.780 --> 50:06.900 and shall let go of the goat into the wilderness. 50:06.900 --> 50:08.800 So what happens, one goat died, 50:08.800 --> 50:11.300 that's the shedding of blood, 50:11.300 --> 50:14.860 one goat carries away the sins, right? 50:14.860 --> 50:16.500 But it's not just covering the sins, 50:16.500 --> 50:18.300 it's removing the sins. 50:18.300 --> 50:21.480 Jesus didn't just cover us in his blood. 50:21.480 --> 50:24.100 When he covers us, think about the blood as like, 50:24.980 --> 50:27.340 I'm giving you, this is a worldly application, 50:27.340 --> 50:30.100 this is not, but the way that I would liken it is like, 50:30.100 --> 50:32.700 hey, when we get to heaven, God's looking at us, 50:32.700 --> 50:34.360 he sees the blood of Christ, 50:34.360 --> 50:36.260 but also he doesn't see any of the sin. 50:36.260 --> 50:39.180 It's like acid just destroying the sin, 50:39.180 --> 50:41.900 and it just leaves the pure soul, right? 50:41.900 --> 50:43.420 It's like, just disappear. 50:43.420 --> 50:47.660 If you've ever seen things like that, go to Isaiah 53, 50:47.660 --> 50:49.340 go to Isaiah 53, this is where 50:50.980 --> 50:52.940 we wanna spend a little bit of time here, 50:52.980 --> 50:54.900 Isaiah 53, but for the sake of time, 50:54.900 --> 50:56.000 I'll just read for you really quick, 50:56.000 --> 50:57.900 in John 1, verse 29, the Bible says, 50:57.900 --> 51:02.100 Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh the sin of the world, 51:02.100 --> 51:03.860 taketh away the sin of the world. 51:03.860 --> 51:06.960 John said that about the Lamb of God. 51:06.960 --> 51:10.500 And then, just real quick, 51:10.500 --> 51:15.060 I just wanna focus a little bit on the scapegoat. 51:15.060 --> 51:18.260 By the way, a lot of our modern usage of things, 51:18.260 --> 51:20.700 has ever, anybody's ever heard of scapegoat, 51:20.700 --> 51:21.860 or anything like that? 51:21.900 --> 51:23.660 We get them from the King James. 51:23.660 --> 51:26.520 That's another reason why the King James is so great, right? 51:26.520 --> 51:31.520 So, the sins are placed on the goat, 51:31.540 --> 51:32.980 and he's removing them, right? 51:35.140 --> 51:38.480 It's basically carrying away what you should be carrying. 51:39.500 --> 51:40.840 Right, it bears it. 51:40.840 --> 51:44.140 And so, the Bible says in Psalm 103, verse 12, 51:44.140 --> 51:46.580 as far as the east is from the west, 51:46.580 --> 51:51.580 so far hath he removed our transgressions from us, right? 51:51.860 --> 51:56.500 We have one goat is the shedding of blood, 51:56.500 --> 52:00.160 and then one lives and carries the sins away. 52:00.160 --> 52:01.000 And so, what do you need? 52:01.000 --> 52:05.100 You need both death satisfies God's injustice, 52:05.100 --> 52:07.180 and the scapegoat shows that sin is gone. 52:07.180 --> 52:10.660 Now, in Christ, we get it all, right? 52:10.660 --> 52:13.220 And the Bible tells us that in Isaiah 53, 52:13.220 --> 52:15.040 right there in verse one, the Bible says, 52:15.040 --> 52:16.300 Who hath believed our report? 52:16.300 --> 52:18.980 And this is the longest point, 52:18.980 --> 52:20.420 and then after this, we'll start closing this up, 52:20.420 --> 52:23.260 but Isaiah 53, we'll read this whole thing, 52:23.260 --> 52:24.660 because sometimes we pick it, 52:24.660 --> 52:27.820 but this is one of the clearest prophecies 52:27.820 --> 52:29.700 in the Old Testament of Jesus Christ. 52:29.700 --> 52:31.140 Who hath believed our report, 52:31.140 --> 52:34.500 and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 52:34.500 --> 52:37.700 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, 52:37.700 --> 52:39.460 and as a root out of a dry ground. 52:39.460 --> 52:43.920 He hath no form nor comeliness, and we shall see him. 52:43.920 --> 52:46.660 There's no beauty that we should desire him. 52:46.660 --> 52:49.660 He is despised and rejected of men, 52:49.660 --> 52:53.060 a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 52:53.060 --> 52:55.980 And we hid, as it were, in our faces from him. 52:55.980 --> 52:58.900 He was despised, and we esteemed him not. 52:58.900 --> 53:02.020 Notice how it's a we thing, all of us, right? 53:02.020 --> 53:05.560 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, 53:05.560 --> 53:09.760 yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, 53:09.760 --> 53:11.940 and afflicted, who struck him? 53:11.940 --> 53:13.740 God Almighty, God the Father. 53:14.740 --> 53:17.380 But he was wounded for our transgressions, 53:17.380 --> 53:19.060 he was bruised for our iniquities. 53:19.060 --> 53:21.620 The chastisement of our peace was upon him, 53:21.620 --> 53:24.060 and with his stripes we are healed. 53:24.060 --> 53:26.380 All we like sheep have gone astray, 53:26.380 --> 53:28.940 we have turned everyone to his own way, 53:28.940 --> 53:33.940 and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 53:34.580 --> 53:37.460 Sometimes I don't know if we do it just like I hate, 53:37.460 --> 53:41.020 like that sometimes I feel maybe inadequate 53:41.100 --> 53:45.220 trying to just get the person across to understand 53:45.220 --> 53:48.380 that all the sins that we've ever committed, 53:48.380 --> 53:52.380 all the atrocities, all the injustice that we see, 53:52.380 --> 53:54.360 it's all on Jesus Christ. 53:55.340 --> 53:59.860 Like, it's just kind of daunting to think about, right? 53:59.860 --> 54:01.280 You look at that, it says, 54:04.060 --> 54:05.900 he was oppressed and he was afflicted, 54:05.900 --> 54:08.100 verse seven, yet he opened out his mouth, 54:08.100 --> 54:09.820 he is broad as a lamp to slaughter, 54:09.820 --> 54:12.180 and as a sheep before the sheers is dumb, 54:12.180 --> 54:13.820 so he opened out his mouth, 54:13.820 --> 54:16.500 he was taken from prison and from judgment, 54:16.500 --> 54:18.420 and who shall declare his generation? 54:18.420 --> 54:21.660 For he was cut off out of the land of the living, 54:21.660 --> 54:25.060 for the transgressions of my people was he stricken, 54:25.060 --> 54:27.540 and he made his grave with the wicked, 54:27.540 --> 54:28.840 and with the rich in his death, 54:28.840 --> 54:31.220 because he had done no violence, 54:31.220 --> 54:33.580 neither was there any deceit in his mouth. 54:33.580 --> 54:36.780 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, 54:36.780 --> 54:38.480 he hath put him to grief, 54:38.480 --> 54:41.120 when thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, 54:42.040 --> 54:45.000 he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, 54:45.000 --> 54:48.000 and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands, 54:48.000 --> 54:50.160 he shall see of the travail of his soul, 54:50.160 --> 54:52.480 and shall be satisfied by his knowledge, 54:52.480 --> 54:56.160 so my righteous servant justify many, 54:56.160 --> 54:58.080 for he shall bear their iniquities. 54:58.080 --> 55:00.880 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, 55:00.880 --> 55:03.120 and he shall divide the spoiled with the strong, 55:03.120 --> 55:05.440 because he hath poured out his soul unto death, 55:05.440 --> 55:07.880 and he was numbered with the transgressors, 55:07.880 --> 55:09.920 and he bare the sins of many, 55:09.920 --> 55:14.600 and made intercession for the transgressors. 55:14.600 --> 55:18.440 I mean, it's crazy that he would just, 55:18.440 --> 55:22.980 that agreement between the father and the son was so, 55:24.400 --> 55:25.920 that's why we call it a covenant, right? 55:25.920 --> 55:29.800 It was such a commitment, Jesus was never gonna back out. 55:29.800 --> 55:31.360 You know who also wasn't gonna back out? 55:31.360 --> 55:32.200 God the father. 55:33.240 --> 55:37.080 Like to kill your son so that the rest of the world 55:37.080 --> 55:38.760 wouldn't have to suffer, right? 55:38.760 --> 55:41.120 Second Corinthians five or 17, the Bible says, 55:41.120 --> 55:45.520 therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, 55:45.520 --> 55:46.800 old things are passed away, 55:46.800 --> 55:48.800 behold all things are become new, 55:48.800 --> 55:50.680 and all things are of God, 55:50.680 --> 55:54.280 who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, 55:54.280 --> 55:57.560 and hath given us, given to us the ministry of what? 55:57.560 --> 55:58.920 Reconciliation. 55:58.920 --> 56:03.800 We are the bookkeepers, we are the accountants, 56:03.800 --> 56:05.760 to wit that God was in Christ, 56:05.800 --> 56:07.840 reconciling the world unto himself, 56:07.840 --> 56:10.620 not imputing their trespasses unto them, 56:10.620 --> 56:15.040 and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 56:15.040 --> 56:18.220 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, 56:18.220 --> 56:20.280 as though God did beseech you by us, 56:20.280 --> 56:23.760 we pray you in Christ's stead be reconciled to God, 56:23.760 --> 56:26.040 for he hath made him to be sin for us, 56:26.040 --> 56:28.680 who knew no sin that we might be made 56:28.680 --> 56:31.000 the righteousness of God in him. 56:31.000 --> 56:34.340 You know on occasion, I just like see my mortality 56:34.380 --> 56:36.700 a little bit more as I get older, 56:36.700 --> 56:38.740 I was talking to that about brother Jerry, 56:38.740 --> 56:40.740 you know what, I just think to myself, 56:40.740 --> 56:42.060 if I'm an ambassador, 56:42.060 --> 56:44.180 I don't think that God wants to take out the ambassadors, 56:44.180 --> 56:45.900 the thing that gives me peace, 56:45.900 --> 56:48.000 and I'm not saying I'm playing God, 56:48.000 --> 56:50.180 God can take me out anytime he wants, 56:50.180 --> 56:51.860 and even if I'm doing great works for the Lord, 56:51.860 --> 56:54.300 if he decides to take me, amen. 56:54.300 --> 56:56.700 Just let me make that clear, I don't wanna play God. 56:56.700 --> 57:00.580 I'll just say that I believe that when I feel like maybe, 57:00.580 --> 57:03.340 I'm at death's door for some weird reason, 57:03.620 --> 57:05.740 we all get in our own heads at times, 57:05.740 --> 57:07.100 I just come to these verses, I'm like, 57:07.100 --> 57:08.860 well no, I'm doing the work of the Lord, 57:08.860 --> 57:12.100 God needs me in the battle, I wanna be in the battle, 57:12.100 --> 57:13.940 get excited to get in the battle, 57:13.940 --> 57:16.700 and then you'll have a long life, right? 57:18.820 --> 57:19.900 You say, why do you even say that? 57:19.900 --> 57:22.940 Because everybody has a natural fear of dying, 57:22.940 --> 57:24.380 like that's just part of life. 57:26.060 --> 57:28.500 Pastor Cobb and I've had many conversations, 57:28.500 --> 57:33.300 Pastor Cobb is gonna be 90, God willing, in September, 57:34.220 --> 57:35.700 that's something that he struggled with, 57:35.700 --> 57:36.900 and I'm not picking on him, I'm just saying, 57:36.900 --> 57:38.540 we've had these sincere conversations, 57:38.540 --> 57:40.860 he's my friend, he's one of my best friends, 57:40.860 --> 57:43.780 and you think, oh man, you made it this far, 57:43.780 --> 57:45.980 you'd be like the one person who shouldn't worry about it, 57:45.980 --> 57:48.660 but you know what, he's still in the flesh, 57:48.660 --> 57:50.420 we're all in the flesh, this is a battle 57:50.420 --> 57:53.060 that we've gotta deal with on a regular basis, 57:53.060 --> 57:56.520 but Jesus didn't just cover your sin, he carried it away, 57:57.420 --> 57:58.300 he got rid of it. 57:59.180 --> 58:01.660 You know, as good as we are, 58:01.660 --> 58:03.700 we can never be as great as God, right? 58:03.700 --> 58:05.820 I do try to forget the things that my kids have done, 58:05.820 --> 58:08.460 but on occasion, I just remember, 58:08.460 --> 58:11.740 and then I get frustrated, and then I remember, 58:11.740 --> 58:15.160 I need to move on, but you know, God, 58:15.160 --> 58:18.360 he doesn't remember at all, he just moved on. 58:19.900 --> 58:20.900 Let's go to the last few points, 58:20.900 --> 58:22.260 and then we'll cover this thing up. 58:22.260 --> 58:24.860 Go back to Leviticus, now we're in Leviticus 17, 58:24.860 --> 58:29.860 and we have the principle of the blood, right? 58:30.260 --> 58:32.600 But in order for us to get the principle, 58:32.600 --> 58:35.060 we first have to get the ceremony. 58:35.060 --> 58:36.380 What's the ceremony picture? 58:36.380 --> 58:39.100 It pictures Jesus Christ, he's the mediator. 58:39.100 --> 58:40.540 He's the only one that does, 58:40.540 --> 58:42.900 notice he doesn't have to cleanse himself, 58:42.900 --> 58:47.260 he's righteous, who knew no sin, he died for us, right? 58:47.260 --> 58:51.020 And why it's important to go through the Old Testament 58:51.020 --> 58:52.220 is because the book of Hebrews, 58:52.220 --> 58:53.800 we're gonna talk about it here a little bit, 58:53.800 --> 58:57.600 but it constantly reminds us, hey, all of this was made 58:57.600 --> 59:00.240 so that you would understand things in the modern day, 59:00.240 --> 59:03.060 right, these things had to happen the way they did, 59:03.060 --> 59:05.880 because that's how it's explained, 59:05.880 --> 59:09.020 and that's how we understand how easy it is to get saved. 59:09.960 --> 59:10.800 You know, as a matter of fact, 59:10.800 --> 59:11.960 you read through the Old Testament, 59:11.960 --> 59:14.400 you're like, man, this is a daunting exercise. 59:14.400 --> 59:16.640 This flame needs to be on forever, 59:16.640 --> 59:19.480 and you need to do this daily, and you need to do all, 59:19.480 --> 59:21.180 thank God we don't have to do all that. 59:21.180 --> 59:24.420 You know, we should, God requires daily prayer, 59:24.420 --> 59:26.700 God requires daily Bible reading, 59:26.700 --> 59:29.140 God requires daily sanctification, 59:29.140 --> 59:31.300 God requires daily renewing of the mind, 59:31.300 --> 59:33.060 and let me ask you a question you don't have to answer, 59:33.060 --> 59:35.240 this is very rhetorical, please don't answer. 59:35.240 --> 59:37.420 How many of you do that daily? 59:38.360 --> 59:43.120 You don't, because I know, because we're all gonna fail, 59:43.120 --> 59:44.960 and you know, thank God that his mercy 59:44.960 --> 59:46.300 and he's long-suffering towards it, 59:46.300 --> 59:49.540 and that he lets us, you know, get away with it, 59:49.540 --> 59:51.280 and then come back and fix it. 59:52.260 --> 59:54.880 Now, let me fix that, he doesn't let us get away with it, 59:54.880 --> 59:56.900 like, we're not gonna get, he's gonna chastise us, 59:56.900 --> 59:59.380 but he's not gonna like strike us down 59:59.380 --> 01:00:01.340 like he did in the Old Testament. 01:00:01.340 --> 01:00:04.180 He's very long-suffering, he gives us a lot of grace, 01:00:04.180 --> 01:00:07.620 a lot of mercy, go to Hebrews 9, write down verse 23. 01:00:07.620 --> 01:00:09.620 The Bible says, it was therefore necessary 01:00:09.620 --> 01:00:11.020 that the pattern of things in the heavens 01:00:11.020 --> 01:00:13.940 should be purified with these, 01:00:13.940 --> 01:00:15.860 but the heavenly things themselves, 01:00:15.860 --> 01:00:17.300 with better sacrifices than these, 01:00:17.300 --> 01:00:19.100 for Christ is not entered to the holy places 01:00:19.260 --> 01:00:22.540 with hands, which are the figures of the truth, 01:00:22.540 --> 01:00:24.340 but into heaven itself, 01:00:24.340 --> 01:00:26.420 now to appear in the presence of God for us. 01:00:26.420 --> 01:00:28.420 So this is how we know that he laid the blood 01:00:28.420 --> 01:00:29.860 on the mercy seat. 01:00:29.860 --> 01:00:31.300 You know, people argue that, 01:00:32.580 --> 01:00:35.860 I mean, that's exactly what that was a picture of, 01:00:35.860 --> 01:00:37.340 what was happening in heaven. 01:00:37.340 --> 01:00:40.500 Nor yet, that he should offer himself often, 01:00:40.500 --> 01:00:43.620 as the high priest enters into holy praise every year, 01:00:43.620 --> 01:00:44.980 with blood of others, 01:00:44.980 --> 01:00:46.620 for then must he often have suffered 01:00:46.620 --> 01:00:48.340 since the foundation of the world, 01:00:49.620 --> 01:00:51.340 and that's why, you know, 01:00:51.340 --> 01:00:52.220 you know where I learned this from? 01:00:52.220 --> 01:00:54.820 Pastor Cobb, I love all the lessons I've learned. 01:00:54.820 --> 01:00:57.100 Pastor Cobb hates the crucifix, 01:00:58.100 --> 01:01:00.700 because Jesus is still hanging on that cross. 01:01:00.700 --> 01:01:02.020 They're sacrificing him daily, 01:01:02.020 --> 01:01:04.340 that's what it signifies. 01:01:04.340 --> 01:01:05.820 But here it says, 01:01:05.820 --> 01:01:07.420 for then he must have suffered 01:01:07.420 --> 01:01:08.940 since the foundation of the world, 01:01:08.940 --> 01:01:10.540 but now once in the end of the world 01:01:10.540 --> 01:01:12.420 hath he appeared to put away sin 01:01:12.420 --> 01:01:14.140 by the sacrifice himself, 01:01:14.140 --> 01:01:16.300 and is it a point unto man to die, 01:01:16.300 --> 01:01:19.020 once to die, but after this judgment. 01:01:19.940 --> 01:01:23.580 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, 01:01:23.580 --> 01:01:25.300 and unto them that looked for him 01:01:25.300 --> 01:01:27.300 shall he appear the second time, 01:01:27.300 --> 01:01:29.820 without sin, unto salvation. 01:01:32.220 --> 01:01:33.540 First Peter one, verse 18, 01:01:33.540 --> 01:01:34.700 the Bible says, for as much as you know 01:01:34.700 --> 01:01:39.100 that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, right? 01:01:39.100 --> 01:01:39.940 And later on it says, 01:01:39.940 --> 01:01:41.900 but with the precious blood of Christ 01:01:41.900 --> 01:01:44.900 as a lamb without blemish, without spot. 01:01:44.900 --> 01:01:45.740 And we know these verses, 01:01:45.740 --> 01:01:48.500 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, 01:01:48.540 --> 01:01:50.180 being justified freely by his grace 01:01:50.180 --> 01:01:52.940 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 01:01:52.940 --> 01:01:57.060 whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation 01:01:57.060 --> 01:01:59.020 through faith in his blood, 01:01:59.020 --> 01:02:00.300 to declare his righteousness 01:02:00.300 --> 01:02:02.540 for the remission of sins that are past 01:02:02.540 --> 01:02:05.260 through the forbearance of God. 01:02:05.260 --> 01:02:07.300 Hey, without Christ there's no salvation. 01:02:08.220 --> 01:02:10.780 Go to Leviticus 17, right there in verse three. 01:02:13.660 --> 01:02:16.700 In verse three, we see that it says, 01:02:16.700 --> 01:02:19.340 whatsoever there be of the house of Israel, 01:02:19.340 --> 01:02:21.540 that killeth an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, 01:02:21.540 --> 01:02:23.260 or that killeth it out of the camp, 01:02:23.260 --> 01:02:24.940 and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle 01:02:24.940 --> 01:02:27.700 of the congregation to offer an offering unto the Lord, 01:02:27.700 --> 01:02:29.340 before the tabernacle of the Lord, 01:02:29.340 --> 01:02:31.100 blood shall be imputed unto that man, 01:02:31.100 --> 01:02:32.540 he that shed blood, 01:02:32.540 --> 01:02:35.580 and that man shall be cut off from among his people. 01:02:35.580 --> 01:02:38.260 Hey, this is an exclusive thing. 01:02:38.260 --> 01:02:41.540 There is no other way, right? 01:02:41.540 --> 01:02:43.500 If you try to do it any other way, 01:02:43.500 --> 01:02:45.100 the Bible says you're cut off. 01:02:45.140 --> 01:02:49.020 Hey, if you try to add works to salvation, you're cut off. 01:02:49.020 --> 01:02:53.540 If you try to add anything, you're cut off. 01:02:53.540 --> 01:02:57.020 It's funny, I have one clip that, again, 01:02:57.020 --> 01:03:00.460 it feels like the most mundane clips for us, right? 01:03:00.460 --> 01:03:02.460 Like the most basic stuff. 01:03:02.460 --> 01:03:03.900 I'm just talking about being saved by grace, 01:03:03.900 --> 01:03:05.540 and then I start talking about the Jews, 01:03:05.540 --> 01:03:07.460 and everybody's beating me up on it, 01:03:07.460 --> 01:03:08.860 because they're like, it's not just, 01:03:08.860 --> 01:03:11.940 you can't just have faith if you don't change, 01:03:11.940 --> 01:03:14.220 if you don't do this, if you don't get baptized. 01:03:14.220 --> 01:03:15.700 Guys, you're missing the point. 01:03:16.580 --> 01:03:19.580 If we have to do all of that, we're losing. 01:03:19.580 --> 01:03:22.300 John 14, I love these verses. 01:03:22.300 --> 01:03:24.380 We're gonna get to verse six, but in John 14, 01:03:24.380 --> 01:03:27.140 and verse one says, let not your heart be troubled. 01:03:27.140 --> 01:03:29.500 You believe in God, believe also in me. 01:03:29.500 --> 01:03:31.700 In my Father's house are many mansions. 01:03:31.700 --> 01:03:33.540 If it were not so, I would have told you, 01:03:33.540 --> 01:03:35.180 I go to prepare a place for you, 01:03:35.180 --> 01:03:37.460 and if I go to prepare a place for you, 01:03:37.460 --> 01:03:40.460 I will come again and receive you unto myself, 01:03:40.460 --> 01:03:43.180 that where I am, there you may be also. 01:03:43.220 --> 01:03:47.020 And whether I go, ye know, and the way we know. 01:03:47.020 --> 01:03:49.220 And then verse six said, Jesus saith unto him, 01:03:49.220 --> 01:03:50.260 I am the way, the truth, and the life. 01:03:50.260 --> 01:03:53.140 No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 01:03:53.140 --> 01:03:58.140 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also, 01:03:59.040 --> 01:04:02.620 and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 01:04:02.620 --> 01:04:04.140 Hey, by the way, in the Old Testament, 01:04:04.140 --> 01:04:07.060 they knew of this trinity, right? 01:04:07.060 --> 01:04:09.020 They understood this. 01:04:09.020 --> 01:04:10.900 They understood these things. 01:04:10.900 --> 01:04:13.820 You say, did they really just read the book of Hebrews, 01:04:13.820 --> 01:04:17.340 verse chapter 11, they constantly are referencing Christ, 01:04:17.340 --> 01:04:19.100 right, the Old Testament prophets. 01:04:19.100 --> 01:04:21.460 This is an important relationship, 01:04:21.460 --> 01:04:24.860 and that's why we wanna clear this thing up more and more, 01:04:24.860 --> 01:04:28.940 because Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven, 01:04:28.940 --> 01:04:30.700 because I had this lady today, 01:04:30.700 --> 01:04:32.540 one of the people, I don't remember who, 01:04:32.540 --> 01:04:33.660 she's like, oh, well, you get to heaven 01:04:33.660 --> 01:04:35.500 because of God the Father, God the Son, 01:04:35.500 --> 01:04:37.020 and God the Holy Spirit. 01:04:37.020 --> 01:04:39.780 I was like, no, you get to heaven because of Jesus Christ. 01:04:40.780 --> 01:04:44.260 They're all important, but they've all made it clear 01:04:44.260 --> 01:04:47.020 in their word that Jesus is the most important 01:04:47.020 --> 01:04:48.260 for us, for humanity. 01:04:49.660 --> 01:04:51.020 First Corinthians 3, verse 11 says, 01:04:51.020 --> 01:04:52.780 for other foundation can no man lay that is laid, 01:04:52.780 --> 01:04:55.060 which is Christ Jesus. 01:04:55.060 --> 01:04:58.580 Let's go to our final points. 01:05:03.060 --> 01:05:05.020 So we see here, in closing, 01:05:05.020 --> 01:05:07.700 because basically I'm just gonna repeat a little bit, 01:05:07.740 --> 01:05:11.860 but in closing, in Leviticus 16, we have the atonement, 01:05:11.860 --> 01:05:13.980 in Leviticus 17, we have blood, 01:05:13.980 --> 01:05:16.140 and then immediately we go into what? 01:05:16.140 --> 01:05:18.900 18, 19, and 20 is talking about living holy, right? 01:05:18.900 --> 01:05:20.460 We're gonna see those things. 01:05:20.460 --> 01:05:22.900 We're gonna talk about how we need to deal with our neighbors, 01:05:22.900 --> 01:05:25.100 how we need to cleanse ourselves from people 01:05:25.100 --> 01:05:26.700 that are doing things that are abominable, 01:05:26.700 --> 01:05:30.100 what's worthy of death, we'll talk about those things. 01:05:30.100 --> 01:05:33.340 And so we need to do all that, 01:05:33.340 --> 01:05:35.580 but that has nothing to do with the cleansing, 01:05:35.580 --> 01:05:37.580 with the mediation, right? 01:05:38.460 --> 01:05:40.060 That is just so that we have a better life. 01:05:40.060 --> 01:05:43.940 I often tell people that the reason we wanna serve God 01:05:43.940 --> 01:05:45.740 is for the rewards and the blessings, 01:05:45.740 --> 01:05:47.420 but you know what also I need to add? 01:05:47.420 --> 01:05:51.580 It's also for just the cleanliness, the sanctification, 01:05:51.580 --> 01:05:55.180 the purity, and the protection of God in our lives. 01:05:56.660 --> 01:05:59.380 Sometimes, because oftentimes we think of blessings 01:05:59.380 --> 01:06:04.380 or recompense as maybe a monetary thing, 01:06:04.380 --> 01:06:07.460 or some tangible thing, 01:06:08.340 --> 01:06:11.620 but it's the intangibles that matter the most, right? 01:06:11.620 --> 01:06:13.260 They tell you in business, 01:06:13.260 --> 01:06:16.260 it's harder to sell something that's intangible, 01:06:16.260 --> 01:06:17.620 but it's worth much more. 01:06:17.620 --> 01:06:20.780 You can collect more money for an intangible idea 01:06:20.780 --> 01:06:22.420 than you can for something tangible. 01:06:22.420 --> 01:06:25.300 Like this phone, the iPhone, 01:06:25.300 --> 01:06:28.660 when you go buy it, it's worth whatever it's worth at the time, 01:06:28.660 --> 01:06:32.220 $1,000, $1,500, but Apple itself, 01:06:32.220 --> 01:06:34.540 the company, it's worth billions 01:06:34.540 --> 01:06:37.500 because people are buying into the idea of change, right? 01:06:37.500 --> 01:06:39.860 Or whatever, they're making something better. 01:06:39.860 --> 01:06:41.660 Well, what's the idea here? 01:06:41.660 --> 01:06:44.020 The intangible is not only you believe on Christ, 01:06:44.020 --> 01:06:46.620 but if you believe the other things, 01:06:46.620 --> 01:06:49.540 then the things you don't see, God's doing for you. 01:06:49.540 --> 01:06:53.460 Like oftentimes, if there's an accident, 01:06:53.460 --> 01:06:55.580 my wife will say, we're late somewhere. 01:06:55.580 --> 01:06:56.980 My wife's the one that usually mentions it. 01:06:56.980 --> 01:06:59.140 She's like, maybe God's protecting us from something. 01:06:59.140 --> 01:07:00.420 I believe that. 01:07:00.420 --> 01:07:01.420 I'm not saying that's all the time. 01:07:01.420 --> 01:07:02.380 By the way, I don't play God. 01:07:02.380 --> 01:07:05.020 I'm just saying that is a true possibility 01:07:05.020 --> 01:07:07.340 because we're trying to live righteously for God. 01:07:07.340 --> 01:07:09.260 The things that we don't see that are happening 01:07:09.260 --> 01:07:12.860 behind the scenes, God's doing for us, right? 01:07:12.860 --> 01:07:15.060 The things that nobody's paying attention to. 01:07:16.460 --> 01:07:21.020 And then go over to Romans 10. 01:07:21.020 --> 01:07:21.860 Go to Romans 10. 01:07:21.860 --> 01:07:24.260 I'll read for you really quick in Galatians. 01:07:25.900 --> 01:07:27.420 But in Romans 6, verse 1, it says, 01:07:27.420 --> 01:07:28.260 what should we say then? 01:07:28.300 --> 01:07:31.580 Should we continue in sin that grace may abound? 01:07:31.580 --> 01:07:33.660 God forbid, right? 01:07:35.500 --> 01:07:40.300 The warning is that morality without the atonement 01:07:40.300 --> 01:07:41.140 will always fail. 01:07:43.260 --> 01:07:45.100 That's really what we're gonna close out. 01:07:45.100 --> 01:07:47.180 If you look at the Old Testament, 01:07:47.180 --> 01:07:50.660 whenever they did things without God, failure. 01:07:50.660 --> 01:07:53.340 In the New Testament, there's two ways to fail. 01:07:53.340 --> 01:07:55.060 Number one is obviously if you don't have Christ, 01:07:55.060 --> 01:07:57.860 you're just gonna fail in an eternal concept. 01:07:58.380 --> 01:08:01.260 Once you have Christ, you can still fail 01:08:01.260 --> 01:08:03.820 if you don't apply the things of God in your life. 01:08:05.260 --> 01:08:07.780 And things of God sometimes are difficult, right? 01:08:07.780 --> 01:08:09.940 Being here right now, I'm looking out 01:08:09.940 --> 01:08:12.260 and I'm not picking on anybody because I'm not. 01:08:12.260 --> 01:08:13.860 It's 4.30. 01:08:13.860 --> 01:08:16.700 We just now starting to get into the hot season. 01:08:16.700 --> 01:08:18.460 So the first few times we go soul-winding 01:08:18.460 --> 01:08:21.060 after it's been nice and that heat hit, 01:08:21.060 --> 01:08:23.300 I'm looking at you because I'm feeling the same way. 01:08:23.300 --> 01:08:24.660 I'm tired, right? 01:08:24.660 --> 01:08:27.020 I gotta get myself pumped up and jacked up 01:08:27.340 --> 01:08:29.500 to preach in the afternoon. 01:08:29.500 --> 01:08:32.380 It's a hard thing to do, but we do it 01:08:32.380 --> 01:08:34.500 because we know God's gonna take care of us, right? 01:08:34.500 --> 01:08:36.860 We know that these are the things that we need to do. 01:08:36.860 --> 01:08:39.500 And sometimes we do it, obviously understanding 01:08:39.500 --> 01:08:40.540 the spiritual obligations. 01:08:40.540 --> 01:08:42.700 Other times we do it just because we know 01:08:42.700 --> 01:08:43.900 maybe I don't quite get it, 01:08:43.900 --> 01:08:45.820 but I'm just gonna do it anyway. 01:08:45.820 --> 01:08:48.180 This is the things that God required. 01:08:48.180 --> 01:08:50.940 But you can't do it until you're first reconciled 01:08:50.940 --> 01:08:52.060 by Jesus Christ. 01:08:52.060 --> 01:08:53.740 Otherwise, you're just wasting your time. 01:08:53.740 --> 01:08:56.660 The example we give, hey, this person 01:08:56.700 --> 01:08:59.660 goes to church and pays their tithes, 01:08:59.660 --> 01:09:02.580 reads their Bible, and does all the good things, 01:09:02.580 --> 01:09:04.660 but they've never believed on Christ 01:09:04.660 --> 01:09:06.260 when they die, where are they going? 01:09:06.260 --> 01:09:08.540 And people usually answer it after you get it right, 01:09:08.540 --> 01:09:09.780 you're going to hell. 01:09:09.780 --> 01:09:11.780 Don't show up to church 01:09:11.780 --> 01:09:13.100 because you think it's gonna do something good for you. 01:09:13.100 --> 01:09:14.340 Just show up to church because that's 01:09:14.340 --> 01:09:16.180 what God requires of you. 01:09:16.180 --> 01:09:17.460 It'll come. 01:09:17.460 --> 01:09:19.380 God will bless, but we need to do it 01:09:19.380 --> 01:09:20.460 for the right reasons, right? 01:09:20.460 --> 01:09:22.460 That's the warning is the warning is we just need 01:09:22.460 --> 01:09:25.620 to serve the Lord Jesus Christ even when we don't want to. 01:09:25.620 --> 01:09:27.380 Hey, when the pastor's boring, 01:09:27.380 --> 01:09:28.860 when the pastor goes overtime, 01:09:28.860 --> 01:09:30.060 I'm looking at the time, I'm almost, 01:09:30.060 --> 01:09:31.260 I should be done. 01:09:31.260 --> 01:09:32.660 But you know, or when, you know, 01:09:32.660 --> 01:09:35.020 whatever the challenge is, just keep showing up. 01:09:37.540 --> 01:09:38.380 Where do I have you turn? 01:09:38.380 --> 01:09:40.420 Matthew, Romans, which one, Romans, right? 01:09:40.420 --> 01:09:42.020 But in Galatians 2 verse 16, the Bible says, 01:09:42.020 --> 01:09:45.060 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, 01:09:45.060 --> 01:09:46.820 but by the faith of Jesus Christ. 01:09:46.820 --> 01:09:48.580 In Romans 10 verse three, the Bible says, 01:09:48.580 --> 01:09:51.780 for they being ignorant of God's righteousness 01:09:51.780 --> 01:09:54.460 and going about to establish their own righteousness, 01:09:54.460 --> 01:09:58.740 have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 01:10:00.020 --> 01:10:02.180 But we were, I was on a kick last year, but you know what? 01:10:02.180 --> 01:10:04.940 I might as well just keep adding to that, 01:10:04.940 --> 01:10:07.260 that we have a submission problem in the world. 01:10:08.380 --> 01:10:11.260 If you're saved, well, you submit it to God 01:10:12.220 --> 01:10:14.580 as far as what salvation looks like. 01:10:14.580 --> 01:10:17.460 But now you got to submit to everything else. 01:10:17.460 --> 01:10:20.780 There's only one way to do anything period. 01:10:20.780 --> 01:10:24.100 It's God's way, right? 01:10:24.100 --> 01:10:26.060 It really is God's way or the highway. 01:10:27.060 --> 01:10:29.700 And I know you don't have all the answers, neither do I, 01:10:29.700 --> 01:10:33.700 but man, God knows if you're trying to do it his way, right? 01:10:33.700 --> 01:10:37.300 Don't be like Uzziah this morning when we're talking about, 01:10:37.300 --> 01:10:40.540 he's doing it God's way and it says that God was with him 01:10:40.540 --> 01:10:43.260 and God enlarged him and God blessed him. 01:10:43.260 --> 01:10:45.260 And then he's like, nah, I'm going to do it my way. 01:10:47.340 --> 01:10:50.820 Baptist churches, think about, we call them the old IFB 01:10:50.860 --> 01:10:54.660 because they got old and they got away from God. 01:10:55.860 --> 01:10:57.620 Look, there's nothing wrong with getting old, 01:10:57.620 --> 01:11:00.940 but it is wrong to get old and then just get away from God. 01:11:00.940 --> 01:11:04.300 Oh, this newer generation, they're educated, 01:11:04.300 --> 01:11:07.520 they go to college, so they just know all the ways, 01:11:07.520 --> 01:11:09.020 they know better ways. 01:11:09.020 --> 01:11:11.380 So let's just try it out. 01:11:11.380 --> 01:11:14.480 Hey, soul winning still works in 2026. 01:11:14.480 --> 01:11:16.220 We just got 10 souls won, 01:11:16.220 --> 01:11:20.500 so apparently God knows what he's doing, right? 01:11:20.940 --> 01:11:25.700 Hey, I've been serving here since 2013 01:11:25.700 --> 01:11:28.700 through good numbers and bad numbers 01:11:28.700 --> 01:11:30.420 and the church is still going. 01:11:30.420 --> 01:11:34.020 So you know what, tells me God gives the increase in 2026. 01:11:34.020 --> 01:11:36.100 It still works, right? 01:11:37.540 --> 01:11:38.780 I'm not going to worry about it. 01:11:38.780 --> 01:11:41.120 You know what's going to happen in a couple of years? 01:11:41.120 --> 01:11:43.700 We might even fluctuate down before we fluctuate up again. 01:11:43.700 --> 01:11:44.820 It's just part of life. 01:11:46.580 --> 01:11:48.740 Anytime that you preach hard, you're going to, 01:11:48.780 --> 01:11:49.980 even the people that are like, 01:11:49.980 --> 01:11:52.140 oh, I love all the hard preaching. 01:11:52.140 --> 01:11:54.020 Eventually you'll preach something that's hard on them 01:11:54.020 --> 01:11:55.380 and then they're like, I don't know if I like it 01:11:55.380 --> 01:11:58.340 or if I just end up walking away. 01:11:58.340 --> 01:12:01.260 Whatever, in 10 years, as long as God gives me life, 01:12:01.260 --> 01:12:02.780 I'll still be here. 01:12:02.780 --> 01:12:05.620 Well, you, that's really what we need to look at 01:12:05.620 --> 01:12:07.420 and why do you, why do you say, 01:12:07.420 --> 01:12:08.880 why are you even talking like this? 01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:10.340 Well, because at the end of the day, 01:12:10.340 --> 01:12:13.100 if you understand this, you're in it for the long haul 01:12:14.380 --> 01:12:16.380 and I guess really this is my sermon, right? 01:12:16.460 --> 01:12:18.360 But if you understand this, 01:12:18.360 --> 01:12:20.780 this has the words that are in here, right? 01:12:20.780 --> 01:12:21.980 I just sparse that. 01:12:21.980 --> 01:12:24.020 But if you understand this, you're in it for the long haul. 01:12:24.020 --> 01:12:27.020 If you don't understand this, then get the understanding 01:12:27.020 --> 01:12:28.820 so you're in it for the long haul. 01:12:28.820 --> 01:12:31.380 And if you refuse to do it, then you're just stubborn 01:12:31.380 --> 01:12:33.460 and just read the first five books of the Bible 01:12:33.460 --> 01:12:34.880 like the Jews like to do 01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:37.860 and then just like not realize that it's talking about you. 01:12:37.860 --> 01:12:38.840 You're going to get beat up. 01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:40.620 So anyways, let's close in a word of prayer. 01:12:40.620 --> 01:12:43.300 Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today. 01:12:43.300 --> 01:12:44.720 Thank you for your blessings. 01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:47.600 Man, thank you for the 10 souls that were one today, Lord. 01:12:47.600 --> 01:12:50.520 Thank you for all the faithful soul winners. 01:12:50.520 --> 01:12:52.160 Everybody that just comes out. 01:12:52.160 --> 01:12:56.640 This is not the work of one man, one family. 01:12:56.640 --> 01:13:00.000 It's a group of people that have submitted themselves 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:04.840 to you have obeyed and believed things that are in the word 01:13:04.840 --> 01:13:09.320 and are willing to sacrifice their own selfish needs 01:13:09.320 --> 01:13:12.160 to serve a living God, Lord. 01:13:12.320 --> 01:13:14.080 We just appreciate the opportunity 01:13:14.080 --> 01:13:16.520 to be ambassadors for Christ 01:13:16.520 --> 01:13:20.600 that we can go out there and shine a light in dark world. 01:13:20.600 --> 01:13:24.660 Lord, thank you so much for all the blessings 01:13:24.660 --> 01:13:27.080 and also all the difficult situations, 01:13:27.080 --> 01:13:30.040 the things that teach us how to deal with life better. 01:13:30.040 --> 01:13:31.560 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:13:31.560 --> 01:13:34.640 Let's turn our handbills over to page 173. 01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:36.400 173. 01:13:42.160 --> 01:13:47.160 You can go mama, I got, I'm almost there. 01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:54.120 173. 01:13:54.120 --> 01:13:55.240 Love lifted me. 01:14:03.640 --> 01:14:08.640 I was taken deep in sin, far from the people's shore. 01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:14.640 Been these days in Christ's hall more. 01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:20.880 But the master of the deep heard my staring cry. 01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:22.960 From the wall. 01:14:24.960 --> 01:14:26.720 Have I loved the deep? 01:14:30.400 --> 01:14:35.400 Love lifted me when nothing else could help me. 01:14:39.640 --> 01:14:40.880 Love lifted me. 01:14:42.360 --> 01:14:46.320 Love lifted me when nothing else could help me. 01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:56.520 All my heart to him I give. 01:14:59.640 --> 01:15:03.600 In his blessed breath lived every creature. 01:15:04.600 --> 01:15:08.000 Love so mighty and so true, 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:10.000 buried my soul but not. 01:15:19.440 --> 01:15:24.440 Love lifted me when nothing else could help me. 01:15:28.440 --> 01:15:29.680 Love lifted me. 01:15:34.040 --> 01:15:39.040 Love lifted me when nothing else could help me. 01:15:42.440 --> 01:15:46.720 Oh the danger look above Jesus' coming, 01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:48.280 he's second to me. 01:15:48.280 --> 01:15:51.120 He was lifted through by his love. 01:15:54.160 --> 01:15:56.920 He's the master of the sea, 01:15:56.920 --> 01:15:59.400 billows and waves away. 01:16:00.400 --> 01:16:03.400 See, he's second to me, saved. 01:16:17.400 --> 01:16:18.560 Love lifted me. 01:16:19.520 --> 01:16:20.840 Love lifted me. 01:16:25.320 --> 01:16:26.640 Love lifted me. 01:16:29.400 --> 01:16:31.480 Love lifted me.