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Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome back to Mountain Baptist Church. Take your songbooks and turn to song number 192. Song 192 in your songbooks, we'll sing Ring the Bells of Heaven. And if you would stand, we will sing song 192. Ring the bells of heaven, there is joy today, For a soul returning from the wild. See the Father meets him out upon the way, Welcoming his weary, wondering child. Glory, glory, how the angels sing, Glory, glory, how the loud harps ring, Tis the ransomed army like a mighty sea, Peeling forth the anthem of the free. Ring the bells of heaven, there is joy today, For the wanderer now is reconciled. Yes, a soul is rescued from his sinful way, And is born anew a ransomed child. Glory, glory, how the angels sing, Glory, glory, how the loud harps ring, Tis the ransomed army like a mighty sea, Peeling forth the anthem of the free. Ring the bells of heaven, spread the feast today, Angels swell the glad triumphant strain. Tell the joyful tidings, bear it far away, For a precious soul is born again. Glory, glory, how the angels sing, Glory, glory, how the loud harps ring, Tis the ransomed army like a mighty sea, Peeling forth the anthem of the free. All right, let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, we just want to thank you, God, for today. Thank you, Lord, for the sermon this morning, the souls that were saved this afternoon. And I pray, Lord, now that you would just be with us as pastor brings the message tonight. Fill in with your Holy Spirit, for it's in Jesus' name we ask all of these things. Amen. All right, you may be seated and turn in your song books to song 185. Song 185 in your song books. We'll sing my Savior's love, song 185. I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus, the Nazarene, And wonder how He could love me, A sinner condemned unclean. How marvelous, how wonderful, And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful, My Savior's love for me! For me it was in the garden, He prayed not my will but thine. He had no tears for His own grief, But sweatdrops of blood for mine. How marvelous, how wonderful, And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful, Is my Savior's love for me! He took my sins and my sorrows, He made them His very own. He bore the burden to Calvary, And suffered and died alone. How marvelous, how wonderful, And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful, Is my Savior's love for me! When with the ransomed in glory His face I at last shall see, Twill be my joy through the ages To sing of His love for me! How marvelous, how wonderful, And my song shall ever be! How marvelous, how wonderful, Is my Savior's love for me! Amen, so welcome back to Mount Baptist Church on this Sunday evening. And just some general church announcements here just like this morning. But before we do that I want to get the soul winning numbers for the week. Did we have any during the week? Three on Wednesday? None on Monday? Or yeah I always get you guys confused how much day of the week you're going. So three and then today what do we have? So I know over in our area Brother Shane you guys had one. Brother Nick you guys had three. And then you had one over out in Wolf Summit. You guys had two. So five, six, seven. Oh yeah. Four total? Okay. One on Tuesday? All right so let's just go around the room here. So you had on Wednesday you had three right? And then the one from today so that's four. And then how many did you guys have during the whole week? So Tuesday and Saturday and all that Brother Jim? Five total. Okay so we got nine there. And then three. So twelve. Fourteen. Is there any others? Did we get all that? Yeah. Fifteen. All right there we go. So that's awesome. So fifteen saved for the week. I'll keep up the good work with the soul winning. And then again don't forget about we have the the the soul winning marathon that we're going to be doing up in Terra Alda on the 16th so we moved that I know from this coming Saturday so I apologize to anybody that was planning on coming and then can't come now because of work or whatever but it's supposed to be like 40 degrees and raining and sleet this coming Saturday or something like that the next Saturday is supposed to be like 65 to 70 degrees so I think it's just going to be a lot easier to do up there that weekend plus if you look on the upcoming events there we have the Easter fellowship so basically if you look on the events there we have the Lord's Supper that we're going to do on Wednesday evening so to remember the Lord's death and then the soul winning marathon will be that Saturday and then on Easter we're going to instead of the the soul winning time between the services we're going to do a fellowship so it works out better that way because then we're not just like basically moving the soul winning time to that Saturday and then having the Easter fellowship if you want to bring any type of dessert you know just we'll put up something that you can sign up on as far as that goes and we're going to figure out what we're going to do for food I just don't want to put it on everybody to try to make a dish or something like that when we're doing a soul winning marathon the day before and then trying to do that for Easter there and so those are the upcoming events all the service times are normal there don't forget about the soul winning regional sewing times on Monday and Wednesday that brother Charles and brother Richie lead up there Colossians chapter 3 we are in April so we're in Colossians chapter 3 on our Bible memory I just got done with chapter 2 like the skin in my teeth so it was it was literally March 31st and it was like at 10 o'clock I'm like I gotta get it done so I can get it done in that month but now I gotta get into chapter 3 eventually here so but keep working on that so even if you're in chapter 1 still or in your chapter 2 still memorizing there keep working on that and then Proverbs 13 7 is our memory verse for the week and we got the birthdays already this morning and just be in prayer for all ladies on the pregnancy list we have four ladies on there right now and be in prayer for all ladies that just had little ones and obviously you know just that recovery process and everything that goes on with that general church information we have the offering box in the back there if you want to give a tithe an offering mother baby room is for mothers and babies only and so we want to keep the the older kids out as much as possible obviously if you have to take your kids in there then it is what it is but we want to try to keep it to where the little ones can not get tumbled over or pummeled over however you want to look at it with older kids in there so that's about all I got for announcements that I can think of if you have any questions about the upcoming events there or the soul winning marathon we are going to be meeting at Denny's I have been thinking about this because I understand that I was putting it at 830 to meet there but let's just do 9 930 somewhere around there the reason I say this is because if we get up to Terralda and it is like 10 o'clock no one is going to be awake so I am not that worried about getting up there super early because just to be honest the afternoon is usually more receptive because everybody is kind of awake at that point and so yeah so we will meet up at Denny's on the 68 exit there at exit 1 Denny's at 9 to 930 and basically when you get there just state and we are in contact with them just state you are with Mountain Baptist Church and we will take care of your meal and then for our lunch I think we are probably going to Pizza Hut or something like that in Kingwood so and we will cover that too and all that so I will keep you up to date if we end up getting available baptistry just in case someone wants to get baptized up there at the church up there and so I will keep you in the loop on that besides that that is what I got for announcements and so brother Dave is going to sing one more song brother Richie is going to be reading 1st Corinthians 1st Samuel chapter 13 I changed up the chapter this morning I just realized so I apologize to brother Levi because I said it was Judges 7 and I am like Proverbs 13 just sprung that one on him so but yeah no 1st Samuel chapter 13 after we sing one more song there alright take your song books and turn to song 175 song 175 in your song books we will sing it is just like his great love song 175 a friend I have called Jesus whose love is strong and true and never fails how ever I have left his tired no matter what I do I have sinned against this love of his but when I now to pray confessing all my guilt to him the sin clouds rolled away it is just like Jesus to roll the clouds away it is just like Jesus to keep me day by day it is just like Jesus all along the way it is just like his great love sometimes the clouds of trouble be damned the sky above I cannot see my Savior's face I doubt his wondrous love but he from heaven's mercy seat beholding my despair and pity burst the clouds between and shows me he is there it's just like Jesus to roll the clouds away it's just like Jesus to keep me day by day it's just like Jesus all along the way it's just like his great love when sorrows clouds or take me and break upon my head when life seems worse than useless and I were better dead I take my grief to Jesus then nor do I go in vain for heavenly hope he gives that cheers like sunshine after rain it's just like Jesus it's just like Jesus to keep me day by day it's just like Jesus all along the way it's just like his great love oh I could sing forever of Jesus love divine of all his care and tenderness for this poor life of mine his love is in and overall and wind and waves obey when Jesus whispers peace be still and rolls the clouds away it's just like Jesus to roll the clouds away it's just like Jesus to keep me day by day it's just like Jesus all along the way it's just like his great love all right take your Bibles and turn to 1st Samuel chapter number 13 1st Samuel chapter number 13 and we'll have brother Richie come and read that for us all right for Samuel 13 if you're there say Amen all right Saul reigned one year and when he had rained two years over Israel Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel where of two thousand were with Saul and Mick mash and in Mount Bethel and a thousand with Jonathan and Gibeah of Benjamin and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent and Jonathan smoke the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba and the Philistines heard of it and Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land saying let the Hebrews here and all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines and the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal and the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen and people as the sand which which is on the seashore in multitude and they came up and pitched in Mick mash eastward from Beth Avon when the men of Israel saw that they were in a straight for the people were distressed then the people did hide themselves in caves and in thickets and in rocks and in high places and in pits and some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead as for Saul he was yet in Gilgal and all the people followed him trembling and he tarried seven days according to the set time that Samuel had appointed but Samuel came not to Gilgal and the people were scattered from him and Saul said bring hither a burnt offering to me in peace offerings and he offered the burnt offering and it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering behold Samuel came and Saul went out to meet him that he might salute him and Samuel said what hast thou done and Saul said because I saw that the people were scattered from me and that thou camest not within the days appointed and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Mick mash therefore said I the Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal and I've now not made supplication under the Lord I forced myself therefore and offered a burnt offering and Samuel said to Saul thou hast done foolishly thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God which he commanded thee for now with the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever but now thy kingdom shall not continue the Lord has sought him a man after his own heart and the Lord hath commanded him to be a captain to be captain over his people because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee and Samuel arose and get him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin and Saul numbered the people that were present with him about 600 men and Saul and Jonathan his son and the people that were present with them abode in Gibeah of Benjamin but the Philistines encamped in Mick mash and the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies one company turned under the way that leadeth to Ofra under the land of Shewal and another company turned the way to Beth Horon and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboam toward the wilderness now there was no Smith found throughout all the land of Israel for the Philistines said lest the Hebrews make them swords or Spears but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter and his axe and his matic yet they had a file for the Maddox and for the coulters and for the forks and for the axes and to sharpen the goads so it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found and the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Mick mash let's pray dear heavenly father pray that you'll just be with the service Phil pastor Robinson with your Holy Spirit thank you for the souls that were saved today and just pray that we get understanding from your word and we apply it to our lives Jesus name Amen so you're there in 1st Samuel chapter 13 and we are continuing and actually ending our series on allegories of the New and Old Testament allegories of the New and Old Testament so we kind of hit through a bunch and obviously the main one was Sarah and Hagar that you find in Galatians chapter 4 where it literally calls it an allegory that that these are this that this is an allegory of these two covenants of the old covenant and the new covenant and so we've been kind of going through some different ones here and this last one I want to get into is David and Saul so David and Saul and obviously Saul would be an allegory of the Old Testament and David would be an allegory of the New Testament and there's some different pieces in here and we've kind of been seeing that with all these different allegories and how there's different elements to the difference between the Old and New Testament and well I guess that one's done but then also just kind of just helping us understand why we had that first covenant why we had the old covenant what was the reasoning for that old covenant and the new covenant and all that so here we're gonna get into a story with with St. with Saul and Saul obviously was the first king of Israel okay so and then David was after him so that makes sense if you're gonna look at an allegory of the Old Testament New Testament that you had the First Testament it calls it the First Testament which was the old now the Old Testament and then the Second Testament which is the New Testament so Saul was first then David and we see here in 1st Samuel chapter 13 notice what says go down to verse 12 so 1st Samuel chapter 13 verse 12 and we're gonna see I just want to kind of hone in on what happens here as far as he does this sacrifice he's not supposed to do he didn't wait on Samuel and obviously we just read the story there as far as that he messes up but he messes up to the point where God is done with him and says you you've broken my commandment you didn't do what I told you to do and basically he's gonna state that his kingdom is now gonna be taken from him and given to another man that's better than him and and we're gonna get into this and how obviously this is gonna represent Old Testament New Testament and verse 12 it says therefore said I the Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal and I have not made supplication of the Lord I forced myself there for an offer to burn offering and same said to Saul thou has done foolishly thou has not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God which the which he commanded thee for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever so I want that to kind of sink in there is that he's stating that if you wouldn't have done this if you would have kept the commandment as you're supposed to keep it then your kingdom would have gone on forever okay but verse 14 but now thy kingdom shall not continue so we're gonna see a lot of similarities here dealing with the Old Testament and the fact that ended and but there's a lot of talk about it being forever everlasting and all these different things okay I'm gonna get into those type of verses there but the reason it ended and reason that his kingdom didn't wasn't established forever is because he messed up because he didn't keep the commandment and therefore it was it was done away now it says but now thy kingdom shall not continue the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart in the Lord and apt him over his people because thou has not kept that which the Lord commanded thee so if you look this up in the New Testament you know and Acts chapter 13 it quotes this and it says I have found David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart so we're talking about David okay now if you know the story in chapter 16 he gets anointed by Samuel chapter 17 he kills Goliath and obviously there's this whole story of basically Saul wanting to kill David and there's so many aspects of Saul and David that I could show you that would represent that first covenant in the second covenant and the fact that the children of Israel and the Jews were literally enemy number one of Christians when Jesus was crucified and then they were preaching the gospel and the fact that you have that children of the flesh children of the spirit battle that we've kind of gone over and that's kind of the first the first allegory really hits that hard when you look at Galatians chapter 4 you have the fact that the children of the flesh persecute the children of the spirit so I don't want to really get into that because we've already talked about that and other allegories but what I want to talk about is the fact that the kingdom is taken away from him okay go to go to first Samuel chapter 15 and so there's two stories with Saul where basically it's stated that the kingdom is gonna be taken away from this is the first case where he messes up here and he's basically at this point I believe that you know the kingdom is taken away from him but it's reinforced when he messes up again now in this story I don't want to read the whole chapter for sake of time but in this story he was supposed to destroy the Amalek Heights completely so if you remember when they were going through the wilderness the Amalek Heights basically were took out a lot of their feeble folk you know basically the the people that were behind and there was this whole story about how they're going to be destroyed right the Amalek Heights will be destroyed well this is where it was supposed to take place so Saul was supposed to basically fulfill the prophecy about the Amalek Heights being completely annihilated and in this he doesn't he doesn't kill the king Agag and he ends up keeping the sheep and you know basically doing an offering and all this stuff okay so he doesn't keep the commandment and this story is really you really see a stubbornness because Samuel tells him you didn't keep the commandment because you know I hear this bleeding of the sheep and I you know Agag you know he's still alive you didn't keep the commandment and he says I have kept the commandment he literally just belligerent about it he's just like no I have kept it and and so it goes down the line here and I just kind of want to just recap that for you so you know where we're at here verse 23 for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry because thou has rejected the word of the Lord he hath also rejected thee from being king so I believe first of all I just want to state this I believe Saul is a saved man I believe we'll find Saul in heaven I don't believe that he's not like some reprobate that God rejected or something like that okay it's stating that he's being rejected from being king okay and that the kingdom is being taken away from him because it even talks about how the Spirit of God came upon him actually Saul I don't know if you knew this but Saul and Samson are like the two in the Old Testament that it talks about the Spirit of God coming upon more than anybody else and so Saul actually has the Spirit of God come upon remember this is where he starts prophesying and it says it's all one of the you know among the prophets and so I believe Saul is a saved man but obviously he has a downward spiral till his death after he starts messing up here and notice in verse 26 here it says and Samuel said unto Saul I will not return with thee for thou has rejected the word of Lord and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel and as Samuel turned about to go away he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle and rent and Samuel said unto him the Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day and had given it to a neighbor of thine that is better than thou so these two stories with Saul I think really represent show you what happens with the Old Testament compared to when the New Testament comes in and go to go to Matthew chapter 21 Matthew chapter 21 in verse 42 and we're going through Exodus so we're gonna really get into this as far as that first covenant remember the first covenant I believe starts when they come out of Egypt because it says the covenant that I you know made with them when I took them by the hand to leave them out of the land of Egypt okay so the Passover happens they're taken out of Egypt I believe that's what starts that first covenant chapter 19 of Exodus is where you really get into like this is the covenant this is the conditions right but in Matthew 21 what I want you to see here is that when it's talking about the kingdom is being rent from Saul is given to someone else okay do you see that it's being transferred from Saul someone else Matthew 21 verse 42 it says Jesus said unto them did you never read in the scriptures the stone which the builders rejected the same has become the head of the corner this is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes therefore say I unto you the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits there up and whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him the powder and when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables they perceived that he spake of them so even though the Pharisees knew that okay they're talking about us they're talking about Israel okay and what he's stating here is that the king of God's taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits there let's let's look at what that means okay go to Exodus chapter 19 Exodus chapter 19 so the big thing that you see with Saul here is that he's being stripped of the kingdom and then it's given to someone that's better than him okay so there's two things I really want to point out with this allegory is the transfer of Kingdom the kingdom being transferred from Saul to David or first covenant second covenant but also the fact that David's better and the New Testament's better okay when I show you these verses you'd have to just deny the Bible to say that the New Testament's not better okay but I mean the fact that we can eat bacon should be enough reason for yours for that you know to say well okay the New Testament's better but outside of that there's other reasons I'm joking kind of but I really do like bacon Exodus chapter 19 and verse 5 Exodus chapter 19 verse 5 and and just so you know Exodus 20 is obviously we had 10 Commandments but this is stating the Covenant here it says in verse 5 now therefore if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and in holy nation these are the words which thou shalt shall speak unto the children of Israel I want you to notice here that you have an if-then statement okay when you're dealing with the first covenant you're dealing with an if-then statement now anybody that's a computer programmer out there or uses Excel would know that that's a conditional statement okay if you do this then this okay and what's the condition you have to keep you have to obey his voice and keep his covenant okay so with the first covenant it's contingent on them actually keeping that then it says they shall be a kingdom of priests and go to Hebrews chapter 8 Hebrews chapter 8 what I want you to see here is that they didn't keep their that condition okay now just to be honest they didn't keep that condition for a long time okay I mean if you read through the Old Testament it's over and over and over again they're not keeping that covenant they're not doing what they should be doing I mean the thing that baffles me is when I read when I read in Nehemiah and it's talking about how they hadn't kept the Feast of Tabernacles since the days of Joshua okay it says that that had not been kept since the days of Joshua the days of Joshua when they literally went into the land okay and they hadn't kept that until after hundreds of years they've been in captivity for seven years in Babylon and then they come back and now we're gonna keep the Feast of Tabernacles that's one example of where they just were not keeping the covenant and God is obviously long-suffering and didn't just like cut it off as soon as they didn't keep something but that's one example of where they break the covenant but notice what it says in verse 7 so Hebrew chapter 8 verse 7 says for if that first covenant had been faultless then should no place it's off for the second so it's saying that the first covenant was not faultless but here's the thing it's not that God had fault or that the law had fault there's nothing wrong with the law and there's nothing wrong with God I mean everything about the law and that first covenant was pure and holy and true and righteous altogether but notice in verse 8 for finding fault with them he said behold the days come said the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel with the house of Judah not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they continued not in my covenant and I regarded them not said the Lord so notice that why is that why is it being not regarded okay why is it being transferred over to the second covenant if you will is because he found fault with them because they did not continue in his covenant okay he was keeping his side of the deal but they didn't continue in that and it was a contingent covenant on them obeying the voice their his voice and keeping the covenant and they failed miserably over and over again now we would have failed to I mean if we live back then we wouldn't have not kept it so I'm not here to say that like we're better than them the whole point of the first covenant is the fact that it shows us that we can't keep it that it's not we're not able to keep that the law is a schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ and it's to show us the knowledge of sin so the whole point of that is to show that there is fault with us that there is a fault to where we need saved okay go to 1st Peter chapter 2 because it says in Matthew 21 that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you who from Israel okay because you're talking about the Pharisees and Sadducees the leaders of Israel that even said that they they perceive that he spoke of them so they knew that he was talking about them and he says the kingdom of God is gonna be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof so it's not just that it's not that the kingdom ended it's just that it got transferred okay it got moved it got replaced and I know people don't like replacement theology but that's what the Bible teaches it says that he taketh away the first and may establish the second so you can call it take away theology but it's being replaced meaning that it's being taken from somebody and given to someone else okay now obviously it's being given to the Lord Jesus Christ and he is the mediator of that covenant which we're gonna get into but 1st Peter chapter 2 and verse 9 it says but ye are chosen generation I want you to see the similarities and and if you want you can go back to Exodus chapter 19 where it talks about what will be given to you if you keep this covenant in verse 9 of 2nd Peter or 1st Peter chapter 2 it says but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood and holy nation a peculiar people that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy if you remember 1st Peter he's not talking to Israelites he's talking to strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia and if you if you think that well it's just Jews that are in those spots well here it says which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God if you look that up in Hosea that's actually talking about the Gentiles okay now in the New Testament there's neither in Christ there's neither Jew nor Gentile right we're all one there's the middle wall partitions been broken down so I'm not saying like well the Old Testament for the Jews and New Testaments for the Gentiles no New Testaments for the Jews and Gentiles right and you know and obviously in the Old Testament you could become an Israelite you could become a Jew you know by being circumcised and want to be a part of that covenant but just to show you there that when we're talking about this subject of Saul and David the big thing I see is that the kingdom is taken from him and given to David and the kingdom is taken away from that physical nation of Israel and it's given over to that holy nation which is all believers okay and that that's that royal priesthood and in the Old Testament it says a kingdom of priests and it says in holy nation a peculiar people here it says a royal priesthood because you it talks about how Jesus has made us kings and priests and it gets into all that the priesthood the believer that's a whole nother sermon for another day now I want to touch on this go go back to 1st Samuel chapter 13 on the idea of breaking an everlasting covenant now what you have to understand is that the thing that I see here with Saul is that it states here in 1st Samuel chapter 13 verse 13 and again the point of these allegories is to kind of show you and help you understand something that may be a little harder to understand okay because there's gonna be a places in the Bible where it talks about this is for an everlasting covenant whether it's circumcision whether it's priesthood whether it's you know different things that are mentioned in that first covenant it'll say this is for everlasting this is for all your generations and you'll say well if it's everlasting then then you know how did it get transferred over to the New Testament right now look what it says about Saul it says in verse 13 it says for at the end of the verse there for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever but now thy kingdom shall not continue okay and if you understand that that first covenant was based off it was contingent on them keeping that covenant the New Testament is different okay and I'm gonna be getting into the fact that the New Testament is obviously better the New Testament is different because it's not man that that is keeping that covenant it's God well Jesus is God in it God you know he's got in the flesh and that's where you get into the difference in priesthood you know in the Old Testament you had a political priesthood with men that had sin and that died whereas in the New Testament you have Jesus who's the son of man the son of God and he continued with ever to make intercession for us the difference is is that God's keeping that covenant in the Old Testament we were you know trying to keep that covenant if you will okay so the idea is that man can't keep it but God can okay but let me show you a verse here and Isaiah go to Isaiah 24 Isaiah 24 and when you understand that let's say it'd be like this let's say our landlord said I'm going to make an everlasting lease with you okay now that'd be kind of silly and no way would I ever sign that but let's just say he said that okay I'm gonna make an everlasting lease with you okay what if I didn't pay the rent though then that's not gonna bat last very long right because I had to keep the end of my deal right I got a because in that lease is gonna be like you're gonna pay such a such amount of money you're not gonna be like setting things on fire in the village you know like there's gonna be can there's gonna be conditions to that covenant right but the new covenant the difference with that is that that is an everlasting covenant but here's the difference it's not man that's keeping it though that has to keep it it's God it's Jesus and when Jesus fails and breaks that covenant let me know okay she's not going to but that's the point is that Jesus can't fail Jesus can't break that covenant it will forever remain that covenant because he is the everlasting Savior everlasting God and he is the mediator for all eternity for us and so but let me show you some verses on where it talks about like someone breaking an everlasting covenant okay notice it says in Isaiah 24 verse 5 it says the earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws change the ordinances broken the everlasting covenant okay now when you understand that an everlasting covenant if it's contingent on man keeping it you can understand how it could be broken right meaning like it's like this bottomless like amount you know of blessings as long as you keep your end of the deal okay whereas the New Testament completely different it's just you believe you're you're you're mediated for and it's Jesus that is keeping that okay now go to Genesis chapter 17 Genesis chapter 17 dealing with circumcision now with these you can definitely see how like circumcision represents that that circumcision without hands and putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ right you can see how that could that would transfer over transfer over to the spiritual realm way it didn't really end it just got you know replaced you know it got moved over to like okay we're talking about the spiritual that's what's everlasting but even if you're to look at it on a physical level you know you can see how like okay well if you don't keep it or if this is broken it you're breaking this whole covenant everything's kind of broken with it but it says in Genesis 17 in verse 7 it says and I will establish my covenant between me and thee and I seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee verse 13 he that is born in thy house and he that is brought that is bought with thy money must needs be circumcised and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant so here's things that you have to understand here that one that an everlasting covenant can be broken okay but you know the idea here is that you say well does that mean or the fact here is that well we still need to be circumcised well the New Testament says that it you know in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision it says if you be uncircumcised seek not to be circumcised if you be circumcised seek not to be uncircumcised which I don't know how you do that but I don't care you know I'm not trying to do that but the idea there is that in a New Testament circumcision is not you know something that we're commanded to do okay and then you ask yourself why is this you know why is it state it's everlasting and go to Exodus and I think this will help explain this okay one you kind of see Saul where it says I would have you had your kingdom gone go on forever but because you messed up it's not going to okay let's look at priesthood here Exodus chapter 40 I think this will help understand how a physical covenant that's made and I'm talking about physical covenant here not trying to spiritualize it I'm just talking about a physical covenant that's everlasting just like the rent example and show you that it talks about an everlasting priesthood dealing with the Levitical priesthood okay so we know that ending okay I mean after 70 AD when the temple was destroyed there's no one doing sacrifices so that clearly ended and so that is no longer a thing but how does that make sense with the Bible you know like obviously I believe the Bible every word but how does that make sense and if this is going over your head if this is too deep I'm sorry like that I'm getting into this but I think this is something to just think about these verses are here you know because if someone's gonna come up to you say well you know you know I believe that the Old Testament still going strong and here's my verses why they're gonna bring you verses like this they're gonna say well you know it says everlasting here it says that it's gonna be for everlasting but he also said that Saul would have a kingdom forever too but he didn't okay I think that's a good example and a good allegory to show you that now I don't believe that you should base your doctrine off allegories I'm just stating that it does help you understand it okay now number chapter 25 I'm sorry I'm gonna have you go to number 25 but Exodus chapter 40 in verse 15 it says and thou shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father so it's talking about Aaron their father and talking about the priests Eleazar and it the more it says that they may minister unto me in the priest's office for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations okay so we're talking about the Levitical priesthood under Aaron I mean we're talking about the very beginning here and they go to numbers chapter 25 number chapter 25 number chapter 25 so it calls it an everlasting priesthood number 25 verse 10 it says in the Lord spake unto Moses saying Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest had turned my wrath away from the children of Israel while he was zealous for my sake among them that I consumed not the children of Israel and my jealousy wherefore say he hold I give unto him my covenant of peace and he shall have it and his seed after him even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood because he was zealous for his God and made an atonement for the children of Israel so you may ask yourself okay well he's talking about this everlasting covenant in this priesthood right well I believe Hebrew 7 will help you understand this okay go to Hebrews chapter 7 Hebrews chapter 7 so I know it's a little deep but I I do see this where this helps explain these everlasting covenants that are made here now like I said obviously Jesus is a priest forever after your milk is that we're going to see that and that circumcision you know is not circumcision that which is of the flesh but that which is of the heart right and he is not a Jew which is one outwardly but a Jew which is one inwardly right and and you can get into that and I'm not against that and I believe that obviously is applicable but let's just keep it on the surface level meaning here that when they were saying this they were talking about a physical covenant of like actually circumcising that you're talking about a physical priesthood of actual men in that line being a priest but I'm going to use the New Testament to define things here I'm not going to go to the Old Testament say well the Old Testament says it's everlasting it's never going to change okay the New Testament's the flashlight for the Old Testament it's the more revealed word it's the more sure word of proxy I believe and in Hebrew chapter 7 verse 11 here notice what it says it says if therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood for under it the people received the law what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek and not be called after the order of Aaron so there's a clear delineation and saying that this is not being after it this is not after Aaron this is not through that line notice at verse 12 for the priesthood being changed there is made of a necessity a change also the law now you got to ask yourself a question do you believe that verse it says the priesthood changed so I believe it changed and it says that there's a necessity to change also the law and this is really this verse right here is a great verse to show especially those that are like in this Hebrew roots movement where they're like you need to keep the Sabbath day you need to not eat you know bacon and you want to press my buttons tell me I can't eat bacon but there's obviously a change and it says that they were in chapter 9 talked about this too that there was a that there they were seen in meats and drinks and divers Washington and Cardinal ordinances imposed on them until the Reformation time of the Reformation so the idea there is that there's something that's being reformed here in a verse 13 it says for he of whom these things are spoken pertain to another tribe of which no man gave attendance at the altar for it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah of which tribe Moses baked nothing concerning priesthood so not only is it changing meaning that it's not under Aaron it's not even in the same tribe so there's a clear difference there right because you know Jesus is the line of the tribe of Judah not of Levi okay and it's just spelling southward knows in verse 16 I'm sorry verse verse 15 it says it is yet far more evident for that after the middle to a milk is a deck there arises another priest who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life for he testified thou art a priest forever after the order milk his deck for there is a fairly a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofil in this thereof was that stating that that priesthood a political priesthood has been disannulled for the weakness and unprofitable why is the weakness because men that have infirmity are trying to atone for sin right now obviously God set this up but the whole reason that he set it up was to show that we can't do it right that that's the point of the law and no one was ever saved by keeping these sacrifices or you know doing any types of these ordinances you know and I'm gonna get to that as far as how this was all for the purifying of the actually I don't know if I'm get to that actually if my nose well I'm not sure I'm gonna get to that but the Bible does teach that that you know the the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes and the sprinkling of the heifer is for the sanctifying of the flesh and it was for that it was never to save you from hell salvation has always been by faith in Christ Jesus Abraham believed God and it was imputed on them for righteousness David also spake or describe the blessings of the man on whom God imputed righteousness without works it's always been that way but the Old Testament was a way that God used to picture and show figures and shadows of what Jesus was going to do and then ultimately that was done away when the fulfillment came Jesus said I didn't come to destroy the law and the prophets I came not to destroy but to fulfill and Jesus fulfilled all those cardinal ordinances divers washings the circumcision the Sabbath day he fulfilled all that stuff moral law is different though right people are like wow you know then don't put me under the law brother I guess I can go murder now and commit adultery and lie and steal moral laws different than customary law and laws and cardinal ordinances imposed on that nation for a reason there was a reason why it happened or why he did it but we don't want to forget that now another thing we see here is that David remember it says that Saul's kingdom would have been established forever but it wasn't it didn't continue okay just like the Old Testament there's like all these these promises of like it's everlasting it's everlasting as everlasting but did it continue no why because he found fault with them okay the New Covenant is different and as you can see David would represent the New Covenant his kingdom has no end hey go to Isaiah 9 and verse 6 I know it's not Christmas but this first could be used other than Christmas but this is obviously a great verse to show the birth of Christ and that he's God and and all that but the but the verse 7 is what I want you to see here is that David's kingdom will have no end and there's a big reason why it's gonna have no end I'll just say it because David's the root not our Jesus is the root and offspring of David there I said it and Jesus is gonna sit on the throne for all eternity so but in verse 6 here Isaiah 9 verse 6 it says front unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor the Mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever the zeal the Lord of hosts will perform this so you see that David's kingdom there is no end hey here's why it's no end because because Jesus is gonna sit on that throne now this is quoted in Luke chapter 1 talking about the birth of Christ and and it says in Luke 1 31 it says and behold thou shalt conceive and I woman bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus he shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end that's why David's kingdom will never end there's another verse in Jeremiah chapter 33 and just for sake of time I'm kind of blasting through these just so you don't have to turn to all these but you can if you want Jeremiah 33 and verse 16 says in those days shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is that name where went wherewith she shall be called the Lord our righteousness for thus at the Lord David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel why is that true because Christ was raised to sit on his throne because he's the seed of David that's something you see all the time like that he's the son of David they even say that that's you know thou son of David right and then it'll say that he's you know of the seed of David many times in the New Testament but in Acts chapter 2 dealing with you know this subject of Christ sitting on the throne go to Acts chapter 2 verse 29 so David I mean think about he's a man after God's own heart so obviously it kind of makes sense that he would be picturing the Lord Jesus and the fact that he's a man after God's own heart Jesus is the Son of Man but he's also God in the flesh I mean obviously David's not God in the flesh but he's the represent that he's the kind of picture that and now allegories when you're thinking about pictures and stuff like that you know David at one point could be it could be like a picture of Christ but then in another place he's kind of the picture of the Father because Solomon is then a picture of Jesus right that famous quote where it says I will be unto him a God and he shall be unto me a son that comes from where God says that about Solomon okay and you can kind of see that picture of David in Solomon the father and the son relationship right so you know you don't want to take these allegories too far okay to where you're just like well David always represents Jesus it's like well you know sometimes he doesn't when he commits adultery on back with Bathsheba that doesn't represent Jesus okay so you got it like look at okay here's what pictures Christ in here what doesn't okay now actually after two in verse 29 says men and brethren let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his sepulcher is with us unto this day therefore being a prophet and knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne okay so I think you got that point okay that that he was raised that Christ was raised up to sit on the throne of David and that is how all that kingdom has no end because when when when Jesus is dethroned then that's when the kingdom would end but it's never gonna happen and by the way the priesthood being changed and Jesus being the high priest at the order forever when Jesus no longer can make intercession and when Jesus fails and Jesus ever sins to where he can no longer be the high priest let me know okay but we know that he ever liveth to make intercession for us and he's able to save us to the uttermost so you see that I think you see the picture here as far as like how this is this allegory now how about this go to first Samuel chapter 15 or same or chapter 15 that dealing with the Old and New Testament here and the fact that God does not have have pleasure in these sacrifices that were done in the first covenant okay and you say I you know I can't believe you say that I'm not the one that's gonna be saying that that's gonna be the Bible but there's something else that's said here in this story and first same or chapter 15 that kind of deals with sacrifices and obedience right and the idea here is that those sacrifices here's well let me read it and then I'll explain it okay I'm getting ahead of myself so in verse 20 it says in Saul said unto Samuel yea I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the Lord sent me and have brought a gag the king of Amalek and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites but the people took of the spoil sheep and oxen and chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God and Gilgal and Samuel said hath the Lord as great delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams here's here's why I believe those sacrifices one couldn't atone because the blood of an animal and you the blood of the Lord okay you need the blood of you know you need an intercessor that's of the same seed you know if you will and same flesh but on top of that the sacrifices are not regarded because obedience is better than sacrifice and it and Jesus even said this it says if you have something against your brother and you're gonna bring the gift to the altar you need to get that right with your brother before you bring the gift because getting you know doing right and obeying the word of Lord and keeping his commandments is a lot more important than bringing some offering to the Lord okay and notice what it says in Hebrew chapter 10 Hebrew chapter 10 Hebrew chapter 10 and verse 4 I think it's interesting that when the kingdom is taken away from him it had to do with doing the sacrifices wrong right and that sack that that was the first thing you know like well I mean you're dealing with in both the cases you're dealing with sacrifice let's just be honest right the first one he does a sacrifice when he's not supposed to sacrifice and then the second time he's sacrificing animals that should have been destroyed and you know he's kind of trying to defend himself here and he didn't kill a gag which Samuel cuts him in pieces so spoiler alert he dies okay but but Hebrew chapter 10 verse 4 here notice what it says it says for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins not possible people in the Old Testament were not saved by the blood of bulls and of goats they were not saved by the lamb that was slain the Passover they were not saved by any of that it was all for the purifying of the flesh okay they would come up and confess their sins over the bullock or whatever and that's how they get right with God well I haven't got to my point on why the New Testament is better but here's here's here's better we can come boldly into the throne of grace to find help to grace that help in time need how about we can just come straight to the Savior we can come to the high priest Jesus Christ and confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness we can do that and guess what I don't have to bring a bullock up to the altar and put my hands on and confess my sins to that bullock and to the priests and all this other stuff no in the New Testament it's all just Jesus and I can do that in my bedroom I could do that anywhere and confess that and get that right that has nothing to do with salvation okay let's talk about the purifying of the flesh purifying of your soul in your conscience that's by the blood of Christ okay now Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 4 here it says for it it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith sacrifice an offering that would is not but a body has thou prepared me in burn offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure now I want you to notice that that's not like he doesn't have pleasure anymore it says he never had pleasure in it right thou hast had no pleasure then said I lo I come in the volume of the book is written of me to do thy will O God above when he said sacrifice an offering and burn offering and offering for sin now would is not neither hats pleasure therein which are offered by the law then said he lo I come to do thy will O God he taketh away the first they may establish the second and this is where it's very clear that first covenant had to be taken away in order for the second time covenant to take force that's why when Jesus died on the cross it says when he gave up the ghost the veil in the temple rent from the top to the bottom I believe that moment is when the Old Testament stopped the New Testament started because by the death of the testator and that a testament hath no force while the testator live it now look at Psalm 40 where this is quoted at because you may say well you know that's the New Testament he doesn't he doesn't regard it now he never regarded it he never regarded it for the consciousness for the soul okay that's what we're talking about here about shall forgive sins you know spiritually save you from hell like that's what it's talking about it obviously had a purpose you know it's not like there was no reason that they were doing it because they had specific sacrifice for specific sins right there's a sin of ignorance there's the sin of jealousy there's there's a jealousy offering there's like different sins you had different offerings for those sins you had offerings just for women when they would have their child and the purification and they would bring two turtle doves or a young pigeon and I mean there was just different offerings for different things and in Psalm 40 in verse 6 it says sacrifice an offering now did it this not desire so it kind of words it a little differently in the Psalm here it said this not desire mine ears hast thou opened burn offering and sin offering hast thou not required this is this is a sweet psalmist of Israel stating this in the Old Testament then said I lo I come to the volume of the book it is written of me I delight to do thy will oh my God yea thy law is my within my heart now obviously we're talking about the Lord Jesus they're coming and doing the will of God and he's the Son of God coming and you know the Son of Man Son of God God in the flesh and coming to offer his body for the sins of the world and his flesh and and so I just wanted to hit on that on the fact that obedience is better than sacrifice because you can do all these sacrifices and Malachi hits on this you know you do all these sacrifices but you know you're not doing you're not obeying anything I say therefore those sacrifices aren't going to help you at all you know it's not going to even help you in a fleshly manner of physical punishment if you're just gonna disobey the Word of God now the last thing I want to hit on here which is probably probably the biggest thing that I see when I think of Saul and David I think of the fact that it says that David's better than him okay and you're like I can't believe you'd say that David is better than Saul well first of all have you read the Bible he's clearly better but that's the Bible stating that but I believe for this allegory purpose I think it just fits perfectly with what we're talking about here and go to Hebrews chapter 7 I'm gonna read to you said you've been in 1st Samuel a lot here verse 15 I'm gonna reread this portion to you it says in verse 28 and Samuel said unto him the Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from me this day and have given it to a neighbor of thine that is better than thou and also the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent for he is not a man that he should repent okay so he's basically saying I'm gonna do this I'm not gonna change you know I'm not gonna repent on this okay Hebrew Hebrew chapter 7 I just want to go to a little tour day force here through Hebrews on stating that the New Testament is better okay verse 7 Hebrew 7 verse 7 it says and without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better and here men that die receive tithes but there he receiveth them of whom it is witnessed that he liveth now this is talking about Abraham being blessed by Melchizedek and how Levi was in the loins of Abraham and how he gave tithes through Abraham and the that that Melchizedek is better okay so go down to verse 19 verse 19 it says for the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did so notice that the law made nothing perfect but a bringing in of a better hope did by the which will by the which we draw nigh unto God and inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest for those priests were made without an oath but this with an oath by him that said unto him the Lord swearing will not repent thou art a priest forever after your Melchizedek now sound familiar it says the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent when he's talking about the fact that he's gonna give the kingdom to a neighbor that's better than him okay now look at verse 22 by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament there it is I mean you don't we could close up our bottles right there and just say well it says it's a better testament it's a better testament now keep reading go to Hebrew chapter 8 Hebrew chapter 8 and verse 6 now I'm not gonna get into all the reasons why it's better okay there's many reasons why it's better but I just want to make the point that it says it's better okay and that David's obviously said is better than Saul okay now in Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 6 it says but now has he obtained a more excellent ministry so notice that it's not gonna say better so I'll give you that but it's more excellent so give me some grace there in the fact that that's kind of like better okay a more excellent ministry by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant which was established upon better promises for if the first covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second so in case you don't know that we're talking about the second covenant it's better okay it's it's it's a more excellent ministry it's a better covenant and it's established one better promises it's better now Hebrew chapter 9 Hebrew chapter 9 in verse 22 the sacrifice is better okay now I think you should probably know this that I don't care how many goats and bulls and lambs you kill no sacrifice is ever gonna be better than the Lord Jesus Christ okay and that's what it's gonna state here in verse 22 it says so Hebrews 9 verse 22 says in almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission and it says it was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these so what is stating here is that all this Old Testament stuff was a pattern right and even when Moses was building the tabernacle right he says do it according to the pattern that I showed the in the mouth right there's all pattern is a shadow of things to come as a figure is a picture of a time then present right it was showing you what is actually in heaven and it was it was purified it you know with the blood of bulls and goats and all that right to signify it but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven itself now they appear in the presence of God for us nor yet that he should offer himself often as though as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others but then must he often have suffered since the foundation of world but now once in the end of the world have they appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself he did it once for all there's not like this continual sacrifices that are being done that can never take away sins and never purify the conscience no he did it once and he didn't go into that temple that was where the veil was rent he went into heaven itself into the the holiest of all and he went in there and sprinkled the mercy seat of the the Ark of the Covenant that's in heaven right now and that's how he paid for it I mean obviously there's other things he did to pay for our sins but that's a part of what he did to pay for our sins it says in whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins so that without shedding of blood is no remission and then it goes last thing I'll show you here is it go to Hebrews chapter 12 Hebrews chapter 12 Hebrews chapter 12 verse 22 so if you get anything out of the sermon here in this last hour what we do is that with Saul and David Saul the kingdom was taken from him given to David Old Testament that kingdom was taken away from the nation of Israel that covenant he made with them given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof New Testament Jew and Gentile barbarian Scythian bond free all nations that believe on Christ can be a part of that holy nation and there's no more wall of partition that's what's going on there but also the New Testament's better okay the New Testament better and there's many reasons why it's better but the real the big reason why it's better is because Jesus is the one that's mediating it not man now Jesus is man and God obviously but we have you know with Melchizedek I believe Melchizedek was the Lord Jesus Christ he was the son of God okay but he didn't have the seed of David he wasn't he didn't have any lineage than a mother or father beginning of days nor end of life meaning that he wasn't born he wasn't God manifested in the flesh when he came then the Levitical priesthood was all man the political priesthood was just men that were being priests so you have purely God being a priest before the Old Testament you have man being priest in Levitical priesthood New Testament you have the Son of Man the Lord Jesus Christ who is God being the priest so it's both God in and that's why there is one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus okay why am I drinking coffee always my downfall you're all just shaking your head like we know why do you do that Hebrews chapter 12 verse 22 it says but ye are common to the unto Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to the innumerable company of angels to the General Assembly and Church of the firstborn which are written in heaven and to God the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the mediator of the New Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel now what about Abel was in Hebrew chapter 11 talks about this that his sacrifice was a more excellent sacrifice right than canes what was the sacrifice a blood sacrifice okay and it says that that Jesus blood that okay and in Hebrews 13 and 20 you can turn there if you want because I told you this last ones I don't lie to you here's 13 verse 20 says this is now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ that great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever amen so Jesus blood is in that that New Testament is an everlasting covenant but that covenant is not contingent on man there's your difference there's a big difference there Saul would represent man's failure to keep the commandments and keep that covenant the New Testament represents the fact that Jesus kept it all and will keep it all for all eternity that covenant will never end because he'll never break his he'll never break the covenant and so I hope all that makes sense and I hope with this allegory it really just shows you what the purpose of the old covenant was for it was never to save us from hell because it was called the you know it's called the the ministry of death right it's called the ministry of condemnation in second Corinthians chapter 3 so the law was it was given because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made it was given to show that we are exceeding sinful right it was one to show how simple we are two it was to show a foreshadow the true covenant that was going to be with Jesus Christ now like I said when it comes to this covenant you know the new covenant it was regarded before the first covenant ever started because God it says that he called those things would be not as though they were and he's the lamb slain from the foundation of the world it says before deemed before the foundation world but was manifesting these last times for you and that salvation was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began so that being said salvation has always been the same and the one thing I wanted to get across with this whole series is that kind of just clear all that muddiness as far as like you know what's this Old Testament about you know because a lot of people will say and listen I was there when I got saved and I knew that people were saved by faith and I never thought people were saved by works in the Old Testament but you always just kind of like what was this for like why are you doing like what is this you know you know you're just like why why wasn't it just the New Testament why didn't Jesus just die like what was the point of doing all this first but then you see like okay there's a reason why he did that first there's a reason why that law was given because there was already laws like thou shalt not kill and you know all that before you even had the law it's to show us that we're exceeding sinful and those laws show us that and even when Jesus came bringing in the New Testament but at the tail in the Old Testament he even gave more light on those Commandments it's like oh you've heard thou shalt not commit adultery I say that if you look upon a woman to lust after you've committed all you've committed adultery already in your heart with her you know that shows you like oh you think you've kept that commandment no you didn't right oh you think you've never murdered anybody well if you if you're angry with your brother without a cause you committed a murder already in your heart do you see how like the law what does the law do shows us we're guilty okay no one here can claim that they've never been angry without a cause toward a brother no one could ever claim that they never looked upon someone in lust except for obviously children but the idea there is that those type of things just really show you like hey I'm a sinner the law condemns me I need a savior that's why I was given but it was also to show like when Jesus when Jesus rose from the dead and he did everything he did here's all the stuff showing that right picture after picture after picture after picture after picture after picture and when someone comes to you and says you know what the Bible is just full fairy tales you know it's just a man wrote this man is not that smart okay let me put it on the bottom shelf it's ridiculous to think that man wrote this book because of how perfect everything fits together and how complex this book is is and yet how simple it is at the same time in the core of what is it's showing you just over and over again there's no way there's no way that make it write a story about Saul and Dave and be like you know what I'm gonna tie this into the New Testament thousands of years later right like you're not gonna no one's gonna be able to unit hindsight looking at okay here's what was written I'm gonna tie that in you're gonna have a whole bunch of mistakes and holes and contradictions and so I hope this just first of all gives you clarification about what the Old Testament is for what it was for and it also gives you just a deeper faith in the Bible like oh yeah this you know just you just have a stronger faith in the Bible and that it's true and you can believe every word and also don't ever stop studying it don't ever stop reading it because if you think that you know everything in the Bible you are you know nothing yet as you ought to know because there's so much to learn in the Bible I'll never never even come close to knowing everything in the Bible and you know what never be like well I've read it I've read it you know you could say you've read it scores of times but there's still something you haven't seen there's still something you haven't noticed in there and so just keep reading it because stuff's gonna pop out I guarantee you in these allegories that I've showed you there's been plenty of stuff that I missed guarantee that I missed something or didn't catch that so but I'm gonna start a new series I'm just gonna preach another sermon next week meaning that I'm gonna be done with the allegories on the Old Testament New Testament but it was fun to go through let's end with the word of prayer to Heavenly Father we thank you for today thank you for your word and thank you for church today and thank you for the souls that were saved and just praise you to help us to know your word and help us to just dive deep into it and just know all the truths that we can know and thank you for the perfect word of God that you've given us so that we can live by it and obviously be saved by it but Lord we love you and pray all this in Jesus Christ's name amen everybody able come and say one more song so long you got it all right take your song books and turn to song 179 song 179 and if you would stand we'll sing such love song 179 that God should love a sinner such as I should yearn to change my sorrow into bliss nor as tale he had planned to bring me nigh how wonderful is love like this such love such wondrous love such love such wondrous love that God should love a sinner such as I how wonderful is love like this that Christ should join so freely in this game although it may