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Discipleship Vol. 2 #8 Moses 2/3 The Wilderness... and TIME TRAVEL IS REAL!!!
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Like! Share! Subscribe! This time we'll be looking at Jesus Christ hidden--and now revealed--in the life of Moses. We'll be looking at the 40 years in the wilderness; how Moses's life is a prophetic narrative of Jesus's life; and interactions that they had with each other. And then I shared a testimony--very unexpectedly! It's raw and real, If you'd like the Bible studies that go with these studies, they cost €10. Reach out and let me know. They've got the same theme as the videos, but FAR MORE information. Let's jump in! And in May, we're having a REVIVAL Men's Conference. Get your tickets on Eventbrite, too: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ohm-rize-mens-retreat-ireland-2026-tickets-1978682463513?aff=ebdssbdestsearch The content used in this video is intended for educational and informational purposes only. All rights to the images, music, clips, and other materials used belong to their respective owners. I do not claim ownership over any third-party content used. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📘 Order My Books Read faith-filled adventure, fantasy, and science-fiction books to support Christian entertainment. 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/GHOST-UNSAID-ONE-PANOPTICON-Triumvirate/dp/1948581647 👉https://www.amazon.co.uk/GHOST-UNSAID-BOOK-RECKONING-Triumvirate/dp/B0CH2H6LSX 🎥 Watch More Videos: Teaching, encouragement, testimony, and biblical truth. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@brendanthomasmarrett9868/videos 🧢 From Dublin to Cleveland – Official Merch: Wear the message. Support the work. 👉 https://www.bonfire.com/from-dublin-to-cleveland-shirt/?srsltid=AfmBOorvSsSmUI-oAQ9mC4uSVWhkPmZvaMkeouFcmZEM8G3eJAqNyGnT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Support the Ministry: If this ministry blesses you and you’d like to help it grow, please consider becoming a monthly supporter or making a one-off love offering: 💸 PayPal: paypal.me/BrendanMarrett 💵 Revolut: https://revolut.me/brendanthomasmarrett
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Moses' Life and Jesus in the Exodus
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Fun in the Word of God. Alright, so last week we started looking at the life of Moses and we began with the first 80 of his life.
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um For 40 of those years he was a prince of Egypt. He spent 40 years in exile and then he came back to Egypt to, by the power of god lead his people out of slavery.
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And last week we looked at different appearances of Jesus throughout that deliverance experience, that exodus, that great exit from bondage and slavery.
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So today, going to continue looking at the life of Moses, and we're going to look at the wilderness season for the Israelites. and so have a Pen in one hand, paper in the other. And get ready to take lots of notes.
Israelites' Wilderness Struggles and Sanctification
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and As always, the recording will be put up on the group chat afterwards.
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I'm looking at my laptop, but my phone is here recording it. So, so far, so good. Hopefully records the whole thing. um If ah you do watch the video version and I start off one room here and another room somewhere else and different clothes, that just means the video cut off. And I had to redo it.
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um So, the wilderness season for the Israelites was heartbreakingly disappointing.
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When you look at everything God did to get them out of Egypt, the plagues, the deaths of the firstborn, the parting of the Red Sea, crashing it and washing away the Egyptian army, you read the rest of that adventure, journey, whatever you want to call it, to the Promised Land.
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And actually, it's irritating, it's frustrating. You grate your teeth, start grinding them, And all you can do is actually feel disheartened and irritated at God's people, at the slaves, the Hebrews.
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Because you can take the slaves out bondage.
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Taking bondage out of the slaves, not as easy. You can take the Hebrews out of Egypt. Taking Egypt the Hebrews is not as easy.
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And perhaps you've experienced this in your own life, where you've left the bondage of slavery, the slavery to sin, you're a Christian now, but you still have that tug, that yearn for the thing you walked away from.
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You still have that draw the very thing that was killing you. Your mind is still obsessed with the very thing you ran to Jesus to get away from.
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Even though you might hate and loathe and despise sin so passionately, the thing that you don't want to do is a thing you still find yourself doing.
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You find yourself in this cycle of, I hate it, I'm gonna serve Jesus forever. Oh no, I did it again, you know, Britney Spears style, and know, oops, I did it again, and you're free, and in this loop.
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And that's because the Egypt is still in your soul. The bondage... The trauma. The yoke. What had been familiar in your sinful state.
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It's still in your heart. It's still in your mind. It's still in your will.
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You could be fully alive in your spirit. You're saved. You're good regard. If you die right now, you to heaven.
Manna and Jesus as the Bread of Life
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But the soul still has some catching up to do. The soul still has some work to do.
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The soul still has refining to do. And this is what the Bible calls sanctification. The process of getting changed more and more and more into the likeness of Jesus.
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But what happens is, in the sanctification part, some people will choose to be sanctified. and They will choose God's will, God's way. um They're going to have God's opinion.
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They're going to see things through his perspective. They are going to step into the fullness of what he has for them, every opportunity. They're going to take the darkness by storm. What can also happen though, is his kids say, I'm going to drag my feet.
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going to be apathetic in this area. You know, I don't actually want Jesus interfering with that part of my life. That part, that's just for me. And that's what slows down the process.
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So when you follow the rest of Moses' journey through Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, that is what he's contending with. There are international enemies all around who want to eradicate them off the face of the earth.
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But there's also a threat from within, the sinful state from within. In grumbling, in groaning, in moaning, in being easily offended,
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easily irritated and downright treasonous. But God is so good that every time rubber hit the road or the crap hit the fan, Jesus would always be right there to save Moses' life and indeed to redeem and restore the nation, even though they were so fickle and so quick to betray him again and again and again.
Water from the Rock and Living Water
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So our first chapter today, and again, we're only going to look at Jesus in these stories. We're not going to look the stories in complete and utter detail. It's in Exodus chapter 16. Exodus chapter 16. Exodus is the second book in the Bible.
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And you're about halfway through it to Exodus 16.
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And we look at verses 1 to 5. The whole Israelite community set out from Elam and came to the desert of Sin. That should tell you how this chapter is going go.
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Which is between Elam and Sinai, on the 15th day of the second month after they'd come out of Egypt. In the desert, the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
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The Israelites said to them, if Only we had died with the Lord's hand in Egypt. So basically, they wish that God would kill them the same way he killed the Egyptians.
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There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted. You'd swear they had been staying in like a five-star luxury hotel.
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They're looking to the place of their bondage, the place where they tried to get out of. The nation that took their baby boys and fed them to crocodiles, drowned them in the Nile, threw them to the hippopotamuses in the great river.
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The nation that had whipped them. The nation that had taxed them into oblivion at a house and home. The nation that had beaten them to a pulp. They looking back like that was paradise.
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There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted. But you, Moses, you have brought us into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.
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So basically, at least Pharaoh will let us live. At least Pharaoh let us have food. Life was easier as a slave. Things only got tense and difficult when you showed up.
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Then the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down fire and brimstone. Nope, that's what they deserved. I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Bread from heaven, yes, angels eat food.
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And even Jesus, God and Holy Spirit eat food in heaven. Not because they need to, because eating is great. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day.
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In this way, i will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day, they're to prepare what they bring in. And that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days. The seventh day was a Sabbath. That was their rest day. So they had to do double the workload of a picking up free food. That's the kind of job I'd love to do. um On um the sixth day, which would be a Friday.
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So the Lord looked at these grumbling people. And look at this. They grumbled, they groaned, they looked fondly and favourably on their bondage.
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Think of how when Lot and his family were leaving Sodom and Gomorrah, the land of Sodom, while fire was falling from the sky. And his wife looks back longingly.
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i mean, this is a city that literally has just tried to rape angels. This is a city whose wickedness was so bad that the Lord was like, I genuinely cannot leave this on the earth. It just stinks to high heaven.
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And she looks back
Dream Warning and God's View on Sin
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longingly. Oh, the neighbors. I'll never see those neighbors again. oh remember all the great times that we committed crimes beside that well and all the women who got attacked there.
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Oh, remember I had to put paint on my house because of all the blood splatters from those three children killed? And she looks back longingly at this. What happened? She turned to a pillar of salt.
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The Word of God tells us to love what is good and to hate what's evil, to resist what's evil, and to expose what's evil. You need to divorce your attachment to sin.
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You have to reach a point where you just say, enough is enough. Jesus hated sin so much, he died on the cross to destroy it. Yes, he has taken all of our shame, all of our sicknesses, all of our diseases, all our agony.
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Sure. His number one goal on that cross was to take away sin, was to take away evil. So you have to reach a point where you actually say, if Jesus hates it, I have to hate it too. I can't pretend something is okay or attractive when Jesus Christ despises it.
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I remember having a dream once, and in the dream i was sitting around a kitchen table with some people, and they there was food under a silver dish, the silver dish was lifted up,
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And the food was rotting and I could smell the rot in my nose. It was like I was wide awake. I had never smelled anything more intense in my life. I woke up gagging
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and struggling for breath. Well, hours later, I found myself in real life at that kitchen table, surrounded by all the people who had been in that dream.
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And God had told me in the dream very clearly, do not go. Do not sit there. This will not go well for you. And long story short, it turned out that i was on the menu.
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It was not a dinner party that I remember particularly fondly. What did I smell in that dream? Sin. God told me something's gonna happen there.
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This is what it smells like in God's nose. You don't want to be part of this. And let me tell you, turns out he was right. So we need to develop a healthy hatred of sin.
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Yes, we tolerate people. Yes, we love people. But there comes a point you have to say enough is enough. And excusing the sin in your life is just no longer enough.
Resurrections and Jesus' Timeline
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Now even though God's people here, the Israelites, were behaving very, very naughtily, he did show them incredible compassion by sending down supernatural bread from the sky.
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And Jesus would actually later use that as a picture to talk about himself. If you turn to the New Testament, Luke and John, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
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And look at chapter 6. sex John chapter 6.
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John chapter 6.
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And we'll start with verse 30.
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Here, Jesus is preaching to the same nation.
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Over a millennium later, and again they're grumbling and groaning. First they had a problem with Moses and the Lord. Now they have a problem Jesus straight to his face.
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So they asked him, what miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? Go on, Jesus, what will you do? Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert, the bread from the sky, the bread from heaven.
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As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. Isn't it wonderful, you know, when people take Bible verses and they try to trip up the Christian? This is a more extreme version of that. This is people taking a Bible verse and trying to attack Jesus with it.
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I mean, it's insane. It's asinine.
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And Jesus said to them, i tell you the truth. It is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven. But it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
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So first it was supernatural bread, but now there's something different. Now something superior to bread has come from the sky. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
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He's saying, I am the true manna. The manna was good for your belly for, you know, few hours. I will be good for your soul forever.
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Sir, they said, from now on give us this bread. So they're very, very excited at the prospect of a miracle. Not realizing Jesus being there was the greatest miracle they could ever have anticipated.
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Then Jesus dec declared, i am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
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But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me i will never drive away.
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For I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but to do the will of him who sent me." Now, Jesus, God, and Holy Spirit agree on absolutely everything all the time equally, okay? One's will is the other's will.
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But he still came in that posture of absolute humility. Whatever Father God said, he would say. Whatever Father God showed him is what he would do. Whatever he heard the Father speak is what came out of his mouth.
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All this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all he's given me, but raise them up on the last day. For my Father's will is that every everyone who looks the Son and believes in him shall have eternal a life.
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And in case you didn't hear him the first time, he says I'll raise him up at the last day.
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What is he talking about? it What is the last day? This is something where Christians get very, very confused. He's talking here and he says, rise, about resurrection.
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But... And it's called the resurrection of life. But the resurrection of life comes in different stages.
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And it's named after different agricultural harvests. So the first harvest... is called the harvest of the first fruits.
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The harvest of the first fruits. This had two parts. The first is that Jesus came back from the dead, which we celebrated a couple Sundays ago in Psalm 1610.
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We're told he wouldn't see decay. 1 Corinthians 15, 20 to 23, speaks to this.
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But the second part of the harvest of the first fruits is one of the best parts of the Easter story, and I think I've heard it preached on once in my whole life, and then I preached on it actually few weekends ago.
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In Matthew 27, 51 to 53,
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fifty one fifty three We're actually told that when Jesus came back to life, he brought the righteous dead buried in Jerusalem with him.
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A lot of people came out of their tombs that morning, not just Jesus. But also, Matthew 27, 51 to 53, righteous men and women who were dead and buried in Jerusalem, they came up out of their tombs as well.
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And they would have been living in paradise. they So they were like, they could tell people what it looked like. They could say, this guy is legit. This guy is serious. This guy is for real. He died. He came to us.
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He brought us up again. so you don't just have, like, you know, the apostles, Jesus disciples running around. You got dead people now and like, you know, a healthy body running around who can talk about what the afterlife was like. And Jesus brought them back.
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It's phenomenal. Super, super exciting. That's the resurrection part one. Okay, that's the resurrection of life. um Harvest of the first fruits.
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Then you have part two, which is the main harvest. This is what we as Christians call the rapture.
Divine Encounters: Moses, Elijah, and Transfiguration
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This is the one that pertains to us, the body of Christ. This is our future. We looked at this in the first discipleship series and toward the end of last year.
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In 1 Corinthians, chapter 15 again, start at verse 50 and read on to verse 58.
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This also has two parts. The first part... is that all the Christians, the body of Christ, who are we? Mostly Gentiles, mostly non-Jews.
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Jews can get saved too, of course they can, but we're mostly Gentile nations.
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We're not saved by following the Ten Commandments and believing the identity of Jesus. we'rely we are We're saved by the finished work of the cross. Okay, you didn't have the cross as your salvation point for most of the Bible.
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We're saved by the finished work of the cross. We're saved by the power of the empty grave, his resurrection power in us. We're saved by believing that when he said on the cross, it's finished, it's complete.
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The payment for a sin has been paid, got satisfied, it's been dealt with. I took your place. It's sufficient. When he says, I'm the Lord, I'm the boss, I'm God of your life now, you believe, you you can confess that he's Lord with your mouth, you believe in your heart that he was raised from the dead.
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That's the body of Christ. So the first part of the main harvest is that all the Christians who are dead by the day of the rapture Now, they might have been recently buried.
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They might just be dust. Maybe. you were to find their grave, there would nothing else there. That's okay. He made Adam out dust. He can do whatever he wants.
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He is going to reforge their physical body. Their soul and spirits are in heaven. He will reforge their physical body perfectly. Amazingly.
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I have some silver teeth. You'll have no silver teeth. all your normal teeth will be reforged. If your hair is grey, or it's like, you know, red, but it's from a bottle, it will be whatever colour it's supposed to be If you have a dead kidney in your body, because you and you've got someone else's kidney, you'll have two perfectly healthy ones.
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I had a transplant, was the word was looking for. If you're in a war and someone's shot off your big toe, you will have ten toes. If your mother was a drinker and a smoker and then you're shorter than you should be, you'll be the height your girl is meant to be.
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Your physical body will perfect and then Superman into the sky. And then your soul and spirit will live in that physical body in the world of heaven. And you'll never grow old, you'll never get sick.
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And then the second part is if you're a believer on the earth when the rapture happens, the very same. You fly up into the sky, right into heaven. And your soul becomes instantly perfect, because when you see Jesus, you're made like him.
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And your physical body will be absolutely perfect for all of time, and you live in heaven forever and ever and ever. Amen. Whenever everything gets remade, you live in the remade heaven, because we're citizens of heaven.
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That's the main harvest.
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Then you have the resurrection that Jesus is talking about here in John 6. This is called The Harvest of Gleanings and Corners.
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It's a long title. The Harvest of Gleanings and Corners. This is part three, and it's got a few separate stages.
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We will do an end time series at some point, because I know lot of you have questions that you ask regularly, so at some point we will. If this goes over your head, that's okay, don't don't worry about it. But there are two people who have never died thus far in the Bible.
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Enoch and Elijah. In the end times, in the apocalypse, which will last seven years, they will be on the earth. They will be... They'll do amazing things, we'll look at it the future.
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They're gonna get killed, and it's gonna be pretty gruesome. But after three and a half days, their bodies will be remade perfectly. And they're going to be up in the sky as well. That will be their resurrection.
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At the end of the seven year long apocalypse, all the Old Testament saints who are now in heaven, all the believers who get killed during the apocalypse, they will all get sent back down to the earth.
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To live on earth in perfect bodies, in physical bodies. That is the resurrection the Bible talks about most often.
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You don't have to write these references down because you can watch the replay anyway. But let's say Job 19, talks about this. sam seventy three twenty six isaiab twenty five eight Isaiah 26, Ezekiel 37, 1-5. Daniel 12, 1-4. Hosea 13, 14. Matthew 5, 8. Luke 9, 24.
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John 5, 19-30. John 6, 35-40. daniel twelve one to four joseia thirteen fourteen matthew five eight luke nine twenty four john five nineteen to thirty john six thirty five to forty John 11, 23-27. 1 John 3, 2-3. Revelation 20, 4-5.
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This is the revel eight there resurrection the Bible speaks of in the most detail. It's the one most people were aware of. The rapture was a secret up until the Apostle Paul. This the one almost all the heroes of the of the Word of God knew.
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And then Jesus rules and reigns with them on the earth for 1,000 years.
Jesus as the Rock and Living Water Revisited
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And then there's a final resurrection. It's still part of the the gleanings and the corners.
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And this is the resurrection of the damned. This is the resurrection of those in hell. And there they're resurrected. just in time for the Day of Judgment, which will not be a particularly fun day for them, let me tell you.
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So, people get very hung up on the resurrections. If you're still not entirely clear about it, don't worry, at some point we'll go through that more detail, but that's just what Jesus is talking about here.
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Alright, back to Moses. So we've just seen the Israelites have a bloody conniption over food, Now let's see them get upset over drink.
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In the book of Exodus, chapter 17. So
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so one chapter later than where we started off. Exodus chapter 17. says, it says the whole israelite community sets out from the deserts of sin traveling from place to place that the lord commanded they camped at raidim But there was no water for the people to drink.
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So they quarreled with Moses and said, give us water to drink. Logic would assume they would say, well, God looked after us when we're hungry. He's going look after us now.
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Isn't it terrifying? Just how quickly we forget God's goodness. Moses replied, why do you quarrel with me?
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And then more importantly, why do you put the Lord to the test? You know, they're testing his patience. They're on his last nerve. But the people were thirsty for what they're there.
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And they grumbled against Moses. They said, why did you bring us out of Egypt to make us and our children our livestock die of thirst? so You did this on purpose. You're trying to kill the whole darn lot of us, sir.
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Again, projection. They're offended, so there's transference. They don't want to take responsibility for their own prayer life.
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Hi God, please give us water to drink, we're thirsty. They need someone to blame, and they come gunning for their leadership. Then Moses cried out to the Lord, What am I to do with these people?
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They are almost ready to stone me. This was not just a character assassination. When someone's offense is that great, they will take out anybody.
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If they would kill Jesus, they would definitely kill Moses. The Lord answered Moses, walk on ahead of the people, take with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the River Nile, and go.
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And here is the appearance of Jesus. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. That's the name's Horeb. Others call Mount Sinai. It's the same mountain.
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Strike the rock and water will come out of it for the people to drink. So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah, which means testing, and Merabah, which means quarrelling, fighting, because the Israelites quarrelled and because they tested the Lord, saying, is the Lord among us or not?
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The Lord had taken them out of slavery. The lords had destroyed the Egyptians. The lords had moved in every way he needed to, and then some.
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The lord had moved on their behalf in ways no one had ever seen before, and no one has currently seen since. And yet it was not good enough for them, because in their hearts they were rebellious house.
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This picture of water miraculously coming out of a rock also gives us a picture of Jesus.
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If you turn now to the book of John, same one as before, and this time chapter 7. So
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we went from Exodus 6 to John 16, Exodus 7 to John 17.
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Jesus has this story in his mind when he's talking about himself. And it's John 7, verse 37.
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We'll start there. John 7, verse 37.
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On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus, and the Old Testament calls him the Rock of Ages, stood and said a loud voice, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
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Whoever believes in me, i the scripture said, streams of living water will flow from within him. By this he meant the Spirit, Holy Spirit, who those who believed in him were later to receive. No one got him up this point in the story.
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Up to that time, the spirits had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. After Jesus ascended to heaven, that's when Holy Spirit came down.
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And on hearing his words, some of the people said, Surely this man is the prophet. And Moses had prophesied that a greater prophet would come after him.
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Others said, He is the Christ, he's the Messiah, he's the Lord, he's the Savior, he's the superhero. Still others asked, how can the Christ come from Galilee?
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Does not the scripture say that the Christ will come from David's family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived? Now, he did come from David's line, that's that's true, and he was born in Bethlehem. They ah they just don't have ah the full details of the Christmas story like we do.
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Thus, the people were divided because of Jesus. Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. In the very same way that with Moses, they actually considered properly killing him.
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Same here life of Jesus.
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You see this parallel, this picture, where in Moses' day, the water came miraculously from a rock, and Jesus says, well... There is a supernatural water, and if you drink of it, you'll never be thirsty again. And that's Holy Spirit.
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But Moses had to strike the rock for the water to come out. And Jesus had to be stricken on our behalf before Holy Spirit would descend from heaven.
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With a crown of thorns in his head for every wicked thought we would ever have. A spear through the heart. For every evil design and desire we would ever harbour.
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Nailed in his hands and his feet for every wicked thing we would ever do or put our hands to or place we would go.
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Punched and bruised and bled and whiplashed for all the bruises we would deal to others and all the wicked things we would choose to carry.
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Moses struck the rock and out came the water. The guards struck Jesus. And then out came Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Okay, please go back to the book of Exodus again.
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And this time, please look at chapter 24. Exodus chapter 24.
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And look at verses Then Moses took the book of the covenant and read it to the people.
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They responded, We will do everything the Lord has said. we will obey. Spoiler alert, they didn't. Moses then took the blood. sprinkled it on the people and said, this might sound strange because we're halfway through a story. It's not human blood, okay?
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This is the blood the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words. Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up and saw the God of Israel.
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Now, as I say every week, John 1, 18 says no one had ever seen God the Father by this stage. The God of Israel, they're looking at Jesus. They're looking at God with skin on.
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Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire. Other translations say lapis lazuli, clear as the sky itself.
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But God, Jesus specifically, did not raise his hand against these leaders of Israelites. They say, O God, and they ate and drank. Why would it say that?
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Because God is light. And people live in darkness. What does light do? it extinguishes the darkness. So if Father God had come himself, all of humanity would have been obliterated.
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Because... We couldn't stand in a sinful state, in a presence of such holiness, of such light, of such potent perfection. That's why Jesus would step into the Old Testament world.
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In a physical body, it was his way of making himself relational and accessible to us. That's why it says that he didn't raise his hand, he wasn't fighting against, he wasn't hurting them.
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They were there of a invitation and relationship with the Lord in a form in which humans could actually perceive him and not combust into flames or ashes.
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Now it says here, the word, the pavement, the word for pavement, the pavement of sapphire. Attached to the meaning of that word in Hebrew are the connotations of whiteness, of transparency,
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I was standing on a translucent surface or platform. His holiness and his light were just radiating forth at this time.
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There's another occasion when Moses sees him and actually has to go for his face and and and even look away. There's one point he he can't even look at him. He's just that holy and that perfect and that good.
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ah Another instance where Moses spends so much time in his presence that he begins shining this radiant light out of his face. um And when we are in the world of heaven and we're just immersed in the life light of Jesus, it will be shining out of us.
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And even on the earth today, perhaps less obviously, in the spirit, in the soul, the light of Jesus does shine forth. And it changes us.
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It renews us. It renews our thinking, renews our minds, renews how we feel about things. It renews our opinions. And as we go forth in obedience to him and we say what he would have us say and we do he would have us do and we stop what he hates, we're going to see Holy Spirit fruit and it changes the atmosphere.
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it changes the spiritual aroma of a room. And other people might not know what is instinctively, but they will know that there's something different about you. They'll know that you carry something.
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that they want. Now it might irk them to an extent, might irk the demons within them, but they'll know that there's something about you that they crave, that they desire in their own life and in their own world.
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Okay, let's jump forward a little bit now to another encounter that Moses has with the Lord. This is Exodus chapter 33.
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Exodus chapter 33. We're
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gonna look at three different storylines here. From different epochs, different eras, different centuries. But somehow, they all happened at exactly the same time.
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going to go with time travel mode. Science fiction is spiritual reality. So fasten your seatbelts for this one.
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Exodus 33. Let's start verse 12.
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Moses said to the Lord, and I was talking to him face to face, so he was talking to Jesus. You've been telling me, lead these people, but you've not let me know whom you'll send with me.
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Now, on some level, he he knows that God is one God, but there are multiple people here, or multiple persons, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. He's probably trying to work this out in his head.
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You have said, know you by name, and you have found favor with me. Well, if you are pleased with me, teach me your ways, so I may know you and continue to find favor with you.
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What a prayer. Wow. That's one to add to your own prayer list, people. Remember that this nation is your people. The Lord replied, My presence will go with you, and I'll give you rest.
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And my presence is the person of Jesus. Then Moses said to him, If your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.
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So if he's not leading, we ain't going. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us?
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What
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else will distinguish me and your people from all your people on the face of the earth? That is very, very true.
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And the Lord said to Moses, I will do the very thing you've asked because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.
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Then Moses said, Now show me your glory. And the Lord said, i will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I'll proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence.
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I'll have mercy in whom I will have mercy, and I'll have compassion in whom I have compassion. But, he said, this instance, you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.
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Then the Lord said, there is a place near me where you may stand the rock, When my glory passes by, i will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I pass by.
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Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen. In this instance, he was coming in such an intense manifestation of his glory that he actually had to conceal his own face.
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That's how potent and powerful and phenomenal this encounter and interaction Moses was going to be.
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Alright, this story happens on Mount Harub, also called Mount Sinai, the Mountain of God.
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So Moses really wants that divine encounter, and the Lord is only too happy to engage in with him and say, yes, okay, whatever you ask, let's do it.
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Now let's go forward. to story two, which is related to this, but you don't really know that until the New Testament. This story seems unrelated.
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It is related. Let's go forward. Now look at 1 Kings chapter chapter 19. first kings chapter nineteen
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And with 1 Kings chapter 19, look at verse 9.
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1 Kings 19, 9. nine
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So for context, this story happens in the natural centuries later. In this story, the prophet is not Moses. Moses is long dead.
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The prophet is Elijah.
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By this stage, the Hebrews, the Israelites, are living in the Promised Land. Where the Promised Land has been hijacked by an evil king and queen. The king is called Ahab. His wife is Queen Jezebel.
Promise of Eternal Life through Jesus
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If one know what they were like, just picture Bill and Hillary Clinton. Where he was a wicked, evil king, but she wore the trousers in the relationship and everybody knew it.
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So Elijah had really embarrassed Queen Jezebel and all of her media news anchors, all of her false prophets. So she decided to send a messenger to him and say, oh Elijah, Queen Jezebel is going to have your head. You're a dead man.
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crap. Nonsense. If she had wanted him dead, she would have sent an assassin. Instead, she sent a messenger. They had mind games with him. But the mind games were sufficient, and he ran away.
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Let's see what happens next. Verse 9. There Elijah went into a cave and spent the night. Whereas there it's Mount Hormon, Mount Sinai, the same mountain that Moses was at centuries earlier.
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And the word of the Lord came to him. What are you doing here, Elijah? Now the word of the Lord, think of John chapter 1. In the beginning was the word, and the word was of God, and the word was God. It's the word of God.
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This is the manifestation of Jesus. He replied, I've been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty, for God of the angel armies. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, again, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to debt with the sword.
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I'm the only one left, and now they're trying to kill me too. Okay, that is something he thinks is true, not something that actually is correct, regarding I'm the only one left.
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And he said that they're trying to kill him. Again, she could have sent an assassin. She just sent a messenger. The Lord said, go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.
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Now, sometimes we have this joyful expectation that God's to do something. And then we tag out. Because before God moves, the enemy comes along and tries to steal our awe.
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Instead of, God is awesome, you say, life is awful. Tries steal your awe. Tries to steal your sense of wonder. Tries to steal your sense of stepping into God reality and not settling for less. So look at this.
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Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind.
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So you basically have a hurricane, a tornado, a typhoon, and it's so powerful, the mountain is being shattered. There's a spirit in the mountain, all right. Or at least in the and the wind attacking the mountain, but it's not the spirit of God.
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It's demonic counterfeit.
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After the wind, there was an earthquake. But the Lord was not in the earthquake. Why did specify that he wasn't in the earthquake? Because there were spirits in it, demonic spirits, but not God.
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After the earth's e earthquake came a fire. But the Lord was not in the fire. It's not a supernatural fire. This is just an absolute, unbelievable, supernatural maelstrom.
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And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face, again, hiding his face, just like happened with Moses.
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And went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, what are you doing here, Elijah? He replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. Same thing he said before.
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The Israelites have,
Faith in Jesus' Power and Hope
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okay, he he's just, you know when someone's going through a hard day and they just can't get over their offense, theirre their their pain, their trauma, their issue, and they're just recycling to everybody that they talk to? That's what's happening right now.
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The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, put your prophets to death, the sword. I'm the only one left, and they're trying to kill me too. The Lord said to him, go back the way you came, yadda yadda yadda, gave instructions, and he followed them.
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So here you've got two different stories. One is from Moses. On Mount Harub, Mount Sinai, he wants to see the Lord's glory. But on this occasion...
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He's not allowed to look at the face. Centuries pass, and you've got Elijah, who's been going through really tough few days.
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He was on such a mountaintop moment, and now he's in a valley moment. He was living it up, tearing down the evil altars and and prophets and prophetesses of evil Queen Jezebel, and now he's terrified for his life.
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And demons are afflicting him on that same mountain, trying to steal his awe, his sense of wonder, how to terrify him. But then the Lord comes in that still small voice, but again, he's not allowed to look.
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Now let's put all these stories together and see Jesus in these stories. Go forward now to the New Testament, to the book of Matthew, chapter 17. Matthew, chapter 17.
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And in Matthew chapter 17, let's look at verse 1.
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After six days, Jesus took with him his three favourite, closest, most intimate disciples, Peter, James and John, the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
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A mountain that we now call Mount of Transfiguration. There he was transfigured before them, transformed before them. His face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as the light.
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Just then there appeared before them, look now, Moses and Elijah talking with Jesus.
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The two men were both on Mount Sinai and Mount Horeb, who both spoke the Lord, Neither of them would look at him directly that day because he was shining so brightly, so intensely, they couldn't look.
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And now it's happening a third time. How?
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There is no time or space in the spirit realm. We live in it in a dimension called time and space. Do we have time? Yes, we all have watches.
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our clocks and our computers and our laptops. Is there space? Yes, we have centimeters, we've got meters, we've inches, we've got feet. In the spirit realm, there are places, but there's no space. It's very elastic.
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A space can be as big as it needs to be. If you're in a room just by yourself, it's just you and your two guardian angels, okay, fair enough. If one of your Christian friends comes to visit, and they also have, like you know, two guardian angels, the room in the spirit realm
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will swell to encapsulate the size of their wings and whatever else. So it's lot more elastic, it's stretchier, it's more flexible. There are moments in the spirit realm, but there's no time.
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They don't grade things, you know, second by second by second, and hour by hour, and week by week, as we do. So in this scenario, in the physical realm, you've got Moses in his time on that mountain, talking to the Lord, who's a supernatural being,
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Simultaneously, I'll use this one, you've got Elijah, centuries later, on the same mountain, speaking to the Lord in a very interestingly similar way.
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And then 2,000 years ago for us, centuries later for both of them, You've got Jesus on the moment of transfiguration speaking back into the spirit realm to both of them.
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So you've got two, three different time streams, Exodus, First Kings, and Matthew. But in a wibbly wobbly, tiny whiny stuff way, the three of them are actually happening at the same time.
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I know someone who had a dream once And in the dream, she her son was driving along a motorway. And he was up on a bridge, and then down below there were more cars.
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And next thing, his car went over the edge and crashed, and he died. In in the dream.
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She woke up, absolutely terrified, panicking. It had felt so real. So she prayed. And she said, protect my son, may nothing bad happen to may no plans for the enemy prevail.
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The next day, he was driving along the motorway, and next thing, his car went overhead over the edge. A hand, and other road users saw this, a hand picked up the car before it fell the ground, put him back on the road, and then the hand just disappeared. The hand God.
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And other road users all pulled up and were oh my goodness, this is amazing. like ah And he called his and was like, you'll never guess what just happened.
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In the dream, she was shown a future timeline, the enemy's plan. But she prayed into the spirit realm. And then the plan of the enemy got sabotaged in real time.
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Or there's a prophet that I follow Alabama named Robin D. Bullock. He's a wild prophet, but I love him. He's great. And he says, was right in his now, early 70s, and he said that he was a child. He was running across a field one day beside a big tree.
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And he just heard someone say, Robin, Robin. So he thought it was his cousin and was like, you know, what, here I am And no one spoke back.
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Decades passed. Decades and decades. And then one day he was walking along that area and saw the tree and just goes, God, what was that? Who was that? Because he asked his cousin later and the cousin said, that wasn't me.
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He said, what was going on there? And Lord asked him, well, what did you hear? So he repeats, well, Lord, I heard. Robin, Robin.
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And God said, yeah, that's what it was. Where you can speak into the spirit realm. And in this case, future Robin, his voice went all the way back in the spirit realm to lead his past self to that moment.
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God's a supernatural God. It's amazing. It's incredible. But here you have an instance of Jesus time traveling. Speaking to Moses. 1,500 years or so before Mary got pregnant.
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speaking to Elijah centuries and centuries before Mary got pregnant and then Jesus as a grown man speaking to both of them in the past.
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He can do anything. If there is a report from the doctor that you are waiting on or you got one that you don't like,
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And you just think, God, it's too late. I'm screwed.
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Our Jesus can literally travel through time and speak through time. Let me tell you this. It is not over until he says it's over.
Preview: Tent of Meeting and Symbolism
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If it is someone in your family, a relationship that you're praying gets restored and resolved, and...
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They only ever get further away from Jesus, and every week they seem to hate you more and more and love you less and less. It is not over until Jesus says it's over. And that's not the kind of thing he would tell you is over. That's the kind of thing he will you know fight to restore and protect.
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If you wanted to get something out of your heart, make something wonderful for Jesus, and it just blew up in your face, it fell apart, every time you tried to get it off the ground, it's come crashing down and again.
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It is not over unless Jesus himself says it's over. He can change everything in a day. He can literally change time. he can literally speak backwards through the centuries and millennia to people in the past.
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His voice can time and travel. How much more can he do for you? So this is me imploring you not to give up Whatever it is that's on your heart. Whatever it is that you are relying on Whatever you're praying for.
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If you've reached the point where you prayed so much you're embarrassed to pray any anymore. Then you definitely need pray. And don't give up.
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And don't give in. Because he is always absolutely good. And he is always more than powerful. Always more than sufficient.
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Okay, we're not going to look at Leviticus today. Leviticus has a lot of information on the priest class, and there are a lot of descriptions in late Exodus and Leviticus and the likes on the Tent of Meeting, the Tabernacle. We're going to look at all that next week, okay? um That would be a Tent of Meeting, a place where they would go to worship the Lord and the furnishings, the furniture, and the the decorations in there were all very, very important. So we're not going to look too much at the inner workings of the Tent of Meeting. I'm going to give ah that room to breathe next week.
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But we'll just look at small, just couple things. Go to Leviticus chapter 16. Leviticus chapter 16. We'll just look at it ever so briefly.
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Okay, so it's Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus.
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And in Leviticus, look at verse 26. It says, the man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water.
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Afterwards, he may come into the camp. The bull and the goats for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the most holy place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp.
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Their hides, flesh and offal are to be burned up. The man who burned them up was must wash his clothes and bathe himself at water. Afterwards, he may come into the camp.
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Now you might be thinking to yourself, what the heck is happening there? This is basically where we get the phrase, scapegoat.
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What's a scapegoat? A scapegoat is if you do something naughty, or you do something illegal, but someone else gets the blame. Someone else takes responsibility, they're your scapegoat.
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In Leviticus... The priest's job was to take a goat, and that goat would run away into wilderness.
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And it was a picture of their sin being borne away into the wilderness, the sin of the people. This would happen once a year, only the high priest would initiate it.
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And here you have a picture of the animals being burned outside of the camp. And their innards being totally and utterly burned up in the lakes.
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A pretty gruesome image. You did not want to be livestock if you were to live in the days of the Old Testament. But this is a picture of Jesus.
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It's not the same as the physical Jesus stepping in, but it's a picture of Jesus. where he would be taken outside the camp, outside the city, onto Calvary, onto Golgotha, the place of the skull.
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And if you look at photographs of it on Google Images, it literally looks like a skull. You can see like two eyes and big gaping mouth. And Jesus is the High Priest of Father God.
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Lucifer, before he became the devil, was the high priest of Jesus. Jesus, called Melchizedek, was the high priest of Father God. And Jesus would take our sins away.
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Forever for and ever. Just like that scapegoat was running away with the sins of the people. as um as a picture, you know, metaphorically. Jesus took every single ounce of human wickedness on himself. Mental wickedness.
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Emotional, verbal, physical, spiritual, you name it, he took it. And he took the effects and consequences of it too.
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The soul wounds, the agony, the trauma, the pain, the hurt, the shame, the fear,
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The dis-ease, the lack of ease, when you have no peace in yourself. That grippling paranoia of what if I get caught out? What if people turn to me? What if they say this? What if they do that?
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And with it, every sickness and every disease, every pain, every affliction, because they all got in this world was sinful state... He took absolutely all of that himself. He is the real life scapegoat.
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The difference is, the Israelites had to do this on the Day of Atonement. They had to do it once a year. It's different for us. Jesus did it once and for all time.
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Never to be repeated, he is the once and for all time perfect sacrifice on our behalf. Jesus is scapegoat, and we are the ones who get by Scott free, because he wills it.
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to show another picture of Jesus, not the 3D Jesus, but a picture of Jesus. And this is in the book of Numbers, chapter two.
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Numbers, chapter two. So Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. Now, if you start scrolling down through Numbers 2, you will probably think, Brendan, that's the wrong chapter. If it looks wrong, it is correct. If it looks wrong, it is right.
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It's the arrangement of the tribal camps. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, the Israelites are to meet around the tent of meeting. They're to camp around the tent of meeting. That's the intersection point. That's the middle.
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That's the crux.
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Some distance from it, each man under his standard with the banner of his family. On the east, toward the sunrise, the divisions of the camp of Judah are to encamp under their standard.
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Judah is actually the tribe that Jesus would come from. Their symbol was a lion. One of Jesus' names is the lion of the tribe of Judah.
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From that verse down to verse 9, all of that describes the East.
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From verse 10 down to verse 16, other tribes were told to camp in the South. So now we've got the East, we've got the South. Verse 17, reaffirm, the Tent of Meeting is in the middle.
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Then verse 18 to 24 talks about all the other camps which are on the west hand side. The west.
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And verse 25 to 31 talks about other tribes in the north. So you have a perfect picture of the cross.
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The tent of meeting Jesus Christ, the intersection, the mediator between people and God and people with other people. He is the tent of meeting. He is our meeting point.
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He is our unifying point. And then in the north, you start with Judah. Praise. Judah is the tribe Jesus came from. He is at the start of it all.
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And then you have more least on the more in the south, more in the west. It's a picture of the cross. So when they were out marching, thera marching for Lord, they were walking in a symbol and sign of the cross.
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Their victory, they didn't even know what they were doing, they know the significance of it. They marched as a battalion in the shape of the crucifix on Mount Golgotha, the place of the skull.
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All right, we'll just look at two more because I know it's getting close to half past nine.
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Let's stay in Numbers and let's go forward to Numbers 19 verses one to three. Numbers chapter 19 verse one to three.
01:10:30
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And again, this is another picture of Jesus. Not a story in which he features, but a picture that at the time they probably thought was weird or strange or crazy and it didn't make a lot of sense to them.
01:10:45
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But now we can see Christ in it.
01:10:50
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Numbers 19 verse 1 to 3 says, the Lord said to Moses and Darren, This is a requirement of the law that the Lord has commanded.
01:11:03
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Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer, a red cow, without defects or blemish. has to be perfect. And that has never been under a yoke.
01:11:16
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It has never been under the yoke of sin, the entrapment or slavery of sin. It's always been free. It's perfect. Give it to Eleazar the priest.
01:11:27
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It is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. Again, of a picture of Christ.
01:11:39
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A red heifer. Well, red is the colour of Jesus' blood.
01:11:47
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He was to be taken outside the camp and the cow was to be sacrificed. Jesus was to be taken outside the city gate, and crucified on behalf of all of us.
01:12:03
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The bull, or the the cow, the heifer, was to be perfect, spotless, without blemish. And Jesus was totally sinless and perfect, without blemish. He says in John 14, 30, Satan, the prince of this world, is coming.
01:12:25
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But he has no power over me, no, no, no, no. Because he has nothing in common with me.
01:12:32
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So in the same way that this cow was being sacrificed on behalf of the nation, Jesus was sacrificed on behalf of every person who had lived before him, every person who was on the earth when he was, and every person who has been since.
01:12:54
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since
01:12:57
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And every person who will ever be born up until the Godot point.
01:13:05
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All right, i will do one final and chapter. And this is Numbers chapter 21. Numbers chapter 21.
01:13:20
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And look at verses 4 9. Verses 4 9. nine verse four to nine
01:13:28
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Numbers 21 verses 4 to 9.
01:13:33
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The Hebrews are still in the wilderness. They stayed there for 40 years. And that's just because they refused to live the Promised Land.
01:13:42
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They travelled from Mount Thor along the route to the Red Sea to go around edom But the people grew impatient on the way. A major stronghold that actually stops people from being free.
01:14:01
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They will not trust the process. They will not trust God's timing. They want to be somewhere where they think they deserve to be. want to be somewhere in competition with where other people are.
01:14:14
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want to be somewhere and without letting the Lord refine them and perfect them and take out their soul issues and the soul dirt and the filth and the gunk. They have this sense of entitlement. Well, I should be wherever I want to be and I don't need to change. And who's God to tell me to change?
01:14:31
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Impatient.
01:14:34
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They spoke against God and against Moses and said... Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There's no bread and there's no water. So they're complaining about the last couple chapters we looked at, okay?
01:14:49
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They're still offended over Exodus 6. They're still offended over Exodus 7. And we detest this miserable food. now they're getting food from heaven and they're not happy with that either.
01:15:01
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Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them. They bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you.
01:15:15
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Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us. So Moses prayed for the people. It's not easy to pray for people who want you dead, but he did it. The Lord said to Moses, Make a snake and put it up on a pole.
01:15:32
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Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live. So Moses made a bronze snake. Bronze has a reddish tint. It's very intentional.
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And puts it on a pole. Then when an anyone was bitten by a snake and looked the bronze snake, he lived. So they're being punished for their transgressions.
01:15:56
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They said the wrong thing, they did the wrong thing, they wanted to act out in wickedness. So the Lord punished them. One, because they deserved it, and two, it probably helped prolong Moses' life.
01:16:09
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And then the Lord said, okay, out of bronze, make a snake, put on a pole, lift it up. And again, bronze has a reddish colour, and anyone who looks in it will not perish, they will not die, they're going survive, going to live.
01:16:27
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Jesus actually explains this story himself in John chapter 3. three In John chapter 3, in the middle of the night, a priest named Nicodemus came to visit him.
01:16:46
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Why, at night time, well, he was probably too afraid about anyone seeing him during the day.
01:16:53
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And it says, John 3. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, Rabbi, meaning teacher, we know you are a teacher has come from God.
01:17:11
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i think some of the Pharisees would disagree. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you're doing if God wasn't with him. Now here's the only thing about calling Jesus a teacher.
01:17:23
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he might actually teach you something. In reply, Jesus declared, I tell you the truth. I think Jesus said that over 40 times, i tell you the truth. No one else in the Bible comes out with this half as much as Jesus does.
01:17:39
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No one can see the kingdom of God unless he's born again. Now the kingdom of God here is not heaven. They had no expectation of going to heaven. No one went to heaven until after the cross.
01:17:50
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Apart from Enoch and Elijah, they were raptured. The kingdom of God in Jesus' day, people were anticipating the physical kingdom of God would last a thousand years being put on the earth. That's he's prophesying.
01:18:04
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How can a man be born when he's old? Nicodemus asked. A fair question. Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born. i would agree.
01:18:17
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Jesus declared, I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he's born of water the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
01:18:28
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You should not be surprised at my saying, you must be born again. the wind blows wherever it pleases, you hear its sound, but you can't tell where comes from or where it's going.
01:18:39
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So it is with everyone born of Holy Spirit. How can this be? Nicodemus asked. Israel's teacher said Jesus and you don't understand these things natural and spiritual things are you messing having a laugh I tell you the truth we speak of what we know and we testify to what we've seen but still you people do not accept our testimony the religious Pharisees and the nation of Israel as a whole I've spoken to you of earthly things and you don't believe how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things
01:19:17
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No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven, the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, here it is, verse 14, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
01:19:37
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So Moses lifted up a bronze or red serpent, and the serpent was not only the serpents that were biting the people, The most famous serpent in the Bible is the one from Genesis chapter 3, who enticed Eve and then Adam to eat the forbidden fruit in the first place.
01:19:57
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It's a picture of sin. It's a picture of what hurts you. It's a picture of what is killing you. It's a picture of your shame. It's a picture of your failure. It's a picture of your disgrace. And he hangs it on up.
01:20:12
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And Jesus is saying, I am the Son of Man. I will be hung up on a pole. I'll be hung up on a tree. A wooden pole. And I will take on myself all the sh- all the shame.
01:20:29
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All the fear. All the times you got it wrong. All the times you deserved to be bitten by a snake. All the times you said something wicked.
01:20:42
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Every lie every deception, every rape. every murder, every act of torture, every and of every instance of stealing, killing, destroying, absolutely all of it was put on Jesus.
01:21:01
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Moses held up a picture of the devil.
01:21:04
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And Jesus was saying, because humans, you know, they were in agreement with the devil, they were responsible for what they did. And Jesus said, everything you've done that was of the devil and not of God will supernaturally be put on me.
01:21:23
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The word tells us Jesus became sin for us. i grew up hearing, you know, um Lama Sabachthani, why have you forsaken me? And Father God is so heartbroken, he couldn't look at Jesus, because no parent can see their child in pain.
01:21:45
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it sounded cute. Until you consider Mary could look at her son in pain. The reason God couldn't look is because the totality of human evil, filth, and scum was put on Jesus all at once.
01:22:06
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The totality of human suffering and agony, shame, fear, regret, remorse, no remorse for wickedness.
01:22:19
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All of it was put on him in that instant, on that cross. And Father God couldn't work. It was so wicked, so vile, so disgusting.
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But he did that for us.
01:22:36
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And he was punished by God, so we would not have to be. He endured the full wrath of God, so no one else would ever have to.
01:22:50
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Verse 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but of a eternal a life.
01:23:03
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For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned.
01:23:15
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But whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. You're not guilty for what you do. You're guilty for what you don't do. You're guilty for not accepting Jesus.
01:23:32
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This is the verdict. Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds are evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light and will not come into the light for fear his deeds will be exposed.
01:23:51
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And in these days of the yeah the Epstein files, it's all getting exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light. so that it may be seen clearly that what is done has been done through God.
01:24:10
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And we, of the body of Christ, are citizens of the kingdom of light, um in which we are to dismantle the operations of darkness and reconcile those who are kept in the darkness into his glorious light.
01:24:30
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There is a lot more I could say on Moses. The number of instances and experiences he had with the literal Jesus face-to-face, the conversation they had, are numerous and they are vast. um I have a lot more of those included in the Bible teaching, which costs 10 euros. Just let me know it'll get it to you.
01:24:52
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But a next week we're going to finish off with Moses and we're going to look specifically at Jesus' instructions for the Tent of Meeting.
01:25:03
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um the bronze altar, i that the sea, the altar, the different furnishings, and lamps, all these kinds of things, and curtains, different threads, white is this colour and not that colour.
01:25:18
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And we're going to look at the symbolism of these. These are things in Exodus and Leviticus that most Christians avoid reading. They say it's boring, it's too heavy, they have no interest in art or design.
01:25:32
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so they kind of just like skip pages and pages and chapters of the Bible and chunks and books at a time. They just say it's boring, they' have no interest. The Lord was very interested in it.
01:25:44
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It's full of powerful pictures that all point the way to Jesus. So we're going to explore that this day, next week. And I think you're appreciation for the more tedious parts of Exodus and Leviticus is going to go, it's going to skyrocket.
Audience Reflections and Speaker's Closing
01:26:04
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At least if I'm doing my job right, it will. So guys, just before you finish off for today, are there any comments or queries or questions on any of that? Because I know there was a lot in that one.
01:26:20
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Thank you. Very detailed and
01:26:27
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I'd like to check in. Yeah, amen. Bless you, Brendan. Thank you, baby. Thank you. Thank you for making that association of time travel. Amen. Because it was... Yeah, it does make a lot of sense.
01:26:42
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I assumed that was one most people had not heard of before. and But, yeah, the similarities between those two stories.
01:26:54
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There are two... They're too close and too interconnected not to be significant. What a lot of people do is they just say, oh, the two witnesses, the book of Revelation are Elijah and Moses because Jesus spoke to them once.
01:27:13
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Now, all men are appointed to die for their sin. And currently Enoch and Elijah are the only two who haven't. So they do have to come back to the earth and and die a mortal death before their resurrection.
01:27:29
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and But the reason that for the men transfiguration that Jesus spoke to, Moses and Elijah, people with all these different mad notions and explanations, whatever. But it's because in Exodus and 1 Kings, he had already done it.
01:27:46
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So for them, it was happening in real time, but he came in his glory, in his supernatural body. But it's only in Matthew 17 that you actually see him turn on the light bulb, turn on that supernatural, radiant, phenomenal body, and then he projects himself back through the timeline.
01:28:08
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In two different instances, simultaneously. How can you have two conversations at once with two different people? Because the voice of God is the voice of many waters.
01:28:21
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If we were and weird in worship, for instance, someone one might be like, oh, I get this overwhelming sense of the Lord's peace. At the same time, someone will say, wow, God just told me that my brother will come to know Jesus.
01:28:37
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Someone else might say, God told me that I will get pregnant. Someone else might say, God told me to stop wasting my money on lottery tickets. It's never going to happen. Four different people, one time, the voice of many waters.
01:28:51
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He can say whatever wants, whatever he wants, and still have a full-on, fully-fledged conversation with all of them, individually. Same with Jesus. but Do you think he did it kind of like for them to realize? Because obviously they they would have known the stories of Moses and and Elijah back then.
01:29:13
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you think that's why they that's why he did it, to show like... The same guy. I'm the same guy who who spoke to them. I'm the same dude. 100%. Because the reality is what we're looking at right now.
01:29:29
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i'm trying to make it as simple and and accessible as I can. But I have never heard anyone teach a series like this.
01:29:40
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Looking through the Old Testament saying, there's Jesus. There he is again. There he again, one chapter later. Oh, that's also Jesus. Different name. Same guy.
01:29:54
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He ascended to heaven almost two millennia ago. And even now, people are still reading the word like, oh, gosh. Oh, didn't know that. Oh, look at that. It's still probably, after 2000 years, this is new to so many of us.
01:30:08
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It was the same back then. There would have had and and understanding of the stories to extent. But the idea, let's say, that there's a Father and there's a Son, there's a Holy Spirit, and which is which, and when is it one, when is it the other?
01:30:23
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We sometimes assume that people just knew everything better back then. But they were still people. And they were sitting under the teaching of, like, the Pharisees.
01:30:34
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The Sanhedrin, the chief priests, who would look at Jesus and say, crucify him, crucify him! So obviously they weren't very good at their job. So they would have had blind spots. There would have been certain things in the Word that they just would not have been able to piece together or articulate. There would have been certain things where they would have had an idea, but maybe not been able to fully articulate it with the full revelation in sight.
01:31:02
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So yeah, this was a wonderful experience with Jesus. And he only took three. He didn't take 12. He just took three of them. And all of a sudden, they were probably sitting there thinking, one what is happening to maybe beginning to think those guys are dead so what's happening and when is this happening is this happening in the past is this happen is this it what's gone the degree to which they actually would be able to articulate it all straight away we're not entirely sure i would say it was progressive revelation i'd say as the years went on they would think about different things he said and did and go oh of course
01:31:44
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Obviously. Oh, that makes sense. um So he did it to teach them. To what extent they learned in real time isn't clear. Because Peter's takeaway was, Lloyd, it's great that we should see this. Shall we build them an altar?
01:32:02
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So he obviously got the wrong message from the whole thing. What James and John perceived? As anyone's guess.
01:32:13
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Got it. Yeah, was going to ask you about the tabernacle because i have the King James and the King James says, should we build a tabernacle? i like I'm pretty sure the tabernacle is a shelter. Why would they build why would they build a shelter?
01:32:28
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and Now that you put it as an altar, and like yeah, it makes a little bit more sense as an altar. Yeah, we see even if they want they wanted to build... a replica a tabernacle or a picture of a tabernacle, effectively it would have it would still have been like an altar in their own minds. It would have been giving worship or praise just to God's servants rather than to God himself.
01:32:53
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Yeah. Because a tabernacle is just a dwelling place. Like, we're told that Jesus dwelt among us in John 1, but it is Jesus tabernacled among us. i Literally.
01:33:03
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and So it's just about... saying I believe he he did it in the hope that they would connect the dots with the whole time travel thing. a I think we can safely say Peter did not... He had a lot of great qualities, he did.
01:33:21
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think it's clear to say he did not take the right lesson from it there and then. um James and John? Probably not.
01:33:32
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But with time... they could have revisited these moments and said, oh, that makes sense. Oh, I wonder if or oh, well, this happened. and This happened.
01:33:43
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Is it possible that these two things happen? I'd say as time went on, they reframed it all, you know? Yeah. Brilliant. Thank you very much, Brendan. You're so welcome. Also, what is your Bible version?
01:34:00
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So this is the NIV, the first Bible I ever owned. The one with the Christmas tape. The Christmas sellotape. Exactly. It's held together by, yes, Merry Christmas. Yes.
01:34:17
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And then the inside of it is also falling apart. Some people would say that's very disrespectful. I say it's a sign of a well-read Bible. and and But I do like looking at different translations and if something just looks very strange I do like turn to Hebrew or the Greek especially through the Bible Hub web page. They're very very good at breaking down the individual words and um
01:34:48
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You know, it's great that we have so many Bible translators in the world. Of course it is. a Sometimes their interpretations are just a bit flat unimmaginative and Whereas the actual Hebrew or Greek word can have 10 or 15 connotations rather than just the the one.
01:35:07
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um But I like the amplified version as well. It's a very dynamic one. I like the Berean Study Bible.
01:35:20
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um They give some really interesting insights. how and Let's say the word Sabbath, for instance, in the Easter story.
01:35:31
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um there's There is one passage where it doesn't say Sabbath. says after the Sabbaths. It says in the plural.
01:35:42
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and Because... That was a high Sabbath, you had a Passover feast, then you had a day off, and then you had your normal Sabbath. So that's very good at sometimes exposing nuances when something's singular when something's plural.
01:35:57
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So all the translations will have something to offer, but I think the Berean one is is very, very good. The Amplified, very dynamic. But I do have a...
01:36:11
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Special place in my heart for this one in particular. Brilliant. Thank you, Brandon. You're welcome. You're welcome. I'll see in the chat box, Sophia.
01:36:21
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Can you repost the recording? Yes, exactly, Sophia. After the lesson, okay, I and upload this on YouTube and then I put in the WhatsApp chat afterwards so you'll be able to see it there, okay?
01:36:35
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I guess we'd like to share some stuff that came to the heart Yeah, we hear perfectly. Yeah, that's something that made me
01:36:50
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completely sometimes speechless, but I talk deeply to the too deep, about the sacrifice of Jesus, because sometimes I think to myself, no, why that, God?
01:37:06
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Why? I pay himself all my transgressions. It doesn't have to... Why, what's the point in making somebody who has nothing to do with my fault, my sins, suffer too much because of me?
01:37:25
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I would like to be myself. You still couldn't have been so. An innocent man suffering for me. And then I kind of start imagining God talking to me.
01:37:40
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Do you think that you are able to deserve such a great stuff that is eternal life?
01:37:52
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you think that you can do this story to you and deserve such ah a great thing? And all the humanity, they can pay themselves for all the things that all the humanity They have from me and choose. this They all chose what is an abomination, that sin and death.
01:38:16
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That is horrible.
Eternal Punishment and Salvation's Burden
01:38:18
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That's horrible, the end of life and then the eternal punishment. you
01:38:34
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Nobody can do anything to save himself. Even if you want that too much, nobody is able to deserve that. Even if you carry cross and hang yourself, that's not going to buy anything in order to save yourself.
01:38:54
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it's not It's not going to be fair enough to save yourself. And the only option is The only option is somebody who is perfect and never committed not a sin, suffered that.
Understanding Suffering and Divine Plan
01:39:12
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And I just
01:39:25
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Why? Because that wasn't a theater. That was a mathematical stuff. It was... evil serfs punishment that nothing can escape the eyes of God.
01:39:40
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God terrible and not only the sacrifice, all the things that happens cannot even imagine and just God, we started to think and
01:40:09
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man remembering just the lesson about God. God, why? Why? Why? And God kind of answered, when I made the mountain, you were there?
01:40:23
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No. When I made the sea, the deepest place on the sea, when I did When I made the galaxies, where were you?
01:40:35
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Of course you were not dead.
Blessings in Suffering and Promise of Resurrection
01:40:37
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So this is too hard for you to understand why everything bad is happening in the world.
01:40:48
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But just rejoice. Because everything is going to happen then.
01:40:57
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And the work is made. And the promise. It's fulfilled. And it's just for a short time, just for short time, all the bad things will continue happening.
01:41:12
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And the even those who suffered all these bad things, they are called blessed. Blessed are those who cry. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of my name.
01:41:25
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All the blessings. Blessed are those who are thirsty for justice. We have loads of lamentations and sorrows of every kind in this world.
01:41:51
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That sacrifice and that God alone, because He knows that He would lead to death, He would raise again.
From Suffering to Eternal Joy through Jesus
01:42:01
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God knew that the come to life again.
01:42:15
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But God did not allow the sacrifice. But I guess, God, that's too much. What should I do to...
01:42:28
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ah to the
01:42:33
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to live up to these, no, there is nothing. You are
01:42:46
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You are forgiving and adverse.
01:42:50
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You are forgiving and adverse. And then, that's way that you said,
01:43:03
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You live forever in the body. No more suffering, no more suffering, no more...
Human Righteousness and Christ's Sacrifice
01:43:13
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You
01:43:30
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Jesus died for the end as well. We don't know. We don't know. But just bring me some thoughts
01:43:43
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and also some happiness because we know that after that, you leave one year and then a hundred years and then one million years and then one million years again.
01:43:58
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and again and again and again and again and again and again and again billion years again and again again.
01:44:09
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you take if This exist and doesn't exist nothing.
01:44:29
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Everything always existed. We were all without us, but because we didn't exist.
01:44:40
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Just gratitude for all this work. More than a child's birth would not
01:44:53
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make it up to God. thank to god
01:44:58
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Thank you so much for sharing that, Luciana. Amen. Amen. And sometimes we just... Everything in the Word of God is important, of course it is. But sometimes we get so fixated on everything else that we just need to be reminded of the power of the cross and the empty grave and that our righteous works aside from Jesus, are as good as filthy rags.
01:45:32
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A filthy rag in Jeremiah is literally rag that was used, I'm going to use a sock as example, to mop up period blood.
01:45:44
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After a woman's month, time of the month, that's what a filthy rag is. Your rag is as good, your good works are as good as a rag covered in blood. Wasteful.
01:45:56
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Useless. Your Adam and Eve's best work, when they were sinless, was as good as a filthy rag.
Earthly vs. Heavenly Citizenship
01:46:05
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Without Jesus, it is all absolutely meaningless.
01:46:12
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He's the only one who gives it any value, any worth. And we cannot add to the good work he did on the cross. We can only receive it and accept that new life is a gift.
01:46:25
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and then devote ourselves afterwards to the cause of Christ, where he is the Lord, he is the boss. Amen. And then Kitsie has a question here. Why do we not come back and go through the tribulation?
01:46:39
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Well, firstly, Kitsie, you don't want to. And secondly, it's because the body of Christ are not citizens of Israel. We're citizens of the world of heaven.
01:46:50
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So the nation of Israel were given a land covenant. They were promised the land. Adam and Eve, the early patriarchs, were promised the land to take dominion of the land.
01:47:05
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um During the Great Tribulation, most of those saints will come from Israel or Israel, an Israel-led evangelism. And so because Jesus comes back at the end of the tribulation to be the king of geographical Israel, to rule from Mount Zion over Jerusalem, over Israel, over the world, that's a physical kingdom.
01:47:30
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So they are resurrected into a physical kingdom. We are not citizens of a kingdom. We're citizens of heaven. So our resurrection is into the world of heaven. Okay?
01:47:41
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But I know that the the resurrections are taught incredibly badly in churches, or... They're not taught at all. They're avoided.
01:47:52
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and So we will do a series on the end times and at some point. Maybe it might be after I do the Jesus the Old Testament series, it might be the next series I do.
01:48:04
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Or I might have one before then. I'll make up my mind a bit later, but I'll do it relatively soon. Because it's something everyone has questions about, everyone has curiosity about, but I know it's been taught shockingly badly in a in congregations.
01:48:23
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So when we look at it properly and in detail, we'll give it all time to breathe. We'll maybe look at just a little bit every week, just fit bit, but but bit by but bit, bit, and give each part time to settle, time to to to rest so people's hearts.
01:48:39
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um bus ah yeah But yeah, for now, we are a heavenly people. We're citizens of heaven, the kingdom of light, the world of heaven. So our resurrection, our rapture is into that world. That's where we were made to live.
01:48:57
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All right, guys, thank you so much for your attention tonight.
Seriousness of Biblical Teaching
01:49:01
Speaker
Yeah. Anyone that because he was that good You're very welcome. You're very welcome. So guys, thank you for your contributions tonight. Thank you for and for joining. Thanks for the trust that you're putting in me to bring forth the Word of God. I do not take that lightly. um It's funny, when i was a child and a teenager, I thought, you know, I can teach the Bible better than anyone.
01:49:26
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Whereas the older I've gotten, the more I realise... I understand the weight of the word and not only because it's got 2200 pages and it's massive but when you carry the word you carry Christ in paper and ink form and I don't take that responsibility lightly.
01:49:50
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I don't take that burden lightly. um So I do appreciate the trust that you're all putting in to um sit it's under my teaching and to trust that I will let Holy Spirit speak through me and impart to you the knowledge, insight, revelation, understanding and wisdom he wants you to carry, to possess.
01:50:13
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And then yeah, much appreciated.
Bible Study Materials and Men's Conference
01:50:17
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As always guys, if you would like the Bible study version of the teaching, each one is about 20 pages long.
01:50:26
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They go into far more detail than I can cover in an hour and a half. They have gist questions, detailed questions, meditate on the word of God questions, questions, you know, for how you apply it to your own life, and then answer keys as well. Just let me know. They're 10 euros each.
01:50:47
Speaker
And... um We also have the men's conference coming up in Drew's townhouse. I know Luciana be there and be there. Looking really forward to that. um So ladies, let all the men in your world, and by men I mean 18 and over please. No 17 year olds and no children. 18 and over.
01:51:06
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and That is taking place the 8th to the 10th of May. It's a three day event. Friday is Saturday and Sunday. So please tell them to go on Eventbrite, type in OHM or Open House Ministries, Rise Men's Retreat, and to book their tickets for that.
Closing Blessings and Engagement Encouragement
01:51:26
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It's going to be such an awesome time of men getting together, sitting around the word, doing manly stuff like archery, kayaking, and um we'll have ministry time and deliverance and all that good stuff.
01:51:41
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Okay? So God bless each and every one of you. Have a beautiful night. Have sweet dreams with Jesus. And I'll catch you during the week. why God bless, friends. Bye-bye.