Brian Luke – I Have Set My Affection To The House Of My God – Class 5 – Princes And Priests In The House Of David

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We now have the privilege to
listen to our Brother Brian as

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he gives us the 1st and final of
the 5th and final session today

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entitled Princess and Priests in
the House of David.

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Brother Brian.
As you may have guessed, my dear

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and sisters, with the reading of
First Chronicles 26, we’re

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really going back one study and
the one about the priests and

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and principal officers we will
tuck into tomorrow morning.

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The first of Chronicles 26,
verses 1 to 19, you will notice

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is about the porters, concerning
the divisions of the porters.

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And in verse 19 it says these
are the divisions of the porters

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among the sons of Core and among
the sons of Murari.

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That’s the last session, you
know, And just on the way here

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today, Brother Ron said to me a
little joke.

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He said that when Rod Kent was
here last year, as he was about

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this distance away from the hall
as we’re driving on the car, he

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said, you know, Ron, he said,
you know what I’m looking

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forward to.
And Ron said to him, no, he said

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5:30.
And foolishly, I laughed.

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So you make some big mistakes in
life, don’t you?

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Well, we’re going to have the
temple built and we’ve got the

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priests that are going to be
ordered for that and, and the

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Levites that are going to be
about all that amazing amount of

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work that was involved.
And we’ve got our singers in

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place and those 288 boys grouped
into into 24 courses.

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And I’m sure that as a course of
priests came in, so a group of

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singers would come in with them.
And of course they rotated,

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didn’t they?
From time to time.

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It was these 24 courses.
Zechariah, father of Zechariah

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of John the Baptist, he was in
one of those courses.

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You remember how it says that in
Luke chapter 1.

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So they kept it up for a very
long period of time, didn’t

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they?
Right through to the days of

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Christ and, and to but beyond
that too, I’m sure.

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But the house does need
security, doesn’t it?

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There is the temple and it’s a
magnificent building and it’s

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the House of God and the Spirit
of God is dwelling in that

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house.
It really has to have security,

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doesn’t it?
It’s got to have someone that’s

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going to determine who’s going
to come in, who’s going to go

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out and how people are going to
behave.

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And when you just look at it
from the, the broad picture, you

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can see what the the doorkeepers
obviously had to do.

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That was their job.
They would keep the environment.

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Didn’t mean to say that somebody
else couldn’t help that

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environment, but it would mean
that upon them that

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responsibility rested.
Particularly who’s going to come

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in, how they’re going to behave
and how long they’re going to be

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there and who’s going to lock up
and so on.

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They’d have to have that any,
any home, any building, any

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factory, whatever it is, it’s
got to have some rules of

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administration, doesn’t it?
Somebody’s got to look after it

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and see.
Now public building like that

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obviously needed doorkeepers.
So who are we going to choose

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for that job?
Who would you choose?

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There were 4000 of them.
We remember that back in First

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Chronicles 23.
Four thousand of them were

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chosen.
They were going to obviously too

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create a a sense of welcome and
a sense of restraint.

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Just why you’ve got that chapter
open.

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Look at First Chronicles 26
verse 6 where it’s mentioning

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about these men.
Verse 6 Also unto Shem AI, his

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son was sons born that ruled
throughout the House of their

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father, for they were mighty men
of valor.

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Only noticed this last night
actually, but it keeps on

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mentioning that factor.
Verse 7, whose brethren were

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strong men?
Verse 8, their brethren able men

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for strength.
Verse 9, Michel Amaya had sons

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and brethren strong men.
Eighteen.

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It wasn’t much use, I suppose,
in those days of appointing

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someone who couldn’t illustrate
that he he had some degree of

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physical strength if there was
going to be trouble around the

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temple that he was prepared to
ensure.

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That he had.
A A shoulder that could make a

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person realise this wasn’t the
place for misconduct.

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That’s obviously an element that
they could apply some restraint

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perhaps by their very personage.
Israel grew up with a very

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distinct understanding of that.
Like you take the Jewish

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position in the days of Jesus,
there was what was called the

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middle wall of petition.
Remember that Paul refers to it

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in Ephesians chapter 2, and it
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something that was in the
temple.

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He says that Christ has pulled
down the middle wall of petition

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that was against us.
And he’s speaking about Jew and

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Gentile because in the temple
there was a middle wall of

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petition and a Gentile didn’t
dare go through into the court

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of the Israelites.
He would be in the court of the

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Gentiles.
And there’s a little placard

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that said that if a Gentile
should go past this, this gate,

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then he should be responsible
for the trouble that would

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ensue.
Nice welcome.

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And if you thought you were
welcome as a Gentile to be in

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the court of the Gentiles, then
you better conduct your, your,

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your, your worship among all the
animals, because that’s what

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they used it for.
That’s what Jesus cleared out.

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He cleared the whole lot out
because it was, it was taking

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the place of the Gentiles and
the simple that humble and blind

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and children, that’s where they
would probably come.

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But there wasn’t any place to
come unless you’re trampling

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among sheep and oxen and birds
and all sorts.

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Of things and money changers.
So they’re not only said you’re

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not welcome, but they shut out
their opportunities as well.

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So Israel grew up with a strong
concept that the house was for

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certain people in certain ways.
Look at Zechariah 14.

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That was wrong, but some of it
was right.

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Zechariah, 14.
Verse 21 Yeah, every pot in

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Jerusalem and in Judah shall be
holiness unto Yahweh of hosts,

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but all they that sacrifice
shall come and take of them, and

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see therein all they.
But in that day there shall be

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no more the Canaanite in the
House of Yahweh of hosts, the

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trader, which is exactly what
Jesus found wasn’t when he

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cleansed the temple.
Interesting, isn’t it?

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Or in Revelation chapter 21.
Figurative indeed, but

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nevertheless the principle still
there and says concerning the

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the.
New Jerusalem, not a physical

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building, but the principle
still there.

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There shall be in it, no, there
shall in no wise enter into it

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anything that define it, neither
whatsoever worketh abomination

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or maketh a lie.
But they which have written in

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the Lamb’s book of life.
Well, it was a.

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Sound principle, my dear and
sisters.

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And it’s, it’s a sound principle
today in our ecclesial life.

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Our ecclesial hall should be
welcoming.

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Indeed it should be welcoming.
It should be a, a pleasantness

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about it.
I had a young man the other day

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and they say to me, very
forthcoming young man with a lot

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of outgoing character.
He said.

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You know the job I like most in
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Life is being the doorkeeper.
I was telling him about what I

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was doing over here and so I’m
80.

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Four and says, you know what I
like most of all and occlusal

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life is being the doorkeeper.
That rather tickled.

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Me, because it was one of my
sons.

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And I thought a lot about that
since.

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And I thought, you know, I can
understand that because that’s

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the way he is.
He, he just loves people and he

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loves them coming to the door
and cheering them up, you see,

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which is good, isn’t it?
But it’s nice to think that

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somebody takes that office
seriously.

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I don’t know how he’d go too
much about rubbing the shoulder

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against somebody.
He might find that a bit more,

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more awkward.
But I think when you come into

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the ecclesial hall, that’s how
the doorkeeper should be.

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He should know, you know, all of
us and he should have a little

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word to say and he should cheer.
I remember when I was a a young

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man in our ecclesial hall in the
Adelaide ecclesia where you had

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a very happy time as young
people in that ecclesia better,

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wonderful group of young people
and it was.

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Very happy time.
And then at the door, there was.

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I used to call him Uncle Dean.
He’s a real character.

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I learned later that he had been
one of my mother’s boyfriends

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of.
Old.

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So perhaps that’s why he was
nice to me.

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I don’t know, but he always
seemed to have something to say,

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you know?
Like I remember one of our

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sisters dying her name was and
she was coming and she in those

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days in the winter time, the
girls all got a new suit you

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see, and this one got a red 1.
So you know long she came.

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Oh, hello, pillow box, pillow
box.

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Letter box, you know.
Because they always spread.

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But that was just Uncle Dean.
He just could always think.

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Of some little expression.
In fact, he knew the sisters so.

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Well, they used to sit at the
back and it.

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Was it was a large meeting, I
think we had 625 on the roll.

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They weren’t all there on Sunday
morning, couldn’t fit them all

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in I suppose, but there must
have been 450 people.

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Then he’d sit at the back
marking off the people and I

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remember mum saying to him.
Well, how can you sit at the?

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Back and mark up all those.
People down there, how do you?

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Know if they’re all there?
Well, he said.

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I know the sisters.
I know the sisters, I know the

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husbands.
I know, the other sisters always

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said.
I know the hats.

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I don’t know how you’re going
now with the scarves, because

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certainly the scarves and the
the little bonnets are all the

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same, aren’t they?
But in those days it was all

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hats, you see, and they’re all
different.

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But I used to think when I
thought about that subsequently,

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I thought, you know, good old
Uncle Dean, because he had an

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interest in everybody, didn’t
he?

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And he caused people to want to
come to the meeting.

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That’s a good thing.
There was another time I will

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remember when my wife came down
from.

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She wasn’t my wife then, but we
were going together and I was

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pretty excited about that
because she lived in NSW and she

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would come down for a couple of
weeks in Adelaide and I hadn’t

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seen her for 11 1/2 months.
How’s that?

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They were grim days, no e-mail,
and I think we had three phone

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calls in four years.
How about that?

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Anyway, she was down, so I was
obviously pretty pleased about

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that.
And then we come swinging into

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the Ecclesial Hall hand in hand.
And of course he was rather

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interested.
To meet Lorna because he was

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sort of interested in me a bit.
His wife, Kathy, used to send me

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a birthday card.
They never had their own

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children.
She always used to send me a

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birthday card every birthday.
So he’s sort of interested in

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me, obviously interested in who
I might find.

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And now he was, sort of.
Having a look.

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So when we came swinging along,
you know, hand in hand out,

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obviously happy to be together,
but I wouldn’t wasn’t as happy.

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He looked at us and he said tut,
tut, tut.

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He said.
You don’t come in here hand in

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hand.
Yeah, I never forgot that, even

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though he was happy, Uncle Dean,
he favoured the House of God as

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he saw it.
And that’s a good thing, wasn’t

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it?
I learned a lesson out of that.

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I thought, well, that’s that’s
right.

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He’s right.
He’s keeping the place, that’s

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what it is, a place to come and
worship God and remember Christ

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and all he did upon the tree.
And that isn’t the place for

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Handies, is it?
And he knew that and so he just

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made us front up to that.
So there’s a very good balance

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in our doorkeepers when they
just think about some of these

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these principles.
They’re not just old things that

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aren’t related.
They’ve got real application to

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the environment and and an
atmosphere of our ecclesial.

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Life, you know collisional whole
and circumstances around and

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what people see when they come.
You know we’ve had an interest

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of friend here today and I hope
we’ve been aware of that perhaps

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met him he he’s gone now so I
can say this but the most

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amazing circumstances.
Ronald Tan of the story later

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but quite an amazing thing that
he’s been here today and he’s

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loved it.
So it’s important that when

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people come into our midst, they
feel a warmth, and yet they can

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also see that this group of men
and women, they really believe

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something and they’re serious
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And that’s our balance, my dear
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Well, I’ll tell you how these
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If you come over to the First of
Chronicles Chapter 9, find a

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most interesting little
reference, First Kings.

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First Chronicles, sorry, Chapter
9, verse 22.

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And you’ll notice this is about
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and there they are mentioned in
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The circumstances in which
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the Tabernacle.
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and Talman and Ah Aheman and
their brethren.

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Shalom was the chief who
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gate, Eastwood and verse 19 says
in Shalom the son of Kor, the

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son of Evie Asaph, the son of
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House of the father, The Korra
heights were over the work of

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the service keepers of the gates
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So that’s the same expression.
That’s who they were,

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doorkeepers, porters as they’re.
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And their fathers being over the
host of the Lord were keepers of

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the entry.
See, they were strong men over

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the host of the Lord.
All right, so it’s giving us the

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story of these Cora heights who
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And in First Chronicles 9 and
verse 22, it says all these

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which were chosen to be porters
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David increased that to 4000 in
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These were reckoned by their
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whom David and Samuel the seer
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Now isn’t that intriguing?
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Samuel and David obviously had
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Similar minds, weren’t they?
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together as birds in a feather.
They are brought together and

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here they are sitting together
where we don’t know, but

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somewhere they are discussing
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of caring before the village,
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And you notice, notice it says
in verse 22 that they did it

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very specifically.
They chose the men and they they

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knew where they belonged in
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Verse 25 and their brethren
which were in their villages

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were to come after seven days
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They went back from time to time
to their villages like all of

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the Levites did.
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associated with a family.
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Now that is of their most
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They they were divided into four
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It says in verse 24.
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porters toward the east, West,
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Now that tells you something
also about the Tabernacle of

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David.
The Tabernacle of David did not

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have one entrance.
What was the Tabernacle of David

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going to signify?
It was going to signify an

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opportunity outside the Mosaic
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It was another and a greater
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That one never had the presence
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This one did, and David found
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and the Tabernacle of David was
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Are we right in understanding
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That way, my different sisters,
we most certainly are.

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You take for example, Amos
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We used to gloss over the term
the Tabernacle of David in this

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reference here and think, Oh
well, that just means when

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David’s Kingdom is restored.
But there was actually a

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Tabernacle of David referred to
in the Second of Chronicles 1

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and verse four, and the Second
of Chronicles 2 and verse 17 and

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18.
But here we are in Amos 9, and

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it says that in verse 11, in
that day will I raise up the

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Tabernacle of David that is
fallen, and close up the

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breeches thereof, and I’ll raise
up his ruins, and I’ll build it

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as in the days of old.
Now it doesn’t say I’m going to

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raise up the temple just in this
place, does it?

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In the peculiarity of the
prophet.

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He has said the Tabernacle of
was only a flimsy.

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Tent like structure, Why would
the prophet say I’ll raise up

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the Tabernacle of David verse 12
that they may possess the

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remnant of Eden and of all the
heathen which are called by my

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name, Gentiles that are called
by my name.

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Why is God going to set up the
Tabernacle of David?

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Because he wants the Gentiles to
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That’s why David erected that
Tabernacle.

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Do you know when David came back
from Philistia, there were many

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people that came back with him?
What about Itayi the Gittite and

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the 600 brethren who were with
him?

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When David was chased by his son
out of that city, Itayi could

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not be turned back.
David said to him, look at Tara,

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it’s not right that you should
go up and down with me.

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This is not befall of me because
of my sin.

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You go back into the back into
Jerusalem.

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Look, you’ve only just come as
it were.

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You’re a stranger.
Why should you share my burden?

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He tell you, I said.
Look, I’m going.

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With you and neither, nothing
but death would separate me from

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you.
Where you die is where I’ll die.

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The very words of Ruth.
Amazing man, Sworn allegiance to

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David.
What do you think David’s going

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to see him booting around
Jerusalem for years and never be

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able to worship?
Isn’t he going to see the fact

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that God has is is providing a
way for that Gentile and his

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children?
Those little children weren’t

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with him.
The little feet running out of

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the city while absolutely his
own son is chasing him out of

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the city and these little
Philistine boys are going with

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him.
Don’t you think David’s going to

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think they too should have a
Sunday school?

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My word, he is.
What about?

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The cheerothites and the
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They also went with David at
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Is he going to see them around
Jerusalem all the time?

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Never able to go near that
place, except there’s a

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threatening plaque that says you
go past this place and you’ll be

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responsible for the death of
Chum and Shu.

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No way for David.
And Amos is telling us exactly

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why he did that.
The Tabernacle of David was an

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alternative to the restrictions
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doors, east, West, North and
South.

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And I don’t need to tell you
what that meant.

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They shall come, aren’t they,
from the east and the West and

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the north and the South and
shall sit down in the Kingdom of

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God with with Christ.
And so this was a different

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structure.
And James, if you’re wondering

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if we’ve got the right sense of
verse 12, James tells us in Acts

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chapter 15 exactly what the
sense of that was at the.

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Jerusalem conference and the
debate is about whether the

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Gentiles can come in and after
they’ve heard Paul and they’ve

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heard Peter James then said in
verse 13, men and brethren,

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hearken unto me, Simeon hath
declared, Peter hath declared

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how God at the.
First did visit the Gentiles to

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take out of them a people for
his name, and he picks up our

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passenger name of Saint says,
and to this degree the words of

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the prophets as it is written.
After this I will return and

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will build again the Tabernacle
of David, which has fallen down,

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and I will build again the ruins
thereof, and I will stay.

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Whatever did that have to do
with the with the subject under

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consideration?
This is what it had to do, that

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the residue of men might seek
after the Lord and all the

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Gentiles upon whom my name is
called, saith the Lord, who

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doeth all these things.
Now my chief brother says that’s

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one of the most beautiful
illustrations of David’s mind,

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isn’t it?
Yes, he fought all those battles

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for Israel, but he was not a
loyalist who could not see that

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God could not accept people from
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He wasn’t such a patriot that he
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And so when these men followed
him, they learnt his ways and no

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doubt they would have loved to
be part of the the worship of

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Israel.
So he said here’s a Tabernacle,

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you can come to this one.
It’s got 4 doors.

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Then mind, whether you come from
the east to the West or the

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north or the South, you can come
into this house and worship.

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Are there with me.
Isn’t that a beautiful thing?

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Amos picks it up.
Little thing left in the record.

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But it wasn’t.
James picks that up later and

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he’s got hold of the whole
point.

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Isn’t that beautiful, beautiful
thing?

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Really beautiful thing.
And it just shows us what a

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wonderful thing our Bible is.
All these little details and we

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just go over them.
We hardly notice them sometimes,

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yet they’re full of beauty,
aren’t they?

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The the thought process behind
that beyond any coincidence,

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it’s obviously the stamp of God
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And David’s mind could see that
because he brought so many

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people from obscurity.
He brought Israelites from

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obscurity, the lost sheep of
Israel.

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He gathered them together in
bundles and made something of

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them.
Why couldn’t?

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He do the same with a
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Or a cheerothite.
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Some other person, why his
great, great grandmother was

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Ruth and knew all about her.
God accepted her.

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So that was the Tabernacle of
David.

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Bit of a diversion, I suppose,
but it’s a beautiful diversion,

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isn’t it?
Because here we are with four

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gates back here in First
Chronicles Chapter 9.

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And so the people that were
chosen, we’re going to guard

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these gates.
Now let’s see again where they

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came from.
It says in verse 19 and.

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Shalom, the son of Kora, the son
of Evie.

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Asaph, the son of Kora and his
brethren of the House of his

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father.
The Kora Heights were over the

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work of the service, keepers of
the gates of the Tabernacle and

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their fathers being over the
host of the Lord were keepers of

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the entry.
Now that’s a very, very

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challenging statement because I
thought that Kora was destroyed.

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Was he not Kora, Dathan and
Abaram?

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Didn’t the earth open and
swallow them up?

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Let’s go back to the record and
and check what whatever

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happened, how can there be Kora
Heights?

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If there was this tremendous
judgement upon these men,

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Numbers chapter 16, verse one is
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This is not a diversion.
This is right on the on the

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subject may not sound but but it
is it’s right on the subject.

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Now Cora verse 1 of #16 the son
of is Ha, the son of.

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Coed.
Got your little piece of paper

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still there?
We’ve got Levi up the top.

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Got Gershon, Kohath and Murari.
Now, after Kohath, we had four

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sons, didn’t we?
It was Amram, Izhar, Azhil and

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Hebron.
This kora is in the line of

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Izhar.
He’s a son of Izhar, so he’s a

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first cousin to Moses.
Because Izha’s brother is Amran,

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and Aaron and Moses are sons of
Amran, so he’s a first cousin to

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Moses, highly related to Moses.
Now he’s LinkedIn with two other

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people, Dathan and Ibaram, the
sons of Iliad, and On the son of

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Pilaf, sons of Reuben, They.
Took men, three men, Dathan and

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Ibaram.
Who were of the tribe of Reuben?

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And there was Cora, who was of
the.

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Tribe of Levi and.
If you remember the little

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pattern of the Tabernacle, do
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section of the Tabernacle in the
centre of Israel, and around

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00:26:58,800 –> 00:27:02,000
that were the various branches
of the Levites?

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00:27:02,120 –> 00:27:04,120
It’s a Sunday school work, isn’t
it?

434
00:27:04,120 –> 00:27:11,720
And on the southern side were
the Koathites, on the southern

435
00:27:11,720 –> 00:27:15,760
side where the tribes were.
Was Reuben.

436
00:27:16,200 –> 00:27:23,280
The first on that southern side,
so at the southeastern end of

437
00:27:23,280 –> 00:27:26,440
where the Koathites were was
Reuben underneath.

438
00:27:27,440 –> 00:27:29,440
And now you can begin to
understand how that happened

439
00:27:30,240 –> 00:27:33,600
because in actual fact here was
Reuben and there was coat and

440
00:27:34,400 –> 00:27:37,800
the heads of coat were there and
the heads of Reuben were here.

441
00:27:38,960 –> 00:27:43,520
So Cora and had to coal it were
across the path to say, hey

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00:27:43,520 –> 00:27:48,280
Dathan Enviram, what you up to?
They, they lived alongside each

443
00:27:48,280 –> 00:27:50,440
other, so to speak, in the
Foursquare encampment.

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00:27:51,920 –> 00:27:55,840
So it all fits together.
But this Cora, he was a very

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00:27:55,840 –> 00:27:59,000
remarkable man.
It says in verse 2, they rose up

446
00:27:59,000 –> 00:28:02,760
before Moses with certain of the
children of Israel.

447
00:28:03,760 –> 00:28:08,840
I’ll say 250 Princess of the
Assembly, famous in the

448
00:28:08,840 –> 00:28:16,560
congregation, men of of renown.
And they said to Moses and

449
00:28:16,560 –> 00:28:20,280
Aaron, look at his head, you
take too much upon you seeing

450
00:28:20,360 –> 00:28:22,880
all the congregation are holy,
every one of.

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00:28:22,880 –> 00:28:25,880
Them, they could have said, you
know, Exodus 19 says we’re

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00:28:25,880 –> 00:28:27,480
Kingdom of priests.
What are you carrying on as

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00:28:27,480 –> 00:28:29,080
though you’re the only important
people around here?

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00:28:29,560 –> 00:28:35,840
Authority doesn’t rest with you.
God has made a calling of all of

455
00:28:35,840 –> 00:28:37,520
the children of Israel.
What are you going on about?

456
00:28:37,760 –> 00:28:40,560
What makes you so much so much
more important than everybody

457
00:28:40,560 –> 00:28:42,720
else?
There’s no Moses and Aaron was

458
00:28:42,720 –> 00:28:47,240
self appointed.
All the congregation of wholly,

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00:28:47,240 –> 00:28:49,480
every one of them, and the Lord
is among them.

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00:28:49,680 –> 00:28:51,800
Wherefore then lift you up
yourselves above the

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00:28:51,800 –> 00:28:55,200
congregation of the Lord?
Moses didn’t answer immediately

462
00:28:55,200 –> 00:28:57,640
with words.
He was just so shocked.

463
00:28:58,520 –> 00:29:02,240
You know what it says of Moses.
He was, above all men, the most

464
00:29:02,320 –> 00:29:05,360
makeup on the earth.
Certainly he would never have

465
00:29:05,360 –> 00:29:09,040
made himself to be leader of his
rugby still on the backside of

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00:29:09,040 –> 00:29:13,200
Horeb, if he’d had his way.
And he spake unto Korra and unto

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00:29:13,200 –> 00:29:17,960
all his company, saying, Even
tomorrow Yahweh will show who

468
00:29:17,960 –> 00:29:21,960
are his, and who is holy, and
will cause him to come near unto

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00:29:21,960 –> 00:29:24,000
him.
Even him whom He hath chosen

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00:29:24,360 –> 00:29:29,320
will He cause to come here.
This do take Eusensism all his

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00:29:29,320 –> 00:29:32,520
company, and put Father in, and
put incense in them before the

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00:29:32,520 –> 00:29:34,240
Lord tomorrow.
And it shall be that the man

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00:29:34,240 –> 00:29:37,000
whom the Lord hath chosen, He
shall be holy.

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00:29:37,880 –> 00:29:44,280
He take too much upon you and be
careful, ye sons of Levi.

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00:29:46,800 –> 00:29:51,080
Now that just shows you what
Korra was like in terms of

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00:29:51,080 –> 00:29:54,880
ability.
Levi was the faithful tribe.

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00:29:55,880 –> 00:29:58,040
There’d been a time when Moses
had been up the mountain.

478
00:29:58,040 –> 00:30:02,320
He came down and he saw the the
degradation of the people.

479
00:30:02,920 –> 00:30:04,800
And he said who?
Is on the Lord’s side.

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00:30:04,960 –> 00:30:08,000
Levi came forth.
Levi had to smite their own

481
00:30:08,000 –> 00:30:09,400
brethren.
But they wouldn’t flinch.

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00:30:10,480 –> 00:30:13,400
And Deuteronomy 33 says that
they favoured neither their son

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00:30:13,400 –> 00:30:16,880
nor their daughter, so loyal
were they to the cause of God in

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00:30:16,880 –> 00:30:21,120
Israel.
Those 250 that I mentioned in

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00:30:21,120 –> 00:30:23,600
verse 2 are obviously mostly
Levites.

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00:30:26,080 –> 00:30:31,680
And this man Kora had by his
political enchantment of the

487
00:30:31,680 –> 00:30:33,720
Princess, you know, look what it
says about them.

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00:30:35,600 –> 00:30:38,760
They were famous in the
congregation, men of renown.

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00:30:40,120 –> 00:30:44,240
They were the leaders in the
tribe of Levi, and he had

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00:30:44,240 –> 00:30:48,640
brought them onto his side
against Moses and Aaron, whose

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00:30:48,640 –> 00:30:50,920
camp was out on the east.
Wasn’t by the gates.

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00:30:52,960 –> 00:30:55,040
So this was not an ordinary
achievement.

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00:30:55,040 –> 00:30:59,120
This was an amazing achievement.
In times of great difficulty,

494
00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:01,720
Levi had been loyal.
When others hadn’t.

495
00:31:01,720 –> 00:31:07,640
But Cora, he is some man.
He’s a politician part

496
00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:12,240
excellence.
And Moses said unto Korra, here

497
00:31:12,240 –> 00:31:18,200
I pray you, you sons of Levi,
you’ve already got a very

498
00:31:18,520 –> 00:31:20,560
important and privileged
position.

499
00:31:22,160 –> 00:31:25,320
Are you unsatisfied that and
want the priesthood also, verse

500
00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:30,120
10, God has given you privilege,
but you’re not appreciating that

501
00:31:30,120 –> 00:31:33,960
privilege.
Well, you know the story my dear

502
00:31:33,960 –> 00:31:36,080
and sisters, and how God
determined it.

503
00:31:37,760 –> 00:31:40,400
God was exceedingly wrong with
this rebellion.

504
00:31:40,480 –> 00:31:42,800
It was the great rebellion in
the wilderness of all the

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00:31:42,800 –> 00:31:46,000
rebellion.
And so verse 23, Yahweh spake

506
00:31:46,000 –> 00:31:50,320
unto Moses, saying, Speak unto
the congregation, saying, Get

507
00:31:50,320 –> 00:31:53,160
you up from about the Tabernacle
of Cora Dathan and Abaram.

508
00:31:53,680 –> 00:31:56,000
And Moses rose up and went unto
Dathan and Abaram, and the

509
00:31:56,000 –> 00:31:58,360
elders of Israel followed him.
And he spake unto the

510
00:31:58,360 –> 00:32:01,280
congregation, saying, Depart, I
pray you, from the tents of

511
00:32:01,280 –> 00:32:04,160
these wicked men, and touch
nothing of theirs.

512
00:32:04,600 –> 00:32:08,280
The tents of these wicked men.
Blessed sheep are consumed in

513
00:32:08,280 –> 00:32:10,160
all their sins.
And so they did.

514
00:32:10,160 –> 00:32:12,880
They get up from the Tabernacle
of Korra, Dathan, and Abaram on

515
00:32:12,880 –> 00:32:14,880
every side.
And Dathan and Abaram came out

516
00:32:15,000 –> 00:32:17,160
and stood in the door of their
tents, and their wives, their

517
00:32:17,160 –> 00:32:20,520
sons, and their little children.
And the earth opened their

518
00:32:20,520 –> 00:32:24,200
mouth, Verse 32, and swallowed
them up at their houses, and all

519
00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:26,760
the men that appertained at
Decorah and all their goods.

520
00:32:27,880 –> 00:32:29,400
Well, then, how do we have sons
of Korah?

521
00:32:32,640 –> 00:32:38,160
They’re gone, aren’t they?
That’s why might seem so.

522
00:32:38,920 –> 00:32:40,640
But did you read that very
carefully?

523
00:32:42,800 –> 00:32:52,600
Even in verse 32 it says all the
men, or in verse 27, it was the

524
00:32:52,600 –> 00:32:55,280
families of Dathan and Abaram
that stood with him.

525
00:32:56,760 –> 00:33:01,560
It didn’t actually say the
family of Kora, and in fact they

526
00:33:01,560 –> 00:33:03,840
didn’t.
They didn’t stand with their

527
00:33:03,840 –> 00:33:07,000
father.
If you come to numbers 26,

528
00:33:07,960 –> 00:33:11,680
there’s a little.
Detail here again verse 10,

529
00:33:13,440 –> 00:33:17,360
written verse 9 just to get the
sense and the sons of Eliab,

530
00:33:18,160 –> 00:33:22,320
Nemuel and Dathan and Abaram.
This is that Dathan and Abaram,

531
00:33:22,320 –> 00:33:26,240
which were famous in the
congregation, who strove against

532
00:33:26,280 –> 00:33:29,200
Moses and against Aaron, in the
company of Korra, when they

533
00:33:29,200 –> 00:33:33,520
strove against the Lord, and the
earth opened her mouth and

534
00:33:33,520 –> 00:33:35,400
swallowed them up, together with
Cora.

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00:33:35,760 –> 00:33:40,240
When that company died.
What time the fire devoured 250

536
00:33:40,240 –> 00:33:46,440
men, and they became a sign,
notwithstanding the children.

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00:33:46,440 –> 00:33:53,120
Of Cora died, not now.
This is a really intriguing

538
00:33:53,120 –> 00:33:57,760
story, isn’t it?
Here is a man that can persuade

539
00:33:57,800 –> 00:34:02,760
against Aaron and Moses.
Even among the Levites, among

540
00:34:02,800 –> 00:34:04,560
the.
Principle of the Levites.

541
00:34:05,320 –> 00:34:08,639
The most informed and godly men,
you might say, in that nation,

542
00:34:09,199 –> 00:34:12,639
this Cora has been able to weave
his message into their minds

543
00:34:13,000 –> 00:34:16,440
until he has prejudice them, He
said.

544
00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:18,239
You’ve been slighted in your
position.

545
00:34:18,239 –> 00:34:20,080
Our cousin over here, who’s he
think he is?

546
00:34:20,560 –> 00:34:23,679
Who’s the mayor and think he is.
We’re all holy.

547
00:34:23,679 –> 00:34:26,120
Why isn’t this being distruded
and much more generous and and

548
00:34:26,120 –> 00:34:27,840
democratic Communist?
Way.

549
00:34:28,920 –> 00:34:34,040
All men are equal here in
eclesial life too, isn’t it?

550
00:34:34,040 –> 00:34:35,159
You know it’s not true, my dear
man.

551
00:34:35,159 –> 00:34:37,800
So we’re all equal before God.
We haven’t got the same talents,

552
00:34:37,800 –> 00:34:39,280
have we?
I can’t do the things you can

553
00:34:39,280 –> 00:34:40,560
do.
I wished I could.

554
00:34:40,760 –> 00:34:43,719
But I can’t we’re going to
recognize that God is

555
00:34:43,719 –> 00:34:46,679
distributed as as he will.
And it was a right that he

556
00:34:46,679 –> 00:34:49,239
should call a certain man and
and he gave to him the the

557
00:34:49,239 –> 00:34:51,480
ability to do that and he was
the right one.

558
00:34:52,520 –> 00:34:54,400
And these men were like
Democrats.

559
00:34:55,560 –> 00:34:57,640
It’s almost the, you know, the
God revered word.

560
00:34:57,960 –> 00:35:00,200
It’s the public revered word,
but it’s never revered by God.

561
00:35:00,200 –> 00:35:02,800
Think about that when you’re
making up your Bible class.

562
00:35:04,800 –> 00:35:06,720
The object is not just to share
the work all around to

563
00:35:06,720 –> 00:35:08,640
everybody.
That’s not what God says.

564
00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:11,040
I know that’s how a lot of us
think.

565
00:35:11,120 –> 00:35:12,040
We’ve come to.
Think that way.

566
00:35:12,080 –> 00:35:14,640
Think again.
Think of it in scriptural terms.

567
00:35:15,840 –> 00:35:20,880
What the class is there for is
to build up our eccleses, and

568
00:35:20,880 –> 00:35:23,400
there’s some people that have
got that ability and they could

569
00:35:23,400 –> 00:35:25,320
never do the other things that
other people can do.

570
00:35:25,320 –> 00:35:29,280
Well, let’s be sensible.
It’s not just there but equal

571
00:35:29,280 –> 00:35:32,160
distribution.
That’s democracy, and our

572
00:35:32,160 –> 00:35:33,840
children are being imbued with
that.

573
00:35:33,840 –> 00:35:36,440
Everything is democracy.
A little child at school at six

574
00:35:36,440 –> 00:35:40,160
years sits in there and and, and
their chairperson while all the

575
00:35:40,160 –> 00:35:41,840
other little 6 year olds have a
meeting.

576
00:35:42,280 –> 00:35:47,000
I ask you.
But, you know, eventually that

577
00:35:47,000 –> 00:35:49,080
gets right through the minds of
our little children and they

578
00:35:49,080 –> 00:35:53,600
begin to think that’s right.
And so sometimes do we, because

579
00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:56,120
we don’t say it’s wrong.
It’s got nothing to do with the

580
00:35:56,120 –> 00:35:58,720
Bible, and it hasn’t obviously
nothing to do.

581
00:35:59,120 –> 00:36:01,400
Moses wasn’t concerned about
democracy, was he?

582
00:36:01,400 –> 00:36:03,800
God made choice.
We’ve all got different

583
00:36:03,800 –> 00:36:05,600
abilities.
We’re told that use those

584
00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:10,680
abilities humbly and wisely, but
use them and let’s appreciate

585
00:36:11,240 –> 00:36:14,120
our brother or sister who’s got
some ability that I haven’t got.

586
00:36:15,320 –> 00:36:18,240
That’s how God has made it.
It’s part of our humility.

587
00:36:19,760 –> 00:36:21,600
That’s how it is in the
Scriptures.

588
00:36:22,720 –> 00:36:27,320
Why was it that these children
had not gone with their father?

589
00:36:28,160 –> 00:36:29,920
Can you think of a reason why
could it be?

590
00:36:30,160 –> 00:36:34,120
I mean, if he could talk those
other grown men into that

591
00:36:34,120 –> 00:36:38,280
position against Moses now, why
couldn’t he convert his children

592
00:36:38,280 –> 00:36:41,440
to that?
It’s a strange thing, isn’t it?

593
00:36:43,160 –> 00:36:45,680
Well, there’s a little.
Secret back there again.

594
00:36:45,680 –> 00:36:48,840
It’s in Chronicles.
It’s in First Chronicles Chapter

595
00:36:48,840 –> 00:36:53,440
9.
You might have in fact noticed

596
00:36:53,440 –> 00:36:58,520
it before, but one day I was
looking at this and stumbled

597
00:36:58,520 –> 00:37:00,800
upon it, really.
And I was so excited because I’m

598
00:37:00,800 –> 00:37:04,480
sure it’s the answer.
There’s got to be some very real

599
00:37:04,520 –> 00:37:07,720
answer.
Well, there is verse 19, which

600
00:37:07,720 –> 00:37:11,520
we read before, and it tells us
that the the doorkeepers would

601
00:37:11,520 –> 00:37:13,840
come from the House of the Korah
Heights.

602
00:37:14,480 –> 00:37:17,760
And OK, they did live because
Numbers 26 said they did.

603
00:37:18,400 –> 00:37:21,840
But why was it that they never
went along with their father?

604
00:37:22,560 –> 00:37:28,640
Well, it says in verse 20.
And Phineas, the son of Eliezer,

605
00:37:29,840 –> 00:37:34,120
was the ruler over them in time
past.

606
00:37:35,120 –> 00:37:38,880
And Yahweh was with me.
You know, that’s a beautiful

607
00:37:38,880 –> 00:37:43,080
little verse in your Bible.
You think it’s beautiful verse?

608
00:37:44,040 –> 00:37:47,280
I do because it’s the key to a
mystery.

609
00:37:48,160 –> 00:37:51,480
And once you start to turn that
key, it opens up all kinds of

610
00:37:51,480 –> 00:37:54,080
beautiful things.
Who was Phineas?

611
00:37:55,440 –> 00:38:00,200
You know who Phineas was when
the name of God was being

612
00:38:00,200 –> 00:38:07,320
disgraced in Israel and Moab
brought those those dirty women

613
00:38:08,160 –> 00:38:13,320
into the camp of Israel because.
They could succeed by no other

614
00:38:13,320 –> 00:38:16,160
means.
They brought their girls with

615
00:38:16,160 –> 00:38:19,120
all their lipstick.
And their mascara and all their

616
00:38:19,760 –> 00:38:22,280
flimsy clothing, and they
brought them into Israel.

617
00:38:22,280 –> 00:38:27,120
And the stupid men of Israel
looked at them and they fell for

618
00:38:27,120 –> 00:38:31,760
it, didn’t they?
And eventually along comes one

619
00:38:31,760 –> 00:38:36,800
of the Princess of Israel, and
he takes one of these wicked

620
00:38:36,800 –> 00:38:40,920
women, and he goes straight past
the Tabernacle, and he couldn’t

621
00:38:40,920 –> 00:38:44,120
care less.
And never mind the fact that

622
00:38:44,120 –> 00:38:48,600
Moses and Aaron are in front of
the Tabernacle, in tears before

623
00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:52,640
they’re gone, bleeding that God
would stay the plague that must

624
00:38:52,640 –> 00:38:54,400
come for such terrible
wickedness.

625
00:38:55,400 –> 00:38:58,840
This Prince couldn’t care an
iota and he takes that girl

626
00:38:59,000 –> 00:39:02,600
straight.
Past them off to his tent for

627
00:39:02,600 –> 00:39:07,680
obvious purposes, and Phineas
could stand it.

628
00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:14,560
No longer Phineas was grandson
of Aaron and he went to his tent

629
00:39:14,560 –> 00:39:17,520
and he took his javelin and he
followed them down the track and

630
00:39:17,560 –> 00:39:22,320
he only did they did use it once
and killed brutally.

631
00:39:24,480 –> 00:39:31,240
Did you do that God loved God
loved him and that stayed the

632
00:39:31,240 –> 00:39:34,560
plane.
It saved thousands of lives in

633
00:39:34,560 –> 00:39:38,200
Israel.
That’s Phineas took cruel man,

634
00:39:38,200 –> 00:39:40,440
tough man.
God gave him an everlasting

635
00:39:40,440 –> 00:39:43,880
priesthood for that.
What was the what was it that

636
00:39:43,880 –> 00:39:46,520
God loved about that?
My differences because there was

637
00:39:46,520 –> 00:39:50,760
a man who was on his side.
Never mind what the world was

638
00:39:50,760 –> 00:39:52,880
saying, never mind about Moab.
He had that, absolutely.

639
00:39:52,880 –> 00:39:56,840
Clear in his mind, God loved him
because he was a man of God and

640
00:39:56,840 –> 00:39:58,360
he would stand for that
principle.

641
00:39:59,160 –> 00:40:01,160
And if anybody thought they were
going to flout the principles of

642
00:40:01,160 –> 00:40:04,080
God like that, he would go to
the the final degree to show

643
00:40:04,080 –> 00:40:05,760
them that God’s name would be.
Uphill.

644
00:40:07,360 –> 00:40:09,280
But there’s another side to
Phineas, isn’t there?

645
00:40:11,000 –> 00:40:12,840
You imagine being the children
of Cora.

646
00:40:15,080 –> 00:40:18,400
What a boring thing.
Oh, Dad’s at it again.

647
00:40:18,880 –> 00:40:22,120
There he is.
The few men, other men come home

648
00:40:22,120 –> 00:40:23,360
to the tent.
What’s he talking about?

649
00:40:23,360 –> 00:40:25,720
Moses and Aaron.
Oh, who they think they are.

650
00:40:26,600 –> 00:40:28,400
They get on your nerves, you
know, they’re always telling

651
00:40:28,400 –> 00:40:31,680
people what to do, always out
the front there, Sam’s, it’s

652
00:40:31,680 –> 00:40:33,640
important to case.
Sure enough, they’re in the in

653
00:40:33,640 –> 00:40:36,400
the there and always talking
like that.

654
00:40:36,400 –> 00:40:37,680
What do children think about
that?

655
00:40:40,760 –> 00:40:46,080
Absolutely sick of it, the
criticism of brethren until

656
00:40:46,080 –> 00:40:49,720
eventually that they, they just
want to hear another message.

657
00:40:51,000 –> 00:40:54,320
They I hate to hear that, you
know, we kill our children

658
00:40:54,320 –> 00:40:57,200
sometimes.
I would be aware of

659
00:40:57,200 –> 00:40:58,840
circumstances where that has
happened.

660
00:40:59,040 –> 00:41:02,000
And children have left the truth
because of that, because they’ve

661
00:41:02,000 –> 00:41:07,800
never seen the joy in it, the
brotherhood in it, the love, the

662
00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:11,200
forgiveness of sin.
If they hadn’t seen that, they

663
00:41:11,200 –> 00:41:13,440
might have seen something that
was beautiful about the truth.

664
00:41:13,440 –> 00:41:16,160
But all they heard was criticism
of the ABS.

665
00:41:17,360 –> 00:41:20,120
Who do I think they are again?
You know, there they are again.

666
00:41:20,120 –> 00:41:22,040
And they’re.
Telling us what to do.

667
00:41:23,760 –> 00:41:25,400
It’s not so much really a joke,
is it?

668
00:41:25,600 –> 00:41:27,920
Unfortunately, there are
sentiments of that that are

669
00:41:27,920 –> 00:41:31,720
heard around and we’re all
guilty in measure for that.

670
00:41:34,040 –> 00:41:38,240
A rule of life is to never over
your table.

671
00:41:38,920 –> 00:41:41,520
Say things against others in the
meeting.

672
00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:47,080
Never, ever, ever do that.
Fathers will grant no mind.

673
00:41:47,080 –> 00:41:50,320
No matter how you’re attempting.
When the pressure’s on and you

674
00:41:50,320 –> 00:41:52,600
might want to say this or that,
don’t do it.

675
00:41:53,560 –> 00:41:58,000
Remember, the best thing for
those children’s minds can be

676
00:41:58,000 –> 00:42:00,960
that they are never taught the
differences that you might have

677
00:42:01,560 –> 00:42:03,600
with other brethren or other
sisters in the middle.

678
00:42:04,320 –> 00:42:06,880
Don’t ever let them see.
Cover it up.

679
00:42:07,200 –> 00:42:08,680
You might say, well, I want my
children.

680
00:42:08,680 –> 00:42:10,760
No da, da, da.
You know, I have a story.

681
00:42:11,360 –> 00:42:13,360
They will work things out in
their own time.

682
00:42:14,080 –> 00:42:16,040
But when they’re coming up as
children, they’ve got to see

683
00:42:16,040 –> 00:42:18,760
that God is behind the truth.
And it’s a beautiful thing.

684
00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:22,280
And they’ve got to learn to
respect all of their elders and

685
00:42:22,280 –> 00:42:25,600
all of their older people.
In that meeting, never, ever,

686
00:42:25,960 –> 00:42:27,600
even on the phone, somebody
rings.

687
00:42:27,600 –> 00:42:30,520
You want to talk about something
and little ears are sitting

688
00:42:30,520 –> 00:42:34,280
here.
Be careful, you know, be careful

689
00:42:35,400 –> 00:42:36,440
today.
You can probably take your

690
00:42:36,440 –> 00:42:43,200
mobile into another room, but
don’t let little ears hear.

691
00:42:43,200 –> 00:42:44,600
It’s better to say that y’all
look, I’m sorry.

692
00:42:44,600 –> 00:42:47,200
I want the room to myself.
You know, at the moment if you,

693
00:42:47,320 –> 00:42:49,600
if you need to talk about
important things, private

694
00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:53,680
things, evolving, please, your
life, that’s preserve children’s

695
00:42:54,040 –> 00:42:58,160
innocence about the things
you’ve got because that’s a

696
00:42:58,160 –> 00:43:00,000
terribly important thing.
Because that’s what I think

697
00:43:00,000 –> 00:43:02,760
happened with Cora.
His children got to the state

698
00:43:02,760 –> 00:43:07,000
where they were sick, and along
came Phineas, who was their

699
00:43:07,000 –> 00:43:10,240
second cousin.
And he said, hey, isn’t that why

700
00:43:10,240 –> 00:43:12,120
didn’t you come home to an
helpless Israel class?

701
00:43:13,040 –> 00:43:14,640
You know, helpless Israel, the
hope of Israel.

702
00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:15,800
We’re going to talk about the
promises.

703
00:43:15,800 –> 00:43:18,960
Made by Abraham, we want to talk
about all the good things that

704
00:43:18,960 –> 00:43:21,320
have come to our our heritage in
Israel.

705
00:43:22,000 –> 00:43:23,320
You know how they came through
the Red Sea.

706
00:43:23,320 –> 00:43:25,040
We’re going to have a we’re
going to have a lesson all about

707
00:43:25,040 –> 00:43:28,280
that what Moses did.
And so these children got to

708
00:43:28,280 –> 00:43:30,600
see, I’m sure, I’m sure that’s
what happened because he had the

709
00:43:30,600 –> 00:43:33,760
rule over them and they came to
love that.

710
00:43:34,680 –> 00:43:38,480
So when their dad was about to
be destroyed and Dayton and

711
00:43:38,480 –> 00:43:41,000
Abaram stood there with their
children, those children stood

712
00:43:41,000 –> 00:43:42,960
apart.
And there’s no question that

713
00:43:42,960 –> 00:43:45,400
required some very.
Persuasive influence.

714
00:43:45,400 –> 00:43:47,720
And that must have been Phineas,
I believe.

715
00:43:47,720 –> 00:43:49,800
Do you think the Bible’s a
wonderful book?

716
00:43:50,800 –> 00:43:52,280
It is a wonderful thing, isn’t
it?

717
00:43:52,280 –> 00:43:53,760
A wonderful little inclusion
and.

718
00:43:54,280 –> 00:43:56,800
When you start to put it all
together, that’s what falls out.

719
00:43:57,440 –> 00:44:00,520
Full of lessons, full of
beautiful things that are

720
00:44:00,520 –> 00:44:02,320
relevant to our own ecclesial
life.

721
00:44:04,080 –> 00:44:07,560
It means this too, my dear and
sisters, that all of us need to

722
00:44:07,560 –> 00:44:09,800
have something of Phineas in
both parts.

723
00:44:09,960 –> 00:44:12,040
You say Phineas was cruel.
I don’t.

724
00:44:13,560 –> 00:44:16,440
I say that he was stern about
the things of God in principle.

725
00:44:16,960 –> 00:44:19,480
And don’t you love him for it?
God did.

726
00:44:20,840 –> 00:44:22,080
Do you love him for it?
I do.

727
00:44:22,200 –> 00:44:24,600
I love him for that because God
did.

728
00:44:24,880 –> 00:44:27,760
And I can see that unless he did
that, there would have been 10s

729
00:44:27,760 –> 00:44:29,480
of thousands of other lives
lost.

730
00:44:31,520 –> 00:44:35,600
But I love him also because he
was prepared to take another

731
00:44:35,600 –> 00:44:38,520
family under his wing, wasn’t
he?

732
00:44:39,440 –> 00:44:41,960
He could have said, oh, those
kids, bad luck, you know, oh,

733
00:44:41,960 –> 00:44:44,160
their cousins, their family.
It’s all too hard in the family.

734
00:44:44,160 –> 00:44:47,400
He didn’t say that.
He said, I’m going to take those

735
00:44:47,400 –> 00:44:51,080
children and teach them a better
way where they’ll see the joy of

736
00:44:51,080 –> 00:44:52,360
the truth and the love of the
truth.

737
00:44:52,360 –> 00:44:55,680
And, and that’s what happened.
What would he teach them?

738
00:44:58,600 –> 00:45:01,480
What would they see in in their
cousin?

739
00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:06,480
They’d see a man who stood for
the integrity of God’s house.

740
00:45:08,000 –> 00:45:11,320
Isn’t that right?
What was the famous incident in

741
00:45:11,320 –> 00:45:14,160
their cousin’s life when Phineas
took the sword?

742
00:45:14,280 –> 00:45:17,400
Because these two would flout
the holiness of the House of

743
00:45:17,400 –> 00:45:20,680
God.
They were going past that place.

744
00:45:21,200 –> 00:45:24,480
When he reacted because it was
in his.

745
00:45:24,480 –> 00:45:29,880
Heart to preserve the integrity
of God’s house was deeply

746
00:45:29,880 –> 00:45:33,120
involved in his conscience and
mind that he would not let that

747
00:45:33,120 –> 00:45:37,400
happen and so at that time he
was inflamed to do that which

748
00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:40,760
I’ve seen cause.
In other people’s lives, in

749
00:45:40,760 –> 00:45:43,080
other people’s assessment, but
not in Gods.

750
00:45:43,960 –> 00:45:47,040
And you know those boys would
have learnt that if they came

751
00:45:47,040 –> 00:45:48,800
then they never had their dad
then, did they?

752
00:45:49,360 –> 00:45:52,800
They came to see that that man
had saved their lives.

753
00:45:53,360 –> 00:45:57,160
They’d be under the earth like
the other children if it wasn’t.

754
00:45:57,720 –> 00:46:00,280
Or Phineas.
Now what a beautiful.

755
00:46:00,280 –> 00:46:05,400
Thing that is Phineas was a
beautiful man, not just a stern

756
00:46:05,400 –> 00:46:08,760
man of Prince where he was that,
and thank God he was, but he

757
00:46:08,760 –> 00:46:12,600
also had compassion to take on
side for those who had need and

758
00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:14,760
we need lots of that in our
ecclesial life.

759
00:46:15,600 –> 00:46:19,200
Sometimes a child comes from the
country and you hear a little

760
00:46:19,200 –> 00:46:20,760
announcement.
Has anybody a?

761
00:46:20,760 –> 00:46:24,680
Room, and there we all are,
Ecclesia OF100150.

762
00:46:25,240 –> 00:46:29,200
Or could even be more at home.
And you know, next week you hear

763
00:46:29,200 –> 00:46:32,120
the same announcement.
Is there anybody’s able just to

764
00:46:32,120 –> 00:46:34,440
provide a room or a bed for for
somebody.

765
00:46:34,440 –> 00:46:36,720
And you think you, you know the
couple, you know their

766
00:46:36,720 –> 00:46:40,160
circumstances, they’re up there
in the country and, and the

767
00:46:40,160 –> 00:46:43,560
child’s getting to teenage years
and desperately needs help.

768
00:46:44,600 –> 00:46:45,280
But oh.
No.

769
00:46:46,080 –> 00:46:47,360
Well, all their homes are
bigger.

770
00:46:48,520 –> 00:46:50,840
We’ve all got more.
Bedrooms than we ever had

771
00:46:50,840 –> 00:46:53,920
before.
We can’t, we, we can’t do it.

772
00:46:54,360 –> 00:46:57,120
This is Jimmy’s bedroom and this
is Judy’s bedroom and this is

773
00:46:57,120 –> 00:46:58,520
someone else’s bedroom.
We’re going to have their

774
00:46:58,520 –> 00:47:00,640
bedrooms, the right colours, the
right everything they want.

775
00:47:00,920 –> 00:47:02,960
You couldn’t invade that and
have somebody else in there or

776
00:47:02,960 –> 00:47:07,040
no.
And so the call goes beckoning,

777
00:47:07,280 –> 00:47:09,520
till later on you hear that
they’ve got bored with somebody

778
00:47:09,520 –> 00:47:14,320
out in the world.
It’s not good enough, isn’t it?

779
00:47:16,720 –> 00:47:20,960
We need to be able to sucker
those like Phineas who need help

780
00:47:20,960 –> 00:47:24,760
and care.
So in the character of Phineas

781
00:47:24,760 –> 00:47:28,600
were the right qualities to be
grafted into the children of the

782
00:47:28,600 –> 00:47:32,640
Qorites, so that they might both
respect God’s house and be

783
00:47:32,640 –> 00:47:40,040
warmly, warmly minded towards
those who were in need.

784
00:47:41,240 –> 00:47:44,160
There might be a henna that
comes along and cries her eyes

785
00:47:44,160 –> 00:47:45,640
out and somebody’s got to
understand.

786
00:47:45,640 –> 00:47:49,320
That and that would be the
doorkeeper’s charge.

787
00:47:49,760 –> 00:47:53,320
Not like Levi to say get on your
way, but to realize there was

788
00:47:53,360 –> 00:47:56,520
need for compassion and
understanding, a balanced

789
00:47:56,520 –> 00:48:00,160
approach to God’s house and a
beautiful story, very beautiful

790
00:48:00,160 –> 00:48:02,720
story.
That’s why the Korra heights

791
00:48:02,720 –> 00:48:08,640
were chosen and down the line
because we’ve actually gone

792
00:48:08,640 –> 00:48:11,400
through this line before.
Do you remember who was in that

793
00:48:11,400 –> 00:48:13,400
line?
Samuel.

794
00:48:14,680 –> 00:48:17,640
And what was the first thing
ever recorded about what Samuel

795
00:48:17,640 –> 00:48:22,640
did in the House of God?
Sorry.

796
00:48:23,120 –> 00:48:26,000
He opened the doors.
Shall I repeat it?

797
00:48:26,640 –> 00:48:31,400
He opened the doors and he’s a
little top when he did that.

798
00:48:31,960 –> 00:48:35,240
First of Samuel chapter 3, and I
think it’s verse 19,

799
00:48:53,490 –> 00:48:55,890
verse 15.
Thank you.

800
00:48:58,240 –> 00:49:01,600
And this is when God was calling
him.

801
00:49:02,880 –> 00:49:07,760
And it says in verse 15 that
Samuel lay until the morning and

802
00:49:07,760 –> 00:49:09,840
open the doors of the House of
Yahweh.

803
00:49:09,840 –> 00:49:14,960
Isn’t that lovely?
That’s just exploding with

804
00:49:14,960 –> 00:49:17,120
history when you really start to
think about it, isn’t it?

805
00:49:17,800 –> 00:49:20,560
Now you can see why Elkanah was
the type of man who was, why he

806
00:49:20,560 –> 00:49:25,400
chose a woman like like Hannah.
And why he had a grandson like

807
00:49:25,560 –> 00:49:30,000
he man, He man who was a prophet
in the things of God.

808
00:49:30,080 –> 00:49:33,680
Samuel was his grandfather.
Samuel was responsible for the

809
00:49:33,680 –> 00:49:35,120
school of the prophets.
Wasn’t he?

810
00:49:35,120 –> 00:49:38,440
It was in his era that the
prophets began to multiply.

811
00:49:38,560 –> 00:49:40,240
Do you think he left his
grandchildren out of that?

812
00:49:42,560 –> 00:49:44,200
Well, let all the other children
come in and.

813
00:49:44,520 –> 00:49:45,960
And his own.
Grandchildren out there booting

814
00:49:45,960 –> 00:49:47,320
a football around.
No way.

815
00:49:48,080 –> 00:49:52,320
He man came into grandpa’s study
class and he learnt grandpa’s

816
00:49:52,320 –> 00:49:55,880
mind and then he had fourteen
sons and he put that mind

817
00:49:55,880 –> 00:49:59,640
through the whole lot of them,
14 boys, and they had Samuel’s

818
00:49:59,640 –> 00:50:00,920
mind right through the whole lot
of them.

819
00:50:02,120 –> 00:50:03,920
Inspiration things really,
aren’t they?

820
00:50:04,680 –> 00:50:07,240
Now you can see why when Samuel
and David got together and said,

821
00:50:07,400 –> 00:50:11,520
what family shall we choose to
be the doorkeepers?

822
00:50:13,000 –> 00:50:16,960
They chose that family because
those principles are ingrained

823
00:50:16,960 –> 00:50:18,560
into the hearts of those
children.

824
00:50:20,080 –> 00:50:22,840
Isn’t the Bible a very wonderful
thing, my dear and sisters?

825
00:50:23,160 –> 00:50:25,760
Aren’t you glad?
You know that God has opened our

826
00:50:25,760 –> 00:50:28,000
hearts to to, to love the word
of God.

827
00:50:28,280 –> 00:50:29,480
It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t
it?

828
00:50:29,480 –> 00:50:32,920
They’re precious things.
You’ll be able to see that, see

829
00:50:32,920 –> 00:50:36,920
why David thus came along and
and reorganized it, preserving

830
00:50:36,920 –> 00:50:41,320
that principle because he did in
first the Chronicles chapter 26.

831
00:50:48,360 –> 00:50:50,560
He brought the Korah Heights
into this.

832
00:50:58,280 –> 00:51:03,440
Concerning the divisions of the.
Portis of the Korah Heights was

833
00:51:03,440 –> 00:51:07,760
Meshalamaya, the son of Kor of
the sons of Asaph, or Abbey

834
00:51:07,800 –> 00:51:09,840
Asaph.
And if you go back to the

835
00:51:09,840 –> 00:51:13,880
marginal reference, it will take
you to chapter 6 verse 23 and 37

836
00:51:14,320 –> 00:51:17,640
and Chapter 9 verse 19.
And if you just have an eye for

837
00:51:17,640 –> 00:51:19,800
it, you’ll remember.
That that’s right in the middle

838
00:51:20,200 –> 00:51:22,800
of all of the story of the Korra
heights.

839
00:51:23,640 –> 00:51:27,800
What a wonderful thing.
And that’s principally where

840
00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:32,280
they came from.
They came from Kohath.

841
00:51:33,160 –> 00:51:36,880
And whereas the other officers
were pretty equally distributed

842
00:51:36,880 –> 00:51:41,720
among Gershon, Kohath and
Marari, the doorkeepers weren’t.

843
00:51:42,480 –> 00:51:48,960
They were principally in Kohath,
that is, in Korra, Kohath, and

844
00:51:48,960 –> 00:51:53,800
then.
Is Ha and then Kora and then the

845
00:51:53,800 –> 00:52:00,440
sons of Kora, and it’s in that
group almost 75% of them.

846
00:52:00,840 –> 00:52:05,120
Came from that group.
As a matter of fact, it says in

847
00:52:05,120 –> 00:52:10,320
verse 8, all these of the sons
of Obed Edom, they, their sons

848
00:52:10,320 –> 00:52:14,880
and their brethren, able men for
strength of the service were 62

849
00:52:14,920 –> 00:52:20,240
of Obed Edom.
That’s by far the majority of

850
00:52:20,240 –> 00:52:23,920
those who were chosen and
Michelamaya had sons and

851
00:52:23,920 –> 00:52:27,680
brethren, strong men. 1862 + 18,
that’s 80.

852
00:52:28,520 –> 00:52:31,480
The only others that are
mentioned are the 13 in verse

853
00:52:31,480 –> 00:52:37,280
11, and they came from Hosar of
the children of Murari verse 10.

854
00:52:37,920 –> 00:52:42,280
So there was a representation.
From the division of Murari, but

855
00:52:42,280 –> 00:52:45,240
there’s nothing mentioned of
Gershon at all.

856
00:52:46,200 –> 00:52:49,680
They were principally of that
family that otherwise might have

857
00:52:49,680 –> 00:52:55,040
been removed in Israel.
And if you go through, it’s not

858
00:52:55,040 –> 00:52:56,440
an easy chapter to.
Follow and I’m not.

859
00:52:56,440 –> 00:52:58,280
Going to go through all the
details of it.

860
00:52:58,920 –> 00:53:04,040
But you see verse 13 again, they
had they had their their lots

861
00:53:04,040 –> 00:53:06,400
and their divisions or their
courses in which they were

862
00:53:06,400 –> 00:53:08,760
involved.
They cast lots as well, the

863
00:53:08,760 –> 00:53:12,040
smallest, the great, according
to the House of their fathers,

864
00:53:12,040 –> 00:53:14,480
for every gate.
And the lot eastward.

865
00:53:14,480 –> 00:53:17,720
Fellow Shalamaya.
Then for Zechariah, his son, a

866
00:53:17,720 –> 00:53:21,080
wise council, they cast lots,
and his lot came out northward,

867
00:53:21,440 –> 00:53:24,920
drove it eat him southward.
And so the various gates to

868
00:53:24,920 –> 00:53:29,160
which they were apportioned.
But it begins to tell us about

869
00:53:29,160 –> 00:53:32,120
the numbers of them in verse 17.
Let’s count the numbers up.

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00:53:32,880 –> 00:53:38,840
Verse 17 eastward was 6 Levites
northward for a day, southward

871
00:53:38,880 –> 00:53:47,920
for a day toward a super 2 and 2
at far power, westward four and

872
00:53:47,920 –> 00:53:50,920
two at power bar.
Add those up and what do you

873
00:53:50,920 –> 00:53:55,360
think you’ll get?
24 so the pattern stays in

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00:53:55,360 –> 00:53:58,360
place.
Very beautiful things and says

875
00:53:58,360 –> 00:54:01,080
therefore, in verse 19, these
are the divisions of the porters

876
00:54:01,320 –> 00:54:04,680
among the.
Sons of Korra in the division of

877
00:54:04,680 –> 00:54:07,920
Koha, and among the sons of
Murali.

878
00:54:09,160 –> 00:54:12,800
Now just let’s finalize that
with a quick look at a lovely

879
00:54:12,800 –> 00:54:19,440
little Psalm that the sons of
Kora wrote, Psalm 84.

880
00:54:21,560 –> 00:54:23,160
This is why they were chosen, my
dear.

881
00:54:23,160 –> 00:54:29,760
And sisters, a Psalm, it says
for the sons of Kora, Psalm of

882
00:54:29,760 –> 00:54:34,040
the sons of Kora.
It clearly was a Psalm written

883
00:54:34,040 –> 00:54:37,240
by that family.
What a beautiful family they

884
00:54:37,240 –> 00:54:40,600
must have been and shows, you
know, don’t ever give up with

885
00:54:40,600 –> 00:54:42,320
people in the truth.
Don’t ever give up.

886
00:54:43,160 –> 00:54:45,920
It’s been some amazing things
happen when people don’t give

887
00:54:45,920 –> 00:54:49,560
up.
When you hear the story of the

888
00:54:49,560 –> 00:54:53,120
man who was here today, you
will, you will really feel that

889
00:54:53,120 –> 00:54:54,200
too.
Never give up eh?

890
00:54:55,440 –> 00:54:57,560
You never know.
God can redeem from the

891
00:54:57,560 –> 00:55:02,240
uttermost.
How amiable are thy tabernacles,

892
00:55:03,080 –> 00:55:08,800
O Yahweh of hosts, the great God
that works with great power and

893
00:55:08,800 –> 00:55:12,760
can in a great host.
Can bring about.

894
00:55:12,760 –> 00:55:15,160
Great things with great
strength.

895
00:55:15,880 –> 00:55:20,080
But how amiable are thy
tabernacles, thy dwelling

896
00:55:20,080 –> 00:55:26,480
places, this great God?
My soul longeth, ye even fainted

897
00:55:27,760 –> 00:55:33,480
for the courts of Yahweh.
My heart and my flesh crieth out

898
00:55:33,480 –> 00:55:37,520
for the living God.
This is a most exceptional man,

899
00:55:37,520 –> 00:55:39,760
isn’t it?
Or exceptional man.

900
00:55:39,760 –> 00:55:45,040
They love the House of God.
They have set their affections

901
00:55:45,920 –> 00:55:50,720
upon it like they.
Yeah, the Sparrow hath found a

902
00:55:50,720 –> 00:55:54,320
house, and the swallower nest
with herself.

903
00:55:55,760 –> 00:56:00,280
About the ramparts of the
Tabernacle or the temple where

904
00:56:00,280 –> 00:56:03,400
she may lie, her young, even
thine altars, though Yahweh face

905
00:56:03,400 –> 00:56:06,600
not literally or altars, but by
the altars, by the parapets of

906
00:56:06,600 –> 00:56:12,440
the temple, even the little.
Birds could find a nest.

907
00:56:13,800 –> 00:56:16,480
Blessed are they that dwell in
thy house.

908
00:56:17,280 –> 00:56:19,760
They will be still praising
thee.

909
00:56:21,040 –> 00:56:23,000
Well, the psalmist obviously
wasn’t there.

910
00:56:23,920 –> 00:56:26,400
He was a son of Cora, but there
was courses.

911
00:56:27,040 –> 00:56:30,320
So sometimes they were away on
their own properties.

912
00:56:30,320 –> 00:56:33,120
And when it became their
opportunity to come Jerusalem,

913
00:56:33,160 –> 00:56:35,760
they came and lived in the
precincts of the Temple.

914
00:56:36,800 –> 00:56:39,320
And so they had their seasons on
and their seasons off.

915
00:56:40,640 –> 00:56:44,640
And this psalmist, this son of
Korra, he’s been away from the

916
00:56:44,640 –> 00:56:47,120
temple, but he doesn’t want to
be away from the temple.

917
00:56:47,120 –> 00:56:49,000
What he loves most of all is the
meeting.

918
00:56:49,680 –> 00:56:52,480
That’s what he loves.
Never finds it a trouble to come

919
00:56:52,480 –> 00:56:54,600
to the meetings.
And because something else is on

920
00:56:54,600 –> 00:56:57,800
and it’s in his way, he wants to
come to meetings most of all.

921
00:56:57,800 –> 00:57:00,520
That’s his life.
Blessed are they that dwell in

922
00:57:00,520 –> 00:57:02,720
the house.
They will be still praising

923
00:57:02,720 –> 00:57:06,400
thee.
Well, it’s my turn in certain

924
00:57:06,400 –> 00:57:10,960
times.
If I can’t go there physically,

925
00:57:12,080 –> 00:57:17,280
then I will spiritually.
Blessed is the man whose

926
00:57:17,280 –> 00:57:25,520
strength is in thee, in whose
heart are the highways to Zion,

927
00:57:26,400 –> 00:57:30,600
as the revised version rightly
puts it, in his heart.

928
00:57:30,600 –> 00:57:34,080
See, he can’t go there
physically because it’s not his

929
00:57:34,080 –> 00:57:37,720
turn.
But he’s there spiritually.

930
00:57:38,840 –> 00:57:41,720
His mind is travelling down the
road that leads to Jerusalem.

931
00:57:42,320 –> 00:57:44,880
It might be just a little path,
but for him it’s like a highway

932
00:57:46,320 –> 00:57:48,640
that leads him to the place that
he wants to be.

933
00:57:50,720 –> 00:57:56,000
Who passing through the Valley
of Weeping make it a well?

934
00:57:56,600 –> 00:58:00,600
The rain also fill up the pools.
We all go through the Valley of

935
00:58:00,600 –> 00:58:03,800
Weeping, don’t we?
From time to time when things

936
00:58:03,800 –> 00:58:08,200
come upon us and they seem so
hard, it’s almost impossible.

937
00:58:09,160 –> 00:58:11,960
And we’ve traversed the valley
of weeping, the valley of

938
00:58:11,960 –> 00:58:16,560
backup, and the psalmist is
saying that if in that

939
00:58:16,560 –> 00:58:21,160
circumstance I have Zion in
mind, I can turn that misfortune

940
00:58:21,560 –> 00:58:25,040
into pools of water, into
prosperity.

941
00:58:25,480 –> 00:58:28,520
And pleasantness, if God is in
my heart.

942
00:58:29,520 –> 00:58:31,320
They go from strength to
strength.

943
00:58:31,320 –> 00:58:33,720
Every one of them in Zion
appeareth before God.

944
00:58:34,600 –> 00:58:36,280
And yet they’re back on their
properties and all their

945
00:58:36,280 –> 00:58:39,920
individual lives and all our
homes in all the circumstances

946
00:58:39,920 –> 00:58:44,680
that we have.
They can go from strength to

947
00:58:44,680 –> 00:58:50,040
strength.
O Yahweh, God of hosts, hear my

948
00:58:50,040 –> 00:58:52,720
prayer.
Give ear.

949
00:58:52,720 –> 00:58:55,960
O God of Jacob, what a beautiful
expression.

950
00:58:57,720 –> 00:59:00,240
Who knew more the ups and downs
of life than Jacob?

951
00:59:01,600 –> 00:59:05,320
Behold, O God, our shield, and
look upon the face of thine

952
00:59:05,320 –> 00:59:09,720
anointed.
Here’s the history of this man

953
00:59:11,040 –> 00:59:14,960
who was saved when others joined
the tents of wickedness.