Joni Mannell – The Breaking Of Bread – Class 5 – A Jealous God

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So we now ask our brother Johnny
to come forward and read us in

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this fifth study on the overall
theme of the the breaking of

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bread.
And today’s dealing is with the

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jealous God.
Brother Johnny.

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Thanks, brother John.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters.
I can’t believe it’s our fifth

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and final session already.
You’ve been a very patient and

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kind audience.
Thank you for that.

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And we’ve had a lovely time.
And as I said at the beginning

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of the week, these, these
thoughts that I’ve been sharing

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with you, I’m, I totally confess
were, were thoughts that were a

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journey of my, my, my own
personal pursuance.

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Really.
They were things that I did for

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my sake so that when I sat down
on a Sunday, I had something

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that I could think about and I
could concentrate on.

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And I, I think I kind of added
a, a caveat at the beginning of

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the week that said, listen, if
you don’t get anything out of

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that, then I’m just here telling
you what I did and how I felt.

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And I just hope, brothers and
sisters, that in the journey,

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some, some of the things that
I’ve found helpful personally to

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me may have been helpful to you
as well.

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So our our final session, the
Lord whose name is jealous is a

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jealous God.
And I suppose that this is just

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really to finish off some of the
things that we thought about

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yesterday.
But we’ve been on a remarkable

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journey, haven’t we really?
We’ve gone through so many

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things.
We’re we will have sat here for

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nearly five hours by the time I
finished this morning.

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And yet when we meet together on
a Sunday or, or in whatever

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circumstances it is that you
meet brothers, sisters, to break

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bread in whatever occasion it
might be, I guess you don’t get

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5 hours normally to sit down and
think about all these things.

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And it’s amazing, isn’t it Ren
sisters, how much we can contain

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in our minds and how much we can
actually bring to bear when we

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think about it, on the
simplicity of what we do

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together.
I’ll never forget 11 occasion

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when I was doing mission work in
the Ukraine.

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I was only a young guy.
I was probably 1819 and we went

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to visit this brother in in
isolation miles and miles away.

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It took us about 24 hours I
think on the train to get there,

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which by British standards, by
the way, is a long way I

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understand maybe not so for you
guys.

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And we arrived in isolation and
we only had probably 24 hours to

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spend with this brother and
sister who maybe got to break

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bread with other people, I don’t
know, 2-3 times a year.

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And as we neared the end of our
time together, the brother

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turned to me and said his
English was OK to say this.

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He said, you know, what time is
your train?

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What, what time are you catching
your train?

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How long have we got left?
And all that we had to do left

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was just to break bread
together.

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And I looked at my watch and I
said, well, I think we got about

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four hours.
Why?

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And he said, well, can you make
a breaking of bread last for

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four hours?
OK, well, in, in the UK we’re

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we’re kept pretty tight on a
tight leash in terms of how long

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we get when we’re exhorting on a
Sunday morning.

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And I’d never been asked to give
a four hour exitation before.

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And I felt a little chill run
down my spine.

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But I thought what a lovely
spirit that was Brent and

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sisters that for that brother,
every moment he had left, he

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wanted to be spending in
fellowship around the memorial

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in together of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

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That’s a lovely thing, isn’t it?
And when you think about the

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amount of time and we, I, for
me, it feels like we’ve barely

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scratched the surface of some of
the issues that we’ve been

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talking about and how much God
has given us to think about and

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dwell on as we come to remember.
And be grateful for the work of

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our Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, we’ve seen the joy set

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before him.
We’ve seen the power of the word

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made flesh in the bread.
We’ve seen the the new wine

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Speaking of new things, better
things change things.

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Our our thinking and our living
has been challenged by the Lord

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himself to do as he has done, to
feel it and live it as keenly as

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as he has done.
And so now we come to this idea

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of God being jealous.
And I, I want to leave you on a

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high.
No question about.

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That I want to I want to send
you.

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This week with a real feeling of
positivity about the awesome

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things that God has done for us
and how he wants us to feel

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about it.
And I want you to explore this

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morning with me how how much God
wants us to be in a relationship

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with him and and that as we come
week by week to to remember the

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Lord Jesus Christ, the price he
was.

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Willing to pay in order to
create that environment where we

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could be with Him, we could feel
one with Him, we could

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understand that He wants to do
whatever it takes to get us to

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sit in His presence.
And be joined to him, be a part

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of him.
And it’s lovely, isn’t it, that

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God describes himself as a
jealous God before we come to

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Numbers 5 and the law that John
has read for us.

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Coming me to Joshua 24, this
it’s not one of the names of God

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that we often talk about or
study.

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And yet there’s no question that
the Lord whose name is jealous

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is a jealous God is one of the
names and titles that God

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chooses for himself.
And it’s it’s really rather

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lovely when you think about the
implications of God being

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jealous for us.
Joshua 24.

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It’s an extraordinary occasion.
You remember at the end of

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Joshua’s life, he he brings the
people all together for one last

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time and he asks them.
To renew the covenant, this new

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generation who’ve now entered
the promised land, they have the

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opportunity to create the
Kingdom of God here on earth.

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And Joshua brings them all
together and tries to stir them

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up and, and motivate them and,
and consolidate all of their

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feelings and their commitment to
the things that he’s brought

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them into this land for.
And, and he he challenges them,

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doesn’t he?
Verse 15 of Joshua 24 If it

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seemed evil unto you to serve
the Lord choose you this day who

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you’re going to serve, whether
the gods which your father

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served on the other side of the
flood or the gods of the

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Amorites in whose land you
dwell.

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But As for me and my house, we
will serve the Lord.

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And you get this lovely refrain
from the people that that was an

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echo of what we were thinking
about yesterday.

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Verse 16 All the people answered
and said, God forbid we should

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forsake the Lord to serve other
gods.

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The Lord our God, He it is that
brought us up and our fathers

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from the land of Egypt and the
House of bondage, who did these

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great signs in our sight.
Verse 18 The Lord drave out from

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before us all the people, the
Amorites, who dwelt in the land.

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Therefore, we also will serve
the Lord, for He is our God.

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And listen now to the challenge
of Joshua to these people.

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Verse 19 Joshua said to the
people, you cannot serve the

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Lord.
He’s a holy God.

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He’s a jealous God.
He will not forgive your

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transgressions and sins.
If you forsake the Lord and

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serve strange gods, He will
consume you and do you her.

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And although that sounds
challenging, it’s.

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Lovely in a way, isn’t it?
Joshua is saying.

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God is so jealous to have your
undivided attention.

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You need to be really cautious
and careful about the commitment

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that you make to Him and how
determined you.

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Are to see it through.
God is a jealous God.

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He wants your affection, he
wants your attention.

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And when we turn aside and says
and we give it to other things

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and we dedicate our lives and
our time and our energy and our

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emotion to other things that are
on the fringes of, of the, of

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our purpose of becoming like
God, God gets jealous about it.

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He doesn’t cast.
Us off and go oh forget that.

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Forget Johnny.
Then he’s off.

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God gets jealous about the fact
that my time and my affection is

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being dedicated to other things.
I think Joshua.

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Was actually quoting from Exodus
20.

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Just a quick flick back there,
right back to the beginning of

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Israel’s experience with God
again where we were yesterday as

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as Moses receives the 10
commandments from God here on

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Mount Sinai.
And just look at the very words

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which God introduces the 10
commandments to the children of

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Israel.
Exodus 20 verse 4 commandment #2

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You will not make any graven
image or any likeness of

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anything that is in heaven
above, or that is in earth

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beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth.

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You will not bow down yourself
to them or serve them.

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For I, the Lord your God, I’m a
jealous God, visiting the

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iniquity of the fathers on the
children, to the third and 4th

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generation of them that hate me,
and showing mercy unto

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thousands.
Of them that love me and keep my

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commandments.
Do you see how tight Bren and

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sisters God wants this
relationship with us to be.

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He says you will not make verse
for any graven image or any

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likeness and he purposely lifts
those words right out of Genesis

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1, doesn’t he?
Verse 26 when God made us in the

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beginning, he made us in his
image and after his likeness.

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We walk around Bren sisters
every single.

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Day of our Lives.
Bearing the image and likeness

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of God Himself or the capacity
to to bear the image and

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likeness of God.
And when we decide that in our

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lives we’re not going to display
the image and likeness of God,

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God gets jealous for it.
When he looks down on my life,

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He wants to see me developing
the image and likeness, not

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leaving it dormant.
He’s given me this extraordinary

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body and this incredible mind to
use to develop His image and His

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likeness like I was made in the
beginning.

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The only creature on the planet,
Bren sisters, the only species

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with the ability to make
themselves in the image and

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after the likeness of God
himself.

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And so often, Bren sisters, we
spend our lives like animals,

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doing nothing but exercising the
function of our bodies and not

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elevating our minds and
challenging our minds to the

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things that the capacity and the
potential God has made us for.

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And when that happens, Bren
sisters, God gets jealous.

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I the Lord your God, verse 5,
I’m a jealous God.

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God loves us that much.
Bren sisters.

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It’s, it’s incredible actually,
when you think about some of the

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attributes of God, isn’t it?
He, he presents himself to us in

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such human terms that we might
begin to understand how he

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feels.
God loves, he gives, he’s

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forgiving, he delights, he
rejoices, he listens, he hears,

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he protects, he cares, he
sorrows.

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Remembering in Hosier, he said.
My heart recoils within me.

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At the thought of casting off
his people, he describes himself

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as as having these emotions
churning up inside that you and

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I can associate with so that we
can understand how he feels

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about us and brother and
sisters.

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When you, when you know those
those feelings that you get deep

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in the pit of your stomach when,
when you are involved in

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somebody you care about.
When, when emotions come into

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play and the issues of life
challenge those emotions because

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you live and care about people
and you hurt when you know

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they’re hurting and you feel
things.

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When you know they’re going
through experiences and

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difficulties.
And sometimes we’re just

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overwhelmed.
With a sense of wonder and love

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when we think about the people
with whom we’ve built

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relationships in our lives.
And that’s how God feels.

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Brethren, this is about us, I
guess.

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When we think about feeling
jealous, it’s not normally a

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positive thing, isn’t it?
We normally think of jealousy as

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being a negative emotion to
have.

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When you’re jealous of somebody,
it’s normally because you want

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something that you can’t have or
you want somebody that you can’t

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have, all right?
And we feel jealous because

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somebody else is getting
something or somebody that we

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would like to have somebody’s
affections or somebody’s time or

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somebody’s attention.
I feel jealous every night when

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I come home from work if if
Esther’s gone to her mum’s and

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Elisa’s playing with grandma
because I walk in the room and

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grandma’s such an exciting
person.

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You know, when Daddy walks in
the room, he’s really just an

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irrelevant being, right?
Because grandma’s very exciting.

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It’s grandma does all sorts of
things with Elias that Daddy

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doesn’t do all right.
And we start feeling jealous

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that we wish Elias felt towards
Daddy like he does towards

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Grandma.
And sometimes it’s a negative

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thing, but when you think about
it, run sister if.

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You were on the other end of it.
If somebody was feeling jealous

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for you.
In a way.

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It’s quite a nice thing, isn’t
it?

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Sometimes.
And and the very thought, Run

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says is that God feels jealous
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He’s not passive about our
relationship with him.

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He wants to have our attention.
He wants to have our affection.

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He desires to have our our time
and our energy and our thoughts

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and our feelings and our lives
and our attitudes and our

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decisions.
He wants to be involved and he

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feels jealous when he’s not.
Isn’t that a lovely thing?

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Absolutely extraordinary.
Welcoming me to Numbers 5 and

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this, this law that we were
reading about, the law of

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jealousy.
And let’s Sebring sisters, how

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it will be applied in the New
Testament as being directly

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relevant to how we need to feel
and how we need to understand

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our relationship with God when
we come to take the bread and

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drink from the cup of the Lord.
We read it together and let’s

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let’s just run through some of
the details to to get the

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picture of what’s going on here
really clear in our minds.

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Numbers chapter 5 then, and the
issue you will have noticed is

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verse 14, when the spirit of
jealousy comes upon a man.

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All right, so this is a law that
was exclusively to be used by

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the men.
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were not able to apply this law,
only the men.

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And there’s obviously spiritual
significance in that.

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God is not chauvinistic.
He’s teaching us a lesson about

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His relationship with us.
God is going to be the husband

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ultimately in this parable
that’s painted here in this

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chapter, and we are going to be
his wife.

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That’s the principle, isn’t it?
And yet God, without overtly

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saying that, gives the law for
the for the men in the in the

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camp of Israel to use over their
wives.

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Verse 14 If the spirit of
jealousy comes upon him and the

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man is jealous of his wife and
she is defiled, or if the spirit

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of jealousy comes upon him and
he’s jealous of his wife and

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she’s not defiled, either way
the husband can use this law.

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Let’s think of some scenarios
then.

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Let’s let’s suggest, for
example, that a husband has a

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suspicion that his wife has been
unfaithful.

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He is entitled to use this law
to prove whether or not that’s

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been the case.
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perhaps there are rumours that a
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and he’s absolutely confident
that’s not the case.

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Maybe there’s a rumour going
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Maybe there’s some nasty gossip
that’s going around that needs

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to be put an end to.
Well, the man can equally use

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this law.
If he’s absolutely convinced his

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wife is it has not been defiled,
she’s not been unfaithful, then

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he can employ this law and God
will be the one who will make a

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declaration of, of, of the fact
that there is innocence on the

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part of his wife.
So either way, the man can use

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this law.
To either prove his wife guilty

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or innocent.
And God will be the judge, not

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man.
The priest might go through the

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ritual, but God will be the one
as she drinks the water, who

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will determine whether or not
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Verse 15, The man will bring his
wife to the priest.

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He will bring her offering for
her the 10th part of an efer of

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barley meal.
He’ll pour no oil upon it or

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frankincense on it.
It’s an offering of jealousy, a

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meal offering of memorial
designed to bring iniquity to

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remembrance.
And I want you to remember that

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when we come to the New
Testament, the very purpose of

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this law is to bring iniquity to
remembrance on the part of the

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woman who is on trial.
The objective is for her to

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search her heart and mind and
for God to be the judge of

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whether there is any iniquity in
her.

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And it’s about bringing iniquity
to remembrance.

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And what we’re going to
discover, Brent says, is when we

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come to drink the cup ourselves,
week by week, it’s about

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bringing iniquity to
remembrance.

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Verse 17, The priest will take
holy water in an earthen vessel

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of the dust that is on the floor
of the Tabernacle.

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The priest will take it and put
it into the water.

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It’s kind of a strange thing to
do, isn’t it?

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In a way.
He takes some water, he picks up

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a handful of dust from the floor
and he puts it in the water.

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Not very nice to drink, but
that’s the process that that the

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priest has got to go through.
And we need to just explore in a

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moment why, why that was the
case.

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Verse 19, the curse was now
explained.

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The priest will charge her by an
oath and say to the woman, if no

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man has lain with you, and if
you’ve not gone aside to

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uncleanness with another instead
of your husband, then you’ll be

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free from this bitter water that
causes the curse.

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Isn’t that lovely?
The very first statement that is

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made is.
If you are.

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Innocent, then blessings are
going to come from this.

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If you’re innocent, isn’t that
lovely?

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However, if not verse 20, if you
have gone aside to another

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instead of your husband, and if
you have been defiled and some

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man has lain with you besides
your husband, then the priest

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will will charge the woman with
an oath of cursing.

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The priest will say to the
woman, the Lord make you a curse

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and an oath among your people.
When the Lord makes your thigh

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rots and your belly swell, this
water that causes the curse will

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go into your bowels.
It will make your belly swell

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and your thigh rot, and the
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Now I don’t know quite exactly,
brothers sisters, what the

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physical outcome of this curse
would be or like it.

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All I think we need to know for
the purpose of this morning is

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that it doesn’t sound too
pleasant.

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All right.
If the woman is found guilty,

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the curse will not be something
she would have normally wanted

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to experience in normal everyday
circumstances.

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And then the priest would do
something really interesting.

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Verse 23, The priest will write
these curses in a book.

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That makes sense, doesn’t it?
It’s a, it becomes a legal

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document.
Both the man and the wife are

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agreeing to this process.
This curse is being documented

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and written for everybody to
understand that when she drinks

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this water, there’s going to be
consequences, either a blessing

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for innocence or a curse for
guilt.

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But then the most bizarre thing
happens.

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As quickly as the priest has
written it down in the book, he

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blocks it out again.
Verse 23.

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The priest will write these
curses in a book and then he

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will block them out with a bit
of water.

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Isn’t that fabulous?
It almost seems like a waste

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writing it down in the 1st.
Place, doesn’t it?

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If he’s suddenly going to
quickly blot it out again with

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the water, why is he doing that?
Well, let’s let’s follow it

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through verse 26.
The priest will take a handful

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of the meal, offering even the
memorial and burn it on the

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altar.
And after he will make the woman

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drink the water.
So after all this process has

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been through, it’s been written
and documented that the the

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writing has been blotted out
almost into the water.

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It’s as if the water the woman
is now going to drink contains

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the documented curse.
It’s been blotted out, the ink

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has been blotted out into that
water along with the dust from

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the floor.
And she’s now going to drink

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this, this concoction of dust
and cursing that’s been

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documented in the book.
And we will see what will take

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place.
Verse 27, when he’s made her

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drink the water, it will come to
pass.

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If she is defiled and has done
trespass against her husband,

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the water that causes the curse
will enter her and become

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bitter, and her belly will swell
and her thigh will rot, and the

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woman will be a curse among her
people.

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And if the woman is not defiled
but clean, she will be free and

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conceive seed.
So you get the picture of what’s

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going on.
There is a question over the

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guilt or the innocence of a
woman.

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This process has gone through
and the drinking of this cup is

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now going to determine what the
outcome of her life will be.

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And I’m guessing from the
inference there at the end of

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verse 28 that the the blessing
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And part of the curse would be
the inability to conceive, seed

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and go on and have a family and
have children.

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Well, brothers and sisters, now
that we’ve looked at it, let’s

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just think about some scenarios
because this is where it gets

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interesting, isn’t it?
It’s one thing reading it there

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on the page.
What about if you were the

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family involved in this
situation?

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Imagine, brethren, for a moment
that you are, you are the

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husband in this situation and
you either suspect your wife’s

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unfaithfulness or you are
determined to prove it.

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Let me ask you a question.
Would you go through with this

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procedure?
Let let’s take either case.

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Let’s say you did suspect there
was unfaithfulness in your wife.

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Would you bring her to the
priest and make her do this?

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That’s an interesting question,
isn’t it?

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Even if you were suspecting of
guilt, would you do this?

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I mean, the implications and the
consequences for guilt being

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found were not mild.
This woman will be an oath and a

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cursing throughout the entire
camp of Israel.

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Would you go through with this?
Let’s say you believed your wife

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was innocent.
Would you go through with it?

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You’d have to be pretty
confident, wouldn’t you?

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God was going to be the judge,
nobody else.

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You remember how the Lord Jesus
says in Matthew 5 even a man

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looking on a woman to lust after
her, in her, in his heart, has

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committed adultery with her?
And imagine if that were the

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principle being applied here
over faithfulness and

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unfaithfulness.
Would you?

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Would you have the confidence to
put your wife on trial and make

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her drink and God be the judge
of her innocence with the

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potential consequences?
Sisters, imagine if you were the

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wife in this situation and
brethren, you do it too because

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in the greater principle, God is
going to put us all on trial any

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moment now as we go through our
session.

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Imagine you were the wife in
this scenario.

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How would you feel?
Let’s say you knew you were

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guilty deep down inside.
This law is about bringing

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iniquity to remembrance.
And whether or not everybody

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else knows or not, each one of
you knows in your own heart

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whether there is guilt or
innocence in your own life.

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How would you feel as you
approach the priest?

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And you took the cup of that
that with that water of cursing.

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Imagine if you were innocent,
how confident you would have to

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feel about whether or not you’d
been guilty, even in just the

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smallest part as you drank the
water, knowing that God was

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being the judge.
He was the one who was examining

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the contents of your mind and
your feelings and your emotions

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and all of your experiences of
life.

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And the question is, Brent says,
can you think of an occasion

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when this law was actually used
in the record of Scripture?

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That’s the, that’s the
fascinating thing, isn’t it?

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And I in it’s literal sense
here, I, I can’t find one, which

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I suppose in a way is a lovely
thing, but there was 1 occasion

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and it’s right where we were
yesterday back in Exodus 32.

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And in fact, I want to suggest
you brethren, it was this

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occasion that actually caused
God to articulate this law and

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have it documented.
The Apostle Paul in Galatian

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says that the law, the laws were
added because of transgression.

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And what I think he means is
that as the children of Israel

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went through the wilderness for
40 years, every time there was a

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problem, God found a solution
and he documented the law that

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had been the answer to that
problem.

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So, and this is going to be one
example, this, this law was the

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answer to what happened in
Exodus 32 at the Golden calf

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when the whole nation en masse
had been unfaithful to God.

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All that the Lord has said we
will do and be obedient.

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And God put them on trial.
And he was the one who

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determined who had been guilty
in that, in that rebellion and

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who had been innocent.
The red heifer was another one

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you might remember.
Because of their unfaithfulness

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and not being willing to cross
the Jordan and go into the land,

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God said all their men would
die.

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And because they had such
contact with death over the next

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40 years, God had to bring in
laws about cleanness and

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uncleanness when it came into
contact with dead bodies.

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Because a whole generation of
men and women were going to die

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out there in the wilderness and
death was going to become a

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daily occurrence for the next 40
years that they were going to

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have to deal with.
So God has to have to write laws

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to deal with that situation.
The law was added because of

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transgression.
And I want to suggest to you,

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Brent sisters, that Numbers 5
was written as a result of what

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happened in Exodus 32.
Coming me to verse 19 of Exodus

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32.
We were here yesterday.

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As soon as Moses came near the
camp and he saw the calf and the

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dancing Moses, anger waxed hot,
and he cast the tablets out of

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his hands and broke them beneath
them out there and.

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He took the calf which they had
made, He burnt it in the fire,

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ground it to powder, strawed it
upon the water, and he made the

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children of Israel drink it.
And there you are right there.

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That was the prototype of this
law in Numbers five.

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He ground that calf to powder.
I don’t know how you do that

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with gold.
By the way, I don’t know if

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we’ve got any metallurgists
amongst us.

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Not very easy to grind gold to
powder.

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I’m certainly not sure how Moses
made them drink it.

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Can you imagine, Brent Sis, as
the authority and the control

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this man had over this
congregation that he could, he

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could create this, this
situation where this calf has

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been ground to powder and he’s
making the men and women of

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Israel drink the water into
which it’s been ground.

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And it seems to me, Brent Sis,
this is the only time this Law

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of Numbers 5 is used in
Scripture.

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Come down to verse 35 of of
Exodus 32, the Lord.

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Plagued the people.
Because they made the calf,

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which Aaron made.
Now I guess drinking water with

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gold dust in it probably would
make you I’ll again.

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I, I don’t know, I I’d need to
ask a doctor about that one.

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I’m pretty sure drinking gold
isn’t that good for your system.

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But you can see the inference of
what God is saying, that as the

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people drank, the Lord plagued
the people.

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He was the one who determined as
a result of drinking that water,

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who had been innocent and who
had been guilty in the rebellion

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there on the wilderness floor at
Mount Sinai.

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Now just keep a finger in Exodus
and turn over to Deuteronomy 940

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years later, as Moses reminds
the men and women what had

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happened, he almost confirms
that this was the situation.

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Deuteronomy 9 verse 13 and just
listen to these words and, and,

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and pick up all the echoes from
the passages we’ve looked at so

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far this morning.
Deuteronomy 913 The Lord spoke

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to me saying, and This is why he
was still on the mountain.

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The Lord spoke to me saying,
I’ve seen this people.

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It is a stiff necked people.
Let me alone that I may destroy

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them and blot out their name
from under heaven.

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Do you hear those words?
Blot out their name from under

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heaven.
And I will make of you a nation

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mightier and greater than they.
So I turned and came down from

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the mountain, and the mountain
burned with fire the tab, the

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tables of the covenant were in
my hands, and I looked and

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behold, you’d sinned against the
Lord your God and have made a

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molten calf.
You turned aside quickly out of

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the way the Lord had commanded
you.

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And I took the two tables and
cast them out of my hands, broke

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them before your eyes, and I
fell down before the Lord.

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As at the 1st 40 days and 40
nights.

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I didn’t eat or drink because of
all your sins that you’d sinned

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in doing wickedly in the sight
of the Lord to provoke Him to

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anger.
I was afraid of the anger and

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hot displeasure with the
wherewith the Lord was wroth

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against you to destroy you.
But the Lord hearkened to me at

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that time also.
Verse 21.

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And I took your sin, the calf
which you have made, and I burnt

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it with fire, stamped it, and
ground it very small, until it

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was as small as dust.
And I cast the dust into the

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brook that descended out of the
mount, and he made them drink

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it.
He ground it as small as dust

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and he describes the calf as
their sin.

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Do you notice that he he equates
to the golden calf with, with

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grinding their sin into dust,
their iniquity, their guilt.

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And that’s what he was making
them drink.

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He wasn’t the golden calf, it
was their sin.

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It was about bringing iniquity
to remembrance.

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It was about making them realise
that they had to bear the

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consequences of of their own
choices and he made them drink

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their own sin, which is why
there in Numbers five.

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It was documented there in the
book and blotted out into the

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water that the the priest might
make the woman drink her own

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sin, her own guilt that had been
documented there in the records

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of the men and women of Israel.
I made you drink your sin back

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in Exodus 32 and here as Moses
goes up the mountain now and.

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Pleads for the people with God.
It’s it’s one of the most heart

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warming moments in Bible
history, isn’t it I I don’t know

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how Moses rose to the spiritual
stamina that he did to to to

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carry out this act here on the
mountain with God.

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Exodus 32 and verse 31.
Moses returned unto the Lord and

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said, oh, this people have
sinned a great sin and have made

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them gods of gold.
Yet now if thou wilt forgive

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their sin and you notice, I
don’t think there’s a

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translation that I’ve come
across that doesn’t leave a

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pause at the end of that
sentence.

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It’s just a 1/2 finished
sentence.

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Yet now, if thou wilt, if thou
wilt, forgive their sin.

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And even in the old Hebrew
manuscripts, for instance,

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there’s just a gap there.
Moses just didn’t know how to

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end that sentence.
And if not, if you can’t forgive

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their sin, verse 32, blot me, I
pray thee, out of the book which

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you have written.
Isn’t that mind blowing?

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If you can’t blot out their sin,
just as the priest would do for

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the woman there after it had
been documented in Numbers 5.

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If you’re not willing to blot
out their sin and find a

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solution, then blot me out
instead.

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I’ll do it for them, you know.
But it says God has two very

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specific books that He’s
written. 1 is a book of

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remembrance and one is a book of
life.

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They’re two very specific books
that come up a number of times

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in Scripture and it seems like
God is saying, I want you to

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play one off against the other.
If you’re not willing to blot

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out their sin from the book of
remembrance, then blot out my

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name from the book of life
instead.

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Let’s do a trade off, isn’t
that?

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Just mind blowing.
And you know the answer, Brent,

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sisters of the Lord God verse
33, how much that must have oh

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just warmed the heart of
Almighty God to know Moses was

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willing to do that for his
people.

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Verse 33 the Lord said to Moses,
whoever has sinned against me,

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him will I blot out of my book.
I can’t take your offer, Moses.

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It’s awesome.
I’m willing to even begin again

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with you.
I’ll start my whole promises

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through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
again with you.

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I feel like doing that, you know
that God was willing to do that

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with Moses.
He loved him that much.

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But he said at.
The end of the day, Moses, it

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can’t be your name that comes
out of the book.

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Whoever sinned against me, he
will be the one who’s blotted

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out of the book.
And can you see all these lovely

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ideas, challenging ideas that
are coming out of this law that

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God wrote there in Numbers
chapter 5?

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Well, how does it work, Bren
sisters, for you and me?

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How does all this translate into
a Sunday morning, into the lives

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of men and women sitting in
Canada in 2011, all those years

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00:31:32,760 –> 00:31:35,160
later?
Welcome with me to 1 Corinthians

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chapter 10 and see how the
Apostle Paul tells us what this

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means to you and me.
And I don’t know if.

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You’ve felt this when you’ve
read Paul’s first letter to

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Corinth, but.
The build up to this great

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moment in one Corinthians 11
where he gives his a unique

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breaking of bread discourse, the
only one that comes outside of

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the gospel records I received of
the Lord, that which I

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delivered.
Unto you that the same night in

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which the law was betrayed.
Brethren, sisters, the apostle

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Paul has been limbering up to
that moment in One Corinthians

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11 for for several chapters.
And we’re just starting to reach

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the climax of it here in One
Corinthians 10.

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And he’s right there in the
wilderness, back in Exodus 32,

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with the children of Israel. 1
Corinthians. 10 and verse 7

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verse 6.
These things were our examples.

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He says the children of Israel
in the wilderness to the intent

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that we should not lust after
evil things as they also lusted

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neither be idolaters as as were
some of them as it is written.

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The people sat down to eat and
drink and rose up to play direct

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quote there from Exodus Exodus
32 come down to verse 14.

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Therefore my.
Dearly beloved, flee from

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idolatry.
I speak as to wise men.

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You judge what I say, the cup of
blessing which we bless, is it

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not the communion of the blood
of Christ, The bread which we

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break, is it not the communion
of the body of Christ?

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For we, being many, are one
bread and one body, and are all

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partakers of that one bread.
We’ve Cumbran sisters to partake

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of something unique together in
fellowship, all of us as one

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body and it’s so important, says
the apostle Paul.

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How can you think of taking
members of that body and

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allowing them to to associate
with with other bodies things

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that are of just inconsequential
value in comparison?

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Come down to verse 21.
You cannot drink the cup of the

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Lord and take the cup of devils.
You cannot be partakers of the

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Lord’s table and of the table of
devils.

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I tried to show yesterday how
even there in the wilderness

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floor at Mount Sinai in Exodus
32, whilst they were bowing down

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and doing whatever they were
doing in front of this golden

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calf, they were also offering
burnt offerings and peace

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offerings.
And the absolute abhorrence of

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those two things somehow being
mixed up together, which is what

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the Apostle Paul says we run the
risk of doing in our lives.

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You can’t blend the two
together.

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You can’t.
You can’t sit here one minute,

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one day on a Sunday and commit
yourselves to being part of one

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body.
How?

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How just wrong does that feel to
then the next day be a part of

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something else?
How can that work?

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Says the Apostle Paul.
And notice what the result.

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Is here we go.
Verse 21 You cannot drink the

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cup of the Lord and take the cup
of devils.

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You cannot be partakers of the
Lord’s table and of the table of

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devils.
Or do we provoke the Lord to

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jealousy?
Are we stronger than he?

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Can you see what’s going to
happen?

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Says the Apostle Paul.
If you try and be unfaithful in

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your commitment to the body of
Christ, you’re going to find

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yourself on trial one day when
you come to sit around the

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Lord’s table with your bread and
sisters, and as you drink the

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cup, it will no longer be a cup
of blessing.

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00:34:48,560 –> 00:34:52,199
It runs the risk of becoming a
cup of cursing because we will

648
00:34:52,199 –> 00:34:57,320
have lost the ability to discern
the Lord’s body of which we have

649
00:34:57,320 –> 00:34:59,240
committed ourselves to being a
part.

650
00:34:59,840 –> 00:35:03,200
Are you prepared, Bron Sisters,
to provoke the Lord to jealousy?

651
00:35:04,320 –> 00:35:07,000
Are you stronger than Him when
He puts you on trial, like the

652
00:35:07,000 –> 00:35:10,680
man there in Numbers 5, to test
whether there is guilt or

653
00:35:10,680 –> 00:35:12,200
innocence?
There is going to be a very

654
00:35:12,200 –> 00:35:14,640
specific test, Bron Sisters,
that the Lord God is going to

655
00:35:14,640 –> 00:35:18,640
use to determine innocence.
And the marvel of it is it’s not

656
00:35:18,640 –> 00:35:22,280
perfection.
The test of innocence for for

657
00:35:22,280 –> 00:35:25,000
the Lord God, Bron sisters, when
He puts us on trial is not

658
00:35:25,000 –> 00:35:29,480
perfection.
It’s our ability to discern the

659
00:35:29,480 –> 00:35:34,440
Lord’s body.
Turn over to Chapter 11, the bit

660
00:35:34,440 –> 00:35:37,040
that now the apostle Paul
specifically for these brethren

661
00:35:37,040 –> 00:35:38,600
in Corinth has been working up
to.

662
00:35:40,720 –> 00:35:44,760
Let’s come in, in verse 27.
You know these words right in

663
00:35:44,760 –> 00:35:46,920
the middle of his breaking his
bread discourse, Verse 26.

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00:35:46,920 –> 00:35:49,960
As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you do show

665
00:35:49,960 –> 00:35:52,240
the Lord’s death.
And we talked about that, didn’t

666
00:35:52,240 –> 00:35:53,880
we, the other day, what that
means.

667
00:35:54,280 –> 00:35:57,200
And now it’s now really going to
be concreted as to what the

668
00:35:57,200 –> 00:36:00,080
Apostle Paul means.
Now you can’t miss it because

669
00:36:00,080 –> 00:36:02,200
he’s saying now it’s going to
have to have an impact on your

670
00:36:02,200 –> 00:36:04,080
life.
As often as you eat this bread

671
00:36:04,080 –> 00:36:06,720
and drink this cup, you
demonstrate that you’ve

672
00:36:06,720 –> 00:36:10,160
understood your commitment and
your participation in the blood

673
00:36:10,360 –> 00:36:12,400
and in the.
Body of the Lord Jesus Christ,

674
00:36:13,240 –> 00:36:17,080
verse 27.
Wherefore whosoever shall eat

675
00:36:17,080 –> 00:36:22,240
this bread and drink this cup of
the Lord unworthily, shall be

676
00:36:22,240 –> 00:36:27,360
found guilty of the body and
blood of the Lord.

677
00:36:27,360 –> 00:36:31,800
That’s big stuff, isn’t it?
For God to find us guilty for

678
00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:36,040
the death of His only begotten
and well beloved Son is big

679
00:36:36,040 –> 00:36:40,920
stuff.
I would not want to be giving

680
00:36:40,920 –> 00:36:44,920
evidence on the stand in the
trial of the life and death of

681
00:36:44,920 –> 00:36:47,640
the Lord’s only begotten Son and
being found.

682
00:36:47,640 –> 00:36:51,000
Guilty of his death and what was
the test?

683
00:36:53,320 –> 00:36:59,680
For he verse, sorry, verse 28,
let a man examine himself and

684
00:36:59,680 –> 00:37:02,160
let him eat of that bread and
drink of that cup.

685
00:37:02,160 –> 00:37:05,440
For he who eats and drinks
unworthily eats and drinks

686
00:37:05,480 –> 00:37:10,680
damnation to himself because he
cannot discern the Lord’s body.

687
00:37:10,680 –> 00:37:12,600
Do you see what the apostle Paul
is saying?

688
00:37:12,840 –> 00:37:16,560
He’s saying you need to take a
real careful look inside

689
00:37:16,560 –> 00:37:20,760
yourself because the the the the
thing that will determine your

690
00:37:20,760 –> 00:37:24,480
innocence or your guilt is your
ability to discern the Lord’s

691
00:37:24,480 –> 00:37:27,440
body and your own relationship
to it.

692
00:37:27,840 –> 00:37:31,280
Verse just come back to verse 25
after the same manner he took

693
00:37:31,280 –> 00:37:34,000
the cup when he’d Sup saying
this cup is the New Testament in

694
00:37:34,000 –> 00:37:35,920
my blood.
This do ye as often as ye drink

695
00:37:35,920 –> 00:37:39,960
it in remembrance of me.
This whole this whole issue.

696
00:37:39,960 –> 00:37:41,960
Brent says.
This whole feast was about

697
00:37:41,960 –> 00:37:44,280
bringing iniquity to
remembrance.

698
00:37:44,280 –> 00:37:48,080
This do in remembrance of me,
and that’s what the whole law of

699
00:37:48,080 –> 00:37:50,160
jealousy was about there in
Numbers 5.

700
00:37:50,440 –> 00:37:53,440
And now, Bran sisters, the curse
is only going to apply to those

701
00:37:53,440 –> 00:37:56,920
who can’t see themselves and
judge themselves effectively.

702
00:37:57,400 –> 00:38:00,120
Verse 29 For he who eats and
drinks unworthily eats and

703
00:38:00,120 –> 00:38:03,040
drinks damnation to himself
because he cannot discern the

704
00:38:03,040 –> 00:38:05,480
Lord’s body.
This is why verse 30 Many are

705
00:38:05,480 –> 00:38:07,080
weak and sickly among you in
sleep.

706
00:38:07,360 –> 00:38:11,040
Verse 31 If we would judge
ourselves, we would not be

707
00:38:11,040 –> 00:38:14,240
judged if we can come Bran
sisters week by week and find

708
00:38:14,240 –> 00:38:18,400
ourselves guilty.
Then we will not be judged any

709
00:38:18,400 –> 00:38:22,080
further by Almighty God.
But if we come week by week and

710
00:38:22,080 –> 00:38:26,160
we cannot see the guilt in
ourselves, if we cannot see all

711
00:38:26,160 –> 00:38:28,200
the issues that would cause.
Us a problem with God.

712
00:38:28,400 –> 00:38:31,280
That’s when He will find us
guilty, not when we find

713
00:38:31,280 –> 00:38:33,360
innocence bred and sisters.
He doesn’t want us to find

714
00:38:33,360 –> 00:38:36,160
perfection in our lives.
This is the wonder of God, isn’t

715
00:38:36,160 –> 00:38:37,760
it?
This is the awesome nature of

716
00:38:37,760 –> 00:38:40,320
our relationship with Him.
He’s not seeking perfection,

717
00:38:40,440 –> 00:38:43,440
he’s seeking honesty.
He’s seeking an ability to

718
00:38:43,440 –> 00:38:46,840
understand ourselves to the
intent that he needs to do no

719
00:38:46,840 –> 00:38:51,120
more, to the point that we can
see in ourselves our own

720
00:38:51,320 –> 00:38:54,320
weakness and our own guilt.
Can you imagine that woman

721
00:38:54,320 –> 00:38:57,640
coming to the priest and and
holding that cup of cursing in

722
00:38:57,640 –> 00:39:01,440
her hands?
Sisters, perhaps you are the

723
00:39:01,440 –> 00:39:05,280
only ones who can understand in
in the right level of detail how

724
00:39:05,280 –> 00:39:09,040
you would be feeling as you were
to drink that cup, knowing you

725
00:39:09,040 –> 00:39:11,320
needed to do it with.
Such a level of.

726
00:39:11,640 –> 00:39:15,040
Self examination.
And I wonder what you would say.

727
00:39:15,040 –> 00:39:16,800
I wonder if there would be women
standing there going, do you

728
00:39:16,800 –> 00:39:18,080
know what?
Bring it on.

729
00:39:18,440 –> 00:39:20,600
Give me the cup, I’ll drink it,
no problem.

730
00:39:21,080 –> 00:39:24,000
I’m innocent.
Or whether there will be women

731
00:39:24,000 –> 00:39:25,680
who will be standing there
pleading.

732
00:39:26,560 –> 00:39:28,840
That they might not be subject
to the judgements of God and

733
00:39:28,840 –> 00:39:33,280
that He would find mercy and
grace knowing that they were not

734
00:39:33,840 –> 00:39:35,640
as faithful as they would like
to be.

735
00:39:38,600 –> 00:39:41,080
And somehow, brother and
sisters, now the apostle Paul

736
00:39:41,080 –> 00:39:44,960
says, when we come to drink the
cup, somehow instead of it being

737
00:39:44,960 –> 00:39:46,400
a curse, this is the wonder of
it, isn’t it?

738
00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:49,600
You would think as we come week
by week and we hold the cup and

739
00:39:49,600 –> 00:39:52,240
we examine ourselves and we see
all the guilt and the problems

740
00:39:52,240 –> 00:39:56,320
in our life that we’re about to
drink from a cup that is going

741
00:39:56,320 –> 00:39:58,320
to bring nothing but cursing
into our lives.

742
00:39:58,320 –> 00:40:01,080
And yet somehow the apostle Paul
says we end up drinking a

743
00:40:01,080 –> 00:40:03,160
blessing.
How does that happen?

744
00:40:03,160 –> 00:40:06,840
Come over to Colossians 2.
You’re probably ahead of me.

745
00:40:18,160 –> 00:40:21,080
How does it happen that this cup
that should bring about cursing

746
00:40:21,400 –> 00:40:25,080
because of our guilt and our
iniquity brings about a

747
00:40:25,080 –> 00:40:29,120
blessing?
Colossians chapter 2 and verse

748
00:40:29,480 –> 00:40:30,600
13.
Read these.

749
00:40:30,640 –> 00:40:32,480
Read these two verses really
carefully.

750
00:40:32,480 –> 00:40:36,760
Absolutely beautiful.
Colossians 213.

751
00:40:36,760 –> 00:40:41,160
You were dead in your sins.
And the uncircumcision of your

752
00:40:41,160 –> 00:40:45,560
flesh, flesh has He made alive
together with Him, having

753
00:40:45,560 –> 00:40:47,600
forgiven you all your
trespasses.

754
00:40:47,840 –> 00:40:51,960
He blotted out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against

755
00:40:51,960 –> 00:40:55,120
us, which was contrary to us.
It was written down everything

756
00:40:55,120 –> 00:40:57,440
that we’d ever done.
All of our problems are written

757
00:40:57,440 –> 00:40:59,160
in the book of remembrance of
Almighty God.

758
00:40:59,160 –> 00:41:02,880
They’ve been documented and
they’ve been blotted out by Him

759
00:41:04,280 –> 00:41:06,840
and he’s taken them out of the
way and nailed them to the

760
00:41:06,840 –> 00:41:08,240
cross.
It’s almost as if the book, the

761
00:41:08,240 –> 00:41:11,840
page has been ripped out of the
book by the Lord Jesus Christ so

762
00:41:11,840 –> 00:41:15,160
that now when the, when the,
when the the document is is

763
00:41:15,240 –> 00:41:17,480
dipped into the water and
blotted out, there’s nothing

764
00:41:17,480 –> 00:41:18,360
there.
It’s gone.

765
00:41:18,360 –> 00:41:21,000
It’s been wiped clean.
The slate has been wiped clean.

766
00:41:21,000 –> 00:41:23,320
And now brains sisters, when you
come to drink from the cup,

767
00:41:23,320 –> 00:41:25,240
there’s nothing there.
It’s gone.

768
00:41:26,920 –> 00:41:30,320
He drank the cup for you.
It’s extraordinary, isn’t it?

769
00:41:30,320 –> 00:41:33,760
The one man who, when he
examined himself could find no

770
00:41:33,760 –> 00:41:37,960
fault, drunk the cup of cursing
and bitterness for you and me.

771
00:41:37,960 –> 00:41:41,600
And now when we drink his cup
week by week, we just drink

772
00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:44,000
blessing.
And it’s not a bitter cup of

773
00:41:46,040 –> 00:41:50,200
water.
It’s been turned into wine, the

774
00:41:50,200 –> 00:41:55,080
bitter water that the Jews
attempted to use to purify

775
00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:56,680
themselves.
It’s right there at the wedding

776
00:41:56,680 –> 00:42:00,320
at Cana, has now been turned
into the new wine, the royal

777
00:42:00,320 –> 00:42:03,760
wine of the Kingdom of heaven,
and we drink nothing but a

778
00:42:03,760 –> 00:42:05,240
blessing.
I don’t know how that makes you

779
00:42:05,240 –> 00:42:08,960
feel, Britain sisters, and how
that just turns your life inside

780
00:42:08,960 –> 00:42:11,840
out and upside down as you leave
and begin your life again.

781
00:42:12,560 –> 00:42:17,080
Being able now to discern the
Lord’s body and how you are in

782
00:42:17,080 –> 00:42:21,800
relation to it and your
commitment to live as best you

783
00:42:21,800 –> 00:42:25,680
can, discerning that body and
giving yourself to it.

784
00:42:27,080 –> 00:42:29,200
Come with me, brother and
sister, to Matthew 26, just a

785
00:42:29,200 –> 00:42:34,480
moment in the upper room when
the disciples felt this, this

786
00:42:34,520 –> 00:42:40,160
piercing gaze of examination
under the eyes and the gaze of

787
00:42:40,160 –> 00:42:50,680
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew 26 There was just a

788
00:42:50,680 –> 00:42:55,640
moment in the upper room when
the Lord wanted his disciples to

789
00:42:55,640 –> 00:43:00,360
feel that that that self
examination feeling that that

790
00:43:00,360 –> 00:43:03,400
you and I are familiar with
having having done it many times

791
00:43:03,400 –> 00:43:06,080
at the breaking of bread.
And hopefully now with a with a

792
00:43:06,080 –> 00:43:08,680
deeper insight and with more
awareness of what it is that

793
00:43:08,680 –> 00:43:11,120
we’re actually examining when we
do week by week.

794
00:43:12,200 –> 00:43:16,080
And in Matthew 26 and verse 20,
this is what we read.

795
00:43:17,320 –> 00:43:22,560
When the evening had come, Jesus
sat down with the 12 And as they

796
00:43:22,560 –> 00:43:26,640
did eat, he said, verily I say
unto you, one of you will betray

797
00:43:26,640 –> 00:43:28,240
me.
And he purposely did that.

798
00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:33,120
He wanted each one of them to
not be sure whether they were

799
00:43:33,120 –> 00:43:36,560
the one who was going to be
found guilty of the body and

800
00:43:36,560 –> 00:43:39,720
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
One of you will betray me.

801
00:43:39,720 –> 00:43:41,000
And they were exceeding
sorrowful.

802
00:43:41,000 –> 00:43:45,720
Verse 21 and began every one of
them to say unto him, Lord, is

803
00:43:45,720 –> 00:43:47,960
it I?
And you can imagine why they

804
00:43:47,960 –> 00:43:49,320
would do that, can’t you,
brother and sisters?

805
00:43:49,320 –> 00:43:51,520
You can imagine Peter going Is
it me?

806
00:43:52,320 –> 00:43:55,720
And you can imagine him feeling
11 other pairs of eyes looking

807
00:43:55,720 –> 00:43:59,800
at him going, is it you?
And so he he articulates it to

808
00:43:59,800 –> 00:44:02,240
the Lord.
Lord is it I because he wants to

809
00:44:02,240 –> 00:44:05,200
hear from the mouth of the Lord
so that he can be vindicated in

810
00:44:05,200 –> 00:44:07,240
the eyes of everybody else that
it’s not him.

811
00:44:07,360 –> 00:44:08,640
That’s what they were doing,
wasn’t it?

812
00:44:08,880 –> 00:44:11,600
They weren’t they weren’t
certain whether it was them or

813
00:44:11,600 –> 00:44:13,680
not, but they needed that
vindication in front of

814
00:44:13,680 –> 00:44:15,440
everybody else.
Just like the woman.

815
00:44:15,440 –> 00:44:17,960
They’re in numbers five.
Part of the process of that law

816
00:44:17,960 –> 00:44:21,200
was that God would declare her
innocent Lord.

817
00:44:21,200 –> 00:44:22,880
Is it I?
And of of course, Peter’s

818
00:44:22,880 –> 00:44:25,600
looking Jesus square in the
eyes, wanting all of his eleven

819
00:44:25,600 –> 00:44:28,640
friends to hear from the very
mouth of Jesus that no, Peter,

820
00:44:28,640 –> 00:44:32,040
it’s not.
You and I wonder if that’s how

821
00:44:32,040 –> 00:44:36,080
we feel, Bren sisters.
Week by week, when we come, one

822
00:44:36,080 –> 00:44:38,880
of you will betray me.
Of course, the reality is they

823
00:44:38,880 –> 00:44:42,240
all betrayed him.
It says every single one of them

824
00:44:42,240 –> 00:44:43,960
in the garden for suck him and
fled.

825
00:44:44,640 –> 00:44:48,000
So although Jesus did something
the others never did, don’t

826
00:44:48,000 –> 00:44:50,520
mistake it Bren sisters, they
all ran away, they all abandoned

827
00:44:50,520 –> 00:44:52,960
the Lord in his hour of need,
just as we all do at times in

828
00:44:52,960 –> 00:44:55,480
our life.
Lord is it I And that’s the

829
00:44:55,480 –> 00:44:58,280
question we need to ask, isn’t
it Bren sisters week by week?

830
00:44:58,280 –> 00:45:00,080
Lord is it I and isn’t it
lovely?

831
00:45:00,080 –> 00:45:02,800
The term they use of address to
to the Lord Jesus.

832
00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:08,600
Lord, it wasn’t a term of just
reverence and deference.

833
00:45:08,600 –> 00:45:11,680
It was a it was a term of
respect and love.

834
00:45:11,720 –> 00:45:14,120
Lord is it I?
And as they, as Jesus went round

835
00:45:14,120 –> 00:45:18,560
the room, he heard eleven men
ask that question, Lord, is it

836
00:45:18,640 –> 00:45:21,520
I?
But from one of the men he heard

837
00:45:21,520 –> 00:45:24,280
something very different.
Just look at it.

838
00:45:24,400 –> 00:45:28,600
Verse 25 when it came to Judas’s
turn, notice what he said.

839
00:45:29,040 –> 00:45:31,480
It was different to what
everybody else in that room had

840
00:45:31,480 –> 00:45:34,240
said.
Judas, which betrayed him,

841
00:45:34,240 –> 00:45:39,440
answered and said, Master, is it
I?

842
00:45:41,200 –> 00:45:44,520
That one word just changes
everything, doesn’t it?

843
00:45:45,160 –> 00:45:53,200
11 men had said, Lord, is it I?
One man had said Master.

844
00:45:54,840 –> 00:45:57,160
For Judas, the Lord Jesus Christ
was a teacher.

845
00:45:57,720 –> 00:46:00,360
He was an instructor.
He was somebody who knew how to

846
00:46:00,360 –> 00:46:03,240
interpret the Torah.
He was somebody who could do

847
00:46:03,240 –> 00:46:05,320
amazing things, no question
about that.

848
00:46:05,320 –> 00:46:07,600
But for Judas, he hadn’t become
the Lord’s.

849
00:46:07,800 –> 00:46:11,280
He hadn’t become his Lord.
He was just his master, his

850
00:46:11,280 –> 00:46:14,800
teacher, his rabbi.
And it’s a fascinating insight

851
00:46:14,800 –> 00:46:17,320
into the mind of Judas Brent.
And what you are seeing right

852
00:46:17,320 –> 00:46:20,800
there in the upper room is a man
who had not been able to discern

853
00:46:20,800 –> 00:46:25,360
the Lord’s body.
Master, Master.

854
00:46:25,360 –> 00:46:27,360
And one of the great challenges
Brent and sisters, you and I

855
00:46:27,360 –> 00:46:32,240
need to take away this week.
For from now on, when we sit

856
00:46:32,240 –> 00:46:34,720
around these memorials of our
Lord Jesus Christ, we need to

857
00:46:34,720 –> 00:46:37,160
make sure we know what our
relationship with our Lord Jesus

858
00:46:37,160 –> 00:46:39,480
is.
Is he just our master?

859
00:46:39,480 –> 00:46:43,160
Is he an interesting guy who,
you know, no doubt impresses us,

860
00:46:43,280 –> 00:46:45,880
fascinates us?
His ability to explain things

861
00:46:45,880 –> 00:46:49,200
and do things, the logic and the
theory of his teaching is

862
00:46:49,200 –> 00:46:52,400
engaging.
But is he somebody, Bren

863
00:46:52,400 –> 00:46:55,080
Sisters, who’s turned your life
inside out and upside down?

864
00:46:56,360 –> 00:46:58,760
Is he somebody for whom you
realise he drunk the cup of

865
00:46:58,760 –> 00:47:02,520
blessing and cursing just for
you in order to give you a

866
00:47:02,520 –> 00:47:05,040
relationship with a God who’s
jealous for you, loves you,

867
00:47:05,440 –> 00:47:09,640
cares for you?
Well, our time together’s nearly

868
00:47:09,640 –> 00:47:12,040
gone.
Can I take you to Psalm 51?

869
00:47:33,660 –> 00:47:35,860
I’m going to tell you, Bruin
sisters, just briefly, just for

870
00:47:35,860 –> 00:47:38,420
your own interest, a big chunk
that I’m about to just, like,

871
00:47:38,620 –> 00:47:41,740
carve out of the session.
All right, I wanted to take you

872
00:47:41,740 –> 00:47:46,740
into Genesis 42 and 43 when
Joseph met his brethren after

873
00:47:46,740 –> 00:47:48,540
all those years having lived in
Egypt.

874
00:47:48,540 –> 00:47:51,820
And just can you remember the
method which he employed?

875
00:47:52,720 –> 00:47:56,240
Finally, when he brought them
back on the second time, when

876
00:47:56,240 –> 00:47:59,360
they came to buy grain from
Egypt, he said to his servants,

877
00:47:59,360 –> 00:48:03,120
I want you to put my cup in
Benjamin’s sack.

878
00:48:03,840 –> 00:48:06,720
It’s the cup, he said to his
brethren, by which I divine.

879
00:48:07,400 –> 00:48:10,240
It’s a really interesting thing
for Joseph to say, a man who I

880
00:48:10,240 –> 00:48:12,240
don’t believe was superstitious
in any way.

881
00:48:12,560 –> 00:48:14,880
And yet for some reason there in
the record of Scripture, Joseph

882
00:48:15,240 –> 00:48:18,960
tells his brethren that he uses
this cup that he drank from on

883
00:48:18,960 –> 00:48:21,560
his table.
He used it to divine and he and

884
00:48:21,560 –> 00:48:25,720
he put it in Benjamin’s sack.
And when they set off back to to

885
00:48:25,720 –> 00:48:28,920
the land of Canaan for the
second time with, with Joseph’s

886
00:48:28,920 –> 00:48:31,520
cup in their sack and Joseph’s
servants overtake them and they

887
00:48:31,520 –> 00:48:34,400
get their sacks and they go down
from the eldest beginning at the

888
00:48:34,400 –> 00:48:35,560
youngest.
And do you remember what

889
00:48:35,560 –> 00:48:36,960
happened?
They were all protesting their

890
00:48:36,960 –> 00:48:39,280
innocence.
No, we’ve definitely not stolen

891
00:48:39,280 –> 00:48:40,440
anything.
In fact, don’t you remember we

892
00:48:40,440 –> 00:48:43,040
brought the money back.
We’re absolutely innocent.

893
00:48:43,440 –> 00:48:45,480
And they went down from the
eldest all the way to the

894
00:48:45,480 –> 00:48:47,000
youngest.
And they marvelled, in fact,

895
00:48:47,200 –> 00:48:49,520
that the servants even knew
which was the eldest to the

896
00:48:49,520 –> 00:48:51,640
youngest.
You know, with twelve siblings,

897
00:48:51,640 –> 00:48:54,160
I’ve only got 112 siblings.
For those of you with big

898
00:48:54,160 –> 00:48:55,960
families, you’ll know that’s
quite a challenge for somebody

899
00:48:55,960 –> 00:48:58,040
who doesn’t know your family
that well and has only met you

900
00:48:58,040 –> 00:48:59,680
twice to know in which order you
come.

901
00:49:00,560 –> 00:49:02,760
And it was almost like they were
sitting right there at the table

902
00:49:02,760 –> 00:49:06,400
of the Lord, 1 by 1.
And of course, each one of them

903
00:49:06,400 –> 00:49:08,160
said, listen, seriously, I’ve
not taken anything.

904
00:49:08,160 –> 00:49:09,800
I’ve not stolen anything from
your master.

905
00:49:09,800 –> 00:49:12,520
And it was only when it came to
Benjamin Sack.

906
00:49:13,800 –> 00:49:17,400
And of course, Benjamin was the
only one who was innocent in the

907
00:49:17,400 –> 00:49:19,840
grand scheme of things.
Benjamin had not been involved

908
00:49:19,840 –> 00:49:23,280
all those 30 years earlier when
Joseph had been put in the pit.

909
00:49:23,280 –> 00:49:27,480
Benjamin had not been there.
And it was only when the cup was

910
00:49:27,480 –> 00:49:29,600
found in his sack.
And Joseph says, right, he’s the

911
00:49:29,600 –> 00:49:31,680
one I want.
He’s going to pay the price.

912
00:49:31,800 –> 00:49:34,840
Bring him back.
Only then, Bren sisters, did all

913
00:49:34,840 –> 00:49:36,840
the boys suddenly pour out their
hearts.

914
00:49:37,400 –> 00:49:39,720
God has found out the iniquity
of your servants.

915
00:49:40,280 –> 00:49:42,800
We saw the travail of our
brother’s soul, and we didn’t

916
00:49:43,280 –> 00:49:45,360
relieve him when we had the
opportunity.

917
00:49:46,000 –> 00:49:47,520
And it was when the cup was
found.

918
00:49:47,520 –> 00:49:49,800
Brensis is in the hand of the
innocent brother.

919
00:49:50,160 –> 00:49:52,160
The iniquity was brought to
remembrance.

920
00:49:52,320 –> 00:49:54,920
It was only then that Judah
comes back and you just hear his

921
00:49:54,920 –> 00:49:58,080
confession as he pours out his
heart and he he.

922
00:49:58,280 –> 00:50:02,040
He recounts to Joseph all the
damage that he’s done that he’s

923
00:50:02,040 –> 00:50:04,720
been harbouring in his heart and
soul all of his life.

924
00:50:04,720 –> 00:50:07,040
No wonder, Brensis, as Joseph
goes out and he just can’t

925
00:50:07,040 –> 00:50:10,200
contain it anymore and the tears
are rolling down his face as he

926
00:50:10,400 –> 00:50:12,880
finally here’s the confession of
his brethren and what they’ve

927
00:50:12,880 –> 00:50:14,640
done.
And you noticed the brother and

928
00:50:14,640 –> 00:50:16,280
sisters.
The theme of that confession was

929
00:50:16,400 –> 00:50:18,200
what they’d done to their
father.

930
00:50:18,200 –> 00:50:21,160
It wasn’t what they’d done to
their brother Joseph.

931
00:50:21,440 –> 00:50:23,880
When Judith pours out his heart,
you have a look at it when you

932
00:50:23,880 –> 00:50:26,040
get time.
How many times did I count it?

933
00:50:26,040 –> 00:50:29,680
Let me just see if I can see it
here. 15 times brother and

934
00:50:29,680 –> 00:50:35,360
sisters in. 20 in 15 verses
Judah says in his confession.

935
00:50:35,600 –> 00:50:38,840
I nearly brought down the grey
hairs of my father to the grave

936
00:50:38,840 –> 00:50:43,640
in what I did to his son.
And it was only when they saw

937
00:50:43,640 –> 00:50:46,520
the cup in the hand of the
innocent brother that the

938
00:50:46,520 –> 00:50:49,880
brethren begin to express the
damage they realise they’ve done

939
00:50:49,880 –> 00:50:52,320
to their father.
It wasn’t about Joseph.

940
00:50:53,000 –> 00:50:55,680
It was nothing was about Joseph.
What they were witnessing was

941
00:50:55,920 –> 00:50:58,520
the pain and the hurt they’d
caused their Father for all

942
00:50:58,520 –> 00:51:02,200
these years because of his love
for his Son, and how those

943
00:51:02,200 –> 00:51:07,240
brethren had not been able to
discern the body and the blood

944
00:51:07,840 –> 00:51:10,760
and the life of the well beloved
Son of the Father.

945
00:51:12,200 –> 00:51:13,720
And that’s our challenge,
Brentis, isn’t it?

946
00:51:13,720 –> 00:51:16,680
Somehow to engage in these
things week by week when we come

947
00:51:17,480 –> 00:51:20,240
to understand how much the
Father loves us and cares for

948
00:51:20,240 –> 00:51:23,680
us, and to make sure that when
we eat and drink, we do it

949
00:51:23,680 –> 00:51:26,560
discerning the Lord’s body and
not be found guilty.

950
00:51:27,560 –> 00:51:30,640
God loves us and he wants us to
understand how much he’s willing

951
00:51:30,640 –> 00:51:34,440
to do to redeem us, to give us a
relationship with Him and to

952
00:51:34,480 –> 00:51:37,880
actually be found innocent.
He was willing to pay the price

953
00:51:37,880 –> 00:51:41,360
in the life of his Son and he
just wants us to understand it

954
00:51:41,880 –> 00:51:44,920
and appreciate it and to not
have it been given in vain.

955
00:51:46,400 –> 00:51:51,400
Well, here in Psalm 51, let’s
let’s end here because David at

956
00:51:51,400 –> 00:51:57,520
the darkest moment of his life,
having been unfaithful, having

957
00:51:57,520 –> 00:52:03,760
committed adultery, now realises
he ought to be on the receiving

958
00:52:03,760 –> 00:52:06,680
end of this law of jealousy.
David knew his Old Testament

959
00:52:06,680 –> 00:52:08,400
inside out.
No question.

960
00:52:08,800 –> 00:52:12,800
David understood the principles
of Numbers 5 and he knew that if

961
00:52:12,800 –> 00:52:17,680
any law now needed to be
employed besides stoning, this

962
00:52:17,680 –> 00:52:23,440
was the one Psalm 51 verse one.
Have mercy upon me, O God,

963
00:52:23,960 –> 00:52:25,960
according to your loving
kindness.

964
00:52:26,520 –> 00:52:29,160
According to the.
Multitude of your tender mercies

965
00:52:29,560 –> 00:52:32,440
blot out my transgressions.
Here it is.

966
00:52:32,600 –> 00:52:36,160
This is David now sat down with
his seat belt on at the memorial

967
00:52:36,160 –> 00:52:38,920
table saying, Lord, I know
what’s going to happen.

968
00:52:40,080 –> 00:52:41,520
I know I’m going to be drinking
the cup.

969
00:52:41,520 –> 00:52:44,400
Even though that law was
designed for wives and for

970
00:52:44,400 –> 00:52:47,520
women, David knows he is the
wife in this relationship.

971
00:52:47,720 –> 00:52:50,120
He is the bride of Christ, his
Lord.

972
00:52:50,400 –> 00:52:53,360
He is the one in the marriage
relationship with Almighty God

973
00:52:53,520 –> 00:52:55,320
and He is the one who’s done
damage to it.

974
00:52:55,520 –> 00:52:58,120
And now he says, I know what’s
going to happen and I’m pleading

975
00:52:58,120 –> 00:53:01,360
with you for mercy.
Blot out my transgressions.

976
00:53:01,560 –> 00:53:04,200
I want you to blot them out.
I’m just not sure I’m ready to

977
00:53:04,200 –> 00:53:06,520
drink the cup, Right?
That’s what David is saying,

978
00:53:06,520 –> 00:53:07,760
isn’t it?
Come down to verse 9.

979
00:53:07,760 –> 00:53:11,560
He says it again.
Hide your face from my sins and

980
00:53:11,560 –> 00:53:15,200
blot out all mine iniquities.
And he’s, he’s bringing to bear

981
00:53:15,200 –> 00:53:18,440
all these lessons that he’s
learnt from Exodus 32, from

982
00:53:18,440 –> 00:53:22,160
Numbers 5, from Joshua 24, all
this understanding about his

983
00:53:22,160 –> 00:53:24,920
relationship with God.
And he’s now about to employ all

984
00:53:24,920 –> 00:53:28,440
the principles of these laws.
Have mercy upon me and blot out

985
00:53:28,440 –> 00:53:32,520
my transgressions.
Verse 3 And this is what he’s

986
00:53:32,520 –> 00:53:35,720
going to do instead of taking
the cup and drinking it.

987
00:53:35,720 –> 00:53:37,520
This is what David’s going to do
instead.

988
00:53:37,600 –> 00:53:40,520
Verse.
Three, I acknowledge my

989
00:53:40,520 –> 00:53:44,480
transgressions.
And my sin is ever before me

990
00:53:45,120 –> 00:53:49,960
against thee the only have I
sinned and done that which is

991
00:53:49,960 –> 00:53:53,200
evil in thy, in thy sight, that
thou mightest be justified when

992
00:53:53,200 –> 00:53:54,440
you speak.
And.

993
00:53:54,440 –> 00:53:58,320
Clear when you judge in if, if
this judgement is going to work,

994
00:53:58,320 –> 00:53:59,800
says David.
I understand what needs to

995
00:53:59,800 –> 00:54:01,800
happen here.
I’m the one who needs to

996
00:54:01,800 –> 00:54:04,120
acknowledge my sin.
I’m the one who needs to

997
00:54:04,120 –> 00:54:06,560
understand the issues and the
challenges and the weaknesses

998
00:54:06,560 –> 00:54:10,200
and the failings in my life.
If you are going to be righteous

999
00:54:10,200 –> 00:54:17,520
when you judge me, verse 15,
this is what happens.

1000
00:54:17,920 –> 00:54:22,280
Brethren, sisters, when?
When he confesses his sins, O

1001
00:54:22,280 –> 00:54:25,640
Lord, open thou my lips and my
mouth.

1002
00:54:25,640 –> 00:54:29,520
Will show forth your praise, for
you desire not sacrifice, or I

1003
00:54:29,520 –> 00:54:32,160
would give it.
You have no delight in burnt

1004
00:54:32,160 –> 00:54:34,280
offerings.
If there was an offering under

1005
00:54:34,280 –> 00:54:36,160
the law, says David, that I knew
I could bring, that would

1006
00:54:36,160 –> 00:54:39,480
somehow make me feel better In
this situation, there is no

1007
00:54:39,480 –> 00:54:41,280
question I’d be right there at
the altar.

1008
00:54:42,160 –> 00:54:44,000
But I know that’s not what
you’re looking for.

1009
00:54:44,960 –> 00:54:48,480
The sacrifices of God, verse 17,
are a broken spirit.

1010
00:54:48,760 –> 00:54:52,160
And if I bring that offering,
says David, a broken and a

1011
00:54:52,160 –> 00:54:54,240
contrite heart, O God, you will
not.

1012
00:54:54,240 –> 00:54:56,680
Despise.
Isn’t that lovely?

1013
00:54:57,320 –> 00:54:59,720
God doesn’t want us to bring
offering upon offering, gift

1014
00:54:59,720 –> 00:55:01,480
upon gift, week by week,
brainsisters.

1015
00:55:01,960 –> 00:55:05,320
He says if you bring a broken
and a contrite heart in full

1016
00:55:05,320 –> 00:55:08,560
awareness of what it is that
you’re bringing to my altar, I

1017
00:55:08,560 –> 00:55:11,480
will not despise it.
I don’t know how that makes you

1018
00:55:11,480 –> 00:55:13,360
feel, Brent sisters.
Knowing that I can bring my

1019
00:55:13,360 –> 00:55:16,480
broken heart to the breaking of
bread and that God will not

1020
00:55:16,480 –> 00:55:23,040
despise it just sends a lovely
shiver down my spine that God

1021
00:55:23,040 –> 00:55:30,640
will not despise that offering.
Verse 6 Behold, you desire truth

1022
00:55:31,760 –> 00:55:35,040
in the inward parts and in the
hidden part.

1023
00:55:35,040 –> 00:55:38,040
You will make me know wisdom.
Isn’t that lovely?

1024
00:55:38,040 –> 00:55:41,280
All these things that God has
ever done, Bren sisters, are to

1025
00:55:41,280 –> 00:55:44,560
elicit that from our deepest
insides.

1026
00:55:45,200 –> 00:55:52,200
Truth, honesty, awareness, self
understanding, all the things

1027
00:55:52,200 –> 00:55:55,120
that God has ever done were to
elicit those things from us

1028
00:55:55,440 –> 00:55:57,680
because when they’re there, when
they can be seen, when they can

1029
00:55:57,680 –> 00:56:01,080
be brought out into the open,
God can deal with them while

1030
00:56:01,080 –> 00:56:03,840
ever they remain hidden, we
remain lost.

1031
00:56:04,720 –> 00:56:07,000
And I want you to now notice
Brent sisters, just as we finish

1032
00:56:07,000 –> 00:56:10,360
what awesome things happened
when David came in this

1033
00:56:10,360 –> 00:56:12,520
situation.
He says I want you to blot out

1034
00:56:12,520 –> 00:56:15,480
my sin and my iniquity, but
please don’t bring upon me the

1035
00:56:15,480 –> 00:56:16,840
curse.
Please.

1036
00:56:16,840 –> 00:56:19,720
I appeal to your loving kindness
and your tender mercies.

1037
00:56:20,040 –> 00:56:22,240
Forgive me.
Blot out my sin and my

1038
00:56:22,280 –> 00:56:24,720
transgression.
Find me a solution that doesn’t

1039
00:56:24,720 –> 00:56:28,840
involve the things I know I
deserve and see what God.

1040
00:56:29,440 –> 00:56:31,840
Will receive Bren sisters from
David as a result.

1041
00:56:31,840 –> 00:56:36,640
Verse 10 create in me a clean
heart, O God, and renew a right

1042
00:56:36,640 –> 00:56:39,120
spirit within me.
Don’t cast me away from your

1043
00:56:39,120 –> 00:56:41,720
presence and take not your Holy
Spirit from me.

1044
00:56:41,960 –> 00:56:45,120
Restore to me the joy of
salvation and uphold me with

1045
00:56:45,120 –> 00:56:47,200
your free spirit.
Because do you know what I’m

1046
00:56:47,200 –> 00:56:49,480
going to do says David.
As a result of having been

1047
00:56:49,480 –> 00:56:51,600
through this process, this is
what’s going to happen.

1048
00:56:51,600 –> 00:56:55,400
Verse 13 then will I teach
transgressors your ways and

1049
00:56:55,400 –> 00:56:57,000
sinners will be converted to
you.

1050
00:56:57,280 –> 00:56:59,360
Now I know what it is.
Bren Sisters.

1051
00:56:59,440 –> 00:57:02,440
Says David that I need to tell
people about my understanding of

1052
00:57:02,440 –> 00:57:04,400
God.
If you’re willing to do this for

1053
00:57:04,400 –> 00:57:07,960
me, then I’m going to teach
transgressors your ways and I’m

1054
00:57:07,960 –> 00:57:09,960
going to bring sinners back to
you.

1055
00:57:09,960 –> 00:57:14,080
Verse 14, Deliver me from blood
guiltiness, oh God, oh God of my

1056
00:57:14,080 –> 00:57:17,160
salvation, and my tongue will
sing aloud of your

1057
00:57:17,160 –> 00:57:19,640
righteousness.
Oh Lord, open my lips and my

1058
00:57:19,640 –> 00:57:21,680
mouth will show forth your
praise.

1059
00:57:21,960 –> 00:57:23,480
Isn’t that beautiful, Bren
sisters?

1060
00:57:23,680 –> 00:57:25,640
David says if you can do that
for me.

1061
00:57:25,800 –> 00:57:28,320
There is no question in my mind
of what my next preaching

1062
00:57:28,320 –> 00:57:32,880
campaign’s going to be about.
If you’re willing to restore me

1063
00:57:32,880 –> 00:57:35,680
in favour in your presence and
forgive me and blot out my

1064
00:57:35,680 –> 00:57:39,160
transgressions, then will I
teach transgressors your ways?

1065
00:57:39,680 –> 00:57:42,560
Then will I open my mouth and
tell people about what kind of

1066
00:57:42,560 –> 00:57:43,400
God you?
Are.

1067
00:57:44,360 –> 00:57:47,680
And Brent, this is in our
preaching and in our teaching.

1068
00:57:47,680 –> 00:57:50,520
One of the hardest things,
certainly in the UKI think we we

1069
00:57:50,520 –> 00:57:54,640
find is to know how to get hold
of this awesome principle and

1070
00:57:54,640 –> 00:57:56,520
open up the doors of
understanding to the men and

1071
00:57:56,520 –> 00:57:59,000
women of the world.
If they could only understand

1072
00:57:59,320 –> 00:58:02,440
the feelings they could have and
the experiences and how it would

1073
00:58:02,440 –> 00:58:05,560
turn their life inside out of
this kind of relationship with

1074
00:58:05,560 –> 00:58:09,720
Almighty God.
And Brendan says only can we go

1075
00:58:09,720 –> 00:58:13,320
out and preach the gospel of
salvation and forgiveness and

1076
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righteousness in the presence of
the Lord Jesus Christ.

1077
00:58:16,240 –> 00:58:19,400
When we’ve been through this
process ourselves, when we’ve

1078
00:58:19,400 –> 00:58:22,160
stood holding that cup and we’ve
discerned the Lord’s body, and

1079
00:58:22,160 –> 00:58:25,720
we feel and understand all that
God has done for us in the Lord

1080
00:58:25,720 –> 00:58:32,040
Jesus Christ, then then can we
teach transgressors the ways of

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00:58:32,040 –> 00:58:34,080
Almighty God.
Then we can tell other people

1082
00:58:34,080 –> 00:58:37,880
what God has done for you and
what God has done for me.

1083
00:58:39,360 –> 00:58:41,600
Well, Bren, sisters, thank you
for coming on this journey with

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00:58:41,600 –> 00:58:44,480
me.
And as I take the bread of

1085
00:58:44,480 –> 00:58:48,120
heaven and share in the royal
cup of the King, I remember that

1086
00:58:48,120 –> 00:58:51,480
against my name in the book of
life, the curse of all mankind

1087
00:58:51,480 –> 00:58:55,040
has been written.
I know I’ve not been faithful to

1088
00:58:55,040 –> 00:58:58,400
God, and my life is testimony to
that, no question.

1089
00:58:59,600 –> 00:59:02,280
But as I drink the water of
bitterness, I discover the wine

1090
00:59:02,280 –> 00:59:05,760
of blessing instead of drinking
a curse.

1091
00:59:05,760 –> 00:59:09,080
The sins that are blotted out, I
discover were blotted out by

1092
00:59:09,080 –> 00:59:12,680
him, and he took the curse so I
could be blessed.

1093
00:59:13,440 –> 00:59:15,720
And may it be, Bren sisters,
that we can see even in our

1094
00:59:15,720 –> 00:59:19,640
failure, God is jealous for us.
He loves us to that extent, and

1095
00:59:19,640 –> 00:59:23,040
He wants me to present, to be
presented faultless before Him

1096
00:59:23,320 –> 00:59:26,120
with exceeding joy.
That’s what we think about

1097
00:59:26,120 –> 00:59:29,080
yesterday, isn’t it?
That it’s not done with this

1098
00:59:29,080 –> 00:59:31,760
sense of Oh well, never mind,
Johnny.

1099
00:59:31,760 –> 00:59:33,880
I know this has been a
disastrous journey, but I’m

1100
00:59:33,880 –> 00:59:37,520
willing to do this for you, that
we might be presented in his

1101
00:59:37,520 –> 00:59:41,480
presence before his glory with
exceeding joy.

1102
00:59:42,600 –> 00:59:46,280
You will worship no other God,
for the Lord whose name is

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00:59:46,280 –> 00:59:48,680
jealous is a jealous God.