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\njust going to take a short
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\nreading from Revelation 21 and
\nverses one to seven. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Revelation verses chapter 21,
\nverses one to seven. <\/p>\n
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\nThen I saw a new heaven and a
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\nAnd I saw the holy city, new
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\nAnd I heard a loud voice from
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\ndwelling place of God is with
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\nHe will dwell with them, and
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\nhimself will be with them as
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\nHe will wipe away every tear
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\nnor crying, nor pain anymore.
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\nAlso he said, write this down,
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\nand true.
\nAnd he said to me, it is done. <\/p>\n
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\nI am the Alpha and the Omega,
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\nthirsty I will give from the
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\nwithout payment.
\nThe one who conquers will have <\/p>\n
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\nhis heritage, and I will be his
\nGod, and he will be my son. <\/p>\n
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\nThanks, Darren.
\nThanks, Brother Anthony, and <\/p>\n
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\ngood evening, my dear brothers
\nand sisters and the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist, dear young people.
\nIt’s really, really lovely to be<\/p>\n
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\nwith you again.
\nI was just thinking, I haven’t <\/p>\n
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\nbeen here for a few years with
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\nnice to be back among you again
\nand particularly nice tonight to<\/p>\n
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\nbe able to share with you some
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\nJust get my slides organised.
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\nvery powerful future focus and <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re looking forward a lot in
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\nsentiments we express.
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\nprayer, we are pushing into the
\nfuture as it were. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re we’re leaning into the
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\ncomprises of a number of
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\nfuture that we’re looking
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\nSo we’re looking forward of
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\nreturn of Christ and the Kingdom
\nbeing established. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re also looking at current
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\ngeopolitical issues that are
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\nfuture.
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\nstrong, very, very powerful
\nfuture focus and we do that I <\/p>\n
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\nthink quite well.
\nYou know, if you look at Chris <\/p>\n
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\nAdelphian videos online, you’ll
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\nvideos and talks about the
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\nin store for the future.
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\ninterest in that.
\nI know at Gosford, when we’ve <\/p>\n
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\ngot a couple of very, very good
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\nbrother Andrew Dangerfield and
\nbrother Matt Norton, and <\/p>\n
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\nwhenever they do, one of their
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\nWe also have a very past focus
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\nbeautiful sounding verses. <\/p>\n
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\nnow. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s exhortations from Jesus
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\nof the story, if you like. <\/p>\n
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\n00:18:57,920 –> 00:19:00,920
\nAnd so the whole Bible has been
\nrepairing that that particular <\/p>\n
338
\n00:19:00,920 –> 00:19:04,760
\nproblem.
\nAnd so we need to then start at <\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:04,760 –> 00:19:07,920
\nthe beginning and work our way
\nthrough how God has <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:08,640 –> 00:19:12,280
\nprogressively dealt with this,
\nthis separation, if you like, in<\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:12,280 –> 00:19:18,480
\nthis, this desire for FaceTime,
\nwith his creation, with those <\/p>\n
342
\n00:19:18,480 –> 00:19:22,440
\nmade in his image and likeness
\nthat he had lost because of sin.<\/p>\n
343
\n00:19:23,240 –> 00:19:25,600
\nAnd so of course we know in the
\nstory the full. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:19:26,160 –> 00:19:29,680
\nMan, he’s exiled from God’s
\npresence, from that beautiful, <\/p>\n
345
\n00:19:29,920 –> 00:19:35,040
\nserene, peaceful paradise like
\nsituation, without any fear, <\/p>\n
346
\n00:19:35,040 –> 00:19:36,760
\nwithout anxiety, without fear of
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:19:36,760 –> 00:19:40,920
\nAll those things we looked at,
\njoy, unspeakable peace and and <\/p>\n
348
\n00:19:40,920 –> 00:19:43,480
\nserenity and all these beautiful
\nthings that were there in the <\/p>\n
349
\n00:19:43,480 –> 00:19:46,400
\ngarden.
\nNo doubt now that is lost and <\/p>\n
350
\n00:19:46,400 –> 00:19:51,480
\nthere’s thorns and thistles and
\nstress and sweat and and the <\/p>\n
351
\n00:19:51,480 –> 00:19:54,480
\nwhole situation has changed.
\nAnd as we move through <\/p>\n
352
\n00:19:54,480 –> 00:19:57,040
\nScripture, God uses this
\nmechanism called a covenant. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:19:57,040 –> 00:20:00,280
\nWe’re going to spend a whole
\nnight on that looking at the <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:00,280 –> 00:20:04,400
\nconcept of covenant and how
\ncovenant was God’s method of <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:04,400 –> 00:20:07,480
\nrestoring that relationship,
\nrestoring the FaceTime with his <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:07,480 –> 00:20:10,840
\npeople and those covenants.
\nOf course, there’s a covenant <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:10,840 –> 00:20:13,320
\nbuilt into Genesis, into
\ncreation itself. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:13,320 –> 00:20:16,520
\nThere’s the covenant to nowhere
\nand then right through to the <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:16,520 –> 00:20:19,720
\nnew covenant, which we’ll spend
\na bit of time looking at and <\/p>\n
360
\n00:20:19,720 –> 00:20:22,320
\nthen throughout the Old
\nTestament particularly and of <\/p>\n
361
\n00:20:22,320 –> 00:20:23,600
\ncourse it finds its way into
\nthe. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:20:23,880 –> 00:20:26,480
\nStory of Jesus life as well and
\nhis interactions. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:20:26,480 –> 00:20:28,880
\nAnd then right through to
\nRevelation 21 we’ve got these <\/p>\n
364
\n00:20:29,320 –> 00:20:31,680
\ndwelling place concepts whether
\nit’s the Tabernacle or the <\/p>\n
365
\n00:20:31,680 –> 00:20:36,000
\ntemple.
\nGod is placing his presence in a<\/p>\n
366
\n00:20:36,000 –> 00:20:40,640
\nmediated way, restricted way.
\nHis presence is dwelling amongst<\/p>\n
367
\n00:20:40,640 –> 00:20:43,600
\nhis people and there’s access,
\nvery restricted access, but <\/p>\n
368
\n00:20:43,600 –> 00:20:46,000
\nthere’s access nonetheless.
\nAnd God is is dwelling there in <\/p>\n
369
\n00:20:46,000 –> 00:20:48,480
\nHis presence, is with them in a
\nparticular way. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:20:48,480 –> 00:20:51,160
\nSo we want to we’ll spend the
\nnight trying to flesh out the <\/p>\n
371
\n00:20:51,160 –> 00:20:53,960
\nwhole temple idea and how that
\nis relevant today as well. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:54,640 –> 00:20:57,440
\nAnd then we get further into the
\nBible and we get to Jesus. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:58,440 –> 00:21:01,000
\nWe get to the living temple of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:01,400 –> 00:21:05,200
\nAnd here we’ve now where it’s
\nreally the pointy end sort of <\/p>\n
375
\n00:21:05,200 –> 00:21:07,560
\nstarting to really gather
\nmomentum. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:21:08,160 –> 00:21:13,440
\nWe’re now seeing the presence of
\nGod exhibited in a human. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:21:13,920 –> 00:21:16,240
\nGod’s presence is there.
\nGod dwells in him. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:21:16,960 –> 00:21:19,360
\nIn him the Godhead dwells
\nbodily, if you like. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:21:19,360 –> 00:21:24,200
\nHe was the presence of God.
\nAnd in a in a in a very real <\/p>\n
380
\n00:21:24,200 –> 00:21:25,960
\nsense, the presence of God
\ndwelled among us. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:21:25,960 –> 00:21:29,040
\nYou know that famous verse in
\nJohn, one that says the Word <\/p>\n
382
\n00:21:29,040 –> 00:21:31,240
\nbecame flesh and tabernacled
\namongst us? <\/p>\n
383
\n00:21:31,240 –> 00:21:34,680
\nGod’s Shekinah glory lived in a
\nperson, not in a tent, not in <\/p>\n
384
\n00:21:34,680 –> 00:21:36,960
\nthe most holy place, and we
\nbeheld his glory. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:21:36,960 –> 00:21:38,480
\nIt wasn’t hidden away that you
\ncan only see. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:21:38,480 –> 00:21:39,560
\nOnce a year on the Day of
\nAtonement. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:21:39,720 –> 00:21:43,480
\nWe beheld the glory of the only
\nbegotten of the of the Father, <\/p>\n
388
\n00:21:43,480 –> 00:21:46,840
\nfull of grace and truth.
\nAnd so he’s a walking, talking <\/p>\n
389
\n00:21:46,840 –> 00:21:49,440
\ntemple, the presence of God
\nshining from him and revealed <\/p>\n
390
\n00:21:49,440 –> 00:21:52,560
\nthrough him.
\nSo we’ve seen the presence being<\/p>\n
391
\n00:21:52,560 –> 00:21:56,240
\nheavily mediated now, lived out
\nin an open expression. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:56,760 –> 00:22:00,680
\nAnd that’s not the end of the
\nstory for us, because that that <\/p>\n
393
\n00:22:01,320 –> 00:22:06,400
\npresence of God then is
\ntransferred into God’s people. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:22:06,560 –> 00:22:11,200
\nAs the Lord is taken to heaven,
\nHe leaves behind something we <\/p>\n
395
\n00:22:11,200 –> 00:22:14,160
\ncall the Ecclesia, and the
\npresence of God now dwells <\/p>\n
396
\n00:22:14,720 –> 00:22:17,520
\namongst them.
\nAnd that is this flow of God’s <\/p>\n
397
\n00:22:17,520 –> 00:22:21,520
\npresence as it works its way
\nthrough and and the new covenant<\/p>\n
398
\n00:22:21,520 –> 00:22:24,200
\nis something that we are now the
\nrecipients of. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:22:24,200 –> 00:22:29,120
\nThis new connection, this new
\nprofound connection to God that <\/p>\n
400
\n00:22:29,120 –> 00:22:33,080
\nis again I feel unappreciated in
\nsome of our circles. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:22:33,680 –> 00:22:36,680
\nThis new creation as God is
\nworking in US and doing <\/p>\n
402
\n00:22:36,680 –> 00:22:41,480
\nsomething akin to the original
\ncreation back in Genesis and we <\/p>\n
403
\n00:22:41,480 –> 00:22:44,440
\nare the temple of God as it says
\nover and over again in Ephesians<\/p>\n
404
\n00:22:44,440 –> 00:22:47,640
\n2 and First Peter one and 1st
\nCorinthians 6 and 2nd <\/p>\n
405
\n00:22:47,640 –> 00:22:50,560
\nCorinthians 6 and right, right
\nthrough the the the New <\/p>\n
406
\n00:22:50,560 –> 00:22:53,200
\nTestament, that’s an undeniable
\nconcept. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:22:53,680 –> 00:22:57,200
\nThen of course we’re revelation
\nback to Revelation 21 and 22. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:22:57,200 –> 00:23:00,760
\nSo we need to track through that
\nthat story to some degree. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:23:00,760 –> 00:23:04,960
\nSo we’re going to have to move
\nthrough that as we consider this<\/p>\n
410
\n00:23:05,520 –> 00:23:10,840
\nvery profound subject.
\nTo try and illustrate what I’m <\/p>\n
411
\n00:23:11,120 –> 00:23:15,480
\ntrying to achieve in these
\nsessions, I’m going to use a <\/p>\n
412
\n00:23:15,480 –> 00:23:18,920
\nlittle, a little parable.
\nIt’s it’s not a Bible one, it’s <\/p>\n
413
\n00:23:18,920 –> 00:23:20,280
\na parable.
\nYou may have heard it using <\/p>\n
414
\n00:23:20,280 –> 00:23:23,560
\nother training courses or
\nsomething, but I’m using it for <\/p>\n
415
\n00:23:23,560 –> 00:23:25,760
\nmy purposes tonight to
\nillustrate where we’re going <\/p>\n
416
\n00:23:25,760 –> 00:23:29,320
\nwith this.
\nSo in this little parable it’s a<\/p>\n
417
\n00:23:29,320 –> 00:23:35,240
\nstory about a beggar and he’s
\nsitting there in a in a city in <\/p>\n
418
\n00:23:35,400 –> 00:23:37,920
\nancient times.
\nHe’s there sitting there in this<\/p>\n
419
\n00:23:38,400 –> 00:23:42,680
\non on the cold stones of a a
\ncobble St. and he’s trying to <\/p>\n
420
\n00:23:42,680 –> 00:23:45,960
\neke out an existence in this
\ncity and he’s begging everyone <\/p>\n
421
\n00:23:45,960 –> 00:23:48,760
\nthat walks by for for scraps of
\nfood and people. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:23:48,880 –> 00:23:51,680
\nHe might get the odd coin if
\nhe’s lucky but most of the time <\/p>\n
423
\n00:23:51,680 –> 00:23:54,880
\nsomeone might throw him some
\nfood or some leftover meat or <\/p>\n
424
\n00:23:54,880 –> 00:23:58,880
\nsomething from a handful of
\ngrain that was gathered by some <\/p>\n
425
\n00:23:58,880 –> 00:24:01,840
\nof the workers in the field.
\nMight throw something at him and<\/p>\n
426
\n00:24:01,840 –> 00:24:05,760
\nhe eats it up and he’s he’s so,
\nso happy to have a little bit of<\/p>\n
427
\n00:24:05,760 –> 00:24:09,560
\nfood and he’s he’s peeking out
\nthis very miserable existence in<\/p>\n
428
\n00:24:09,560 –> 00:24:14,320
\nthis in this city.
\nOne day a Prince, some noble man<\/p>\n
429
\n00:24:14,320 –> 00:24:16,680
\ncomes through the city and sees
\nhim sitting there on the stones <\/p>\n
430
\n00:24:17,160 –> 00:24:20,440
\nand gives him this box and he’s
\nvery thankful to get this box <\/p>\n
431
\n00:24:20,440 –> 00:24:22,440
\nand he now sits.
\nInstead of sitting on the cold <\/p>\n
432
\n00:24:22,440 –> 00:24:25,640
\nstones, he sits on this box and
\nit elevates him a little bit <\/p>\n
433
\n00:24:25,640 –> 00:24:28,720
\nhigher off the floor.
\nIt’s it’s much more comfortable <\/p>\n
434
\n00:24:28,720 –> 00:24:29,720
\nand he can sit there and he
\nbegs. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:24:29,720 –> 00:24:31,640
\nBut still his life’s pretty
\nmiserable. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:24:31,640 –> 00:24:36,760
\nHe’s begging just to stay alive,
\nand there’s no purpose to his <\/p>\n
437
\n00:24:36,760 –> 00:24:39,640
\nlife.
\nThere’s no sense of fulfilment <\/p>\n
438
\n00:24:39,640 –> 00:24:44,320
\nor achievement or nothing,
\nnothing that elevates his human <\/p>\n
439
\n00:24:44,320 –> 00:24:48,240
\nexistence because he’s just in
\nthis very low level of <\/p>\n
440
\n00:24:48,240 –> 00:24:51,000
\nsubsistence, just trying to stay
\nalive, just eating a little <\/p>\n
441
\n00:24:51,000 –> 00:24:53,720
\nscrap here and there.
\nThere’s an anxiety, there’s <\/p>\n
442
\n00:24:53,720 –> 00:24:57,720
\nstress, there’s not knowing what
\nwhat life holds for him. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:24:58,600 –> 00:25:04,640
\nThen, of course, this poor man,
\nthis man’s very, very truncated <\/p>\n
444
\n00:25:04,640 –> 00:25:09,280
\nand and and very sad.
\nLife ends and he dies and the <\/p>\n
445
\n00:25:09,280 –> 00:25:12,040
\ncity cleaners, the street
\ncleaners come around to clean up<\/p>\n
446
\n00:25:12,720 –> 00:25:16,920
\nhis mess.
\nThere’s some old utensils there <\/p>\n
447
\n00:25:16,920 –> 00:25:18,720
\nand there’s a little bit of his
\nmess. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:25:18,720 –> 00:25:22,000
\nThere’s some linen that he used
\nto sleep under, etcetera. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:25:22,000 –> 00:25:23,320
\nThere’s not much there and
\nthey’re cleaning it up. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:25:23,600 –> 00:25:25,680
\nAnd there’s the box that he’d
\nbeen given all those years <\/p>\n
451
\n00:25:25,680 –> 00:25:28,120
\nbefore and I got to move the
\nbox. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:25:28,120 –> 00:25:32,640
\nOne of the one of the tradesmen
\nlifts the the top of the box off<\/p>\n
453
\n00:25:32,640 –> 00:25:38,480
\nand looks inside.
\nBehold, the box is full of gold <\/p>\n
454
\n00:25:38,480 –> 00:25:43,120
\nbars, pure gold bars.
\nThere’s many millions of dollars<\/p>\n
455
\n00:25:43,120 –> 00:25:48,240
\nworth of gold in this box.
\nAnd this beggar and he’s lived <\/p>\n
456
\n00:25:48,240 –> 00:25:53,560
\nthis horrible life, was sitting
\non this treasure, this <\/p>\n
457
\n00:25:53,560 –> 00:25:59,080
\ninestable, this incredible.
\nYou couldn’t even imagine the <\/p>\n
458
\n00:25:59,080 –> 00:26:02,560
\nvalue of it, this treasure.
\nHe was sitting on the whole time<\/p>\n
459
\n00:26:02,560 –> 00:26:05,800
\nand as he, Dave Wade, begs for
\nfood and he’s living this very, <\/p>\n
460
\n00:26:07,040 –> 00:26:09,840
\nvery Hanford life and very
\nunfulfilling life. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:26:10,640 –> 00:26:12,600
\nAll the while there was this
\ntreasure that he could have <\/p>\n
462
\n00:26:12,600 –> 00:26:14,800
\naccessed and and imagine his
\nlife how it would have been <\/p>\n
463
\n00:26:14,800 –> 00:26:16,840
\ndifferent had he known about
\nthis treasure. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:26:17,200 –> 00:26:20,000
\nHe could have contributed to the
\nlife of the city. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:26:20,000 –> 00:26:21,920
\nHe could have built buildings
\nfor people. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:26:21,920 –> 00:26:25,400
\nHe could have, he would have
\nbeen respected and loved by <\/p>\n
467
\n00:26:25,400 –> 00:26:26,520
\npeople.
\nHe would have been able to help <\/p>\n
468
\n00:26:26,520 –> 00:26:28,920
\npeople.
\nHe would have had fulfilment and<\/p>\n
469
\n00:26:28,920 –> 00:26:31,760
\npurpose and he would have been
\nable to be integrated into the <\/p>\n
470
\n00:26:31,760 –> 00:26:35,280
\nworkings of the city and felt
\nthe the power of all those sorts<\/p>\n
471
\n00:26:35,280 –> 00:26:37,120
\nof experiences.
\nBut he never got that. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:26:37,120 –> 00:26:40,200
\nBut it was there.
\nHe just never looked in the box <\/p>\n
473
\n00:26:40,200 –> 00:26:42,440
\nthe whole time throughout his
\nlife. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:26:42,440 –> 00:26:45,640
\nAnd I’m going to suggest
\nbrothers and sisters that in <\/p>\n
475
\n00:26:45,640 –> 00:26:49,560
\nsome way that could be what’s
\nhappening in my life and maybe <\/p>\n
476
\n00:26:49,560 –> 00:26:54,720
\nyours, that we have this this
\ntreasure and and this is the way<\/p>\n
477
\n00:26:55,120 –> 00:26:57,880
\nparticularly poor.
\nBut New Testament talks about <\/p>\n
478
\n00:26:57,880 –> 00:26:59,720
\nand even Jesus talks about what
\nwe have. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:26:59,720 –> 00:27:03,680
\nWe’ve got this treasure and
\nwe’ve got the treasure now this <\/p>\n
480
\n00:27:03,680 –> 00:27:06,720
\nthis incredible treasure, these
\nriches in Christ that we have <\/p>\n
481
\n00:27:07,080 –> 00:27:11,720
\navailable now and we want to
\njust see are we really, do we <\/p>\n
482
\n00:27:11,720 –> 00:27:13,560
\nreally appreciate them?
\nHave we identified them? <\/p>\n
483
\n00:27:13,560 –> 00:27:16,000
\nWhat are they?
\nAnd and can they change our <\/p>\n
484
\n00:27:16,000 –> 00:27:20,440
\nlives from just being hunkering
\ndown, eking out an existence, <\/p>\n
485
\n00:27:20,440 –> 00:27:22,600
\nwaiting for this time when
\nChrist is going to return and <\/p>\n
486
\n00:27:22,600 –> 00:27:23,920
\nhopefully everything we made
\nbetter. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:27:25,560 –> 00:27:28,960
\nAs well as that, though, there
\ncould be the power of something <\/p>\n
488
\n00:27:28,960 –> 00:27:31,280
\nnow that we can have an
\nexperience in Christ. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:27:32,280 –> 00:27:36,480
\nSo I want to just maybe
\nrecalibrate some of our thinking<\/p>\n
490
\n00:27:36,480 –> 00:27:40,240
\na little bit in this regard.
\nOne way to recalibrate is to <\/p>\n
491
\n00:27:40,240 –> 00:27:44,160
\nthink about how we view
\nparticularly the Old Testament <\/p>\n
492
\n00:27:44,160 –> 00:27:46,960
\nand the Old Covenant times.
\nBecause many of us, we’ve grown <\/p>\n
493
\n00:27:46,960 –> 00:27:50,080
\nup from Sunday School, going
\nthrough the five stages of our <\/p>\n
494
\n00:27:50,080 –> 00:27:51,920
\nSunday School books, which is
\nawesome and great. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:27:51,920 –> 00:27:55,520
\nAnd I love all that knowledge
\nthat I’ve accumulated from being<\/p>\n
496
\n00:27:55,520 –> 00:27:59,040
\na young student, of course.
\nBut by learning all that, we <\/p>\n
497
\n00:27:59,040 –> 00:28:01,600
\nsort of get the impression that
\nthat was the real thing. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:28:01,600 –> 00:28:03,840
\nYou know, that’s when God really
\nwas active in the world. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:28:03,840 –> 00:28:07,280
\nThat’s when God did stuff.
\nThat’s when God was visible. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:28:07,280 –> 00:28:09,840
\nThat’s when God was doing his
\nwork. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:28:10,320 –> 00:28:14,040
\nAnd if I could only live then
\nand see David and be one of <\/p>\n
502
\n00:28:14,040 –> 00:28:18,080
\nDavid’s mighty men, or or see
\nthe prophets, or be be part of <\/p>\n
503
\n00:28:18,080 –> 00:28:21,600
\nIsrael’s victory at Jericho
\nRiver. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:28:21,600 –> 00:28:26,040
\nAnd and to feel the power of
\nthat, only I could experience <\/p>\n
505
\n00:28:26,040 –> 00:28:28,600
\nthat old, that Old Testament
\nhistory myself, because that <\/p>\n
506
\n00:28:28,600 –> 00:28:31,960
\nseems to be the real thing.
\nAnd we look back at the, you <\/p>\n
507
\n00:28:31,960 –> 00:28:35,640
\nknow, the Shekinah glory that
\nwas there in the Most Holy Place<\/p>\n
508
\n00:28:35,640 –> 00:28:37,960
\nand the pillar of fire and the
\npillar of cloud and these <\/p>\n
509
\n00:28:38,280 –> 00:28:42,600
\nphenomena, these these physical
\nmanifestations of God’s <\/p>\n
510
\n00:28:42,600 –> 00:28:45,280
\npresence, and we go, wow, that’s
\nthe real thing. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:28:45,280 –> 00:28:48,040
\nThat’s that’s awesome.
\nAnd yet we’re going to see <\/p>\n
512
\n00:28:48,040 –> 00:28:50,320
\nbrothers and sisters, as we go
\nthrough our sessions. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:28:51,040 –> 00:28:53,240
\nNone of that was actually the
\nreal thing. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:28:54,600 –> 00:28:57,600
\nNone of that was the real thing.
\nAnd the book of Hebrews is going<\/p>\n
515
\n00:28:57,600 –> 00:28:59,240
\nto make that really, really
\nclear. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:28:59,240 –> 00:29:04,720
\nNone of that was the real thing.
\nWhat we have far surpasses any <\/p>\n
517
\n00:29:04,720 –> 00:29:06,680
\nof that.
\nThat’s not even comparable to <\/p>\n
518
\n00:29:06,680 –> 00:29:10,240
\nwhat we have in Christ today.
\nAnd in fact, what we are and <\/p>\n
519
\n00:29:10,240 –> 00:29:16,280
\nwhat we have and what we can
\nexperience today is amazing and <\/p>\n
520
\n00:29:16,280 –> 00:29:20,200
\nbeyond anything that those old
\ncovenant believers could ever <\/p>\n
521
\n00:29:20,200 –> 00:29:23,200
\nhave imagined.
\nSo what I’m going to do in the <\/p>\n
522
\n00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:27,040
\nnext 15 minutes or so, in that
\ntime remaining, just going to <\/p>\n
523
\n00:29:27,040 –> 00:29:31,360
\ngive you some samples of these,
\nif you like. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:29:31,360 –> 00:29:34,320
\nTo use the analogy, gold bars
\nfrom this box that we might be <\/p>\n
525
\n00:29:34,320 –> 00:29:36,640
\nsitting on and not using, We
\njust want to look at these gold <\/p>\n
526
\n00:29:36,640 –> 00:29:39,800
\nbars very quickly.
\nWe’ll come back and look at them<\/p>\n
527
\n00:29:39,800 –> 00:29:42,760
\nin more detail and do a whole
\nnight on some of these things. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:29:43,240 –> 00:29:49,440
\nBut I just want to show you the
\ntranscendent riches that we have<\/p>\n
529
\n00:29:49,440 –> 00:29:53,760
\nin Christ, particularly when
\ncompared to what maybe Israel <\/p>\n
530
\n00:29:53,760 –> 00:29:56,880
\nunder the old covenant had.
\nAnd I’ve just got on our little <\/p>\n
531
\n00:29:56,880 –> 00:29:59,240
\nbanner head here some quotes
\nfrom Hebrews. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:29:59,240 –> 00:30:01,400
\nYou know, Hebrews has this
\nlittle theme that runs through <\/p>\n
533
\n00:30:01,400 –> 00:30:04,000
\nit.
\nThe the word better that what we<\/p>\n
534
\n00:30:04,000 –> 00:30:07,040
\nhave in Christ is better.
\nAnd sometimes we approach <\/p>\n
535
\n00:30:07,040 –> 00:30:13,640
\nHebrews and we look at the the,
\nthe target of the original <\/p>\n
536
\n00:30:13,640 –> 00:30:16,960
\nwriting, we go, OK, that’s
\nbecause they’re Jewish believers<\/p>\n
537
\n00:30:16,960 –> 00:30:20,000
\ngoing back to Judaism.
\nAnd so the writer of Hebrews is <\/p>\n
538
\n00:30:20,000 –> 00:30:23,560
\nin tell telling him how Christ
\nis far superior and the benefits<\/p>\n
539
\n00:30:23,560 –> 00:30:28,120
\nin Christ are far better than
\nthan than what they had in <\/p>\n
540
\n00:30:28,120 –> 00:30:29,560
\nJudaism, what they had under the
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:30:30,880 –> 00:30:34,240
\nIf we stay at that level,
\nlooking at the historical sort <\/p>\n
542
\n00:30:34,240 –> 00:30:37,280
\nof context, I don’t think we’re
\ngoing to get the power of this <\/p>\n
543
\n00:30:37,280 –> 00:30:40,560
\nbook.
\nNone of us attempted to go to <\/p>\n
544
\n00:30:40,640 –> 00:30:42,760
\njoin the local synagogue in
\nHurstville are we? <\/p>\n
545
\n00:30:42,760 –> 00:30:46,840
\nSo, so we’re not really looking
\nat this to say is the is Christ <\/p>\n
546
\n00:30:46,840 –> 00:30:50,720
\nbetter than the law?
\nThe power of Hebrews is for us <\/p>\n
547
\n00:30:50,720 –> 00:30:53,600
\nto extract the power of what it
\nmeans to be part of the new <\/p>\n
548
\n00:30:53,600 –> 00:30:56,480
\ncovenant, what it means to be in
\nChrist, what it means to have <\/p>\n
549
\n00:30:56,720 –> 00:30:59,600
\naccess to the most Holy Place.
\nThese are the these are things <\/p>\n
550
\n00:30:59,600 –> 00:31:02,880
\nwe want to really extract from
\nHebrews the reality of it and <\/p>\n
551
\n00:31:02,880 –> 00:31:06,400
\nnot just get lost in the the
\nhistorical immediate readership <\/p>\n
552
\n00:31:06,400 –> 00:31:08,200
\nthat’s there because we’ve
\nmissed the power. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:31:08,200 –> 00:31:14,280
\nIf we just do that, OK, example,
\nbetter example one, what do we <\/p>\n
554
\n00:31:14,280 –> 00:31:16,600
\nhave that’s better in our life
\nnow? <\/p>\n
555
\n00:31:17,800 –> 00:31:19,920
\nWell, there’s something called
\nboldness. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:31:20,400 –> 00:31:28,240
\nNot just access, but boldness to
\ndraw near to the most holy place<\/p>\n
557
\n00:31:28,240 –> 00:31:32,560
\nor the very presence of God.
\nSomething we might take for <\/p>\n
558
\n00:31:32,560 –> 00:31:35,560
\ngranted or something we think
\neveryone’s always had the <\/p>\n
559
\n00:31:35,560 –> 00:31:37,480
\nability to draw into the
\npresence of God. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:31:37,480 –> 00:31:42,040
\nDo you know in under the old
\ncovenant the presence of God was<\/p>\n
561
\n00:31:42,040 –> 00:31:44,480
\nactually an Angel?
\nDo you know that it’s actually a<\/p>\n
562
\n00:31:44,480 –> 00:31:47,360
\nperson personage?
\nThe angel’s called the presence <\/p>\n
563
\n00:31:47,360 –> 00:31:49,120
\nof God the Angel of his
\npresence. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:31:49,120 –> 00:31:51,880
\nAnd Isaiah 63 talks about how
\nthe Angel of his presence <\/p>\n
565
\n00:31:51,880 –> 00:31:53,600
\nbrought them through the
\nwilderness. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:31:53,600 –> 00:31:55,680
\nAnd of course the Angel, his
\npresence was going to be <\/p>\n
567
\n00:31:55,800 –> 00:31:57,960
\nextracted by God at one point
\nbecause of the golden calf <\/p>\n
568
\n00:31:57,960 –> 00:32:00,960
\nincident until Moses interceded
\nfor the people. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:32:00,960 –> 00:32:03,920
\nSo the presence of God has been
\nheavily mediated in under the <\/p>\n
570
\n00:32:03,920 –> 00:32:06,920
\nOld covenant.
\nIt’s not what we have today, <\/p>\n
571
\n00:32:06,920 –> 00:32:10,680
\nwhich is just so amazing.
\nSo to try and quickly move <\/p>\n
572
\n00:32:10,680 –> 00:32:13,120
\nthrough these things, I’m just
\ngoing to do a little before and <\/p>\n
573
\n00:32:13,120 –> 00:32:14,880
\nafter Schemer, and we’re just
\ngoing to run through some of <\/p>\n
574
\n00:32:14,880 –> 00:32:18,840
\nthese things and just have them
\nin our mind to think about and <\/p>\n
575
\n00:32:18,840 –> 00:32:22,400
\nthen we will look at them in a
\nbit more detailed subsequent <\/p>\n
576
\n00:32:22,400 –> 00:32:25,240
\nclasses.
\nSo here’s a famous verse from <\/p>\n
577
\n00:32:25,240 –> 00:32:29,320
\nHebrews 9 that says very, very
\ncategorically and very clear the<\/p>\n
578
\n00:32:29,320 –> 00:32:33,200
\nway into the holiest, which is
\nthe Most holy place where the <\/p>\n
579
\n00:32:33,200 –> 00:32:38,040
\nShekinah, the dwelling glory of
\nGod was, was not yet made <\/p>\n
580
\n00:32:38,040 –> 00:32:41,440
\nmanifest while the first
\nTabernacle was standing. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:32:42,160 –> 00:32:44,720
\nSome commentators meant to say
\nthink that that means it still <\/p>\n
582
\n00:32:44,720 –> 00:32:49,520
\nhad standing while it was, while
\nit was actually valid and was <\/p>\n
583
\n00:32:50,000 –> 00:32:52,640
\nfunctioning in a way that it
\nwas. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:32:54,080 –> 00:32:56,240
\nThe situation changes
\ndramatically later on in <\/p>\n
585
\n00:32:56,240 –> 00:32:58,520
\nHebrews.
\nAnd we get to Hebrews 10 and we <\/p>\n
586
\n00:32:58,520 –> 00:33:01,440
\nsay and and because of the new
\ncovenant, because of the blood <\/p>\n
587
\n00:33:01,440 –> 00:33:03,760
\nof Christ.
\nThe writer of Hebrews says, <\/p>\n
588
\n00:33:03,760 –> 00:33:09,520
\nTherefore, brethren, we have
\nboldness to enter the holiest, <\/p>\n
589
\n00:33:09,520 –> 00:33:13,040
\nwhich you couldn’t enter before
\nexcept on the Day of Atonement <\/p>\n
590
\n00:33:13,040 –> 00:33:15,280
\nthere was only one man the high
\npriest could enter. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:33:15,840 –> 00:33:21,200
\nNow we all have boldness or
\nconfidence to enter the holiest <\/p>\n
592
\n00:33:21,200 –> 00:33:25,040
\nby the blood of Jesus, by a new
\nthat’s new. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:33:25,040 –> 00:33:30,120
\nThis wasn’t available before.
\nAnd living Zoe, it’s alive. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:33:30,120 –> 00:33:35,360
\nSomething’s alive something’s.
\nIt’s not just a an apparatus or <\/p>\n
595
\n00:33:35,640 –> 00:33:38,160
\na ritual.
\nThere’s a new and living way <\/p>\n
596
\n00:33:38,760 –> 00:33:41,440
\nwhich he has consecrated for us
\nthrough the veil. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:33:42,200 –> 00:33:46,120
\nThere’s something very, very
\ndifferent between the old <\/p>\n
598
\n00:33:46,120 –> 00:33:50,320
\ncovenant believers experience of
\nGod and the interaction with God<\/p>\n
599
\n00:33:50,800 –> 00:33:54,080
\nand what we have available to us
\ntoday. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:33:55,200 –> 00:33:59,440
\nAnd it’s like in a sense the to
\nuse a figure of the Tabernacle <\/p>\n
601
\n00:33:59,440 –> 00:34:02,760
\nand temple that the that vale’s
\nnow gone and those two <\/p>\n
602
\n00:34:02,760 –> 00:34:05,680
\ncompartments are now one.
\nAnd God’s glory, as it were, <\/p>\n
603
\n00:34:05,680 –> 00:34:09,400
\nspills out and his presence is
\nspills out to his kings and <\/p>\n
604
\n00:34:09,400 –> 00:34:14,560
\npriests who are in his presence
\nin a in a much more direct and <\/p>\n
605
\n00:34:14,560 –> 00:34:15,840
\nconstant way.
\nThere’s something quite <\/p>\n
606
\n00:34:15,840 –> 00:34:18,880
\ndifferently.
\nYou know, some commentators and <\/p>\n
607
\n00:34:19,520 –> 00:34:20,960
\nsome study notes that I looked
\nat. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:34:22,000 –> 00:34:25,040
\nThey try they relate this to
\nprayer and they say, well now <\/p>\n
609
\n00:34:25,040 –> 00:34:29,199
\nthat Christ has opened up the
\nveil, we can pray directly to <\/p>\n
610
\n00:34:29,199 –> 00:34:32,000
\nGod.
\nReally. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:34:32,000 –> 00:34:35,239
\nIs that what it is?
\nBecause there was a lot of <\/p>\n
612
\n00:34:35,239 –> 00:34:36,800
\nprayers being given in the old
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:34:36,800 –> 00:34:39,480
\nIn fact, their prayers under the
\nold covenant seem to have more <\/p>\n
614
\n00:34:41,159 –> 00:34:44,159
\neffectiveness than even ours.
\nAnd the example James gives in <\/p>\n
615
\n00:34:44,159 –> 00:34:46,840
\nJames 5 is of Elijah under the
\nold covenant who prayed and <\/p>\n
616
\n00:34:47,280 –> 00:34:50,639
\nstopped the stop the rain and
\ncaused the famine because of his<\/p>\n
617
\n00:34:50,639 –> 00:34:53,360
\nprayer.
\nSo it can’t be prayer. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:34:54,760 –> 00:34:56,280
\nIt’s something more profound
\nthan prayer. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:34:56,280 –> 00:34:58,800
\nThere’s something that has
\nchanged in the universe. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:34:58,800 –> 00:35:01,000
\nSomething has changed,
\nprofoundly changed. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:35:01,160 –> 00:35:04,480
\nThat involves you and me.
\nThat is represented by this <\/p>\n
622
\n00:35:04,720 –> 00:35:07,360
\naccess boldness to the very
\npresence of God. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:35:07,640 –> 00:35:09,040
\nWhat is that?
\nWhat has changed? <\/p>\n
624
\n00:35:09,040 –> 00:35:11,200
\nSomething has dramatically
\nchanged. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:35:12,640 –> 00:35:15,000
\nIt’s not just being able to say
\nthrough the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
626
\n00:35:15,000 –> 00:35:18,480
\nthe end of a prayer.
\nExample two. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:35:18,480 –> 00:35:21,480
\nWell, that’s that’s part of it.
\nBut that of course cannot be the<\/p>\n
628
\n00:35:21,520 –> 00:35:25,960
\nwhole picture.
\nHebrews talks about this concept<\/p>\n
629
\n00:35:25,960 –> 00:35:30,640
\nof being made perfect.
\nWe under the new covenant can be<\/p>\n
630
\n00:35:30,640 –> 00:35:33,040
\nmade perfect.
\nNow perfection. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:35:33,160 –> 00:35:34,840
\nAnd we’re not going to touch on
\nthat too much tonight. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:35:34,840 –> 00:35:36,600
\nPerfection or being without
\nblemish. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:42,160
\nBeing perfect, being holy, being
\nsanctified is a precondition for<\/p>\n
634
\n00:35:42,440 –> 00:35:44,680
\nbeing in God’s presence,
\ninteracting with God. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:35:44,680 –> 00:35:47,280
\nAdam and Eve couldn’t and didn’t
\nhave that. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:35:47,280 –> 00:35:50,200
\nOnce they sinned, they lost that
\nperfection, if you like. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:35:52,040 –> 00:35:55,680
\nPerfection is not necessarily
\nsinlessness either. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:35:56,120 –> 00:35:58,920
\nYou know a little baby could be
\nsinless in a sense that hasn’t <\/p>\n
639
\n00:35:58,920 –> 00:36:01,440
\never sinned.
\nSomeone in a coma may be sinless<\/p>\n
640
\n00:36:01,440 –> 00:36:03,600
\nat that time.
\nPerfection is something else, <\/p>\n
641
\n00:36:03,600 –> 00:36:04,800
\nisn’t it?
\nThere’s some, there’s something <\/p>\n
642
\n00:36:04,800 –> 00:36:08,440
\nthat makes us relatable to to
\nYahweh, to God. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:36:08,440 –> 00:36:12,240
\nThere’s there’s a the ability to
\nbe connected to God in a in a <\/p>\n
644
\n00:36:12,240 –> 00:36:16,360
\nagain, a profound way.
\nNow the Old Covenant could not <\/p>\n
645
\n00:36:16,360 –> 00:36:21,360
\nmake those as faithful as they
\nwere, as faithful as they were, <\/p>\n
646
\n00:36:21,360 –> 00:36:23,560
\nand we’re not in any way
\ndiminishing their faith. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:36:24,200 –> 00:36:28,000
\nBut those under the Old Covenant
\nwere never made perfect, Hebrews<\/p>\n
648
\n00:36:28,000 –> 00:36:30,120
\n10 says.
\nFor the law, having a shadow of <\/p>\n
649
\n00:36:30,120 –> 00:36:32,760
\ngood things to come, and not the
\nvery image of the things, can <\/p>\n
650
\n00:36:32,760 –> 00:36:35,560
\nnever with those sacrifices
\nwhich they offer continually, <\/p>\n
651
\n00:36:35,560 –> 00:36:38,080
\nyear by year, make those who
\napproach perfect. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:36:38,080 –> 00:36:41,680
\nThey never got that perfection,
\nwhatever it is, whatever this <\/p>\n
653
\n00:36:41,680 –> 00:36:46,480
\nperfection is this precondition,
\nas I said, to stand to be <\/p>\n
654
\n00:36:46,480 –> 00:36:49,040
\ninteract with God and to be at
\none with him. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:36:49,040 –> 00:36:51,320
\nThey never ever received that.
\nThey never got that. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:36:52,080 –> 00:36:54,960
\nAnd that’s why their presence is
\nalways mediated, highly mediated<\/p>\n
657
\n00:36:54,960 –> 00:36:57,040
\nand restricted.
\nThey never were made perfect. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:36:57,520 –> 00:37:03,080
\nHowever few verses down in
\nHebrews 10 it is very different <\/p>\n
659
\n00:37:03,080 –> 00:37:05,040
\nfor us.
\nLook at the difference for by <\/p>\n
660
\n00:37:05,040 –> 00:37:11,160
\none offering he has perfected
\nforever the tense. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:37:11,160 –> 00:37:13,520
\nThe Greek there is he’s he’s
\ndone something which <\/p>\n
662
\n00:37:13,720 –> 00:37:15,640
\nreverberates through through all
\ntime. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:37:15,640 –> 00:37:19,160
\nIt’s it’s happened in the past,
\ncompletely and utterly For you <\/p>\n
664
\n00:37:19,160 –> 00:37:23,600
\nand me, we have been perfected
\nforever, while at the same time <\/p>\n
665
\n00:37:23,600 –> 00:37:26,080
\nhe’s still sanctifying us.
\nThat word sanctified is an <\/p>\n
666
\n00:37:26,080 –> 00:37:28,200
\nongoing verb.
\nIt’s it’s continuous. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:37:28,200 –> 00:37:33,200
\nSo at one level, we’re perfected
\nfor something. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:37:33,480 –> 00:37:37,840
\nGod has perfected us to allow us
\ninto His presence, while at the <\/p>\n
669
\n00:37:37,840 –> 00:37:40,200
\nsame time he’s still sanctifying
\nus. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:37:40,200 –> 00:37:41,920
\nAnd we’ll touch on this.
\nI’m jumping ahead. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:37:41,920 –> 00:37:43,320
\nWe’ll get to this a bit later
\non. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:37:44,840 –> 00:37:47,040
\nAnd being perfected is not
\nnecessarily being forgiven. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:37:47,840 –> 00:37:50,440
\nThat’s that’s as I said, that’s
\na negative thing in a way. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:37:50,440 –> 00:37:54,760
\nForgiveness is just having a a
\nsin removed in a sense or or not<\/p>\n
675
\n00:37:54,760 –> 00:37:57,680
\ncounted against us.
\nBut you know even under the laws<\/p>\n
676
\n00:37:57,680 –> 00:38:00,160
\nthere was forgiveness, sins
\ncould be forgiven. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:38:00,440 –> 00:38:02,440
\nNow there’s many quotes in
\nLeviticus talking about God <\/p>\n
678
\n00:38:02,440 –> 00:38:05,840
\nforgiving is the sins and there
\nwas even sacrifices for <\/p>\n
679
\n00:38:05,840 –> 00:38:07,320
\ntransgressions and sins
\netcetera. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:38:07,320 –> 00:38:09,960
\nBut the law could not make
\nperfect that’s that’s the <\/p>\n
681
\n00:38:09,960 –> 00:38:12,200
\npositive side of the of the
\ncoin. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:38:12,200 –> 00:38:15,240
\nIf you like, it could.
\nIt could forgive their <\/p>\n
683
\n00:38:15,240 –> 00:38:20,160
\ntrespasses, but it could not
\nmake them perfect. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:38:20,160 –> 00:38:24,440
\nIt could not make them be in a
\nsituation, a position where they<\/p>\n
685
\n00:38:24,440 –> 00:38:27,080
\ncould interact with God in that,
\nin that Adam and Eve way. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:38:28,520 –> 00:38:30,240
\nHere’s an interesting one you
\nmay not have thought about <\/p>\n
687
\n00:38:30,240 –> 00:38:34,320
\nbefore you and I.
\nWe think we’re just, you know, <\/p>\n
688
\n00:38:34,360 –> 00:38:37,600
\nin this dead period of time.
\nNothing’s much happening. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:38:37,600 –> 00:38:39,840
\nIt’s just static.
\nGod’s done all the work in the <\/p>\n
690
\n00:38:39,840 –> 00:38:41,440
\npast and we’ll do it in the
\nfuture. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:38:42,400 –> 00:38:45,400
\nIs this really interesting
\nstatement by the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
692
\n00:38:45,400 –> 00:38:49,640
\nChrist in Matthew 11 where he
\nsays, I say to you among those <\/p>\n
693
\n00:38:49,640 –> 00:38:52,160
\nborn of women, Now keep that,
\nthat’s a little clue here. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:38:52,160 –> 00:38:56,280
\nThose born of women there has
\nnot risen one greater than John <\/p>\n
695
\n00:38:56,280 –> 00:39:00,120
\nthe Baptist.
\nSo right up until he says from <\/p>\n
696
\n00:39:00,120 –> 00:39:04,480
\nJohn the Baptist, sorry, from
\nfrom creation, right up into <\/p>\n
697
\n00:39:04,480 –> 00:39:07,160
\nJohn the Baptist, he was the
\ngreatest person who’ve ever <\/p>\n
698
\n00:39:07,160 –> 00:39:09,760
\nlived.
\nAnd then Jesus goes on to say, <\/p>\n
699
\n00:39:10,560 –> 00:39:16,720
\nbut he who is least in the
\nKingdom of heaven is now. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:39:16,760 –> 00:39:23,440
\nThat’s in the tense.
\nThere is now is greater than he.<\/p>\n
701
\n00:39:23,920 –> 00:39:26,520
\nWhat does that mean?
\nThat’s a that’s a little bit a <\/p>\n
702
\n00:39:26,520 –> 00:39:28,560
\nlittle bit enigmatic, isn’t it?
\nWhat’s going on here? <\/p>\n
703
\n00:39:29,400 –> 00:39:32,520
\nWhat is the Kingdom of heaven?
\nWe sometimes jump when we read <\/p>\n
704
\n00:39:33,120 –> 00:39:34,360
\nphrase like we jump to the
\nfuture. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:39:34,360 –> 00:39:37,320
\nI think that’s the the actual
\nKingdom when Jesus returns and <\/p>\n
706
\n00:39:37,320 –> 00:39:39,520
\nsets up the Kingdom.
\nBut the context here, the next <\/p>\n
707
\n00:39:39,520 –> 00:39:42,640
\nverse tells us it’s not talking
\nabout the future Kingdom. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:39:43,680 –> 00:39:46,120
\nHe says from the days of John
\nthe Baptist until now, the <\/p>\n
709
\n00:39:46,120 –> 00:39:49,120
\nKingdom of heaven suffers
\nviolence and the violence take <\/p>\n
710
\n00:39:49,120 –> 00:39:51,560
\nit by force.
\nIt’s talking about God’s people <\/p>\n
711
\n00:39:51,560 –> 00:39:54,840
\nsince since the baptism of John,
\nsince the teaching of Jesus who <\/p>\n
712
\n00:39:54,840 –> 00:39:57,080
\nembodied the Kingdom.
\nWhoops, sorry, who embodied the <\/p>\n
713
\n00:39:57,080 –> 00:40:00,400
\nKingdom.
\nHe said the King of God is among<\/p>\n
714
\n00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:02,520
\nyou.
\nThe King of God came in a sense <\/p>\n
715
\n00:40:02,520 –> 00:40:08,680
\nwith with Jesus teaching and he
\nand he bought that to man’s <\/p>\n
716
\n00:40:08,680 –> 00:40:11,320
\nattention and man interacted
\nthen in a sense with God’s <\/p>\n
717
\n00:40:11,320 –> 00:40:14,720
\nKingdom.
\nAnd those who received that, <\/p>\n
718
\n00:40:14,760 –> 00:40:16,760
\neven though they suffered
\nviolence, even though there was <\/p>\n
719
\n00:40:16,800 –> 00:40:22,560
\nproblems, he says they are, even
\nthe least of them is greater <\/p>\n
720
\n00:40:22,920 –> 00:40:25,960
\nthan John the Baptist, who was
\nthe greater, the greatest. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:40:26,000 –> 00:40:31,760
\nRather under the Old Covenant,
\nBrother Carter says in parables <\/p>\n
722
\n00:40:31,760 –> 00:40:35,800
\nof the Messiah, Jesus is now
\nspeaking when he refers to the <\/p>\n
723
\n00:40:35,800 –> 00:40:37,720
\nKingdom of God.
\nHe’s speaking not of the future <\/p>\n
724
\n00:40:37,720 –> 00:40:40,400
\nKingdom, brother, Carter says.
\nHe’s Speaking of a new order, a <\/p>\n
725
\n00:40:40,440 –> 00:40:43,840
\nwhole new world order, and I’ll
\nget to that in a minute. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:40:44,960 –> 00:40:47,600
\nJohn says Jesus is the last of
\nthe prophets. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:40:47,600 –> 00:40:51,440
\nHe is the last link in the chain
\nup to this new order. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:40:52,200 –> 00:40:55,320
\nAnd in that case, the days of
\nthe Kingdom had actually come in<\/p>\n
729
\n00:40:55,320 –> 00:40:58,640
\nthat sense, in the sense that
\nthe king was in their midst and <\/p>\n
730
\n00:40:58,640 –> 00:41:01,280
\nthe gospel of the Kingdom was
\npressed upon men’s attention. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:41:02,320 –> 00:41:05,920
\nSo those who responded to the
\nKingdom message that were <\/p>\n
732
\n00:41:05,920 –> 00:41:08,800
\ngreater, it’s in some sense
\nwhatever that means. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:41:08,800 –> 00:41:13,240
\nThen the incredible John the
\nBaptist who he wasn’t, he didn’t<\/p>\n
734
\n00:41:13,240 –> 00:41:17,000
\nfeel worthy to tie Jesus
\nShoelachitz and we wouldn’t, we <\/p>\n
735
\n00:41:17,000 –> 00:41:19,040
\nwould feel unworthy.
\nWe even tie untie John’s <\/p>\n
736
\n00:41:19,040 –> 00:41:21,720
\nShoelachitz.
\nAnd yet this scripture is saying<\/p>\n
737
\n00:41:22,000 –> 00:41:26,080
\nbecause of the status we have,
\nthe perfection we have the <\/p>\n
738
\n00:41:26,200 –> 00:41:28,720
\naccess and boldness to God’s
\npresence that we have something <\/p>\n
739
\n00:41:28,720 –> 00:41:32,360
\nwe have is even greater than
\nanything that John the John the <\/p>\n
740
\n00:41:32,360 –> 00:41:35,280
\nBaptist experienced as well.
\nOf course he died before the <\/p>\n
741
\n00:41:35,280 –> 00:41:38,200
\nresurrection, which when all
\nthese things became inaugurated.<\/p>\n
742
\n00:41:40,240 –> 00:41:44,240
\nExample 4 this is an interesting
\none and I I when I when I <\/p>\n
743
\n00:41:44,240 –> 00:41:48,280
\npresented this at Gosford, it it
\nit was there was push back and <\/p>\n
744
\n00:41:48,280 –> 00:41:51,200
\nwe we had to really look at this
\nin some detail. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:41:51,200 –> 00:41:57,960
\nSo it’s quite interesting.
\nThe idea that we are sons of God<\/p>\n
746
\n00:41:59,400 –> 00:42:03,080
\nis something that relates to us
\ntoday. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:42:04,600 –> 00:42:07,920
\nUnder the old covenant, they
\nweren’t called sons of God, <\/p>\n
748
\n00:42:09,240 –> 00:42:12,240
\nparticularly after the flood,
\nthat phrase is not there. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:42:12,240 –> 00:42:17,320
\nIsrael was a son in a in a
\ncorporate sense, but Israel were<\/p>\n
750
\n00:42:17,320 –> 00:42:20,240
\nnot individually sons of God.
\nThis is something that has come <\/p>\n
751
\n00:42:20,240 –> 00:42:22,240
\ninto force.
\nRemember we saw that quote from <\/p>\n
752
\n00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:26,680
\nMatthew 11, those born of women.
\nJohn the Baptist was a greater, <\/p>\n
753
\n00:42:26,680 –> 00:42:30,640
\nbut something has happened since
\nthe resurrection of Jesus where <\/p>\n
754
\n00:42:30,640 –> 00:42:34,200
\nwe’re born again.
\nWe’re born not of flesh and <\/p>\n
755
\n00:42:34,200 –> 00:42:36,000
\nblood as John one says, we’re
\nborn of spirit. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:38,360
\nThere’s a whole, there’s
\nsomething quite different now <\/p>\n
757
\n00:42:39,440 –> 00:42:44,000
\nthat relates to us in this
\nunique period of time. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:46,120
\nIt’s not an in between dead time
\nat all. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:42:46,120 –> 00:42:49,040
\nIt’s a very powerful time and
\nour interaction with God is <\/p>\n
760
\n00:42:49,040 –> 00:42:52,480
\nextremely powerful.
\nSo under the old covenant <\/p>\n
761
\n00:42:52,480 –> 00:42:55,480
\nthere’s no real emphasis on God
\nas the Father, which some people<\/p>\n
762
\n00:42:55,480 –> 00:42:58,080
\nare shocked by.
\nIt’s a little bit shocking in <\/p>\n
763
\n00:42:58,080 –> 00:43:01,160
\nthe New Testament, in under the
\nNew covenant, it’s Father all <\/p>\n
764
\n00:43:01,160 –> 00:43:04,640
\nthe way, isn’t it?
\nJesus comes on the scene and <\/p>\n
765
\n00:43:04,640 –> 00:43:06,800
\nit’s father, Father, Father,
\nFather, Father, my father, <\/p>\n
766
\n00:43:06,800 –> 00:43:08,120
\nFather, Father, your father,
\nFather, Father. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:43:08,120 –> 00:43:11,120
\nIt’s it punctuates every second
\nverse in the gospel records. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:43:11,120 –> 00:43:15,160
\nIt’s Father everywhere.
\nThere’s you can colouring Father<\/p>\n
769
\n00:43:15,160 –> 00:43:17,360
\nand it hits you in the eyes
\neverywhere in the in the in the <\/p>\n
770
\n00:43:17,360 –> 00:43:19,960
\ngospel records.
\nAnd yet it’s hard to find <\/p>\n
771
\n00:43:19,960 –> 00:43:23,840
\nanything in the Old Testament in
\nthat, in that, anything like <\/p>\n
772
\n00:43:23,840 –> 00:43:27,320
\nthat in the Old Testament.
\nThere are a few references to <\/p>\n
773
\n00:43:27,320 –> 00:43:31,360
\nGod being a father in the Old
\nTestament and most of them are <\/p>\n
774
\n00:43:31,360 –> 00:43:35,560
\nare metaphors so God’s like his
\nor they’re they’re figures of <\/p>\n
775
\n00:43:35,560 –> 00:43:39,920
\nspeech so the famous one is
\nPsalm 103 as a father pities <\/p>\n
776
\n00:43:39,920 –> 00:43:42,640
\ntheir child so God pities us
\nit’s as a father. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:43:42,640 –> 00:43:46,520
\nIt’s it’s not God depicted in
\nthat same way and where God is <\/p>\n
778
\n00:43:46,520 –> 00:43:49,400
\ndepicted as a father it’s a it’s
\nagain as I said before it’s a <\/p>\n
779
\n00:43:49,560 –> 00:43:53,800
\nit’s a corporate father over his
\nson out of Egypt. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:43:53,800 –> 00:43:57,000
\nHave I called my son as a as a
\ncorporate body? <\/p>\n
781
\n00:43:57,200 –> 00:43:58,600
\nIt’s it’s significantly
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:04,080
\nThere’s about 15 references in
\nthe whole, you know, whole of <\/p>\n
783
\n00:44:04,080 –> 00:44:06,360
\nthe Old Testament, the big chunk
\nof our Bible to to the <\/p>\n
784
\n00:44:06,360 –> 00:44:09,200
\nfatherhood of God.
\nAnd we went through all those at<\/p>\n
785
\n00:44:09,200 –> 00:44:11,880
\nGosford individually and looked
\nat them to to just anchor this <\/p>\n
786
\n00:44:11,880 –> 00:44:14,680
\nconcept.
\nAnd yet it explodes in the new. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:44:14,920 –> 00:44:16,880
\nNew Testament explodes on the
\npage. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:44:19,680 –> 00:44:22,840
\nWon’t look at all these now, but
\nthere’s that famous concept of <\/p>\n
789
\n00:44:22,840 –> 00:44:25,160
\nPaul’s that runs through his
\nepistles, which is picked up <\/p>\n
790
\n00:44:25,160 –> 00:44:27,720
\nfrom the cross, isn’t it?
\nThe ABBA father concept? <\/p>\n
791
\n00:44:27,720 –> 00:44:31,760
\nABBA being this intimate, you
\nknow, dad if you like, and <\/p>\n
792
\n00:44:31,760 –> 00:44:34,400
\nfather ABBA father this
\nrelationship to God. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:44:34,400 –> 00:44:37,920
\nAnd by thinking about this and
\nmaking this real, we start to <\/p>\n
794
\n00:44:37,920 –> 00:44:42,840
\nget a clue as to how the
\npresence of God works. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:44:43,520 –> 00:44:47,640
\nIt’s all starting to change once
\nwe appreciate this unique status<\/p>\n
796
\n00:44:47,640 –> 00:44:51,040
\nthat we have as sons of God.
\nYou know, to get to see the <\/p>\n
797
\n00:44:51,040 –> 00:44:54,400
\nPresident of the United States,
\nI imagine it takes years to get <\/p>\n
798
\n00:44:54,400 –> 00:44:56,040
\nan appointment.
\nAnd you’d have to know the right<\/p>\n
799
\n00:44:56,040 –> 00:44:57,400
\npeople and go through the right
\nchannels. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:44:57,400 –> 00:45:00,440
\nAnd you may never, ever get to
\nvisit, have an appointment with <\/p>\n
801
\n00:45:00,440 –> 00:45:02,680
\nthe President of the United
\nStates. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:45:03,320 –> 00:45:08,720
\nAnd yet his little child is in
\nhis presence every night and can<\/p>\n
803
\n00:45:08,720 –> 00:45:10,240
\nrun into his room and see him
\nall the time. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:45:10,240 –> 00:45:12,760
\nSo a child has access to
\npresence that. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:45:13,920 –> 00:45:16,280
\nThat is quite unique, isn’t it?
\nAnd quite profound. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:45:17,280 –> 00:45:19,920
\nAnd you know no one in the Old
\nTestament ever calls God my <\/p>\n
807
\n00:45:19,920 –> 00:45:24,320
\nFather, no one.
\nSo it is something that really <\/p>\n
808
\n00:45:24,320 –> 00:45:28,480
\nis developed and really comes
\ninto force from Jesus onwards. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:45:29,320 –> 00:45:32,880
\nAnd there’s this famous verse
\nhearing John One, yeah, John <\/p>\n
810
\n00:45:32,880 –> 00:45:35,680
\none’s a very profound chapter in
\nthe beginning was the word was <\/p>\n
811
\n00:45:35,680 –> 00:45:39,680
\nGod’s mind and his his wisdom.
\nAnd the beginning was that Word <\/p>\n
812
\n00:45:39,680 –> 00:45:44,440
\nand that Word becomes flesh and
\nit’s dwell dwells amongst it’s <\/p>\n
813
\n00:45:44,920 –> 00:45:47,800
\nit it interacts with human
\nexperience and and human <\/p>\n
814
\n00:45:49,960 –> 00:45:53,080
\nfeebleness and human sin and
\nhuman life and and it interacts <\/p>\n
815
\n00:45:53,080 –> 00:45:56,480
\nwith God with it’s God
\ninteracting with humanity and we<\/p>\n
816
\n00:45:56,480 –> 00:45:59,640
\nsee the glory of God lived out
\nin that man and as a result of <\/p>\n
817
\n00:45:59,640 –> 00:46:05,160
\nthat that incredible events and
\nand all the things that <\/p>\n
818
\n00:46:05,160 –> 00:46:11,040
\ntranspired those who believe in
\nhim have a right or some <\/p>\n
819
\n00:46:11,040 –> 00:46:14,640
\ntranslations have privileged.
\nEither way is fine, but you can <\/p>\n
820
\n00:46:14,640 –> 00:46:16,240
\nsee it’s a change of status,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
821
\n00:46:16,240 –> 00:46:19,240
\nThat didn’t exist before.
\nIt now exists in Christ. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:46:19,240 –> 00:46:23,000
\nWe have the right to become the
\nchildren of God or the sons of <\/p>\n
823
\n00:46:23,000 –> 00:46:25,240
\nGod by belief, by faith in his
\nname. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:46:26,080 –> 00:46:28,840
\nWe’ve not been born of blood or
\nthe will of flesh. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:46:28,840 –> 00:46:33,720
\nThis is a divine, profound
\nmiracle that we’ve been born <\/p>\n
826
\n00:46:33,720 –> 00:46:36,720
\nagain into.
\nSorry, I’m trying to wreck your <\/p>\n
827
\n00:46:37,160 –> 00:46:39,600
\nequipment.
\nWe’re born into something that’s<\/p>\n
828
\n00:46:39,640 –> 00:46:46,400
\nthat’s that is just hard to hard
\nto for me to even articulate and<\/p>\n
829
\n00:46:46,400 –> 00:46:48,240
\nto put into words what, what
\nthat means. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:46:48,240 –> 00:46:52,200
\nWe are the children of the
\ncreator of the universe, of the <\/p>\n
831
\n00:46:52,200 –> 00:46:55,800
\npower of the universe and and
\nall the implications that that <\/p>\n
832
\n00:46:55,800 –> 00:46:58,360
\nbrings.
\nWe have this right, that comes <\/p>\n
833
\n00:46:58,360 –> 00:47:05,320
\nthis this privilege, this
\ncapacity this this thing that <\/p>\n
834
\n00:47:05,320 –> 00:47:09,000
\nwe’ve been elevated to to be the
\nsons and daughters of God and <\/p>\n
835
\n00:47:09,000 –> 00:47:12,600
\nthat that came to existence.
\nNow that’s something that longs <\/p>\n
836
\n00:47:12,600 –> 00:47:14,360
\nto us.
\nNow you know, first John three, <\/p>\n
837
\n00:47:14,560 –> 00:47:17,160
\nnow are we the sons of God?
\nYou know, this is something <\/p>\n
838
\n00:47:17,160 –> 00:47:20,080
\nthat’s, you know, ability to
\nappreciate. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:47:20,080 –> 00:47:23,480
\nNow example five, we are really
\nrunning out of time. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:47:23,640 –> 00:47:26,160
\nBut I’ve got a whole night on
\nthis, so I’ll just quickly run <\/p>\n
841
\n00:47:26,160 –> 00:47:29,120
\nthrough it.
\nThere’s another profound verse <\/p>\n
842
\n00:47:29,120 –> 00:47:33,280
\nhere in John 7 where Jesus just
\njumps up in John seven. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:47:33,280 –> 00:47:34,960
\nIt’s like he does it out of the
\nblue. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:47:34,960 –> 00:47:37,640
\nAnd if it wasn’t for Josephus,
\nwe probably wouldn’t know what <\/p>\n
845
\n00:47:37,640 –> 00:47:41,000
\nhe was actually doing.
\nBut he jumps up on it’s the it’s<\/p>\n
846
\n00:47:41,000 –> 00:47:44,040
\nthe the feast of Tabernacles.
\nAnd he just screams out. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:47:44,200 –> 00:47:46,400
\nThere’s no, there’s no lead up
\nto it. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:47:46,400 –> 00:47:47,520
\nWe don’t quite know why he does
\nit. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:47:47,520 –> 00:47:48,760
\nBut he just jumps up and he
\nyells out. <\/p>\n
850
\n00:47:48,760 –> 00:47:53,120
\nHe that believes on me as the
\nscripture says out of his heart <\/p>\n
851
\n00:47:53,120 –> 00:47:54,680
\nwill flow rivers of living
\nwater. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:47:56,360 –> 00:47:57,600
\nI’m not going to go down this
\nrabbit hole. <\/p>\n
853
\n00:47:57,600 –> 00:47:59,640
\nBut there’s nowhere in the
\nscripture that says that by the <\/p>\n
854
\n00:47:59,640 –> 00:48:01,400
\nway.
\nSo that’s keep keep that in the <\/p>\n
855
\n00:48:01,400 –> 00:48:03,160
\nback of your mind.
\nWe’ll touch on that later on. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:48:04,480 –> 00:48:09,840
\nBut this he spoke, the narrator
\nsays, concerning the Spirit who <\/p>\n
857
\n00:48:09,840 –> 00:48:11,720
\nthose believing in him would
\nreceive. <\/p>\n
858
\n00:48:11,720 –> 00:48:15,840
\nFor the Holy Spirit was not yet
\nbecause Jesus was not yet <\/p>\n
859
\n00:48:15,840 –> 00:48:18,920
\nglorified.
\nThere’s something about the <\/p>\n
860
\n00:48:18,920 –> 00:48:23,600
\nSpirit that is going to be
\nsignificantly different after <\/p>\n
861
\n00:48:23,600 –> 00:48:26,160
\nthe glorification of the Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:48:27,400 –> 00:48:31,400
\nNow this is one of those
\nsubjects that can be <\/p>\n
863
\n00:48:31,400 –> 00:48:34,680
\ncontroversial because we are
\nvery suspicious of people <\/p>\n
864
\n00:48:34,680 –> 00:48:36,840
\nclaiming to have the Holy Spirit
\ngifts or people claiming that <\/p>\n
865
\n00:48:36,840 –> 00:48:39,360
\nthe Spirit’s giving them
\nguidance and telling them how to<\/p>\n
866
\n00:48:39,360 –> 00:48:42,640
\nlive their lives etcetera.
\nAnd we rightfully suspect that <\/p>\n
867
\n00:48:42,640 –> 00:48:45,720
\nand and we don’t believe it’s
\ncompatible with free will and <\/p>\n
868
\n00:48:45,720 –> 00:48:47,520
\npersonal responsibility and all
\nthose sorts of things. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:48:48,960 –> 00:48:52,680
\nBut there’s a there’s some
\nchange here from the Spirit <\/p>\n
870
\n00:48:52,680 –> 00:48:55,040
\nbeing given, the Spirit’s going
\nto be given. <\/p>\n
871
\n00:48:56,200 –> 00:48:58,840
\nNow we can, we can think of that
\nin terms of the Holy Spirit <\/p>\n
872
\n00:48:58,840 –> 00:49:02,880
\ngifts that was given in
\nPentecost to a very small, <\/p>\n
873
\n00:49:03,720 –> 00:49:07,320
\nultimately a very small subset
\nof believers that would ever <\/p>\n
874
\n00:49:07,320 –> 00:49:10,040
\nreceive the Holy Spirit, those
\nmiraculous gifts, if you like, <\/p>\n
875
\n00:49:10,040 –> 00:49:13,200
\nof tongues and and healing.
\nBut there’s something more <\/p>\n
876
\n00:49:13,200 –> 00:49:15,960
\nprofound happening here.
\nThe Spirit’s been given to to <\/p>\n
877
\n00:49:15,960 –> 00:49:19,240
\nthe Ecclesia, and it’s not just
\nreferring to the gifts. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:49:19,240 –> 00:49:24,080
\nNow if you we’re going to spend
\na night on this and if you <\/p>\n
879
\n00:49:24,080 –> 00:49:27,040
\nreally want to prep up on it,
\nthere’s you cannot beat this <\/p>\n
880
\n00:49:27,040 –> 00:49:30,440
\nbook here called The Spirit of
\nGod by Brother Alfred Nichols. <\/p>\n
881
\n00:49:30,920 –> 00:49:33,440
\nIt’s a pretty tough book.
\nI have to say I’ve got a <\/p>\n
882
\n00:49:33,440 –> 00:49:37,120
\nreasonable reasonably good
\ncomprehension when it comes to <\/p>\n
883
\n00:49:37,120 –> 00:49:38,600
\nreading.
\nBut this is a really tough book <\/p>\n
884
\n00:49:38,600 –> 00:49:43,520
\nto read, but it’s worth it.
\nAnd Brother Nichols is pushing <\/p>\n
885
\n00:49:43,520 –> 00:49:47,440
\nback against the idea that God
\nonly works today through the <\/p>\n
886
\n00:49:47,440 –> 00:49:49,200
\nBible.
\nHe he’s sort of saying that’s <\/p>\n
887
\n00:49:49,200 –> 00:49:53,640
\nnot the full picture and and
\nit’s quite profound what he <\/p>\n
888
\n00:49:53,640 –> 00:49:55,920
\nsays.
\nHe’s not some, you know, young <\/p>\n
889
\n00:49:55,920 –> 00:49:58,240
\nperson I have to say.
\nBrother Nichols was the editor <\/p>\n
890
\n00:49:58,240 –> 00:50:01,240
\nof the Christadelphy magazine
\nfor 15 years, and he wrote some <\/p>\n
891
\n00:50:01,240 –> 00:50:04,360
\nof our most Seminole books, you
\nknow, Revelation, which <\/p>\n
892
\n00:50:04,360 –> 00:50:06,240
\nInterpretation and other books
\nlike that. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:50:06,240 –> 00:50:10,200
\nSo he’s a very deep scholar and
\nit’s really worth looking at <\/p>\n
894
\n00:50:10,200 –> 00:50:13,240
\nthis, but I’ll give you a quick
\nhint now in the context of our <\/p>\n
895
\n00:50:13,240 –> 00:50:17,600
\nbefore and afters, he says.
\nHe says when we talk about the <\/p>\n
896
\n00:50:17,600 –> 00:50:22,080
\ngift, when God gives the Spirit
\nand it’s a gift, it’s not the <\/p>\n
897
\n00:50:22,080 –> 00:50:24,640
\nword that we usually associate
\nwith the Holy Spirit gifts. <\/p>\n
898
\n00:50:24,640 –> 00:50:28,160
\nSo when you look in look at
\nCorinthians, the word there <\/p>\n
899
\n00:50:28,160 –> 00:50:31,200
\nthat’s used to describe the
\ngifts is this word charisma, <\/p>\n
900
\n00:50:31,200 –> 00:50:33,640
\nwhich you’ve probably heard.
\nThat’s the gift of tongues and <\/p>\n
901
\n00:50:33,640 –> 00:50:36,360
\nthe gift of healing, a gift of
\ninterpretation. <\/p>\n
902
\n00:50:37,400 –> 00:50:39,840
\nThe New Testament, the word
\nusing the New Testament describe<\/p>\n
903
\n00:50:40,080 –> 00:50:43,200
\nthe gift of the Holy Spirit is a
\ndifferent word. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:50:43,200 –> 00:50:45,480
\nIt’s the word doria, or
\nderivations of that. <\/p>\n
905
\n00:50:46,280 –> 00:50:48,280
\nAnd he says derivation.
\nDerivation. <\/p>\n
906
\n00:50:48,560 –> 00:50:53,080
\nDoria is the broad term that
\nencompasses all God’s spiritual <\/p>\n
907
\n00:50:53,080 –> 00:50:57,520
\ngifts and charisma.
\nThe gifts was just a subset of <\/p>\n
908
\n00:50:57,520 –> 00:51:00,520
\nthat which is no longer
\navailable to to believers. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:51:01,760 –> 00:51:04,080
\nAnd of course we have the Bible,
\nwhich is one of the one of the <\/p>\n
910
\n00:51:04,640 –> 00:51:06,080
\ngifts of God that has been
\ngiven. <\/p>\n
911
\n00:51:06,080 –> 00:51:09,280
\nSo, so the the gifts, when you
\nthink of the miraculous gifts, <\/p>\n
912
\n00:51:09,280 –> 00:51:11,920
\nthey’re charisma.
\nWhen you think of the gift of <\/p>\n
913
\n00:51:11,920 –> 00:51:14,560
\nthe Holy Spirit, it’s doria.
\nIt’s a different word. <\/p>\n
914
\n00:51:15,080 –> 00:51:16,840
\nIt’s not Doritos.
\nThat sounds like it, but it’s <\/p>\n
915
\n00:51:16,840 –> 00:51:19,080
\nnot.
\nThat’s just where my mind goes <\/p>\n
916
\n00:51:19,080 –> 00:51:22,560
\nwith it.
\nOK, so charisma is a subset of <\/p>\n
917
\n00:51:22,560 –> 00:51:23,680
\ndoria.
\nKeep that in mind. <\/p>\n
918
\n00:51:23,680 –> 00:51:26,520
\nSo when you see these verses in
\nEphesians and other places, <\/p>\n
919
\n00:51:27,480 –> 00:51:30,800
\ndon’t just we could
\nautomatically just replace them <\/p>\n
920
\n00:51:30,800 –> 00:51:32,000
\nand say, well that’s all about
\nthe Bible. <\/p>\n
921
\n00:51:32,000 –> 00:51:35,680
\nNow we don’t have the gifts.
\nWhen he says the gift of grace <\/p>\n
922
\n00:51:35,680 –> 00:51:38,520
\nthat we have in Ephesians or
\nthis indescribable gift that we <\/p>\n
923
\n00:51:38,520 –> 00:51:41,320
\nhave in 2nd Corinthians 9,
\nthere’s some gift which is Holy <\/p>\n
924
\n00:51:41,320 –> 00:51:45,960
\nSpirit inspired gift.
\nIt’s not the miraculous gifts, <\/p>\n
925
\n00:51:46,640 –> 00:51:48,920
\nit’s not the indwelling gift
\nthat the, you know, the <\/p>\n
926
\n00:51:49,080 –> 00:51:53,200
\nAnglicans talk about.
\nIt’s this gift of God through <\/p>\n
927
\n00:51:53,200 –> 00:51:55,360
\nthe Holy Spirit that comes to us
\nwhen we’re baptized. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:51:55,360 –> 00:51:58,520
\nWe’re baptized into the name of
\nthe Father and into the Son and <\/p>\n
929
\n00:51:58,520 –> 00:52:01,480
\nalso the Holy Spirit.
\nSo it’s it’s a big part and it <\/p>\n
930
\n00:52:01,480 –> 00:52:04,960
\nprobably needs more thinking
\nabout maybe to make in, in my <\/p>\n
931
\n00:52:04,960 –> 00:52:09,040
\nexperience anyway, the gift of
\nrighteousness as Romans 5 says, <\/p>\n
932
\n00:52:09,040 –> 00:52:11,280
\nthe doria, this is a spirit
\ngift. <\/p>\n
933
\n00:52:11,640 –> 00:52:14,520
\nEvery good and perfect doria,
\nevery good and perfect gift that<\/p>\n
934
\n00:52:14,520 –> 00:52:17,080
\ncomes from above.
\nThe gift of living water that <\/p>\n
935
\n00:52:17,120 –> 00:52:19,440
\nJesus talks about to the woman
\nof Samaria and John four. <\/p>\n
936
\n00:52:19,960 –> 00:52:22,640
\nHe has doria us.
\nAll things pertain to life and <\/p>\n
937
\n00:52:22,640 –> 00:52:25,240
\ngodliness.
\nThese are gifts from God, of <\/p>\n
938
\n00:52:25,240 –> 00:52:27,000
\ncourse.
\nThe Bible is a beautiful gift <\/p>\n
939
\n00:52:27,000 –> 00:52:32,200
\nfrom God.
\nBut Brother Nichols says we <\/p>\n
940
\n00:52:32,200 –> 00:52:35,200
\ncan’t just swap out everywhere.
\nWe read the Spirit with with the<\/p>\n
941
\n00:52:35,200 –> 00:52:38,480
\nBible and we use this term.
\nHe says there’s nothing wrong <\/p>\n
942
\n00:52:38,480 –> 00:52:40,680
\nwith using the term Spirit word,
\nbut it’s not a biblical. <\/p>\n
943
\n00:52:40,680 –> 00:52:42,680
\nThere’s nowhere in the Bible
\ndoes it say spirit word. <\/p>\n
944
\n00:52:42,680 –> 00:52:45,240
\nThat’s something we’ve made-up.
\nSo we’ve got to be careful about<\/p>\n
945
\n00:52:45,240 –> 00:52:48,680
\njust superimposing Bible on top
\nof Spirit every, every time. <\/p>\n
946
\n00:52:48,680 –> 00:52:52,400
\nWe see that God is everywhere
\npresent by spirit. <\/p>\n
947
\n00:52:52,520 –> 00:52:55,360
\nGod interacts with us even
\ntoday. <\/p>\n
948
\n00:52:55,360 –> 00:52:57,480
\nAnd these are things we need to
\nsort of think about. <\/p>\n
949
\n00:52:57,480 –> 00:53:00,720
\nSo when you, when you swap out
\nBible against Spirit, you’re <\/p>\n
950
\n00:53:00,720 –> 00:53:03,520
\nswapping out against the Spirit
\ngifts at the lower level in that<\/p>\n
951
\n00:53:03,520 –> 00:53:06,800
\nhierarchy, not swap it out
\nagainst Doria. <\/p>\n
952
\n00:53:07,000 –> 00:53:09,880
\nDoria.
\nThe gift of the Spirit is still <\/p>\n
953
\n00:53:09,880 –> 00:53:12,800
\nvalid today, not the Holy Spirit
\ngifts. <\/p>\n
954
\n00:53:12,800 –> 00:53:14,840
\nThey’re they’re charisma,
\nThey’re below that. <\/p>\n
955
\n00:53:15,120 –> 00:53:17,200
\nAnyway, if you didn’t understand
\nanything I said, don’t worry, <\/p>\n
956
\n00:53:17,200 –> 00:53:20,280
\nwe’ll cover that a bit later on.
\nThe point is, something changed <\/p>\n
957
\n00:53:20,280 –> 00:53:23,080
\nwith the resurrection.
\nSomething significantly <\/p>\n
958
\n00:53:23,280 –> 00:53:26,800
\ndifferent changed.
\nSomething massively changed. <\/p>\n
959
\n00:53:29,120 –> 00:53:32,120
\nAnd so there’s something called
\na whole new world order that <\/p>\n
960
\n00:53:32,120 –> 00:53:35,520
\ncame into being.
\nIt was inaugurated by the <\/p>\n
961
\n00:53:35,520 –> 00:53:39,440
\nresurrection of Christ, and
\nHebrews 9 says it talks about <\/p>\n
962
\n00:53:40,240 –> 00:53:43,160
\nthe rituals under the law of
\nMoses as food and drinks and <\/p>\n
963
\n00:53:43,160 –> 00:53:47,920
\nwashings and ordinances.
\nHe says these would exist until <\/p>\n
964
\n00:53:47,920 –> 00:53:53,040
\na time of reformation, which the
\nNIV picks up the meaning of that<\/p>\n
965
\n00:53:53,040 –> 00:53:55,920
\nword really, really more
\nprofoundly. <\/p>\n
966
\n00:53:55,920 –> 00:54:01,720
\nI think more accurately, it’s a
\ntime, it’s a new order. <\/p>\n
967
\n00:54:02,360 –> 00:54:07,120
\nThese gifts of washing and
\nsacrifices would would continue <\/p>\n
968
\n00:54:07,120 –> 00:54:11,280
\nuntil not the Kingdom.
\nThat would continue until this <\/p>\n
969
\n00:54:11,280 –> 00:54:15,400
\nnew order was brought into
\neffect and that new order was <\/p>\n
970
\n00:54:15,400 –> 00:54:17,560
\nbrought into effect at the
\nresurrection. <\/p>\n
971
\n00:54:18,040 –> 00:54:21,880
\nIt’s already started.
\nAnd so this is something we’re <\/p>\n
972
\n00:54:21,880 –> 00:54:24,360
\ngoing to look at as well.
\nWe are living in a very <\/p>\n
973
\n00:54:24,360 –> 00:54:28,280
\nsignificant period of time.
\nThe new creation is at work <\/p>\n
974
\n00:54:28,280 –> 00:54:32,160
\nright now and we are part of
\nthat new creation. <\/p>\n
975
\n00:54:32,160 –> 00:54:36,000
\nAnd without this period of new
\ncreation, the Millennium cannot <\/p>\n
976
\n00:54:36,000 –> 00:54:39,200
\nhappen and will not happen.
\nSo it’s not dead time, it’s not <\/p>\n
977
\n00:54:39,440 –> 00:54:41,160
\nhunker down time, This is God
\ntime. <\/p>\n
978
\n00:54:42,240 –> 00:54:44,480
\nAnd so Hebrews 10 says,
\ntherefore brethren having <\/p>\n
979
\n00:54:44,480 –> 00:54:46,840
\nboldness to enter into the
\nholiest by the blood of Jesus, <\/p>\n
980
\n00:54:46,840 –> 00:54:50,960
\nby this new Zoe way which he has
\nconsecrated for us. <\/p>\n
981
\n00:54:50,960 –> 00:54:53,760
\nThat word consecrated is better
\ntranslated as Strong’s has <\/p>\n
982
\n00:54:54,320 –> 00:54:56,920
\ninaugurated.
\nNow we know what an inauguration<\/p>\n
983
\n00:54:56,920 –> 00:54:59,480
\nis.
\nAnd inauguration is when a <\/p>\n
984
\n00:55:00,120 –> 00:55:04,200
\npowerful figure is inaugurated
\nas president or I think, I think<\/p>\n
985
\n00:55:04,440 –> 00:55:06,040
\nCharles’s tomorrow is it or
\ntoday? <\/p>\n
986
\n00:55:06,040 –> 00:55:07,040
\nI don’t know.
\nI lost track of that. <\/p>\n
987
\n00:55:07,040 –> 00:55:11,160
\nBut Susan will know that one.
\nThere’s inauguration happening <\/p>\n
988
\n00:55:12,720 –> 00:55:16,120
\nhappens in our world now, when a
\nnew king comes into into being, <\/p>\n
989
\n00:55:16,720 –> 00:55:19,360
\nChrist inaugurated this new and
\nliving way, this, this <\/p>\n
990
\n00:55:19,360 –> 00:55:23,080
\nconnection to God, this entrance
\ninto the most holy place, this <\/p>\n
991
\n00:55:23,080 –> 00:55:28,200
\nprofound interaction with God’s
\npresence has been inaugurated <\/p>\n
992
\n00:55:28,200 –> 00:55:31,040
\nalready.
\nThere’s a new order, a new, a <\/p>\n
993
\n00:55:31,040 –> 00:55:33,280
\nnew and living way that exists
\nright now. <\/p>\n
994
\n00:55:34,520 –> 00:55:38,600
\nAnd there’s a lot of news that’s
\na little pun on the good news. <\/p>\n
995
\n00:55:38,600 –> 00:55:41,320
\nSo the good news had lots of new
\nstuff about it. <\/p>\n
996
\n00:55:41,880 –> 00:55:44,760
\nThere was a new covenant that
\ncame into force with the blood <\/p>\n
997
\n00:55:44,760 –> 00:55:46,760
\nof Christ.
\nWe’ll look at the whole. <\/p>\n
998
\n00:55:46,760 –> 00:55:47,760
\nWe’ll spend a whole night on
\nthat. <\/p>\n
999
\n00:55:48,000 –> 00:55:50,400
\nA new creation that’s taking
\nplace right now. <\/p>\n
1000
\n00:55:50,400 –> 00:55:55,200
\nA new man or a new being being
\ndeveloped by God within us, a <\/p>\n
1001
\n00:55:55,200 –> 00:55:58,640
\nnew and living way that dictates
\nthis interaction with God. <\/p>\n
1002
\n00:55:58,920 –> 00:56:01,920
\nA new commandment.
\nThis is a fascinating, a new <\/p>\n
1003
\n00:56:01,920 –> 00:56:04,280
\ncommandment.
\nSo we’re going to be very <\/p>\n
1004
\n00:56:04,280 –> 00:56:07,520
\ncareful when we take examples
\nfrom the Old Covenant and try <\/p>\n
1005
\n00:56:07,520 –> 00:56:08,760
\nand bring them through into our
\nworld. <\/p>\n
1006
\n00:56:08,760 –> 00:56:10,920
\nWe’ve got to.
\nThey’ve got to be funneled, if <\/p>\n
1007
\n00:56:10,920 –> 00:56:14,120
\nyou like or or or filtered
\nthrough the New Covenant prism. <\/p>\n
1008
\n00:56:14,640 –> 00:56:16,800
\nJust because you could kill an
\nenemy under the Old Covenant <\/p>\n
1009
\n00:56:16,800 –> 00:56:19,480
\ndoesn’t mean you do that now.
\nThe New Covenant is love and <\/p>\n
1010
\n00:56:19,480 –> 00:56:21,320
\nloving your neighbours and
\nturning the other cheek. <\/p>\n
1011
\n00:56:21,320 –> 00:56:25,200
\nIt’s A and by this New Covenant,
\nif we live by it properly or <\/p>\n
1012
\n00:56:25,200 –> 00:56:28,200
\neveryone will see that we’re
\nJesus disciples because it’s so <\/p>\n
1013
\n00:56:28,560 –> 00:56:30,120
\ncounterintuitive.
\nIt’s so different. <\/p>\n
1014
\n00:56:30,120 –> 00:56:35,560
\nIt’s so, so opposite of anything
\nelse that has been experienced <\/p>\n
1015
\n00:56:35,560 –> 00:56:37,920
\nby humans before.
\nSo there’s this new everything <\/p>\n
1016
\n00:56:37,920 –> 00:56:42,000
\nthat’s coming to being since the
\nresurrection. <\/p>\n
1017
\n00:56:43,720 –> 00:56:47,440
\nSo here’s a famous verse that we
\nwe, we refer to a fair bit in <\/p>\n
1018
\n00:56:47,440 –> 00:56:49,240
\nour particularly first
\nprinciples and other places. <\/p>\n
1019
\n00:56:49,240 –> 00:56:51,920
\nBut let’s in the in the in the
\ncontext of tonight’s talk. <\/p>\n
1020
\n00:56:51,920 –> 00:56:54,960
\nLet’s just read it slowly and
\njust feel the power of what we <\/p>\n
1021
\n00:56:54,960 –> 00:56:58,160
\nhave.
\nNot in a not in a proud way but <\/p>\n
1022
\n00:56:58,160 –> 00:57:03,120
\njust in a in a way of gratitude
\nto God and and and feeling what <\/p>\n
1023
\n00:57:03,120 –> 00:57:06,040
\nthe potential there is in in
\nthis spiritual life in Christ <\/p>\n
1024
\n00:57:06,040 –> 00:57:09,920
\nthat we have and first Peter one
\nsays concerning this salvation. <\/p>\n
1025
\n00:57:10,800 –> 00:57:12,960
\nThe prophets you know you know
\nthe prophets, those people you <\/p>\n
1026
\n00:57:12,960 –> 00:57:14,840
\nlearn about in Sunday school and
\nread about all the time and <\/p>\n
1027
\n00:57:14,840 –> 00:57:19,400
\nstudy and love those prophets
\nprophesied about what the <\/p>\n
1028
\n00:57:19,400 –> 00:57:22,920
\nprophets were about the grace
\nwhatever else they prophet about<\/p>\n
1029
\n00:57:22,920 –> 00:57:24,800
\nRussia and and all this sort of
\nstuff. <\/p>\n
1030
\n00:57:25,320 –> 00:57:28,720
\nThat’s all true.
\nBut ultimately Peter is saying <\/p>\n
1031
\n00:57:28,720 –> 00:57:38,000
\nthey prophesied about the grace
\nthat was to be yours. <\/p>\n
1032
\n00:57:40,440 –> 00:57:43,600
\nIt’s not my words, is it?
\nAnd that grace it was to be <\/p>\n
1033
\n00:57:43,600 –> 00:57:47,120
\nyours.
\nThey they really wanted to know <\/p>\n
1034
\n00:57:47,120 –> 00:57:49,080
\nabout it.
\nThey searched and inquired <\/p>\n
1035
\n00:57:49,080 –> 00:57:50,240
\ndiligently.
\nIt just was. <\/p>\n
1036
\n00:57:50,240 –> 00:57:52,080
\nIt was.
\nYou know, Paul talks about as <\/p>\n
1037
\n00:57:52,080 –> 00:57:56,400
\nbeing this, this secret or this
\nmystery hidden throughout all <\/p>\n
1038
\n00:57:56,400 –> 00:57:59,880
\ntime until until the
\nresurrection, this incredible <\/p>\n
1039
\n00:58:00,160 –> 00:58:03,320
\nthing that would change the
\nuniverse itself, that grace that<\/p>\n
1040
\n00:58:03,320 –> 00:58:08,200
\nwas to be yours, Inquiring what
\npersonal time the Spirit of <\/p>\n
1041
\n00:58:08,200 –> 00:58:13,120
\nChrist, all those Old Testament
\ntypes and stories and parables <\/p>\n
1042
\n00:58:13,120 –> 00:58:18,760
\nand prophets, and are all
\nconverging onto this Christ. <\/p>\n
1043
\n00:58:19,240 –> 00:58:21,480
\nAnd the Spirit of Christ is
\nbringing all these things <\/p>\n
1044
\n00:58:21,480 –> 00:58:24,600
\ntogether.
\nThe Spirit of Christ was in <\/p>\n
1045
\n00:58:24,600 –> 00:58:28,760
\nthem, indicating when he when he
\npredicted the sufferings of <\/p>\n
1046
\n00:58:28,760 –> 00:58:32,440
\nChrist and the subsequent
\nglories, it was revealed to them<\/p>\n
1047
\n00:58:34,360 –> 00:58:36,920
\nand they were serving, not
\nthemselves actually wasn’t. <\/p>\n
1048
\n00:58:37,640 –> 00:58:41,480
\nIt didn’t benefit them a huge
\namount really. <\/p>\n
1049
\n00:58:43,160 –> 00:58:45,120
\nIt’s hard to believe, isn’t it?
\nIt’s hard that these prophets <\/p>\n
1050
\n00:58:45,120 –> 00:58:48,520
\nare inspired by God and they’re
\ntalking about these things they <\/p>\n
1051
\n00:58:48,520 –> 00:58:55,240
\nwere serving, not themselves but
\nyou, in the things that have now<\/p>\n
1052
\n00:58:55,680 –> 00:58:59,400
\nbeen announced to you through
\nthose who preach the gospel, the<\/p>\n
1053
\n00:58:59,400 –> 00:59:03,160
\ngood news to you by the Holy
\nSpirit sent from heaven, which <\/p>\n
1054
\n00:59:03,160 –> 00:59:05,720
\nthings the angels themselves
\ndesire to look into. <\/p>\n
1055
\n00:59:06,960 –> 00:59:09,480
\nThat’s you now, brothers and
\nsisters, That’s us Now. <\/p>\n
1056
\n00:59:10,240 –> 00:59:13,280
\nAll the stuff the prophets were
\nsaying, Ezekiel going through <\/p>\n
1057
\n00:59:13,280 –> 00:59:18,560
\nall these parables and Jeremiah
\nbeing up to his neck in mud, and<\/p>\n
1058
\n00:59:19,040 –> 00:59:22,040
\nDaniel and all these people,
\nthey were prophesying about the <\/p>\n
1059
\n00:59:22,040 –> 00:59:28,080
\ngrace that was sorry, the grace
\nthat was to be yours, which <\/p>\n
1060
\n00:59:28,080 –> 00:59:30,480
\nthings the angels desire to look
\ninto. <\/p>\n
1061
\n00:59:31,560 –> 00:59:35,440
\nSo tonight we’ve identified some
\nof these gold bars been made <\/p>\n
1062
\n00:59:35,440 –> 00:59:39,200
\nperfect, something which we’re
\ngoing to try and make some <\/p>\n
1063
\n00:59:39,200 –> 00:59:40,600
\nreality about.
\nWhat does it mean to be made <\/p>\n
1064
\n00:59:40,600 –> 00:59:43,400
\nperfect?
\nEven though even the most <\/p>\n
1065
\n00:59:43,400 –> 00:59:46,280
\nfaithful men and women that
\nwe’ve ever heard of that are in <\/p>\n
1066
\n00:59:46,280 –> 00:59:50,360
\nthe catalogue of the faithful in
\nHebrews 11, What does it say at <\/p>\n
1067
\n00:59:50,360 –> 00:59:52,840
\nthe very end of that chapter?
\nThese all died in faith. <\/p>\n
1068
\n00:59:52,840 –> 00:59:56,480
\nThey did incredible things, but
\nthey were not made perfect. <\/p>\n
1069
\n00:59:56,960 –> 00:59:58,960
\nThey without us will not be made
\nperfect. <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:00:00,120 –> 01:00:02,600
\nWe are made perfect now in our
\nliving lifetime. <\/p>\n
1071
\n01:00:03,640 –> 01:00:06,920
\nWe live in the presence of God.
\nIn a very real way. <\/p>\n
1072
\n01:00:07,400 –> 01:00:10,160
\nWe’ve got the right, the
\nprivilege to call ourselves the <\/p>\n
1073
\n01:00:10,160 –> 01:00:12,960
\nsons of God and to call God our
\nFather, greater than John the <\/p>\n
1074
\n01:00:12,960 –> 01:00:18,040
\nBaptist in our status, receiving
\nthis incredible gift of God’s <\/p>\n
1075
\n01:00:18,040 –> 01:00:20,120
\nHoly Spirit.
\nAnd we’ll talk about how that <\/p>\n
1076
\n01:00:20,120 –> 01:00:24,080
\nout works a bit later on.
\nSo let’s finish really quickly. <\/p>\n
1077
\n01:00:24,080 –> 01:00:26,320
\nHebrews, Hebrews 12.
\nLet’s go to Hebrews 12. <\/p>\n
1078
\n01:00:26,320 –> 01:00:28,800
\nBrothers and sisters, We’ll
\nfinish up here, our last <\/p>\n
1079
\n01:00:28,800 –> 01:00:37,120
\nreference for tonight, Hebrews
\n12. <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:00:39,720 –> 01:00:43,080
\nThere’s a contrast here between
\ntwo mountains. <\/p>\n
1081
\n01:00:43,080 –> 01:00:47,840
\nSo it’s got Mount Sinai, and you
\ncan see the sort of language <\/p>\n
1082
\n01:00:47,840 –> 01:00:56,320
\nthat’s used to describe Sinai.
\nIt says verse 18 for you have <\/p>\n
1083
\n01:00:56,320 –> 01:00:58,960
\nnot come.
\nSo that’s this is not our <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:00:58,960 –> 01:01:01,400
\nexperience.
\nYou have not come to a mountain <\/p>\n
1085
\n01:01:01,400 –> 01:01:04,320
\nthat can be touched.
\nSo there’s something interesting<\/p>\n
1086
\n01:01:04,320 –> 01:01:06,120
\nat the start.
\nThere’s something physical and <\/p>\n
1087
\n01:01:06,120 –> 01:01:09,080
\ntangible.
\nWhatever we have is not physical<\/p>\n
1088
\n01:01:09,080 –> 01:01:12,720
\nin that three-dimensional sense.
\nWhich means you got to. <\/p>\n
1089
\n01:01:12,720 –> 01:01:15,280
\nWe got to work harder to
\nappreciate and to make it real. <\/p>\n
1090
\n01:01:15,560 –> 01:01:19,120
\nIt can’t be touched.
\nThis mountain that burnt with <\/p>\n
1091
\n01:01:19,120 –> 01:01:24,080
\nfire and the to the blackness in
\nthe darkest darkness, rather in <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:01:24,080 –> 01:01:26,480
\nThe Tempest and the sound of a
\ntrumpet. <\/p>\n
1093
\n01:01:26,480 –> 01:01:30,800
\nLook at the the visceral and the
\nnoise and the feelings and all <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:01:30,800 –> 01:01:34,080
\nthese physical tangible things.
\nThe sound of trumpet and the <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:01:34,080 –> 01:01:36,920
\nvoice of words.
\nSo those who heard begged that <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:01:36,920 –> 01:01:39,840
\nit should stop, and they
\ncouldn’t even endure it. <\/p>\n
1097
\n01:01:40,160 –> 01:01:42,320
\nAnd if a beast even touched the
\nmountain, it was stoned to <\/p>\n
1098
\n01:01:42,320 –> 01:01:44,720
\ndeath, or thrust through with a
\nwith a with an arrow or a dart. <\/p>\n
1099
\n01:01:45,320 –> 01:01:49,560
\nSo terrifying, verse 21 says.
\nSo terrifying was the sight that<\/p>\n
1100
\n01:01:49,560 –> 01:01:52,640
\nMoses said, I am exceedingly
\nafraid and trembling. <\/p>\n
1101
\n01:01:53,880 –> 01:01:57,680
\nSo that was the Old Covenant.
\nGod’s presence is mediated, <\/p>\n
1102
\n01:01:57,680 –> 01:02:00,040
\nstrongly mediated.
\nThe mountain itself is <\/p>\n
1103
\n01:02:00,040 –> 01:02:01,920
\nrestricted.
\nEven animals couldn’t get near <\/p>\n
1104
\n01:02:02,080 –> 01:02:03,600
\nit.
\nThe people are kept at the <\/p>\n
1105
\n01:02:03,600 –> 01:02:06,280
\nbottom.
\nGod’s presence is represented by<\/p>\n
1106
\n01:02:06,280 –> 01:02:08,600
\nthe Angel of the presence.
\nIt’s very mediated, very <\/p>\n
1107
\n01:02:08,600 –> 01:02:11,880
\nrestricted.
\nLook at our situation though, <\/p>\n
1108
\n01:02:11,880 –> 01:02:19,880
\nverse 22.
\nBut you are come, let’s not push<\/p>\n
1109
\n01:02:19,880 –> 01:02:21,800
\nthis into the future because
\nthat’s not what it’s saying. <\/p>\n
1110
\n01:02:21,800 –> 01:02:25,120
\nIt’s not saying we’re going to
\ngo to Mount Zion in sometime in <\/p>\n
1111
\n01:02:25,120 –> 01:02:27,760
\nthe future.
\nYou are. <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:02:27,920 –> 01:02:29,760
\nThe English tense agrees with
\nthe Greek tense. <\/p>\n
1113
\n01:02:29,760 –> 01:02:36,920
\nHere in these verbs, you are
\ncome unto Mount Zion under the <\/p>\n
1114
\n01:02:36,920 –> 01:02:39,680
\ncity of the living God, the
\nheavenly Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
1115
\n01:02:39,840 –> 01:02:42,640
\nWherever you read about that
\nbefore, Anthony read about that <\/p>\n
1116
\n01:02:42,640 –> 01:02:45,000
\nin our open reading.
\nThat’s Revelation 21. <\/p>\n
1117
\n01:02:45,000 –> 01:02:47,960
\nThat’s beyond the Millennium.
\nThere’s a link, there’s a direct<\/p>\n
1118
\n01:02:47,960 –> 01:02:51,880
\nlink between what we experience
\nin Christ and that ideal <\/p>\n
1119
\n01:02:51,880 –> 01:02:55,600
\nrecreation that happens, that
\nthat total consummation of God’s<\/p>\n
1120
\n01:02:55,600 –> 01:02:58,400
\npurpose in the future, the New
\nJerusalem coming down from <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:02:58,400 –> 01:03:00,200
\nheaven.
\nWe are there now. <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:03:00,240 –> 01:03:02,160
\nNot in a physical sense, but
\nwe’re there. <\/p>\n
1123
\n01:03:02,840 –> 01:03:06,120
\nYou are, you are.
\nCome not to Mount Zion, under <\/p>\n
1124
\n01:03:06,120 –> 01:03:09,000
\nthe city of the living God, the
\nheavenly Jerusalem, to an <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:03:09,000 –> 01:03:11,680
\ninnumerable company of angels,
\nto the General Assembly and <\/p>\n
1126
\n01:03:11,680 –> 01:03:14,320
\necclesia of the first born,
\nwhich are written in heaven to <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:03:14,320 –> 01:03:19,760
\nGod the judge of all, into the
\nspirits of just men made <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:03:19,760 –> 01:03:23,080
\nperfect.
\nThis is, this is our experience <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:03:23,080 –> 01:03:26,880
\nnow, brothers and sisters, to
\nthe spirit of just men made <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:03:26,880 –> 01:03:35,880
\nperfect in this relationship
\nwith God that is a billion times<\/p>\n
1131
\n01:03:35,880 –> 01:03:39,280
\ngreater and more intense and
\nmore real than anything that <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:03:39,280 –> 01:03:42,560
\nMount Zion, Mount Sinai could
\noffer the people of Israel. <\/p>\n
1133
\n01:03:43,160 –> 01:03:45,560
\nAnd it’s not written there in
\nHebrews, as I said, just to say,<\/p>\n
1134
\n01:03:45,640 –> 01:03:47,080
\nshow the Jews going back were
\nwrong. <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:03:47,080 –> 01:03:51,560
\nIt’s written for us to to take
\ninto our emotions and our heart.<\/p>\n
1136
\n01:03:51,560 –> 01:03:55,920
\nTo say this is incredible.
\nWe are recipients of this box of<\/p>\n
1137
\n01:03:55,920 –> 01:03:59,040
\ngold brothers and sisters and
\nhopefully over our studies. <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:03:59,040 –> 01:04:02,240
\nWe want to take each bar of gold
\nout and try and make it real and<\/p>\n
1139
\n01:04:02,240 –> 01:04:05,960
\ntry and feel the power of the
\nnow that we are living in Mount <\/p>\n
1140
\n01:04:05,960 –> 01:04:07,040
\nZion right now.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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