Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 364.<\/p>\n
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\nhe gives us the 1st and final of
\nthe 5th and final session today <\/p>\n
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\nentitled Princess and Priests in
\nthe House of David. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Brian.
\nAs you may have guessed, my dear<\/p>\n
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\nand sisters, with the reading of
\nFirst Chronicles 26, we’re <\/p>\n
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\nreally going back one study and
\nthe one about the priests and <\/p>\n
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\nand principal officers we will
\ntuck into tomorrow morning. <\/p>\n
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\nThe first of Chronicles 26,
\nverses 1 to 19, you will notice <\/p>\n
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\nis about the porters, concerning
\nthe divisions of the porters. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in verse 19 it says these
\nare the divisions of the porters<\/p>\n
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\namong the sons of Core and among
\nthe sons of Murari. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the last session, you
\nknow, And just on the way here <\/p>\n
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\ntoday, Brother Ron said to me a
\nlittle joke. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said that when Rod Kent was
\nhere last year, as he was about <\/p>\n
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\nthis distance away from the hall
\nas we’re driving on the car, he <\/p>\n
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\nsaid, you know, Ron, he said,
\nyou know what I’m looking <\/p>\n
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\nforward to.
\nAnd Ron said to him, no, he said<\/p>\n
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\n5:30.
\nAnd foolishly, I laughed. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you make some big mistakes in
\nlife, don’t you? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, we’re going to have the
\ntemple built and we’ve got the <\/p>\n
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\npriests that are going to be
\nordered for that and, and the <\/p>\n
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\nLevites that are going to be
\nabout all that amazing amount of<\/p>\n
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\nwork that was involved.
\nAnd we’ve got our singers in <\/p>\n
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\nplace and those 288 boys grouped
\ninto into 24 courses. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I’m sure that as a course of
\npriests came in, so a group of <\/p>\n
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\nsingers would come in with them.
\nAnd of course they rotated, <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t they?
\nFrom time to time. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was these 24 courses.
\nZechariah, father of Zechariah <\/p>\n
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\nof John the Baptist, he was in
\none of those courses. <\/p>\n
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\nYou remember how it says that in
\nLuke chapter 1. <\/p>\n
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\nSo they kept it up for a very
\nlong period of time, didn’t <\/p>\n
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\nthey?
\nRight through to the days of <\/p>\n
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\nChrist and, and to but beyond
\nthat too, I’m sure. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the house does need
\nsecurity, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nThere is the temple and it’s a
\nmagnificent building and it’s <\/p>\n
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\nthe House of God and the Spirit
\nof God is dwelling in that <\/p>\n
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\nhouse.
\nIt really has to have security, <\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t it?
\nIt’s got to have someone that’s <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to determine who’s going
\nto come in, who’s going to go <\/p>\n
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\nout and how people are going to
\nbehave. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when you just look at it
\nfrom the, the broad picture, you<\/p>\n
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\ncan see what the the doorkeepers
\nobviously had to do. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was their job.
\nThey would keep the environment.<\/p>\n
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\nDidn’t mean to say that somebody
\nelse couldn’t help that <\/p>\n
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\nenvironment, but it would mean
\nthat upon them that <\/p>\n
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\nresponsibility rested.
\nParticularly who’s going to come<\/p>\n
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\nin, how they’re going to behave
\nand how long they’re going to be<\/p>\n
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\nthere and who’s going to lock up
\nand so on. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’d have to have that any,
\nany home, any building, any <\/p>\n
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\nfactory, whatever it is, it’s
\ngot to have some rules of <\/p>\n
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\nadministration, doesn’t it?
\nSomebody’s got to look after it <\/p>\n
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\nand see.
\nNow public building like that <\/p>\n
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\nobviously needed doorkeepers.
\nSo who are we going to choose <\/p>\n
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\nfor that job?
\nWho would you choose? <\/p>\n
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\nThere were 4000 of them.
\nWe remember that back in First <\/p>\n
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\nChronicles 23.
\nFour thousand of them were <\/p>\n
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\nchosen.
\nThey were going to obviously too<\/p>\n
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\ncreate a a sense of welcome and
\na sense of restraint. <\/p>\n
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\nJust why you’ve got that chapter
\nopen. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at First Chronicles 26
\nverse 6 where it’s mentioning <\/p>\n
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\nabout these men.
\nVerse 6 Also unto Shem AI, his <\/p>\n
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\nson was sons born that ruled
\nthroughout the House of their <\/p>\n
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\nfather, for they were mighty men
\nof valor. <\/p>\n
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\nOnly noticed this last night
\nactually, but it keeps on <\/p>\n
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\nmentioning that factor.
\nVerse 7, whose brethren were <\/p>\n
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\nstrong men?
\nVerse 8, their brethren able men<\/p>\n
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\nfor strength.
\nVerse 9, Michel Amaya had sons <\/p>\n
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\nand brethren strong men.
\nEighteen. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t much use, I suppose,
\nin those days of appointing <\/p>\n
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\nsomeone who couldn’t illustrate
\nthat he he had some degree of <\/p>\n
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\nphysical strength if there was
\ngoing to be trouble around the <\/p>\n
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\ntemple that he was prepared to
\nensure. <\/p>\n
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\nThat he had.
\nA A shoulder that could make a <\/p>\n
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\nperson realise this wasn’t the
\nplace for misconduct. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s obviously an element that
\nthey could apply some restraint <\/p>\n
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\nperhaps by their very personage.
\nIsrael grew up with a very <\/p>\n
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\ndistinct understanding of that.
\nLike you take the Jewish <\/p>\n
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\nposition in the days of Jesus,
\nthere was what was called the <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle wall of petition.
\nRemember that Paul refers to it <\/p>\n
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\nin Ephesians chapter 2, and it
\nwas actually referring to <\/p>\n
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\nsomething that was in the
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\nHe says that Christ has pulled
\ndown the middle wall of petition<\/p>\n
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\nthat was against us.
\nAnd he’s speaking about Jew and <\/p>\n
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\nGentile because in the temple
\nthere was a middle wall of <\/p>\n
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\npetition and a Gentile didn’t
\ndare go through into the court <\/p>\n
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\nof the Israelites.
\nHe would be in the court of the <\/p>\n
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\nGentiles.
\nAnd there’s a little placard <\/p>\n
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\nthat said that if a Gentile
\nshould go past this, this gate, <\/p>\n
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\nthen he should be responsible
\nfor the trouble that would <\/p>\n
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\nensue.
\nNice welcome. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you thought you were
\nwelcome as a Gentile to be in <\/p>\n
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\nthe court of the Gentiles, then
\nyou better conduct your, your, <\/p>\n
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\nyour, your worship among all the
\nanimals, because that’s what <\/p>\n
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\nthey used it for.
\nThat’s what Jesus cleared out. <\/p>\n
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\nHe cleared the whole lot out
\nbecause it was, it was taking <\/p>\n
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\nthe place of the Gentiles and
\nthe simple that humble and blind<\/p>\n
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\nand children, that’s where they
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\nBut there wasn’t any place to
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\namong sheep and oxen and birds
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\nOf things and money changers.
\nSo they’re not only said you’re <\/p>\n
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\nnot welcome, but they shut out
\ntheir opportunities as well. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Israel grew up with a strong
\nconcept that the house was for <\/p>\n
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\ncertain people in certain ways.
\nLook at Zechariah 14. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was wrong, but some of it
\nwas right. <\/p>\n
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\nZechariah, 14.
\nVerse 21 Yeah, every pot in <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem and in Judah shall be
\nholiness unto Yahweh of hosts, <\/p>\n
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\nbut all they that sacrifice
\nshall come and take of them, and<\/p>\n
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\nsee therein all they.
\nBut in that day there shall be <\/p>\n
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\nno more the Canaanite in the
\nHouse of Yahweh of hosts, the <\/p>\n
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\ntrader, which is exactly what
\nJesus found wasn’t when he <\/p>\n
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\ncleansed the temple.
\nInteresting, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nOr in Revelation chapter 21.
\nFigurative indeed, but <\/p>\n
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\nnevertheless the principle still
\nthere and says concerning the <\/p>\n
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\nthe.
\nNew Jerusalem, not a physical <\/p>\n
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\nbuilding, but the principle
\nstill there. <\/p>\n
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\nThere shall be in it, no, there
\nshall in no wise enter into it <\/p>\n
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\nanything that define it, neither
\nwhatsoever worketh abomination <\/p>\n
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\nor maketh a lie.
\nBut they which have written in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lamb’s book of life.
\nWell, it was a. <\/p>\n
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\nSound principle, my dear and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s, it’s a sound principle
\ntoday in our ecclesial life. <\/p>\n
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\nOur ecclesial hall should be
\nwelcoming. <\/p>\n
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\nIndeed it should be welcoming.
\nIt should be a, a pleasantness <\/p>\n
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\nabout it.
\nI had a young man the other day <\/p>\n
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\nand they say to me, very
\nforthcoming young man with a lot<\/p>\n
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\nof outgoing character.
\nHe said. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know the job I like most in
\necclesial. <\/p>\n
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\nLife is being the doorkeeper.
\nI was telling him about what I <\/p>\n
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\nwas doing over here and so I’m
\n80. <\/p>\n
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\nFour and says, you know what I
\nlike most of all and occlusal <\/p>\n
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\nlife is being the doorkeeper.
\nThat rather tickled. <\/p>\n
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\nMe, because it was one of my
\nsons. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I thought a lot about that
\nsince. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I thought, you know, I can
\nunderstand that because that’s <\/p>\n
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\nthe way he is.
\nHe, he just loves people and he <\/p>\n
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\nloves them coming to the door
\nand cheering them up, you see, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich is good, isn’t it?
\nBut it’s nice to think that <\/p>\n
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\nsomebody takes that office
\nseriously. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know how he’d go too
\nmuch about rubbing the shoulder <\/p>\n
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\nagainst somebody.
\nHe might find that a bit more, <\/p>\n
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\nmore awkward.
\nBut I think when you come into <\/p>\n
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\nthe ecclesial hall, that’s how
\nthe doorkeeper should be. <\/p>\n
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\nHe should know, you know, all of
\nus and he should have a little <\/p>\n
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\nword to say and he should cheer.
\nI remember when I was a a young <\/p>\n
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\nman in our ecclesial hall in the
\nAdelaide ecclesia where you had <\/p>\n
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\na very happy time as young
\npeople in that ecclesia better, <\/p>\n
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\nwonderful group of young people
\nand it was. <\/p>\n
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\nVery happy time.
\nAnd then at the door, there was.<\/p>\n
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\nI used to call him Uncle Dean.
\nHe’s a real character. <\/p>\n
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\nI learned later that he had been
\none of my mother’s boyfriends <\/p>\n
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\nof.
\nOld. <\/p>\n
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\nSo perhaps that’s why he was
\nnice to me. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know, but he always
\nseemed to have something to say,<\/p>\n
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\nyou know?
\nLike I remember one of our <\/p>\n
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\nsisters dying her name was and
\nshe was coming and she in those <\/p>\n
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\ndays in the winter time, the
\ngirls all got a new suit you <\/p>\n
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\nsee, and this one got a red 1.
\nSo you know long she came. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, hello, pillow box, pillow
\nbox. <\/p>\n
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\nLetter box, you know.
\nBecause they always spread. <\/p>\n
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\nBut that was just Uncle Dean.
\nHe just could always think. <\/p>\n
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\nOf some little expression.
\nIn fact, he knew the sisters so.<\/p>\n
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\nWell, they used to sit at the
\nback and it. <\/p>\n
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\nWas it was a large meeting, I
\nthink we had 625 on the roll. <\/p>\n
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\nThey weren’t all there on Sunday
\nmorning, couldn’t fit them all <\/p>\n
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\nin I suppose, but there must
\nhave been 450 people. <\/p>\n
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\nThen he’d sit at the back
\nmarking off the people and I <\/p>\n
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\nremember mum saying to him.
\nWell, how can you sit at the? <\/p>\n
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\nBack and mark up all those.
\nPeople down there, how do you? <\/p>\n
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\nKnow if they’re all there?
\nWell, he said. <\/p>\n
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\nI know the sisters.
\nI know the sisters, I know the <\/p>\n
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\nI know, the other sisters always<\/p>\n
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\nsaid.
\nI know the hats. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know how you’re going
\nnow with the scarves, because <\/p>\n
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\ncertainly the scarves and the
\nthe little bonnets are all the <\/p>\n
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\nsame, aren’t they?
\nBut in those days it was all <\/p>\n
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\nhats, you see, and they’re all
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I used to think when I
\nthought about that subsequently,<\/p>\n
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\nI thought, you know, good old
\nUncle Dean, because he had an <\/p>\n
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\ninterest in everybody, didn’t
\nhe? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he caused people to want to
\ncome to the meeting. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s a good thing.
\nThere was another time I will <\/p>\n
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\nremember when my wife came down
\nfrom. <\/p>\n
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\nShe wasn’t my wife then, but we
\nwere going together and I was <\/p>\n
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\npretty excited about that
\nbecause she lived in NSW and she<\/p>\n
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\nwould come down for a couple of
\nweeks in Adelaide and I hadn’t <\/p>\n
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\nseen her for 11 1\/2 months.
\nHow’s that? <\/p>\n
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\nThey were grim days, no e-mail,
\nand I think we had three phone <\/p>\n
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\ncalls in four years.
\nHow about that? <\/p>\n
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\nAnyway, she was down, so I was
\nobviously pretty pleased about <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nAnd then we come swinging into <\/p>\n
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\nthe Ecclesial Hall hand in hand.
\nAnd of course he was rather <\/p>\n
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\ninterested.
\nTo meet Lorna because he was <\/p>\n
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\nsort of interested in me a bit.
\nHis wife, Kathy, used to send me<\/p>\n
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\na birthday card.
\nThey never had their own <\/p>\n
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\nShe always used to send me a <\/p>\n
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\nbirthday card every birthday.
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\nme, obviously interested in who
\nI might find. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now he was, sort of.
\nHaving a look. <\/p>\n
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\nSo when we came swinging along,
\nyou know, hand in hand out, <\/p>\n
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\nobviously happy to be together,
\nbut I wouldn’t wasn’t as happy. <\/p>\n
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\nHe looked at us and he said tut,
\ntut, tut. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said.
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\nhand.
\nYeah, I never forgot that, even <\/p>\n
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\nthough he was happy, Uncle Dean,
\nhe favoured the House of God as <\/p>\n
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\nhe saw it.
\nAnd that’s a good thing, wasn’t <\/p>\n
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\nit?
\nI learned a lesson out of that. <\/p>\n
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\nI thought, well, that’s that’s
\nright. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s right.
\nHe’s keeping the place, that’s <\/p>\n
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\nwhat it is, a place to come and
\nworship God and remember Christ <\/p>\n
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\nand all he did upon the tree.
\nAnd that isn’t the place for <\/p>\n
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\nHandies, is it?
\nAnd he knew that and so he just <\/p>\n
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\nmade us front up to that.
\nSo there’s a very good balance <\/p>\n
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\nin our doorkeepers when they
\njust think about some of these <\/p>\n
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\nthese principles.
\nThey’re not just old things that<\/p>\n
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\naren’t related.
\nThey’ve got real application to <\/p>\n
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\nthe environment and and an
\natmosphere of our ecclesial. <\/p>\n
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\nLife, you know collisional whole
\nand circumstances around and <\/p>\n
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\nwhat people see when they come.
\nYou know we’ve had an interest <\/p>\n
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\nof friend here today and I hope
\nwe’ve been aware of that perhaps<\/p>\n
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\nmet him he he’s gone now so I
\ncan say this but the most <\/p>\n
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\namazing circumstances.
\nRonald Tan of the story later <\/p>\n
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\nbut quite an amazing thing that
\nhe’s been here today and he’s <\/p>\n
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\nloved it.
\nSo it’s important that when <\/p>\n
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\npeople come into our midst, they
\nfeel a warmth, and yet they can <\/p>\n
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\nalso see that this group of men
\nand women, they really believe <\/p>\n
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\nsomething and they’re serious
\nand sincere about it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s our balance, my dear
\nbrother and sister. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, I’ll tell you how these
\nmen were chosen. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you come over to the First of
\nChronicles Chapter 9, find a <\/p>\n
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\nmost interesting little
\nreference, First Kings. <\/p>\n
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\nFirst Chronicles, sorry, Chapter
\n9, verse 22. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you’ll notice this is about
\nthe portis or the doorkeepers, <\/p>\n
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\nand there they are mentioned in
\nverse 17. <\/p>\n
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\nThe circumstances in which
\nthey’re mentioned are all about <\/p>\n
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\nthe Tabernacle.
\nThe portis were Shalom and Akab <\/p>\n
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\nand Talman and Ah Aheman and
\ntheir brethren. <\/p>\n
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\nShalom was the chief who
\nhitherto waited in the King’s <\/p>\n
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\ngate, Eastwood and verse 19 says
\nin Shalom the son of Kor, the <\/p>\n
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\nson of Evie Asaph, the son of
\nKorra and his brethren of the <\/p>\n
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\nHouse of the father, The Korra
\nheights were over the work of <\/p>\n
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\nthe service keepers of the gates
\nof the threshold. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the same expression.
\nThat’s who they were, <\/p>\n
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\ndoorkeepers, porters as they’re.
\nCalled in First Chronicles 26. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd their fathers being over the
\nhost of the Lord were keepers of<\/p>\n
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\nthe entry.
\nSee, they were strong men over <\/p>\n
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\nthe host of the Lord.
\nAll right, so it’s giving us the<\/p>\n
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\nstory of these Cora heights who
\nwere chosen for this role. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in First Chronicles 9 and
\nverse 22, it says all these <\/p>\n
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\nwhich were chosen to be porters
\nin the gates were 212. <\/p>\n
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\nDavid increased that to 4000 in
\npreparation for the Temple. <\/p>\n
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\nThese were reckoned by their
\ngenealogy in their villages, <\/p>\n
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\nwhom David and Samuel the seer
\ndid ordain in their set office. <\/p>\n
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\nNow isn’t that intriguing?
\nSamuel’s in the story again. <\/p>\n
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\nSamuel and David obviously had
\nclose relationships. <\/p>\n
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\nSimilar minds, weren’t they?
\nAnd so they were brought <\/p>\n
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\ntogether as birds in a feather.
\nThey are brought together and <\/p>\n
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\nhere they are sitting together
\nwhere we don’t know, but <\/p>\n
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\nsomewhere they are discussing
\nwho is going to have this office<\/p>\n
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\nof caring before the village,
\ncaring for the doorkeepers. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you notice, notice it says
\nin verse 22 that they did it <\/p>\n
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\nvery specifically.
\nThey chose the men and they they<\/p>\n
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\nknew where they belonged in
\ntheir villages. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 25 and their brethren
\nwhich were in their villages <\/p>\n
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\nwere to come after seven days
\nfrom time to time with them. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were not permanently around
\nthe Tabernacle. <\/p>\n
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\nThey went back from time to time
\nto their villages like all of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Levites did.
\nSays that these men were <\/p>\n
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\nassociated with a family.
\nOf the Qurites. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that is of their most
\nintriguing interest to us. <\/p>\n
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\nThey they were divided into four
\nquarters. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says in verse 24.
\nIn four quarters were the <\/p>\n
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\nporters toward the east, West,
\nnorth, and South. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that tells you something
\nalso about the Tabernacle of <\/p>\n
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\nDavid.
\nThe Tabernacle of David did not <\/p>\n
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\nhave one entrance.
\nWhat was the Tabernacle of David<\/p>\n
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\ngoing to signify?
\nIt was going to signify an <\/p>\n
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\nopportunity outside the Mosaic
\norder. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was another and a greater
\nTabernacle. <\/p>\n
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\nThat one never had the presence
\nof God. <\/p>\n
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\nThis one did, and David found
\nthe right place for sacrifice, <\/p>\n
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\nand the Tabernacle of David was
\nfound in that place. <\/p>\n
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\nAre we right in understanding
\nthat? <\/p>\n
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\nThat way, my different sisters,
\nwe most certainly are. <\/p>\n
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\nYou take for example, Amos
\nChapter 9 years ago. <\/p>\n
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\nWe used to gloss over the term
\nthe Tabernacle of David in this <\/p>\n
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\nreference here and think, Oh
\nwell, that just means when <\/p>\n
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\nDavid’s Kingdom is restored.
\nBut there was actually a <\/p>\n
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\nTabernacle of David referred to
\nin the Second of Chronicles 1 <\/p>\n
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\nand verse four, and the Second
\nof Chronicles 2 and verse 17 and<\/p>\n
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\n18.
\nBut here we are in Amos 9, and <\/p>\n
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\nit says that in verse 11, in
\nthat day will I raise up the <\/p>\n
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\nTabernacle of David that is
\nfallen, and close up the <\/p>\n
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\nbreeches thereof, and I’ll raise
\nup his ruins, and I’ll build it <\/p>\n
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\nas in the days of old.
\nNow it doesn’t say I’m going to <\/p>\n
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\nraise up the temple just in this
\nplace, does it? <\/p>\n
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\nIn the peculiarity of the
\nprophet. <\/p>\n
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\nHe has said the Tabernacle of
\nwas only a flimsy. <\/p>\n
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\nTent like structure, Why would
\nthe prophet say I’ll raise up <\/p>\n
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\nthe Tabernacle of David verse 12
\nthat they may possess the <\/p>\n
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\nremnant of Eden and of all the
\nheathen which are called by my <\/p>\n
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\nname, Gentiles that are called
\nby my name. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy is God going to set up the
\nTabernacle of David? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause he wants the Gentiles to
\nbe a come in, that’s why. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s why David erected that
\nTabernacle. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know when David came back
\nfrom Philistia, there were many <\/p>\n
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\npeople that came back with him?
\nWhat about Itayi the Gittite and<\/p>\n
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\nthe 600 brethren who were with
\nhim? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen David was chased by his son
\nout of that city, Itayi could <\/p>\n
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\nnot be turned back.
\nDavid said to him, look at Tara,<\/p>\n
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\nit’s not right that you should
\ngo up and down with me. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is not befall of me because
\nof my sin. <\/p>\n
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\nYou go back into the back into
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nLook, you’ve only just come as
\nit were. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’re a stranger.
\nWhy should you share my burden? <\/p>\n
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\nHe tell you, I said.
\nLook, I’m going. <\/p>\n
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\nWith you and neither, nothing
\nbut death would separate me from<\/p>\n
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\nyou.
\nWhere you die is where I’ll die.<\/p>\n
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\nThe very words of Ruth.
\nAmazing man, Sworn allegiance to<\/p>\n
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\nDavid.
\nWhat do you think David’s going <\/p>\n
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\nto see him booting around
\nJerusalem for years and never be<\/p>\n
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\nable to worship?
\nIsn’t he going to see the fact <\/p>\n
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\nthat God has is is providing a
\nway for that Gentile and his <\/p>\n
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\nchildren?
\nThose little children weren’t <\/p>\n
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\nwith him.
\nThe little feet running out of <\/p>\n
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\nthe city while absolutely his
\nown son is chasing him out of <\/p>\n
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\nthe city and these little
\nPhilistine boys are going with <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nDon’t you think David’s going to<\/p>\n
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\nthink they too should have a
\nSunday school? <\/p>\n
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\nMy word, he is.
\nWhat about? <\/p>\n
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\nThe cheerothites and the
\npaedothites. <\/p>\n
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\nThey also went with David at
\nthat time. <\/p>\n
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\nIs he going to see them around
\nJerusalem all the time? <\/p>\n
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\nNever able to go near that
\nplace, except there’s a <\/p>\n
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\nthreatening plaque that says you
\ngo past this place and you’ll be<\/p>\n
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\nresponsible for the death of
\nChum and Shu. <\/p>\n
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\nNo way for David.
\nAnd Amos is telling us exactly <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:52,640 –> 00:20:55,840
\nwhy he did that.
\nThe Tabernacle of David was an <\/p>\n
338
\n00:20:55,840 –> 00:21:00,000
\nalternative to the restrictions
\nof the Mosaic Law, and it had. 4<\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:00,000 –> 00:21:01,600
\ndoors, east, West, North and
\nSouth. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:01,600 –> 00:21:03,000
\nAnd I don’t need to tell you
\nwhat that meant. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:03,480 –> 00:21:06,600
\nThey shall come, aren’t they,
\nfrom the east and the West and <\/p>\n
342
\n00:21:06,600 –> 00:21:12,440
\nthe north and the South and
\nshall sit down in the Kingdom of<\/p>\n
343
\n00:21:12,440 –> 00:21:15,880
\nGod with with Christ.
\nAnd so this was a different <\/p>\n
344
\n00:21:15,880 –> 00:21:18,320
\nstructure.
\nAnd James, if you’re wondering <\/p>\n
345
\n00:21:18,320 –> 00:21:22,160
\nif we’ve got the right sense of
\nverse 12, James tells us in Acts<\/p>\n
346
\n00:21:22,160 –> 00:21:28,560
\nchapter 15 exactly what the
\nsense of that was at the. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:28,560 –> 00:21:32,600
\nJerusalem conference and the
\ndebate is about whether the <\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:32,600 –> 00:21:36,640
\nGentiles can come in and after
\nthey’ve heard Paul and they’ve <\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:36,640 –> 00:21:40,280
\nheard Peter James then said in
\nverse 13, men and brethren, <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:40,280 –> 00:21:44,440
\nhearken unto me, Simeon hath
\ndeclared, Peter hath declared <\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:44,440 –> 00:21:47,480
\nhow God at the.
\nFirst did visit the Gentiles to <\/p>\n
352
\n00:21:47,480 –> 00:21:51,480
\ntake out of them a people for
\nhis name, and he picks up our <\/p>\n
353
\n00:21:51,600 –> 00:21:55,440
\npassenger name of Saint says,
\nand to this degree the words of <\/p>\n
354
\n00:21:55,440 –> 00:21:59,040
\nthe prophets as it is written.
\nAfter this I will return and <\/p>\n
355
\n00:21:59,040 –> 00:22:02,680
\nwill build again the Tabernacle
\nof David, which has fallen down,<\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:03,320 –> 00:22:05,640
\nand I will build again the ruins
\nthereof, and I will stay. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:05,640 –> 00:22:07,960
\nWhatever did that have to do
\nwith the with the subject under <\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:07,960 –> 00:22:12,080
\nconsideration?
\nThis is what it had to do, that <\/p>\n
359
\n00:22:12,080 –> 00:22:18,960
\nthe residue of men might seek
\nafter the Lord and all the <\/p>\n
360
\n00:22:18,960 –> 00:22:23,480
\nGentiles upon whom my name is
\ncalled, saith the Lord, who <\/p>\n
361
\n00:22:23,480 –> 00:22:26,280
\ndoeth all these things.
\nNow my chief brother says that’s<\/p>\n
362
\n00:22:26,280 –> 00:22:28,880
\none of the most beautiful
\nillustrations of David’s mind, <\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:28,880 –> 00:22:32,080
\nisn’t it?
\nYes, he fought all those battles<\/p>\n
364
\n00:22:32,080 –> 00:22:37,640
\nfor Israel, but he was not a
\nloyalist who could not see that <\/p>\n
365
\n00:22:37,640 –> 00:22:40,240
\nGod could not accept people from
\nanother nation. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:22:41,200 –> 00:22:44,680
\nHe wasn’t such a patriot that he
\ndespised the Gentiles. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:22:45,640 –> 00:22:51,480
\nAnd so when these men followed
\nhim, they learnt his ways and no<\/p>\n
368
\n00:22:51,480 –> 00:22:54,360
\ndoubt they would have loved to
\nbe part of the the worship of <\/p>\n
369
\n00:22:54,360 –> 00:22:56,440
\nIsrael.
\nSo he said here’s a Tabernacle, <\/p>\n
370
\n00:22:57,040 –> 00:22:59,920
\nyou can come to this one.
\nIt’s got 4 doors. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:00,440 –> 00:23:02,440
\nThen mind, whether you come from
\nthe east to the West or the <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:02,440 –> 00:23:05,960
\nnorth or the South, you can come
\ninto this house and worship. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:05,960 –> 00:23:08,040
\nAre there with me.
\nIsn’t that a beautiful thing? <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:08,480 –> 00:23:11,560
\nAmos picks it up.
\nLittle thing left in the record.<\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:11,800 –> 00:23:15,040
\nBut it wasn’t.
\nJames picks that up later and <\/p>\n
376
\n00:23:15,040 –> 00:23:16,080
\nhe’s got hold of the whole
\npoint. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:16,080 –> 00:23:18,200
\nIsn’t that beautiful, beautiful
\nthing? <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:19,720 –> 00:23:22,280
\nReally beautiful thing.
\nAnd it just shows us what a <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:22,280 –> 00:23:25,920
\nwonderful thing our Bible is.
\nAll these little details and we <\/p>\n
380
\n00:23:26,040 –> 00:23:28,800
\njust go over them.
\nWe hardly notice them sometimes,<\/p>\n
381
\n00:23:28,800 –> 00:23:30,320
\nyet they’re full of beauty,
\naren’t they? <\/p>\n
382
\n00:23:31,320 –> 00:23:36,120
\nThe the thought process behind
\nthat beyond any coincidence, <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:36,360 –> 00:23:38,920
\nit’s obviously the stamp of God
\nupon that whole concept. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:23:39,320 –> 00:23:43,040
\nAnd David’s mind could see that
\nbecause he brought so many <\/p>\n
385
\n00:23:43,040 –> 00:23:46,200
\npeople from obscurity.
\nHe brought Israelites from <\/p>\n
386
\n00:23:46,200 –> 00:23:49,280
\nobscurity, the lost sheep of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:23:49,280 –> 00:23:52,640
\nHe gathered them together in
\nbundles and made something of <\/p>\n
388
\n00:23:52,640 –> 00:23:53,160
\nthem.
\nWhy couldn’t? <\/p>\n
389
\n00:23:53,160 –> 00:23:54,600
\nHe do the same with a
\nPhilistine. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:55,000 –> 00:23:56,600
\nOr a cheerothite.
\nOr a paedothite. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:57,800 –> 00:24:01,120
\nSome other person, why his
\ngreat, great grandmother was <\/p>\n
392
\n00:24:01,120 –> 00:24:04,680
\nRuth and knew all about her.
\nGod accepted her. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:24:07,240 –> 00:24:09,360
\nSo that was the Tabernacle of
\nDavid. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:24:09,840 –> 00:24:13,280
\nBit of a diversion, I suppose,
\nbut it’s a beautiful diversion, <\/p>\n
395
\n00:24:13,280 –> 00:24:15,720
\nisn’t it?
\nBecause here we are with four <\/p>\n
396
\n00:24:15,760 –> 00:24:19,320
\ngates back here in First
\nChronicles Chapter 9. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:24:23,640 –> 00:24:29,280
\nAnd so the people that were
\nchosen, we’re going to guard <\/p>\n
398
\n00:24:29,280 –> 00:24:31,600
\nthese gates.
\nNow let’s see again where they <\/p>\n
399
\n00:24:31,600 –> 00:24:40,080
\ncame from.
\nIt says in verse 19 and. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:24:40,080 –> 00:24:43,880
\nShalom, the son of Kora, the son
\nof Evie. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:24:43,880 –> 00:24:48,120
\nAsaph, the son of Kora and his
\nbrethren of the House of his <\/p>\n
402
\n00:24:48,120 –> 00:24:51,960
\nfather.
\nThe Kora Heights were over the <\/p>\n
403
\n00:24:51,960 –> 00:24:55,280
\nwork of the service, keepers of
\nthe gates of the Tabernacle and <\/p>\n
404
\n00:24:55,280 –> 00:24:58,720
\ntheir fathers being over the
\nhost of the Lord were keepers of<\/p>\n
405
\n00:24:58,720 –> 00:25:01,800
\nthe entry.
\nNow that’s a very, very <\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:01,800 –> 00:25:06,600
\nchallenging statement because I
\nthought that Kora was destroyed.<\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:06,600 –> 00:25:09,600
\nWas he not Kora, Dathan and
\nAbaram? <\/p>\n
408
\n00:25:09,600 –> 00:25:11,720
\nDidn’t the earth open and
\nswallow them up? <\/p>\n
409
\n00:25:12,520 –> 00:25:16,400
\nLet’s go back to the record and
\nand check what whatever <\/p>\n
410
\n00:25:16,400 –> 00:25:19,400
\nhappened, how can there be Kora
\nHeights? <\/p>\n
411
\n00:25:20,080 –> 00:25:24,600
\nIf there was this tremendous
\njudgement upon these men, <\/p>\n
412
\n00:25:25,240 –> 00:25:30,000
\nNumbers chapter 16, verse one is
\nthe record of that story. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:31,600 –> 00:25:34,120
\nThis is not a diversion.
\nThis is right on the on the <\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:34,120 –> 00:25:37,320
\nsubject may not sound but but it
\nis it’s right on the subject. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:39,760 –> 00:25:46,080
\nNow Cora verse 1 of #16 the son
\nof is Ha, the son of. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:46,080 –> 00:25:47,680
\nCoed.
\nGot your little piece of paper <\/p>\n
417
\n00:25:47,680 –> 00:25:50,040
\nstill there?
\nWe’ve got Levi up the top. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:25:51,360 –> 00:25:57,480
\nGot Gershon, Kohath and Murari.
\nNow, after Kohath, we had four <\/p>\n
419
\n00:25:57,480 –> 00:26:04,160
\nsons, didn’t we?
\nIt was Amram, Izhar, Azhil and <\/p>\n
420
\n00:26:04,160 –> 00:26:09,880
\nHebron.
\nThis kora is in the line of <\/p>\n
421
\n00:26:09,920 –> 00:26:16,040
\nIzhar.
\nHe’s a son of Izhar, so he’s a <\/p>\n
422
\n00:26:16,040 –> 00:26:23,000
\nfirst cousin to Moses.
\nBecause Izha’s brother is Amran,<\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:24,400 –> 00:26:28,320
\nand Aaron and Moses are sons of
\nAmran, so he’s a first cousin to<\/p>\n
424
\n00:26:28,320 –> 00:26:33,520
\nMoses, highly related to Moses.
\nNow he’s LinkedIn with two other<\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:33,520 –> 00:26:39,240
\npeople, Dathan and Ibaram, the
\nsons of Iliad, and On the son of<\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:39,240 –> 00:26:43,480
\nPilaf, sons of Reuben, They.
\nTook men, three men, Dathan and <\/p>\n
427
\n00:26:43,480 –> 00:26:45,920
\nIbaram.
\nWho were of the tribe of Reuben?<\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:46,440 –> 00:26:48,840
\nAnd there was Cora, who was of
\nthe. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:48,960 –> 00:26:52,080
\nTribe of Levi and.
\nIf you remember the little <\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:52,080 –> 00:26:55,040
\npattern of the Tabernacle, do
\nyou remember that there was the <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:55,040 –> 00:26:58,800
\nsection of the Tabernacle in the
\ncentre of Israel, and around <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:58,800 –> 00:27:02,000
\nthat were the various branches
\nof the Levites? <\/p>\n
433
\n00:27:02,120 –> 00:27:04,120
\nIt’s a Sunday school work, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
434
\n00:27:04,120 –> 00:27:11,720
\nAnd on the southern side were
\nthe Koathites, on the southern <\/p>\n
435
\n00:27:11,720 –> 00:27:15,760
\nside where the tribes were.
\nWas Reuben. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:27:16,200 –> 00:27:23,280
\nThe first on that southern side,
\nso at the southeastern end of <\/p>\n
437
\n00:27:23,280 –> 00:27:26,440
\nwhere the Koathites were was
\nReuben underneath. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:27:27,440 –> 00:27:29,440
\nAnd now you can begin to
\nunderstand how that happened <\/p>\n
439
\n00:27:30,240 –> 00:27:33,600
\nbecause in actual fact here was
\nReuben and there was coat and <\/p>\n
440
\n00:27:34,400 –> 00:27:37,800
\nthe heads of coat were there and
\nthe heads of Reuben were here. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:27:38,960 –> 00:27:43,520
\nSo Cora and had to coal it were
\nacross the path to say, hey <\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:43,520 –> 00:27:48,280
\nDathan Enviram, what you up to?
\nThey, they lived alongside each <\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:48,280 –> 00:27:50,440
\nother, so to speak, in the
\nFoursquare encampment. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:27:51,920 –> 00:27:55,840
\nSo it all fits together.
\nBut this Cora, he was a very <\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:55,840 –> 00:27:59,000
\nremarkable man.
\nIt says in verse 2, they rose up<\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:59,000 –> 00:28:02,760
\nbefore Moses with certain of the
\nchildren of Israel. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:28:03,760 –> 00:28:08,840
\nI’ll say 250 Princess of the
\nAssembly, famous in the <\/p>\n
448
\n00:28:08,840 –> 00:28:16,560
\ncongregation, men of of renown.
\nAnd they said to Moses and <\/p>\n
449
\n00:28:16,560 –> 00:28:20,280
\nAaron, look at his head, you
\ntake too much upon you seeing <\/p>\n
450
\n00:28:20,360 –> 00:28:22,880
\nall the congregation are holy,
\nevery one of. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:28:22,880 –> 00:28:25,880
\nThem, they could have said, you
\nknow, Exodus 19 says we’re <\/p>\n
452
\n00:28:25,880 –> 00:28:27,480
\nKingdom of priests.
\nWhat are you carrying on as <\/p>\n
453
\n00:28:27,480 –> 00:28:29,080
\nthough you’re the only important
\npeople around here? <\/p>\n
454
\n00:28:29,560 –> 00:28:35,840
\nAuthority doesn’t rest with you.
\nGod has made a calling of all of<\/p>\n
455
\n00:28:35,840 –> 00:28:37,520
\nthe children of Israel.
\nWhat are you going on about? <\/p>\n
456
\n00:28:37,760 –> 00:28:40,560
\nWhat makes you so much so much
\nmore important than everybody <\/p>\n
457
\n00:28:40,560 –> 00:28:42,720
\nelse?
\nThere’s no Moses and Aaron was <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:42,720 –> 00:28:47,240
\nself appointed.
\nAll the congregation of wholly, <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:47,240 –> 00:28:49,480
\nevery one of them, and the Lord
\nis among them. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:49,680 –> 00:28:51,800
\nWherefore then lift you up
\nyourselves above the <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:51,800 –> 00:28:55,200
\ncongregation of the Lord?
\nMoses didn’t answer immediately <\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:55,200 –> 00:28:57,640
\nwith words.
\nHe was just so shocked. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:28:58,520 –> 00:29:02,240
\nYou know what it says of Moses.
\nHe was, above all men, the most <\/p>\n
464
\n00:29:02,320 –> 00:29:05,360
\nmakeup on the earth.
\nCertainly he would never have <\/p>\n
465
\n00:29:05,360 –> 00:29:09,040
\nmade himself to be leader of his
\nrugby still on the backside of <\/p>\n
466
\n00:29:09,040 –> 00:29:13,200
\nHoreb, if he’d had his way.
\nAnd he spake unto Korra and unto<\/p>\n
467
\n00:29:13,200 –> 00:29:17,960
\nall his company, saying, Even
\ntomorrow Yahweh will show who <\/p>\n
468
\n00:29:17,960 –> 00:29:21,960
\nare his, and who is holy, and
\nwill cause him to come near unto<\/p>\n
469
\n00:29:21,960 –> 00:29:24,000
\nhim.
\nEven him whom He hath chosen <\/p>\n
470
\n00:29:24,360 –> 00:29:29,320
\nwill He cause to come here.
\nThis do take Eusensism all his <\/p>\n
471
\n00:29:29,320 –> 00:29:32,520
\ncompany, and put Father in, and
\nput incense in them before the <\/p>\n
472
\n00:29:32,520 –> 00:29:34,240
\nLord tomorrow.
\nAnd it shall be that the man <\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:34,240 –> 00:29:37,000
\nwhom the Lord hath chosen, He
\nshall be holy. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:37,880 –> 00:29:44,280
\nHe take too much upon you and be
\ncareful, ye sons of Levi. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:46,800 –> 00:29:51,080
\nNow that just shows you what
\nKorra was like in terms of <\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:51,080 –> 00:29:54,880
\nability.
\nLevi was the faithful tribe. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:55,880 –> 00:29:58,040
\nThere’d been a time when Moses
\nhad been up the mountain. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:58,040 –> 00:30:02,320
\nHe came down and he saw the the
\ndegradation of the people. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:30:02,920 –> 00:30:04,800
\nAnd he said who?
\nIs on the Lord’s side. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:30:04,960 –> 00:30:08,000
\nLevi came forth.
\nLevi had to smite their own <\/p>\n
481
\n00:30:08,000 –> 00:30:09,400
\nbrethren.
\nBut they wouldn’t flinch. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:30:10,480 –> 00:30:13,400
\nAnd Deuteronomy 33 says that
\nthey favoured neither their son <\/p>\n
483
\n00:30:13,400 –> 00:30:16,880
\nnor their daughter, so loyal
\nwere they to the cause of God in<\/p>\n
484
\n00:30:16,880 –> 00:30:21,120
\nIsrael.
\nThose 250 that I mentioned in <\/p>\n
485
\n00:30:21,120 –> 00:30:23,600
\nverse 2 are obviously mostly
\nLevites. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:30:26,080 –> 00:30:31,680
\nAnd this man Kora had by his
\npolitical enchantment of the <\/p>\n
487
\n00:30:31,680 –> 00:30:33,720
\nPrincess, you know, look what it
\nsays about them. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:30:35,600 –> 00:30:38,760
\nThey were famous in the
\ncongregation, men of renown. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:40,120 –> 00:30:44,240
\nThey were the leaders in the
\ntribe of Levi, and he had <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:44,240 –> 00:30:48,640
\nbrought them onto his side
\nagainst Moses and Aaron, whose <\/p>\n
491
\n00:30:48,640 –> 00:30:50,920
\ncamp was out on the east.
\nWasn’t by the gates. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:30:52,960 –> 00:30:55,040
\nSo this was not an ordinary
\nachievement. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:30:55,040 –> 00:30:59,120
\nThis was an amazing achievement.
\nIn times of great difficulty, <\/p>\n
494
\n00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:01,720
\nLevi had been loyal.
\nWhen others hadn’t. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:31:01,720 –> 00:31:07,640
\nBut Cora, he is some man.
\nHe’s a politician part <\/p>\n
496
\n00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:12,240
\nexcellence.
\nAnd Moses said unto Korra, here <\/p>\n
497
\n00:31:12,240 –> 00:31:18,200
\nI pray you, you sons of Levi,
\nyou’ve already got a very <\/p>\n
498
\n00:31:18,520 –> 00:31:20,560
\nimportant and privileged
\nposition. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:31:22,160 –> 00:31:25,320
\nAre you unsatisfied that and
\nwant the priesthood also, verse <\/p>\n
500
\n00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:30,120
\n10, God has given you privilege,
\nbut you’re not appreciating that<\/p>\n
501
\n00:31:30,120 –> 00:31:33,960
\nprivilege.
\nWell, you know the story my dear<\/p>\n
502
\n00:31:33,960 –> 00:31:36,080
\nand sisters, and how God
\ndetermined it. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:31:37,760 –> 00:31:40,400
\nGod was exceedingly wrong with
\nthis rebellion. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:31:40,480 –> 00:31:42,800
\nIt was the great rebellion in
\nthe wilderness of all the <\/p>\n
505
\n00:31:42,800 –> 00:31:46,000
\nrebellion.
\nAnd so verse 23, Yahweh spake <\/p>\n
506
\n00:31:46,000 –> 00:31:50,320
\nunto Moses, saying, Speak unto
\nthe congregation, saying, Get <\/p>\n
507
\n00:31:50,320 –> 00:31:53,160
\nyou up from about the Tabernacle
\nof Cora Dathan and Abaram. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:31:53,680 –> 00:31:56,000
\nAnd Moses rose up and went unto
\nDathan and Abaram, and the <\/p>\n
509
\n00:31:56,000 –> 00:31:58,360
\nelders of Israel followed him.
\nAnd he spake unto the <\/p>\n
510
\n00:31:58,360 –> 00:32:01,280
\ncongregation, saying, Depart, I
\npray you, from the tents of <\/p>\n
511
\n00:32:01,280 –> 00:32:04,160
\nthese wicked men, and touch
\nnothing of theirs. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:32:04,600 –> 00:32:08,280
\nThe tents of these wicked men.
\nBlessed sheep are consumed in <\/p>\n
513
\n00:32:08,280 –> 00:32:10,160
\nall their sins.
\nAnd so they did. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:32:10,160 –> 00:32:12,880
\nThey get up from the Tabernacle
\nof Korra, Dathan, and Abaram on <\/p>\n
515
\n00:32:12,880 –> 00:32:14,880
\nevery side.
\nAnd Dathan and Abaram came out <\/p>\n
516
\n00:32:15,000 –> 00:32:17,160
\nand stood in the door of their
\ntents, and their wives, their <\/p>\n
517
\n00:32:17,160 –> 00:32:20,520
\nsons, and their little children.
\nAnd the earth opened their <\/p>\n
518
\n00:32:20,520 –> 00:32:24,200
\nmouth, Verse 32, and swallowed
\nthem up at their houses, and all<\/p>\n
519
\n00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:26,760
\nthe men that appertained at
\nDecorah and all their goods. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:32:27,880 –> 00:32:29,400
\nWell, then, how do we have sons
\nof Korah? <\/p>\n
521
\n00:32:32,640 –> 00:32:38,160
\nThey’re gone, aren’t they?
\nThat’s why might seem so. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:32:38,920 –> 00:32:40,640
\nBut did you read that very
\ncarefully? <\/p>\n
523
\n00:32:42,800 –> 00:32:52,600
\nEven in verse 32 it says all the
\nmen, or in verse 27, it was the <\/p>\n
524
\n00:32:52,600 –> 00:32:55,280
\nfamilies of Dathan and Abaram
\nthat stood with him. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:32:56,760 –> 00:33:01,560
\nIt didn’t actually say the
\nfamily of Kora, and in fact they<\/p>\n
526
\n00:33:01,560 –> 00:33:03,840
\ndidn’t.
\nThey didn’t stand with their <\/p>\n
527
\n00:33:03,840 –> 00:33:07,000
\nfather.
\nIf you come to numbers 26, <\/p>\n
528
\n00:33:07,960 –> 00:33:11,680
\nthere’s a little.
\nDetail here again verse 10, <\/p>\n
529
\n00:33:13,440 –> 00:33:17,360
\nwritten verse 9 just to get the
\nsense and the sons of Eliab, <\/p>\n
530
\n00:33:18,160 –> 00:33:22,320
\nNemuel and Dathan and Abaram.
\nThis is that Dathan and Abaram, <\/p>\n
531
\n00:33:22,320 –> 00:33:26,240
\nwhich were famous in the
\ncongregation, who strove against<\/p>\n
532
\n00:33:26,280 –> 00:33:29,200
\nMoses and against Aaron, in the
\ncompany of Korra, when they <\/p>\n
533
\n00:33:29,200 –> 00:33:33,520
\nstrove against the Lord, and the
\nearth opened her mouth and <\/p>\n
534
\n00:33:33,520 –> 00:33:35,400
\nswallowed them up, together with
\nCora. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:33:35,760 –> 00:33:40,240
\nWhen that company died.
\nWhat time the fire devoured 250 <\/p>\n
536
\n00:33:40,240 –> 00:33:46,440
\nmen, and they became a sign,
\nnotwithstanding the children. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:33:46,440 –> 00:33:53,120
\nOf Cora died, not now.
\nThis is a really intriguing <\/p>\n
538
\n00:33:53,120 –> 00:33:57,760
\nstory, isn’t it?
\nHere is a man that can persuade <\/p>\n
539
\n00:33:57,800 –> 00:34:02,760
\nagainst Aaron and Moses.
\nEven among the Levites, among <\/p>\n
540
\n00:34:02,800 –> 00:34:04,560
\nthe.
\nPrinciple of the Levites. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:34:05,320 –> 00:34:08,639
\nThe most informed and godly men,
\nyou might say, in that nation, <\/p>\n
542
\n00:34:09,199 –> 00:34:12,639
\nthis Cora has been able to weave
\nhis message into their minds <\/p>\n
543
\n00:34:13,000 –> 00:34:16,440
\nuntil he has prejudice them, He
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:18,239
\nYou’ve been slighted in your
\nposition. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:34:18,239 –> 00:34:20,080
\nOur cousin over here, who’s he
\nthink he is? <\/p>\n
546
\n00:34:20,560 –> 00:34:23,679
\nWho’s the mayor and think he is.
\nWe’re all holy. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:34:23,679 –> 00:34:26,120
\nWhy isn’t this being distruded
\nand much more generous and and <\/p>\n
548
\n00:34:26,120 –> 00:34:27,840
\ndemocratic Communist?
\nWay. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:34:28,920 –> 00:34:34,040
\nAll men are equal here in
\neclesial life too, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
550
\n00:34:34,040 –> 00:34:35,159
\nYou know it’s not true, my dear
\nman. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:34:35,159 –> 00:34:37,800
\nSo we’re all equal before God.
\nWe haven’t got the same talents,<\/p>\n
552
\n00:34:37,800 –> 00:34:39,280
\nhave we?
\nI can’t do the things you can <\/p>\n
553
\n00:34:39,280 –> 00:34:40,560
\ndo.
\nI wished I could. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:34:40,760 –> 00:34:43,719
\nBut I can’t we’re going to
\nrecognize that God is <\/p>\n
555
\n00:34:43,719 –> 00:34:46,679
\ndistributed as as he will.
\nAnd it was a right that he <\/p>\n
556
\n00:34:46,679 –> 00:34:49,239
\nshould call a certain man and
\nand he gave to him the the <\/p>\n
557
\n00:34:49,239 –> 00:34:51,480
\nability to do that and he was
\nthe right one. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:34:52,520 –> 00:34:54,400
\nAnd these men were like
\nDemocrats. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:34:55,560 –> 00:34:57,640
\nIt’s almost the, you know, the
\nGod revered word. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:57,960 –> 00:35:00,200
\nIt’s the public revered word,
\nbut it’s never revered by God. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:35:00,200 –> 00:35:02,800
\nThink about that when you’re
\nmaking up your Bible class. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:35:04,800 –> 00:35:06,720
\nThe object is not just to share
\nthe work all around to <\/p>\n
563
\n00:35:06,720 –> 00:35:08,640
\neverybody.
\nThat’s not what God says. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:11,040
\nI know that’s how a lot of us
\nthink. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:35:11,120 –> 00:35:12,040
\nWe’ve come to.
\nThink that way. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:35:12,080 –> 00:35:14,640
\nThink again.
\nThink of it in scriptural terms.<\/p>\n
567
\n00:35:15,840 –> 00:35:20,880
\nWhat the class is there for is
\nto build up our eccleses, and <\/p>\n
568
\n00:35:20,880 –> 00:35:23,400
\nthere’s some people that have
\ngot that ability and they could <\/p>\n
569
\n00:35:23,400 –> 00:35:25,320
\nnever do the other things that
\nother people can do. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:35:25,320 –> 00:35:29,280
\nWell, let’s be sensible.
\nIt’s not just there but equal <\/p>\n
571
\n00:35:29,280 –> 00:35:32,160
\ndistribution.
\nThat’s democracy, and our <\/p>\n
572
\n00:35:32,160 –> 00:35:33,840
\nchildren are being imbued with
\nthat. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:35:33,840 –> 00:35:36,440
\nEverything is democracy.
\nA little child at school at six <\/p>\n
574
\n00:35:36,440 –> 00:35:40,160
\nyears sits in there and and, and
\ntheir chairperson while all the <\/p>\n
575
\n00:35:40,160 –> 00:35:41,840
\nother little 6 year olds have a
\nmeeting. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:42,280 –> 00:35:47,000
\nI ask you.
\nBut, you know, eventually that <\/p>\n
577
\n00:35:47,000 –> 00:35:49,080
\ngets right through the minds of
\nour little children and they <\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:49,080 –> 00:35:53,600
\nbegin to think that’s right.
\nAnd so sometimes do we, because <\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:56,120
\nwe don’t say it’s wrong.
\nIt’s got nothing to do with the <\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:56,120 –> 00:35:58,720
\nBible, and it hasn’t obviously
\nnothing to do. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:35:59,120 –> 00:36:01,400
\nMoses wasn’t concerned about
\ndemocracy, was he? <\/p>\n
582
\n00:36:01,400 –> 00:36:03,800
\nGod made choice.
\nWe’ve all got different <\/p>\n
583
\n00:36:03,800 –> 00:36:05,600
\nabilities.
\nWe’re told that use those <\/p>\n
584
\n00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:10,680
\nabilities humbly and wisely, but
\nuse them and let’s appreciate <\/p>\n
585
\n00:36:11,240 –> 00:36:14,120
\nour brother or sister who’s got
\nsome ability that I haven’t got.<\/p>\n
586
\n00:36:15,320 –> 00:36:18,240
\nThat’s how God has made it.
\nIt’s part of our humility. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:36:19,760 –> 00:36:21,600
\nThat’s how it is in the
\nScriptures. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:36:22,720 –> 00:36:27,320
\nWhy was it that these children
\nhad not gone with their father? <\/p>\n
589
\n00:36:28,160 –> 00:36:29,920
\nCan you think of a reason why
\ncould it be? <\/p>\n
590
\n00:36:30,160 –> 00:36:34,120
\nI mean, if he could talk those
\nother grown men into that <\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:34,120 –> 00:36:38,280
\nposition against Moses now, why
\ncouldn’t he convert his children<\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:38,280 –> 00:36:41,440
\nto that?
\nIt’s a strange thing, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
593
\n00:36:43,160 –> 00:36:45,680
\nWell, there’s a little.
\nSecret back there again. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:36:45,680 –> 00:36:48,840
\nIt’s in Chronicles.
\nIt’s in First Chronicles Chapter<\/p>\n
595
\n00:36:48,840 –> 00:36:53,440
\n9.
\nYou might have in fact noticed <\/p>\n
596
\n00:36:53,440 –> 00:36:58,520
\nit before, but one day I was
\nlooking at this and stumbled <\/p>\n
597
\n00:36:58,520 –> 00:37:00,800
\nupon it, really.
\nAnd I was so excited because I’m<\/p>\n
598
\n00:37:00,800 –> 00:37:04,480
\nsure it’s the answer.
\nThere’s got to be some very real<\/p>\n
599
\n00:37:04,520 –> 00:37:07,720
\nanswer.
\nWell, there is verse 19, which <\/p>\n
600
\n00:37:07,720 –> 00:37:11,520
\nwe read before, and it tells us
\nthat the the doorkeepers would <\/p>\n
601
\n00:37:11,520 –> 00:37:13,840
\ncome from the House of the Korah
\nHeights. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:37:14,480 –> 00:37:17,760
\nAnd OK, they did live because
\nNumbers 26 said they did. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:37:18,400 –> 00:37:21,840
\nBut why was it that they never
\nwent along with their father? <\/p>\n
604
\n00:37:22,560 –> 00:37:28,640
\nWell, it says in verse 20.
\nAnd Phineas, the son of Eliezer,<\/p>\n
605
\n00:37:29,840 –> 00:37:34,120
\nwas the ruler over them in time
\npast. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:37:35,120 –> 00:37:38,880
\nAnd Yahweh was with me.
\nYou know, that’s a beautiful <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:38,880 –> 00:37:43,080
\nlittle verse in your Bible.
\nYou think it’s beautiful verse? <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:44,040 –> 00:37:47,280
\nI do because it’s the key to a
\nmystery. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:48,160 –> 00:37:51,480
\nAnd once you start to turn that
\nkey, it opens up all kinds of <\/p>\n
610
\n00:37:51,480 –> 00:37:54,080
\nbeautiful things.
\nWho was Phineas? <\/p>\n
611
\n00:37:55,440 –> 00:38:00,200
\nYou know who Phineas was when
\nthe name of God was being <\/p>\n
612
\n00:38:00,200 –> 00:38:07,320
\ndisgraced in Israel and Moab
\nbrought those those dirty women <\/p>\n
613
\n00:38:08,160 –> 00:38:13,320
\ninto the camp of Israel because.
\nThey could succeed by no other <\/p>\n
614
\n00:38:13,320 –> 00:38:16,160
\nmeans.
\nThey brought their girls with <\/p>\n
615
\n00:38:16,160 –> 00:38:19,120
\nall their lipstick.
\nAnd their mascara and all their <\/p>\n
616
\n00:38:19,760 –> 00:38:22,280
\nflimsy clothing, and they
\nbrought them into Israel. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:38:22,280 –> 00:38:27,120
\nAnd the stupid men of Israel
\nlooked at them and they fell for<\/p>\n
618
\n00:38:27,120 –> 00:38:31,760
\nit, didn’t they?
\nAnd eventually along comes one <\/p>\n
619
\n00:38:31,760 –> 00:38:36,800
\nof the Princess of Israel, and
\nhe takes one of these wicked <\/p>\n
620
\n00:38:36,800 –> 00:38:40,920
\nwomen, and he goes straight past
\nthe Tabernacle, and he couldn’t <\/p>\n
621
\n00:38:40,920 –> 00:38:44,120
\ncare less.
\nAnd never mind the fact that <\/p>\n
622
\n00:38:44,120 –> 00:38:48,600
\nMoses and Aaron are in front of
\nthe Tabernacle, in tears before <\/p>\n
623
\n00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:52,640
\nthey’re gone, bleeding that God
\nwould stay the plague that must <\/p>\n
624
\n00:38:52,640 –> 00:38:54,400
\ncome for such terrible
\nwickedness. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:38:55,400 –> 00:38:58,840
\nThis Prince couldn’t care an
\niota and he takes that girl <\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:59,000 –> 00:39:02,600
\nstraight.
\nPast them off to his tent for <\/p>\n
627
\n00:39:02,600 –> 00:39:07,680
\nobvious purposes, and Phineas
\ncould stand it. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:14,560
\nNo longer Phineas was grandson
\nof Aaron and he went to his tent<\/p>\n
629
\n00:39:14,560 –> 00:39:17,520
\nand he took his javelin and he
\nfollowed them down the track and<\/p>\n
630
\n00:39:17,560 –> 00:39:22,320
\nhe only did they did use it once
\nand killed brutally. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:39:24,480 –> 00:39:31,240
\nDid you do that God loved God
\nloved him and that stayed the <\/p>\n
632
\n00:39:31,240 –> 00:39:34,560
\nplane.
\nIt saved thousands of lives in <\/p>\n
633
\n00:39:34,560 –> 00:39:38,200
\nIsrael.
\nThat’s Phineas took cruel man, <\/p>\n
634
\n00:39:38,200 –> 00:39:40,440
\ntough man.
\nGod gave him an everlasting <\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:40,440 –> 00:39:43,880
\npriesthood for that.
\nWhat was the what was it that <\/p>\n
636
\n00:39:43,880 –> 00:39:46,520
\nGod loved about that?
\nMy differences because there was<\/p>\n
637
\n00:39:46,520 –> 00:39:50,760
\na man who was on his side.
\nNever mind what the world was <\/p>\n
638
\n00:39:50,760 –> 00:39:52,880
\nsaying, never mind about Moab.
\nHe had that, absolutely. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:39:52,880 –> 00:39:56,840
\nClear in his mind, God loved him
\nbecause he was a man of God and <\/p>\n
640
\n00:39:56,840 –> 00:39:58,360
\nhe would stand for that
\nprinciple. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:39:59,160 –> 00:40:01,160
\nAnd if anybody thought they were
\ngoing to flout the principles of<\/p>\n
642
\n00:40:01,160 –> 00:40:04,080
\nGod like that, he would go to
\nthe the final degree to show <\/p>\n
643
\n00:40:04,080 –> 00:40:05,760
\nthem that God’s name would be.
\nUphill. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:40:07,360 –> 00:40:09,280
\nBut there’s another side to
\nPhineas, isn’t there? <\/p>\n
645
\n00:40:11,000 –> 00:40:12,840
\nYou imagine being the children
\nof Cora. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:40:15,080 –> 00:40:18,400
\nWhat a boring thing.
\nOh, Dad’s at it again. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:40:18,880 –> 00:40:22,120
\nThere he is.
\nThe few men, other men come home<\/p>\n
648
\n00:40:22,120 –> 00:40:23,360
\nto the tent.
\nWhat’s he talking about? <\/p>\n
649
\n00:40:23,360 –> 00:40:25,720
\nMoses and Aaron.
\nOh, who they think they are. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:40:26,600 –> 00:40:28,400
\nThey get on your nerves, you
\nknow, they’re always telling <\/p>\n
651
\n00:40:28,400 –> 00:40:31,680
\npeople what to do, always out
\nthe front there, Sam’s, it’s <\/p>\n
652
\n00:40:31,680 –> 00:40:33,640
\nimportant to case.
\nSure enough, they’re in the in <\/p>\n
653
\n00:40:33,640 –> 00:40:36,400
\nthe there and always talking
\nlike that. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:40:36,400 –> 00:40:37,680
\nWhat do children think about
\nthat? <\/p>\n
655
\n00:40:40,760 –> 00:40:46,080
\nAbsolutely sick of it, the
\ncriticism of brethren until <\/p>\n
656
\n00:40:46,080 –> 00:40:49,720
\neventually that they, they just
\nwant to hear another message. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:40:51,000 –> 00:40:54,320
\nThey I hate to hear that, you
\nknow, we kill our children <\/p>\n
658
\n00:40:54,320 –> 00:40:57,200
\nsometimes.
\nI would be aware of <\/p>\n
659
\n00:40:57,200 –> 00:40:58,840
\ncircumstances where that has
\nhappened. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:40:59,040 –> 00:41:02,000
\nAnd children have left the truth
\nbecause of that, because they’ve<\/p>\n
661
\n00:41:02,000 –> 00:41:07,800
\nnever seen the joy in it, the
\nbrotherhood in it, the love, the<\/p>\n
662
\n00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:11,200
\nforgiveness of sin.
\nIf they hadn’t seen that, they <\/p>\n
663
\n00:41:11,200 –> 00:41:13,440
\nmight have seen something that
\nwas beautiful about the truth. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:41:13,440 –> 00:41:16,160
\nBut all they heard was criticism
\nof the ABS. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:41:17,360 –> 00:41:20,120
\nWho do I think they are again?
\nYou know, there they are again. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:41:20,120 –> 00:41:22,040
\nAnd they’re.
\nTelling us what to do. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:41:23,760 –> 00:41:25,400
\nIt’s not so much really a joke,
\nis it? <\/p>\n
668
\n00:41:25,600 –> 00:41:27,920
\nUnfortunately, there are
\nsentiments of that that are <\/p>\n
669
\n00:41:27,920 –> 00:41:31,720
\nheard around and we’re all
\nguilty in measure for that. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:41:34,040 –> 00:41:38,240
\nA rule of life is to never over
\nyour table. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:41:38,920 –> 00:41:41,520
\nSay things against others in the
\nmeeting. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:47,080
\nNever, ever, ever do that.
\nFathers will grant no mind. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:41:47,080 –> 00:41:50,320
\nNo matter how you’re attempting.
\nWhen the pressure’s on and you <\/p>\n
674
\n00:41:50,320 –> 00:41:52,600
\nmight want to say this or that,
\ndon’t do it. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:41:53,560 –> 00:41:58,000
\nRemember, the best thing for
\nthose children’s minds can be <\/p>\n
676
\n00:41:58,000 –> 00:42:00,960
\nthat they are never taught the
\ndifferences that you might have <\/p>\n
677
\n00:42:01,560 –> 00:42:03,600
\nwith other brethren or other
\nsisters in the middle. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:42:04,320 –> 00:42:06,880
\nDon’t ever let them see.
\nCover it up. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:42:07,200 –> 00:42:08,680
\nYou might say, well, I want my
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:42:08,680 –> 00:42:10,760
\nNo da, da, da.
\nYou know, I have a story. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:42:11,360 –> 00:42:13,360
\nThey will work things out in
\ntheir own time. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:42:14,080 –> 00:42:16,040
\nBut when they’re coming up as
\nchildren, they’ve got to see <\/p>\n
683
\n00:42:16,040 –> 00:42:18,760
\nthat God is behind the truth.
\nAnd it’s a beautiful thing. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:22,280
\nAnd they’ve got to learn to
\nrespect all of their elders and <\/p>\n
685
\n00:42:22,280 –> 00:42:25,600
\nall of their older people.
\nIn that meeting, never, ever, <\/p>\n
686
\n00:42:25,960 –> 00:42:27,600
\neven on the phone, somebody
\nrings. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:42:27,600 –> 00:42:30,520
\nYou want to talk about something
\nand little ears are sitting <\/p>\n
688
\n00:42:30,520 –> 00:42:34,280
\nhere.
\nBe careful, you know, be careful<\/p>\n
689
\n00:42:35,400 –> 00:42:36,440
\ntoday.
\nYou can probably take your <\/p>\n
690
\n00:42:36,440 –> 00:42:43,200
\nmobile into another room, but
\ndon’t let little ears hear. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:42:43,200 –> 00:42:44,600
\nIt’s better to say that y’all
\nlook, I’m sorry. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:42:44,600 –> 00:42:47,200
\nI want the room to myself.
\nYou know, at the moment if you, <\/p>\n
693
\n00:42:47,320 –> 00:42:49,600
\nif you need to talk about
\nimportant things, private <\/p>\n
694
\n00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:53,680
\nthings, evolving, please, your
\nlife, that’s preserve children’s<\/p>\n
695
\n00:42:54,040 –> 00:42:58,160
\ninnocence about the things
\nyou’ve got because that’s a <\/p>\n
696
\n00:42:58,160 –> 00:43:00,000
\nterribly important thing.
\nBecause that’s what I think <\/p>\n
697
\n00:43:00,000 –> 00:43:02,760
\nhappened with Cora.
\nHis children got to the state <\/p>\n
698
\n00:43:02,760 –> 00:43:07,000
\nwhere they were sick, and along
\ncame Phineas, who was their <\/p>\n
699
\n00:43:07,000 –> 00:43:10,240
\nsecond cousin.
\nAnd he said, hey, isn’t that why<\/p>\n
700
\n00:43:10,240 –> 00:43:12,120
\ndidn’t you come home to an
\nhelpless Israel class? <\/p>\n
701
\n00:43:13,040 –> 00:43:14,640
\nYou know, helpless Israel, the
\nhope of Israel. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:15,800
\nWe’re going to talk about the
\npromises. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:43:15,800 –> 00:43:18,960
\nMade by Abraham, we want to talk
\nabout all the good things that <\/p>\n
704
\n00:43:18,960 –> 00:43:21,320
\nhave come to our our heritage in
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:43:22,000 –> 00:43:23,320
\nYou know how they came through
\nthe Red Sea. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:43:23,320 –> 00:43:25,040
\nWe’re going to have a we’re
\ngoing to have a lesson all about<\/p>\n
707
\n00:43:25,040 –> 00:43:28,280
\nthat what Moses did.
\nAnd so these children got to <\/p>\n
708
\n00:43:28,280 –> 00:43:30,600
\nsee, I’m sure, I’m sure that’s
\nwhat happened because he had the<\/p>\n
709
\n00:43:30,600 –> 00:43:33,760
\nrule over them and they came to
\nlove that. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:43:34,680 –> 00:43:38,480
\nSo when their dad was about to
\nbe destroyed and Dayton and <\/p>\n
711
\n00:43:38,480 –> 00:43:41,000
\nAbaram stood there with their
\nchildren, those children stood <\/p>\n
712
\n00:43:41,000 –> 00:43:42,960
\napart.
\nAnd there’s no question that <\/p>\n
713
\n00:43:42,960 –> 00:43:45,400
\nrequired some very.
\nPersuasive influence. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:43:45,400 –> 00:43:47,720
\nAnd that must have been Phineas,
\nI believe. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:43:47,720 –> 00:43:49,800
\nDo you think the Bible’s a
\nwonderful book? <\/p>\n
716
\n00:43:50,800 –> 00:43:52,280
\nIt is a wonderful thing, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
717
\n00:43:52,280 –> 00:43:53,760
\nA wonderful little inclusion
\nand. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:43:54,280 –> 00:43:56,800
\nWhen you start to put it all
\ntogether, that’s what falls out.<\/p>\n
719
\n00:43:57,440 –> 00:44:00,520
\nFull of lessons, full of
\nbeautiful things that are <\/p>\n
720
\n00:44:00,520 –> 00:44:02,320
\nrelevant to our own ecclesial
\nlife. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:44:04,080 –> 00:44:07,560
\nIt means this too, my dear and
\nsisters, that all of us need to <\/p>\n
722
\n00:44:07,560 –> 00:44:09,800
\nhave something of Phineas in
\nboth parts. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:44:09,960 –> 00:44:12,040
\nYou say Phineas was cruel.
\nI don’t. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:44:13,560 –> 00:44:16,440
\nI say that he was stern about
\nthe things of God in principle. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:44:16,960 –> 00:44:19,480
\nAnd don’t you love him for it?
\nGod did. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:44:20,840 –> 00:44:22,080
\nDo you love him for it?
\nI do. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:44:22,200 –> 00:44:24,600
\nI love him for that because God
\ndid. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:44:24,880 –> 00:44:27,760
\nAnd I can see that unless he did
\nthat, there would have been 10s <\/p>\n
729
\n00:44:27,760 –> 00:44:29,480
\nof thousands of other lives
\nlost. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:44:31,520 –> 00:44:35,600
\nBut I love him also because he
\nwas prepared to take another <\/p>\n
731
\n00:44:35,600 –> 00:44:38,520
\nfamily under his wing, wasn’t
\nhe? <\/p>\n
732
\n00:44:39,440 –> 00:44:41,960
\nHe could have said, oh, those
\nkids, bad luck, you know, oh, <\/p>\n
733
\n00:44:41,960 –> 00:44:44,160
\ntheir cousins, their family.
\nIt’s all too hard in the family.<\/p>\n
734
\n00:44:44,160 –> 00:44:47,400
\nHe didn’t say that.
\nHe said, I’m going to take those<\/p>\n
735
\n00:44:47,400 –> 00:44:51,080
\nchildren and teach them a better
\nway where they’ll see the joy of<\/p>\n
736
\n00:44:51,080 –> 00:44:52,360
\nthe truth and the love of the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:44:52,360 –> 00:44:55,680
\nAnd, and that’s what happened.
\nWhat would he teach them? <\/p>\n
738
\n00:44:58,600 –> 00:45:01,480
\nWhat would they see in in their
\ncousin? <\/p>\n
739
\n00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:06,480
\nThey’d see a man who stood for
\nthe integrity of God’s house. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:45:08,000 –> 00:45:11,320
\nIsn’t that right?
\nWhat was the famous incident in <\/p>\n
741
\n00:45:11,320 –> 00:45:14,160
\ntheir cousin’s life when Phineas
\ntook the sword? <\/p>\n
742
\n00:45:14,280 –> 00:45:17,400
\nBecause these two would flout
\nthe holiness of the House of <\/p>\n
743
\n00:45:17,400 –> 00:45:20,680
\nGod.
\nThey were going past that place.<\/p>\n
744
\n00:45:21,200 –> 00:45:24,480
\nWhen he reacted because it was
\nin his. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:45:24,480 –> 00:45:29,880
\nHeart to preserve the integrity
\nof God’s house was deeply <\/p>\n
746
\n00:45:29,880 –> 00:45:33,120
\ninvolved in his conscience and
\nmind that he would not let that <\/p>\n
747
\n00:45:33,120 –> 00:45:37,400
\nhappen and so at that time he
\nwas inflamed to do that which <\/p>\n
748
\n00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:40,760
\nI’ve seen cause.
\nIn other people’s lives, in <\/p>\n
749
\n00:45:40,760 –> 00:45:43,080
\nother people’s assessment, but
\nnot in Gods. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:45:43,960 –> 00:45:47,040
\nAnd you know those boys would
\nhave learnt that if they came <\/p>\n
751
\n00:45:47,040 –> 00:45:48,800
\nthen they never had their dad
\nthen, did they? <\/p>\n
752
\n00:45:49,360 –> 00:45:52,800
\nThey came to see that that man
\nhad saved their lives. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:45:53,360 –> 00:45:57,160
\nThey’d be under the earth like
\nthe other children if it wasn’t.<\/p>\n
754
\n00:45:57,720 –> 00:46:00,280
\nOr Phineas.
\nNow what a beautiful. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:46:00,280 –> 00:46:05,400
\nThing that is Phineas was a
\nbeautiful man, not just a stern <\/p>\n
756
\n00:46:05,400 –> 00:46:08,760
\nman of Prince where he was that,
\nand thank God he was, but he <\/p>\n
757
\n00:46:08,760 –> 00:46:12,600
\nalso had compassion to take on
\nside for those who had need and <\/p>\n
758
\n00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:14,760
\nwe need lots of that in our
\necclesial life. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:46:15,600 –> 00:46:19,200
\nSometimes a child comes from the
\ncountry and you hear a little <\/p>\n
760
\n00:46:19,200 –> 00:46:20,760
\nannouncement.
\nHas anybody a? <\/p>\n
761
\n00:46:20,760 –> 00:46:24,680
\nRoom, and there we all are,
\nEcclesia OF100150. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:46:25,240 –> 00:46:29,200
\nOr could even be more at home.
\nAnd you know, next week you hear<\/p>\n
763
\n00:46:29,200 –> 00:46:32,120
\nthe same announcement.
\nIs there anybody’s able just to <\/p>\n
764
\n00:46:32,120 –> 00:46:34,440
\nprovide a room or a bed for for
\nsomebody. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:46:34,440 –> 00:46:36,720
\nAnd you think you, you know the
\ncouple, you know their <\/p>\n
766
\n00:46:36,720 –> 00:46:40,160
\ncircumstances, they’re up there
\nin the country and, and the <\/p>\n
767
\n00:46:40,160 –> 00:46:43,560
\nchild’s getting to teenage years
\nand desperately needs help. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:46:44,600 –> 00:46:45,280
\nBut oh.
\nNo. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:46:46,080 –> 00:46:47,360
\nWell, all their homes are
\nbigger. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:46:48,520 –> 00:46:50,840
\nWe’ve all got more.
\nBedrooms than we ever had <\/p>\n
771
\n00:46:50,840 –> 00:46:53,920
\nbefore.
\nWe can’t, we, we can’t do it. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:46:54,360 –> 00:46:57,120
\nThis is Jimmy’s bedroom and this
\nis Judy’s bedroom and this is <\/p>\n
773
\n00:46:57,120 –> 00:46:58,520
\nsomeone else’s bedroom.
\nWe’re going to have their <\/p>\n
774
\n00:46:58,520 –> 00:47:00,640
\nbedrooms, the right colours, the
\nright everything they want. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:47:00,920 –> 00:47:02,960
\nYou couldn’t invade that and
\nhave somebody else in there or <\/p>\n
776
\n00:47:02,960 –> 00:47:07,040
\nno.
\nAnd so the call goes beckoning, <\/p>\n
777
\n00:47:07,280 –> 00:47:09,520
\ntill later on you hear that
\nthey’ve got bored with somebody <\/p>\n
778
\n00:47:09,520 –> 00:47:14,320
\nout in the world.
\nIt’s not good enough, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
779
\n00:47:16,720 –> 00:47:20,960
\nWe need to be able to sucker
\nthose like Phineas who need help<\/p>\n
780
\n00:47:20,960 –> 00:47:24,760
\nand care.
\nSo in the character of Phineas <\/p>\n
781
\n00:47:24,760 –> 00:47:28,600
\nwere the right qualities to be
\ngrafted into the children of the<\/p>\n
782
\n00:47:28,600 –> 00:47:32,640
\nQorites, so that they might both
\nrespect God’s house and be <\/p>\n
783
\n00:47:32,640 –> 00:47:40,040
\nwarmly, warmly minded towards
\nthose who were in need. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:47:41,240 –> 00:47:44,160
\nThere might be a henna that
\ncomes along and cries her eyes <\/p>\n
785
\n00:47:44,160 –> 00:47:45,640
\nout and somebody’s got to
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:47:45,640 –> 00:47:49,320
\nThat and that would be the
\ndoorkeeper’s charge. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:47:49,760 –> 00:47:53,320
\nNot like Levi to say get on your
\nway, but to realize there was <\/p>\n
788
\n00:47:53,360 –> 00:47:56,520
\nneed for compassion and
\nunderstanding, a balanced <\/p>\n
789
\n00:47:56,520 –> 00:48:00,160
\napproach to God’s house and a
\nbeautiful story, very beautiful <\/p>\n
790
\n00:48:00,160 –> 00:48:02,720
\nstory.
\nThat’s why the Korra heights <\/p>\n
791
\n00:48:02,720 –> 00:48:08,640
\nwere chosen and down the line
\nbecause we’ve actually gone <\/p>\n
792
\n00:48:08,640 –> 00:48:11,400
\nthrough this line before.
\nDo you remember who was in that <\/p>\n
793
\n00:48:11,400 –> 00:48:13,400
\nline?
\nSamuel. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:48:14,680 –> 00:48:17,640
\nAnd what was the first thing
\never recorded about what Samuel <\/p>\n
795
\n00:48:17,640 –> 00:48:22,640
\ndid in the House of God?
\nSorry. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:48:23,120 –> 00:48:26,000
\nHe opened the doors.
\nShall I repeat it? <\/p>\n
797
\n00:48:26,640 –> 00:48:31,400
\nHe opened the doors and he’s a
\nlittle top when he did that. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:48:31,960 –> 00:48:35,240
\nFirst of Samuel chapter 3, and I
\nthink it’s verse 19, <\/p>\n
799
\n00:48:53,490 –> 00:48:55,890
\nverse 15.
\nThank you. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:48:58,240 –> 00:49:01,600
\nAnd this is when God was calling
\nhim. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:49:02,880 –> 00:49:07,760
\nAnd it says in verse 15 that
\nSamuel lay until the morning and<\/p>\n
802
\n00:49:07,760 –> 00:49:09,840
\nopen the doors of the House of
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:49:09,840 –> 00:49:14,960
\nIsn’t that lovely?
\nThat’s just exploding with <\/p>\n
804
\n00:49:14,960 –> 00:49:17,120
\nhistory when you really start to
\nthink about it, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
805
\n00:49:17,800 –> 00:49:20,560
\nNow you can see why Elkanah was
\nthe type of man who was, why he <\/p>\n
806
\n00:49:20,560 –> 00:49:25,400
\nchose a woman like like Hannah.
\nAnd why he had a grandson like <\/p>\n
807
\n00:49:25,560 –> 00:49:30,000
\nhe man, He man who was a prophet
\nin the things of God. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:49:30,080 –> 00:49:33,680
\nSamuel was his grandfather.
\nSamuel was responsible for the <\/p>\n
809
\n00:49:33,680 –> 00:49:35,120
\nschool of the prophets.
\nWasn’t he? <\/p>\n
810
\n00:49:35,120 –> 00:49:38,440
\nIt was in his era that the
\nprophets began to multiply. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:49:38,560 –> 00:49:40,240
\nDo you think he left his
\ngrandchildren out of that? <\/p>\n
812
\n00:49:42,560 –> 00:49:44,200
\nWell, let all the other children
\ncome in and. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:49:44,520 –> 00:49:45,960
\nAnd his own.
\nGrandchildren out there booting <\/p>\n
814
\n00:49:45,960 –> 00:49:47,320
\na football around.
\nNo way. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:49:48,080 –> 00:49:52,320
\nHe man came into grandpa’s study
\nclass and he learnt grandpa’s <\/p>\n
816
\n00:49:52,320 –> 00:49:55,880
\nmind and then he had fourteen
\nsons and he put that mind <\/p>\n
817
\n00:49:55,880 –> 00:49:59,640
\nthrough the whole lot of them,
\n14 boys, and they had Samuel’s <\/p>\n
818
\n00:49:59,640 –> 00:50:00,920
\nmind right through the whole lot
\nof them. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:50:02,120 –> 00:50:03,920
\nInspiration things really,
\naren’t they? <\/p>\n
820
\n00:50:04,680 –> 00:50:07,240
\nNow you can see why when Samuel
\nand David got together and said,<\/p>\n
821
\n00:50:07,400 –> 00:50:11,520
\nwhat family shall we choose to
\nbe the doorkeepers? <\/p>\n
822
\n00:50:13,000 –> 00:50:16,960
\nThey chose that family because
\nthose principles are ingrained <\/p>\n
823
\n00:50:16,960 –> 00:50:18,560
\ninto the hearts of those
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:50:20,080 –> 00:50:22,840
\nIsn’t the Bible a very wonderful
\nthing, my dear and sisters? <\/p>\n
825
\n00:50:23,160 –> 00:50:25,760
\nAren’t you glad?
\nYou know that God has opened our<\/p>\n
826
\n00:50:25,760 –> 00:50:28,000
\nhearts to to, to love the word
\nof God. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:50:28,280 –> 00:50:29,480
\nIt’s a beautiful thing, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
828
\n00:50:29,480 –> 00:50:32,920
\nThey’re precious things.
\nYou’ll be able to see that, see <\/p>\n
829
\n00:50:32,920 –> 00:50:36,920
\nwhy David thus came along and
\nand reorganized it, preserving <\/p>\n
830
\n00:50:36,920 –> 00:50:41,320
\nthat principle because he did in
\nfirst the Chronicles chapter 26.<\/p>\n
831
\n00:50:48,360 –> 00:50:50,560
\nHe brought the Korah Heights
\ninto this. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:50:58,280 –> 00:51:03,440
\nConcerning the divisions of the.
\nPortis of the Korah Heights was <\/p>\n
833
\n00:51:03,440 –> 00:51:07,760
\nMeshalamaya, the son of Kor of
\nthe sons of Asaph, or Abbey <\/p>\n
834
\n00:51:07,800 –> 00:51:09,840
\nAsaph.
\nAnd if you go back to the <\/p>\n
835
\n00:51:09,840 –> 00:51:13,880
\nmarginal reference, it will take
\nyou to chapter 6 verse 23 and 37<\/p>\n
836
\n00:51:14,320 –> 00:51:17,640
\nand Chapter 9 verse 19.
\nAnd if you just have an eye for <\/p>\n
837
\n00:51:17,640 –> 00:51:19,800
\nit, you’ll remember.
\nThat that’s right in the middle <\/p>\n
838
\n00:51:20,200 –> 00:51:22,800
\nof all of the story of the Korra
\nheights. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:51:23,640 –> 00:51:27,800
\nWhat a wonderful thing.
\nAnd that’s principally where <\/p>\n
840
\n00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:32,280
\nthey came from.
\nThey came from Kohath. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:51:33,160 –> 00:51:36,880
\nAnd whereas the other officers
\nwere pretty equally distributed <\/p>\n
842
\n00:51:36,880 –> 00:51:41,720
\namong Gershon, Kohath and
\nMarari, the doorkeepers weren’t.<\/p>\n
843
\n00:51:42,480 –> 00:51:48,960
\nThey were principally in Kohath,
\nthat is, in Korra, Kohath, and <\/p>\n
844
\n00:51:48,960 –> 00:51:53,800
\nthen.
\nIs Ha and then Kora and then the<\/p>\n
845
\n00:51:53,800 –> 00:52:00,440
\nsons of Kora, and it’s in that
\ngroup almost 75% of them. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:52:00,840 –> 00:52:05,120
\nCame from that group.
\nAs a matter of fact, it says in <\/p>\n
847
\n00:52:05,120 –> 00:52:10,320
\nverse 8, all these of the sons
\nof Obed Edom, they, their sons <\/p>\n
848
\n00:52:10,320 –> 00:52:14,880
\nand their brethren, able men for
\nstrength of the service were 62 <\/p>\n
849
\n00:52:14,920 –> 00:52:20,240
\nof Obed Edom.
\nThat’s by far the majority of <\/p>\n
850
\n00:52:20,240 –> 00:52:23,920
\nthose who were chosen and
\nMichelamaya had sons and <\/p>\n
851
\n00:52:23,920 –> 00:52:27,680
\nbrethren, strong men. 1862 + 18,
\nthat’s 80. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:52:28,520 –> 00:52:31,480
\nThe only others that are
\nmentioned are the 13 in verse <\/p>\n
853
\n00:52:31,480 –> 00:52:37,280
\n11, and they came from Hosar of
\nthe children of Murari verse 10.<\/p>\n
854
\n00:52:37,920 –> 00:52:42,280
\nSo there was a representation.
\nFrom the division of Murari, but<\/p>\n
855
\n00:52:42,280 –> 00:52:45,240
\nthere’s nothing mentioned of
\nGershon at all. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:52:46,200 –> 00:52:49,680
\nThey were principally of that
\nfamily that otherwise might have<\/p>\n
857
\n00:52:49,680 –> 00:52:55,040
\nbeen removed in Israel.
\nAnd if you go through, it’s not <\/p>\n
858
\n00:52:55,040 –> 00:52:56,440
\nan easy chapter to.
\nFollow and I’m not. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:52:56,440 –> 00:52:58,280
\nGoing to go through all the
\ndetails of it. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:52:58,920 –> 00:53:04,040
\nBut you see verse 13 again, they
\nhad they had their their lots <\/p>\n
861
\n00:53:04,040 –> 00:53:06,400
\nand their divisions or their
\ncourses in which they were <\/p>\n
862
\n00:53:06,400 –> 00:53:08,760
\ninvolved.
\nThey cast lots as well, the <\/p>\n
863
\n00:53:08,760 –> 00:53:12,040
\nsmallest, the great, according
\nto the House of their fathers, <\/p>\n
864
\n00:53:12,040 –> 00:53:14,480
\nfor every gate.
\nAnd the lot eastward. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:53:14,480 –> 00:53:17,720
\nFellow Shalamaya.
\nThen for Zechariah, his son, a <\/p>\n
866
\n00:53:17,720 –> 00:53:21,080
\nwise council, they cast lots,
\nand his lot came out northward, <\/p>\n
867
\n00:53:21,440 –> 00:53:24,920
\ndrove it eat him southward.
\nAnd so the various gates to <\/p>\n
868
\n00:53:24,920 –> 00:53:29,160
\nwhich they were apportioned.
\nBut it begins to tell us about <\/p>\n
869
\n00:53:29,160 –> 00:53:32,120
\nthe numbers of them in verse 17.
\nLet’s count the numbers up. <\/p>\n
870
\n00:53:32,880 –> 00:53:38,840
\nVerse 17 eastward was 6 Levites
\nnorthward for a day, southward <\/p>\n
871
\n00:53:38,880 –> 00:53:47,920
\nfor a day toward a super 2 and 2
\nat far power, westward four and <\/p>\n
872
\n00:53:47,920 –> 00:53:50,920
\ntwo at power bar.
\nAdd those up and what do you <\/p>\n
873
\n00:53:50,920 –> 00:53:55,360
\nthink you’ll get?
\n24 so the pattern stays in <\/p>\n
874
\n00:53:55,360 –> 00:53:58,360
\nplace.
\nVery beautiful things and says <\/p>\n
875
\n00:53:58,360 –> 00:54:01,080
\ntherefore, in verse 19, these
\nare the divisions of the porters<\/p>\n
876
\n00:54:01,320 –> 00:54:04,680
\namong the.
\nSons of Korra in the division of<\/p>\n
877
\n00:54:04,680 –> 00:54:07,920
\nKoha, and among the sons of
\nMurali. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:54:09,160 –> 00:54:12,800
\nNow just let’s finalize that
\nwith a quick look at a lovely <\/p>\n
879
\n00:54:12,800 –> 00:54:19,440
\nlittle Psalm that the sons of
\nKora wrote, Psalm 84. <\/p>\n
880
\n00:54:21,560 –> 00:54:23,160
\nThis is why they were chosen, my
\ndear. <\/p>\n
881
\n00:54:23,160 –> 00:54:29,760
\nAnd sisters, a Psalm, it says
\nfor the sons of Kora, Psalm of <\/p>\n
882
\n00:54:29,760 –> 00:54:34,040
\nthe sons of Kora.
\nIt clearly was a Psalm written <\/p>\n
883
\n00:54:34,040 –> 00:54:37,240
\nby that family.
\nWhat a beautiful family they <\/p>\n
884
\n00:54:37,240 –> 00:54:40,600
\nmust have been and shows, you
\nknow, don’t ever give up with <\/p>\n
885
\n00:54:40,600 –> 00:54:42,320
\npeople in the truth.
\nDon’t ever give up. <\/p>\n
886
\n00:54:43,160 –> 00:54:45,920
\nIt’s been some amazing things
\nhappen when people don’t give <\/p>\n
887
\n00:54:45,920 –> 00:54:49,560
\nup.
\nWhen you hear the story of the <\/p>\n
888
\n00:54:49,560 –> 00:54:53,120
\nman who was here today, you
\nwill, you will really feel that <\/p>\n
889
\n00:54:53,120 –> 00:54:54,200
\ntoo.
\nNever give up eh? <\/p>\n
890
\n00:54:55,440 –> 00:54:57,560
\nYou never know.
\nGod can redeem from the <\/p>\n
891
\n00:54:57,560 –> 00:55:02,240
\nuttermost.
\nHow amiable are thy tabernacles,<\/p>\n
892
\n00:55:03,080 –> 00:55:08,800
\nO Yahweh of hosts, the great God
\nthat works with great power and <\/p>\n
893
\n00:55:08,800 –> 00:55:12,760
\ncan in a great host.
\nCan bring about. <\/p>\n
894
\n00:55:12,760 –> 00:55:15,160
\nGreat things with great
\nstrength. <\/p>\n
895
\n00:55:15,880 –> 00:55:20,080
\nBut how amiable are thy
\ntabernacles, thy dwelling <\/p>\n
896
\n00:55:20,080 –> 00:55:26,480
\nplaces, this great God?
\nMy soul longeth, ye even fainted<\/p>\n
897
\n00:55:27,760 –> 00:55:33,480
\nfor the courts of Yahweh.
\nMy heart and my flesh crieth out<\/p>\n
898
\n00:55:33,480 –> 00:55:37,520
\nfor the living God.
\nThis is a most exceptional man, <\/p>\n
899
\n00:55:37,520 –> 00:55:39,760
\nisn’t it?
\nOr exceptional man. <\/p>\n
900
\n00:55:39,760 –> 00:55:45,040
\nThey love the House of God.
\nThey have set their affections <\/p>\n
901
\n00:55:45,920 –> 00:55:50,720
\nupon it like they.
\nYeah, the Sparrow hath found a <\/p>\n
902
\n00:55:50,720 –> 00:55:54,320
\nhouse, and the swallower nest
\nwith herself. <\/p>\n
903
\n00:55:55,760 –> 00:56:00,280
\nAbout the ramparts of the
\nTabernacle or the temple where <\/p>\n
904
\n00:56:00,280 –> 00:56:03,400
\nshe may lie, her young, even
\nthine altars, though Yahweh face<\/p>\n
905
\n00:56:03,400 –> 00:56:06,600
\nnot literally or altars, but by
\nthe altars, by the parapets of <\/p>\n
906
\n00:56:06,600 –> 00:56:12,440
\nthe temple, even the little.
\nBirds could find a nest. <\/p>\n
907
\n00:56:13,800 –> 00:56:16,480
\nBlessed are they that dwell in
\nthy house. <\/p>\n
908
\n00:56:17,280 –> 00:56:19,760
\nThey will be still praising
\nthee. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:56:21,040 –> 00:56:23,000
\nWell, the psalmist obviously
\nwasn’t there. <\/p>\n
910
\n00:56:23,920 –> 00:56:26,400
\nHe was a son of Cora, but there
\nwas courses. <\/p>\n
911
\n00:56:27,040 –> 00:56:30,320
\nSo sometimes they were away on
\ntheir own properties. <\/p>\n
912
\n00:56:30,320 –> 00:56:33,120
\nAnd when it became their
\nopportunity to come Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
913
\n00:56:33,160 –> 00:56:35,760
\nthey came and lived in the
\nprecincts of the Temple. <\/p>\n
914
\n00:56:36,800 –> 00:56:39,320
\nAnd so they had their seasons on
\nand their seasons off. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:56:40,640 –> 00:56:44,640
\nAnd this psalmist, this son of
\nKorra, he’s been away from the <\/p>\n
916
\n00:56:44,640 –> 00:56:47,120
\ntemple, but he doesn’t want to
\nbe away from the temple. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:56:47,120 –> 00:56:49,000
\nWhat he loves most of all is the
\nmeeting. <\/p>\n
918
\n00:56:49,680 –> 00:56:52,480
\nThat’s what he loves.
\nNever finds it a trouble to come<\/p>\n
919
\n00:56:52,480 –> 00:56:54,600
\nto the meetings.
\nAnd because something else is on<\/p>\n
920
\n00:56:54,600 –> 00:56:57,800
\nand it’s in his way, he wants to
\ncome to meetings most of all. <\/p>\n
921
\n00:56:57,800 –> 00:57:00,520
\nThat’s his life.
\nBlessed are they that dwell in <\/p>\n
922
\n00:57:00,520 –> 00:57:02,720
\nthe house.
\nThey will be still praising <\/p>\n
923
\n00:57:02,720 –> 00:57:06,400
\nthee.
\nWell, it’s my turn in certain <\/p>\n
924
\n00:57:06,400 –> 00:57:10,960
\ntimes.
\nIf I can’t go there physically, <\/p>\n
925
\n00:57:12,080 –> 00:57:17,280
\nthen I will spiritually.
\nBlessed is the man whose <\/p>\n
926
\n00:57:17,280 –> 00:57:25,520
\nstrength is in thee, in whose
\nheart are the highways to Zion, <\/p>\n
927
\n00:57:26,400 –> 00:57:30,600
\nas the revised version rightly
\nputs it, in his heart. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:57:30,600 –> 00:57:34,080
\nSee, he can’t go there
\nphysically because it’s not his <\/p>\n
929
\n00:57:34,080 –> 00:57:37,720
\nturn.
\nBut he’s there spiritually. <\/p>\n
930
\n00:57:38,840 –> 00:57:41,720
\nHis mind is travelling down the
\nroad that leads to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
931
\n00:57:42,320 –> 00:57:44,880
\nIt might be just a little path,
\nbut for him it’s like a highway <\/p>\n
932
\n00:57:46,320 –> 00:57:48,640
\nthat leads him to the place that
\nhe wants to be. <\/p>\n
933
\n00:57:50,720 –> 00:57:56,000
\nWho passing through the Valley
\nof Weeping make it a well? <\/p>\n
934
\n00:57:56,600 –> 00:58:00,600
\nThe rain also fill up the pools.
\nWe all go through the Valley of <\/p>\n
935
\n00:58:00,600 –> 00:58:03,800
\nWeeping, don’t we?
\nFrom time to time when things <\/p>\n
936
\n00:58:03,800 –> 00:58:08,200
\ncome upon us and they seem so
\nhard, it’s almost impossible. <\/p>\n
937
\n00:58:09,160 –> 00:58:11,960
\nAnd we’ve traversed the valley
\nof weeping, the valley of <\/p>\n
938
\n00:58:11,960 –> 00:58:16,560
\nbackup, and the psalmist is
\nsaying that if in that <\/p>\n
939
\n00:58:16,560 –> 00:58:21,160
\ncircumstance I have Zion in
\nmind, I can turn that misfortune<\/p>\n
940
\n00:58:21,560 –> 00:58:25,040
\ninto pools of water, into
\nprosperity. <\/p>\n
941
\n00:58:25,480 –> 00:58:28,520
\nAnd pleasantness, if God is in
\nmy heart. <\/p>\n
942
\n00:58:29,520 –> 00:58:31,320
\nThey go from strength to
\nstrength. <\/p>\n
943
\n00:58:31,320 –> 00:58:33,720
\nEvery one of them in Zion
\nappeareth before God. <\/p>\n
944
\n00:58:34,600 –> 00:58:36,280
\nAnd yet they’re back on their
\nproperties and all their <\/p>\n
945
\n00:58:36,280 –> 00:58:39,920
\nindividual lives and all our
\nhomes in all the circumstances <\/p>\n
946
\n00:58:39,920 –> 00:58:44,680
\nthat we have.
\nThey can go from strength to <\/p>\n
947
\n00:58:44,680 –> 00:58:50,040
\nstrength.
\nO Yahweh, God of hosts, hear my <\/p>\n
948
\n00:58:50,040 –> 00:58:52,720
\nprayer.
\nGive ear. <\/p>\n
949
\n00:58:52,720 –> 00:58:55,960
\nO God of Jacob, what a beautiful
\nexpression. <\/p>\n
950
\n00:58:57,720 –> 00:59:00,240
\nWho knew more the ups and downs
\nof life than Jacob? <\/p>\n
951
\n00:59:01,600 –> 00:59:05,320
\nBehold, O God, our shield, and
\nlook upon the face of thine <\/p>\n
952
\n00:59:05,320 –> 00:59:09,720
\nanointed.
\nHere’s the history of this man <\/p>\n
953
\n00:59:11,040 –> 00:59:14,960
\nwho was saved when others joined
\nthe tents of wickedness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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