Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 368.<\/p>\n
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\nthis fifth study on the overall
\ntheme of the the breaking of <\/p>\n
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\nbread.
\nAnd today’s dealing is with the <\/p>\n
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\njealous God.
\nBrother Johnny. <\/p>\n
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\nThanks, brother John.
\nGood morning, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters.
\nI can’t believe it’s our fifth <\/p>\n
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\nand final session already.
\nYou’ve been a very patient and <\/p>\n
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\nkind audience.
\nThank you for that. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’ve had a lovely time.
\nAnd as I said at the beginning <\/p>\n
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\nof the week, these, these
\nthoughts that I’ve been sharing <\/p>\n
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\nwith you, I’m, I totally confess
\nwere, were thoughts that were a <\/p>\n
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\njourney of my, my, my own
\npersonal pursuance. <\/p>\n
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\nReally.
\nThey were things that I did for <\/p>\n
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\nmy sake so that when I sat down
\non a Sunday, I had something <\/p>\n
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\nthat I could think about and I
\ncould concentrate on. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I, I think I kind of added
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\nthe week that said, listen, if
\nyou don’t get anything out of <\/p>\n
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\nthat, then I’m just here telling
\nyou what I did and how I felt. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I just hope, brothers and
\nsisters, that in the journey, <\/p>\n
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\nsome, some of the things that
\nI’ve found helpful personally to<\/p>\n
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\nme may have been helpful to you
\nas well. <\/p>\n
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\nSo our our final session, the
\nLord whose name is jealous is a <\/p>\n
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\njealous God.
\nAnd I suppose that this is just <\/p>\n
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\nreally to finish off some of the
\nthings that we thought about <\/p>\n
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\nyesterday.
\nBut we’ve been on a remarkable <\/p>\n
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\njourney, haven’t we really?
\nWe’ve gone through so many <\/p>\n
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\nthings.
\nWe’re we will have sat here for <\/p>\n
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\nnearly five hours by the time I
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\nAnd yet when we meet together on
\na Sunday or, or in whatever <\/p>\n
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\ncircumstances it is that you
\nmeet brothers, sisters, to break<\/p>\n
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\nbread in whatever occasion it
\nmight be, I guess you don’t get <\/p>\n
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\n5 hours normally to sit down and
\nthink about all these things. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s amazing, isn’t it Ren
\nsisters, how much we can contain<\/p>\n
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\nin our minds and how much we can
\nactually bring to bear when we <\/p>\n
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\nthink about it, on the
\nsimplicity of what we do <\/p>\n
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\ntogether.
\nI’ll never forget 11 occasion <\/p>\n
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\nwhen I was doing mission work in
\nthe Ukraine. <\/p>\n
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\nI was only a young guy.
\nI was probably 1819 and we went <\/p>\n
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\nto visit this brother in in
\nisolation miles and miles away. <\/p>\n
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\nIt took us about 24 hours I
\nthink on the train to get there,<\/p>\n
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\nwhich by British standards, by
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\nunderstand maybe not so for you
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\nAnd we arrived in isolation and
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\nspend with this brother and
\nsister who maybe got to break <\/p>\n
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\nbread with other people, I don’t
\nknow, 2-3 times a year. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as we neared the end of our
\ntime together, the brother <\/p>\n
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\nturned to me and said his
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\nHe said, you know, what time is
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\nWhat, what time are you catching
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\nHow long have we got left?
\nAnd all that we had to do left <\/p>\n
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\nwas just to break bread
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\nAnd I looked at my watch and I
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\nfour hours.
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\nAnd he said, well, can you make
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\nfour hours?
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\nwe’re kept pretty tight on a
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\nAnd I’d never been asked to give
\na four hour exitation before. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I felt a little chill run
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\nBut I thought what a lovely
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\nsisters that for that brother,
\nevery moment he had left, he <\/p>\n
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\nwanted to be spending in
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\nin together of our Lord Jesus
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\nThat’s a lovely thing, isn’t it?
\nAnd when you think about the <\/p>\n
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\namount of time and we, I, for
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\nscratched the surface of some of
\nthe issues that we’ve been <\/p>\n
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\ntalking about and how much God
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\ndwell on as we come to remember.
\nAnd be grateful for the work of <\/p>\n
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\nour Lord Jesus Christ.
\nWell, we’ve seen the joy set <\/p>\n
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\nbefore him.
\nWe’ve seen the power of the word<\/p>\n
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\nmade flesh in the bread.
\nWe’ve seen the the new wine <\/p>\n
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\nSpeaking of new things, better
\nthings change things. <\/p>\n
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\nOur our thinking and our living
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\nThis week with a real feeling of
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\nwith him and and that as we come
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\nLord Jesus Christ, the price he
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\nof him.
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\nGod describes himself as a
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\nNumbers 5 and the law that John
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\nComing me to Joshua 24, this
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\nAnd yet there’s no question that
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\nchooses for himself.
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\njealous for us.
\nJoshua 24. <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration who’ve now entered
\nthe promised land, they have the<\/p>\n
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\nopportunity to create the
\nKingdom of God here on earth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Joshua brings them all
\ntogether and tries to stir them <\/p>\n
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\nup and, and motivate them and,
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\ndoesn’t he?
\nVerse 15 of Joshua 24 If it <\/p>\n
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\nseemed evil unto you to serve
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\nyou’re going to serve, whether
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\nserved on the other side of the
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\nAmorites in whose land you
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\nBut As for me and my house, we
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\nAnd you get this lovely refrain
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\necho of what we were thinking
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\nVerse 16 All the people answered
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\nforsake the Lord to serve other
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\nThe Lord our God, He it is that
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\nfrom the land of Egypt and the
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\ngreat signs in our sight.
\nVerse 18 The Lord drave out from<\/p>\n
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\nbefore us all the people, the
\nAmorites, who dwelt in the land.<\/p>\n
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\nTherefore, we also will serve
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\nAnd listen now to the challenge
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\nVerse 19 Joshua said to the
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\nLord.
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\nHe’s a jealous God.
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\nLovely in a way, isn’t it?
\nJoshua is saying. <\/p>\n
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\nGod is so jealous to have your
\nundivided attention. <\/p>\n
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\nthat you make to Him and how
\ndetermined you. <\/p>\n
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\nAre to see it through.
\nGod is a jealous God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wants your affection, he
\nwants your attention. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when we turn aside and says
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\nand we dedicate our lives and
\nour time and our energy and our <\/p>\n
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\nemotion to other things that are
\non the fringes of, of the, of <\/p>\n
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\nour purpose of becoming like
\nGod, God gets jealous about it. <\/p>\n
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\nHe doesn’t cast.
\nUs off and go oh forget that. <\/p>\n
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\nForget Johnny.
\nThen he’s off. <\/p>\n
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\nGod gets jealous about the fact
\nthat my time and my affection is<\/p>\n
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\nbeing dedicated to other things.
\nI think Joshua. <\/p>\n
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\nWas actually quoting from Exodus
\n20. <\/p>\n
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\nJust a quick flick back there,
\nright back to the beginning of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael’s experience with God
\nagain where we were yesterday as<\/p>\n
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\nas Moses receives the 10
\ncommandments from God here on <\/p>\n
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\nMount Sinai.
\nAnd just look at the very words <\/p>\n
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\nwhich God introduces the 10
\ncommandments to the children of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nExodus 20 verse 4 commandment #2<\/p>\n
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\nYou will not make any graven
\nimage or any likeness of <\/p>\n
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\nanything that is in heaven
\nabove, or that is in earth <\/p>\n
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\nbeneath, or that is in the water
\nunder the earth. <\/p>\n
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\nYou will not bow down yourself
\nto them or serve them. <\/p>\n
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\nFor I, the Lord your God, I’m a
\njealous God, visiting the <\/p>\n
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\niniquity of the fathers on the
\nchildren, to the third and 4th <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration of them that hate me,
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\nthousands.
\nOf them that love me and keep my<\/p>\n
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\ncommandments.
\nDo you see how tight Bren and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters God wants this
\nrelationship with us to be. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says you will not make verse
\nfor any graven image or any <\/p>\n
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\nlikeness and he purposely lifts
\nthose words right out of Genesis<\/p>\n
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\n1, doesn’t he?
\nVerse 26 when God made us in the<\/p>\n
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\nbeginning, he made us in his
\nimage and after his likeness. <\/p>\n
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\nWe walk around Bren sisters
\nevery single. <\/p>\n
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\nDay of our Lives.
\nBearing the image and likeness <\/p>\n
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\nlikeness of God.
\nAnd when we decide that in our <\/p>\n
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\nlives we’re not going to display
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\nGod gets jealous for it.
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\nHe wants to see me developing
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\nleaving it dormant.
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\nbody and this incredible mind to
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\nlikeness like I was made in the
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\nAnd so often, Bren sisters, we
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\ndoing nothing but exercising the
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\nAnd when that happens, Bren
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\nIt’s, it’s incredible actually,
\nwhen you think about some of the<\/p>\n
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\nRemembering in Hosier, he said.
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\nAt the thought of casting off
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\nchurning up inside that you and <\/p>\n
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\nI can associate with so that we
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\nWhen you, when you know those
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\nchallenge those emotions because<\/p>\n
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\nBrethren, this is about us, I
\nguess. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we think about feeling
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\nsomething that you can’t have or
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\nI come home from work if if
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\nElisa’s playing with grandma
\nbecause I walk in the room and <\/p>\n
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\ngrandma’s such an exciting
\nperson. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, when Daddy walks in
\nthe room, he’s really just an <\/p>\n
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\nirrelevant being, right?
\nBecause grandma’s very exciting.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s grandma does all sorts of
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\nthat we wish Elias felt towards
\nDaddy like he does towards <\/p>\n
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\nthing, but when you think about
\nit, run sister if. <\/p>\n
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\nIf somebody was feeling jealous <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s not passive about our
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\nHe wants to have our attention.
\nHe wants to have our affection. <\/p>\n
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\nHe desires to have our our time
\nand our energy and our thoughts <\/p>\n
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\nand our feelings and our lives
\nand our attitudes and our <\/p>\n
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\nfeels jealous when he’s not.
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\nAbsolutely extraordinary.
\nWelcoming me to Numbers 5 and <\/p>\n
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\nthis, this law that we were
\nreading about, the law of <\/p>\n
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\njealousy.
\nAnd let’s Sebring sisters, how <\/p>\n
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\nTestament as being directly <\/p>\n
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\nrelevant to how we need to feel
\nand how we need to understand <\/p>\n
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\nour relationship with God when
\nwe come to take the bread and <\/p>\n
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\ndrink from the cup of the Lord.
\nWe read it together and let’s <\/p>\n
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\nlet’s just run through some of
\nthe details to to get the <\/p>\n
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\npicture of what’s going on here
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\nNumbers chapter 5 then, and the
\nissue you will have noticed is <\/p>\n
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\nverse 14, when the spirit of
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\nAll right, so this is a law that
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\nwere not able to apply this law,
\nonly the men. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s obviously spiritual
\nsignificance in that. <\/p>\n
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\nGod is not chauvinistic.
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\nHis relationship with us.
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\nultimately in this parable
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\nchapter, and we are going to be
\nhis wife. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the principle, isn’t it?
\nAnd yet God, without overtly <\/p>\n
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\nsaying that, gives the law for
\nthe for the men in the in the <\/p>\n
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\ncamp of Israel to use over their
\nwives. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 14 If the spirit of
\njealousy comes upon him and the <\/p>\n
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\nman is jealous of his wife and
\nshe is defiled, or if the spirit<\/p>\n
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\nof jealousy comes upon him and
\nhe’s jealous of his wife and <\/p>\n
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\nshe’s not defiled, either way
\nthe husband can use this law. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s think of some scenarios
\nthen. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s let’s suggest, for
\nexample, that a husband has a <\/p>\n
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\nsuspicion that his wife has been
\nunfaithful. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is entitled to use this law
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\nman’s wife has been unfaithful <\/p>\n
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\nto be put an end to.
\nWell, the man can equally use <\/p>\n
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\nIf he’s absolutely convinced his<\/p>\n
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\nshe’s not been unfaithful, then <\/p>\n
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\nhe can employ this law and God
\nwill be the one who will make a <\/p>\n
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\ndeclaration of, of, of the fact
\nthat there is innocence on the <\/p>\n
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\nman.
\nThe priest might go through the <\/p>\n
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\nritual, but God will be the one
\nas she drinks the water, who <\/p>\n
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\nwill determine whether or not
\nshe’s guilty. <\/p>\n
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\nwife to the priest. <\/p>\n
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\nHe will bring her offering for
\nher the 10th part of an efer of <\/p>\n
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\nbarley meal.
\nHe’ll pour no oil upon it or <\/p>\n
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\nfrankincense on it.
\nIt’s an offering of jealousy, a <\/p>\n
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\nmeal offering of memorial
\ndesigned to bring iniquity to <\/p>\n
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\nremembrance.
\nAnd I want you to remember that <\/p>\n
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\nwhen we come to the New
\nTestament, the very purpose of <\/p>\n
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\nthis law is to bring iniquity to
\nremembrance on the part of the <\/p>\n
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\nwoman who is on trial.
\nThe objective is for her to <\/p>\n
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\nsearch her heart and mind and
\nfor God to be the judge of <\/p>\n
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\nwhether there is any iniquity in
\nher. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s about bringing iniquity
\nto remembrance. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what we’re going to
\ndiscover, Brent says, is when we<\/p>\n
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\ncome to drink the cup ourselves,
\nweek by week, it’s about <\/p>\n
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\nbringing iniquity to
\nremembrance. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 17, The priest will take
\nholy water in an earthen vessel <\/p>\n
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\nof the dust that is on the floor
\nof the Tabernacle. <\/p>\n
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\nThe priest will take it and put
\nit into the water. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s kind of a strange thing to
\ndo, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nIn a way.
\nHe takes some water, he picks up<\/p>\n
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\na handful of dust from the floor
\nand he puts it in the water. <\/p>\n
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\nNot very nice to drink, but
\nthat’s the process that that the<\/p>\n
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\npriest has got to go through.
\nAnd we need to just explore in a<\/p>\n
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\nmoment why, why that was the
\ncase. <\/p>\n
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\nexplained. <\/p>\n
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\nThe priest will charge her by an
\noath and say to the woman, if no<\/p>\n
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\nman has lain with you, and if
\nyou’ve not gone aside to <\/p>\n
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\nuncleanness with another instead
\nof your husband, then you’ll be <\/p>\n
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\nfree from this bitter water that
\ncauses the curse. <\/p>\n
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\nIsn’t that lovely?
\nThe very first statement that is<\/p>\n
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\nmade is.
\nIf you are. <\/p>\n
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\nInnocent, then blessings are
\ngoing to come from this. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you’re innocent, isn’t that
\nlovely? <\/p>\n
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\nHowever, if not verse 20, if you
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\nyou have been defiled and some <\/p>\n
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\nyour husband, then the priest <\/p>\n
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\nwill will charge the woman with
\nan oath of cursing. <\/p>\n
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\nwoman, the Lord make you a curse<\/p>\n
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\nWhen the Lord makes your thigh <\/p>\n
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\nrots and your belly swell, this
\nwater that causes the curse will<\/p>\n
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\ngo into your bowels.
\nIt will make your belly swell <\/p>\n
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\nand your thigh rot, and the
\nwoman will say Amen, Amen. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I don’t know quite exactly,
\nbrothers sisters, what the <\/p>\n
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\nphysical outcome of this curse
\nwould be or like it. <\/p>\n
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\nAll I think we need to know for
\nthe purpose of this morning is <\/p>\n
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\nthat it doesn’t sound too
\npleasant. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right.
\nIf the woman is found guilty, <\/p>\n
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\nshe would have normally wanted <\/p>\n
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\nto experience in normal everyday
\ncircumstances. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then the priest would do
\nsomething really interesting. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 23, The priest will write
\nthese curses in a book. <\/p>\n
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\nThat makes sense, doesn’t it?
\nIt’s a, it becomes a legal <\/p>\n
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\ndocument.
\nBoth the man and the wife are <\/p>\n
337
\n00:17:48,720 –> 00:17:52,680
\nagreeing to this process.
\nThis curse is being documented <\/p>\n
338
\n00:17:52,680 –> 00:17:55,240
\nand written for everybody to
\nunderstand that when she drinks <\/p>\n
339
\n00:17:55,240 –> 00:17:58,640
\nthis water, there’s going to be
\nconsequences, either a blessing <\/p>\n
340
\n00:17:58,640 –> 00:18:01,520
\nfor innocence or a curse for
\nguilt. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:02,480 –> 00:18:05,000
\nBut then the most bizarre thing
\nhappens. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:05,520 –> 00:18:09,280
\nAs quickly as the priest has
\nwritten it down in the book, he <\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:09,280 –> 00:18:11,600
\nblocks it out again.
\nVerse 23. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:11,800 –> 00:18:14,760
\nThe priest will write these
\ncurses in a book and then he <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:14,760 –> 00:18:16,640
\nwill block them out with a bit
\nof water. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:16,920 –> 00:18:19,560
\nIsn’t that fabulous?
\nIt almost seems like a waste <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:19,560 –> 00:18:21,200
\nwriting it down in the 1st.
\nPlace, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:21,200 –> 00:18:23,400
\nIf he’s suddenly going to
\nquickly blot it out again with <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:23,400 –> 00:18:27,320
\nthe water, why is he doing that?
\nWell, let’s let’s follow it <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:27,320 –> 00:18:31,680
\nthrough verse 26.
\nThe priest will take a handful <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:31,680 –> 00:18:33,840
\nof the meal, offering even the
\nmemorial and burn it on the <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:33,840 –> 00:18:36,040
\naltar.
\nAnd after he will make the woman<\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:36,200 –> 00:18:39,920
\ndrink the water.
\nSo after all this process has <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:39,920 –> 00:18:42,600
\nbeen through, it’s been written
\nand documented that the the <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:42,600 –> 00:18:45,440
\nwriting has been blotted out
\nalmost into the water. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:45,600 –> 00:18:48,720
\nIt’s as if the water the woman
\nis now going to drink contains <\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:48,720 –> 00:18:51,800
\nthe documented curse.
\nIt’s been blotted out, the ink <\/p>\n
358
\n00:18:51,800 –> 00:18:54,680
\nhas been blotted out into that
\nwater along with the dust from <\/p>\n
359
\n00:18:54,680 –> 00:18:56,160
\nthe floor.
\nAnd she’s now going to drink <\/p>\n
360
\n00:18:56,160 –> 00:19:00,560
\nthis, this concoction of dust
\nand cursing that’s been <\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:00,560 –> 00:19:03,720
\ndocumented in the book.
\nAnd we will see what will take <\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:03,720 –> 00:19:05,560
\nplace.
\nVerse 27, when he’s made her <\/p>\n
363
\n00:19:05,560 –> 00:19:07,680
\ndrink the water, it will come to
\npass. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:07,680 –> 00:19:11,080
\nIf she is defiled and has done
\ntrespass against her husband, <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:11,560 –> 00:19:14,680
\nthe water that causes the curse
\nwill enter her and become <\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:14,680 –> 00:19:17,360
\nbitter, and her belly will swell
\nand her thigh will rot, and the <\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:17,360 –> 00:19:20,080
\nwoman will be a curse among her
\npeople. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:21,760 –> 00:19:25,320
\nAnd if the woman is not defiled
\nbut clean, she will be free and <\/p>\n
369
\n00:19:25,320 –> 00:19:28,120
\nconceive seed.
\nSo you get the picture of what’s<\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:28,120 –> 00:19:30,720
\ngoing on.
\nThere is a question over the <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:30,720 –> 00:19:33,320
\nguilt or the innocence of a
\nwoman. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:34,480 –> 00:19:37,680
\nThis process has gone through
\nand the drinking of this cup is <\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:37,680 –> 00:19:40,800
\nnow going to determine what the
\noutcome of her life will be. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:40,800 –> 00:19:43,400
\nAnd I’m guessing from the
\ninference there at the end of <\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:43,400 –> 00:19:48,920
\nverse 28 that the the blessing
\nwould be to conceive seed. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:49,200 –> 00:19:52,440
\nAnd part of the curse would be
\nthe inability to conceive, seed <\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:52,440 –> 00:19:55,200
\nand go on and have a family and
\nhave children. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:19:57,480 –> 00:19:59,720
\nWell, brothers and sisters, now
\nthat we’ve looked at it, let’s <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:00,200 –> 00:20:03,880
\njust think about some scenarios
\nbecause this is where it gets <\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:03,880 –> 00:20:05,560
\ninteresting, isn’t it?
\nIt’s one thing reading it there <\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:05,560 –> 00:20:07,880
\non the page.
\nWhat about if you were the <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:07,880 –> 00:20:09,520
\nfamily involved in this
\nsituation? <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:09,520 –> 00:20:13,040
\nImagine, brethren, for a moment
\nthat you are, you are the <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:13,040 –> 00:20:16,880
\nhusband in this situation and
\nyou either suspect your wife’s <\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:18,040 –> 00:20:20,880
\nunfaithfulness or you are
\ndetermined to prove it. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:21,280 –> 00:20:23,920
\nLet me ask you a question.
\nWould you go through with this <\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:23,920 –> 00:20:27,960
\nprocedure?
\nLet let’s take either case. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:27,960 –> 00:20:30,960
\nLet’s say you did suspect there
\nwas unfaithfulness in your wife.<\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:31,440 –> 00:20:34,360
\nWould you bring her to the
\npriest and make her do this? <\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:35,440 –> 00:20:36,760
\nThat’s an interesting question,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:37,160 –> 00:20:40,720
\nEven if you were suspecting of
\nguilt, would you do this? <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:41,400 –> 00:20:44,200
\nI mean, the implications and the
\nconsequences for guilt being <\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:44,200 –> 00:20:48,480
\nfound were not mild.
\nThis woman will be an oath and a<\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:48,480 –> 00:20:50,480
\ncursing throughout the entire
\ncamp of Israel. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:50,480 –> 00:20:54,760
\nWould you go through with this?
\nLet’s say you believed your wife<\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:54,760 –> 00:20:57,880
\nwas innocent.
\nWould you go through with it? <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:58,840 –> 00:21:00,520
\nYou’d have to be pretty
\nconfident, wouldn’t you? <\/p>\n
398
\n00:21:01,000 –> 00:21:03,200
\nGod was going to be the judge,
\nnobody else. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:21:03,640 –> 00:21:06,800
\nYou remember how the Lord Jesus
\nsays in Matthew 5 even a man <\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:06,800 –> 00:21:11,120
\nlooking on a woman to lust after
\nher, in her, in his heart, has <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:11,120 –> 00:21:13,760
\ncommitted adultery with her?
\nAnd imagine if that were the <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:13,760 –> 00:21:16,680
\nprinciple being applied here
\nover faithfulness and <\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:16,680 –> 00:21:18,560
\nunfaithfulness.
\nWould you? <\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:18,680 –> 00:21:22,480
\nWould you have the confidence to
\nput your wife on trial and make <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:22,480 –> 00:21:25,200
\nher drink and God be the judge
\nof her innocence with the <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:25,200 –> 00:21:29,640
\npotential consequences?
\nSisters, imagine if you were the<\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:29,640 –> 00:21:33,040
\nwife in this situation and
\nbrethren, you do it too because <\/p>\n
408
\n00:21:33,240 –> 00:21:35,960
\nin the greater principle, God is
\ngoing to put us all on trial any<\/p>\n
409
\n00:21:35,960 –> 00:21:37,680
\nmoment now as we go through our
\nsession. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:38,720 –> 00:21:40,440
\nImagine you were the wife in
\nthis scenario. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:40,440 –> 00:21:43,560
\nHow would you feel?
\nLet’s say you knew you were <\/p>\n
412
\n00:21:43,560 –> 00:21:46,280
\nguilty deep down inside.
\nThis law is about bringing <\/p>\n
413
\n00:21:46,280 –> 00:21:48,520
\niniquity to remembrance.
\nAnd whether or not everybody <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:48,520 –> 00:21:51,520
\nelse knows or not, each one of
\nyou knows in your own heart <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:51,520 –> 00:21:54,000
\nwhether there is guilt or
\ninnocence in your own life. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:21:54,360 –> 00:21:56,200
\nHow would you feel as you
\napproach the priest? <\/p>\n
417
\n00:21:56,400 –> 00:21:59,640
\nAnd you took the cup of that
\nthat with that water of cursing.<\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:02,360 –> 00:22:05,960
\nImagine if you were innocent,
\nhow confident you would have to <\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:05,960 –> 00:22:11,840
\nfeel about whether or not you’d
\nbeen guilty, even in just the <\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:11,840 –> 00:22:14,280
\nsmallest part as you drank the
\nwater, knowing that God was <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:14,280 –> 00:22:16,840
\nbeing the judge.
\nHe was the one who was examining<\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:16,840 –> 00:22:20,320
\nthe contents of your mind and
\nyour feelings and your emotions <\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:20,320 –> 00:22:22,640
\nand all of your experiences of
\nlife. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:23,920 –> 00:22:26,080
\nAnd the question is, Brent says,
\ncan you think of an occasion <\/p>\n
425
\n00:22:26,080 –> 00:22:28,840
\nwhen this law was actually used
\nin the record of Scripture? <\/p>\n
426
\n00:22:29,760 –> 00:22:31,360
\nThat’s the, that’s the
\nfascinating thing, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:31,360 –> 00:22:36,200
\nAnd I in it’s literal sense
\nhere, I, I can’t find one, which<\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:36,200 –> 00:22:39,120
\nI suppose in a way is a lovely
\nthing, but there was 1 occasion <\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:39,120 –> 00:22:42,720
\nand it’s right where we were
\nyesterday back in Exodus 32. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:44,960 –> 00:22:46,760
\nAnd in fact, I want to suggest
\nyou brethren, it was this <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:46,760 –> 00:22:52,280
\noccasion that actually caused
\nGod to articulate this law and <\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:52,280 –> 00:22:56,720
\nhave it documented.
\nThe Apostle Paul in Galatian <\/p>\n
433
\n00:22:56,720 –> 00:23:00,520
\nsays that the law, the laws were
\nadded because of transgression. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:23:00,920 –> 00:23:03,160
\nAnd what I think he means is
\nthat as the children of Israel <\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:03,160 –> 00:23:06,000
\nwent through the wilderness for
\n40 years, every time there was a<\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:06,000 –> 00:23:09,760
\nproblem, God found a solution
\nand he documented the law that <\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:09,760 –> 00:23:11,840
\nhad been the answer to that
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:12,240 –> 00:23:15,080
\nSo, and this is going to be one
\nexample, this, this law was the <\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:15,120 –> 00:23:18,640
\nanswer to what happened in
\nExodus 32 at the Golden calf <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:18,800 –> 00:23:21,400
\nwhen the whole nation en masse
\nhad been unfaithful to God. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:23:21,400 –> 00:23:24,200
\nAll that the Lord has said we
\nwill do and be obedient. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:24,400 –> 00:23:26,920
\nAnd God put them on trial.
\nAnd he was the one who <\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:26,920 –> 00:23:30,200
\ndetermined who had been guilty
\nin that, in that rebellion and <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:30,200 –> 00:23:32,960
\nwho had been innocent.
\nThe red heifer was another one <\/p>\n
445
\n00:23:33,160 –> 00:23:35,960
\nyou might remember.
\nBecause of their unfaithfulness <\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:35,960 –> 00:23:38,560
\nand not being willing to cross
\nthe Jordan and go into the land,<\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:38,720 –> 00:23:40,520
\nGod said all their men would
\ndie. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:40,720 –> 00:23:43,360
\nAnd because they had such
\ncontact with death over the next<\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:43,360 –> 00:23:46,520
\n40 years, God had to bring in
\nlaws about cleanness and <\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:46,520 –> 00:23:49,040
\nuncleanness when it came into
\ncontact with dead bodies. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:49,240 –> 00:23:52,280
\nBecause a whole generation of
\nmen and women were going to die <\/p>\n
452
\n00:23:52,320 –> 00:23:54,840
\nout there in the wilderness and
\ndeath was going to become a <\/p>\n
453
\n00:23:54,840 –> 00:23:57,560
\ndaily occurrence for the next 40
\nyears that they were going to <\/p>\n
454
\n00:23:57,560 –> 00:24:00,240
\nhave to deal with.
\nSo God has to have to write laws<\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:00,240 –> 00:24:03,320
\nto deal with that situation.
\nThe law was added because of <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:03,320 –> 00:24:05,240
\ntransgression.
\nAnd I want to suggest to you, <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:05,240 –> 00:24:08,520
\nBrent sisters, that Numbers 5
\nwas written as a result of what <\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:08,520 –> 00:24:13,200
\nhappened in Exodus 32.
\nComing me to verse 19 of Exodus <\/p>\n
459
\n00:24:13,200 –> 00:24:14,800
\n32.
\nWe were here yesterday. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:16,280 –> 00:24:19,400
\nAs soon as Moses came near the
\ncamp and he saw the calf and the<\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:19,400 –> 00:24:22,960
\ndancing Moses, anger waxed hot,
\nand he cast the tablets out of <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:22,960 –> 00:24:26,560
\nhis hands and broke them beneath
\nthem out there and. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:27,040 –> 00:24:31,040
\nHe took the calf which they had
\nmade, He burnt it in the fire, <\/p>\n
464
\n00:24:31,280 –> 00:24:35,840
\nground it to powder, strawed it
\nupon the water, and he made the <\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:35,840 –> 00:24:39,320
\nchildren of Israel drink it.
\nAnd there you are right there. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:39,560 –> 00:24:42,080
\nThat was the prototype of this
\nlaw in Numbers five. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:42,280 –> 00:24:45,360
\nHe ground that calf to powder.
\nI don’t know how you do that <\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:45,360 –> 00:24:46,440
\nwith gold.
\nBy the way, I don’t know if <\/p>\n
469
\n00:24:46,440 –> 00:24:48,120
\nwe’ve got any metallurgists
\namongst us. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:24:48,480 –> 00:24:50,640
\nNot very easy to grind gold to
\npowder. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:24:52,360 –> 00:24:55,400
\nI’m certainly not sure how Moses
\nmade them drink it. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:24:56,400 –> 00:25:00,320
\nCan you imagine, Brent Sis, as
\nthe authority and the control <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:00,320 –> 00:25:03,920
\nthis man had over this
\ncongregation that he could, he <\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:03,920 –> 00:25:08,240
\ncould create this, this
\nsituation where this calf has <\/p>\n
475
\n00:25:08,240 –> 00:25:10,680
\nbeen ground to powder and he’s
\nmaking the men and women of <\/p>\n
476
\n00:25:10,680 –> 00:25:13,840
\nIsrael drink the water into
\nwhich it’s been ground. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:25:15,760 –> 00:25:18,160
\nAnd it seems to me, Brent Sis,
\nthis is the only time this Law <\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:18,200 –> 00:25:20,440
\nof Numbers 5 is used in
\nScripture. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:25:20,440 –> 00:25:24,720
\nCome down to verse 35 of of
\nExodus 32, the Lord. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:25:24,720 –> 00:25:27,880
\nPlagued the people.
\nBecause they made the calf, <\/p>\n
481
\n00:25:27,880 –> 00:25:31,760
\nwhich Aaron made.
\nNow I guess drinking water with <\/p>\n
482
\n00:25:31,760 –> 00:25:34,640
\ngold dust in it probably would
\nmake you I’ll again. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:25:34,640 –> 00:25:37,480
\nI, I don’t know, I I’d need to
\nask a doctor about that one. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:25:37,560 –> 00:25:40,160
\nI’m pretty sure drinking gold
\nisn’t that good for your system.<\/p>\n
485
\n00:25:41,000 –> 00:25:44,040
\nBut you can see the inference of
\nwhat God is saying, that as the <\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:44,040 –> 00:25:47,080
\npeople drank, the Lord plagued
\nthe people. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:47,680 –> 00:25:51,000
\nHe was the one who determined as
\na result of drinking that water,<\/p>\n
488
\n00:25:51,160 –> 00:25:54,480
\nwho had been innocent and who
\nhad been guilty in the rebellion<\/p>\n
489
\n00:25:54,480 –> 00:25:56,640
\nthere on the wilderness floor at
\nMount Sinai. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:25:57,600 –> 00:26:01,480
\nNow just keep a finger in Exodus
\nand turn over to Deuteronomy 940<\/p>\n
491
\n00:26:01,480 –> 00:26:03,760
\nyears later, as Moses reminds
\nthe men and women what had <\/p>\n
492
\n00:26:03,760 –> 00:26:07,080
\nhappened, he almost confirms
\nthat this was the situation. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:26:14,500 –> 00:26:21,760
\nDeuteronomy 9 verse 13 and just
\nlisten to these words and, and, <\/p>\n
494
\n00:26:21,760 –> 00:26:25,240
\nand pick up all the echoes from
\nthe passages we’ve looked at so <\/p>\n
495
\n00:26:25,240 –> 00:26:28,880
\nfar this morning.
\nDeuteronomy 913 The Lord spoke <\/p>\n
496
\n00:26:28,880 –> 00:26:31,440
\nto me saying, and This is why he
\nwas still on the mountain. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:26:31,880 –> 00:26:34,000
\nThe Lord spoke to me saying,
\nI’ve seen this people. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:26:34,000 –> 00:26:37,320
\nIt is a stiff necked people.
\nLet me alone that I may destroy <\/p>\n
499
\n00:26:37,320 –> 00:26:40,600
\nthem and blot out their name
\nfrom under heaven. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:26:40,680 –> 00:26:43,680
\nDo you hear those words?
\nBlot out their name from under <\/p>\n
501
\n00:26:43,680 –> 00:26:46,000
\nheaven.
\nAnd I will make of you a nation <\/p>\n
502
\n00:26:46,000 –> 00:26:49,400
\nmightier and greater than they.
\nSo I turned and came down from <\/p>\n
503
\n00:26:49,400 –> 00:26:51,960
\nthe mountain, and the mountain
\nburned with fire the tab, the <\/p>\n
504
\n00:26:51,960 –> 00:26:54,560
\ntables of the covenant were in
\nmy hands, and I looked and <\/p>\n
505
\n00:26:54,560 –> 00:26:57,280
\nbehold, you’d sinned against the
\nLord your God and have made a <\/p>\n
506
\n00:26:57,280 –> 00:27:00,120
\nmolten calf.
\nYou turned aside quickly out of <\/p>\n
507
\n00:27:00,120 –> 00:27:01,600
\nthe way the Lord had commanded
\nyou. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:27:01,840 –> 00:27:04,960
\nAnd I took the two tables and
\ncast them out of my hands, broke<\/p>\n
509
\n00:27:04,960 –> 00:27:07,320
\nthem before your eyes, and I
\nfell down before the Lord. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:27:07,320 –> 00:27:09,760
\nAs at the 1st 40 days and 40
\nnights. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:27:09,760 –> 00:27:13,200
\nI didn’t eat or drink because of
\nall your sins that you’d sinned <\/p>\n
512
\n00:27:13,200 –> 00:27:15,920
\nin doing wickedly in the sight
\nof the Lord to provoke Him to <\/p>\n
513
\n00:27:15,960 –> 00:27:18,880
\nanger.
\nI was afraid of the anger and <\/p>\n
514
\n00:27:18,880 –> 00:27:21,480
\nhot displeasure with the
\nwherewith the Lord was wroth <\/p>\n
515
\n00:27:21,480 –> 00:27:24,360
\nagainst you to destroy you.
\nBut the Lord hearkened to me at <\/p>\n
516
\n00:27:24,360 –> 00:27:27,040
\nthat time also.
\nVerse 21. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:27:27,040 –> 00:27:33,800
\nAnd I took your sin, the calf
\nwhich you have made, and I burnt<\/p>\n
518
\n00:27:33,800 –> 00:27:37,840
\nit with fire, stamped it, and
\nground it very small, until it <\/p>\n
519
\n00:27:37,840 –> 00:27:42,160
\nwas as small as dust.
\nAnd I cast the dust into the <\/p>\n
520
\n00:27:42,160 –> 00:27:46,400
\nbrook that descended out of the
\nmount, and he made them drink <\/p>\n
521
\n00:27:46,400 –> 00:27:48,880
\nit.
\nHe ground it as small as dust <\/p>\n
522
\n00:27:49,200 –> 00:27:51,880
\nand he describes the calf as
\ntheir sin. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:27:52,840 –> 00:27:56,120
\nDo you notice that he he equates
\nto the golden calf with, with <\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:56,120 –> 00:28:00,040
\ngrinding their sin into dust,
\ntheir iniquity, their guilt. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:28:00,440 –> 00:28:02,160
\nAnd that’s what he was making
\nthem drink. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:28:02,160 –> 00:28:04,440
\nHe wasn’t the golden calf, it
\nwas their sin. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:28:04,440 –> 00:28:06,600
\nIt was about bringing iniquity
\nto remembrance. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:28:06,800 –> 00:28:09,520
\nIt was about making them realise
\nthat they had to bear the <\/p>\n
529
\n00:28:09,520 –> 00:28:13,160
\nconsequences of of their own
\nchoices and he made them drink <\/p>\n
530
\n00:28:13,160 –> 00:28:16,440
\ntheir own sin, which is why
\nthere in Numbers five. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:28:16,440 –> 00:28:19,080
\nIt was documented there in the
\nbook and blotted out into the <\/p>\n
532
\n00:28:19,080 –> 00:28:22,520
\nwater that the the priest might
\nmake the woman drink her own <\/p>\n
533
\n00:28:22,520 –> 00:28:26,480
\nsin, her own guilt that had been
\ndocumented there in the records <\/p>\n
534
\n00:28:26,760 –> 00:28:30,480
\nof the men and women of Israel.
\nI made you drink your sin back <\/p>\n
535
\n00:28:30,480 –> 00:28:37,440
\nin Exodus 32 and here as Moses
\ngoes up the mountain now and. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:28:37,440 –> 00:28:40,680
\nPleads for the people with God.
\nIt’s it’s one of the most heart <\/p>\n
537
\n00:28:40,680 –> 00:28:43,840
\nwarming moments in Bible
\nhistory, isn’t it I I don’t know<\/p>\n
538
\n00:28:43,840 –> 00:28:51,640
\nhow Moses rose to the spiritual
\nstamina that he did to to to <\/p>\n
539
\n00:28:51,680 –> 00:28:54,680
\ncarry out this act here on the
\nmountain with God. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:28:54,720 –> 00:29:02,240
\nExodus 32 and verse 31.
\nMoses returned unto the Lord and<\/p>\n
541
\n00:29:02,240 –> 00:29:07,720
\nsaid, oh, this people have
\nsinned a great sin and have made<\/p>\n
542
\n00:29:07,720 –> 00:29:12,440
\nthem gods of gold.
\nYet now if thou wilt forgive <\/p>\n
543
\n00:29:12,440 –> 00:29:16,520
\ntheir sin and you notice, I
\ndon’t think there’s a <\/p>\n
544
\n00:29:16,520 –> 00:29:18,400
\ntranslation that I’ve come
\nacross that doesn’t leave a <\/p>\n
545
\n00:29:18,400 –> 00:29:19,920
\npause at the end of that
\nsentence. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:29:19,920 –> 00:29:22,120
\nIt’s just a 1\/2 finished
\nsentence. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:29:22,640 –> 00:29:26,520
\nYet now, if thou wilt, if thou
\nwilt, forgive their sin. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:29:27,960 –> 00:29:30,200
\nAnd even in the old Hebrew
\nmanuscripts, for instance, <\/p>\n
549
\n00:29:30,200 –> 00:29:33,560
\nthere’s just a gap there.
\nMoses just didn’t know how to <\/p>\n
550
\n00:29:33,600 –> 00:29:39,160
\nend that sentence.
\nAnd if not, if you can’t forgive<\/p>\n
551
\n00:29:39,160 –> 00:29:44,480
\ntheir sin, verse 32, blot me, I
\npray thee, out of the book which<\/p>\n
552
\n00:29:44,480 –> 00:29:47,360
\nyou have written.
\nIsn’t that mind blowing? <\/p>\n
553
\n00:29:48,000 –> 00:29:52,120
\nIf you can’t blot out their sin,
\njust as the priest would do for <\/p>\n
554
\n00:29:52,120 –> 00:29:55,120
\nthe woman there after it had
\nbeen documented in Numbers 5. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:29:55,320 –> 00:29:58,480
\nIf you’re not willing to blot
\nout their sin and find a <\/p>\n
556
\n00:29:58,480 –> 00:30:02,400
\nsolution, then blot me out
\ninstead. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:30:03,520 –> 00:30:07,280
\nI’ll do it for them, you know.
\nBut it says God has two very <\/p>\n
558
\n00:30:07,280 –> 00:30:10,320
\nspecific books that He’s
\nwritten. 1 is a book of <\/p>\n
559
\n00:30:10,320 –> 00:30:13,280
\nremembrance and one is a book of
\nlife. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:30:13,920 –> 00:30:16,960
\nThey’re two very specific books
\nthat come up a number of times <\/p>\n
561
\n00:30:16,960 –> 00:30:19,600
\nin Scripture and it seems like
\nGod is saying, I want you to <\/p>\n
562
\n00:30:19,600 –> 00:30:22,360
\nplay one off against the other.
\nIf you’re not willing to blot <\/p>\n
563
\n00:30:22,360 –> 00:30:26,880
\nout their sin from the book of
\nremembrance, then blot out my <\/p>\n
564
\n00:30:26,880 –> 00:30:28,720
\nname from the book of life
\ninstead. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:30:30,120 –> 00:30:32,880
\nLet’s do a trade off, isn’t
\nthat? <\/p>\n
566
\n00:30:32,880 –> 00:30:36,440
\nJust mind blowing.
\nAnd you know the answer, Brent, <\/p>\n
567
\n00:30:36,440 –> 00:30:40,360
\nsisters of the Lord God verse
\n33, how much that must have oh <\/p>\n
568
\n00:30:40,360 –> 00:30:42,960
\njust warmed the heart of
\nAlmighty God to know Moses was <\/p>\n
569
\n00:30:42,960 –> 00:30:44,720
\nwilling to do that for his
\npeople. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:30:45,320 –> 00:30:49,520
\nVerse 33 the Lord said to Moses,
\nwhoever has sinned against me, <\/p>\n
571
\n00:30:50,000 –> 00:30:54,040
\nhim will I blot out of my book.
\nI can’t take your offer, Moses. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:30:54,400 –> 00:30:56,520
\nIt’s awesome.
\nI’m willing to even begin again <\/p>\n
573
\n00:30:56,520 –> 00:30:58,600
\nwith you.
\nI’ll start my whole promises <\/p>\n
574
\n00:30:58,840 –> 00:31:00,920
\nthrough Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
\nagain with you. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:31:01,240 –> 00:31:04,000
\nI feel like doing that, you know
\nthat God was willing to do that <\/p>\n
576
\n00:31:04,000 –> 00:31:05,800
\nwith Moses.
\nHe loved him that much. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:31:06,000 –> 00:31:07,520
\nBut he said at.
\nThe end of the day, Moses, it <\/p>\n
578
\n00:31:07,520 –> 00:31:09,600
\ncan’t be your name that comes
\nout of the book. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:31:11,520 –> 00:31:14,800
\nWhoever sinned against me, he
\nwill be the one who’s blotted <\/p>\n
580
\n00:31:14,800 –> 00:31:17,200
\nout of the book.
\nAnd can you see all these lovely<\/p>\n
581
\n00:31:17,200 –> 00:31:20,280
\nideas, challenging ideas that
\nare coming out of this law that <\/p>\n
582
\n00:31:20,280 –> 00:31:22,840
\nGod wrote there in Numbers
\nchapter 5? <\/p>\n
583
\n00:31:23,120 –> 00:31:25,080
\nWell, how does it work, Bren
\nsisters, for you and me? <\/p>\n
584
\n00:31:25,080 –> 00:31:28,680
\nHow does all this translate into
\na Sunday morning, into the lives<\/p>\n
585
\n00:31:28,680 –> 00:31:32,760
\nof men and women sitting in
\nCanada in 2011, all those years <\/p>\n
586
\n00:31:32,760 –> 00:31:35,160
\nlater?
\nWelcome with me to 1 Corinthians<\/p>\n
587
\n00:31:35,160 –> 00:31:38,480
\nchapter 10 and see how the
\nApostle Paul tells us what this <\/p>\n
588
\n00:31:38,480 –> 00:31:50,120
\nmeans to you and me.
\nAnd I don’t know if. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:31:50,120 –> 00:31:52,240
\nYou’ve felt this when you’ve
\nread Paul’s first letter to <\/p>\n
590
\n00:31:52,240 –> 00:31:55,080
\nCorinth, but.
\nThe build up to this great <\/p>\n
591
\n00:31:55,080 –> 00:31:58,840
\nmoment in one Corinthians 11
\nwhere he gives his a unique <\/p>\n
592
\n00:31:58,840 –> 00:32:01,520
\nbreaking of bread discourse, the
\nonly one that comes outside of <\/p>\n
593
\n00:32:01,520 –> 00:32:04,160
\nthe gospel records I received of
\nthe Lord, that which I <\/p>\n
594
\n00:32:04,160 –> 00:32:05,800
\ndelivered.
\nUnto you that the same night in <\/p>\n
595
\n00:32:05,800 –> 00:32:08,280
\nwhich the law was betrayed.
\nBrethren, sisters, the apostle <\/p>\n
596
\n00:32:08,280 –> 00:32:11,000
\nPaul has been limbering up to
\nthat moment in One Corinthians <\/p>\n
597
\n00:32:11,000 –> 00:32:14,640
\n11 for for several chapters.
\nAnd we’re just starting to reach<\/p>\n
598
\n00:32:14,640 –> 00:32:16,840
\nthe climax of it here in One
\nCorinthians 10. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:32:17,080 –> 00:32:20,080
\nAnd he’s right there in the
\nwilderness, back in Exodus 32, <\/p>\n
600
\n00:32:20,240 –> 00:32:24,480
\nwith the children of Israel. 1
\nCorinthians. 10 and verse 7 <\/p>\n
601
\n00:32:25,280 –> 00:32:27,280
\nverse 6.
\nThese things were our examples. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:32:27,280 –> 00:32:30,480
\nHe says the children of Israel
\nin the wilderness to the intent <\/p>\n
603
\n00:32:30,480 –> 00:32:33,760
\nthat we should not lust after
\nevil things as they also lusted <\/p>\n
604
\n00:32:34,040 –> 00:32:38,040
\nneither be idolaters as as were
\nsome of them as it is written. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:32:38,040 –> 00:32:41,840
\nThe people sat down to eat and
\ndrink and rose up to play direct<\/p>\n
606
\n00:32:41,840 –> 00:32:46,520
\nquote there from Exodus Exodus
\n32 come down to verse 14. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:32:46,520 –> 00:32:49,960
\nTherefore my.
\nDearly beloved, flee from <\/p>\n
608
\n00:32:49,960 –> 00:32:52,000
\nidolatry.
\nI speak as to wise men. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:32:52,000 –> 00:32:56,800
\nYou judge what I say, the cup of
\nblessing which we bless, is it <\/p>\n
610
\n00:32:56,800 –> 00:33:01,040
\nnot the communion of the blood
\nof Christ, The bread which we <\/p>\n
611
\n00:33:01,040 –> 00:33:04,400
\nbreak, is it not the communion
\nof the body of Christ? <\/p>\n
612
\n00:33:05,080 –> 00:33:08,520
\nFor we, being many, are one
\nbread and one body, and are all <\/p>\n
613
\n00:33:08,520 –> 00:33:12,600
\npartakers of that one bread.
\nWe’ve Cumbran sisters to partake<\/p>\n
614
\n00:33:12,600 –> 00:33:16,240
\nof something unique together in
\nfellowship, all of us as one <\/p>\n
615
\n00:33:16,240 –> 00:33:18,800
\nbody and it’s so important, says
\nthe apostle Paul. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:33:18,920 –> 00:33:21,960
\nHow can you think of taking
\nmembers of that body and <\/p>\n
617
\n00:33:21,960 –> 00:33:25,760
\nallowing them to to associate
\nwith with other bodies things <\/p>\n
618
\n00:33:25,760 –> 00:33:29,160
\nthat are of just inconsequential
\nvalue in comparison? <\/p>\n
619
\n00:33:29,920 –> 00:33:33,160
\nCome down to verse 21.
\nYou cannot drink the cup of the <\/p>\n
620
\n00:33:33,160 –> 00:33:38,440
\nLord and take the cup of devils.
\nYou cannot be partakers of the <\/p>\n
621
\n00:33:38,440 –> 00:33:40,920
\nLord’s table and of the table of
\ndevils. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:33:40,920 –> 00:33:43,480
\nI tried to show yesterday how
\neven there in the wilderness <\/p>\n
623
\n00:33:43,480 –> 00:33:46,960
\nfloor at Mount Sinai in Exodus
\n32, whilst they were bowing down<\/p>\n
624
\n00:33:46,960 –> 00:33:49,160
\nand doing whatever they were
\ndoing in front of this golden <\/p>\n
625
\n00:33:49,160 –> 00:33:51,720
\ncalf, they were also offering
\nburnt offerings and peace <\/p>\n
626
\n00:33:51,720 –> 00:33:53,840
\nofferings.
\nAnd the absolute abhorrence of <\/p>\n
627
\n00:33:53,840 –> 00:33:57,080
\nthose two things somehow being
\nmixed up together, which is what<\/p>\n
628
\n00:33:57,080 –> 00:33:59,720
\nthe Apostle Paul says we run the
\nrisk of doing in our lives. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:34:00,120 –> 00:34:01,760
\nYou can’t blend the two
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:34:01,760 –> 00:34:04,080
\nYou can’t.
\nYou can’t sit here one minute, <\/p>\n
631
\n00:34:04,160 –> 00:34:07,680
\none day on a Sunday and commit
\nyourselves to being part of one <\/p>\n
632
\n00:34:07,680 –> 00:34:08,760
\nbody.
\nHow? <\/p>\n
633
\n00:34:08,760 –> 00:34:12,000
\nHow just wrong does that feel to
\nthen the next day be a part of <\/p>\n
634
\n00:34:12,000 –> 00:34:14,560
\nsomething else?
\nHow can that work? <\/p>\n
635
\n00:34:14,560 –> 00:34:16,880
\nSays the Apostle Paul.
\nAnd notice what the result. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:34:16,880 –> 00:34:19,560
\nIs here we go.
\nVerse 21 You cannot drink the <\/p>\n
637
\n00:34:19,560 –> 00:34:21,800
\ncup of the Lord and take the cup
\nof devils. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:34:21,920 –> 00:34:24,760
\nYou cannot be partakers of the
\nLord’s table and of the table of<\/p>\n
639
\n00:34:24,760 –> 00:34:27,080
\ndevils.
\nOr do we provoke the Lord to <\/p>\n
640
\n00:34:27,080 –> 00:34:30,840
\njealousy?
\nAre we stronger than he? <\/p>\n
641
\n00:34:30,840 –> 00:34:31,920
\nCan you see what’s going to
\nhappen? <\/p>\n
642
\n00:34:31,920 –> 00:34:35,199
\nSays the Apostle Paul.
\nIf you try and be unfaithful in <\/p>\n
643
\n00:34:35,199 –> 00:34:38,000
\nyour commitment to the body of
\nChrist, you’re going to find <\/p>\n
644
\n00:34:38,000 –> 00:34:42,440
\nyourself on trial one day when
\nyou come to sit around the <\/p>\n
645
\n00:34:42,440 –> 00:34:45,280
\nLord’s table with your bread and
\nsisters, and as you drink the <\/p>\n
646
\n00:34:45,280 –> 00:34:47,360
\ncup, it will no longer be a cup
\nof blessing. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:34:48,560 –> 00:34:52,199
\nIt runs the risk of becoming a
\ncup of cursing because we will <\/p>\n
648
\n00:34:52,199 –> 00:34:57,320
\nhave lost the ability to discern
\nthe Lord’s body of which we have<\/p>\n
649
\n00:34:57,320 –> 00:34:59,240
\ncommitted ourselves to being a
\npart. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:34:59,840 –> 00:35:03,200
\nAre you prepared, Bron Sisters,
\nto provoke the Lord to jealousy?<\/p>\n
651
\n00:35:04,320 –> 00:35:07,000
\nAre you stronger than Him when
\nHe puts you on trial, like the <\/p>\n
652
\n00:35:07,000 –> 00:35:10,680
\nman there in Numbers 5, to test
\nwhether there is guilt or <\/p>\n
653
\n00:35:10,680 –> 00:35:12,200
\ninnocence?
\nThere is going to be a very <\/p>\n
654
\n00:35:12,200 –> 00:35:14,640
\nspecific test, Bron Sisters,
\nthat the Lord God is going to <\/p>\n
655
\n00:35:14,640 –> 00:35:18,640
\nuse to determine innocence.
\nAnd the marvel of it is it’s not<\/p>\n
656
\n00:35:18,640 –> 00:35:22,280
\nperfection.
\nThe test of innocence for for <\/p>\n
657
\n00:35:22,280 –> 00:35:25,000
\nthe Lord God, Bron sisters, when
\nHe puts us on trial is not <\/p>\n
658
\n00:35:25,000 –> 00:35:29,480
\nperfection.
\nIt’s our ability to discern the <\/p>\n
659
\n00:35:29,480 –> 00:35:34,440
\nLord’s body.
\nTurn over to Chapter 11, the bit<\/p>\n
660
\n00:35:34,440 –> 00:35:37,040
\nthat now the apostle Paul
\nspecifically for these brethren <\/p>\n
661
\n00:35:37,040 –> 00:35:38,600
\nin Corinth has been working up
\nto. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:35:40,720 –> 00:35:44,760
\nLet’s come in, in verse 27.
\nYou know these words right in <\/p>\n
663
\n00:35:44,760 –> 00:35:46,920
\nthe middle of his breaking his
\nbread discourse, Verse 26. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:35:46,920 –> 00:35:49,960
\nAs often as you eat this bread
\nand drink this cup, you do show <\/p>\n
665
\n00:35:49,960 –> 00:35:52,240
\nthe Lord’s death.
\nAnd we talked about that, didn’t<\/p>\n
666
\n00:35:52,240 –> 00:35:53,880
\nwe, the other day, what that
\nmeans. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:35:54,280 –> 00:35:57,200
\nAnd now it’s now really going to
\nbe concreted as to what the <\/p>\n
668
\n00:35:57,200 –> 00:36:00,080
\nApostle Paul means.
\nNow you can’t miss it because <\/p>\n
669
\n00:36:00,080 –> 00:36:02,200
\nhe’s saying now it’s going to
\nhave to have an impact on your <\/p>\n
670
\n00:36:02,200 –> 00:36:04,080
\nlife.
\nAs often as you eat this bread <\/p>\n
671
\n00:36:04,080 –> 00:36:06,720
\nand drink this cup, you
\ndemonstrate that you’ve <\/p>\n
672
\n00:36:06,720 –> 00:36:10,160
\nunderstood your commitment and
\nyour participation in the blood <\/p>\n
673
\n00:36:10,360 –> 00:36:12,400
\nand in the.
\nBody of the Lord Jesus Christ, <\/p>\n
674
\n00:36:13,240 –> 00:36:17,080
\nverse 27.
\nWherefore whosoever shall eat <\/p>\n
675
\n00:36:17,080 –> 00:36:22,240
\nthis bread and drink this cup of
\nthe Lord unworthily, shall be <\/p>\n
676
\n00:36:22,240 –> 00:36:27,360
\nfound guilty of the body and
\nblood of the Lord. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:36:27,360 –> 00:36:31,800
\nThat’s big stuff, isn’t it?
\nFor God to find us guilty for <\/p>\n
678
\n00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:36,040
\nthe death of His only begotten
\nand well beloved Son is big <\/p>\n
679
\n00:36:36,040 –> 00:36:40,920
\nstuff.
\nI would not want to be giving <\/p>\n
680
\n00:36:40,920 –> 00:36:44,920
\nevidence on the stand in the
\ntrial of the life and death of <\/p>\n
681
\n00:36:44,920 –> 00:36:47,640
\nthe Lord’s only begotten Son and
\nbeing found. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:36:47,640 –> 00:36:51,000
\nGuilty of his death and what was
\nthe test? <\/p>\n
683
\n00:36:53,320 –> 00:36:59,680
\nFor he verse, sorry, verse 28,
\nlet a man examine himself and <\/p>\n
684
\n00:36:59,680 –> 00:37:02,160
\nlet him eat of that bread and
\ndrink of that cup. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:37:02,160 –> 00:37:05,440
\nFor he who eats and drinks
\nunworthily eats and drinks <\/p>\n
686
\n00:37:05,480 –> 00:37:10,680
\ndamnation to himself because he
\ncannot discern the Lord’s body. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:37:10,680 –> 00:37:12,600
\nDo you see what the apostle Paul
\nis saying? <\/p>\n
688
\n00:37:12,840 –> 00:37:16,560
\nHe’s saying you need to take a
\nreal careful look inside <\/p>\n
689
\n00:37:16,560 –> 00:37:20,760
\nyourself because the the the the
\nthing that will determine your <\/p>\n
690
\n00:37:20,760 –> 00:37:24,480
\ninnocence or your guilt is your
\nability to discern the Lord’s <\/p>\n
691
\n00:37:24,480 –> 00:37:27,440
\nbody and your own relationship
\nto it. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:37:27,840 –> 00:37:31,280
\nVerse just come back to verse 25
\nafter the same manner he took <\/p>\n
693
\n00:37:31,280 –> 00:37:34,000
\nthe cup when he’d Sup saying
\nthis cup is the New Testament in<\/p>\n
694
\n00:37:34,000 –> 00:37:35,920
\nmy blood.
\nThis do ye as often as ye drink <\/p>\n
695
\n00:37:35,920 –> 00:37:39,960
\nit in remembrance of me.
\nThis whole this whole issue. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:37:39,960 –> 00:37:41,960
\nBrent says.
\nThis whole feast was about <\/p>\n
697
\n00:37:41,960 –> 00:37:44,280
\nbringing iniquity to
\nremembrance. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:37:44,280 –> 00:37:48,080
\nThis do in remembrance of me,
\nand that’s what the whole law of<\/p>\n
699
\n00:37:48,080 –> 00:37:50,160
\njealousy was about there in
\nNumbers 5. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:37:50,440 –> 00:37:53,440
\nAnd now, Bran sisters, the curse
\nis only going to apply to those <\/p>\n
701
\n00:37:53,440 –> 00:37:56,920
\nwho can’t see themselves and
\njudge themselves effectively. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:37:57,400 –> 00:38:00,120
\nVerse 29 For he who eats and
\ndrinks unworthily eats and <\/p>\n
703
\n00:38:00,120 –> 00:38:03,040
\ndrinks damnation to himself
\nbecause he cannot discern the <\/p>\n
704
\n00:38:03,040 –> 00:38:05,480
\nLord’s body.
\nThis is why verse 30 Many are <\/p>\n
705
\n00:38:05,480 –> 00:38:07,080
\nweak and sickly among you in
\nsleep. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:38:07,360 –> 00:38:11,040
\nVerse 31 If we would judge
\nourselves, we would not be <\/p>\n
707
\n00:38:11,040 –> 00:38:14,240
\njudged if we can come Bran
\nsisters week by week and find <\/p>\n
708
\n00:38:14,240 –> 00:38:18,400
\nourselves guilty.
\nThen we will not be judged any <\/p>\n
709
\n00:38:18,400 –> 00:38:22,080
\nfurther by Almighty God.
\nBut if we come week by week and <\/p>\n
710
\n00:38:22,080 –> 00:38:26,160
\nwe cannot see the guilt in
\nourselves, if we cannot see all <\/p>\n
711
\n00:38:26,160 –> 00:38:28,200
\nthe issues that would cause.
\nUs a problem with God. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:38:28,400 –> 00:38:31,280
\nThat’s when He will find us
\nguilty, not when we find <\/p>\n
713
\n00:38:31,280 –> 00:38:33,360
\ninnocence bred and sisters.
\nHe doesn’t want us to find <\/p>\n
714
\n00:38:33,360 –> 00:38:36,160
\nperfection in our lives.
\nThis is the wonder of God, isn’t<\/p>\n
715
\n00:38:36,160 –> 00:38:37,760
\nit?
\nThis is the awesome nature of <\/p>\n
716
\n00:38:37,760 –> 00:38:40,320
\nour relationship with Him.
\nHe’s not seeking perfection, <\/p>\n
717
\n00:38:40,440 –> 00:38:43,440
\nhe’s seeking honesty.
\nHe’s seeking an ability to <\/p>\n
718
\n00:38:43,440 –> 00:38:46,840
\nunderstand ourselves to the
\nintent that he needs to do no <\/p>\n
719
\n00:38:46,840 –> 00:38:51,120
\nmore, to the point that we can
\nsee in ourselves our own <\/p>\n
720
\n00:38:51,320 –> 00:38:54,320
\nweakness and our own guilt.
\nCan you imagine that woman <\/p>\n
721
\n00:38:54,320 –> 00:38:57,640
\ncoming to the priest and and
\nholding that cup of cursing in <\/p>\n
722
\n00:38:57,640 –> 00:39:01,440
\nher hands?
\nSisters, perhaps you are the <\/p>\n
723
\n00:39:01,440 –> 00:39:05,280
\nonly ones who can understand in
\nin the right level of detail how<\/p>\n
724
\n00:39:05,280 –> 00:39:09,040
\nyou would be feeling as you were
\nto drink that cup, knowing you <\/p>\n
725
\n00:39:09,040 –> 00:39:11,320
\nneeded to do it with.
\nSuch a level of. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:39:11,640 –> 00:39:15,040
\nSelf examination.
\nAnd I wonder what you would say.<\/p>\n
727
\n00:39:15,040 –> 00:39:16,800
\nI wonder if there would be women
\nstanding there going, do you <\/p>\n
728
\n00:39:16,800 –> 00:39:18,080
\nknow what?
\nBring it on. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:39:18,440 –> 00:39:20,600
\nGive me the cup, I’ll drink it,
\nno problem. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:39:21,080 –> 00:39:24,000
\nI’m innocent.
\nOr whether there will be women <\/p>\n
731
\n00:39:24,000 –> 00:39:25,680
\nwho will be standing there
\npleading. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:39:26,560 –> 00:39:28,840
\nThat they might not be subject
\nto the judgements of God and <\/p>\n
733
\n00:39:28,840 –> 00:39:33,280
\nthat He would find mercy and
\ngrace knowing that they were not<\/p>\n
734
\n00:39:33,840 –> 00:39:35,640
\nas faithful as they would like
\nto be. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:39:38,600 –> 00:39:41,080
\nAnd somehow, brother and
\nsisters, now the apostle Paul <\/p>\n
736
\n00:39:41,080 –> 00:39:44,960
\nsays, when we come to drink the
\ncup, somehow instead of it being<\/p>\n
737
\n00:39:44,960 –> 00:39:46,400
\na curse, this is the wonder of
\nit, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
738
\n00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:49,600
\nYou would think as we come week
\nby week and we hold the cup and <\/p>\n
739
\n00:39:49,600 –> 00:39:52,240
\nwe examine ourselves and we see
\nall the guilt and the problems <\/p>\n
740
\n00:39:52,240 –> 00:39:56,320
\nin our life that we’re about to
\ndrink from a cup that is going <\/p>\n
741
\n00:39:56,320 –> 00:39:58,320
\nto bring nothing but cursing
\ninto our lives. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:39:58,320 –> 00:40:01,080
\nAnd yet somehow the apostle Paul
\nsays we end up drinking a <\/p>\n
743
\n00:40:01,080 –> 00:40:03,160
\nblessing.
\nHow does that happen? <\/p>\n
744
\n00:40:03,160 –> 00:40:06,840
\nCome over to Colossians 2.
\nYou’re probably ahead of me. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:40:18,160 –> 00:40:21,080
\nHow does it happen that this cup
\nthat should bring about cursing <\/p>\n
746
\n00:40:21,400 –> 00:40:25,080
\nbecause of our guilt and our
\niniquity brings about a <\/p>\n
747
\n00:40:25,080 –> 00:40:29,120
\nblessing?
\nColossians chapter 2 and verse <\/p>\n
748
\n00:40:29,480 –> 00:40:30,600
\n13.
\nRead these. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:40:30,640 –> 00:40:32,480
\nRead these two verses really
\ncarefully. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:40:32,480 –> 00:40:36,760
\nAbsolutely beautiful.
\nColossians 213. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:40:36,760 –> 00:40:41,160
\nYou were dead in your sins.
\nAnd the uncircumcision of your <\/p>\n
752
\n00:40:41,160 –> 00:40:45,560
\nflesh, flesh has He made alive
\ntogether with Him, having <\/p>\n
753
\n00:40:45,560 –> 00:40:47,600
\nforgiven you all your
\ntrespasses. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:40:47,840 –> 00:40:51,960
\nHe blotted out the handwriting
\nof ordinances that was against <\/p>\n
755
\n00:40:51,960 –> 00:40:55,120
\nus, which was contrary to us.
\nIt was written down everything <\/p>\n
756
\n00:40:55,120 –> 00:40:57,440
\nthat we’d ever done.
\nAll of our problems are written <\/p>\n
757
\n00:40:57,440 –> 00:40:59,160
\nin the book of remembrance of
\nAlmighty God. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:40:59,160 –> 00:41:02,880
\nThey’ve been documented and
\nthey’ve been blotted out by Him <\/p>\n
759
\n00:41:04,280 –> 00:41:06,840
\nand he’s taken them out of the
\nway and nailed them to the <\/p>\n
760
\n00:41:06,840 –> 00:41:08,240
\ncross.
\nIt’s almost as if the book, the <\/p>\n
761
\n00:41:08,240 –> 00:41:11,840
\npage has been ripped out of the
\nbook by the Lord Jesus Christ so<\/p>\n
762
\n00:41:11,840 –> 00:41:15,160
\nthat now when the, when the,
\nwhen the the document is is <\/p>\n
763
\n00:41:15,240 –> 00:41:17,480
\ndipped into the water and
\nblotted out, there’s nothing <\/p>\n
764
\n00:41:17,480 –> 00:41:18,360
\nthere.
\nIt’s gone. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:41:18,360 –> 00:41:21,000
\nIt’s been wiped clean.
\nThe slate has been wiped clean. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:41:21,000 –> 00:41:23,320
\nAnd now brains sisters, when you
\ncome to drink from the cup, <\/p>\n
767
\n00:41:23,320 –> 00:41:25,240
\nthere’s nothing there.
\nIt’s gone. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:41:26,920 –> 00:41:30,320
\nHe drank the cup for you.
\nIt’s extraordinary, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
769
\n00:41:30,320 –> 00:41:33,760
\nThe one man who, when he
\nexamined himself could find no <\/p>\n
770
\n00:41:33,760 –> 00:41:37,960
\nfault, drunk the cup of cursing
\nand bitterness for you and me. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:41:37,960 –> 00:41:41,600
\nAnd now when we drink his cup
\nweek by week, we just drink <\/p>\n
772
\n00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:44,000
\nblessing.
\nAnd it’s not a bitter cup of <\/p>\n
773
\n00:41:46,040 –> 00:41:50,200
\nwater.
\nIt’s been turned into wine, the <\/p>\n
774
\n00:41:50,200 –> 00:41:55,080
\nbitter water that the Jews
\nattempted to use to purify <\/p>\n
775
\n00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:56,680
\nthemselves.
\nIt’s right there at the wedding <\/p>\n
776
\n00:41:56,680 –> 00:42:00,320
\nat Cana, has now been turned
\ninto the new wine, the royal <\/p>\n
777
\n00:42:00,320 –> 00:42:03,760
\nwine of the Kingdom of heaven,
\nand we drink nothing but a <\/p>\n
778
\n00:42:03,760 –> 00:42:05,240
\nblessing.
\nI don’t know how that makes you <\/p>\n
779
\n00:42:05,240 –> 00:42:08,960
\nfeel, Britain sisters, and how
\nthat just turns your life inside<\/p>\n
780
\n00:42:08,960 –> 00:42:11,840
\nout and upside down as you leave
\nand begin your life again. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:42:12,560 –> 00:42:17,080
\nBeing able now to discern the
\nLord’s body and how you are in <\/p>\n
782
\n00:42:17,080 –> 00:42:21,800
\nrelation to it and your
\ncommitment to live as best you <\/p>\n
783
\n00:42:21,800 –> 00:42:25,680
\ncan, discerning that body and
\ngiving yourself to it. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:42:27,080 –> 00:42:29,200
\nCome with me, brother and
\nsister, to Matthew 26, just a <\/p>\n
785
\n00:42:29,200 –> 00:42:34,480
\nmoment in the upper room when
\nthe disciples felt this, this <\/p>\n
786
\n00:42:34,520 –> 00:42:40,160
\npiercing gaze of examination
\nunder the eyes and the gaze of <\/p>\n
787
\n00:42:40,160 –> 00:42:50,680
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.
\nMatthew 26 There was just a <\/p>\n
788
\n00:42:50,680 –> 00:42:55,640
\nmoment in the upper room when
\nthe Lord wanted his disciples to<\/p>\n
789
\n00:42:55,640 –> 00:43:00,360
\nfeel that that that self
\nexamination feeling that that <\/p>\n
790
\n00:43:00,360 –> 00:43:03,400
\nyou and I are familiar with
\nhaving having done it many times<\/p>\n
791
\n00:43:03,400 –> 00:43:06,080
\nat the breaking of bread.
\nAnd hopefully now with a with a <\/p>\n
792
\n00:43:06,080 –> 00:43:08,680
\ndeeper insight and with more
\nawareness of what it is that <\/p>\n
793
\n00:43:08,680 –> 00:43:11,120
\nwe’re actually examining when we
\ndo week by week. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:43:12,200 –> 00:43:16,080
\nAnd in Matthew 26 and verse 20,
\nthis is what we read. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:43:17,320 –> 00:43:22,560
\nWhen the evening had come, Jesus
\nsat down with the 12 And as they<\/p>\n
796
\n00:43:22,560 –> 00:43:26,640
\ndid eat, he said, verily I say
\nunto you, one of you will betray<\/p>\n
797
\n00:43:26,640 –> 00:43:28,240
\nme.
\nAnd he purposely did that. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:33,120
\nHe wanted each one of them to
\nnot be sure whether they were <\/p>\n
799
\n00:43:33,120 –> 00:43:36,560
\nthe one who was going to be
\nfound guilty of the body and <\/p>\n
800
\n00:43:36,560 –> 00:43:39,720
\nblood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
\nOne of you will betray me. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:43:39,720 –> 00:43:41,000
\nAnd they were exceeding
\nsorrowful. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:43:41,000 –> 00:43:45,720
\nVerse 21 and began every one of
\nthem to say unto him, Lord, is <\/p>\n
803
\n00:43:45,720 –> 00:43:47,960
\nit I?
\nAnd you can imagine why they <\/p>\n
804
\n00:43:47,960 –> 00:43:49,320
\nwould do that, can’t you,
\nbrother and sisters? <\/p>\n
805
\n00:43:49,320 –> 00:43:51,520
\nYou can imagine Peter going Is
\nit me? <\/p>\n
806
\n00:43:52,320 –> 00:43:55,720
\nAnd you can imagine him feeling
\n11 other pairs of eyes looking <\/p>\n
807
\n00:43:55,720 –> 00:43:59,800
\nat him going, is it you?
\nAnd so he he articulates it to <\/p>\n
808
\n00:43:59,800 –> 00:44:02,240
\nthe Lord.
\nLord is it I because he wants to<\/p>\n
809
\n00:44:02,240 –> 00:44:05,200
\nhear from the mouth of the Lord
\nso that he can be vindicated in <\/p>\n
810
\n00:44:05,200 –> 00:44:07,240
\nthe eyes of everybody else that
\nit’s not him. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:44:07,360 –> 00:44:08,640
\nThat’s what they were doing,
\nwasn’t it? <\/p>\n
812
\n00:44:08,880 –> 00:44:11,600
\nThey weren’t they weren’t
\ncertain whether it was them or <\/p>\n
813
\n00:44:11,600 –> 00:44:13,680
\nnot, but they needed that
\nvindication in front of <\/p>\n
814
\n00:44:13,680 –> 00:44:15,440
\neverybody else.
\nJust like the woman. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:44:15,440 –> 00:44:17,960
\nThey’re in numbers five.
\nPart of the process of that law <\/p>\n
816
\n00:44:17,960 –> 00:44:21,200
\nwas that God would declare her
\ninnocent Lord. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:44:21,200 –> 00:44:22,880
\nIs it I?
\nAnd of of course, Peter’s <\/p>\n
818
\n00:44:22,880 –> 00:44:25,600
\nlooking Jesus square in the
\neyes, wanting all of his eleven <\/p>\n
819
\n00:44:25,600 –> 00:44:28,640
\nfriends to hear from the very
\nmouth of Jesus that no, Peter, <\/p>\n
820
\n00:44:28,640 –> 00:44:32,040
\nit’s not.
\nYou and I wonder if that’s how <\/p>\n
821
\n00:44:32,040 –> 00:44:36,080
\nwe feel, Bren sisters.
\nWeek by week, when we come, one <\/p>\n
822
\n00:44:36,080 –> 00:44:38,880
\nof you will betray me.
\nOf course, the reality is they <\/p>\n
823
\n00:44:38,880 –> 00:44:42,240
\nall betrayed him.
\nIt says every single one of them<\/p>\n
824
\n00:44:42,240 –> 00:44:43,960
\nin the garden for suck him and
\nfled. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:44:44,640 –> 00:44:48,000
\nSo although Jesus did something
\nthe others never did, don’t <\/p>\n
826
\n00:44:48,000 –> 00:44:50,520
\nmistake it Bren sisters, they
\nall ran away, they all abandoned<\/p>\n
827
\n00:44:50,520 –> 00:44:52,960
\nthe Lord in his hour of need,
\njust as we all do at times in <\/p>\n
828
\n00:44:52,960 –> 00:44:55,480
\nour life.
\nLord is it I And that’s the <\/p>\n
829
\n00:44:55,480 –> 00:44:58,280
\nquestion we need to ask, isn’t
\nit Bren sisters week by week? <\/p>\n
830
\n00:44:58,280 –> 00:45:00,080
\nLord is it I and isn’t it
\nlovely? <\/p>\n
831
\n00:45:00,080 –> 00:45:02,800
\nThe term they use of address to
\nto the Lord Jesus. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:08,600
\nLord, it wasn’t a term of just
\nreverence and deference. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:45:08,600 –> 00:45:11,680
\nIt was a it was a term of
\nrespect and love. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:45:11,720 –> 00:45:14,120
\nLord is it I?
\nAnd as they, as Jesus went round<\/p>\n
835
\n00:45:14,120 –> 00:45:18,560
\nthe room, he heard eleven men
\nask that question, Lord, is it <\/p>\n
836
\n00:45:18,640 –> 00:45:21,520
\nI?
\nBut from one of the men he heard<\/p>\n
837
\n00:45:21,520 –> 00:45:24,280
\nsomething very different.
\nJust look at it. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:45:24,400 –> 00:45:28,600
\nVerse 25 when it came to Judas’s
\nturn, notice what he said. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:45:29,040 –> 00:45:31,480
\nIt was different to what
\neverybody else in that room had <\/p>\n
840
\n00:45:31,480 –> 00:45:34,240
\nsaid.
\nJudas, which betrayed him, <\/p>\n
841
\n00:45:34,240 –> 00:45:39,440
\nanswered and said, Master, is it
\nI? <\/p>\n
842
\n00:45:41,200 –> 00:45:44,520
\nThat one word just changes
\neverything, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
843
\n00:45:45,160 –> 00:45:53,200
\n11 men had said, Lord, is it I?
\nOne man had said Master. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:45:54,840 –> 00:45:57,160
\nFor Judas, the Lord Jesus Christ
\nwas a teacher. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:45:57,720 –> 00:46:00,360
\nHe was an instructor.
\nHe was somebody who knew how to <\/p>\n
846
\n00:46:00,360 –> 00:46:03,240
\ninterpret the Torah.
\nHe was somebody who could do <\/p>\n
847
\n00:46:03,240 –> 00:46:05,320
\namazing things, no question
\nabout that. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:46:05,320 –> 00:46:07,600
\nBut for Judas, he hadn’t become
\nthe Lord’s. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:46:07,800 –> 00:46:11,280
\nHe hadn’t become his Lord.
\nHe was just his master, his <\/p>\n
850
\n00:46:11,280 –> 00:46:14,800
\nteacher, his rabbi.
\nAnd it’s a fascinating insight <\/p>\n
851
\n00:46:14,800 –> 00:46:17,320
\ninto the mind of Judas Brent.
\nAnd what you are seeing right <\/p>\n
852
\n00:46:17,320 –> 00:46:20,800
\nthere in the upper room is a man
\nwho had not been able to discern<\/p>\n
853
\n00:46:20,800 –> 00:46:25,360
\nthe Lord’s body.
\nMaster, Master. <\/p>\n
854
\n00:46:25,360 –> 00:46:27,360
\nAnd one of the great challenges
\nBrent and sisters, you and I <\/p>\n
855
\n00:46:27,360 –> 00:46:32,240
\nneed to take away this week.
\nFor from now on, when we sit <\/p>\n
856
\n00:46:32,240 –> 00:46:34,720
\naround these memorials of our
\nLord Jesus Christ, we need to <\/p>\n
857
\n00:46:34,720 –> 00:46:37,160
\nmake sure we know what our
\nrelationship with our Lord Jesus<\/p>\n
858
\n00:46:37,160 –> 00:46:39,480
\nis.
\nIs he just our master? <\/p>\n
859
\n00:46:39,480 –> 00:46:43,160
\nIs he an interesting guy who,
\nyou know, no doubt impresses us,<\/p>\n
860
\n00:46:43,280 –> 00:46:45,880
\nfascinates us?
\nHis ability to explain things <\/p>\n
861
\n00:46:45,880 –> 00:46:49,200
\nand do things, the logic and the
\ntheory of his teaching is <\/p>\n
862
\n00:46:49,200 –> 00:46:52,400
\nengaging.
\nBut is he somebody, Bren <\/p>\n
863
\n00:46:52,400 –> 00:46:55,080
\nSisters, who’s turned your life
\ninside out and upside down? <\/p>\n
864
\n00:46:56,360 –> 00:46:58,760
\nIs he somebody for whom you
\nrealise he drunk the cup of <\/p>\n
865
\n00:46:58,760 –> 00:47:02,520
\nblessing and cursing just for
\nyou in order to give you a <\/p>\n
866
\n00:47:02,520 –> 00:47:05,040
\nrelationship with a God who’s
\njealous for you, loves you, <\/p>\n
867
\n00:47:05,440 –> 00:47:09,640
\ncares for you?
\nWell, our time together’s nearly<\/p>\n
868
\n00:47:09,640 –> 00:47:12,040
\ngone.
\nCan I take you to Psalm 51? <\/p>\n
869
\n00:47:33,660 –> 00:47:35,860
\nI’m going to tell you, Bruin
\nsisters, just briefly, just for <\/p>\n
870
\n00:47:35,860 –> 00:47:38,420
\nyour own interest, a big chunk
\nthat I’m about to just, like, <\/p>\n
871
\n00:47:38,620 –> 00:47:41,740
\ncarve out of the session.
\nAll right, I wanted to take you <\/p>\n
872
\n00:47:41,740 –> 00:47:46,740
\ninto Genesis 42 and 43 when
\nJoseph met his brethren after <\/p>\n
873
\n00:47:46,740 –> 00:47:48,540
\nall those years having lived in
\nEgypt. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:47:48,540 –> 00:47:51,820
\nAnd just can you remember the
\nmethod which he employed? <\/p>\n
875
\n00:47:52,720 –> 00:47:56,240
\nFinally, when he brought them
\nback on the second time, when <\/p>\n
876
\n00:47:56,240 –> 00:47:59,360
\nthey came to buy grain from
\nEgypt, he said to his servants, <\/p>\n
877
\n00:47:59,360 –> 00:48:03,120
\nI want you to put my cup in
\nBenjamin’s sack. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:48:03,840 –> 00:48:06,720
\nIt’s the cup, he said to his
\nbrethren, by which I divine. <\/p>\n
879
\n00:48:07,400 –> 00:48:10,240
\nIt’s a really interesting thing
\nfor Joseph to say, a man who I <\/p>\n
880
\n00:48:10,240 –> 00:48:12,240
\ndon’t believe was superstitious
\nin any way. <\/p>\n
881
\n00:48:12,560 –> 00:48:14,880
\nAnd yet for some reason there in
\nthe record of Scripture, Joseph <\/p>\n
882
\n00:48:15,240 –> 00:48:18,960
\ntells his brethren that he uses
\nthis cup that he drank from on <\/p>\n
883
\n00:48:18,960 –> 00:48:21,560
\nhis table.
\nHe used it to divine and he and <\/p>\n
884
\n00:48:21,560 –> 00:48:25,720
\nhe put it in Benjamin’s sack.
\nAnd when they set off back to to<\/p>\n
885
\n00:48:25,720 –> 00:48:28,920
\nthe land of Canaan for the
\nsecond time with, with Joseph’s <\/p>\n
886
\n00:48:28,920 –> 00:48:31,520
\ncup in their sack and Joseph’s
\nservants overtake them and they <\/p>\n
887
\n00:48:31,520 –> 00:48:34,400
\nget their sacks and they go down
\nfrom the eldest beginning at the<\/p>\n
888
\n00:48:34,400 –> 00:48:35,560
\nyoungest.
\nAnd do you remember what <\/p>\n
889
\n00:48:35,560 –> 00:48:36,960
\nhappened?
\nThey were all protesting their <\/p>\n
890
\n00:48:36,960 –> 00:48:39,280
\ninnocence.
\nNo, we’ve definitely not stolen <\/p>\n
891
\n00:48:39,280 –> 00:48:40,440
\nanything.
\nIn fact, don’t you remember we <\/p>\n
892
\n00:48:40,440 –> 00:48:43,040
\nbrought the money back.
\nWe’re absolutely innocent. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:48:43,440 –> 00:48:45,480
\nAnd they went down from the
\neldest all the way to the <\/p>\n
894
\n00:48:45,480 –> 00:48:47,000
\nyoungest.
\nAnd they marvelled, in fact, <\/p>\n
895
\n00:48:47,200 –> 00:48:49,520
\nthat the servants even knew
\nwhich was the eldest to the <\/p>\n
896
\n00:48:49,520 –> 00:48:51,640
\nyoungest.
\nYou know, with twelve siblings, <\/p>\n
897
\n00:48:51,640 –> 00:48:54,160
\nI’ve only got 112 siblings.
\nFor those of you with big <\/p>\n
898
\n00:48:54,160 –> 00:48:55,960
\nfamilies, you’ll know that’s
\nquite a challenge for somebody <\/p>\n
899
\n00:48:55,960 –> 00:48:58,040
\nwho doesn’t know your family
\nthat well and has only met you <\/p>\n
900
\n00:48:58,040 –> 00:48:59,680
\ntwice to know in which order you
\ncome. <\/p>\n
901
\n00:49:00,560 –> 00:49:02,760
\nAnd it was almost like they were
\nsitting right there at the table<\/p>\n
902
\n00:49:02,760 –> 00:49:06,400
\nof the Lord, 1 by 1.
\nAnd of course, each one of them <\/p>\n
903
\n00:49:06,400 –> 00:49:08,160
\nsaid, listen, seriously, I’ve
\nnot taken anything. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:49:08,160 –> 00:49:09,800
\nI’ve not stolen anything from
\nyour master. <\/p>\n
905
\n00:49:09,800 –> 00:49:12,520
\nAnd it was only when it came to
\nBenjamin Sack. <\/p>\n
906
\n00:49:13,800 –> 00:49:17,400
\nAnd of course, Benjamin was the
\nonly one who was innocent in the<\/p>\n
907
\n00:49:17,400 –> 00:49:19,840
\ngrand scheme of things.
\nBenjamin had not been involved <\/p>\n
908
\n00:49:19,840 –> 00:49:23,280
\nall those 30 years earlier when
\nJoseph had been put in the pit. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:49:23,280 –> 00:49:27,480
\nBenjamin had not been there.
\nAnd it was only when the cup was<\/p>\n
910
\n00:49:27,480 –> 00:49:29,600
\nfound in his sack.
\nAnd Joseph says, right, he’s the<\/p>\n
911
\n00:49:29,600 –> 00:49:31,680
\none I want.
\nHe’s going to pay the price. <\/p>\n
912
\n00:49:31,800 –> 00:49:34,840
\nBring him back.
\nOnly then, Bren sisters, did all<\/p>\n
913
\n00:49:34,840 –> 00:49:36,840
\nthe boys suddenly pour out their
\nhearts. <\/p>\n
914
\n00:49:37,400 –> 00:49:39,720
\nGod has found out the iniquity
\nof your servants. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:49:40,280 –> 00:49:42,800
\nWe saw the travail of our
\nbrother’s soul, and we didn’t <\/p>\n
916
\n00:49:43,280 –> 00:49:45,360
\nrelieve him when we had the
\nopportunity. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:49:46,000 –> 00:49:47,520
\nAnd it was when the cup was
\nfound. <\/p>\n
918
\n00:49:47,520 –> 00:49:49,800
\nBrensis is in the hand of the
\ninnocent brother. <\/p>\n
919
\n00:49:50,160 –> 00:49:52,160
\nThe iniquity was brought to
\nremembrance. <\/p>\n
920
\n00:49:52,320 –> 00:49:54,920
\nIt was only then that Judah
\ncomes back and you just hear his<\/p>\n
921
\n00:49:54,920 –> 00:49:58,080
\nconfession as he pours out his
\nheart and he he. <\/p>\n
922
\n00:49:58,280 –> 00:50:02,040
\nHe recounts to Joseph all the
\ndamage that he’s done that he’s <\/p>\n
923
\n00:50:02,040 –> 00:50:04,720
\nbeen harbouring in his heart and
\nsoul all of his life. <\/p>\n
924
\n00:50:04,720 –> 00:50:07,040
\nNo wonder, Brensis, as Joseph
\ngoes out and he just can’t <\/p>\n
925
\n00:50:07,040 –> 00:50:10,200
\ncontain it anymore and the tears
\nare rolling down his face as he <\/p>\n
926
\n00:50:10,400 –> 00:50:12,880
\nfinally here’s the confession of
\nhis brethren and what they’ve <\/p>\n
927
\n00:50:12,880 –> 00:50:14,640
\ndone.
\nAnd you noticed the brother and <\/p>\n
928
\n00:50:14,640 –> 00:50:16,280
\nsisters.
\nThe theme of that confession was<\/p>\n
929
\n00:50:16,400 –> 00:50:18,200
\nwhat they’d done to their
\nfather. <\/p>\n
930
\n00:50:18,200 –> 00:50:21,160
\nIt wasn’t what they’d done to
\ntheir brother Joseph. <\/p>\n
931
\n00:50:21,440 –> 00:50:23,880
\nWhen Judith pours out his heart,
\nyou have a look at it when you <\/p>\n
932
\n00:50:23,880 –> 00:50:26,040
\nget time.
\nHow many times did I count it? <\/p>\n
933
\n00:50:26,040 –> 00:50:29,680
\nLet me just see if I can see it
\nhere. 15 times brother and <\/p>\n
934
\n00:50:29,680 –> 00:50:35,360
\nsisters in. 20 in 15 verses
\nJudah says in his confession. <\/p>\n
935
\n00:50:35,600 –> 00:50:38,840
\nI nearly brought down the grey
\nhairs of my father to the grave <\/p>\n
936
\n00:50:38,840 –> 00:50:43,640
\nin what I did to his son.
\nAnd it was only when they saw <\/p>\n
937
\n00:50:43,640 –> 00:50:46,520
\nthe cup in the hand of the
\ninnocent brother that the <\/p>\n
938
\n00:50:46,520 –> 00:50:49,880
\nbrethren begin to express the
\ndamage they realise they’ve done<\/p>\n
939
\n00:50:49,880 –> 00:50:52,320
\nto their father.
\nIt wasn’t about Joseph. <\/p>\n
940
\n00:50:53,000 –> 00:50:55,680
\nIt was nothing was about Joseph.
\nWhat they were witnessing was <\/p>\n
941
\n00:50:55,920 –> 00:50:58,520
\nthe pain and the hurt they’d
\ncaused their Father for all <\/p>\n
942
\n00:50:58,520 –> 00:51:02,200
\nthese years because of his love
\nfor his Son, and how those <\/p>\n
943
\n00:51:02,200 –> 00:51:07,240
\nbrethren had not been able to
\ndiscern the body and the blood <\/p>\n
944
\n00:51:07,840 –> 00:51:10,760
\nand the life of the well beloved
\nSon of the Father. <\/p>\n
945
\n00:51:12,200 –> 00:51:13,720
\nAnd that’s our challenge,
\nBrentis, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
946
\n00:51:13,720 –> 00:51:16,680
\nSomehow to engage in these
\nthings week by week when we come<\/p>\n
947
\n00:51:17,480 –> 00:51:20,240
\nto understand how much the
\nFather loves us and cares for <\/p>\n
948
\n00:51:20,240 –> 00:51:23,680
\nus, and to make sure that when
\nwe eat and drink, we do it <\/p>\n
949
\n00:51:23,680 –> 00:51:26,560
\ndiscerning the Lord’s body and
\nnot be found guilty. <\/p>\n
950
\n00:51:27,560 –> 00:51:30,640
\nGod loves us and he wants us to
\nunderstand how much he’s willing<\/p>\n
951
\n00:51:30,640 –> 00:51:34,440
\nto do to redeem us, to give us a
\nrelationship with Him and to <\/p>\n
952
\n00:51:34,480 –> 00:51:37,880
\nactually be found innocent.
\nHe was willing to pay the price <\/p>\n
953
\n00:51:37,880 –> 00:51:41,360
\nin the life of his Son and he
\njust wants us to understand it <\/p>\n
954
\n00:51:41,880 –> 00:51:44,920
\nand appreciate it and to not
\nhave it been given in vain. <\/p>\n
955
\n00:51:46,400 –> 00:51:51,400
\nWell, here in Psalm 51, let’s
\nlet’s end here because David at <\/p>\n
956
\n00:51:51,400 –> 00:51:57,520
\nthe darkest moment of his life,
\nhaving been unfaithful, having <\/p>\n
957
\n00:51:57,520 –> 00:52:03,760
\ncommitted adultery, now realises
\nhe ought to be on the receiving <\/p>\n
958
\n00:52:03,760 –> 00:52:06,680
\nend of this law of jealousy.
\nDavid knew his Old Testament <\/p>\n
959
\n00:52:06,680 –> 00:52:08,400
\ninside out.
\nNo question. <\/p>\n
960
\n00:52:08,800 –> 00:52:12,800
\nDavid understood the principles
\nof Numbers 5 and he knew that if<\/p>\n
961
\n00:52:12,800 –> 00:52:17,680
\nany law now needed to be
\nemployed besides stoning, this <\/p>\n
962
\n00:52:17,680 –> 00:52:23,440
\nwas the one Psalm 51 verse one.
\nHave mercy upon me, O God, <\/p>\n
963
\n00:52:23,960 –> 00:52:25,960
\naccording to your loving
\nkindness. <\/p>\n
964
\n00:52:26,520 –> 00:52:29,160
\nAccording to the.
\nMultitude of your tender mercies<\/p>\n
965
\n00:52:29,560 –> 00:52:32,440
\nblot out my transgressions.
\nHere it is. <\/p>\n
966
\n00:52:32,600 –> 00:52:36,160
\nThis is David now sat down with
\nhis seat belt on at the memorial<\/p>\n
967
\n00:52:36,160 –> 00:52:38,920
\ntable saying, Lord, I know
\nwhat’s going to happen. <\/p>\n
968
\n00:52:40,080 –> 00:52:41,520
\nI know I’m going to be drinking
\nthe cup. <\/p>\n
969
\n00:52:41,520 –> 00:52:44,400
\nEven though that law was
\ndesigned for wives and for <\/p>\n
970
\n00:52:44,400 –> 00:52:47,520
\nwomen, David knows he is the
\nwife in this relationship. <\/p>\n
971
\n00:52:47,720 –> 00:52:50,120
\nHe is the bride of Christ, his
\nLord. <\/p>\n
972
\n00:52:50,400 –> 00:52:53,360
\nHe is the one in the marriage
\nrelationship with Almighty God <\/p>\n
973
\n00:52:53,520 –> 00:52:55,320
\nand He is the one who’s done
\ndamage to it. <\/p>\n
974
\n00:52:55,520 –> 00:52:58,120
\nAnd now he says, I know what’s
\ngoing to happen and I’m pleading<\/p>\n
975
\n00:52:58,120 –> 00:53:01,360
\nwith you for mercy.
\nBlot out my transgressions. <\/p>\n
976
\n00:53:01,560 –> 00:53:04,200
\nI want you to blot them out.
\nI’m just not sure I’m ready to <\/p>\n
977
\n00:53:04,200 –> 00:53:06,520
\ndrink the cup, Right?
\nThat’s what David is saying, <\/p>\n
978
\n00:53:06,520 –> 00:53:07,760
\nisn’t it?
\nCome down to verse 9. <\/p>\n
979
\n00:53:07,760 –> 00:53:11,560
\nHe says it again.
\nHide your face from my sins and <\/p>\n
980
\n00:53:11,560 –> 00:53:15,200
\nblot out all mine iniquities.
\nAnd he’s, he’s bringing to bear <\/p>\n
981
\n00:53:15,200 –> 00:53:18,440
\nall these lessons that he’s
\nlearnt from Exodus 32, from <\/p>\n
982
\n00:53:18,440 –> 00:53:22,160
\nNumbers 5, from Joshua 24, all
\nthis understanding about his <\/p>\n
983
\n00:53:22,160 –> 00:53:24,920
\nrelationship with God.
\nAnd he’s now about to employ all<\/p>\n
984
\n00:53:24,920 –> 00:53:28,440
\nthe principles of these laws.
\nHave mercy upon me and blot out <\/p>\n
985
\n00:53:28,440 –> 00:53:32,520
\nmy transgressions.
\nVerse 3 And this is what he’s <\/p>\n
986
\n00:53:32,520 –> 00:53:35,720
\ngoing to do instead of taking
\nthe cup and drinking it. <\/p>\n
987
\n00:53:35,720 –> 00:53:37,520
\nThis is what David’s going to do
\ninstead. <\/p>\n
988
\n00:53:37,600 –> 00:53:40,520
\nVerse.
\nThree, I acknowledge my <\/p>\n
989
\n00:53:40,520 –> 00:53:44,480
\ntransgressions.
\nAnd my sin is ever before me <\/p>\n
990
\n00:53:45,120 –> 00:53:49,960
\nagainst thee the only have I
\nsinned and done that which is <\/p>\n
991
\n00:53:49,960 –> 00:53:53,200
\nevil in thy, in thy sight, that
\nthou mightest be justified when <\/p>\n
992
\n00:53:53,200 –> 00:53:54,440
\nyou speak.
\nAnd. <\/p>\n
993
\n00:53:54,440 –> 00:53:58,320
\nClear when you judge in if, if
\nthis judgement is going to work,<\/p>\n
994
\n00:53:58,320 –> 00:53:59,800
\nsays David.
\nI understand what needs to <\/p>\n
995
\n00:53:59,800 –> 00:54:01,800
\nhappen here.
\nI’m the one who needs to <\/p>\n
996
\n00:54:01,800 –> 00:54:04,120
\nacknowledge my sin.
\nI’m the one who needs to <\/p>\n
997
\n00:54:04,120 –> 00:54:06,560
\nunderstand the issues and the
\nchallenges and the weaknesses <\/p>\n
998
\n00:54:06,560 –> 00:54:10,200
\nand the failings in my life.
\nIf you are going to be righteous<\/p>\n
999
\n00:54:10,200 –> 00:54:17,520
\nwhen you judge me, verse 15,
\nthis is what happens. <\/p>\n
1000
\n00:54:17,920 –> 00:54:22,280
\nBrethren, sisters, when?
\nWhen he confesses his sins, O <\/p>\n
1001
\n00:54:22,280 –> 00:54:25,640
\nLord, open thou my lips and my
\nmouth. <\/p>\n
1002
\n00:54:25,640 –> 00:54:29,520
\nWill show forth your praise, for
\nyou desire not sacrifice, or I <\/p>\n
1003
\n00:54:29,520 –> 00:54:32,160
\nwould give it.
\nYou have no delight in burnt <\/p>\n
1004
\n00:54:32,160 –> 00:54:34,280
\nofferings.
\nIf there was an offering under <\/p>\n
1005
\n00:54:34,280 –> 00:54:36,160
\nthe law, says David, that I knew
\nI could bring, that would <\/p>\n
1006
\n00:54:36,160 –> 00:54:39,480
\nsomehow make me feel better In
\nthis situation, there is no <\/p>\n
1007
\n00:54:39,480 –> 00:54:41,280
\nquestion I’d be right there at
\nthe altar. <\/p>\n
1008
\n00:54:42,160 –> 00:54:44,000
\nBut I know that’s not what
\nyou’re looking for. <\/p>\n
1009
\n00:54:44,960 –> 00:54:48,480
\nThe sacrifices of God, verse 17,
\nare a broken spirit. <\/p>\n
1010
\n00:54:48,760 –> 00:54:52,160
\nAnd if I bring that offering,
\nsays David, a broken and a <\/p>\n
1011
\n00:54:52,160 –> 00:54:54,240
\ncontrite heart, O God, you will
\nnot. <\/p>\n
1012
\n00:54:54,240 –> 00:54:56,680
\nDespise.
\nIsn’t that lovely? <\/p>\n
1013
\n00:54:57,320 –> 00:54:59,720
\nGod doesn’t want us to bring
\noffering upon offering, gift <\/p>\n
1014
\n00:54:59,720 –> 00:55:01,480
\nupon gift, week by week,
\nbrainsisters. <\/p>\n
1015
\n00:55:01,960 –> 00:55:05,320
\nHe says if you bring a broken
\nand a contrite heart in full <\/p>\n
1016
\n00:55:05,320 –> 00:55:08,560
\nawareness of what it is that
\nyou’re bringing to my altar, I <\/p>\n
1017
\n00:55:08,560 –> 00:55:11,480
\nwill not despise it.
\nI don’t know how that makes you <\/p>\n
1018
\n00:55:11,480 –> 00:55:13,360
\nfeel, Brent sisters.
\nKnowing that I can bring my <\/p>\n
1019
\n00:55:13,360 –> 00:55:16,480
\nbroken heart to the breaking of
\nbread and that God will not <\/p>\n
1020
\n00:55:16,480 –> 00:55:23,040
\ndespise it just sends a lovely
\nshiver down my spine that God <\/p>\n
1021
\n00:55:23,040 –> 00:55:30,640
\nwill not despise that offering.
\nVerse 6 Behold, you desire truth<\/p>\n
1022
\n00:55:31,760 –> 00:55:35,040
\nin the inward parts and in the
\nhidden part. <\/p>\n
1023
\n00:55:35,040 –> 00:55:38,040
\nYou will make me know wisdom.
\nIsn’t that lovely? <\/p>\n
1024
\n00:55:38,040 –> 00:55:41,280
\nAll these things that God has
\never done, Bren sisters, are to <\/p>\n
1025
\n00:55:41,280 –> 00:55:44,560
\nelicit that from our deepest
\ninsides. <\/p>\n
1026
\n00:55:45,200 –> 00:55:52,200
\nTruth, honesty, awareness, self
\nunderstanding, all the things <\/p>\n
1027
\n00:55:52,200 –> 00:55:55,120
\nthat God has ever done were to
\nelicit those things from us <\/p>\n
1028
\n00:55:55,440 –> 00:55:57,680
\nbecause when they’re there, when
\nthey can be seen, when they can <\/p>\n
1029
\n00:55:57,680 –> 00:56:01,080
\nbe brought out into the open,
\nGod can deal with them while <\/p>\n
1030
\n00:56:01,080 –> 00:56:03,840
\never they remain hidden, we
\nremain lost. <\/p>\n
1031
\n00:56:04,720 –> 00:56:07,000
\nAnd I want you to now notice
\nBrent sisters, just as we finish<\/p>\n
1032
\n00:56:07,000 –> 00:56:10,360
\nwhat awesome things happened
\nwhen David came in this <\/p>\n
1033
\n00:56:10,360 –> 00:56:12,520
\nsituation.
\nHe says I want you to blot out <\/p>\n
1034
\n00:56:12,520 –> 00:56:15,480
\nmy sin and my iniquity, but
\nplease don’t bring upon me the <\/p>\n
1035
\n00:56:15,480 –> 00:56:16,840
\ncurse.
\nPlease. <\/p>\n
1036
\n00:56:16,840 –> 00:56:19,720
\nI appeal to your loving kindness
\nand your tender mercies. <\/p>\n
1037
\n00:56:20,040 –> 00:56:22,240
\nForgive me.
\nBlot out my sin and my <\/p>\n
1038
\n00:56:22,280 –> 00:56:24,720
\ntransgression.
\nFind me a solution that doesn’t <\/p>\n
1039
\n00:56:24,720 –> 00:56:28,840
\ninvolve the things I know I
\ndeserve and see what God. <\/p>\n
1040
\n00:56:29,440 –> 00:56:31,840
\nWill receive Bren sisters from
\nDavid as a result. <\/p>\n
1041
\n00:56:31,840 –> 00:56:36,640
\nVerse 10 create in me a clean
\nheart, O God, and renew a right <\/p>\n
1042
\n00:56:36,640 –> 00:56:39,120
\nspirit within me.
\nDon’t cast me away from your <\/p>\n
1043
\n00:56:39,120 –> 00:56:41,720
\npresence and take not your Holy
\nSpirit from me. <\/p>\n
1044
\n00:56:41,960 –> 00:56:45,120
\nRestore to me the joy of
\nsalvation and uphold me with <\/p>\n
1045
\n00:56:45,120 –> 00:56:47,200
\nyour free spirit.
\nBecause do you know what I’m <\/p>\n
1046
\n00:56:47,200 –> 00:56:49,480
\ngoing to do says David.
\nAs a result of having been <\/p>\n
1047
\n00:56:49,480 –> 00:56:51,600
\nthrough this process, this is
\nwhat’s going to happen. <\/p>\n
1048
\n00:56:51,600 –> 00:56:55,400
\nVerse 13 then will I teach
\ntransgressors your ways and <\/p>\n
1049
\n00:56:55,400 –> 00:56:57,000
\nsinners will be converted to
\nyou. <\/p>\n
1050
\n00:56:57,280 –> 00:56:59,360
\nNow I know what it is.
\nBren Sisters. <\/p>\n
1051
\n00:56:59,440 –> 00:57:02,440
\nSays David that I need to tell
\npeople about my understanding of<\/p>\n
1052
\n00:57:02,440 –> 00:57:04,400
\nGod.
\nIf you’re willing to do this for<\/p>\n
1053
\n00:57:04,400 –> 00:57:07,960
\nme, then I’m going to teach
\ntransgressors your ways and I’m <\/p>\n
1054
\n00:57:07,960 –> 00:57:09,960
\ngoing to bring sinners back to
\nyou. <\/p>\n
1055
\n00:57:09,960 –> 00:57:14,080
\nVerse 14, Deliver me from blood
\nguiltiness, oh God, oh God of my<\/p>\n
1056
\n00:57:14,080 –> 00:57:17,160
\nsalvation, and my tongue will
\nsing aloud of your <\/p>\n
1057
\n00:57:17,160 –> 00:57:19,640
\nrighteousness.
\nOh Lord, open my lips and my <\/p>\n
1058
\n00:57:19,640 –> 00:57:21,680
\nmouth will show forth your
\npraise. <\/p>\n
1059
\n00:57:21,960 –> 00:57:23,480
\nIsn’t that beautiful, Bren
\nsisters? <\/p>\n
1060
\n00:57:23,680 –> 00:57:25,640
\nDavid says if you can do that
\nfor me. <\/p>\n
1061
\n00:57:25,800 –> 00:57:28,320
\nThere is no question in my mind
\nof what my next preaching <\/p>\n
1062
\n00:57:28,320 –> 00:57:32,880
\ncampaign’s going to be about.
\nIf you’re willing to restore me <\/p>\n
1063
\n00:57:32,880 –> 00:57:35,680
\nin favour in your presence and
\nforgive me and blot out my <\/p>\n
1064
\n00:57:35,680 –> 00:57:39,160
\ntransgressions, then will I
\nteach transgressors your ways? <\/p>\n
1065
\n00:57:39,680 –> 00:57:42,560
\nThen will I open my mouth and
\ntell people about what kind of <\/p>\n
1066
\n00:57:42,560 –> 00:57:43,400
\nGod you?
\nAre. <\/p>\n
1067
\n00:57:44,360 –> 00:57:47,680
\nAnd Brent, this is in our
\npreaching and in our teaching. <\/p>\n
1068
\n00:57:47,680 –> 00:57:50,520
\nOne of the hardest things,
\ncertainly in the UKI think we we<\/p>\n
1069
\n00:57:50,520 –> 00:57:54,640
\nfind is to know how to get hold
\nof this awesome principle and <\/p>\n
1070
\n00:57:54,640 –> 00:57:56,520
\nopen up the doors of
\nunderstanding to the men and <\/p>\n
1071
\n00:57:56,520 –> 00:57:59,000
\nwomen of the world.
\nIf they could only understand <\/p>\n
1072
\n00:57:59,320 –> 00:58:02,440
\nthe feelings they could have and
\nthe experiences and how it would<\/p>\n
1073
\n00:58:02,440 –> 00:58:05,560
\nturn their life inside out of
\nthis kind of relationship with <\/p>\n
1074
\n00:58:05,560 –> 00:58:09,720
\nAlmighty God.
\nAnd Brendan says only can we go <\/p>\n
1075
\n00:58:09,720 –> 00:58:13,320
\nout and preach the gospel of
\nsalvation and forgiveness and <\/p>\n
1076
\n00:58:13,320 –> 00:58:16,120
\nrighteousness in the presence of
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
1077
\n00:58:16,240 –> 00:58:19,400
\nWhen we’ve been through this
\nprocess ourselves, when we’ve <\/p>\n
1078
\n00:58:19,400 –> 00:58:22,160
\nstood holding that cup and we’ve
\ndiscerned the Lord’s body, and <\/p>\n
1079
\n00:58:22,160 –> 00:58:25,720
\nwe feel and understand all that
\nGod has done for us in the Lord <\/p>\n
1080
\n00:58:25,720 –> 00:58:32,040
\nJesus Christ, then then can we
\nteach transgressors the ways of <\/p>\n
1081
\n00:58:32,040 –> 00:58:34,080
\nAlmighty God.
\nThen we can tell other people <\/p>\n
1082
\n00:58:34,080 –> 00:58:37,880
\nwhat God has done for you and
\nwhat God has done for me. <\/p>\n
1083
\n00:58:39,360 –> 00:58:41,600
\nWell, Bren, sisters, thank you
\nfor coming on this journey with <\/p>\n
1084
\n00:58:41,600 –> 00:58:44,480
\nme.
\nAnd as I take the bread of <\/p>\n
1085
\n00:58:44,480 –> 00:58:48,120
\nheaven and share in the royal
\ncup of the King, I remember that<\/p>\n
1086
\n00:58:48,120 –> 00:58:51,480
\nagainst my name in the book of
\nlife, the curse of all mankind <\/p>\n
1087
\n00:58:51,480 –> 00:58:55,040
\nhas been written.
\nI know I’ve not been faithful to<\/p>\n
1088
\n00:58:55,040 –> 00:58:58,400
\nGod, and my life is testimony to
\nthat, no question. <\/p>\n
1089
\n00:58:59,600 –> 00:59:02,280
\nBut as I drink the water of
\nbitterness, I discover the wine <\/p>\n
1090
\n00:59:02,280 –> 00:59:05,760
\nof blessing instead of drinking
\na curse. <\/p>\n
1091
\n00:59:05,760 –> 00:59:09,080
\nThe sins that are blotted out, I
\ndiscover were blotted out by <\/p>\n
1092
\n00:59:09,080 –> 00:59:12,680
\nhim, and he took the curse so I
\ncould be blessed. <\/p>\n
1093
\n00:59:13,440 –> 00:59:15,720
\nAnd may it be, Bren sisters,
\nthat we can see even in our <\/p>\n
1094
\n00:59:15,720 –> 00:59:19,640
\nfailure, God is jealous for us.
\nHe loves us to that extent, and <\/p>\n
1095
\n00:59:19,640 –> 00:59:23,040
\nHe wants me to present, to be
\npresented faultless before Him <\/p>\n
1096
\n00:59:23,320 –> 00:59:26,120
\nwith exceeding joy.
\nThat’s what we think about <\/p>\n
1097
\n00:59:26,120 –> 00:59:29,080
\nyesterday, isn’t it?
\nThat it’s not done with this <\/p>\n
1098
\n00:59:29,080 –> 00:59:31,760
\nsense of Oh well, never mind,
\nJohnny. <\/p>\n
1099
\n00:59:31,760 –> 00:59:33,880
\nI know this has been a
\ndisastrous journey, but I’m <\/p>\n
1100
\n00:59:33,880 –> 00:59:37,520
\nwilling to do this for you, that
\nwe might be presented in his <\/p>\n
1101
\n00:59:37,520 –> 00:59:41,480
\npresence before his glory with
\nexceeding joy. <\/p>\n
1102
\n00:59:42,600 –> 00:59:46,280
\nYou will worship no other God,
\nfor the Lord whose name is <\/p>\n
1103
\n00:59:46,280 –> 00:59:48,680
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