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\nthen we’ll look at what God did <\/p>\n
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\nSunday school material that
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\npassages to see the whole
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\nreally and appreciate the love
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\nSo you end up then with the fact
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\nlooks at sin over all, not just
\nthe personal sins that we <\/p>\n
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\nrefers to sin, that we are no <\/p>\n
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\nlonger slaves of sin.
\nPaul’s treating sin as though <\/p>\n
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\nit’s like a king, it’s like a
\nmaster that you can serve, and <\/p>\n
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\nSo what God did then is that
\nwhen nobody else could save, God<\/p>\n
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\nsent forth his Son and sent him
\nto save all of us. <\/p>\n
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\nSo when Paul is, as he points
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\nPaul lays out a wonderful case
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\nsave themselves, no Gentile
\ncould save themselves, that all <\/p>\n
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\nthe earth was held guilty before
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\nAnd so he points out in verse 9,
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\nAre we better than they?
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\nFor we have previously charged
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\nare all under sin, all of us are
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\nAnd, and he sees this sin as the
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\nfrom their Old Testament
\nScriptures. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is what the Bible had said
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\nThere is none righteous, no, not
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\nThere is none who understands.
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\nThey have all turned aside. <\/p>\n
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\nThey have all together become
\nunprofitable. <\/p>\n
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\nThere is none who does good, no,
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\nAnd So what God did, brethren
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\ncompassion, His kindness, His
\nmercy, when he realized that <\/p>\n
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\nnobody would ever be able to
\nrise up to be the Redeemer, He <\/p>\n
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\nsent forth his Son.
\nAnd that’s what our God did. <\/p>\n
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\nHe intervened in the problem and
\nrealized that we needed help or <\/p>\n
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\nas Isaiah 59 points out, when
\ndealing with all of our <\/p>\n
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\ntransgressions and and and the
\nwhole chapter is showing how our<\/p>\n
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\nnatural tendency is to get all
\nhung up in ritualism and what <\/p>\n
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\nreal, you know, real giving our
\nlife to God is really all about.<\/p>\n
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\nBut he talks about our
\ntransgressions in verse 12 are <\/p>\n
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\nmultiplied before you and our
\nsins testify against us. <\/p>\n
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\nOur transgressions are with us
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\nwondered that there was no <\/p>\n
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\nhis own righteousness, it <\/p>\n
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\nsustained him.
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\nThat’s what our loving heavenly
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\nHe sent forth his Son and he
\nsent his son than to deal with <\/p>\n
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\nas Paul says, he condemned sin,
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\nThis is why the cross Paul would
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\nDid then is he decided all <\/p>\n
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\nNone of these people are going <\/p>\n
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\nredeem us was that one of the
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\nSo if you had the job of
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\nnow I ask you to explain it to <\/p>\n
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\nuse words like sacrifices and <\/p>\n
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\nofferings and all those common
\nterms that we love to use. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we go to explain about the
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\nYou can’t go back to the shadows
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\nI want you to really explain the<\/p>\n
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\nWhere would you go and how would<\/p>\n
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\nHas somebody already done that <\/p>\n
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\ndone that? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what happens in our
\ncommunity, brother and sisters, <\/p>\n
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\nis when we go to explain God’s
\nredemptive plan, we immediately <\/p>\n
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\nwant to talk about sacrifices
\nand offerings, and we want to go<\/p>\n
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\nto the language of the law.
\nThat is our natural tendency, <\/p>\n
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\nbut it’s actually possible to
\nexplain it without all of that, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause the law was only
\nshadows. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was only shadows of the
\nreality. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t the reality itself.
\nSo when the apostle Paul penned <\/p>\n
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\nthe letter to the Romans, did
\nyou realize that he wrote his <\/p>\n
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\nexposition of the atonement
\nwithout talking about sacrifices<\/p>\n
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\nand offerings and the devil?
\nDo you ever notice that he <\/p>\n
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\npurposely leaves those out?
\nHe puts them in, in Hebrews. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, sure.
\nHe, you know, he destroyed him <\/p>\n
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\nwho had the power of death.
\nThat is the devil. <\/p>\n
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\nHe doesn’t mention the devil in
\nRomans because that was too <\/p>\n
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\nconfusing to people.
\nHe doesn’t mention sacrifices <\/p>\n
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\nofferings.
\nAnd instead, he gives us a <\/p>\n
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\nstraightforward exposition of
\nwhat God really did in Christ <\/p>\n
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\nJesus.
\nAnd after you study Romans, then<\/p>\n
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\nyou can go look at Hebrews and
\nfind out, well, here’s how he <\/p>\n
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\nthe Old Testament shadows. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it’s totally backwards to
\ntry to do it the other way. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what we end up doing is in
\nour community is we end up <\/p>\n
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\ntrying to force the work that
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\nshadows and misunderstand that.
\nWait a minute. <\/p>\n
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\nreal work that God did in His
\nSon. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s a great place to go.
\nIt’s go to the book of Romans if<\/p>\n
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\nyou want to study the atonement
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\nThat’s Paul’s straightforward
\nexposition on what God really <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, you’ve never noticed <\/p>\n
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\nsacrifice. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere’s the first time he brings
\nup the word sacrifice in the <\/p>\n
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\nbook of Romans, chapter 12, way
\ninto chapter 12? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what kind of sacrifice is
\nit? <\/p>\n
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\nThat sacrifice was designed to
\nteach by shadow. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:17:51,080 –> 00:17:52,720
\nThat’s really what it was all
\nabout. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:17:52,720 –> 00:17:56,240
\nSo when you see Jesus Christ up
\non the pole and you see our New <\/p>\n
339
\n00:17:56,240 –> 00:17:59,920
\nTestament expositors talking
\nabout that, teaching us that we <\/p>\n
340
\n00:17:59,920 –> 00:18:03,840
\nmust die to sin and live to God,
\nthen you go back to the animal <\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:03,840 –> 00:18:07,360
\nsacrifices and realize that when
\nyou laid your hands on an animal<\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:07,360 –> 00:18:10,000
\nand you brought your animal to
\nthe high priest or to the priest<\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:10,000 –> 00:18:13,040
\nthat was there and you picked
\nout an animal that was without <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:13,120 –> 00:18:18,160
\nblemish, without blemish, that’s
\nnot me, that’s Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:18,480 –> 00:18:21,160
\nAnd you bring your animal to the
\nhigh priest and the priest and <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:21,160 –> 00:18:24,160
\nyou lay your hands on that
\nanimal and you acknowledge the <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:24,160 –> 00:18:27,880
\nfact that that man is going to
\ndie and I’m going to die with <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:27,880 –> 00:18:29,760
\nhim.
\nThis is Romans 6. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:29,960 –> 00:18:33,880
\nThis is what Paul explains in
\nRomans 6, that animal sacrifice <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:33,880 –> 00:18:36,400
\nwas supposed to do.
\nIt’s what our baptism does. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:36,600 –> 00:18:40,520
\nYou identify with him.
\nYou are found in Him not having <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:40,520 –> 00:18:43,680
\na righteousness of our own, but
\none that’s based on faith that <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:43,680 –> 00:18:46,200
\nwe commit to die with Christ to
\nsin. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:46,440 –> 00:18:50,520
\nAnd because of that, God brings
\nus into his family and he <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:50,520 –> 00:18:54,360
\nforgives us of all our mistakes.
\nAnd this is what God was trying <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:54,360 –> 00:18:58,040
\nto teach all those years.
\nAnd instead people turned it <\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:58,040 –> 00:19:01,280
\ninto some substitutionary thing
\nwhile the animal dies instead of<\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:01,280 –> 00:19:03,640
\nme and I’m free to go on and
\njust do what I want. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:19:03,920 –> 00:19:06,040
\nAnd they always had this
\nsubstitution stuff. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:19:06,280 –> 00:19:08,520
\nAnd we don’t want that coming
\ninto our community. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:08,520 –> 00:19:10,440
\nThat’s not part of the truth at
\nall. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:10,640 –> 00:19:14,560
\nYou won’t ever find a New
\nTestament writer ever using <\/p>\n
363
\n00:19:14,560 –> 00:19:17,680
\nthose words about animal
\nsacrifice or the sacrifice of <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:17,680 –> 00:19:20,840
\nJesus Christ.
\nIt was never about substitute or<\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:20,840 –> 00:19:24,640
\ndying instead of you.
\nIt was always that He died as an<\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:24,640 –> 00:19:28,960
\nexample showing us how to live.
\nThat’s how they always explain <\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:28,960 –> 00:19:30,960
\nit.
\nAnd that’s what God was trying <\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:30,960 –> 00:19:33,840
\nto do with the shadows.
\nBut people misunderstood the <\/p>\n
369
\n00:19:33,840 –> 00:19:36,280
\nshadows.
\nSo don’t forget the shadows in <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:36,280 –> 00:19:38,440
\nthe law.
\nThey really were just shadows. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:38,440 –> 00:19:41,240
\nThey were not the very image.
\nThat’s Paul’s words. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:41,280 –> 00:19:45,000
\nThey were not the very image and
\nthey could never make the <\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:45,000 –> 00:19:47,000
\nworshippers perfect.
\nWhy not? <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:47,000 –> 00:19:50,360
\nBecause he says it couldn’t
\naffect your conscience. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:50,960 –> 00:19:53,120
\nYour conscience.
\nYou go through all those <\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:53,120 –> 00:19:55,880
\nprocedures and walk away and
\nthink, Oh no, that’s just an <\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:55,880 –> 00:19:59,720
\nanimal, doesn’t affect me, has
\nno moral impact on your life. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:20:00,080 –> 00:20:03,440
\nIt doesn’t convince you to die
\nto sin, doesn’t convince you to <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:03,440 –> 00:20:05,720
\njoin with Christ when you’re
\njust doing it that way. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:06,000 –> 00:20:09,280
\nIt could never affect the
\nconscience of the worshippers. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:09,280 –> 00:20:13,160
\nHe says, but the sacrifice of
\nChrist, oh boy, that better. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:13,160 –> 00:20:16,440
\nAffect our consciences, because
\nif that one doesn’t, there’s no <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:16,440 –> 00:20:20,080
\nhope of God saving us.
\nThis was His most powerful <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:20,080 –> 00:20:22,600
\nmotive he could ever give us to
\nchange our lives. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:22,960 –> 00:20:26,280
\nThe sacrifice of his Son, the
\ngiving of his Son, of putting <\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:26,280 –> 00:20:29,200
\nsin to death.
\nSo the 3D shadows, when you look<\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:29,200 –> 00:20:32,240
\nback at them, you can see how
\nshadows can sometimes help you <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:32,240 –> 00:20:34,080
\ncreate an image.
\nBut I’ll just show you here, <\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:34,080 –> 00:20:37,240
\nwhat’s the problem with the law?
\nSo you look at a shadow of a <\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:37,240 –> 00:20:40,000
\ntree like that and you try to
\nfigure out, all right, what kind<\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:40,000 –> 00:20:43,400
\nof tree is that from the shadow?
\nI’m only going to give you 1 <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:43,400 –> 00:20:45,680
\nshadow.
\nAnd you got to guess and see, oh<\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:45,680 –> 00:20:47,160
\nreally?
\nThat actually came from an oak <\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:47,160 –> 00:20:49,480
\ntree.
\nSo then you look at another one <\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:49,480 –> 00:20:52,080
\nand you say, ah, extra clues
\nthis time. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:52,520 –> 00:20:55,720
\nSo by looking at different
\naspects of the law, what <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:55,720 –> 00:20:58,320
\nsometimes happened when you did
\nan offering, one kind of <\/p>\n
398
\n00:20:58,320 –> 00:21:00,600
\noffering and then another one.
\nAnd then there were the feast <\/p>\n
399
\n00:21:00,600 –> 00:21:02,880
\ndays, and then there was a day
\nof atonement and then this. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:02,880 –> 00:21:05,040
\nAnd that’s right.
\nAnd there’s all these different <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:05,040 –> 00:21:08,160
\ncomponents that God put into the
\nlaw so that you could see <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:08,160 –> 00:21:11,680
\ndifferent shadows of the real
\nwork that he was aiming at. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:11,960 –> 00:21:15,560
\nAnd the more clues you get, the
\nbetter three-dimensional picture<\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:15,560 –> 00:21:17,720
\nyou can create about what this
\nreally is. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:18,040 –> 00:21:20,800
\nAnd that’s what he had hoped
\nwould happen with the law. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:21,280 –> 00:21:24,080
\nBut the problem was the Jews
\njust took their law and they <\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:24,080 –> 00:21:26,360
\nturned it into something for
\nwhich they could earn their <\/p>\n
408
\n00:21:26,360 –> 00:21:28,600
\nsalvation.
\nSo you can see with that. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:21:28,600 –> 00:21:31,200
\nSee, some shadows are very
\nclear, maybe as to what you <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:31,200 –> 00:21:33,880
\nthink they are.
\nOther times we need extra help. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:34,240 –> 00:21:38,120
\nBut the more detail and the more
\nangles you get, the better the <\/p>\n
412
\n00:21:38,120 –> 00:21:41,320
\nthree-dimensional picture.
\nAnd the better you knew the law <\/p>\n
413
\n00:21:41,360 –> 00:21:44,280
\nand tried to figure out what it
\nwas doing, the better you could <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:44,280 –> 00:21:47,840
\ndo at understanding the shadows.
\nThe problem with the shadows is <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:47,840 –> 00:21:50,360
\nthat when you see one shadow, it
\ncan sometimes be very <\/p>\n
416
\n00:21:50,360 –> 00:21:52,040
\nmisleading.
\nAnd we’ve, you know, as a <\/p>\n
417
\n00:21:52,040 –> 00:21:54,800
\ncommunity, we sometimes do this
\nin misunderstanding or <\/p>\n
418
\n00:21:54,800 –> 00:21:57,680
\nmisapplying the law.
\nSo you look at that shadow up <\/p>\n
419
\n00:21:57,680 –> 00:21:59,440
\nthere and you say, I know what
\nthat is. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:21:59,720 –> 00:22:02,960
\nAnd then you find out, oops,
\nwasn’t quite what I thought. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:03,520 –> 00:22:07,400
\nAnd that’s the problem with
\nshadows, and that’s why you have<\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:07,400 –> 00:22:11,560
\nto be very careful that we don’t
\nbuild our exposition of the <\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:11,560 –> 00:22:16,560
\natonement from the shadows today
\nwhen we have Paul’s and Peters <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:16,560 –> 00:22:21,080
\nand James’s three-dimensional
\nexposition of what this really <\/p>\n
425
\n00:22:21,080 –> 00:22:24,400
\nwas designed to mean.
\nSo we got to go back and look at<\/p>\n
426
\n00:22:24,400 –> 00:22:26,960
\nwhat actually happened.
\nSo when you start looking at <\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:26,960 –> 00:22:30,400
\nJesus Christ, for example, in
\nrelation to God saving his Son, <\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:30,880 –> 00:22:33,760
\nJesus Christ didn’t need a
\nsacrifice. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:34,840 –> 00:22:38,040
\nNow I’ll say that again, He
\ndidn’t need a sacrifice. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:38,480 –> 00:22:43,440
\nHe was the real work that the
\nshadows were designed to teach. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:44,040 –> 00:22:47,800
\nHe, He didn’t need a sacrifice.
\nHe was the sacrifice. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:48,040 –> 00:22:52,000
\nHe was the reality that all
\nthose animal sacrifices were <\/p>\n
433
\n00:22:52,160 –> 00:22:56,240
\ntrying to teach about shadows of
\nthe one who would come and put <\/p>\n
434
\n00:22:56,240 –> 00:23:00,560
\nthe devil to death, put sin to
\ndeath, and declare God right. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:01,000 –> 00:23:04,600
\nSo in the letter to the Hebrews,
\nPaul uses all that language of <\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:04,600 –> 00:23:08,720
\nthe law to show the Jews that
\nthe law had predicted that <\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:08,720 –> 00:23:11,400
\nbetter sacrifices were coming,
\nas he says. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:11,720 –> 00:23:15,200
\nBut in the letter to the Romans,
\nPaul then gives his exposition <\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:15,200 –> 00:23:18,280
\nwithout even using their
\nlanguage of the law, and he <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:18,280 –> 00:23:22,400
\nconfronts them without using
\nsacrifices and offerings and <\/p>\n
441
\n00:23:22,400 –> 00:23:28,840
\ntalks about what God did.
\nGod condemned sin in the flesh <\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:28,840 –> 00:23:31,160
\nof Jesus.
\nChrist doesn’t use the word <\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:31,160 –> 00:23:35,920
\nsacrifice because sacrifice is a
\nshadow of that reality. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:36,200 –> 00:23:39,360
\nAnd it’s it’s fun to look at
\nthose differences because this <\/p>\n
445
\n00:23:39,360 –> 00:23:43,040
\nis how you start to understand
\nthe way Paul saw at least as you<\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:43,040 –> 00:23:44,920
\nlook at Romans and compare it
\nwith Hebrews. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:45,240 –> 00:23:49,600
\nDon’t make Jesus fit the law.
\nHe was the reality that the <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:49,600 –> 00:23:53,160
\nwhole law was actually based on.
\nSo on the cross when we, when we<\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:53,160 –> 00:23:55,640
\ngive our expositions of the
\natonement, we explain God’s plan<\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:55,640 –> 00:23:58,280
\nof redemption and we see Jesus
\nup there on the pole and <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:58,280 –> 00:24:00,680
\nsuffering away and sin being put
\nto death. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:24:00,960 –> 00:24:03,520
\nChrist wasn’t suffering somebody
\nelse’s punishment. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:24:03,640 –> 00:24:05,240
\nHe wasn’t suffering your
\npunishment. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:24:05,520 –> 00:24:08,360
\nThe Bible never says that.
\nNo, no New Testament writers <\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:08,360 –> 00:24:11,320
\never say that.
\nHe was suffering the punishment <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:11,320 –> 00:24:13,840
\nthat you deserve.
\nAnd yet sometimes you’ll hear <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:13,840 –> 00:24:16,520
\npeople say that, especially in
\nour Christian community today. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:16,520 –> 00:24:19,440
\nThey like that because then they
\nsay, well, because you deserve <\/p>\n
459
\n00:24:19,440 –> 00:24:21,440
\nthat punishment and he suffered
\nit for you. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:21,680 –> 00:24:24,080
\nHe’s your substitute.
\nHe took it in place of you. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:24,400 –> 00:24:28,400
\nBut you won’t find Bible writers
\ntalking about it like that. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:28,520 –> 00:24:31,040
\nAnd we don’t want to either.
\nWe don’t want to get into things<\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:31,040 –> 00:24:33,280
\nthat our Bible expositors don’t
\nuse. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:24:33,680 –> 00:24:36,160
\nSo he wasn’t suffering somebody
\nelse’s punishment. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:36,400 –> 00:24:39,120
\nHe wasn’t illustrating the
\npunishment that sinners deserve.<\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:39,120 –> 00:24:41,960
\nYou won’t find that either.
\nEven though it’s true that yes, <\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:41,960 –> 00:24:45,680
\nwe deserve to die, that isn’t
\nwhy God put him on the cross. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:46,040 –> 00:24:49,000
\nGod put him there to condemn
\nsin. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:24:49,200 –> 00:24:51,600
\nThat’s what he’s there for.
\nEven though it’s true that <\/p>\n
470
\n00:24:51,600 –> 00:24:55,600
\nsinners deserve death, you won’t
\nfind Peter, Paul, James, none of<\/p>\n
471
\n00:24:55,600 –> 00:24:59,400
\nthem look at Jesus Christ on the
\npole and say that was teaching <\/p>\n
472
\n00:24:59,400 –> 00:25:01,760
\nus what we deserve.
\nYou won’t find that. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:01,760 –> 00:25:03,800
\nGo ahead and search your Bible
\nall over the place. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:03,800 –> 00:25:07,640
\nIt isn’t there because that’s
\nnot the lesson God’s trying to <\/p>\n
475
\n00:25:07,640 –> 00:25:10,120
\nestablish.
\nYou won’t find that He that <\/p>\n
476
\n00:25:10,120 –> 00:25:12,960
\nthere are Bible expositors ever
\nsay that He deserved the cross <\/p>\n
477
\n00:25:12,960 –> 00:25:15,800
\nbecause He had human nature?
\nWhere does some New Testament <\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:15,800 –> 00:25:19,560
\nwriter ever say that?
\nThey don’t Because He didn’t <\/p>\n
479
\n00:25:19,560 –> 00:25:21,360
\ndeserve it, because He had our
\nnature. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:25:21,520 –> 00:25:24,080
\nIt wasn’t about punishment and
\ndeserve. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:25:24,320 –> 00:25:27,800
\nIt was about a real work of
\ndestroying sin. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:25:28,160 –> 00:25:31,120
\nIt’s not about punishment,
\ndeserve and all those kind of <\/p>\n
483
\n00:25:31,120 –> 00:25:33,280
\nconcepts.
\nAnd he wasn’t going through some<\/p>\n
484
\n00:25:33,280 –> 00:25:35,600
\nkind of ritual or ceremony to
\nsave us. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:25:35,600 –> 00:25:37,760
\nThere’s nothing ritualistic
\nabout this. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:38,000 –> 00:25:41,720
\nThis was a real condemning of
\nsin, really. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:41,760 –> 00:25:44,280
\nGod destroyed him that had the
\npower of death. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:25:44,280 –> 00:25:48,080
\nThat is the devil.
\nHe condemned sin in the body of <\/p>\n
489
\n00:25:48,080 –> 00:25:50,720
\nhis Son.
\nThat’s what God really did in <\/p>\n
490
\n00:25:50,720 –> 00:25:53,080
\nChrist.
\nAnd So what Christ shows us is <\/p>\n
491
\n00:25:53,080 –> 00:25:57,200
\nhe shows us how to live the
\nrighteousness of God in our <\/p>\n
492
\n00:25:57,200 –> 00:26:00,120
\ndaily lives.
\nIt was all about changing how we<\/p>\n
493
\n00:26:00,120 –> 00:26:02,480
\nlive.
\nAnd God’s given us the motive <\/p>\n
494
\n00:26:02,480 –> 00:26:07,040
\npower to change so that we are
\nno longer slaves of sin, but we <\/p>\n
495
\n00:26:07,040 –> 00:26:11,080
\nbecome slaves of righteousness.
\nSo Christ’s death to sin, when <\/p>\n
496
\n00:26:11,080 –> 00:26:13,280
\nyou look at our New Testament
\nwriters, look at how they they <\/p>\n
497
\n00:26:13,280 –> 00:26:16,880
\nrefer to it, you’ll find it in
\nHebrews 2 that he destroyed him <\/p>\n
498
\n00:26:16,880 –> 00:26:18,920
\nthat had the power of death.
\nThat is the devil. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:26:19,160 –> 00:26:22,200
\nFirst John three, He was
\nmanifested to take away our <\/p>\n
500
\n00:26:22,200 –> 00:26:24,560
\nsins.
\nFirst John 3 and 8 For this <\/p>\n
501
\n00:26:24,560 –> 00:26:27,120
\npurpose the Son of God was
\nmanifested, that he might <\/p>\n
502
\n00:26:27,120 –> 00:26:31,200
\ndestroy the works of the devil.
\nIn Hebrews 9 and 26, he’s <\/p>\n
503
\n00:26:31,200 –> 00:26:34,640
\nappeared to put away sin by the
\nsacrifice of himself. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:26:35,040 –> 00:26:39,200
\nJohn, one in 29, the Lamb of God
\nwho takes away the sin of the <\/p>\n
505
\n00:26:39,200 –> 00:26:41,560
\nworld.
\nAnd first Peter too, you know, <\/p>\n
506
\n00:26:41,560 –> 00:26:45,600
\nhe himself bore our sins in his
\nown body on the tree that we <\/p>\n
507
\n00:26:45,680 –> 00:26:48,360
\nmight die to sin and live to
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:26:48,640 –> 00:26:52,280
\nIt’s all this is how our New
\nTestament writers use this It’s <\/p>\n
509
\n00:26:52,320 –> 00:26:56,280
\nall about putting sin to death,
\nthat God can forgive our sins <\/p>\n
510
\n00:26:56,280 –> 00:26:58,640
\nand that we lead a different
\nkind of life. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:26:58,640 –> 00:27:01,240
\nThat’s what it was about, and
\nnow you can see why it was <\/p>\n
512
\n00:27:01,240 –> 00:27:04,040
\nessential that Christ not be an
\nAngel and that he not have some <\/p>\n
513
\n00:27:04,040 –> 00:27:07,360
\nangelic nature, that he not be
\nsome foreign God, the God that <\/p>\n
514
\n00:27:07,360 –> 00:27:09,320
\ncame down and took on a human
\nbody. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:27:09,520 –> 00:27:12,880
\nHe had to be.
\nOne of us, he had to have weak <\/p>\n
516
\n00:27:12,920 –> 00:27:16,120
\nhuman nature so he could really
\ndie to sin. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:27:16,600 –> 00:27:21,520
\nAs Paul says, he died to sin
\nonce in Romans 6, in first, in <\/p>\n
518
\n00:27:21,520 –> 00:27:25,160
\nthe first, in Second Corinthians
\n5 and 21, he was made sin for <\/p>\n
519
\n00:27:25,160 –> 00:27:27,400
\nus, you know, passages that
\nwe’re familiar with. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:27:27,880 –> 00:27:30,600
\nAnd in in first Peter two, he
\nbore our sins in his body. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:27:30,680 –> 00:27:33,320
\nHebrews 9.
\nHe was offered to bear the sins <\/p>\n
522
\n00:27:33,320 –> 00:27:35,920
\nof many, but he will come again
\nnot to bear sin. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:27:36,360 –> 00:27:40,000
\nAnd in Romans 8, God condemned.
\nSin in the flesh. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:40,240 –> 00:27:43,560
\nSo Christ had to have this weak
\nhuman nature so that he could <\/p>\n
525
\n00:27:43,560 –> 00:27:45,960
\nwin his victory.
\nSo when you look at what was <\/p>\n
526
\n00:27:45,960 –> 00:27:50,240
\ngoing on, how God set out to
\ncondemn sin in the flesh, in the<\/p>\n
527
\n00:27:50,240 –> 00:27:54,120
\nbody of Jesus Christ, his Son,
\nyou got the conflict that <\/p>\n
528
\n00:27:54,120 –> 00:27:57,800
\ndevelops within Mary because
\nwithin Christ, because from Mary<\/p>\n
529
\n00:27:57,920 –> 00:28:01,440
\nhe gets the physical defilement,
\nhe inherits mortality, He <\/p>\n
530
\n00:28:01,440 –> 00:28:03,880
\ninherits this nature that’s so
\nprone to sin. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:28:04,360 –> 00:28:07,680
\nBut from God, what he gets, the
\ncomponent that he gets from his <\/p>\n
532
\n00:28:07,680 –> 00:28:12,120
\nFather is he gets a physical
\npotential for perfect obedience.<\/p>\n
533
\n00:28:12,320 –> 00:28:15,280
\nDidn’t mean he had to be
\nperfectly obedient, but he got <\/p>\n
534
\n00:28:15,280 –> 00:28:19,360
\nthe potential that none of the
\nrest of the race ever had of <\/p>\n
535
\n00:28:19,360 –> 00:28:23,440
\nbecoming the savior of the race.
\nAnd so morning by morning, the <\/p>\n
536
\n00:28:23,440 –> 00:28:28,080
\nScriptures say God wakened him.
\nHe also had a natural bias in <\/p>\n
537
\n00:28:28,080 –> 00:28:30,880
\nsome way to his dad.
\nI think that probably was <\/p>\n
538
\n00:28:30,880 –> 00:28:34,280
\nimportant and in some way that
\nto help him in his fight against<\/p>\n
539
\n00:28:34,280 –> 00:28:36,560
\nsin.
\nAnd this is what God did then, <\/p>\n
540
\n00:28:36,560 –> 00:28:40,240
\nas he created in his Son a
\ncomponent, He has a member of <\/p>\n
541
\n00:28:40,240 –> 00:28:45,000
\nour race now who has our nature,
\nwho has mortality, who has a <\/p>\n
542
\n00:28:45,080 –> 00:28:50,120
\nbias to sin, a proneness to sin
\nthat we feel so that he can feel<\/p>\n
543
\n00:28:50,120 –> 00:28:53,040
\nour temptations.
\nHe knows what it’s like to look <\/p>\n
544
\n00:28:53,040 –> 00:28:57,000
\nat something and actually want
\nit or to dream about something <\/p>\n
545
\n00:28:57,000 –> 00:28:58,720
\nand possibly think about having
\nit. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:28:58,960 –> 00:29:02,440
\nAnd yet at the same time, he
\ninherits from his Father this <\/p>\n
547
\n00:29:02,440 –> 00:29:06,160
\nability that the Father can
\ndevelop in him of overcoming <\/p>\n
548
\n00:29:06,160 –> 00:29:08,840
\nsin.
\nAnd so some people look at that <\/p>\n
549
\n00:29:08,840 –> 00:29:11,720
\nand they say, all right, this
\ndoes that mean that Jesus had an<\/p>\n
550
\n00:29:11,720 –> 00:29:14,760
\nunfair advantage?
\nHe had something that you don’t <\/p>\n
551
\n00:29:14,760 –> 00:29:18,240
\nhave.
\nHe had the physical potential to<\/p>\n
552
\n00:29:18,240 –> 00:29:22,360
\ndevelop perfect obedience.
\nNobody in this room has that. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:29:22,720 –> 00:29:26,080
\nSo is that unfair?
\nWell, you know when you look at <\/p>\n
554
\n00:29:26,080 –> 00:29:28,760
\nthat really, and you think, all
\nright, Christ had that, I don’t <\/p>\n
555
\n00:29:28,760 –> 00:29:31,640
\nhave that.
\nWould you want laid on you the <\/p>\n
556
\n00:29:31,640 –> 00:29:36,600
\nfact that you could never sin?
\nYou can never make one mistake. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:29:37,000 –> 00:29:39,720
\nYou are, you know.
\nEverybody in the whole room and <\/p>\n
558
\n00:29:39,720 –> 00:29:43,560
\nthe whole city and the whole
\ncommunity for thousands of years<\/p>\n
559
\n00:29:43,560 –> 00:29:47,160
\nis counting on you to make it.
\nAnd you look at that and say, <\/p>\n
560
\n00:29:47,160 –> 00:29:51,320
\nwas that an unfair advantage?
\nThat was a huge stressor in his <\/p>\n
561
\n00:29:51,320 –> 00:29:53,600
\nlife.
\nThe pressure was enormous. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:29:53,960 –> 00:29:57,240
\nAnd so, you know, it’s that’s an
\nimportant concept to real about <\/p>\n
563
\n00:29:57,240 –> 00:30:00,200
\nrealize about Jesus Christ.
\nSometimes as younger people, we <\/p>\n
564
\n00:30:00,200 –> 00:30:02,440
\nsometimes look at that and say,
\nwell, that’s not fair. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:30:02,440 –> 00:30:06,120
\nHe had something I didn’t have,
\nbut look at what was required of<\/p>\n
566
\n00:30:06,120 –> 00:30:10,200
\nhim that is not required of us.
\nAnd he wasn’t a Superman. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:30:10,200 –> 00:30:12,480
\nThat’s another concept I
\nremember as a younger person <\/p>\n
568
\n00:30:12,480 –> 00:30:15,280
\ngrowing up as a Christadelphian,
\nthen a Christadelphian Sunday <\/p>\n
569
\n00:30:15,280 –> 00:30:17,680
\nschool with great parents who
\ntaught me the truth. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:30:18,000 –> 00:30:21,320
\nBut at the same time, I had a
\nnatural tendency to think that <\/p>\n
571
\n00:30:21,360 –> 00:30:23,680
\nJesus Christ easily overcame
\nsin. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:30:24,000 –> 00:30:27,440
\nI used to read the temptation in
\nthe in the garden, in the <\/p>\n
573
\n00:30:27,440 –> 00:30:29,240
\nwilderness.
\nAnd you know, if you know, <\/p>\n
574
\n00:30:29,280 –> 00:30:31,360
\nturning stones into bread, no
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:30:31,360 –> 00:30:34,320
\nBible passage immediately.
\nYou know, you shall not live by <\/p>\n
576
\n00:30:34,320 –> 00:30:36,520
\nbread alone, but by every word
\nthat proceeds in the mouth of <\/p>\n
577
\n00:30:36,520 –> 00:30:39,720
\nGod, not next temptation, you
\nknow, and that that’s sort of <\/p>\n
578
\n00:30:39,720 –> 00:30:42,040
\nlike the way I viewed him like a
\nSuperman where just like <\/p>\n
579
\n00:30:42,040 –> 00:30:44,080
\ntemptations bounced off of him
\neasily. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:30:44,400 –> 00:30:46,400
\nAnd it’s not until you’re
\nreading the Psalms. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:30:46,440 –> 00:30:49,400
\nSo you see him in the garden
\nthat you realize what a struggle<\/p>\n
582
\n00:30:49,400 –> 00:30:51,880
\nit was.
\nAnd you see that human side of <\/p>\n
583
\n00:30:51,880 –> 00:30:55,360
\nChrist, of what he was going
\nthrough day by day, learning <\/p>\n
584
\n00:30:55,360 –> 00:30:59,200
\nobedience, by the things that he
\nsuffered and he heard for his <\/p>\n
585
\n00:30:59,200 –> 00:31:02,160
\ngodly fear, and he’s crying to
\nhis Father for help. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:31:02,760 –> 00:31:06,840
\nThis whole subject also helps
\nunderstand why Jesus Christ was <\/p>\n
587
\n00:31:06,840 –> 00:31:09,080
\nbaptized.
\nSometimes our kids ask us that. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:31:09,080 –> 00:31:10,800
\nThey wonder like, why was Christ
\nbaptized? <\/p>\n
589
\n00:31:10,800 –> 00:31:13,400
\nHe didn’t have any sins.
\nBecause we say today, you know, <\/p>\n
590
\n00:31:13,400 –> 00:31:14,960
\nwhy?
\nWhy are we getting baptized? <\/p>\n
591
\n00:31:14,960 –> 00:31:16,960
\nSo some young person over there
\ndecides they want to get <\/p>\n
592
\n00:31:16,960 –> 00:31:19,000
\nbaptized.
\nSo you’re going to get baptized.<\/p>\n
593
\n00:31:19,120 –> 00:31:21,560
\nWhy do you want to be baptized?
\nThat’s a common question that <\/p>\n
594
\n00:31:21,560 –> 00:31:23,880
\nthey ask at baptizal interviews.
\nSo you got to know the answer to<\/p>\n
595
\n00:31:23,880 –> 00:31:25,520
\nthat one.
\nSo why do you want to be <\/p>\n
596
\n00:31:25,520 –> 00:31:27,600
\nbaptized?
\nAnd you say, well, because I <\/p>\n
597
\n00:31:27,600 –> 00:31:31,040
\nwant to be forgiven of my sins.
\nAnd then you think, well, why <\/p>\n
598
\n00:31:31,040 –> 00:31:33,720
\nwas Jesus baptized?
\nHe didn’t have any sins to be <\/p>\n
599
\n00:31:33,720 –> 00:31:37,440
\nforgiven of.
\nBut when you look at sin, as <\/p>\n
600
\n00:31:37,440 –> 00:31:41,680
\nJohn Thomas explained it, the
\nwhole component of sin, when you<\/p>\n
601
\n00:31:41,680 –> 00:31:45,760
\nlook at the root and the ’cause
\nthen Christ had no personal <\/p>\n
602
\n00:31:45,760 –> 00:31:47,600
\nsins, so.
\nWas it really? <\/p>\n
603
\n00:31:47,600 –> 00:31:50,520
\nJust an example to us because
\nthat’s the next thing that <\/p>\n
604
\n00:31:50,520 –> 00:31:53,560
\npeople then say, well, he did it
\nfor us so that we would follow <\/p>\n
605
\n00:31:53,560 –> 00:31:56,720
\nin the steps.
\nAnd we sometimes fail to realize<\/p>\n
606
\n00:31:56,720 –> 00:31:59,200
\nthat look at he was really
\nfighting this battle. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:31:59,480 –> 00:32:03,080
\nHe’s fighting this battle and
\nit’s more intense in him than it<\/p>\n
608
\n00:32:03,080 –> 00:32:05,720
\nis in us.
\nHe can’t sin once. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:32:05,720 –> 00:32:09,320
\nHe can’t give in.
\nAnd so much was required of him.<\/p>\n
610
\n00:32:09,720 –> 00:32:12,560
\nAnd so you find that John the
\nBaptist said that I need to be <\/p>\n
611
\n00:32:12,560 –> 00:32:14,600
\nbaptized by you and are you
\ncoming to me? <\/p>\n
612
\n00:32:15,120 –> 00:32:18,160
\nYou know, and this is the one
\nwho he said was spoken to by the<\/p>\n
613
\n00:32:18,160 –> 00:32:20,720
\nprophet Isaiah, the voice of one
\ncrying in the wilderness, and <\/p>\n
614
\n00:32:20,720 –> 00:32:23,080
\nprepare the way of the Lord and
\nmake his paths straight. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:32:23,520 –> 00:32:26,520
\nSo what Jesus Christ did when he
\nwent down into the waters of <\/p>\n
616
\n00:32:26,520 –> 00:32:30,400
\nbaptism is he understood the
\nwhole process of the devil and <\/p>\n
617
\n00:32:30,400 –> 00:32:32,360
\nsin.
\nAnd he went down there as a <\/p>\n
618
\n00:32:32,360 –> 00:32:37,000
\npublic testimony to his friends,
\nto the world, to his Father, to <\/p>\n
619
\n00:32:37,000 –> 00:32:41,440
\nthe angels in heaven, that he
\nwas committed to declare God <\/p>\n
620
\n00:32:41,480 –> 00:32:46,800
\nright for his condemnation of
\nsin, of the root and the cause. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:32:47,320 –> 00:32:50,680
\nAnd because of that, the Father
\nopened the heavens and was so <\/p>\n
622
\n00:32:50,680 –> 00:32:53,840
\npleased and said, this is my
\nbeloved Son. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:32:53,840 –> 00:32:56,400
\nI mean, this is what he’s been
\nwaiting for, for all these <\/p>\n
624
\n00:32:56,400 –> 00:33:00,960
\nyears, for 6000 years for
\nsomeone to declare him right. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:33:01,320 –> 00:33:04,720
\nAnd Jesus Christ did that.
\nJohn the Baptist had been crying<\/p>\n
626
\n00:33:04,720 –> 00:33:07,920
\nthat all flesh is grass.
\nHe was, you know, referring back<\/p>\n
627
\n00:33:07,920 –> 00:33:10,200
\nto Isaiah 40 right there.
\nWhat shall I cry? <\/p>\n
628
\n00:33:10,200 –> 00:33:13,320
\nAll flesh is grass, and it’s
\nloveliness is like the flower of<\/p>\n
629
\n00:33:13,320 –> 00:33:15,480
\nthe field.
\nThe grass Withers, The flower <\/p>\n
630
\n00:33:15,480 –> 00:33:17,920
\nfades because the breath of the
\nLord blows upon it. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:33:18,040 –> 00:33:21,240
\nSurely the people are grass.
\nThe grass Withers, the flower <\/p>\n
632
\n00:33:21,240 –> 00:33:23,800
\nfades, but the Word of God
\nstands forever. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:33:24,200 –> 00:33:26,960
\nSo Jesus Christ comes along at
\nthat point and says to John, <\/p>\n
634
\n00:33:26,960 –> 00:33:29,920
\nJohn, we’ve got to do this, I’ve
\ngot to do this. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:33:30,000 –> 00:33:32,680
\nThus it becometh us to fulfill
\nall righteousness. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:33:32,920 –> 00:33:37,200
\nSo he declared that his dad was
\nright for the whole process of <\/p>\n
637
\n00:33:37,200 –> 00:33:40,920
\nhow he had condemned sin and all
\nthe things that God had done. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:33:41,120 –> 00:33:44,520
\nHe was right to condemn sin to
\ndeath, sinners to death. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:33:44,760 –> 00:33:47,760
\nGod was right to require us to
\nput the old man to death. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:33:47,920 –> 00:33:50,240
\nChrist was committed to doing
\nthat. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:33:50,560 –> 00:33:54,920
\nAnd so his declaration in
\nbaptism was simply what he would<\/p>\n
642
\n00:33:54,920 –> 00:33:57,520
\nfinally do at the cross.
\nWe just were looking at that <\/p>\n
643
\n00:33:57,520 –> 00:34:00,280
\nlast week when Brother Jim
\nHarper was given his classes up <\/p>\n
644
\n00:34:00,280 –> 00:34:03,640
\nat VIBC, that this was where the
\nprocess started. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:34:03,640 –> 00:34:06,920
\nHe went out there, went down
\ninto the water and he declared. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:34:06,920 –> 00:34:10,600
\nGod’s right.
\nThe old man must die, and that <\/p>\n
647
\n00:34:10,600 –> 00:34:13,840
\nwas a commitment then, and it
\nwas a commitment that at the end<\/p>\n
648
\n00:34:13,840 –> 00:34:17,440
\nhe would do it on the cross,
\nwhich was why God was so pleased<\/p>\n
649
\n00:34:17,440 –> 00:34:20,679
\nwith his condemnation of sin as
\nthe acknowledgement of the of <\/p>\n
650
\n00:34:20,679 –> 00:34:22,560
\nthe Son that the Father was
\nright. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:34:23,159 –> 00:34:26,320
\nSo why we’re baptized, we get
\nbaptized and we tell our young <\/p>\n
652
\n00:34:26,320 –> 00:34:29,679
\npeople, you’re baptized with the
\nforgiveness of your sins. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:34:30,159 –> 00:34:34,199
\nBut what you want to remember is
\nthe whole concept of baptism <\/p>\n
654
\n00:34:34,280 –> 00:34:37,560
\nisn’t just about the forgiveness
\nof our sins. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:34:37,880 –> 00:34:42,600
\nIt’s about the fact that we are
\ncommitted to die with Christ to <\/p>\n
656
\n00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:44,960
\nsin.
\nThat’s what we’re committing to <\/p>\n
657
\n00:34:44,960 –> 00:34:47,320
\nin baptism.
\nIt isn’t just so that we can be <\/p>\n
658
\n00:34:47,320 –> 00:34:50,400
\nforgiven of our sins.
\nIt’s so that we will tell our <\/p>\n
659
\n00:34:50,400 –> 00:34:53,840
\nfriends, our neighbors, those
\naround us, the angels in heaven,<\/p>\n
660
\n00:34:54,159 –> 00:34:57,240
\nGod in Christ himself, that we
\nare making a covenant, a <\/p>\n
661
\n00:34:57,240 –> 00:35:00,920
\ncommitment that we are going to
\nput sin to death. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:35:00,960 –> 00:35:04,800
\nThat’s what we do.
\nAnd because of that, God can <\/p>\n
663
\n00:35:04,800 –> 00:35:07,960
\nrighteously forgive our sins.
\nThat’s what we do. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:35:07,960 –> 00:35:13,000
\nWe join with Christ in a death
\nlike His and the death like his <\/p>\n
665
\n00:35:13,000 –> 00:35:17,280
\nisn’t his crucifixion on the
\npole His death that that Paul’s <\/p>\n
666
\n00:35:17,280 –> 00:35:20,000
\nreferring to is his death to
\nsin. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:35:20,320 –> 00:35:23,760
\nGod condemned sin in the flesh
\nof Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:35:23,960 –> 00:35:26,640
\nIt’s not some torturous death
\nthat Paul’s referring to. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:35:26,640 –> 00:35:30,760
\nHe’s talking about the victory
\nthat God and Christ won when <\/p>\n
670
\n00:35:30,760 –> 00:35:34,080
\nthey put sin to death.
\nSo when you look at Jesus Christ<\/p>\n
671
\n00:35:34,080 –> 00:35:36,320
\nand you try to figure out, well,
\nwhy was he doing this? <\/p>\n
672
\n00:35:36,680 –> 00:35:40,680
\nWell, he inherited from Mary the
\nbodies that we have mortality <\/p>\n
673
\n00:35:40,880 –> 00:35:43,480
\nand this nature that’s that’s
\nprone to sin. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:35:43,800 –> 00:35:47,920
\nAnd so God designed a plan of
\nredemption where he would take <\/p>\n
675
\n00:35:47,920 –> 00:35:53,160
\none of our race, one person, and
\nreally save that one person. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:35:53,400 –> 00:35:57,560
\nHe would work in that one
\nperson’s life and totally defeat<\/p>\n
677
\n00:35:57,560 –> 00:36:02,960
\nsin and then put that person up
\nas the public example of this is<\/p>\n
678
\n00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:06,000
\nwhat God really wants.
\nThis is what God’s children’s <\/p>\n
679
\n00:36:06,000 –> 00:36:08,680
\ndo.
\nThey defeat sin and and they <\/p>\n
680
\n00:36:08,680 –> 00:36:12,600
\nlive lives of righteousness to
\nGod and declare God right in <\/p>\n
681
\n00:36:12,600 –> 00:36:15,600
\neverything that he asked.
\nGod says, look at this is what <\/p>\n
682
\n00:36:15,600 –> 00:36:19,200
\nwe’re going to do and so he sets
\nout to save his son. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:36:19,600 –> 00:36:22,800
\nThis is from the angels
\nperspective when when Jesus <\/p>\n
684
\n00:36:22,800 –> 00:36:26,840
\nChrist was born, this was the
\nfocal point of 6000 years. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:36:26,840 –> 00:36:30,440
\nWe have to save Messiah.
\nHe’s got to make it and then the<\/p>\n
686
\n00:36:30,440 –> 00:36:33,680
\ngoal would be that the rest of
\nthe family be saved in him. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:36:34,560 –> 00:36:37,320
\nSo as well as Robert Roberts put
\nit in the law of Moses, when he,<\/p>\n
688
\n00:36:37,320 –> 00:36:40,120
\nwhen he wrote that, he actually
\nmade a comment on this concept <\/p>\n
689
\n00:36:40,120 –> 00:36:42,400
\nabout what it means that Christ
\ndied for us. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:36:42,880 –> 00:36:45,720
\nAnd he said there that the
\nstatement that he did these <\/p>\n
691
\n00:36:45,720 –> 00:36:51,000
\nthings for us has blinded many
\nto the fact that he did them for<\/p>\n
692
\n00:36:51,120 –> 00:36:55,600
\nhimself first, for without which
\nhe could not have done them for <\/p>\n
693
\n00:36:55,600 –> 00:36:57,840
\nus.
\nFor it was by doing them for <\/p>\n
694
\n00:36:57,840 –> 00:37:02,840
\nhimself that he did them for us,
\nand he did them for us only in <\/p>\n
695
\n00:37:02,840 –> 00:37:07,320
\nhis, as we may become a part of
\nHim in merging our individual, <\/p>\n
696
\n00:37:07,400 –> 00:37:11,600
\nour individualities in Him by
\ntaking part in his death. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:37:12,080 –> 00:37:15,320
\nAnd again, he’s not talking
\nabout his torturous death on a <\/p>\n
698
\n00:37:15,320 –> 00:37:18,000
\ncross.
\nHe’s talking about taking part <\/p>\n
699
\n00:37:18,000 –> 00:37:21,640
\nin his death to sin.
\nThis is how Paul would put it, <\/p>\n
700
\n00:37:22,120 –> 00:37:25,400
\nand putting on his name and
\nsharing his life afterwards. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:37:25,520 –> 00:37:29,760
\nHe is, as it were, a center of
\nhealthy life in which we must <\/p>\n
702
\n00:37:29,760 –> 00:37:32,240
\nbecome incorporate before we can
\nbe saved. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:37:32,640 –> 00:37:35,280
\nSo you can see that as, as
\nRobert Roberts saw it, it’s this<\/p>\n
704
\n00:37:35,280 –> 00:37:37,360
\nconcept of doing it for us, for
\nus, for us. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:37:37,360 –> 00:37:40,960
\nAs it’s so stressed in the New
\nTestament, it can sometimes lead<\/p>\n
706
\n00:37:40,960 –> 00:37:44,160
\npeople down a pathway where they
\nend up thinking, well, God <\/p>\n
707
\n00:37:44,160 –> 00:37:47,160
\ndidn’t really need to do it for
\nhim, but He did. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:37:47,160 –> 00:37:49,480
\nHe was born with our nature.
\nHe had mortality. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:37:49,480 –> 00:37:53,320
\nHe had a proneness to sin.
\nHe needed salvation. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:37:53,560 –> 00:37:56,440
\nChrist needed to be saved from
\nthis nature of sin. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:37:56,720 –> 00:38:02,160
\nAnd so God set up a plan to save
\nhis Son and in saving his Son, <\/p>\n
712
\n00:38:02,280 –> 00:38:05,600
\nand the focal point was that he
\nwould be saving the rest of the <\/p>\n
713
\n00:38:05,600 –> 00:38:07,680
\nrace.
\nAnd that’s how Jesus Christ saw <\/p>\n
714
\n00:38:07,680 –> 00:38:09,360
\nit.
\nThat’s why He went through it <\/p>\n
715
\n00:38:09,360 –> 00:38:11,480
\nfor us.
\nI think you’ll see that Christ <\/p>\n
716
\n00:38:11,480 –> 00:38:13,120
\nnever lost track of that
\nconcept. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:38:13,120 –> 00:38:16,480
\nHe never lost focus on the fact
\nthat He was going through it for<\/p>\n
718
\n00:38:16,480 –> 00:38:18,440
\nthe group, for the good of the
\ngroup. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:38:18,760 –> 00:38:21,760
\nSo that in Luke 18, when the
\nruler came to him and said, good<\/p>\n
720
\n00:38:21,760 –> 00:38:24,120
\nteacher, what shall I do to
\ninherit eternal life? <\/p>\n
721
\n00:38:24,640 –> 00:38:27,640
\nImmediately his mind goes to the
\nfact that, wait a minute, I’m <\/p>\n
722
\n00:38:27,640 –> 00:38:30,840
\nnot good teacher.
\nHe says, why do you call me <\/p>\n
723
\n00:38:30,840 –> 00:38:33,720
\ngood?
\nNo one is good but one that is <\/p>\n
724
\n00:38:33,720 –> 00:38:36,040
\nGod don’t end up putting me up
\nthere. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:38:36,240 –> 00:38:39,200
\nI’m in this because my father’s
\ngoing to use me. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:38:39,200 –> 00:38:42,320
\nHe’s going to save me so that I
\ncan save the rest. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:38:42,680 –> 00:38:44,680
\nHe understood he had the devil
\nin him. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:38:44,920 –> 00:38:48,280
\nHe had to have the devil in him
\nbecause the victory had to be <\/p>\n
729
\n00:38:48,280 –> 00:38:52,080
\nwon over sin over the root and
\nthe cause so that God could <\/p>\n
730
\n00:38:52,080 –> 00:38:54,920
\ncondemn sin in the flesh of
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:38:55,200 –> 00:38:58,760
\nSo he declared that God is the
\nonly one who is good and don’t <\/p>\n
732
\n00:38:58,760 –> 00:39:00,560
\nend up thinking better of
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:39:01,400 –> 00:39:04,040
\nLater on in the New Testament
\nwhen people got off the track on<\/p>\n
734
\n00:39:04,040 –> 00:39:07,320
\nthis early on, this is what
\nbecame known as the Antichrist <\/p>\n
735
\n00:39:07,320 –> 00:39:08,720
\nteaching.
\nThis is where the original <\/p>\n
736
\n00:39:08,720 –> 00:39:12,280
\nAntichrist stuff came from.
\nIn first John 4 John refers to <\/p>\n
737
\n00:39:12,280 –> 00:39:14,840
\nit that beloved don’t believe
\nevery spirit but test the <\/p>\n
738
\n00:39:14,840 –> 00:39:17,760
\nspirits whether they are of God
\nbecause many false prophets have<\/p>\n
739
\n00:39:17,760 –> 00:39:21,120
\ngone out into the world and by
\nthis you will know the Spirit of<\/p>\n
740
\n00:39:21,120 –> 00:39:23,960
\nGod.
\nEvery spirit that confesses that<\/p>\n
741
\n00:39:23,960 –> 00:39:27,600
\nJesus Christ has come in the
\nflesh is of God, and every <\/p>\n
742
\n00:39:27,600 –> 00:39:30,680
\nspirit that does not confess
\nthat Jesus Christ has come in <\/p>\n
743
\n00:39:30,680 –> 00:39:32,400
\nthe flesh is.
\nNot of God. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:39:32,680 –> 00:39:35,280
\nThis is the spirit of Antichrist
\nof which you have heard. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:39:35,280 –> 00:39:39,080
\nIt was coming and is now already
\nin the world because people <\/p>\n
746
\n00:39:39,080 –> 00:39:42,200
\nimmediately got off the track on
\nthis and thought that Jesus <\/p>\n
747
\n00:39:42,200 –> 00:39:43,920
\nChrist really didn’t come in the
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:39:44,200 –> 00:39:47,040
\nHow in the world could a human
\nperson ever be sinless? <\/p>\n
749
\n00:39:47,240 –> 00:39:51,120
\nHe must have been a God and they
\nimmediately came up with this <\/p>\n
750
\n00:39:51,120 –> 00:39:53,000
\nidea that Christ was different
\nthan us. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:39:53,000 –> 00:39:56,160
\nHe had some pre-existing
\nexistence and he had just come <\/p>\n
752
\n00:39:56,160 –> 00:39:58,080
\ndown and taken on a body for a
\nwhile. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:39:58,080 –> 00:40:00,080
\nHe didn’t really come in the
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:02,920
\nAnd when you go that route, you
\ntake away the victory that. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:40:02,920 –> 00:40:05,400
\nWas the great.
\nVictory that God accomplished of<\/p>\n
756
\n00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:08,600
\ncondemning sin in the body of
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:40:09,240 –> 00:40:12,280
\nIn Hebrews 9, when the apostle
\nPaul refers to this and looking <\/p>\n
758
\n00:40:12,280 –> 00:40:14,840
\nat the shadows, because he’s
\nbuilding his case now on the <\/p>\n
759
\n00:40:14,840 –> 00:40:18,040
\nshadows of the law and saying,
\nhere’s how the law foreshadowed <\/p>\n
760
\n00:40:18,040 –> 00:40:20,520
\nthis.
\nChrist came in Hebrews 9 at <\/p>\n
761
\n00:40:20,520 –> 00:40:24,280
\nverse 11 as high priest of the
\ngood things to come with the <\/p>\n
762
\n00:40:24,280 –> 00:40:27,360
\ngreater and more perfect
\nTabernacle, not made with His <\/p>\n
763
\n00:40:27,360 –> 00:40:30,880
\nhands, that is not of this
\ncreation, and not with the blood<\/p>\n
764
\n00:40:30,880 –> 00:40:34,720
\nof bulls or the blood of goats
\nand calves, but with His own <\/p>\n
765
\n00:40:34,720 –> 00:40:37,600
\nblood.
\nHe entered the Most Holy once <\/p>\n
766
\n00:40:37,600 –> 00:40:40,680
\nfor all, having obtained eternal
\nredemption. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:40:41,280 –> 00:40:44,120
\nAnd some of your Bibles have
\nthose words for us in there, and<\/p>\n
768
\n00:40:44,120 –> 00:40:47,440
\nthey really shouldn’t be there.
\nHe entered into the holy place, <\/p>\n
769
\n00:40:47,600 –> 00:40:52,720
\nforce first for himself to
\nobtain eternal redemption so <\/p>\n
770
\n00:40:52,720 –> 00:40:56,520
\nthat he could in turn and
\nincorporate and save all of <\/p>\n
771
\n00:40:56,520 –> 00:41:00,200
\nthose who would be saved in him.
\nThe Greek there is some of the <\/p>\n
772
\n00:41:00,200 –> 00:41:03,120
\nexpositors notices in the middle
\nvoice right there indicating <\/p>\n
773
\n00:41:03,120 –> 00:41:05,400
\nthat the action has to be
\napplied to the subject. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:41:05,400 –> 00:41:09,040
\nIt’s not about us, it’s about
\nthe fact that He went in to <\/p>\n
775
\n00:41:09,040 –> 00:41:13,320
\nobtain eternal redemption for
\nHimself so that it could be for <\/p>\n
776
\n00:41:13,320 –> 00:41:17,080
\nall of us.
\nGod had to save his Son first so<\/p>\n
777
\n00:41:17,080 –> 00:41:20,240
\nthat He could save the rest.
\nNow, in covering this subject <\/p>\n
778
\n00:41:20,240 –> 00:41:23,880
\nthat way, this doesn’t eliminate
\nthe concept that, as many people<\/p>\n
779
\n00:41:23,880 –> 00:41:27,360
\nhave often wondered, well, would
\nGod have put Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
780
\n00:41:27,360 –> 00:41:29,840
\nthrough all of this if it wasn’t
\nfor all of us? <\/p>\n
781
\n00:41:30,240 –> 00:41:32,400
\nAnd the Bible doesn’t comment on
\nthat at all. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:41:32,880 –> 00:41:35,400
\nAnd you can speculate on that
\nfor the rest of your life <\/p>\n
783
\n00:41:35,400 –> 00:41:37,960
\nbecause you know, it’s just,
\nit’s, it’s almost one of those <\/p>\n
784
\n00:41:37,960 –> 00:41:40,480
\nquestions that you can ask that
\nit’s almost worthless because <\/p>\n
785
\n00:41:40,480 –> 00:41:43,400
\nwhat’s the point?
\nWhat the Bible comments on is. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:41:43,400 –> 00:41:46,880
\nWhat we really have, we have a
\nrace of people who are prone to <\/p>\n
787
\n00:41:46,880 –> 00:41:50,120
\nsin, who are inevitably become
\nsinners, who are born with <\/p>\n
788
\n00:41:50,120 –> 00:41:53,720
\nmortality.
\nGod wants to save some, He loves<\/p>\n
789
\n00:41:53,720 –> 00:41:58,440
\nthem, and so he has his Son come
\nin the likeness of sinful flesh <\/p>\n
790
\n00:41:58,480 –> 00:42:02,760
\nand for sin and condemn sin in
\nthe flesh of his Son. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:42:03,120 –> 00:42:06,440
\nAnd if Bible doesn’t comment on
\nat all on what God would have <\/p>\n
792
\n00:42:06,440 –> 00:42:09,040
\ndone with Jesus if it hadn’t
\nbeen for us. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:42:09,640 –> 00:42:12,880
\nIn Hebrews 7, when Paul again is
\nlooking at the the shadows of <\/p>\n
794
\n00:42:12,880 –> 00:42:18,200
\nthe law, he refers to in verse
\n27 that who does not need daily <\/p>\n
795
\n00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:22,320
\nas those high priests to OfferUp
\nsacrifices first for his own <\/p>\n
796
\n00:42:22,320 –> 00:42:25,560
\nsins and then for the peoples as
\nthey did under the law. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:42:25,560 –> 00:42:28,200
\nWhere the high priest would do
\nthat, he’d go in and 1st go and <\/p>\n
798
\n00:42:28,200 –> 00:42:31,560
\noffer for his own sins, and then
\nhe would go back later and offer<\/p>\n
799
\n00:42:31,560 –> 00:42:35,920
\nfor the sins of the people.
\nHe says that this he did once <\/p>\n
800
\n00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:41,360
\nfor all, once for all when he
\noffered up himself for the law <\/p>\n
801
\n00:42:41,360 –> 00:42:43,600
\nappoints his high priest men who
\nhave weaknesses. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:42:43,600 –> 00:42:47,240
\nBut the word of the oath which
\ncame after the law appoints the <\/p>\n
803
\n00:42:47,240 –> 00:42:49,400
\nSon who has been perfected
\nforever. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:42:49,400 –> 00:42:53,520
\nPsalm 110, that you are a priest
\nforever after the order of <\/p>\n
805
\n00:42:53,520 –> 00:42:56,720
\nMelchizedek.
\nSo he did this once for all. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:42:57,360 –> 00:42:59,440
\nWell, we’ll leave it there now
\nfor Class 2. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:42:59,520 –> 00:43:03,440
\nAnd in Class 3, we come back,
\nwe’ll have a look at how God did<\/p>\n
808
\n00:43:03,440 –> 00:43:07,560
\nsave Jesus Christ and how that
\nplan of redemption is available <\/p>\n
809
\n00:43:07,560 –> 00:43:08,320
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