WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.441 Welcome to Lesson 5 of the Kingdom school. I'm very excited to be with you. 00:00:05.441 --> 00:00:08.332 I think that this lesson will bless you a lot. 00:00:08.332 --> 00:00:10.829 Some of you will experience freedom today. 00:00:10.829 --> 00:00:15.084 Some of you will have never heard this before. 00:00:15.084 --> 00:00:18.438 But I know some people will have an issue with what I'm sharing. 00:00:18.438 --> 00:00:23.500 But please bear with me. You’ll see that these things are actually biblical. 00:00:23.500 --> 00:00:33.336 Let’s start. I hope you're ready. Lesson 4 was called: ‘Saved out of Egypt: 00:00:33.336 --> 00:00:37.346 Our journey of salvation.’ I love that lesson. 00:00:37.346 --> 00:00:43.006 I want to start now by reading this beautiful feedback: 00:00:43.006 --> 00:00:47.353 A man wrote here: ‘Brother Torben! I'm 72 years old. 00:00:47.353 --> 00:00:52.572 This is the first time I've heard the Full Gospel message like this: 00:00:52.572 --> 00:00:57.841 Preached out of the Old Testament. That is such a great teaching. 00:00:57.841 --> 00:01:01.810 The Church needs to hear it, even more than the lost.’ 00:01:01.810 --> 00:01:05.100 So, this man is 72 years old. 00:01:05.100 --> 00:01:12.555 This was the first time he’s heard the gospel preached out of the Old Testament. 00:01:12.555 --> 00:01:19.123 This comment really affected me. I experienced the same thing in jail. 00:01:19.123 --> 00:01:25.169 God revealed it to me in a new way: the gospel in the Old and New Testaments. 00:01:25.169 --> 00:01:30.891 The gospel of the Kingdom. Much of this was new for me. 00:01:30.891 --> 00:01:37.830 This is what the church needs. God brought me to jail to reveal this to me. 00:01:37.830 --> 00:01:42.560 So I get extremely excited when I receive a comment like this. 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:48.534 The first four lessons: 00:01:48.534 --> 00:01:51.552 Lesson 1: The Beginning of Eden to the new Heaven and Earth: 00:01:51.552 --> 00:01:56.519 The Fall, Noah, and the Flood. 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:59.840 Lesson 2: Abraham Our Father: 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:05.875 This happened after the fall, wickedness and destruction. 00:02:05.875 --> 00:02:12.807 How God desired a people who are His, beginning with Abraham. 00:02:12.807 --> 00:02:19.591 He is the father of Faith - a man had a family that later became a nation. 00:02:19.591 --> 00:02:25.277 Lesson 3: I explained how that nation was called out of Egypt. 00:02:25.277 --> 00:02:27.208 Likewise, we are called out of Babylon. 00:02:27.208 --> 00:02:33.247 It was called: ‘Called out of Egypt’: How that nation was called out from Egypt. 00:02:33.247 --> 00:02:37.419 How we today are called out to be the Church. 00:02:37.419 --> 00:02:41.270 We are set apart as God's holy people. 00:02:41.270 --> 00:02:47.637 I love that lesson. I want to start with a personal testimony. 00:02:47.637 --> 00:02:53.551 Last week, my daughter Simone got married. 00:02:53.551 --> 00:03:01.819 Here’s a picture of the area just outside this studio. I'm standing there, smiling. 00:03:01.819 --> 00:03:07.820 Simone and Joshua have just said “Yes” to each other. They were so excited. 00:03:07.820 --> 00:03:18.324 This wedding, this past week, is the strongest picture for me of this: 00:03:18.324 --> 00:03:24.997 The church is those who are called out. They are holy and separated. 00:03:24.997 --> 00:03:32.566 This wedding was holy and so beautiful. 00:03:32.566 --> 00:03:36.545 The fear of God was there in a beautiful way. 00:03:36.545 --> 00:03:45.346 What happened just a few hours before this? 00:03:45.346 --> 00:03:51.695 I saw my daughter Simone in her wedding dress for the first time. 00:03:51.695 --> 00:03:56.483 Her hair was done. She had makeup on and everything. It was so, so beautiful. 00:03:56.483 --> 00:04:03.955 Here is a one-minute video of my reaction. 00:04:03.955 --> 00:04:08.475 For the first time I saw my daughter standing in the beautiful wedding dress. 00:04:08.475 --> 00:04:16.037 My reaction surprised me. I really broke down. 00:04:16.037 --> 00:04:20.197 I want to show you this clip and then will continue talking it. 00:04:20.197 --> 00:05:07.034 [Unclear speech and Danish, crying] So, you can see here that I broke down. 00:05:07.034 --> 00:05:10.564 It’s in Danish so it’s hard to understand. Not a lot was said: 00:05:10.564 --> 00:05:13.375 “You're beautiful”, “I love you Simone”, “I love you Dad” 00:05:13.375 --> 00:05:20.103 It was a strong experience for me. I saw my daughter there. 00:05:20.103 --> 00:05:28.718 She was so holy, beautiful, clean and ready to be given away to Joshua. 00:05:28.718 --> 00:05:36.249 This is what the bride is. She is called-out and separated. 00:05:36.249 --> 00:05:41.773 She is ready for her husband. Here are some verses. 00:05:41.773 --> 00:05:52.864 Paul wrote: “For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself” 00:05:52.864 --> 00:05:55.527 God is also jealous for His people. 00:05:55.527 --> 00:06:03.747 “I promised you as a pure bride to one husband – Christ.” 00:06:03.747 --> 00:06:11.746 So Paul promised the church as a pure bride to one husband. 00:06:11.746 --> 00:06:17.259 That husband is Christ. Here are so many beautiful pictures. 00:06:17.259 --> 00:06:24.048 Revelation 19: “Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honour to him. 00:06:24.048 --> 00:06:30.830 For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb, and his bride” 00:06:30.830 --> 00:06:39.047 the church “has prepared herself.” We, the church, prepare ourselves: 00:06:39.047 --> 00:06:45.894 “She has been given the finest of pure white linen to wear” What is that? 00:06:45.894 --> 00:06:52.360 “For the fine linen represents the good deeds of God's holy people.” 00:06:52.360 --> 00:07:00.539 Here’s a photo of myself walking with my daughter Simone. Here’s the kiss. 00:07:00.539 --> 00:07:04.350 I actually made a video about it. This is the thumbnail. 00:07:04.350 --> 00:07:08.231 If you’ve not seen the video, please do. 00:07:08.231 --> 00:07:14.056 I explain that this was the first time they’d kissed each other. 00:07:14.056 --> 00:07:17.574 He has been living with us for four years. 00:07:17.574 --> 00:07:20.603 They never touched each other intimately or kissed each other. 00:07:20.603 --> 00:07:31.627 After the wedding, they left. Then these two virgins became one flesh. 00:07:31.627 --> 00:07:36.467 The blood was spilled. They entered into a covenant. 00:07:36.467 --> 00:07:42.124 Watch the video. Look at this wedding. 00:07:42.124 --> 00:07:52.918 See that we, the church, have fallen far away from God's grace and intentions. 00:07:52.918 --> 00:07:57.858 This wedding was an extremely clear example of what we should be: 00:07:57.858 --> 00:08:04.578 Called-out, holy and separated. We should be purifying ourselves. 00:08:04.578 --> 00:08:14.045 We’re not only invited to a wedding: We’re the bride and living for that day. 00:08:14.045 --> 00:08:22.391 I’ll talk a lot more about the wedding feast and God’s kingdom in another lesson. 00:08:22.391 --> 00:08:28.868 But this is an extremely beautiful example of the topic we’re speaking about here. 00:08:28.868 --> 00:08:31.415 There’s a link under this video. 00:08:31.415 --> 00:08:35.510 Please watch my video: “Now you may kiss the bride”. 00:08:35.510 --> 00:08:41.154 I explain that the wedding is connected with the God’s kingdom. 00:08:41.154 --> 00:08:43.972 We’re invited to the wedding feast. 00:08:43.972 --> 00:08:53.973 Lesson 4: The Process of Being Called Out: The Israelites were called out. 00:08:53.973 --> 00:09:00.419 Likewise, we must remove the yeast from our house (repentance). 00:09:00.419 --> 00:09:05.717 There’s the blood (the cross) and the Red Sea (baptism into Christ). 00:09:05.717 --> 00:09:09.298 Then the Israelites walked through the wilderness toward the Promised Land. 00:09:09.298 --> 00:09:12.925 They were guided by the Pillar of Cloud and Fire. 00:09:12.925 --> 00:09:18.498 Likewise, we’ve received the Holy Spirit. We walk by the Spirit toward our goal: 00:09:18.498 --> 00:09:23.396 The heavenly Jerusalem that will come down from heaven. 00:09:23.396 --> 00:09:30.812 Those were the first four lessons. We’ll move on now. I’ll talk about Moses today. 00:09:30.812 --> 00:09:39.057 In these lessons, we look at the New and Old Covenants and how they work together. 00:09:39.057 --> 00:09:42.712 Today, we’ll look at Moses and the giving of the law. 00:09:42.712 --> 00:09:54.357 From the law with Moses, to truth and grace in Christ. 00:09:54.357 --> 00:09:57.673 There’s a difference between the old and new covenants. 00:09:57.673 --> 00:10:03.125 Lesson 5’s focus is on Freedom from sin. 00:10:03.125 --> 00:10:07.344 We’re called to be free and to live holy lives. 00:10:07.344 --> 00:10:14.420 After a few more lessons, we’ll look at how David is connected with God’s kingdom. 00:10:14.420 --> 00:10:17.521 Then there’ll be a permanent shift. 00:10:17.521 --> 00:10:24.716 Instead of focussing on the nation of Israel, we'll focus on the kingdom. 00:10:24.716 --> 00:10:28.861 I hope you're ready. I’ll pray and then we'll start. 00:10:28.861 --> 00:10:33.308 God, I thank You for this revelation. I thank You for Your truth. 00:10:33.308 --> 00:10:36.694 I pray that it will bring understanding, God. 00:10:36.694 --> 00:10:39.667 That it will bring truth and freedom to people, God. 00:10:39.667 --> 00:10:43.027 That they will experience the freedom, Jesus, that You have for them. 00:10:43.027 --> 00:10:45.831 Come with Your Holy Spirit. Help me to share this. 00:10:45.831 --> 00:10:51.383 Help people to receive this, God. In the name of Jesus, Amen. 00:10:51.383 --> 00:10:56.313 Lesson 5 will also be long. I will talk about a lot of things. 00:10:56.313 --> 00:11:01.940 But there’ll be a break in the middle, if you need it. 00:11:01.940 --> 00:11:08.713 Lesson 5: The law of Moses. There is the word ‘Death’. That law brings death. 00:11:08.713 --> 00:11:18.867 The law of Christ: That law brings life. Here you can see: 00:11:18.867 --> 00:11:27.731 True understanding (of things being taught) brings: 00:11:27.731 --> 00:11:36.318 Freedom from sin, holiness, purity, victory and eternal life. 00:11:36.318 --> 00:11:42.176 What happened with my daughter and Joshua? Now you may kiss your bride. 00:11:42.176 --> 00:11:46.549 This was the first time they kissed and were together. 00:11:46.549 --> 00:11:56.504 That’s the fruit of a true understanding. It is not about an external law. 00:11:56.504 --> 00:12:01.847 It’s actually about the heart. This comes from a true understanding. 00:12:01.847 --> 00:12:11.334 A false understanding brings slavery to sin, a double life and eternal death. 00:12:11.334 --> 00:12:20.058 A true understanding of what the law means for us today, will bring that. 00:12:20.058 --> 00:12:23.716 A false understanding of the law will bring this. 00:12:23.716 --> 00:12:28.195 A true understanding of grace will bring this. 00:12:28.195 --> 00:12:33.065 A false understanding of grace will bring this. 00:12:33.065 --> 00:12:39.729 Some people with a false understanding talk a lot about the law. 00:12:39.729 --> 00:12:42.025 You can know a tree by the fruit. 00:12:42.025 --> 00:12:48.355 Those people are enslaved and living a double life. 00:12:48.355 --> 00:12:52.454 But others talk a lot about grace. 00:12:52.454 --> 00:12:56.031 They are also enslaved and living a double life. 00:12:56.031 --> 00:12:59.501 They don't have the right understanding of it. 00:12:59.501 --> 00:13:06.329 It’s important to say this at the start, when we look at the law of Moses. 00:13:06.329 --> 00:13:13.560 Let’s move on: It’s possible to divide this law into three parts: 00:13:13.560 --> 00:13:18.098 1. Commandments governing their personal lives. 00:13:18.098 --> 00:13:23.011 2. Law for their social lives with one another. 00:13:23.011 --> 00:13:33.757 3. Ordination for religious lives. We can divide the law like this. I am not a Jew. 00:13:33.757 --> 00:13:40.694 I've never been a Jew. I'm a Gentile and a born-again believer. I'm grafted in. 00:13:40.694 --> 00:13:48.832 The promise is mine. But I'm not a Jew. The law was given to Israel as a nation. 00:13:48.832 --> 00:13:56.488 Actually, it was never given to those who are Gentiles and live in another country. 00:13:56.488 --> 00:14:05.163 It's really important to understand this concept. Right now, I’m in Mexico. 00:14:05.163 --> 00:14:07.956 I used to live in America. 00:14:07.956 --> 00:14:16.698 In America, you can drive through a red light if you’re turning right. 00:14:16.698 --> 00:14:22.297 This is not breaking the law. But it's different in Mexico. 00:14:22.297 --> 00:14:27.072 I can’t drive through a red light and turn right, apart from a few exceptions. 00:14:27.072 --> 00:14:33.207 In Europe, it's even worse. There, I’m not allowed to drive through a red light. 00:14:33.207 --> 00:14:39.739 But here in Mexico, I can’t say, “But they do that in Denmark. Or in America. 00:14:39.739 --> 00:14:47.748 So, I can do it.” No. I'm here now. It matters where you are. 00:14:47.748 --> 00:14:52.255 I can see a great lack of understanding here. 00:14:52.255 --> 00:14:57.804 Gentiles didn’t have ancestors living in Israel. 00:14:57.804 --> 00:15:03.433 But those Gentiles try to apply the law of Moses to today 00:15:03.433 --> 00:15:07.686 – how we should live with each other. 00:15:07.686 --> 00:15:14.301 Some try to apply the religious laws of offerings and sacrifices today. 00:15:14.301 --> 00:15:18.444 But those have nothing do with us. 00:15:18.444 --> 00:15:28.790 It all goes wrong, if we don’t understand to whom the law was given and when. 00:15:28.790 --> 00:15:31.546 If we don’t understand the covenant that it was part of. 00:15:31.546 --> 00:15:41.951 This is extremely important. True understanding brings freedom. 00:15:41.951 --> 00:15:49.262 You can fall into one of two ditches, when listening to teaching about this. 00:15:49.262 --> 00:15:55.123 One ditch is legalism, where you try to go under the law and become bound to it. 00:15:55.123 --> 00:16:00.417 The other is lawlessness, where you say: I'm not under the law of Moses. I'm free. 00:16:00.417 --> 00:16:06.525 They don’t understand that we are under a different law now, the law of Christ. 00:16:06.525 --> 00:16:09.601 That law is written on your heart. I’ll talk about that later. 00:16:09.601 --> 00:16:11.860 So, there's a narrow road between two ditches. 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:18.023 On one side is legalism, and on the other side is lawlessness. 00:16:18.023 --> 00:16:23.505 We’re called to live in the middle of the road. I hope you're ready. 00:16:23.505 --> 00:16:30.946 Exodus 20 is about Moses and the Ten Commandments. 00:16:30.946 --> 00:16:40.026 Exodus 19: “Now if you obey me fully” Not 30% or half but fully 00:16:40.026 --> 00:16:47.322 “and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you'll be my treasured possession. 00:16:47.322 --> 00:16:49.504 Although the whole earth is mine, 00:16:49.504 --> 00:16:53.453 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” 00:16:53.453 --> 00:17:05.618 Whom did God say that to? The Israelites, not the Danish or Americans. 00:17:05.618 --> 00:17:12.115 He said that to Israel. The promise was given to them. The law was given to them. 00:17:12.115 --> 00:17:18.401 They needed to fully obey God’s commands. Then He would do His part. 00:17:18.401 --> 00:17:20.762 We read here: “The people all responded together, 00:17:20.762 --> 00:17:27.740 “We will do everything the LORD has said.” Did they do what God had commanded? 00:17:27.740 --> 00:17:39.965 No. But God did not give up. Keep my commands (laws). 00:17:39.965 --> 00:17:51.421 Then you'll be my treasured possession… a kingdom of priests, a holy nation… 00:17:51.421 --> 00:17:57.909 I’ll talk about that later. Let’s read a longer text that describes this. 00:17:57.909 --> 00:18:02.548 What actually happened when the law was given and Moses was on the mountain. 00:18:02.548 --> 00:18:10.757 This is a very significant event compared to others recorded in the Bible. 00:18:10.757 --> 00:18:18.723 Exodus 19: “On the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightning, 00:18:18.723 --> 00:18:23.509 with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. 00:18:23.509 --> 00:18:29.854 Everyone in the camp trembled.” The spectacle was frightening. 00:18:29.854 --> 00:18:34.300 “Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God, 00:18:34.300 --> 00:18:37.501 and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 00:18:37.501 --> 00:18:44.287 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the LORD descended on it in fire. 00:18:44.287 --> 00:18:49.322 The smoke billowed up…” It was an incredible spectacle. 00:18:49.322 --> 00:18:54.635 “As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, 00:18:54.635 --> 00:19:00.969 and the voice of God answered him.” Moses talked with God. 00:19:00.969 --> 00:19:05.379 “The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses 00:19:05.379 --> 00:19:12.644 to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up.” What a spectacle! 00:19:12.644 --> 00:19:16.948 “And the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people 00:19:16.948 --> 00:19:23.400 so they do not force their way through to see the LORD and many of them perish.” 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:27.100 So Moses was commanded to prevent the people from going up. 00:19:27.100 --> 00:19:31.390 Otherwise, they would die. Why? Because this was a holy place. 00:19:31.390 --> 00:19:37.030 A holy moment. We read here: “Even the priests, who approach the LORD, 00:19:37.030 --> 00:19:43.671 must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.” 00:19:43.671 --> 00:19:48.585 So God was there. His holiness was there. 00:19:48.585 --> 00:19:52.158 The other Israelites couldn’t simply approach God like Moses could. 00:19:52.158 --> 00:19:54.898 The priest needed to consecrate themselves. 00:19:54.898 --> 00:20:01.276 Otherwise, God would break out against them. Then we read: 00:20:01.276 --> 00:20:09.691 “When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, 00:20:09.691 --> 00:20:14.882 they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.” 00:20:14.882 --> 00:20:24.344 Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said.” 00:20:24.344 --> 00:20:28.999 Moses built an altar. Israelites sacrificed offerings on it. 00:20:28.999 --> 00:20:36.485 I’m going through this quickly. “Moses then took half of the blood… 00:20:36.485 --> 00:20:50.588 the other he splashed against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant 00:20:50.588 --> 00:20:54.631 and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; 00:20:54.631 --> 00:21:01.430 we will obey.” Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, 00:21:01.430 --> 00:21:08.205 “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you 00:21:08.205 --> 00:21:17.539 in accordance with all these words.” So, Moses went up to God. God spoke to Moses. 00:21:17.539 --> 00:21:23.703 It was all written down. The altar was built. They slaughtered animals. 00:21:23.703 --> 00:21:28.661 Moses splashed half of the blood against the altar. 00:21:28.661 --> 00:21:32.077 He sprinkled the other half on the people. They had replied, 00:21:32.077 --> 00:21:39.230 “We will obey everything the Lord have said.” But did they do that? 00:21:39.230 --> 00:21:47.901 No, they didn’t. Read this: “This is the blood of the covenant 00:21:47.901 --> 00:21:52.139 that the LORD has made” This points to the New Testament. 00:21:52.139 --> 00:21:59.702 Jesus said, “This is my blood of the New Covenant.” It points to Jesus. 00:21:59.702 --> 00:22:08.666 Let’s continue: “The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain 00:22:08.666 --> 00:22:15.252 and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law 00:22:15.252 --> 00:22:20.435 and commandments I have written for their instruction.” 00:22:20.435 --> 00:22:24.971 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it. 00:22:24.971 --> 00:22:28.777 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. 00:22:28.777 --> 00:22:34.614 And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.” 00:22:34.614 --> 00:22:42.281 Please read the whole of Exodus, because it's very important. This is our history. 00:22:42.281 --> 00:22:52.076 It’s not just a Jewish story. It’s our story. All of this points to Christ. 00:22:52.076 --> 00:22:56.128 In chapter 24, Moses went up the mountain. 00:22:56.128 --> 00:23:02.400 In chapters 25 to 31, are some of the things God revealed to Moses. Chapter 25: 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:08.503 The Ark of the Covenant, the Table for the Bread and the Golden Lampstand. 00:23:08.503 --> 00:23:12.991 Chapter 26: The Tabernacle (Tent of Meeting): 00:23:12.991 --> 00:23:19.043 where God came down later and met with them, while they were traveling around. 00:23:19.043 --> 00:23:22.201 Chapter 27: The Bronze Altar. Chapter 28: The Priests’ Garments. 00:23:22.201 --> 00:23:26.167 Chapter 29: Consecration of the Priests. Chapter 30: The Altar of Incense. 00:23:26.167 --> 00:23:36.736 Chapter 31: The Sabbath. We read after that: “When the LORD finished 00:23:36.736 --> 00:23:43.371 speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, 00:23:43.371 --> 00:23:47.243 the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.” 00:23:47.243 --> 00:23:55.594 But what happened while Moses was on the mountain in God’s presence? 00:23:55.594 --> 00:23:58.772 Only a short time before, the people had said, 00:23:58.772 --> 00:24:03.998 “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.” 00:24:03.998 --> 00:24:15.728 But not long after, they did the opposite, while Moses was on the mountain. 00:24:15.728 --> 00:24:21.692 We read here: “When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down 00:24:21.692 --> 00:24:25.557 from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, 00:24:25.557 --> 00:24:29.451 “Come, make us gods who will go before us. 00:24:29.451 --> 00:24:33.055 As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, 00:24:33.055 --> 00:24:35.063 we don't know what has happened to him.”” 00:24:35.063 --> 00:24:42.946 Try to imagine this situation. They’d said, “God, we want to obey you.” 00:24:42.946 --> 00:24:53.335 Then Moses had sprinkled the blood of the covenant on the people. 00:24:53.335 --> 00:24:57.430 They had said, "We will obey everything the LORD has commanded." 00:24:57.430 --> 00:25:07.671 Moses had gone up the mountain. After less than 40 days, they said 00:25:07.671 --> 00:25:13.395 “We don't know what’s happened about Moses. Let's make a golden calf.” 00:25:13.395 --> 00:25:21.490 Then they broke God's law. I’ll talk more about that later. 00:25:21.490 --> 00:25:24.280 They actually broke the first two of the ten commandments: 00:25:24.280 --> 00:25:27.398 You shall have no other gods before me. 00:25:27.398 --> 00:25:32.733 You shan't make yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth. 00:25:32.733 --> 00:25:40.890 You shall not bow down to them. But that’s what they did. They made a golden calf. 00:25:40.890 --> 00:25:46.828 What did they call it? “This is the LORD who brought us out of Egypt. 00:25:46.828 --> 00:25:54.327 This is the LORD our God, Yahweh, who brought us out of Egypt.” 00:25:54.327 --> 00:25:59.061 They did not change God's name but they changed his image. 00:25:59.061 --> 00:26:09.505 We do the same in our minds today. We say, “We serve God, the god of the Bible. 00:26:09.505 --> 00:26:14.105 We serve Christ Jesus.” We don’t change God’s name. 00:26:14.105 --> 00:26:19.624 But we change His image in our minds. Suddenly, this is a different Jesus. 00:26:19.624 --> 00:26:28.762 A different God. I want to ask: Is your God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? 00:26:28.762 --> 00:26:31.912 Is He the God who brought the Israelites out of Egypt? 00:26:31.912 --> 00:26:36.218 If not, you’ve made yourself an idol. You are serving a different god. 00:26:36.218 --> 00:26:41.155 You’ve done the same as the Israelites. Many people do that today. 00:26:41.155 --> 00:26:45.004 They serve a New Testament god, full of grace and mercy. 00:26:45.004 --> 00:26:53.282 They say that the Old Testament god was evil. But the Bible is the true story. 00:26:53.282 --> 00:26:57.818 I’ll talk about that later. Three thousand people were killed that day. 00:26:57.818 --> 00:27:05.394 I’ll talk about that, shortly. Before we continue, I want to remind you of this: 00:27:05.394 --> 00:27:13.906 The covenants point to Christ and the New Covenant. 00:27:13.906 --> 00:27:19.521 I want to show you these pictures and shadows, that'll become clear to you. 00:27:19.521 --> 00:27:23.614 We’ve looked now at Noah, Abraham and Moses. 00:27:23.614 --> 00:27:27.982 With Noah, the sign of the covenant was the rainbow: 00:27:27.982 --> 00:27:35.138 A sign of hope and a new beginning for those who were saved in the ark; 00:27:35.138 --> 00:27:45.730 the rest perished in the waters. With Abraham, circumcision was the sign: 00:27:45.730 --> 00:27:49.922 The cutting of the foreskin was a sign of the Covenant 00:27:49.922 --> 00:27:56.467 - so that the people would not be cut off from the promise. 00:27:56.467 --> 00:28:01.626 Instead, they would inherit through Abraham. Now we have Moses. 00:28:01.626 --> 00:28:08.199 God gave him stone tablets with His laws written down: 00:28:08.199 --> 00:28:10.371 The Israelites first needed to keep His laws. 00:28:10.371 --> 00:28:13.046 Then God would make them His treasured possession. 00:28:13.046 --> 00:28:20.283 A kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Let's look at Christ here. 00:28:20.283 --> 00:28:36.714 With Noah: “In Christ, we are now saved from the waters (symbolizing baptism). 00:28:36.714 --> 00:28:43.476 We leave behind the old life and embrace hope for eternal life. 00:28:43.476 --> 00:28:51.978 The ark is like Christ, in whom we are now saved. We put off that old life. 00:28:51.978 --> 00:28:58.274 We are saved through the water. Now, we have hope and eternal life. 00:28:58.274 --> 00:29:09.139 Abraham and the circumcision: In Christ, we have circumcision of the heart. 00:29:09.139 --> 00:29:18.681 We will inherit as children of Abraham. Moses and the stone tablets: In Christ: 00:29:18.681 --> 00:29:26.964 God has written His laws on our hearts. We can become God's treasured possession. 00:29:26.964 --> 00:29:34.426 A kingdom of priests and a holy nation. This is so beautiful. 00:29:34.426 --> 00:29:46.481 Each covenant adds another part to the picture of what we have in Christ. 00:29:46.481 --> 00:29:51.694 Now, I’ll talk about some things in the New Testament. 00:29:51.694 --> 00:29:59.437 After that, we’ll return to the Old Testament. Hebrews 9: “But when Christ 00:29:59.437 --> 00:30:04.735 came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, 00:30:04.735 --> 00:30:09.100 he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle” 00:30:09.100 --> 00:30:17.291 Christ came as high priest and went through a greater, more perfect tabernacle 00:30:17.291 --> 00:30:25.747 “that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. 00:30:25.747 --> 00:30:30.205 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; 00:30:30.205 --> 00:30:37.677 but he entered into the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, 00:30:37.677 --> 00:30:46.281 thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes…” 00:30:46.281 --> 00:30:54.827 could only clean people on the outside. All the things we have read about: 00:30:54.827 --> 00:31:01.490 Moses, the tabernacle, the priestly garments, the high priest and the Sabbath. 00:31:01.490 --> 00:31:07.795 These are all pictures and shadows of a new reality that is in Christ. 00:31:07.795 --> 00:31:15.438 He who went through the real tabernacle in heaven. We read here: “How much more, 00:31:15.438 --> 00:31:22.663 then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself 00:31:22.663 --> 00:31:29.008 unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, 00:31:29.008 --> 00:31:33.183 so that we may serve the living God!” 00:31:33.183 --> 00:31:44.466 Offerings of goats and calves and their blood could not cleanse the conscience. 00:31:44.466 --> 00:31:54.376 But Christ did. It's not external. It's an internal thing, that is deep: 00:31:54.376 --> 00:32:03.662 “For this reason, Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are 00:32:03.662 --> 00:32:11.714 called may receive the promised eternal inheritance - now that he has died as 00:32:11.714 --> 00:32:19.803 a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.” 00:32:19.803 --> 00:32:26.297 I’ll go on to explain this. “Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, 00:32:26.297 --> 00:32:31.182 then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession… 00:32:31.182 --> 00:32:34.452 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” 00:32:34.452 --> 00:32:42.804 That was God’s command. Did the Israelites fully obey God? 00:32:42.804 --> 00:32:51.249 No. Did they break His laws? Yes. Have you fully obeyed God? No. 00:32:51.249 --> 00:32:54.057 Have you broken His laws? Yes. 00:32:54.057 --> 00:32:58.087 That means that if it depended on you, you wouldn’t become a treasured possession. 00:32:58.087 --> 00:33:04.404 Nor a kingdom of priests. Nor a holy nation. You didn’t keep the conditions. 00:33:04.404 --> 00:33:18.041 But Christ did. In Him, we’re forgiven. In Him, we’re grafted in. 00:33:18.041 --> 00:33:21.908 In Him, we’re free. In Him, this belongs to us. 00:33:21.908 --> 00:33:28.906 What did Peter say to the church of Jewish and Gentile believers? 00:33:28.906 --> 00:33:36.685 The same is true of born-again Jewish and Gentile believers today: 00:33:36.685 --> 00:33:44.781 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, 00:33:44.781 --> 00:33:51.766 God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you 00:33:51.766 --> 00:33:59.693 out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, 00:33:59.693 --> 00:34:08.555 but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, 00:34:08.555 --> 00:34:16.498 but now you have received mercy.” When you understand this it’s really beautiful. 00:34:16.498 --> 00:34:23.747 The law could not do this. We all failed. We’ve all broken the law. 00:34:23.747 --> 00:34:32.075 But Christ kept it. In Him, we become what God said. In Christ: 00:34:32.075 --> 00:34:39.738 We’re God's chosen people, a royal priesthood, and a holy nation. 00:34:39.738 --> 00:34:45.817 We’re God's special possession. I want to say this: God hasn’t forgotten the Jews. 00:34:45.817 --> 00:34:53.603 I’ll talk about the Jews, shortly. The promise is still for them. 00:34:53.603 --> 00:34:59.323 But this is our reality now, in Christ. 00:34:59.323 --> 00:35:08.317 But not everyone in a church building, is part of the church. 00:35:08.317 --> 00:35:14.139 Not everyone who professes a faith in God, is a child of God. 00:35:14.139 --> 00:35:26.204 Not everyone who confesses Jesus, actually obeys Jesus. This is really important. 00:35:26.204 --> 00:35:33.051 The promise is real. But to receive it, you need to be fully born again. 00:35:33.051 --> 00:35:37.536 You need to live this new life. You need to be in Christ. 00:35:37.536 --> 00:35:49.018 Then, this will be your reality. Let's continue reading Hebrews: 00:35:49.018 --> 00:35:53.603 “It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things 00:35:53.603 --> 00:35:56.502 to be purified with these sacrifices” 00:35:56.502 --> 00:36:02.619 What were Moses' tabernacle in the desert the sacrifices and the offerings? 00:36:02.619 --> 00:36:06.141 They were copies of the heavenly things. 00:36:06.141 --> 00:36:13.831 “For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands” 00:36:13.831 --> 00:36:18.865 So, he wasn’t like the other priests. That earthly sanctuary was a copy, a picture. 00:36:18.865 --> 00:36:28.837 It was different. “that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself” 00:36:28.837 --> 00:36:36.574 We need to understand this. Let’s continue reading. Hebrews is an amazing book. 00:36:36.574 --> 00:36:43.153 The author wrote about offerings. Then it’s written: 00:36:43.153 --> 00:36:47.103 “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 00:36:47.103 --> 00:36:52.059 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; 00:36:52.059 --> 00:36:57.206 and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation 00:36:57.206 --> 00:37:02.609 to those who are waiting for him.” Remember this: 00:37:02.609 --> 00:37:06.783 At the time of Moses, the tabernacle was temporary. 00:37:06.783 --> 00:37:16.845 It was a copy of the real heavenly one. Like everything else, it points to Christ. 00:37:16.855 --> 00:37:23.769 This will get clearer as we continue. Now, we'll return to the events in Exodus. 00:37:23.769 --> 00:37:27.129 Moses came down the mountain. The Israelites had made a golden calf. 00:37:27.129 --> 00:37:31.643 We read about the events beforehand: “When the people saw that Moses was so long 00:37:31.643 --> 00:37:35.389 in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, 00:37:35.389 --> 00:37:39.881 “Come make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us 00:37:39.881 --> 00:37:42.688 up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”” 00:37:42.688 --> 00:37:49.080 Then they took the gold rings off that their wives, sons, and daughters wore. 00:37:49.080 --> 00:37:54.871 They brought them to Aaron. “He took what they handed him and made it 00:37:54.871 --> 00:38:03.973 into an idol cast in the shape of a calf. He shaped it with a tool. Then they said, 00:38:03.973 --> 00:38:09.077 “This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”” 00:38:09.077 --> 00:38:13.653 Try to imagine the situation. God had brought them out. 00:38:13.653 --> 00:38:22.719 Now they’d made a golden calf that had no connection with Yahweh. 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:26.090 The LORD had brought them out. They said of the golden calf: 00:38:26.090 --> 00:38:29.402 This is Yahweh who brought us out. They called it by His name: 00:38:29.402 --> 00:38:34.162 “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.” to Yahweh. 00:38:34.162 --> 00:38:41.719 They worshipped Him, in the form of a golden calf. 00:38:41.719 --> 00:38:49.502 “So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings… 00:38:49.502 --> 00:38:53.867 Then the people sat down to eat and drink, and then they got up to play.” 00:38:53.867 --> 00:39:08.057 People do this today. We call an idol using God’s name. But He's not the same. 00:39:08.057 --> 00:39:13.590 It's scary. I could take ten Christians in a line and ask them to say who God is. 00:39:13.590 --> 00:39:23.175 In some cases, they’ll have weird ideas. They are not serving the same god. 00:39:23.175 --> 00:39:25.655 Not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 00:39:25.655 --> 00:39:28.027 Not the God who brought the people out of Egypt. 00:39:28.027 --> 00:39:35.278 They’ve made an image of a god in their minds, that suits them: 00:39:35.278 --> 00:39:44.107 “Oh, no, my God isn’t like that. He’s like this” “Then the LORD said to Moses, 00:39:44.107 --> 00:39:49.673 “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, 00:39:49.673 --> 00:39:57.883 have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what 00:39:57.883 --> 00:40:03.350 I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. 00:40:03.350 --> 00:40:07.697 They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 00:40:07.697 --> 00:40:11.050 “This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”” 00:40:11.050 --> 00:40:14.762 So, God sees everything. He saw exactly what they were doing. 00:40:14.762 --> 00:40:18.198 “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses. 00:40:18.198 --> 00:40:22.645 “and they are a stiff-necked people.” Notice what He said here: 00:40:22.645 --> 00:40:32.915 “Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them that I may destroy them. 00:40:32.915 --> 00:40:37.467 Then I will make you into a great nation.” 00:40:37.467 --> 00:40:49.463 When this happened, God wanted to destroy Israel, those he saved out of Egypt. 00:40:49.463 --> 00:40:56.000 They’d slaughtered the Passover lambs. He’d passed over their houses. 00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:10.250 They’d went through the Red Sea. A few weeks later, He was ready to destroy them. 00:41:10.250 --> 00:41:17.430 But He wouldn’t destroy all of them. Why? Because He’d made a promise to Abraham. 00:41:17.430 --> 00:41:20.560 He'll keep that – to make Abraham into a great nation. 00:41:20.560 --> 00:41:24.255 But whom will He keep the promise with? He wanted to destroy the Israelites. 00:41:24.255 --> 00:41:29.970 Then He said, “I will make you, Moses, into a great nation.” 00:41:29.970 --> 00:41:37.618 It’s important to understand this: God gave a promise to Abraham. He'll keep it. 00:41:37.618 --> 00:41:45.733 God is a promise keeper. But with whom? With Abraham’s descendants. 00:41:45.733 --> 00:41:50.994 But not every descendant of Abraham is a child of Abraham, in that sense. 00:41:50.994 --> 00:41:56.846 Here, He was ready to destroy everyone and then keep His promise with Moses. 00:41:56.846 --> 00:42:01.708 God is faithful and will do everything He has said. But the question is: 00:42:01.708 --> 00:42:07.022 Are you part of that or not? Are we part of what God wants to do? 00:42:07.022 --> 00:42:16.099 God will do what He’s promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David and Jesus. 00:42:16.099 --> 00:42:21.199 But the question is, are we a part of that? Let's learn from this. 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:26.774 Let’s have a healthy fear of God in our lives, so we won't be cut off. 00:42:26.774 --> 00:42:33.604 Many Israelites were cut off when these events happened. Moses interceded: 00:42:33.604 --> 00:42:39.338 “But Moses sought the favour of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, 00:42:39.338 --> 00:42:44.267 “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt 00:42:44.267 --> 00:42:50.796 with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, 00:42:50.796 --> 00:42:55.479 “It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and 00:42:55.479 --> 00:43:00.154 to wipe them off the face of the earth”? Turn from your fierce anger; relent 00:43:00.154 --> 00:43:06.756 and do not bring disaster on your people.” Moses interceded “Remember your servants 00:43:06.756 --> 00:43:13.994 Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: 00:43:13.994 --> 00:43:20.289 “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give 00:43:20.289 --> 00:43:32.064 your descendants all this land I promised them… Then the Lord relented 00:43:32.064 --> 00:43:35.154 and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.” 00:43:35.154 --> 00:43:40.710 Reading how Moses interceded, reminds us of something: 00:43:40.710 --> 00:43:44.712 Wickedness was all over the earth but Noah found favour. 00:43:44.712 --> 00:43:51.282 God wanted to destroy the Israelites but Moses interceded. 00:43:51.282 --> 00:43:57.307 The whole world will be destroyed, but Christ can save us from that. 00:43:57.307 --> 00:44:03.977 This is a picture of Christ, who stood in the gap for us. It's really beautiful. 00:44:03.977 --> 00:44:09.325 Moses interceded and later went down from the mountain: 00:44:09.325 --> 00:44:19.187 “When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and dancing, his anger burned, 00:44:19.187 --> 00:44:26.644 and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them into pieces…” 00:44:26.644 --> 00:44:34.563 He also destroyed the golden calf. Judgement came. We read: 00:44:34.563 --> 00:44:42.542 “that day about three thousand of the people died.” This is interesting. 00:44:42.542 --> 00:44:44.817 What is the clear message here? 00:44:44.817 --> 00:44:56.895 As soon as the Old Covenant law was given, 3,000 people died. 00:44:56.895 --> 00:45:03.746 As soon as the New Covenant Spirit was given, 3,000 received new life. 00:45:03.746 --> 00:45:17.563 This is all connected. This all points to Christ. Exodus 32: 00:45:17.563 --> 00:45:22.027 “The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin.”” 00:45:22.027 --> 00:45:26.085 By this time, around 3,000 people had been killed. Moses said to the rest: 00:45:26.085 --> 00:45:29.443 “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the LORD; 00:45:29.443 --> 00:45:31.845 perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 00:45:31.845 --> 00:45:35.809 So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin 00:45:35.809 --> 00:45:41.361 these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. 00:45:41.361 --> 00:45:44.537 But now, please forgive their sin” 00:45:44.537 --> 00:45:52.346 Then Moses interceded in an amazing and beautiful way: “but if not, 00:45:52.346 --> 00:46:03.287 then blot me out of the book you have written.” Moses really stood in the gap. 00:46:03.287 --> 00:46:11.347 He said, “Either forgive them or blot me out of the book.” What a man! “The LORD 00:46:11.347 --> 00:46:17.304 replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.”” 00:46:17.304 --> 00:46:20.583 Now, we read about the book of life. 00:46:20.583 --> 00:46:26.446 Books will be opened at the great judgment, at the great judgment seat: 00:46:26.446 --> 00:46:31.461 At the end of Revelation. I’ll talk about these books later in this series. 00:46:31.461 --> 00:46:36.287 It's possible to be blotted out of the book of life. People say today: 00:46:36.287 --> 00:46:39.517 “If your name is written in the book of life, everything is fine.” 00:46:39.517 --> 00:46:46.362 That’s true if your name is there and stays there. But what is very clear here? 00:46:46.362 --> 00:46:53.562 That a person can be blotted out of God's book. Then God said to Moses: “Now go, 00:46:53.562 --> 00:47:01.825 lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. 00:47:01.825 --> 00:47:09.121 However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.” 00:47:09.121 --> 00:47:22.243 So about 3,000 people died right away. In Lesson 3 (‘Called-out’), I explained this: 00:47:22.243 --> 00:47:33.711 The sinful generation didn’t enter the promised land, but later were punished. 00:47:33.711 --> 00:47:42.449 It's a very clear picture of our salvation journey. Someone commented on Lesson 3 00:47:42.449 --> 00:47:46.196 (‘Called-out’): “Yeah, but you can’t use the example of the promised land. 00:47:46.196 --> 00:47:52.437 There were giants in the promised land.” Yeah, we can use that example. 00:47:52.437 --> 00:47:56.890 What will happen when Jesus sets up God’s kingdom on earth? 00:47:56.890 --> 00:48:04.142 He will need to deal with some things at the beginning. We’ll take the land. 00:48:04.142 --> 00:48:11.457 People will submit under Jesus’ Lordship and rule. All will bow down at His feet. 00:48:11.457 --> 00:48:19.090 But there’ll be a time of judgment. The righteousness will bring peace on earth. 00:48:19.090 --> 00:48:23.099 It'll be cleaned up. It won’t just happen, from one day to another. 00:48:23.099 --> 00:48:28.472 Those of us who are there, will receive heavenly bodies and rule with him. 00:48:28.472 --> 00:48:33.143 There’ll be a time of cleaning up. Giants in the land is a really good picture. 00:48:33.143 --> 00:48:37.908 Other good pictures are possessing, taking and subduing the land. 00:48:37.908 --> 00:48:41.891 I’ll talk about the promised land in a later lesson. 00:48:41.891 --> 00:48:52.029 But the Israelites didn’t enter because of disobedience. God is very serious. 00:48:52.029 --> 00:48:55.352 Sometimes, judgment come right away and sometimes it’s delayed. 00:48:55.352 --> 00:48:59.775 This should really create a fear of God in our lives, a healthy fear of God. 00:48:59.775 --> 00:49:05.011 After this God called Moses up the mountain again. “The LORD said to Moses, 00:49:05.011 --> 00:49:12.572 “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I’ll write on 00:49:12.572 --> 00:49:18.093 the tablets the words which were on the first tablets which you broke.”” 00:49:18.093 --> 00:49:24.020 So there were two sets of tablets. The first set of tablets were destroyed. 00:49:24.020 --> 00:49:28.309 Then God called Moses up again and said, “Cut out two new tablets. 00:49:28.309 --> 00:49:35.023 I will write the same on them.” This is very interesting. 00:49:35.023 --> 00:49:42.286 God wrote on the first tablets. Later, Moses made new ones. God wrote on those. 00:49:42.286 --> 00:49:50.829 This points forward to God writing His law on new tablets. 00:49:50.829 --> 00:50:01.829 He is writing His law on our hearts, not with written code on stone tablets. 00:50:01.829 --> 00:50:08.515 He is writing on our hearts by His Spirit. This is all about the gospel. 00:50:08.515 --> 00:50:11.971 It points to Christ, to the time we are living in and to God’s kingdom. 00:50:11.971 --> 00:50:33.697 Many years after Moses, Jeremiah prophesied this: “The days are coming,” 00:50:33.697 --> 00:50:40.372 declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel 00:50:40.372 --> 00:50:47.005 and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant” 00:50:47.005 --> 00:50:52.958 So, it’s not just a continuation of the Mosaic covenant. It’s different: 00:50:52.958 --> 00:50:58.087 “It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them 00:50:58.087 --> 00:51:02.974 by the hand to lead them out of Egypt.” Why will it be different? “because 00:51:02.974 --> 00:51:10.922 they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.” 00:51:10.922 --> 00:51:19.792 So, it’s a New Covenant. They broke the other one. 00:51:19.792 --> 00:51:26.906 “This is the covenant I'll make with the people of Israel” With Israel the nation. 00:51:26.906 --> 00:51:33.164 Now, we’re grafted in and have received it in Christ. I’ll talk about it later. 00:51:33.164 --> 00:51:41.452 “After that time” declares the LORD. “I'll put my law in their minds and write it” 00:51:41.452 --> 00:51:49.277 on stone tablets? No, He’d already done that and it hadn’t worked. 00:51:49.277 --> 00:51:56.813 The law, written externally, brought death. It didn't work. 00:51:56.813 --> 00:52:01.772 You cannot obey a law as an external written code. 00:52:01.772 --> 00:52:16.220 It's to be written on the heart. Or it won't work: “write it on their hearts. 00:52:16.220 --> 00:52:21.250 I'll be their God, and they'll be my people. No longer will they teach 00:52:21.250 --> 00:52:25.175 their neighbour, or say to one another, “Know the LORD”” 00:52:25.175 --> 00:52:29.037 We don’t need a human priest in order to have a relationship with God: "because 00:52:29.037 --> 00:52:32.083 they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” 00:52:32.083 --> 00:52:35.790 “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” 00:52:35.790 --> 00:52:44.162 Ezekiel prophesied similar things around the same time. He added some things: 00:52:44.162 --> 00:52:50.268 “I will give them an undivided HEART and put a new spirit in them;” 00:52:50.268 --> 00:52:52.917 So, we read about God writing the law on our hearts. 00:52:52.917 --> 00:52:57.400 We read about an undivided heart and a new spirit. 00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:00.417 “I will remove from them their heart of stone” 00:53:00.417 --> 00:53:08.158 - God won’t write His law on a heart of stone or tablets. He will remove that. 00:53:08.158 --> 00:53:14.558 He'll then write on a new heart by the Spirit - “and give them a heart of flesh.” 00:53:14.558 --> 00:53:22.541 This is not a license for us to sin: “Then they will follow my decrees and be 00:53:22.541 --> 00:53:27.175 careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.” 00:53:27.175 --> 00:53:30.296 God writes His laws on our hearts, so that we can obey Him. 00:53:30.296 --> 00:53:38.978 Not so we can continue sinning. He did it, so we can be holy as our Father is holy. 00:53:38.978 --> 00:53:42.966 Now you may kiss your bride. 00:53:42.966 --> 00:53:49.720 Now you can enter into a covenant and be one flesh in a marriage. 00:53:49.720 --> 00:53:54.484 You can’t do that if your heart is not transformed. 00:53:54.484 --> 00:54:01.989 It has to come from your heart, not from an external law: “You may not….” 00:54:01.989 --> 00:54:08.635 No, we need a changed heart. We’ll look at that later. 00:54:08.635 --> 00:54:18.229 I have some more slides here before we shortly have a break. 00:54:18.229 --> 00:54:22.299 I want to talk more here about Israel as a nation. 00:54:22.299 --> 00:54:28.146 The fact is, the law of Moses was never actually given to Gentiles. 00:54:28.146 --> 00:54:34.403 It was given to Israel as a nation. These are not laws for me. 00:54:34.403 --> 00:54:41.052 They were for Israel as a nation. But in Christ, I am grafted into the promise. 00:54:41.052 --> 00:54:44.248 I am not part of the physical nation of Israel. 00:54:44.248 --> 00:54:47.235 But I have been grafted into the promise in a spiritual sense. 00:54:47.235 --> 00:54:52.881 I talked about in previous lessons. So now, we’re a holy people. We’re called out. 00:54:52.881 --> 00:54:58.802 We’re God's possession. But that doesn’t mean that God has rejected Israel. 00:54:58.802 --> 00:55:08.339 I want to talk about that before we move on. Romans 11:25-29 is very important. 00:55:08.339 --> 00:55:15.667 Paul writes: “Brothers and sisters, here is a mystery I want you to understand. 00:55:15.667 --> 00:55:23.118 It'll keep you from being proud.” But many people have rejected the Jews. 00:55:23.118 --> 00:55:26.650 They’re very proud: “We’re now the people of God. I am a holy nation.” 00:55:26.650 --> 00:55:34.285 But it's only because of Christ that you are. So please don't be proud. 00:55:34.285 --> 00:55:41.672 Remember this: “Part of Israel” not all of Israel. There are people who love Jesus. 00:55:41.672 --> 00:55:45.912 They are born again and follow the Messiah Jesus. 00:55:45.912 --> 00:55:50.520 “Part of Israel has refused to obey God.” We see this today. 00:55:50.520 --> 00:56:02.814 “That will continue until the full number of non-Jews has entered God's kingdom.” 00:56:02.814 --> 00:56:06.314 So, at the moment they still reject God as a whole. 00:56:06.314 --> 00:56:15.503 This will continue until we as Gentiles have come in. 00:56:15.503 --> 00:56:22.431 This will create jealousy and so on. “And so all Israel will be saved.” 00:56:22.431 --> 00:56:27.029 There’s a hardness right now. But there’ll be a time when all Israel will be saved. 00:56:27.029 --> 00:56:31.063 “It is written, “The One who saves will come from Mount Zion. 00:56:31.063 --> 00:56:35.588 He will remove sin from Jacob.” God has said that. He’ll do it. 00:56:35.588 --> 00:56:39.951 “Here is my covenant with them. I will take away their sins.” 00:56:39.951 --> 00:56:46.990 So, this covenant has been given to the Jews. 00:56:46.990 --> 00:56:53.450 “As far as the gospel is concerned, the people of Israel are enemies.” 00:56:53.450 --> 00:56:57.484 So many of the Jews are enemies. They're not in the New Covenant. 00:56:57.484 --> 00:56:59.797 God’s laws are not yet written on their hearts. 00:56:59.797 --> 00:57:05.660 They haven’t received the spirit, nor are obeying God's laws as a whole. 00:57:05.660 --> 00:57:15.456 They’re enemies according to the gospel. “But as far as God's choice is concerned, 00:57:15.456 --> 00:57:20.709 the people of Israel are loved.” They’re still called. 00:57:20.709 --> 00:57:29.749 “That is because of God's promises to the founders of our nation. 00:57:29.749 --> 00:57:35.461 God does not take back his gifts. 00:57:35.461 --> 00:57:39.531 He does not change his mind about those he has chosen.” 00:57:39.531 --> 00:57:44.529 So, the nation of Israel is still chosen and called. 00:57:44.529 --> 00:57:49.196 God’ll establish a new covenant with them, in their hearts. 00:57:49.196 --> 00:57:55.098 But right now, this belongs to us. Each one of us can receive it. 00:57:55.098 --> 00:58:04.500 A new covenant where the law is written on the heart. I will be their God. 00:58:04.500 --> 00:58:09.949 They'll be my people. Then they'll follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 00:58:09.949 --> 00:58:16.556 All will know me and I will remember their sins no more. 00:58:16.556 --> 00:58:21.156 We’re talking here about following God’s law. 00:58:21.156 --> 00:58:26.724 So, should we go back and do everything God spoke to Israel as a nation? No. 00:58:26.724 --> 00:58:31.675 That law was given to Israel as a nation. I'm not a Jew and never have been. 00:58:31.675 --> 00:58:36.619 I'm a Gentile. But I'm following Christ and His word. 00:58:36.619 --> 00:58:42.111 We need to understand that there is a change in the law. Hebrews 7: 00:58:42.111 --> 00:58:45.790 We read here that Jesus is in the priestly order of Melchizedek. 00:58:45.790 --> 00:58:51.258 There is a change in the priesthood. Please read it yourself. 00:58:51.258 --> 00:58:58.047 “For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also.” 00:58:58.047 --> 00:59:05.892 Because of this change, we’re not bound to the written code given to Moses. 00:59:05.892 --> 00:59:13.154 Instead, we’re bound to the law of Christ. The law of God's written on our hearts. 00:59:13.154 --> 00:59:23.272 Let’s read a few verses from Romans. There’ll be a break shortly. 00:59:23.272 --> 00:59:28.934 “A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely 00:59:28.934 --> 00:59:38.041 outward and physical. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision 00:59:38.041 --> 00:59:45.246 is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code.” 00:59:45.246 --> 00:59:51.999 That was the Pharisees’ problem. Jesus said this to them: “Woe to you, 00:59:51.999 --> 00:59:57.443 teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of 00:59:57.443 --> 01:00:02.661 the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 01:00:02.661 --> 01:00:10.257 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, 01:00:10.257 --> 01:00:20.091 and then the outside also will be clean.” Our hearts need to be transformed. 01:00:20.091 --> 01:00:25.786 The law is not written on books or tablets, but on the heart. 01:00:25.786 --> 01:00:30.297 Of course, we have a physical Bible. God is speaking to through His Word. 01:00:30.297 --> 01:00:34.496 But we are loosed from the law of Moses. 01:00:34.496 --> 01:00:44.042 I’ll talk more about that after the break and read more of Romans 6 and 7. 01:00:44.042 --> 01:00:54.027 In Romans 7, we read: “But now, by dying to what once bound us (the law), 01:00:54.027 --> 01:01:05.632 we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit 01:01:05.632 --> 01:01:12.888 and not in the old way of the written code.” We’ve been released from the law. 01:01:12.888 --> 01:01:21.426 Now we can serve in a new way. The covenant with Moses was everlasting. 01:01:21.426 --> 01:01:33.875 However, it has changed (in Christ). It's not written on stone tablets. 01:01:33.875 --> 01:01:42.373 It’s being written on our hearts, not as a written code. The new way of the Spirit. 01:01:42.373 --> 01:01:53.127 From law to grace. From death to life. I’ll talk more about that after the break. 01:01:53.127 --> 01:02:02.220 It's extremely important. I believe that this will set you free. 01:02:02.220 --> 01:02:05.836 You’ll understand that you don't need to be under the law anymore. 01:02:05.836 --> 01:02:10.822 You can be under grace. You can walk in freedom and listen to the Spirit in you. 01:02:10.822 --> 01:02:29.878 So let's take a break here [Music] We’re back again. This’ll be very interesting. 01:02:29.878 --> 01:02:35.821 I hope you're ready for this. We’ll read in Romans. We see the cross here. 01:02:35.821 --> 01:02:42.456 I already talked about it in Romans 6. But we’ll read it again. 01:02:42.456 --> 01:02:54.482 Bear the law of Moses in mind: “Don’t touch this. Don’t eat that food etc.” 01:02:54.482 --> 01:03:01.117 Romans 6: “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus 01:03:01.117 --> 01:03:05.804 were baptized into his death?” So, a death takes place when we are baptized. 01:03:05.804 --> 01:03:10.190 We’re baptized into Christ’s death. Death is important. Bear that in mind. 01:03:10.190 --> 01:03:16.333 “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, 01:03:16.333 --> 01:03:19.773 just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, 01:03:19.773 --> 01:03:24.672 we too may live a new life.” We’re baptized into His death. That’s important. 01:03:24.672 --> 01:03:31.006 Why? Because we’re only bound to a law, as long as you live. 01:03:31.006 --> 01:03:41.877 But when we die, we’re loosed from that law. Romans 6 and 7 focus on that. 01:03:41.877 --> 01:03:46.771 “Because anyone who had died has been set free from sin.” 01:03:46.771 --> 01:03:52.204 But this is not only about sin. The law is connected with sin. 01:03:52.204 --> 01:03:59.693 Here’s something important. Romans 7: “Do you not know, brothers and sisters 01:03:59.693 --> 01:04:05.239 - for I am speaking to those who know the law - that the law has authority 01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:19.957 over someone only as long as that person lives? For example, by law a married woman 01:04:21.848 --> 01:04:30.138 is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is 01:04:30.138 --> 01:04:40.968 released from the law that binds her to him.” Why does Paul write about this? 01:04:40.968 --> 01:04:48.657 Romans 6 - 8 is about the new life and freedom from the law of sin and death. 01:04:48.657 --> 01:04:56.601 Paul not only teaches about marriage and divorce, but also about the law. 01:04:56.601 --> 01:05:10.377 It’s an example to show this: We’re bound to the law as long as we live. 01:05:10.377 --> 01:05:17.447 But we can read beforehand that we're baptized into Christ, into His death. 01:05:18.319 --> 01:05:28.392 The baptism is a death. The law was never given to me as a Gentile. 01:05:28.392 --> 01:05:33.327 I'm not physically part of Israel. I was without hope in this world. 01:05:33.327 --> 01:05:39.999 I was lost without hope and without God. But the law is also spiritual. 01:05:39.999 --> 01:05:44.481 In that sense, it’s working in everyone. 01:05:44.481 --> 01:05:53.823 When we start to sin, you become a slave to that sin. 01:05:53.823 --> 01:05:59.185 The law is at work in a way we don’t realise. 01:05:59.185 --> 01:06:06.027 To take an example, imagine that you’re going to stay at someone’s house. 01:06:06.027 --> 01:06:09.308 The person says, “Hey, you can stay at my house. Here's the kitchen. 01:06:09.308 --> 01:06:14.240 Just take some breakfast in the morning. Here are all the things you can take. 01:06:14.240 --> 01:06:20.257 You can eat anything you want. But you’re not allowed to open this closet. 01:06:20.257 --> 01:06:27.301 It’s very important that you don’t open it.” 01:06:27.301 --> 01:06:31.741 If someone tells you not to do something, what happens? 01:06:31.741 --> 01:06:38.226 You’ll think, “Why can’t I open that closet?” 01:06:38.226 --> 01:06:42.378 When we’re told not to do something, something happens inside us. 01:06:42.378 --> 01:06:46.061 For example, imagine a man going to a Walmart. 01:06:46.061 --> 01:06:55.728 Before he goes in, he repeats to himself, “Don’t look with lust on a woman”. 01:06:55.728 --> 01:06:58.743 What will happen? He’ll go in and continue thinking of that. 01:06:58.743 --> 01:07:09.745 In the end, he’ll look at a woman. It does not work. That law doesn't bring freedom. 01:07:09.745 --> 01:07:19.347 Christ brings freedom. If we’re bound to the law of sin and death, it works in us. 01:07:19.347 --> 01:07:25.533 We’re bound to that law as long as we live. That's why we need to die. 01:07:25.533 --> 01:07:35.212 Read Romans 6 about dying to the law. We’re dead to the law. 01:07:35.212 --> 01:07:41.426 We're not under the law. We are freed or loosed from the law. We read here: 01:07:41.426 --> 01:07:52.429 “For sin shall no longer be your master” Sin won’t have authority over us. Why not? 01:07:52.429 --> 01:07:56.739 Because the law only has authority over a person as long as he lives. 01:07:56.739 --> 01:08:01.519 But in baptism, we die. It's no longer we who live, but Christ. 01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:04.079 So the law of sin and death has no authority over me. 01:08:04.079 --> 01:08:08.800 “For sin shall no longer be your master” Why not? 01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:17.906 “because you are not under the law” You’re dead to the law “but under grace” 01:08:17.906 --> 01:08:26.972 So, the law came with Moses. Grace and truth came with Christ. 01:08:26.972 --> 01:08:33.660 Many people try to follow Christ by trying to keep the law of Moses. 01:08:33.660 --> 01:08:37.887 They don’t realise that they’ve been loosed from that law. 01:08:37.887 --> 01:08:44.035 That's when they were baptized into Christ. They entered into a new covenant. 01:08:44.035 --> 01:08:51.457 It’s not about the written code written on stones, what's written on your heart. 01:08:51.457 --> 01:09:03.825 That’s where true freedom is. Let’s move on: Under the law, sin was our master. 01:09:03.825 --> 01:09:14.357 Under grace, you're baptized into Christ. You’re dead to the law, alive in Christ. 01:09:14.357 --> 01:09:21.266 You’re free from the law and the sin that once kept you enslaved. 01:09:21.266 --> 01:09:28.793 If you’re a slave to sin, you’re still not under grace. 01:09:28.793 --> 01:09:32.687 Remember that true grace is not a cover up for sin. 01:09:32.687 --> 01:09:38.734 True Grace empowers us to live a new life, free from sin. 01:09:38.734 --> 01:09:48.349 You can still be a Christian and have your mind set on Egypt. 01:09:48.349 --> 01:09:52.495 That’s because you’ve never really left. 01:09:52.495 --> 01:09:58.943 It's time to leave and live a new life by the Spirit. 01:09:58.943 --> 01:10:05.685 I’m saying here that many Christians are still under the law. 01:10:05.685 --> 01:10:10.467 They’re still trying to obey the law instead of living by the spirit. 01:10:10.467 --> 01:10:13.085 They’re not living the new way of the spirit. 01:10:13.085 --> 01:10:18.870 Their minds are still set on the old ways of Egypt. They’re never really left. 01:10:18.870 --> 01:10:24.807 They haven’t experienced the freedom, with the law written on their hearts. 01:10:24.807 --> 01:10:31.428 The ministry we bring, should set people free. 01:10:31.428 --> 01:10:38.289 Paul wrote about this ministry we’ve been given. 2 Corinthians 3: 01:10:38.289 --> 01:10:44.755 “You show that you're a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, 01:10:44.755 --> 01:10:58.558 written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone 01:10:58.558 --> 01:11:08.685 but on tablets of human hearts.” Our ministry's different from Moses' law. 01:11:08.685 --> 01:11:14.074 That was the old covenant written on stones. Now, we have a new ministry. 01:11:14.074 --> 01:11:19.909 A new way. God’s laws are written on the heart by the spirit of the Living God. 01:11:19.909 --> 01:11:25.475 Paul continues: “Now if the ministry that brought death” 01:11:25.475 --> 01:11:32.727 What happened when the law of Moses was given? 3,000 died right away. 01:11:32.727 --> 01:11:44.588 His ministry brought death that "was engraved in letters on stone, came with 01:11:44.588 --> 01:11:48.955 glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses 01:11:48.955 --> 01:11:54.494 because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not this ministry of the Spirit 01:11:54.494 --> 01:12:04.218 be even more glorious?” Of course. “If the ministry that brought condemnation” 01:12:04.218 --> 01:12:11.344 bringing death and condemnation “was glorious, how much more glorious is 01:12:11.344 --> 01:12:20.476 the ministry that brings righteousness!” We have the ministry of the new covenant. 01:12:20.476 --> 01:12:28.050 This doesn't bring condemnation. It can truly cleanse our conscience. 01:12:28.050 --> 01:12:35.922 It can bring righteousness. Then we’re free, not to live in condemnation. 01:12:35.922 --> 01:12:39.473 We’re free from the law, free to live by the spirit. 01:12:39.473 --> 01:12:45.988 You need to receive this through the new birth, by faith. 01:12:45.988 --> 01:12:50.152 I'm going to share a personal testimony and experience shortly: 01:12:50.152 --> 01:12:57.293 “Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. We are not like Moses, 01:12:57.293 --> 01:13:04.607 who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end 01:13:04.607 --> 01:13:09.473 of what was passing away.” So, the law of Moses was passing away. 01:13:09.473 --> 01:13:15.104 Moses’ face was veiled, so the Israelites wouldn’t see it. "But their minds were 01:13:15.104 --> 01:13:23.368 made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read.” 01:13:23.368 --> 01:13:27.819 Also today when people read about Moses and the old Covenant, 01:13:27.819 --> 01:13:32.322 there’s a veil over their faces. So, they don’t understand it: 01:13:32.322 --> 01:13:41.836 “It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.” 01:13:41.836 --> 01:13:51.934 Many read the law in the Bible. They have a blindness. They don’t understand it. 01:13:51.934 --> 01:13:58.962 Only in Christ, is the blindness taken away. Some people have a fear. 01:13:58.962 --> 01:14:03.160 They say: “We need law. If we don’t, people will live in sin.” 01:14:03.160 --> 01:14:09.628 But what happened with the law? Did the law help people to live holy lives? 01:14:09.628 --> 01:14:13.991 Did the Israelites live holy lives because they had the law? No. 01:14:13.991 --> 01:14:19.220 But God gave a new spirit and wrote a new law in our hearts. 01:14:19.220 --> 01:14:29.596 So, we’ll obey God's decree and follow His laws. How do we live that holy life? 01:14:29.596 --> 01:14:37.452 Not by following Moses, but by following Christ by the spirit. Paul continues: 01:14:37.452 --> 01:14:42.768 “But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 01:14:42.768 --> 01:14:50.498 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” 01:14:50.498 --> 01:15:01.479 Freedom. You need to receive this by the Spirit. Here's some examples. 01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:07.070 I heard the gospel for the first time from my friend Tommy. 01:15:07.070 --> 01:15:13.269 I told him, he was brainwashed. I couldn't see it. I said, he was brainwashed. 01:15:13.269 --> 01:15:16.863 It was wrong. He was in a cult. He should be careful. 01:15:16.863 --> 01:15:19.943 I thought that he was crazy and brainwashed. I thought: 01:15:19.943 --> 01:15:23.446 I needed to help him and save him out of that cult. I didn't understand. 01:15:23.446 --> 01:15:29.982 A few days later, I got born again. My eyes opened. The veil was taken away. 01:15:29.982 --> 01:15:34.742 Then my father told me, “Torben, you’re brainwashed. It’s a cult.” 01:15:34.742 --> 01:15:38.900 My father couldn’t see it. Why? Because he still had a a veil over his face. 01:15:38.900 --> 01:15:45.145 He couldn’t see it. I told him, “Father, you’re saying what I said to Tommy. 01:15:45.145 --> 01:15:50.644 But it's the truth. I see it now.” Before I was blinded, like my father was blinded. 01:15:50.644 --> 01:15:54.054 But some years later, he repented. Then he saw it. 01:15:54.054 --> 01:15:59.258 This happens when someone truly repents and is born again. Their eyes open. 01:15:59.258 --> 01:16:06.205 However, my mind was still set on Egypt for the first years of my Christian life. 01:16:06.205 --> 01:16:13.865 I did not understand that I had buried the old life in the baptism. 01:16:13.865 --> 01:16:24.067 That I had died to the law of sin and death, and wasn’t bound to it anymore. 01:16:24.067 --> 01:16:27.629 I was free from sin. I didn't need to be a slave anymore. 01:16:27.629 --> 01:16:31.621 During the first six years of my Christian life, I was repenting. 01:16:31.621 --> 01:16:35.327 The law was written on my heart. I had received a new spirit. 01:16:35.327 --> 01:16:41.976 Many things in my life changed. But in some areas, I was not free. 01:16:41.976 --> 01:16:49.058 I kept falling into the same sins. I felt, I was becoming a slave of sin again. 01:16:49.058 --> 01:16:56.180 I was not free. Then one day I read Romans 6. I really understood it. 01:16:56.180 --> 01:17:02.944 God revealed it to me by the Spirit: “Hey, I'm dead to the law! I'm free! 01:17:02.944 --> 01:17:06.474 I don't need to sin anymore! The law is spiritual!” 01:17:06.474 --> 01:17:08.867 So, this broke down something wrong inside me. 01:17:08.867 --> 01:17:12.827 I realised, I wasn’t not under the law of sin and death anymore. 01:17:12.827 --> 01:17:21.542 I'm free to follow Christ. This gave me a totally new freedom. 01:17:21.542 --> 01:17:29.369 I've been free ever since for many years. It doesn't mean that I'm sinless. 01:17:29.369 --> 01:17:34.207 We can still do wrong things. But then we feel convicted right away. 01:17:34.207 --> 01:17:37.802 We ask God for forgiveness. He’s faithful to forgive us. Then we move on. 01:17:37.802 --> 01:17:45.832 I'm not bound. I don’t ask forgiveness, to repeat the sin 2 weeks later. 01:17:45.832 --> 01:17:52.341 I don’t feel like a slave to sin. No. I feel free. I'm not focused on the law. 01:17:52.341 --> 01:17:58.250 I'm don’t go into a mall, telling myself repeatedly “Don't look at woman” and fail. 01:17:58.250 --> 01:18:03.639 I'm free to go into the mall. I focus on Christ. I don’t think like this: 01:18:03.639 --> 01:18:09.238 “Don't touch! Don't watch! Don't do this or that!” I'm free to follow Christ. 01:18:09.238 --> 01:18:16.772 You need a revelation so you can really experience that freedom. 01:18:16.772 --> 01:18:22.747 You can love Jesus, walk by the spirit, occasionally doing something wrong. 01:18:22.747 --> 01:18:28.226 I don't have the ten commandments written in my phone or on a poster. 01:18:28.226 --> 01:18:34.041 Why not? Because I'm not under the law. It's written in my heart. 01:18:34.041 --> 01:18:41.886 I'm following Christ and obeying His words. I read His words. 01:18:41.886 --> 01:18:56.510 But if I do, say or think something wrong, I feel it right away: “Oh, I know it.” 01:18:56.510 --> 01:19:00.790 No one needs to teach me to know the Lord and to do different things. I know Him. 01:19:00.790 --> 01:19:09.134 I feel it in my heart. Why? The law’s written on my heart. I am convicted. 01:19:09.134 --> 01:19:12.467 From this perspective, the Christian life is actually really easy: 01:19:12.467 --> 01:19:18.961 Don't follow the law of Moses. Listen to Christ and obey His word. 01:19:18.961 --> 01:19:26.801 Listen to the Spirit, God has given you. Follow the Holy Spirit. 01:19:26.801 --> 01:19:30.917 If Holy Spirit says, “Don't say that. Don't look at that. Don’t do this. 01:19:30.917 --> 01:19:34.469 Don’t do that” then stop doing it. Listen to the Spirit. 01:19:34.469 --> 01:19:40.507 Let the Spirit guide you through the wilderness toward the promised land. 01:19:40.507 --> 01:19:46.080 Let the Holy Spirit guide you. God speaks to us about different things. 01:19:46.080 --> 01:19:55.789 We really need to follow God and live in that freedom. 1 Corinthians: 01:19:55.789 --> 01:20:03.995 “He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not 01:20:03.995 --> 01:20:15.800 of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” 01:20:15.800 --> 01:20:24.270 The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 01:20:24.270 --> 01:20:31.743 What happened when the law was given on Mount Sinai? 3,000 were killed. 01:20:31.743 --> 01:20:36.605 What happened when the Spirit was given on Pentecost in Jerusalem? 01:20:36.605 --> 01:20:45.330 Three thousand received new life. The letter kills but the Spirit gives life. 01:20:45.330 --> 01:20:49.647 We read that in Acts 2: “Those who accepted the message were baptized, 01:20:49.647 --> 01:20:54.511 and about three thousand were added to their number that day.” 01:20:55.617 --> 01:21:05.213 When did that happen? On Pentecost, Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. 01:21:05.213 --> 01:21:11.972 At that time, Israelites from all over Israel came to Jerusalem to celebrate: 01:21:11.972 --> 01:21:30.671 The giving of the law. It happened on that day, not a week or month before. 01:21:30.671 --> 01:21:38.963 So, when we read about Moses and the law, we read about temporary things. 01:21:38.963 --> 01:21:43.727 These are just pictures that point to Christ and the New Covenant. 01:21:43.727 --> 01:21:45.615 Today, we are under the New Covenant. 01:21:45.615 --> 01:21:53.275 Sadly, many people today prefer following the law than the Spirit. 01:21:53.275 --> 01:22:02.021 They don't have the Spirit. So, they follow the law. You need to be born again. 01:22:02.021 --> 01:22:08.522 You need the Holy Spirit. It must come from your heart. Walking by the Spirit. 01:22:08.522 --> 01:22:12.436 Live a life with a clean conscience. 01:22:12.436 --> 01:22:16.543 If you step out of God's plan, you’ll feel it in your heart. 01:22:16.543 --> 01:22:19.014 Then you must return to the narrow road. 01:22:19.014 --> 01:22:25.343 But if you stop listening to the Spirit and go into the law, you’ll become bound. 01:22:25.343 --> 01:22:31.782 You’ll walk away from Christ and the road that leads to righteousness. 01:22:31.782 --> 01:22:39.336 I've seen so many people start in the spirit but end in the flesh under the law. 01:22:39.336 --> 01:22:47.690 We are loosed from the law. I don't keep the Sabbath. People tell me, 01:22:47.690 --> 01:22:50.940 “You need to keep the Sabbath.” They only read some of the verses. 01:22:50.940 --> 01:22:54.360 What did God say? Keep the Sabbath. Have one day of rest per week. 01:22:54.360 --> 01:22:56.386 No, he also told them to work six days. 01:22:56.386 --> 01:23:04.149 But most people I know who are eager to keep Sabbath, don’t work six days. 01:23:04.149 --> 01:23:10.790 They work five days. Why do they do that? How can people say, 01:23:10.790 --> 01:23:14.460 “Oh, we keep the Sabbath. This is our Sabbath” if they only work five days? 01:23:14.460 --> 01:23:19.717 God didn’t say that. He told them to work six days and take one day off. 01:23:19.717 --> 01:23:24.411 This law was never given to Gentile. It was given to the Israelites. 01:23:24.411 --> 01:23:30.125 This doesn’t mean, I can’t learn from it. It is important. I do some things. 01:23:30.125 --> 01:23:37.065 Sometimes the Holy Spirit tells me to rest one day. I have a day that I take off. 01:23:37.065 --> 01:23:43.945 I don't work seven days and then start a new week of seven days. We need this. 01:23:43.945 --> 01:23:48.374 But this is not because of the Mosaic law. It’s not an obligation or a law. 01:23:48.374 --> 01:23:50.328 It’s nothing to do with righteousness. 01:23:50.328 --> 01:23:59.345 It just shows us that God want us also to rest and take time with him. 01:23:59.345 --> 01:24:03.861 Don't be too busy. We need to understand this rightly. 01:24:03.861 --> 01:24:07.661 But some people are so fixed on keeping the Mosaic law. 01:24:07.661 --> 01:24:13.239 But the Sabbath law said that people shouldn’t light a fire on that day. 01:24:13.239 --> 01:24:16.674 Do you do that? At that time, they lit fires using wood. 01:24:16.674 --> 01:24:18.794 Do you turn on the oven on the Sabbath? 01:24:18.794 --> 01:24:24.102 If you start going down that road, you’ll suddenly become bound. 01:24:24.102 --> 01:24:28.818 If you keep a little of the law, you’re obligated to keep it all. 01:24:28.818 --> 01:24:35.488 Christ kept it for us, to set us free from the law: Not that we could live in sin. 01:24:35.488 --> 01:24:42.647 It was so we could walk by the Spirit in freedom. Listen to this. Romans 2: 01:24:42.647 --> 01:24:50.757 “All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, 01:24:50.757 --> 01:24:54.829 and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.” 01:24:54.829 --> 01:24:59.643 So, if we sin apart from the law we’ll perish apart from the law. 01:24:59.643 --> 01:25:02.711 If we sin under the law, we’ll be judged by the law. 01:25:02.711 --> 01:25:04.522 This refers to Jews and Gentiles. 01:25:04.522 --> 01:25:10.749 “For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, 01:25:10.749 --> 01:25:15.310 but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 01:25:15.310 --> 01:25:23.437 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law” as the law wasn’t given to us 01:25:23.437 --> 01:25:33.659 “do by nature the things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, 01:25:33.659 --> 01:25:36.238 even though they do not have the law.) 01:25:36.238 --> 01:25:44.972 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts” 01:25:44.972 --> 01:25:47.950 How do we obey the law? 01:25:47.950 --> 01:25:52.887 Love God with all your heart and love your neighbour as yourself. What is the law? 01:25:52.887 --> 01:25:57.044 What is the heart of the law? “written on their hearts, 01:25:57.044 --> 01:26:04.784 their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes 01:26:04.784 --> 01:26:10.193 accusing them and at other times even defending them.” 01:26:10.193 --> 01:26:15.488 This is extremely important. Gentiles don't have this law. 01:26:15.488 --> 01:26:16.828 It was never given to them. 01:26:16.828 --> 01:26:20.436 We’ll still be judged even if we’re not under the law - if we live in sin. 01:26:20.436 --> 01:26:29.601 But Gentiles who are born again, have the Christ's law written on the heart. 01:26:29.601 --> 01:26:34.996 They have a conscience. The conscience bears witness. 01:26:34.996 --> 01:26:42.735 Sometimes our thoughts accuse us and other times they defend us. 01:26:42.735 --> 01:26:54.415 I'm free. I'm free to eat things. I don’t think about the Sabbath. 01:26:54.415 --> 01:26:57.091 When I was born again, the law was written on my heart. 01:26:57.091 --> 01:27:14.247 I never felt when I made food on a Sabbath (or Saturday): “I can’t do this.” 01:27:14.247 --> 01:27:17.779 I’ve never felt that I can’t do a kickstart or training on that day. 01:27:17.779 --> 01:27:22.465 I’ve never felt condemned in that area. It's not written on my heart. 01:27:22.465 --> 01:27:28.016 It’s the same with head coverings. We need to understand the context. 01:27:28.016 --> 01:27:29.386 I’ll talk about that later. 01:27:29.386 --> 01:27:33.890 I've never met anyone who'd just received the Holy Spirit and God’s love, saying: 01:27:33.890 --> 01:27:38.032 “The Holy Spirit says that I need to cover my head. I can’t work on the Sabbath. 01:27:38.032 --> 01:27:41.567 I have to do this. I can’t play cards. I have to wear a long dress.” 01:27:41.567 --> 01:27:46.606 I never met someone who said that that is written on their heart. 01:27:46.606 --> 01:27:51.816 Then they read the law and get confused: “Oh no! I need to do this and that.” 01:27:51.816 --> 01:27:55.522 Condemnation comes. Then they try to keep the law. 01:27:55.522 --> 01:27:58.943 This leads them away from the pure and narrow road in Christ. 01:27:58.943 --> 01:28:02.366 They try to do this, not to do that, not to eat that and all the rest. 01:28:02.366 --> 01:28:05.917 But I have been convicted in my heart many times. 01:28:05.917 --> 01:28:10.168 I had said, done or looked at something wrong. 01:28:10.168 --> 01:28:15.557 For example, after I got born again, I slept with my girlfriend. 01:28:15.557 --> 01:28:20.306 I felt so condemned: What have I done? Red light, red light, sin, sin, sin! 01:28:20.306 --> 01:28:23.955 I knew it was sin. I did not need to read it in the Bible. 01:28:23.955 --> 01:28:26.734 I hadn’t read that yet, but it was written on my heart. 01:28:26.734 --> 01:28:29.949 This happens with so many other things. 01:28:29.949 --> 01:28:38.655 For example, if I say something wrong or reply in anger, I feel condemned. 01:28:38.655 --> 01:28:45.562 It happened once when I was in jail. You can read my book, if you haven’t already. 01:28:45.562 --> 01:28:53.870 There was a nasty guard in jail, who was not nice. 01:28:53.870 --> 01:28:56.940 They came in and checked us, when we were sitting in there. 01:28:56.940 --> 01:29:01.620 They scanned our card for their records. 01:29:01.620 --> 01:29:09.468 For a long time, we’d been allowed to leave some food to eat later. 01:29:09.468 --> 01:29:13.022 But he suddenly changed all the rules and they took all our food away. 01:29:13.022 --> 01:29:20.232 He was nasty. I remember sitting there in my cell. He opened my cell and came in. 01:29:20.232 --> 01:29:22.022 He wanted to scan my card. 01:29:22.022 --> 01:29:24.779 He had just taken some food away or something like that. 01:29:24.779 --> 01:29:31.242 I felt irritated. He said, “Give me your card” [Showing irritation] “Here” 01:29:31.242 --> 01:29:36.137 He said, “Don't be so nasty.” I just took the card out of his hand. 01:29:36.137 --> 01:29:39.041 I was just irritated. Then he moved on. 01:29:39.041 --> 01:29:47.624 As soon as I reacted like that, I felt that it was wrong of me. 01:29:47.624 --> 01:29:53.332 I asked God to forgive me for reacting like that. 01:29:53.332 --> 01:29:59.877 I have many examples like that. It’s because of my conscience. 01:29:59.877 --> 01:30:03.339 But other times, I stand up, preach and do things. 01:30:03.339 --> 01:30:05.825 Then my conscience bears witness that all is good. 01:30:05.825 --> 01:30:10.467 But other times, I feel that I shouldn’t have done something. 01:30:10.467 --> 01:30:12.646 I've seen that happening with other people. 01:30:12.646 --> 01:30:21.612 When anyone is at the start of their new life, they have a clean conscience. 01:30:21.612 --> 01:30:25.792 The Holy Spirit teaches, helps and purifies them. 01:30:25.792 --> 01:30:30.931 But then I see them suddenly turning away from that, going under the law. 01:30:30.931 --> 01:30:36.782 They start trying to keep the rules and guidelines, and get confused. 01:30:36.782 --> 01:30:38.780 That doesn’t lead to holiness. 01:30:38.780 --> 01:30:43.782 Suddenly they feel condemned, whereas before they did not: 01:30:43.782 --> 01:30:47.112 “Oh, I cannot drive. I cannot wear a dress. I have to cover my head. 01:30:47.112 --> 01:30:50.466 I cannot do this or that.” They start to feel condemned all the time. 01:30:50.466 --> 01:30:55.625 Why? Because they're going back under the law. 01:30:55.625 --> 01:30:59.752 They don't know that they're in a New Covenant and are free from the law. 01:30:59.752 --> 01:31:02.256 I want to do a Q&A video very soon. 01:31:02.256 --> 01:31:05.582 I know that many people are asking questions about this topic. 01:31:05.582 --> 01:31:09.066 Please come with your questions. I'll do a Q&A video. 01:31:09.066 --> 01:31:13.599 Lesson 6 will be about Hagar and Sarah. 01:31:13.599 --> 01:31:23.559 I’ll talk much more about the spirit, the flesh, the law, grace and freedom etc. 01:31:23.559 --> 01:31:27.706 I’ll go over all of this, because it’s new for many of you. 01:31:27.706 --> 01:31:30.180 You’re saying, “Torben, what are you saying? 01:31:30.180 --> 01:31:33.699 Are you saying that we don't need to obey the law of Moses?” Yes, I am. 01:31:33.699 --> 01:31:37.882 “Are you saying that we’re just free to live the way we want to?” No, I'm not. 01:31:37.882 --> 01:31:45.496 You're free to walk by the spirit. You’re free to listen to your conscience. 01:31:45.496 --> 01:31:48.651 Keep your conscience clean, above all things. 01:31:48.651 --> 01:31:53.421 If your conscience starts to condemn you, do something about it. 01:31:53.421 --> 01:31:56.338 But don’t do it in your own strength. 01:31:56.338 --> 01:32:00.519 Ask God to give you a revelation of who you are in Christ. 01:32:00.519 --> 01:32:05.180 Listen to these verses in 1 John. This lesson is almost finished. 01:32:05.180 --> 01:32:17.690 But this is important: “Dear friends, now we are children of God, 01:32:17.690 --> 01:32:21.454 and what we will be has not yet been made known. 01:32:21.454 --> 01:32:24.664 But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, 01:32:24.664 --> 01:32:30.911 for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him” That is our hope. 01:32:30.911 --> 01:32:36.073 We’re invited to a wedding. We, the bride, need to purify ourselves 01:32:36.073 --> 01:32:39.641 “purify themselves, just as he is pure. 01:32:39.641 --> 01:32:46.519 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 01:32:46.519 --> 01:32:51.716 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. 01:32:51.716 --> 01:33:01.022 And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.” 01:33:01.022 --> 01:33:10.323 That is the secret. Live in Christ. “No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.” 01:33:10.323 --> 01:33:14.084 This doesn’t mean that we can never sin. But we are not to keep on sinning. 01:33:14.084 --> 01:33:15.655 That’s not how we live. 01:33:15.655 --> 01:33:23.613 “No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.” 01:33:23.613 --> 01:33:28.520 Many people who sit in church buildings, don’t really know Him 01:33:28.520 --> 01:33:30.305 - they keep on sinning. 01:33:30.305 --> 01:33:34.350 “Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. 01:33:34.350 --> 01:33:38.233 The one who does what is right is righteous” 01:33:38.233 --> 01:33:42.893 It's not so much about what we believe, but what we do “just as he is righteous. 01:33:42.893 --> 01:33:45.903 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, 01:33:45.903 --> 01:33:48.524 because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. 01:33:48.524 --> 01:33:55.167 The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 01:33:55.167 --> 01:34:07.900 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them;” 01:34:07.900 --> 01:34:10.992 God’s law is written on our hearts. 01:34:10.992 --> 01:34:16.358 His seed is the Spirit we’ve now received, the word of God. 01:34:16.358 --> 01:34:23.472 “they cannot go on sinning because they have been born of God.” 01:34:23.472 --> 01:34:26.945 It's not about praying the sinner's prayer. It's about the new birth. 01:34:26.945 --> 01:34:30.976 “This is how we know who the children of God are 01:34:30.976 --> 01:34:34.609 and who the children of the devil are:” The way we live. 01:34:34.609 --> 01:34:37.831 “Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, 01:34:37.831 --> 01:34:41.405 nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.” 01:34:41.405 --> 01:34:45.455 So, let’s close this lesson. What do we need to do? 01:34:45.455 --> 01:34:55.967 Repent and be baptized, and receive the Holy Spirit. 01:34:55.967 --> 01:35:03.176 Then: Know that you are free from the law of sin and death. Pray. 01:35:03.176 --> 01:35:08.873 Ask God to reveal this truth to you. You need to live it by faith. 01:35:08.873 --> 01:35:14.423 It’s a revelation. I am free. Yes. I don't need to sin anymore. 01:35:14.423 --> 01:35:16.625 You are dead to the law. You are free. 01:35:16.625 --> 01:35:23.408 Know, you're free from the law of sin and death that once bound and enslaved you. 01:35:23.408 --> 01:35:28.726 Believe it. Understand that Christ has set you free. 01:35:28.726 --> 01:35:39.974 Now walk by the Spirit in a new life. Paul wrote so clearly about the law: 01:35:39.974 --> 01:35:45.991 “Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself 01:35:45.991 --> 01:35:48.801 a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.” 01:35:48.801 --> 01:35:54.218 Now, he wrote something interesting here: “To the Jews, I became like a Jew, 01:35:54.218 --> 01:36:01.670 to win the Jews. To those under the law, I became like one under the law 01:36:01.670 --> 01:36:05.415 (though I myself am not under the law)” 01:36:05.415 --> 01:36:08.345 Paul wrote that he became like them when he was with them. 01:36:08.345 --> 01:36:11.422 He became like them to win them. But he wasn’t under the law. 01:36:11.422 --> 01:36:15.169 Me, neither. I'm not under the law. I'm free from the law. 01:36:15.169 --> 01:36:17.950 You're free from the law. We are free from the law. Why? 01:36:17.950 --> 01:36:22.054 Because we’re dead to the law. The law bound us as long we lived. 01:36:22.054 --> 01:36:25.597 But it's no longer I who live, it’s Christ who lives. I'm dead to the law. 01:36:25.597 --> 01:36:30.793 What does that mean, to not be under the law? Are we without law? No. 01:36:30.793 --> 01:36:36.900 Paul continues: “To those not having the law, I became like one not having the law 01:36:36.900 --> 01:36:43.538 (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ’s law)” 01:36:43.538 --> 01:36:48.293 Paul wrote in one place that he wasn’t under the law. 01:36:48.293 --> 01:36:54.023 In another place, he said he wasn’t free from God's law, but under Christ’s law. 01:36:54.023 --> 01:37:00.654 What does that mean? We're not under the law of sin and death, that Moses brought. 01:37:00.654 --> 01:37:05.799 But we’re under the law of Christ. What is that? 01:37:05.799 --> 01:37:08.616 That is to listen to Him and His word. 01:37:08.616 --> 01:37:13.921 Law is not only written commandments written in the Bible. 01:37:13.921 --> 01:37:16.762 It is what Jesus said. Read what Jesus said. 01:37:16.762 --> 01:37:21.530 Did he say, “If you love me, keep what Moses said.” No, He didn’t say that. 01:37:21.530 --> 01:37:24.975 He said “If you love me, keep my commands…” 01:37:24.975 --> 01:37:29.494 Some people are very eager to keep the Mosaic law. 01:37:29.494 --> 01:37:32.890 They keep the feasts, the food laws, the Sabbath and the dress code. 01:37:32.890 --> 01:37:37.673 But they are not eager to keep Jesus’ law: Love your neighbour as yourself. 01:37:37.673 --> 01:37:45.858 Go out and make disciples. Preach the gospel. Obey Christ. 01:37:45.858 --> 01:37:52.804 “If you love me, keep my commands.” Jesus said. I need to finish the lesson here: 01:37:52.804 --> 01:38:00.341 “So the law” with Moses “was our guardian until Christ came 01:38:00.341 --> 01:38:02.653 that we might be justified by faith. 01:38:02.653 --> 01:38:09.275 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.” 01:38:09.275 --> 01:38:14.857 We're now in faith. “So in Christ Jesus, you're all children of God through faith, 01:38:14.857 --> 01:38:19.796 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” 01:38:19.796 --> 01:38:23.478 We can say it like this: You are baptized into Christ’s death. 01:38:23.478 --> 01:38:30.903 Therefore, you're no longer bound to the law. You don't need a guardian anymore. 01:38:30.903 --> 01:38:34.849 You are now in Christ. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free… 01:38:34.849 --> 01:38:37.500 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed”. 01:38:37.500 --> 01:38:41.401 So, I’ll finish the lesson now. Old Covenant (Moses): Until Christ. 01:38:41.401 --> 01:38:55.107 Law on stone tablets. Written code. Brought death. Could not obey the old way. 01:38:55.107 --> 01:38:57.138 God rejected the whole generation. 01:38:57.138 --> 01:39:03.375 Did not inherit the Promised Land but Joshua brought the next generation in. 01:39:03.375 --> 01:39:06.219 Joshua’s and Jesus’ names are directly related. 01:39:06.219 --> 01:39:11.663 Moses could not bring them into the promised land but Joshua did. 01:39:11.663 --> 01:39:15.799 The law cannot bring you into the kingdom of God but Jesus can. 01:39:15.799 --> 01:39:28.249 The law is good if we use it the rightly: to reveal sin so we can come to Christ. 01:39:28.249 --> 01:39:35.779 But in baptism, we die to the law. New Covenant (Jesus): Everlasting covenant. 01:39:35.779 --> 01:39:46.209 Law is written on hearts of flesh. New way by the Spirit. Brought life. 01:39:46.209 --> 01:39:49.128 Can now obey in the new way. 01:39:49.128 --> 01:39:52.578 We’ll one day enter into the Promised Land: 01:39:52.578 --> 01:39:56.528 If we are victorious and continue in Christ. 01:39:56.528 --> 01:40:07.515 Jesus fulfilled the law’s requirements. We are now: God's treasured possession. 01:40:07.515 --> 01:40:11.678 A kingdom of priests. A holy nation. But it's not complete yet. 01:40:11.678 --> 01:40:14.696 We will be those things one day when he comes. 01:40:14.696 --> 01:40:24.043 Then we’ll rule with Him here on earth. A few more verses: 01:40:24.043 --> 01:40:31.240 “Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus… 01:40:31.240 --> 01:40:38.681 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life 01:40:38.681 --> 01:40:43.137 has set us free from the law and sin and death.” 01:40:43.137 --> 01:40:51.826 When you’re in Christ, you are under the law of the spirit written on your heart. 01:40:51.826 --> 01:40:55.426 You’re set free from the law of sin and death. 01:40:55.426 --> 01:41:00.349 “For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God 01:41:00.349 --> 01:41:05.772 did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. 01:41:05.772 --> 01:41:13.137 And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement 01:41:13.137 --> 01:41:20.331 of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh 01:41:20.331 --> 01:41:27.092 but according to the Spirit.” So, get born again. Live by the spirit. 01:41:27.092 --> 01:41:32.989 Listen to the Holy Spirit. When your heart condemns you, repent. 01:41:32.989 --> 01:41:38.566 Don't try to live by the law of Moses and go under the law. 01:41:38.566 --> 01:41:44.685 That’ll bring condemnation and death. Live in the New Covenant, by the Spirit. 01:41:44.685 --> 01:41:50.032 Obey Jesus. If you love Him, keep His commands and you will live. 01:41:50.032 --> 01:41:53.768 I’ll pray for you. God, I thank You for everyone who’s seen this. 01:41:53.768 --> 01:41:58.488 I pray that this will bring freedom to them. Freedom from the law. 01:41:58.488 --> 01:42:01.200 Freedom to live a holy life as You are holy. 01:42:01.200 --> 01:42:05.583 Freedom to live by the Spirit. I pray that everyone will understand this: 01:42:05.583 --> 01:42:11.481 When we are baptized, Jesus, we are baptized into Your death. 01:42:11.481 --> 01:42:17.504 It's no longer I who live, but it's You who lives. 01:42:17.504 --> 01:42:21.565 A woman is only bound to the law, as long as her husband is alive. 01:42:21.565 --> 01:42:24.006 But when we die, we’re loosed from that law. 01:42:24.006 --> 01:42:29.305 We're free to be married to somebody else. Christ Jesus is our bridegroom. 01:42:29.305 --> 01:42:34.690 Help us to purify ourselves. Purify us by the Spirit. 01:42:34.690 --> 01:42:37.390 Help us to walk by the Spirit, without condemnation. 01:42:37.390 --> 01:42:42.664 Then, one day, Jesus, we’ll inherit this earth together with You. 01:42:42.664 --> 01:42:46.964 Thank You for what You're doing. I pray that it will bring freedom to people. 01:42:46.964 --> 01:42:52.032 Come and speak to people out there through this. In the name of Jesus, Amen. 01:42:52.032 --> 01:42:55.066 See you next time. Come with your questions. 01:42:55.066 --> 01:42:59.961 I'll do a Q&A video soon where I will answer some of them. God bless you. 01:42:59.961 --> 01:43:04.372 Let's live the new life by the Spirit that God has for all of us. Bye bye.