9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Welcome to Lesson 5 of the Kingdom school. I'm very excited to be with you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I think that this lesson will bless you a lot. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Some of you will experience freedom today. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Some of you will have never heard this before. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But I know some people will have an issue with what I'm sharing. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But please bear with me. You’ll see that these things are actually biblical. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Let’s start. I hope you're ready. Lesson 4 was called: ‘Saved out of Egypt: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Our journey of salvation.’ I love that lesson. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I want to start now by reading this beautiful feedback: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A man wrote here: ‘Brother Torben! I'm 72 years old. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is the first time I've heard the Full Gospel message like this: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Preached out of the Old Testament. That is such a great teaching. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The Church needs to hear it, even more than the lost.’ 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, this man is 72 years old. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This was the first time he’s heard the [br]gospel preached out of the Old Testament. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This comment really affected me. I experienced exactly the same thing in jail. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God revealed it to me in a new way: the gospel in the Old and New Testaments. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The gospel of the Kingdom. Much of this was new for me. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is what the church needs. God brought me to jail to reveal this to me. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So I get extremely excited when I receive a comment like this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The first four lessons: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Lesson 1: The Beginning of Eden to the new Heaven and Earth: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The Fall, Noah, and the Flood. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Lesson 2: Abraham Our Father: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This happened after the fall, wickedness and destruction. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 How God desired a people who are His, beginning with Abraham. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He is the father of Faith - a man had a family that later became a nation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Lesson 3: I explained how that nation was called out of Egypt. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Likewise, we are called out of Babylon. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was called: ‘Called out of Egypt’: How [br]that nation was called out from Egypt. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 How we today are called out to be the Church. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We are set apart as God's holy people. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I love that lesson. I want to start with a personal testimony. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Last week, my daughter Simone got married. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Here’s a picture of the area just outside [br]this studio. I'm standing there, smiling. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Simone and Joshua have just said “Yes” to each other. They were so excited. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This wedding, this past week, is the strongest picture for me of this: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The church is those who are called out. They are holy and separated. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This wedding was holy and so beautiful. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The fear of God was there in a beautiful way. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What happened just a few hours before this? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I saw my daughter Simone in her wedding dress for the first time. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Her hair was done. She had makeup on and everything. It was so, so beautiful. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Here is a one-minute video of my reaction. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 For the first time I saw my daughter standing in the beautiful wedding dress. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My reaction surprised me. I really broke down. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I want to show you this clip and then will continue talking it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Unclear speech and Danish, crying] So, you can see here that I broke down. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s in Danish so it’s hard to understand. Not a lot was said: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “You're beautiful”, “I love you Simone”, “I love you Dad” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was a strong experience for me. I saw my daughter there. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 She was so holy, beautiful, clean and ready to be given away to Joshua. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is what the bride is. She is called-out and separated. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 She is ready for her husband. Here are some verses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Paul wrote: “For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God is also jealous for His people. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “I promised you as a pure bride to one husband – Christ.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So Paul promised the church as a pure bride to one husband. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That husband is Christ. Here are so many beautiful pictures. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Revelation 19: “Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honour to him. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb, and his bride” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the church “has prepared herself.” We, the church, prepare ourselves: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “She has been given the finest of pure white linen to wear” What is that? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “For the fine linen represents the good deeds of God's holy people.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Here’s a photo of myself walking with my daughter Simone. Here’s the kiss. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I actually made a video about it. This is the thumbnail. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If you’ve not seen the video, please do. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I explain that this was the first time they’d kissed each other. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He has been living with us for four years. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They never touched each other intimately or kissed each other. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 After the wedding, they left. Then these two virgins became one flesh. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The blood was spilled. They entered into a covenant. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Watch the video. Look at this wedding. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 See that we, the church, have fallen far away from God's grace and intentions. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This wedding was an extremely clear example of what we should be: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Called-out, holy and separated. We should be purifying ourselves. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re not only invited to a wedding: We’re the bride. We’re living for that day. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ll talk a lot more about the wedding feast and God’s kingdom in another lesson. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But this is an extremely beautiful example of the topic we’re speaking about here. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There’s a link under this video. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Please watch my video: “Now you may kiss the bride”. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I explain that the wedding is connected with the God’s kingdom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re invited to the wedding feast. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Lesson 4: The Process of Being Called Out: The Israelites were called out. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Likewise, we must remove the yeast from our house (repentance). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There’s the blood (the cross) and the Red Sea (baptism into Christ). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then the Israelites walked through the wilderness toward the Promised Land. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They were guided by the Pillar of Cloud and Fire. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Likewise, we’ve received the Holy Spirit. We walk by the Spirit toward our goal: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The heavenly Jerusalem will come down from heaven. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Those were the first four lessons. We’ll [br]move on now. I’ll talk about Moses today. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Next time, we’ll look at the New and Old Covenant and how they work together. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Today, we’ll look at Moses and the giving of the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 From the law with Moses, to truth and grace in Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There’s a difference between the old and new covenants. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Lesson 5’s focus is on Freedom from sin. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re called to be free and to live holy lives. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 After a few more lessons, we’ll look at [br]how David is connected with God’s kingdom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then there’ll be a permanent shift. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Instead of focussing on the nation of Israel, we'll focus on the kingdom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I hope you're ready. I’ll pray and then we'll start. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God, I thank You for this revelation. I thank You for Your truth. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I pray that it will bring understanding, God. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That it will bring truth and freedom to people, God. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That they will experience the freedom, Jesus, that You have for them. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Come with Your Holy Spirit. Help me to share this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Help people to receive this, God. In the name of Jesus, Amen. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Lesson 5 will also be long. I will talk about a lot of things. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But there’ll be a break in the middle, if you need it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Lesson 5: The law of Moses. There is the word ‘Death’. That law brings death. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The law of Christ: That law brings life. Here you can see: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 True understanding brings: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Freedom from sin, holiness, purity, victory and eternal life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What happened with my daughter and Joshua? Now you may kiss your bride. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This was the first time they kissed and were together. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That’s the fruit of a true understanding. It is not about an external law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s actually about the heart. This comes from a true understanding. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A false understanding brings slavery to sin, a double life and eternal death. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A true understanding of what the law means for us today, will bring that. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A false understanding of the law will bring this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A true understanding of grace will bring this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A false understanding of grace will bring this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Some people with a false understanding talk a lot about the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You can know a tree by the fruit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Those people are enslaved and living a double life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But others talk a lot about grace. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They are also enslaved and living a double life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They don't have the right understanding of it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s important to say this at the beginning, when we look at the law of Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Let’s move on: It’s possible to divide this law into three parts: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 1. Commandments governing their personal lives. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 2. Law for their social lives with one another. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 3. Ordination for religious lives. We can [br]divide the law like this. I am not a Jew. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I've never been a Jew. I'm a Gentile and a born-again believer. I'm grafted in. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The promise is mine. But I'm not a Jew. The law was given to Israel as a nation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Actually, it was never given to those who are Gentiles and live in another country. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's really important to understand this concept. Right now, I’m in Mexico. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I used to live in America. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In America, you’re allowed to drive through a red light if you’re turning right. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is not breaking the law. But it's different in Mexico. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I can’t drive through a red light and turn right, apart from a few exceptions. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In Europe, it's even worse. There, I’m never allowed to drive through a red light. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But here in Mexico, I can’t say, “But they do that in Denmark. Or in America. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, I can do it.” No. I'm here now. It matters where you are. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I can see a great lack of understanding here. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Gentiles didn’t have ancestors living in Israel. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But those Gentiles try to apply the law of Moses to today 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 – how we should live with each other. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Some try to apply the religious laws of offerings and sacrifices today. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But those have nothing do with us. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It all goes wrong, if we don’t understand to whom the law was given and when. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If we don’t understand the covenant that it was part of. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is extremely important. True understanding brings freedom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You can fall into one of two ditches, when listening to teaching about this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 One ditch is legalism, where you try to go under the law and become bound to it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The other is lawlessness, where you say: [br]I'm not under the law of Moses. I'm free. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They don’t understand that we are under a different law now, the law of Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That law is written on your heart. I’ll talk about that later. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, there's a narrow road between two ditches. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 On one side is legalism, and on the other side is lawlessness. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re called to live in the middle of the road. I hope you're ready. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Exodus 20 is about Moses and the Ten Commandments. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Exodus 19: “Now if you obey me fully” Not 30% or half but fully 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “and keep my covenant, then out of all [br]nations you'll be my treasured possession. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Although the whole earth is mine, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Whom did God say that to? The [br]Israelites, not the Danish or Americans. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He said that to Israel. The promise was given to them. The law was given to them. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They needed to fully obey God’s commands. Then He would do His part. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We read here: “The people all responded together, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “We will do everything the LORD has said.” Did they do what God had commanded? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 No. But God did not give up. Keep my commands (laws). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then you'll be my treasured possession… a kingdom of priests, a holy nation… 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ll talk about that later. Let’s read a longer text that describes this" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What actually happened when the law was given and Moses was on the mountain. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is a very significant event compared to others recorded in the Bible. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Exodus 19: “On the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightning, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Everyone in the camp trembled.” The spectacle was frightening. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the LORD descended on it in fire. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The smoke billowed up…” It was an incredible spectacle. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and the voice of God answered him.” Moses talked with God. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up.” What a spectacle! 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “And the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so they do not force their way through to see the LORD and many of them perish.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So Moses was commanded to prevent the people from going up. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Otherwise, they would die. Why? Because this was a holy place. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A holy moment. We read here: “Even the priests, who approach the LORD, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So God was there. His holiness was there. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The other Israelites couldn’t simply approach God like Moses could. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The priest needed to consecrate themselves. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Otherwise, God would break out against them. Then we read: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses built an altar. Israelites sacrificed offerings on it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’m going through this quickly. “Moses then took half of the blood… 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the other he splashed against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and read it to the people. They responded,[br]“We will do everything the LORD has said; 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 we will obey.” Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in accordance with all these words.” So, [br]Moses went up to God. God spoke to Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses wrote it all down, and built an altar. They slaughtered animals. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses splashed half of the blood against the altar. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He sprinkled the other half on the people. They had replied, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “We will obey everything the Lord have said.” But did they do that? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 No, they didn’t. Read this: “This is the blood of the covenant 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that the LORD has made” This points to the New Testament. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Jesus said, “This is my blood of the New Covenant.” It points to Jesus. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Let’s continue: “The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and commandments I have written for their instruction.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Please read the whole of Exodus, because [br]it's very important. This is our history. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s not just a Jewish story. It’s our story. All of this points to Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In chapter 24, Moses went up the mountain. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In chapters 25 to 31, are some of the things God revealed to Moses. Chapter 25: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The Ark of the Covenant, the Table for the Bread and the Golden Lampstand. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Chapter 26: The Tabernacle (Tent of Meeting): 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 where God came down later and met with them, while they were traveling around. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Chapter 27: The Bronze Altar. Chapter 28: The Priests’ Garments. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Chapter 29: Consecration of the Priests. Chapter 30: The Altar of Incense. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Chapter 31: The Sabbath. We read after that: “When the LORD finished 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave [br]him the two tablets of the covenant law, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But what happened while Moses was on the mountain in God’s presence? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Only a short time before, the people had said, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But not long after, they did the opposite, while Moses was on the mountain. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We read here: “When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Come, make us gods who will go before us. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 we don't know what has happened to him.”” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Try to imagine this situation. They’d said, “God, we want to obey you.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then Moses had sprinkled the blood of the covenant on the people. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses had gone up the mountain. After less than 40 days, they said 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “We don't know what’s happened about Moses. Let's make a golden calf.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then they broke God's law. I’ll talk more about that later. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They actually broke the first two of the ten commandments: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You shall have no other gods before me. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You shan't make yourself an image in the[br]form of anything in heaven or on earth. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You shall not bow down to them. But that’s[br]what they did. They made a golden calf. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What did they call it? “This is the LORD who brought us out of Egypt. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is the LORD our God, Yahweh, who brought us out of Egypt.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They did not change God's name but they changed his image. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We do the same in our minds today. We say, “We serve God, the god of the Bible. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We serve Christ Jesus.” We don’t change God’s name. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But we change His image in our minds. Suddenly, this is a different Jesus. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A different God. I want to ask: Is your God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Is He the God who brought the Israelites out of Egypt? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If not, you’ve made yourself an idol. You are serving a different god. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You’ve done the same as the Israelites. Many people do that today. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They serve a New Testament god, full of grace and mercy. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They say that the Old Testament god was [br]evil. But the Bible is true story. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ll talk about that later. Three thousand people were killed that day. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ll talk about that, shortly. Before we continue, I want to remind you of this: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The covenants point to Christ and the New Covenant. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I want to show you these pictures and shadows, that'll become clear to you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’ve looked now at Noah, Abraham and Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 With Noah, the sign of the covenant was the rainbow: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A sign of hope and a new beginning for those who were saved in the ark; 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the rest perished in the waters. With Abraham, circumcision was the sign: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The cutting of the foreskin was a sign of the Covenant 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - so that the people would not be cut off from the promise. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Instead, they would inherit through Abraham. Now we have Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God gave him stone tablets with His laws written down: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The Israelites first needed to keep His laws. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then God would make them His treasured possession. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Let's look at Christ here. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 With Noah: “In Christ, we are now saved from the waters (symbolizing baptism). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We leave behind the old life and embrace hope for eternal life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The ark is like Christ, in whom we are now saved. We put off that old life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We are saved through the water. Now, we have hope and eternal life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Abraham and the circumcision: In Christ, we have circumcision of the heart. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We will inherit as children of Abraham. Moses and the stone tablets: In Christ: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God has written His laws on our hearts. We can become God's treasured possession. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A kingdom of priests and a holy nation. This is so beautiful. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Each covenant adds another part to the picture of what we have in Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now, I’ll talk about some things in the New Testament. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 After that, we’ll return to the Old Testament. Hebrews 9: “But when Christ came 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 as high priest of the good things that are now already here, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Christ came as high priest and went [br]through a greater, more perfect tabernacle 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “that is not made with human hands, that [br]is to say, is not a part of this creation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but he entered into the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes…” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 could only clean people on the outside. All the things we have read about: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses, the tabernacle, the priestly garments, the high priest and the Sabbath. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 These are all pictures and shadows of a new reality that is in Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He who went through the real tabernacle [br]in heaven. We read here: “How much more, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so that we may serve the living God!” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Offerings of goats and calves and their blood could not cleanse the conscience. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But Christ did. It's not an external thing. It's an internal thing, that is deep: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “For this reason, Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 called may receive the promised eternal inheritance - now that he has died as 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ll go on to explain this. “Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession… 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That was God’s command. Did the Israelites fully obey God? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 No. Did they break His laws? Yes. Have you fully obeyed God? No. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Have you broken His laws? Yes. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That means that if it depended on you, you wouldn’t become treasured possession. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Nor a kingdom of priests. Nor a holy nation. You didn’t keep the conditions. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But Christ did. In Him, we’re forgiven. In Him, we’re grafted in. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In Him, we’re free. In Him, this belongs to us. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What did Peter say to the church of Jewish and Gentile believers? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The same is true of born-again Jewish and Gentile believers today: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but now you have received mercy.” When you understand this, it’s really beautiful. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The law could not do this. We all failed. We’ve all broken the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But Christ kept it. In him, we become what God said. In Christ: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re God's chosen people, a royal priesthood, and a holy nation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re God's special possession. I want to [br]say this: God hasn’t forgotten the Jews. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ll talk about the Jews, shortly. The promise is still for them. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But this is our reality now, in Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But not everyone in a church building, is part of the church. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Not everyone who professes a faith in God, is a child of God. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Not everyone who confesses Jesus, actually[br]obeys Jesus. This is really important. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The promise is real. But to receive it, you need to be fully born again. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You need to live this new life. You need to be in Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then, this will be your reality. Let's continue reading Hebrews: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to be purified with these sacrifices” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What were the tabernacle in the wilderness, the sacrifices and the offerings? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They were copies of the heavenly things. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, he wasn’t like the other priests. That earthly sanctuary was a copy, a picture. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was different. “that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We need to understand this. Let’s continue reading. Hebrews is an amazing book. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The author wrote about offerings. Then it’s written: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to those who are waiting for him.” Remember this: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 At the time of Moses, the tabernacle was temporary. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was a copy of the real heavenly one. Like everything else, it points to Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This will get clearer as we continue. Now, we'll return to the events in Exodus. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses came down the mountain. The Israelites had made a golden calf. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We read about the events beforehand: “When the people saw that Moses was so long 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Come make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then they took the gold rings off that their wives, sons, and daughters wore. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They brought them to Aaron. “He took what they handed him and made it 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 into an idol cast in the shape of a calf. He shaped it with a tool. Then they said, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Try to imagine the situation. God had brought them out. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now they’d made a golden calf that had no connection with Yahweh. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The LORD had brought them out. They said of the golden calf: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is Yahweh who brought us out. They called it by His name: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.” to Yahweh. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They worshipped Him, in the form of a golden calf. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings… 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then the people sat down to eat and drink, and then they got up to play.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 People do this today. We call an idol using God’s name. But He's not the same. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's scary. I could take ten Christians in a line and ask them to say who God is. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In some cases, they’ll have weird ideas. They are not serving the same god. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Not the God who brought the people out of Egypt. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They’ve made an image of a god in their minds, that suits them: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Oh, no, my God isn’t like that. He’s like this” “Then the LORD said to Moses, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, God sees everything. He saw exactly what they were doing. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “and they are a stiff-necked people.” Notice what He said here: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Now leave me alone so that my anger may [br]burn against them that I may destroy them. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then I will make you into a great nation.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 When this happened, God wanted to destroy Israel, those he saved out of Egypt. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They’d slaughtered the Passover lambs. He’d passed over their houses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They’d went through the Red Sea. A few weeks later, He was ready to destroy them. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But He wouldn’t destroy all of them. Why? Because He’d made a promise to Abraham. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He'll keep that – to make Abraham into a great nation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But whom will He keep the promise with? He wanted to destroy the Israelites. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then He said, “I will make you, Moses, into a great nation.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s important to understand this: God gave a promise to Abraham. He'll keep it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God is a promise keeper. But with whom? With Abraham’s descendants. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But not every descendant of Abraham is a child of Abraham, in that sense. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Here, He was ready to destroy everyone and then keep His promise with Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God is faithful and will do everything He has said. But the question is: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Are you part of that or not? Are we part of what God wants to do? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God will do what He’s promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David and Jesus. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But the question is, are we a part of that? Let's learn from this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Let’s have a healthy fear of God in our lives, so we won't be cut off. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Many Israelites were cut off when these events happened. Moses interceded: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “But Moses sought the favour of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and to wipe them off the face of the earth”? Turn from your fierce anger; relent 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and do not bring disaster on your people.”[br]Moses interceded “Remember your servants 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 your descendants all this land I promised them… Then the Lord relented 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Reading how Moses interceded, reminds us of something: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Wickedness was all over the earth but Noah found favour. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God wanted to destroy the Israelites but Moses interceded. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The whole world will be destroyed, but Christ can save us from that. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is a picture of Christ, who stood in the gap for us. It's really beautiful. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses intercedes and later went down from the mountain: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them into pieces…” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He also destroyed the golden calf. Joshua was also there. We read: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “that day about three thousand of the people died.” This is interesting. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What is the clear message here? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 As soon as the Old Covenant law was given, 3,000 people died. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 As soon as the New Covenant Spirit was given, 3,000 received new life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is all connected. This all points to Christ. Exodus 32: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin.”” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 By this time, around 3,000 people had been killed. Moses said to the rest: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the LORD; 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But now, please forgive their sin” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then Moses interceded in an amazing and beautiful way: “but if not, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 then blot me out of the book you have written.” Moses really stood in the gap. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He said, “Either forgive them or blot me out of the book.” What a man! “The LORD 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.”” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now, we read about the book of life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Books will be opened at the great judgment, at the great judgment seat: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 At the end of Revelation. I’ll talk about these books later in this series. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's possible to be blotted out of the book of life. People say today: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “If your name is written in the book of life, everything is fine.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That’s true if your name is there and remains there. But what is very clear here? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That a person can be blotted out of God's book. Then God said to Moses: “Now go, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So about 3,000 people died right away. In [br]Lesson 3 (‘Called-out’), I explained this: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The sinful generation didn’t enter the promised land, but later punished. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's a very clear picture of our salvation journey. Someone commented on Lesson 3 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (‘Called-out’): “Yeah, but you can’t use the example of the promised land. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There were giants in the promised land.” Yeah, we can use that example. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What will happen when Jesus sets up God’s kingdom on earth? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He will need to deal with some things at the beginning. We’ll take the land. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 People will submit under Jesus’ Lordship and rule. All will bow down at His feet. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But there’ll be a time of judgment. The righteousness will bring peace on earth. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It'll be cleaned up. It won’t just happen, from one day to another. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Those of us who are there, will receive heavenly bodies and rule with him. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There’ll be a time of cleaning up. Giants [br]in the land is a really good picture. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Other good pictures are possessing, taking and subduing the land. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ll talk about the promised land in a later lesson. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But the Israelites didn’t enter in, because of disobedience. God is very serious. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Sometimes, judgment come right away and sometimes it’s delayed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This should really create a fear of God in our lives, a healthy fear of God. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 After this God called Moses up the mountain again. “The LORD said to Moses, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I’ll write on 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the tablets the words which were on the first tablets which you broke.”” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So there were two sets of tablets. The first set of tablets were destroyed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then God called Moses up again and said, “Cut out two new tablets. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I will write the same on them.” This is very interesting. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God wrote on the first tablets. Later, Moses made new ones. God wrote on those. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This points forward to God writing His law on new tablets. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He is writing His law on our hearts, not with written code on stone tablets. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He is writing on our hearts by His Spirit. This is all about the gospel. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It points to Christ, to the time we are living in and to God’s kingdom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Many years after Moses, Jeremiah prophesied this: “The days are coming,” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, it’s not just a continuation of the Mosaic covenant. It’s different: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 by the hand to lead them out of Egypt.” Why will it be different? “because 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, it’s a New Covenant. They broke the other one. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “This is the covenant I'll make with the people of Israel” With Israel the nation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now, we’re grafted in and have received it in Christ. I’ll talk about it later. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “After that time,” declares the LORD. “I'll put my law in their minds and write it” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 on stone tablets? No, He’d already done that and it hadn’t worked. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The law, written externally, brought death. It didn't work. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You cannot obey a law as an external written code. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's to be written on the heart. Or it won't work: “write it on their hearts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'll be their God, and they'll be my people. No longer will they teach 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 their neighbour, or say to one another, “Know the LORD”” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We don’t need a human priest in order to have a relationship with God: "because 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Ezekiel prophesied similar things around the same time. He added some things: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “I will give them an undivided HEART and put a new spirit in them;” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, we read about God writing the law on our hearts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We read about an undivided heart and a new spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “I will remove from them their heart of stone” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - God won’t write His law on a heart of stone. He will remove that. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He'll then write on a new heart by the Spirit - “and give them a heart of flesh.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is not a license for us to sin: “Then they will follow my decrees and be 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God writes His laws on our hearts, so that we can obey Him. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Not so we can continue sinning. He did it, so we can be holy as our Father is holy. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now you may kiss your bride. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now you can enter into a covenant and be one flesh in a marriage. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You can’t do that if your heart is not transformed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It has to come from your heart, not from an external law: “You may not….” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 No, we need a changed heart. We’ll look at that later. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I have some more slides here before we shortly have a break. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I want to talk more here about Israel as a nation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The fact is, the law of Moses was never actually given to Gentiles. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was given to Israel as a nation. These are not laws for me. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They were for Israel as a nation. But in Christ, I am grafted into the promise. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I am not part of the physical nation of Israel. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But I have been grafted into the promise in a spiritual sense. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I talked about in previous lessons. So now, we’re a holy people. We’re called out. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re God's possession. But that doesn’t mean that God has rejected Israel. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I want to talk about that before we continue. Romans 11:25-29 is very important. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Paul writes: “Brothers and sisters, here is a mystery I want you to understand. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It'll keep you from being proud.” But many people have rejected the Jews. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They’re very proud: “We’re now the people of God. I am a holy nation.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But it's only because of Christ that you are. So please don't be proud. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Remember this: “Part of Israel” not all of[br]Israel. There are people who love Jesus. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They are born again and follow the Messiah Jesus. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Part of Israel has refused to obey God.” We see this today. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “That will continue until the full number of non-Jews has entered God's kingdom.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, at the moment they still reject God as a whole. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This will continue until we as Gentiles have come in. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This will create jealousy and so on. “And so all Israel will be saved.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There’s a hardness right now. But there’ll be a time when all Israel will be saved. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “It is written, “The One who saves will come from Mount Zion. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He will remove sin from Jacob.” God has said that. He’ll do it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Here is my covenant with them. I will take away their sins.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, this covenant has been given to the Jews. This is for our good: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “As far as the gospel is concerned, the people of Israel are enemies.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So many of the Jews are enemies. They're not in the New Covenant. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God’s laws are not yet written on their hearts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They haven’t received the spirit, nor are obeying God's laws as a whole. What is that? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They’re enemies according to the gospel. “But as far as God's choice is concerned, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the people of Israel are loved.” They’re still called. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “That is because of God's promises to the founders of our nation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God does not take back his gifts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He does not change his mind about those he has chosen.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, the nation of Israel is still chosen and called. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God’ll establish a new covenant with them, in their hearts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But right now, this belongs to us. Each one of us can receive it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A new covenant where the law is written on the heart. I will be their God. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They'll be my people. Then they'll follow [br]my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 All will know me and I will remember their sins no more. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re talking here about following God’s law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, should we go back and do everything God spoke to Israel as a nation? No. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That law was given to Israel as a nation. I'm not a Jew and never have been. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm a Gentile. But I'm following Christ and His word. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We need to understand that there is a change in the law. Hebrews 7: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We read here that Jesus is in the priestly order of Melchizedek. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There is a change in the priesthood. Please read it yourself. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Because of this change, we’re not bound to the written code given to Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Instead, we’re bound to the law of Christ.[br]The law of God's written on our hearts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Let’s read a few verses from Romans. There’ll be a break shortly. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 outward and physical. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That was the Pharisees’ problem. Jesus said this to them: “Woe to you, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and then the outside also will be clean.” Our hearts need to be transformed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The law is not written on books or tablets, but on the heart. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Of course, we have a physical Bible. God is speaking to us. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But we are loosed from the law of Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ll talk more about that after the break and read more of Romans 6 and 7. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In Romans 7, we read: “But now, by dying to what once bound us (the law), 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and not in the old way of the written code.” We’ve been released from the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now we can serve in a new way. The covenant with Moses was everlasting. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 However, it has changed (in Christ). It's not written on stone tablets. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s being written on our hearts, not as a written code. The new way of the Spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 From law to grace. From death to life. I’ll talk more about that after the break. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's extremely important. I believe that this will set you free. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You’ll understand that you don't need to be under the law anymore. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You can be under grace. You can walk in freedom and listen to the Spirit in you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So let's take a break here [Music] We’re back again. This’ll be very interesting. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I hope you're ready for this. We’ll continue in Romans. We see the cross here. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I already talked about it in Romans 6. But we’ll read it again. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Bear in mind the law given with Moses: “Don’t touch this. Don’t eat that food etc.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Romans 6: “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 were baptized into his death?” So, a death takes place when we are baptized. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re baptized into Christ’s death. Death is important. Bear that in mind. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 we too may live a new life.” We’re baptized into His death. That’s important. Why? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Because we’re only bound to a law, as long as you live. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But when we die, we’re loosed from that law. Romans 6 and 7 focus on that. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Because anyone who had died has been set free from sin.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But this is not only about sin. The law is connected with sin. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Here’s something important. Romans 7: “Do you not know, brothers and sisters 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - for I am speaking to those who know the law - that the law has authority 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 over someone only as long as that person lives? For example, by law a married woman 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 released from the law that binds her to him.” Why does Paul write about this? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Romans 6 - 8 is about the new life and freedom from the law of sin and death. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Paul not only teaches about marriage and divorce, but also about the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s an example to show this: We’re bound to the law as long as we live. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But we can read beforehand that we're baptized into Christ, into His death. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The baptism is a death. The law was never given to me as a Gentile. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm not physically part of Israel. I was without hope in this world. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I was lost without hope and without God. But the law is also spiritual. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In that sense, it’s working in everyone. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 When we start to sin, you become a slave to that sin. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The law is at work in a way we don’t realise. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 To take an example, imagine that you’re going to stay at someone’s house. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The person says, “Hey, you can stay at my house. Here's the kitchen. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Just take some breakfast in the morning. Here are all the things you can take. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You can eat anything you want. But you’re not allowed to open this closet. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s very important that you don’t open it.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If someone tells you not to do something, what happens? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You’ll think, “Why can’t I open that closet?” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 When we’re told not to do something, something happens inside us. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 For example, imagine a man going to a Walmart. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Before he goes in, he repeats to himself, “Don’t look with lust on a woman”. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What will happen? He’ll go in and continue thinking of that. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In the end, he’ll look at a woman. It doesn’t work. That law doesn't bring freedom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But Christ brings freedom. If we’re bound to the law of sin and death, it works in us. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re bound to that law as long as we live. That's why we need to die. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Read Romans 6 about dying to the law. We’re dead to the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We're not under the law. We are freed or loosed from the law. We read here: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “For sin shall no longer be your master” Sin won’t have authority over us. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Why not? Because the law only has authority over a person as long as he lives. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But in baptism, we die. It's no longer we who live, but Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So the law of sin and death has no authority over me. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “For sin shall no longer be your master” Why not? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “because you are not under the law” You’re dead to the law “but under grace” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, the law came with Moses. Grace and truth came with Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Many people try to follow Christ by trying to keep the law of Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They don’t realise that they’ve been loosed from that law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That's when they were baptized into Christ. They entered into a new covenant. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s not about the written code written on stones, what's written on your heart. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That’s where true freedom is. Let’s continue: Under the law, sin was our master. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Under grace, you're baptized into Christ. You’re dead to the law and alive in Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You’re free from the law and the sin that once kept you enslaved. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If you’re a slave to sin, you’re still not under grace. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Remember that true grace is not a cover up for sin. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 True Grace empowers us to live a new life, free from sin. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You can still be a Christian and have your mind set on Egypt. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That’s because you’ve never really left. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's time to leave and live a new life by the Spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’m saying here that many Christians are still under the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They’re still trying to obey the law instead of living by the spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They’re not living the new way of the spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Their minds are still set on the old ways of Egypt. They’re never really left. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They haven’t experienced the freedom, where the law's truly written on their hearts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The ministry we bring, should set people free. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Paul wrote about this ministry we’ve been given. 2 Corinthians 3: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “You show that you're a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but on tablets of human hearts.” So our ministry's so different from the law of Moses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That was the old covenant written on stones. Now, we have a new ministry. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A new way. God’s laws are written on the human heart by the spirit of the Living God. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Paul continues: “Now if the ministry that brought death” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What happened when the law of Moses was given? 3,000 died right away. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That ministry brought death “which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so that the Israelites could not look [br]steadily at the face of Moses 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not this ministry of the Spirit 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 be even more glorious?” Of course. “If[br]the ministry that brought condemnation” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 bringing death and condemnation “was [br]glorious, how much more glorious is 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the ministry that brings righteousness!”[br]We have the ministry of the new covenant. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This doesn't bring condemnation. It can truly cleanse our conscience. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It can bring righteousness. Then we’re free, not to live in condemnation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’re free from the law, free to live by the spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You need to receive this through the new birth, by faith. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm going to share a personal testimony and experience shortly: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. We are not like Moses, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 of what was passing away.” So, the law of Moses was passing away. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses’ face was veiled, so the Israelites [br]wouldn’t see it. "But their minds were 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Also today when people read about Moses and the old Covenant, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 there’s a veil over their faces. So, they don’t understand it: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Many read the law in the Bible. They have[br]a blindness. They don’t understand it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Only in Christ, is the blindness taken away. Some people have a fear. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They say: “We need law. If we don’t, people will live in sin.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But what happened with the law? Did the law help people to live holy lives? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Did the Israelites live holy lives because they had the law? No. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But God gave a new spirit and wrote a new law in our hearts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, we’ll obey God's decree and follow His laws. How do we live that holy life? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Not by following Moses, but by following Christ by the spirit. Paul continues: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Freedom. You need to receive this by the Spirit. Here's some examples. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I heard the gospel for the first time from my friend Tommy. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I told him, he was brainwashed. I couldn't[br]see it. I said, he was brainwashed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was wrong. He was in a cult. He should be careful. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I thought that he was crazy and brainwashed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I thought that I needed to help him and save him out of that cult. I didn't see it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A few days later, I got born again. My eyes opened. The veil was taken away. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then my father told me, “Torben, you’re brainwashed. It’s a cult.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My father couldn’t see it. Why? Because he still had a a veil over his face. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He couldn’t see it. I told him, “Father, you’re saying what I said to Tommy. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But it's the truth. I see it now.” Before I was blinded, like my father was blinded. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But some years later, he repented. Then he saw it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This happens when someone truly repents and is born again. Their eyes open. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 However, my mind was still set on Egypt for the first years of my Christian life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I did not understand that I had buried the old life in the baptism. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That I had died to the law of sin and death, and wasn’t bound to it anymore. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I was free from sin. I didn't need to be a slave anymore. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 During the first six years of my Christian life, I was repenting. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The law was written on my heart. I had received a new spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Many things in my life changed. But in some areas, I was not free. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I kept falling into the same sins. I felt, I was becoming a slave of sin again. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I was not free. Then one day I read Romans 6. I really understood it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God revealed it to me by the Spirit: “Hey, I'm dead to the law! I'm free! 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I don't need to sin anymore! The law is spiritual!” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, this broke down something wrong inside me. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I realised, I wasn’t not under the law of sin and death anymore. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm free to follow Christ. This gave me a totally new freedom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I've been free ever since for many years. It doesn't mean that I'm sinless. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We can still do wrong things. But then we feel convicted right away. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We ask God for forgiveness. He’s faithful to forgive us. Then we move on. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But I'm not bound. I don’t ask for forgiveness, and repeat the sin 2 weeks later. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I don’t feel like a slave to sin. No. I feel free. I'm not focused on the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm don’t do into a mall, tell myself repeatedly, “Don't look at woman” and fail. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm free to go into the mall. I focus on Christ. I don’t think like this: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Don't touch! Don't watch! Don't do this or that!” I'm free to follow Christ. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You need a revelation so you can really experience that freedom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then you can love Jesus, walk by the spirit and occasionally do something wrong. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I don't have the ten commandments written in my phone or on a poster. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Why not? Because I'm not under the law. It's written in my heart. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm following Christ and obeying His words. I read His words. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But if I do, say or think something wrong, I feel it right away: “Oh, I know it.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 No one needs to teach me to know the Lord and to do different things. I know Him. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I feel it in my heart. Why? Because the law’s written on my heart. I get convicted. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 From this perspective, the Christian life is actually really easy: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Don't follow the law of Moses. Listen to Christ and obey His word. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Listen to the Spirit, God has given you. Follow the Holy Spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If Holy Spirit says, “Don't say that. Don't look at that. Don’t look at this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Don’t look at that” then stop doing it. Listen to the Spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Let the Spirit guide you through the wilderness toward the promised land. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Let the Holy Spirit guide you. God speaks to us about different things. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We really need to follow God and live in that freedom. 1 Corinthians: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What happened when the law was given on Mount Sinai? 3,000 were killed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What happened when the Spirit was given on Pentecost in Jerusalem? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Three thousand received new life. The letter kills but the Spirit gives life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We read that in Acts 2: “Those who accepted the message were baptized, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and about three thousand were added to their number that day.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 When did that happen? On Pentecost, Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 At that time, Israelites from all over Israel came to Jerusalem to celebrate what? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The giving of the law. It happened on that day, not a week or month before. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, when we read about Moses and the law, we read about temporary things. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 These are just pictures that point to Christ and the New Covenant. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Today, we are under the New Covenant. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Sadly, so many people today are more interested in following the law than the Spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They don't have the Spirit. So, they follow the law. You need to be born again. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You need the Holy Spirit. It must come from your heart. Walking by the Spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Live a life with a clean conscience. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If you step out of God's plan, you’ll feel it in your heart. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then you must return to the narrow road. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But if you stop listening to the Spirit and go into the law, you’ll become bound. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You’ll walk away from Christ and the road that leads to righteousness. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I've seen so many people start in the spirit but end in the flesh, under the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We are loosed from the law. I don't keep the Sabbath. People tell me, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “You need to keep the Sabbath.” They only read some of the verses. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What did God say? Keep the Sabbath. Have one day of rest per week. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 No, he also told them to work six days. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But most people I know who are eager to keep Sabbath, don’t work six days. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They work five days. Why do they do that? How can people say, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Oh, we keep the Sabbath. This is our Sabbath” if they only work five days? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 God didn’t say that. He told them to work six days and take one day off. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This law was never given to Gentile. It was given to the Israelites. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This doesn’t mean, I can’t learn from it. It is important. I do some things. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Sometimes the Holy Spirit tells me to rest one day. I have a day that I take off. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I don't work seven days and then start a new week of seven days. We need rest. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But this is not because of the Mosaic law. It’s not an obligation or a law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It’s nothing to do with righteousness. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It just shows us that God want us also to rest and take time with him. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Don't be too busy. We need to understand this rightly. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But some people are so fixed on keeping the Mosaic law. But the Sabbath law said that people shouldn’t light a fire on that day. Do you do that? At that time, they lit fires using wood. Do you turn on the oven on the Sabbath? If you start going down that road, you’ll suddenly become bound. If you keep a little of the law, you’re obligated to keep it all. Christ kept it for us, to set us free from the law. This was not that we could live in sin, but so we could walk by the Spirit in freedom. Listen to this. Romans 2: “All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, if we sin apart from the law we’ll perish apart from the law. If we sin under the law, we’ll be judged by the law. This is referring to Jews and Gentiles. “For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law” as the law wasn’t given to us “do by nature the things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts” How do we obey the law? Love God with all your heart and love your neighbour as yourself. What is the law? What is the heart of the law? “written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.” This is extremely important. Gentiles are not under the law. It was never given to them. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We’ll still be judged even if we’re not under the law - if we live in sin. But those Gentiles who are born again, have the law of Christ written on their hearts. They have a conscience. The conscience bears witness. Sometimes our thoughts accuse us and other times they defend us. I'm free. I'm free to eat things. I don’t think about the Sabbath. When I was born again, the law was written on my heart. I have never felt when I make food on a Sabbath (or a Saturday), “Oh, I can’t do this.” I’ve never felt that I can’t do a kickstart or training on that day. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I’ve never felt condemned in that area. It's not written on my heart. It’s the same with head coverings. We need to understand the context. I’ll talk about that later. I've never met anyone who had just received the Holy Spirit and God’s love, who then said: “The Holy Spirit shows me that I need to cover my head. I can’t work on the Sabbath. I have to do this. I can’t play cards. I have to wear a long dress.” I never met someone who said that that is written on their heart. But then people read the law and get confused: “Oh no! I need to do this and that.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Condemnation comes. Then they try to keep the law. This leads them away from the pure and narrow road in Christ. They try to do this, not to do that, not to eat that and all the rest. But I have been convicted in my heart many times when I said, did or looked at something wrong. For example, after I got born again, I slept with my girlfriend. I felt so condemned: What have I done? Red light, red light, sin, sin, sin! I knew it was sin. I did not need to read it in the Bible. I hadn’t read that yet, but it was written on my heart. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This happens with so many other things. For example, if I say something wrong or reply in anger, I feel condemned. It happened once when I was in jail. You can read my book, if you haven’t already. There was a nasty guard in jail, who was not nice. They came in and checked us, when we were sitting in there. They scanned our card for their records. For a long time, we’d been allowed to leave some food to eat later. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But he suddenly changed all the rules and they took all our food away. He was nasty. I remember sitting there in my cell. He opened my cell and came in. He wanted to scan my card. He had just taken some food away or something like that. I felt irritated. He said, “Give me your card” [Showing irritation] “Here” He said, “Don't be so nasty.” I just took the card out of his hand. I was just irritated. Then he moved on. As soon as I reacted like that, I felt that it was wrong of me. I asked God to forgive me for reacting like that. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I have many examples like that. It’s because of my conscience. But other times, I stand up, preach and do things. Then my conscience bears witness that all is good. But other times, I feel that I shouldn’t have done something. I've seen that happening with other people. When anyone is at the start of their new life, they have a clean conscience. The Holy Spirit teaches, helps and purifies them. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But then I see them suddenly turning away from that, going under the law. They start trying to keep the rules and guidelines, and get confused. That doesn’t lead to holiness. Suddenly they feel condemned, whereas before they did not: “Oh, I cannot drive. I cannot wear a dress. I have to cover my head. I cannot do this or that.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They start to feel condemned all the time. Why? Because they're going back under the law, instead of knowing that they are in a New Covenant. They are free from the law. I want to do a Q&A video very soon. I know that many people are asking questions about this topic. Please come with your questions. I'll do a Q&A video. Lesson 6 will be about Hagar and Sarah. I’ll talk much more about the spirit, the flesh, the law, grace and freedom etc. I’ll go over all of this, because it’s new for many of you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You’re saying, “Torben, what are you saying? Are you saying that we don't need to obey the law of Moses?” Yes, I am. “Are you saying that we’re just free to live the way we want to?” No, I'm not. You're free to walk by the spirit. You’re free to listen to your conscience. Keep your conscience clean, above all things. If your conscience starts to condemn you, do something about it. But don’t do it in your own strength. Ask God to give you a revelation of who you are in Christ. Listen to these verses in 1 John. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This lesson is almost finished. But this is important: “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him” That is our hope. We’re invited to a wedding. We, the bride, need to purify ourselves “purify themselves, just as he is pure. Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.” That is the secret. Live in Christ. “No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.” This doesn’t mean that we can never sin. But we are not to keep on sinning. That’s not how we live. “No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.” Many people who sit in church buildings, don’t really know Him - they keep on sinning. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 “Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous” It's not so much about what we believe, but what we do “just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them;” God’s law is written on our hearts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 His seed is the Spirit we’ve now received, the word of God. “they cannot go on sinning because they have been born of God.” It's not about praying the sinner's prayer. It's about the new birth. “This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are:” The way we live. “Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.” 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, let’s close this lesson. What do we need to do? Repent and be baptized, and receive the Holy Spirit. Then: Know that you are free from the law of sin and death. Pray. Ask God to reveal this truth to you. You need to live it by faith. It’s a revelation. I am free. Yes. I don't need to sin anymore. You are dead to the law. You are free. Know that you are free from the law of sin and death that once bound and enslaved you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Believe it. Understand that Christ has set you free. Now walk by the Spirit in a new life. Paul wrote so clearly about the law: “Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.” Now, he wrote something interesting here: “To the Jews, I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law, I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law)” Paul wrote that he became like them when he was with them. He became like them to win them. But he wasn’t under the law. Me, neither. I'm not under the law. I'm free from the law. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You're free from the law. We are free from the law. Why? Because we’re dead to the law. The law bound us as long we lived. But it's no longer I who live, it’s Christ who lives. I'm dead to the law. What does that mean, to not be under the law? Are we without law? No. Paul continues: “To those not having the law, I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ’s law)” Paul wrote in one place that he wasn’t under the law. In another place, he said he wasn’t free from God's law, but under Christ’s law. What does that mean? We're not under the law of sin and death, that Moses brought. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But we’re under the law of Christ. What is that? That is to listen to Him and His word. Law is not only written commandments written in the Bible. It is what Jesus said. Read what Jesus said. Did he say, “If you love me, keep what Moses said.” No, He didn’t say that. He said “If you love me, keep my commands…” Some people are very eager to keep the Mosaic law, including the feasts, the food laws, the Sabbath and the dress. But they are not eager to keep Jesus’ law: Love your neighbour as yourself. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Go out and make disciples. Preach the gospel. Obey Christ. “If you love me, keep my commands.” Jesus said. I need to finish the lesson here: “So the law” with Moses “was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.” We're now in faith “So in Christ Jesus, you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” We can say it like this: You are baptized into Christ’s death. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Therefore, you're no longer bound to the law. You don't need a guardian anymore. You are now in Christ. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free… If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed”. So, I’ll finish the lesson now. Old Covenant (Moses): Until Christ. Law on stone tablets. Written code. Brought death. Could not obey the old way. God rejected the whole generation. Did not inherit the Promised Land but Joshua brought the next generation in. Joshua’s and Jesus’ names are directly related. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Moses could not bring them into the promised land but Joshua did. The law cannot bring you into the kingdom of God but Jesus can. The law is good if we use it the right way, to reveal sin so we can come to Christ. But in baptism, we die to the law. New Covenant (Jesus): Everlasting covenant. Law is written on hearts of flesh. New way by the Spirit. Brought life. Can now obey in the new way. We’ll one day enter into the Promised Land if we are victorious and continue in Christ. Jesus fulfilled the law’s requirements. We are now: God's treasured possession. A kingdom of priests. A holy nation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But it's not complete yet. We will be those things one day when he comes. Then we’ll rule with Him here on earth. A few more verses: “Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus… because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set us free from the law and sin and death.” When you’re in Christ, you are under the law of the spirit written on your heart. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You’re set free from the law of sin and death. “For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” So, get born again. Live by the spirit. Listen to the Holy Spirit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 When your heart condemns you, repent. Don't try to live by the law of Moses and go under the law. That’ll bring condemnation and death. Live in the New Covenant, by the Spirit. Obey Jesus. If you love Him, keep His commands and you will live. I’ll pray for you. God, I thank You for everyone who’s seen this. I pray that this will bring freedom to them. Freedom from the law. Freedom to live a holy life as You are holy. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Freedom to live by the Spirit. I pray that everyone will understand this: When we are baptized, Jesus, we are baptized into Your death. It's no longer I who live, but it's You who lives. A woman is only bound to the law, as long as that person is alive. But when we die, we’re loosed from that law and free to be married to somebody else. Christ Jesus is our bridegroom. Help us to purify ourselves. Purify us by the Spirit. Help us to walk by the Spirit, without condemnation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then, one day, Jesus, we’ll inherit this earth together with You. Thank You for what You're doing. I pray that it will bring freedom to people. Come and speak to people out there through this. In the name of Jesus, Amen. See you next time. Come with your questions. I'll do a Q&A video soon where I will answer some of them. God bless you. Let's live the new life by the Spirit that God has for all of us. Bye bye.