1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Welcome to Lesson 5 of the Kingdom school. I'm very excited to be with you. 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I think that this lesson will bless you a lot. 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Some of you will experience freedom today. 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Some of you will have never heard this before. 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But I know some people will have an issue with what I'm sharing. 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But please bear with me. You’ll see that these things are actually biblical. 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let’s start. I hope you're ready. Lesson 4 was called: ‘Saved out of Egypt: 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Our journey of salvation.’ I love that lesson. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I want to start now by reading this beautiful feedback: 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A man wrote here: ‘Brother Torben! I'm 72 years old. 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is the first time I've heard the Full Gospel message like this: 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Preached out of the Old Testament. That is such a great teaching. 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The Church needs to hear it, even more than the lost.’ 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, this man is 72 years old. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This was the first time he’s heard the gospel preached out of the Old Testament. 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This comment really affected me. I experienced exactly the same thing in jail. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God revealed it to me in a new way: the gospel in the Old and New Testaments. 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The gospel of the Kingdom. Much of this was new for me. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is what the church needs. God brought me to jail to reveal this to me. 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So I get extremely excited when I receive a comment like this. 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The first four lessons: 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lesson 1: The Beginning of Eden to the new Heaven and Earth: 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The Fall, Noah, and the Flood. 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lesson 2: Abraham Our Father: 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This happened after the fall, wickedness and destruction. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 How God desired a people who are His, beginning with Abraham. 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He is the father of Faith - a man had a family that later became a nation. 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lesson 3: I explained how that nation was called out of Egypt. 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Likewise, we are called out of Babylon. 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was called: ‘Called out of Egypt’: How that nation was called out from Egypt. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 How we today are called out to be the Church. 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We are set apart as God's holy people. 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I love that lesson. I want to start with a personal testimony. 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Last week, my daughter Simone got married. 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Here’s a picture of the area just outside this studio. I'm standing there, smiling. 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Simone and Joshua have just said “Yes” to each other. They were so excited. 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This wedding, this past week, is the strongest picture for me of this: 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The church is those who are called out. They are holy and separated. 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This wedding was holy and so beautiful. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The fear of God was there in a beautiful way. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What happened just a few hours before this? 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I saw my daughter Simone in her wedding dress for the first time. 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Her hair was done. She had makeup on and everything. It was so, so beautiful. 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Here is a one-minute video of my reaction. 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 For the first time I saw my daughter standing in the beautiful wedding dress. 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 My reaction surprised me. I really broke down. 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I want to show you this clip and then will continue talking it. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Unclear speech and Danish, crying] So, you can see here that I broke down. 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s in Danish so it’s hard to understand. Not a lot was said: 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “You're beautiful”, “I love you Simone”, “I love you Dad” 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was a strong experience for me. I saw my daughter there. 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 She was so holy, beautiful, clean and ready to be given away to Joshua. 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is what the bride is. She is called-out and separated. 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 She is ready for her husband. Here are some verses. 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Paul wrote: “For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself” 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God is also jealous for His people. 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “I promised you as a pure bride to one husband – Christ.” 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So Paul promised the church as a pure bride to one husband. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That husband is Christ. Here are so many beautiful pictures. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Revelation 19: “Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honour to him. 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb, and his bride” 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the church “has prepared herself.” We, the church, prepare ourselves: 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “She has been given the finest of pure white linen to wear” What is that? 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “For the fine linen represents the good deeds of God's holy people.” 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Here’s a photo of myself walking with my daughter Simone. Here’s the kiss. 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I actually made a video about it. This is the thumbnail. 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you’ve not seen the video, please do. 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I explain that this was the first time they’d kissed each other. 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He has been living with us for four years. 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They never touched each other intimately or kissed each other. 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 After the wedding, they left. Then these two virgins became one flesh. 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The blood was spilled. They entered into a covenant. 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Watch the video. Look at this wedding. 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 See that we, the church, have fallen far away from God's grace and intentions. 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This wedding was an extremely clear example of what we should be: 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Called-out, holy and separated. We should be purifying ourselves. 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re not only invited to a wedding: We’re the bride. We’re living for that day. 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ll talk a lot more about the wedding feast and God’s kingdom in another lesson. 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But this is an extremely beautiful example of the topic we’re speaking about here. 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There’s a link under this video. 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Please watch my video: “Now you may kiss the bride”. 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I explain that the wedding is connected with the God’s kingdom. 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re invited to the wedding feast. 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lesson 4: The Process of Being Called Out: The Israelites were called out. 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Likewise, we must remove the yeast from our house (repentance). 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There’s the blood (the cross) and the Red Sea (baptism into Christ). 88 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then the Israelites walked through the wilderness toward the Promised Land. 89 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They were guided by the Pillar of Cloud and Fire. 90 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Likewise, we’ve received the Holy Spirit. We walk by the Spirit toward our goal: 91 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The heavenly Jerusalem will come down from heaven. 92 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Those were the first four lessons. We’ll move on now. I’ll talk about Moses today. 93 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Next time, we’ll look at the New and Old Covenant and how they work together. 94 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Today, we’ll look at Moses and the giving of the law. 95 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 From the law with Moses, to truth and grace in Christ. 96 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There’s a difference between the old and new covenants. 97 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lesson 5’s focus is on Freedom from sin. 98 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re called to be free and to live holy lives. 99 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 After a few more lessons, we’ll look at how David is connected with God’s kingdom. 100 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then there’ll be a permanent shift. 101 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Instead of focussing on the nation of Israel, we'll focus on the kingdom. 102 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I hope you're ready. I’ll pray and then we'll start. 103 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God, I thank You for this revelation. I thank You for Your truth. 104 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I pray that it will bring understanding, God. 105 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That it will bring truth and freedom to people, God. 106 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That they will experience the freedom, Jesus, that You have for them. 107 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Come with Your Holy Spirit. Help me to share this. 108 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Help people to receive this, God. In the name of Jesus, Amen. 109 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lesson 5 will also be long. I will talk about a lot of things. 110 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But there’ll be a break in the middle, if you need it. 111 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lesson 5: The law of Moses. There is the word ‘Death’. That law brings death. 112 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The law of Christ: That law brings life. Here you can see: 113 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 True understanding brings: 114 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Freedom from sin, holiness, purity, victory and eternal life. 115 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What happened with my daughter and Joshua? Now you may kiss your bride. 116 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This was the first time they kissed and were together. 117 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That’s the fruit of a true understanding. It is not about an external law. 118 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s actually about the heart. This comes from a true understanding. 119 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A false understanding brings slavery to sin, a double life and eternal death. 120 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A true understanding of what the law means for us today, will bring that. 121 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A false understanding of the law will bring this. 122 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A true understanding of grace will bring this. 123 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A false understanding of grace will bring this. 124 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Some people with a false understanding talk a lot about the law. 125 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can know a tree by the fruit. 126 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Those people are enslaved and living a double life. 127 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But others talk a lot about grace. 128 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They are also enslaved and living a double life. 129 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They don't have the right understanding of it. 130 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s important to say this at the beginning, when we look at the law of Moses. 131 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let’s move on: It’s possible to divide this law into three parts: 132 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1. Commandments governing their personal lives. 133 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 2. Law for their social lives with one another. 134 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 3. Ordination for religious lives. We can divide the law like this. I am not a Jew. 135 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've never been a Jew. I'm a Gentile and a born-again believer. I'm grafted in. 136 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The promise is mine. But I'm not a Jew. The law was given to Israel as a nation. 137 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Actually, it was never given to those who are Gentiles and live in another country. 138 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's really important to understand this concept. Right now, I’m in Mexico. 139 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I used to live in America. 140 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In America, you’re allowed to drive through a red light if you’re turning right. 141 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is not breaking the law. But it's different in Mexico. 142 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I can’t drive through a red light and turn right, apart from a few exceptions. 143 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In Europe, it's even worse. There, I’m never allowed to drive through a red light. 144 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But here in Mexico, I can’t say, “But they do that in Denmark. Or in America. 145 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, I can do it.” No. I'm here now. It matters where you are. 146 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I can see a great lack of understanding here. 147 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Gentiles didn’t have ancestors living in Israel. 148 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But those Gentiles try to apply the law of Moses to today 149 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 – how we should live with each other. 150 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Some try to apply the religious laws of offerings and sacrifices today. 151 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But those have nothing do with us. 152 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It all goes wrong, if we don’t understand to whom the law was given and when. 153 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If we don’t understand the covenant that it was part of. 154 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is extremely important. True understanding brings freedom. 155 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can fall into one of two ditches, when listening to teaching about this. 156 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 One ditch is legalism, where you try to go under the law and become bound to it. 157 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The other is lawlessness, where you say: I'm not under the law of Moses. I'm free. 158 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They don’t understand that we are under a different law now, the law of Christ. 159 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That law is written on your heart. I’ll talk about that later. 160 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, there's a narrow road between two ditches. 161 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 On one side is legalism, and on the other side is lawlessness. 162 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re called to live in the middle of the road. I hope you're ready. 163 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Exodus 20 is about Moses and the Ten Commandments. 164 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Exodus 19: “Now if you obey me fully” Not 30% or half but fully 165 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you'll be my treasured possession. 166 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Although the whole earth is mine, 167 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” 168 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Whom did God say that to? The Israelites, not the Danish or Americans. 169 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He said that to Israel. The promise was given to them. The law was given to them. 170 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They needed to fully obey God’s commands. Then He would do His part. 171 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We read here: “The people all responded together, 172 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “We will do everything the LORD has said.” Did they do what God had commanded? 173 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 No. But God did not give up. Keep my commands (laws). 174 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then you'll be my treasured possession… a kingdom of priests, a holy nation… 175 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ll talk about that later. Let’s read a longer text that describes this" 176 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What actually happened when the law was given and Moses was on the mountain. 177 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is a very significant event compared to others recorded in the Bible. 178 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Exodus 19: “On the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightning, 179 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. 180 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Everyone in the camp trembled.” The spectacle was frightening. 181 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God, 182 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 183 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the LORD descended on it in fire. 184 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The smoke billowed up…” It was an incredible spectacle. 185 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, 186 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the voice of God answered him.” Moses talked with God. 187 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses 188 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up.” What a spectacle! 189 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “And the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people 190 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so they do not force their way through to see the LORD and many of them perish.” 191 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So Moses was commanded to prevent the people from going up. 192 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Otherwise, they would die. Why? Because this was a holy place. 193 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A holy moment. We read here: “Even the priests, who approach the LORD, 194 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.” 195 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So God was there. His holiness was there. 196 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The other Israelites couldn’t simply approach God like Moses could. 197 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The priest needed to consecrate themselves. 198 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Otherwise, God would break out against them. Then we read: 199 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, 200 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.” 201 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said.” 202 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses built an altar. Israelites sacrificed offerings on it. 203 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’m going through this quickly. “Moses then took half of the blood… 204 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the other he splashed against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant 205 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; 206 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we will obey.” Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, 207 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you 208 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in accordance with all these words.” So, Moses went up to God. God spoke to Moses. 209 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses wrote it all down, and built an altar. They slaughtered animals. 210 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses splashed half of the blood against the altar. 211 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He sprinkled the other half on the people. They had replied, 212 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “We will obey everything the Lord have said.” But did they do that? 213 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 No, they didn’t. Read this: “This is the blood of the covenant 214 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that the LORD has made” This points to the New Testament. 215 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Jesus said, “This is my blood of the New Covenant.” It points to Jesus. 216 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let’s continue: “The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain 217 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law 218 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and commandments I have written for their instruction.” 219 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it. 220 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. 221 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.” 222 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Please read the whole of Exodus, because it's very important. This is our history. 223 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s not just a Jewish story. It’s our story. All of this points to Christ. 224 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In chapter 24, Moses went up the mountain. 225 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In chapters 25 to 31, are some of the things God revealed to Moses. Chapter 25: 226 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The Ark of the Covenant, the Table for the Bread and the Golden Lampstand. 227 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Chapter 26: The Tabernacle (Tent of Meeting): 228 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 where God came down later and met with them, while they were traveling around. 229 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Chapter 27: The Bronze Altar. Chapter 28: The Priests’ Garments. 230 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Chapter 29: Consecration of the Priests. Chapter 30: The Altar of Incense. 231 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Chapter 31: The Sabbath. We read after that: “When the LORD finished 232 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, 233 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.” 234 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But what happened while Moses was on the mountain in God’s presence? 235 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Only a short time before, the people had said, 236 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.” 237 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But not long after, they did the opposite, while Moses was on the mountain. 238 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We read here: “When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down 239 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, 240 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Come, make us gods who will go before us. 241 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, 242 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we don't know what has happened to him.”” 243 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Try to imagine this situation. They’d said, “God, we want to obey you.” 244 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then Moses had sprinkled the blood of the covenant on the people. 245 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses had gone up the mountain. After less than 40 days, they said 246 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “We don't know what’s happened about Moses. Let's make a golden calf.” 247 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then they broke God's law. I’ll talk more about that later. 248 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They actually broke the first two of the ten commandments: 249 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You shall have no other gods before me. 250 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You shan't make yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth. 251 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You shall not bow down to them. But that’s what they did. They made a golden calf. 252 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What did they call it? “This is the LORD who brought us out of Egypt. 253 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is the LORD our God, Yahweh, who brought us out of Egypt.” 254 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They did not change God's name but they changed his image. 255 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We do the same in our minds today. We say, “We serve God, the god of the Bible. 256 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We serve Christ Jesus.” We don’t change God’s name. 257 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But we change His image in our minds. Suddenly, this is a different Jesus. 258 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A different God. I want to ask: Is your God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? 259 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Is He the God who brought the Israelites out of Egypt? 260 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If not, you’ve made yourself an idol. You are serving a different god. 261 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You’ve done the same as the Israelites. Many people do that today. 262 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They serve a New Testament god, full of grace and mercy. 263 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They say that the Old Testament god was evil. But the Bible is true story. 264 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ll talk about that later. Three thousand people were killed that day. 265 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ll talk about that, shortly. Before we continue, I want to remind you of this: 266 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The covenants point to Christ and the New Covenant. 267 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I want to show you these pictures and shadows, that'll become clear to you. 268 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’ve looked now at Noah, Abraham and Moses. 269 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 With Noah, the sign of the covenant was the rainbow: 270 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A sign of hope and a new beginning for those who were saved in the ark; 271 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the rest perished in the waters. With Abraham, circumcision was the sign: 272 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The cutting of the foreskin was a sign of the Covenant 273 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - so that the people would not be cut off from the promise. 274 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Instead, they would inherit through Abraham. Now we have Moses. 275 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God gave him stone tablets with His laws written down: 276 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The Israelites first needed to keep His laws. 277 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then God would make them His treasured possession. 278 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Let's look at Christ here. 279 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 With Noah: “In Christ, we are now saved from the waters (symbolizing baptism). 280 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We leave behind the old life and embrace hope for eternal life. 281 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The ark is like Christ, in whom we are now saved. We put off that old life. 282 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We are saved through the water. Now, we have hope and eternal life. 283 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Abraham and the circumcision: In Christ, we have circumcision of the heart. 284 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We will inherit as children of Abraham. Moses and the stone tablets: In Christ: 285 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God has written His laws on our hearts. We can become God's treasured possession. 286 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A kingdom of priests and a holy nation. This is so beautiful. 287 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Each covenant adds another part to the picture of what we have in Christ. 288 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, I’ll talk about some things in the New Testament. 289 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 After that, we’ll return to the Old Testament. Hebrews 9: “But when Christ came 290 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 as high priest of the good things that are now already here, 291 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle” 292 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Christ came as high priest and went through a greater, more perfect tabernacle 293 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. 294 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; 295 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but he entered into the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, 296 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes…” 297 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 could only clean people on the outside. All the things we have read about: 298 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses, the tabernacle, the priestly garments, the high priest and the Sabbath. 299 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 These are all pictures and shadows of a new reality that is in Christ. 300 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He who went through the real tabernacle in heaven. We read here: “How much more, 301 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself 302 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, 303 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so that we may serve the living God!” 304 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Offerings of goats and calves and their blood could not cleanse the conscience. 305 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But Christ did. It's not an external thing. It's an internal thing, that is deep: 306 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “For this reason, Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are 307 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 called may receive the promised eternal inheritance - now that he has died as 308 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.” 309 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ll go on to explain this. “Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, 310 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession… 311 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” 312 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That was God’s command. Did the Israelites fully obey God? 313 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 No. Did they break His laws? Yes. Have you fully obeyed God? No. 314 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Have you broken His laws? Yes. 315 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That means that if it depended on you, you wouldn’t become treasured possession. 316 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Nor a kingdom of priests. Nor a holy nation. You didn’t keep the conditions. 317 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But Christ did. In Him, we’re forgiven. In Him, we’re grafted in. 318 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In Him, we’re free. In Him, this belongs to us. 319 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What did Peter say to the church of Jewish and Gentile believers? 320 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The same is true of born-again Jewish and Gentile believers today: 321 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, 322 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you 323 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, 324 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, 325 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but now you have received mercy.” When you understand this, it’s really beautiful. 326 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The law could not do this. We all failed. We’ve all broken the law. 327 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But Christ kept it. In him, we become what God said. In Christ: 328 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re God's chosen people, a royal priesthood, and a holy nation. 329 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re God's special possession. I want to say this: God hasn’t forgotten the Jews. 330 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ll talk about the Jews, shortly. The promise is still for them. 331 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But this is our reality now, in Christ. 332 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But not everyone in a church building, is part of the church. 333 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Not everyone who professes a faith in God, is a child of God. 334 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Not everyone who confesses Jesus, actually obeys Jesus. This is really important. 335 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The promise is real. But to receive it, you need to be fully born again. 336 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You need to live this new life. You need to be in Christ. 337 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then, this will be your reality. Let's continue reading Hebrews: 338 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things 339 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to be purified with these sacrifices” 340 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What were the tabernacle in the wilderness, the sacrifices and the offerings? 341 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They were copies of the heavenly things. 342 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands” 343 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, he wasn’t like the other priests. That earthly sanctuary was a copy, a picture. 344 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was different. “that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself” 345 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We need to understand this. Let’s continue reading. Hebrews is an amazing book. 346 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The author wrote about offerings. Then it’s written: 347 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 348 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; 349 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation 350 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to those who are waiting for him.” Remember this: 351 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 At the time of Moses, the tabernacle was temporary. 352 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was a copy of the real heavenly one. Like everything else, it points to Christ. 353 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This will get clearer as we continue. Now, we'll return to the events in Exodus. 354 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses came down the mountain. The Israelites had made a golden calf. 355 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We read about the events beforehand: “When the people saw that Moses was so long 356 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, 357 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Come make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us 358 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”” 359 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then they took the gold rings off that their wives, sons, and daughters wore. 360 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They brought them to Aaron. “He took what they handed him and made it 361 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 into an idol cast in the shape of a calf. He shaped it with a tool. Then they said, 362 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”” 363 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Try to imagine the situation. God had brought them out. 364 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now they’d made a golden calf that had no connection with Yahweh. 365 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The LORD had brought them out. They said of the golden calf: 366 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is Yahweh who brought us out. They called it by His name: 367 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.” to Yahweh. 368 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They worshipped Him, in the form of a golden calf. 369 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings… 370 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then the people sat down to eat and drink, and then they got up to play.” 371 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 People do this today. We call an idol using God’s name. But He's not the same. 372 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's scary. I could take ten Christians in a line and ask them to say who God is. 373 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In some cases, they’ll have weird ideas. They are not serving the same god. 374 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 375 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Not the God who brought the people out of Egypt. 376 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They’ve made an image of a god in their minds, that suits them: 377 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Oh, no, my God isn’t like that. He’s like this” “Then the LORD said to Moses, 378 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, 379 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what 380 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. 381 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 382 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”” 383 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, God sees everything. He saw exactly what they were doing. 384 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses. 385 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “and they are a stiff-necked people.” Notice what He said here: 386 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them that I may destroy them. 387 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then I will make you into a great nation.” 388 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When this happened, God wanted to destroy Israel, those he saved out of Egypt. 389 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They’d slaughtered the Passover lambs. He’d passed over their houses. 390 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They’d went through the Red Sea. A few weeks later, He was ready to destroy them. 391 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But He wouldn’t destroy all of them. Why? Because He’d made a promise to Abraham. 392 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He'll keep that – to make Abraham into a great nation. 393 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But whom will He keep the promise with? He wanted to destroy the Israelites. 394 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then He said, “I will make you, Moses, into a great nation.” 395 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s important to understand this: God gave a promise to Abraham. He'll keep it. 396 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God is a promise keeper. But with whom? With Abraham’s descendants. 397 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But not every descendant of Abraham is a child of Abraham, in that sense. 398 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Here, He was ready to destroy everyone and then keep His promise with Moses. 399 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God is faithful and will do everything He has said. But the question is: 400 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Are you part of that or not? Are we part of what God wants to do? 401 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God will do what He’s promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David and Jesus. 402 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But the question is, are we a part of that? Let's learn from this. 403 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let’s have a healthy fear of God in our lives, so we won't be cut off. 404 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Many Israelites were cut off when these events happened. Moses interceded: 405 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “But Moses sought the favour of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, 406 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt 407 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, 408 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains 409 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and to wipe them off the face of the earth”? Turn from your fierce anger; relent 410 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and do not bring disaster on your people.” Moses interceded “Remember your servants 411 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: 412 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give 413 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 your descendants all this land I promised them… Then the Lord relented 414 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.” 415 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Reading how Moses interceded, reminds us of something: 416 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Wickedness was all over the earth but Noah found favour. 417 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God wanted to destroy the Israelites but Moses interceded. 418 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The whole world will be destroyed, but Christ can save us from that. 419 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is a picture of Christ, who stood in the gap for us. It's really beautiful. 420 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses intercedes and later went down from the mountain: 421 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned, 422 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them into pieces…” 423 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He also destroyed the golden calf. Joshua was also there. We read: 424 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “that day about three thousand of the people died.” This is interesting. 425 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What is the clear message here? 426 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 As soon as the Old Covenant law was given, 3,000 people died. 427 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 As soon as the New Covenant Spirit was given, 3,000 received new life. 428 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is all connected. This all points to Christ. Exodus 32: 429 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin.”” 430 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 By this time, around 3,000 people had been killed. Moses said to the rest: 431 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the LORD; 432 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 433 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin 434 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. 435 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But now, please forgive their sin” 436 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then Moses interceded in an amazing and beautiful way: “but if not, 437 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 then blot me out of the book you have written.” Moses really stood in the gap. 438 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He said, “Either forgive them or blot me out of the book.” What a man! “The LORD 439 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.”” 440 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, we read about the book of life. 441 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Books will be opened at the great judgment, at the great judgment seat: 442 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 At the end of Revelation. I’ll talk about these books later in this series. 443 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's possible to be blotted out of the book of life. People say today: 444 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “If your name is written in the book of life, everything is fine.” 445 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That’s true if your name is there and remains there. But what is very clear here? 446 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That a person can be blotted out of God's book. Then God said to Moses: “Now go, 447 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. 448 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.” 449 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So about 3,000 people died right away. In Lesson 3 (‘Called-out’), I explained this: 450 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The sinful generation didn’t enter the promised land, but later punished. 451 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's a very clear picture of our salvation journey. Someone commented on Lesson 3 452 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (‘Called-out’): “Yeah, but you can’t use the example of the promised land. 453 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There were giants in the promised land.” Yeah, we can use that example. 454 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What will happen when Jesus sets up God’s kingdom on earth? 455 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He will need to deal with some things at the beginning. We’ll take the land. 456 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 People will submit under Jesus’ Lordship and rule. All will bow down at His feet. 457 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But there’ll be a time of judgment. The righteousness will bring peace on earth. 458 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It'll be cleaned up. It won’t just happen, from one day to another. 459 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Those of us who are there, will receive heavenly bodies and rule with him. 460 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There’ll be a time of cleaning up. Giants in the land is a really good picture. 461 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Other good pictures are possessing, taking and subduing the land. 462 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ll talk about the promised land in a later lesson. 463 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But the Israelites didn’t enter in, because of disobedience. God is very serious. 464 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Sometimes, judgment come right away and sometimes it’s delayed. 465 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This should really create a fear of God in our lives, a healthy fear of God. 466 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 After this God called Moses up the mountain again. “The LORD said to Moses, 467 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I’ll write on 468 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the tablets the words which were on the first tablets which you broke.”” 469 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So there were two sets of tablets. The first set of tablets were destroyed. 470 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then God called Moses up again and said, “Cut out two new tablets. 471 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I will write the same on them.” This is very interesting. 472 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God wrote on the first tablets. Later, Moses made new ones. God wrote on those. 473 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This points forward to God writing His law on new tablets. 474 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He is writing His law on our hearts, not with written code on stone tablets. 475 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He is writing on our hearts by His Spirit. This is all about the gospel. 476 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It points to Christ, to the time we are living in and to God’s kingdom. 477 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Many years after Moses, Jeremiah prophesied this: “The days are coming,” 478 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel 479 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant” 480 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, it’s not just a continuation of the Mosaic covenant. It’s different: 481 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them 482 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 by the hand to lead them out of Egypt.” Why will it be different? “because 483 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.” 484 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, it’s a New Covenant. They broke the other one. 485 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “This is the covenant I'll make with the people of Israel” With Israel the nation. 486 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, we’re grafted in and have received it in Christ. I’ll talk about it later. 487 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “After that time,” declares the LORD. “I'll put my law in their minds and write it” 488 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 on stone tablets? No, He’d already done that and it hadn’t worked. 489 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The law, written externally, brought death. It didn't work. 490 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You cannot obey a law as an external written code. 491 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's to be written on the heart. Or it won't work: “write it on their hearts. 492 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'll be their God, and they'll be my people. No longer will they teach 493 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 their neighbour, or say to one another, “Know the LORD”” 494 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We don’t need a human priest in order to have a relationship with God: "because 495 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. 496 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” 497 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Ezekiel prophesied similar things around the same time. He added some things: 498 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “I will give them an undivided HEART and put a new spirit in them;” 499 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, we read about God writing the law on our hearts. 500 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We read about an undivided heart and a new spirit. 501 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “I will remove from them their heart of stone” 502 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - God won’t write His law on a heart of stone. He will remove that. 503 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He'll then write on a new heart by the Spirit - “and give them a heart of flesh.” 504 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is not a license for us to sin: “Then they will follow my decrees and be 505 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.” 506 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God writes His laws on our hearts, so that we can obey Him. 507 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Not so we can continue sinning. He did it, so we can be holy as our Father is holy. 508 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now you may kiss your bride. 509 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now you can enter into a covenant and be one flesh in a marriage. 510 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can’t do that if your heart is not transformed. 511 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It has to come from your heart, not from an external law: “You may not….” 512 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 No, we need a changed heart. We’ll look at that later. 513 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I have some more slides here before we shortly have a break. 514 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I want to talk more here about Israel as a nation. 515 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The fact is, the law of Moses was never actually given to Gentiles. 516 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was given to Israel as a nation. These are not laws for me. 517 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They were for Israel as a nation. But in Christ, I am grafted into the promise. 518 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I am not part of the physical nation of Israel. 519 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But I have been grafted into the promise in a spiritual sense. 520 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I talked about in previous lessons. So now, we’re a holy people. We’re called out. 521 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re God's possession. But that doesn’t mean that God has rejected Israel. 522 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I want to talk about that before we continue. Romans 11:25-29 is very important. 523 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Paul writes: “Brothers and sisters, here is a mystery I want you to understand. 524 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It'll keep you from being proud.” But many people have rejected the Jews. 525 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They’re very proud: “We’re now the people of God. I am a holy nation.” 526 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But it's only because of Christ that you are. So please don't be proud. 527 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Remember this: “Part of Israel” not all of Israel. There are people who love Jesus. 528 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They are born again and follow the Messiah Jesus. 529 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Part of Israel has refused to obey God.” We see this today. 530 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “That will continue until the full number of non-Jews has entered God's kingdom.” 531 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, at the moment they still reject God as a whole. 532 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This will continue until we as Gentiles have come in. 533 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This will create jealousy and so on. “And so all Israel will be saved.” 534 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There’s a hardness right now. But there’ll be a time when all Israel will be saved. 535 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “It is written, “The One who saves will come from Mount Zion. 536 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He will remove sin from Jacob.” God has said that. He’ll do it. 537 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Here is my covenant with them. I will take away their sins.” 538 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, this covenant has been given to the Jews. This is for our good: 539 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “As far as the gospel is concerned, the people of Israel are enemies.” 540 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So many of the Jews are enemies. They're not in the New Covenant. 541 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God’s laws are not yet written on their hearts. 542 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They haven’t received the spirit, nor are obeying God's laws as a whole. What is that? 543 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They’re enemies according to the gospel. “But as far as God's choice is concerned, 544 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the people of Israel are loved.” They’re still called. 545 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “That is because of God's promises to the founders of our nation. 546 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God does not take back his gifts. 547 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He does not change his mind about those he has chosen.” 548 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, the nation of Israel is still chosen and called. 549 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God’ll establish a new covenant with them, in their hearts. 550 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But right now, this belongs to us. Each one of us can receive it. 551 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A new covenant where the law is written on the heart. I will be their God. 552 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They'll be my people. Then they'll follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 553 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 All will know me and I will remember their sins no more. 554 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re talking here about following God’s law. 555 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, should we go back and do everything God spoke to Israel as a nation? No. 556 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That law was given to Israel as a nation. I'm not a Jew and never have been. 557 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm a Gentile. But I'm following Christ and His word. 558 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We need to understand that there is a change in the law. Hebrews 7: 559 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We read here that Jesus is in the priestly order of Melchizedek. 560 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There is a change in the priesthood. Please read it yourself. 561 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also.” 562 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Because of this change, we’re not bound to the written code given to Moses. 563 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Instead, we’re bound to the law of Christ. The law of God's written on our hearts. 564 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let’s read a few verses from Romans. There’ll be a break shortly. 565 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely 566 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 outward and physical. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision 567 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code.” 568 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That was the Pharisees’ problem. Jesus said this to them: “Woe to you, 569 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of 570 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 571 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, 572 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and then the outside also will be clean.” Our hearts need to be transformed. 573 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The law is not written on books or tablets, but on the heart. 574 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Of course, we have a physical Bible. God is speaking to us. 575 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But we are loosed from the law of Moses. 576 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ll talk more about that after the break and read more of Romans 6 and 7. 577 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In Romans 7, we read: “But now, by dying to what once bound us (the law), 578 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, 579 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and not in the old way of the written code.” We’ve been released from the law. 580 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now we can serve in a new way. The covenant with Moses was everlasting. 581 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 However, it has changed (in Christ). It's not written on stone tablets. 582 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s being written on our hearts, not as a written code. The new way of the Spirit. 583 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 From law to grace. From death to life. I’ll talk more about that after the break. 584 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's extremely important. I believe that this will set you free. 585 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You’ll understand that you don't need to be under the law anymore. 586 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can be under grace. You can walk in freedom and listen to the Spirit in you. 587 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So let's take a break here [Music] We’re back again. This’ll be very interesting. 588 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I hope you're ready for this. We’ll continue in Romans. We see the cross here. 589 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I already talked about it in Romans 6. But we’ll read it again. 590 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Bear in mind the law given with Moses: “Don’t touch this. Don’t eat that food etc.” 591 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Romans 6: “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus 592 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 were baptized into his death?” So, a death takes place when we are baptized. 593 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re baptized into Christ’s death. Death is important. Bear that in mind. 594 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, 595 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, 596 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we too may live a new life.” We’re baptized into His death. That’s important. Why? 597 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Because we’re only bound to a law, as long as you live. 598 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But when we die, we’re loosed from that law. Romans 6 and 7 focus on that. 599 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Because anyone who had died has been set free from sin.” 600 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But this is not only about sin. The law is connected with sin. 601 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Here’s something important. Romans 7: “Do you not know, brothers and sisters 602 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - for I am speaking to those who know the law - that the law has authority 603 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 over someone only as long as that person lives? For example, by law a married woman 604 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is 605 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 released from the law that binds her to him.” Why does Paul write about this? 606 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Romans 6 - 8 is about the new life and freedom from the law of sin and death. 607 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Paul not only teaches about marriage and divorce, but also about the law. 608 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s an example to show this: We’re bound to the law as long as we live. 609 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But we can read beforehand that we're baptized into Christ, into His death. 610 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The baptism is a death. The law was never given to me as a Gentile. 611 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm not physically part of Israel. I was without hope in this world. 612 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I was lost without hope and without God. But the law is also spiritual. 613 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In that sense, it’s working in everyone. 614 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When we start to sin, you become a slave to that sin. 615 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The law is at work in a way we don’t realise. 616 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 To take an example, imagine that you’re going to stay at someone’s house. 617 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The person says, “Hey, you can stay at my house. Here's the kitchen. 618 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Just take some breakfast in the morning. Here are all the things you can take. 619 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can eat anything you want. But you’re not allowed to open this closet. 620 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s very important that you don’t open it.” 621 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If someone tells you not to do something, what happens? 622 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You’ll think, “Why can’t I open that closet?” 623 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When we’re told not to do something, something happens inside us. 624 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 For example, imagine a man going to a Walmart. 625 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Before he goes in, he repeats to himself, “Don’t look with lust on a woman”. 626 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What will happen? He’ll go in and continue thinking of that. 627 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In the end, he’ll look at a woman. It doesn’t work. That law doesn't bring freedom. 628 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But Christ brings freedom. If we’re bound to the law of sin and death, it works in us. 629 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re bound to that law as long as we live. That's why we need to die. 630 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Read Romans 6 about dying to the law. We’re dead to the law. 631 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We're not under the law. We are freed or loosed from the law. We read here: 632 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “For sin shall no longer be your master” Sin won’t have authority over us. 633 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Why not? Because the law only has authority over a person as long as he lives. 634 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But in baptism, we die. It's no longer we who live, but Christ. 635 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So the law of sin and death has no authority over me. 636 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “For sin shall no longer be your master” Why not? 637 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “because you are not under the law” You’re dead to the law “but under grace” 638 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, the law came with Moses. Grace and truth came with Christ. 639 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Many people try to follow Christ by trying to keep the law of Moses. 640 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They don’t realise that they’ve been loosed from that law. 641 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's when they were baptized into Christ. They entered into a new covenant. 642 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s not about the written code written on stones, what's written on your heart. 643 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That’s where true freedom is. Let’s continue: Under the law, sin was our master. 644 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Under grace, you're baptized into Christ. You’re dead to the law and alive in Christ. 645 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You’re free from the law and the sin that once kept you enslaved. 646 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you’re a slave to sin, you’re still not under grace. 647 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Remember that true grace is not a cover up for sin. 648 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 True Grace empowers us to live a new life, free from sin. 649 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can still be a Christian and have your mind set on Egypt. 650 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That’s because you’ve never really left. 651 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's time to leave and live a new life by the Spirit. 652 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’m saying here that many Christians are still under the law. 653 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They’re still trying to obey the law instead of living by the spirit. 654 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They’re not living the new way of the spirit. 655 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Their minds are still set on the old ways of Egypt. They’re never really left. 656 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They haven’t experienced the freedom, where the law's truly written on their hearts. 657 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The ministry we bring, should set people free. 658 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Paul wrote about this ministry we’ve been given. 2 Corinthians 3: 659 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “You show that you're a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, 660 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone 661 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but on tablets of human hearts.” So our ministry's so different from the law of Moses. 662 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That was the old covenant written on stones. Now, we have a new ministry. 663 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A new way. God’s laws are written on the human heart by the spirit of the Living God. 664 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Paul continues: “Now if the ministry that brought death” 665 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What happened when the law of Moses was given? 3,000 died right away. 666 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That ministry brought death “which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, 667 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses 668 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not this ministry of the Spirit 669 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 be even more glorious?” Of course. “If the ministry that brought condemnation” 670 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 bringing death and condemnation “was glorious, how much more glorious is 671 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the ministry that brings righteousness!” We have the ministry of the new covenant. 672 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This doesn't bring condemnation. It can truly cleanse our conscience. 673 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It can bring righteousness. Then we’re free, not to live in condemnation. 674 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’re free from the law, free to live by the spirit. 675 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You need to receive this through the new birth, by faith. 676 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm going to share a personal testimony and experience shortly: 677 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. We are not like Moses, 678 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end 679 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 of what was passing away.” So, the law of Moses was passing away. 680 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moses’ face was veiled, so the Israelites wouldn’t see it. "But their minds were 681 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read.” 682 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Also today when people read about Moses and the old Covenant, 683 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 there’s a veil over their faces. So, they don’t understand it: 684 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.” 685 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Many read the law in the Bible. They have a blindness. They don’t understand it. 686 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Only in Christ, is the blindness taken away. Some people have a fear. 687 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They say: “We need law. If we don’t, people will live in sin.” 688 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But what happened with the law? Did the law help people to live holy lives? 689 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Did the Israelites live holy lives because they had the law? No. 690 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But God gave a new spirit and wrote a new law in our hearts. 691 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, we’ll obey God's decree and follow His laws. How do we live that holy life? 692 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Not by following Moses, but by following Christ by the spirit. Paul continues: 693 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 694 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” 695 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Freedom. You need to receive this by the Spirit. Here's some examples. 696 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I heard the gospel for the first time from my friend Tommy. 697 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I told him, he was brainwashed. I couldn't see it. I said, he was brainwashed. 698 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was wrong. He was in a cult. He should be careful. 699 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I thought that he was crazy and brainwashed. 700 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I thought that I needed to help him and save him out of that cult. I didn't see it. 701 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A few days later, I got born again. My eyes opened. The veil was taken away. 702 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then my father told me, “Torben, you’re brainwashed. It’s a cult.” 703 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 My father couldn’t see it. Why? Because he still had a a veil over his face. 704 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He couldn’t see it. I told him, “Father, you’re saying what I said to Tommy. 705 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But it's the truth. I see it now.” Before I was blinded, like my father was blinded. 706 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But some years later, he repented. Then he saw it. 707 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This happens when someone truly repents and is born again. Their eyes open. 708 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 However, my mind was still set on Egypt for the first years of my Christian life. 709 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I did not understand that I had buried the old life in the baptism. 710 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That I had died to the law of sin and death, and wasn’t bound to it anymore. 711 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I was free from sin. I didn't need to be a slave anymore. 712 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 During the first six years of my Christian life, I was repenting. 713 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The law was written on my heart. I had received a new spirit. 714 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Many things in my life changed. But in some areas, I was not free. 715 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I kept falling into the same sins. I felt, I was becoming a slave of sin again. 716 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I was not free. Then one day I read Romans 6. I really understood it. 717 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God revealed it to me by the Spirit: “Hey, I'm dead to the law! I'm free! 718 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I don't need to sin anymore! The law is spiritual!” 719 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, this broke down something wrong inside me. 720 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I realised, I wasn’t not under the law of sin and death anymore. 721 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm free to follow Christ. This gave me a totally new freedom. 722 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've been free ever since for many years. It doesn't mean that I'm sinless. 723 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We can still do wrong things. But then we feel convicted right away. 724 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We ask God for forgiveness. He’s faithful to forgive us. Then we move on. 725 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But I'm not bound. I don’t ask for forgiveness, and repeat the sin 2 weeks later. 726 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I don’t feel like a slave to sin. No. I feel free. I'm not focused on the law. 727 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm don’t do into a mall, tell myself repeatedly, “Don't look at woman” and fail. 728 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm free to go into the mall. I focus on Christ. I don’t think like this: 729 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Don't touch! Don't watch! Don't do this or that!” I'm free to follow Christ. 730 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You need a revelation so you can really experience that freedom. 731 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then you can love Jesus, walk by the spirit and occasionally do something wrong. 732 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I don't have the ten commandments written in my phone or on a poster. 733 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Why not? Because I'm not under the law. It's written in my heart. 734 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm following Christ and obeying His words. I read His words. 735 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But if I do, say or think something wrong, I feel it right away: “Oh, I know it.” 736 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 No one needs to teach me to know the Lord and to do different things. I know Him. 737 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I feel it in my heart. Why? Because the law’s written on my heart. I get convicted. 738 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 From this perspective, the Christian life is actually really easy: 739 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Don't follow the law of Moses. Listen to Christ and obey His word. 740 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Listen to the Spirit, God has given you. Follow the Holy Spirit. 741 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If Holy Spirit says, “Don't say that. Don't look at that. Don’t look at this. 742 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Don’t look at that” then stop doing it. Listen to the Spirit. 743 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let the Spirit guide you through the wilderness toward the promised land. 744 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let the Holy Spirit guide you. God speaks to us about different things. 745 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We really need to follow God and live in that freedom. 1 Corinthians: 746 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant 747 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” 748 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 749 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What happened when the law was given on Mount Sinai? 3,000 were killed. 750 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What happened when the Spirit was given on Pentecost in Jerusalem? 751 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Three thousand received new life. The letter kills but the Spirit gives life. 752 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We read that in Acts 2: “Those who accepted the message were baptized, 753 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and about three thousand were added to their number that day.” 754 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When did that happen? On Pentecost, Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. 755 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 At that time, Israelites from all over Israel came to Jerusalem to celebrate what? 756 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The giving of the law. It happened on that day, not a week or month before. 757 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, when we read about Moses and the law, we read about temporary things. 758 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 These are just pictures that point to Christ and the New Covenant. 759 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Today, we are under the New Covenant. 760 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Sadly, many people today are more interested in following the law than the Spirit. 761 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They don't have the Spirit. So, they follow the law. You need to be born again. 762 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You need the Holy Spirit. It must come from your heart. Walking by the Spirit. 763 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Live a life with a clean conscience. 764 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you step out of God's plan, you’ll feel it in your heart. 765 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then you must return to the narrow road. 766 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But if you stop listening to the Spirit and go into the law, you’ll become bound. 767 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You’ll walk away from Christ and the road that leads to righteousness. 768 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've seen so many people start in the spirit but end in the flesh, under the law. 769 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We are loosed from the law. I don't keep the Sabbath. People tell me, 770 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “You need to keep the Sabbath.” They only read some of the verses. 771 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What did God say? Keep the Sabbath. Have one day of rest per week. 772 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 No, he also told them to work six days. 773 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But most people I know who are eager to keep Sabbath, don’t work six days. 774 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They work five days. Why do they do that? How can people say, 775 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “Oh, we keep the Sabbath. This is our Sabbath” if they only work five days? 776 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 God didn’t say that. He told them to work six days and take one day off. 777 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This law was never given to Gentile. It was given to the Israelites. 778 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This doesn’t mean, I can’t learn from it. It is important. I do some things. 779 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Sometimes the Holy Spirit tells me to rest one day. I have a day that I take off. 780 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I don't work seven days and then start a new week of seven days. We need rest. 781 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But this is not because of the Mosaic law. It’s not an obligation or a law. 782 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It’s nothing to do with righteousness. 783 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It just shows us that God want us also to rest and take time with him. 784 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Don't be too busy. We need to understand this rightly. 785 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But some people are so fixed on keeping the Mosaic law. 786 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But the Sabbath law said that people shouldn’t light a fire on that day. 787 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you do that? At that time, they lit fires using wood. 788 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you turn on the oven on the Sabbath? 789 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you start going down that road, you’ll suddenly become bound. 790 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you keep a little of the law, you’re obligated to keep it all. 791 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Christ kept it for us, to set us free from the law: Not that we could live in sin. 792 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was so we could walk by the Spirit in freedom. Listen to this. Romans 2: 793 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, 794 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.” 795 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, if we sin apart from the law we’ll perish apart from the law. 796 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If we sin under the law, we’ll be judged by the law. 797 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This refers to Jews and Gentiles. 798 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, 799 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 800 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law” as the law wasn’t given to us 801 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “do by nature the things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, 802 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 even though they do not have the law.) 803 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts” 804 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 How do we obey the law? 805 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Love God with all your heart and love your neighbour as yourself. What is the law? 806 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What is the heart of the law? “written on their hearts, 807 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes 808 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 accusing them and at other times even defending them.” 809 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is extremely important. Gentiles are not under the law. 810 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was never given to them. 811 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We’ll still be judged even if we’re not under the law - if we live in sin. 812 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But those Gentiles who are born again, have the Christ's law written on the heart. 813 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They have a conscience. The conscience bears witness. 814 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Sometimes our thoughts accuse us and other times they defend us. 815 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm free. I'm free to eat things. I don’t think about the Sabbath. 816 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When I was born again, the law was written on my heart. 817 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I have never felt when I make food on a Sabbath (or a Saturday): “I can’t do this.” 818 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I’ve never felt that I can’t do a kickstart or training on that day. 819 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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.” 820 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 821 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 822 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 823 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 824 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 825 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 826 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 827 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 828 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 829 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 830 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 831 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 832 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 833 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 834 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 835 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 836 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 837 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 838 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 839 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 840 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 841 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 842 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 843 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 844 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 845 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 846 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 847 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 848 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 849 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 850 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 851 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 852 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 853 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 854 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 855 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 856 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 857 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 858 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 859 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 860 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 861 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 862 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 863 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 864 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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.” 865 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 866 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 867 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 868 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 869 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 870 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 871 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 872 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 873 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 874 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 875 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 876 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 877 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 878 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 879 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 880 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 881 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 882 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 883 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 884 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 885 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 886 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 887 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 888 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 889 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 890 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 891 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 892 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 893 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 894 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 895 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 896 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 897 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 898 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 899 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 900 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 901 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 902 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 903 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 904 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 905 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 906 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 907 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 908 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 909 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 “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. 910 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 911 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 912 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 913 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 914 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 915 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 916 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 917 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 918 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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.” 919 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 920 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 921 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 922 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 923 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 924 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 925 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 926 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 927 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 928 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 929 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 930 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 931 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 932 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 933 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 934 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 935 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 936 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 937 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 938 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 939 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 940 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 941 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 942 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 943 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 944 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 945 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 946 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 947 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 948 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 949 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 950 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 951 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 952 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 953 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 954 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 955 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 956 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 957 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 958 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 959 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 960 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 961 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 962 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 963 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 964 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 965 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 966 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 967 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 968 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 969 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 970 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 971 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 972 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 973 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 974 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 975 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 976 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 977 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 978 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 979 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 980 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 981 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 982 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 983 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 984 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 985 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 986 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 987 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 988 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 989 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 990 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 991 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 992 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 993 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 994 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 995 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 996 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 997 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 998 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 999 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 1000 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1001 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1002 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1003 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1004 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1005 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1006 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1007 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1008 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 1009 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1010 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1011 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1012 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1013 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1014 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1015 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1016 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1017 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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. 1018 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1019 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1020 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1021 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1022 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1023 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1024 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1025 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 1026 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 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.