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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to Lesson 5 of the Kingdom school.\NI'm very excited to be with you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that this lesson \Nwill bless you a lot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you will experience \Nfreedom today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you will have never \Nheard this before.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I know some people will have \Nan issue with what I'm sharing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But please bear with me. You’ll see \Nthat these things are actually biblical.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s start. I hope you're ready. \NLesson 4 was called: ‘Saved out of Egypt:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our journey of salvation.’ \NI love that lesson.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to start now by reading \Nthis beautiful feedback:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A man wrote here: ‘Brother Torben!\NI'm 72 years old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the first time I've heard \Nthe Full Gospel message like this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Preached out of the Old Testament. \NThat is such a great teaching.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Church needs to hear it, \Neven more than the lost.’
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this man is 72 years old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the first time he’s heard the \Ngospel preached out of the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This comment really affected me. I \Nexperienced the same thing in jail.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God revealed it to me in a new way: the \Ngospel in the Old and New Testaments.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gospel of the Kingdom. \NMuch of this was new for me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what the church needs. God \Nbrought me to jail to reveal this to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I get extremely excited \Nwhen I receive a comment like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first four lessons:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson 1: The Beginning of Eden \Nto the new Heaven and Earth:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Fall, Noah, and the Flood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson 2: Abraham Our Father:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This happened after the fall, \Nwickedness and destruction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How God desired a people who are \NHis, beginning with Abraham.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is the father of Faith - a man had \Na family that later became a nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson 3: I explained how that \Nnation was called out of Egypt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, we are called out of Babylon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was called: ‘Called out of Egypt’: How \Nthat nation was called out from Egypt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How we today are called \Nout to be the Church.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are set apart as God's holy people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love that lesson. I want to start \Nwith a personal testimony.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week, my daughter Simone got married.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here’s a picture of the area just outside \Nthis studio. I'm standing there, smiling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simone and Joshua have just said “Yes” \Nto each other. They were so excited.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This wedding, this past week, \Nis the strongest picture for me of this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church is those who are called out. \NThey are holy and separated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This wedding was holy and so beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fear of God was there \Nin a beautiful way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened just \Na few hours before this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw my daughter Simone in her \Nwedding dress for the first time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her hair was done. She had makeup on \Nand everything. It was so, so beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is a one-minute video of my reaction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time I saw my daughter \Nstanding in the beautiful wedding dress.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My reaction surprised me. \NI really broke down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to show you this clip \Nand then will continue talking it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Unclear speech and Danish, crying] \NSo, you can see here that I broke down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s in Danish so it’s hard to understand.\NNot a lot was said:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“You're beautiful”, “I love you Simone”, \N“I love you Dad”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a strong experience for me. \NI saw my daughter there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was so holy, beautiful, clean and \Nready to be given away to Joshua.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what the bride is. \NShe is called-out and separated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is ready for her husband. \NHere are some verses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul wrote: “For I am jealous for you \Nwith the jealousy of God himself”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is also jealous for His people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I promised you as a pure bride \Nto one husband – Christ.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Paul promised the church \Nas a pure bride to one husband.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That husband is Christ. \NHere are so many beautiful pictures.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Revelation 19: “Let us be glad and \Nrejoice, and let us give honour to him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the time has come for the wedding \Nfeast of the Lamb, and his bride”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the church “has prepared herself.” \NWe, the church, prepare ourselves:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“She has been given the finest of \Npure white linen to wear” What is that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For the fine linen represents the \Ngood deeds of God's holy people.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here’s a photo of myself walking with \Nmy daughter Simone. Here’s the kiss.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually made a video about it. \NThis is the thumbnail.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you’ve not seen the video, please do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I explain that this was the first time \Nthey’d kissed each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has been living with us for four years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They never touched each other \Nintimately or kissed each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the wedding, they left. \NThen these two virgins became one flesh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The blood was spilled. \NThey entered into a covenant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch the video. Look at this wedding.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See that we, the church, have fallen \Nfar away from God's grace and intentions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This wedding was an extremely \Nclear example of what we should be:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Called-out, holy and separated. \NWe should be purifying ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re not only invited to a wedding: \NWe’re the bride and living for that day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk a lot more about the wedding \Nfeast and God’s kingdom in another lesson.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is an extremely beautiful example\Nof the topic we’re speaking about here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s a link under this video.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please watch my video: \N“Now you may kiss the bride”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I explain that the wedding is \Nconnected with the God’s kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re invited to the wedding feast.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson 4: The Process of Being Called \NOut: The Israelites were called out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, we must remove the yeast \Nfrom our house (repentance).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s the blood (the cross) and \Nthe Red Sea (baptism into Christ).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the Israelites walked through \Nthe wilderness toward the Promised Land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were guided by the \NPillar of Cloud and Fire.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, we’ve received the Holy Spirit. \NWe walk by the Spirit toward our goal:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heavenly Jerusalem will \Ncome down from heaven.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those were the first four lessons. We’ll \Nmove on now. I’ll talk about Moses today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next time, we’ll look at the New and \NOld Covenant and how they work together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, we’ll look at Moses \Nand the giving of the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the law with Moses, \Nto truth and grace in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s a difference between \Nthe old and new covenants.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson 5’s focus is on Freedom from sin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re called to be free \Nand to live holy lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a few more lessons, we’ll look at \Nhow David is connected with God’s kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then there’ll be a permanent shift.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of focussing on the nation \Nof Israel, we'll focus on the kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you're ready. I’ll pray \Nand then we'll start.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God, I thank You for this \Nrevelation. I thank You for Your truth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pray that it will bring \Nunderstanding, God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it will bring truth and \Nfreedom to people, God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they will experience the freedom, \NJesus, that You have for them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come with Your Holy Spirit. \NHelp me to share this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help people to receive this, God. \NIn the name of Jesus, Amen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson 5 will also be long. \NI will talk about a lot of things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there’ll be a break in the middle, \Nif you need it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson 5: The law of Moses. There is \Nthe word ‘Death’. That law brings death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law of Christ: That law brings \Nlife. Here you can see:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,True understanding brings:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom from sin, holiness, purity, \Nvictory and eternal life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened with my daughter and \NJoshua? Now you may kiss your bride.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the first time they kissed \Nand were together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s the fruit of a true understanding. \NIt is not about an external law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s actually about the heart. \NThis comes from a true understanding.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A false understanding brings slavery to \Nsin, a double life and eternal death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A true understanding of what the \Nlaw means for us today, will bring that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A false understanding of \Nthe law will bring this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A true understanding of \Ngrace will bring this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A false understanding of \Ngrace will bring this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people with a false \Nunderstanding talk a lot about the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can know a tree by the fruit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those people are enslaved \Nand living a double life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But others talk a lot about grace.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are also enslaved \Nand living a double life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't have the right \Nunderstanding of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s important to say this at the start, \Nwhen we look at the law of Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s move on: It’s possible to \Ndivide this law into three parts:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1. Commandments governing \Ntheir personal lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2. Law for their social lives \Nwith one another.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3. Ordination for religious lives. We can \Ndivide the law like this. I am not a Jew.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never been a Jew. I'm a Gentile and \Na born-again believer. I'm grafted in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise is mine. But I'm not a Jew. \NThe law was given to Israel as a nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, it was never given to those who \Nare Gentiles and live in another country.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really important to understand \Nthis concept. Right now, I’m in Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to live in America.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In America, you can drive through \Na red light if you’re turning right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not breaking the law. \NBut it's different in Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can’t drive through a red light and \Nturn right, apart from a few exceptions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Europe, it's even worse. There, I’m \Nnot allowed to drive through a red light.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here in Mexico, I can’t say, “But \Nthey do that in Denmark. Or in America.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I can do it.” No. I'm here now. \NIt matters where you are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can see a great lack of \Nunderstanding here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gentiles didn’t have ancestors \Nliving in Israel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But those Gentiles try to apply \Nthe law of Moses to today
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,– how we should live with each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some try to apply the religious \Nlaws of offerings and sacrifices today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But those have nothing do with us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It all goes wrong, if we don’t understand \Nto whom the law was given and when.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we don’t understand the covenant \Nthat it was part of.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is extremely important. \NTrue understanding brings freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can fall into one of two ditches, \Nwhen listening to teaching about this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One ditch is legalism, where you try to \Ngo under the law and become bound to it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other is lawlessness, where you say: \NI'm not under the law of Moses. I'm free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don’t understand that we are under \Na different law now, the law of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That law is written on your heart. \NI’ll talk about that later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, there's a narrow road \Nbetween two ditches.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On one side is legalism, and \Non the other side is lawlessness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re called to live in the middle \Nof the road. I hope you're ready.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exodus 20 is about Moses \Nand the Ten Commandments.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exodus 19: “Now if you obey me fully” \NNot 30% or half but fully
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“and keep my covenant, then out of all \Nnations you'll be my treasured possession.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although the whole earth is mine,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will be for me a kingdom \Nof priests and a holy nation.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whom did God say that to? The \NIsraelites, not the Danish or Americans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said that to Israel. The promise was \Ngiven to them. The law was given to them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They needed to fully obey God’s \Ncommands. Then He would do His part.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read here: “The people \Nall responded together,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“We will do everything the LORD has \Nsaid.” Did they do what God had commanded?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. But God did not give up. \NKeep my commands (laws).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you'll be my treasured possession… \Na kingdom of priests, a holy nation…
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk about that later. Let’s read a \Nlonger text that describes this"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What actually happened when the law \Nwas given and Moses was on the mountain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a very significant event compared \Nto others recorded in the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exodus 19: “On the morning of the third \Nday, there was thunder and lightning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a thick cloud over the mountain, \Nand a very loud trumpet blast.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone in the camp trembled.” \NThe spectacle was frightening.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Then Moses led the people \Nout of the camp to meet God,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they stood at the foot \Nof the mountain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mount Sinai was covered with smoke \Nbecause the LORD descended on it in fire.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The smoke billowed up…” \NIt was an incredible spectacle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“As the sound of the trumpet \Ngrew louder and louder, Moses spoke,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the voice of God answered him.” \NMoses talked with God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The LORD descended to the top of \NMount Sinai and called Moses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the top of the mountain. \NSo Moses went up.” What a spectacle!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“And the LORD said to him, \N“Go down and warn the people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they do not force their way through \Nto see the LORD and many of them perish.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Moses was commanded to prevent \Nthe people from going up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, they would die. Why? \NBecause this was a holy place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A holy moment. We read here: \N“Even the priests, who approach the LORD,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must consecrate themselves, or \Nthe LORD will break out against them.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So God was there. His holiness was there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other Israelites couldn’t simply \Napproach God like Moses could.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The priest needed to consecrate \Nthemselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, God would break out \Nagainst them. Then we read:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“When Moses went and told the \Npeople all the LORD's words and laws,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they responded with one voice, \N“Everything the LORD has said we will do.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses then wrote down \Neverything the LORD had said.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses built an altar. Israelites \Nsacrificed offerings on it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m going through this quickly. \N“Moses then took half of the blood…
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the other he splashed against the altar. \NThen he took the Book of the Covenant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and read it to the people. They responded,\N“We will do everything the LORD has said;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will obey.” Moses then took the blood, \Nsprinkled it on the people, and said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“This is the blood of the covenant that \Nthe LORD has made with you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in accordance with all these words.” So, \NMoses went up to God. God spoke to Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses wrote it all down, and built \Nan altar. They slaughtered animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses splashed half of the blood \Nagainst the altar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He sprinkled the other half on the \Npeople. They had replied,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“We will obey everything the Lord \Nhave said.” But did they do that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, they didn’t. Read this: \N“This is the blood of the covenant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the LORD has made” \NThis points to the New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said, “This is my blood of \Nthe New Covenant.” It points to Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s continue: “The LORD said to \NMoses, “Come up to me on the mountain
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stay here, and I will give you \Nthe tablets of stone with the law
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and commandments I have \Nwritten for their instruction.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Moses went up on the \Nmountain, the cloud covered it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then Moses entered the cloud \Nas he went on up the mountain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he stayed on the mountain \Nforty days and forty nights.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please read the whole of Exodus, because \Nit's very important. This is our history.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not just a Jewish story. It’s our \Nstory. All of this points to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In chapter 24, Moses went up the mountain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In chapters 25 to 31, are some of the \Nthings God revealed to Moses. Chapter 25:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Ark of the Covenant, the Table for \Nthe Bread and the Golden Lampstand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 26: The Tabernacle \N(Tent of Meeting):
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where God came down later and met with \Nthem, while they were traveling around.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 27: The Bronze Altar. \NChapter 28: The Priests’ Garments.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 29: Consecration of the Priests. \NChapter 30: The Altar of Incense.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 31: The Sabbath. We read \Nafter that: “When the LORD finished
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave \Nhim the two tablets of the covenant law,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tablets of stone inscribed \Nby the finger of God.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what happened while Moses was \Non the mountain in God’s presence?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only a short time before, \Nthe people had said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“We will do everything the LORD \Nhas said; we will obey.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not long after, they did the opposite,\Nwhile Moses was on the mountain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read here: “When the people saw \Nthat Moses was so long in coming down
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the mountain, they gathered \Naround Aaron and said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Come, make us gods who will go before us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As for this fellow Moses who \Nbrought us up out of Egypt,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't know what has \Nhappened to him.””
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Try to imagine this situation. \NThey’d said, “God, we want to obey you.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then Moses had sprinkled the blood \Nof the covenant on the people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses had gone up the mountain. \NAfter less than 40 days, they said
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“We don't know what’s happened \Nabout Moses. Let's make a golden calf.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they broke God's law. \NI’ll talk more about that later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They actually broke the first \Ntwo of the ten commandments:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You shall have no other gods before me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You shan't make yourself an image in the\Nform of anything in heaven or on earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You shall not bow down to them. But that’s\Nwhat they did. They made a golden calf.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did they call it? “This is the \NLORD who brought us out of Egypt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the LORD our God, Yahweh, \Nwho brought us out of Egypt.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They did not change God's name \Nbut they changed his image.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do the same in our minds today. We \Nsay, “We serve God, the god of the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We serve Christ Jesus.” \NWe don’t change God’s name.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we change His image in our minds. \NSuddenly, this is a different Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A different God. I want to ask: Is your \NGod, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is He the God who brought \Nthe Israelites out of Egypt?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If not, you’ve made yourself an idol. \NYou are serving a different god.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ve done the same as the Israelites. \NMany people do that today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They serve a New Testament god, \Nfull of grace and mercy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say that the Old Testament god was \Nevil. But the Bible is true story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk about that later. Three thousand\Npeople were killed that day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk about that, shortly. Before we \Ncontinue, I want to remind you of this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The covenants point to Christ \Nand the New Covenant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to show you these pictures \Nand shadows, that'll become clear to you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’ve looked now at Noah, \NAbraham and Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With Noah, the sign of the covenant \Nwas the rainbow:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A sign of hope and a new beginning \Nfor those who were saved in the ark;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rest perished in the waters. \NWith Abraham, circumcision was the sign:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cutting of the foreskin \Nwas a sign of the Covenant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- so that the people would \Nnot be cut off from the promise.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, they would inherit through \NAbraham. Now we have Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God gave him stone tablets \Nwith His laws written down:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israelites first needed \Nto keep His laws.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then God would make them \NHis treasured possession.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A kingdom of priests and a holy \Nnation. Let's look at Christ here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With Noah: “In Christ, we are now saved \Nfrom the waters (symbolizing baptism).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We leave behind the old life and \Nembrace hope for eternal life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ark is like Christ, in whom we are \Nnow saved. We put off that old life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are saved through the water. \NNow, we have hope and eternal life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham and the circumcision: In \NChrist, we have circumcision of the heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will inherit as children of Abraham. \NMoses and the stone tablets: In Christ:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has written His laws on our hearts. \NWe can become God's treasured possession.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A kingdom of priests and a holy nation. \NThis is so beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each covenant adds another part to the \Npicture of what we have in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I’ll talk about some things \Nin the New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After that, we’ll return to the Old \NTestament. Hebrews 9: “But when Christ
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came as high priest of the good \Nthings that are now already here,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he went through the greater \Nand more perfect tabernacle”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ came as high priest and went \Nthrough a greater, more perfect tabernacle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“that is not made with human hands, that \Nis to say, is not a part of this creation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He did not enter by means of \Nthe blood of goats and calves;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he entered into the Most Holy Place \Nonce for all by his own blood,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thus obtaining eternal redemption. The \Nblood of goats and bulls and the ashes…”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could only clean people on the outside. \NAll the things we have read about:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses, the tabernacle, the priestly \Ngarments, the high priest and the Sabbath.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are all pictures and shadows \Nof a new reality that is in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He who went through the real tabernacle \Nin heaven. We read here: “How much more,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then, will the blood of Christ, who \Nthrough the eternal Spirit offered himself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unblemished to God, cleanse our \Nconsciences from acts that lead to death,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we may serve the living God!”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Offerings of goats and calves and their \Nblood could not cleanse the conscience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Christ did. It's not external.\NIt's an internal thing, that is deep:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For this reason, Christ is the mediator \Nof a new covenant, that those who are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called may receive the promised eternal \Ninheritance - now that he has died as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a ransom to set them free from the sins \Ncommitted under the first covenant.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll go on to explain this. “Now if you \Nobey me fully and keep my covenant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then out of all nations you will \Nbe my treasured possession…
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will be for me a kingdom of \Npriests and a holy nation.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was God’s command. \NDid the Israelites fully obey God?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. Did they break His laws? Yes. \NHave you fully obeyed God? No.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you broken His laws? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means that if it depended on you, you\Nwouldn’t become a treasured possession.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nor a kingdom of priests. Nor a holy \Nnation. You didn’t keep the conditions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Christ did. In Him, we’re forgiven. \NIn Him, we’re grafted in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Him, we’re free. In Him, \Nthis belongs to us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did Peter say to the church \Nof Jewish and Gentile believers?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same is true of born-again Jewish \Nand Gentile believers today:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“But you are a chosen people, \Na royal priesthood, a holy nation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's special possession, that you may \Ndeclare the praises of him who called you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of darkness into his wonderful light. \NOnce you were not a people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now you are the people of God; \Nonce you had not received mercy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now you have received mercy.” When \Nyou understand this it’s really beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law could not do this. We all \Nfailed. We’ve all broken the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Christ kept it. In him, we \Nbecome what God said. In Christ:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re God's chosen people, \Na royal priesthood, and a holy nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re God's special possession. I want to \Nsay this: God hasn’t forgotten the Jews.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk about the Jews, shortly. \NThe promise is still for them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is our reality now, in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not everyone in a church \Nbuilding, is part of the church.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everyone who professes \Na faith in God, is a child of God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everyone who confesses Jesus, actually\Nobeys Jesus. This is really important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise is real. But to receive it, \Nyou need to be fully born again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to live this new life. \NYou need to be in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, this will be your reality. \NLet's continue reading Hebrews:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“It was necessary, then, for \Nthe copies of the heavenly things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be purified with these sacrifices”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What were the tabernacle in the desert, \Nthe sacrifices and the offerings?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were copies of the heavenly things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For Christ did not enter a sanctuary \Nmade with human hands”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, he wasn’t like the other priests. That\Nearthly sanctuary was a copy, a picture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was different. “that was only a copy of\Nthe true one; he entered heaven itself”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to understand this. Let’s continue\Nreading. Hebrews is an amazing book.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The author wrote about offerings. \NThen it’s written:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Just as people are destined to die once, \Nand after that to face judgment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so Christ was sacrificed once to \Ntake away the sins of many;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he will appear a second time, \Nnot to bear sin, but to bring salvation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to those who are waiting for \Nhim.” Remember this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the time of Moses, \Nthe tabernacle was temporary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a copy of the real heavenly one. \NLike everything else, it points to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This will get clearer as we continue. \NNow, we'll return to the events in Exodus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses came down the mountain. \NThe Israelites had made a golden calf.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read about the events beforehand: “When\Nthe people saw that Moses was so long
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in coming down from the mountain, \Nthey gathered around Aaron and said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Come make us gods who will go before us. \NAs for this fellow Moses who brought us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up out of Egypt, we don’t know \Nwhat has happened to him.””
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they took the gold rings off that \Ntheir wives, sons, and daughters wore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They brought them to Aaron. \N“He took what they handed him and made it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into an idol cast in the shape of a calf. \NHe shaped it with a tool. Then they said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“This, Israel, is your god who brought \Nyou out of the land of Egypt.””
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Try to imagine the situation. \NGod had brought them out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now they’d made a golden calf \Nthat had no connection with Yahweh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The LORD had brought them out. \NThey said of the golden calf:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Yahweh who brought us out. \NThey called it by His name:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Tomorrow there will be a festival \Nto the LORD.” to Yahweh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They worshipped Him, in the \Nform of a golden calf.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“So the next day the people rose early \Nand sacrificed burnt offerings…
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the people sat down to eat and \Ndrink, and then they got up to play.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People do this today. We call an idol \Nusing God’s name. But He's not the same.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's scary. I could take ten Christians in\Na line and ask them to say who God is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In some cases, they’ll have weird ideas. \NThey are not serving the same god.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the God who brought \Nthe people out of Egypt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’ve made an image of a god \Nin their minds, that suits them:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Oh, no, my God isn’t like that. He’s\Nlike this” “Then the LORD said to Moses,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Go down, because your people, \Nwhom you brought up out of Egypt,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have become corrupt. They have been \Nquick to turn away from what
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I commanded them and have made themselves \Nan idol cast in the shape of a calf.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have bowed down to it and \Nsacrificed to it and have said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“This, Israel, is your god who brought \Nyou out of the land of Egypt.””
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, God sees everything. He saw exactly \Nwhat they were doing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I have seen these people,” \Nthe LORD said to Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“and they are a stiff-necked people.” \NNotice what He said here:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Now leave me alone so that my anger may \Nburn against them that I may destroy them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When this happened, God wanted to destroy \NIsrael, those he saved out of Egypt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’d slaughtered the Passover lambs. \NHe’d passed over their houses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’d went through the Red Sea. A few \Nweeks later, He was ready to destroy them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He wouldn’t destroy all of them. Why? \NBecause He’d made a promise to Abraham.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll keep that – to make Abraham \Ninto a great nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But whom will He keep the promise with? \NHe wanted to destroy the Israelites.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then He said, “I will make you, Moses, \Ninto a great nation.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s important to understand this: God \Ngave a promise to Abraham. He'll keep it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is a promise keeper. But with whom? \NWith Abraham’s descendants.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not every descendant of Abraham \Nis a child of Abraham, in that sense.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, He was ready to destroy everyone \Nand then keep His promise with Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is faithful and will do everything\NHe has said. But the question is:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you part of that or not? Are we \Npart of what God wants to do?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God will do what He’s promised to Abraham,\NIsaac, Jacob, David and Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the question is, are we a part of \Nthat? Let's learn from this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s have a healthy fear of God in our\Nlives, so we won't be cut off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many Israelites were cut off when these \Nevents happened. Moses interceded:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“But Moses sought the favour of the \NLORD his God. “LORD,” he said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“why should your anger burn against your \Npeople, whom you brought out of Egypt
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with great power and a mighty hand? \NWhy should the Egyptians say,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“It was with evil intent that he brought \Nthem out to kill them in the mountains and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to wipe them off the face of the earth”?\NTurn from your fierce anger; relent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do not bring disaster on your people.”\NMoses interceded “Remember your servants
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom \Nyou swore by your own self:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I will make your descendants as numerous \Nas the stars in the sky and I will give
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your descendants all this land I \Npromised them… Then the Lord relented
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and did not bring on his people \Nthe disaster he had threatened.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reading how Moses interceded, \Nreminds us of something:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wickedness was all over the earth \Nbut Noah found favour.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God wanted to destroy the Israelites \Nbut Moses interceded.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole world will be destroyed, \Nbut Christ can save us from that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a picture of Christ, who stood \Nin the gap for us. It's really beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses intercedes and later \Nwent down from the mountain:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“When Moses approached the camp and saw \Nthe calf and dancing, his anger burned,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he threw the tablets out of his \Nhands, breaking them into pieces…”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He also destroyed the golden calf. \NJoshua was also there. We read:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“that day about three thousand \Nof the people died.” This is interesting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the clear message here?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As soon as the Old Covenant law \Nwas given, 3,000 people died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As soon as the New Covenant Spirit \Nwas given, 3,000 received new life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is all connected. \NThis all points to Christ. Exodus 32:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The next day Moses said to the people, \N“You have committed a great sin.””
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By this time, around 3,000 people had \Nbeen killed. Moses said to the rest:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“You have committed a great sin. \NBut now I will go up to the LORD;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps I can make atonement \Nfor your sin.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Moses went back to the LORD \Nand said, “Oh, what a great sin
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these people have committed! \NThey have made themselves gods of gold.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now, please forgive their sin”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then Moses interceded in an amazing \Nand beautiful way: “but if not,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then blot me out of the book you have \Nwritten.” Moses really stood in the gap.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, “Either forgive them or blot me \Nout of the book.” What a man! “The LORD
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned \Nagainst me I will blot out of my book.””
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we read about the book of life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Books will be opened at the great \Njudgment, at the great judgment seat:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of Revelation. I’ll talk about \Nthese books later in this series.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's possible to be blotted out of the \Nbook of life. People say today:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“If your name is written in the book \Nof life, everything is fine.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s true if your name is there and \Nstays there. But what is very clear here?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That a person can be blotted out of God's \Nbook. Then God said to Moses: “Now go,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lead the people to the place I spoke of, \Nand my angel will go before you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, when the time comes for me to \Npunish, I will punish them for their sin.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So about 3,000 people died right away. In \NLesson 3 (‘Called-out’), I explained this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sinful generation didn’t enter the \Npromised land, but later punished.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a very clear picture of our salvation\Njourney. Someone commented on Lesson 3
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(‘Called-out’): “Yeah, but you can’t use \Nthe example of the promised land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were giants in the promised land.” \NYeah, we can use that example.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will happen when Jesus sets up \NGod’s kingdom on earth?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will need to deal with some things \Nat the beginning. We’ll take the land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People will submit under Jesus’ Lordship \Nand rule. All will bow down at His feet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there’ll be a time of judgment. The \Nrighteousness will bring peace on earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It'll be cleaned up. It won’t just happen, \Nfrom one day to another.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of us who are there, will receive \Nheavenly bodies and rule with him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’ll be a time of cleaning up. Giants \Nin the land is a really good picture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other good pictures are possessing, \Ntaking and subduing the land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk about the promised land \Nin a later lesson.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Israelites didn’t enter because \Nof disobedience. God is very serious.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, judgment come right away \Nand sometimes it’s delayed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This should really create a fear of God \Nin our lives, a healthy fear of God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After this God called Moses up the \Nmountain again. “The LORD said to Moses,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Cut out for yourself two stone tablets \Nlike the first ones, and I’ll write on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tablets the words which were on \Nthe first tablets which you broke.””
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there were two sets of tablets. \NThe first set of tablets were destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then God called Moses up again \Nand said, “Cut out two new tablets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will write the same on them.” \NThis is very interesting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God wrote on the first tablets. Later, \NMoses made new ones. God wrote on those.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This points forward to God writing \NHis law on new tablets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is writing His law on our hearts, \Nnot with written code on stone tablets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is writing on our hearts by His Spirit.\NThis is all about the gospel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It points to Christ, to the time we are\Nliving in and to God’s kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many years after Moses, Jeremiah \Nprophesied this: “The days are coming,”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,declares the LORD, “when I will make a \Nnew covenant with the people of Israel
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with the people of Judah. It will \Nnot be like the covenant”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it’s not just a continuation of the \NMosaic covenant. It’s different:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“It will not be like the covenant I made \Nwith their ancestors when I took them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the hand to lead them out of Egypt.” \NWhy will it be different? “because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they broke my covenant, though I was \Na husband to them,” declares the LORD.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it’s a New Covenant. They broke \Nthe other one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“This is the covenant I'll make with the \Npeople of Israel” With Israel the nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we’re grafted in and have received \Nit in Christ. I’ll talk about it later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“After that time” declares the LORD. “I'll\Nput my law in their minds and write it”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on stone tablets? No, He’d already done \Nthat and it hadn’t worked.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law, written externally, brought \Ndeath. It didn't work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cannot obey a law as an \Nexternal written code.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's to be written on the heart. Or \Nit won't work: “write it on their hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll be their God, and they'll be my \Npeople. No longer will they teach
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their neighbour, or say to one \Nanother, “Know the LORD””
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don’t need a human priest in order \Nto have a relationship with God: "because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they will all know me, from the least of \Nthem to the greatest,” declares the LORD.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For I will forgive their wickedness \Nand will remember their sins no more.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ezekiel prophesied similar things around \Nthe same time. He added some things:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I will give them an undivided HEART \Nand put a new spirit in them;”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we read about God writing \Nthe law on our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read about an undivided heart \Nand a new spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I will remove from them their \Nheart of stone”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- God won’t write His law on a heart \Nof stone. He will remove that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll then write on a new heart by the \NSpirit - “and give them a heart of flesh.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a license for us to sin: “Then\Nthey will follow my decrees and be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,careful to keep my laws. They will \Nbe my people, and I will be their God.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God writes His laws on our hearts, \Nso that we can obey Him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not so we can continue sinning. He did it,\Nso we can be holy as our Father is holy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you may kiss your bride.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you can enter into a covenant \Nand be one flesh in a marriage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can’t do that if your heart \Nis not transformed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to come from your heart, \Nnot from an external law: “You may not….”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, we need a changed heart. \NWe’ll look at that later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have some more slides here\Nbefore we shortly have a break.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to talk more here about \NIsrael as a nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is, the law of Moses was \Nnever actually given to Gentiles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was given to Israel as a nation. \NThese are not laws for me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were for Israel as a nation. But in \NChrist, I am grafted into the promise.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not part of the physical \Nnation of Israel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have been grafted into the \Npromise in a spiritual sense.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked about in previous lessons. So\Nnow, we’re a holy people. We’re called out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re God's possession. But that doesn’t \Nmean that God has rejected Israel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to talk about that before we move \Non. Romans 11:25-29 is very important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul writes: “Brothers and sisters, here \Nis a mystery I want you to understand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It'll keep you from being proud.” But \Nmany people have rejected the Jews.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re very proud: “We’re now the \Npeople of God. I am a holy nation.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's only because of Christ that \Nyou are. So please don't be proud.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember this: “Part of Israel” not all of\NIsrael. There are people who love Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are born again and follow \Nthe Messiah Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Part of Israel has refused to obey \NGod.” We see this today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“That will continue until the full number \Nof non-Jews has entered God's kingdom.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, at the moment they still reject \NGod as a whole.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This will continue until we as \NGentiles have come in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This will create jealousy and so on. \N“And so all Israel will be saved.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s a hardness right now. But there’ll\Nbe a time when all Israel will be saved.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“It is written, “The One who saves \Nwill come from Mount Zion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will remove sin from Jacob.” \NGod has said that. He’ll do it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Here is my covenant with them. \NI will take away their sins.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this covenant has been given \Nto the Jews. This is for our good:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“As far as the gospel is concerned, \Nthe people of Israel are enemies.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of the Jews are enemies. \NThey're not in the New Covenant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God’s laws are not yet written \Non their hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They haven’t received the spirit, nor are \Nobeying God's laws as a whole.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re enemies according to the gospel. \N“But as far as God's choice is concerned,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people of Israel are loved.” \NThey’re still called.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“That is because of God's promises \Nto the founders of our nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God does not take back his gifts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He does not change his mind \Nabout those he has chosen.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the nation of Israel is still \Nchosen and called.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God’ll establish a new covenant \Nwith them, in their hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But right now, this belongs to us. \NEach one of us can receive it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A new covenant where the law is written \Non the heart. I will be their God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'll be my people. Then they'll follow \Nmy decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All will know me and I will \Nremember their sins no more.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re talking here about \Nfollowing God’s law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, should we go back and do everything \NGod spoke to Israel as a nation? No.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That law was given to Israel as a nation. \NI'm not a Jew and never have been.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a Gentile. But I'm following Christ \Nand His word.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to understand that there \Nis a change in the law. Hebrews 7:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read here that Jesus is in the \Npriestly order of Melchizedek.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a change in the priesthood. \NPlease read it yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For when the priesthood is changed, \Nthe law must be changed also.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of this change, we’re not bound \Nto the written code given to Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, we’re bound to the law of Christ.\NThe law of God's written on our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s read a few verses from Romans. \NThere’ll be a break shortly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“A person is not a Jew who is one only \Noutwardly, nor is circumcision merely
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outward and physical. No, a person is a \NJew who is one inwardly; and circumcision
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is circumcision of the heart, by the \NSpirit, not by the written code.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the Pharisees’ problem. \NJesus said this to them: “Woe to you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teachers of the law and Pharisees, \Nyou hypocrites! You clean the outside of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cup and dish, but inside they are \Nfull of greed and self-indulgence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside \Nof the cup and dish,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the outside also will be clean.” \NOur hearts need to be transformed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law is not written on books or \Ntablets, but on the heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, we have a physical Bible. \NGod is speaking to us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we are loosed from the law of Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk more about that after the break \Nand read more of Romans 6 and 7.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Romans 7, we read: “But now, by dying\Nto what once bound us (the law),
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have been released from the law so \Nthat we serve in the new way of the Spirit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not in the old way of the written \Ncode.” We’ve been released from the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we can serve in a new way. \NThe covenant with Moses was everlasting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, it has changed (in Christ). \NIt's not written on stone tablets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s being written on our hearts, not as \Na written code. The new way of the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From law to grace. From death to life. \NI’ll talk more about that after the break.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's extremely important. I believe that \Nthis will set you free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ll understand that you don't need to \Nbe under the law anymore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can be under grace. You can walk in \Nfreedom and listen to the Spirit in you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's take a break here [Music] We’re \Nback again. This’ll be very interesting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you're ready for this. We’ll read \Nin Romans. We see the cross here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I already talked about it in Romans 6. \NBut we’ll read it again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bear the law of Moses in mind: “Don’t \Ntouch this. Don’t eat that food etc.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romans 6: “Or don’t you know that all of \Nus who were baptized into Christ Jesus
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were baptized into his death?” So, a \Ndeath takes place when we are baptized.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re baptized into Christ’s death. \NDeath is important. Bear that in mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“We were therefore buried with him \Nthrough baptism into death in order that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as Christ was raised from the dead \Nthrough the glory of the Father,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we too may live a new life.” We’re \Nbaptized into His death. That’s important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because we’re only bound \Nto a law, as long as you live.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when we die, we’re loosed from that\Nlaw. Romans 6 and 7 focus on that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Because anyone who had died \Nhas been set free from sin.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is not only about sin. \NThe law is connected with sin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here’s something important. Romans 7: \N“Do you not know, brothers and sisters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- for I am speaking to those who know \Nthe law - that the law has authority
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over someone only as long as that person\Nlives? For example, by law a married woman
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is bound to her husband as long as he is \Nalive, but if her husband dies, she is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,released from the law that binds her to \Nhim.” Why does Paul write about this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romans 6 - 8 is about the new life and \Nfreedom from the law of sin and death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul not only teaches about marriage \Nand divorce, but also about the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s an example to show this: We’re \Nbound to the law as long as we live.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can read beforehand that we're \Nbaptized into Christ, into His death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The baptism is a death. The law was \Nnever given to me as a Gentile.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not physically part of Israel. \NI was without hope in this world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was lost without hope and without God. \NBut the law is also spiritual.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that sense, it’s working in everyone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we start to sin, \Nyou become a slave to that sin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law is at work in a way \Nwe don’t realise.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To take an example, imagine that \Nyou’re going to stay at someone’s house.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The person says, “Hey, you can stay at \Nmy house. Here's the kitchen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just take some breakfast in the morning. \NHere are all the things you can take.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can eat anything you want. But \Nyou’re not allowed to open this closet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s very important \Nthat you don’t open it.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If someone tells you not to \Ndo something, what happens?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ll think, “Why can’t I \Nopen that closet?”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we’re told not to do something, \Nsomething happens inside us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, imagine a man \Ngoing to a Walmart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before he goes in, he repeats to himself, \N“Don’t look with lust on a woman”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will happen? He’ll go in \Nand continue thinking of that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end, he’ll look at a woman. It does\Nnot work. That law doesn't bring freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ brings freedom. If we’re bound to\Nthe law of sin and death, it works in us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re bound to that law as long as \Nwe live. That's why we need to die.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Read Romans 6 about dying to \Nthe law. We’re dead to the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not under the law. We are freed \Nor loosed from the law. We read here:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For sin shall no longer be your master” \NSin won’t have authority over us. Why not?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the law only has authority \Nover a person as long as he lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in baptism, we die. \NIt's no longer we who live, but Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the law of sin and death \Nhas no authority over me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For sin shall no longer be \Nyour master” Why not?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“because you are not under the law” \NYou’re dead to the law “but under grace”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the law came with Moses. \NGrace and truth came with Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people try to follow Christ \Nby trying to keep the law of Moses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don’t realise that they’ve \Nbeen loosed from that law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when they were baptized into \NChrist. They entered into a new covenant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not about the written code written \Non stones, what's written on your heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s where true freedom is. Let’s move \Non: Under the law, sin was our master.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under grace, you're baptized into Christ. \NYou’re dead to the law, alive in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re free from the law and the sin \Nthat once kept you enslaved.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you’re a slave to sin, \Nyou’re still not under grace.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember that true grace \Nis not a cover up for sin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,True Grace empowers us to \Nlive a new life, free from sin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can still be a Christian \Nand have your mind set on Egypt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s because you’ve never really left.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to leave and \Nlive a new life by the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m saying here that many Christians \Nare still under the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re still trying to obey \Nthe law instead of living by the spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re not living \Nthe new way of the spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their minds are still set on the old ways \Nof Egypt. They’re never really left.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They haven’t experienced the freedom, \Nwith the law written on their hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ministry we bring, \Nshould set people free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul wrote about this ministry \Nwe’ve been given. 2 Corinthians 3:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“You show that you're a letter from \NChrist, the result of our ministry,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,written not with ink but with the Spirit \Nof the living God, not on tablets of stone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but on tablets of human hearts.” Our \Nministry's different from Moses' law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the old covenant written on \Nstones. Now, we have a new ministry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A new way. God’s laws are written on the \Nheart by the spirit of the Living God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul continues: “Now if the ministry \Nthat brought death”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened when the law of Moses \Nwas given? 3,000 died right away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His ministry brought death that "was \Nengraved in letters on stone, came with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,glory, so that the Israelites could\Nnot look steadily at the face of Moses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of its glory, transitory though it\Nwas, will not this ministry of the Spirit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be even more glorious?” Of course. “If\Nthe ministry that brought condemnation”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bringing death and condemnation “was \Nglorious, how much more glorious is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ministry that brings righteousness!”\NWe have the ministry of the new covenant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This doesn't bring condemnation. \NIt can truly cleanse our conscience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can bring righteousness. Then \Nwe’re free, not to live in condemnation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re free from the law, free \Nto live by the spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to receive this through \Nthe new birth, by faith.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to share a personal testimony \Nand experience shortly:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Therefore, since we have such a hope, \Nwe are very bold. We are not like Moses,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who would put a veil over his face to \Nprevent the Israelites from seeing the end
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what was passing away.” So, the \Nlaw of Moses was passing away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses’ face was veiled, so the Israelites \Nwouldn’t see it. "But their minds were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made dull, for to this day the same veil \Nremains when the old covenant is read.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also today when people read about \NMoses and the old Covenant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s a veil over their faces. \NSo, they don’t understand it:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“It has not been removed, because \Nonly in Christ is it taken away.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many read the law in the Bible. They have\Na blindness. They don’t understand it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only in Christ, is the blindness taken \Naway. Some people have a fear.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say: “We need law. If we don’t, \Npeople will live in sin.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what happened with the law? Did \Nthe law help people to live holy lives?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did the Israelites live holy lives because\Nthey had the law? No.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God gave a new spirit and \Nwrote a new law in our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we’ll obey God's decree and follow His\Nlaws. How do we live that holy life?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not by following Moses, but by following \NChrist by the spirit. Paul continues:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, \Nthe veil is taken away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the \NSpirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom. You need to receive this by \Nthe Spirit. Here's some examples.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard the gospel for the first time \Nfrom my friend Tommy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him, he was brainwashed. I couldn't\Nsee it. I said, he was brainwashed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was wrong. He was in a cult. \NHe should be careful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that he was crazy \Nand brainwashed. I thought:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I needed to help him and save him out \Nof that cult. I didn't understand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few days later, I got born again. \NMy eyes opened. The veil was taken away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then my father told me, “Torben, \Nyou’re brainwashed. It’s a cult.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father couldn’t see it. Why? Because \Nhe still had a a veil over his face.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He couldn’t see it. I told him, “Father, \Nyou’re saying what I said to Tommy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's the truth. I see it now.” Before \NI was blinded, like my father was blinded.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But some years later, he repented. \NThen he saw it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This happens when someone truly repents \Nand is born again. Their eyes open.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, my mind was still set on Egypt \Nfor the first years of my Christian life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not understand that I had buried \Nthe old life in the baptism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That I had died to the law of sin and \Ndeath, and wasn’t bound to it anymore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was free from sin. I didn't need \Nto be a slave anymore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the first six years of my \NChristian life, I was repenting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law was written on my heart.\NI had received a new spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many things in my life changed. \NBut in some areas, I was not free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kept falling into the same sins. I felt,\NI was becoming a slave of sin again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was not free. Then one day I read \NRomans 6. I really understood it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God revealed it to me by the Spirit: \N“Hey, I'm dead to the law! I'm free!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't need to sin anymore! \NThe law is spiritual!”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this broke down something \Nwrong inside me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realised, I wasn’t not under the \Nlaw of sin and death anymore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm free to follow Christ. This gave \Nme a totally new freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been free ever since for many years.\NIt doesn't mean that I'm sinless.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can still do wrong things. \NBut then we feel convicted right away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ask God for forgiveness. He’s\Nfaithful to forgive us. Then we move on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not bound. I don’t ask forgiveness, \Nto repeat the sin 2 weeks later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t feel like a slave to sin. No. \NI feel free. I'm not focused on the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm don’t do into a mall, tell myself \Nrepeatedly “Don't look at woman” and fail.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm free to go into the mall. I focus \Non Christ. I don’t think like this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Don't touch! Don't watch! Don't do \Nthis or that!” I'm free to follow Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need a revelation so you can \Nreally experience that freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can love Jesus, walk by the spirit,\Noccasionally doing something wrong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have the ten commandments \Nwritten in my phone or on a poster.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not? Because I'm not under \Nthe law. It's written in my heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm following Christ and obeying \NHis words. I read His words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if I do, say or think something wrong,\NI feel it right away: “Oh, I know it.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one needs to teach me to know the Lord \Nand to do different things. I know Him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel it in my heart. Why? The law’s \Nwritten on my heart. I am convicted.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From this perspective, the Christian \Nlife is actually really easy:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't follow the law of Moses. Listen \Nto Christ and obey His word.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to the Spirit, God has \Ngiven you. Follow the Holy Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Holy Spirit says, “Don't say that. \NDon't look at that. Don’t look at this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don’t look at that” then stop doing it. \NListen to the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let the Spirit guide you through \Nthe wilderness toward the promised land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let the Holy Spirit guide you. \NGod speaks to us about different things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We really need to follow God \Nand live in that freedom. 1 Corinthians:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“He has made us competent \Nas ministers of a new covenant, not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the letter but of the Spirit; for the\Nletter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The letter kills, \Nbut the Spirit gives life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened when the law was given \Non Mount Sinai? 3,000 were killed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened when the Spirit \Nwas given on Pentecost in Jerusalem?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three thousand received new life. The\Nletter kills but the Spirit gives life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read that in Acts 2: “Those who \Naccepted the message were baptized,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about three thousand were \Nadded to their number that day.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When did that happen? On Pentecost, \NShavuot, the Feast of Weeks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that time, Israelites from all over \NIsrael came to Jerusalem to celebrate:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The giving of the law. It happened on \Nthat day, not a week or month before.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, when we read about Moses and the \Nlaw, we read about temporary things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are just pictures that point \Nto Christ and the New Covenant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, we are under the New Covenant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly, many people today prefer \Nfollowing the law than the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't have the Spirit. So, they \Nfollow the law. You need to be born again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need the Holy Spirit. It must come \Nfrom your heart. Walking by the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Live a life with a clean conscience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you step out of God's plan, \Nyou’ll feel it in your heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you must return to the narrow road.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you stop listening to the Spirit \Nand go into the law, you’ll become bound.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ll walk away from Christ and the road \Nthat leads to righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen so many people start in the \Nspirit but end in the flesh under the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are loosed from the law. \NI don't keep the Sabbath. People tell me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“You need to keep the Sabbath.” \NThey only read some of the verses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did God say? Keep the Sabbath. \NHave one day of rest per week.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, he also told them to work six days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most people I know who are eager \Nto keep Sabbath, don’t work six days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They work five days. Why do they do that? \NHow can people say,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Oh, we keep the Sabbath. This is \Nour Sabbath” if they only work five days?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God didn’t say that. He told them \Nto work six days and take one day off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This law was never given to Gentile. \NIt was given to the Israelites.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This doesn’t mean, I can’t learn from it. \NIt is important. I do some things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes the Holy Spirit tells me to rest\None day. I have a day that I take off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't work seven days and then start \Na new week of seven days. We need rest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is not because of the Mosaic \Nlaw. It’s not an obligation or a law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s nothing to do with righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just shows us that God want us \Nalso to rest and take time with him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't be too busy. We need to \Nunderstand this rightly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But some people are so fixed on \Nkeeping the Mosaic law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Sabbath law said that people \Nshouldn’t light a fire on that day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you do that? At that time, they \Nlit fires using wood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you turn on the oven on the Sabbath?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you start going down that road, \Nyou’ll suddenly become bound.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you keep a little of the law, \Nyou’re obligated to keep it all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ kept it for us, to set us free from\Nthe law: Not that we could live in sin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was so we could walk by the Spirit in \Nfreedom. Listen to this. Romans 2:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“All who sin apart from the law will \Nalso perish apart from the law,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all who sin under the law \Nwill be judged by the law.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if we sin apart from the law \Nwe’ll perish apart from the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we sin under the law, we’ll be \Njudged by the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This refers to Jews and Gentiles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For it is not those who hear the law \Nwho are righteous in God's sight,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is those who obey the law \Nwho will be declared righteous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have \Nthe law” as the law wasn’t given to us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“do by nature the things required by the \Nlaw, they are a law for themselves,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though they do not have the law.)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They show that the requirements of \Nthe law are written on their hearts”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we obey the law?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Love God with all your heart and love your\Nneighbour as yourself. What is the law?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the heart of the law?\N“written on their hearts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their consciences also bearing witness, \Nand their thoughts sometimes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accusing them and at other times \Neven defending them.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is extremely important. \NGentiles are not under the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was never given to them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’ll still be judged even if we’re \Nnot under the law - if we live in sin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Gentiles who are born again, have \Nthe Christ's law written on the heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have a conscience. \NThe conscience bears witness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes our thoughts accuse us \Nand other times they defend us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm free. I'm free to eat things. \NI don’t think about the Sabbath.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was born again, \Nthe law was written on my heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never felt when I made food on a\NSabbath (or Saturday): “I can’t do this.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve never felt that I can’t do a \Nkickstart or training on that day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve never felt condemned in that \Narea. It's not written on my heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s the same with head coverings. \NWe need to understand the context.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk about that later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never met anyone who'd just received \Nthe Holy Spirit and God’s love, saying:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The Holy Spirit says that I need to cover\Nmy head. I can’t work on the Sabbath.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to do this. I can’t play cards. \NI have to wear a long dress.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never met someone who said that \Nthat is written on their heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they read the law and get confused: \N“Oh no! I need to do this and that.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Condemnation comes. \NThen they try to keep the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This leads them away from the \Npure and narrow road in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They try to do this, not to do that, \Nnot to eat that and all the rest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have been convicted \Nin my heart many times.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had said, done or looked \Nat something wrong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, after I got born again, \NI slept with my girlfriend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt so condemned: What have I done? \NRed light, red light, sin, sin, sin!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew it was sin. I did not need \Nto read it in the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hadn’t read that yet, \Nbut it was written on my heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This happens with so many other things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, if I say something wrong \Nor reply in anger, I feel condemned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It happened once when I was in jail. You \Ncan read my book, if you haven’t already.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a nasty guard in jail, \Nwho was not nice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They came in and checked us, \Nwhen we were sitting in there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They scanned our card for their records.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a long time, we’d been allowed \Nto leave some food to eat later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he suddenly changed all the rules \Nand they took all our food away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was nasty. I remember sitting there \Nin my cell. He opened my cell and came in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to scan my card.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had just taken some food away \Nor something like that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt irritated. He said, “Give me your \Ncard” [Showing irritation] “Here”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, “Don't be so nasty.” \NI just took the card out of his hand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was just irritated. Then he moved on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As soon as I reacted like that,\NI felt that it was wrong of me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked God to forgive me \Nfor reacting like that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have many examples like that. \NIt’s because of my conscience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But other times, I stand up, \Npreach and do things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then my conscience bears \Nwitness that all is good.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But other times, I feel that I \Nshouldn’t have done something.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen that happening \Nwith other people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When anyone is at the start of their \Nnew life, they have a clean conscience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Holy Spirit teaches, helps \Nand purifies them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I see them suddenly turning \Naway from that, going under the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They start trying to keep the rules \Nand guidelines, and get confused.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn’t lead to holiness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly they feel condemned, \Nwhereas before they did not:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Oh, I cannot drive. I cannot wear a \Ndress. I have to cover my head.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot do this or that.” They start \Nto feel condemned all the time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because they're going \Nback under the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't know that they're in a New \NCovenant and are free from the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to do a Q&A video very soon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that many people are asking \Nquestions about this topic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please come with your questions. \NI'll do a Q&A video.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson 6 will be about Hagar and Sarah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll talk much more about the spirit, the \Nflesh, the law, grace and freedom etc.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll go over all of this, because \Nit’s new for many of you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re saying, “Torben, \Nwhat are you saying?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you saying that we don't need to \Nobey the law of Moses?” Yes, I am.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Are you saying that we’re just free to \Nlive the way we want to?” No, I'm not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're free to walk by the spirit. \NYou’re free to listen to your conscience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep your conscience clean, \Nabove all things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If your conscience starts to condemn \Nyou, do something about it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But don’t do it in your own strength.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask God to give you a revelation \Nof who you are in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to these verses in 1 John. \NThis lesson is almost finished.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is important: “Dear friends, \Nnow we are children of God,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what we will be has not \Nyet been made known.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we know that when Christ \Nappears, we shall be like him,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for we shall see him as he is. All who \Nhave this hope in him” That is our hope.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re invited to a wedding. We, \Nthe bride, need to purify ourselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“purify themselves, just as he is pure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone who sins breaks the law; \Nin fact, sin is lawlessness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know that he appeared so \Nthat he might take away our sins.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in him is no sin. No one who \Nlives in him keeps on sinning.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the secret. Live in Christ. “No \None who lives in him keeps on sinning.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This doesn’t mean that we can never sin. \NBut we are not to keep on sinning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s not how we live.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“No one who continues to sin has \Neither seen him or known him.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people who sit in church \Nbuildings, don’t really know Him
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- they keep on sinning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Dear children, do not let \Nanyone lead you astray.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one who does what \Nis right is righteous”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not so much about what we believe, \Nbut what we do “just as he is righteous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one who does what is sinful \Nis of the devil,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the devil has been \Nsinning from the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason the Son of God appeared \Nwas to destroy the devil’s work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one who is born of God will continue to\Nsin, because God's seed remains in them;”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God’s law is written on our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His seed is the Spirit we’ve now \Nreceived, the word of God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“they cannot go on sinning because \Nthey have been born of God.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not about praying the sinner's \Nprayer. It's about the new birth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“This is how we know who the \Nchildren of God are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who the children of the devil are:” \NThe way we live.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Anyone who does not do what \Nis right is not God’s child,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor is anyone who does not love \Ntheir brother and sister.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, let’s close this lesson. \NWhat do we need to do?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Repent and be baptized, \Nand receive the Holy Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then: Know that you are free from \Nthe law of sin and death. Pray.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask God to reveal this truth to you. \NYou need to live it by faith.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a revelation. I am free. \NYes. I don't need to sin anymore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are dead to the law. You are free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Know, you're free from the law of sin and \Ndeath that once bound and enslaved you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believe it. Understand that Christ \Nhas set you free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now walk by the Spirit in a new life. \NPaul wrote so clearly about the law:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Though I am free and belong to no one, \NI have made myself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a slave to everyone, to win \Nas many as possible.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he wrote something interesting here: \N“To the Jews, I became like a Jew,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to win the Jews. To those under the law, \NI became like one under the law
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(though I myself am not under the law)”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul wrote that he became like them \Nwhen he was with them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He became like them to win them. \NBut he wasn’t under the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Me, neither. I'm not under the law. \NI'm free from the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're free from the law. We are \Nfree from the law. Why?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we’re dead to the law.\NThe law bound us as long we lived.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's no longer I who live, it’s Christ\Nwho lives. I'm dead to the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does that mean, to not be \Nunder the law? Are we without law? No.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul continues: “To those not having the \Nlaw, I became like one not having the law
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(though I am not free from God's law \Nbut am under Christ’s law)”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul wrote in one place that \Nhe wasn’t under the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In another place, he said he wasn’t free \Nfrom God's law, but under Christ’s law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does that mean? We're not under the \Nlaw of sin and death, that Moses brought.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we’re under the law of Christ. \NWhat is that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is to listen to Him and His word.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Law is not only written commandments \Nwritten in the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is what Jesus said. \NRead what Jesus said.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did he say, “If you love me, keep what \NMoses said.” No, He didn’t say that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said “If you love me, \Nkeep my commands…”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people are very eager \Nto keep the Mosaic law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They keep the feasts, the food laws, \Nthe Sabbath and the dress code.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they are not eager to keep Jesus’ law:\NLove your neighbour as yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go out and make disciples. \NPreach the gospel. Obey Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“If you love me, keep my commands.” Jesus \Nsaid. I need to finish the lesson here:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“So the law” with Moses “was \Nour guardian until Christ came
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we might be justified by faith.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that this faith has come, \Nwe are no longer under a guardian.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're now in faith. “So in Christ Jesus, \Nyou're all children of God through faith,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for all of you who were baptized into Christ \Nhave clothed yourselves with Christ.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can say it like this: You are \Nbaptized into Christ’s death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, you're no longer bound to the \Nlaw. You don't need a guardian anymore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are now in Christ. “There is neither \NJew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free…
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you belong to Christ, \Nthen you are Abraham’s seed”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I’ll finish the lesson now. \NOld Covenant (Moses): Until Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Law on stone tablets. Written code. \NBrought death. Could not obey the old way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God rejected the whole generation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did not inherit the Promised Land but \NJoshua brought the next generation in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Joshua’s and Jesus’ \Nnames are directly related.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses could not bring them \Ninto the promised land but Joshua did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law cannot bring you into the \Nkingdom of God but Jesus can.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law is good if we use it the rightly: \Nto reveal sin so we can come to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in baptism, we die to the law. New \NCovenant (Jesus): Everlasting covenant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Law is written on hearts of flesh. \NNew way by the Spirit. Brought life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can now obey in the new way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’ll one day enter into \Nthe Promised Land:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we are victorious and \Ncontinue in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus fulfilled the law’s requirements. \NWe are now: God's treasured possession.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A kingdom of priests. A holy nation. \NBut it's not complete yet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will be those things one day \Nwhen he comes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we’ll rule with Him here on earth. \NA few more verses:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Therefore, there is no condemnation \Nfor those who are in Christ Jesus…
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because through Christ Jesus the law \Nof the Spirit who gives life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has set us free from the law \Nand sin and death.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you’re in Christ, you are under the\Nlaw of the spirit written on your heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re set free from the law of sin \Nand death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For what the law was powerless to do \Nbecause it was weakened by the flesh, God
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did by sending his own Son in the likeness\Nof sinful flesh to be a sin offering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so he condemned sin in the flesh, \Nin order that the righteous requirement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the law might be fully met in us, \Nwho do not live according to the flesh
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but according to the Spirit.” \NSo, get born again. Live by the spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to the Holy Spirit. \NWhen your heart condemns you, repent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't try to live by the law of Moses \Nand go under the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’ll bring condemnation and death. \NLive in the New Covenant, by the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obey Jesus. If you love Him, \Nkeep His commands and you will live.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll pray for you. God, I thank You \Nfor everyone who’s seen this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pray that this will bring freedom to \Nthem. Freedom from the law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom to live a holy life \Nas You are holy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom to live by the Spirit. I pray \Nthat everyone will understand this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we are baptized, Jesus, we \Nare baptized into Your death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's no longer I who live, \Nbut it's You who lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A woman is only bound to the law, \Nas long as that person is alive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when we die, we’re loosed \Nfrom that law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're free to be married to somebody \Nelse. Christ Jesus is our bridegroom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us to purify ourselves. \NPurify us by the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us to walk by the Spirit, \Nwithout condemnation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, one day, Jesus, we’ll inherit this \Nearth together with You.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You for what You're doing. I pray \Nthat it will bring freedom to people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come and speak to people out there \Nthrough this. In the name of Jesus, Amen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See you next time. Come with \Nyour questions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll do a Q&A video soon where I will \Nanswer some of them. God bless you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's live the new life by the Spirit \Nthat God has for all of us. Bye bye.