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