(243) “What About the Law?”

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Jesus is trying to teach us that there's more to this.

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Because the Pharisees came back from Babylon saying,

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we got in big trouble because we didn't keep the law.

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So let's keep the law really, really well.

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With an iron fist.

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But they were only interested in how it looks

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on the outside, because that's all they could see.

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Because man judges by the outward appearance.

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But God looks on the heart.

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit

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on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend

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for that promise outpouring.

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We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage

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in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're going to tackle a subject that was suggested to us

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by one of our listeners, Cheryl Hewer.

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And she has given us a subject that we've been meditating

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about this for weeks before we brought it,

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because we wanna do a really good job of it.

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But we're gonna jump into a controversial pool here.

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Because there are many different schools of thought

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about what about the law?

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What is the law anyway?

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And has Jesus redeemed us from the law?

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And should we keep the law?

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And so it's something that we feel at Global Outpouring,

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the importance of comparing scripture with scripture

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with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

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The word of God needs the breathing of the Holy Spirit

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on it in order for us to get the understanding

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of what the Holy Spirit meant in the first place

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when He said the things that He said

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that have been recorded in the scriptures.

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So we're going to take a deep dive into this subject.

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And I believe that you'll find that it's enlightening

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and it's going to be perhaps life-changing.

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That's what we do this for,

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because we want to equip the saints to be ready,

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to be mature, to be disciples in these days

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so that we can be ready to help others come

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into the fullness of the truth

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and they won't get sidetracked by the commandments of men.

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Thank you so much for joining us today.

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We're really, really glad that you're with us.

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We know that this is an important subject

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for you to have a good understanding about

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so that you can give answers to others

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who are questioning you.

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And perhaps you have questions yourself.

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So this is a great opportunity

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for us to look into this together, look into scripture,

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compare scripture with scripture

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with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

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But before we get started,

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we want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so,

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to go to our website, globaloutpouring.net,

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It's going to be a time when you can get to know people,

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a time when you can meet new folks

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that you've never known before

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that are on the same path going towards the glory,

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going towards the outpouring.

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The theme for this one is on the threshold of outpouring.

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We feel like we're just so on the threshold.

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It's like the waters have already begun to rise,

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like they're already ankle deep, maybe knee deep,

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but pretty soon we're going to be in waters to swim in.

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And that's what we are preparing for,

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that we're contending for, that we're equipping for,

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so that we can all be involved

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because it's going to be all hands on deck.

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As the Holy Spirit is poured out in such a powerful way

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that we are anticipating, we want you to be equipped.

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And so that's why we're doing what we're doing.

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If you want to help us, there's a donation page

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And we would greatly appreciate your help.

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So today, I want to start out with a little bit

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of Cheryl Hewer's email that she sent.

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We encourage people to give us feedback.

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You can put something on that webpage,

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There's a feedback form there, or you can email us,

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feedback at globaloutpouring.org.

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And we love to hear from you.

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It really, really encourages us

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because we don't hear from people very often.

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But when we do hear, we are just so delighted.

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And Cheryl wrote quite a lengthy email

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and really encouraged us a whole lot.

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I won't read the whole thing,

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but she says, you're always encouraging us

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to give you ideas for a podcast.

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And this goes for you too, listener.

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If there's something that you want to hear something about,

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we want to hear from you about what it is

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so we can take it to the Lord and bring it back to you.

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She says, as I've continued to read Romans,

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I've been pondering many of the references to the law.

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I think many people have questions

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if the law is good, bad, important today,

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or maybe it was for the Jews only.

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I have heard many strange and contradictory things said.

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I know some things that I believe concerning the law

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and things that I've been taught concerning the law.

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Let me share some of those thoughts

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and maybe you can add to them or correct them

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where I'm wrong.

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Well, I don't think you've been wrong in anything

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that you've written here, Cheryl.

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I think you've got some tremendous points

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and we're gonna cover those as best we can.

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In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word Torah

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is translated law.

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For example, the following,

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and this is actually the first mention,

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and there's a principle in Bible interpretation

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that you get something of the real meaning of the word

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by the first place that it was used.

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So this word Torah, which is often translated law,

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is the first time, and she's quoting

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from the Amplified Classic,

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"'For Abraham listened to and obeyed my voice

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and kept my charge, my commands, my statutes, and my laws.'"

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That's Genesis 25, five.

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So he starts out with the law coming from Abraham.

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Not from Moses, but that's an interesting concept.

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Yeah, it is.

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It certainly is.

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So she goes on to say law is Strong's number H8451

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and the word is Torah.

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That would be understood as the teachings of God.

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I'm not sure this lines up with our Western thinking

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of the meaning of law, and Cheryl, you're absolutely right.

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A lot of people misunderstand that,

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and I think that's why we have some

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of the serious misunderstandings that we have.

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She says, this is consistent throughout the Old Testament.

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In Romans, a scripture that Sharon mentioned

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in Give Your Body to God, that's a few episodes ago,

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so that the righteous,

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this is quoting from the Amplified Classic,

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so that the righteous and just requirement of the law

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might be fully met in us who live and move

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not in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit.

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Our lives governed not by the standards

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and according to the dictates of the flesh,

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but controlled by the Holy Spirit.

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That's Romans 8.4.

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And I just think that is one of the key scriptures

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to help us understand where God is trying to take us,

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even as we're preparing for the outpouring,

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that he's looking for people who know how

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to walk with the Holy Spirit

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and be controlled by the Holy Spirit.

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And so she goes on to say, requirement of the law

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is fully met when our lives are controlled

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by the Holy Spirit.

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I think we could just stop and say amen there

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because I think you've got the right idea, Cheryl.

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She says the law is holy, just, a good thing and spiritual.

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And then she quotes Romans 7.12 to 14

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from the Amplified Classic.

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The law therefore is holy and each commandment

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is holy and just and good.

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Did that which is good then prove fatal,

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bringing death to me?

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Certainly not.

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It was sin working death in me

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by using this good thing as a weapon

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in order that through the commandment,

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sin might be shown clearly to be sin,

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that the extreme malignity and immeasurable sinfulness

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of sin might plainly appear.

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We know that the law is spiritual,

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but I'm a creature of the flesh,

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carnal, unspiritual, having been sold into slavery

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under the control of sin.

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That's so well put.

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Thank you, Lord, for Romans 7.12 to 14

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in the Amplified Classic.

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And then she gives this verse,

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a verse many people quote stating that the law kills,

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but the spirit gives life.

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It is he who has qualified us,

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of course this is talking about Jesus.

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It is he who has qualified us,

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making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient

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as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant

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of salvation through Christ,

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not ministers of the letter of legally written code,

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but of the spirit for the code of the law kills,

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but the Holy Spirit makes alive.

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And there's a reference there to Jeremiah 31, 31.

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This is a quote from 2 Corinthians 3, 6

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from the Amplified Classic.

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Now, Jeremiah 31, 31 is the beginning of

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where it talks about the new covenant

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that was going to be instituted.

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And that was instituted on the night that Jesus

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was betrayed when he took the cup.

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And he said, this cup is the cup of the new covenant.

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And then she goes on to quote Romans 3, 20

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from the Amplified Classic.

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For no person will be justified, made righteous,

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acquitted and judged acceptable in his sight

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by observing the works prescribed by the law.

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For the real function of the law is to make men recognize

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and be conscious of sin, not mere perception,

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but an acquaintance with sin,

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which works toward repentance, faith and holy character.

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Wow, that's so well put in the Amplified Classic.

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So she says, actually, because the law is holy,

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just a good thing in spiritual,

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it points to the sin in us

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so that we may repent and receive life.

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God made promises to the Israelites

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and gave them the law to live by

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because there was a promise covenant there.

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So give your body to God.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So she says these things that I've been pondering.

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So I've been pondering from this email for several weeks

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and I've been making notes

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and I've got way too many pages of notes

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for us to even cover effectively.

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But I think Cheryl has covered the essence of it already.

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But I just want to bring a little bit more

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about the idea of Torah because she mentions

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that Strong's number 8451 in the Hebrew is the word Torah.

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And it comes from an interesting word

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that I think that you would want to know about.

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It comes from the word Yara.

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And that means to throw or cast or shoot.

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It's even talking about rain, the falling of rain.

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And it means to direct, teach, to point out,

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to show, to instruct.

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This is what Torah is for.

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Now let's define what is Torah.

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It's the first five books of the Bible.

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

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Right, so when people want to throw out Torah.

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They're throwing out all the commandments.

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Well, it's not just the commandments.

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See, they want to throw out the commandments.

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They want to throw out the law.

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The law.

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What they would be throwing out,

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if they're throwing out Torah,

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is the story of Genesis, the beginning, how things began.

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They would be throwing out the story of Noah

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and what happened when the Nephilim took over

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and everything was so bad and God saved them.

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Yeah, it's all the history.

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It's history. History of creation.

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History of creation, history of the beginning of covenant.

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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the sons of Jacob, the tribes,

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how they went into Egypt,

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how they were rescued from Egypt.

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All of these things are really critical

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to our understanding of our Father.

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Yeah.

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And when he introduces himself on Mount Sinai.

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I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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And he shows up on top of Mount Sinai as consuming fire

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and he speaks directly to the entire nation.

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Yeah.

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He's not just speaking at the very beginning.

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He gives the 10 commandments,

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or as it's written in Hebrew,

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the 10 things.

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It doesn't even call them commandments.

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Interesting.

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It calls them things.

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And he introduces himself first as I am Yehovah, your God.

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Mm-hmm, yeah.

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Have no other gods before me.

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Yeah, that's the first commandment.

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That's the first thing.

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And first of all-

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Have no other gods.

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Exactly.

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So they've come out of Egypt

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where they had a whole bunch of gods

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and they watched the 10 plagues

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deal with all of those 10 Egyptian gods

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and show Yehovah to be superior.

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Now there's nothing about that that you should throw out.

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That's right.

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These are things that are critical

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for our understanding of who God is and how he is.

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And it shows you how much what God thinks of sin.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And what he thinks of other gods.

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Ooh.

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What did Jesus say?

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You are my friends if you do what I command you to do.

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Exactly.

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Command, because I looked that up,

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because that's strong, but that's just what it means.

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Right.

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Command, and so God commanded the 10 commandments

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and Jesus commanded, if we do what he tells us,

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he'll be our friend.

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Right.

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Don't you wanna be a friend of Jesus?

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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And Jesus pointed out to them

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what is the most important law.

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And if you only take the New Testament,

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so much of the New Testament

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is quoting the Old Testament.

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It's quoting the Old, yeah.

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Okay, so a lot of people just say,

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no, I'm a New Testament Christian

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and I don't even read that Old Testament.

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And so you're missing the story of creation.

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You're missing the Psalms.

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You're missing the Proverbs.

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You're missing the prophecies about Jesus coming

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and the things that are going to take place.

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There's so many prophecies that Jesus fulfilled

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and many that he hasn't fulfilled yet

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that he's going to fulfill when he comes again.

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So there's a beautiful saying that I heard,

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and I don't know who said it in the first place,

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but I've made it my own.

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The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed

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and the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.

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So you really need both.

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And if you look at the writings of Paul,

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for instance, what he says in 2 Timothy 3.16,

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all scripture is given by inspiration of God

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and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,

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for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

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Now, if we're supposed to throw out the Old Testament,

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if we're supposed to throw out the Torah, the law,

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then why would Paul say that?

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Why would Paul?

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Because, hey, when Paul wrote that,

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that was the only scripture there was,

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was the Torah and the writings and the prophets.

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So what's called, we call the Old Testament

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the Hebrew scriptures.

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In Hebrew, they call it the Tanakh.

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And that word is really an acronym

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and it's referring to like the T sound for Torah

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and the N sound for Nevi'im,

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which is the Hebrew word for prophets,

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and Ketuvim, which is the Hebrew word for writings.

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So that's like the Psalms and Proverbs and Ecclesiastes,

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the things that aren't necessarily the Torah or the,

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I'm not sure where the history ones fall,

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First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings.

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I think First and Second Chronicles

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are considered part of the Ketuvim.

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Anyway, that's not important.

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What's important is that we need the Old Testament.

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And I don't even like to necessarily call it

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the Old Testament, but here's where we need to find

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our balance and find comparing scripture with scripture,

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what the Lord is trying to teach us, okay?

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He's trying to teach us things.

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Now, I remember hearing a teacher or two in my life

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saying, you know, all these 613 laws

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that the Jewish people have or the Hebrew people have,

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613, how can you keep 613 laws?

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They couldn't keep them themselves.

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Well, that may be.

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Isn't that what the council, they said,

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said, why do you put all these laws on the Gentiles?

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This is when the Holy Spirit was poured out.

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Well, we can't keep them ourselves, you know?

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Yeah.

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You know?

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And what I don't know is whether they were even referring

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necessarily to all of the 613 laws

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or whether they were also talking about the traditions

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that have gone with it.

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Let's put it in perspective.

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That the Pharisees brought.

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But here's the deal.

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To put this in perspective, our US Congress

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has enacted approximately 200 to 600 statutes

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during each of its 118 biennial terms.

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So more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.

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And there's another.

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30,000?

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That was from Wikipedia.

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And then another from, I guess,

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it's the University of Connecticut.

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They've had an article online called

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300,000 ways to do time with a federal crime.

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And they say that there's approximately 300,000 laws

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on our books.

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Just federal laws.

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That doesn't mean your state laws or your county laws

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or your municipal ordinances.

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You know, like we have an ordinance

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as you drive into our little nearby town of Jasper.

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Population less than 500.

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I think it's like 483 or something like that.

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And there's a sign there that says

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that there's a city ordinance for truckers

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not to use their engine brake.

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Their jake brake.

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OK?

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So that's an ordinance.

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So there's one more thing.

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There's all these different things that you,

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how do you even know what all the laws are?

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You can't.

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You don't know unless you brake one and you get pulled over.

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Yeah.

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Like there is an ordinance here in Arkansas

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that you can be ticketed for going too slow

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and keeping more than how many cars behind you?

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If there's more than two cars behind you,

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they can give you a ticket for holding up traffic.

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Yeah.

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Even if you're going the speed limit.

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Yeah.

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How does that one work?

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But all I'm saying is 613 laws really

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isn't as much as you might think.

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And when you also consider the fact that there is no temple.

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And a whole bunch of those laws were outlining

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how temple worship is to be done,

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how the sacrifices are to be done.

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How these are instructions.

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Instructions of how to do things.

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But I think Jesus gave us a wonderful picture

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when the young man asked him, what's the most important law?

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And Jesus said, here, O Israel, the Lord our God, Yehovah

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our God, Yehovah is one.

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And you shall love Yehovah your God with all your heart,

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with all your soul, with all your mind,

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and with all your strength.

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And the second is like unto it, love your neighbor as yourself.

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And he goes on to say, on these two

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hang all the law and the prophets.

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So if you don't have time to study Torah,

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if you don't have time to learn all the fine details,

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if you'll just do everything out of love for God

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and love for your neighbor, you're

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going to be OK, because really what it boils down to.

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Because we're trying to get back to doing things by the Spirit.

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Right.

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The Holy Spirit is at work in us,

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bringing us to a place of relationship with our Father.

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Jesus died so that we could have our relationship restored

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to our Heavenly Father.

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He fulfilled all the law.

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And I think it's well put in what

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he said in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, 17

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through 20.

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Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets.

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I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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For verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass,

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one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law

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till all be fulfilled.

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Now, let's just back up on this for just a minute.

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What's a jot and what's a tittle?

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You need to know the Hebrew.

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OK, so in the Hebrew language, the smallest

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letter in the Hebrew alphabet is the yod.

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The yod.

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Y-O-D is how you would spell it in English.

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And they've transliterated it as jot instead of yod.

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So it's talking about the smallest letter.

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And the tittles would be the little markings

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that give some other kind of pronunciation.

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I don't think the pronunciation marks were

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added until the Middle Ages.

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But there were other marks even in the ancient Hebrew

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manuscripts.

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So the tiny little manuscript items

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that are part of the communication, the instruction

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from God, Jesus says that until heaven and earth pass,

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not one of these things is going to pass away.

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Wow, that's thick amendments.

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So yeah, it's everything.

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It's the whole ball of wax, so to speak.

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The whole enchilada.

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You could say that too.

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Then he says in verse 19, let me just back up and say this.

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There will be a day when heaven and earth shall pass away.

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That day is coming.

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And there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth.

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And I don't think there will be a need for the law.

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Although, I think, this is just my opinion,

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I think that God has so many more dimensions to his word

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that we're going to discover for all eternity.

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And if sin is taken out.

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Yeah, there's no need for the law.

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There's no need for the law because everybody will

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be so in love with Jesus.

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Right.

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So the whole point of everything that God gave to the Israelites

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on Mount Sinai and the whole history,

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the whole of the Hebrew scriptures

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are to show us what it's to be like on earth as it is in heaven.

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When Moses was up in the mount with God,

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I believe that he was given an opportunity to look into heaven.

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And then God told him, here's how you do it on earth.

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I think we talked about that in a podcast a while back,

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where he saw into heaven, he saw the lamp stand in heaven.

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He saw the seven spirits of God as flaming fires in heaven.

527
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,360
And God said, OK, here's how you do it in the tabernacle.

528
00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:32,200
You make this candlestick out of gold

529
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,280
and make it out of one piece of gold.

530
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,200
And he shows him the ark in heaven.

531
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,320
And he says, now here's how you're

532
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:39,560
going to do it on the earth.

533
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:40,920
Yeah, on earth as it is in heaven.

534
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:41,960
Exactly.

535
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,680
And that's what the whole Hebrew scriptures, I believe,

536
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:50,400
is laid out for us so that, for instance, you

537
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,240
find the principle of substitution

538
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,200
in the Old Testament.

539
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,760
Like you have the ram that was caught in the thicket that

540
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,160
substituted for Isaac.

541
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,000
And you have the sacrificing of an animal

542
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,120
to cover for your sins.

543
00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:05,600
You don't have to die for your sins.

544
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,240
The animal can die for your sins.

545
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,120
It's teaching us the principle of substitution.

546
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:13,720
And then in Genesis 49, 11, there's

547
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,480
a promise to Judah that he washed his garments in wine.

548
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,000
And then I'm going to quote from the Young's literal

549
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,920
translation, the blood of grapes his covering.

550
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,960
And I see that as a promise of, OK, so Jesus

551
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,520
comes from the tribe of Judah.

552
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,200
And he's giving us this picture that the blood of grapes

553
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,200
can substitute for his blood when he said,

554
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,160
you need to eat my body and drink my blood.

555
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,160
But we have a substitution.

556
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,400
There's the grapes, the blood of grapes.

557
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,400
So the principle of substitution is

558
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,960
all through the scriptures.

559
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:54,000
And we need to understand that on Earth as it is in heaven.

560
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,360
Jesus did all of these things to substitute for us.

561
00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:58,240
Yes.

562
00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:58,760
Hallelujah.

563
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,440
Hallelujah.

564
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,360
So I think it really has a lot to do

565
00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:07,840
with the children of Israel having just come out

566
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,440
of Egypt.

567
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,560
And it's really the next generation that

568
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,240
comes into the promised land.

569
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:14,880
Right.

570
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,600
Because I'd never heard the law before.

571
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:17,400
Right.

572
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,200
They were given the instructions at Mount Sinai.

573
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,200
And Joshua was commanded when they got into the land

574
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,640
to go and write a copy in like plaster of stone

575
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:30,920
and write a copy of this.

576
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,880
Well, it must have been a huge stone,

577
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,880
unless he was just supposed to write the 10 things.

578
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,120
It may have been the 10 things.

579
00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:38,920
I don't know.

580
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,200
Remember how many rocks it would take to write it?

581
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,640
Would take a lot.

582
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,920
So I don't know exactly what was written.

583
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,760
But I know that they've discovered up on Mount Ebal

584
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,920
this thing that God told Joshua to build an altar there.

585
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:53,400
Yeah.

586
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:53,920
That's right.

587
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,080
And it's there.

588
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,440
They don't have the plastered rocks so far.

589
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,120
They haven't found that.

590
00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:02,040
But the point is that it's almost

591
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:06,560
like the children of Israel were a substitute for us

592
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:07,880
to look at.

593
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:08,840
Oh, OK.

594
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:13,960
So that we could learn how to live in love with God

595
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,760
and learn how to live in love with each other.

596
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,240
What's the easiest way to learn something

597
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,520
by somebody else's mistakes?

598
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,960
Yeah, if you can manage to learn by somebody else's mistake.

599
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,160
We try to teach our kids.

600
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:25,560
Yeah.

601
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,720
Do these things so you don't have to go through these things

602
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:28,360
like we did.

603
00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:28,960
Yeah.

604
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,360
But it doesn't seem to stick.

605
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:32,440
Sometimes.

606
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,240
Sometimes people are smart enough to learn.

607
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:35,720
But a lot of times we're not.

608
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,040
You have to find it out the hard way yourself.

609
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,280
Yeah, that's true.

610
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:40,800
That's true.

611
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:41,760
It's human nature.

612
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:42,840
Yeah, it is.

613
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,760
So it's interesting, back to Matthew 5,

614
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:51,280
that Jesus goes on to describe even stronger things than what

615
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,960
were actually written in the law of Moses.

616
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,040
And he's trying to show us that what God intended

617
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,440
was not what they were getting in the teachings

618
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,480
that they were getting from the Pharisees.

619
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,720
So I'm going to read this from the voice translation

620
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,440
from verse 20.

621
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,240
For I tell you, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven

622
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,520
unless your righteousness goes deeper than the Pharisees,

623
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,160
even more righteous than the most learned learner

624
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,800
of the law.

625
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,080
As you know, long ago, God instructed Moses

626
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,400
to tell his people, do not murder.

627
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,280
Those who murder will be judged and punished.

628
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,520
But here's the even harder truth.

629
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,480
Anyone who is angry with his brother

630
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,400
will be judged for his anger.

631
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,440
Anyone who taunts his friend speaks contemptuously

632
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,120
toward him or calls him loser or fool or scum

633
00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:39,840
will have to answer to the high court.

634
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,120
And anyone who calls his brother a fool

635
00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:45,120
may find himself in the fires of hell.

636
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:49,400
So he's trying to say, look, it's not just

637
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,080
about keeping the letter of the law on the outside.

638
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,560
He's keeping it on the inside.

639
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:55,120
Exactly.

640
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:56,760
He's looking for hearts.

641
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,480
A man looks on the upward appearance,

642
00:27:58,480 --> 00:27:59,880
but God looks on the heart.

643
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:00,840
Exactly.

644
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:01,480
Yeah.

645
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,160
And so then he goes on talking about getting over your grudge

646
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,440
with your brother and make things right

647
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,240
before your brother takes you to jail.

648
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,000
And then he goes on in verse 27.

649
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000
As you know, long ago, God forbade his people

650
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,480
to commit adultery.

651
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,640
You may think you've abided by this commandment,

652
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:18,800
walked the straight and narrow.

653
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,520
But I tell you this, any man who looks at a woman with lust

654
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,520
has already committed adultery in his heart.

655
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,480
So he's trying to show that the intent of the law

656
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,960
was supposed to be deeper.

657
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:32,880
It's not Jesus.

658
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,840
Jesus isn't changing the law.

659
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,280
It's like he's giving the amplified version.

660
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,480
OK, that's good.

661
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,840
Because people didn't get it.

662
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,320
They were getting it like, this is

663
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,360
how we are supposed to behave.

664
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,440
And so we will do these things.

665
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,840
But it's like the little kid that was standing up

666
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,200
in the high chair.

667
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:55,880
And mama said, sit down.

668
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,200
No.

669
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,200
Sit down.

670
00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,200
No.

671
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,200
Sit down.

672
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,520
No.

673
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,640
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.

674
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,840
And the child sits down but says,

675
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,080
I may be sitting down on the outside,

676
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,400
but I'm standing up on the inside.

677
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,240
We have to be doing the same on the outside

678
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,000
because God has done something in us.

679
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,480
And I've been saying for years that the law,

680
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,040
the purpose of the law, is to show us

681
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,840
what it looks like to love the Lord your God

682
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,520
with all your heart, with all your soul,

683
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,520
with all your mind, with all your strength.

684
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,280
If you're loving God, here's how it's going to manifest.

685
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:42,800
Like there's a law about if you want to rob the eggs

686
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:47,280
or the fledgling baby birds, you don't also

687
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,800
take the mother bird.

688
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,520
So that gives her a chance to have another brood next year.

689
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,120
She can go on living.

690
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,560
You've got to feed your family.

691
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,960
Go ahead and take her eggs, but don't kill the mother.

692
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,360
It makes sense.

693
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:01,360
It's loving.

694
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,000
There's wisdom behind it.

695
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,960
There's wisdom in these instructions.

696
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,640
Going on, Jesus is trying to teach us

697
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,800
that there's more to this.

698
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,400
It's deeper than how you're practicing it.

699
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,040
Because the Pharisees came back from Babylon saying-

700
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:21,880
Captivity.

701
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,080
Yeah, they came back from captivity in Babylon.

702
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,560
We got in big trouble because we didn't keep the law.

703
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,520
So let's keep the law really, really well.

704
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,440
With an iron fist.

705
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,480
But they were only interested in how it looks on the outside

706
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,560
because that's all they could see.

707
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,440
Because man judges by the outward appearance.

708
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,480
But God looks on the heart.

709
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,880
Yeah, because what did Jesus call them?

710
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:46,800
Hypocrites?

711
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,120
Mm-hmm, he did.

712
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,000
Whitewashed, sepulchers?

713
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,600
Yes, he did.

714
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,000
He just laid into them.

715
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:52,800
Yeah.

716
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,720
And God wants us to be loving him.

717
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,320
And that's why there were some

718
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,880
who recognized Jesus when he came.

719
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,240
You know, the folks that blamed the Jews

720
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,480
for everything that ever went wrong,

721
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,000
they called the Jews Christ killers, right?

722
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,240
They've not been instructed properly to do that.

723
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,040
That's just evil.

724
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,840
That's absolute evil.

725
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,440
Because there were lots of Jews that did embrace him.

726
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,280
And they were the beginning of the church.

727
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,360
Right, that's right.

728
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,000
And the common people heard him gladly.

729
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,120
And it says in Acts that there were many priests

730
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,800
that believed.

731
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,280
And we know Nicodemus, he was probably in the Sanhedrin.

732
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,240
And Joseph of Arimathea, he was in the Sanhedrin.

733
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,640
There were people that were touched in their heart

734
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,200
and they believed.

735
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:43,960
And they followed Jesus.

736
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,560
And they got the message.

737
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,840
And they carried the message to the nations.

738
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:49,680
Yes.

739
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:54,200
Because they were once again scattered to the nations.

740
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,760
So in order to get the word of God to the nations,

741
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,000
they had to be scattered.

742
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:03,240
Yeah, and the way it happened too, it was just wild.

743
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:04,080
That was horrible.

744
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,680
But you have to realize that it wasn't just the Jews

745
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,320
that were unbelieving that were scattered.

746
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,440
It was also the believers.

747
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,760
The believers were also scattered.

748
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,280
And they took the word of God to the nations.

749
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,600
And the nations have embraced Messiah,

750
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:25,600
just like when Joseph was sold into Egypt.

751
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,160
And he went through the troubles that he went through

752
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,080
to get him ready to become the viceroy.

753
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,440
Well, what happens when a mother bird kicks the babies

754
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,920
ready to get out of the nest?

755
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,760
She says, okay, sonny or whatever, go fly.

756
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,480
No, she boots, no, he's not gonna go on a zone.

757
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,120
Yeah, he's comfortable.

758
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:47,960
He's comfortable.

759
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,920
It doesn't tell him he's in a free fall

760
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,960
that he raises his rings and discovers, okay,

761
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,640
I can do this. I guess I can fly.

762
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,440
You know, and every bird goes through it.

763
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,640
Right, and mama bird usually pulls the feathers

764
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,280
out of the nest to make it uncomfortable.

765
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,120
Oh, wow.

766
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,640
So, you know, God has ways.

767
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,760
If we won't obey him, and when he says,

768
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,160
go into all the world and preach the gospel,

769
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,920
he may have other ways of getting us out into all the world

770
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,160
to preach the gospel.

771
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,960
So anyway, we know that the principle is

772
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,760
that it's not really the law that has been done away with.

773
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:27,160
It's about learning to live by the Spirit

774
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,600
so that you're automatically doing the things of the law.

775
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,320
And Romans talks about how the Gentiles are often

776
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,200
doing the things of the law without even having the law

777
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,480
because they have a conscience

778
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,000
and they're paying attention to their conscience.

779
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,360
The Holy Spirit is there in us from the get-go

780
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,840
to give us a conscience so that we know right from wrong.

781
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,320
And when the believers, you know, when they got to say,

782
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,960
just let them abstain from things, strangle the blood.

783
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,240
And what was the other command?

784
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,080
I forget.

785
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:56,920
You know, instead of-

786
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:57,760
Adultery, stay away from adultery.

787
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,960
No, adultery, instead of trying to put all these laws,

788
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,720
you know, on them, and even circumcision.

789
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:05,560
Well, yeah.

790
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:06,400
That was a big one.

791
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:07,240
Well, but-

792
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,520
Because that was the kind of the keeping of the law.

793
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,120
Yeah, and the Pharisees among them said,

794
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,920
every believer has to be circumcised.

795
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,480
Well, no, the council heard from the Holy Spirit.

796
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,600
No, that's not necessary because look what happened

797
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,640
when Peter went to the house of Cornelius.

798
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,280
All these people believed

799
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,000
and they were filled with the Holy Spirit

800
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,880
and they were not circumcised.

801
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,840
So why should you have to circumcise them now?

802
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,920
They came by faith.

803
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:40,280
And Paul over and over is expressing how it's by her

804
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,000
faith, it's our faith, it's our faith.

805
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,760
Faith is not done away with.

806
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:46,600
Yeah.

807
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,160
And love is not done away with.

808
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:49,560
It's about loving.

809
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,960
It's about learning to walk by the Spirit.

810
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,040
And faith is a part of that and love is a part of that.

811
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,880
And the thing about circumcision, as I have pondered it,

812
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:04,880
I believe that circumcision has to do with the promise

813
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,560
that God made to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob

814
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,200
of giving them the land.

815
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,440
So it belongs to them.

816
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,760
And I think that's the reason why they didn't circumcise

817
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,240
the children during the 40 years they were in the wilderness

818
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:23,400
so that when they got there into the promised land,

819
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,320
the first thing that they did was they circumcised.

820
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,960
Even before they had their first battle, they circumcised.

821
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,240
And I believe that it was so that they would be

822
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:38,120
the fulfillment of the blood covenant shed on the land

823
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,560
because Abraham was circumcised on the land,

824
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,280
Isaac was circumcised on the land,

825
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,280
Jacob was circumcised on the land,

826
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,160
the 12 patriarchs were circumcised on the land.

827
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,000
Then they went out into Egypt.

828
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,960
And they continued the custom of circumcision

829
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,560
among themselves, but there was something

830
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:02,520
about the necessity of we have come home now.

831
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,520
This place belongs to us.

832
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,600
And this blood covenant has to do with the promise

833
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:09,920
for the land.

834
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:10,760
That's very good.

835
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,040
That's my opinion.

836
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:12,880
That's how I see it.

837
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,760
I don't think it's a doctrine that you need to,

838
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,480
you're not gonna die on this hill.

839
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,720
But let's just talk about a couple more things.

840
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:25,480
Galatians 6.2 says, bear one another's burdens

841
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,440
and so fulfill the law of Christ.

842
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,440
So there's a new law that comes in the New Testament,

843
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,600
but I think you could probably find it

844
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,520
or the sense of it in the Old Testament as well.

845
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,080
But he's writing to the Galatians

846
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,640
and the Galatians were Gentiles.

847
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,480
Let's just look at Galatians 3.19 through 29.

848
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,920
And I'm reading from the voice translation.

849
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:52,760
Now you're asking yourselves,

850
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,840
so why did God give us the law?

851
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,000
God commanded his heavenly messengers to deliver it

852
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,680
into the hand of a mediator for this reason,

853
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:06,160
to help us reign in our sins until the offspring

854
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:07,880
about whom the promise was made

855
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,000
in the first place would come.

856
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,360
A mediator represents more than one, but God is only one.

857
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,200
So you ask, does the law contradict God's promise?

858
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:19,800
Absolutely not.

859
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,480
Never was there written a law

860
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,160
that could lead to resurrection and life.

861
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,200
If there had been, then surely we could have experienced

862
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,640
saving righteousness through keeping the law,

863
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,680
but we haven't.

864
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,480
Scripture has subjected the whole world to sin's power

865
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,080
so that the faithful obedience of Jesus the anointed one

866
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,240
might extend God's promises to everyone who has faith.

867
00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:45,040
Before faith came on the scene,

868
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,880
the law did its best to keep us in line,

869
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,840
restraining us until the faith that was to come

870
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,640
was fully revealed.

871
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,080
So then the law was like a tutor,

872
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,480
assigned to train us and point us to the anointed

873
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,640
so that we will be acquitted of all wrong

874
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,880
and made right by faith.

875
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,240
But now that true faith has come,

876
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:08,320
we have no need for a tutor.

877
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,640
It is your faith in the anointed Jesus

878
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,880
that makes all of you children of God,

879
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,080
because all of you who have been initiated

880
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,120
into the anointed one through the ceremonial washing

881
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,960
of baptism have put him on.

882
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,120
It makes no difference whether you are a Jew or a Greek,

883
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,640
a slave or a free man, a man or a woman,

884
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,880
because in Jesus the anointed,

885
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,520
the liberating King, you are all one.

886
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,960
Since you belong to him and now are subject to his power,

887
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,200
you are the descendant of Abraham

888
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,320
and the heir of God's glory according to the promise.

889
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:41,160
So this-

890
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,880
Oh, it's very well written.

891
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,240
Isn't that really well written?

892
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:45,280
It's a good translation.

893
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,040
Yeah, yeah, it's a messianic translation.

894
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,800
They're trying to help us understand the truth,

895
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,480
the truth of the purpose of the law,

896
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,480
that we don't become offended over things, okay?

897
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,720
And James 2, 8 talks about,

898
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:04,800
if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture,

899
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,280
you shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

900
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,840
So loving one another is a royal law.

901
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:11,680
Royal law.

902
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,240
It's something bigger than anything else.

903
00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:18,600
So Philip, would you close with reading Ephesians 2,

904
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,680
11 through 16 from the voice?

905
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,880
Sure.

906
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,480
So never forget how you used to be.

907
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,200
Those of you born as outsiders to Israel were outcast,

908
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,480
branded the uncircumcised

909
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,040
by those who bore the sign of the covenant in their flesh,

910
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,280
a sign made with human hands.

911
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,640
You had absolutely no connection to the anointed.

912
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,720
You were strangers, separated from God's people.

913
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:46,040
You were aliens to the covenant they had with God.

914
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,280
You were hopelessly stranded without God

915
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,640
in a fractured world.

916
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,600
But now, because of Jesus, the anointed and his sacrifice,

917
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,560
all of that has changed.

918
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,000
God gathered you who were so far away

919
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,800
and brought you near to him by the royal blood

920
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,240
of the anointed, our liberating King.

921
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:05,080
Hallelujah.

922
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,960
He is the embodiment of our peace,

923
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,800
sent once and for all to take down the great berry

924
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,120
of hatred and hostility that has divided us

925
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,040
so that we can be one.

926
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,440
He offered his body on the sacrificial altar

927
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,640
to bring an end to the laws, ordinances, and dictations

928
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,880
that separated Jews from the outside nations.

929
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:30,480
His desire was to create in his body one new humanity

930
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,800
from two opposing groups, thus creating peace.

931
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:34,680
Yes.

932
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,160
Effectively, the cross becomes God's means

933
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,280
to kill off the hostility once and for all

934
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,240
so that he is able to reconcile them both to God

935
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,880
in this one new body.

936
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:46,720
Amen.

937
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:47,720
Wow, isn't that beautiful?

938
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:51,560
The way that most of our other translations are written,

939
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,760
it talks about Jesus abolishing the enmity

940
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,840
as though the law itself is the enmity.

941
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,720
And the word enmity, because we don't use that much

942
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:06,600
in our real day-to-day talk, it means hostility,

943
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,400
a reason for opposition or hatred.

944
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,440
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,

945
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,120
fifth edition that I found on the internet,

946
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,440
says that enmity means deep-seated, often mutual,

947
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,520
hatred, a feeling or state of hatred or animosity,

948
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,880
the quality of being an enemy, hostile,

949
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,640
or unfriendly disposition.

950
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,840
And that's what we're seeing now

951
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:31,880
with all of this anti-Semitism.

952
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:32,720
Yeah.

953
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:37,720
So what Jesus actually abolished was the wall

954
00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:39,840
that's between Jews and Gentiles.

955
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:40,680
The partition.

956
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:45,680
He destroyed, and what's sad to me is how the church

957
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,920
through generations and generations has persecuted

958
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,480
the Jewish people, calling them Christ killers,

959
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,360
when it wasn't actually the Jews that did it,

960
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,640
it was each and every one of us.

961
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,440
Our sins were what crucified Jesus.

962
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,320
He came because he loved us.

963
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,520
God so loved the world.

964
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,240
And we don't typically see that

965
00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:11,720
when we look at the Old Testament,

966
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:15,080
because we look at it as so many books,

967
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,880
and it might take up,

968
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,280
depending on what kind of paper your Bible is printed on,

969
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,520
it might be two inches of pages.

970
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,080
But it's covering centuries and millennia.

971
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:26,920
Yeah.

972
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,960
And when people think that God was so angry

973
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,480
in the Old Testament, there were lots and lots of places

974
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,040
where people had the blessings of God

975
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,240
because they were being obedient to him.

976
00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:39,720
Obedience brings the blessings.

977
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:43,720
Yeah, and it was always something like 400 years,

978
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:47,040
which would be a number of generations

979
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,840
where God kept giving them another opportunity.

980
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:51,800
Well, maybe the next generation will follow me.

981
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,760
Well, maybe the next generation will follow me.

982
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,520
And they would have their times of revivals

983
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,040
when they would come back and serve the Lord.

984
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,520
But people get the idea that God was just mean

985
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,000
in the Old Testament, but he wasn't.

986
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,120
He always has been the loving God.

987
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:06,960
Yeah.

988
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,480
And he always has loved. Slow to anger.

989
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,200
Slow to anger. Great mercy.

990
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,320
Exactly.

991
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,800
And we have lost sight of that

992
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,640
when we don't really read with the idea

993
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,960
of this covers centuries.

994
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,560
He was slow to anger.

995
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,520
He was very patient and kind.

996
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,320
Over 400 years, it would be

997
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,200
before he would bring the hammer down.

998
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:32,480
So, you know, but now this time it was 2,000 years

999
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,720
from the time, not quite 2,000,

1000
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:37,560
but nearly 2,000 years since the Jews

1001
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,480
were scattered into the nations.

1002
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,240
But then God started bringing them back

1003
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:44,400
because he made a promise to them in the Old Testament.

1004
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:45,360
Old Testament.

1005
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:46,920
So it's still good.

1006
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,440
Long thousands of years ago.

1007
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,760
This is prophecy being fulfilled.

1008
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:55,520
So moving into walking with the Holy Spirit,

1009
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,000
letting the Holy Spirit give us enlightenment

1010
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,400
about what the scripture means,

1011
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:00,880
comparing scripture with scripture.

1012
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,720
That's how we equip ourselves.

1013
00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:04,200
That's how we get understanding

1014
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:09,200
so that we can bring the light of the world to the world.

1015
00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:11,800
Because Jesus said, you are the light of the world.

1016
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,520
Come on, arise, shine.

1017
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:14,520
Your light has come.

1018
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,120
It's time for this outpouring.

1019
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,840
And it's time for you to have a clear understanding

1020
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,240
of our Father's heart for the world.

1021
00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,880
He wants to pour out his Spirit on all flesh.

1022
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:26,960
And he wants to use you, listener.

1023
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,120
He wants to use you.

1024
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,040
So just keep tucking him into your heart,

1025
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,920
tucking your heart into him.

1026
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,720
It's about becoming one with our Father

1027
00:44:36,720 --> 00:44:38,880
and with his purposes for your life.

1028
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,000
Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

1029
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,720
we're asking you right now

1030
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:45,400
to minister to each and every listener

1031
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,280
that they will have a fresh new revelation

1032
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,600
of how much you love them.

1033
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:53,640
Yes, Father.

1034
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,240
And how much you have a plan.

1035
00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:01,240
And you just want to show them how much you love them

1036
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,840
and how you want to work with them

1037
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,720
to bring them into the fullness

1038
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,760
of what you designed them to be,

1039
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,960
to be used in these days to bring your kingdom,

1040
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,800
your kingdom come, your will be done

1041
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,840
on earth as it is in heaven.

1042
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,720
In Jesus' name, amen.

1043
00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:19,560
Amen.

1044
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:20,400
Amen.

1045
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:21,240
Amen.

1046
00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:22,080
Amen.

1047
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:22,920
Amen.

1048
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:23,760
Amen.

1049
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:24,600
Amen.

1050
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,600
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1051
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,280
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1052
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,760
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1053
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1055
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Check out our website at globaloutpouring.org

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to find out more information, read our blogs,

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connect with us, and donate.

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You can also browse our web store

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for life-changing anointed books.

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Until next time, this is Sharon Buss.

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And I'm Philip Buss.

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God bless you with this overwhelming loving presence.

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