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Exodus chapter 28 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 28, Let's start in verse one and take you unto
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  you Aaron, your brother and his sons with him from among the
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  children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priests
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  office, even Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eliazar, Itamar, Aaron's
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  sons. So we're going to get to see
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  here in this transitional chapter where we go from all of
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  the things that are required for the Tabernacle into what is
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  required for the clothing of the high priest and those who
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  minister inside of the Tabernacle.
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  Verse 2 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron, your
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  brother, for glory and for beauty.
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  So think about it. Sinful man must put on this
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  glory and this beauty that God has prescribed.
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  And we see that Christ had the glory and beauty on the inside,
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  but on the outside he resembled a man.
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  What an amazing paradox that we can see here in this 28th
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  chapter of Exodus. You're going to get to see God's
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  mind in the vast of it, friends. He has the mind larger than all
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  the ocean put together, friends, and we're just trying to play
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  catch up. Verse 3 And you shall speak unto
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  all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of
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  wisdom that they make. They may make Aaron's garments
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  to consecrate him, and he may minister unto me in the priest's
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  office. So verse 3 is a pivotal verse in
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  this chapter where you can see who is the one who's actually
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  fueling them. We can see that God Almighty is
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  giving them this very miraculous insight and the ability to not
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  only know about it, but to actually materialize all of the
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  things that God is asking for. And it's the same within the
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  temple, it's the same within the Tabernacle, friends, that God
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  has supernaturally given wisdom and given ability to these
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  humans here, and they are able to go in and do the things that
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  God has asked them to do. What an amazing God we serve
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  for. And these are the garments which
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  you shall make, a breastplate and an ephod and a robe and a
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  broidered coat, a mitre and a girdle, And you shall make holy
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  garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may
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  minister unto me in the priest's office.
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  So this was like a holy suit that he was to put on, and it
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  had all different kinds of layers.
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  We saw that there was a turban to put on his head.
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  We saw that there was this ephod which was kind of like a vest.
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  You can see here that there are so many different layers, and
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  God has a reason for every single one of them.
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  Let's keep going. 5 And you shall take gold and blue and
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  purple and scarlet and fine linen.
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  So we get to see royalty, we get to see the blood of Jesus
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  Christ, we get to see the heaven, and we get to see
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  purity, all wrapped up in the same way that we did in the
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  articles within the Tabernacle. 6 And they shall make the ephod
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  of gold, and blue, and purple and scarlet, and fine twine
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  linen, with cunning work. 7 And it shall have two shoulder
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  pieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof, and so shall it
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  be joined together. So we get to see the high
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  priest. He actually has to bear the
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  brunt and bear the weight of these 12 tribes, and that's why
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  they were placed on his shoulders. 7 And it shall have
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  the two shoulder pieces join the two edges of it, and so it shall
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  be joined together. 8 And the curious girdle of the ephod
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  which is upon it shall be of the same, according to the work
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  thereof, even if gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twine
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  linen. 9 And you shall take 2 Onyx stones and grave on them
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  the names of the children of Israel. 10 Six of their names on
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  the one stone, and the other six names of the rest of the other
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  stone, according to their birth. So these two Onyx stones had six
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  names on each of them that represented the 12 tribes of
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  Israel, the 12 sons of Jacob 11 With the work of their engraver
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  in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the
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  2 stones with the names of the children of Israel.
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  You shall make them to be set in the ouches of gold.
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  So here you can see that not only does the high priest bear
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  the brunt in the weight of the 12 tribes on his shoulders, but
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  they are also to be close to his heart.
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  And that is what you need to understand about a loving and
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  graceful and good God, that he is full of justice.
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  He is a just God. Not only is he a loving God, but
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  he's a just God as well. And aren't we thankful that he
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  is not just one or the other? That God is perfect in all of
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  His ways and we do not need to try to make God into the image
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  of our own selves and how we think and what we would do and
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  all of the likes. We get out of our own intellect,
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  we get out of our own way, we get out of our own reasoning and
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  understanding of how we think God should be, and we just say
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  yes and Amen to every jot, every title, every syllable, every
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  single letter that is inside of His word.
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  He has given us the full council, the full authority, and
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  that is what you hold in your hands today.
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  There is nothing that needs to be added or subtracted to the
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  Word of God. He has given us His full counsel
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  and here it is for us to study, to reason.
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  And I'm so incredibly blessed to be on this journey with you,
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  friend. I'm so thankful that you are
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  here and we are learning together. 12 And you shall put
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  the 2 stones upon the shoulders, the ephod for stones of
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  memorial, and to the children of Israel.
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  And Aaron shall bear the names before the Lord upon his two
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  shoulders for a memorial. 13 And you shall make ouches of gold,
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  and two chains, pure gold, at the ends of wreath and work, and
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  you shall make them, and fasten the wreath and chains to the
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  ouches. So here we're going to get to
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  see that there are little bells that are on the high priests.
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  And as he goes into the holiest of holy places, where the
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  Shekinah manifest glory of God, the presence of God is.
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  And it was a dangerous place, friends, because of God's power.
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  And you see it break out in the Bible.
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  You see His Holiness is set apartness, friends, And they
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  must consecrate themselves. And the best way to think about
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  consecration is going into the temple and taking anything out
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  of it that does not belong. Anything that's holding you back
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  from God, You must release it, get rid of it, lay it on the
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  altar. Let God burn it up, friends.
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  And if the high priest did not do so, if he did not do
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  everything just right and he went in without any reverence
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  for God, it was a dangerous place.
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  So the bells stood in the place to allow the people outside of
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  the holiest of holy places to know that the priest was still
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  alive. And if he wasn't, they'd have to
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  drag him out by a rope that was attached to him. 15 And you
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  shall make the breastplate of judgment with cutting work after
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  the work of the epod shall you make it of gold, blue, purple,
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  scarlet, fine twine, linen. And you shall make it 4 square.
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  It shall be being doubled. A span shall be the length of
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  it, and the span shall be the breadth of it.
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  And you shall set in it settings of stones, even 4 rows of
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  stones. The first row shall be Sardius
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  and Topaz and carpal. This shall be the first row 18.
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  And the second row shall be an emerald and a sapphire and a
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  diamond 19 and the third row liquor amethyst 20.
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  In the 4th row Burrell, Onyx, Jasper.
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  They shall be set in gold in their enclosing.
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  So you can see how the 12 tribes of Israel are set in gold, and
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  it doesn't even matter all of their place within the hierarchy
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  of it all, they're all set in gold.
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  They're set in God's eyes. Their names are written upon the
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  gates of New Jerusalem. Friends, they are represented in
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  the 24 elders in the throne room.
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  Friends, these 12 tribes, we've got the 12 apostles and the 12
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  tribes of Israel represented in all of the completion of what
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  God wanted to do on this earth for humanity.
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  What an amazing God we serve. You can see that the church and
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  you can see that the Jews are intermingled in together, and we
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  wouldn't even be here without them.
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  Don't forget it, friends. 21 And the stones shall be with the
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  names of the children of Israel. 12 According to their names,
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  like the engravings of a signet, every one of his names shall be
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  the they be according to the 12 tribes. 22 And you shall make
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  upon the breastplate chains at the end of the wreath and work
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  of pure gold. And you shall make upon the
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  breastplate 2 rings of gold. And you shall put the two rings
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  on the 2 ends of the breastplate. 24 And you shall
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  put the two wreath and chains of gold in the two rings which are
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  on the ends of the breastplate. 25 And the other two ends of the
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  two wreath and chains shall you fasten in the 2 couches, and put
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  them on the shoulder pieces of the epod before. 26 And you
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  shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the
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  2 ends of the breastplate in the border of it, which is in the
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  side of the epod inward. 27 And the two other rings of gold you
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  shall make, and you shall put them on the two sides of the
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  epod underneath, toward the four part thereof, over against the
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  other couplings thereof, above the curious girdle of the epod.
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  28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it
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  unto the rings of the ephod, with the lace of blue, that it
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  may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the
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  breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
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  So you can see here that God is very detailed in every little
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  thing on side of this suit for the high priest, as he puts it
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  on. Everything has a meaning, and
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  it's no different in our life right now, in this moment.
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  Friends, we know that Jesus Christ is the great high priest.
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  He's the King of kings, and he's also our high priest, and he
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  holds both offices all at once. And he is making us into a royal
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  priesthood, friends. And God cares about every single
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  little detail, all the way to the color and the measurements.
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  This is the God that we serve. Nothing is haphazard, friends.
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  God does everything well. Don't forget it. 29 And Aaron
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  shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the
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  breastplate of judgment upon his heart when he goes into the holy
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  place for a memorial before the Lord continually.
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  So. You can see here that not only
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  did the high priest bear the weight of all the 12 tribes on
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  his shoulders, but he also kept them close to his heart. 30 And
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  you shall put the breastplate of judgment, the Urim, and the
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  thumb, and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, and when he goes
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  in before the Lord, And Aaron shall bear the judgment of the
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  children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord
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  continually. So here's a very interesting,
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  mysterious part of the Bible that many commentators and
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  theologians can debate about. But Needless to say, this Urim
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  and the Stummin, friends, these were stones that would go in to
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  this holy suit, this holy attire that the high priest was to put
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  on. And he would grab for these
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  stones. And the stones would help him to
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  make decisions about the nation of Israel, friends.
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  And that is what you're going to see congruent throughout
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  scripture and it drops off later on in scripture.
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  But even David himself used the Urim and the Thummim to find out
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  about King Saul. So we get to see this amazing
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  mysterious 2 stones that were to give some kind of judgment.
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  But when the prophets arrive on the scene and God not only gives
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  a yes or no, but He starts to explain some of the mind of
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  Christ and the mind kind of God, the heart of God, friends, He
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  starts to explain it to us, even though he doesn't owe us any
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  explanation, but he starts explaining a lot of his heart
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  and the reasonings behind things through the prophets.
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  You see this Urim and this thumb go away, and it disappears off
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  the scene. 31 And you shall make the robe of the ephod all blue.
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  32 And there shall be a hole in the top of it, in the midst of
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  it, and you should have a binding of woven work round and
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  about the whole of it, as it were the whole of a harbichon,
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  and that it not be ripped. So you can see that this is the
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  robe of the ephod. 33 And beneath upon the hem of it you
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  shall make pomegranates of blue and purple of scarlet round and
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  about the hem of it, and bells of gold between and around and
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  about them. This is to sign to everyone that
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  the high priest is still alive, and he has not been stricken
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  dead by the holy presence of God. 34 And a a golden bell and
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  pomegranate, a golden bell, pomegranate upon the hem of the
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  road round and about it. 35 And it shall be upon Aaron to
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  minister, and his sound shall be heard when he goes in unto the
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  holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out that he die.
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  Not so. This is to show everybody, Hey,
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  the high priest is still alive, do not worry. 36 And you shall
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  make a plate of pure gold engrave upon it, like the
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  engravings of a signet. Holiness to the Lord.
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  So right on Aaron's forehead it was to say, Holiness to the
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  Lord. Holiness is set apartness.
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  He is set apart for this work, but he must consecrate himself,
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  get rid of all of the sin, get rid of every single thing, deal
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  with every single thing in his life before he even tries to
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  come in to the presence of the Lord.
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  Aren't you thankful that the blood of Jesus Christ covers you
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  so that you can come in to the holiest of holy places?
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  He ripped the veil from top to bottom so that you and I can
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  come in covered by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  I pray that you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your
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  Savior. I pray that you have been washed
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  in the blood, not just dunked in some water.
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  I pray that you can come in to this holiest of holy places, and
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  you can dine and Sup with the Lord Jesus Christ. 37 And you
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  shall put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre,
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  and upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
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  And there shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear
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  the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel
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  shall hallow in all their holy gifts.
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  And there shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be
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  accepted before the Lord. 39 And you shall embroidery the coat of
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  fine linen, and you shall make the mitre a fine linen.
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  And you shall make the girdle of needlework.
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  And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats.
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  And you shall make for them girdles and bonnets.
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  And you shall make for them for glory and for beauty.
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  They need this glory and beauty because there's nothing good
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  inside of humanity. God has to prescribe all of
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  these garments so that they can exude the glory.
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  And and beauty of God, because there is nothing good inside of
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  us. 40 And for Aaron's sons. So you can see that Aaron's sons
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  are not as elaborately decorated as the high priest friends. 41
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  And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and his sons
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  with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and
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  sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's
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  office. So here Moses is on the Mount of
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  Sinai in the encompassing of God's glory, in the cloud on
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  top. He's being supernaturally fueled
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  by God. He's being fed and he's being
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  hydrated by the presence of God. And here God is giving him all
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  of these elaborate details, and he tells him to anoint Aaron and
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  his sons. That is putting the stamp of God
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  upon them and to consecrate them.
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  That is getting rid of all of the sin that's inside of them,
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  getting them to confess and get rid of it, and then sanctify
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  them. And that is getting them to
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  think and become and to act more and more and more unto the
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  things in the heart and the mind of God.
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  And that is what it takes to be a minister in the priests
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  office. We need the anointing friends,
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  we need to consecrate friends, we need to be sanctified
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  friends. And 123 That is what equals the
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  ministry. 42 And you shall make them linen breeches to cover
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  their nakedness, and their loins even unto the thighs they shall
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  reach. 43 And they shall be upon Aaron and his sons, when they
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  come into the Tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come
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  in unto the altar to minister in the holy place, that they bear
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  not iniquity and die. And they shall be a statute
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  forever unto him, and his seed after him.
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  So you can see that they are to put on this linen under garment
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  for decency. And God very much wants us to
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  act in a reverent, decent way as we minister unto His people.
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  We cannot just have anointing without consecration and
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  sanctification. We cannot just have consecration
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  without the anointing and the sanctification.
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  We cannot just. Be sanctified without the
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  anointing and the consecration. We need all three.
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  Friends, I pray that God's anointing is upon you.
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  I pray that you have consecrated the temple, and I pray that
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  you're growing and being sanctified every single day on
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  this journey. I'm so thankful you're here with
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  me. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you, and I love you. Let's say a quick prayer.
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  We love you, Lord. We thank you for your word.
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  We thank you for today. God consecrate us, anoint us.
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  God, help us to be sanctified as we go through this life.
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  Help us to minister. Help us to be your hands and
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  feet. Lord, I pray that you'll help
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  us, God, to have the mind of Christ, to know what to do and
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  when to do it. Lord, we just want more of you.
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  We want to be inside of your will.
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  God we reject all the systems of the world, and God we pick up
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  our cross, we bear our cross. God we count the cost.
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  Lord we put our hand to the plow, and Lord, we go out into
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  the harvest. Lord, help us to finish this
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  race well. In Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious name, I pray men.