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The Issues About Women's Liberty pt 13 · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is
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designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
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the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
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right in. Look at verse 21. Genesis chapter 2
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verse 21. The Lord God caused a deep sleep to
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fall on Adam. And he slept. He took one of his
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ribs, closed up the flesh in its place. Then
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the rib which the Lord God had taken from man,
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he made into a woman, brought her to the man.
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Excuse me. So we think now this is starting,
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right? Yes, starting. And we've been discussing
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in this series. issues about or around women's
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liberty. We are on a matter which we have stayed
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for a long time trying to discuss what is God's
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plan for the woman, what is God's original intention
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in creating the woman. Did he create the woman
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just to give birth for the man? I mean, which
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means that her purpose is defined only by the
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man or he has an independent, a really independent,
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she has a complementary or a partnership kind
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of thing with the man to achieve the plan of
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God. It's her purpose defined by her gender.
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It's her purpose defined by whether she can give
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birth to children or not, or whether she can
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even give birth to male children or not. For
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some of us who are coming from, So villages that
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are troubling us is a value defined by a given
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body mass or physique. This has been our discussion
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and last Sunday we discussed the matter and looked
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at how Moses communicated. And we said that the
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key to understanding the Bible is... really to
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pay attention to the author and to the audience
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because it's very important, what we generally
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call the context. So we have been considering
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scripture, particularly we dwell in Genesis chapter
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2 for some time now. And we're still there because
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there's a lot we need to clarify here because
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first, the woman is seen as what we call the
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helper of man. And we noted that that word helper,
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and then we quotient that. As we read, we have
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to be very careful to know in the context whether
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the Bible should be taking that in the context.
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Was the author speaking literally? Was he using
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figurative expression? Or was he using... which
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type of item to describe whatever he's describing.
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So there's no actually like a formula one plus
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one equals to two. Because I know these days
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we love to have formula which we can apply everywhere.
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You know, even those days, once they taught us
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quadratic equation, we made a formula which is
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not almighty and we call it almighty formula.
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And it's not almighty. And we knew that quadratic
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equation, there are some quadratic equation that
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you can't solve using. actually the formula.
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I knew that then you have to, sorry, all of us
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have done mathematics, so at least general mathematics.
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I knew that there are four ways which we were
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taught, you understand, to solve quadratic equations
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from using the graph, using the formula, by factorization
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and so on. Again, we found out that we cannot
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use almighty formula in scripture. So we have
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to learn to pay attention to context. That's
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what we have been describing. So that when we
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see a word, like in the case of helper, we don't
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just pick it like that as if we are... Even dictionary,
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when you are reading dictionary, dictionary does
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not just give you one word. It gives you several
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words and you have to look. and be careful to
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know which one are you looking for. So the same
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thing here, we need to pay attention to what
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we are talking about. And we saw that the word
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helper, no, no, no, no, that is not talking about
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the woman because that word helper is ezer. And
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nowhere has the word ezer been used for a woman.
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And the context in which it appears, it couldn't
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have been the woman because man, the woman cannot.
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rescue man from trouble. In fact, the trouble
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that she was to be rescued from, I mean the trouble
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that they are entering, which she herself was
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the one who through her came, she also needed
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help. So the helper is also for her, which needed
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to get her out of the trouble that plunge humanity.
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And so we noted and we continued our discussion,
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now to reach a point whereby he talks about the
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rib. That's where I read to us. And we saw that.
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We asked a very personal question. Was Moses
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referring to the biological or the physical rib
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we know, or in anatomy that we know, the rib
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which we have? 12 PS, as we said, was he talking
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about that to build the woman? What was the discussion
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actually there? You know, even though most of
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the times we use these scriptures actually in
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the issue of marriage generally, and we have
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not come to realize that even marriage itself
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was actually a parable, was actually... a pointer
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to something that the teaching of marriage ought
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to be done in such a way that it points to Christ
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because it's not meant to be when the word a
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man coming together and to join most times we
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use it in marriage well we can use it but if
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we have the understanding that God desire us
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and I'm going to talk about that later on so
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The point is that we then asked actually, was
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Moses talking about the physical rip? And then
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we began to see, okay, let's go to Moses because
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he's not only in Genesis that he taught. So he
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had the teaching material in the same Genesis,
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Exodus, in the same Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
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And we tried to look at that same word, how he
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used it. And throughout where we read, we read
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throughout Exodus. In Exodus, that's where he
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used that so well to teach with that word. And
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we later find out that that word, rip, is always
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where it appears in Moses' teaching material.
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It's in reference to the building of a tabernacle.
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Is that where we stop? Yes. So we saw that it
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was in reference to the building of a tabernacle.
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And the tabernacle, we said again, it wasn't
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a strange thing. I mean, because when you see
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Moses emphasizing something over and over, you
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need to be, wait a minute, why did he emphasize
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that so well? He has used that word in several
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places and in reference to only a particular
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thing, you understand, and which is a tabernacle.
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So we're trying to ask again, why was it that?
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Then we saw that, ah, tabernacle was not a strange
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thing. to the children of Israel. We now saw
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that it wasn't that Moses just imagined and said,
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okay, let me build Tabernacle for you. No, they
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are aware. They are acquainted with the Tabernacle
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because of their experience in Egypt. And so
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we saw that Tabernacle actually, because of Egypt
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experience, they knew. And we read a couple of
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scriptures. And I want us to note all those scriptures
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in which we noted, showing that Egypt was actually
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a place of idolatry. Egypt was a place that is
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full of all kinds of gods. And I want to read
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one more scripture today to show that also that
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these people, they learned so much of this idolatry.
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And even when they were out of Egypt, they were
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still in the wilderness. Still that thing never
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let them. Come with me to Exodus chapter 32.
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Exodus chapter 32. So I'm just going to add this
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scripture. to the ones I've already talked about,
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like Exodus chapter 12, verse 12 to 13, and we
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read also Joshua chapter 24, verse 14, and Ezekiel
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25 to 18. So I'm going to add Exodus 32, verse
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1 to 6. Exodus 32, verse 1 to 6. I want us to
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go there. all of us. Okay, so I will read from
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just verse 1. It says that now when the people
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saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain,
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the people gathered together to Aaron and said
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to him, come, make us God that shall be before
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us. Where do you think the land is? Make us what?
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God. They were coming from somewhere, you understand?
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Look at what they continue to say. He said, As
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for this Moses, the man who brought us up out
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of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has
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become of him. And Aaron said to them, Break
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off the golden earring. Don't wish to have a
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leader like that. Don't wish to have a leader
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like that, who anything goes. Aaron told them,
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he said to them, Break off the gold earrings
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which are in the ears of your wives, your sons,
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and your daughters, and bring them to me. So
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all the people broke off the golden earrings
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which were in their ears and brought them to
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Aaron. And he received the gold from their hands.
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He fashioned it. with an engraving tool and made
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a molded calf. Then they said, This is your God,
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O Israel, that brought you out of the land of
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Egypt. Verse 5. So when Aaron saw it, he built
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an altar before it. Did you see what is happening?
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You see, the issue of idol worship was not a
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strange thing to them. He built an altar. They
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knew what they were doing. So not just only that,
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they made an idol, a molded calf. Aaron also
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built an altar. And Aaron made a proclamation
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and said, Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord. Then
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he arose early on the next day, offered a burnt
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offering, and brought peace offering. And the
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people sat down. Now, eat, drink, and arose to
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play. This also text was made reference in the
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New Testament. I believe we treated it in the
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book we read last three months. Amen. So this
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is very important. And I want us to pay attention
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to it. So you could see that these people are
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coming from somewhere with... He already had
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the information on how to build the altar, how
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to do this was not a strange thing. The worship
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of idols was not a strange thing. So Moses' audience
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were familiar or is familiar with the tabernacle
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or the temple. You can call it the temple from
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Egypt. There is a scripture again I need to add.
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I think that would be good. Jeremiah chapter
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43. Please look at Jeremiah 43. Jeremiah 43,
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look at verse 12. I will candle a fire in the
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houses of the gods of where? The gods of Egypt.
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I want you to know the word, the houses of the
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gods of Egypt. And he shall burn them and carry
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them away captive and he shall array himself
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with the land of Egypt as a shepherd puts on
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his garment and he shall go out. from there in
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peace. He shall also break the sacred pillar
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of Beth Shemesh that are in the land of Egypt.
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This word Beth Shemesh, if you look at some other
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version, talks about the house of the sun. That
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is sun, that you know. S -U -N. Beth Shemesh.
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So, and the house of the gods of the Egyptians,
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he shall burn with fire. The house. of the gods
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of the Egyptians. So these people are conversing
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with this. They are conversing with house. I
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told you that word house also in Hebrew can also
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mean temple. It's temple also. Temple, house.
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Temple is the same thing or tabernacle. It's
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the same thing. It's the word bayit. B -A -Y
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-I -T. It also means, so you can see the house
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of the gods of the Egyptians or the houses of
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the gods, sorry, or the tabernacle of the gods
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or the temple of the gods. They still mean the
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same thing. So this is very key and clear that
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we understand that when Moses was communicating
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to them, he knew they understood what he was
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trying to say. This is why we said sometimes
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you have to sit where the audience sat to be
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able to hear what they heard. Because the audience
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also plays no matter how you communicate will
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be based according to the audience. And so I
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don't want you to forget the message actually
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we have been reading in Genesis chapter 1 and
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Genesis chapter 2. The message there is one of
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God building his house. It's one God building
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his own house. And this house is not a place
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like we see for idols. It's a tabernacle. It's
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a house. In fact, he has repeated it over and
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over. It's not a house made with hands. Isaiah
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66 tells us, even in the book of Acts, you understand,
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Paul was teaching and he brought that also to
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the people, I think to the people of Arkans,
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understand, that he doesn't live in a house made
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with hands. So right, the message about God's
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building a house starts from Genesis, talking
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about how he will build a family. You can call
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that again a family. a house, a family. So that's
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the message of Genesis. We have seen that from
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Genesis. We keep teaching it, you understand,
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until we get that. That's what Moses was communicating.
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But then I want to point you to something else
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before I come, so that you know that when Moses
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was talking about Tabernacle, he was using what
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they knew, but he was communicating something
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ahead. Something ahead, you understand? Something
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ahead. Now, maybe probably we should refresh
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our mind with what the intention of God is. Probably,
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let me go to Hebrews. Come with me to Hebrews
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first before I now look at other scriptures that
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we have looked at before. Hebrews chapter 8.
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Look at Hebrews chapter 8 verse... Look at verse
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3. Hebrews chapter 8 verse... Three, he said,
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for every high priest is appointed to offer both
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gifts and sacrifice. Therefore, it is necessary
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that this one also having something to offer.
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He said, for if he were on earth, he would not
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be a priest, since there are priests also, or
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there are priests who after the gift according
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to the law. There are priests according to the
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law. You understand? According to the law. Are
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we together? Remember, once you say law, he's
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talking about what Moses gave. What Moses instituted.
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You understand? Or gave them. You understand?
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Which came about as a result of unbelief. You
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understand? In the gospel. So, he said, who shall
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have a copy? Because you cannot have priests.
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without having where they worship, you understand?
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And that is the temple, the tabernacle. And that
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setting was actually depicting where they are
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coming from. So they have a quite understanding
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of what Moses was talking about. So when Moses
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was to communicate to them, he uses what they
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are familiar with, but then talking about what
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is to come. He said, who serve the copy and a
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shadow of the heavenly things as Moses was divinely
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instructed. when he was about to make the tabernacle.
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Now, can you look at how the New Testament put
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it? He said, when he was about to make the tabernacle.
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Now, he's showing that it wasn't God who asked
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him directly to make the tabernacle. But when
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he was about to make it in the psalm, God told
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him, you have to do it according to pattern.
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Because that pattern he's talking about, he's
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talking about what he saw ahead, what Christ
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will come to do. He said, you are now about to
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do something. I want you to do it according to
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pattern. You understand? He said, he was divinely
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instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle.
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That was when he was instructed. The instruction
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was not to make the tabernacle. But when he was
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about to make the tabernacle, he was instructed.
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You understand? That's what he said. See that
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you make all things according to the pattern
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shown you. on the mountain. So he built the tabernacle
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with something in mind. And as you continue to
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read, verse 6 says, but now he has obtained a
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more excellent ministry in the sand, inasmuch
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as he is also a mediator of a better covenant,
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which was established on better promises. We
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have discussed this text. a better covenant,
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a better promises. This is talking about not,
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it's not comparatively. We have discussed this.
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Pastor Fred also have taught in this time. He's
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not talking about comparing the two, which one
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is. No, no, no. He's talking about just the same
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way we are taught also when the Bible says this
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is true bread. He's not talking about that there
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is a fake one. He's trying to say that one, which
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is the bread they ate, you understand, was a
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pointer, was a hypodigma. was an example of what
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is to come. It was pointing to something. That's
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what is communicated. So we saw that when Moses
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was doing, so these people, as Moses was doing
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that, he was pointing them to a tabernacle. He
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was pointing them to a priesthood, you understand,
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which is heavenly. He's pointing them to a tabernacle,
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which is heavenly, you understand. He was pointing
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them to the building of God. which will happen.
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And I want you to see what Jesus talked to Peter.
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Look at what Jesus told Peter in Matthew chapter
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13. Sorry, Matthew 16. Look at what Jesus told
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Peter in verse 18. Matthew 16, verse 18. He said,
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And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this
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rock... I will build, I will build my church
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and the gate of Hades shall not prevail against
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it. And the gate of Hades shall not prevail against
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it. That building is a church. That tabernacle
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is a church. That's the dwelling place of God.
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That's the dwelling place of God. In fact, Peter
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understood clearly what Jesus was talking about
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because he said he's going to build a house.
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He was there when they were being communicated,
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when they were being taught as recorded by John.
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He said, in my father's house are many mansions.
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You understand? So he was in John 14. So he was
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there when they were communicating. So when he
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was talking about here again, I will build my
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church. You understood what he was talking about.
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That was why when Peter wrote in 1 Peter 2, he
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clearly, that was what he was saying. You understand?
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He knew what God was saying. I mean, what Jesus
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spoke to him in the sand, and he knew that death
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would not actually stop, would not oppose, would
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not stop, would not prevail upon what Jesus was
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about to build by his death and resurrection.
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Look at 1 Peter 2, verse 4. Look at 1 Peter 2,
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verse 4. He said, coming to him as to, well,
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coming to him is... Coming to him a living or
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life, you understand. Anyway, that word in, what
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do you call it? In Italics, you understand, it
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was inserted by the translators. So, let's just
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begin it. Coming to him as to a living stone,
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you understand, rejected indeed by men, but chosen
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by God and precious. Verse 5. You also, as living
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or lively stones, have been built up a spiritual
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house, a holy priesthood. Do you see that? A
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spiritual house. Moses was building a physical
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one pointing to a spiritual house. Do you understand?
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A spiritual house, a holy priesthood. Do you
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see that? They were a physical priesthood who
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are unbelievers, who never believed, you understand?
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You know, normally, when we normally speak, we
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used to exempt... We used to exempt those, the
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Levites, as if they are the ones who believe
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God. They are unbelievers, all of them, you understand?
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All of them are unbelievers. So, they refused
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to believe too. So, while they were... doing
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that, they were pointing to a spiritual priesthood.
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You understand? Spiritual priesthood. Not some
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certain, unfortunately, some churches have made,
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I keep perpetuating the old system. I see there
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are some spiritual people on top of a pulpit.
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No. Our brother was praying and helping us before
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we start this teaching. He said the goal is for
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us, all of us, to be taught to mature. that we
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also would teach others to do what was done to
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us. That's the order of God. So the priesthood
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is everyone, everyone in the South, holy priesthood,
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to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to
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God through Jesus Christ. So what makes your
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service, your sacrifice acceptable? It's not
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whether you go and wash your hands and bath,
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you know, those days before they offer it, you
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have to go and cleanse themselves. They normally
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call it consecrate themselves. No. What makes
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us, our service acceptable is what Christ has
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done. You understand? Your merit does not give
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you qualification. It doesn't make God accept
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your service. We offer spiritual sacrifices through
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Jesus Christ. Are we together? He said, Therefore,
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it is also contained in the Scripture, Behold,
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I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, a leg precious,
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and he who believes on him will by no means be
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put to shame. Therefore, you who believe is precious,
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but to those who are disobedient, the stone which
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the builder rejects has become the chief cornerstone.
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and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.
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They stumbled, being disobedient to the word
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to which they also were appointed. Verse 9. But
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you, my chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
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a holy nation, his own special people, that you
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may proclaim the praises of him who called you
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out of darkness into his. The same thing Paul
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wrote as well. Paul wrote in Ephesians chapter
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2, Ephesians chapter 2 verse 9, Ephesians chapter
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2 verse 19. Did I say 9? Sorry. He said, now,
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therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners,
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but fellow citizens with the saints and members
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of the household of God. We are members of the
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household. We are a fulfillment of what Moses
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wrote about. The communication of Moses was a
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fulfillment. A household of God. Not male, not
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female, all of us. You understand? There is no,
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we have one identity. You understand? Here he
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didn't mention male or female. No, he said all
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of us are members of the household of God. Having
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been healed. How? By the death and resurrection
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of Christ. Because he told Moses, you understand,
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on this rock. I mean, sorry, he taught Peter
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on this rock. I will build my church and the
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gate of Hades. Death will not prevail against
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it. I will resurrect and that will be the means
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by which the church, by which the building of
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God, that spiritual building will be built. He
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said, having been built on the foundation of
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the apostles and the prophet. What is that foundation?
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It is Jesus Christ because he is the founder
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of the church. He founded it upon his resurrection.
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He said the foundation of the apostles and the
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prophets, that is Jesus Christ. He's not saying
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different, you know, some people now come to
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say, you understand, we are the apostles and
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the prophets. We are the foundation of the church.
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No, that's not what this place is saying. He's
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not saying the apostles and the prophets are
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the foundation of the church. He said, no, they
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are actually, we have been built on the foundation.
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What is that foundation? That foundation is Christ.
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That is the foundation that the apostles used.
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Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Because
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it's Christ they have taught. It's Christ they
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have taught. It's Christ they have taught. It's
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Christ they have taught. You understand? So they
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could not be the very people that actually they
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are talking about themselves. And so Jesus Christ
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himself, the chief, not being, but the chief
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cornerstone in whom the whole building, did you
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see that? in whom the whole building be fitted
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together grow into a holy temple. That word again.
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So temple, house, household means the same thing.
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Or tabernacle means the same thing. Are we together?
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He said a temple, a temple in the Lord in whom
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you also have been built or build. together for
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a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Amen.
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So, and each time these people are about to deviate
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from their identity, you will hear Paul talk
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in 1 Corinthians 6, 19, don't you know, or do
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you not know that your bodies are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit? Because each time he would
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tell them, don't you know? in the sand. Don't
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you know? Don't you know? Don't you know? Are
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we together? So we saw that in that Hebrews,
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that that is what Moses was talking about. He
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was pointing to whatever he did was a copy. Whatever
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he did was a shadow. Whatever he did was actually
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pointing to something ahead that I want us to
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take note. Therefore, it is evident, it is very,
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very evident that Moses built the tabernacle
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or the temple, you can say, to teach his audience
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God's plan for the new tabernacle. Are we together?
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Moses built, you understand, remember, these
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people, I want you to get that very clearly.
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Moses built, you know, we normally, we have clarified
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that, that Moses did not give them the law to
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substitute grace. Are we together? Because he
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preached to them, they refused. So he said, okay,
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let me give them another means. You understand?
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Like today we normally say, you know, there are
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many means, you understand, to serve the Lord.
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It's not only one means. So don't always insist
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on your own. You know, just to make you slack,
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you understand? Don't always insist on your own
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way. There are many means. If God wanted to make
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us all one, he would have made us. No, it doesn't
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work that way, you understand? He doesn't force
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us into those things. So it is evident that Moses
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built the tabernacle. in the south of the temple
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to teach his audience God's plan for the new
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tabernacle, God's plan for the new house, the
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new humanity, the new creation, where he will
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inhabit and he will dwell in the sun. He will
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inhabit and he will dwell. So when Moses said,
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go back to Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter
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2. Go back to Genesis chapter 2, verse 21. So
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when Moses said in verse 21, And the Lord God
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caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept
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in the sand. And he took one of his three, that
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word, and he took one of his three. So it's evident
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that Moses was not just talking about just basically
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biology. Are we together? He was not referring
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to Adam's physical rib. Or he was not referring
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to Adam's biological body. Moses was not teaching
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using biology there. Did you hear how I put it?
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I didn't say Moses was not teaching biology.
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I said Moses was not using biology or anatomy.
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Please. It's very important you get it. how I
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put it in the sand. So he was not using, because
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it looks as if he was using actually biology
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or anatomy. No, he was not using that. He was
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not using biology or anatomy to teach. Because
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we discover that that word rip is not a biologic
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term, even though it appears that way there.
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Are we together? From Moses' teaching note, if
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you look at the entire place where that word
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rip appears, which we said that rip, is the word
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sight. We look at Moses' teaching notes where
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we go through all where he taught using that
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word in the book of Exodus and also in Genesis
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where we saw in the sand, Moses did not use that
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term as a human anatomy term. But one thing we
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saw, it was an architectural term. Please, I
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want you to know that. It was an architectural
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term. that he utilizes in the sun to refer to
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a part of a building, meaning a part of a hole
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in the sun. It's a building, a tabernacle, or
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a portion in the tabernacle, like an ark, to
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describe a part of a hole. Again, a part of a
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hole. So, rip is not a biological term. Rip there
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is not actually a... a term in anatomy, in human
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anatomy, that word rib is an architectural term.
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An architectural term that talks about or refers
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to a part of a building. In this case, a part
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of or a site. Now, what side of the tabernacle?
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Now, there's a question then we will have to
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ask. Understand? If that is the case, or since
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that is the case, that the rip is a site or a
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part of a tabernacle. Now the question is, what
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tabernacle was Moses talking about? If actually
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we said that place or rip there is a site of
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a tabernacle, then what tabernacle was Moses
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referring to? When he said the sight of a man
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or the rip, one of the rip of a man in the sand.
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What is he talking about? Which side of a tabernacle
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is he talking about? So we need to clarify that.
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Now, go back to that scripture also, because
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we need to do some work now to clarify what Moses
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was referring to. Now, what is that? Look at
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it. Let's, we can follow. reading from the response
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of Adam when the woman, yes, was brought to him.
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Look at what Adam said. It can give us a lead
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to where we are going, to how to answer which
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type of tabernacle Moses was referring to. So,
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look at verse 23. It said, and Adam said, understand,
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this is now born of my bones and flesh of my
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flesh. She shall be called woman because she
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was taken out of man. She shall be called woman
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because she was taken out of man. She was taken
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out of man. I want you to know the word the bones
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of my bones. and the flesh of my flesh. Now,
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before we answer that, we have to clarify because,
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you know, those words that were there, we need
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to explain a number of them that normally bring
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confusion. One of them before I'm coming to this,
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we will answer this. But I want you to note the
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bones of my bones and the flesh of my flesh.
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What does that mean? We're going to answer that.
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But let's look at that. He said, verse 21, he
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said, and the Lord God caused a deep sleep, fall
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on Adam, and he slept and he took. So he looked
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as God performed an operation. And we said that
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the description here is not biology. All those
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descriptions are a description, like rip we have
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mentioned is an architectural term. So how did
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Moses be using these terms here? What is this
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deep sleep? That's the question now. If the deep
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sleep is not literal, because we saw now, rip
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is not literal. You understand? It means sight.
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Again, then what is deep sleep? Then deep sleep
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could actually not be also literal. You understand?
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What is then deep sleep? You understand? Now,
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deep sleep is a single word I want you to note
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in Hebrew. Deep sleep is a... single word in
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Hebrew. It means hedema. It means T -A -R -D
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-E -M -E. T -A -R -D -E -M -E. Which means trans.
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It means trans. Of course, there are many places
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where in the Bible that talks about It uses it
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literally, actually. But we're looking at the
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teaching notes of Moses, you understand? So it
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actually means trance, you understand? And so
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what exactly are we saying now, you understand?
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So that means, let's look at some scripture,
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you understand? That same word was used in Genesis
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15. Look at Genesis 15, verse 12. Genesis...
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Just go up a little bit because we're trying
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to study the teaching notes of Moses. Genesis
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15 verse 12. And when the sun was going down,
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a deep sleep fell upon Abraham and behold, horror
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and great darkness fell upon him. Now, if you
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just read this verse alone, you would think actually
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that Abraham just slept. No. But when you start
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from verse 1, you understand what the Bible is
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talking about. Look at verse 1 of Genesis 15.
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After these things, the word of the Lord came
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to Abraham in a what? Oh, talk to me. In a vision
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saying. Did you see that? In a vision. So that
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reading continually, when you continue to read
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in the context up to 12, and all the discourse
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on the event that was happening, it was in the
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dream. You understand? You remember dream when
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I'm saying dream? That means it's in a vision.
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So that means this word is in reference to vision,
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deep sleep, trance, you understand? Vision. Are
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we together? Therefore, deep sleep means vision.
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So what actually happened to Adam was not a surgical
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or a medical operation, you understand? No. It
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was a vision that God took Adam to see something.
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Then you will not be surprised. His response,
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immediately you walk off from the vision. Did
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you understand what I'm trying to say? So he
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saw the vision of what God in the sand, what
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God intends. So what God showed Adam was a vision
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ahead, what he will do. Are we together? So when
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God says, and the Lord God caused a deep sleep
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to fall on Adam and he slept, he was talking
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about a vision and he took one of his ribs. We
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have already described that rib. That means what
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Adam is seeing, that means now you can now understand
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that he's not talking about literature. The rib
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is not literature. So when he said he took one
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of his ribs, that means he was talking about
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a building. So in the vision, that was what Adam
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was seeing. You understand? And close up with
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the flesh in this place. Now, it is not God performing,
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as I said, a surgical procedure on Adam. No.
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You understand? Like Abraham, Adam was just being
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shown a vision. Was being shown a vision. Now,
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the question again we want to ask, what vision?
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What vision was God showing him? You understand?
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Now look at Adam's response in verse 23. In verse
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23 of that Genesis. And this is what he said.
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I said, this is now the bone of my bones and
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the flesh of my flesh. So this Adam's response
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in verse 23 tells us what vision Adam saw. And
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I want you to note the word, this is the bones
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of my bones and the flesh of my flesh. The word
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they are bones is... Follow me gradually because
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we're so close. The word bones there is a Hebrew
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word which means ascent. Which means is E -S
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-E -M. Ascent. E -S -E -M in Hebrew. Also of
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my bones is also the same thing ascent. So bones
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means ascent. Of my bones means ascend. So if
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we say the bones of my bones, I will say ascend,
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ascend. So if you are going to say that in Hebrew,
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it will be ascend, ascend in a sign. And that
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word ascend means self, same. Please follow me
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gradually. That word ascend means self. It means
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also or same, same. That is the same in a sign,
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the same. Moses used the same word. And I want
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you to see where Moses used the same word of
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that ascent. That is the bones of my bones. Oh,
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bones. You understand? Because that was what
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Adam saw. And he now responds. He is the bones
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of my bones. It means ascent, ascent. That means
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what he is saying is that he is the same, the
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same. You understand? Same, the same. What is...
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Adam saying, Genesis chapter 7. Genesis 7 verse
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13. Look at Genesis 7 verse 13. On the very same
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day, Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
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and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons,
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with them entered the ark. On the very same.
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Did you see that word? That word same there.
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On the very same. That word same. Means a sin.
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Genesis 17. Genesis 17. It means that very sin.
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Look at Genesis 17 verse 23. So Abraham took
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Ishmael, his son, all who were born in his house
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and all who were bought with his money, every
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male among the men of Abraham's house. and circumcised
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the flesh of their foreskin that very same day.
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That word same there is also a sin as God has
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said to him, as God has said to him. So that
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word is same there. So in other words, when Abraham
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said, this is my bones, or this now, or this
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is now bone of my bone, he was saying same, same.
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We are the same. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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So he was saying that this woman, we are the
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same. We are the same. We are the same. The bones
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of my bones. You know, we have used this as a
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marriage statement. Do you understand? This is
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not a marriage statement. It's a response to
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a vision. Adam saw. He said, this, we are the
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same. Men don't want to hear that one. So this
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was not a marriage statement. Well, you know,
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sometimes, as I said, we can use the term in
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marriage if we understand and speak correctly
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about what it means. You understand? Because
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if you talk about, even in marriage, you can
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print John 3, verse 16. You understand? So, but
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if you say those things, so you must have to
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preach it correctly. You understand? You must
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have to preach it. Look at Genesis 29. Look at
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Genesis 29. Genesis 29 verse 14. Genesis 29 verse
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14. And Laban said to him, Surely you are my
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what? Oh, speak to me. Surely you are my what?
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My bones and my flesh. And he stayed with him
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for a month. Were they married? Oh, talk to me.
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Were they married? So how come he would say,
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he was my bones and my flesh? So that's, you
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see, the word bones is talking about a different
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thing. What he's trying to say that we are of
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the same family. We are the same. We come from
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the same, the same kindred. Are we together?
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So that's what, so when Adam said, the bones
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of my bones and the flesh of my flesh. He was
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referring that the woman is of the same family
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in the son. And when he was saying that he was
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talking about the new humanity in the son, when
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he was saying that he was talking about the family
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of God, which he will establish, we are both
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of us. That was what Peter was speaking about.
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That was what Paul was saying about that we are
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members of the same household. of the household
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of God. That was what he was talking about. Look
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at Judges. Judges. I'm looking for where to stop.
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Judges. Glory to Jesus. Judges chapter 9, verse
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1. Judges chapter 9, verse 1. Then Abimelech,
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the son of Jeroboam, went to shake him. to his
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mothers, please I want you to know those words,
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to his what? Mothers, brothers, and spoke with
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them and with all the family of the house of
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his mother's father, saying, please speak in
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the hearing of all the men of Shechem, all the
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men of Shechem, which is, Better for you that
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all 70 of the sons of Jeroboam reign over you
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or that one reign over you. Remember that I am
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your what? Your own flesh and bone. Is he talking
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about marriage here? No, he was talking about
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marriage. He was talking about we are of the
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same. We are of the same family, the same stock.
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The same nation. You understand? We are of the
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same nation. We are of the same nation. 2 Samuel
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chapter 5. 2 Samuel chapter 5. 2 Samuel chapter
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5 verse 1. 2 Samuel chapter 5 verse 1. Then all
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the tribe of Israel came to David. Did you see
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that? The entire nation. So that means a member
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of a household, a member of the same nation,
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a member of the same... We call bone and flesh.
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Are we together? Are we together? Amen. Can you
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move to 2 Samuel 19? 2 Samuel 19. Look at verse
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9. 2 Samuel 19, verse 9. Now all the people were
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in a dispute throughout all the tribe of Israel,
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saying, The king... Verse 11. And Abiathar the
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priest, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah,
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saying, Why are you the last to bring the king
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back to his house, since the words of all Israel
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have come to the king to his very house? Verse
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12. You are my brethren. I want you to know that.
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You are my brethren. You are my what? Oh, talk
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to me. Oh, talk to me. You are my brethren. You
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are my bone and my flesh. That means same family.
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Same. Understand. Why then are you the last to
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bring back the king? Verse 13. And so to Amasa,
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are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to
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me and more also. If you are not commander of
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the army before me continually in place of Joab.
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Did you see that? Okay, let me read the last,
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probably last scripture because we have to close
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it. Hallelujah. 1 Chronicles chapter 11. 1 Chronicles
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chapter 11. 1 Chronicles 11. Are you following
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the teaching? Okay. It says, Then all Israel
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came together to David at Hebron, saying, Indeed,
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we are your what? Your bone and your flesh. Now,
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did you see that? That means it's evident that
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bone of my bone means the same stock, the same
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kindred, the same family, the same nation. identity,
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and the same. Are we together? The same. So that
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was the vision. Remember, deep means vision.
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And so in the vision, God showed to Adam that
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this woman will be of the same family. You will
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not be different from her in the son. While we
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have differences physically, because the woman
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gives birth, you understand, and there are some
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physical features, but that is not in the household
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of God. In the new nation, God is building. It's
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not different. We are not different. We have
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one Lord, one identity, the same spirit, you
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understand. We are the same. That was what the
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Lord showed to Adam. And Adam saw that and he
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exclaimed, This now is the bone of my bone and
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the flesh of my flesh. So that was not a marriage
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thing. It wasn't a marriage thing. Are we together?
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It was not a marriage statement. It was an affirmation
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that this woman is of the same stock with me.
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We are the same. Let me show you that. I think
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that is a good way to conclude. Because if we
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don't conclude in the New Testament, I mean,
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it will look somehow. Amen. So let's go to New
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Testament. Ephesians. I think that's the best
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way to conclude. Ephesians chapter 5. Ephesians
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chapter 5, verse 30. Good to me, verse 30. So
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let me read from verse 29. I think it's good.
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It says, For no one ever hated his own flesh.
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Did you hear that? You know, sometimes when we
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read that verse, you used to think that he's
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talking about this one. Remember when he talked
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to the man to love? He said, For no one ever
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hated his own flesh, but nourished and cherished
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it, just as the Lord does the church, that is,
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the Lord does to his own also. Are we together?
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For we are members of his word. Of his what?
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Are we together? Oh, talk to me. Members of his
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body. Of his what? Oh, are you there with me?
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Of his flesh. And what? That's what he's saying.
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Hebrews 2, 11 talks to us that he is not ashamed
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to call us brethren. We are of the same. We are
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members of his body. That was what Adam saw what
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God is to do in Christ. That will become members
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of his body. That's why he said the bones of
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my bones, the flesh of my flesh. Are we together?
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So Jesus Christ now said, for we are members
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of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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Look at that one. He said, for this reason, a
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man shall leave his father and mother. and be
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joined to his wife, and the two shall become
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one flesh. One flesh. Verse 32. This is a great
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mystery, but I speak concerning who? The Christ
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and the church. The Christ and the church. So
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one flesh is when he was spoken about. was actually
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pointing to what Christ will do to bring us into
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himself, to be in the house of God, in the tabernacle
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of God. We are the same. We are not different.
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In the sad, we are members of his body, his flesh
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and his bones. So bones of my bones refers to
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God's plan for humanity. God, which actually
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we are in the fulfillment. So you cannot be in
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church and see a woman lower. That means something
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is wrong with your teaching. We are the same.
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We have the same stock. We are the same family.
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We are members of the same family. We have the
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same identity, you understand? No one is higher
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in value, in significance, in purpose. So it's
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an aberration to say... Because a woman is a
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woman, so she cannot leave the church. Or a woman
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is a woman, so she cannot be able to sing. Or
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she must keep quiet in the church. Or she cannot
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lead. Or she cannot do certain things. I mean,
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you don't really understand the plan of God.
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The plan of God is that all of us together, we
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are the house of the Lord. Are we together? We
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are the house of the Lord. Amen. So we will stop
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here and continue with our discussion later on
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to see how God will help us. But I want you to
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note, because we are discussing issues around
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woman's liberty. Now the question is, what is
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God's original plan for the woman? The same plan
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he has for the man. What is God's original plan
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for the woman? The same plan he has for the man.
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Simple and short. Remember, we are answering
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the question now. You understand? It took us
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a long while to answer that question. It's a
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little bit quiet. But now we are answering, what
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is God's plan, original plan for the woman? Is
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the same plan that he has for the man, that together
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they become a tabernacle for him? Hallelujah.
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Amen. We appreciate you being here today. We
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hope you carry this word with you throughout
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your week. Don't forget to check the show notes
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