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#10237 - Ordination of the Priests - Exodus 29 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's Word with pastor and author Ed
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Here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen take your Bibles, open them the Exodus chapter 29.
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We'll pick up where we left off last time.
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Exodus 29 have entitled our Bible study, the ordination of
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the priests, the ordination of the priest.
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If you weren't here last time, we took the we took a deep look
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at the priesthood and we did it. We went a little more in depth.
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We covered a couple of chapters the previous time.
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But then when I went back to look, I said, no, I want to
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spend some time looking at the ministry of the priesthood by
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way of application, the ministry to those of us in ministry and
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service. And if you weren't here, the
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five points that we covered last time, we're #1 priests are
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appointed by God #2 the priest had special clothing.
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Thirdly, we learned the priest represented man before God.
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Fourthly, the priest helped people discover the will of God.
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And then fifthly, the priest had to take their calling very
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seriously. And now we look at the
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ordination ceremony and what surrounded the ordination, or
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some of your Bibles might say the consecration or the setting
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apart of the priest. Verse 1, Chapter 29.
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And this is what you shall do to them, to hallow them for
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ministering to me as priests. Take one young bowl and two Rams
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without blemish, and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed
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with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
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You shall make them of wheat flour.
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You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket
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with the bowl and the two Rams. Now as we begin the chapter, you
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think what an exciting time this must have been, how important it
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was as these men were represented and presented to the
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people as Gods ordained priest. They've been appointed by God.
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They are going to be seen with their special clothing there.
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They are there to represent men before God and they helped
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discover they could be the men that God could use in their
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lives to help discover the will of God.
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And they took this very seriously.
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And this ordination ceremony, this consecration time was a one
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time occurrence, the launching of God's chosen into the
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ministry of the priesthood. Get a young bowl, get 2 Rams
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unleavened bread. Bring them in a basket verse and
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four. And Aaron and his sons you shall
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bring at the door of the Tabernacle of meeting, and you
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shall wash them with water. Then you shall take the
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garments, put the tunic on Aaron, and the robe, and the
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ephod and the breastplate, and gird him with intricately woven
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band of the ephod. You shall put the turban on his
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head, and put the holy crown on the turban.
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And you shall take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and
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anoint him. Then you shall bring his sons
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and put tunics on them. Verse 9.
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And you shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and
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put the hats on them. The priesthood shall be theirs
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for a perpetual statute. So you shall consecrate Aaron
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and his sons. There are five steps you'll
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notice in this ordination ceremony. 5 steps to the
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service. The first one is in verse 4, and
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that is separation. They were to be separated.
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Bring them to the door of the Tabernacle.
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Separate them, bring them up front so that all might see.
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And we learn from this. An important aspect of ministry
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and that is the servant of the Lord is always on display.
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There is a sense of ministry where there is no time to excuse
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yourself from ministry, but rather you live on display and
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if you develop a pattern of making excuses for the mistakes
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in ministry, then you will never really learn anything.
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It's important that you are faithful in all that God has
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called you to do and your spiritual growth is directly
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related to the understanding of your separation unto the Lord.
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Number two. Number two, we noticed that they
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were washed. This ceremonial washing.
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This was done in a mikdba. It would be a little area that
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was filled with water where the priests would then be brought
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under the water taking a sort of a bath that that full immersion.
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It would be a little baptismal if you will, and this would
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launch them into service. It remind us of John chapter 13
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in verse 7. Jesus has answered and said to
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them, What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will
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know after this. And then Peter said to him, You
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shall never wash my feet. And Jesus answered, If I do not
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wash you, you have no part with me.
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And Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also
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my hands and my head. It's a very good, there's a very
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good possibility that Peter had in his mind, this ceremonial
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washing, having Jesus as his rabbi, learning from him.
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Hey, look, don't wash my feet. You, you are below that Jesus.
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I'm the one that should be washing feet.
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But Jesus, no, no, no. If you want any part of me, you
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need to allow me to wash your entire life.
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Wash you completely. I love that #3.
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The third part of this ceremony was the anointing of oil.
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The pouring of oil over the head allowing it to drip down onto
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the clothing. Oil symbolic of the Spirit of
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God coming down upon them, empowering them from ministry,
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empowering them for what will come up ahead.
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We looked at this in depth in Zechariah chapter 4.
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Not by my, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord, that
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never ending supply of oil. But this would be a tangible
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anointing of oil. The fourth thing we see is the
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animal sacrifice. Notice in verse 10 it says you
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shall also have the bull brought before the Tabernacle of
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meeting, and there Aaron and his son shall put their hands on the
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head of the bull. Verse 11 And you shall kill the
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bull before the Lord by the door of the Tabernacle of meeting.
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And then take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the
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horns of the altar with your finger and pour all the blood
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beside the base of of the altar. So there's the animal sacrifice
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beginning in verse 10. And then the number 5 is the
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anointing with the blood, the consecration disservice by the
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Saint slain blood of innocent animals.
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Don't forget that the animals that were sacrificed unto the
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Lord had committed no sins. They become very symbolic.
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These animals do of the coming one who would be slain on your
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behalf and mine with no sin. They have no sin.
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They're completely innocent. And yet in the sacrifice they
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would point to the coming of Messiah.
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Now the ceremony was very symbolic and very powerful in
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the lives of the priests and also for the health of the
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nation. These were God's choice.
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These men were God's choice for the spiritual nourishment of His
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people. Not a man singular, but many
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men, Aaron and his sons. It was to be a family affair for
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the priesthood. And it was also sending an
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overall important message. Before a person can serve God,
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listen. Before a person can serve God,
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he must be first cleansed by God #1 really if you want to think
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back, number one is to be selected by God.
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But we believe in the priesthood of all believers in the new
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covenant. So as a new born again believer,
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you've already been pre selected male and female to serve the
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Lord with His gifts and the capacity that He has given to
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you. You're to run what your race.
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You're not to run someone else's race.
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You're to run your race. You're to do the will of God for
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your life. You are to singularly look to
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the Lord like Jesus did. I love what Jesus said.
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He said I always do those things that please the Father.
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That's how you're going to get rest at night.
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That's how you're going to be able to to fall asleep at night.
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As you assess your day and you reveal all that you've been
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through, you put your head down on the pillow and say, you know
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what? I've been faithful to the Lord
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today. I have been faithful to the Lord
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and what He's called me. So you have that separation, but
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you also have that cleansing of God.
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And then thirdly, you have the empowerment of His Holy Spirit,
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you to have your sins dealt with and touched by the blood, that
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sacrifice and that you would walk away covered in the blood,
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remembering what God has done on your behalf.
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And this is especially important today for anyone that takes the
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place of a spiritual leader, a spiritual leader.
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Today we don't refer to those men as priests.
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We call them pastors, a position in a role of key spiritual
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leadership. And unfortunately, all across
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the land today, pulpits are filled with men in some cases
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that haven't experienced any of this.
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You know, in the worst cases, pulpits and churches today,
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so-called churches are filled with men that aren't even born
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again fulfilling a role in a task and a job.
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They're twisting and perverting the word of God and countless
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millions are being hurt. In Psalm 119, verse 32, it says
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the psalmist says in our hearts resonate with him.
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I will run the course of your commandments, for you shall
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enlarge my heart to be separated and consecrated.
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We spent a lot of time in our study last time.
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The ministry is not something to take upon yourself.
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It is the appointing in the anointing of God is ratified and
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approved by the elders of a local congregation.
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If you take it upon yourself, which many people have, you'll
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be buried under its weight. You'll be buried under the
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difficulties enjoined by ministry.
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But here you see in verse 9, it says you shall gird them, take
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these boys, take Aaron and his sons, put the hats on them.
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The priesthood is theirs. Consecrate them, set them apart.
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I like that. I want you to recognize that
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phrase. I know it's just simple and we
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kind of read through it. We totally understand it.
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It's very easy to understand. He says there in verse 9, Aaron
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and his sons. Easy enough to understand.
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This would be the lineage of the priesthood, Aaron and his sons.
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And it reminds me that as we go forward serving God, your
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family's included, the calling of God is upon your family too.
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I want you to think about your kids for a second.
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I know your kids didn't choose to be born into your into your
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home and I'm sure they tell you that sometimes, but you know
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what God chose for your kids to be born into your home that
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anointing and consecration upon your life, your singleness, your
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marriage and the children that come from marriage, the ministry
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is upon them as well. Now, of course it's not the
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same. Your kids don't follow
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necessarily in your exact footsteps that they may not have
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the same calling upon your their lives as do some of the sons of
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Aaron. However, the family is a part of
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the package. Like, for example, if you you
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married later on in life, you were a little bit older when you
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got married and the man that you married was already running with
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ministry, but you're not so running with ministry and you're
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like, you know what, I'm we're getting married.
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No more ministry. Can't have that.
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You married into it. You're now one in the Lord.
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Now your husband or wife, depending on which psychos may
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need to slow down a little bit. They may need to wait alongside,
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but it's all part of the package.
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Aaron and your sons, I was reminded as I was putting
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together, and for the life of me I can't find the notes on this
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Bible study. I don't think it was from notes,
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but I was in South Africa many years ago teaching at a missions
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conference and a pastor's conference, and I heard the buzz
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as I was ministering to people throughout the camp.
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I just heard this, this low level complaining, complaining
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about ministry, complaining about the kids and the kids not
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being happy and all. And I remember as we'll get to a
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moment, a section of the scripture where God spoke to my
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heart to exhort everyone at that conference to remember that
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we're all in ministry and that while your kids and our kids, we
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didn't, they didn't get to choose what family that they
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were born into. God had the choice already for
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them. God already knew what they're
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going to do with their with with their lives.
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He already knew how he's going to use your home.
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He already knew how he's going to use your calling.
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You think of the sons of Aaron. They didn't choose to be born
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into errands, but God already knew about these boys, these
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young men. And I want to encourage you
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today as hard challenges again might be, that God knows what He
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wants to do with your family. He knows how He wants to
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minister to your kids. He knows what he wants to teach
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them in your home, in your church, in that sacrifice, in
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that commitment, and all of the things that involve with you
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serving God, your kids are included.
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Can I get an Amen on that? You might just need to see it to
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yourself. You don't need to say it to me.
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You might need to say it to yourself that you bring the kids
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along with you. It's your family.
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You bring them right along and allow them.
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You know, I think of, I think of how many of the precious moms in
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our church brought their kids along for nine months, nine
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months in the womb, just walking around, walking around.
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And you know what? A lot of those kids, you know
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what? They know my voice because
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they've heard it for nine months.
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They know my voice. They know what it's like for mom
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to worship. They feel when her body is in
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such a way where her hands are lifted.
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They feel within the womb the tears of sorrow and brokenness
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that God brings. They're already a part of the
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package. Moms already, those of you that
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brought in foster kids or adopted kids, God already knew.
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He already knew what He was going to do with those kids.
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And you and I, we get to be a part of it.
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I don't want you to miss this. It was Aaron and his sons.
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Now, of course, the family is not to be neglected, but must be
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brought along. This is family that they were
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born into God's will for their lives.
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The world wants you to be afraid and nervous and what's going to
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happen? I mean, today the big thing, the
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big thought today among young people is, oh, I don't want to
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bring kids into such a horrible world.
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Now, I understand that I, I don't necessarily disagree with
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that thought and to really consider the world in which we
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live right now and the world in which a child might be born.
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But I'm telling you this, God opens and closes the womb, and
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He knows what kind of world your kids are going to be brought
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into before you do. Aren't you grateful that God
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knows more than you do? That He can see more, that He
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can see farther ahead, That He knows even your past, what He
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can do to work all things together for good for those that
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love God and those that are called according to His purpose.
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Aaron and his sons. If you don't have children, it's
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a family affair, husband and wife if you're a single today.
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If you're a single, it's even greater.
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The Bible says single men and women get to completely devote
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their whole life and attention to serving the Lord.
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In this season. You don't need to be worried
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about overly concerned about what the future is going to hold
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because today is the day you have the privilege of serving
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the Lord with your whole heart. You know how it is singles among
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us. And I understand I served
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singles for so many years. And of course, in the, I was a
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singles pastor for a few years in California and, and of
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course, serving all of the singles here all these years,
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there is that prevailing thought about many, many singles.
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I want to be married. I want to be married.
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I want to be married. You know what the prevailing
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thought among many married couples are?
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I'm not. What are you guys laughing at?
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They Yeah, I'll tell you, I love marriage.
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That's what their thought is. But you know, here's the thing,
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you'll never really, I'll never really enjoy the fullness of
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what God has for me until I'm content where I am.
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Contentment brings fruit, godliness.
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I just like that. I love that Aaron and his sons.
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The Lord is wanting to use your family in a wonderful ways.
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So we saw in verse 10 the sin offering.
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They placed their hands on the sacrificial bull symbolic of the
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vicarious atonement or the substitution.
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Vicarious. It means in place of Jesus
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Christ is the vicarious substitute for your sins and
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mine. This bowl would be the vicarious
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substitute for the sins of the priests and the people.
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That animal they would see is my substitute.
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They would see a very powerful picture of sin producing death
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and when we come to Jesus, he is the one that bore our sins once
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for all. And by faith you are forgiven
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and born again. When we see Jesus dying on the
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cross, we need to recognize when Jesus dying on the cross, it is
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not for his guilt. He is not guilty, He's innocent.
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When Jesus died on the cross, he died for my guilt, for our
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guilt. We, like sheep, have all gone
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astray. The Bible says Isaiah 53.
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We've turned everyone to his own way and on the Lord.
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This Isaiah 53, six and it says, And the Lord has laid on him the
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iniquity of us all. He took upon himself my sins and
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his vicarious substitutionary death, burial and resurrection.
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I believe God like Abraham. And what do we learn?
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It's accounted to me for righteousness, same As for you.
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It's a very bloody ministry. It says here, if you want to
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picture yourself in that moment. So ordination ceremony.
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When we ordained men into the ministry here, we're recognizing
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God's call upon their life. We bring them up on the stage.
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We lay hands on them and pray for them.
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We don't sacrifice animals and we're not splattering blood on
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everybody because it's already been done by Jesus.
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Doesn't need to be done over and over and over again.
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But here, coming out of Egypt, don't forget the context coming
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out of Egypt, establishing a new relationship with God, new
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order, new direction, it's all brand new for them.
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God wants them to understand blood that is shed is going to
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be a big part of their life from this day forward.
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From this day forward, pointing to Messiah, verse 14.
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Now what's that? Verse 13, You shall take all the
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fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the
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liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and
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burn them on the altar. But the flesh of the bull with
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its skin and it's awful, you shall burn with fire outside the
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camp. It is a sin offering.
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Hold your place here. Go all the way back to Hebrews
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with me. I want to show you something.
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This is where when you're reading through the Scriptures,
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you can write your own little cross references.
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Notice with me if you want to go there.
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Hebrews chapter 13. Go all the way back.
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Hebrews 13. This animal was to be burned
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with fire outside of the camp. But notice in Hebrews 13, in
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verse 11, Hebrews 13, verse 11, it says for the bodies of those
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beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high
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priest for sin are burned outside the camp.
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Now we just learned that we learned it first of Exodus with
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the Tabernacle. It'll be repeated again when the
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temple was built. So we just learned this first.
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Now you can cross reference and go back to where the first
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mention of this is in the Old Testament.
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But then notice he ties again. Now the, the men and women
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coming out of Exodus, they don't get this yet.
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It's only in type, it's only in picture.
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It's only looking forward. They're having in their life in
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our minds right now. They're learning one singular
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lesson. And that may be where you're at
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right now, learning the totality of the scriptures or the
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insurance and outs of nuance or learning how to study the
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scriptures. You're still in an early stage
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and you're learning a few things.
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Just the just over and over and over again.
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What, what are the children of Israel learning very quickly
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here? And it's very simple for them.
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And you might be learning the same thing.
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It's very simple. God is God and you are not.
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So you're to look to God for your for everything.
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He just delivered you. He just wiped out the enemy
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behind you. He's just established, well
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really, he established a leader over you to get you out of
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Egypt, sent them, heard your cries, heard your pleas, and
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he's working in your life and you're here like, well, I wish
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it would go faster and I wish it would move fast.
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I get that. I see.
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That's not the lesson God has for you.
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He wants you to master this lesson.
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God is God, and you and I were not.
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We could trust him. You could easily stand back.
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Go. Whoa, whoa, wait.
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Why Aaron and why his sons? And why the blood and why that
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ammo? We could eat that and we could
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that. There's all kinds of reasonable
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answers or even unreasonable answers, but they're learning.
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No, this is what I want. This is what I want.
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This is the way I want it. Well, what if we?
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No, I didn't have no modifications.
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This is how I want it. This is how I want the priest to
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be recognized. I want it this way, this order,
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this place, these men, Aaron, I want it to be your boys.
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I want it to be the men you're raising in your home.
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I want it to be your lineage. All of this is God, is God.
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And outside the camp, you can see now back in Hebrews it says
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in verse 12. Because of this, therefore Jesus
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also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood.
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Where did He suffer? Outside the gate.
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Therefore we go forth to Him outside the camp, bearing His
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reproach. Now I know the children of
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Israel couldn't learn that truth yet, but God still gave it to
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Him. They didn't get the fullness,
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but God still gave it to them. It reminds me in my own life
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that I need to receive the revelation that God gives me in
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the moment. I need to receive what I'm
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learning right now. I may want more, I may want
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everything explained, but I need to receive what God gives me.
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If he says this is what I want, then this is what you need.
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Just a simple life. It's really just a simple life
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following Jesus. God tells us to do something and
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we do it. God tells us to do something,
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and what's our response? We do it.
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I didn't hear anybody say I'm going to give you this is a pop
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quiz. God tells us to do something and
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we do it. It's a simple life.
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I wonder how many are listening to me today.
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Heard what the Lord told you to do, and you won't do it.
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Oh, no, I'm doing it, Ed. OK, then you won't do it with
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the right spirit. You won't do it the right way.
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Oh, you're going to do it all right.
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No, no, no, no, no, no. You could already tell by your
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attitude you're not doing it the right way.
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You not only need to do it, but you need to do it God's way,
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following Him. Jesus outside the camp.
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I just received what the Lord gives me in the moment, and I
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know He'll give me more when I'm ready for it.
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Verse 15 Now you shall also take one ram, and Aaron, and his and
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Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the
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ram, and you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood and
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sprinkle it all around the altar.
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Then you shall cut the ram in pieces, wash its entrails and
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its legs, put them with its pieces and with its head, and
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you shall burn the whole ram on the altar.
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It's a burnt offering to the Lord, a sweet aroma and offering
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made by fire to the Lord. Now, while the first offering
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was a matter of sin, this offering is a matter of total
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consecration, a sweet aroma to the Lord.
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You can jot it down. In Romans chapter 12.
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We're given that instruction in a new covenant to present
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ourselves to God. What a living sacrifice.
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You give it all to Him. That's the sweet aroma.
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And we're reminded too of Jesus here, who gave Himself
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completely to the will of the Father.
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Verse 19 And you should also take the other ram.
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And Aaron and his son shall put their hands on the head of the
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ram. And you shall kill the ram and
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take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear
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of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on
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the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their
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right foot. And sprinkle the blood all
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around the altar. And you shall take some of the
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blood that's on the altar and some of the anointing oil,
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sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons, and on
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the garments of his sons with him.
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And he and his garments shall be hallowed, and his sons and his
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son's garments with him. This is interesting.
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And now there's a specific place where the blood was to be
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applied to the priest. Take notes here #1 tip of the
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ear. Why?
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So that they might have ears to hear the word of the Lord #2 on
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the thumb of the right hand, so that they would do the work with
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their hands in the holiness and the fear of God, their ears will
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be set apart. You got to be very careful who
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you choose to listen to. You and I, we need to be very
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careful what we choose to listen to.
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It's very important. There is this bitterness that
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defiles everyone around them. And you want to be careful
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because it comes to those that are in proximity to those that
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are close. Be careful with your ear, be
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careful with your hand. And then finally, the last place
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of anointing was on the big toe. Again, we read in the Psalms,
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one of my favorite passages, but that we would run in the way of
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our, you know, without a, without a big toe, you know, you
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have no balance. You're not able to stand up
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straight, make any movement. Can you imagine not having two
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big toes? Like you'd be in a mess of
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trouble. And that idea of like, no, this
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is the place of stability, the place of progress, Where will my
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feet take me? That my feet would be holy and
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pure because it takes the rest of my body.
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I love this. This could be a Bible study in
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and of itself. Right ear, thumb of the right
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hand and the big toe. Then take some of the oil, mix
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it up with the oil or some of the blood in verse 21, mix it up
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with the oil and then pour it all over again on the priest now
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and the garments. This is a sign and a remembrance
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of their whole complete, continual being set apart for
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the work of the ministry. Verse 22.
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We'll pick up a little bit in, in our speed.
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And also you should take the fat of the ram and the fat tail and
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the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe
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attached to the liver and two kidneys and the fat on them and
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the right thigh. For it is a ram of consecration.
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One loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, one wafer from the
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basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord.
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And you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the
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hands of his sons, and you shall wave them as a wave offering
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before the Lord. You shall receive them back from
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their hands and burn them on the altar as a burnt offering, as a
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sweet aroma before the Lord. It is an offering made by fire
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to the Lord. So now there's this beautiful
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wave offering where they bring it before the Lord in worship.
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Everyone would see it to sacrifice them as another sweet
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offering. Verse 26 Now is interesting.
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Then you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's
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consecration and wave it as a wave offering before the Lord,
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and it shall be your portion. So part of the sacrifice was
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reserved for the priests, the breast part.
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And from the ram of the consecration.
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Verse 27. You shall sanctify the breast of
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the wave heave of the wave offering which is waived, and
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the thigh of the heave offering which is raised.
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And that is for Aaron, and that's for which is his son for,
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and that which is for his sons. Verse 28 And it shall be from
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for from the children of Israel, for Aaron and his sons, by a
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statute forever. For it is a heave offering.
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And it shall be a heave offering from the children of Israel,
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from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, that is, their
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heave offering before the Lord and the holy garments.
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Verse 29 of Aaron shall be his sons after him, to be anointed
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in them and to be consecrated in them.
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The Son who becomes priest in his place shall put them on for
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seven days, and when he enters the Tabernacle of meeting to
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minister in the holy place, verse 31.
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You shall take the ram of the consecration and boil its flesh
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in the holy place. Then Aaron and his son shall eat
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the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket by
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the door of the Tabernacle of the meeting.
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They shall eat those things with which the atonement was made to
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consecrate and sanctify them. But a stranger shall not eat
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them because they are holy. And if any of the flesh of the
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consecration offerings or of the bread remains until the morning,
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burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten because it
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is holy. Thus you shall do to Aaron and
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his sons, according to all that I've commanded you, 7 days.
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You shall consecrate them, for you shall offer a bowl.
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Every day is a sin offering for atonement.
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You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and
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you shall anoint it to sanctify it.
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Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and
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sanctify it, and the altar shall be most holy.
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Whatever the touches, the altar must be holy.
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So some of the sacrifice was to be kept to feed the priests.
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In verse 33 it says you shall eat those things which the
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atonement was made and since their role and their
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responsibility collectively, not just Aaron or not just his sons,
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but collectively their role was to minister to the people.
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They lived from the ministry of the people.
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I mean, where are these? Where are these animals coming
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from? The people they would bring them
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as their sacrificial offerings to the Lord through the priests
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to be used for these ceremonies and for the offerings throughout
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the year. The word atonement is used in
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verse 33. You might want to market to
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consecrate sanctify them. These things which the atonement
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was made. It's the Hebrew word kafar
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kafar. It means covering.
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It wasn't a permanent removal of sin.
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It was a covering every year on the high, on the Day of
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Atonement, the high priesthood go in offering the final
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covering for the year to cover the sins of the people.
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All these were just coverings. It was the same word that's used
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back in Genesis chapter 6, the covering outside of the ark.
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It's the same word that was used in Genesis 32 with Jacob trying
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to smooth things over with Esau. But here it's used in
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relationship of the covering of sin.
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And it was through this sacrificial system that the sins
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of the people, although never really taken away, they were
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covered by the blood of animals. So that when God looked at
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someone that was in a covenant relationship with him, he saw
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the blood covering their sins. Today he sees the blood of Jesus
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in your life covering your sins. You don't need to keep bringing
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them back up or beating yourself up over them or living in
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regret. The Lord God has taken care of
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your sin issue and you can walk in the newness of life.
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He didn't just cover it, He removed their sins.
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You don't need to wait year after year after year.
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We don't have these bloody ceremonies anymore because in
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you, you have the Holy Spirit as a witness to the living Christ.
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God lives and dwells in you. The Bible says now we are the
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temple of the Holy Spirit. You not only have an external
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reminder when you read the Scriptures, when you think of
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the cross, you not only have all these external reminders, but
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you have an internal reminder of the finished work of the cross.
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And so when the enemy comes as the accuser of the brethren, you
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can resist the devil and what will happen, He will flee from
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you. You can resist him, the
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strongest, most effective word in your vocabulary to use when
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the enemy comes knocking or when you're accusing yourself or
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under the weight of condemnation.
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You can just simply say this no. You can say no to temptation of
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any kind, including the temptation to sin by undermining
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the finished work of Jesus Christ, even in your own life,
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and living in the forgiveness that is yours by faith.
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That's what we're learning as we're studying through
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Galatians. We'll also learn it in
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Ephesians, and we'll be reminded of it in Philippians, and then
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we'll learn about the supremacy of Christ in Colossians, the
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power of the blood of Jesus. They're getting a picture of it.
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Their faith in the Old Covenant was to be as strong as our faith
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in the New Covenant. They saw things by picture and
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type. We have the whole picture, the
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faith Jude said once and for all, delivered to the Saints.
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We have it and we can walk forward in power.
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Notice in verse 34, the daily sacrifice.
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This was seven days. This ceremony, the practice of
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the daily sacrifices would continue on even into the New
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Testament. The Jews would continue the
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sacrificial system. As they were learning about
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grace, they were learning. That's the whole battle that
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Paul the apostle is battling the Old Testament, the Jewish
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believers and wanting to cling to the law and this sacrifices.
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We go morning and evening, morning and evening, continual
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continually over and over again. Notice verse 38.
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It says now this is what you shall offer on the altar, 2
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lambs of the first year, day by day continually. 1 lamb you
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shall offer in the morning and the other you shall offer at
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twilight or in the evening. Mark that verse 39.
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That's what we'll close today in a moment.
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You're to offer in the morning, offer at night, daily,
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continually. Verse 40 with the 1 lamb shall
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be 110th of an efall of flour mixed with 1/4 of a hen of
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pressed oil. 1/4 of a hen of wine is a drink offering.
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The other lamb you shall offer at twilight.
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You shall offer it with grain offering and drink offering as
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in the morning for a sweet aroma and offering made by fire to the
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Lord. These are what the priest would
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continually do over and over again every morning, every
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night, every morning, every night.
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Notice verse 42. This shall be a continual burnt
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offering throughout your generations at the door of the
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Tabernacle of meeting before the Lord, while I will meet you to
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speak with you, and there I will meet with the children of
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Israel, and the Tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
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So I will sanctify the Tabernacle, meaning of I will
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sanctify the Tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and I
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also sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister to me as
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priests. I will dwell among the children
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of Israel and will be their God, and they shall know that I am
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the Lord their God who brought them up out of the land of
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Egypt, that I might dwell among them.
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I am the Lord their God. It's been a while, but you
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remember at the beginning when God enlists Moses and takes them
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off away from the wilderness and sends them to Egypt, he says
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I've heard their cries. I've heard their cries.
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I was listening to another pastor this week in my DeVos and
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just got my earbuds in, just in a stationary place, receiving
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the word, and he was reminding me of how desperate their
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situation was. There was no hope for them.
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None. They were never going to get out
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of slavery. They were never going to leave.
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They were never going to have freedom.
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They were never going to experience the deepest desires
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of their hearts. For generations they lived.
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They were born, they lived, and they died as Egyptian slaves.
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And yet the cry of their heart went out every day to those that
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still had hope. Because you know as well as I do
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when situations keep going on and they're harder and harder,
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What is lost? Hope.
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We lose hope. The enemy's just going right
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after hope it's never going to change, never going to change,
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never going to change. And what happens?
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You hear that and then you see it.
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You wake up and it hasn't changed.
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You wake up, it hasn't changed. I mean, how many days do you
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need that? Do you need that 30 days, 60
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days, 90 days? Do you need that 10 years, 12
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years where you're you're looking at your life
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circumstances and you're wondering.
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And often the way this works is you have this deep prayer
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request, this deep desire. You want to see God do
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something. And you can even read the
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scripture. You're like, man, this is it's
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from the Lord. This is absolutely his will, but
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it's not happening. And if you're not careful, you
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lose hope. It is go the enemy's just going
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right after your hope. But then you might be
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cooperating. You can hear it with the kind of
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language that we use. It will never happen.
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Well, it doesn't sound like God. I see a lot of things that God
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we thought was never that he made happen.
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Oh, it's impossible. That doesn't sound like the
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whole story. That's only half the story.
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Because what things are impossible with man or what
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possible with God? And so you're crying out and
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you're crying out, you're crying out and then instantly
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deliverance comes. And this is all given to a
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nation that is been shocked with the grace of God.
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They've heard the generational stories.
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They even have their own testimony of living and out,
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however old they are, from children being born into slavery
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to the oldest of great, great grandfathers.
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They know the story. They've lived it out.
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But here they are out of Egypt, delivered free, and then being
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given all these gifts from God. Hey, I want you to know these
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men. They're for you.
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I want you to know all these animals that they're for you.
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You're going to offer them to me, but you're going to enjoy
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them. You know, these men that they're
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serving, they're, they're special.
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So make sure you recognize them. Make sure you see them for who
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they are, their sons, their families.
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Very important. I want you to know that every
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time you walk by the Tabernacle, it's going to be bloody.
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Why? Because there's coming one
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that's going to shed his blood once for all.
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You're not going to get away from it.
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There's no way around it. All throughout the area, the
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blood has been shed. The animals are there, the ashes
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of what's burned, those that are outside of the camp, all
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pointing to the coming of Messiah.
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And the restoration and now you see this throughout the Bible of
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the hope of Israel, because the hope of Israel is not a feeling.
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The hope of Israel is a person who fulfills all our desires,
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who gave himself for you and for me.
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And how do we stay in a place of hope?
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I believe the pattern of the sacrifices are very important.
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I hope you marked it. It says there in verse 39, offer
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in the morning, offer it at twilight or at night.
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The rhythm of your life needs to be this church, and I hope it is
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and I hope you continue to grow in this area of your spiritual
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life. But the morning and the evening
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sacrifices are so needful for the world in which we live.
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And you go, wait a minute, pastor, are you saying I should
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have some goats and chickens in my backyard and offer them to
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the Lord every morning and everything?
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No, no, no, you'll go to jail for that.
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Don't do that. And then you would be
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undermining the finished work of Christ.
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That's not what he's asking for you.
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But think about, think about how how challenging the world is,
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which we we live in, how important it is to start your
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day with the Lord. So important to start your day
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with the Lord. It is worth, you know, I, I used
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to do this. I don't do it very often
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anymore, but I used to do this. I would set my alarm and then
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set up all these different snoozes.
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And you know what I was planning?
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I was planning more sleep. I was planning more sleep.
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And if I have the ability to plan more sleep, you know what I
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can do? I can plan less sleep.
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I can plan to meet the Lord in the morning.
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I go to bed a little bit early, get up as a sacrifice to be in
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the word, to be in prayer, to have my morning devotion, to
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sing a song, to maybe have someone sing songs in my life as
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I'm brushing my teeth or getting ready where I have the word of
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God saturating me. It starts out very strong.
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And then the evening, well, you know, the evening, like what did
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I pick up along the way today? You know, what did I have to
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deal with? What kind of what part of my
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flush came out what whatever. You know how I need to end my
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day in a place of sacrifice? I need to do the same thing.
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I need to get ready for the day and then I need to get ready for
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dreams. I need to like make sure I'm not
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watching some horror movie before I go to bed or some bad
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news. You know it's the end of the
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day. Let me catch up on all the bad
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news around the world. No, no, seek the Lord in the
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morning and the evening. If we can plan, and we do for so
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many other things, then friends, we can do this and see the
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benefits of seeking the Lord. I mean, even today you could set
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you, you, you are investing in Wednesdays.
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You're already there. But you know, you could be
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ripped off on your way home just by what's on your radio.
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You know, it could be, it could be a didn't benign.
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I'm not even talking about sin or anything.
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Just music that will take your mind off of the things of the
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Lord. It'd be better not have any
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music and just talk to the Lord or talk to your spot.
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Just talk to the Lord on the way home.
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What do you think and what's going on?
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And what do you think? What how the Lord speak to you
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and they know their spots. Oh no, the Lord didn't speak to
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me. And you're like, were you
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listening? And it becomes, well, let me
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pray for you because the Lord was speaking his word.
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I was that that sacrifice. You know you can you look, the
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pattern of the morning and evening sacrifices in our lives
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will lead to a pattern of continual devotion and sacrifice
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and service. We need that pattern or the new
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word today is that rhythm. I know time is tough and I know
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sleep is needed. I know the kids, they get cranky
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when they're out on a Wednesday. I know that.
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But you know, for every moment that you minister to a cranky
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kid, listen, they receive the word of God tonight in some way.
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Your kids and I know, I know they're not going to be happy
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about it. They're they're just going to be
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all flustered because they have a sleep pattern.
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But you're teaching them, no, no, no, my sleep pattern is
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around the Lord, not just some book I read or some Instagram
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story or TikTok. Like on this day, we're
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dedicated to the Lord. On these other days, I sing to
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my son or sing to my daughter before we we do something that's
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going to get their eyes on the Lord.
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For our kids, many of the years was Adventures and Odyssey and
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we were an Adventures and Odyssey family listening to
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those those over and over and over, all these moral lessons
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that my kids would fall asleep with or music or worship music.
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It's OK. I know it's challenging, but
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your kids, they're learning something and you're teaching it
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to them. You're teaching them the rhythm
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that surrounds the Lord. And I'm grateful for that.
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God will bless that. He says back in verse 43, and we
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got to go. This is where I'm going to meet
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the children of Israel and remember the Tabernacle.
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It's going to be sanctified by my glory.
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The blood just pointing to the glory.
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That's all the blood pointing to the glory.
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I'm going to set it apart. I'm going to do that work.
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God says I'm going to consecrate.
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It's not you. I'm going to consecrate that
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place. I'm going to consecrate those
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priests, and I'm going to consecrate the people.
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And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and they
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will know that I am the Lord their God that brought them out
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and delivered them. This true story has been
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repeated over and over and over again of the delivering power of
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God. You have a testimony of the
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delivering power of God. Keep repeating it and keep
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rehearsing it for us. We don't look back to the
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Exodus, do we? We look back to the cross.
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That's our point of deliverance. That's what changed our lives
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completely. And God meets us in the morning,
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in the evening, in the afternoon, on your lunch break,
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even if it's 5 minutes, giving yourself to the Lord,
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reorienting yourself, taking a little walk.
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Wait, I don't know how much time.
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Well, then just walk around the building and just say, Lord, I
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meet you here. I am with you, are with me, and
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I'm with you. And maybe the Lord would have
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you. Some of you have an ear problem.
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You just need to pull on your ear.
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I need help with my ears, Lord. Some of you might have a hand
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problem, say, oh Lord, sanctify my hands, I want to be faithful.
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Some of you might have a balance problem, may have a big toe
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where your feet are leading you, and just like, no, I want to run
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in the ways of your commandments, Lord.
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Some of you might have a mouth problem that's not included in
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this, but you can offer it to the Lord.
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James talks about that. We have two ears and one mouth.
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The ratio is on purpose, for the Holy Spirit will just reign us
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in and use our lips and our bodies, a sacrifice unto the
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Lord. Thank you God for Aaron and his
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faithfulness and his sons. I know not all of his sons made
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wise decisions, and that's just the facts.
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We don't always make wise decisions ourselves.
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But Lord, you're a forgiver. Your anointing is for perpetual.
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Your calling, the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable
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in the new covenant. And it's our desire right now
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that you might move upon us and encourage us morning and
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evening, morning and evening, morning and evening.
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And I thank you God, and I commend the men and women with
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us tonight that even when the rhythm of their children is is
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changed for a night, that you would bless them and honor them.
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And perhaps even tonight, their daughter, their son would just
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go with the program because they don't understand yet.
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They're kind of like in the beginning stages.
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They don't understand, but they will.
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And they'll have this memory of the faithfulness of their
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parents, the faithfulness of their grandmother, grandfather
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pouring into them, blessing them.
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If you're here tonight, you've never given your life to Jesus
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Christ. I want to invite you to do that
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right now. Just stand where you are.
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I want to pray with you. You say that I need to be born
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again. I want to pray with you and I
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want to help you confess your sins before God and your faith
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confess your faith in God, believing in God, confessing
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with your mouth and believing in God that God raised him from the
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dead. Anyone here among us, you guys
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out online or on the on the Internet, you know, watching all
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that wherever you're at radio, the Holy Spirit sees you and God
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just affirms that desire in your heart right now.
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You could say God forgive me. I ask you to change my life and
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I believe you sent Jesus to live for me and die for me and I want
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to follow you all the days of my life and God will honor that.
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And so if you're on on our website, you can go to the how
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to know God, I think is the phrase or the gross section.
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And all our information about following Jesus is there.
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And if you're here, then the pastors will be up here today to
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speak to you. But let's all stand together.
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Let me tell you a story, OK? Last week I was the last week I
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was here I was I've the Bible study was in Galatians.
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It might have been communion. I don't remember now and I was
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coming up on time like I am now I'm way over time.
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So you guys all need to go get your kids, but I'm already over.
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So what, what am I going to do? And this is an important story
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because the Lord convicted me after 1 of this.
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I didn't give an invitation to any service and just trust the
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Lord. I'm and I'm I was trusting the
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Lord. It's fine.
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And a brother, a man came up and he came up and said, well, you
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didn't ask anybody if they want to be saved.
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And I said, no, I didn't. Do you want to be saved?
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And he says yes. And I prayed with him right
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here. It's a miracle story.
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Maybe one day we'll have him up and he can share it with you.
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Miracle. And just convicted my heart that
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I don't feel like guilt ridden because the Holy Spirit's
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already moving in his life. But I want to plan ahead so that
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anytime I'm here, I give you an invitation because it was like,
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you know, I didn't have 3000 people do it like Peter.
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But one isn't, isn't 1 enough. Hey, what must I do to be saved?
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Man? I was just going to come back
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next week, he said. But his wife said, oh, no, we're
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going up right now. This is a moment of God's
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faithfulness. And so I just want to share that
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with you that even even men like me, we make mistakes or even
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not. It's not even a mistake in the
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sense that I was doing what God called me to do.
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But God is so gracious and he covers all those areas so that a
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man will come up and look at me. And I went home.
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I was telling Marie about it. She says, I know then and
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started telling me the story ministering.
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It's a it's a beautiful story. And you can get those stories
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too. If you step into people's lives,
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you just do what God called you to do.
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If you're super personable, then be super personal.
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Are you super private? Be super private.
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Just be who God's called you to be, OK?
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Be the church and pray for us this weekend.
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So we'll be back Friday. It's going to be epic.
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And any men here, any man here that hasn't signed up yet, we
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already signed you up with your retina.
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That's our new technology. It's kind of scary to say that,
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but we want you to be here. So be here, sign up, show up,
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let the Lord do a great work. God uses these conferences.
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Amen. We pray that you've been
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encouraged by this Bible study delivered live from the
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sanctuary of Calvary Church for prayer.
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