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Leviticus chapter 24 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Leviticus chapter 24. Let us pray, our Father, we're
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  so thankful for who you are. We're so thankful, God, that we
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  can come in to the holiest of holy places.
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  We're thankful, God, of the blood that ran red down the
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  cross. We're thankful for the water
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  that gushed out of Christ's side.
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  But God, I pray that this word will wash over us today.
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  Let the Word wash over us, God, and make us whole and pure and
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  clean. Lord, I pray that you'll
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  continue to show up. Lord, reveal to us more and more
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  of your manifold wisdom the different facets of the reality
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  of who you are, the different parts, God, that we can come to
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  know you, Lord, in the completeness and the fullness,
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  Father, of how you desire to be known.
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  Lord, we surrender all of our own intellect, we surrender all
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  of our own wisdom, all of our own understanding.
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  God, we empty ourselves of everything, Lord, all of our
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  preprogrammed. And Lord, we just ask that
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  you'll come in and that you will actually and in the reality,
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  Father, that you will fill us with the Holy Spirit today.
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  Fill us with your wisdom, with your power and might.
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  Fill us, God, with the fear of the Lord.
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  Fill us, Father, with everything that we need for our journey.
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  Lord, for this day, for such a day as this, for such a time as
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  this, God, I pray that today is the day of salvation for
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  someone. Someone, Lord, will surrender
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  their life to you today. They will completely and fully
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  yield unto you and not trust in their own understanding, but
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  God. They will accept the drawing
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  that you have been drawing them with, and they will finally lay
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  down all their baggage, lay down everything that they've been
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  dragging and carrying. Lord, all the hurts and the hang
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  ups, Father, all of their scars. Lord, they will allow you to
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  heal. So Lord, I just pray that over
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  somebody today. Lord, I pray that somebody will
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  fully surrender unto you today, fully surrender unto the leading
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  that you, Father, are drawing them with.
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  And Lord, I just pray that you'll supernaturally fill us
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  today, supernaturally. Give us your wisdom,
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  supernaturally. Help us, God, to understand
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  these words and how they would apply to today.
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  Lord, we know that these are not just words on a page.
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  Father, we know that you are the Word.
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  And so God, we look for You in every syllable, every jot, and
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  every title. We look for you, Father,
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  throughout every single chapter, every verse, Father, through the
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  entirety of Your revealed word. So thank you God, that the Word
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  became flesh. Thank you God that you have
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  continued the church all the way up until this point.
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  Lord, I pray you'll re light the flame blow on us God, I pray
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  Lord, we will not grow weary of doing good, that we will not
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  burnout Father. But Lord, we will keep our Wicks
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  trimmed and our oil filled God, and then we will never let the
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  fire go out on the altar. Thank you Lord, for saving us,
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  for rescuing us, Lord, thank you God for choosing us, and thank
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  you God, for giving us enough wherewithal to choose you and to
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  finally surrender Father unto you.
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  Lord, I pray all these things in Jesus Christ, holy and precious
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  name, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying verse 2 command the
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  children of Israel that they bring unto you pure olive oil
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  beaten for the light to cause the lamps to burn continuously.
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  It's what you need to understand friends, that we never let the
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  fire go out. Let the fire burn from now until
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  the day that you are called home from glory to glory.
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  Friends, it's what you need to understand is that the Lord will
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  supernaturally fill you. He has enough oil to pump
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  through the wall and he's connected to you.
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  And Jesus stands behind the wall and he's just pouring that oil.
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  It's an endless supply. And all we do is we get hooked
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  up, friends, we get hooked up with the Lord and He does an
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  amazing supernatural thing in our lives.
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  All we do is surrender. All we do is make ourselves
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  available. All we do is empty ourselves of
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  ourselves. All we do is realize that we
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  cannot save ourselves, that there's no good thing in us,
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  that there is no one, no, not one, who does good.
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  We're all in desperate need of a Savior.
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  And here God is telling Moses to tell Aaron the high priest, to
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  command the people to bring this olive oil into the sanctuary so
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  that the light will never go out.
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  And when we are there in New Jerusalem, friends, God is the
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  light, and anytime you see the Holy Spirit, anytime you see the
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  olive oil, you know that he's Speaking of the Holy Spirit.
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  What an amazing thought. 3 Outside the veil of the
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  testimony in the Tabernacle of the congregation shall err and
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  order it from evening till morning before the Lord
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  continuously. It shall be a statute forever in
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  your generations. Never let the fire go out,
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  friends, for he shall order the lamps upon the pure Candlestick
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  before the Lord continuously. So this was talking about the
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  menorah that sat that was made of pure gold.
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  Five and you shall take fine flour and bake 12 cakes thereof.
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  210th deals shall be in one cake.
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  So he gives them the recipe, friends, and he shows them that
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  this is an unleavened bread. And he tells them that there's
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  going to be 12 to represent the 12 tribes.
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  And these cakes were to be eaten by the priest with some of the
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  sacrifices that came in six. And you shall set them in two
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  rows, 6 on a row upon the pure table before the Lord. 7 And you
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  shall put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the
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  bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the
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  Lord. Look at how God intermingles all
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  of these elements and this is how He prescribed to the Jews of
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  how He would be worshipped. He told them how He would come,
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  His manifest presence would come whenever they would do all of
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  the things that He had commanded them.
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  He keeps the guardrails on so that they not, so that they will
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  not just go off the rails and do whatever they want to do and
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  worship them however they want to worship.
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  We saw what happened with Nadab and Abahu.
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  We see what happens whenever there's irreverence, whenever
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  the holy presence of God comes. And that is an application for
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  us today, friends. Yes, we are covered in the blood
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  of Jesus and the veil was torn, and we can come into the holiest
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  of holy places, not because of anything that we have done, but
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  because of everything that Jesus Christ did on the cross.
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  But God wants pure worship unto Him, and whoever would worship
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  him must worship Him in spirit and truth.
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  He gives us our rails, our guard rails, so that we do not just
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  come flippantly, haphazardly into the throne room of grace.
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  Friends, we must come with a clean heart, with clean hands
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  and a pure heart. We must come in after we have
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  consecrated ourselves friends. Yes, He can clean you up.
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  He doesn't wait for you to clean yourself up before you come to
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  him. But he loves you too much to
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  leave you in that state. And He's going to systematically
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  show you piece by piece what it is that He wants you to
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  consecrate, and to get rid of, and to release, and to let go. 8
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  Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord,
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  continuously, before being taken from the children of Israel by
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  an everlasting covenant. So weekly they were to set these
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  12 cakes out. Nine, And it shall be errands,
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  and his sons, and they shall eat it in the holy place, for it is
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  most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by
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  fire, by a perpetual statue. So as the people were bringing
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  in their sin offerings and their trespass offerings, as the
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  people were bringing in their peace offerings, here was the
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  food for the priest, and these were the cakes.
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  These were the loafs that they were to eat, these unleavened
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  cakes, friends, 12 of them, and they represented the 12 tribes
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  of Israel. 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father
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  was an Egyptian went out among the children of Israel.
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  And the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove
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  together in the camp. 11 And the Israelitish woman's son
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  blasphemed the name of the Lord, and curse, and they brought him
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  unto Moses. His mother's name was Shalomi,
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  the daughter of debris of the tribe of Dan.
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  So real people, friends, real places, and a real time this
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  actually happened. This is not a story in the Bible
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  for us to go back and to read and get some kind of spiritual
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  application. God doesn't hide the hard
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  stories. That's how you know that the
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  Bible was not written by man. The Bible is a book that man
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  would not write if he could, but he could not write it if he
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  wanted to. And that's what you need to
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  understand is this story is one of the first stories as they're
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  coming out from Egypt and they're in the wilderness and
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  they were just a two week journey into the promised land.
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  But it's going to take them 40 years because of their
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  disobedience. And here we're getting to see
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  one of the first stories of after the law comes in.
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  And they were told time and time and time and time and time again
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  what was required of them. And here, this young man who is
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  half Israelite, half Egyptian, he blasphemes the God as if he's
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  irreverent. And it's a light thing in this
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  holy space. He's seen the fire by night,
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  he's seen the cloud by day. This young man, he's seen the
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  water gushing out of the rock, he's seen the bitter waters made
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  sweet, he's seen the manna, he's seen the quail.
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  And he has the reprobate mind. He has the irreverence to
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  blasphemy God. And what you need to understand
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  is that the blaspheming of the Holy Spirit is the unforgivable
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  sin for our time. He said Jesus told us that those
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  who blasphemy God or blasphemy Jesus will be forgiven.
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  But if you blasphemy the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven
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  of you in this life or in the next.
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  And here you can see that this half Israelite, half Egyptian,
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  did not care anything for the things of God.
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  He did not care anything for this supernatural place that
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  they were at, this fire on the mountain, the shakings, the
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  rumblings. He's seen all of these things
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  and he still in his heart cursed a holy God. 12 And they put him
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  in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be showed to them. 13
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  And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 14 Bring him forth that
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  has cursed outside the camp, and let all that heard him lay their
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  hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him so.
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  You can see here that it is better for one to die for the
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  sake of many than for the sin to be allowed to go in like leaven
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  and ruin the entire lump. This is better for them in the
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  outset to make an example, and it is unfortunate for this young
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  man. But what it would do is
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  reverberate this ripple effect into the camp, so that people
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  could understand that they must keep the Lord's name holy, set
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  apart, hallowed. 15 You shall speak unto the children of
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  Israel, saying, Whosoever curses his God shall bear his sin. 16
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  And he that blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall surely be
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  put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly
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  stone him, as well as the stranger, as he that is born in
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  the land, when he blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to
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  death. So what you need to understand
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  is that when you use God's name in vain, when you use the Lord's
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  name as if it's a byword cuss word, then when you truly need
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  it, it will have no power for you.
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  You need to understand that in Jesus name all power is held.
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  It is the name that is above all names.
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  It is the name that has the ability to save and to heal and
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  to rescue friends. But when we use it flippantly,
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  when we don't think nothing about it, whenever we exchange
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  these words for curse words, what we're doing is we are
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  discounting and discrediting. And it is not that it takes
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  anything away from it in the reality, but in our own minds,
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  in our own self and our own emotions, and for our own lives.
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  We bring on the unfortunate inability for it to have any
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  power in our lives because we have taken it and we've degraded
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  it. And we think of it as a light
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  thing, when in the reality we must hallow it, we must keep it
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  holy. We must never let the Lord's
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  name be used as a cuss word. We should never let.
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  And if you have asked the Lord for forgiveness, if you have
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  breath in your lungs, it's not too late, friends, you can
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  repent. You can turn from that and
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  receive forgiveness today if you have ever blasphemed the Lord's
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  name. But today, make a turn.
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  Today make a decision never to ever use the Lord's name in
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  vain. 17 And he that kills any man shall surely be put to
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  death. And he that kills a beast shall
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  make it good beast for beast. And if a man calls a blemish in
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  his neighbor, he, as he has done so, shall it be done to him. 20
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  breech for breech, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
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  As he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him.
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  Again, you can see the loving kindness of God here, where he
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  says that they should not enact a greater punishment upon
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  anybody. He actually limits this
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  retribution. He limits what can be done.
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  This is not some barbaric, antiquated law, friends, that
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  Jesus just came and did away with.
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  Jesus fulfilled every bit of it. He did not come to abolish it,
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  He came to fulfill it. He lived the perfect life
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  because you and I never could. And if we would enact these
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  things, you would see so much of the land get healed, so much of
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  the land be able to sustain life for longer, and you would be
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  able to see that there would be peace in the land.
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  If we had immediate judgment and we did not prolong the justice,
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  then you would see so much of the problems of our day be
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  healed and to be able to sustain generations for longer.
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  But as we can see it today, the birth pains have already
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  started. The contractions are closer and
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  closer together because we are so far removed from how God
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  would have this world to be. And He said it would be so, and
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  we should not be surprised when we see the leaves on the tree
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  appear and we know that summer is near.
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  And so it will be with the coming of the Son of Man.
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  And he told us what the last days would look like whenever
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  children are disobedient to the parents, whenever people are
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  lovers of money and lovers of self, lovers of pleasure.
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  You need to understand, friends, that this is the life that we're
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  living today. Yes, it can go on for much, much
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  longer, but by and large, we know that every single thing
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  that the Lord has told us in his word will actually factually
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  come to completion. And we can have global revival
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  that would press the pause button for a while.
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  But if you study revivals, friends, every time that the
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  revival starts to wane, you see an immense amount of persecution
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  come in. So you have to be careful what
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  you pray for. And we do pray for revival.
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  We do pray that the entire world gets saved, that God desires for
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  no one to perish, friends, and that is our heart.
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  But by and large, the words that you were reading.
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  The words on the page from Genesis to Revelation must come
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  to fruition. They must happen.
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  And here, if we were to go back to this barbaric, antiquated
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  word here in Leviticus, you would actually see so much peace
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  and so much of our problems of this day.
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  All the social justice problems that we're dealing with today
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  would actually be remedied and rectified if we were to enact
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  these things that you're reading. 23 And Moses spoke to
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  the children of Israel that they should bring forth him that had
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  cursed outside the camp to stone of stones.
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  And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  And of course, we are reminded of the lady who was caught in
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  the act of adultery. She was set up by the way,
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  because the man who was supposedly with her, they did
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  not bring. They just brought her to the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. And they said the law of Moses
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  demands that we should stone her.
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  What do you say? And what did he say, friends?
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  He said you without sin be the first to cast the stone, and he
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  started riding out in the sand. And this says from the oldest to
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  the youngest, they started to depart because they realized
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  that they had so much sin in their own life that they were
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  not capable of picking up the stones to cast at this woman.
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  And then he asks her, where are your accusers?
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  And she says they're gone. And he says that he did not
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  accuse her either because he realized she was set up.
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  Friends, he realized that they had set her up and that she
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  needed to be forgiven. But you also need to understand
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  that when you are forgiven, you need to not go back to those
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  things unless a worse thing what happened to you.
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  That is what we miss. That's the part that we miss,
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  friends. We think of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ as someone who cosigns on sin and that He's OK with our
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  sin. But I am here to tell you
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  friends, that He loves you way too much to leave you in that
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  sin. And yes, you can be saved, but
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  He disciplines those that He loves.
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  And we cannot think that just because we're outside of the
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  Levitical law that we have a license to sin as much as we
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  want so that grace can abound. Far be it from us to have that
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  mindset. When the Lord saves you, He will
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  sanctify you by and by systematically until in the end
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  you will look like Him. You will walk like Him and talk
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  like Him. You will want to be like Him
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  because He is the model. Jesus Christ fulfilled every
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  single one of these laws. What an amazing God we serve
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  that we could never do it, but He did it for us and now we are
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  the benefactors. Now we are the beneficiaries of
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  Jesus's innocent life and we can have His life.
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  We can have His righteousness as He takes all of our sin and cast
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  it as far as the east is to the West, and we can walk in that
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  reality that we are forgiven completely and none of our sins
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  will ever be counted against us. What an amazing God we serve.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.