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Which Marriage Covenant Are You Standing In? Sinai or Zion? (July 21) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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So today I have a question for you: Which marriage covenant
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are you standing in? The first covenant
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marriage was brokered by Moses at Mount Sinai
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through the giving of the Ten Commandments, the giving of
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the law. The second or new marriage
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covenant was brokered by Jesus Christ
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at the cross. And by His death,
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Him taking the penalty for our sins,
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we could step into a New Covenant, a new marriage covenant
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where we are betrothed to Christ.
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This is a day to do a heart check. Have you gradually
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slid over to standing at Mount Sinai and Is
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Moses now your head, or are you standing
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at Mount Zion with Jesus as your head,
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as your betrothed? Listen in as we unpack this today.
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Welcome to the One Year Audio Bible Podcast.
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Today is July 21st. Now let's continue
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our journey reading through the entire Bible in one year.
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This week we are reading from the Israel Bible for the Tanakh,
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the Hebrew Scriptures, or the Old Testament, and from
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the King James for the Apostolic Writings, or the
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New Testament. Numbers 26:33-65.
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Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons,
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only daughters. The names of Zelophehad's daughters were Mahlah,
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Noah, Haglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
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Those are the clans of Manasseh. Persons enrolled: 52,700.
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These are the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: of
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Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthalites; of Bekker,
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the clan of the Bekkerites; of Tahann, the clan of the Tahannites.
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These are the descendants of Shuthelah: of Aaron,
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the clan of the Aaronites. Those are the clans of Ephraim's
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descendants. Persons enrolled: 32,500.
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Those are the descendants of Joseph by their clans. The descendants
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of Benjamin by their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites;
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of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram,
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the clan of the Ahiramites; of Shephupham,
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the clan of the Shephuphamites; of Hupham, the clan of
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the Huphamites. The sons of Bela: Were
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Ard and Naaman, the clan of the Ardites.
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Of Naaman, the clan of the Naamanites. Those are the descendants
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of Benjamin by their clans. Persons enrolled: 45,600.
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These are the descendants of Dan by their clans. Of Shuhan,
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the clan of the Shuammites. Those are the clans of Dan by their
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clans. All the clans of the Shuammites. Persons enrolled:
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64,400. The descendants of Asher
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by their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Immites; of
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Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the Berites;
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of the descendants of Beriah, of Heber, the clan of
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the Heberites; of Malkiel, the clan of the Malkielites.
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The name of Asher's daughter was Serah. These are the clans
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of Asher's descendants, persons enrolled: 53,400.
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Descendants of Naphtali by their clans: of Jahzeel,
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the clan of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the
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Gunites; of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites;
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of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites. Those are the clans of the
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Naphtalites, clan by clan. Persons enrolled: 45,400.
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This is the enrollment of the Israelites.
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601,730. Hashem spoke to Moses, saying, Among these shall the land
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be apportioned as shares according to
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the listed names. With larger groups increase the share,
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with smaller groups reduce the share. Each is to be assigned
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its share according to its enrollment. The land,
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moreover, is to be apportioned by lot. And the allotment shall be
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made according to the listings of their ancestral tribes.
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Each portion shall be assigned by lot, whether for larger
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or smaller groups. This is the enrollment of the Levi'im by their clans:
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of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kehath, the clan
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of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.
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These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites; the
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clan of the Sheverites; the clan of the Mahlites; the clan of the Mushites; the
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clan of the Korahites; He had begot Amram.
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The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was
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born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron
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and Moses and their sister Miriam. To Aaron
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were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
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Nadab and Abihu died when they offered alien fire before
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Hashem. Their enrollment of 23,000 comprised
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all males from a month ago. They were not part of the regular
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enrollment of the Israelites, since no share was assigned to them among
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the Israelites. These are the persons enrolled
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by Moses and Eleazar the Kohen, who registered the Israelites on the steps
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of Moab at the Jordan near Jericho. Among these
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there was not one of those enrolled by Moses and Aaron the Kohen when
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they recorded the Israelites. In the wilderness of
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Sinai. For Hashem had said of them,
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they shall die in the wilderness. Not one of them survived
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except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua
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son of Nun.
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2 Chronicles 4:1-6, 11.
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He made an altar of bronze, 20 emote long,
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20 emote wide, and 10 emote high.
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He made the Sea of cast metal, 10 emote across from
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brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 5
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emote high and its circumference was 30 emote. Beneath were
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figures of oxen set all around it, of 10 emote.
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Encircling the Sea, the oxen were in 2 rows,
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cast in one piece with it. It stood upon 12 oxen:
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3 faced north, 3 faced west,
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3 faced south, and 3 faced east, with the sea resting upon
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them, and their haunches were all turned inward.
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It was a tefak thick, and its brim was made like that of
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a cup, like the petals of a lily. It held 3,000
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batim. He made 10 bronze lavers for
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washing. He set 5 on the right and 5 on the left.
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They would rinse off in them the parts of the burnt offering, but the
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sea served the Kohanim for washing. He made
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10 menorahs of gold as prescribed and
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placed them in the Great Hall, 5 on the right and
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5 on the left. He made 10 tables and placed
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them in the Great Hall, 5 on the right and 5 on
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the left. He made 100 gold basins.
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He built the Court of the Kohanim and the Great Court and doors
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for the Great Court. He overlaid the doors with bronze.
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He set the Sea on the right side at the southeast corner.
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Huram made the pails, the shovels, and the basins.
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With that, Huram completed the work he had undertaken for King
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Solomon in the House of Hashem. The 2 columns,
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the globes, and the 2 capitals on top of the columns,
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and the 2 pieces of network to cover the 2 globes of the capitals
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on top of the columns. The 400 pomegranates for
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the 2 pieces of network, 2 rows of pomegranates for each network,
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to cover the 2 globes of the capitals on top of the columns.
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He made the stands and the lavers upon the stands, one sea with
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the 12 oxen beneath it, the pails, the shovels, and the bowls.
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And all the vessels made for King Solomon for the House of Hashem by Hiram
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his master were of burnished bronze.
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The king had them cast in molds dug out of the earth
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in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.
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Solomon made a very large number of vessels. The weight
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of the bronze used could not be reckoned. And Solomon made
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all the furnishings that were in the House of Hashem, the altar of gold,
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the tables for the bread of display, the menorahs and
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their lamps to burn as prescribed in front of the inner sanctuary of solid
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gold, and the petals,
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lamps, and tongs of purest gold, the snuffers,
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basins, ladles, and firepans of solid gold,
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and the entrance to the House. The doors of the innermost
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part of the House, the Holy of Holies, and the doors of the great hall
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of the House of Gold. When all
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the work that King Solomon undertook for the House of Hashem was completed,
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Solomon brought the things that his father David had consecrated—
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the silver, the gold, and the utensils— and deposited
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them in the treasury of the House of Hashem.
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Then Solomon convoked the elders of Israel, all the heads
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of the tribes and the ancestral chiefs of the Israelites,
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in Jerusalem to bring up the Aron Brit Hashem,
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the Ark, from the City of David, that is Zion.
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All the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast in the 7th
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month. When all the elders of Israel had come, the Levi'im
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carried the Aron, the Ark. They brought up the Ark
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of the Tent of Meeting and all the holy vessels that were in the tent.
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The Levite Kohanim brought them up.
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Meanwhile, King Solomon and the whole community of Israel,
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who had gathered to him before the Ark, were sacrificing sheep and
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oxen in such abundance that they could not be numbered.
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Or counted. The Kohanim brought
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the Ark to its place in the inner sanctuary of the House,
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in the Holy of Holies, beneath the wings of the
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cherubim. For the cherubim had their wings spread out over
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the place of the Ark so that the cherubim covered the Ark and its poles
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from above. The poles projected beyond the
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Ark, and the ends of the poles were visible from the
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front of the inner sanctuary but they could not be seen from the outside,
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and there they remain to this day.
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There was nothing inside the Ark but the 2 tablets that
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Moses placed there at Horeb when Hashem made
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the covenant with the Israelites after their departure from
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Egypt. When the Kohanim came out of the
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sanctuary, all the Kohanim present had sanctified themselves
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without keeping to the set divisions All the Levite
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singers— Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons
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and their brothers dressed in fine linen, holding cymbals,
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harps, and lyres— were standing to the east of the altar,
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and with them were 120 Kohanim who blew trumpets.
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The trumpeters and the singers joined in unison to praise and extol
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Hashem, and as the sound of the trumpets,
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cymbals, and other musical instruments and the praise of Hashem— for
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He is good, where His steadfast love is eternal grew
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louder, the house, the house of Hashem,
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was filled with a cloud. The Kohanim
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could not stay and perform the service because
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of the cloud, for the glory of Hashem filled
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the house of Hashem.
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Then Solomon declared, Hashem has chosen to
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abide in a thick cloud. I have built for you a stately
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house and a place where you may dwell forever. Then as
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the whole congregation of Israel stood, the king turned
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and blessed the whole congregation of Israel. He said,
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Blessed is the God of Israel who made a promise to my
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father David and fulfilled it, where he said,
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From the time I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I never
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chose a city from among all the tribes of Israel to build a house
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where my name might abide. Nor did I choose anyone to
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be the leader of My people Israel. But then I chose Jerusalem
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for My name to abide there, and I chose David to
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rule My people Israel. Now my father David
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has wanted to build a house for the name of the
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God of Israel. But Hashem said to my father David, As for
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you wanting to build a house for My name, you do well to want
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that. However, you shall not build the house. Your son,
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the issue of your loins, he shall build the House for My Name.
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Now Hashem has fulfilled the promise that He made.
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I have succeeded my father David and have ascended the
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throne of Israel as Hashem promised. I have built the
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House for the Name of God of Israel, and there I
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have set the Ark containing the Covenant that Hashem made
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with the Israelites.
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Romans 7:1-13.
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Know you not, brethren— for I Paul speak to them that know
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the law— how that the law has dominion over a man as
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long as he lives? For the woman which has a
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husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he
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lives. But if the husband be dead, she is
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loosed from the law of her husband.
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So then if, while her husband lives, she be married
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to another man, she shall be called an adulteress.
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But if her husband be dead, she is free from that law.
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So that she is no adulteress, though she be married to
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another man. Wherefore, my brethren, you also
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have become dead to the Law by
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the body of Christ, that you should be married to
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another, even to Him who was raised
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from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto
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God. For when we were in the flesh,
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the motions of sins which were by the Law did work
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in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
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But now we are delivered from the Law, that being dead
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wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit,
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and not in the oldness of the letter.
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What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? God forbid!
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No, I had not known sin, but by the
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Law: for I had not known lust, except the Law had said,
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Thou shalt not covet. But sin,
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taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me
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all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law sin
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was dead. For I was alive without
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the Law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I
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died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life,
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I found to be unto death. For sin,
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taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me,
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and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is
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holy, and the commandment holy, and just,
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and good. Was then that which is good made death
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unto me? God forbid! But sin,
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that it might appear sin working death in me, that by
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which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly
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sinful.
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Psalm 17:1-15.
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Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear
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unto my prayer that goes not out of feigned lips.
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Let my sentence come forth from your presence, let your
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eyes behold the things that are equal. You have proved my heart,
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You have visited me in the night. You have tried me and shall find
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nothing. I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
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Concerning the works of men, by the word of the lips, I have
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kept me from the paths of the destroyer. Hold up
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my goings in Your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
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I have called upon You, for You will hear me, O God. Incline Your
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ear unto me and hear my speech. Show Your marvelous lovingkindness,
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O You that save by Your right hand them which put their
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trust in You from those that rise up against them. Keep me
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as the apple of Your eye, hide me under the shadow of
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Your wings from the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies
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who compass me about. They are enclosed in their
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own fat, with their mouth they speak proudly. They have
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now compassed us in our steps. They have set their
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eyes bowing down to the earth, like as a
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lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking
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in secret places. Arise, O Lord, disappoint him,
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cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked,
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which is your sword, from men which are your hand,
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O Lord, from men of the world which have their portion in this
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life. And whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure.
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They are full of children and leave the rest of their substance to
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their babies. As for me, I will behold
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your face in righteousness.
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I shall be satisfied when I awake with
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your likeness. Proverbs 19:22-23.
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The desire of a man is his kindness, and a poor man
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is better than a liar. The fear of the Lord tends
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to life, and he that has it shall abide satisfied.
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He shall not be visited with evil.
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I want to speak to you today from our reading from Romans chapter 7.
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And Paul opens up this chapter with an illustration
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about marriage, and he talks about if a woman has
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a husband, she is bound by the law or
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the Torah, to her husband so long as he lives.
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But if the husband is dead, then she is loosed from this law of her
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husband. And then while her husband lives, she be married to another
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man, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband be
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dead, she is free from that law, so that she is no longer
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an adulteress, though she be married to another man.
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Now there is something very deep and profound about this that I really want to
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unpack with you. The question I want to ask you is,
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which marriage covenant are you standing in in
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your faith walk? So one
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of the marriage covenants that we'll unpack is the one
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that was given at Mount Sinai through Moses.
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When Moses received the Ten Commandments and he brought them down
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to the people and he read them to the people and he said, will you
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obey these commands? The people said,
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yes, we will, and in effect, that was the—
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like the bride saying, I do. Now,
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how do we know that this was a marriage covenant that the God of Israel
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was inviting these people into? Well, in Jeremiah
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chapter 31, verse 31 and 32,
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there's a direct comparison to a marriage covenant
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there. Where it says, behold, the days
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are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
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with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according
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to the covenant that I made with their fathers in
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the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of
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the land of Egypt, my covenant which
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they broke, though I was a husband to
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them. Says the Lord. Well, how did the children of Israel break
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the covenant? Well, recall when Moses came down from the mountain,
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they had built a golden calf and they were worshiping it.
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This was, in the eyes of God,
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spiritual adultery. They immediately
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broke the marriage covenant. So it was a marriage covenant,
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and the broker of that marriage covenant was Moses.
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And it was like a marriage
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unto Moses, a marriage to the law. I promise
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to obey and to keep and to follow the
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law. And the people couldn't do it. Their hearts
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were made of stone like the stone tablets,
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and they weren't able to, to keep it.
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So now there's another marriage covenant.
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And what we just read in Romans chapter 7 gives
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us an illustration of it. It talks about, well, as long as the husband
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is alive, she's not permitted to marry somebody else.
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But if that husband, that first husband, dies, then she's loosed,
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she's released, she's free to remarry.
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So when Jesus died on the cross,
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then the members of God's household, His people,
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were free to step into a new marriage,
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a New Covenant marriage.
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And that New Covenant marriage was unto Jesus Himself,
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not to Moses, not to the law, but to Jesus.
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And so when a person repents and
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they turn from their sin and they confess their sin and they turn
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to Christ, they are basically now betrothed
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to Him. And so the question I ask,
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sometimes what happens is people fall
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in love with the Old Testament or with the Torah,
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with the Sabbath, with the feasts, And it's
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not intentional or purposeful. It just sort of happens over time.
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People who are involved in the Hebrew Roots Movement,
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they tend to drift away from Jesus, from that
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marriage covenant that we have with Jesus. And they tend to go
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back to Mount Sinai and under Moses,
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and I'm gonna follow the law. I'm going to keep kosher,
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and I'm not gonna eat any unclean food, and I'm gonna keep the Sabbath and
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keep the feasts. And slowly over
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time, there's a tendency to drift away from the
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true husband, the second covenant, the new covenant with
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Jesus as your husband, as your betrothed. And instead,
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now you're going back to Mount Sinai and Moses is your
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head. And you're simply trying to obey the law and
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perform and do works and earn your
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way to heaven through good works. Through performance.
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So the question I ask you today is, what marriage covenant
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are you standing in? Are you married to
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Christ? Are you trying to be married
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to Mr. Law, to Moses, the broker of the law,
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the Torah? We are called to walk
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in the New Covenant, the new marriage. Covenant in
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Christ and let His Holy Spirit who
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dwells within us lead us and guide us day by day.
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Don't go back to Mount Sinai.
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Don't go back into the works and the performance mode because
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our flesh is weak and we are not
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able to keep the law apart from Christ.
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We want to be married and walk in the marriage covenant,
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the new one, the one with Christ,
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not the one that was brokered at Mount Sinai through
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Moses. Have a blessed day and we'll see you tomorrow.