Jehovahjireh

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I just didn't have time to go get a new one. I'd like to read Psalm 145. And the title in my Bible is titled a Song of God's Majesty and Love. A Praise of David. I will extol you, my God, O King, and I will bless your name forever and ever. Th every day I will bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts. I will meditate on the glorious splendor of your majesty and on your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of your awesome acts, and I will declare your greatness. They shall utter the memory of your great goodness and shall sing of your righteousness. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works. All your works shall praise you, O Lord, and your saints shall bless you. They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and talk of your power to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. The Lord upholds all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look expectantly to you, and you give them their food. In due season you open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, gracious in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon Him. In truth, he will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him. He also will hear their cry and save them. The Lord preserves all who love him, and all the wicked he will destroy. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and all flesh shall bless his holy name forever and ever. [00:02:37] Speaker B: Amen. [00:03:25] Speaker C: Some things here never know which one are we doing? [00:03:31] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [00:03:34] Speaker C: You never know which thing we might need. Do we need a big magnifier, a little magnifier, or do we need so I got them all. Anyway, I wanted to do a fairly long reading today, and I'll try to make it as quick as I can or as short as I can. And by talking through part of it, we started talking about this in Sabbath school. Whoops. And I kept quiet the name of Jehovah for certain places of history or certain actions and actions that God is doing. And this was on Abraham when he took his son to a certain mountain. And so this begins to tell the story that Abraham refers to Heavenly Father as Jehovah jireh. And what's this? And then it means God will provide. And boy, if you use that when. [00:04:45] Speaker B: You'Re in the depths of trouble and. [00:04:49] Speaker C: You'Re trying to talk to the Heavenly Father and trying to make sense of what's going on around you, that's what the story is about today. Okay, so the Old Testament version of this is in Genesis 22 and one through 19 and then even goes on past that. But the story of Abraham being asked to take his son and sacrifice his. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Son, that's really shocking. [00:05:24] Speaker C: As we put it in the Sabbath school lesson, god never did that before. It's not proper. You don't sacrifice humans, this sort of thing. What is God doing here? And while I was studying on this and I'm thinking sometimes we just have. [00:05:41] Speaker B: To go with what God's doing because. [00:05:44] Speaker C: We don't know what he's doing and he doesn't need to explain Himself to us. We just have to trust Him. So this Jehovah, of course, would be the Heavenly Father's name, sometimes just YHVH and try to pronounce that without vowels. Well, in the Hebrews, in the Hebrew they do have little marks that tell how the vowels should go. In fact, I don't know music, but I've heard that actually right in the same writing of Hebrew, you can tell whether you should raise your voice or lower your voice. It's right in there. [00:06:19] Speaker B: So you could sing it. And they did. [00:06:22] Speaker C: They sang their psalms and so on for memory. You could memorize those psalms by knowing the letters of the alphabet and where they go. And I was talking with a brother from California we got to talking about. He's going to preach on something like this as well, about the names of God. But in psalms you've got the alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet right there, psalm one, or aleph. [00:06:48] Speaker B: Aleph. It's got written out there, psalm one. [00:06:53] Speaker C: Psalm two, Beth, psalm three, psalm four. It's 1234, but it's actually alphabet as well, ABCD and so on. So interesting that those are given to us already in the Bible, already in. [00:07:09] Speaker B: My King James, at least they're already. [00:07:12] Speaker C: Marked there in the Bible. So you could say this is the go to Olive, such and such, fifth part of or the first part of the Psalms, Olive. Then go to the number of the verse. That would be awkward for us. We just think of the Psalms, one, five or whatever, and we're away and. [00:07:32] Speaker B: Running anyway. [00:07:37] Speaker C: In Genesis 22. Let's turn to that and I'll see if I need to use my magnifying glasses or not. [00:07:51] Speaker B: I do have reader glasses, but the. [00:07:55] Speaker C: Magnifier lenses are pretty big these days. They're eight and a half by eleven. That's what I've got here on the table. [00:08:06] Speaker B: So beginning with verse one, genesis 22. [00:08:11] Speaker C: Chapter 22, verse one. And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt. That word is always God tempts. [00:08:22] Speaker B: No one that's a verse. [00:08:25] Speaker C: How come this word has tempt? It's the switch between Hebrew and English. And what part of tempting that you're trying to hit at or God's not going to tempt somebody with the idea of them failing. But that's not Heavenly Father. So we have to kind of add into this switch from Hebrew to Old English and back to our understanding that we have if you use the word. [00:08:50] Speaker B: Tested with the idea of you winning. [00:08:54] Speaker C: God wants you to win. So when Jesus was tempted in the desert by Satan, satan was hoping he'd lose. But we all know that Jesus is greater than Satan. The power that's in us is greater than the power of evil. So he was being tested, all right. [00:09:13] Speaker B: To see what he would do under. [00:09:15] Speaker C: This circumstance or that circumstance. So Abraham was there, and when he heard God calling to him, he said, I'm here, behold. Well, I had to look up even the word behold. It said, Take note, I'm listening. Are you watching me, heavenly Father. I'm listening. I'm looking towards you. [00:09:34] Speaker B: I'm listening, that kind of idea. So we just say, Behold, here am I. [00:09:41] Speaker C: We need to think of that many times ourselves. Are we really listening to Heavenly Father with the idea that we will do whatever he wants us to do? We will obey, we will go there, do what he wants. And he's commanding. [00:09:54] Speaker B: Heavenly Father is commanding Abraham to do something. And he said, God says, take now. [00:10:04] Speaker C: Thy son, okay, thine only son can't make a mistake when there's only one. But this was the son of promise, the one that thou lovest, because it's going to give you longevity of your life. It's going to give you a family line. He's a blessed son that the whole world is going to be blessed by. [00:10:25] Speaker B: You mean know and that's right. [00:10:30] Speaker C: And get thee to a land of Moriah. [00:10:36] Speaker B: And actually, when you look it up. [00:10:38] Speaker C: I went through some looking and some studying where it is. It's actually the mountain where the house. [00:10:45] Speaker B: Of God was built later. [00:10:48] Speaker C: This is that same hill. Wow. [00:10:53] Speaker B: An offer there, build on a place. [00:10:59] Speaker C: Of worship, place of offering there so. [00:11:04] Speaker B: That you can offer your son as a burnt offering upon one of the. [00:11:09] Speaker C: Mountains, which I will tell thee of. The story gets better as you go along. You're trying to say, well, which one did he go to? Which hill was he at? What did he see from this point in his trip? We'll have to leave that out. But that's the nice things of trying to find these as you're reading along, you say, I'd like to look that up. Where's a map of Israel, especially the old ones that are in the back of most Bibles. So Abraham arose early in the morning. He didn't say, but. [00:11:41] Speaker B: He just did. [00:11:41] Speaker C: As he was told. So he rose up in the morning, saddled his ass, the animal for transportation, and took two of his young men, and I like this idea young men, they had the strength and endurability to help him because he's getting pretty old in the end of this chapter, when you begin the next chapter. His wife was 127 years old. [00:12:06] Speaker B: How old is Abraham, by the way? How old is this child, this little. [00:12:15] Speaker C: Child, your youngest child? He was not a child. The bottom of my page, I wrote in here that he was approximately 26 years old. So keep that in mind. When he's going to put him on an altar, he's going to tie him down. He's going to put him on an. [00:12:31] Speaker B: Altar and set fire to this wood. [00:12:34] Speaker C: This is not a five year old. [00:12:39] Speaker B: And he's an old man. [00:12:42] Speaker C: That boy could have quit anytime he wanted to, right? This relates to Jesus Christ going to the cross. [00:12:49] Speaker B: Jesus could have quit anytime he wanted to. [00:12:52] Speaker C: A 26 year old, he doesn't have to obey if it's something hurtful to himself. He could just say, no, this is not right, dad. I'm not doing this. And Jesus could have said, I'm out of here. [00:13:08] Speaker B: They asked him why he didn't. [00:13:09] Speaker C: He said, I could have called 10,000 angels, that sort of idea. He could call the angels to defend. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Him and he didn't. He stayed there for us. [00:13:20] Speaker C: So Abraham took his two young men and his son Isaac, and he claved the wood. I looked that up. It split the wood, chopped the wood so that it's ready to have kindling to start the fire, even to shave some of the sides of what you've split, shaved some of it with an axe so that you have a little bit of kindling stuff to start the wood to burn. So he'd made everything ready. He rose up and went to the place which God had told him of. He went just sort of all of a sudden, he's over there. But how far was it? Probably a three day journey. Okay. Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. That's why he said three days. And Abraham said to his young men, abide here. Stay here with the animal and the lad, 26 year old lad. Sounds pretty young, doesn't it? But with I and the lad will go yonder to worship and come again to you. Now, this is faith. We will come again to you. It doesn't say we, but the lad and I are going to go over there and we will come again to you. That sounds like the two are coming back. [00:14:42] Speaker B: And yet in his mind, he knows. [00:14:43] Speaker C: He'S supposed to offer Isaac. Isaac probably would not be coming back. [00:14:49] Speaker B: That's faith where he's just saying, we'll be back. Yeah. Trust in God. [00:14:58] Speaker C: Abraham took the wood and the burnt offering of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac. Can you imagine putting this on your son? You think of the five year old going to be carrying how much wood? No, he wasn't five year old. He's 26. [00:15:14] Speaker B: Laid it on him. [00:15:15] Speaker C: They laid the cross on Jesus, made. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Him carry his own till they saw. [00:15:21] Speaker C: This wasn't going to work. So, okay, grab that guy over there and he'll carry the wood for you. So same logic here that Isaac is carrying the wood that's going to burn him to death. [00:15:35] Speaker B: For the offering, and. [00:15:37] Speaker C: He took the fire in his hand. You have to do some logic here to think about. You don't carry fire in your hand. So what did he do? In the old days, which is still here in the United States, when it was young, you had a pot dedicated for this cause. [00:15:52] Speaker B: You could have ashes in the bottom. [00:15:54] Speaker C: You put your live coals in there, you cover it with something, not to smother them, but to keep them hot, keep them warm. And then you travel. And when you get there, you uncover those coals. You can take the coals out and start your fire. And stories in the United States, from one homestead, you might say, to another homestead. And they had a cabin and they needed fire. The fire went out because of this or that, and they had to get over to the neighbors and get another pot full of coals and then come over and light your fire over here. And of course, if your neighbor ever came calling, you needed to be ready, too, to quickly have the wood there ready to start a fire. So he had a pot with a handle, probably two handed is a little awkward. And yet one hand, wait a minute, the heat is going to rise right on your knuckles. How did they do it? I don't know. It says they took them in his hand, but I would assume that he had a pot or one with a handle even something, so that he could carry this pot of pot coals so they could start their fire easily. And he took a knife, of course. [00:17:02] Speaker B: That'S for killing more than cutting the wood. [00:17:08] Speaker C: Must have had some kind of an axe. But he cut the wood first, didn't he? [00:17:12] Speaker B: He's had it all ready to go and the knife. [00:17:16] Speaker C: And they both went together, both of them together. [00:17:21] Speaker B: And Isaac spake to Abraham, father, I. [00:17:25] Speaker C: Think you forgot something. Of course abraham says I'm here. I hear you, my son. Tender hearted Satan. I'm here, my son. I'm hearing you. Then he says, Behold, we've got the. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Fire, we've got the wood, but where's. [00:17:43] Speaker C: The lamb for the burnt offering? [00:17:46] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:17:48] Speaker C: So Abraham says, My son, God will provide for himself a lamb for the burnt offering. [00:17:56] Speaker B: That's faith. [00:17:59] Speaker C: Can you imagine trying to think through a scenario? Okay, how do we get this lamb? Where is it coming from? [00:18:05] Speaker B: And it did say that you could. [00:18:06] Speaker C: Have a kid as well, or a. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Lamb, the little ones of goats or sheep. [00:18:12] Speaker C: But where are you going to find this? We're in a wilderness. We're by ourselves. We're a long way from other people, other farmers. Where are you going to get this kid? This is pure faith that God will. [00:18:23] Speaker B: Provide the Lamb for the burg offering, for our salvation. We're in big trouble. [00:18:33] Speaker C: There's no human being that could be an offering for us, sacrifice for us, for sin offering. No human can do that. His verse is about that. So God, what are you going to do? [00:18:47] Speaker B: He says, I'll provide. He provided his son Jesus Christ. God will provide. [00:18:55] Speaker C: So that's that. Jehovah Gyra. If you want, I've got a mark right here as well to look up Hebrews eleven, verse 17. I won't do that right now. But do you know what's in Hebrews eleven? [00:19:13] Speaker B: The early part of that chapter is. [00:19:16] Speaker C: The story of all these faithful people. But also it tells of what Abraham. [00:19:22] Speaker B: Did, because you must have Abraham in. [00:19:26] Speaker C: This whole line of story about salvation. [00:19:29] Speaker B: He's got to be there. And sure enough, there it is. [00:19:32] Speaker C: It tells that God will provide. It tells this story in brief, in chapter eleven. [00:19:37] Speaker B: It doesn't go through all of this. [00:19:39] Speaker C: Whole chapter and all the nitty gritty of it there in the middle of the New Testament, in the middle of Hebrews, but there's a fair amount of. [00:19:49] Speaker B: Verses that tell about Abraham, what he did. Anyway, next verse nine. And when they came to the place which God had told him of, that. [00:20:05] Speaker C: Mountain, that hill, he said, there'll be a mountain where I want you to do it. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Abraham built an altar, and this is. [00:20:12] Speaker C: Not carrying pre built or pre arranged. They were really not allowed to hammer on things. To build an altar, they needed to find the right stones, pick them up. So many stones, maybe in their time there wasn't a twelve tribes of Israel yet, so why would they pick up twelve stones? But whatever he did, he built this altar. And if you read in the Old Testament, you'll realize too that it had. [00:20:38] Speaker B: To be an earthen altar, was not. [00:20:42] Speaker C: To be prearranged stones and mortar and brickwork or something. It wasn't that kind of an idea. It needed to be of the earth and of the stones of the ground and so on. So he built this altar ready to accept his son. So maybe it wasn't very high altar, but still he's going to tie up his son and lift him up and. [00:21:04] Speaker B: Put him on there, which he did. [00:21:08] Speaker C: But Isaac was 26 years old, approximately by dates of people in the Old. [00:21:13] Speaker B: Testament, just by looking this was so far. [00:21:16] Speaker C: Then he died. And Abraham was so old when he and Boris cut the sun, and you can kind of put together that it'll be about 26 years. So he built the altar and he put the wood in place and he took the knife ready to slay his. [00:21:31] Speaker B: Son, and the wood was in place, and he would have him tied so. [00:21:37] Speaker C: That he wouldn't fight. You got to stab him with a knife, probably under the fifth rib, as they say in the Old Testament, a direct hit on the heart, which would bleed him to death instantly. [00:21:51] Speaker B: But he's an old man. [00:21:52] Speaker C: Is he going to be able to. [00:21:53] Speaker B: Do this. [00:21:56] Speaker C: By God's blessing? He was able to. And all of a sudden, a voice comes from heaven. He said, an angel of the Lord called out to him and he said, Abraham. Abraham got his attention. He says, Here I am. He said, Lay not your hand upon the child. You know that's you usually hold down somewhere. And you're going to take this knife and you're going to stab the vital part, right? [00:22:20] Speaker B: Don't touch your child. [00:22:22] Speaker C: Get your hands off of him. And you're not going to do much with this hand. All of these things are nifty when you really sink into it a little bit and think about what were they doing? And he was told that he should look around. Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there was a ram behind him. A ram caught in a thicket by its horns. I wonder what kind of a ram, what age of lamb? How long was a horn? These can go through that way. You need a kind of a void, right? It was there. God provided whatever it was, the age that it was supposed to be, god provided it. So he knew he was supposed to take the ram and offer it as a burnt offering instead of his son at the end of verse 13. [00:23:15] Speaker B: So now you have to try to. [00:23:16] Speaker C: Explain that to your son. What were you doing, dad? [00:23:19] Speaker B: What was on your head? [00:23:20] Speaker C: What was in your mind? But anyway, he released his son instead of his son. Abraham called the name of the place, Jehovah jireh. Amazing. [00:23:33] Speaker B: God will provide, he said. [00:23:36] Speaker C: To this day, it's still called that. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Then you go into verse 15. [00:23:40] Speaker C: An angel of the Lord called under Abraham out of heaven a second time and said by myself, I have sworn. [00:23:49] Speaker B: Like God talking to you, saith the Lord. [00:23:53] Speaker C: For because thou hast done this thing. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Thou hast not withheld thy son, thy only son, that in blessing I will. [00:24:05] Speaker C: Bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea upon the beach shore. And the seed and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies. Amazing blessing from the Heavenly Father stated just like that. And in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed. Some people want to forget that all. [00:24:32] Speaker B: Is in there because thou hast obeyed my voice. [00:24:37] Speaker C: Can you imagine if we listened to the Heavenly Father and just did as he said? [00:24:42] Speaker B: That blessing could echo through all of earth, all nations, all peoples. [00:24:49] Speaker C: Wow. Is it important for us to serve God? Yeah, real important. [00:24:56] Speaker B: God said, don't do it. [00:24:58] Speaker C: Get yourself out of there. [00:25:01] Speaker B: Wow. [00:25:02] Speaker C: Even David, when he went walking on his deck and saw what he shouldn't. [00:25:06] Speaker B: Have saw, he should have got himself out of there. [00:25:11] Speaker C: Boy, oh, boy. Anyway, this is it, too. Here a blessing for this nation that came out of these out of this. [00:25:22] Speaker B: Boy and his family line and the. [00:25:25] Speaker C: Twelve sons and the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, and wow. It's going to be a blessing to. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Everybody if they just would serve God. [00:25:35] Speaker C: And if they want to obey God. So I jump down a little bit faster here then. [00:25:45] Speaker B: Children. [00:25:45] Speaker C: Okay, then it gives some of the family history and who married who and whose family line. [00:25:54] Speaker B: But the idea of obeying, I wanted. [00:25:56] Speaker C: To find that verse with because you are because you obeyed, was in because thou hast obeyed. There's the word almost the bottom of verse 18 obeyed. Is it important for us to obey? [00:26:15] Speaker B: Wow. [00:26:16] Speaker C: Trust and obey. [00:26:19] Speaker B: We sing that song, but do we do it? [00:26:23] Speaker C: We trust in the Heavenly Father we trust in Jesus Christ as our Savior. We trust in the Heavenly Father's plan. [00:26:30] Speaker B: That he's made, and then do we obey? [00:26:34] Speaker C: Very important that we obey. And because if we do those things, then there will be a blessing that'll follow. Okay, let's keep going. [00:26:47] Speaker B: This reveals several things about Abraham, the. [00:26:50] Speaker C: Faith that he had. Can you imagine walking up the hill, walking with the other ones beside you, and not start crying? This is the last walk I take with my son. Terrible thing. Faith that allowed him to obey, strong enough faith to obey God's Word. [00:27:15] Speaker B: And then what about the trusting all. [00:27:19] Speaker C: The way from verse seven to ten? He's trusting. He's loading the things that needed to go with him. He's taking people with him to help him because of his age, maybe he. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Wouldn'T make it back, that kind of thing. [00:27:32] Speaker C: He needed two others along. [00:27:34] Speaker B: Or do you need two witnesses which. [00:27:37] Speaker C: Would tell the same story? [00:27:39] Speaker B: What happened? [00:27:40] Speaker C: Where'd you go? What did you do? [00:27:43] Speaker B: Okay, so we need to trust that. [00:27:46] Speaker C: God will come through. God will do it. The provisions that God provided here too, for Abraham. We saw angels. [00:27:57] Speaker B: We heard of a voice, the ram was given. [00:28:03] Speaker C: No work on his part. No walking with the ram, no pulling the ram along with you, no carrying the ram. If it was small, it had horns, so it wasn't that small all the. [00:28:18] Speaker B: Way up that hill, because this is where the temple was built later by Solomon, substitution was made. [00:28:29] Speaker C: God did that for us. Substitution for the sacrifice. [00:28:34] Speaker B: For us. [00:28:34] Speaker C: There's a substitution as well, jesus Christ substitute for us. Otherwise we'd have to go through that punishment, through that death that Jesus went through. Sacrifice that made. This was a type of how Jesus was going to have to do it, god's sacrifice for all mankind. God was like Abraham. Abraham had to give his animal. He had to give his son. He had to make the walk. He had to make this, he had to do that. He made the sacrifice. But there was a supreme sacrifice that this was showing. Was Jesus Christ coming to die for us? We don't deserve it, but he died for us. [00:29:17] Speaker B: So I want to look at a. [00:29:18] Speaker C: Couple of verses here. One is John one. Let's go to John one. Some of these would take a lot more reading and a lot more consideration, so don't let me distract you. Take this verse home and study on it too. Okay, first John or john one. I should say John One. [00:29:42] Speaker B: This is St. John. So John One and verse 29 right here. The next day, Jesus coming unto John. [00:29:57] Speaker C: Seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith, behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Profound statement, never heard before. I guess John had some help, right? God put these thoughts in his mind, put these words in his heart. Somebody was remembering what he said when he saw Jesus called him the Lamb of God. Lamb being the idea that they were the ones that died for sin. They were the ones that died to reconcile people back to the Heavenly Father. [00:30:35] Speaker B: Is this the lamb? [00:30:36] Speaker C: Yep, that's right. [00:30:39] Speaker B: Which taketh away the sin of the world. [00:30:44] Speaker C: Not just the Hebrew people, not just my family line, not just Abraham, the sins of the whole world. Jesus is the one. Okay, carrying on. First Peter. Let's go to first Peter. Okay, first Peter, verse 19, 1st Peter. [00:31:23] Speaker B: First chapter and verse 19. [00:31:29] Speaker C: But with the precious blood of Jesus as the Lamb, without blemish and without. [00:31:35] Speaker B: Spot, who. [00:31:40] Speaker C: Was foreordained before the foundation of the world. This wasn't just an afterthought. God said, Whoops, I did something wrong. I got to figure out how to solve it. Now, this was a planned deal that the Heavenly Father made for our salvation, foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in these last times for you. Last times. Well, it is further down in the age of the world, the age of people. But it was all foredained, all planned out, ready to be done in these times that we're in, that we are living in, that these people are reading this from Peter's writings, that's for them and their era as well as ours. [00:32:27] Speaker B: 21. [00:32:28] Speaker C: I like a little bit here too. Who by him, by Him to believe. [00:32:34] Speaker B: In God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, that. [00:32:43] Speaker C: The faith and hope might be in. [00:32:46] Speaker B: God, not in a preacher, not in. [00:32:49] Speaker C: Paul, not in Peter. It's got to be in Jesus Christ. And Jesus was always pointing it to the Heavenly Father, whatever he was doing. He said, I'm doing this for God's will. This is for God's glory. This is for God's blessing. And whatever he did was for the Heavenly Father. Seeing ye have purified your soul by. [00:33:12] Speaker B: Obeying. [00:33:15] Speaker C: Seeing ye have purified your souls by obeying the truth. [00:33:19] Speaker B: We need to live what we read. [00:33:21] Speaker C: And what we understand that we need. [00:33:23] Speaker B: To live it, obey it through the. [00:33:26] Speaker C: Spirit unto unfledged love of the brethren. See that ye love one another with pure hearts. Fervently. [00:33:37] Speaker B: That's difficult, isn't it? We're human, we all act that way. [00:33:43] Speaker C: We're to love one another. [00:33:45] Speaker B: Fervently being born again, there's that word. [00:33:50] Speaker C: We can say that. Are you born again? Yeah, you better be. Yeah, you better be. [00:33:57] Speaker B: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, of incorruptible. [00:34:03] Speaker C: It's not the Lamb that is being slain. That kind of history on what we're doing with our salvation and being born again with that kind of a story behind it, that we kill the Lamb. No. This is Jesus Christ. [00:34:17] Speaker B: He is the incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. [00:34:25] Speaker C: The only one that can live forever. [00:34:27] Speaker B: Especially at this time, is Jesus Christ. [00:34:32] Speaker C: There's stories of people that came back to life in the Old Testament and the New Testament, and Jesus brought people to life. [00:34:38] Speaker B: It's not the one. This is the one. So, word of God, giveth to us. [00:34:46] Speaker C: That we can be born again by. [00:34:47] Speaker B: Incorruptible, by the Word of God, by. [00:34:51] Speaker C: Knowing the Scriptures and to understanding the Scriptures and reading them that liveth for liveth and abideth forever. That's Jesus Christ. For all flesh is useless. It's grass, it dies, it turns yellow, it burns up with the heat and the flower fades and falls off. And it's not that kind of a thing that has saved us. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Not a lamb, not a situation, not a building, but by the word of the Lord, endureth forever. Word of the Heavenly Father. [00:35:23] Speaker C: The story of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the story of Jesus being dying and raising from the grave. [00:35:30] Speaker B: And those stories are forever. [00:35:34] Speaker C: They're forever. [00:35:36] Speaker B: And this is the word which by. [00:35:39] Speaker C: The Gospel, is preached unto you don't preach all the other stuff. There's a lot of I get phone calls all the time and start asking me questions about stuff. [00:35:50] Speaker B: Do we need to do this or. [00:35:52] Speaker C: Do we need to do that? That stuff. [00:35:55] Speaker B: We need to know Jesus Christ. We need to know the story of Jesus and speak those things, talk those. [00:36:03] Speaker C: Things with other people around about us. I love to go in the grocery stores and the lady's coming along with a little cart and a little baby in the basket or tied in the front of her. Oh, what aisle? What aisle was that? [00:36:15] Speaker B: Where can I I'm joking and I'm teasing. Babies are fantastic, and that's a way. [00:36:22] Speaker C: Of opening conversation with somebody. [00:36:26] Speaker B: And then we can talk about their baby or talk about Jesus Christ, talk. [00:36:31] Speaker C: About salvation, talk about the Sabbath, talk about something that's pertinent to what they'll usually feed, something back to you, what. [00:36:37] Speaker B: They'Re interested in, and you can start visiting. With them. [00:36:42] Speaker C: That is so good. It's a real good feeling when you do that. [00:36:46] Speaker B: We saw one lady there color doesn't matter, right? [00:36:51] Speaker C: We saw one lady and she had ding ding, ding ding and a little one. I did the same thing with her. What aisle was that? Is it boy or girl? I think we were all boys. All girls. All girls. There's something else to talk about. [00:37:09] Speaker B: Pearl never had a brother, she had just sisters. I never had a brother, I only had sisters. [00:37:20] Speaker C: It's something to talk about, to open the door to visiting with people about salvation, about Christ, and about how God handles our world that we're in and what protection we have from storms and so on. [00:37:32] Speaker B: Wow. [00:37:32] Speaker C: Yes. That's a way of opening the door to talk to them. So let me keep going here. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Sacrifices. [00:37:41] Speaker C: We got those two taken care of all the way down to verse 25 is really good. The Word. Yep. And there's actions on this in Acts Ten. Let's do that one too, since I've got it marked here with even green extra things. Acts chapter Ten. [00:38:05] Speaker B: Acts 1036 1036. The word which God sent unto the. [00:38:18] Speaker C: Children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all. [00:38:26] Speaker B: One more verse. [00:38:29] Speaker C: That word so often the word is actual writing somebody wrote down, but most of the time in the New Testament, the Word, the Word is Jesus Christ. [00:38:42] Speaker B: He's the one. The word I say, ye know, which. [00:38:48] Speaker C: Was published throughout all Judea and began from Galilee after the baptism, which John preached how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power and you could go on and on and what Jesus was doing, his work. We are witnesses of all of this, the happening to Jesus. [00:39:11] Speaker B: Wow. We're talking about the anointing God, anointed. [00:39:16] Speaker C: Jesus to be the one. [00:39:19] Speaker B: To be the one. [00:39:22] Speaker C: Okay, let's go on to I like this one too. First John. [00:39:28] Speaker B: First John. [00:39:30] Speaker C: Some of the verses just jump out at me and I just get excited. [00:39:36] Speaker B: First John, chapter one and verse one. We're talking about somebody here, he's going. [00:39:48] Speaker C: To talk about the Word. [00:39:50] Speaker B: Who is this? That which was from the beginning. [00:39:56] Speaker C: When did Jesus have a start? [00:39:59] Speaker B: Definitely the beginning, nothing else in between matters. [00:40:03] Speaker C: Right. There's other verses that say that before the foundation of the world. We read that today already. [00:40:10] Speaker B: Before the beginning, before the world was begun was Jesus Christ the word which. [00:40:17] Speaker C: Was from the beginning which we have heard. John is saying, I heard his voice, I heard him talk, I heard him preach. I heard the sayings that he said when he healed people, I heard him. [00:40:29] Speaker B: I actually know his voice. [00:40:30] Speaker C: I can understand his voice. If he called me on the telephone, I know who it was. Who we have seen with our eyes. I'm not just retelling the story like Ed Lewin is. I'm not just retelling the story that's in the scripture, I was there. I saw him. [00:40:45] Speaker B: I heard him with my own eyes, I saw him, which we have looked upon. [00:40:53] Speaker C: This one really gets to me, because I could talk to my mother and I could look at her hand, and I know my hand looks like hers. [00:41:01] Speaker B: Does not. [00:41:02] Speaker C: My dad's hand, my mother's hand. So I can say, I was there. I saw him. I looked upon him. [00:41:09] Speaker B: Looked upon him, and our hands handled him. [00:41:13] Speaker C: Can you imagine touching Jesus Christ? People get excited about some popular person on movies or whatever, and they want to tear somebody's clothing so they can have a strip of their cloth or crazy, crazy thinking. But here John is saying, John's writing this. And he said, I handled him. I actually touched him. [00:41:33] Speaker B: I could shake his hand. [00:41:34] Speaker C: I could hug him. I could lean on his breast. Oh, yeah. Think of the things that John might have done as a young person. Why was John so young and chosen? God chosen, but they needed somebody to live beyond a certain number of years. [00:41:50] Speaker B: John was the one who wrote this back here in this back part of Revelation. John wrote it. [00:41:58] Speaker C: He was needed for a long time, so he was very young. [00:42:02] Speaker B: He said, I handled him. [00:42:05] Speaker C: The word of life. [00:42:08] Speaker B: Jesus Christ, the word of life. Wow. And I touched him. [00:42:14] Speaker C: I handled him. You need to read that chapter and just say, Whoa. Think of what John is saying. That gives me chills all the way down my knees. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Wow. [00:42:26] Speaker C: Okay, and how about Hebrews, chapter nine? Hebrews is nearby. Here, let me just put it. Hebrews, chapter nine and verse eleven and. [00:42:36] Speaker B: Twelve. [00:42:39] Speaker C: Chapter 911 and twelve. Christ being come and high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves. It wasn't the Lamb that was slain for Abraham. It was not the Lamb slain in the sacrificing at the temples. He said this is different. [00:43:07] Speaker B: Neither by the blood of goats and. [00:43:10] Speaker C: Calves, but by his own blood. He entered in once into the holy. [00:43:16] Speaker B: Place, making having obtained eternal redemption for us. Try to put that together. [00:43:26] Speaker C: Read more of this. Oh my goodness. What did Jesus do for our salvation? Yeah. Wow. Sacrificed himself, his life, gave it to the Heavenly Father, said, you take care of me, Father. I know he was really dead. Somebody said, oh, he didn't really die. [00:43:44] Speaker B: He was wait a minute. [00:43:47] Speaker C: If he didn't really completely die, the story is all messed up. Jesus died for us, and he was. [00:43:54] Speaker B: Really dead, and God brought him back, okay? [00:43:58] Speaker C: He was given life again, and he was only in the tomb for three days and three nights. [00:44:05] Speaker B: But God was the one that brought him back, okay? [00:44:10] Speaker C: He had the right to lay his life down and say about when he was going to come back. He was the one. Okay, I want to look at a couple more things, provisions that God makes for us. What's one of the big provisions that. [00:44:25] Speaker B: God has made for us? [00:44:27] Speaker C: You could go down the Lamb, the sacrificing, you could go, what's the big one? [00:44:32] Speaker B: Grace. [00:44:34] Speaker C: God provided grace for us. [00:44:37] Speaker B: That's one of the big ones in Genesis. [00:44:41] Speaker C: We read about that, too, there in chapter 22. [00:44:45] Speaker B: So God, to forgive sin, must provide. [00:44:49] Speaker C: A sacrifice for himself. [00:44:52] Speaker B: God needs a sacrifice to clear our sins. [00:44:56] Speaker C: Who is that going to be? And there was no none in the immediate area. You might say they couldn't find anybody here or there or there or there. [00:45:07] Speaker B: He provided his son not an animal. [00:45:11] Speaker C: As in the Old Testament. He provided his son to pay for our sins. In Romans, chapter 623. Bet you know what that one is. I go there quite often. Romans 623 six, verse 23. [00:45:36] Speaker B: For the wages of sin is death. [00:45:41] Speaker C: Not everlasting life in hell? No. It says the wages of sin is. [00:45:50] Speaker B: Death, but the gift of God is eternal life. [00:45:57] Speaker C: And the bad people don't get that gift. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. Our Lord got that one plain enough, right? [00:46:10] Speaker B: He died for our sins. [00:46:11] Speaker C: Let's go to first. Corinthians, one, corinthians and chapter 15. Chapter 15. [00:46:31] Speaker B: And verse three and four. Chapter 15, three and four. [00:46:41] Speaker C: This is Paul preaching or teaching to the Corinthians. And he said, I didn't come to. [00:46:48] Speaker B: You with the wrong kind of message. [00:46:51] Speaker C: Trying to make something of myself. [00:46:54] Speaker B: I came preaching the Gospel, verse three. [00:47:00] Speaker C: For I delivered unto you first of. [00:47:03] Speaker B: All that which I also received. [00:47:08] Speaker C: How that? Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. What are we supposed to preach first? Teach them Hebrew so they can understand Hebrew language. [00:47:19] Speaker B: It's not it that's fluff on the outside. Don't have to learn Hebrew, you have. [00:47:26] Speaker C: To understand ordinary language of your country. [00:47:29] Speaker B: They were corinthians probably spoke some Greek. [00:47:34] Speaker C: Because when the Greek people were in. [00:47:38] Speaker B: Power, they hellenized the world, made everybody learn. [00:47:41] Speaker C: He learned their language, the Greek language. When the Romans came along, it was good enough, just carry on. Latin was known and needed to use it in business, I guess. But everybody else knew and understood Greek. So Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, which is the Old Testament. Remember, New Testament was just being built. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Right here now, right? [00:48:09] Speaker C: When they say that it was from the scriptures, they're meaning the Old Testament. [00:48:15] Speaker B: And that he was buried. [00:48:18] Speaker C: Jesus was buried and he rose again the third day, according to the scriptures. This is taught in the Old Testament. [00:48:28] Speaker B: And the New Testament writers wrote it, too. But it was he rose again. [00:48:34] Speaker C: That's a big deal. He was buried completely. He was wrapped, prayed over the sprinkling, the oil and all of that and they put him in the tomb for three days. [00:48:50] Speaker B: There was Lazarus. [00:48:51] Speaker C: They said, don't ask, open the cave. [00:48:53] Speaker B: Because he stinks by now. In three days, scripture says that Jesus would not be, he would not deteriorate. [00:49:07] Speaker C: There's another word. He would not have stayed in the tomb long enough to deteriorate or God kept him away from being deteriorated. So he rose the third day, according. [00:49:20] Speaker B: To the Scriptures, and then was seen. [00:49:24] Speaker C: Of the Twelve, and he was seen. [00:49:25] Speaker B: Of Peter, Sephas, and how many others. [00:49:31] Speaker C: Just to make proof? [00:49:32] Speaker B: Verse 6500 more saw him. [00:49:37] Speaker C: This is not done in a corner as they said in those days. This was proof beyond a doubt. A proof that Jesus raised from the. [00:49:46] Speaker B: Grave at Romans three is another verse. [00:49:51] Speaker C: I'd like to catch at this time. So let's look at Romans, romans again. This time chapter three. And verse 24. [00:50:08] Speaker B: 24. [00:50:12] Speaker C: Being justified freely by his grace. Oh, there it is again, right. [00:50:20] Speaker B: What was our saving power was grace being justified. [00:50:27] Speaker C: We've been cleared of our sins. [00:50:29] Speaker B: Justified freely by his grace through the. [00:50:33] Speaker C: Redemption that is in Christ Jesus. [00:50:38] Speaker B: Whom God hath set forth to be a. [00:50:43] Speaker C: Perpetuation through faith in his blood, to have faith in that. Jesus'blood was the one that was sufficient. [00:50:50] Speaker B: Not animals blood, to declare his righteousness. [00:50:56] Speaker C: For the remission of sins that are past. You're not supposed to keep sinning. Your sins are past once they're given. [00:51:06] Speaker B: Blessed and forgiven through the forbearance of God. [00:51:11] Speaker C: God knew all about this and had planned it. [00:51:14] Speaker B: This is God's way to declare. [00:51:17] Speaker C: I say that this time his righteousness. [00:51:20] Speaker B: That he might be just and the. [00:51:23] Speaker C: Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. [00:51:28] Speaker B: Got to believe in Jesus. [00:51:30] Speaker C: These are words that we can use in our regular conversation, that we believe. [00:51:33] Speaker B: In Jesus for the justifying and forgiveness. Let's keep going. [00:51:41] Speaker C: So I told you about the connection between the Son, God's son, and the. [00:51:50] Speaker B: Idea of Joseph's me, Abraham's son. [00:51:59] Speaker C: So there's a connection between the two. The Old and New Testament are verifying these two things. So we like to look at a. [00:52:09] Speaker B: Bit of that and then I'll have finished. [00:52:15] Speaker C: Man cannot redeem another. We can't pay something to the Heavenly Father and redeem a friend or family member. They have to do it on their own. We can't redeem them. Look for Psalm 49. 49, yes, Psalm 49. And we could read six, seven and eight. [00:52:55] Speaker B: They that trust, we need to do that for their trusting in the right thing. [00:53:00] Speaker C: What does this say? Trust in their wealth. That must, must be wrong, right? This is not going to work. They trust in their and they boast. [00:53:09] Speaker B: Themselves the multitude of their riches. [00:53:13] Speaker C: Wow. What's the other side of the coin? None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. For the redemption of their souls is precious and it ceaseth. [00:53:33] Speaker B: Forever. This abiding truth that we can't redeem. [00:53:40] Speaker C: Ourselves, we can't redeem our friends, we can't buy their faith. There's a church that says that if you come in and pay me a certain amount of money, I'll light candles for you first. But then also I'll pray so many times for your relative and they'll come out of purgatory. [00:53:59] Speaker B: That takes you back to Martin Luther his time. [00:54:05] Speaker C: Martin Luther said, no, no, wait a minute. There are verses that deny that idea. You can't pray for somebody else and pray them out of out of their sins after they're dead. You can't be baptized for them. There was things that was going on there challenging that idea that you could pray for somebody and pray them out of purgatory. Pray away of ransom, give a ransom for pay some money to buy them out of that. That is a really bad choice of words. The way that whole system ran. If you ever get a chance, you want to watch the movie on trouble with his name, the guy that went to China. Oh, boy. Okay, I shouldn't have started it, I guess, but he was life and travel. [00:55:10] Speaker B: Of I think it's going to come back. But he got back from China and. [00:55:16] Speaker C: He went to the highest court in the country, which was the head people of the Catholic Church, and tried to explain what he had seen, what he had heard, and they rejected him. Said that if he didn't denounce it, he would be in purgatory and then in hell forever. Who was that boy? If you want to hear what that church controlled, how much power they controlled, wow, okay. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Marco Polo. [00:55:52] Speaker C: Marco? Yeah. It's Marco Polo, wasn't it? Yeah, Marco Polo. So look up the stories and the travels of Marco Polo. First Peter, chapter one. It's got two verses yet to read. [00:56:06] Speaker B: Here, but first Peter. [00:56:12] Speaker C: Chapter one. First Peter, chapter one. And I want verse 18. Verse 18. There it is. 18 and 19. For as much as ye know that ye are not redeemed you're talking about redeeming by blood and by Jesus death and resurrection with corruptible things. That doesn't work. [00:56:52] Speaker B: You can't be redeemed with silver and. [00:56:55] Speaker C: Gold that's in that verse. Can you buy somebody else's salvation or. [00:56:59] Speaker B: Your own for your vain conversation? [00:57:03] Speaker C: That's an incorrect, is what the vain means. You think you can get away with that? Try it out. It's not going to work. It's a vain conversation received by the traditions of your fathers. What are the fathers doing? They were drifting off into serving other gods. Okay, that's bad. Verse 19. [00:57:22] Speaker B: But with the precious blood of Christ. [00:57:27] Speaker C: As the Lamb, without blemish and without. [00:57:29] Speaker B: Spot, that's who we can trust in. [00:57:33] Speaker C: That's where our salvation comes from. [00:57:37] Speaker B: Jeremiah, chapter two. Yes. Okay. [00:57:42] Speaker C: Jeremiah. [00:57:45] Speaker B: This is going to be like. [00:57:47] Speaker C: New Testament here, isn't it? Some of the Old Testament stories and scriptures have a direct connection with the New Testament because they were quoting from this Bible, weren't they? [00:58:00] Speaker B: Okay. [00:58:02] Speaker C: Jeremiah, chapter two. I'm going to go a little further. Chapter two, and I want verse 21 and 22. [00:58:11] Speaker B: 21 and 22 21 reads this way. [00:58:18] Speaker C: Yet I had planted thee a noble vine. God is talking to us. Aren't we talking to these people? Holy and right seed, how art thou turned into a degraded Degenerate? Yes, that's the word. [00:58:43] Speaker B: Degenerate Plant. [00:58:46] Speaker C: How could you go that far? Bad. I planted you good for a strange vine unto me. I didn't plant you as a foreign vine not known to Heavenly Father and from some other country. Because I didn't plant you as a degrading plant. Degenerate Plant. I planted you a noble vine. [00:59:07] Speaker B: Verse 22. [00:59:09] Speaker C: For thou wast, washed thee. For though thou wash thee with miter that's a type of soap, type of cleansing. [00:59:23] Speaker B: And take thee much soap, yet an. [00:59:28] Speaker C: Iniquities is marked before me, saith the Lord God. We can't hide our iniquities by washing ourselves. Got to cleanse ourselves, take a bath. [00:59:41] Speaker B: Get a good kind of soap, go. [00:59:43] Speaker C: To the ones that have the ability to make things white. No, that's not going to help you. [00:59:52] Speaker B: So you have to deal with Heavenly Father. [00:59:55] Speaker C: What's? Titus three. [01:00:00] Speaker B: Titus, chapter three. [01:00:14] Speaker C: That is chapter three. Okay. And then I want verse five. That's why it was on the next page. Chapter five. Not by works of righteousness. If you crawl down these stairs on your knees and crawl one block down there and crawl back on your knees and up here, and if you bow between these ten stations of the cross, that's not it. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us. Saved, past tense. Saved us from the washing, by the washing of regeneration, renewing of the Holy Ghost. It's the Holy Ghost. It's heavenly Father doing this. And with Jesus Christ doing it. And he shed his blood in the next verses as well. And the grace of God is in the next verses. All of that means it's a God thing God did. It not something we did. [01:01:15] Speaker B: Another part two, Corinthians. [01:01:22] Speaker C: And verse chapter five. Chapter five. This is what these men were preaching. Chapter five. Two corinthians chapter five. And I'll start with verse 17. Verse 17 to the end of the chapter, actually. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, we better be that's not if you. [01:01:56] Speaker B: Want to, you better be there. [01:02:00] Speaker C: He is a new creature. You're going to change from your old ways and habits and so on. You better get it done. [01:02:07] Speaker B: Old things are passed away. [01:02:09] Speaker C: And behold, all things are become new. [01:02:11] Speaker B: And all things are of God, who. [01:02:15] Speaker C: Hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ. It's a god thing. God did it. God figured this plan of salvation out. [01:02:23] Speaker B: He's done it for Himself, not imputing. [01:02:27] Speaker C: Their transgressions unto them and hath committed them, committed unto us the word of reconciliation. He has preached this. God has put this into the minds of his ministers and into his words, into the Gospels that we can be reconciled to the Heavenly Father. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. We're not just here filling a pew. We're not just walking a street. We're an ambassador to show people what it means to be a Christian, to. [01:03:00] Speaker B: Be like Christ, as though God did. [01:03:03] Speaker C: Beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. He said, hey, get the job done. For ye hath made him to be sin for us. And what, you're blowing this off? [01:03:19] Speaker B: No way. [01:03:20] Speaker C: For the Heavenly Father hath made him. [01:03:23] Speaker B: Christ to be sin for us, who. [01:03:27] Speaker C: Knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. [01:03:34] Speaker B: Okay, how much planar? [01:03:36] Speaker C: No planar. Right. What part of thou shalt not do not understand? Revelations, chapter five, my last verse and verse nine. [01:03:48] Speaker B: And they sang a new song saying thou art worthy to take the book. [01:03:55] Speaker C: And to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain. [01:04:00] Speaker B: That's Jesus Christ, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of. [01:04:07] Speaker C: Every kindred, no matter what nation you're in, out of every tongue, no matter what language they speak. [01:04:13] Speaker B: All these nations of the world and. [01:04:16] Speaker C: Peoples, the types of peoples and the nations that are lived there, live there. [01:04:20] Speaker B: All, everybody's included, and has made us. [01:04:23] Speaker C: Unto our God. [01:04:27] Speaker B: And priests. [01:04:29] Speaker C: And we shall reign on the earth. Most churches teach that they go somewhere else. This says that we're going to reign on the earth. Jesus is one that has saved us. He did all of this for us. Heavenly Father made the plan and we're coming up on the side of the roses here. We're going to be kings and priests. We're going to reign with Jesus Christ on the earth. God bless you. [01:05:49] Speaker D: Let's all rise up in your hymnals. Hymn 197 trust and Obey 1917 when we walk with the Lord in the light of his word what a glory he sheds on our way while we do his goodwill he abides with us still and with all who will trust and obey trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey not a shadow can rise, not a cloud in the skies but a small quickly drives it away not a doubt or a fear not a sign or a tear can abide while we trust and obey trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey not a burden we bear not a sorrow we share but our toil he doth richly repay not a grief nor a loss not a frown nor a cross but is blessed if we trust and obey trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. But we never can prove the delights of his love until all on the altar we lay for the favor he shows and the joy he bestows are for them who will trust and obey. Trust and obey. For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at his feet or we'll walk by his side in the way what he says we will do where he seems we will go never fear only trust and obey trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.