WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.240 Holy Spirit, we welcome you right now. Just put your 2 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:06.719 hands up and just agree with me. Holy Spirit. We 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:10.160 welcome you to teach us, to open up the eyes 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:15.640 of our understanding, to train us in wisdom, train us 5 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.600 in heaven, tin us in the wisdom of heaven. Holy Spirit. 6 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:26.800 We welcome not only the shift of our own hearts 7 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:36.119 in you, but we welcome the disempowering and the displacing 8 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:42.280 and the overcoming of every thought, doctrine, perspective that we've 9 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.240 held that is contrary to truth. 10 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:51.880 We thank you for your help. Now help us in Jesus'. 11 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:56.479 Name, And everybody said a man, hallemlujah. 12 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.079 He helps us. Amen, he helps us. 13 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:02.320 Let's go right away to uh, let's go right away 14 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.680 to something, because if I don't read the Bible, here's 15 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:08.560 what happens is I get all excited, and then if 16 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:10.680 I don't read the Bible, we never get to it. 17 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.040 And then then I assume you know everything, and then 18 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:20.079 like three of you don't, so then we get really 19 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:27.799 messed up. I know only three of you don't know everything, but. 20 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:32.519 But for those three, I have to read this. How 21 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:34.519 are we doing here? We are here? 22 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.239 We are Galatians three. Let's read a couple. Let's read 23 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:45.159 Galatians three seven through nine. Understand then that those who 24 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:52.480 have faith are children of Abraham. 25 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:53.400 Scripture. 26 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:58.159 Now that that's that's interesting right there, because we're not 27 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:03.280 only children of God by exercising faith, but we become 28 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:08.360 children of the father of faith. So the Bible calls 29 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:13.000 Abraham the father of faith or the father of those 30 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.960 who walk by faith. So when we exercise faith in 31 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.680 Jesus or faith in God and Jesus the Son, then 32 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.439 we become children of Abraham. 33 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.960 So we're children of God and we're children of Abraham. 34 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:30.039 Is that okay? 35 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.919 Scripture foresaw, or God foresaw, or those who wrote scripture 36 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:39.800 or the prophets foresaw that God would justify, justify means 37 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:45.280 make as if you've never sinned. That's an odd thing. 38 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:48.719 It's an interesting thing. God would justify the gentiles, Now, 39 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:53.400 the gentiles, that's everybody that's not a Jew. That God 40 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:59.360 would justify the gentile nations, the gentile people by faith. Scripture, 41 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:03.599 the writer subscripture foresaw this was coming back when all 42 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:09.560 of our history, all of our ethnic lineage, back when 43 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:13.639 they were bound in darkness. The prophets foresaw that God 44 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:18.759 would justify us someday that one day gentile nations. He 45 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:25.199 theen nations would be justified not through their works, not 46 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:29.400 through perfection, but through faith, that God would justify the 47 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.319 gentiles by faith, announcing the gospel meaning good news. The 48 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:36.960 gospel is good news. Announcing the good news, the gospel 49 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:45.000 in advance to all these gentile nations, to Abraham saying this, 50 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.080 this is Genesis chapter twelve. He's going to quote it. 51 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:53.280 All nations will be blessed through you. All nations will 52 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:57.240 be blessed through you. So and it's not all nations 53 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:02.240 in general, it's all the nations who come into faith 54 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.840 in Christ Jesus. Those nations, as they come into faith, 55 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.919 they will be blessed. Everybody, say blessed. That is a 56 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.039 very that's a dangerous word. And say it again, dangerous, 57 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:18.240 dangerous because you know, you've been around religion long enough 58 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:24.480 that you're called to poverty, you're called to barely get biasm, 59 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:27.800 you're called to wormism. 60 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.560 That we are we experience spiritual rebirth. 61 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:35.920 But the truth is that we're to live a life 62 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.920 of worminess until we go to heaven, because it's in 63 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:45.240 heaven that we experience the goodness of God. Well, that's 64 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.639 not Bible. Sorry to mess with you. It says all 65 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.240 nations we blessed through you, and it's all the gentile nations. 66 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:56.360 It's all those that weren't a part of Abraham previously. 67 00:04:56.839 --> 00:05:00.240 So those let's go on the verse nine tho who 68 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:05.120 rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man 69 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.759 of faith. So those who rely on faith, not rely 70 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.519 on their good works, not rely on perfection, not rely 71 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.920 on the law, not rely on their good their do goodisms. 72 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.560 Those who rely on faith, faith in who faith in 73 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.600 Jesus are blessed along with Abraham, the man of blessing. 74 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:26.279 Did you know you can destroy your blessing if you 75 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:30.720 don't believe you're blessed, Because if you don't believe you're blessed, 76 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:32.519 that would be anti faith. 77 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.240 So you can actually mess up your blessing. Hello, some billion. 78 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.879 So he redeemed us verse fourteen. He redeemed us in 79 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.439 order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to 80 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.360 the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we 81 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:55.399 might receive the promise of the spirit. Verse sixteen. The 82 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.399 promises plural. We're spoken to Abraham and. 83 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:01.399 To his seed. 84 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.959 Scripture does not say to seeds as in plural, but 85 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:12.079 to seed meaning and the seeds meaning many people, but 86 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:17.360 to your seed meaning one person who is Christ. What 87 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:20.480 I mean is this, This is Paul. The law introduced 88 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:24.199 four hundred and thirty years later does not invalidate or 89 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:28.639 set aside the covenant previously established by God, and thus 90 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:33.079 do away with the promise. For if the inheritance depends 91 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.079 on the law, or fulfilling the law, or the do 92 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.639 gooding of the law, then it no longer depends on 93 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:39.560 the promise. But God and his grace gave it to 94 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:44.199 Abraham through a promise verse twenty nine, jumping to the 95 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:47.920 end of the chapter. If thus, or therefore, if you 96 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:55.279 belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs 97 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:56.959 according to the promise. 98 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:01.120 Do you believe that? 99 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:04.279 Okay, well you don't have to, because we can close 100 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:06.759 in prayer right now. I'm supposed to convince you that 101 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:10.800 this is good. Okay, So here's what I want to 102 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:15.360 say A couple things here is that what Jesus has 103 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:20.879 done is he's linked to us to Abraham and this 104 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.319 promise to Abraham, starting in verse one and two of 105 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.639 chapter twelve, but then reiterated in chapter fifteen of Genesis, 106 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.519 Chapter seventeen of Genesis, Chapter twenty one of Genesis. All 107 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:37.279 of those were to Abraham twelve fifteen, seventeen twenty one. 108 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:44.720 There's more there, and it pertained to wealth, increase, abundance, sustenance, 109 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:49.560 but it also pertained to land. Land is really a 110 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:54.879 big deal. And probably land has mentioned more times to Abraham, 111 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:59.160 Isaac and Jacob than you've ever thought about, because land 112 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:03.759 was in many ways it was their wealth. It was 113 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:09.600 their wealth. So but what's happened here? These promises were 114 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:12.240 made to him and. 115 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:14.120 To his seed. 116 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.560 So we see that the same promises were then made 117 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:23.120 to Isaac, and they were made to Jacob and Abraham. 118 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:27.639 Isaac and Jacob are known in scripture as the patriarchs. 119 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:32.480 They're the patriarchs of the Jewish people, the Hebrew people, 120 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:37.360 the patriarchs of the Covenant of Promises, and God would 121 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:40.879 reiterate the promises over and over to them. Genesis twenty 122 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:45.080 six Isaac experience as a famine, but God says so anyway, 123 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:49.840 and he reaps a one hundred fold harvest in the 124 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.879 midst of the famine because he follows what God instructs 125 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:56.720 him to do so and this was God reiterating the promise. 126 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:05.399 So the crazy thing is is that Jesus, Jesus connects 127 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.559 us back to Abraham. So we could say over here 128 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.399 that Jesus is connecting us all the way back to 129 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:17.320 the Abrahamic promise. And the Bible says that Jesus was 130 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:21.840 actually the seed that was promised to Abraham. So that 131 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:26.360 means that we're connected to the Abrahamic promise and we 132 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.600 are partakers of the Abrahamic promise. Now I want you 133 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.639 to see that because this is it's important for us 134 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:36.799 to understand the New Testament and New Testament living. And 135 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.360 this is the growing kingdom over here, and this is 136 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:42.840 your heart garden. Everybody's saying, heart garden, this is your 137 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:45.360 heart garden. I got the growing kingdom going right through 138 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:48.080 the middle of the heart garden. That's a little bit 139 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.480 of a first service snaffhu, so we'll just stop it 140 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:51.919 right there. 141 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:53.399 So this is our heart garden. 142 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:57.399 And our topic today again is financial well being, because 143 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:02.559 we are very, very very concerned about our financial wellbeing 144 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:07.480 and our household well being and all that pertains to 145 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:10.840 the sustenance of our life. It's a very big deal 146 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.519 to us. We spend a lot of our time thinking 147 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:17.679 about it and then also laboring to bring forth the 148 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:22.720 sustenance and the financial wellbeing that belongs to us, or 149 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.399 that we can carve out. 150 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:26.879 It's a big deal to us. 151 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:31.799 And I've outlined ten of these trees of life. There's 152 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.639 ten trees of life that we've been alluding to. We've 153 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.600 only gotten to one so far, and that's the financial 154 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:43.360 well being tree. And this one is very important. And 155 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.360 what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to draw these 156 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.159 two together so you connect this because when we get 157 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.759 over here into the New Testament, this is the New Testament, 158 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:58.279 we have all sorts of interesting thoughts about financial wellbeing. 159 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:04.200 And in many many places, and under the influence of 160 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:10.039 many theological thoughts, we're told that we are actually called 161 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:13.600 to a life of poverty, that we're actually called to 162 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.480 a life of not enough, or some of us we've 163 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:20.639 called and God will use that to keep us humble, 164 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:24.559 or maybe we have been told theologically that we're called 165 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.320 to just a life of giving. We just need to 166 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:32.279 be just constantly thinking about giving because we're called to 167 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:36.360 a life of giving. And so there's all sorts of 168 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:39.279 theological thoughts and most of these thoughts come out of 169 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.960 the words of Jesus, in the words of Paul. And 170 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:47.240 so we've concluded we've taken the New Testament instruction. Over 171 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.240 here we get New Testament instruction. We've taken the New 172 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:53.919 Testament instruction and the New Testament thoughts and thinking. And 173 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.960 what we've done in many of our theological cases is 174 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:02.639 we've isolated the New test intment, and we've isolated the 175 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.919 instruction or the teaching of the New Testament, and we've 176 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.039 not connected it to the old and we've not connected 177 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.559 it to the Abrahamic Covenant, to the Abrahamic promises. Many 178 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:17.240 times we get burdened down over here under the Law 179 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:23.240 of Moses. The Law of Moses was added to the 180 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:27.240 promise the Covenant of Promise. The Law of Moses was 181 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.240 added to the Covenant of Promise four hundred and thirty 182 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.559 years after the Covenant of Promise. The Law of Moses 183 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:41.960 was added because of transgressions. So transgression was increasing, and 184 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:46.120 God added the law untill the Bible says in Galatians 185 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:49.200 three Galatians for Romans, for that the law of Moses 186 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:55.279 has added until the Seed of Promise would come, when Christ, 187 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:59.519 the seed of the promise came. Then he came to 188 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:03.960 write the laws of God on our heart. He came 189 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:06.799 to write the laws of God on our heart, and 190 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:11.919 his Holy Spirit dwelling in us supersedes the law of Moses. Now, 191 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:14.559 it's not that we don't teach or train, that we 192 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:19.000 don't that we invalidate the laws of Moses. It's just 193 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:24.360 that our hearts already supersede that. So I don't take 194 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.240 the life of my neighbor. I also don't even think 195 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:30.360 about it. So the law of the Spirit goes in 196 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.600 and it converts my heart. It makes my heart soft. 197 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:34.679 So I'm not wishing I could take the heart of 198 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.399 the life of my neighbor. I don't take the wife 199 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:40.039 of my neighbor. I don't even think about it, because 200 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:43.600 it's not just the doing, which the law addressed the doing. 201 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.399 It's not just the doing, but the. 202 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:52.360 Spirit of the life of Christ within me is retraining 203 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:59.720 my heart and causing me to not do such a thing. 204 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:00.840 Right, are you with me? 205 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:04.519 So the law of Moses was added until the seed 206 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.279 would come. But what happens is many times that we 207 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:11.320 get overly focused on the Law of Moses, or we 208 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:15.480 avoid the Covenant of Promise. We don't make the connection 209 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:19.320 here between the two and all that God was doing 210 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:21.159 during this. And I want to give you an example 211 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:25.320 because I think it's possible to it's actually possible to 212 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:33.279 actually even prophesy with false prophecy. It's actually possible to 213 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:41.879 prophesy falsely if my doctrines are false. Because we don't 214 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:46.159 realize it, but most of us we're actually prophesying out 215 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:52.279 of the treasure within us. Lots of times the ecstatic 216 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:57.759 expression of something prophetic that we really feel it's of 217 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:04.639 God actually really interwoven uh to uh the way we've 218 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:06.879 been trained in the scripture. Let me let me give 219 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:10.320 you example. All across America, there's a church where they 220 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:16.159 don't believe that you should have instruments in church. Now 221 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:19.720 this church that believes you shouldn't have musical instruments in church. 222 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:25.720 They and I'm not talking about this to say that 223 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:28.879 they don't have Jesus. Even they might have Jesus. That's okay, right. 224 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:30.919 Did you know that you can have Jesus and still 225 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:35.919 have false doctrines. That's how merciful and gracious God is, 226 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:38.960 Like He'll put up with a lot of chrod and 227 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:47.919 still show up and love us. He's putting up with me. Hello, somebody. 228 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:52.879 But we have to realize that when this church began, 229 00:15:54.559 --> 00:16:02.000 they begin based on doctrines and a perspective of scripture, 230 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:09.200 and then prophetic words that accompanied those doctrines and those scriptures, 231 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:16.200 and then it actually coalesced into people gathering around those doctrines, 232 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.200 and those doctrines were just based on a limited view 233 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:24.519 of scripture where they had isolated the New Testament. And 234 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.919 here's what they say, that the New Testament doesn't teach 235 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:32.000 about instruments, therefore there should be no instruments in the 236 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:39.240 New Testament church. Now, it's true that the New Testament 237 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:40.960 doesn't teach about instruments. 238 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:43.519 So are we in error? 239 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:49.639 We had Kenneth on the keys this morning, We had 240 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:51.440 Ugo on the. 241 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:51.879 Guitar this morning. 242 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:54.320 We had all this stuff happening up here, beautiful stuff happening. 243 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.720 It might have offended some of you. I don't know, 244 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.759 but I was blessed. My ears were singing with joy. 245 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:06.839 But are we in error? And again not to I'm 246 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:11.240 not naming this group, and I'm not here to harm them. 247 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:16.920 I'm trying to help us. Are we in error because 248 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:20.079 we have instruments? When instruments aren't mentioned in the New 249 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:23.880 Testament at all, or are we taking a liberty we 250 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:29.319 shouldn't take, or could it be they have a richer 251 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.240 presence of the Spirit with them because they've taken a 252 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.920 note that the New Testament doesn't include instruments, and so 253 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.799 therefore by not including instruments, they have a higher truth, 254 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.880 and so they have a richer abundance of the spirit 255 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:45.759 in their services. 256 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.599 What is true? What is true? Are you with me? 257 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:49.400 So? 258 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:51.960 What they're missing and I want to help you with 259 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.279 this and we're going somewhere with finances. What they're missing 260 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:00.960 is the connection between this and this because before the 261 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:06.640 New Testament Church, there's a prophet named Amos, and Amos 262 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:11.680 foresaw the New Testament Church, and in the spirit, Amos 263 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:16.480 saw a few things happening. Amos saw the Mosaic system coming. 264 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:16.920 To a close. 265 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:21.240 He saw AD seventy and in eighty seventy he saw 266 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:27.799 Jerusalem and Israel destroyed, and the temple sacrificial system brought 267 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:32.319 to a close. And this was happening because remember when 268 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:37.400 Jesus went into the Holy of Holies with the blood 269 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.480 of his perfect sacrifice before the Father. It says that 270 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.599 the veil in the temple was torn by a four 271 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:48.880 inch thick veil. It was torn in two, signifying that 272 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:53.319 Jesus had opened through his own brokenness of his flesh 273 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:55.960 and the shedding of his blood, he had opened up 274 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.480 the Holy of Holies for us, that we could access 275 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:02.880 God through him. And so that means temple sacrifices were 276 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:06.920 no longer needed. And sure enough Israel was judged for 277 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:11.559 their apostasy, and by eighty seventy the Temple was destroyed 278 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.599 and Jerusalem was scattered, as well as all of Israel. 279 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:18.160 Now let's find that in scripture. Let's go to Amos 280 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:20.359 chapter nine, and I want to read this to you, 281 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:22.920 and I want you to see this because Amos foresaw this, 282 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:27.599 so Amos is seeing this happen. And chapter nine is 283 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:29.359 the big one on this. And I'm not going to 284 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.759 read the whole thing, but chapter nine, starting at verse nine, listen, 285 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:35.079 for I will give the command, and I will shake 286 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:38.680 the people of Israel among the nations as a grain 287 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.319 is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will 288 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:44.519 reach the ground. All the sinners of my people, all 289 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:47.039 the sinners of my people, not the covenant keepers, but 290 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:50.279 the sinners of my people will die by the sword, 291 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:53.680 and those who say disaster will not overtake us or 292 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:54.440 meet us. 293 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:56.519 That's it's interesting because. 294 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:59.160 You get to realize that before the New Testament was written, 295 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.440 the New Testament, the New Testament, we consider it a 296 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:04.799 Bible book now, but you know all those books, right, 297 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.599 But before it was written, all of these new people 298 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:12.039 in the Lord and in New Testament faith, all they 299 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:14.880 had was the Old Testament. So they actually quoted this, 300 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:16.920 you know, one of them, Paul and Peter actually quoted 301 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:21.400 when they say peace and safety, then suddenly destruction will 302 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:22.079 come upon them. 303 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.759 Well, he was quoting adam Amos chapter nine right here. 304 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:26.680 Did you know that? 305 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:31.440 You didn't know that Jesus came in Matthew twenty eight, 306 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:35.720 eighteen and nineteen. He said, all authority is given to me. 307 00:20:35.799 --> 00:20:39.319 Now go to the nations. Now we have to realize 308 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:43.039 all the nations have been under these unclean deities ever 309 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:47.559 since Genesis chapter eleven. Ever since Genesis chapter eleven, they've 310 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:50.680 been under unclean deities. And that's back when they rebelled. 311 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:53.400 And so this is all happening, and he's opening up 312 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:55.359 the eyes of the apostles, and he's saying, let's go. 313 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:58.480 And so they have a big argue amount. 314 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:01.680 About it, and the Pharisees are criticizing them, and everything 315 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:04.079 is going bad. They're having all this, and so they 316 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.759 have their first church council. So the apostles get together 317 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:10.240 and they're going to have their first church council in 318 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:13.519 Acts fifteen, because they got to solve this because they 319 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:15.599 don't know if they should tell all these people to 320 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:17.920 be under the law or not, and if they all 321 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:19.839 should be circumcised or what they should do. 322 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:22.960 Right, So this is what's happening. 323 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.039 So Acts chapter fifteen, Verse five and six, some of 324 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.279 the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees 325 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:32.680 stood up and say the gentiles must be circumcires and 326 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:35.880 required to keep the law of Moses. And so verse six, 327 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:38.599 the apostles and the elders met to consider this question. 328 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.720 Verse thirteen. When they finished this discussion, I'm not going 329 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.119 to read to you the discussion. They had seven verses 330 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:49.039 of discussion. And then they finished the discussion and James, 331 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:53.440 the brother of Jesus, he spoke up to summarize, brothers, listen, 332 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.720 listen to me. Simon Simon Peter has described to us 333 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.000 how God first intervened to choose the people for his 334 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:03.640 name from the gentiles, because he's telling them about Cornelius's 335 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.480 house and what's happening, and the words of the prophets 336 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:10.480 are in agreement. Now listen, he's going to quote Amos nine. 337 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:13.519 He's going to quote Amos nine, the words of the 338 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:16.839 prophets that are in agreement with this as it is written. 339 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:22.319 After this, I will return after what. After I'm done 340 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.599 with the people of Israel, After I'm done with the law, 341 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:28.599 after I'm done with the mosaic system, after I'm done 342 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:35.200 with sacrifice of animals, and I'm installing one lamb. After that, 343 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:37.960 I'm going to return. And when I return, I'm going 344 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:44.000 to rebuild David's fallen tent, tabernacle, booth and its ruins. 345 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:47.799 I will rebuild, and I will restore it that it's ruins, 346 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.200 I will rebuild and restore that the rest of mankind 347 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:55.079 may seek the Lord, even all the gentiles who bear 348 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:57.920 my name, says the Lord who does these things things 349 00:22:58.119 --> 00:23:02.319 known from long ago. Now, I want you to see something. 350 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:05.400 This is why the New Testament didn't need to say 351 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:06.799 a word about worship. 352 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:08.279 God. 353 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:11.039 The reason the New Testament didn't need to say a 354 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:16.519 word about psalms or songs or hymns or flutes or 355 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:20.680 liars or drums or symbols or any such thing is 356 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:24.680 right here, because God announced through Amos he was going 357 00:23:24.759 --> 00:23:27.240 to do it. And then they realized, oh, my goodness, 358 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:30.960 he's doing it. And as soon as they made that correlation, 359 00:23:31.079 --> 00:23:36.160 they understood, Oh, David is the one who tapped into 360 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:39.039 the fullness of God in the Abrahamy Covenant. 361 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:41.000 And David is the one. 362 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:45.000 Who, because of the Abrahaming Covenant, which was a covenant 363 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.759 of promise by faith and righteousness was granted by faith, 364 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.839 not through the blood of sacrifice and animals, David tapped 365 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:55.680 into something revelatory before Christ came and tasted of the 366 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:59.680 Christ before Christ came. And it's David who enjoyed that 367 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:01.839 for thirty three years. Now what happened is for thirty 368 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:04.960 three years. How long did the Lord live? For thirty 369 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:08.480 three years? David who was passionate about the presence of God, 370 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.920 and Saul was not. Saul was the king before David, 371 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:15.960 and Saul took the Ark into battle. He took the 372 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:18.880 Ark into warfare, and so then the Ark and that 373 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.759 displeased the Lord, and so then the ark was stolen 374 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:25.160 away by the Philistines, and it was up in a 375 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:29.920 hill somewhere, and then God cursed the Philistines, and so 376 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:32.000 then they released the ark and it went to Obad 377 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:34.519 Edam's house. And then David hears that the Ark is 378 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:37.319 up there, and when they install him as king, he's like, I. 379 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:38.359 Can't go forward. 380 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:40.599 I can't do anything without the glory of called the 381 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:44.119 presence of the Lord, the Hikina blessing of God. I 382 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:48.400 can't do anything without tapping into the Covenant of Promise. 383 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:51.680 And so Holy Spirit gives him a revelation to go 384 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:55.480 get the Ark and to bring it to Jerusalem, and 385 00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:59.240 to go to the highest mountain in Jerusalem and to 386 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:02.640 put a ten there a tabernacle, and that tint, and 387 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:06.519 that tabernacle was built while the tabernacle continued to exist 388 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:11.559 in Gibeon. So in Gibeon they continued to offer sacrifices 389 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:16.079 of blood annually with no arc. But David set up 390 00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:19.279 a tint on the highest mountain in Jerusalem called Zion, 391 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:23.200 and there he set up this tabernacle, this tint, but 392 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:24.759 there was no blood sacrifice. 393 00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:25.759 There was only the. 394 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:29.160 Sacrifice of worship, the fruit of the lips of two 395 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:31.680 hundred and eighty eight worshipers. There were two hundred and 396 00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:37.920 eighty eight singers, songwriters, worshipers, instrument players, and they had 397 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:40.319 a four thousand backup. 398 00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:41.880 Reserves so they could rotate just like we do. 399 00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:46.640 Four thousand were in reserve and two hundred and eighty 400 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:49.359 eight were on the front line. And they worshiped God 401 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:54.960