WEBVTT 00:00:01.102 --> 00:00:13.047 There is so much in here to deliver and I don't intend to get it all out tonight, but hopefully I'm going to whet your appetite and you're going to be able to go and study some more and gain some more out of this. 00:00:13.047 --> 00:00:19.012 There is so much missing, so much truth missing in the world today in the church. 00:00:19.012 --> 00:00:25.288 The church is called to be a pillar and ground of the truth, and if people can't go to a church and find the truth, where can they find it from? 00:00:25.288 --> 00:00:28.085 It matters where you go to church. 00:00:28.085 --> 00:00:29.682 There's a lack of faith. 00:00:29.682 --> 00:00:33.990 Jesus said when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth? 00:00:33.990 --> 00:00:36.968 Well, if he comes here, he's going to find faith. 00:00:36.968 --> 00:00:40.005 I declare that over glorious white church. 00:00:40.005 --> 00:00:43.341 But I'm concerned that he's not going to find faith everywhere. 00:00:43.341 --> 00:00:46.469 And I can't tell you that we've got everything all exactly perfectly right. 00:00:46.469 --> 00:00:48.570 We're going from faith to faith, glory to glory. 00:00:48.570 --> 00:00:54.944 We're growing, we're increasing, we're increasing in the knowledge of His truth, we're increasing in revelation. 00:00:54.944 --> 00:00:59.066 This is a life that we never graduate. 00:00:59.066 --> 00:01:01.122 We're just always going up. 00:01:05.581 --> 00:01:09.310 But there's a level of fear in the world that was shocking. 00:01:09.310 --> 00:01:16.165 Shocking to see how quickly people cave in, how quickly people give up, how they give up on the truth that's in this Word. 00:01:16.165 --> 00:01:18.784 How pastors do that. 00:01:18.784 --> 00:01:20.368 It's shameful. 00:01:20.368 --> 00:01:21.543 I'm embarrassed for it. 00:01:21.543 --> 00:01:25.620 It's disappointing Some pastors. 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:37.129 They would preach and tell you that we need to pray for Goliath, instead of gathering five smooth stones and going out there and taking out the giant. 00:01:37.129 --> 00:01:47.683 I'm not convinced that if Jesus were to teach what pastors are teaching today, that Jesus ever would have been crucified. 00:01:47.683 --> 00:01:51.231 Because it just wouldn't have been controversial. 00:01:51.231 --> 00:01:53.727 It wouldn't have been any big deal. 00:01:53.727 --> 00:01:55.986 They can believe that if they want to. 00:01:55.986 --> 00:02:03.203 It's not going to cause any problems for the state, but revelation is missing. 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:11.750 This is not an indictment on anyone here, but sometimes it's always good to get back to the basics. 00:02:11.750 --> 00:02:23.007 It's always good to refresh yourself in the basics and to know that you know what you believe and you know why you believe it, and that you can convey that message to somebody else and help somebody else know the truth. 00:02:23.007 --> 00:02:26.786 Tonight is about that Getting you filled back up with some basics. 00:02:26.786 --> 00:02:28.947 You're going to hear some things that, yeah, I know that. 00:02:28.947 --> 00:02:32.007 I know that, and you may run across a couple of things in there. 00:02:32.007 --> 00:02:33.183 Wow, I've never heard that. 00:02:33.183 --> 00:02:35.765 Well, now we're shoring up your foundation. 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:41.072 A foundation can be a very complicated thing if you're constructing one for a house. 00:02:41.072 --> 00:02:42.926 There's all kinds of design that goes into that. 00:02:42.926 --> 00:02:45.487 You can have a foundation with piers that go down deep. 00:02:45.487 --> 00:02:49.909 There's lots of steel that has to be configured a particular way and tied together. 00:02:49.909 --> 00:02:51.745 The forms have to be set. 00:02:51.745 --> 00:02:59.127 You've got to have a particular thickness, you've got to have particular procedures when pouring concrete, and lots of details go into this. 00:02:59.127 --> 00:03:01.086 And so there's lots of details in our foundation. 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:06.891 It is not the simple thing that people are fond of saying about it. 00:03:06.891 --> 00:03:12.449 Remember when Jesus asked his disciples who do men say that I am? 00:03:12.449 --> 00:03:18.685 And they said well, you know, some say John the Baptist and some say Elijah, maybe Jeremiah or one of the prophets. 00:03:18.685 --> 00:03:20.325 And he said but who do you say that I am? 00:03:20.325 --> 00:03:23.747 And Peter answered and said you're Christ, the Son of the living God. 00:03:23.747 --> 00:03:27.387 And so Jesus' response to him was blessed, are you Simon? 00:03:27.387 --> 00:03:31.407 For flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven. 00:03:31.407 --> 00:03:47.586 And I also say to you, peter, that on this rock you know, peter was a little stone in that meaning, but Jesus said on this rock, which is the greater stone, I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it and I will give you the keys to the kingdom. 00:03:47.586 --> 00:03:50.526 And whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. 00:03:50.526 --> 00:03:52.471 Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 00:03:52.471 --> 00:03:57.572 So he says my church will be built on revelation knowledge. 00:03:57.572 --> 00:03:58.943 And that's missing today. 00:03:58.943 --> 00:04:04.512 People have a head knowledge of what Jesus did, but they don't have a revelation knowledge to go with it. 00:04:04.512 --> 00:04:09.610 And that's the thing that the church, the kingdom of God, is supposed to be built on revelation knowledge. 00:04:09.610 --> 00:04:11.344 And with that comes the keys. 00:04:11.344 --> 00:04:13.926 That means you can go places, you can do things. 00:04:13.926 --> 00:04:22.826 It's keys to understanding and it's a keys of authority so that when you, you can have what you allow and you can stop what you want to disallow. 00:04:22.826 --> 00:04:25.545 And so we have that level of authority in God's kingdom. 00:04:25.545 --> 00:04:29.303 But so much of that is missing in the church today. 00:04:33.300 --> 00:04:47.413 And then you know, just a few minutes later, when Jesus was congratulating him for that, then he goes on to tell his disciples how he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and that he would be raised up on the third day. 00:04:47.413 --> 00:04:51.992 And Peter took him aside and rebuked Jesus and said far be it from you, lord. 00:04:51.992 --> 00:04:53.384 This should not happen to you. 00:04:53.384 --> 00:04:54.382 Far be it from you. 00:04:54.382 --> 00:04:58.187 And Jesus had to turn to Peter and say get behind me Satan. 00:04:58.187 --> 00:05:03.732 And the one minute he congratulated him for this revelation knowledge that he had. 00:05:03.732 --> 00:05:06.048 And the next minute he said get behind me Satan. 00:05:06.048 --> 00:05:08.105 He wasn't talking to Peter per se. 00:05:08.105 --> 00:05:10.564 Peter was a spiritually dead person. 00:05:10.564 --> 00:05:13.726 He was talking to the sin nature in Peter. 00:05:13.726 --> 00:05:16.105 He got revelation knowledge. 00:05:16.105 --> 00:05:17.283 It was a gift from God. 00:05:17.283 --> 00:05:25.310 In that moment there was a mystery revealed to him, and the next minute was the sin nature of Adam coming out in Peter. 00:05:25.310 --> 00:05:27.827 And Jesus had to say get behind me Satan. 00:05:27.827 --> 00:05:30.307 That was a Satan nature that came out. 00:05:31.461 --> 00:05:34.649 And so tonight you're going to hear a lot of scripture. 00:05:34.649 --> 00:05:37.228 You may try to follow along if you want. 00:05:37.228 --> 00:05:40.088 You can scribble notes as fast as you can if you want. 00:05:40.088 --> 00:05:44.389 It might do you good to just listen to it and just hear the scripture. 00:05:44.389 --> 00:05:50.350 The word of God works and faith comes by hearing and hearing, and hearing. 00:05:50.350 --> 00:05:54.420 And so we're going to hear some stuff Tonight. 00:05:54.420 --> 00:05:58.569 I'm going to minister a message that I titled the Complete Salvation. 00:05:58.569 --> 00:06:09.843 This is not the complete every bit of what goes into salvation, but salvation was complete and it completed something and it accomplished. 00:06:09.843 --> 00:06:12.906 And so that's what I mean when I say the complete salvation. 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:22.586 In the Old Testament there were types and shadows that referred to our salvation, referenced Jesus and pointed towards Jesus. 00:06:22.586 --> 00:06:26.071 In fact, the whole Old Testament is going to point towards Jesus. 00:06:26.071 --> 00:06:38.627 If you could imagine God here in the future shining light, sun, jesus here, if you're on this side, you can see the countenance of Jesus, you can see the figure of Jesus, you can see him he's real. 00:06:38.627 --> 00:06:44.846 But God shining light through his son, here and on this side, all you have is a shadow. 00:06:44.846 --> 00:06:49.550 If you're looking forward into the future, all you see is a shadowy figure, a silhouette. 00:06:49.550 --> 00:06:54.684 I've got a shadow, I've got a lot of shadows up here because there's a lot of lights, but these shadows are not me. 00:06:54.684 --> 00:06:58.307 But you can tell I'm here if you were to see a shadow there. 00:06:58.307 --> 00:07:03.151 And so in the Old Testament there are types and shadows of Jesus all the way through there. 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:08.209 In Hebrews 10, 1, it says for the law having a shadow of the good things to come. 00:07:08.209 --> 00:07:20.771 The law was just a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of the things can never, with these same sacrifices which they offer continually, year by year, make those who approach perfect. 00:07:20.771 --> 00:07:22.545 The law could not perfect people. 00:07:22.545 --> 00:07:25.726 They had to do it year after year after year. 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.088 In the Old Testament there's a lot of Jesus-type figures. 00:07:30.088 --> 00:07:33.045 Adam was the first Jesus-type. 00:07:33.045 --> 00:07:37.447 You've got Joseph and Moses and Joshua. 00:07:37.447 --> 00:07:40.031 Jonah was another one. 00:07:40.031 --> 00:07:44.370 Melchizedek, you remember, melchizedek was the first one that Abraham tithed to. 00:07:44.370 --> 00:07:56.507 He was a priest, a chief priest, and Jesus was compared in Hebrews that he or mortal men received tithes, but there he received them and it compared him to Melchizedek. 00:07:56.507 --> 00:07:59.264 So that was a type of Jesus. 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:07.211 Joseph, you recall, he was taken by his brothers and sold into slavery and into bondage. 00:08:07.211 --> 00:08:17.045 He ended up in prison, into the lower parts of the prison, into the worst place of the prison, and he was preserved in prison. 00:08:17.045 --> 00:08:30.529 And he wasn't preserved for his own sake, but he was preserved for the sake of his brethren, so that he could be a salvation to them, so he could bring them out of the trouble that they were in. 00:08:30.529 --> 00:08:32.525 And so Joseph was a type right there. 00:08:32.525 --> 00:08:39.903 Moses led his people out of bondage and slavery, led them through the wilderness On the other side. 00:08:39.903 --> 00:08:50.320 It was charged to Moses that he should lead them into the promised land, and Moses didn't get to do that because he violated a type and shadow that God had ordained before he. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:58.211 God had wanted him to speak to a rock and out of that rock water would flow and it would have watered all the Israelites there in the wilderness. 00:08:58.211 --> 00:09:04.041 But Moses, in his anger, got so frustrated with those people and he beat the rock with his rod. 00:09:04.041 --> 00:09:06.147 And God still honored it and water came out. 00:09:06.147 --> 00:09:07.650 But he violated the type and shadow. 00:09:07.650 --> 00:09:13.472 He wanted us to see, the demonstration of the word of our authority that we have. 00:09:13.472 --> 00:09:15.284 And Moses had a word of authority. 00:09:15.284 --> 00:09:26.707 So Joshua got to lead the Israelites across the river Jordan and into the promised land and he was a type of Jesus in the Old Testament there. 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:44.432 But I'm going to start with let's just start with this the greatest weakness of all of humanity is really you could boil it down to a sin consciousness. 00:09:44.432 --> 00:09:48.187 That's what keeps people slaves to fear. 00:09:48.187 --> 00:09:50.744 Sin consciousness will keep you in fear. 00:09:50.744 --> 00:09:59.227 Imagine the level of victory that we could have if we knew that we were the righteousness, or are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 00:09:59.227 --> 00:10:03.410 If we really were established in that fact, what kind of a life would we live? 00:10:03.410 --> 00:10:14.029 I mean, we're all living in various levels of successes or failures, but sin consciousness is really the oldest and most persistent enemy of faith. 00:10:14.029 --> 00:10:16.221 Why is it? 00:10:16.221 --> 00:10:22.923 Because we've been redeemed from sin and yet it keeps coming back around and we still have to deal with it, and deal with it over and over and over. 00:10:22.923 --> 00:10:27.389 You can't have faith in the Word if you're under condemnation of sin. 00:10:27.389 --> 00:10:39.732 If you sin and you commit one and then you're feeling bad about that, then it's hard to muster up the faith in the Word that says that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 00:10:39.732 --> 00:10:41.222 And so it's an internal battle. 00:10:41.563 --> 00:10:51.206 The sin consciousness Righteousness gives us the ability to stand before God shameless and fearless, and we're called sons in His kingdom, sons and daughters. 00:10:51.206 --> 00:11:12.144 What kind of a relationship would we have with our heavenly Father if we couldn't approach Him and call Him dad, if His kids were always just, you know, hiding in the corners, hiding behind the couch and scampering through the living room to get to the other side, hopefully without being seen, and never talking to dad. 00:11:12.144 --> 00:11:17.187 You know, imagine a relationship with your kids like that, where they're always running away from you and never wanting to interface with you. 00:11:17.187 --> 00:11:19.246 There's no joy in that, there's no pleasure. 00:11:19.246 --> 00:11:25.528 The Father would have no pleasure in His kids that way and he wants us to have joy in His presence. 00:11:25.528 --> 00:11:28.945 Faith pleases God, not fear. 00:11:28.945 --> 00:11:31.121 Remember. 00:11:31.121 --> 00:11:32.504 God said of His Son. 00:11:32.504 --> 00:11:36.831 This is my Son, my beloved Son, and whom I am well pleased. 00:11:39.280 --> 00:11:51.226 The purpose of redemption was to buy back our right and privilege, to get back into the presence of God, to come back in there and to be able to do that without fear and Concern anymore. 00:11:51.226 --> 00:11:53.350 Adam had that in the very beginning. 00:11:53.350 --> 00:11:57.017 He was the first type Jesus type in the Bible and he had that. 00:11:57.017 --> 00:11:58.500 Where he could, he walked with God. 00:11:58.500 --> 00:12:01.010 He walked and talked with God. 00:12:01.010 --> 00:12:03.620 He had, he enjoyed the presence of God. 00:12:03.620 --> 00:12:04.845 God enjoyed talking to him. 00:12:04.845 --> 00:12:14.820 Jesus was pleasing to God because he did the will of the Father and because he lived in the fullness of what he was designed to be. 00:12:14.820 --> 00:12:18.268 Adam lost it. 00:12:18.268 --> 00:12:20.696 Jesus got it back. 00:12:22.666 --> 00:12:33.466 Ephesians 2.12 says then at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the Covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 00:12:33.466 --> 00:12:34.388 We had no hope. 00:12:34.388 --> 00:12:43.681 You got the Israelites, the Hebrew children that had a covenant with God, and then there's the rest of us who had no hope whatsoever. 00:12:43.681 --> 00:12:59.357 Well, jesus not only paid the penalty for all of our transgressions, for all of us, but he defeated Satan and he stripped him of his authority and he made the recreation of our spirit possible on legal grounds. 00:12:59.357 --> 00:13:08.158 God is not going to violate his word or his covenant and he drove out our sin nature and gave us God's own nature and his eternal life. 00:13:08.158 --> 00:13:17.390 Israel had it credited to their account when they had these sacrifices. 00:13:17.390 --> 00:13:21.504 It was credited to their account, but we have become righteous. 00:13:21.504 --> 00:13:26.336 So they had an account where it was kind of deposited in there, but we have become righteous. 00:13:26.336 --> 00:13:37.578 The righteousness of God For he who made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. 00:13:37.578 --> 00:13:39.309 Jesus became sin. 00:13:40.785 --> 00:13:44.078 Jesus talks about you know the reference of I'm the vine, you're the branches. 00:13:44.078 --> 00:13:51.456 If Jesus is righteous, if he is the vine and we are the branches, don't the branches also have the same righteousness that the vine does? 00:13:51.456 --> 00:13:53.086 I mean it only makes sense. 00:13:53.086 --> 00:13:54.251 This is easy logic here. 00:13:54.251 --> 00:13:58.678 If anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation and old things have passed away. 00:13:58.678 --> 00:14:00.125 All things have become new. 00:14:00.125 --> 00:14:10.086 That's why it's so important that we relate to ourselves and to each other as new creatures and not by any other thing, not by race, not by color, not by anything. 00:14:10.086 --> 00:14:13.929 We are new creatures in Christ. 00:14:13.929 --> 00:14:27.455 You got all kinds of hyphenated Americans where they're trying to identify with this culture and that culture and this country and this political party and we're to relate to each other as new creatures in Christ. 00:14:27.455 --> 00:14:34.073 We have a new origin. 00:14:34.073 --> 00:14:44.077 That's kind of hard to wrap your brain around, because we came from something and God interrupted that and said now you originate here, you have a new one, we had an old one and we have a new one. 00:14:44.077 --> 00:14:50.837 So we can't keep reverting back to the old when we are new, and this is the weakness of humanity. 00:14:50.837 --> 00:14:54.397 It is not the righteousness of God to keep reverting back. 00:14:54.397 --> 00:14:58.611 Reverting back, reverting back, it's a wasting of power, it's a wasting of what Jesus has done. 00:15:00.145 --> 00:15:06.345 We know that Jesus was tempted in all points, just like we were, yet without sin, and he remained holy as God all the way through there. 00:15:06.345 --> 00:15:14.053 He came to live as a man and we're gonna talk a little bit about that and he did it successfully and pleased his father. 00:15:14.053 --> 00:15:20.274 When he hung on the cross, his spirit suffered what Adam suffered in the garden. 00:15:20.274 --> 00:15:25.914 When Adam sinned, god kicked him out and he lost his connection with God. 00:15:25.914 --> 00:15:31.270 He became spiritually dead in that moment, right there, and he became separated from God. 00:15:31.633 --> 00:15:35.325 When Jesus became sin, when he suffered on that cross, he became sin. 00:15:35.325 --> 00:15:42.453 He became separated from his heavenly father and that was probably the hardest thing for him. 00:15:42.453 --> 00:15:49.211 While he lived on the earth he was in a world full of sin. 00:15:49.211 --> 00:15:52.918 It surrounded him but it never touched him until he became sin. 00:15:52.918 --> 00:16:02.711 And so if Jesus was sinless, how did he get that way In the garden? 00:16:02.711 --> 00:16:07.764 Adam sinned and he became sin-conscious and he was embarrassed and ashamed and tried to run and hide from God. 00:16:07.764 --> 00:16:13.515 You know, hiding from God, to be like me trying to stand behind this podium here, you can't do it. 00:16:13.515 --> 00:16:19.684 But Adam became sin-conscious and he experienced the shame and that's why he hid. 00:16:19.684 --> 00:16:24.465 And so that sin nature has been passed down from generation to generation all the way through history. 00:16:24.465 --> 00:16:32.379 You know, adam had a supernatural beginning, and let's talk about that one. 00:16:33.645 --> 00:16:39.850 When Adam, when God created Adam, he was formed in the image of God. 00:16:39.850 --> 00:16:42.918 God created another God class of being. 00:16:42.918 --> 00:16:50.528 He created Adam to have authority and to be able to speak things and have nature respond to it. 00:16:50.528 --> 00:16:55.053 He wasn't God, but he was in that class of being so that God could relate to him. 00:16:55.053 --> 00:16:57.379 He was a three-part being spirit, soul and body. 00:16:57.379 --> 00:17:00.472 Just like God is a three-part being. 00:17:00.472 --> 00:17:07.858 He was given dominion and authority over every living thing, all the creeps, all the birds, all the fishes, all the animals, every living thing. 00:17:07.858 --> 00:17:15.368 God breathed life into Adam, so God formed Adam, and Adam wasn't alive. 00:17:15.368 --> 00:17:23.638 God formed Adam out of the dust of the earth and then he breathed life into Adam, and so God's life was in Adam. 00:17:23.638 --> 00:17:37.577 God's perfect life was in Adam and in Leviticus it talks about the life being in the blood and so God's life went in through Adam's nostrils and into Adam's blood, where it resided. 00:17:37.577 --> 00:17:43.390 God's life was in Adam when Adam sinned. 00:17:43.390 --> 00:17:45.493 He lost control of everything. 00:17:45.493 --> 00:17:53.476 He let the sin in the devil started ruling and the devil stole what God intended for Adam. 00:17:53.476 --> 00:18:01.590 If God's life is perfect and it is then should it deteriorate? 00:18:01.590 --> 00:18:07.901 No, it doesn't make sense that it would deteriorate or wane or lessen at all. 00:18:09.589 --> 00:18:18.662 And so, just as a little side note here, what do you think the life expectancy of people should have been if Adam had not sinned? 00:18:18.662 --> 00:18:19.404 How long should people have lived? 00:18:19.404 --> 00:18:23.290 It's kind of a curious thing to think about. 00:18:23.290 --> 00:18:27.520 You think about the different ones in the Bible who had extraordinary lifespans. 00:18:27.520 --> 00:18:31.202 I think Methuselah had the longest lifespan. 00:18:31.202 --> 00:18:41.348 It was 969 years, something like that, 900 and something years, way up there, almost a thousand years from Methuselah Moses. 00:18:41.348 --> 00:18:46.601 When he started building the ark he was 500 years old. 00:18:46.601 --> 00:18:52.076 When he started building the ark he didn't finish until he was 600 years old. 00:18:52.076 --> 00:18:58.858 Ham Shaman Japheth, you know that was right. 00:18:58.858 --> 00:19:00.424 About the same period of time he started having those guys. 00:19:00.424 --> 00:19:05.710 He started having those guys at about the somewhere in the five and six hundred year mark. 00:19:05.710 --> 00:19:10.137 He lived over 900 years when he passed away. 00:19:10.137 --> 00:19:14.809 And so you know what was the life expectancy. 00:19:15.150 --> 00:19:22.391 And Moses was called I'm sorry, noah was righteous Noah when he started building the ark, not Moses. 00:19:22.391 --> 00:19:23.153 Did I say Moses? 00:19:23.153 --> 00:19:24.759 You know what I meant? 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:29.470 I didn't mean Moses, I meant Noah, righteous Noah. 00:19:29.470 --> 00:19:42.298 So God was looking at the earth and he saw all the evil that was on the earth and he regretted creating humanity and he was ready to destroy it and all the beasts of the earth and all the everything. 00:19:42.298 --> 00:19:45.412 He was ready to just have a complete do-over. 00:19:45.412 --> 00:19:47.478 But he had grace and mercy on Noah. 00:19:47.478 --> 00:19:48.762 I got it right that time. 00:19:52.631 --> 00:19:54.915 So what should have been the life expectancy? 00:19:54.915 --> 00:20:01.648 I don't know, but in Hebrews it says that it's appointed on the man once to die, and so you know, it might not have been forever. 00:20:01.648 --> 00:20:08.000 But then you got characters like Enoch, who was and was not, for God took him. 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:10.249 And then Elijah we heard about him this morning. 00:20:10.249 --> 00:20:17.424 He went up with a, you know, chariots and horses and a whirlwind of fire and a big spectacular show on up into heaven. 00:20:17.424 --> 00:20:24.480 And so you know, there's two characters that are there in a mortal body in heaven. 00:20:27.905 --> 00:20:29.749 Was Adam intended to be immortal? 00:20:29.749 --> 00:20:32.973 Maybe, but sin got in the way of that. 00:20:32.973 --> 00:20:38.522 And then something happened after the flood, and then the life expectancy was rough. 00:20:38.522 --> 00:20:39.424 It was about 120 years. 00:20:39.424 --> 00:20:49.016 So Adam was a supernatural being created with God's life in his body. 00:20:49.016 --> 00:20:56.424 Created in God's image, with authority, created a commune with God like a son and not like angels. 00:20:56.424 --> 00:20:58.412 He had the life of God in him. 00:20:59.233 --> 00:21:01.722 Jesus was also a supernatural being on the earth. 00:21:01.722 --> 00:21:02.384 That's an easy one to understand. 00:21:02.384 --> 00:21:10.839 He was born of woman, but he was not born of man, he was born of God. 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:23.424 The Holy Ghost moved on Mary, and Mary provided the flesh that clothed Jesus, but God provided the seed that contained the blood. 00:21:23.424 --> 00:21:27.170 You know that the blood is passed down from the male. 00:21:27.170 --> 00:21:34.599 In biology, blood comes from the male and so all through history you've got this sin nature of Adam. 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:38.404 That's been passed down through the male all the way down through history. 00:21:40.409 --> 00:21:42.012 And God interrupted that line. 00:21:42.012 --> 00:21:49.431 He interrupted the sin line by saying Mary, you're going to be pregnant, but it's not. 00:21:49.431 --> 00:21:55.140 Your child is not going to have a sin line, it's not going to have a bloodline for man, it's going to have a bloodline for me. 00:21:55.140 --> 00:21:57.088 You're going to have my son, the son of God. 00:21:57.088 --> 00:21:58.753 Jesus came down. 00:21:58.753 --> 00:22:03.047 He was God, he was the son of God, he was with God. 00:22:03.047 --> 00:22:03.628 All that. 00:22:03.628 --> 00:22:10.717 He would clothes, clothed in flesh, but he didn't have man's blood, he had God's bloodline, which was pure and sinless. 00:22:10.717 --> 00:22:20.148 And so Jesus was able to be on earth in the presence of sin and fulfill his duty, fulfill all his responsibility without sin. 00:22:22.451 --> 00:22:27.420 You know we can prove this if you want to. 00:22:27.420 --> 00:22:40.759 You can If you were to take a fertilized egg and a non-fertilized egg, a chicken egg, and you can hold them up to the light and the fertilized egg will show the formation of blood vessels around them. 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:42.468 Lisa knows a lot about chickens. 00:22:42.468 --> 00:22:47.634 They've had a lot of chickens come through their house and you can tell one fertilized egg versus another. 00:22:47.634 --> 00:22:53.847 And the fertilized egg has blood on the inside, and so that's proof right there that the blood does not come from the female, it comes through the male. 00:22:53.847 --> 00:22:55.634 Without the male you don't have that. 00:22:57.784 --> 00:23:01.740 In the Old Testament, god required blood sacrifices to cover the sins of men. 00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:11.913 This did not take away the sins, and so sins would pile up and pile up on people more and more and more, until they had to have a sacrifice to atone for those sins. 00:23:11.913 --> 00:23:17.854 We also know that God cut a covenant with Abraham. 00:23:17.854 --> 00:23:22.287 Remember God made Abraham a promise that you're going to be the father of many nations, and he challenged Abraham. 00:23:22.287 --> 00:23:24.498 He said go outside, count the stars if you're able. 00:23:24.498 --> 00:23:29.727 He said that's going to be as many kids as you're going to have as many children in your families. 00:23:29.727 --> 00:23:32.521 If you can count the stars, that's going to be that many. 00:23:32.521 --> 00:23:34.191 You know he couldn't count the stars. 00:23:34.191 --> 00:23:39.173 So he was basically saying you're going to have so many you can't count and it's not worth counting. 00:23:39.173 --> 00:23:39.895 There's too many. 00:23:39.895 --> 00:23:45.151 And so God cut the covenant with Abraham and he made him a promise. 00:23:47.215 --> 00:24:01.249 And Jesus came into this world with a sinless bloodline, the incarnation of God and man, and he lived as Adam was intended to and he exercised his authority over the natural laws of the universe. 00:24:01.249 --> 00:24:06.287 That's why Jesus came in and you know, the water was turned to wine. 00:24:06.287 --> 00:24:07.229 That was the first one. 00:24:07.229 --> 00:24:09.355 How many people have that? 00:24:09.355 --> 00:24:11.730 That's your favorite miracle right there, he wished he'd. 00:24:11.730 --> 00:24:14.145 Okay, you don't have to raise your hand on that one. 00:24:14.567 --> 00:24:24.326 Jesus spoke to the fig tree and cursed the fig tree, and the fig tree withered and his disciples were like Jesus the tree you spoke to it yesterday. 00:24:24.326 --> 00:24:28.957 Why come with thou the ground and look, it's all withered up at the root and he's like why are you so surprised at this? 00:24:28.957 --> 00:24:30.945 The wind and the waves obeyed. 00:24:30.945 --> 00:24:32.449 He, spoke to him. 00:24:32.449 --> 00:24:33.411 Peace be still. 00:24:33.411 --> 00:24:39.757 People tried to kill him a time or two and they couldn't touch him until the right time. 00:24:40.621 --> 00:24:41.826 He could read people's thoughts. 00:24:41.826 --> 00:24:43.796 He knew what they were thinking. 00:24:43.796 --> 00:24:45.021 He answered their thoughts. 00:24:45.021 --> 00:24:46.626 He could. 00:24:46.626 --> 00:24:54.348 He knew what the Pharisees, the religious leaders and the political leaders of the day were thinking and saying about him outside of the hearing of his physical ears. 00:24:54.348 --> 00:24:56.838 He knew it and he called them over and answered them. 00:24:56.838 --> 00:24:59.107 He knew where the fish were. 00:24:59.107 --> 00:25:01.846 He knew where the fish was that had the gold coin in its mouth. 00:25:01.846 --> 00:25:07.926 He knew what side of the boat to cast your net on, and why would that make a difference? 00:25:07.926 --> 00:25:18.114 And so he was operating the way God intended Adam to operate, and that is at a higher level than nature's laws. 00:25:18.114 --> 00:25:21.468 It was in a supernatural level. 00:25:21.468 --> 00:25:25.038 He healed the sick, he raised the dead wherever he went. 00:25:25.038 --> 00:25:29.926 And Jesus just did this because he operated the way God intended us to operate. 00:25:29.926 --> 00:25:30.951 He was our example. 00:25:30.951 --> 00:25:34.507 This is what I wanted you to do from the very beginning. 00:25:34.507 --> 00:25:36.272 This is how you should be living your life. 00:25:36.272 --> 00:25:43.273 And yet we don't see that level of operation happening, because we have the sin consciousness. 00:25:43.273 --> 00:25:53.587 You know, jesus was conceived without sin, he lived a life without sin and his body was immortal. 00:25:53.587 --> 00:25:59.181 Nobody could take his life, but he gave it freely. 00:25:59.181 --> 00:26:04.349 No, it says no one could take his life, but he gave it freely. 00:26:09.818 --> 00:26:20.700 I'm going to read a little bit out of Hebrews 10, verse 1, and we read the first verse here. 00:26:20.700 --> 00:26:21.441 We'll read it again. 00:26:21.441 --> 00:26:36.321 It says for the law having the shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never, with these same sacrifices which they offer continually, year by year, make those who approach perfect. 00:26:36.321 --> 00:26:42.247 The continual sacrifices will never make them perfect, for then they would not have ceased to be offered. 00:26:42.247 --> 00:26:51.569 Or it says for then would they have not ceased to be offered, for if the worshipers were purified they would have no more consciousness of their sins. 00:26:51.569 --> 00:26:58.681 If these sacrifices weren't, he's saying, then they wouldn't be sin conscious and they would not have to have more sacrifices. 00:26:58.681 --> 00:27:02.539 So the proof that this is failing is the continual sacrifices through here. 00:27:02.539 --> 00:27:05.676 But in those sacrifices there's a reminder of sins. 00:27:05.676 --> 00:27:09.131 Every year, every time you got to make a sacrifice, you got to go dredge it all up. 00:27:09.131 --> 00:27:10.493 What did I do wrong last year? 00:27:10.493 --> 00:27:12.787 Oh, the list is really long. 00:27:12.787 --> 00:27:15.472 That's going to cost me some more farm animals. 00:27:18.377 --> 00:27:25.810 And then it says in verse 5, in the middle there, this is talking about Jesus. 00:27:25.810 --> 00:27:35.002 Jesus said sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me in burnt offerings and sacrifices For sin you had no pleasure. 00:27:35.002 --> 00:27:42.002 Then I said behold, I have come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do your will, o God. 00:27:42.002 --> 00:27:44.821 And so God didn't desire these sacrifices. 00:27:44.821 --> 00:27:51.545 But Jesus is saying behold, I have come in the volume of the book, it is written of me. 00:27:51.545 --> 00:27:54.079 It was foretold and forewritten about Jesus. 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:55.723 To do your will, o God. 00:27:58.375 --> 00:28:01.714 In verse 9, he takes away the first that he may establish the second. 00:28:01.714 --> 00:28:05.801 He took away the old covenant so that he could establish the new covenant. 00:28:05.801 --> 00:28:07.578 How did he take the old one away? 00:28:07.578 --> 00:28:19.144 He fulfilled it In verse 11, and every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 00:28:19.144 --> 00:28:30.144 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down at the right hand of God From that time, waiting until his enemies are made his footstools. 00:28:30.144 --> 00:28:33.326 For by one offering, he is perfected forever. 00:28:33.326 --> 00:28:34.974 Those who are being sanctified. 00:28:34.974 --> 00:28:43.355 He is perfected, us, you are being perfected by that one offer, that one offering, that one sacrifice. 00:28:43.355 --> 00:28:46.055 You're being perfected and you're being sanctified. 00:28:46.055 --> 00:28:48.338 You are perfected and are being sanctified. 00:28:53.234 --> 00:28:56.660 So now we've got a condition, remember, we go back to the Abraham covenant. 00:28:56.660 --> 00:29:07.901 Abraham had a covenant with God, promised him a lot of heirs and Abraham had to ask how will I know that this is going to pan out? 00:29:07.901 --> 00:29:10.180 How do I know that this is real? 00:29:10.180 --> 00:29:12.280 And God said bring me a heifer. 00:29:12.280 --> 00:29:14.980 And God cut the covenant with him. 00:29:14.980 --> 00:29:19.541 And so in that culture, in that day, between God and man, you had a covenant between God and man. 00:29:19.541 --> 00:29:32.724 They split that animal in two and the two halves were laid face up open right there and the blood was spilled in the middle and the two would figure eight walk how many remember Raphael Cruz doing a demonstration of this? 00:29:32.724 --> 00:29:37.221 And the two would do a figure eight, walk through that blood between the two halves of the animals back and forth. 00:29:37.221 --> 00:29:39.621 It kind of a symbol of infinity. 00:29:40.275 --> 00:29:44.977 You know, when you're in covenant with God, it's forever On our side. 00:29:44.977 --> 00:29:47.797 We can't always keep that covenant On his side. 00:29:47.797 --> 00:29:54.006 He never fails, and so he made that covenant with Abraham a promise to Abraham. 00:29:54.006 --> 00:30:01.804 He cut the covenant with Abraham and now the one who cut the covenant with Abraham would become the sacrifice for our sins. 00:30:01.804 --> 00:30:11.306 The one who was in covenant with Abraham became the sacrifice for our sins Because there was no animal that could wipe away the sins. 00:30:11.306 --> 00:30:13.821 It was just the blood of animals could cover the sins. 00:30:13.821 --> 00:30:25.221 Man couldn't pay his own price and ever live again, and so God had to assume the liability for the fall of man and offer a perfect sacrifice, a substitution for man. 00:30:26.755 --> 00:30:32.467 Jesus did not become mortal until God laid our sins on him and he became sin. 00:30:32.467 --> 00:30:36.825 When our sin nature was transferred from us onto Jesus. 00:30:36.825 --> 00:30:42.806 He became sin on that cross and he died a spiritual death and the nature of sin took over his spirit. 00:30:42.806 --> 00:30:45.303 The nature of Satan took over the spirit of Jesus. 00:30:45.303 --> 00:30:48.363 In that moment he was completely separated from God. 00:30:48.363 --> 00:30:53.425 In the evening before, in the Garden of Gethsemane, jesus could see that coming. 00:30:53.425 --> 00:30:54.387 He knew what was coming. 00:30:54.387 --> 00:30:59.417 He asked his disciples to gather around and pray with him and they couldn't even stay awake. 00:30:59.417 --> 00:31:10.948 Through that and ministering spirits, angels had to come, minister to Jesus, it says, as it were great drops of blood, as if it was sweat coming out of his body. 00:31:10.948 --> 00:31:18.884 Great drops of blood was being sweated out of his body because of the angst and the agony that he was under, just for the anticipation of being separated. 00:31:18.884 --> 00:31:29.705 The anticipation was probably worse than the experience of it, because it's just mental anxiety piled on top of what you're about to experience. 00:31:29.705 --> 00:31:30.678 And so it was horrendous. 00:31:31.835 --> 00:31:37.000 And Isaiah has a picture of what he went through In Isaiah 53.4,. 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:39.310 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. 00:31:39.310 --> 00:31:40.174 Yet we esteemed him. 00:31:40.174 --> 00:31:42.221 Stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. 00:31:42.221 --> 00:31:46.365 He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. 00:31:46.365 --> 00:31:50.565 The chastisement of our peace was upon him and by his stripes we were healed. 00:31:50.565 --> 00:31:53.362 All we, like sheep, have gone astray. 00:31:53.362 --> 00:31:58.384 We've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 00:31:58.384 --> 00:31:59.246 We did horrible. 00:31:59.246 --> 00:32:00.028 We did terrible. 00:32:00.028 --> 00:32:05.579 He didn't do the right thing, and God had to take the liability and the responsibility for it and put it on his son. 00:32:05.579 --> 00:32:19.801 And so Jesus suffered that agonizing experience, but it was only for three days, not long at all, the longest three days of his life. 00:32:28.596 --> 00:32:31.885 And I said that there were ministering spirits of angels that came to minister to Jesus. 00:32:31.885 --> 00:32:35.080 It wasn't that he even asked that it be taken away. 00:32:35.080 --> 00:32:42.002 God, if this cup can be taken from me, he was starting to ask that this cup can be taken from me. 00:32:42.002 --> 00:32:44.962 Nevertheless, your will be done, not mine. 00:32:44.962 --> 00:32:54.162 And so that was at the bitter end of what he was able to endure, but he endured it and he punched through that. 00:32:54.162 --> 00:32:57.359 Thank God for angels that come, and those same angels are available to you. 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:02.441 When you're enduring stuff, when you're enduring trouble, angels are available to be ministering spirits to you. 00:33:02.441 --> 00:33:05.015 That's what they're here for. 00:33:05.015 --> 00:33:08.220 They're here for you, they're here to do God's bidding, but they're also here for you. 00:33:10.855 --> 00:33:26.943 I want to talk a little bit about some of the feasts around that time, because God's timing for everything is perfect all the way through and God has preordained things in advance and the timing is impeccable I mean down to the split second. 00:33:26.943 --> 00:33:28.146 It is perfect. 00:33:28.146 --> 00:33:29.680 God's timing is amazing here. 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:35.181 And so God instructed Israel to keep three feasts, and they were to be celebrated at once. 00:33:35.181 --> 00:33:40.086 One was the Passover feast, then the unleavened bread and then the first fruits. 00:33:40.086 --> 00:33:51.320 And so these feasts were held at an appropriate time and they were assigned to the Jews of salvation, and yet they didn't see it, but it was a sign of salvation to them. 00:33:51.320 --> 00:33:53.520 So, passover, go back to Egypt. 00:33:53.520 --> 00:33:55.358 Remember the plagues of Egypt? 00:33:57.755 --> 00:34:07.544 The death angel was going to come across Egypt and kill the firstborn across the land, and God provided a way of escape for them. 00:34:07.544 --> 00:34:15.643 He told Moses have everybody mark the doorposts, and he gave them specific instructions with the blood of the lamb. 00:34:15.643 --> 00:34:24.601 And so they had to kill a spotless lamb and they had to do it in a particular way, and they had to apply the blood to the door frames of their house. 00:34:24.601 --> 00:34:32.061 There's a whole threshold covenant that goes into that and I'm not going to even dive into that one tonight. 00:34:32.061 --> 00:34:44.443 But there was a threshold covenant where the blood was down in the doorway, and so the death angel had to pass over that house, and I'll just tell you this about the threshold covenant that God came inside. 00:34:44.443 --> 00:34:50.460 He made another covenant with them over that lamb and said I'm going to come into your house and I'm going to be your protector. 00:34:50.460 --> 00:34:54.846 When you invited somebody into your house, typically you were the protector of that person. 00:34:54.846 --> 00:34:56.184 You entered into covenant with them. 00:34:56.184 --> 00:34:58.922 But God entered into covenant with them and protected their house. 00:34:58.922 --> 00:35:20.943 When they applied that blood of the lamb right there and so it was a sacrificial lamb the Passover they required that the father of the house would symbolically transfer the sins of that family onto that lamb, and so he lay his hands on the head of that lamb and the sins of the family were transferred to that lamb before it was sacrificed. 00:35:20.943 --> 00:35:27.677 The unleavened bread they only ate bread without yeast which represented the removal of sin. 00:35:27.677 --> 00:35:34.643 The first fruits was a celebration of the first crop that God had provided, and so those three things are important right there. 00:35:34.643 --> 00:35:41.822 And then, right after that, came Pentecost, which was 50 days after the first fruits, and it celebrated God giving Moses the Ten Commandments. 00:35:43.635 --> 00:35:49.402 So on Passover, when Jesus was brought into the court you know he's brought before Pilate. 00:35:49.402 --> 00:35:51.398 Pilate found him to be innocent. 00:35:51.398 --> 00:35:53.400 He said I find no fault in this man. 00:35:53.400 --> 00:36:00.056