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Welcome to Lesson 4
of the Kingdom school.
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I’m so excited to share this today.
It's a new year for all of us.
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I’ll start with sharing a word with you
for this new year from Luke 13.
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This is the Parable of the Fig Tree.
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Some years ago God spoke to me
through this parable. It changed my life.
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Now, it's a new year.
Every year, I read this parable.
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“Then he told this parable:
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A man had a fig tree growing
in his vineyard,
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and he went to look for fruit on it
but did not find any.
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So, he said to the man
who took care of the vineyard,
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“For three years now I've been coming
to look for fruit on this fig tree
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and haven't found any.
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Cut it down! Why should it
use up the soil?”
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“Sir,” the man replied,
“leave it alone for one more year,
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and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.
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If it bears fruit next year, fine!
If not, then cut it down.”
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Some years ago, God spoke to me
through this parable.
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I felt that I was this fig tree.
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At that time, I’d been a Christian
for 6 years.
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I’d never healed the sick or cast out
a demon. I’d never led anyone to God.
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I’d never baptized people in water
and the Holy Spirit.
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My life had no fruit like this.
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When I read this parable,
I asked God to give me one more year.
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I said, “If I don't bear fruit by this
time next year, you can cut me down.”
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I felt God say, “Okay, Torben.
I’ll give you one more year.”
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That day, I started a 40-day fast.
I started to change my life.
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I start to obey God. Many things changed.
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At the same time the next year,
I looked at my life.
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Everything had changed. I had healed
the sick, and cast out demons.
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I’d led many people to God.
My life had a lot of fruit.
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This became a new beginning for me.
Now, it's a new year.
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I want to challenge you. Is your life
bearing fruit? Are you obeying Christ?
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Are many things happening?
If not, receive this word.
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Do something about it, this year.
Let 2025 be a fruitful year in your life.
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Don’t stand still and do
the same as before.
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The man didn’t just leave the
tree alone for one more year.
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He said, “Let's dig around
and fertilize it.”
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You need to add things to your life.
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If you continue to do what you’ve
always done, nothing will change.
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God used that to really speak to me.
So, I say to all of you: Happy New Year.
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Receive this word and do something.
May this be a very fruitful year for you.
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We want to help you with this.
It’s important to pray, fast and obey.
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It couldn’t be simpler:
Pray, fast and obey.
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There are different useful
tools on our website.
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One tool is the gospel cards, that I have
here. Today we'll look at the gospel.
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I’ll start by encouraging you
this new year with a video.
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You’ll see me sitting down
and using these gospel cards.
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Some weeks ago, a runner up
of Miss USA and her team visited us.
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I sat down with them and
shared the gospel. They repented.
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They got delivered, healed, baptized in
water and filled with the Holy Spirit.
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We see these things happening
all the time.
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But I didn’t see them, for the
first 6 years of my Christian walk.
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Then God gave me one more year to change.
I dug deep and added fertilizer.
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I prayed, fasted and obeyed.
Then I started to see fruit.
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So, here’s a little video to start with.
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As I said before, this teaching is not
about giving you head knowledge.
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I want to give you a foundation
and help you to live a fruitful life.
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I want you to be a good fig tree.
Then you won’t need to be cut down.
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May you please our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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This video is just a few minutes.
Watch this.
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Imagine yourself also doing these
things this year. God bless you.
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(Torben) Guys, we are doing a
Luke 10 school now.
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We just prayed for a runner up
of Miss America.
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She came here with her team
from the United States.
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They have been filled
with the Holy Spirit.
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They were set free from demons.
They were baptized in water.
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We experience so many things
in our everyday lives.
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(Torben) It’s good seeing you here.
You are from the United States?
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(Lady) Yeah. (Torben) When did you
arrive? (Lady) About three days ago.
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We must recognize that
we’ve sinned against God.
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We must repent and turn away
from sin and put our faith in Jesus.
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Then God will take out our stony heart.
He'll give us a new heart of flesh.
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It’s written in the Bible: “You shall
not murder.” But Jesus went deeper.
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He said that if we have hatred in
our hearts we're already murderers.
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Let go! Spirit of addiction, go out!
Come out! [Deliverance]
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Die with Christ. Rise with Christ.
Happy Birthday! [Speaking in tongues]
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Freedom right now! [Music]
(Lady) Praise the Lord. (Torben) Amazing!
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(Lady) I feel like I saw my old self
just leave. She's gone.
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She's never coming back.
I'm so happy [unclear words]
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So, I wanted to share that video.
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I encourage you to dig very deep and
fertilize in your life. Live this life.
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Bear a lot of fruit like this.
See this kind of transformation.
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We use these gospel cards a lot
when we share the gospel.
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I love this because it's so simple
and powerful.
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On these cards are pictures
that illustrate things.
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This is Jesus, the king,
who was crucified.
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He ascended to heaven
but will return as king.
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After sharing the gospel with the
cards, I often ask people this:
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“Where are you in your life?
Maybe you are here with a stony heart.
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You’ve never really repented.
So, what is the next step?
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You need to repent and then
you’ll get a new heart.
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Maybe you have repented and
have a new heart.
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But you’ve never truly been baptized.
What is your next step?
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You need to get baptized in water
and wash away that sin.
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Or, maybe you are here.
You’ve repented. You’ve been baptized.
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But you’ve never received the Holy Spirit.
What is your next step?
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You need to receive the Holy Spirit.
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This is where God wants you
and everyone else to be.
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I love sharing it this way with people.
I ask the people where they are.
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I tell them where God wants them to be.
Then people point to one of the cards.
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I ask them, “What is the next step?”
“I need to be baptized.”
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“Then let's go and baptize you.”
Or “I'm there.” “What is the next step?”
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“I need the Holy Spirit.” “Let's pray
for you to receive the Holy Spirit.”
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So, these cards are on our website.
You can scan a QR code.
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There you find videos that show
how to use the gospel cards as a tool.
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Here’s another book: ‘The Call of Jesus:
finding the person of peace’.
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I encourage you to get these resources.
Also pray, fast, go out and obey.
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Then you’ll bear much fruit in your life.
So, that was my intro.
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Lesson 4, is called: ‘Saved out of Egypt:
Saved from slavery to sin’.
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The Kingdom school began
with the Garden of Eden.
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Since then, we looked at the fall,
Noah and Abraham.
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Lesson 3 was called: ‘Called-out’.
We are the church.
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We are called out to be separate.
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“Touch no unclean things
and I will receive you.”
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Today we'll focus on how the
Israelites were called out.
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Lesson 4 focusses on the gospel
and our current journey as believers.
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You’ll really understand that we must
finish the race, not just start it.
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We’ll look at these things:
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The gospel, the journey we are on,
and how we can finish the race.
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This will be a long lesson, but we’ll have
a break in the middle as usual.
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I’ll start with a prayer. God, I thank You
for this lesson. Help me to share this.
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Open our eyes to understand
the gospel and salvation.
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Help us to understand that we’re called
out of Egypt and are on a journey, God.
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I pray that we won’t just
start this journey.
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May we respond to the warning
in the Bible and finish strong.
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God, come with Your Holy Spirit.
Help me share this.
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Speak to each person, who is watching
this, in a special way.
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In the name of Jesus.
Amen. So, let's start:
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Last time, we looked at the church,
the people that are called out.
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We examined the church in the wilderness.
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Most of them were disqualified and didn’t
enter, even though they were called out.
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They left Egypt, but Egypt
never truly left them.
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This time, we’ll explore this:
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How the church - God's people
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We will look at the Passover
and the crossing of the Red Sea.
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We’ll look at the wandering
toward the Promised Land.
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We’ll look at why they did not
enter the Promised Land.
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They were saved out but never
entered in. (Only a few did.)
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This is important. Why? This illustrates
our journey of salvation.
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This is a different journey to the one
usually preached about in churches today.
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It’s not enough to pray a prayer.
That doesn’t save us.
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It’s a journey of justification
and sanctification.
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And on that day, those saints will
glorified when the Lord returns.
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Understand and be sure that you’re not
just saved out, but that you enter in.
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Consider these questions to start
with: What is more important?
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To fully understand God’s kingdom
(teaching, knowledge and foundation)
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- but not enter it? Or to enter it even
if you haven’t fully understood it first?
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What is more important? That we understand
the kingdom but don’t enter?
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Or that we enter but
don’t fully understand it?
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The fact is, some people know more
about God’s kingdom that most of us.
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But they're missing something
very important in their life.
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They haven’t entered it.
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They teach and talk about the
kingdom, but don’t enter in.
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I know other people who may not fully
understand the doctrine of the kingdom.
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But one day, they’ll enter it. Why?
Because they understand how to enter it.
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So consider this: What is more important?
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To have all the knowledge but not enter?
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Or enter without having the full
knowledge? Here’s another question.
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What is more important? How we
start our journey or how we finish?
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Of course, the start of the journey
is also extremely important.
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But the finish is even more important.
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Some people today don’t have all the
knowledge, but understand the new birth.
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One day, they’ll enter.
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Some people didn’t start strong,
but they will finish strong.
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Other people have all the knowledge
but won’t enter.
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Other people started extremely strong
but will finish extremely weak.
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But let’s do both: start
and finish strong.
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Let's get the knowledge and enter in.
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Now, I’ll look at some warnings
in Exodus and Numbers.
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We’ll see that the Israelites kept
on failing after being saved out of Egypt.
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Exodus 15: After crossing the Red Sea,
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the Israelites complained about
the lack of water at Marah.
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There, the water was bitter.
Exodus 16: In the wilderness,
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they grumbled against Moses and Aaron
about the lack of food.
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They wished, they had stayed
in Egypt. Exodus 17:
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The people complained again
about the lack of water.
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They questioned why God
had brought them out of Egypt.
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In these 3 chapters of Exodus,
the Israelites complained and grumbled:
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“It was better back in Egypt!
Why did you bring us out here, God?
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We don't see your wisdom in this. We don't
have water. We don't like the water.
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We don't have food.”
We read more examples in Numbers 11:
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The people complained
about their hardships.
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God’s anger was kindled against them.
He started to strike them down.
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God's patience with them was running out.
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Later they complained again
about the manna.
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They dreamt about the food
they had had in Egypt:
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“Oh, the food in Egypt was
so much better!”
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What happened a few chapters later?
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What happened after the spies reported
about the giants in the Promised Land?
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The people cried out in fear.
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They wished they’d stayed in Egypt
or in the wilderness.
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Here we see that the Israelites
were saved out of Egypt.
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But they complained, grumbled
and sinned repeatedly.
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In the end, they really rebelled
against God.
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So, God said, “Now I'm finished with
them. I'm going to destroy them all.
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In Numbers 14, the Israelites complained
and rebelled.
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This happened after they heard about
the giants in the Promised Land.
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Numbers 14: “All the Israelites grumbled
against Moses and Aaron,
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and the whole assembly said to them,
“If only we had died in Egypt!
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Or in this wilderness!
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Why is the LORD bringing us to this land
only to let us fall by the sword?
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Our wives and children
will be taken as plunder.
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Wouldn't it be better for us
to go back to Egypt?”
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So, that was their attitude.
They complained and grumbled:
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“We don't like this! God,
what are you doing?”
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God became angry.
Does God get angry? Yeah.
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“The LORD said to Moses, “How long will
these people treat me with contempt?
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How long will they refuse to believe in
me?” Unbelief is to question God.
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They knew God was real,
but didn’t believe in His promises.
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“How long will they refuse
to believe in me,
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in spite of all the signs I have
performed among them?
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I will strike them down with
a plague and destroy them,
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but I will make you (Moses) into a
nation greater and stronger than they.”
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You need to understand this:
God gave a promise to Abraham.
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God is faithful to fulfil His promises.
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He said, He will make Abraham
a great nation.
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Abraham’s descendants will
inherit the land of Israel.
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But He didn’t say, whom exactly
He would use to fulfil His promise.
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He saved the Israelites out of Egypt. They
had the wrong attitude. They grumbled.
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They didn’t live in obedience.
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So, God decided to destroy and wipe
them out. But, what about the promise?
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God wanted to fulfil it through Moses.
Moses came from the tribe of Levi.
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So, he was a descendant of Israel,
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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God wanted to fulfil His promise.
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But He didn't promise to do it with all
who were saved out from Egypt.
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He wanted to fulfil it through Moses.
Why? Because there’s always a remnant.
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God will do exactly as He has said He
will do. But with whom will He do it?
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He didn’t promise to do it with everyone.
This is the same in the church today.
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Not everyone will enter.
That’s just a fact.
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So, God wanted to destroy the people
and fulfil His promise through Moses:
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“I will make a great nation out of you.”
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But Moses interceded and said to God:
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“If you put these people to death,
leaving none alive,
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the nations who have heard the report
about you will say,
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“The LORD was not able to bring
these people into the land
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he promised them on oath, so he
slaughtered them in the wilderness.”
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Moses interceded. He asked God,
“Do you really want to destroy them?”
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Abraham did almost the same years before.
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God had decided to destroy Sodom
and Gomorrah.
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Lot was in Sodom. Abraham interceded.
Then God saved a few there.
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“The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them,
as you asked.”
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So, He didn’t kill them immediately.
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“Nevertheless, as surely as I live
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and as surely as the glory of
the LORD fills the whole earth,
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not one of those who saw my glory
and the signs I performed in Egypt
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and in the wilderness but who disobeyed
me and tested me ten times…”
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And He declared that none of those
would enter in.
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“But because my servant Caleb
has a different spirit
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and follows me wholeheartedly,
I will bring him into the land he went to,
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and his descendants will inherit it.”
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So, most of those who were saved out of
Egypt didn’t enter the promised land.
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But Caleb did. Why?
Because he had a different spirit.
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He wasn’t like the others.
He had a different spirit.
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He followed God, wholeheartedly.
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“So tell them, “As surely as I live,
declares the LORD,
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I will do to you the very thing
I heard you say:
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In this wilderness your bodies will fall
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- every one of you twenty years old
or more
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who was counted in the census
and who has grumbled against me.
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Not one of you will enter the land
I swore with uplifted hand
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to make your home, except Caleb son
of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.”
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So, we need to face this reality.
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God performed miracles, signs
and wonders in Egypt.
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God took them out of Egypt.
He saved them.
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He was with them in the wilderness.
Lesson 3 was called: ‘Called-out’.
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God called them out.
He performed signs and wonders.
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But even so, most of them
didn’t enter the promised land.
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They weren’t like Caleb.
He had a different spirit.
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He followed God wholeheartedly.
What spirit do we have? How do we live?
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Do we think that we’re already saved?
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Do we think that everything is good,
and one day we’ll enter?
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Or do we heed this warning:
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being saved out, doesn’t automatically
mean that we will enter.
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This is a warning for us today.
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Paul had this exactly in mind when
he wrote 1 Corinthians 9 and 10.
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We looked at these chapters last time.
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Today, we’ll look at them from
another perspective.
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Bear in mind that the God struck
the Israelites down in the wilderness.
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They didn’t enter, apart from Caleb,
Joshua and those under 20 years old.
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Bear that in mind while you read this:
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“Everyone who competes in the games
goes into strict training.
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They do it to get a crown
that will not last,
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but we do it to get a crown
that will last forever.
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Therefore, I do not run like
somebody running aimlessly;
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I do not fight like a boxer
beating the air.
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No, I strike a blow to my body
and make it my slave
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so that after I have preached to others,
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I myself will not be disqualified
for the prize.”
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Almost the whole generation,
saved out of Egypt, were disqualified.
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“For I do not want you to be ignorant
of that fact, brothers and sisters,
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that our ancestors were all
under the cloud
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and that they all passed through the sea.
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They were all baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.
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They all ate the same spiritual food
and drank the same spiritual drink;
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for they drank from the spiritual rock
that accompanied them,
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and that rock was Christ.
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased
with most of them;
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their bodies were scattered
in the wilderness.”
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They had all this:
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the baptism, the spiritual food and
drink, and Christ the Rock.
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased
with most of them.
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“Now these things occurred
as examples to keep us
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from setting our hearts
on evil things as they did.
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Do not be idolaters as some of them
were; as it is written:
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“The people sat down and eat and drink
and got up to indulge in revelry.””
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This refers to the idolatry
and the golden calf in Exodus 32.
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“We should not commit sexual immorality,
as some of them did
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- and in one day twenty-three
thousand of them died.
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We should not test Christ, as some of
them did - and were killed by snakes.
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And do not grumble, as some of them did
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- and were killed
by the destroying angel.
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These things happened to them as examples
for us.” This is for us today in 2025.
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These things happened and
were written down as examples.
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This is a warning for us who live
at the end of the present age.
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It’s written to warn us. It's not just
history. Its purpose is to warn us.
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“So, if you think you are standing firm,
be careful that you don’t fall!”
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So many people have fallen.
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I've seen so many people start in the
spirit and end in the flesh, and fall.
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To fall is not just to leave the church.
It means to fall away from the first love.
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Jesus said, “I have this against you.
You have left your first love. Repent.”
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“No temptation has overtaken you except
what is common to mankind.
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And God is faithful; he will not let you
be tempted beyond what you can bear.
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When you are tempted, he will also provide
a way out so that you can endure it.”
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It doesn’t matter
what temptation we experience.
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God is faithful.
There’s always a way out.
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It’s never God’s fault, if we fall away or
sin. God always provides a way out.
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But will we take His way out? Or
will we fall away? I’ll read this again:
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“Now these things occurred as examples
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to keep us for setting our hearts
on evil things as they did.”
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Many people preach this today:
“Hey, you’re saved.
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Therefore, nothing can take
this away from you.
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One day, you’ll enter the promised land.
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You’ll go to heaven.” I know that this
is difficult for some people to hear:
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Those with the mindset
‘Once saved always saved’.
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We are not yet fully saved.
We are being saved.
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Please understand this:
We don't have eternal life in us.
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John 15 is about the vine
and the branches.
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Branches don't have life in themselves.
If they are cut off, they will die.
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They only have life in the vine.
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In the same way, we don't
have eternal life in us.
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The life is in Christ, and we
can be cut off from that vine.
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We can be cut off from the covenant
and lose our birthright.
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Hebrews 12 shows us that
we can lose our birthright.
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We can be cut off. If we break
the covenant, we’ll be cut off.
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We do have life through
God’s Spirit in us.
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But we can sin against
and grieve the Spirit.
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We can start in the Spirit
but end in the flesh.
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This does not happen suddenly or
overnight, but rather over time.
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You won’t suddenly wake up one morning,
wondering what’s happening.
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But we read that the Israelites
rebelled repeatedly.
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God said, they rebelled
ten times against Him.
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In the end, God cut them
off from the promise.
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God is full of grace, but we cannot
play around with His grace.
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Even a born-again Spirit-filled person
can sin against the Spirit.
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Listen to the Holy Spirit inside you.
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If you go astray off the narrow road,
the Spirit will try to bring you back.
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The Spirit will tell you,
“Don't go that direction into sin.”
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But many people don't listen
to the Spirit.
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They don’t understand that they can
grieve and sin against the Spirit.
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If you have God’s Spirit in you,
listen to Him.
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I think, we’ve all experienced
this type of thing.
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When people fall into sexual sin,
you don’t start with the action itself.
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It starts by looking with lust and having
a sinful desire. What happens next?
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The Spirit keeps on telling you:
“It's not good.”
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But if you have no fear of God, you
won’t listen and take heed to the Spirit.
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That person will then go away
from the narrow road.
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If they go too far out, they can lose
the birthright they’ve been given.
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Let me use some scripture
to explain this more:
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Revelation 22 includes
a warning for us:
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“I warn everyone who hears the words
of the prophecy of this scroll:
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If anyone adds anything to them,
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God will add to that person
the plagues described in this scroll.
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And if anyone takes away from this
scroll of prophecy, God will take away
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from that person any share in the
tree of life and in the Holy City.”
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So, God gives us a clear warning here.
What'll happen if we do these things?
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God will remove our access to
the tree of life and the holy city.
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Those people had it but
God will take it away.
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Some will say: “Yeah, but
God is gracious and full of love.” YES!
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But we can’t play around with Him.
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The Israelites did that,
after they were saved out of Egypt.
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In the end, God rejected them and took
away their share in the promised land.
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There are also other examples.
Revelation 2: “Whoever has ears,
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let them hear what the Spirit
says to the churches.
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To the one who is victorious, I will give
the right to eat from the tree of life,
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which is in the paradise of God.”
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To the one who is victorious, I will give
the right to eat of the Tree of Life.
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Somebody will argue: ‘But does the
Bible not say it is for all
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who have their name written in the book
of life? Yes. Look at Revelation 20:
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“Anyone whose name was not found
in the book of life
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was thrown into the lake of fire.”
Here’s another warning:
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“The one who is victorious will, like
them, be dressed in white.
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I will never blot out the name of
that person from the book of life,
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but I will acknowledge that name
before my Father and his angels.”
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So, God promised this:
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Never to blot out the names of
victorious saints from the book of life.
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Why did He say that?
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Because it’s possible to get your name
removed from the book of life.
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It's possible to lose your birthright.
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Then you won’t be able to enter in
to the kingdom of God.
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You won’t be able to access the New
Jerusalem or eat of the Tree of Life.
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You won’t enter into promised land.
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What happened to the Israelites,
is a very clear warning to us.
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I know that many don’t preach
that in churches today.
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But I long for us to have this
understanding: We’re on a journey.
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We need the fear of God. The promise is
for those who are victorious like Caleb.
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Caleb followed God wholeheartedly
and had a different spirit.
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People like that will be able to enter.
Others that grumble and sin.
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Others can have their names
blotted out of the book of life.
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They’ll lose their inheritance
and birthright.
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We saw that happen to the Israelites.
I’m starting with this.
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I know it's a strong word for people
who haven’t heard this before.
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But we need this. Let's look here
at the gospel in Exodus.
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Before we have a break shortly,
I want to share some other things.
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I want to get started with this:
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The Israelites were slaves in Egypt,
like people are slaves of sin today.
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Moses called them out. Jesus, who is
greater than Moses, now calls us out.
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Moses told Pharaoh to let God’s people go.
Pharaoh did not want to let them go.
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God sent the first nine plagues,
that we can read about.
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Now I’ll read about the tenth plague,
the death of the firstborn.
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Please read all off Exodus to get
the detail. Exodus 12:
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“The LORD said to Moses
and Aaron in Egypt,
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“This month is to be for you the first
month, the first month of your year.”
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This is important.
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This was the first day of the first month
of the biblical calendar of Israel.
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This was a new beginning for Israel.
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Today, we also experience a new beginning
in Christ. So, this is important.
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“Tell the whole community of Israel
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that on the tenth day of this month
each man is to take a lamb for his family,
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one for each household. If any household
is too small for a whole lamb,
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they must share one with
their nearest neighbour”
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This was the beginning of the year.
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Each man needed to take a lamb and
share it with others if it was too much.
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“This is how you are to eat it: with
your cloak tucked into your belt,
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your sandals on your feet, and
your staff in your hand.
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Eat it in haste; it is
the LORD’s Passover.
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On that same night
I will pass through Egypt
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and strike down every firstborn
of both people and animals,
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and I will bring judgment on all the
gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
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The blood will be a sign for you
on the houses where you are,
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and when I see the blood,
I will pass over you.”
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That’s where the word ‘Passover’
comes from.
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God didn’t kill the firstborn in the
houses, which had the blood.
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He passed over when
He saw the blood.
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“No destructive plague will touch
you when I strike Egypt.
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This is a day you are to commemorate;
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for the generations to come you shall
celebrate it as a festival to the LORD
-
- a lasting ordinance.”
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So, they were commanded to keep the
Passover for the generations to come.
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We also keep the Passover today.
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This points to Christ,
in Whom it has a new significance.
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I'll talk about that later.
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These things are important:
the blood and the Passover.
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But there is something else
that we often miss:
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“For seven days you are to eat
bread made without yeast.
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On the first day, remove the
yeast from your houses,
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for whoever eats anything
with yeast in it
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from the first day through the seventh
must be cut off from Israel.”
-
We saw these words before, with the
Abrahamic covenant of circumcision.
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God gave a promise to Abraham.
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But any male who wasn’t circumcised will
be cut off and not inherit the promise.
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Here in Exodus, we not only read
about blood but also yeast.
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Yeast, a picture of sin, had
to be removed from the houses.
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If the Israelites didn’t do this, they
would cut off even if they had the blood.
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I want you to understand this message.
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Many people think that the blood
of Jesus covers their sins.
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But the blood couldn’t save them, if
there was leaven or yeast in their houses.
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The blood couldn’t cover the yeast,
or sin. We need to understand this.
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Jesus preached repentance
before He died on the cross.
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We don’t start with the cross
and the blood.
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We need to start with repentance
and then put our faith in the blood.
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Some people think that they can put their
faith in the blood without repentance.
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I’ll come back to that later.
This is extremely important.
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So, they slaughtered the Passover lamb.
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They put the blood on the door frame.
Death passed over.
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Yeast had to be removed from the house
first. That’s what they did.
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We don’t just keep the Passover; we also
keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
-
Both are connected. Exodus 12: “Celebrate
the Festival of Unleavened Bread,
-
because it was on this very day that
I brought your divisions out of Egypt.
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Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance
for the generations to come.
-
In the first month, you are to eat
bread made without yeast,
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from the evening of the fourteenth day
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until the evening of
the twenty-first day.
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For seven days, no yeast is to
be found in your houses.
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And anyone, whether foreigner
or native-born,
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who eats anything with yeast in it must
be cut off from the community of Israel.”
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They were also cut off from the promise.
“Eat nothing made with yeast.
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Wherever you live,
you must eat unleavened bread.”
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These are all shadows or pictures
pointing to Christ.
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I also mentioned this in Lesson 1-3.
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“Obey these instructions as a lasting
ordinance for you and your descendants.
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When you enter the land that the LORD
will give you as he promised,
-
observe this ceremony.
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And when your children ask you,
“What does this ceremony mean to you?”
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then tell them, “It is the
Passover sacrifice to the LORD,
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who passed over the houses
of the Israelites in Egypt
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and spared our homes when
he struck down the Egyptians.”
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So, this is an everlasting
ordinance or ceremony.
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It’s also for us, although today
it has a new meaning.
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I’ll talk about that later.
-
Now, let’s read about the tenth plague,
the death of the firstborn.
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“At midnight the LORD struck down
all the firstborn in Egypt,
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from the firstborn of Pharaoh,
who sat on the throne,
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to the firstborn of the prisoner,
who was in the dungeon,
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and the firstborn of all
the livestock as well.
-
Pharaoh and all his officials and all
the Egyptians got up during the night,
-
and there was loud wailing in Egypt,
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for there was not a house
without someone dead.
-
During the night, Pharaoh summoned
Moses and Aaron and said,
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“Up! Leave my people,
you and the Israelites!
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Go, worship the LORD
as you have requested.
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Take your flocks and herds,
as you have said, and go.
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And also bless me.” Next,
we read about the Exodus.
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The Israelites didn’t leave Egypt
empty-handed:
-
“The LORD had made the Egyptians
favourably disposed toward the people,
-
and they gave them what they asked for;
so they plundered the Egyptians.”
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This is very interesting.
God had promised to Abraham in detail,
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that this would happen
after 400 years of slavery.
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God had prophesied what would happen.
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Genesis 15: “But I will punish
the nation they serve as slaves,
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and afterward they will come out
with great possessions.” I love it.
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God's in control. This happened
after 400 years of slavery.
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God prophesied this before
Abraham had one child.
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One thing He had said was this:
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When the people left, they would
come out with great possessions.
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They did so in the middle of the night,
taking the unleavened bread with them.
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They left Egypt as God had said.
Then they came to the Red Sea.
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Please read it all. The Egyptians
followed them to the Red Sea.
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Pharaoh had decided to send
the whole army after them.
-
The Israelites were trapped
at the Red Sea.
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Exodus 14: “Then Moses stretched out
his hand over the sea,
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and all that night the LORD drove
the sea back with a strong east wind
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and turned it into dry land.
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The waters were divided and the Israelites
went through the sea on dry ground”
-
What happened when the
Egyptians pursued them?
-
The water came over the Egyptians
and they were drowned.
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This is part of the story.
Were the Israelites saved? Yes.
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What were they saved from?
They were saved from Egypt.
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In Lesson 3, we saw that the church
is called out. This relates to Noah too.
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Why did God send the flood?
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To save Noah and his family
from a wicked perverse generation.
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Also, the Israelites were saved
out of Egypt.
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They weren’t destroyed together with
Egypt. Now, we’re saved from Babylon.
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We’re called out from this world.
The Israelites were saved in the Red Sea.
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How? They were saved from
the people who had enslaved them.
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The old life is gone. We don’t need
to look back over our shoulder.
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We don’t need to worry about the
old life taking us back again.
-
After the Israelites were saved from
Egypt, the Egyptians came after them.
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So the Israelites needed to be saved
again, this time from the Egyptians.
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Of course, this is a picture of
the baptism that saves us.
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Saving us from our old life of slavery
to sin and death.
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So now we no longer need to look
over our shoulder. It works like this.
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The one who sins becomes a slave to sin.
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Let’s look at the gospel cards again:
This person has become a slave to sin.
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He loves sin. He has a stony heart.
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But through repentance and faith
God will take out that stony heart.
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He’ll give us a new heart of flesh.
-
Now this person’s heart’s
desires is to do right.
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But the body is still a
slave to sin and death.
-
So, what must we do with
that body? We need to bury it.
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We need to go down in the water.
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What happens when we
come out on the other side?
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The body of sin and death, the old life.
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That which enslaved us will not come
out of the water.
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It is drowned in the water.
So, this is a really beautiful picture:
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In water baptism, we are saved
from the body of sin and death.
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Now, we can live a new life.
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But it’s not enough
to be saved out of Egypt.
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There the body of sin and death
is drowned in the Red Sea.
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That is not the end or
goal of the journey.
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It's the start line, not the finish line.
-
We shouldn’t think that
everything has been completed now:
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“One day, we’ll die and go to
heaven. We prayed the prayer.
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We repented and got baptized.
We got born again. It's done now.”
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No. Most who were saved got their
names blotted out of the book of life.
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Many did not enter.
The journey had only started.
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After they came through
the Red Sea, they celebrated:
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“Yes! Come on!” We have
a good reason to celebrate.
-
After the Israelites passed through the
Red Sea, they sang the song of Moses.
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We should celebrate.
We’re thankful for our salvation.
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But we need to continue living this life.
We read how God guided the Israelites.
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Exodus 13: “By day the LORD went
ahead of them in a pillar of cloud
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to guide them on their way and by night
in a pillar of fire to give them light”
-
So, this was the next stage
of their journey:
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From the Red Sea to the Promised Land.
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God guided them throughout in
a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire.
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If only they’d just followed God and
done what God had told them.
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If only, they’d had the fear of God.
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If only they’d believed that God
could lead them from start to finish.
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If only they’d all had
the heart of Caleb.
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They’d have entered
into the promised land.
-
The way they were being saved
is the same way for us today.
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Remember, this all points to Christ.
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What did the early disciples,
including Peter and Paul, do?
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They preached Christ out
of the scriptures. What scriptures?
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What we call the Old Testament,
was their Scriptures.
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The salvation and the exodus
points to our Exodus today.
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Let's recap: How did they get saved?
The same way we get saved today.
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Firstly, Unleavened Bread: Repentance.
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Remove the leaven/yeast from your
life. The yeast is a picture of sin.
-
It is important to understand that
the blood did not cover the leaven.
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Today, the blood of Jesus
doesn’t cover our sins.
-
Repent and place your faith in
the blood. Remember this:
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They preached repentance
before the cross.
-
At that time, there was no
blood of the new covenant.
-
But repentance prepared
their hearts for the blood.
-
Repentance is the first thing we do.
Then, we put our faith in the blood.
-
Secondly, the Blood of the Lamb:
Christ, the Cross, our Passover Lamb.
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Forgiveness of sins is only possible
through the shedding of blood.
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Repent first, and then put your
faith in the blood. But don't stop there.
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Thirdly, baptism: The Israelites
passed through the Red Sea.
-
The Egyptian army drowned. The Israelites
left their old life behind in Egypt.
-
Likewise, we must bury our old selves
in the baptismal waters.
-
By doing this, we die to
this world and to sin.
-
Fourthly: Walk by the Pillar
of Cloud and Fire:
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After the baptism in water, we need
the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
-
We need to learn to walk by the Spirit.
This is where our journey begins.
-
The Holy Spirit leads us through the
wilderness toward the Promised Land.
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Now is a good time to take a break.
-
Then we’ll continue focussing on the
unleavened bread and the Passover Lamb.
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We’ll focus more on the New Testament.
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Then, you’ll see how this is all
connected. See you after the break.
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[Music]
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We’re back again. Let’s continue
by focusing on the New Testament.
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We'll look at Jesus, communion,
the Passover and different things.
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I hope that this will challenge you.
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The problem is, we’ve taken things
out of context.
-
We believe in God’s grace.
But what does that mean?
-
We believe that we aren’t saved
by works. But what does it mean?
-
We believe that we can’t earn
salvation. But what do we mean?
-
We believe that we need faith,
repentance and water baptism.
-
Many believe that we need water baptism.
-
But what is their understanding of it?
-
Remember, the early disciples preached
Christ out of the Old Testament.
-
That was the context. But people today
preach out of a different context.
-
We need to take
those religious glasses off.
-
We need to be willing to
understand it in a new context.
-
Then it’ll become extremely clear.
-
You’ll see that now, as we’ll read about
the Passover in the New Testament.
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Mark 14: “On the first day of
the Festival of Unleavened Bread,
-
when it was customary
to sacrifice the Passover lamb,
-
Jesus’ disciples asked him,
-
“Where do you want us to go and make
preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
-
So, during the Passover,
Jesus took the cup and said,
-
“This is the blood of the New
Covenant.” When is the Passover?
-
At the same time as the
Festival of Unleavened Bread.
-
Those two are connected.
Not only was the Passover lamb slain:
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They also kept the Festival
of Unleavened Bread.
-
Both are connected. Here we see that
the Passover is our communion today.
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“So he sent two of his disciples,
telling them,
-
“Go into the city, and a man
carrying a jar of water will meet you.
-
Follow him. Say to the owner
of the house he enters,
-
“The Teacher asks:
Where is my guest room,
-
where I may eat the Passover
with my disciples?”
-
Jesus celebrated the Passover.
-
He also instituted communion, the
Lord’s supper. Jesus changed the picture.
-
He said things that had never been
said before in connection with this.
-
The Passover was no longer about
the blood of the lamb.
-
The Israelites knew about that. Now,
this is Jesus’ blood of the New Covenant.
-
Why did He change it?
-
Because Jesus is the Passover Lamb,
who was slain for us.
-
So, this is an everlasting ordinance.
-
It was to be celebrated year after year
on the same day of the year.
-
The covenants in the Bible
point to Christ.
-
Circumcision in the Abrahamic covenant
points to our water baptism.
-
Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb.
-
“This is my blood of the covenant,
which is poured out for many,”
-
he said to them.
-
“Truly I tell you, I will not drink again
from the fruit of the vine
-
until that day when I drink it anew
in the kingdom of God.”
-
We often forget something
about the disciples.
-
They took the communion
(the Lord's supper) with Christ.
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They had been walking with Jesus.
-
They had celebrated the Passover
with Him before.
-
It was an everlasting ordinance,
that the Israelites kept.
-
But this time, Jesus changed it.
-
It was the last time He would keep
it during this evil age.
-
One day, He’ll drink the wine again
with His disciples in the kingdom of God.
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One day, Jesus will return.
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His saints will share Passover, communion,
with Him again in God’s kingdom.
-
It's really beautiful,
when we understand it.
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We should take communion
in this knowledge:
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Right now, Christ is in heaven,
sitting at God's right hand.
-
He is not with us, in the flesh.
-
But one day, His victorious saints will
sit and eat with him in His Kingdom.
-
Hallelujah! Communion is so much
more than what we think.
-
Jesus is the Passover Lamb.
Look at John 6:
-
“This is the bread which
came down from heaven;
-
not as your fathers did eat
manna, and are dead:
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he that eateth of this bread
shall live for ever.”
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In the desert, the Israelites were
eating manna, bread from heaven.
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Jesus is the bread which
came down from heaven.
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They ate but most of them didn’t
enter. We eat and will hopefully enter.
-
Communion is so much more
than what many have thought.
-
Let’s continue. 1 Corinthians 11:
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“For I received from the Lord
what I also passed on to you:
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The Lord Jesus, on the night
he was betrayed, took bread,
-
and when he had given
thanks, he broke it”
-
That is unleavened bread.
"and said, “This is my body.”
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Jesus is the bread that came down
from heaven. We should eat this.
-
This is not the same as the
Roman Catholic doctrine.
-
They believe bread and wine physically
becomes the body and blood of Christ.
-
But there is a spiritual application.
These things have life in them.
-
Baptism and communion are both
important. Baptism happens once.
-
Communion is something that is repeated,
through which we keep the life in us.
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Did Jesus say, “Do this in remembrance
of what God did in the Exodus?” No.
-
Until that day, the Passover was kept to
remember how God saved Israel from Egypt.
-
God had commanded them to
do that, year after year.
-
The children asked,
“Why do we do this?” –
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“Because we need to remember
how God judged the gods of Egypt.
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God saved us out of Egypt.”
But Jesus changed it.
-
Now, he said: “Do it
in remembrance of me.”
-
So we don’t only remember Exodus,
we also look back to the cross.
-
Exodus is a picture that
foreshadows the cross.
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When we see this,
the picture gets bigger and fuller.
-
Jesus said: “Do this in remembrance
of me.” Later he also said,
-
“This cup is the new covenant
in my blood;
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do this, whenever you drink it,
in remembrance of me.
-
For whenever you eat this
bread and drink this cup,
-
you proclaim the Lord's
death until he comes.”
-
So we take communion, focussing on the
day we’ll eat with Jesus in God’s kingdom.
-
We’ll continue to do this
until He comes back.
-
It points back to the cross, and forward
to the Christ’s return in the future.
-
There is a teaching here about communion,
being as important as baptism.
-
I made it about six years ago,
as part of the Pioneer School.
-
There is a link together with this video,
to Lesson 28, focussing on communion.
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You can watch it if you want to look at
communion more. Past, Present and Future.
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We have the Passover.
-
This became the first day of
the first month for the Israelites.
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Then we have Jesus, our Passover Lamb.
-
That becomes the first day of
the first month for us (the new birth).
-
So, we see like that Israel
and the church are connected.
-
Communion is not only connected
with the Exodus and the Passover Lamb.
-
But we also do it in remembrance
of JESUS, our Passover Lamb.
-
We do this until that day He comes again.
On that day, we will be with Him.
-
We’ll drink the new wine with Him
in the God’s Kingdom in the New Jerusalem.
-
This is beautiful. But we need to make
sure that we’ll enter the Kingdom.
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Only those who are truly born again
will. Jesus said that.
-
Many people take communion, but
will not enter. They are not born again.
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They don’t understand the gospel.
-
Let’s focus here on the response
to the gospel: Repentance and Faith.
-
First, they were told to get the
yeast out of their homes.
-
Then they slaughtered and
ate the Passover Lamb.
-
They'd already put the blood
on the doorposts.
-
This is also the beginning of our Exodus.
-
We repent from our sins (yeast).
-
Then we put our faith in Jesus,
our Passover Lamb.
-
If there's no repentance,
the blood will have no effect.
-
Here’s an example from the New Testament:
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How are yeast and sin connected?
Sexual immorality defiles the church.
-
Paul wrote about this 1 Corinthians 5.
Notice the words he uses:
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“It is actually reported that there
is sexual immorality among you,
-
and of a kind that even pagans
do not tolerate:
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A man is sleeping with
his father's wife.”
-
Sadly, there was sin in the
church as there is today.
-
“And you are proud! Shouldn't you
rather have gone into mourning
-
and have put out of your fellowship
the man who has been doing this?”
-
There’s hardly any
church discipline today.
-
People live in sin, in the church,
and there’s no church discipline.
-
But Paul was very strict. A person in
the fellowship was living in sexual sin.
-
The people were proud.
They should have put him out.
-
Paul continued: “hand this man over to
Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
-
so that his spirit may be
saved the day of the Lord.”
-
Paul told them to give him time to truly
repent and understand what he had done.
-
“Your boasting is not good.
-
Don't you know that a little yeast
leavens the whole batch of dough?”
-
Why did Paul write this? He was
writing about sin in the church.
-
The people shouldn’t allow
the sin to continue.
-
Paul then talked about yeast.
I used to be a baker.
-
I know about yeast and
how it works in bread.
-
You just need a little yeast,
some salt and sugar.
-
Don't put the salt
directly on the yeast.
-
The water will come
out of the yeast. It'll die.
-
I know about the salt, sugar, heat
and temperature, and how it works.
-
I know all about yeast. I did a report
years ago as a baker.
-
It was actually one of the best grades
I ever received. Yeast is like a person.
-
It is 75% water. It has a brain.
Yeast is very interesting.
-
A small bit of yeast will fill the
whole lump of dough.
-
Why are we talking about yeast?
Because, it's a biblical picture of sin.
-
In Exodus, the Israelites had to get
yeast out of their houses.
-
Then they had to apply the blood. Paul
continues: “Get rid of the old yeast”.
-
Does that mean that that we, the church,
should only eat bread without yeast?
-
No. Paul didn’t write about physical
bread here. This is about sin.
-
Get rid of the sin. Put off that old life.
I talked about that in Lesson 3.
-
Put on the new life.
Get rid of the sin,
-
“so that you may be a new unleavened
batch - as you really are.
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For Christ, our Passover Lamb,
had been sacrificed.”
-
Get rid of the yeast, or sin. Why?
Because Christ is our Passover lamb:
-
“Therefore let us keep the Festival,
-
not with the old bread leavened
with malice and wickedness,
-
but with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth.”
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So, we need to keep the festival,
understanding what it means.
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We keep it in such a way that we remove
sin from our lives. Notice this:
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Get rid of the old yeast, so that you
may be a new unleavened batch.
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Get rid of the yeast.
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Because Christ, our Passover Lamb,
has been sacrificed.
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How are we saved from this world?
Just like the Israelites were saved:
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Through the Passover, the unleavened
bread and the blood of the Lamb.
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That is repentance and faith.
But there was more. Baptism to Christ:
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They were baptized into Moses
in the Red Sea and in the cloud.
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In the Red Sea, they were set free
from the Egyptians.
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Likewise, we are baptized into Christ.
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There, we're set free from the body
of sin and death.
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We bury the old life once and for all.
Baptism comes after repentance and faith.
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This marks the beginning of the journey.
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But many people in churches have been
baptized without repentance or faith.
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So, those are not real baptisms.
They’re just pool parties.
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There's no life or transformation there.
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You can’t bury that old body if
it’s not crucified.
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You can’t be baptized
if you’ve not left Egypt.
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If you're still in Egypt, you can’t
go through the Red Sea like that.
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First, you have to come out of Egypt.
Then, you can go through the Red Sea.
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Then the journey starts. Why do we
need to re-baptize so many people?
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Because they didn't understand it the
first time. But there are two baptisms:
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Just as the Israelites were baptized
in the Red Sea and in the cloud.
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Paul wrote about this in
1 Corinthians 10:
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“They were all baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.”
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They were not only baptized into
Moses in the sea, but also in the cloud.
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Likewise, we not only need to be baptized
in water but also in the Spirit.
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What cloud? The spirit of God.
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Throughout the Old Testament, we read
that God came in the form of a cloud.
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Exodus 40: “Then the cloud
covered the tent of meeting,
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and the glory of the Lord
filled the tabernacle.
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Moses could not enter the tent of meeting
because the cloud had settled on it,
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and the glory of the LORD
filled the tabernacle.”
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The cloud is the Spirit.
We now receive the new birth.
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Many believers need to get baptized
correctly and receive the Holy Spirit.
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Let’s read this in Acts 19.
Paul came to Ephesus:
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“There he found some
disciples and asked them,
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“Did you receive the Holy Spirit
when you believed?”
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"No, we don't know
about the Holy Spirit."
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So Paul asked, “Then, what baptism
did you receive?”
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“John’s baptism,” they replied.”
Then Paul explained these things to them.
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“On hearing this, they were baptized
in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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When Paul placed his hands on them,
the Holy Spirit came on them,
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and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.”
This is the same for us today.
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Make sure not only to listen to teaching
about the kingdom of God.
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To get the full understanding is
not enough. We need that.
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But even more, we need to enter
the kingdom of God.
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Many of us have preached a
different gospel in the churches.
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In the book of Acts, when did people get
baptized? Immediately after they repented.
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But people don’t do that today.
Why don't we baptize people immediately?
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Because we don't preach the
same gospel as the early disciples did.
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If we preached the right gospel,
we would do the same as they did.
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But some people say, “Yeah.
Let's baptize people right away!”
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But they forget about the
Festival of Unleavened Bread.
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They forget that repentance
and baptism are connected.
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Then the baptism becomes something else.
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This is the Gospel according to Exodus.
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The early disciples preached
this response to the gospel.
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We should also preach it today.
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We need to repent and put our
faith in the blood of Christ.
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We need to be baptized in water
and with the Holy Spirit.
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Then, we need to continue to follow
the Spirit through the wilderness.
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We journey toward our destination,
the Promised Land.
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It’s not enough to be saved out.
We need to enter in.
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I really hope this teaching will help us
to understand and preach the gospel.
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I also hope that it’ll help us to
set our minds on the race.
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We’ll also strike a blow to our bodies.
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Then, after we’ve preached to others,
we won’t be disqualified.
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We won’t be boxers beating the air.
We’ll go into strict training.
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Why? Because we’re going to run
the race and get the crown.
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That should be our attitude. So,
what have we looked at in Lesson 4:
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The gospel according to Exodus.
I’ll finish with this.
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We’ve been focussing on the cross.
It all points to the cross.
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The cross is the sacrifice of
our Passover Lamb.
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What does the cross represent?
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The cross represents death,
burial and resurrection.
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Now, we need to die to sin.
Bury that old dead life.
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Christ was raised by the Holy Spirit.
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Likewise, we need to be raised up
to a new life.
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The death, the burial
and the resurrection.
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Paul used the same words in Romans 6:
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“Or don’t you know that all of us
who were baptized into Christ Jesus
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were baptized into his death?”
There’s the word ‘death’.
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“We were therefore buried” ‘Burial.’ “with
him through baptism into death in order
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that, just as Christ was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father,
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we too may live a new life.” Here is the
death, burial and resurrection.
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Paul continues: “For we know that our
old self was crucified with him”
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Here is the crucifixion, death,
burial and resurrection.
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It’s all about the cross:
Jesus died - we die to sin.
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He was buried -
we bury the body of flesh.
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He rose again - we receive the Holy
Spirit and are raised up to new life.
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We should preach how
Peter preached in Acts 2:
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“Repent and be baptized,
every one of you,
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in the name of Jesus Christ
for the forgiveness of your sins.”
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Get the yeast out of your house.
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Here we see the Passover lamb, the
death, the cross and the Red Sea.
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“And you will receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit”
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We are following this pillar of cloud.
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God is guiding us through the
wilderness toward the promised land.
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We need a heart and a different
Spirit as Caleb did.
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“The promise is for you and your
children and for all who are far off
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– for all whom the Lord
our God will call.”
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How do we survive in the wilderness?
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We eat manna and we drink of
the rock that follows us.
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That rock is Christ. This is the only way
we can survive the wilderness.
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We eat the body of Christ and we drink
the blood. This is our communion.
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It's not physical blood. It’s the life,
we have in Him.
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We do this in remembrance of
Him and our Exodus.
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What will happen if we stay faithful?
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One day we won't continue taking
communion to remember Him.
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Instead, we’ll sit and have communion
with him in God’s kingdom.
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We take communion today to remember
Him, until the day He will return.
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He didn’t simply die, get buried, rise
again and disappear somewhere.
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No, after His resurrection
He ascended to heaven.
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He’s now sitting at God's right hand.
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He’ll return soon and bring salvation
to those who are waiting for Him.
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That’s the message from Lesson 4.
Let's bring it to a close:
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The Gospel in the Old Testament. Moses.
The unleavened bread: get the yeast out.
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Passover Lamb. Blood. Baptism into
Moses in the sea and the cloud.
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Keeping Passover in remembrance of
how they were saved out of Egypt.
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Goal: Promised land. That points to
a new understanding in Christ.
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The gospel in the New Testament.
Jesus. Repent and get sin out.
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Our Passover Lamb, the blood of Jesus.
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Baptized into Christ and
with the Holy Spirit.
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Keeping the Passover in
remembrance of Him;
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He is the one who saves us out of Egypt
– we are called out of Babylon.
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Goal: The Promised land.
The new heaven and new earth.
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New bodies. The New Jerusalem.
This is what I wanted to share.
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We take up our cross:
We die to sin and repent.
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We bury the body of sin in
our burial/baptism in water.
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We receive the Holy Spirit,
which raises us up to a new life.
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We continue walking by the Spirit
toward our reward when Christ returns.
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We will drink it anew with Him in
God’s kingdom.
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You can find all the lessons and notes,
and download the slides here:
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torbensondergaard.com/kingdom
or thelastreformation.com/kingdom.
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You can also get my book: ‘412 days’.
There, I wrote more about my journey.
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May this year be a new beginning for
you. May it be a fruitful year.
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May you really understand the gospel and
also enter the kingdom on that day.
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Thank you for watching this lesson.
I look forward to see you next time.
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Please type questions in the comments
section under this lesson.
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God, I thank You for everyone
who watches this lesson.
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I pray that You will bring revelation,
God. Open their eyes to this, God.
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God, let this bring true
repentance to people's lives.
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Let everyone examine themselves.
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Help them see if they have yeast, sin, in
their life that they need to get rid of.
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God, help us keep the Passover
in the right way.
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Help us understand the blood of Jesus.
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Help us understand that we need
to get sin out of our life
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- then the blood can have an effect.
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Help people to understand that salvation
is not just about starting the journey.
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We need to finish the journey, God.
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I pray for those who haven’t truly
buried their old lives in the water.
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Those that haven't received the
Holy Spirit. May they receive it.
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God, come with Your Holy Spirit.
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Help us, God, to fully understand
the Gospel of Kingdom.
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Help us to enter that Kingdom one day.
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Jesus, we want to be with You one day and
drink the wine anew in God’s Kingdom.
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We want to have the same heart
as Caleb so we can enter.
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Come with Your Holy Spirit.
Help us to be strong.
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Speak to us, God. In the name of Jesus,
we thank You. Amen. See you next time.