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Saved Out Of Egypt: Our Journey Of Salvation / Kingdom School - Lesson 4

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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
    - are called out from slavery.
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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.
  • 34:12 - 34:17
    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.”
  • 36:23 - 36:24
    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.”
  • 39:11 - 39:12
    This is important.
  • 39:12 - 39:23
    This was the first day of the first month
    of the biblical calendar of Israel.
  • 39:23 - 39:26
    This was a new beginning for Israel.
  • 39:26 - 39:32
    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.
  • 40:07 - 40:13
    Eat it in haste; it is
    the LORD’s Passover.
  • 40:13 - 40:18
    On that same night
    I will pass through Egypt
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    and strike down every firstborn
    of both people and animals,
  • 40:24 - 40:29
    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
  • 41:08 - 41:10
    - a lasting ordinance.”
  • 41:10 - 41:17
    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.
  • 41:28 - 41:30
    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.”
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    We saw these words before, with the
    Abrahamic covenant of circumcision.
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    God gave a promise to Abraham.
  • 42:08 - 42:14
    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.
  • 42:25 - 42:29
    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.
  • 43:01 - 43:09
    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.
  • 43:13 - 43:16
    We don’t start with the cross
    and the blood.
  • 43:16 - 43:23
    We need to start with repentance
    and then put our faith in the blood.
  • 43:23 - 43:27
    Some people think that they can put their
    faith in the blood without repentance.
  • 43:27 - 43:33
    I’ll come back to that later.
    This is extremely important.
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    So, they slaughtered the Passover lamb.
  • 43:37 - 43:42
    They put the blood on the door frame.
    Death passed over.
  • 43:42 - 43:49
    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.
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    Both are connected. Exodus 12: “Celebrate
    the Festival of Unleavened Bread,
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    because it was on this very day that
    I brought your divisions out of Egypt.
  • 44:11 - 44:16
    Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance
    for the generations to come.
  • 44:16 - 44:22
    In the first month, you are to eat
    bread made without yeast,
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    from the evening of the fourteenth day
  • 44:25 - 44:28
    until the evening of
    the twenty-first day.
  • 44:28 - 44:32
    For seven days, no yeast is to
    be found in your houses.
  • 44:32 - 44:37
    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.”
  • 44:43 - 44:50
    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,
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    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.
  • 45:45 - 45:58
    It’s also for us, although today
    it has a new meaning.
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    I’ll talk about that later.
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    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,
  • 46:17 - 46:22
    and the firstborn of all
    the livestock as well.
  • 46:22 - 46:26
    Pharaoh and all his officials and all
    the Egyptians got up during the night,
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    and there was loud wailing in Egypt,
  • 46:29 - 46:32
    for there was not a house
    without someone dead.
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    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:
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    “The LORD had made the Egyptians
    favourably disposed toward the people,
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    and they gave them what they asked for;
    so they plundered the Egyptians.”
  • 47:16 - 47:22
    This is very interesting.
    God had promised to Abraham in detail,
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    that this would happen
    after 400 years of slavery.
  • 47:26 - 47:31
    God had prophesied what would happen.
  • 47:31 - 47:36
    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.
  • 47:45 - 47:51
    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.
  • 48:07 - 48:14
    They did so in the middle of the night,
    taking the unleavened bread with them.
  • 48:14 - 48:20
    They left Egypt as God had said.
    Then they came to the Red Sea.
  • 48:20 - 48:30
    Please read it all. The Egyptians
    followed them to the Red Sea.
  • 48:30 - 48:35
    Pharaoh had decided to send
    the whole army after them.
  • 48:35 - 48:38
    The Israelites were trapped
    at the Red Sea.
  • 48:38 - 48:43
    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
  • 48:51 - 48:54
    and turned it into dry land.
  • 48:54 - 49:01
    The waters were divided and the Israelites
    went through the sea on dry ground”
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    What happened when the
    Egyptians pursued them?
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    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.
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    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.
  • 51:17 - 51:21
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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”
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Repent and place your faith in
    the blood. Remember this:
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    They preached repentance
    before the cross.
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    At that time, there was no
    blood of the new covenant.
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    But repentance prepared
    their hearts for the blood.
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    Repentance is the first thing we do.
    Then, we put our faith in the blood.
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    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.
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    The Egyptian army drowned. The Israelites
    left their old life behind in Egypt.
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    Likewise, we must bury our old selves
    in the baptismal waters.
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    By doing this, we die to
    this world and to sin.
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    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.
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    We need to learn to walk by the Spirit.
    This is where our journey begins.
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    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.
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    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.
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    We believe in God’s grace.
    But what does that mean?
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    We believe that we aren’t saved
    by works. But what does it mean?
  • 57:49 - 57:53
    We believe that we can’t earn
    salvation. But what do we mean?
  • 57:53 - 57:57
    We believe that we need faith,
    repentance and water baptism.
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    Many believe that we need water baptism.
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    But what is their understanding of it?
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    Remember, the early disciples preached
    Christ out of the Old Testament.
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    That was the context. But people today
    preach out of a different context.
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    We need to take
    those religious glasses off.
  • 58:19 - 58:24
    We need to be willing to
    understand it in a new context.
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    Then it’ll become extremely clear.
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    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,
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    when it was customary
    to sacrifice the Passover lamb,
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    Jesus’ disciples asked him,
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    “Where do you want us to go and make
    preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
  • 58:49 - 58:53
    So, during the Passover,
    Jesus took the cup and said,
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    “This is the blood of the New
    Covenant.” When is the Passover?
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    At the same time as the
    Festival of Unleavened Bread.
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    Those two are connected.
    Not only was the Passover lamb slain:
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    They also kept the Festival
    of Unleavened Bread.
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    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,
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    “Go into the city, and a man
    carrying a jar of water will meet you.
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    Follow him. Say to the owner
    of the house he enters,
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    “The Teacher asks:
    Where is my guest room,
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    where I may eat the Passover
    with my disciples?”
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    Jesus celebrated the Passover.
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    He also instituted communion, the
    Lord’s supper. Jesus changed the picture.
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    He said things that had never been
    said before in connection with this.
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    The Passover was no longer about
    the blood of the lamb.
  • 60:12 - 60:23
    The Israelites knew about that. Now,
    this is Jesus’ blood of the New Covenant.
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    Why did He change it?
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    Because Jesus is the Passover Lamb,
    who was slain for us.
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    So, this is an everlasting ordinance.
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    It was to be celebrated year after year
    on the same day of the year.
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    The covenants in the Bible
    point to Christ.
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    Circumcision in the Abrahamic covenant
    points to our water baptism.
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    Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb.
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    “This is my blood of the covenant,
    which is poured out for many,”
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    he said to them.
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    “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again
    from the fruit of the vine
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    until that day when I drink it anew
    in the kingdom of God.”
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    We often forget something
    about the disciples.
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    They took the communion
    (the Lord's supper) with Christ.
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    They had been walking with Jesus.
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    They had celebrated the Passover
    with Him before.
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    It was an everlasting ordinance,
    that the Israelites kept.
  • 61:43 - 61:47
    But this time, Jesus changed it.
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    It was the last time He would keep
    it during this evil age.
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    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.
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    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.
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    He is not with us, in the flesh.
  • 62:31 - 62:37
    But one day, His victorious saints will
    sit and eat with him in His Kingdom.
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    Hallelujah! Communion is so much
    more than what we think.
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    Jesus is the Passover Lamb.
    Look at John 6:
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    “This is the bread which
    came down from heaven;
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    not as your fathers did eat
    manna, and are dead:
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    he that eateth of this bread
    shall live for ever.”
  • 63:06 - 63:14
    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.
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    Communion is so much more
    than what many have thought.
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    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,
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    and when he had given
    thanks, he broke it”
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    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.
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    This is not the same as the
    Roman Catholic doctrine.
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    They believe bread and wine physically
    becomes the body and blood of Christ.
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    But there is a spiritual application.
    These things have life in them.
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    Baptism and communion are both
    important. Baptism happens once.
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    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.
  • 64:39 - 64:52
    Until that day, the Passover was kept to
    remember how God saved Israel from Egypt.
  • 64:52 - 64:58
    God had commanded them to
    do that, year after year.
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    The children asked,
    “Why do we do this?” –
  • 65:01 - 65:08
    “Because we need to remember
    how God judged the gods of Egypt.
  • 65:08 - 65:13
    God saved us out of Egypt.”
    But Jesus changed it.
  • 65:13 - 65:17
    Now, he said: “Do it
    in remembrance of me.”
  • 65:17 - 65:23
    So we don’t only remember Exodus,
    we also look back to the cross.
  • 65:23 - 65:30
    Exodus is a picture that
    foreshadows the cross.
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    When we see this,
    the picture gets bigger and fuller.
  • 65:36 - 65:41
    Jesus said: “Do this in remembrance
    of me.” Later he also said,
  • 65:41 - 65:45
    “This cup is the new covenant
    in my blood;
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    do this, whenever you drink it,
    in remembrance of me.
  • 65:49 - 65:53
    For whenever you eat this
    bread and drink this cup,
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    you proclaim the Lord's
    death until he comes.”
  • 66:00 - 66:09
    So we take communion, focussing on the
    day we’ll eat with Jesus in God’s kingdom.
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    We’ll continue to do this
    until He comes back.
  • 66:15 - 66:26
    It points back to the cross, and forward
    to the Christ’s return in the future.
  • 66:26 - 66:33
    There is a teaching here about communion,
    being as important as baptism.
  • 66:33 - 66:41
    I made it about six years ago,
    as part of the Pioneer School.
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    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.
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    This became the first day of
    the first month for the Israelites.
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    Then we have Jesus, our Passover Lamb.
  • 67:16 - 67:28
    That becomes the first day of
    the first month for us (the new birth).
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    So, we see like that Israel
    and the church are connected.
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    Communion is not only connected
    with the Exodus and the Passover Lamb.
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    But we also do it in remembrance
    of JESUS, our Passover Lamb.
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    We do this until that day He comes again.
    On that day, we will be with Him.
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    We’ll drink the new wine with Him
    in the God’s Kingdom in the New Jerusalem.
  • 68:02 - 68:13
    This is beautiful. But we need to make
    sure that we’ll enter the Kingdom.
  • 68:13 - 68:19
    Only those who are truly born again
    will. Jesus said that.
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    Many people take communion, but
    will not enter. They are not born again.
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    They don’t understand the gospel.
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    Let’s focus here on the response
    to the gospel: Repentance and Faith.
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    First, they were told to get the
    yeast out of their homes.
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    Then they slaughtered and
    ate the Passover Lamb.
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    They'd already put the blood
    on the doorposts.
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    This is also the beginning of our Exodus.
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    We repent from our sins (yeast).
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    Then we put our faith in Jesus,
    our Passover Lamb.
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    If there's no repentance,
    the blood will have no effect.
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    Here’s an example from the New Testament:
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    How are yeast and sin connected?
    Sexual immorality defiles the church.
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    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,
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    and of a kind that even pagans
    do not tolerate:
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    A man is sleeping with
    his father's wife.”
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    Sadly, there was sin in the
    church as there is today.
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    “And you are proud! Shouldn't you
    rather have gone into mourning
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    and have put out of your fellowship
    the man who has been doing this?”
  • 70:00 - 70:04
    There’s hardly any
    church discipline today.
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    People live in sin, in the church,
    and there’s no church discipline.
  • 70:08 - 70:15
    But Paul was very strict. A person in
    the fellowship was living in sexual sin.
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    The people were proud.
    They should have put him out.
  • 70:18 - 70:30
    Paul continued: “hand this man over to
    Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
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    so that his spirit may be
    saved the day of the Lord.”
  • 70:33 - 70:37
    Paul told them to give him time to truly
    repent and understand what he had done.
  • 70:37 - 70:42
    “Your boasting is not good.
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    Don't you know that a little yeast
    leavens the whole batch of dough?”
  • 70:49 - 70:54
    Why did Paul write this? He was
    writing about sin in the church.
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    The people shouldn’t allow
    the sin to continue.
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    Paul then talked about yeast.
    I used to be a baker.
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    I know about yeast and
    how it works in bread.
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    You just need a little yeast,
    some salt and sugar.
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    Don't put the salt
    directly on the yeast.
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    The water will come
    out of the yeast. It'll die.
  • 71:14 - 71:17
    I know about the salt, sugar, heat
    and temperature, and how it works.
  • 71:17 - 71:21
    I know all about yeast. I did a report
    years ago as a baker.
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    It was actually one of the best grades
    I ever received. Yeast is like a person.
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    It is 75% water. It has a brain.
    Yeast is very interesting.
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    A small bit of yeast will fill the
    whole lump of dough.
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    Why are we talking about yeast?
    Because, it's a biblical picture of sin.
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    In Exodus, the Israelites had to get
    yeast out of their houses.
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    Then they had to apply the blood. Paul
    continues: “Get rid of the old yeast”.
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    Does that mean that that we, the church,
    should only eat bread without yeast?
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    No. Paul didn’t write about physical
    bread here. This is about sin.
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    Get rid of the sin. Put off that old life.
    I talked about that in Lesson 3.
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    Put on the new life.
    Get rid of the sin,
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    “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.”
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    Get rid of the yeast, or sin. Why?
    Because Christ is our Passover lamb:
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    “Therefore let us keep the Festival,
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    not with the old bread leavened
    with malice and wickedness,
  • 72:47 - 72:51
    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.
  • 73:14 - 73:17
    Get rid of the yeast.
  • 73:17 - 73:22
    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.
  • 73:36 - 73:43
    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.
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Saved Out Of Egypt: Our Journey Of Salvation / Kingdom School - Lesson 4
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