Exodus chapter 19 the Bible reads in verse 1 in the third month when the
children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt the same day came
they into the wilderness of Sinai for they were departed from Rephidim and
were come to the desert of Sinai and it pitched in the wilderness and there
Israel camped before the mount so if you remember in the last couple chapters
they were in a place called Rephidim that's where they fought against Amalek
and where Moses had to hold up his arms as Joshua fought that battle so they've
moved on from Rephidim and after all the adventures that we've read up so far it
has taken them three months to get to this point they're in Mount Sinai and if
you remember they were told that they would worship God in that mountain and
when God first met with Moses at the burning bush he said you're gonna get
the children of Israel you're gonna bring them out of Egypt and then you're
gonna come worship me in this mountain so now they've arrived at that mountain
and it says in verse number three and Moses went up unto God and the Lord
called unto him out of the mountain saying thus shalt thou say to the house
of Jacob and tell the children of Israel you've seen what I did unto the Egyptians
and how I bear you on eagles wings and brought you unto myself now therefore if
you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine so we see here
that this covenant that God is going to make with them is not an unconditional
covenant it's conditional right he's not saying you are going to be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all people no matter what you do no matter how you act
even if you hate me and reject me and worship idols and no it's a very
specific thing that he's saying here that if you obey my voice and if you
keep my covenant then you will be the chosen people then you will be special
then you will be above other nations and so forth but this is not a carte blanche
for them to just do whatever they want and remain God's people look the vast
majority of independent Baptists out there are wrong on this doctrine and
they have gotten sucked into all of the right-wing propaganda the Fox News
Christianity and look let me tell you something the right wing and the left
wing they're both on the same bird okay it's the devil and you know what don't
get sucked in to thinking that oh TV is good as long as I'm watching the right
wing stuff you know and oh yeah the mainstream media is great as long as I'm
on the right wing wrong it's all lies it's all garbage and many of the Fox
News Baptists out there when you listen them preach it literally sounds like
you're listening to some kind of a newscaster from Fox News or some kind of
a talking head from Fox News and when they don't sound like that then they
start sound like a Jewish rabbi sometimes because they're so into being
pro-Jewish and pro-Israel that is not what the Bible teaches okay the Bible
says very clearly that when Jesus was on this earth he told them the kingdom of
God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits
thereof it says in Hebrews chapter 8 they continued not in my covenant and I
regarded them not saith the Lord God does not regard them God does not
acknowledge them you have to be in Christ to be God's chosen people in the
New Testament period there's no other Jews as they get no think not to say
within yourselves we have Abraham to our father I stand to you that God is able
of these stones to raise up children of Abraham and now also the axe is laid
under the root of the tree and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down cast the fire that is the first sermon in the New Testament open
your Bible to Matthew 1 and start going forward that's the first preaching
you're gonna come to is saying don't give me this Abraham's our father
garbage you're gonna get chopped down you're getting cut down and thrown into
the fire okay that's why the Apostle Paul speaks to the Gentiles and
Philippians and says we're the circumcision who worship God in the
spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh if
you're not rejoicing in Christ Jesus and having no confidence the flesh you're
not the circumcision he's not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that
circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he's a Jew which is one
inwardly circumcision is that of the heart and of the spirit not of the
letter whose praise is not of men but of God and look I could go on all night
just quoting all the scriptures in the New Testament that just hammer this
truth that the Jews have rejected the Lord Jesus Christ they have been broken
off they are not acknowledged they are not God's chosen people they are under
God's wrath God's wrath is abiding on them right now you know we were at soul
winning the other day and this guy was showing us on his door frame he was a
saved Christian but he was showing us on his door frame that little diagonally
mounted scroll that Jews will have on their door and he was really proud to
have that on his house because it was from the previous owner so he said you
know that means this is a blessed house because a Christ killer used to live
here hey that's what the Bible says okay they're the ones who screamed out his
blood be on us and on our children they're the ones who screamed out
crucify him we have no king but Caesar they have God's wrath on them why would
that be a blessed house Oh someone who hates and rejects Jesus lived here oh
man special blessings on them folks if you hate look if any man loved not our
Lord Jesus Christ let him be anathema that's what the Bible says it doesn't
say you get a special blessing because every time you hear the name of Jesus
you spit three times because you hate him in your heart and that's what
Judaism is my friend it's a religion for people who hate Jesus it's a religion
for real hey let me have the Bible and let's just rip Jesus out of it let's
remove Jesus from Genesis chapter 1 let's remove Jesus from Genesis chapter
3 let's remove look Jesus is on every page of Genesis he's on every page of
Exodus Tim give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believe
it the name shall receive remission of sins what kind of a person would remove
Jesus and say well give me the Bible but just remove every reference to Jesus
that's what they are friend that's what they're doing and they've been doing it
for 2,000 years and God's wrath is on them for it they are not under a special
blessing and they're gonna split hell wide open every last one of them will
split hell wide open and the only way around that is they have to believe on
Jesus you have to get saved you say well you don't love Jews hey I love them
enough to tell them the truth that if they don't get saved they're damned you
know doesn't love them are the Fox News Baptist that get all excited in and they
get all like a schoolgirl around a Jew like really you're a Jew really could
you touch me or something can you like can I just like stand in your shadow or
touch the hem of your garment that's how you're typically evangelical Christian
today acts toward Jews oh well a Jew used to live in this house I'll never
wash this house again or something you know maybe I can get some of their
residual blessing folks I'm a son of Abraham you're a son of Abraham if you
believe in Christ you're a son of Abraham these people are the children of
the devil Jesus said to them you're of your father the devil and you say oh I
was the Pharisees you got it right and guess what rabbinical Judaism is the
Pharisees ask a Jewish rabbi explain to me the roots of your religion starting
in the first century AD they're gonna say all the Pharisees and the Talmud and
the rabbis and everybody that Jesus said you're a serpent you're a viper your
father's the devil how can you escape the damnation of hell you're a hypocrite
you're weak like these that's that's who they are friend the same people who
killed the Lord Jesus persecuted the prophets and all these things and you
know what people get offended by that they're offended by God's Word it's all
in the Bible the Bible says the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost it
says the Jews killed the first Thessalonians 2 the Jews killed the Lord
Jesus they killed their own prophets they persecuted us they please not God
and the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost what does the Bible say here
in Exodus 19 oh you guys are the children of Israel you guys are my
people no matter what is that what it says no this is what and look I've been
quoting the New Testament even in the Old Testament it doesn't say that it
says in the Old Testament verse 5 look at it carefully now therefore if ye will
obey my voice indeed question is someone who rejects the Lord Jesus obeying God's
voice well they're doing the old covenant oh really so they're they must
be doing a morning and evening burnt sacrifice then they must be doing the
burn the whole burnt offering am I right I mean you say that oh they're following
the law oh really then they must be doing the Passover by killing a lamb is
that what they do no they don't they don't do any of that they don't follow
the Old Testament they don't follow the New Testament look go ask the Jews if
they believe in evolution or if they believe in the Bible's creation account
go ask the Jews if they believe in the story of Noah's Ark in a literal
worldwide flood go ask the Jews if they believe any of those stories like Jonah
in the whale ask a Jew if he believes that Jonah was swallowed by a whale and
you know what the answer to all these questions is going to be no it's just a
bunch of fairy tales to them Christians are the ones that believe in this stuff
my friend Christians believe the Word of God because Jesus said in John chapter
5 well if you believe Moses you'd believe in me but if you believe not his
writings how should you believe my words nothing could be clearer than this
subject now look there are some good people that are mixed up on this okay
because the brainwashing is deep through TV through radio and through the TV
preachers and through the Bible colleges so the brainwashing runs deep so there
are good people that are mixed up on this but you know when people are shown
this truth and they're shown like a hundred scriptures and they just get mad
and angry and they still want to worship Jews and and twist the scripture
something's wrong with that person they're not right with God why don't
they just accept what the Bible says it doesn't even make sense there's a
there's a guy there's a pastor of a big church in Florida tonight who's
preaching an entire sermon against me he's preaching a whole sermon about like
why you shouldn't listen to Pastor Steven Anderson and I guarantee you I
haven't even I haven't heard the sermon I don't know if I'm ever gonna hear the
sermon but I guarantee you because I don't know you know if it's online I'll
listen to you know I'm ready to receive correction if needed but look I
guarantee you I already know what the sermons gonna be about I guarantee it's
gonna be all about the Jews that's what these people care about that's what
they worship is the Jews and Israel and because that's how they've been
brainwashed that is not what the Bible teaches Jesus Christ the fulfillment of
prophecy that counterfeit nation over there is the devil's counterfeit
substitute and pretty soon they're gonna put the Antichrist in power we don't
know when that you could be 20 years from now 50 years so we don't know the
day or the hour but that's where the Antichrist is gonna rule and reign from
they're not getting ready for Jesus they're getting ready for the Antichrist
over there and when they build they're all they're gonna build the temple yes
so the Antichrist can declare himself to be God in that temple that's what's
going on so anyway don't don't fall for that even in the Old Testament you have
clear scripture telling you that these people do not get a carte blanche they
must obey the Lord in order to be his people they cannot just say oh well it's
by our blood it's by our nationality it doesn't work that way and folks even in
the Old Testament anybody who wanted to join the nation of Israel in the Old
Testament could do it did you know that Joshua okay and Caleb okay these you say
oh these guys are the most full-blooded is right really no actually one of them
was an immigrant son of an immigrant right Caleb was the son of the
Kenizzite and so therefore you know that was another nation in that area folks
that's who joined the nation of Israel and you could be red yellow black or
white in the Old Testament get circumcised keep the Passover and the
Bible says it's the same law for the stranger as the one that's born in the
land you would become and you say well what tribe would they be the Bible says
whatsoever tribe they sojourn among that becomes their tribe the Bible covers
that if you'd read the Bible in the Old Testament you'd see that they get
assimilated into whatever tribe they happen to live in whatever tribe they
choose right and so that's how Caleb ended up getting assimilated in with the
tribe of Judah because that's where his dad dwelled and he and look tell me he
wasn't a full-fledged member of the tribe when they're picking people to
represent the tribe to go to the promised land they pick a guy who's not
even a natural-born guy because it didn't matter to them and in fact when
Jesus picking his disciples he picks 12 disciples he picked a guy called Simon
the Canaanite he picked a guy who was not an Israeli born guy as far as his
ethnicity he was of Canaan he was a Canaanite now I don't know how many
generations his family had been in the nation but you know what it was recent
enough to where he was known as Simon the Canaanite why did Jesus pick that
guy Jesus could have just picked a bunch of full-blooded Jews he chose to pick a
Canaanite to show these not a respecter of persons but that everywhere in every
nation whoever worships him in truth is accepted before him it's not a matter of
ethnicity and and here's how you get in on the New Testament you believe in
Jesus whosoever believeth in him is is is a recipient of the blessings of the
New Testament and you know when I learned this doctrine I loved it because
I you know I was sick of feeling like a second-class citizen for being this
Gentile believer like I'm just kind of the the the Plan B or whatever you know
we are full-fledged and the Jews have nothing on us because there's no
difference between the Jew and the Greek you believe in Christ you're saved you
don't believe you're doomed that's what the Bible says and he says in verse 6
and remember this is following the big if that if you keep the Covenant you
shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and holy nation these are the words
which also speak unto the children of Israel now go if you would keep your
finger there go to 1st Peter chapter 2 I got a hurry because there's so much
great stuff in this chapter 1st Peter chapter 2 and the Bible refers back to
this in 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 9 now who's the audience of 1st Peter well
he's writing to people living in Galatia Cappadocia Asia by Thinnia Pontus he's
writing to people in modern-day Turkey but back then Turkey was part of the
Greek speaking world and so this is called Asia Minor or part of the Greek
speaking world at that time and he's writing to them and he's writing to
these Gentiles and he says in verse 9 but you are a chosen generation a royal
priesthood unholy nation a peculiar people notice the exact language from
Exodus 19 do you see that how he said the same things he said Kingdom of
priests holy nation over here he says you're a chosen generation you're a
royal priesthood a peculiar people that's what he said back in Exodus 19 a
peculiar treasure unto me that you should show forth the praises of him who
has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light watch this which in time
past were not a people this can't be talking to the Israelites because they
were already a people in time past he's writing to those that in time past were
not a people but now are the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now
have obtained mercy see this new nation in the New Testament it's not a nation
that already existed because he said look in time past this was not a people
but now you are a peculiar people now you are this kingdom of priests this
chosen generation why because Christian believers are taken from all
nationalities you know when we get to heaven and there's a great multitude in
heaven praising God the Bible says can be from every kindred every language
every family every time there is not going to be a country on this planet
that's not represented every country in Asia Africa Europe North and South
America will all be represented in that multitude in that crowd there are
believers in Christ in every nation so this nation that we belong to of
Christians is not made up of a certain race or a certain language group or a
certain ethnicity it's just only based upon whether or not we believe in Jesus
Christ if we believe in Jesus Christ we're part of this Brotherhood this
priesthood this nation we as Baptist believe in what's called the priesthood
of the believer that's why we don't go and confess to a priest and and have a
priest absolve us of our sins we have Jesus as our high priest and then we are
each a priest every single one of us is a priest God has made us kings and
priests unto God and his father so we are all part of this nation regardless
of our ethnicity our ethnicity doesn't matter that's why the Bible says avoid
genealogies if our ethnicity mattered we would need a genealogy can't just look
at someone and just know what their ethnicity is otherwise you can just look
at the whole nation of Israel and say these are all white people there there
these are all Europeans because that's what they are they're all white
Europeans who converted to the Christ hating religion of Judaism very few of
them have strong family ties to Abraham Isaac and Jacob very few of them and
those are gonna be the ones that are probably a little darker in complexion
okay because you know when you're reading the Bible the Apostle Paul was
mistaken for an Egyptian Joseph was mistaken for an Egyptian okay so
throughout the Bible you see and and we know what Egyptians look like through
looking at hieroglyphics that have been preserved and sorry blacks they're not
black people okay everybody's like oh yeah you know Jesus was black and I was
but they weren't white either they're not white European they're not a
sub-saharan African black what they are is they're a brown person from the
Middle East okay so they would look like people if you went to a place like
Egypt or you know what they'd probably look a lot like is the Palestinians who
lived there the whole time lived there all along sorry mr. Fox News you know
what I mean but but here's the thing it doesn't matter did you notice that the
Bible doesn't give us a physical description of Jesus because we're not
supposed to make an image anyway it's not about whether he looked like this
color that color it's about the spiritual content of the word of God
Jesus Christ transcends all that he's God in the flesh he's the Son of God
he's not limited to like oh it's the white man's religion or it's you know
this religion or that religion wrong okay but what I'm saying is that the
Israelites so called over in Israel are whiter than I am there's something fishy
about that that doesn't doesn't make sense okay and you know the the
Palestinians said well they left brown and they came back white you know
because it's not the same people that came back okay they're called Ashkenazis
do a little Bible study on a guy named Ashkenaz you're gonna find out he's a
Gentile he's of the sons of Japheth that they're called Ashkenazis because that's
who they are okay anyway I could go on all night on that topic because there's
so much in the Bible there's so much to be said about that so much scripture but
Exodus 19 and 1st Peter chapter 2 I mean that's the one-two punch right
there let alone all the other hundreds of scriptures okay so go ahead and
preach against me you know pastor bozo out there in in Florida but you know
what you can go ahead and preach against me all you want but at the end of the
day you're lying to your congregation if you tell them that God's blessing is on
people who hate Jesus and reject Jesus and they're they just want a Bible
without Jesus folks the Old Testament makes no sense without Jesus it makes
zero sense I've just been thinking about that lately as I'm reading the Old
Testament a lot lately I'm just thinking like none of this makes any sense
without Jesus now it made sense to them back then because they're looking
forward to the cross they're looking forward to Jesus it makes sense to us
because we're seeing Jesus on every page it makes zero said think about the story
of Abraham offering Isaac does that story make sense without Jesus that's a
crazy story if God's not gonna send his son to be the Savior of the world if
God's not gonna so love the world that he gives his only begotten son that's a
weird story right like Oh Abraham go ahead and kill your son what in the
world is that oh I'm just testing you know it's about the Father God the
Father offering Jesus Christ and it makes perfect sense it is beautiful
everything in the Old Testament is like that all the animal sacrifices all the
Bible stories from Jonah to David is just everything everything points to
Jesus and then you understand it and then it makes sense I mean look in
chapter 1 let us make man in our image that makes no sense if there's no
father son and Holy Ghost you know what they say if you talk to the Jews they'll
say oh that's a majestic plural like like when the Queen when the Queen of
England says we are not amused here's the problem with that there's no record
of any King or Queen referring to themselves as we or being referred to in
that way as a multiplicity or plurality until what England a few hundred years
ago that's a new phenomenon there's there's no ancient evidence that's
completely made up this majestic plural is totally made up now a few times in
the Quran God slips and calls himself we because he's just plagiarizing so much
from biblical text so then the Muslims try to explain that oh it's a majestic
plural there's no evidence of that ever existing there's no evidence of that in
the Bible of anybody using a majestic plural that doesn't exist friend it's we
let us make man in our image because it's the father the son and the Holy
Ghost that's why makes sense oh the man's become like unto one of us
Genesis 3 22 makes no sense unless you got the father the son and the Holy
Ghost then it makes perfect sense right so if you're not a Christian you can't
understand the Bible if you're Jewish you're blinded the Bible says they have
the veil over their eyes when they read the scripture all right let's get back
into the chapter here we covered those most important verses look at verse 7
and Moses came and called for the elders of the people and laid before their
faces all these words which the Lord commanded him and all the people answered
together and said all that the Lord hath spoken we will do and Moses returned the
words of the Lord are excuse me Moses returned the words of the people unto
the Lord and the Lord said unto Moses lo I come unto thee in a thick cloud that
the people may hear when I speak with thee and believe thee forever and Moses
told the words of the people unto the Lord and the Lord said unto Moses go
unto the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow and let them wash their
clothes so what we see here with this back and forth of you know God says this
to Moses and then Moses goes and tells the people and then the people speak to
Moses and then Moses brings those words to God this is the covenant being made
basically what is a covenant a covenant is an agreement a deal a contract that's
what it means to make a covenant so they're making a deal here you know and
and basically each side has their part of the bargain right so God's side of
the bargain is that he's going to exalt them they're gonna be a kingdom of
priests they're gonna be a holy nation I'm gonna be your God you're gonna be my
people and then their part is they have to continue in the Covenant they have to
worship the Lord they have to live by his laws and so forth okay so there are
two sides to this agreement that's being made and Moses here is acting as a
go-between as a mediator you know he's going back and forth between the two
right he's pre shadowing or pre figuring the Lord Jesus Christ in that sense who
is the mediator between God and men and so he's going back and forth delivering
these messages the Covenant is being made and again this is not unconditional
it's very conditional okay and look the New Covenant's not unconditional because
you have to believe to be saved now once you believe you can never lose your
salvation you have eternal life and you're saved you're sealed unto the day
of redemption you cannot lose your salvation but to get in on the New
Covenant you have to believe in Christ it's not just everybody's in you know
you got to believe every person has to believe on their own so here we see this
going back and forth and then God's gonna do something really interesting in
this chapter he's actually instead of just speaking to Moses where they're
doing the back and forth thing he's actually gonna talk to everybody okay so
this is kind of a big deal this is very unique in Scripture where God is
actually going to speak to millions of people at the same time in an audible
voice so this is this is an event that's pretty much unparalleled here you know
when you're reading the old covenant here where most of it's all going
through Moses but God just one time is gonna speak to everybody and then he
says then they're gonna believe you forever they're not gonna doubt that
you've heard from me because they're going to physically hear my voice one
time okay so they're gonna prepare the people for this okay this is a very
serious event it's a very somber event he doesn't want them to take this event
lightly so yeah it's not like they're just pulling up lawn chairs and getting
out popcorn and it's like wow we're gonna see God you know it's not
something to be taken lightly so he's gonna spend a few days preparing them
and they have to be very clean he tells them you know you need to wash your
bodies you need to wash your clothing you need to be completely clean and
serious and and he says look we're gonna set boundaries around the mountain you
go beyond this boundary you will die anybody who crosses this you know tape
or whatever you'll die it said if an animal crosses this line the animal will
be killed right nobody crosses this line because everybody need everything
needed to be decent in order this is serious so he's gonna start to prepare
the people so he says in verse 11 or verse 10 and the Lord said unto Moses go
unto the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow and let them wash their
clothes and be ready against the third day for the third day the Lord will come
down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai and thou shalt set
bounds unto the people round about saying take heed to yourselves that you
go not up into the mount or touch the border of it whosoever touch it the
mount shall be surely put to death there shall not an hand touch it but he shall
surely be stoned or shot through whether it be beast or man it shall not live
when the trumpet soundeth long they shall come up to the mount and Moses
went down from the mountain unto the people and sanctified the people and
they washed their clothes and he said unto the people be ready against the
third day come not at your wives now I want to pay special attention to that
part come not at your wives because this has often been misunderstood or
misconstrued why they're not to come at their wives now a lot of people have a
warped view of the marital relationship okay and part of this is due to the
teachings of the Roman Catholic Church which has a perverse view of this and
then some of that trickles down into Protestantism which is like Catholic
light and so we want to make sure that we have a biblical view of marriage and
that we don't get tainted by this corrupt Roman Catholic teaching go if
you would to Hebrews 13 keep keep your finger in Exodus 19 of course we're
gonna be back there let's go to Hebrews chapter 13 and look at a key text here
about marriage in Hebrews chapter number 13 if you guys could help me out with
these just look up Hebrews chapter 13 in there so Hebrews chapter 13 there's an
important verse it says in verse number four marriage is honorable in all and
the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge here's what
the Bible saying look if you are having that physical relationship before you're
married that's wicked if you're having that physical relationship with someone
who's married to someone else that's wicked right so whoremongers and
adulterers God will judge but on the reverse of that marriage is honorable in
all the bed is undefiled I mean this is pretty important right he's saying look
having a physical relationship within marriage is a pure activity it's totally
fine okay there's nothing wrong with it it's not something that is sinful or
bad look believe it or not the Roman Catholic Church will teach that having
relations with your own wife is venial sin that it's somehow sinful and it
should only be used for procreation or folks that is garbage the Bible is
crystal clear about the virtue of marriage the virtue of being married and
how important it is to have that physical relationship in marriage and I
don't have time to turn to all those scriptures but there's plenty of
scripture on that 1st Corinthians 7 many other places that talk about how
important that is and how that's a necessary part of marriage we go back to
Deuteronomy and show you the same thing this is all over the Bible but this key
verse here is telling you look within marriage that relationship is pure now
it should be kept in the bedroom you know people who talk about what goes on
in their bedroom outside the bedroom and and taught you know that's
inappropriate okay that should be kept private that is something that's within
marriage within the bedroom and the Bible says marriage is honorable in all
all and the bed is undefiled but hora maga is an adulterer's galaxy so the
Bible is really clear here that the problem is when you're going outside
marriage when you're within marriage it's honorable it's undefiled okay now
let's see what these modern Bible translations have changed this verse to
let's read it from the ESV okay go ahead and read it from the NIV marriage
should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept pure for God will
judge the adulterer so do you see the difference here that both of these have
introduced he said well the marriage bed needs to be kept undefiled the King
James says it already is undefiled do you see the difference the King James is
saying look marriage is honorable the bed is undefiled it's already done the
ESV and the NIV are like hey we need to keep it undefined we need to make sure
and honor it and keep it undefiled folks you look this up in the original Greek
those verbs are not there it reads exactly what the King James Bible is
saying those words of keep the excuse me I'm switching in my German accent here
those words of it should be kept you got to keep it there's no verb for keep in
the original folks they are being influenced by the perversion of
Catholicism and even some Protestantism where they think that somehow activities
within marriage are bad you know it's only you know you got to do it a certain
way at a certain time and then you got to go confess to the priest and tell him
all about it the pervert folks these are lies this is why and then people act
like you're crazy for being King James only folks the King James is the only
Bible you can trust in 2019 look at what these modern version those are the two
of the most popular Bibles on the market and they're tight well you got to keep
it undefiled well how do I do that I guess I'll go ask the priest he'll tell
me all about it no actually it already is undefiled it already is honorable I
don't have to do anything to keep it that way except not be a whoremonger and
not be an adulterer amen that's what the Bible is teaching so the reason I bring
that up is because with that wrong philosophy if you go back to Exodus 19
and actually keep your figure there go to Leviticus 15 with this wrong
philosophy that somehow feels that there's something sinful about the
normal physical relationship within marriage if you if you brought that into
this passage in Exodus 19 you'd say oh well the reason the Bible said that
they can't come at their wives is because they need to be holy and
righteous and that's good that act is gonna defile them somehow wrong that is
not what the Bible's teaching the reason why he's saying to them don't come at
your wives is the same reason that he told them wash your clothes and take a
bath because here's the thing that act is something that would bring about
what the Bible calls uncleanness not a sin or unholyness or unrighteousness
but simply look the Bible says if you butcher an animal you're unclean and you
have to go bathe your flesh and be even though the Bible's commanding you to do
those things and commanding you to butcher animals and eat the meat and so
forth but when you do that you gotta wash up afterward and be clean and
not only that the Bible had a time limit of being clean and staying clean and God
just wanted them ultra clean and tidy for this meeting on the mountain that's
why he's saying come not at your wives not like oh I want you guys to be extra
righteous for these three days and and you know super righteous people folks
there are cults out there that tell people not to have a relationship with
their wife we're husband wife or celibate even though they're married
there are weirdo cults like that my friend and I'm telling you this is
something that the Roman Catholics have weird views on if you look at their
views on this they don't line up with Scripture okay look what Leviticus
chapter 15 says it says in verse 16 and if any man seed of copulation go out
from him Leviticus 15 16 that he shall wash all his flesh and water and be
unclean until the even and every garment and every skin whereon is the seed of
copulation shall be washed with water and be unclean till the even the woman
also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation they shall both bathe
themselves in water and be unclean until the even so notice the the two-step
process they bathe their flesh and then a period of time goes by and then they
are considered to be clean these and if you read the whole chapter of chapter 15
of Leviticus these are sanitation rules they tell you hey if someone's sick you
have to wash their clothes wash the bed wash and then wait you wait okay why
why the waiting the waiting is just to make sure that everything's clean
everything's normal make sure that there was nothing that was missed you know God
you know God cares about clean cleaning now the the phrase cleanliness is next
to godliness is not in the Bible but the concept is in the Bible of being clean
okay and and let me just by the way put in a little plug for our new documentary
that just came out on YouTube yesterday called San Francisco okay it's not on
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San Fran sicko it should come right up and you know folks God's not pleased
with with with San Francisco because of all the the the the disgusting conditions
and and they're putting people at risk for all kinds of diseases and everything
by just allowing all that filth and and you know if people actually read the
Bible and took it seriously and if even even just the book of Leviticus alone
would solve all of San Francisco's problems you could just you don't have
to give them the whole you could just give them Leviticus as far as the
sanitation side now obviously for the spiritual problem they're gonna need the
New Testament you know but as far as the their physical problems if they would
just get a hold of some of the teachings of Leviticus and it's funny that's the
book that they make fun of the most so you preach Leviticus well you know it's
better than living in your own filth you know at least it teaches you about being
clean and sanitary now look we're not under the law we don't perform these
things ceremonially or ritualistically but you know what when I read the book
of Leviticus I walk away saying hey God wants me to be clean and you know
there's stuff in the New Testament on that too and and just the general
principle of cleanliness sanitation quarantine of the sick and so forth and
so what the Bible is saying here is that when you have a physical relationship
with your wife you haven't done anything wrong you don't need to go do a sin
offering and you know you gotta go do something no what you need to do is wash
up right that's it that's what the Bible saying and so if we go back to Exodus 19
that's what he's saying here when he says hey wash your skin wash your
clothes don't come at your wives you know you don't want to get all washed up
and then basically spoil it as far as God wanting it to be pristine and clean
and pure not spiritually but physically wash your clothes wash your flesh I mean
that's what he said in Exodus 19 and then what's the third injunction you
know come not at your wives it's that's the context okay then it makes sense so
back in Exodus chapter 19 he's giving them these rules verse 16 it came to
pass on the third day in the morning that there were thunders and lightnings
and a thick cloud upon the mountain and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud
so that all the people that was in the camp trembled and Moses brought forth
the people out of the camp to meet with God and they stood at the nether part of
the mount and Mount Sinai was all together on a smoke the nether part
simply means the lower part so they're at the bottom remember they can't touch
the mountain itself lest they die Mount Sinai was all together on a smoke
because the Lord descended upon it in fire nobody can see the Lord's face and
live so he comes down shrouded in fire and smoke and dwelling in thick darkness
and so he comes down the smoke of a furnace the whole mount quaked greatly
and when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder
Moses spake and God answered him by a voice and the Lord came down upon Mount
Sinai on the top of the mount and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the
mount and Moses went up by the way this is a great picture of the rapture you
see some of the parallels you see the earthquake you see the clouds you see
the trumpet sounding the Lord descends and then he calls Moses up and then
Moses comes up this is a perfect picture of the rapture okay in the New Testament
so we see these things for see it all makes sense when you are a Christian
right so you know all these things are pointing us to those New Testament
truths about Jesus Christ and by the way it's interesting how if you get the
picture here you know they everybody's got taking this really seriously two
days of preparation everybody's clean as a whistle right clean clean bodies
clean clothes don't cross the line everything's ordered everybody's ready
and basically then you know try to get the picture of being there so you're
there right at the mountain and all of a sudden you know there's just fire and
smoke coming down as the Lord descends on the mountain and the earth's quaking
I mean this is a pretty powerful then there's a sound of a trumpet okay and
basically the sound of the trumpet isn't just a quick little you know this is
basically a sound of a trumpet that is prolonged okay so this isn't just a quick
burst or a tune that's being played it's basically a prolonged you know or
whatever
it keeps getting louder because look down at your Bible it says in verse 19
and I'm not making the right sound but forgive me it says when the voice of the
trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder so the the trumpet is just a
prolonged right and it's getting loud it's waxing louder and louder it's
getting louder and louder okay so it gets louder and louder and louder and
then Moses speaks and then God answers okay this is very dramatic so that's
that's probably how it's going to be at the second coming of Christ in the sense
of a long trumpet sound not just maybe a quick burst it's probably gonna be a
loud trumpet sound something that sounds like a trumpet getting louder and louder
okay so the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder Moses
spake God answered him by a voice and the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai Moses
went up so the people are down at the bottom the Lord comes down Moses goes up
to talk to him and get final instructions verse 21 the Lord said unto
Moses go down charge the people lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze
and many of them perish he say look I know how these people are they're dense
they don't get it you have to tell them things a bunch of times he says go down
and just tell them again do not cross this line you cannot cross this line
because he said he said lest many of them you know God knows all things he
knows that if you don't warn them again a whole bunch of them are gonna come in
and they're all gonna die so God and his mercy says to Moses go repeat that again
because they didn't get it the first time so then it says and let the priests
also which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves lest the Lord break
forth upon them and Moses said unto the Lord the people cannot come up to Mount
Sinai for thou charge it's dust saying set bounds a pound about the mountain
sanctified so basically Moses says to God like look nobody's gonna come
through I already told him we already set up the boundaries God's like go tell
him one more time and the Lord sent him away get thee down he's like look I know
more you know he knows more than Moses you know he's like go down and give the
instructions one more time and Moses is like don't worry about it I got it
covered the boundaries are set and he's just like away just do it just go down
there again right you need to go down and thou shalt come up see that this
could be confusing at first if you're not paying attention to the whole
passage this kind of contradictory command get thee down and thou shalt
come up to get thee down is right now hey go down and do what I just said to
do thou shalt come up that's future when you're done doing what I told you to do
then you're gonna come back okay and Aaron with thee but let not the priests
and the people break through to come up unto the Lord here's repeating the
command again making sure look Moses I don't trust these people go down and
tell him again is what he's saying because he knows the hearts of all men
people are gonna be curious and they're gonna want to break forth to gaze like I
gotta get closer I want I want to see what's going on over there so Moses went
down unto the people and spake unto them so that's Moses obeying he goes down and
then when we roll into verse 20 God spake all these words saying we roll
directly into the Ten Commandments so what happens I'm just gonna borrow this
part from chapter 20 just to finish the thought of the sermon because there's so
much great stuff to preach about next week in chapter 20 so I'm gonna just
kind of get a head start jump down to verse 18 so verses 1 through 17 are the
Ten Commandments right verses 1 through 17 of the Ten Commandments so what I
want you to get this is what I want you to remember that's what I want you to
learn here okay because I want you it's important that we know the Bible and
that we know these stories and we know what the teachings of God's Word here's
what you need to understand about this this important event when God spake
audibly to literally millions of people because they're gonna be counted in the
book of Numbers and the men the adult men are six hundred thousand so we're
talking about millions of people if you include the women and children at this
most unique event of God speaking to the entire nation audibly okay what is it
that he says to them what part do they hear it's the Ten Commandments what they
get is the Ten Commandments from the mouth of God audibly they hear the Ten
Commandments themselves that's the part that they get now he finishes the Ten
Commandments in verse 17 we're going to talk about the Ten Commandments next
week but look at verse 18 of chapter 20 and all the people saw the thunderings
and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking and
when the people saw it they removed and stood afar off and they said unto Moses
speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we die so
they're freaked out by this experience of just and all they've heard is just
the Ten Commandments but from the mouth of God with all this fire and smoke and
thunder and the sound of a trumpet in this booming voice of God it's too much
for them to handle they can't take it and so they say to Moses we've heard
enough we get it God's talking to you we heard it ourselves we are we're gonna
die we need to get out of here okay you need to just talk to him and we'll get
it from you Moses okay so that's their response to this lest we die verse 20
and Moses said unto the people fear not for God has come to prove you and that
his fear may be before your faces that you said not and the people stood afar
off and Moses drew near into the thick darkness where God was and the Lord said
unto Moses thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel you've seen that I've
talked with you from heaven and then he begins to give more Commandments more
injunctions and so forth but he's giving these just to Moses now because they
don't want to hear anymore they've heard enough they're gonna back off that's all
they can handle and you know it's this is referred to in Hebrews chapter 12 I'll
just quote it for sake of time but he says you're not coming to the mount that
might be touched and that burned with fire nor into clouds and darkness and
tempest and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words which voice they that
heard and treated that the word should not be spoken unto them anymore for they
could not endure that which was commanded and if so much as a beast
touched the mountain and shall be stolen to thrust through with the dark he's
saying look you're coming to the new Jerusalem the heavenly city Jesus Christ
the mediator of the new covenant right the blood of Jesus the church of the
firstborn he's saying you're not under the old covenant under the new covenant
he's saying in Hebrews 12 and he uses this to picture the old covenant okay
and he's saying you're not come to that mountain that you couldn't touch and
fire and brimstone and the voice and the trumpet and you know this this very
scary unapproachable God no you've got Jesus Christ the mediator you can go
boldly into the throne of grace you've been brought in there by the blood of
Christ and so forth so it's interesting what he says they when they heard that
voice they entreated that the word would not be spoken to them anymore and it
says because they could not endure that which was commanded so you see that
Moses is able to get close to God right the people can't handle it and I believe
one thing we could learn from this just kind of figuratively speaking taking you
know just a figurative application from this is that you know when you're a
godly person you can get closer to God people that are sinful and ungodly
worldly you know what they don't want to be close to God you know because we're
kind of sitting here thinking to ourselves like why you want to go home
after 10 commandments let's get all 611 of them straight from the mouth of God
or however many there are right like why why go home now Moses doesn't want to
Moses is like wait fear not what's the problem I can handle this right and you
know Aaron and Joshua they can handle it but we see that people when they're
living in sin when they're you know they they don't want to get too close to God
that's kind of the figurative application here and you see that people
today when they're when they're living a sinful life they don't want to go to
church have you ever had somebody say well I'm afraid if I go to church the
roof will cave in have you ever had somebody say that to you yeah several
people yeah hey I feel like if I walk through the door of a church the
building would collapse upon me or something you know I'm too wicked to go
to church and you know someone once said sin will keep you from this book or
this book will keep you from sin you know you if you read your Bible every
day thy word if I had in my heart that I might not sin against thee but if you're
living in sin you're not gonna want to read your Bible you're not gonna want to
go to church you're not gonna want to listen to preaching you know when your
deeds are evil you don't want the light shining too bright and so we need to
take a lesson from that to to love the Lord cleanse ourselves purify ourselves
and want to be close to God want to hear directly from God and you know there are
too many people that don't want to hear directly from God you know they're not
they're not opening their Bible and getting it directly from God and they
just want to push that out of their mind you know go soul winning and knock on
the doors and see how many people just have no interest in the things of God so
many blessings are missing out on so many beautiful things that they're
missing out on but you know that's that's how people are and that's how
these people work so he gives them the Ten Commandments audibly the rest is all
going to be given by the hand of a mediator it's all going to be given by
Moses and we'll get into those commandments themselves next week in
chapter 20 let's borrow it's never word of prayer father we thank you so much
for your word Lord and we thank you for the New Covenant the New Testament or
what you call in the book of Hebrews the better Testament Lord help us to realize
all of the wonderful blessings that we have access to and and just just our
status in Christ Lord thank you so much for your unspeakable gift we're totally
unworthy and yet you have made us into priests and kings and you have elevated
us to a position that none of us deserves and so we're thankful for your
grace and mercy and Lord we pray that that many among the Jews would realize
the the the wicked error of their ways and and come unto Christ and I would
just pray that we would go out and preach the gospel to every preacher and
get as many people saved as we possibly can that they might have a share in the
New Covenant and that they might be included in the New Testament Lord just
by simple faith in Jesus and it's in Jesus name we pray amen