grab a hymnal and turn to our first hymn. hymn number one Jesus I my cross have
taken. hymn number one Jesus I my cross have taken. we'll sing there starting on
the first. Jesus I my cross
You'll bow your heads with me. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for this day, for the start of the
new year, and I just pray that not only would you be with us for the service that you'd keep us
safe today, but that you'd also just be with us and bless Anchor Baptist Church for this first year.
Lord, that we would just do great works in your name and that we would all have a desire to serve
you as best as we can this year and going forward for the rest of our lives. Please also just continue
to be with us for the service. Have everything done decently and in order. These things we pray in
Alright, for our next hymn this morning, turn if you would to number 10, near the cross, hymn number 1010, near the cross, we'll sing there starting on the first.
You'll see we're starting a brand new Bible memory passage this week of Galatians chapter number one
And I definitely want to encourage everyone to be doing these Bible memory challenges
just because when you memorize a chapter, you really learned that chapter better than you can
any other way. And even if a month or two months or a year from now, you don't have the chapter
memorized word perfect, you'll never forget where that content is in the Bible. You'll never forget
the truth of that content. So I really do want to encourage everyone to do it. But for those who
did finish the Hebrews chapter six challenge, we do have some prizes. So if you finished that
get your prize. We've got the Anchor Baptist Church hats here, as well as some Anchor Baptist
Church coffee mugs. You could put cold or hot in this. So if you did do that prize, come on up
and get your choice of that now. Rotheo, which one you want here? Pat or mug? There you go.
All right, everyone give a round of applause to those
that did the challenge, great job.
And can I have an usher come and take these
and put it back by the sound booth.
Thank you very much.
Okay, and on the inside,
if we go through our announcements here,
service times are listed Sunday morning at 10.30.
Sunday evening at 4.30 PM
and our Wednesday evening Bible study at seven.
We've been going through first Samuel.
Soul winning times are all listed there.
All those meet here at the church building.
Obviously, it's very very cold today. So if you go out soul winning, please dress dress appropriately for that
Make sure you're staying hydrated
But we're still going to go out soul winning today.
Nursing home ministry schedule is listed there.
If you participate in that, make note of that there.
And our year to date statistics, as you could see,
we got four salvations for the year so far.
So we're starting new and I'm really excited
about the opportunities that our church has
for soul winning this year.
We've got a lot of soul winning events both at our church
and churches we're partnering with in the new IFB.
So it's definitely gonna be a great year for soul winning
and I'm hoping to just
Go pedal to the medal this year and try to do as much sole winning as we possibly can.
I'm really excited for the opportunities this year.
On the right is our list of expecting ladies. Please be in prayer for Mrs. Reed.
Also, upcoming events. I had a really good time with the Men's Preaching Night last week,
and that's something I definitely want to do more often, maybe every five weeks or so.
And so, on February 2nd, we're going to be combining a potluck with a Men's Preaching Night.
So, by this evening, we'll have a sign-up sheet for men that would like to participate in that and preach.
But yeah, go ahead and bring food to share.
We'll have a potluck afterwards.
We'll have a men's preaching tonight on the evening
service for February 2nd.
February 14th is a Friday, and we're
going to start a sweetheart banquets.
And my goal is to have this as a yearly thing.
This is something that I did when we attended Sher
Foundation Baptist Church.
And it was always a really fun evening for the married couples.
And this event is for married couples,
not for engaged or dating or anything like that.
You've got to be married.
But it's gonna be a good time.
We'll have like a short marriage sermon.
We'll have some really, really good food catered
and we'll have some marriage themed games afterwards.
It's just gonna be a really fun night for everyone.
So again, I'll have a sign up sheet for that as well.
You're welcome to bring your kids.
Obviously, I don't expect you to, you know,
go get a babysitter or anything like that.
If you have someone that you super, super, super trust
in your life and you're willing to do that,
you're welcome to.
But the kids can of course come to this event.
We're probably gonna have them.
playing games over there or something like that.
But when I do put the sign up sheet out,
there's going to be a spot to indicate how many children
you're going to be bringing that need food.
Because we're going to get separate food catered
for the kids.
We're going to get super amazing food catered
for the married, mom and dad.
And kids are going to get like pizza or something like that.
OK, so just to prepare you for that.
April 19, we're going to have a soulning marathon here
in Oklahoma City.
Try to reach people around Easter.
It's a great time when people are thinking about Christ.
We're going to get special invites made and have a soul winning marathon at that
time. May 16th through the 18th is a King James Conference at Sure Foundation
Baptist Church in Vancouver, Washington.
If you're looking for a conference to go to in the first half of the year,
this one would be a great one if you'd like. May 31st,
we're going to be pairing up with Steadfast Baptist Church and doing a soul
winning marathon in Durant, Oklahoma. So that should be a great time.
We should have tons of soul winners for that and Lord willing,
June 28th.
We're going to have just a church fellowship day.
And of course, this is optional.
If you hate loud noises and aircraft,
you don't have to go, okay?
But I'm going to it, I'm excited for the air show
and I'd like to hang out with all of you while we do that.
So you're more than welcome to come.
Obviously you're gonna wanna bring like a chair
and sunscreen and stuff like that.
It's gonna be hot, but it's gonna be a fun time.
October 6th through the 11th, this is really far away,
but I really wanted to announce it early
because you might have to get passports,
you might have to start planning for this.
and I, we're already booked, we're going to this. We've been to, I've been to the
Bahamas Mission Strip before and it's one of the best trips you'll ever take in
your life. The soul-winning is absolutely incredible. The nation there is a
Christian nation in the sense that all the kids in public school are taught the
King James Bible.
you go into the public school and there's just King James Bible verses on the wall
and they're taught it in class and all the children are dressed like civilized human beings
unlike our country and they're already very receptive to the bible they just simply don't
understand you know faith alone they don't understand eternal security oftentimes but they
understand a lot of other things in the bible in fact me and brother ben naeem were soul winning
and we handed someone a sodomite deception uh movie ticket and the guy just quoted Leviticus 2013 to me
He's just like some random janitor. He's like, oh, yeah, of course Leviticus 2013. He just says it
I'm just like this is a great nation like this is a wonderful country
So it's a it's a great time and not only is it going to be great soul winning which trust me
It's going to be great soul winning, but also it's just going to be a ton of fun
Usually I think we go soul winning for like
five solid hours of hard work soul winning a day and in the evening people are swimming
in the beautiful Bahamas ocean and hanging out on the beach. There's usually a day where we
do something really fun. Some people like to go snorkeling, jet skiing, hanging out at the nice
So I really want to encourage you to go. Don't be afraid to even bring your children.
I'm taking all of my kids and it's going to be hard, but it's also going to be fun.
So we know it's a work trip for the Lord, but also it's going to be a lot of fun.
So I do want to encourage you to go. If you have any questions about this,
you need to reach out to Steadfast Baptist Church. This is their event.
So email evangelist fursteadfastbaptistkjv at gmail.com or pastor Shelly.
I'm sure everyone here has their contact information.
If you do book a flight, make sure that you send your flight itinerary to Steadfast Baptist Church so that they know how to plan logistics.
So that's it for upcoming events. If you'd like to give to our church online, there's a QR code for you there.
And our prayer list on the back. If you have any prayer requests, make sure to email that email address. I'd be happy to add that for you.
That's going to be it for announcements this morning. Let's go ahead and go to our third song.
All right, our third song this morning is going to be hymn number 20, When I See the Blood.
Hymn number 20, 2-0.
When I See the Blood, we'll sing there on the first.
Yes, bro.
offering plates are being passed, turn if you would to 2nd Chronicles chapter number 3.
2nd Chronicles chapter number 3.
Chronicles chapter number three then Solomon began to build the house of the
Lord at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah where the Lord appeared unto David his
father in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of
Ornan the Jebusite and he began to build in the second day of the month in the
fourth year of his reign
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for to for the building of the house of God
The length by cubits after the first measure was three score cubits and the breadth 20 cubits and the porch
That was in the front of the house
The length of it was according to the breadth of the house 20 cubits and the height was in 120 and he
overlaid it within
with pure gold. In the greater house he he sealed with fir tree which he overlaid
with fine gold and sat there on palm trees and chains and he garnished the
house with precious stones for beauty and the gold was gold of pervame. He
the doors thereof with gold and grave cherry-bimbs on the walls and he made the
most holy house the link thereof was according to the breadth of the house
20 cubits and the breadth thereof 20 cubits and he overlaid it with fine
gold according to 600 talents and the weight of the nails was 50 shackles of
the upper chambers with gold and in the most holy house he made two cherry
beams of image work and overlaid them with gold and the wings of the cherry
beams were 20 cubits long one wing of one cherub was five cubits reaching to
the wall of the house and the other wing was likewise five cubits reaching to
the wing of the other cherub.
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits,
reaching to the wall of the house,
and the other wing was five cubits also,
joining to the wing of the other cherub.
The wings of these cherubimps spread themselves forth,
20 cubits, and they stood on their feet
and their faces were inward.
And he made the veil of blue and purple
and and rot cherry abams there on. Also he made before the house two pillars of
30 and five cubits high and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them
was five cubits and he made chains as in the oracle
put them on the heads of the pillars and made in hundred pomegranates and put
them on the chains and he reared up the pillars before the temple one on the
right hand and the other on the left and called the name of that on the right
hand Jachen and the other and the name of the other the name of that on the
Lord, we're thankful for your word thankful to have these pictures for us
Amen
And this is from Jewishvoice.org and the title of this article is Update on the Building of the Third Temple.
So, this is a publication by Orthodox Jews, and this is what they're saying about it.
They say, those who believe Scripture contains a literal fulfillment of the biblical covenants
for the Jewish people and the Jewish land of Israel, recognize rebuilding the temple
is part of this promised future.
In Jeremiah's presentation of the new covenant for Israel, we read.
So they start off saying, well, anyone who's a real Bible believer, anyone who actually
The Old Testament, of course, they just know that it's promised that a third temple is going to be rebuilt in Jerusalem.
They're trying to just put that on their audience like, oh, this is something that we just know, that we just take for granted.
And then they go and quote a passage in Jeremiah, and they use a false Bible version.
But I'll read it to you in the King James in Jeremiah 33-14.
It says, Behold the days come, sayeth the Lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
In those days, and at that time, will I cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto
David, and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land."
Now the irony is that verse is clearly talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
And here you have these Orthodox Jews saying, oh, anyone who actually believes this scripture
knows that there's going to be a third temple, but it's like, you clearly don't believe
And it's so ironic that Jews would look to the book of Jeremiah and quote that to the world when the whole point of the book of Jeremiah is that the nation of Israel and Judah had rejected God so bad that God allowed Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians to go into their city and completely destroy their temple.
And it's just so ironic because here they are today, they're the exact same group of people. They have the exact same mentality.
Then they quote more of Jeremiah it says in verse 16 in those days shall Judah be saved
and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith she shall be called the Lord our
righteousness and of course this is a foreshadowing of the millennial reign of Christ when all Israel
shall be saved when spiritual Israel will also be physical Israel then they quote something that
Verse 18 is what I'm referring to, but verse 17 says,
For thus sayeth the Lord, David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.
Neither shall the priests, the Levites, want a man before me to offer burnt offerings
and to kindle meat offerings and to do sacrifice continually.
And see, part of Jeremiah is talking about the fact that someday the nation of Israel is going to be restored.
You know, this Babylonian destruction is not a permanent thing for the nation of Israel.
Obviously, in the way far future, they're going to have the Millennial reign of Christ where all Israel will be saved.
But even in the near future, when during the times of Ezra, the temple is rebuilt,
the Levitical priesthood and the sacrifices will be reinstituted.
But that is definitely not going to be happening in the Millennial reign.
There's not going to be any sacrifices.
Oh, anyone who actually believes the scripture knows the Third Temple is going to be rebuilt.
It's like, you guys rejected Christ, the people at this time rejected God and destroyed their
city, you guys are no different yet.
Then it says, the article says, this passage speaks about the messianic age.
When all Israel will be saved and restored to the land of Israel at that time a righteous descendant of David
The Messiah will sit on the throne in Jerusalem and the temple will again stand complete with its Levitical priesthood
See they're talking about how the Messiah is going to come in the future because they don't recognize that he already came
And of course, Jesus Christ is going to come again in the future, but their perspective,
when they're saying the Messianic age, when the Messiah comes, they're coming at it from
the view that Jesus never came, that the Messiah never came, that Jesus wasn't the Messiah,
and they're still looking forward to the first coming, which of course is going to be the
Antichrist that they're looking for.
And then it says, if this is to be a future reality, is there any sign of preparation
Since 1987, when the temple movement began preparations for the rebuilding of the third
temple, efforts to see this become a reality in the 21st century have been slowly progressing.
While modern Israel and a large percentage of the Jewish people throughout the diaspora
are secular, Orthodox Jews do not believe these people will play a role in the rebuilding
of the temple since it is a spiritual work.
You know, ever since the Jews were just spread about into the whole world,
a lot of Jews have just become secular, and that's very true.
I mean, when people talk about the Jews, what are you talking about?
Are you talking about people who claim to be physically a Jew?
Are you talking about people who claim to be culturally a Jew?
Are you talking about people who are secular Jews?
Are you talking about the Orthodox?
Are you talking about the Hasidic Jews?
I mean, there's all sorts of different people that would call themselves Jews.
and the Orthodox Jews specifically,
I mean, these are the ones with the black hat
and the Curly's and the Bobway.
Okay, that's who we're talking about here.
They're saying the secular Jews
aren't gonna be a part of this rebuilding.
This is what they say.
It is Orthodox Jews who revived the Sanhedrin,
the religious body that supervised the Halichic,
I don't know if I'm saying that right.
Issues related to the temple and who intend to see it rebuilt in a proper way
So they're basically saying hey, we're just the descendants of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees that rejected Christ
We're reviving the religion of the Jews at the time of Jesus. We've rejected the Messiah
We're gonna be the ones in charge of rebuilding the third temple now right off the bat
Anyone who's a Christian who's ever cracked their Bible open one single time
This should be throwing all sorts of red flags that the group that hated Jesus
when he was on this earth that rejected his teachings that had him killed, the ones that
said his blood be on us and on our children, they're the ones that are excited to rebuild
the third temple.
Yet many Baptists today, many independent, fundamental Baptists are excited about this
idea and think it's something great and are donating money to it and are praying, literally
praying to God that this temple will be rebuilt.
Now, before we talk about this supposed third temple, this morning I want to do kind of a deep dive into just the history of the temple of God, the history of the temple.
Go to Hebrews chapter number nine.
Let's talk about the real temple or tabernacle or just dwelling place of God, and that is the one in heaven.
That is the true tabernacle or temple or whatever you want to call it, this is the true one, the one in heaven.
Verse 21, the Bible says moreover he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry
and almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission.
It was therefore necessary that the, notice, patterns of things in the heavens
should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
See, on earth, whenever there was a temple or a tabernacle or a sacrifice of a blood or of a bull or of a goat,
you know, the blood of bulls and goats, all of those things were just patterns or pictures of the heavenly.
But it was necessary that the true blood was sprinkled on the true altar in the true temple
in heaven.
Verse 24 says, For Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands, which are
the figures of the true.
But into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us
Bible saying Jesus did not go into some temple in Jerusalem some tabernacle and
Sprinkle his blood on some altar made with hands. He actually went into the true
So one thing right off the bat just as a foundation when we're going through the history of all the different temples that were on this earth
realized that none of those temples were the most special, important things, they were always just
a reflection of the true which is in heaven. And today people, Baptists, they're really excited
about this and the people during the time when these temples existed, during the times of the
kings, during the time of Jesus Christ, people often are very excited about the carnal.
People are very excited about a physical temple and they get so excited when they see you know sacrifices being made on some temple
But none of those things were ever truly important
They were only important because they were a reflection of the true temple of God in heaven and those bowls those goats
They never washed away sins. It was always a reflection of the true sacrifice
Which was the Lord Jesus Christ go to Hebrews 8 turn the page to Hebrews chapter 8 verse number 3
It says for every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices,
whereof it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
She's saying, look, the high priest, the men that occupied this position,
they had to give gifts and sacrifices to offer,
and so it's necessary that this man also had something to offer.
Who's this man? It's talking about Melchizedek,
who I believe is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Look at verse 4, it says,
He should not be a priest seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things and as Moses was admonished of God
When he was about to make the tabernacle
For see sayeth he that thou make all things according to the pattern
Showed to thee in the mount Moses when he built the tabernacle he was told very clearly
Make sure you make everything exactly like I tell you because what this really is this physical tabernacle on earth
It's a pattern
of what's in heaven and so even today we could learn from this too because we have the instruction
from God and God wants to make sure that we build this church and do ministry and live our lives
according to the pattern that God gave us right and really this book is heavenly you know it's not
it's not like this physical book is special just like a physical building isn't special just like
a temple wasn't special but it's the things in heaven that those things reflect that are very
Go to 2 Chronicles 3 where we read this morning 2 Chronicles chapter number 3
So we talked about the true temple
Now let's fast forward a lot in history to Solomon's temple
This is probably the most famous well-known temple was the temple that Solomon built
And I want you to notice something interesting in verse number one of 2 Chronicles chapter 3
The Bible says, then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem.
Notice this, in Mount Moriah.
You will want to remember that location.
Where the Lord appeared unto David his father in the place that David had prepared in the
threshing floor of Orn and the Jebusite.
Solomon is going to build the house of the Lord, the temple, in Mount Moriah, which is
the same place where David had the threshing floor, okay?
Remember that because we're going to talk about really the history of this exact location,
Mount Moriah.
So let's start with Abraham, go to Genesis chapter 22, Genesis chapter 22.
I went to Solomon because that verse clearly tells us where the temple was built.
It was built on Mount Moriah.
Now, let's look at some really key important things that happen in history on Mount Moriah.
Genesis chapter 22, verse 1 it says,
And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him Abraham,
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into
notice the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains, which I will tell thee of.
Now, I did some research into some of the geography of this area, and Mount Mariah is
situated in between two important ridges.
One is the watershed ridge on the west, and you can go there today, still called that,
you can go visit this, and on the east of Mount Mariah is the Mount of Olives.
And of course, that's where Jesus gave his famous Olivet discourse.
Notice how God told him to go to the land of Moriah, to one of the mountains there, to
do what?
To sacrifice.
And to sacrifice who?
His son, his only son, Isaac.
Let's keep reading and look at verse number six.
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son, and he took
the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said, My father, and he said, Here I am, here
am I, my son.
And he said, Behold the fire in the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a
burnt offering so they went both of them together.
And here you have Abraham located in Mount Moriah, which is this mountain
of sacrifice, if you will.
The same mountain where David would build an altar some day.
The same mountain where Solomon would build a temple.
He's told to do what?
To do a sacrifice.
knowingly or unknowingly, that God will provide Himself a lamb for a sacrifice.
And of course this is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why? Because the tabernacle, the temple, the offerings, the altars, the sacrifice animals,
they were all just a pattern of the true.
And so here, when he's saying that the Lord will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering,
that is true in the most literal sense because God in the flesh, Jesus Christ,
provide himself as a lamb. John looked at the Lord Jesus Christ and said,
Behold the Lamb of God, which take away the sin of the world.
That was a fulfillment of what Abraham saying here, that God will provide himself a lamb.
Look at verse number nine.
They came to the place which God had told him of and what is that?
That's Mount Moriah and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and
Bound Isaac his son and laid him upon the altar laid him on the altar upon the wood and
Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son and
The angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham and he said here am I
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him, for now I know that thou fearst God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only Son from me.
And here Abraham is a picture seeing that Abraham is willing to offer his only son in
a sacrifice to God.
Of course this is a picture of the fact that God the Father was willing to offer his only
begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as an offering for sin.
And where is it of all the mountains on this earth where God chose to picture this beautiful
the same place where the temple would someday be built.
Verse 13 says,
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram.
caught in a thicket by his horns.
And Abraham went and took the ram
and offered him up for a burnt offering
in the stead of his son.
Now that's an important phrase at the end
that this ram was offered in the place of his son
because we believe in the substitutionary death
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That us, we are sinners deserving of hell
but Jesus Christ in our place stood for us
and died on the cross for our sins.
And he replaced our sin.
He took our sin and his own body on the tree, the Bible says,
and he gave us his righteousness.
It's a substitute and it's a beautiful picture here.
Keep your place in Genesis 22
and also go to Galatians chapter three,
Galatians chapter number three.
We'll come right back to Genesis 22,
but look at Galatians three.
Galatians chapter 3 verse 13 says this, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Notice being made a curse for us, or it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth
on a tree.
So, you know, that's an amazing amount of love that the Lord Jesus Christ showed for
us that while he was perfect, while he never sinned, while he never deserved any wrongdoing
done unto him whatsoever, he actually was willing to allow himself to be made a curse
for us.
And he was completely, you know, all of the wrath of God was poured out on the Lord Jesus
Christ, not from anything that he did, but from everything that all of us did.
on that cross. But why is it so important? Well, it's because it's the substitutionary death.
He substituted his place for us. Go back to Genesis 22 and keep your place there in Galatians 3.
We'll come right back between these two places. So we saw that picture of the death of Christ.
Look at verse 14. It says,
As it is said to this day in the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen.
So notice this mountain where I is a very important place.
And Abraham even named this place, Jehovah Jireh, verse 15,
and the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time.
And said,
By myself have I sworn sayeth the Lord.
For because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy Son,
thine only Son, that in blessing I will bless thee.
And in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven,
and as the sand which is upon the seashore,
and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,
because thou hast obeyed my voice."
So on this mount, in this mountain of sacrifice, Mount Moriah, we have Abraham going to sacrifice
his son Isaac, God stops him, God then gives him this prophecy that God is going to bless
Abraham and all the nations of the earth through his seed.
Which if you go to Galatians chapter 3, we know this is talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
and his seed were the promises made.
He sayeth not, and to seeds of many,
but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ."
See, it was never about the physical descendants of Abraham.
Being a physical descendant of Abraham was never important, was never special.
In the New Testament, it's told to the Jews that God could make children of Abraham out of stones.
So it was never important to be a physical descendant of Abraham,
but what is important is that the seed of Abraham in that seed would all the nations of the earth be blessed,
which is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now this is one of the reasons why it's so important to have a King James Bible.
And not one of the modern versions because in many of the modern versions the Bible just says or the the fake Bible just says
Oh through all your descendants
Well all the nations of the earth be blessed well that kind of takes away from the spiritual truth because the world today is not being
Blessed by the physical descendants of Abraham, but the world has been blessed and is being blessed through Jesus Christ
And where did this beautiful powerful truth? Where was this first told? It was told on the Mount Moriah
It was told on the mountain of sacrifice, where Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac,
where later other sacrifices would be done in the temple, and on that mountain,
the prophecy was foretold of Jesus Christ.
And it's like, hey, Baptists, Christians, realize that from the beginning of this mountain's history,
it's always been about Jesus.
It's always been trying to get us to look, not at the physical building,
the altar, the animals, but to be looking to the Lord Jesus Christ.
and realizing the spiritual significance of this.
Go to Genesis chapter 18, Genesis 18.
Now, what's so amazing about this prophecy to Abraham
is that in Genesis 18, you actually have the Lord Jesus Christ himself
telling Abraham about a prophecy of himself.
That's pretty amazing to think about in the Plains of Mamre.
Look at verse number one of Genesis 18.
It says,
Now, we know this is not God the Father because when people see God the Father in the Old Testament he's shining bright
You can't look at his face
He has to turn his hinder parts to you so that you don't die because no man can see the face of God the Father and live
You know, so this is for sure not God the Father
But it still says that the Lord is the one who came down
And so what do we know from that that this is actually the Lord Jesus Christ?
This was a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ coming to
Him in the Plains of Mamre and look at verse number 17 it says and the Lord said
Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation
Notice this and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him
And we know from the other scriptures
We just read how are all the other nations of the earth going to be blessed through Abraham?
Well, it's gonna be through his seed the Lord Jesus Christ
And I just find it fascinating that who gave him that prophecy, who told him about that?
Jesus himself told him that.
I mean that's an amazing appearance of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament.
Go to 2 Samuel chapter 24, 2 Samuel chapter 24.
So we have Mount Moriah.
We know from 2 Chronicles 3,
this is where Solomon's temple would be built.
We also know that this is where Abraham
went to offer his son, Isaac.
Now let's look at another important story.
While you're turning to 2 Samuel 24,
I wanna read for you Exodus 30-12.
The Bible says, when thou takest the sum
of the children of Israel after their number,
Then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest
them, that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them."
So in the law of God God prescribed a way for people to take a census to count
how many people they have in their nation and when God wanted them to take a
census he wanted them to pay some sort of ransom to the Lord for every person
that they count. Why? Well because he doesn't want the people to start being
prideful and thinking look how many people we have look how great we are
you know if you have to pay money to God for every person that you count you're
acknowledging
God's power. You're acknowledging the fact that, hey, God has blessed us with all these people.
But here in 2 Samuel 24, we see a story in the reign of King David where he went to go take
this census, but he did not do it correctly. He did not do it the way that Exodus commanded.
He just went and counted them without paying the sacrifice. And as a result, God started
pouring out a plague on the nation of Israel. He started punishing the people. Verse 15 of
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed and there died of the people from Dan
Even to Beersheba
70,000 men. So, you know, God is very angry. He's pouring out wrath upon the people
70,000 people have died so far in the plague and verse 16 says and when the angel
Stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it
The Lord repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed the people,
It is enough. Stay now, thine hand.
And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of Erouna the Jebusite.
Remember that place.
And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people and said,
Lo, I have sinned. I have done wickedly.
But these sheep, what have they done?
Let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me and against my Father's house.
And Gad came that day to David and said unto him,
go up rear and altar unto the Lord
in the threshing floor of Eruna the Jebusite.
Which we know from 2nd Chronicles
that this place is located where?
In Mount Moriah, the same place where Abraham went
to offer his son.
Verse 19 in David, according to the saying of Gad,
went up as the Lord commanded.
Now, notice what had happened here in this story.
David had sinned.
David had not followed the commandments of God.
As a result, God's wrath was being poured out on the nation.
People were dying.
And what did God demand to rectify this situation?
He demanded sacrifice.
And where was the sacrifice done?
It was done in the threshing floor of Arayuna in Mt.
Mariah. Now what is a threshing for? This is something that probably
none of us have ever had to deal with. So I looked up and got some information
about it. It says to thresh grain an animal
usually pulled a wooden threshing sled over the stalks of barley or wheat.
This cracked the husk breaking it off the grain.
After it was threshed workers would use winnowing forks
This was often done on hilltops because they were exposed to the wind.
In the air, the lightweight chaff blew away while the heavier grain fell back onto the ground.
And I've seen pictures and videos of this where people just, they get those forks, they throw all that stuff in the air,
the heavy grain falls like right down in front of their feet, and all the chaff just gets blown away.
And all that chaff kind of gets gathered together that says here that the grain
was then collected to be used in making bread while the worthless chaff was gathered into piles and burned.
This is where the saying, separating the wheat from the chaff.
And even Jesus was described as someone who was going to do this in his ministry,
separating the wheat from the chaff and what's the end result of the chaff, it's to be burned.
But I think it's interesting that God tells David...
to go to this specific place
to do a sacrifice
where the carnal truth of this place
was that you were separating wheat
from chaff, but the spiritual truth
is that when David went to do this sacrifice
he was separating David
from his sin
and he was separating the children
of Israel, the nation of Israel
from their sin. Excuse me, now
it's not the animal sacrifice that ever did this
it was simply a picture
of the fact that
Excuse me that Jesus Christ is the one who truly separated us from our sins and that separated
David from his sin, so it's kind of an amazing picture there how God uses these these carnal truths
Something as simple as just threshing wheat to picture of the spiritual truth that was going on here of separating
David from his sin stay there, and I'll read for you
John 3 36 says
He that believeth on the sun hath everlasting life
And he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him."
And so someone who has not accepted this spiritual sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ,
they have not been separated from their sin, and the wrath of God abides on them.
Just like the wrath of God was abiding on the nation of Israel when 70,000 men were killed,
from Dan to Beersheba, it took that sacrifice to cause that plague to be stopped.
And here in the New Testament in John chapter 3, it's explaining,
hey, if you accept that sacrifice of Jesus Christ, you're good, you're saved,
you'll have everlasting life.
But if you don't, the wrath of God abides on you.
And you know, that's a terrifying truth today that every unsafe person should be shaking
in their boots thinking about the fact that God's wrath is abiding on them.
And if they don't accept that sacrifice of Jesus Christ by putting their trust in Him
for salvation, they will experience the wrath of God for all of eternity.
And there will be no second chance.
There will be no sacrifice in the future to try to get them out.
There's no purgatory or temporary hell.
No, it's an eternal wrath of God that these people will face.
And so now in this life is our only chance to accept that sacrifice.
Go to 2 Kings chapter number 25.
2 Kings chapter number 25.
So we saw that Mount Moriah. What's the history? It's where David sacrifice or I'm sorry
It's where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac
It's where David went to the threshing floor to do a sacrifice to cause the plague to stop on Israel
Let's get some more history, look at 2 Kings 25 verse 8, the Bible says,
and in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month,
which is the 19th year of King Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,
came Nebazar Adon, captain of the guard, a servant of the King of Babylon,
unto Jerusalem, and he burnt the house of the Lord
and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem,
and every great man's house, burnt he
with fire. So here's another interesting piece of history.
Abraham, David, Solomon, Solomon built the temple on Mount Moriah as we read in 2 Chronicles
chapter number 3.
But what happened?
The nation of Israel rejected God, rejected the prophets that were sent to God, started
worshiping the false gods of the nations around them, forsook the Lord.
And what did God do?
Did God really care that much about the physical temple?
No, because he actually allowed Nebuchadnezzar in the Babylonian army to come into Jerusalem
and Solomon's temple was completely destroyed.
Just burned to the ground and just desecrated.
And this took place in 586 BC.
However, there was a promise given to the children of Israel
that this temple would someday be rebuilt.
Go to Ezekiel chapter number 40.
Ezekiel chapter number 40.
Now, there's a lot of speculation about the temple in Ezekiel.
There's a lot of people that think that there's all these end times applications to Ezekiel.
And they're definitely, you could find some nuggets in the latter part of Ezekiel where
you could make some end times application.
But I submit to you that Ezekiel, this part that we're going to read in Ezekiel 40 is
not an end times passage whatsoever.
This is not the millennium.
This is not what that's talking about.
I'll prove that to you.
in the five and 20th year of our captivity.
What is the context of what we're about to read?
The children of Israel are in Babylonian captivity.
The temple has been destroyed.
It says in the beginning of the year,
in the 10th day of the month,
in the 14th year after that the city was smitten,
it's already been destroyed,
in the self same day,
the hand of the Lord was upon me and brought me thither.
in the visions of God, brought He me into the land of Israel,
and set me upon a very high mountain by which was as the frame of a city on the south."
So, one thing that's important to realize when you're reading Ezekiel is the context,
number one, that this was taking place during the Babylonian captivity.
So, everything that we read, keep that in mind that when Ezekiel's getting this vision,
he's understanding it in the time frame that he's in, also remember that what he's receiving
This is not real what he's seeing, it is a vision.
And some people freak out because they'll look at the temple that was rebuilt in the days of Ezra,
and they'll say, well, everything wasn't built exactly to the exact specifications that's said in Ezekiel.
Well, a couple things. First, this is a vision, number one.
Number two, what if I told you that people don't always follow exactly what God tells them to do?
I don't know if you know this, but sometimes people don't listen to exactly what the Bible says,
but I'm going to show you why that I don't believe that the temple in Ezekiel 40 is some end times future temple.
Look at verse number 38.
I clearly believe that this temple is referring to the temple to come in the days of Ezra,
Zerubbabel's temple.
Look at verse 38, it says,
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates.
Notice where they washed the burnt offering.
Folks, there's no burnt offerings in the New Testament.
There's never going to be another animal sacrifice that is sanctioned by God.
Yeah, there's going to be blasphemous God-hating Bible-rejecting Jesus Christ-hating Jews that
rejected his sacrifice that will continue to offer sacrifices.
But folks, this is an Old Testament passage right here.
He's saying, look, you guys are in captivity.
You guys are probably very sad and depressed and worried,
but I got good news for you.
Someday, this temple is going to be rebuilt.
And when this temple is rebuilt, guess what's going to happen?
There's going to be burnt offerings.
Now, that actually makes sense if that happened in the Old Testament
because it's the Old Covenant when these sacrifices were done.
Look at verse 39.
And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side to slay there on the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
Look, all these offerings were pictures of what Jesus Christ would actually do, the real sacrifice.
These sacrifices are never coming back, folks.
This is not talking about some millennial temple.
This is talking about the temple that was going to be rebuilt in the days of Ezra.
Zerubbabel's temple, verse 45.
And he said unto me, this chamber whose prospect is toward the south is for the who?
Priests, talking about the Levitical priesthood, the keepers of the charge of the house and
the chamber whose prospect is towards the north is for the priest.
The keepers of the charge of the altar, notice, these are the sons of Zadok, among the sons
of Levi, which come near to the Lord to minister unto them.
The sons of Zadok were the ones running things during the time of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In fact, that word, Sadducee, it comes, it's derived from Zadok.
And while the Sadducees definitely corrupted and perverted a lot of the service of God,
these are the same group of people here.
And so when he's saying, hey, all these people, the sons of Zadok, Levi, they're having burn offerings,
they're having sin offerings, they're having trespass offerings, there's priests, they're washing a burn offering.
I can never read this and ever be convinced that this is anything other than Zerubbable's temple.
Because it's just too big of a pill to swallow to say that sacrifices are coming back in the millennial reign
when Jesus Christ was a once-for-all sacrifice.
That there's a coming temple in the Millennium and they don't believe sacrifices are coming back
They don't believe that there's ever going to be any animal sacrifices and I'm not mad at those people whatsoever
But I am I am mad at Baptist that get up and teach that animal sacrifices are coming back. That is blasphemous
That is a rejection of the entire New Testament
Anyone who teaches and I'm not just saying this flippantly anyone who teaches that sacrifices are coming back
They are teaching satanic heresy
That is a stupid false doctrine that will never be tolerated that is a lie from the pit of hell
Jesus Christ was the sacrifice go to Hebrews chapter number eight Hebrews chapter number eight now
Here's the thing
Perhaps, in the millennium, Jesus Christ is ruling and reigning from a physical building,
perhaps, like a glorified white house, perhaps, people will call that a temple, I'm not convinced
of that, but let me tell you what, Jesus Christ definitely will not be ruling and reigning
from a temple that has Ark of the Covenant and the holiest of holy places where sacrifices
are being done, sure, you want to call it like a glorified white house or something
But those sacrifices are never coming back.
Never.
Look at Hebrews 8 verse 6.
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry
by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant,
which was established upon better promises.
For if that first covenant had been faultless,
then should no place have been sought for the second.
For finding fault with them, he saith,
behold the days come, saith the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the
Land of Egypt because they continued not in my covenant and I regarded them not say at the Lord for this is my covenant that I will
Make with the house of Israel after those days say at the Lord
I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a
people
And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord, for all shall know me from the least to the greatest, for I will be merciful
to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
In that he saith, Notice, a new covenant, he hath made the first old.
Folks the Old Testament is gone. Let it go. It died. It's vanished away
It's been replaced by a better covenant. You have so many people today, you know messianic Christians
Judeaizing Christians, where they want to mix the New Testament, they want to mix Jesus Christ with
continuing to observe the burn offerings and the washings and the Feast of Tabernacles and all these things. Look, that stuff is done.
The Sabbath is done. The carnal ordinances and washings, all of those things were a shadow of things to come.
And when Christ fulfilled those things, those things are no longer a part of our religion.
Yes, there's still spiritual truths and it's still beneficial to read the Old Testament.
Don't get me wrong.
It's beneficial to read the Old Testament.
We believe the law of God, the moral laws that God gave, still stand today.
But you know what?
There's been things about the Old Testament that has been changed.
The Levitical priesthood has been changed.
You know, the Bible says that we are kings and priests.
We believe in the priesthood of the believer.
That we on our own can bow our head, pray to God that Jesus Christ is the mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
We don't need to go to a temple to do sacrifices.
to get right with God, to have fellowship with Him.
No, you could pray to Him wherever you want.
You could get to right with the Lord wherever you want.
You don't got to go to Jerusalem.
Look, we live in the better testament.
We could eat bacon.
We don't have to do all these sacrifices.
You don't got to put blood on your doorposts anymore.
Ladies, you would love that, right?
Wouldn't you love to just decorate your house in front door with blood?
I don't think you would.
This is the best estimate that we're living in right now.
Hey, that Jesus has applied the blood to the doorposts of our heart.
And look, stop worrying about the temple.
Stop caring about the physical grandiose temple and the things in Jerusalem.
Look, I think that land is cool because it's got a lot of history.
I love history, but look, there's nothing different about that land than the dirt we're standing on right now.
In fact, I'd rather be standing on this dirt because people are more receptive to the gospel here.
That is a nation that has rejected Jesus Christ, that hates Jesus Christ,
and here in Oklahoma, we can go get people saved every single day.
I mean, every single time we go soul-winning, we're getting people saved.
I'm not just enthralled by the mysticism of Israel or Jerusalem or anything like that,
because Oklahoma is better, to be honest with you, and every place really is better than
that God-forsaken land, because guess what?
They forsook God, and God has forsaken them!
Literally, it is a God-forsaken land.
But look, the Old Testament is never coming back.
Stop getting to Ezekiel 40 and the end of Ezekiel and being like,
Oh, you know, this is the millennial temple.
This is a prophecy of the millennial temple.
No, it's not.
It is a prophecy of Zerubbabel's temple.
And it just makes sense.
Like if you're in the captivity,
where your temple was just destroyed,
you're not anywhere close to the New Testament yet.
I mean, they still have a lot of Old Testament to come.
You know, that's something to look forward to and give them hope,
saying, look, look, the temple's coming back.
The sacrifices are coming back.
The priesthood is coming back.
I'm just letting you know that Ezekiel, but it makes no sense for this to be talking
about the Millennium, because guess what?
The sacrifices are never coming back in the New Testament.
Never again.
Look, salvation, this is where people get misunderstood.
People will read the Old Testament and they'll see sacrifices for sins.
They'll see pictures, like David, where he goes and does a sacrifice, and God, it seems
like just forgives their sins right away.
The carnal truths were always a picture of the spiritual.
Here's just a fact.
People have always been saved by faith in the Lord.
People have never been saved by works.
People were never saved by doing sacrifices, following the law of God.
People in the Old Testament were saved by trusting in the coming Messiah.
Did they know His name was Jesus?
No they didn't.
Did they know everything about him?
Nope, but did they know the substitutionary death of the Messiah?
Yeah, have you ever read the book of Isaiah?
How, through his stripes, through his bruises, we are healed, and how the iniquity of all of us was laid on him?
By his stripes, we are healed. You better believe that doctrine is in the Old Testament.
But, even more so now, when we have the New Testament, when we have the Romans road for
crying out loud, there's no excuse to believe in this stupid doctrine of salvation by works.
But guess what?
It's never been that way anyways.
It's always been by faith.
It will always be by faith.
There's no coming age and the tribulation like the Rachmanites teach that during the tribulation
you have to be saved by works.
Nope.
It's always faith alone.
That's never changed.
We have Abraham's sacrifice, David's sacrifice, Solomon's temple, the destruction of Solomon's temple.
Now look, go to Ezra chapter 6.
We saw in Ezekiel the promise of the rebuilt temple.
Let's look at what's known as Zerubbabel's temple.
Now this is the temple that was around during the days that the Lord Jesus Christ walked the surf.
When he went into the temple, this is the temple.
When the devil tempted him in the wilderness and took him to the highest point of the temple,
this was the temple that that's talking about, Zerubbabel's temple, Ezra 6 verse 3.
In the first year of Cyrus the king,
The same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem,
let the house be built, the place whereon they offered sacrifices. Notice it's the same place.
and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid,
the height thereof, three score cubits,
and the breadth thereof, three score cubits.
You know, I'm starting to think that it's not a coincidence
that Mount Moriah has had all these historical locations.
It kind of seems like God is directing this to happen,
because Abraham didn't choose where to sacrifice his son.
God said, go to the land of Moriah
into one of the mountains that I'll tell you of.
He told David, hey, go up to this threshing floor.
Where is that threshing floor?
He told Solomon, where are you going to lay the foundation?
Mount Moriah, then Zerubbabel's temple.
This king says, hey, you know where you're going to build it?
You're going to rebuild it in the same place
that the sacrifices were done.
Now go to Matthew chapter 24, Matthew 24.
Now it's kind of weird because it's called Mount Moriah.
But this land has been excavated and it's been rebuilt over and it's had so much warfare that when you look at pictures of it today
It looks way different than ancient drawings of it and other pictures that you can see of it because this land has just changed a lot
so like
Being from Idaho, where we have real mountains,
when I look at what is now Mount Meriah,
I'm like, that doesn't really look like a mountain to me.
But it's just because there's been a lot of warfare there.
There's been a lot of excavation, construction,
stuff like that.
But that place does exist today.
And Jesus was there in Matthew 24, verse one.
He said, or says,
and Jesus went out and departed from the temple.
Now, what temple is this?
It's a rubble's temple,
the one that was rebuilt after the Babylonian captivity.
And His disciples came to Him for to show Him, notice, the buildings of the temple.
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things?
Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall
not be thrown down."
When you look at pictures of where this temple was, during the time of Herod the Great, Herod fortified the foundation of the temple mount.
And on that foundation were buildings, plural, and the temple itself.
Now Jesus is saying that all of these things, all of these buildings, there's not left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.
And I'm not 100% sure of this, but there are pictures and it claims to on the edge of the foundation of the Temple Mount,
which we know where that is, there's all these stones there supposedly from the destruction of this temple in AD 70.
Now, that seems to match reality to me because that's exactly what Jesus said would happen,
that there wouldn't be one stone left upon another.
As Christians, we always want to be careful not to put a hundred percent stock into history.
What we know as a fact is this right here.
We are sure that everything in this book is true,
but that doesn't mean that we can at least consider historical sources
and match them with the Bible and see if they could be plausible.
You know, there's a very famous historian that lived during this time,
his name's Flavius Josephus,
and I'm not sitting here saying you should believe everything that he wrote
or that everything he says is accurate,
but he was a first-hand witness to the destruction of this temple in 8070.
And this is what he wrote.
He said, around the altar, and this is the Rebels Temple,
where heaps of corpses, while streams of blood flowed down the steps of the sanctuary,
the Romans pitched their standards inside the temple court and offered sacrifice.
Caesar ordered the entire city and the temple smashed to the ground.
Now, that's what he said he saw. I believe it. You want to know why?
Because it matches exactly what Jesus Christ said would happen.
You have, in Jeremiah's time, Babylonians came in and destroyed the temple.
Then, God was merciful to them, God was long suffering to them, and in Ezekiel 40, God
said, hey, you're going to get another temple, you're going to get the priesthood back, you're
going to get the sacrifices back, and during the time of Ezra, we see that temple rebuilt.
But when the Lord Jesus Christ comes on the scene, are the people running that temple
serving God?
Are the people running that temple following the religion of God?
Or have they apostatized? Have they brought in false doctrine?
Were they some of them teaching that there's no such thing as the resurrection?
Oh, and did they reject Jesus?
Oh, isn't this the same people that said,
His blood be on us and on our children?
So, what happened?
The same thing that happened during Jeremiah's time.
Jesus said, hey, you see all these buildings of the temple right here?
On this foundation that we're standing on there's not going to be one stone left upon another and then Josephus says
Hey, I saw this destruction and I saw blood flowing down the steps of the sanctuary
Hey, you asked he's blood be on you and on your children
And what happened in 70 A.D., Titus and the Romans came in and completely destroyed that city.
It's just amazing how history repeats itself.
And all of this happened on the same location.
I mean, that's amazing to me on Mount Moriah.
And, you know, someday we're going to talk about this a little more in detail.
The Antichrist is going to come and he's going to rebuild a temple and he's going to bring the sacrifices back.
He's going to go in and destroy Jerusalem just like Titus did and rebuild that.
And again, bring that false satanic religion there.
And of course, we know that the Lord Jesus Christ will come and destroy him
with the spirit of his sword, with the spirit of his mouth, with the sword of the spirit.
But it's just amazing how all of this happens at the same location.
Now go to Mark chapter number 15, Mark chapter 15.
So, on Mount Moriah, what do we have?
Thousands of years before Jesus Christ, Abraham stands on Mount Moriah, goes to sacrifice
his son.
It's a picture of the coming Lord Jesus Christ.
David goes there, does a sacrifice to separate Israel from their sins.
Solomon builds a temple on Mount Moriah.
It's destroyed by the Babylonians.
Then on Mount Moriah, Zerubbable's temple is rebuilt and it's destroyed in AD 70.
Now, when Jesus died, look at Mark chapter 15, it says in verse 37.
And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost.
Notice verse 38.
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
And when the centurion, which stood over against him,
saw that he so cried out and gave up the ghost,
he said, truly, this man was the Son of God.
Now, here's the thing.
The Bible is very clear that Jesus died outside the camp.
He died outside the city.
Jesus did not die on Mount Moriah.
But what is so amazing to me is that the death of the Lord Jesus Christ greatly affected
the structure that was sitting on Mount Moriah because when Jesus died, the veil of the
temple was rent and twain from the top to the bottom.
For the sacrifice, when that lamb was sacrificed,
that exact place where Abraham was standing,
the temple veil was rent from top to bottom.
I mean, that is so amazing.
This is not a book written by men folks,
when thousands of years before Jesus Christ was born,
you have Abraham saying,
Hey, the Lamb of God's coming to sacrifice.
And then on that same spot, the temple's veil is rent
from top to bottom,
showing that it wasn't some conspiracy.
No one was in there ripping that thing that thing was rent ripped by God from top to bottom
And you know what you want to know why that is is because all this picture, right?
You got Mount Mariah Mount Mariah is such an important place Mount Mariah is where the mountain of sacrifice
But when Jesus Christ died that temple veil being rent God is saying hey Mount Mariah doesn't matter anymore
The temple doesn't matter anymore. The veil doesn't matter anymore because the real sacrifice has come
The Lord Jesus Christ, that all of these sacrifices being done on Mount Moriah,
He's come and now that temple veil being rent,
you now have access to the holiest of holies
through Jesus Christ. Before it's some priest,
it's some high priest once a year on the day of atonement,
would go into the holiest of holies, make some sort of sacrifice,
but when Jesus died, now we all have that at that access.
God allowing that temple to be destroyed in 8070 on Mount Moriah is telling the whole world,
the temple doesn't matter anymore. The sacrifices don't matter anymore. What matters is Jesus.
And it's just so amazing how all throughout history this mountain has been a picture
of the sacrifice of Christ. He does it. The temple veil is torn and yet so many people still don't
But, thank God, some did, because look at verse 39,
and when the centurion which stood over against him
saw that he so cried out and gave up the ghost,
he said, truly, this man was the Son of God.
And that is the just screaming truth from this mountain
that God has been screaming to humanity
for thousands of years, that Jesus is the Son of God.
Jesus is the true sacrifice.
And here on that mountain, when that veil was torn,
It's just a testament to the fact that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
So I just think it's amazing that God uses just a physical location, just a little mount
in Israel to picture something so beautiful throughout history.
I mean, that is so amazing to me.
And this book is just so deep.
There's so much of it that I don't understand yet that I want to understand that when I
see things like this, I just get excited because there's probably so much more like
this in the Bible that we haven't seen yet.
Now let's talk about the third temple.
We won't be too much longer. Go to 2nd Thessalonians chapter number two, 2nd Thessalonians chapter number two.
Knowing all that we know now, reading all that we've read, please explain to me
why on earth God would ever want another temple to be built on Mount Moriah.
Why did he allow it to get destroyed the first place?
Why did he have the temple veil be rent in twain?
Why did he allow the blood of those Jews to run down the altar and down the steps and
to be completely destroyed?
Why did he allow some anti-Christ satanic religion known as Islam built upon that?
You know it's so funny.
In the wilderness, Satan tempted Jesus Christ and took him to the pinnacle of the temple.
It's the Rubbables Temple on Mount Moriah.
And you know what he said?
He said, if you are the Son of God, throw yourself down.
You know what's interesting about that exact same place?
You know what stands there today is the Mount on the Rock or Dome of the Rock, Islamic structure.
And that was taken over by the Muslims in around six, I want to say, fifty-ish AD.
And in that dome, there's an inscription in Arabic that was written during that time and it says say only the truth about Jesus Christ.
It is not fitting that God should have a son.
I just find it so interesting that the devil, during the time of Jesus Christ, took Jesus
up there and tried to tempt him with pride and tried to get Jesus to glorify himself
and kind of just challenges him, are you the Son of God?
And you know the devil still to this very day in that exact spot in Mount Moriah is
still challenging the world, questioning of Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
But, you know, when that veil was torn, and when Jesus' prophecy of that temple being destroyed was fulfilled in 8070,
you know, it's very true that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
All the fulfillments of prophecy, and that's what this centurion realized, by the way, as soon as that happened,
he says, wow, this is the Son of God.
But, you know, Satan has not stopped.
The same devil that took Jesus to that same spot, in that same spot is still challenging the world today.
But the coming temple look at verse number two of Second Thessalonians two it says or verse one it says now we will see two brethren
by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto Him,
that you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled,
neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at hand."
He's saying,
don't just let people confuse you or scare you or trick you into saying
that Jesus could come at any moment.
And this is what the Pre-Tribbers like to teach,
the imminent return of Christ,
that Christ could come before I'm done preaching this sermon.
Well, the Bible says literally not to let anyone believe that.
Okay, that's a false doctrine.
Verse 3 says,
Let no man deceive you by any means.
For that day, what day, the coming of Christ,
shall not come,
except there come a falling away first,
and
that man of sin
be revealed,
the Son of Perdition.
Notice what the Antichrist is going to do.
Verse 4.
Who opposed it and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped,
so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
And some people will read this and say, see, it says the temple of God.
That's proof that there's a third temple ordained by God coming.
Well, hold on a second, because the Antichrist also here is saying that he is God.
Does that make him God?
No, he's calling himself God,
and this temple, this third temple,
is going to be called the temple of God,
but it's absolutely not.
How do you know?
Well, because the Antichrist is the one that's coming
to build it and to do something in it.
Go to Daniel chapter 12.
Now, notice how in 2 Thessalonians 2
it talked about how the Antichrist has to be revealed.
The Antichrist is going to be alive on this earth.
for a long time before he's revealed.
How do we know when the Antichrist is revealed for certain?
Look at Daniel chapter 12 verse 9.
It says, and he said,
Go thy way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Many shall be purified and made white and tried, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and
none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
And from that time, the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh
There shall be a thousand, two hundred, and ninety days.
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand, three hundred, and five, and thirty days,
but go thou thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days."
So notice there's a marker that changes something, and it's when the daily sacrifice is taken away.
Now, we already read in this article from the Jews that the Jews want another temple.
They want the priesthood back.
They want the sacrifices back.
They read books like Jeremiah and think that's talking about their false religion.
And so I think it's very plausible that we will see a third temple rebuilt in Jerusalem,
but it's not of God, that we will see animal sacrifices come back to that land.
But notice the Antichrist is going to cease.
He's going to cause those animal sacrifices to cease.
and the abomination that maketh desolate set up.
He's gonna set up this abomination of desolation
that the whole world is going to worship.
And what is he gonna do?
What's the action that takes place
that lets us know that this abomination of desolation
has taken place?
It's when he stands up in the house of God,
in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God.
That is when the whole world is going to know hey, the Antichrist has been revealed.
It's made plain.
It's made obvious.
This is the Antichrist because, well, he's sitting on Mount Moriah on a fake temple where
Jesus Christ once was and he's saying that he is God.
And you know where it's going to be exactly?
On Mount Moriah.
That's what I believe.
Because, again, he's in the place of Christ.
He's spitting in the face of God.
where David pictured Jesus, where Solomon's temple pictured Jesus,
where's Rubble's temple pictured Jesus, where Satan has been laughing in the face of the world
for the last, you know, since the 600s, spitting in the face of Jesus Christ saying it's not fit
for him to have a son. That's going to be the exact same place, I believe, where the Antichrist
is going to commit the ultimate act of blasphemy saying that he is.
God. So hey, there's your third temple that everyone's so excited about.
Why are Christians looking forward to the third temple? This is where the
abomination of desolation is coming. This is where the antichrist is coming to
call himself God. I cannot believe that Christians believe this stuff
or excited about this stuff, but what it comes down to is it comes down to not
reading the Bible.
It comes down to reading all these systems of theology textbooks written by unsaved heretics
like Charles Larkin, Burning in Hell, teaching you this false doctrine of dispensationalism
when you just read the Bible and you realize, hey, that temple was destroyed for a reason.
Why?
Because those Old Testament things are ready to vanish away.
We live in the New Covenant.
We live in the Better Covenant.
The picture of the temple go to first Kings chapter number 10 first Kings chapter number 10
You know, we've gone into a lot of history and doctrine so far. Let's talk about what the temple
Pictured how we can apply it to us. I
Would submit to you that the Old Testament house of God the Old Testament temple is simply a picture of the New Testament
House of God, which is the church the local church look at first Kings chapter 10 verse 1
It says, And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name
of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.
And, you know, one thing that we can learn from that is that we should be as a church
being an institution where people could come to with hard questions and get those questions
answered from the Word of God.
Where did Queen of Sheba go to do that?
She went to the temple to do that.
And here in the New Testament, we should be doing the same thing.
Now, it looks like my notes might have printed all weird here, so let me pull up the old
See it's good that we have technology folks
Go if you would to first Timothy chapter number three first Timothy chapter number three
Now, I'm not just making this up that the Old Testament temple is a picture of the New Testament church because the Bible clearly says in 1 Timothy 3 verse 15 it says,
But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oddest to behave thyself.
in the house of God.
What was the house of God in the Old Testament?
The temple.
But what was the house of God in the New Testament?
Notice, which is the church of the living God,
the pillar and ground of the truth.
And I think this story of the Queen of Sheba
going to King Solomon, asking him hard questions
and receiving the truth is a picture of how today,
people are gonna come to church with hard questions.
I mean, people often,
when they're struggling in life,
when they have hard questions of life,
that's usually sometimes a turning point for someone
where they say, I need to seek God.
I need to go to church.
You know, church should be a place
where we actually have the answers for them.
And look, it's not like anything special about us or our own carnal knowledge or wisdom.
It should be that we're able to take the Word of God and explain the truth.
Why?
Because Jesus is the truth, Jesus is the Word of God, and we have the book of ultimate
truth at our fingertips.
And that should be the goal of our institution is to be an institution of truth.
The Bible kind of gives a picture of this in 1 Corinthians 14 verse 7 it says and even things without life giving sound
Whether pipe or harp except they give a distinction in the sounds. How shall it be known?
What is piped or harp?
You know if you're going out to war and you have some sort of battle cry
You have some sort of sound with the trumpet to gather the people you want that to be a very certain sound
So that when people hear that they're not they're not like was that a trumpet to gather together for a sacrifice?
Or was that a trumpet like we're being invaded right now or like what kind of trumpet was that you want that trumpeter to make a
certain sound
so that people know exactly what they need to do.
Verse eight,
For if the trumpet, given uncertain sound,
who shall prepare himself to the battle?
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue,
words easy to be understood,
how shall it be known what is spoken?
For ye shall speak into the air.
And you know the truth is,
the New Testament church should be a place
where you get clear instructions from God's word.
We're not leaving sermons thinking like,
so does this church believe alcohol is a sin?
I mean, what is this drinking and moderation stuff?
Like, can I have like five beers a night?
Is that moderate?
Or is it one beer every once in a while?
It's like, no, you should just get the word of God
and just say like, no alcohol is allowed.
In fact, if you drink, if you're a drunkard,
you'll actually be kicked out of this church.
That's a certain sound.
People will be like, huh, I wonder if alcohol is acceptable
at Anchor Baptist Church.
It's like, nope, it's very clear that it's not.
You know, and that should be preaching the truth of God's word.
You should get it clearly and understand, oh, okay, this is what I need to do.
This is what the battle cry is saying.
I know exactly what my instructions are because I saw it from the word of God.
This is something that Calvinist type churches lack in greatly.
Because they don't want to speak words easy to be understood, because they want to be adored and looked at as being super smart, super intelligent.
They want to have the adoration of man and their congregation. They're not really interested in actually helping people and actually giving a certain sound.
They just want people to look at them and see like, wow, you're so smart. Wow, you sound cool when you're speaking Greek, even though they don't even understand what they're saying.
You know, that's a worthless preacher.
that gets up and says all these fancy words
that no one understands.
You know, Jesus, you know who he appealed to?
He appealed to the common man.
And you know, that's how preachers should be today.
That's how the house of God should be.
Is that we should be a place where just average Joe
can come and learn the word of God.
That is what we want as a church.
Go back to First Kings chapter 10.
Let's keep reading about this Queen of Sheba here.
And we're talking about how the temple's
a picture of church.
Verse 2 says she came to Jerusalem with a very great train with camels that bear spices
and very much gold and precious stones.
And when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
You know, in the Old Testament you had the Levitical Priesthood and the Temple of God
where people would bring tithes and offerings and gifts to the house of God to do the work
of God.
But in the New Testament, where do we do that?
We do that at the local New Testament church.
Now keep your place there and go to 1 Corinthians 9.
Some people like to attack this doctrine and they're called parachurch ministries.
And para-church ministries love to hate on tithing and hate on giving your money to your local New Testament church
really because they want you to give your money to them.
And a para-church ministry is basically a separate organization from the church
that's not an ordained pastor, an ordained leader, it's just some organization going off and doing their own thing.
One of the churches that I've gone to in the past rented from one of these organizations before and it did not go
Well, because they usually don't care what the Bible says these parish church ministries
But in the New Testament, where do we give our gifts tithes offerings? Look at first Corinthians 9 verse 3 it says
My answer to them that do examine me is this,
have we not power to eat and to drink?
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife,
as well as other apostles
and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas,
or I only in Barnabas have not we power to forbear working?
The Apostle Paul is saying, look, I have the right to not go out and work a secular job
because he's tending to the things of God.
He is being a full-time minister, ordained minister of God.
And he's saying, look, I have the right to do this.
But how does this work in practice?
Because I've had people challenge me on this and say that tithing is not biblical.
pixie dust bank, would you like churches to draw from, to pay for lights, and invites,
and missions trips, and church events, and staff, and pastors, like, where do you expect
this to come from, if tithing is so unbiblical?
But you have in the Old Testament, the Queen of Sheba, she goes to the house of God, and
to the temple, you see them doing this in the Old Testament, to the Levitical priest,
and in the New Testament Paul is saying, look, I have this same power. I have the power to take
a paycheck, to work full time for the church, and honestly, people that hate this doctrine are usually
bad people, because you know what's funny is I've been in church longer not taking a paycheck
than I have been in church while taking one, and I was never upset by a pastor being paid to do the
I never was thinking like, man, I wish the church had less money
so that we could do less work for God.
Like, what is wrong with you?
Like, what kind of heart do you have
where of all the institutions of earth,
you don't want the house of God to be thriving?
That is a wicked attitude and you know what I'm not going to tolerate anyone going around telling people that tie things unbiblical look if you want to be wicked and not do that just keep that to yourself I'll never say anything to you personally about it but don't ever go around and try to infect people with that stupidity.
You know I've had someone try to challenge me on that and I told this person look this is just a weird doctrine this is just a bizarre doctrine if you care about the house of God why would you not want to see it be blessed financially.
It doesn't make any sense.
Why would you, if you're living in Israel,
if Solomon's your king,
why would you not want the temple to be thriving?
Why would you not want the sacrifices to be thriving?
And isn't it funny how the Queen of Sheva's
bringing money to King Solomon
and people are blessing the temple financially
and it just so happens that King Solomon's reign
was the most prosperous time
in the nation of Israel's history?
mean the amount of assets that Solomon had is mind-boggling. I tried to like
equate in modern dollars his assets one time because it talks about how he has
apes and peacocks and gold and land all these things and like if I'm even
remotely right he would blow Elon Musk out of the water. Like Elon Musk's net
worth would be like a little piss ant compared to Solomon. Like I believe that
Solomon was probably the richest man who's ever lived in this earth.
But here's the thing, why would you not want the house of God to be blessed?
Why would you not want that?
It makes no sense.
And then if you say, if you see in verse seven, it says, who goes to warfare anytime at his
own charges?
Who planted the vineyard and Edith not of the fruit thereof?
Or who feedeth the flock and Edith not the milk of the flock?
You know, I would add something to this.
Who goes to a job and works a full 40 hours a week plus and doesn't take a paycheck?
Passers should just work insane hours and just never get paid for it.
That's what a lot of people think.
That's insane.
Verse 8.
Say these things as a man or say if not the law the same also.
For it is written in the law of Moses now we're getting to the word of God here
Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn if God take care for oxen
saying did God write this in the Bible because he really cares about the oxen or
Sayeth he it all together for our sakes. Oh Paul. You're so prideful. He's under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit right here
He's saying God wrote that for me and for the and for Peter
And for James and all the apostles, that's who he wrote it for.
For our sakes, no doubt this is written,
that he that ploweth should plow in hope,
and he that thresholdeth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
If we have sown unto you spiritual things,
is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
And when people attack tithing,
when people attack giving to the house of God,
it reveals something about them.
They care about carnal things more than the spiritual.
Because Paul's asking them this really logical question.
I mean, it's obvious. It makes sense.
If I've imparted onto you spiritual things,
is it really a big deal? Reaping carnal things?
Like, what is of more value?
Spiritual truths?
Souls being saved?
The Church of God doing well?
Planting churches? Doing the ministry?
What is more valuable?
That or money?
And when someone is attacking tithing, it shows you
what they value more.
When you care more about money than the things of God, that is a sad thing.
Go back to 1 Kings chapter 10.
But we see, you know, the house of God, it's a place where the truth should be preached.
It's a place where God's people can give of their finances to the Lord.
Verse number three also says,
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom and the house that he built, and the
meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers,
and their apparel, and his cup-bearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house
of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
So notice the Queen of Sheba is just blown away by how well things are run in the temple, in the house of God.
And the New Testament application for us is that the New Testament house of God is a place of service.
I mean she's looking and saying, hey look at your ministers, look at their apparel, look at how they're working,
look at how all these men are happy, and you know us in the New Testament
we should look at the house of God as a place where we could try to serve,
where we could try to input something into the church to make it run better, be better.
You know, we have ushers, we have music ministry, we have all these different areas
that people help in our church, and that is something that you could offer to the Lord,
sacrifice to the Lord, like these ministers we're serving to God in the temple,
we too can serve God in the house of God.
And you know in Psalms it talks about how it's better to be a doorkeeper in the house of God
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
You know there's no such thing as a menial task at church
because this is the house of God.
I mean if you could do the most menial task in your mind whatever you think that is
cleaning the restrooms, sweeping, you know what it becomes really meaningful
and it becomes really important when you realize that it's the house of God here.
And we should strive to be a church that works really hard together, that we invest our time
to bless this church, so that when people come here, they can be kind of like, wow,
this place is well run, not for our own honor and glory, but so that people would glorify
God.
That's the point.
So that people will come here, learn the truth, and have an opportunity to serve God.
Verse six, she said, and she said to the king,
it was a true report that I heard in my own land
of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
I believe not the words until I came and my eyes had seen it and behold the half was not told me
Thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard you know
I always love it when people's
Expectations are a little bit different than what they meet in real life because there's people that think oh new life be churches
They're so hateful. They're so terrible and then they come and visit and they're like wow
This is the nicest people I've ever met
These people will give the shirt off their back. These people will help me. They will love me. They'll minister to me
You know, yeah, sometimes Pastor Oz screams about the sodomites
But you know, hopefully you think I'm somewhat of a nice guy at least right look at verse number eight
Happy are thy men happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and that hear thy wisdom
Blessed be the Lord thy God and notice that's really the end goal for people we want them to come to this place
Blessed be the Lord thy God
Which delighted in thee to set thee on the throne of Israel because the Lord loved Israel forever
Therefore made he the king to do judgment and justice
You know that is the end goal for this church is to reach people and to get them to realize. Hey blessed be the Lord God
Hey, you know what? Christianity is a wonderful religion.
Hey, you know what? The Bible is the best book ever written.
Hey, you know what? The commandments of God are wonderful.
You know, I've been told my whole life that Christianity is no fun,
and that it's so restrictive, and it's so many rules,
but you know what? I'm starting to see that the commandments of God are actually for my benefit.
Hey, I'm actually starting to see that this hard preaching stuff actually works in my marriage,
and in my childrearing, and in my career.
Hey, I'm actually starting to see blessed be the Lord God.
That is the goal right there.
Lastly, let's talk about, go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 6, number 4, the temple today.
The temple today.
Because you say, you know, Pastor Oz has been a pretty doctrinal, heavy sermon.
How do I apply this today?
Well, you know, one way we could for sure apply this is, don't support the Antichrist's
third temple.
Don't support churches and pastors that are wanting to give money or pray or bless this
idea of building a third temple.
That's one way you could for sure apply this sermon.
But also look at 2nd Corinthians chapter number 6, verse 15, says in what concord have
Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
Notice this, for ye are the temple of the living God.
As God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them,
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separate,
sayeth the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing,
and I will receive you.
and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
See, there is no physical temple today, and there's never going to be again a physical temple sanctioned by God.
That is done. But you know what is true is that we do have the temple today in a sense,
and it's you, and it's me, and it's every saved Christian. We are the temple of the living God.
And as a result of that, the Bible says,
wherefore, come out from among them and be ye separate.
See, the temple was supposed to be a place of holiness.
It was supposed to be a place that had very rigid rules
on who could enter and when,
who could approach the holiest of holies
and when they could not.
Why?
Because the temple was supposed to be a place of holiness.
And likewise, God wants our temple to be a holy temple.
God does not want us defiling our temple with things like fornication,
things like drinking alcohol, taking drugs,
smoking marijuana, Oklahoma. God does not want us to do these things. He wants us
to be separate.
And you know what else was very important and aspect
about the temple of God was that it was a place of sacrifice.
So what can we do with our temple? Well, number one, be separated, live a holy life.
But what else you could do with your temple is you could sacrifice
yourself in the service of God. You could do this in very simple ways. How about just actually coming to church?
Instead of just being like, yeah, you know, like once a year I'll care about God.
Yeah, you know, like on Christmas, on Easter, I'll care about God. Or you'd say, hey, I'm the temple of the living God.
And you know what God wants me to do with my temple?
He wants me to sacrifice of my time.
He wants me to actually come to the house of God, the New Testament house of God,
and join other believers in worshiping God.
Because I'm telling you, it's not the same thing listening to the sermons from home.
You need to be around God's people.
Here's another way you could sacrifice with your temple, wake up in the morning,
and cause your flesh to read this book.
Look, sometimes your flesh isn't going to want to do it.
Sometimes you're going to feel tired, sometimes your mind is going to be elsewhere, you don't want to do it,
but you know what, you're the temple and you know what temple should be doing, they should be sacrificing.
And so you don't want to do it, hey, that's all the more reason why you should do it.
You want to sacrifice with your temple, go out soul winning.
Go out and take of your time, your gas, your freezing in the wilderness out here and go
preach someone the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
That is a sacrifice that is pleasing to God.
We'll go to two more places before we close.
Go to Romans 6 and Romans 12.
Romans 6, Romans chapter 12.
Romans 6, verse 13 says neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness
unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead and your
members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
How is it that you use your temple for the Lord, you yield yourself as an instrument
of righteousness?
What that means is when God tells you to do something, you yield your body to obey what
When God tells you not to do something, you decide I'm going to take control of my flesh,
take control of my body, I'm going to walk in the Spirit, and my temple is going to do
the things that God wants me to do.
And of course, we're never going to be perfect, we're going to fail in this, but you know,
we should take the temple of God very seriously.
Go to Romans 12, this will be the last place we go to.
I beseech you, brethren, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
You know, we should be a church and we should be a people like Abraham, where we are willing
to sacrifice anything for God.
I mean, the amount of faith that Abraham had to go and sacrifice his own son, believing
that God would provide himself a ram.
Lamb for burnt sacrifice that is an incredible amount of faith and some people it's funny
They like to blow their mouths off like oh, yeah, I would die for Jesus Christ
I'd be willing to stand to be martyred, you know, I can't wait for the tribulation. I'm gonna fight the antichrist
I'm gonna stand and die for him. It's like you know how I know you're not gonna die for Jesus Christ
It's because you won't even live for Jesus Christ
You want to know how I know that you will fail in the tribulation for sure that you would not die for Jesus Christ
It's because your body right now is not a living sacrifice
Because you're inconsistent in your Bible reading.
When your flesh doesn't want to read the Bible, you don't read.
When you don't want to pray, you don't pray.
When you don't want to go to church, you don't want to go to church.
And you don't go to church.
And you know, it's just obvious in some people's lives
you're not even close to being a living sacrifice.
But if you realize that you are the temple of God,
you should look at yourself and say,
you know what, I'm going to be a living sacrifice.
You want to die for Christ?
Try living for Him first.
Because let's be honest, dying is quick.
It's one-time event.
I mean, if you just got executed by the Antichrist and his armies and he just chops your head
off, look, it's just over, it's just done.
But you know what is way harder than that, in my opinion, is serving God faithfully,
three to thrive, soul winning, reading the Bible, praying for decades and decades and
decades until you die.
And quite honestly, I think God is more impressed and pleased with a Christian who is a living
As a church, when we think about things like the temple, when you read the Old Testament...
And you're reading these stories about the temple.
First, think about the Lord Jesus Christ and his sacrifice,
but also think about how we could sacrifice
for God in our lives.
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you for this day.
Thank you for the beautiful spiritual truths
about the temple and the location of Mount Moriah.
I just pray that everyone in here would be very thankful
for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
and that you just help us to love this world
and to continue to make it our mission.
to tell people that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. We love you in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
All right, if you'll grab your hymnals, we'll go to our last song for the morning.
Hymn number 30 nothing but the blood we'll sing there starting on the first