all together
Down at the cross where my Savior died
Down where for cleansing from sin I cried
There to my heart was the blood
applied glory
to his name
Glory to his name
There to my heart was the blood applied
Song number two on the second I am so wondrously saved from sin
Jesus so sweetly abides within
There at the cross where he took me in
Glory to his name
There to my heart was the blood applied glory to his name
Oh
precious fountain that saves from sin
I am so glad I haven't
And keeps me clean
Glory to his name
There to my heart was the blood applied
Glory to his name
Come to this fountain so rich and sweet
Cast thy poor soul at the Savior's feet
Plunge into day and be made complete
Glory to his name
There to my heart was the blood applied glory to his name
Great singing let's open up in a word of prayer Heavenly Father. Thank you so much for this great day in church
We've had so far
Pray that you please bless this time of singing as we sing out and worship you
Pray that we would just think about these words as we sing them
With love in our heart to you. I pray that you'd bless Pastor Shelley as he preaches to us this evening
That you'd fill them with the fullness of the Holy Spirit. We love you and in Jesus name we pray. Amen
All right for our second song flip over to number 20 when I see the blood
Song number 20 when I see the blood
Song 2-0 when I see the blood
I
Star Redeemer died on the cross
died for the sinner
Paid all his due
All who receive him need never fear
Yes, he will pass will pass over you
when I
See the blood
when I
See the blood
when I
See the blood I will pass I will pass over you
She fist of sinners
Jesus can save as he has promised so will he do Oh
Sinner hear him trust in his word
Then he will pass will pass over you
when I
See the blood
when I
See the blood I will pass I will pass over you
Judgment is coming all will be there
Who have rejected who have refused Oh?
sinner hasten let Jesus
Then God will pass will pass over you
when I
See the blood
when I
See the blood
When I
See the blood I will pass I will pass over you
Oh
What?
Compassion Oh boundless love
Jesus hath power
Jesus is true all who believe are safe from the storm
All he will pass will pass over you
when I
See the blood
When I
See the blood
When I
See the blood I will pass I will pass over you great singing
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We'll
Go ahead and sing our psalm of the week Psalm 147
Psalm 147 Psalm 147
Psalm 147
Oh
For it is good
To sing praises unto our God
For it is pleasant and praises comely the Lord doth build up
Jerusalem
He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel
He he let the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds
He
Number of the stars
He call it
Them all he call it them all by their names
Great is our Lord
And of great power
His understanding is infinite
Of the meek he cast it the wicked down to the ground
Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving sing. Praise upon the
heart unto our God who cover it the
heaven with
clouds who
Prepareth rain for the earth
Who make it
Grass grass to grow upon the mountain
He giveth to
The beast his food
And to the young Ravens which cry
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in
The legs of a man the Lord taketh pleasure in them that
Fear him in those that hope in his mercy
praise
Lord Oh
Jerusalem
Oh
Praise the Lord of Jerusalem for he had
Strengthen the bars of thy gates he had
Blessed
Thy children within me he maketh peace in thy borders and fill it be
With the finest of the wheat he sendeth forth his
Commandment upon earth his word run it very swiftly. He
Give it
snow
Scatter it the poor frost
Scatter it the warfrost like ashes he cast it for
His eyes like more
Souls who can stand before his cold
He send it
Then he calls it his wind to blow
and the
waters flow he show with his word on to Jacob his statutes and his
judgments on to
Israel he have not
Any nation and as for his
They have not been crazy the Lord
While the offering plates are being passed around please turn to Exodus chapter 21 Exodus chapter number 21
You
Exodus chapter 1 21 Exodus chapter 21 the Bible reads
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them if thou by a Hebrew servant six years
He shall serve and in the seventh. He shall go out free for nothing if he came in by himself
He shall go out by himself if he were married then his wife shall go out with him
If his master have given him a wife and she have born him sons or daughters
the wife and her children shall be her masters and he shall go out by himself and
If the servant shall plainly say I love my master my wife and my children. I will not go out free
Then his master shall bring him up under the judges
He shall also bring him to the door or under the doorpost and his master shall bore his ear
Through with an awl and he shall serve him forever
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant
She shall not go out as the men servants do if she please not her master who have betrothed her to himself
Then shall he let her be redeemed to sell her onto a strange nation
He shall have no power seeing he had dealt deceitfully with her and if he had betrothed her onto his son
He shall deal with her after the manner of daughters
if he take him another wife her food her raiment and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish and
If he do not these three under her then shall she go out free without money
He that smiteth a man so that he die shall surely be put to death
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand
Then I will appoint thee a place whether he shall flee
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile
Thou shall take him from my altar that he may die and he that smiteth his father or the or his mother
Shall surely be put to death and he that stealeth a man and selleth him and if he be found in his hand
He shall surely be put to death and he that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death
And if men strive together and once smite another with a stone or with his fist and he died
Not but keepeth his bed if he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff
Then shall he that smote him be quit only he shall pay for the loss of his time and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed
And if a man smite his servant or is made with a rod and he die under his hand he shall surely be punished
Notwithstanding if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished for he is his money
If men strive and hurt a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her and yet no mischief follow
He shall be surely punished according as the woman's husband will lay upon him and he shall pay as the judges determine and if any
Mischief follow then thou shall give life for life. I for I
Tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot burning for burning wound for wound stripe for stripe
And if a man smite the eye of the servant or the eye of his maid
That it perish he shall let him go free for his eyes sake and if he smite out his man
Servants tooth or his maid servants tooth. He shall let him go free for his to sake
If an ox go or a man or a woman that they die
Then the ox shall be surely stoned and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit
but if the ox were want to push with his horn in time past and it had been
Testified to his owner and he had not kept him in
But that he hath killed a man or a woman the ox shall be stoned and his owner also shall be put to death
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life
Whatsoever is laid upon him whether he have gored a son or have gored a daughter
According to this judgment shall he be done unto him if the ox shall push a man servant or a maid servant
He shall give unto their master 30 shekels of silver and the ox shall be stoned
And if a man shall open a pit or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or an
Ass fall there in the owner of the pit shall make it good and give money unto the owner of them and the dead beast
Shall be his and if one man's ox hurt another's that he died
Then they shall sell the alive ox and divide the money of it and the dead ox also they shall divide
Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push at times past and
His owner had not kept him in he shall surely pay ox for ox and the dead shall be his own. Let us pray
Father thank you for this church. Thank you for our pastor and his wife and his family
We also thank you for all the souls that were one to Christ today father
I pray that the fullness of the Holy Spirit would be laid upon pastor Shelley this evening and
That through the preaching of your word Lord that you've
Laid on his heart our minds and our hearts would be renewed and that we would walk out of here better Christians
And I ask these things in Jesus name. Amen
I want to kind of go back to the beginning of this chapter and
One thing to note about the Old Testament law is
That everything in the law is basically what is fair
equitable
just the right thing to do and
The law essentially gives us an idea of how to understand
What is equivalent? What is the proper punishment? What is the
Righteous way to judge certain things and of course Exodus has a large portion
Dedicated to God giving the law under the children of Israel and essentially just teaching them
What is the right way to handle?
civil civil situations
criminal situations
personal relationship type situations and events and
yet what's really cool about the law is not only is it just a
Just a bunch of rules and a bunch of laws and a bunch of legalese
But it's actually spiritual and the Apostle Paul said that the law is spiritual
So we can learn a lot of things from the Old Testament law
We can learn how to love our neighbor as ourself. We can learn what's the most righteous or fair?
judgment as far as just what's equitable and
you can yet also learn a lot of spiritual truths from the law and so I
Want to kind of read this first portion again and
Try to get some some of the spiritual picture out of this but it says in verse 1 now
These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them if they'll buy a Hebrew servant six years
He shall serve and in the seventh. He should go out free for nothing. So according to the Bible if
Someone was a servant they could only maximally serve for six years
And it talks about buying them to be this particular servant now some people would say
The Bible teaches slavery who's who's heard this, you know, like, okay. Yeah, of course the Bible they say this
I really don't agree with that statement just because usually when people are talking about slavery
They're talking about something much different than what the Bible is kind of alluding to and in most cases
What the Bible is really kind of a lead alluding to is someone
Willingly selling themselves to pay some kind of amount of money
Pay off a debt or just even have just extra money. So they're not even necessarily
being
Ransacked by a bunch of foreigners and then taken away from their their land
Not at their will and then just sold as a permanent slave for the rest of their life
That's not a biblical concept. That doesn't really
That's not really something to the Bible saying like God say please do this
obviously there are certain times when they children of Israel invaded a certain area and maybe they did take certain people as
Captives or as servants but notice that this is before any of that has even happened
You realize that Exodus is before they've gone and actually ransacked the Canaanites or taken over any of the land
He's already telling them. Hey if you ended up buying someone
To work for you as an employee or as a servant notice that they can maximally serve six years
Here's a question. What how is that much different than a job?
Aren't they buying your time even at the job anyways?
Now, of course, you know, you can work longer at a job and everything like this and this is maybe
It's not a 40-hour workweek. It's a little higher than that probably but
Notice that this guy ends up going out and you can't just enslave people for their entire life
You know, the Bible does not teach that look what it says in verse 3 if he came in by himself
He should go out by himself if he were married then his wife should go out with him
Also notice his personal property is still his own personal property even in this situation
This isn't like slavery where you just have no rights no property
Nothing notice this guy everything that is his it's still his and
He still goes on his way verse 4 if his master have given him a wife and she had born him sons or daughters
The wife and her children shall be her masters and he should go out by himself. So
If for whatever reason he ended up giving him some kind of a wife or children
by this this servitude
then he can't just
He can't just have them
now
You kind of read this and it sounds weird
But it's not that weird because it's not like you just well
I was just with this chick for like three years and then I just was like gone
Basically, well the way the law works is what's fair
So since this boss gave him extra possessions for nothing
It's not fair that he would just get to take them for free
So it would most likely happen in this scenario is the guy if he wanted to leave he would still take his wife and his
Children, it's just he would have to pay for them. They don't just
Automatically, he doesn't just get them for free
so most likely you'd have to redeem them pay something in order to have them and it just trying to set the kind of
Standard to say look if someone's just giving a free wife and all this all these goods and you were able to have children
Under my watch you have to pay something
Otherwise I get to retain them because they're technically kind of my property. So
This is essentially just establishing what's the most equitable with the right thing to do here verse 5
And if the servant shall plainly say I love my master my wife and my children. I will not
Go out free then his master shall bring him unto the judges
He shall also bring him to the door or under the doorpost and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl
And he shall serve him forever
So the Bible also gives a completely an other scenario. What if you know, it's it's his
You know the woman that he had that was his wife
The master wants to keep her or wants to keep the children or whatever
That's not an option to buy them or maybe the guy just doesn't have the money
So the only way for this guy to have
His wife and to have his children and he's not just kind of a scumbag
He actually loves them then he has an option to say, you know what? I just want to serve with you forever
That's what I want to do because I just love you. I love you as my boss. I love my wife
I love my children and I just want to serve you forever
Notice then he has something happen to him
The master takes him to the doorpost and then it says it shall bore his ear through with an awl
Now in my Bible, it's spelled a you L some King James will say a W L
The same word Ruckmanites. Okay, calm down. All right. It's the same thing but
Essentially, what what are these words?
well, let's let's pay attention to promote bore is a
Kind of a verb and talking about making a hole so boring you can talk about animals
Will bore a hole in the ground, you know prairie dogs and stuff like that. This is talking about
he's gonna actually make an entire hole in his ear and the awl is a
Sharp instrument that's pointed at the end that he uses that to bore that hole
So it's kind of like an ear piercing in some type of a way
but it's gonna bore this particular hole in the body and
Once you do this, it's it's to some degree permanent
Now some places will do this to an extreme. They'll get like these gauges in their ear
You know where they have these like giant holes and in their ears, but but here's the thing once you've done that
you kind of got gauges for life buddy and
It even looks weirder when you don't have to gauge in probably I don't know
It's just like it's kind of a strange thing that some people have done to themselves now
I don't think in this scenario. It's that extreme of where it's like these giant, you know quarter-sized
Holes that people like have dangling around there's I just can't even imagine having that and then your toddler like
You know grabbing and pulling down. Oh, man, that would hurt really bad wouldn't it?
but I
think what we can learn from this or what we can see in this is that this man is
willing to be
permanently
Scarred or permanently marked
Because he loves his mastery. He loves his wife and he loves his children, isn't it? And
Really what I would say. This is a permanent mark a permanent mark and that's the title of my sermon this evening is permanent marks
Permanent marks now you can have all kinds of permanent marks
But this is a really clear permanent mark that this guy wants to have in
Order to serve his master and serve his wife and serve his children be with them go go to Deuteronomy chapter 15
Just flip to the right and we're gonna see this mentioned again in the Bible
Now Deuteronomy is kind of the second time they get the law and it makes sense because if you think about the timeline
Exodus they get the law and then they wander the wilderness for 40 years
Well, they kind of forgot probably or they need some reminders
So Deuteronomy is where they remind them one more time and remind the next generation
That's going to then go into the promised land of the laws of God and what God had delivered to them
so many times in Deuteronomy you have
Basically a repeat of the laws now think about it this way
God certainly has no problem repeating things does he I
Mean God will tell you the same thing multiple times in the Bible and he had no problem needing to repeat certain laws
Hey the laws that I gave in Exodus are still the same laws, I'll give a lot of them to you again in
Deuteronomy so if
If we needed in the New Testament for God to give the laws again he would have you know what he didn't have to
Hey, he's has no problem repeating, but you know why he didn't have to repeat because they don't need to repeat it
They're already still they're still good
We still like them and of course
The parts that changed he told us about the parts that changed and the parts he didn't tell us that changed
Hey, they're still the same just like in Deuteronomy, you know when he gave the law again in Deuteronomy, you know
He didn't say, you know, I was I was just kind of like a little hard in Exodus, you know
I was I was you know
I was coming across a little mean or some of the things I said were a little strict
We're gonna kind of lighten things up. No, he's like, hey, it's the same thing
Nope, it's the same law
So God's law doesn't change in the sense that hey God feels the exact same way
always
Obviously some aspects of the law were there to just picture Christ and once he's there
You don't really need that so much anymore
You know, it's just like a placeholder once you have the real thing
You don't really need the placeholder anymore because we got the real thing to look to so that obviously was changed but
Morality and some of these instructions, you know, they're just always just universal instructions
Now this particular story that we're talking about is very interesting because there's not really necessarily a modern-day
Application of like having this servant that you had and gave him a wife and he's like hey I want to serve you
I mean, you know, I I don't need to bore through Dylan's ear or anything like that. Okay, I
Know he loves working for steadfast and everything like that, but you know, I didn't give him anything
you know, it's a fine arrangement, but
At the end of the day, there's a spiritual picture that I think that can be learned from this particular story
Now due to only 15 look at verse 15
The Bible says and thou shalt remember that thou was a bondman in the land of Egypt and the Lord thy God redeemed thee
Therefore I command thee this thing today and it shall be if he say unto thee
I will not go away from thee because he loveth thee in thine house
Because he is well with thee then thou shalt take an all and thrust it through his ear under the door
And he shall be thy servant forever and also under thy maidservant thou shalt do
Likewise, so it's pretty much the same but notice it's not just the men. It's even the women
anybody that wanted to just
Hey, I like working here. This is great. I love it. I just want to do it forever
Then they could potentially get this mark this permanent mark and just serve for ever
now what this kind of makes me think of is
Jesus Christ and
Specifically it makes me think of a very
Specific point in Jesus Christ's life and it's the Garden of Gethsemane and why I
Allude to that is Jesus Christ is kind of at the Garden of Gethsemane
he's at the crux of
having to make a very difficult decision am I going to follow through with and
And do what God wants me to do and serve my master and love my master and
take the church unto me as a bride and
If I do, so what's gonna happen? I'm gonna have a permanent mark and I
You have that one-time decision and it's difficult for him
And in fact, you know, you can see the internal struggle of the individual
But you know what? He loves us and he loved us so much that he was willing to take a permanent mark
So that he could be with us forever and he could redeem us forever and he could be with the bride
forever
now I want to
Look at a lot of verses here on this real quick, but go if you would to Psalm 22 go to Psalm 22
And notice how the Bible words
What we're going to talk about this evening, but Psalm 22 in verse 16
This is a
Prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ
Coming in the future. The Bible says in Psalm 22 verse 16 for dogs have compassed me
He had protesters, you know
The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me
They pierced my hands and my feet
Look at how the wording is they pierced it, you know
Just like this guy is getting his ear pierced and it's a permanent mark
It's just like Jesus Christ is getting pierced with a permanent mark for us
Now go go to John chapter 19 all the way of the New Testament and go to chapter go to John chapter 19
and
We're gonna see this being fulfilled in the scripture of Jesus Christ and think about
just kind of some of the elements even when this servant is willing to
Say hey, I want to serve forever they take him to the doorpost don't they?
So they line him up right up against the wood and then they drill through his flesh right on the wood
Just like they had to take Jesus Christ right up to the cross and then they had to drill right through
His hands and his feet they had to pierce him through in the same kind of a manner
John chapter 19 look at verse 33
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was not or saw that he was dead already they break not his legs
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came
There out blood and water and he that saw a bare record and of his record is true
And he knoweth that he saith true that you might believe for these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled
The bone of him shall not be broken and again another scripture saith they shall look on him
Whom they pierced so notice also as Jesus Christ not just simply pierced in his hands and his feet
But also in his side, so he had to take kind of the Trinity of piercings his hands his feet and his side
And that's what the scripture detailed go back to Zechariah and we're gonna see where that was mentioned as an Old Testament
prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ Zechariah chapter 12 and
I want to look at verse number 10
Zechariah chapter number 12 look at verse 10 and look Jesus Christ is the Word of God
He knew all of the scripture. He had Psalm 22 in his heart
He was quoting though. He was quoting the whole Bible the whole time. He was here folks
He knew what Zechariah said he knew what Psalm said about himself and he knew when he was in the garden
That he was gonna have to take the piercing
And I guarantee every man in here nobody in your wants to just be lined up against some wood and have someone bore a hole
in your ear
Obviously, that's not exciting. That's not fun. Nobody wants that. It's kind of a permanent mark that kind of shows a
Servitude, but you know what you would do that if you really loved your wife
You do that if you really loved your children and it's to try and show that great love
That Christ had for the church and and the Bible often talks about the church being the bride and Christ being the groom
the sacrifice and the willingness of Christ to be permanently mark and permanently damaged for
Us to be reconciled and to be redeemed with him Zechariah chapter 12 verse 10
the Bible says and I will pour upon the house of David and
Upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication and I will pour upon the house of David
And upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon me
whom they have pierced and
They shall mourn for him as one morneth for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in
Bitterness for his firstborn so Zechariah already prophesied of the fact that Jesus Christ would be
Pierced and that piercing is for us
So, you know while the Old Testament law has a lot of great
Just wisdom as far as what's how a government should operate and how civilly we should operate and how we should were operate in personal
Relationships, it also has great spiritual pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ and that piercing that man
That's going to take that piercing is a picture and foreshadowing of Jesus Christ himself
Being willing and offering himself to be pierced for our sake
Now
Again, what's really interesting about this is kind of the permanency of Christ
Piercing think about when Jesus Christ comes back from the dead. What is you know the big deal Thomas?
Okay, we'll go back to John. I know we're kind of flipping around to go back to John and let's look at the end
John chapter number 20
And
Thomas had a problem with just trusting that Jesus Christ had risen from the dead
And he makes some pretty famous
Statements look at let's look at verse 24
But Thomas one of the twelve called Didymus was not with them when Jesus came
The disciples therefore said unto him we have seen the Lord
But he said unto them except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails
And put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side. I will not believe
Now he's being very stubborn. I mean think about it every other apostle
Every other disciple is saying we've seen him. He's risen from the dead. You know that the two the tomes empty and
From the scripture. It was already proven that he would rise from the dead
He plainly told his disciples. He was gonna rise from the dead
He preached the gospel for three and a half years or however long his ministry was for a very long time
He was preaching the gospel yet. Thomas is still doubting but notice that he wants something
He wants the physical record. He wants to see that piercing of
Jesus Christ this is really important to understand that the bodily resurrection of Christ is
an essential doctrine
We don't have the Jehovah's Witness loner body
What's the point of being risen from the dead if you get a loner body I
Mean that you didn't rise from the dead. You just have a loner body, you know, it's that's that's silly
No
the whole point is that the same body that died is the same body that came out of the grave and
The same body that went in the grave came out without any corruption
Why is it important that it didn't have corruption so that you could see the print of the nails in his hand?
So you could see the piercing in his side and that you could still see Wow
If he's already been pierced and he's already been crucified and he's still alive with us
This guy is even victorious over death
over the grave over hell
Now Jesus Christ is going to test him verse 26 and after eight days again as disciples were with him and Thomas with them
Then came Jesus the doors being shut and stood in the midst and said peace be unto you
then saith he to Thomas reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into
My sight and be not faithless, but believing so Jesus Christ is actually showing him his permanent marks
Hey believe believe in the permanent marks
Thomas answered and said to my Lord and my God
Jesus saith unto him Thomas because thou has seen me that's believed
Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed blessed is every person in this room
That's already trusted in Christ and his death-bearing resurrection yet. None of us have seen him. Have you seen him? There's another church
It's called Pentecostal Church down the street. Okay, you can go have a hootin and hollerin with them. All right
You know
But you know
Those of us that have already trusted in Christ, you know
that's a blessing because
God takes great pleasure in faith and those that can trust them without having to see these things and of course
Nothing would change even if we saw we'd still have the same faith, but he required this particular sign
He required this particular experience at the time to trust in the Lord, but we see the permanency of God's
marking of his son
Now go if you would to Revelation chapter number five. This is a theme in the Bible
that Jesus Christ has
permanent marks
Permanent marks for us the mark is only there
Because of us the mark in the man's ear is only there
Because of his wife and his children because if he didn't have a wife and children he just goes
He
Doesn't have to be there he doesn't you know, it doesn't you know, he's and he's only there because he wants to serve his master
So it's a marking of saying hey, I want to serve I'm here for them
And of course, isn't that the same attitude that Jesus has hey
I'm here to serve the Father and I'm here for my brethren and I'm here for the bride of Christ
I'm here for the church. I purchased it with my blood and that blood can only come out through what the piercing
Don't you think there was maybe a little bit of blood when they had to bore that through the
They had to blur that ear through the wall and we have that same picture there of that covenant
Of what Jesus Christ would do for us Revelation chapter 5 look at verse number 4
And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book neither to look thereon
Here's someone that likes books we need more of that, right and
one of the elders say that I mean weep not behold the lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David had prevailed to
Open the book and to lose the seven seals thereof and I beheld and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as
It had been slain
Having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth
so when we see Jesus Christ in heaven and
He's described as the Lamb of God notice it's a lamb that's what
Slain a lamb that slain showing the permanent mark of Jesus Christ showing someone that took
The the death for us and we see the beauty of his sacrifice for us
He's willing he's willing to bear a permanent mark the picture of being sacrificed so that we could have life
Go to chapter 13, we'll see another mention of this lamb
Now chapter 13 is about the Antichrist and how he's going to make war with the Saints
but in
One of these verses it alludes to the Lord Jesus Christ
It says in verse 8 and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship in talking about the Antichrist
Whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world now
This is kind of a mouthful as to what it's even saying
You know, there's a lot of ways to interpret this the way I interpret this this latter portion
Is that it's saying that those who are gonna worship the Antichrist their names aren't in the book of life
But the book of life has this long description
The book of life is of the lamb and the lamb was slain from the foundation of the world
So, I don't believe it's putting this particular phrase onto the book
It's saying it's talking about the lamb itself and the lamb was slain from the foundation of the world
Because Jesus Christ was always that lamb that was going to be slain and we have the permanency of Jesus Christ
Marks that he was always the lamb slain. He was always going to take the permanent mark. He was the one that wanted to
Be permanently marked for us and he loves us and he loves the Father
Now go if you would to Galatians
chapter number six in
The New Testament and I kind of want to elaborate on this so we've looked at a lot of verses so far and
and we've talked about a lot of this the shadow typing and the being fulfilled with Christ and
Jesus Christ
Was willing to take this permanent mark, but you know
Obviously Jesus Christ is our example and in the law
We weren't talking about Jesus Christ in a literal sense
We were talking about an actual person a man being willing to be permanently marked and we can take that and we can
Kind of shift the understanding more of a spiritual understanding and then apply it to ourselves because we're not necessarily
Gonna be presented with this opportunity
Most of us are probably never gonna be sold anybody most of us probably won't have a master in that cape in that capacity
Most of us are even married already
So we're not getting like a new wife and children and then you're gonna be presented with this bear, you know getting this hole
Put into our ears
For our wives. Okay, that's just not gonna happen
You know
There's another way that we could relate this and I believe someone that really took this the heart was the Apostle Paul
Because what are we talking about? We're talking about getting a permanent mark a permanent physical mark
Why for God for Christ for others for the brethren for the church?
Look at Galatians chapter number six and look at verse number 17. It's kind of an interesting verse here
From henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body
the marks of the Lord Jesus
Notice that the Apostle Paul is talking about he himself
actually bore
permanent physical marks
What for the Lord Jesus Christ now, of course he was doing it for God and for Jesus
But he was really doing it for the elect's sake he was doing it so that people could be saved
he was doing it for the the town that he would go into next and preach the gospel and he was willing to take a
Permanent mark to his body physically so that he could keep getting people saved and serving God
And you know what?
He can be a partaker of Christ sufferings by also taking permanent marks just like Christ took permanent marks
Now this gets even more elaborate if you go to 2nd Corinthians go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 11
What are some of these physical marks? What are these?
Permanent marks that the Apostle Paul had
Well, look what it says in 2nd Corinthians chapter number 11 and look at verse number 24
The Bible says of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one
So this guy has been whipped and we're talking about 39 times
Times five I
Mean if it would have been 40 it would have been 200. So we're talking about a hundred and ninety five
Whips on the back. You don't think that left the permanent mark
Boy, I don't even know what his back looked shredded folks. It looked ugly
It looked just torn apart
I mean, I can't even imagine because theoretically if you get 40 you could possibly die
I mean, obviously there's not it's not an exact science, but they're limiting it because they don't want people to die
also, if you go above 40
It's considered like really poor and the person that was doing it could potentially get whipped for
exceeding the number of whips but I mean
Just imagine the fact I mean he could potentially have gotten the same scars in the same places
I mean imagine I mean it's gonna hurt no matter what but think about they're getting you in a place that they just got you
Like a few weeks ago or something?
Right because you know when you get that wound it hurts, but you get a lot of adrenaline at first
You know when that wound starts to kind of start to heal and then it's kind of fresh and raw and then just another whip
Right on it. Oh, man. That's just got to be the worst ever. I mean, this is five different times that he's taking a beating
Why for the elect's sake he's willing to take permanent marks for people to get saved
This is incredible think about us thrice was I beaten with rods
That was already more than I was wanting to do
He's at oh, guess what also there was three times where people just got big sticks out and they just beat me to a pulp
Just a bloody pulp not just my back my knees my leg my shin
My head my neck my arm my chest
Just every part just just beaten just right three times
Once I was stoned
This guy can't catch a break. I
Mean think about it. You've been whipped on the back five different times
He's been beaten with rods three times
He even got stoned. I
Mean, it's like it's like Groundhog's Day. He just can't die. He's just dying every single way or something, right?
He's being killed every single way. This is insane
You could argue that he from a physical perspective alone. He's going through way more than Christ himself went through
Obviously Christ was hit on the head and and Christ had a crown of thorns and Christ was whipped and Christ was crucified
But you know what? It didn't happen five times
He didn't have the rods three times
He didn't get stoned ever. We never have any recording of Jesus Christ ever having been stoned
I mean imagine what the Apostle Paul has got to be thinking
When every time he's going to a new place, I mean he's getting physically beaten
You can now understand verses in the Bible when he's asking them. Hey pray that I may have boldness
Pray that I'm gonna open my mouth as I ought to speak
because boy that's gonna be intimidating to go to the next town knowing like
This is the same Jews, isn't it? You know, this is the same thing that's gonna happen here is gonna happen there again or
Noticing that they followed you isn't it so annoying when you have a group of protesters following you everywhere
Apostle Paul knew what that was like
You know, he goes goes into Berea and those from Thessalonica followed him didn't they and just follow him everywhere
Get certain lewd fellows of the baser sort to go follow him. Here's knowing thrice. I suffered shipwreck
a
Night and a day. Have I been in the deep? I
Mean, I I don't even know if I could do that like
If I'd already been beaten and stoned so many like all these times and I'm in the ocean
I already hate the ocean so much. I
Mean you're just in there just swimming for life
I could see like the Apostle Paul said it sometimes he was in despair even of life and you're just like, you know
What bye, you know just stop swimming
Or something but I mean this guy I mean this is insane
This is gonna cause some problems for you being in the ocean
he says
Also in verse 26 and journeys often perils of waters in perils of robbers and perils by my own
countrymen and perils by the heathen and perils in the city and perils in the wilderness and
Perils in the sea and perils among false brethren. I mean this guy there's nowhere safe. I
Mean he's in the wilderness not safe. He's in the city. It's not safe. He's in the sea. Definitely not safe
He thinks he's around Christians not safe because there's false brethren in there, isn't there?
I mean this guy has just got a rough life. I
Mean, this is just rough
verse 27 and weariness and
Painfulness and watchings often and hunger and thirst and
fastings often in cold and nakedness
Now he makes a transition in verse 28 beside those things that are without I'm not gonna go into that but
Of all the pain that the Apostle Paul suffered. I think that the emotional pains are the worst and he talks about that
But let's not forget about the physical pain that he had to go through I
Mean, this isn't even close to getting just a little bit of an earring or whatever
I mean, this is intense that the Apostle Paul did and he's getting
arguably permanent marks in his body
Because it for his Christianity
Permanent marks to be used by God and to go out and to preach the gospel and and to turn up the world upside
Down with the gospel, you know you say hey, I want to do that. Well, here's here's what yeah, here's the application
You know the job, you know what the job description it's like
Hey, what does it take to turn the whole world upside down to the gospel and be one of the greatest Christians ever?
Oh, it's this
Now how many people are signing up?
Now how many people are wanting to have that kind of a Christianity but you know, it takes great love to be able to do that
That's what shows the love of the Bible you can't don't tell me Paul didn't love people I
Mean who would take this many beatings and this many?
Stone the stoning and the whipping and just the evil. I mean the guys getting mugged
The guys just no one likes him every is running him out of town
I mean this shows someone who just genuinely just loves other people genuinely wants them to be saved
Genuinely loves the Lord Jesus Christ. Why because he's willing to take a permanent mark
and
I
Think that we can to some degree also
Spiritualize that or or metaphorically take this another layer
How about just the fact that the Apostle Paul's is kind of like hated by everybody?
and
The Apostle Paul
Permanently damaged his reputation. He used to be a Pharisee. He used to be in the upper echelon
He used to be kind of at the top of the food chain
politically socially he's in with the with the government and
He totally just threw it all away to become a Christian and now he's permanently damaged in the sense that
Hey, no one's gonna hire the Apostle Paul to go back to being a Pharisee anymore
He's done he sealed his fate the Jews don't like this guy the Jews everywhere are trying to kill him if he
How are you gonna become a Pharisee when every Jew wants to kill you?
You know, it doesn't really work out at that point
He's basically burnt that bridge as much as it could ever be burned. It's done and you could see how he gets this permanent mark
But
how many of us are not willing to take this kind of mark or we're presented with these kind of challenges and
We kind of cower at them
It makes us feel it makes me feel really weak when I think about it in comparison
What apostle Paul's going through and what Jesus Christ is going through?
How about just being a Christian, right?
Couldn't that couldn't that be a permanent mark, you know
it's for some families that may be a really Catholic staunch Catholic or
Maybe even another religion or maybe a different style of Christianity even maybe they're all
Methodists or maybe they're all Presbyterian or maybe they're all
Pentecostal or you know, whatever it is by you
Changing and becoming a Christian or becoming a Baptist that it could have a permanent mark on your life
Where it's gonna alter your life forever. You know what?
That's true. Love when you say, you know, I'm just gonna do what's right
I'm gonna become a Christian and I'm not embarrassed of being a Christian
I'm gonna take that mark. I'm willing to take that permanent mark of hey, I'm a Christian. Hey, I'm a Baptist
Hey, I'm a fundamental Baptist hey, I go to steadfast Baptist Church
Now I'll tell you something it might be a permanent mark though
Now your Google review might not be okay, I
Keep getting all these emails about how they they're taking all of our Google reviews down
It's like I keep looking it's like this Google review is not allowed and I look and it's like one of our church members
I'm just like what in the world? It's like the the atheist that lives in in China
They can put a one-star review
but you know
The person actually comes to my church is not allowed to have a Google review and isn't there
I mean you guys probably know better than me
There's maybe a stigma to going to steadfast Baptist Church. At least I've heard okay. I don't know
Yeah, I do know. Okay, just the fact you know what who cares if that's a permanent mark
You know, it's being a what's a permanent mark is being the pastor of steadfast Baptist Church
It's a permanent mark folks. I can't walk that one back. You know, there's a lot. There's plenty of news articles out there
Right, and I've probably permanently altered my career history, right?
I probably permanently altered a lot of things about my life by even just deciding to become a pastor or becoming
the pastor specifically of this church
But you know what? I don't think that Jesus Christ was embarrassed about his marks. I
Don't think the Apostle Paul was embarrassed about his marks. I don't think that this guy who has the all
Going boring through his ear is embarrassed because he says you know what?
I love my wife and I love my children and I love my master. I'm not embarrassed about it
I wear it as a permanent outward public sign that hey, you know what? I love
my master
And why can't I also in the same vein say you know what? I love the God of the universe
I love God the Father and I love Jesus Christ and I love the King James Bible and I love
steadfast Baptist Church
You know, I love the people of steadfast Baptist Church. That's what the church is. It's not a building. It's not
Assets, it's not a corporation. It's not any of those things. No, it's the people
It's the the men and the women and the children that go to the church and you know
We shouldn't be embarrassed or ashamed
We should say yeah, I do have that permanent mark and I love it. I
Love that permanent mark. I love my church. I love these things, you know here
It could be a permanent mark in some ways for some people is the wives or the women in our church
Deciding that they're gonna wear dresses and skirts from now on
Isn't that kind of a permanent mark doesn't that kind of permanently stigmatize you to certain family members
Friends, maybe the people that you went to school with
your workplace friends all
Extended family and and they may look at that and say wow
You know what? You really have to do that or you would wear that and it's like
Why can't women actually just love wearing dresses and skirts for the rest of their life?
Instead of looking at it just like oh man, it's so why can't you like, you know, I actually like it
I actually love it or
Obeying your husband saying hey mom and dad
I'm gonna do whatever my husband says for the rest of my life and they're just like
The horror of the permanent mark
You know what? Why can't the someone is like, hey, I love it
It's not like yeah, I'm gonna have to do it. Oh, man
Yeah, I have to do what he said
It's like, you know what? I love it. I love being obedient. I love doing the right thing
I love having you know
God be my counselor and doing what he said and just bearing that permanent mark and just said hey
I'm gonna be a submissive wife
Because you know what? There's a woman that had that permanent mark Sarah and
You're her daughter
Whenever you do the same thing, you could bear that permanent mark of saying you know what?
I want to be like Sarah and call my husband Lord and freak everyone else out. All right
I'm telling you it'll it'll it'll terrify them. They'll be thinking like you're in a cult
But you know what? They're the ones that are the wrong ones
They're the ones that are being led astray by evil ideas
By Jews what you want to be a Jew now
It's like oh well more people are doing it who cares how big their cult is
You know, I'd rather be embracing the permanent marks that we have in the Bible
I'd rather have all these ugly marks so-called and be right with God, you know, if you decide to homeschool your children
It's a permanent mark. Oh
They're homeschool, huh? Yeah, I
Remember when I was a kid the homeschool kids we all thought were weird
Because most of them were but you know
Isn't that kind of a it's a stigma, isn't it? It's like oh they homeschool
You know
My wife even would would joke with me and she'd say when we knew someone that homeschool something we call them granola
You know who's heard of that term what a granola? It's like, oh, they're kind of granola
It's like this permanent mark or something
Like you have to be a weirdo when it because you were homeschooled or you're just so different or people like oh
You know, you know what homeschools better anyways
Homeschool kids are more normal better educated way less
Propaganda at home way less all kinds of issue. I don't know that's a whole nother sermon
But you say oh, what do you what are you talking about? These people having these ideas and acting like this?
You know what you get this permanent mark called based
You're just based you just say hey, I don't care
Hey, I'll take the all I'll take the mark. I'll take whatever it is. I'll take the bad reputation
I'll take the articles. I'll take whatever it is because you know what? I just rather please my master
I'd rather just please God I'd rather just be right with the Lord Jesus Christ and just like Jesus Christ
He was willing to take the marks for me. Why can't I take a few marks? I
Mean really are we really asking you to get crucified?
No, are we really asking you to die and go to hell for everybody?
No, all we're all of Jesus is asking you to just obey some of his commandments. Oh
But people think I'm weird forever. You know what they won't think you're that weird when they're burning in hell
You know most of the people that think you're weird they hate the Bible and they hate Jesus
Why do you care what they think anyways?
That's to them nuts to what the world has to say, you know what be that that trad wife
You know what and it's it's kind of even making a comeback where it's kind of cool
Anyways, people act like it's a stigma often that which is true and right ends up becoming cool eventually again
Anyways, so you might as well just start on the trend now
because all the feminist chicks are gonna not reproduce and
Whatever they reproduce is gonna be so ugly and mutilate itself that it won't survive either
So, you know what? It's gonna actually survive the trad wife's and the in the Chad dudes. This is this house. This is how it works
Okay
Christianity always keeps surviving and all the cockroaches keep getting destroyed throughout time. I mean France isn't doing so hot recently
Destroying itself. How many trad wife's do you think there are in France?
And
it's funny how all these liberals and all these sodomites and stuff think like
They're gonna really take over the world and they have all these victories. It's like have you ever heard of Islam?
do you think you're really gonna convince Islam and
They're spreading by the millions. I mean they're spreading like cancer
What do you what are you your climate change agenda is gonna stop the Muslims?
And
It's like they're importing them all into Europe. It's like that's not gonna work out well for you
You're inviting in your own death
Bringing in the Muslim hordes into Europe. They're not gonna like your your dandies that you're dancing around in
But think about this other religions
like Islam
Make their wives wear a hijab
Make
Their women wear a hijab and even many of the women want to wear the hijab
How embarrassed would you be if I took you or you your husband took you to the next family reunion wearing a hijab?
Not on a Halloween party night, I
Mean how much more embarrassing is that than being a fundamental about and
Millions of women are doing this. How is it that they are willing to take more of a permanent mark and a stigma
then
fundamental Baptist women
It's crazy. It's insane
Why can't you just wear the Baptist a job? It's a nice dress
Okay, and we're not even asking you where the ugly Amish dress is on purpose. Okay, it can even be stylish
It can even be normal
But it's just like for some reason they look at this is just so awful it's like wait a minute didn't Jesus
take some permanent marks for you and
Look, it's not like they look good
No one wants to have a start-up back. Nobody wants to have scarred up hands and a scarred up side
Nobody wants to look like the Apostle Paul did after all those beatings and all of those that stoning and everything else
I mean it looked they looked rough. No man even wants the thing going through his ear
What there it's a sacrifice, isn't it?
It's a willingness to take something that's kind of ugly and just wear it as a badge of honor because of what it represents
it
represents
That which is you loving God just like hey
Do you think I just want our church to have a bad reputation?
You think I just want to have a personal like a bad reputation as a person you really think I like that stigma
Do you think it's just super super cool?
No, you know what? I can wear it a badge of honor because it represents the fact that I love God and
Represents that this church loves God and that we're here to win souls to Christ
Not just to see how cool we are how much money we can get
And you know what? I don't care what kind of permanent marks we get
I mean people are getting all kinds of permanent marks for dumb reasons
think about all your athletes and
Skateboarders breaking their arms and legs and think about hockey players. They're losing teeth for their sport and that's a permanent mark
They smile and it's just like what's going on there
For what for hockey nobody cares I
I
Mean can anybody even tell who was in the last Stanley Cup maybe been
Okay, he likes hockey
it's like
Some people like what's a Stanley Cup? I don't even who's Stanley, you know, it's like what's happening?
They're willing to they're willing to just
permanently alter their facial structure
Just just to be a hockey player
In fact, you can even wear like a fancier helmet just to kind of protect your face more
But it's kind of look that you're not cool. Like you're not tough. So they just won't do it
so they're willing to permanently damage their face just to look cool as a hockey player and
Baptists are not willing to take any kind of heat for being about it. Isn't that embarrassing?
Is it embarrassing that all the other Baptist churches in our area are just so afraid of any mark any negativity
That they can't get out and just put their sermon. Hey, what do you think about Leviticus 2013 hide?
No comment
We're not that steadfast Baptist Church
You know, I mean imagine if there was another steadfast Baptist Church out there that went nuclear against the homos and
People were like calling our church
It'd be like we're not them, but I wish we were that's what I would put on the website
We are not that steadfast Baptist Church, but we wish we were praise God for them. We support them a hundred percent
That's what we put. You know, I wouldn't put is we're not that one. Don't hurt us, too
That's embarrassing folks
You know
It's just it's a shame. What our country has become
Go to Leviticus chapter 19 and what Christianity has become where people aren't willing to bear anything
Well, if it's gonna be inconvenient for me, I don't want to do it
It's like you you think it was real convenient for the Apostle Paul to get whipped the fifth time
Thing is real convenient for the Apostle Paul to be shipwrecked a day and a night in the deep
That probably set him back a little bit on his plans in there that probably hurt his calendar his schedule
You know, it's like quit worrying about what's convenient for you and just do what's right
Look what people are inconveniencing themselves permanently damaging themselves hurting themselves
With tattoos look what it says in Leviticus chapter 19 verse 28
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor printing your marks upon you
I am the Lord people are
permanently
forever
putting some kind of a mark on their body with a tattoo and
Sometimes it's stupid stuff like spongebob. I
Know people they put just food
You know, you're like, why are you just putting food on your body? There was a guy in college
He literally got the Batman symbol on his chest
I'm not joking
And you know what? I know it's still on his chest right now
Because it's a tattoo
Think about it. These people are willing to just permanently identify themselves with the Dark Knight
but they can't permanently identify themselves as a Baptist as a Christian as
Loving the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean, how is it that these people are willing to permanently just mark themselves for all of eternity?
Hey, I'm just this
Batman wannabe and
It's like Christians are afraid to be a Christian, you know, we should be the most outspoken
Vocal. Hey, just mark me up. Hey, I'm a fundamental Baptist. I believe Leviticus 2013
I believe the Bible, you know Muslims keep taking over and I wonder if it's because hey, they don't care who knows what they believe
Yeah, our wives wear these things, you know
Ninja outfits get over it
Hey, yeah, we throw fags off buildings get over it. And if you're a fag, I have a building I want to show you I
Mean think about it when when you hear Islam being like, you know, we're kind of backing away from some of our beliefs
You know, I mean look I've knocked on Muslims doors and I said hey your prophet Muhammad slept with Ayesha
She was 9 he's like no 11
But is that not a problem
It's like really you want to you want to quibble over her age and you're fine with 11 you're fine with that
it's like you're insane the obviously you can't read either because you follow Islam, but
They're not even embarrassed about that fact. Are they I mean they just put it all out there. They're not even ashamed. I
Mean, how could we not say hey, we're gonna put all our beliefs out there and we're not embarrassed. We're not ashamed
Yes, we believe the Bible. Yes our wives dress like women. Yes. We hate faggots. Yes
We believe everything the Bible says hey, I'm not embarrassed about the Bible
You know what? I would be embarrassed if I ever backtrack on the Bible
If they were like, hey, do you believe in Vegas 2013? I was like
If I hesitated I
Should just be like, yes, I do
Do you want to see my son my shirt certain on my shirt? No
Hey, I got a documentary for you, you know, we shouldn't be embarrassed about our belief that doesn't change the culture either does it?
Shifting sands doesn't do anything. No, we need to be like a rock. Hey a rock will change other structures. I
liken this it's like I've heard this before but it's if you lay on the sand
And you get up the sand afterwards looks like you
If you lay on a rock
Afterwards you look like the rock
And you know what Christianity needs to start becoming a rock instead of looking like the world
Instead of us being sand that just turns into what the world wants us to look like
We're a rock and we start turning the world into the rock
And to the Lord Jesus Christ, you know what it's gonna take people that say hey, I'm willing to be marked
I'm willing to to face whatever it is. I mean if people can get a stupid tattoo the dumbest thing I
Mean you should and again this sermon never get a tattoo. All right, we're talking about marks
I'm not talking about get a tattoo don't get some Bible verse, you know on your on your chest, especially not this verse
Okay, think of the irony there
Don't put marks on your body, what does that mean?
Don't get some Hebrew or Chinese thing because it probably doesn't even say what they told you probably lied to you
Probably put you're an idiot in some foreign language and you got that don't print marks on your body
It's dumb and if you already did it, I'm not mad at you, but hey, it was a dumb decision. All right, and
We should encourage people
To be willing to get a mark that's different not a tattoo. Hey get a mark for the Lord Jesus Christ
It's a marks for him and be like the Apostle Paul that says hey, I bear his marks in my body. I
Have in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ
That's the real glory and don't be embarrassed about who you are. Don't be embarrassed about what we believe
We need more people to be bold about who they are and
And say hey, I'm willing to count the cost
I'm willing to say that I believe the Bible no matter where that takes me
And and really do you think that God is it's gonna be like, you know
This guy took a bold stand for me, but I'm just gonna kind of let him just you know fizzle out
He can't have any money anymore. He can't have a job. He can't work. He's not gonna do anything anymore
No, no when you say hey here my Lord send me he's gonna put you where he wants you he's gonna provide for you
He's gonna take care of you
It's a silly idea to think that God's gonna abandon those that take the boldest stand for him
No, those that take the greatest stand for them. Guess what he stands in the fiery furnace with them
Weren't they threatened with some permanent marks there being thrown in a fiery furnace
But you know what? They ended up coming out unscathed
But for all of eternity
we know them as hey, these are the great guys that walked literally through the fire with the Lord Jesus Christ and
You know, let us
Decide today. Hey, I'm willing to take a mark for the Lord Jesus Christ just like this man's presented the opportunity
Hey, I'm willing to get my ear bore through let us decide. Hey today if
God wants me to get in a bore through my ear. I'm willing to do it because I love my master and
I love my wife and I love my children
I love what he's given me and I want to serve him for the rest of my life
Go to prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us great pictures in the Old Testament and in the law
Thank you for giving us the example of your son
someone is willing to permanently mark himself for our benefit for our redemption for our
Ability to be saved from hell and I pray that we would be motivated by Christ example
By those that have gone on before us who are willing to take permanent marks that we too would be willing to stand with
The Lord Jesus Christ we would stand on the Bible that would be willing to be permanently marked for your sake and in Jesus name
We pray amen
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