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Alright, let's move on here. We will provide lunch. Did you ever find a place for lunch, Josh? What was it? Chipotle.
Okay, so if you don't like Chipotle, you ain't right with God. No, I'm just joking. Actually, it took me a long time to like Chipotle and I actually like it right now.
So, not necessarily what their company stands for, but I like their food. Anyway, it's healthier. So, anyway, move on.
Okay, Lord's Supper is on the 24th, the next day for the evening service and then the Easter Sunday is after that. So, apparently, there are people that signed up.
So, were there people, Miss Crystal, that signed up for the potluck that were not of the people that raised their hands this morning?
Okay, gotcha. Okay, I'll just have to look at it. I should look before I leap, right?
Okay, alright. Well, thank you for telling me that. But, yeah, if you're planning on coming and you're bringing something, please just write down what you're bringing.
We'll try to get everything figured out before or during that week. So, we'll probably just bring the hams to the church next weekend and then you can take them home with you.
You know, same thing we always do. Alright, let's see, what else we got? The baby shower for Miss Stacy's on the 6th of April at 11 a.m.
It's the 7th. Pastor Taverner is going to be here preaching for us both services. Don't forget about the 4th on Thursday. That's going to start at 7 p.m.
And April 8th and 9th, the youth conference in Sacramento. April 28th, the one-year anniversary for Seattle.
And does anybody plan on going to the one-year anniversary in Seattle just by chance? Okay, one, two. Alright, cool.
Ah, me too. I'll be there. So, cool. Alright, well, it'll probably be a pretty packed service. We'll probably have to take a few extra chairs down there or something.
But, you know, I think our record is 36 for, I think it was a Wednesday night or something. So, that's our biggest service.
So, I'd imagine that we're probably going to definitely need some chairs. So, anyway, all the other stuff is stuff you already know.
We sang Happy Birthday. Miss Rachel's trying to hide again. So, she acts like just because she has a new baby that she just has to stay out of here or something.
I know why she's doing it. She ain't slick. But, where's she at? Hi, Miss Rachel. Happy Birthday. Okay.
Alright, let's move on with the service here. Let's sing another song. We'll receive the offer now.
Alright, next song is 385, Alfirma Foundation.
385 on the blue.
Alfirma Foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word.
What more can he say than to you,
He hath said to you, who for refuge to Jesus have heard?
In every condition, in sickness and health,
In poverty's veil, for all bounding in wealth,
At Roman abroad, on the land, on the sea,
As your deeds be demand, shall your strength ever be?
When through fiery trial, by birth we shall lie,
In grace all sufficient, shall be thy supply,
Though flame shall not hurt, thee I only design,
Thy dross to consume, and my gold to refine.
E'en down to old age, all my people shall prove,
My sorrow an eternal, unchangeable love,
And when who rehears, shall their tipples adorn,
Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be born,
The soul that on Jesus hath lean'd for repose,
I will not, I will not, desert to his foes,
That so though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I'll never, no never, no never forsake.
Great, thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon.
Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon.
Let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant, before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation, and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord, for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
Observe thou which I command thee this day. Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee.
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.
For thou shalt worship no other god, for the Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous god.
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go ahoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice.
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go ahoring after their gods, and make thy sons go ahoring after their gods.
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib.
For in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. All that openeth the matrix is mine, and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with the lamb, and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy son thou shalt redeem, and none shall appear before me empty.
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest. In erring time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, and the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of end-gathering at the year's end.
Thrice in the year shall all your men-children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders. Neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.
And thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven. Neither shall the feast of the Passover be left unto the morning.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not see the kid in his mother's milk.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did neither eat bread nor drink water.
And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai with the two tablets of testimony in Moses' hand,
when he came down from the mount, that Moses wished not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him.
And Moses called unto them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him, and Moses talked with him.
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.
Until Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with them, he took the veil off until he came out.
And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone.
And Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Brother Jesse, will you pray for us?
The Lord, thank you for your reading of the award.
Jesse, the blessed pastor, is a priestess of the Bible study from Texas.
He's come mostly to help preach a good message.
If those who are standing, please stay with Greg.
Amen. All right, we're next to this chapter 34, and the title of the sermon is Renewal.
If you remember last week, Moses, he went out and set out the tabernacle,
and set it outside of the gates of the congregation, where all the people lived.
And people had to literally get up and move out of their houses,
and actually have a purpose in their heart to go to the congregation of the Lord.
And Moses named it the tabernacle of the congregation.
And God is still angry, because in chapter 32, they really blew it.
They broke the covenant to pieces.
And to symbolize that, Moses smashed the Ten Commandments,
you know, the ones that God had etched with his finger.
He smashed those right after they were brand new.
So, I mean, really, they just start off just breaking the covenant in, like, the worst possible way you can.
And God is just saying, like, you know, I'm going to send you to the Promised Land,
but I don't even want to be among you.
And Moses, if you notice, he keeps saying, well, hey, we want you to be with us.
You know, and in this chapter, he kind of reiterates that in chapter 34.
But in the end of chapter number 33, Moses is allowed to see the hinder parts of God,
and to see his glory.
And then, now in chapter 34, there's going to be kind of some,
there's three things that you see as kind of something that would picture renewal.
So, the first point is, renewal number one is God rewrites the Ten Commandments on new tablets.
So, look at verse number one. The Bible says,
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first,
and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables.
Who's saying he's going to write it? God's saying he's going to write it, right?
But he asks Moses to hew the tables of stone.
And then he says, which thou breakest. So, he throws that in there, too.
But, in our doctrinal statement at our church, we believe the King James Bible is the word of God.
We believe God inspired and preserved it.
So, the words that we're reading today are the words that God spoke all those years back then.
And everything that God wrote with his finger in those first tablets,
the second tablets have the exact same thing in them.
So, we're not Omo's at this church. We don't believe in the original manuscripts only.
Like a lot of people will put in their doctrinal statements, they say that they only believe what's in the originals.
Well, we don't have the originals. And God kind of shows that we don't need them either.
Because God is the one that's responsible for keeping his word and making sure it's preserved to all generations.
And so, what does he do? Well, Moses broke the first ones.
So, there's the original autographs. They're destroyed, right?
But God says, let's make them again.
And that's what really, that's how God preserves his word.
He gets other people to copy down what he's already said and then he puts it in a book.
And look, we have the book right here. We have all the books.
And everything that's supposed to be in this Bible is in here.
And nothing is in it that shouldn't be in it.
So, we believe that God inspired his word and that he can preserve it and does preserve it.
And of course, we have a great translation, the King James Bible in English.
And there's other great translations out there.
I believe that there was the word of God existed in English before the King James Bible.
It just wasn't perfected until the King James.
So, and that's, you know, I'm not going to get too deep in the woods on that.
But our doctoral statement is that we believe the King James Bible is the word of God.
And if all the other Bible versions say something different, I'm talking about the modern Bible versions.
If they all say completely different things, then they can't be the same.
So, it can't be the word of God.
It's not just, you know, something that we just, oh, yeah, it's all just the word of God.
Even though they say completely different things in a lot of different places,
sometimes they make the verse say the opposite of what it says in the NIV or the newer translations
than what it actually says in the King James, which is really bizarre.
But do you think that they did that on accident?
They didn't do that on accident. That was done on purpose.
So, what does inspired mean? It means to breathe or blow air into something.
So, God, we say that, you know, God inspired the word of God, you know, His word.
That means God breathed.
And God breathed those words. He inspired those words.
And when God breathes into something, it makes it alive, right?
So, when He breathed into the lungs of Adam and Adam became a living soul,
well, this book becomes a living book.
When He inspired the Bible, it becomes a living Bible.
And you're like, well, I don't see it breathing.
Well, look at it right now. It's breathing. No, I'm just kidding.
But the words of this book are different than any other book on the planet.
It can help you discover the problems that you have that you need to fix.
It can discern your heart and see what the intentions of your heart are.
And it's called the two-edged sword of the Bible.
And it is something that we need.
It's our offensive weapon. It's our defensive weapon.
It's our comfort. It's our promise.
Everything that's in the Bible that we need is there.
And God inspired that.
And so when He inspired the Word of God, He made that Word of God alive.
And I'll show you a verse that actually says that in just a second.
And when we say preserved, we mean that that means to maintain something in its original or existing state.
So it's not like, you know, Moses, you know, God put some of the words in.
He couldn't remember what the other words were.
And we just, that was all lost.
That's what people think.
There's actually people that call themselves Christians that believe, and they say they trust in a book,
that they really don't trust.
Because they don't know whether it's the original or not.
And so their foundation is on sinking sand.
It's not upon the Word of God.
It's not upon the rock.
It's not upon the sure foundation.
So, preserved means to maintain something that's an original or existing state, to keep safe from harm.
He also does that too.
And can people corrupt the Bible?
Absolutely.
But He's not going to allow the Bible to be completely corrupted so that we just don't know what we're supposed to know.
He's never going to allow that to happen.
And so even if, you know, the man of God, Moses, he was just angry and did that.
But there's people that actually intentionally tried to destroy the Word of God.
But yet here we are, in 2024, with a King James Bible that we can trust and we know we can count on it.
And when the Bible says that if you believe in Him, you'll be saved, we can count on that.
Because we know that's what God said.
And when it says He'll give us everlasting life, we can count on that because that's what God said.
So, I mean, I don't apologize for that.
I don't care what any so-called Greek professor says or some person that's on the ESV committee or whatever the new Bible of the month is from John MacArthur.
I don't trust those because they come from a different set of manuscripts.
And so people wonder, like, what's the deal?
Well, they're translated from different manuscripts.
The other manuscripts are like a Frankenstein's monster where they just took all the stuff that they liked and put that into something and called it, like, the Nestle's Greek or whatever.
And so they had three, you know, they had multiple, you know, they had, like, the one from the Catholic Church and so that was called Vaticanus.
So that's a text that they found in a basement somewhere in the Vatican.
Do you want to trust the Vatican was keeping the Bible preserved in their catacombs and that's the one we should trust in when it takes verses out and all that stuff?
No.
And then, of course, Sinaiticus was supposedly found in, you know, in Mount Sinai where, you know, there's some monastery or something.
But that's not the real Mount Sinai, by the way, because Mount Sinai is in Arabia.
So, anyway, different subject for a different time, but it's not, you know, I think Constantine's mother called that Mount Sinai or something.
And so that's why they thought that that was the real Mount Sinai, but it's really not.
So, anyway, so God's going to keep his word safe. He's going to keep the original, existing state of it.
And so that is what preservation is.
When you talk about preservation, you know, obviously we preserve foods, but those don't stay forever.
But when God preserves something and says he's going to keep it the same, he does what he says he's going to do.
We believe that in the English language, this has been done in the King James Bible and we're not omos.
So, original manuscript only.
So, go ahead and turn to Psalm chapter 12.
And so, really, I mean, this is about, this really kind of pictures preservation and inspiration because the inspired words are still preserved in the next set of commandments
or the next set of tablets that Moses was told to hew out of stone.
Now, Matthew chapter 24 verse 35 says, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Are the words important? Yes, the words are important because he said my words shall not pass away.
And you know what? If you look at that verse, it's still there.
So, guess what? He didn't lie. It's still there.
I mean, that sounds really simple, but it's just the truth.
Psalm chapter 12, the words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times.
And so, that's a lot of purification.
You know, if you heat up silver or gold to try to get the imperias out of it seven times like that, you're going to have a really pure product.
And all the dross will be scraped off the top.
So, that's kind of what he's referring to.
And then, thou shalt keep them, O Lord.
So, whose job is it to keep the Bible and the scriptures? It's God's job.
It says, Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
This is a promise in God's word that he'll preserve them and that it's for every generation.
What does forever mean?
It means for all eternity, doesn't it? It means for an everlasting thing.
So, God's word is preserved for us.
Psalm 119. Turn to Psalm 119, verse 89.
Of course, this is a great, it's the longest chapter in the Bible, and it's about the Bible.
So, pretty fitting that it would be that.
But, Psalm 119, verse 89 says,
Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Forever.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations. Thou hast established the earth and it abideth.
So, how long is this faithfulness to? Unto all generations.
So, somewhere in the world, you're going to be able to find a copy of the Bible,
and it's going to be a faithful and preserved translation.
And you know what? The King James is over 400 years old now.
And guess what? We still get people saved with it every single week, multiple times a week.
And when you sit down and you read it, even though we don't really necessarily talk like some of the things,
you know, some things are kind of hard and tricky.
But, we can still understand it.
It's not like we look at it and it's like Greek to us. It's not like Greek to us.
You know, Greek really looks like Greek.
So, anyway, but, and then let's turn to 1 Peter, chapter 1, verse 23.
Because, you know, people say, well that's, you're using the Bible to bolster the doctrine.
Well, yeah, because this is a living document.
This is a living, the living Word of God, is what it's called.
It says in 1 Peter, chapter 1, verse 23,
being born again, not of corruptible seed, like the NIV, like the ESV, and all these modern perversions,
but of incorruptible, by the Word of God.
How do you get saved? By the incorruptible Word of God. Isn't that what it says?
Which liveth, so it's alive, and abideth forever.
So, again, that's three times in three different sets of verses I've showed you
that it says it abides forever. It's around forever.
It's settled in heaven. It's purified seven times.
God's responsible for keeping it.
And in this chapter, God does keep it, doesn't He?
When He wrote with His finger the Ten Commandments,
the first time, that was God preserving His Word and literally writing it with His own finger.
And then He says, again, I'll do it, you know, I'm going to do it again.
Now, but He does use men to do this.
And He didn't do it in this case, but He does use men to write down the Word of God.
And to, you know, He used prophets, and they spoke the Word of God
as these special agents on earth that God uses, called prophets.
So, look at verse 24, though. It says,
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.
So, you know, the physical and carnal things, they corrupt and they die.
But it says, verse 25,
But the word of the Lord endureth forever.
So, I mean, it's just really plain and clear in the Bible.
God's Word endures forever, and He's going to preserve it.
And this is the word by which the gospel is preached unto you.
And people will say, well, that's just talking about Jesus.
I know.
But it's also talking about the Word of God, which is Jesus.
You know, the written Word of God are the words of the Lord.
That's God's Word.
And Jesus called the Word of God.
I didn't make that up.
The Bible calls Him the Word of God.
So, now let's turn to Jeremiah chapter 36,
and I really, this is kind of a kindred story to the Exodus story.
It's kind of a kindred story because similar things happen,
but it's not tables of stone.
This time it's, you know, a roll.
And I don't know if that's like parchment or if it's some kind of leather skin,
but let's look at Jeremiah 36, verse 1.
So, we see another picture of this happening later on in the Bible,
because people want to know, like, well, how does God do it?
Well, it explains, I'm not going to go through the whole chapter,
but I'm going to go through several verses in this chapter
because it's explained to us how the Word of God gets written down,
how it gets copied, and how this works.
It's actually not as complicated as you might think.
Verse 1.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim,
the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord.
Who did it come from?
The Lord, saying,
Take thee a roll of a book,
and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee
against Israel, and against Judah,
and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee,
from the day of Josiah, even unto this day.
So, it sounds like he's saying everything.
So, everything you see in the book of Jeremiah up until this point,
that's what he's talking about.
And then, are there verses after this chapter?
Are there chapters after this chapter?
Yes, there are.
There's 52 chapters.
So, he tells them to do this.
He says,
Write everything that I've told you,
from the day I first spoke to you,
to everything I said against Israel, against Judah,
against all the nations,
because remember there's sections in Jeremiah
where he's preaching against specific nations.
God sent him to be a prophet to all the nations also.
And then, so skip to verse 4.
It says,
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah,
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord.
So, the word of the Lord came from Jeremiah.
Remember, Jeremiah's in prison in this chapter,
and he can't go.
So, he asked Baruch to go and do it for him
and to write down everything for him.
So, Baruch is a scribe.
He's a faithful scribe.
And it says,
Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord
which he had spoken unto him upon a roll of a book.
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying,
I am shut up.
I cannot go unto the house of the Lord.
Therefore, go thou and read in the roll
which thou hast written from my mouth
the words of the Lord.
So, how did this get accomplished?
Well, it came from the mouth of Jeremiah,
and there were the words of the Lord from Jeremiah out of his mouth,
and Baruch is writing them down.
Is it complicated?
It's not complicated, is it?
The words of the Lord in the ears of the people
in the Lord's house upon the fasting day,
and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah
that come out of their cities.
Skip to verse 15.
It says,
and so he does what Jeremiah tells him to do.
In verse 15 it says,
And they said unto him,
Sit down now and read in our ears.
So Baruch read it in all their ears.
So he gets called to read this to the princes.
He read it to the people in the temple.
Then they were scared and afraid,
and then they sent him down to talk to higher ups.
It says in verse 16,
Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words
they were afraid.
So they're afraid.
Both one and another,
and said unto Baruch,
We will surely tell the king of all these words.
So now it's going to another level.
It's going to the kings and the princes,
and these guys are just kind of more higher ups,
but they're afraid.
Why are they afraid?
Because the word of God is very powerful.
It's not like just,
you know,
that Jeremiah just made up a bunch of stuff.
All this bad stuff's gonna happen to you,
which is what we get accused of.
Don't people say,
well you just believe in a book written by men?
They weren't afraid because it was a book
written by a man that's sitting in prison
that can't even come and talk to him about it.
They're afraid because they know
it's the power of God's word.
It's shooken them to their core,
and they are afraid.
And it says in verse 17,
And they asked Baruch,
saying,
Tell us now,
how didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
And I love his answer here.
Then Baruch answered them,
He pronounced all these words unto me
with his mouth,
and I wrote them with ink in the book.
Duh.
You know,
it's just like,
I love that answer,
because it's just like really simple,
really to the point.
He doesn't add any extra commentary.
But that's how it's done, folks.
It's just,
you know,
the word of God coming from the prophet to,
you know,
and if the prophet writes it down,
the prophet writes it down,
but if he doesn't,
he pronounces those words,
the scribe writes them down.
You're like,
well,
that seems like there could be a lot of mistakes made,
but you know,
God's not gonna allow that to happen.
He's gonna make sure everything's in there
that needs to be in there.
Now I'll skip down to verse 21.
It says,
So the king sent Jehudah to fetch the roll,
and he took it out of the Elishama,
the scribe's chamber,
and Jehudah read it in the ears of the king
and in the ears of all the princes,
which stood beside the king.
Now the king sat in the winter house
in the ninth month,
and there was a fire on the hearth
burning before him.
And it came to pass
that when Jehudah had read three or four leaves,
he cut it with a pin knife
and cast it into the fire
that was on the hearth
until all the roll was consumed in the fire
that was on the hearth.
So he takes the word of God.
He just read a couple leaves,
and he just like takes a knife
and just cuts up the scroll.
I'm sure it took a long time
because it takes a long time
to read the book of Jeremiah,
so it probably took a long time
for him to say all those things to Baruch
and for Baruch to write all those things,
then for him to read it to everybody,
then to read it again,
and then wait,
and I mean that's a long process, right?
So he cuts it up,
and the roll was consumed in the fire
that was on the hearth.
So he burns up what?
The original manuscripts, right?
Isn't that the originals?
And then verse 27,
skip to verse 27.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.
After that the king had burned the roll
and the words which Baruch wrote
at the mouth of Jeremiah saying,
take thee again another roll.
Just like take some more stone, right?
Take thee again another roll
and write in it all the former words
which were in the first roll.
So every single word that was in the one
that's burned up in the fire,
the original manuscript,
throw that in the fire,
or I mean get you another roll,
which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
Skip down to verse 32.
Then took Jeremiah another roll
and gave it to Baruch the scribe,
the son of Neriah,
who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah
all the words of the book
which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire.
Now notice what it also says,
and they were added besides unto them many like words.
So it's not like he's adding to the word of God.
There's just more that need to be written down.
So everything up until that point
exactly recopied onto another roll.
So we don't need the original manuscripts.
We're in a chapter tonight
that proves that you don't need the original manuscripts.
And then as if it wasn't,
because God's the one that's writing these things
and he says he's gonna copy it down,
but here we have how he does it with a prophet.
And he has the prophet write it down
and then the prophet doesn't even write it down.
He has his scribe do it.
He has his friend do it
and he does it exactly how it's supposed to be done
every single word and it's done perfectly.
So we don't have to wonder whether we have the word of God
because we can see in the scriptures,
and this is like the most powerful chapter
in the whole Bible about preservation
and about that it's not re-inspired.
It's just already inspired.
But the translation, you know,
so we're in a surplus.
We're in a time when the King James Bible
is so readily available.
Probably all of us have,
I know at least every man in here
probably has 20 King James Bibles at home.
If you have 20 or more, raise your hand.
So there's, see this?
Anybody have more than 20?
Okay, I gotta admit, I can't lie.
All right, I'm done with that.
So I have a lot of Bibles,
but you know, I mean,
we're in a time when we just have
a surplus of those things,
but those things haven't always been so.
And so the word of God has been precious
before where if it takes a long time
to just copy it out by hand.
Then we had the printing press.
It still took a long time
until they perfected all those things
and now it's just mass produced.
But you know, we can always just,
we can count on the word of God
and we can count on it to be original
because God's gonna keep it that way.
He's gonna make it that way.
So what is the moral of the story?
You can break the original stone commandments
and you can burn the original autographs,
but the word of God can never be destroyed.
It just can't be.
And God will simply just not allow it to happen.
Even when William Tyndale was making copies,
he was sending a certain amount
because he knew they were gonna get caught
when he sent them back to England.
And they would find those.
The Catholics would search the ships
and they'd find them stashed
and then they would burn those copies.
But there was other ones that they weren't getting through.
I mean, they were just getting some of them
so they just wanted to kind of appease them somehow
and let them think that they're getting all the Bibles,
but in reality, Bibles were just being mass sent to England.
And once the people really got the word of God
in their hands and realized
that the Roman Catholic Church was a joke
and that everything that they were preaching
and teaching was lies,
then that's kind of,
the Reformation just kind of launched off from there.
And so we do have a lot of freedoms today,
but there's no way,
right now there's just no way
they could get rid of every King James Bible.
They just can't do it.
So God's not gonna ever allow it to.
He's never allowed it to.
And we don't need the originals.
God's faithful.
And so everything written in the rolls
and in that story in Jeremiah,
everything written on the tablets
was perfectly the same exact way.
I mean, it tells it that in the detail.
It says it in the details.
And we also see the way in which
the Scriptures are captured written
and he uses men to write it down.
He does.
I mean, don't ever argue about that
because that's just a fact.
That's what it tells us that happens.
But it is the word of God.
It's not the words of man.
Let's look at 2 Peter chapter one.
2 Peter chapter one.
Verse number 16.
Now this is the story,
and it's funny because Moses' face shines
after he comes down from the mount
if you were paying attention to the Bible reading.
But Jesus shown before his,
Peter, James, and John were with him
at the mount of transfiguration
and Jesus also,
he changed his appearance before them
and he shined before them.
So obviously Moses is a picture
of Christ who was to come
and his face shown also.
But Peter talks about this in 2 Peter chapter one.
It says for we have not followed
cunningly devised fables
because this is what we get accused of.
You're just following something
made up to, some religion made up to enslave us
and make us do whatever the slave masters want.
And we're controlling the world through our religion.
I think most of Vancouver is kind of
just probably chilling tonight
and enjoying the weather
and we're in church where we should be.
But I'm sure there's people in church,
but the vast majority of people
even in this state are not in church tonight.
So I just say that to say this.
Who are we really controlling?
I mean we don't control anybody.
There's some people that just won't show up to church
and I have no control over that.
So it's just a weird accusation.
But it says for we have not followed
cunningly devised fables
which we have made known unto you
the power of the coming of the Lord Jesus
but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
So they saw the transfigured Jesus.
They saw him change what he looked like
and he was shining unto them.
It says for he received from God the Father glory
our honor and glory
when there came such a voice to him
from the excellent glory.
This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.
And this voice which came from heaven
we heard when we were with him in the holy mount.
They heard God say this.
They saw Jesus shining.
They saw Moses and Elijah there
and said hey should we make tabernacles for them?
They saw these things.
They heard these things happen.
But look what he says.
In verse 19 we have also a more sure word of prophecy.
What is it talking about?
The Bible.
The Bible is more accurate than our eyes.
The Bible is more accurate than trying to recollect
what we've heard with our ears.
The Bible is gonna be the thing that we count on
over both of those things.
We walk by faith not by sight.
The Bible tells us what's right and true
and Peter's saying hey I was there.
I saw it but you know what's more of a sure word?
The Bible being prophesied is more of a sure word
than me just telling you what I saw with my own eyes
and heard with my own ears.
Where until you do well to take heed
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place
until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts
knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture
is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man
but holy men of God spake as they were moved
by the Holy Ghost.
This is how preservation and inspiration takes place.
So the prophecy is not of the will of man
but as holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost moved them
and God put his words into their mouths
and they spoke those words.
They wrote those words down.
Now let's go back to Exodus chapter 34.
Look at verse two.
Don't be too alarmed.
We'll go through this real quickly here
but verse two and be ready in the morning
and come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai.
So this is God telling Moses to do this.
Come up to the mount and present thyself there to me
in the top of the mount and no man shall come up with thee.
Neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount.
Neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
And he hewed two tables of stones like unto the first
and Moses rose up early in the morning
and went up unto Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him
and took in his hand the two tables of stone
and the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there
and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
So this is just a really interesting passage here
and I don't know at what level
but he obviously didn't see his face
because in the last chapter he wasn't allowed to see his face
but it says the Lord descended in a cloud.
So obviously in that cloud you can't see him.
You can't see his face but it says
and let's see he stood with him there.
So I guess this is a cloud that he just can't see through.
He can't see the Lord but it's still next to him.
He's still next to him and it says
and proclaimed the name of the Lord
and the Lord passed by before him
and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God,
merciful and gracious, long-suffering
and abundant in goodness and in truth,
keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin
that will by no means clear the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
upon the children's children unto the third
and to the fourth generation.
So God is merciful.
I mean he just kind of says some things right there
saying about how forgiving he is
but he does have a point
that he's not gonna allow to go past
and so these haters of God,
you know unfortunately for their children,
look the children aren't necessarily paying,
they're not being punished for sins they didn't commit
but their situation is not great
because of what their father,
the position their father put them in.
So it's not saying he's punishing them for sins
that they didn't commit
but when you are a curse unto your family,
then it becomes a curse to that next generation
so that's why it says that.
I mean he's the third and fourth generation
and in other chapters it says
unto those that he's gonna pay back to the face
those that hate him.
So he is talking about people that hate him
and it says in verse eight
and Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth
and worshiped.
So God's just like standing next to him.
He passes in front of him in this cloud apparently.
He bows down and worships.
That's a good move
and he said if now I have found grace in thy sight O Lord,
let my Lord I pray thee go among us
for it is a stiff necked people
and pardon our iniquity our sin.
Take us for thine inheritance.
I mean because really they blew it already.
Couldn't God have just said well if you do this
and then they said oh we'll do all the words that you said.
They already agreed to it didn't they
and then like immediately they just broke the whole covenant
and God could have just said you know what I said if
you know and just smoked them all if you wanted to
but he didn't do that and that just shows
that he is merciful and gracious and long-suffering
and abundant and kindness and truth
and you know for all the things that God is
that makes us afraid and rightly so.
He wants us to fear him
and why other people think he's mean or whatever
but he's pretty nice actually
because there's a lot of things that we've done
and probably a lot of things we've said in our lives
that we really regret and wish we could take back
but God forgives us for those things
and that's called so because Moses said
if I have found grace in thy sight
because grace is something he doesn't deserve it
because Moses is a sinner too
but this is him interceding for the people once again
that's what's so great about Moses
is the fact that he intercedes for the people
even though they don't deserve it
and he said you know because God said
remember the last chapter he said
I won't go in the midst of you
but here Moses is pleading with him
go among us be with us
because really they have no hope
without God being part of them and being with them
and he's asking for a pardon
he's asking for them for God to forgive their sin
and they would still be part of his inheritance
so number two tonight that it's the second renewal
renewal number two is the covenant is renewed
so Moses asked this
and God I don't think that this is a redistributing
necessarily of the covenant
but God just wants to reaffirm what the covenant is
and so he goes through several things
and he doesn't obviously cover everything
but he covers some things
but look what it says in verse 10
and he said
behold I make a covenant before all thy people
I will do marvels such as have not been done
in all the earth nor in any nation
and all the people among which thou art
shall see the work of the Lord
for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee
observe thou that which I have commanded thee this day
so when it says observe it's not just saying
hey take a look at this
it's like do what I say
behold I drive out before thee the Amorite
and the Canaanite and the Hittite
and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite
that list of names is traced throughout multiple chapters
and books of the Bible
Ezra from last week
remember the priests were marrying
and the Levites were marrying
the heathen of the land
and all these nations right here are mentioned
the ones that they were supposed to get rid of
look at verse 12
take heed to thyself
here's the warning
lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
whither thou goest
lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee
but ye shall destroy their altars
break their images and cut down their groves
for thou shalt worship no other god
for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God
and one of those things that the world just has wrong today
is that it's wrong to be jealous
and people just misuse the word jealous
and it's actually taking on the meaning
that it's not supposed to mean
when I looked in the dictionary
it was the third mention
of this actual definition
which is that you're fiercely protective or vigilant
of one's rights or possessions
so when you're jealous
you have the right to be jealous
and you should be jealous
so when the spouses are jealous for each other
that's not bad
but what does the world say?
the world says oh you're just insecure
you're just stupid if you're not jealous
that's what you really are
because you should be jealous
because you don't want somebody swooping in on your territory
and if they're spending time with some other guy
you should be jealous
why are you talking to that dude?
I'll kill you
I'll kill him and you
no
but isn't that what God says?
he gets upset about it too
and we're talking about spiritual adultery
or spiritual whoredom
those are things that God destroyed the nation for
and that picture of Jesus Christ loving the church
and giving himself for it
but he's also jealous
and so when people start messing with his bride
the bride of Christ
then he's going to get upset
but when we betray that trust with him
then he's going to get jealous
and everybody's going to suffer the consequences
and you know in this world
everything's so backwards now
that someone can have an affair on somebody
or commit adultery on somebody
and then that person still gets all the parenting rights
half their money
all this other stuff
it's just garbage
that should not be happening
it's just wicked as all get out
but to be jealous is something that God is
you're like well he's just a jealous God
like that's some knock against him or something
he doesn't want you playing the spiritual whore
and out there worshiping other gods
he's God
he's the only God that there is
and so when he sees someone worshiping something
that's really a devil
it's going to upset him
and so to be jealous there's nothing wrong with that
and you know because your spouse belongs to you
your kids belong to you
they are your possession
they obviously are like
you're saying that you own your wife
well you own each other
you belong together
you're one flesh
you can't really separate that
God doesn't like it to be separated
he says he hated the putting away
so it is good to be jealous
because if you're not
maybe you're spending too much time in attention on other things
and you're not spending any attention with them
well then some other person's going to trust
you know in this day and age
people are going to swoop up
where they think that they have an entry way to do that
and there's a lot of pigs out there in this world
that don't care
whether they're committing adultery with somebody else's wife or not
and it's another good reason
you know you don't want your wives out
in you know working out in the world
because these dogs are always just trying to
you know get whatever they can
and say whatever they can
to try to entice a woman to lie with them
you know
so we should be jealous
God is jealous
it says whose name is jealous
is a jealous God
and like you know what the Jehovah's Witnesses
when you knock on their door
they'll be like
well turn to Psalm 83
and you can if you want
but this is the verse that they go to
to prove that Jehovah's only name is Jehovah
or God's only name is Jehovah
and Psalm 83 18 says
that men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah
art the most high over all the earth
and so the Jehovah's Witnesses will run with that verse
well run back with this one
it says his name is jealous
God has many names that he goes by
it's not just Jehovah
now and in the New Testament
specifically turn to Acts chapter 4
in the New Testament specifically
we're supposed to call upon another name
we don't call upon the name Jehovah to be saved
now that is God's name
but you know Jehovah's Witnesses make a big deal about this
but this is a verse right there
you can just tuck that in the back of your Bible
and just say hey his name is jealous too
so they're like
well no but it says his name alone
is Jehovah
that means there's nobody else called Jehovah
right that's what it's saying
but they're like it's alone
that's his only name
well then you're an idiot if you believe that
because there's several verses
like this one that we're at today
that says his name is jealous
and also you have the Son of God
who is part of the Godhead
Acts 4 10
be it known unto you all
and to all the people of Israel
that by the name Jesus Christ of Nazareth
whom ye crucified whom God raised from the dead
even by him doth this man stand here before you whole
this is the stone which was set at naught of you builders
which has become the head of the corner
neither is there salvation in any other
for there is none other name under heaven
given among men whereby we must be saved
show that to a Jehovah's Witness
they're like oh yeah well I mean
you know you are supposed to be saved by Jesus
well I thought Jehovah's the only person to save
like which one is it
and they can never figure this out
they try to weasel out of it but
don't let them you know
there is other names for God
and they don't believe Jesus is God of course
we'll just take them to Hebrews chapter 1
and show them that he wasn't an angel
his name wasn't Michael
and God doesn't call any angel
you know angelic being his son
so God is not
Jesus Christ isn't an angel but
you know when we pray with people
I want to just say this really quickly
when you pray with people the sinner's prayer
when they're calling upon
you're helping them call upon the name of the Lord
you know when you start that prayer
it's dear Jesus
okay
and or whatever your prayer is that you help people pray with them
but you know
and I get where people will say Heavenly Father
but whose name are you supposed to call upon
Jesus
so Jesus Christ of Nazareth that says it in verse 10
and it says neither is there salvation in any other
okay
you're like well God can figure it out
yeah but I mean why don't we just do things the way that God says to do them
because he says it for a reason
because Jesus is the name whereby we all must be saved
and so that is important to not
or to make sure that you're praying
you know correctly so
turn to Philippians chapter 2
Philippians chapter 2 verse 9
the Bible says
wherefore God also hath highly exalted him
and given him a name which is above every name
so does that mean his name is above the name Jehovah
his name is above every name right
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow
of things in heaven
and things in earth
and things under the earth
and that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory
of God the Father
so we're calling upon Jesus
his name is above every name
and we confess that Jesus is Lord
that's what they're supposed to be doing when they pray
that's what they're supposed to be doing when they trust
they trust in Christ
okay
that's what we do so
now the order of your jealousy in your life
obviously God should be number one
alright and he if you start just
abusing that relationship so to speak
and you just completely forget about God
until you actually need something like he's the genie in the bottle or something
then you know he's going to get jealous
and if you're putting your spouse
and your children
or anybody else above him your dog
your cat
or whatever other weird things that people put over higher than God
it's like I can't go to church because I have a dog
what?
what are you talking about?
it's like that you know that what's that guy Westbrook
what?
you know?
in that video it's like what? what are you talking about?
what are you talking about man?
like this is weird
what do you mean you can't go to church because your cat or your dog?
God is way more important than your dog or your cat
get rid of those animals
I'm serious
and people are like can you talk about Fluffy like that?
Fluffy's been in my family for 14 years
you know what? God is your creator
and he's your savior
you should hold him in higher regard than you do some mangy old cat that you've had for 15 years
and look I'm not saying don't have pets
but I'm just saying if your pet is stopping you from serving God
if your kids are stopping you from serving God
if your spouse is stopping you from serving God
you know what? you're supposed to serve God above everything
you're supposed to obey in the Lord
women are supposed to obey their husbands
but if they say don't go to church you got to go to church anyway
because it's better to obey God rather than man
so there is a hierarchy here
God's number one your spouse
number two your children number three
number four anyone else
that's what you should really hold in high regard
cats and dogs are way at the very end of the spectrum
so I'm not trying to bash animals
I like animals if I see them I pet them
if they're nice whatever
but I'm not getting any more animals
they've already ruined enough carpets in my life
I don't want anymore
and you know what? I don't want it to stop me from serving
I don't want it to stop me from being able to go to a certain place
because I have to wonder what I'm going to have to do with this stupid dog
I'm going to have to take him
I guess I'm going to take him to the pet hotel or whatever
it's like for what?
for like three days that's like
you're paying more higher prices than you are at a regular human being hotel
I mean
I'm sorry
has anybody actually done that before in this room?
just raise your hand if you have
ok how much does it cost?
because I really don't know
ok
anybody else?
more? 200?
200 bones?
look that better be a five star
pet hotel
they better not be feeding it
like old roy or something
hey you know what?
old roy kept my dog's life
way longer than I wanted it
it has some kind of rejuvenating
thing in it and they just live forever
for some weird reason
when they're dragging they're still walking
it's like you're blind you can't even see
and you're still following my wife from room to room
how are they doing that?
anyway
sorry I'm not
I'm just saying that the importance of God
in your life and what you're doing
in your life is way more
important than all that other stuff
and God says
his name is jealous and he just said
if you're you know whatever it is
that you're putting in front of him you know
you gotta be careful because what does God do
when he's jealous?
he causes havoc doesn't he?
he clouds up and rains
he smokes things he sets things
on fire with his presence
he just touches the top of a mountain and it
smokes
I mean if you're
worshiping your children over God
then think about the ramifications
of that decision
think about that for a second
you're like well but I
look I understand I love my kids too
and I love my grandkids I love my wife
but I don't want to put things
in a balance that it's not supposed
to be in because God
is going to smoke you
or he's gonna smoke them
he's gonna make something change
because he's a jealous God
and you're like well that sounds mean
well I mean sometimes he gets mean
sometimes he has to
don't put him in that position
don't make that happen
like you're the one that has the choice
and so people will say
well you're just jealous
well and people say it a lot
but jealous that's your possession
that's you know staying vigilant for
and fiercely protecting something that belongs to you
but envious is what
most of the time what they're really talking about
and envy is a feeling
of discontent or
covetousness
so you're discontent with what you have
or your life or somebody else
you know you're missing something
then someone else has it
and then you covet those things
and that's a really wicked feeling
but it is a feeling that people get
with regard to another's
advantages
another's success or possessions
so then you start coveting
and you envy that person and when people envy
people they usually do some pretty
bad things when it comes to
what comes next
it's a horrible thing you know you shouldn't be
envying other people
be content
with such things as you have
that's what the Bible says
now let's look at verse 15
in Exodus 34
so right now he's going to
kind of go into this
he's just kind of reiterating a lot of the things from the law
and it says
lest thou make a covenant
with the inhabitants of the land
they go a whoring after
their gods and do sacrifice
unto their gods
and one call thee and thou eat
of his sacrifice and thou
take of their daughters unto thy sons
and their daughters go a whoring
after their gods and make thy
sons go a whoring after their gods
I mean God
the end of
what not stomping these people
out and obliterating
them from the face of the planet
God's just telling him this is what's going to happen
and then the reason why
you're going to get destroyed for all these
years is because you did
go whoring after them
thou shalt not make
thou shalt make thee no molten gods
the feast of unleavened bread
shalt thou keep seven days shalt thou
eat unleavened bread
as I commanded thee in the time and the month of
Abib for in the month of
Abib thou camest out from
Egypt now it's also called
Nissan or Nissan
or however you want to say it so
don't be confused it's the same month alright
so that's the first month for them it's
kind of like New Year's for them
so and then God's talks
about how
all that opened the matrix is mine
and you know that you're supposed to
redeem them with a lamb and
don't appear before the Lord empty and things
like that then verse 21
six days shalt thou work
but on the seventh day thou shalt rest
in earing time and in harvest
thou shalt rest so
why did he say that because the temptation
to try to get the work done even though
you're not supposed to be working
because he says don't do it
he says you know he's basically saying
it doesn't matter what time of the year it is
or how much work you have to get done
you're going to rest on that seventh day
and thou shalt observe the feast of weeks
and the firstfruits of the wheat harvest
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end
thrice in the year shall all your men
children appear
before the Lord God
and the Lord God of Israel
so it's not something that's
optional you have to do these things
for I will cast out the nations
before thee and enlarge thy borders
neither shall any man desire
thy land when thou shalt go
up to appear before
the Lord thy God
thrice in the year so those three
feasts that were mentioned
they have to go it's not optional
now when it's talking about all these
wicked people
you know sometimes people are like God's
the most genocidal
you know homophobic
and you know he just they say all this crap
about God but
they're reprobates
this is why he's saying to get rid of
them and they're worshipping
demons you know and
obviously I'm sure that probably
a small percentage of those people
probably could be saved
maybe their children could get saved
later on or whatever but
he said to completely annihilate them and
destroy everything that they have because
you're gonna get
you're gonna get caught up with this stuff
and the next thing you know you know
your daughter's marrying some heathen
man or your son is marrying
some heathen woman and they're turning
their hearts against the Lord and this is
exactly what happens to them throughout their whole
history you know they're
reprobates and people are just like
God's so mean for trying to destroy
them all he doesn't always say
that though sometimes he would say
just kill all the men you know and then
don't kill the
the women that were virgins or whatever
he just said he says different things
but these people are reprobate
as what's his what's
Tony Hudson said they reprobate hoss
they're reprobates you know
they can't be saved like at least he's got that
right
so it's funny the way he says
he says a lot better because he says it in the southern
efforts southern accent he's like
they reprobate hoss
they gone they done you know
it's true
and if you think about the
Sodom and Gomorrah event
you know if they if there was
somebody that is able to be saved
then God would have allowed them to be saved
you know is there 60
is there 50 is there 40 is there 30
is there 20 is there 10
if there was just 10 people righteous
so if Sodomites could be saved
if homos could be saved
wouldn't one of those people go out with Lot
wouldn't there have been one
oh yeah he turned from his sins and he
this is what people think
oh if they turn from that lifestyle
then they're saved it's like
is that what the Bible says
no they were reprobate hoss
they were done and God
doesn't just barbecue whole nations
for no reason our whole cities
for no reason it's because they
have no value
in that system
they've destroyed and corrupted the land
the land vomits them out
even the whole even
the earth thinks they're scum
it's like
get out of here earthquakes
you know maybe you should fall off
the cliff should just fall off with your whole city
with it things like that and like
that happened in Haiti
when they had some kind of a
queer colony there it just dropped
off into the sea bye
and what was that
the one you preached about
brother Sean it was the volcano
in Pompeii
yeah that we accidentally
sent our home school and field trip to
but I really I had no
idea I'm sorry about that
there was some room that you weren't supposed to
who went to that who was
defiled I'm sorry it's my fault
but I just didn't know
I didn't know it was a big queer factory in Pompeii
but God destroyed it for a reason
and it's all preserved
you know people are like oh it's so amazing how it's preserved
you know why it's preserved so you can
see what God does to a bunch of filthy
faggots that are
hurting children
that's why it's an example
and so like if you see
San Francisco fall into some giant
earthquake you wonder why it happened
it's just because of this fault
it's your fault
because you're a bunch of queers
that's why
I mean we have to deal with these freaks
out sowing some guys wearing a mini
skirt out in front of our you know we've already
kicked him out of here he's already kicked off the property
but here he is prancing around with his little
mini skirt he's a six foot
two black with dread
locks wearing a mini skirt
you know why he's walking in front of these churches
so little children
will get a glimpse of him so he can defile
somebody's eyes and you know what
people are like you should just love them and let them come
to your church no the Bible says no
we're
not going to let a dog come into the house
of the Lord and I'm talking about
the dog that is spiritually
called dogs because that's
what they're like
he's walking by
and the police are watching him why do you think the police are watching him
probably because he's a pervert
he's doing wicked things
he's not here doing good
oh just let him come into the service
no he's not coming in
this is a sanctuary for normal people
for normal people
to love God not a place
for predators to prey on sheep
I'm the pastor I'm the shepherd
of this church and you know
it's not going to happen
you're not going to do it under my watch
you're not coming in here
you can go into whatever church in this
city which will let them in
until they've had enough
we had some transvestite
many years ago at a church that we went to
before and he came in and you know where he tried
to go right to the children's church right
downstairs and then he just disappears
nobody can find him
the pastor finds him taking
baptizing himself naked in the
baptismal a couple minutes later
then he throws him out
but he had to do something
so perverse and so profane
that the pastor finally kicked him out
but when he walks in looking like a fairy
wearing women's clothes
nobody wanted to
challenge the guy or say anything
the pastor just lets him in
that guy made it to that curtain right there
and he started to turn and I was like what are you doing in here
bye
get out don't come back
that's how you have to treat these things
you cannot do it
you have to have some backbone about these things
anyway
these heathens here
God said to get rid of them for a reason
alright
so I'll give verse 25
thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven
neither shalt thou sacrifice the feast of the passover
be left unto the morning
the first of the firstfruits
of thy land thou shalt bring
unto the house of the Lord thy God
thou shalt not see the kid in his mother's milk
so again he's reiterating
a lot of the commandments here
because he's renewing it
a little bit
he had to do this a lot of times in the history of Israel
and the Lord said unto Moses
write thou these words
for after the tenor of these words
I have made a covenant with thee
and with Israel
so it's like he's renewed the covenant here
and again he's had to do this lots of times
he's done it over and over again
he wasn't breaking the covenant
they're breaking the covenant
it says and he was there
with the Lord forty days
and forty nights
he didn't either eat bread
nor drink water
this is the most extreme fast you're going to find
in the Bible and the only way it's possible
is because it's supernatural
it's because God
you know you can't live for
forty days and forty nights without water
without some kind of help
from God it's just not possible
so and he didn't eat bread
it looks
it didn't say that he ate breakfast that morning
so I'm just I'm not sure what strength
he was going on but it was God's strength
keeping him there so he's up with God again
forty days forty nights
and he wrote upon the tables
the words of the covenant
the ten commandments so it spells it out
for us like so when people say well what does it say
it's just ten commandments well it's the
the ten commandments are the main
commandments that he came out with
obviously all the other commandments fall under
the umbrella of those other ones
so now
there's three men that are recorded in the Bible
fasting for forty days and forty nights
and the first one here is Moses
and he didn't drink water either
but you have Moses
then you have Elijah
in 1 Kings 19 it says
and he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength
of that meat forty days
and forty nights unto
Horeb the mount of God
so Horeb is another way
another name for Sinai
so Moses
fasts at Sinai and then
Elijah many years later
he fasts on his way to
Horeb which is Sinai
so and this is what I believe
about this cause Jesus talks about this a lot
he talks about the law and the prophets
and Moses brought forth the law
and then the prophets
preached and we have all these
prophets in between the New Testament
so but Moses
represents of course the law
Elijah represents the prophets
because everybody thinks that
Elijah is the coolest prophet
we'll just say it, it's true
I mean he killed all the prophets of Baal
he mocked them, we like that
in the new IFB
and Elijah has just always
been a cool story, he just pops out of
nowhere and he's just like
hey I pray it doesn't rain for three years
it's like it doesn't rain for three hours
and then he goes and is sustained
you know and God takes care of him
but you know Elijah has his issues too
you know he throws kind of a little pity party
he's like I'm the only one left
and God's like no there's seven thousand
haven't bowed their knee to Baal
so there's always a remnant
but you have these first two and then you have
Jesus of course in Matthew chapter 4
where it says in verse 1
then was Jesus led up of the spirit
into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil
and when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights
he was afterward in hunger
so those are the only three people
that did 40 days and 40 nights
and I'm not saying it's impossible
to do fast that long
but those are the only people in the Bible
that you see doing it for that long
so and
I'm not Moses, I'm not Elijah
I'm definitely not Jesus so
I don't think anybody else in here is that either
but I know that there are people that can do fast
fasting isn't always a spiritual thing
but in this case they are fasting
for spiritual reasons
obviously and Jesus
was tempted right afterwards
with what?
make that rock a hunk of bread
you can do it, you're the son of God
that is a temptation
he is God, he could have absolutely
done that
and then he just tempts him and Jesus passed the test
but then you see these three men
at the mount of transfiguration
which
obviously Moses is that first one
to do that at that mount
now Jesus, he was in the wilderness
it doesn't say he was in the mount
but when he fasted
but when he
transfigured himself he was at a mount
that's why it's called the mount of transfiguration
not necessarily the same
mountain that Moses and Elijah were on
but of course that's the Old Testament
so you've got the law and the prophets and then Jesus Christ
came, God has spoken to us
by his son in the New Testament
so
you have the law, the prophets
and the Messiah
and a lot of people will say
this is why they believe
that Moses and Elijah are the two witnesses
and there's some supporting evidence
for that
I still don't agree with it
but it definitely could be true
I'm definitely not going to
steel man that necessarily
but now let's go to
the third and final
point here which is renewal number three
Moses face shining
pictures the New Testament to come
and the blindness
of Israel to see it
look at verse 29 in our text
it says, and it came to pass when Moses
came down from the mount Sinai
with the two tables of testimony and Moses
hand, when he came down from the mount
that Moses wished not that the
skin of his face shone while he
talked with him and when
Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses behold
the skin of his face
shone and they were afraid
to come nigh him and Moses
called unto them and Aaron
and all the rulers of the congregation returned
unto him and Moses talked with them
and afterward all the children of Israel came nigh
and he gave them
in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him
in the mount Sinai
until Moses had done speaking
with them he put a veil
on his face
so notice it says a veil
he put something to cover his face
so you can't see that it's shining
and he calls it the veil
it's not accidental
that it's called that
usually that's something that you would say
a woman wears a veil or whatever
you know on weddings they have those
veils that they cover their face with or whatever
but Moses had a veil
and I'm sure it wasn't flowery
and girly looking
but anyway it says
but when Moses verse 34
went in before the Lord to speak with him
he took the veil off
until he came out
and he came out and spake unto the children of Israel
that which he was commanded
and the children of Israel saw
the face of Moses that the skin
of Moses face shone
and Moses put the veil upon his face
again until he went in
to speak with them
and it's funny because the Jews today
will say that they follow Moses
they follow the law
and they say that they believe in the Old Testament
and things like that
but Moses pictured so many times
their failure to
understand the truth
and Jesus said if you
would believe me you would believe Moses
because he wrote of me right?
So what does this veil on his face represent?
Well the veil of the tabernacle of the congregation
is what it represents
which also represents
the body of Christ
so Jesus Christ
in Matthew chapter 27
verse 50 says Jesus when he had cried
again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost
and behold the veil of the temple
was rent and twain from the bottom
to the top and the earth did
quake and the rocks rent
so when he died the
veil that was in the temple rent and twain
that means it ripped in half
and so that pictures
the fact that
there is no more need
Jesus was our savior
he died for us, his body was rent
so to speak
his body was beaten
he was bruised for our iniquity
he shed his blood for us
and that veil
represents
the New Testament's come
that
we are all one
people when we are in the Lord
Jesus took away the
Old Testament Israel nation
from being the keepers of the kingdom of God
and now in the
New Testament spiritual
Israel is that new
nation that brings forth the fruits thereof
and they just can't
get this, they can't get it
because they think they are so special
they think they are so anointed
and all this other stuff, Hebrews 10
go ahead and turn to Hebrews 10
Hebrews 10 verse 19
then I will have you go to 2 Corinthians 3
Hebrews 10
19
says having therefore brethren
boldness to enter in the holiest
by the blood of Jesus
so now because that veil has been
rent and twain we have access to the
father that we have never had before
you had to be a priest, you had to be a Levite
all that, so it says by a
new and living way
which he has consecrated for us
through the veil
that is to say his flesh
so what does Hebrews tell us in the New Testament?
this is what you have got to
understand is that it pictured
what? it pictured his flesh
right? isn't that what it says?
through the veil so it is consecrated
through a new and living way
Jesus Christ, right? and having a high priest
over the house of God let us draw near with a true heart
and full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water
Hebrews chapter 10, you know obviously the veil
was rent and twain in Matthew chapter
27 verse 51
Hebrews explains to us
that that veil we can
go through that veil to the holiest
place which is representing
God's throne and so we have
access that nobody has ever had access
before once the New Testament started
now in 2 Corinthians it is going to
explain what, it is going to give
us the commentary on the chapter that we are in
right now and we will finish
here with this I am not going to have you
turn to any place else it will just be here in 2 Corinthians
and we will finish up alright
2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 5
so this is going to explain to us
the veil on Moses' face
now that we are sufficient of ourselves
verse 5
to think anything of ourselves
but our sufficiency is of God
who hath made us able ministers
of the New Testament
not of the letter but of the Spirit
for the letter killeth but the Spirit
giveth life so the Old Testament
you know showed us that we can't
be perfect but the Spirit
is life it is not in
the letter it is in the Spirit so
it says
in verse 7 but in the ministration
of death written and engraved
in stones was glorious
so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly
behold the face of Moses for the
glory of his countenance which
glory was to be done away
so that glory of the Old Testament
is what it is talking about
it was glorious that God
wrote with his own fingers in the stone
isn't that what it is saying?
so it says written and
engraved in the stones was glorious
so the law was
glorious it was great
but it wasn't what
got us through to the next
level which was Jesus Christ
coming so that was always the plan
it was never to keep the first covenant
in place
verse 8 how shall not this ministration
of the Spirit be rather glorious
for if the ministration of
condemnation be glory so the ministration
of the law be glory
much more doth the ministration of
righteousness exceed in glory
because you know what
the New Testament is better than the
Old Testament I mean just think about
all the stuff that they had to do to be right with
God and how little
we have to do in comparison when it comes to
physical and carnal things
it says in verse 10
for even that which was made
glorious had no glory in this
respect by reason of the glory
that excelleth
for if that which is done away was glorious
much more that which remaineth
is glorious so what remains
the New Testament it's way more
glorious it's much more
seeing then that we have such a hope
we use great plainness of speech
and not as Moses which put a veil
over his face that the
children of Israel could not steadfastly
look to the end of that
which is abolished they couldn't
they couldn't really see they couldn't
understand what it represented
but and Moses talked with a veil over his
face but when he talked to God he took it off
so but they they didn't
even look they couldn't look at him they couldn't
get it and so
it kind of pictures them they saw
the face of Moses shining they had to have the
veil over his face because they
you know they just couldn't get it and that
pictures in the New Testament that
they're blinded and can't see
the truth the end of the law
was going to come and that
light that glory that was to
come is the New Testament look at verse 14
but their minds were blinded
for until this day remaineth
the same veil
untaken away in the reading
of the Old Testament which veil is done away
in Christ so they
don't I mean the Old Testament
is done haas just like
those reprobates the Old Testament is done
in the fact that it's we're
not under that covenant anymore
now obviously again the moral laws
we already know that you know
it's you know what I'm going to say but
the moral law still is in
effect but there's a lot of the things
that are done away in Christ but even
unto this day when Moses is read
the veil is upon their heart
they're blind they can't see
the truth of the gospel
the veil is upon their heart
they don't want to see it
and when they rejected their savior
that kind of sealed
the deal for the blindness of those
people verse 16 says nevertheless
when it shall turn to the Lord
the veil shall be taken away
so there is the remnant
of course there's a remnant of people
that would call themselves Israel or whatever
and if they turn to the Lord if they truly
do turn to the Lord that veil
will be taken away and they'll be able to see
the truth but right now they're blinded
it says till the time of the Gentiles
be fulfilled right
and verse 17 says now the Lord is that
spirit where the spirit of the Lord is there is
liberty but we all with
open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord are changed
into the same image from glory to glory
even as by the spirit of the Lord
so and that's the other thing we have
we have the spirit of God indwelling
us it's just a massive
advantage for New Testament Christians
and so that
that veil on Moses face
you know just kind of a picture
of the fact that they're going to be blinded later on
and they can't see the truth of the gospel
they can't see the truth in the New Testament
so he's
that spiritual lesson
to us in the New Testament the number one
the New Testament is better and more
glorious than the Old Testament
the Old Testament still is glorious though
but just not as glorious as the New Testament
a picture for the future
that the children the physical children of the Jews
are blinded because of their unbelief
at the time of their visitation and also
for their past mistakes
concerning the things of God
it's not like they just got judged for one thing
but it all culminated in that
one moment because even as we see
in the book of Ezra if you're paying attention or if you're
following that study in Ezra
they're already screwing it up
I mean they just have been back in the land for
a short amount of time and they're already
messing it up again
and that's why Ezra is pulling out his hair
and pulling out his beard is like what is wrong
with you people
you know and you know Nehemiah
literally does pull people's hair so
I mean he at least Ezra pulled his own
hair out but Nehemiah is pulling
other people's hair out and smacking them around so
you know it's frustrating
it's a frustrating thing but it says
number three if the remnant shall
turn to the Lord the veil shall be taken away
that they'll be able to see the truth
and obviously there's people out
there that get saved that are of that
physical seed or whatever
but it is a remnant just like Elijah
you know there was a remnant
that he didn't know about
you know how many Jews do we
see being saved well we don't really knock on
their doors very often and when we do they usually
aren't interested but every once in a
while we're going to find them they might not even
know they're a Jew who was just saying
that they did their was it you that did your
who did their found
that they were Ashkenazi just last week
was it somebody oh brother Ramon
a Jew indeed
so he
he realized he's one of the chosen ones
so along with my wife
and some other people but you know I mean
they don't even know he didn't know
now he truly is
of Israel you know he's chosen
so alright
so just to recap the three points
in this sermon renewal
God writes the ten commandments on the new
tablets so that's a renewal right
he renews the word of God
there and number two the
covenant gets renewed God
reestablishes that covenant with them
and then number three
Moses face shining pictures the new
testament to come
and the refusal of the Israelites
to be able to see it so that's
it for chapter 34 let's pray
Lord we thank you so much for a great day in church
and for the salvation that we had today
and Lord even though we run
into a little bit of opposition it
does make it exciting sometimes and
Lord even though we don't want some filthy
beast yelling and screaming at us
we get
rewards for that anyway so we thank you
Lord for all the rewards
we get Lord and just
this loving congregation Lord people think that
we're not loving but we go out
and we love people every week
Lord help us to love our neighbor as ourselves and not just
in so many but in other things too help us to keep in mind
how we should be treating each other
and loving each other as
brothers and sisters of Christ and
if we have any bitterness or malice against anybody
I pray that we would just let that go and
confess our sins and maybe just get it right
with the person and
that way we can have a more
fulfilling Christian life we thank you
for all these things Lord and please take us home
safely in Jesus name we pray Amen
Last song will be number 67
in the blue hymnal this is my
father's world number 67
this is my father's world
and to my living years
all nature sings
and proudly
rings the
musical
the spheres
this is
my father's
world
I
rest me in the
fall
of
rocks and trees
of skies
and seas
and the
waters
run
this is
my father's
world
the birds
their carols
raise
the
morning light
the
lily white
declare
their
prayers
this is
my father's
world
he
shines in all
that's fair
in the rustling
grass I
hear him pass
he speaks
to me
everywhere
this is
my father's
world
oh
the meaner
forget
though
the wrong seems
all so strong
God is
the ruler
yet
this is
my father's
world
though
but all is
not done
Jesus
who died
shall be satisfied
and
earth and
heaven be
one
brother Alex
can you close this with a word of prayer
thank you for reaching today