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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. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. 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Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. Thank you for being able to get up here this afternoon. 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. 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 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 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 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 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