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We are in a series on financial giving and the thing we're going to focus on is tithing.

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So, just stay open-minded.

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A lot of times people close their minds when you start talking about money things in church.

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Just stay open-minded and just try to follow me through.

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Let me review a few things.

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We've already talked about these. From God's perspective, all giving is an outflow

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and should be motivated by love.

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Giving and love are interconnected.

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What we love, we give to. That's just how human beings are made.

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No matter what we love, we give to whether it's a vehicle or a house or a child or a spouse or whatever.

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God tests our love for him via our financial giving.

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A lot of people don't know that one.

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God tests our love for him via our financial giving.

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And we'll go over that more next Sunday and Sunday's following.

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Paul specifically states it there in 2 Corinthians 8.

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There's three primary ways of giving in the Bible, tithes, offerings, and alms.

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And then last Sunday afterwards, Kai came up to me and he said,

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Are you going to touch first fruits at all?

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And I'll do it this morning just briefly.

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I did not include it in the three primary or the three main ways of giving

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because I don't consider it one of the main ways we give.

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But it's in there, so we'll touch it briefly here in a bit.

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Giving the tithe originated with Abraham's covenant, not the law, not with Moses.

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The tithe is 10% of our income in increase or profit.

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It's given to the Lord via his work, his ministers,

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in reciprocation for the blessing we receive from God.

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Abraham's covenant began a process that Jesus finished.

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His covenant was the beginning of humans being able to be blessed by God as individuals.

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And by faith in Jesus we become Abraham's offspring and therefore his heirs.

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Everything in Jesus' covenant finds its roots in Abraham's covenant

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and it is explained in detail in the law.

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So there you go. There's review.

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Now, hopefully that primed the pump a little bit and we're ready to move on.

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Let's talk about first fruits just a little bit.

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I don't consider it one of the main ways of giving and here's why.

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Offering the first fruits to God was a way of demonstrating the principle of putting Him first in all things.

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It fulfilled the first commandment in practice.

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Such offerings in the Old Testament were commanded.

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And special blessings were promised to those who did them.

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The offering of first fruits typifies the resurrection of Jesus.

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He was the first born from the dead.

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And I pulled that out of Dake's annotated reference Bible there.

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So let me just say this.

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First fruits was offering a very small portion of the crop of every year

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they would offer that crop to God before they ate any of it.

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So if you were a tomato farmer, the first few you might have a million tomatoes that year

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but the first few you would take an offer to God or offer to the priest.

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It's definitely not a tie.

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If it's an offering it's a really, really small one.

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First fruits is basically stating God your first in everything

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and we want to honor you first in everything.

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So application for today is a little tougher because most of us are not in the farming business.

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If we raise crops it's easy.

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You just take the first part.

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If we don't raise crops people will ask, well, how can I do it?

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Well you can be done by, you know, take a little bit of the income at the beginning of the year

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and, you know, just plant the first piece of it before you ever use any of it for yourself.

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That's first fruits.

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So in my mind it's not one of the main ways of giving because ties, offerings, and alms goes on year-round.

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First fruits was kind of a seasonal thing done at a specific time, a specific way,

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and it's good, it produces, but it wasn't a main way of giving.

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So now you know about first fruits.

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First fruits and tithing are absolutely not the same thing because people have asked me,

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aren't, isn't first fruits and tithing the same?

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No, first fruits is if you're a grain farmer and you're going to harvest,

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like I grew up in North Dakota and these guys plant 30, 40,000 acres out there now,

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so they're going to have hundreds of thousands of bushels come in in one harvest.

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First fruits of that would be, you know, follow your spirit,

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but you take some of that grain, you set it aside,

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and you dedicate it to God. You give it to God. You say, how do you do that?

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Well, we're going to get into that. It goes the same place, offerings go,

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it goes the same place, tithes go, and we'll explain why.

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But you give it to God. Just first thing.

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So, let's move a little bit more towards tithing.

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Now, I have so much material on this being in the New Testament

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that there's no way I could put it in today.

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So today we're going to look at the covenants

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and how it ties in with the covenants.

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If you don't understand how the main covenants lay out,

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it's difficult to see what God's doing.

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Remember, God is a multi-generational God.

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When he makes a plan, it's not just about our few years on this earth.

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Our few years connect to those behind us,

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connect those behind them,

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and it's a long thing that he's working out.

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He's multi-generational.

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So you have to understand covenants,

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or you won't understand how God is working,

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and it's really difficult to understand tithing,

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especially if you're adverse to it.

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Adverse means you don't like it.

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So you've got to get the big picture.

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So today we're going to look at the covenants

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and try to lay it out that way.

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Tithing in the New Testament and Abraham's covenant.

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There's four main covenants we're going to look at briefly.

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Noah's covenant was the first one.

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And we know that covenant is still in effect.

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Why?

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Rainbow.

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That was the sign of the covenant that God put into place.

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So Noah's covenant, which was made probably 5,000,

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4,500 years ish ago, still applies today.

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We know that because the rainbow still shows up.

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Abraham's covenant, which came a time after Noah.

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Those years back there, it's hard to...

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everybody's got opinions.

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They're guessing about a thousand years later

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was Abraham's covenant.

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His covenant is still in effect.

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How do we know that?

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I hear mumbling.

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How do we know Abraham's covenant is still in effect?

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I hear more mumbling.

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Gotta speak up.

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God promise.

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The seed, which went to Jesus.

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What else in the New Testament tells us

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Abraham's covenant is still in effect?

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Paul referred to it.

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What are we called?

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By faith, we are children of Abraham.

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So we know it's got to be in effect

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if we're plugged into it by faith.

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The law is no longer in effect for believers.

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We'll give you ample reasons for that this morning.

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And I sure hope Jesus covenant is still in effect.

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That one is kind of big.

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So I laid it out this way

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and then we laid it out another way.

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I'm trying to bring a point across.

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Noah's covenant came first

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and the little arrow to the right

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means it just goes on. It's still in effect.

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Abraham's covenant came next

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and it goes on. It's still in effect.

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About 500 years after Abraham

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Moses covenant or the law came

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but it is still, it stopped.

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It stopped at the cross with Jesus.

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When Jesus said,

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this is a new covenant in my blood.

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He fulfilled the law and Moses covenant.

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That's why you have the two arrows

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one pointing towards Jesus,

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one pointing back towards Moses

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with the slash between.

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Moses covenant went to that point

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and then Jesus covenant began from there.

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Moses covenant stopped.

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So, this is another way of saying it.

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We started with Noah's covenant.

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That was the first one.

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And then we went to Abraham's covenant.

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From Abraham's covenant,

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we went to Moses covenant.

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Once Jesus came on the scene,

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Moses covenant stopped.

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It was fulfilled.

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It had done what it was supposed to do.

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And Jesus covenant came in

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and replaced it in its place.

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So to understand the principle

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of living in blessing

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and reciprocating on that,

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we have to understand

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the covenant that comes out of.

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So that's what I'm going to try to explain this morning.

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Abraham's covenant.

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Tithing goes back to Abraham's covenant.

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It doesn't go to Noah's covenant.

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It doesn't go to Moses covenant.

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Jesus covenant is just an extension on

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of Abraham's covenant.

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So let's look at Abraham's covenant first.

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The New Testament clearly teaches

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that believers are part of Abraham's covenant

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through faith in Jesus Christ,

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who fulfills the promise of the blessing

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to all nations and gives the verses.

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These scriptures show that believers

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both Jew and Gentile are Abraham's spiritual errors.

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Receiving the covenant blessings,

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righteousness, the Holy Spirit,

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inclusion in God's family,

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those are part of the blessings.

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Receiving the covenant blessings through faith,

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it's not by physical descent or physical works.

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It's by faith we get into Abraham's covenant.

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So now I want to point something out

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because this is the age we're living in.

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Notice the source on that?

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AI, I used AI.

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I thought I'm going to use AI

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and see what AI knows about this.

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A lot of Christians think AI is evil.

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It's the antichrist.

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And it's like, well, that's typical Christian garbage.

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Anything we don't understand,

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we're afraid of, and therefore we label it demonic.

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AI is a computer.

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I feel like I need to explain this here.

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AI is a computer that has access

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to all knowledge and any databases.

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Any AI platform has access to all that.

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So when you ask it a question,

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it will immediately,

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instantaneously,

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search information worldwide

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and give you an answer.

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It's better than Strong's.

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I'm just saying.

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It's amazing.

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You can give me all the places in the New Testament

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where Jesus prayed.

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Just pops them up.

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This verse, he prayed for this

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and that verse, he prayed for that.

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And then it'll give you explanation.

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So I thought, well, I'm going to try this

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with Abraham's covenant. See what AI says.

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And you know what? They worded it in such a way.

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It's like, well, I don't need to improve on that.

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Let's just copy and paste that.

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So that's what I did.

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You say, how would AI know about godly things?

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Because it has information.

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It has access to all the information in the world.

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That's how it knows.

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And it's not demonic.

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Okay?

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So then I asked about Abraham's covenant.

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Well, before Abraham's covenant,

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does Noah's covenant?

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Because that came earlier

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and Abraham's was on top of that

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and then it went up from there.

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So I thought, well, let's ask about Noah's covenant.

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It did pretty good there with the first question.

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So I thought, well, let's ask about Noah.

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Notice how it started.

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Since your previous question

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addressed believers' inclusion in the Abrahamic covenant,

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it's like you're talking to a person.

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It's worth noting how the Noahic covenant relates.

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Oh, okay. Well, tell me.

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Noah's covenant provides the foundation

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for the Abrahamic covenant.

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Well, yep, that's exactly right.

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By ensuring the survival of humanity and creation,

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allowing God's redemptive plan

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to proceed through Abraham's line.

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So this is what he's saying,

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which is, or it's saying, not he, it.

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This is what it's saying.

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Noah basically spared the human race

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from being destroyed.

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And Noah's covenant is kind of a governmental thing.

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You'll be held accountable for killing people

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and things like that, okay?

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So Noah's covenant kept us from being destroyed

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so we could actually get out to Abraham line,

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and Jesus could eventually be born.

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Had Noah and that flood not taken place,

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we were on the cusp of the genetic,

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pure genetic human race vanishing.

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The Nephilim interbreeding had gotten so bad,

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there was only a handful of people left

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who did not carry Nephilim DNA.

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Noah and his wife, you're not Moses,

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Noah and his wife were part of that.

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Noah, his wife, his three sons.

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What would have happened had God not restarted

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the whole human race with Noah.

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Remember, he told Eve,

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through you is going to come someone

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who is going to destroy what the devil just did.

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He's going to fix the whole thing.

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He's going to put an end to what the devil's rule is.

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He told that to Eve.

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So we're headed for Jesus.

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That was Jesus he was talking about

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when God spoke to Eve about that.

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But in the meantime, fallen angels

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and human women cohabitated.

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And out of that came Nephilim.

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That practice was so widespread

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that fallen angel DNA had gotten into

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almost the entire human race.

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If we don't have a pure human being

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over here when Jesus shows up,

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we don't have a savior for mankind.

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We had to have a pure human being.

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So God said, OK, we're going to have to reboot this

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because you people are just messing this up really bad.

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And out of love, he sent the flood

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and rebooted the human race

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scurrying out all that Nephilim DNA

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so that we could get to a savior.

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The problem was God had no right

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to bring a savior to this world.

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Adam and Eve gave that away.

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When they sinned, they gave the rulership

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because the rulership of this world

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had been given to Adam and Eve.

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When they sinned, they gave the rulership

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of that away to Satan.

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So God had no legal right to come in and fix this.

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He had to find a way in.

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That's where Abraham eventually showed up.

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But had Noah not been here

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and we have the reboot of the human race,

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Abraham, that would have never happened.

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And we would all be perpetually lost.

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Believers as Abraham's spiritual heirs

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indirectly benefit from Noah's covenant

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the preservation of the world

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in which God's promises are fulfilled.

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That's exactly right.

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While the Abrahamic covenant is specific to those

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who share Abraham's faith,

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the Noaic covenant applies to all humanity.

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Unsaved, saved, makes no difference.

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You don't have to be a born-again Christian

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to see a rainbow.

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And what that rainbow promises

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applies to unsaved as much as it applies to saved.

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God sustained the world so he could move forward.

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The Noaic covenant is described as

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lasting while the earth remains.

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The New Testament anticipates a future renewal of creation.

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And it even gives you the verses for it.

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Where the current earth gives way to a new heaven

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and a new earth until that time

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Noah's covenant remains in effect.

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Yep, that's correct.

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Preserving the world for God's purposes.

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The absence of a flood-like judgment

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and the continued appearance of the rainbow

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affirm it as ongoing validity.

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Signed Brother Grock.

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I couldn't help. I saw that.

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I thought, that's exactly right.

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I couldn't say that any better.

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So I'm going to just throw that out

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and see if anybody gets up and leaves.

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Apparently not. We're okay.

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So we've got the bottom two in place.

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What about the next one?

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We've got to deal with Moses Covenant

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which I'm going to deal with that a little differently.

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I'm going to come back and just explain to you

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why it's no longer in effect.

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Because Moses Covenant was added to Abraham's Covenant

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because of sin.

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And the whole reason for the law was to point out

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we were sinners. We needed a savior.

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Once the savior came,

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we're no longer under all those rules and regulations.

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So we need to look at this portion of it.

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Jesus Covenant.

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So what did I have to say about that?

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The New Testament teaches that the Old Testament law,

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Moses' law given through Moses at Sinai,

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was fulfilled and superseded by Jesus Christ,

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marking a transition from the Old Covenant

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to the New Covenant.

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While the law was not abolished

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in the sense of being nullified,

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its role as a binding legal system

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for righteousness was completed

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with Christ's life, death, and resurrection,

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which inaugurated the New Covenant of Grace through faith.

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Exactly.

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Oh, I didn't turn the page for you.

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So there's that part.

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The text shows the law.

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I read that to you.

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I think. Let me back up.

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Am I too ahead?

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Okay.

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There's the part I read to you.

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The New Testament teaches that the Mosaic law

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was in effect until Jesus fulfilled it through his life,

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death, and resurrection, establishing the New Covenant.

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There's the passages that give that.

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These texts show that the law's role

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as a legal system for righteousness

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ended with Christ,

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who fulfilled its purpose

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and introduced salvation by faith

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under a New Covenant.

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These texts show the law's role

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as a legal system

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for righteousness

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ended with Christ.

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He fulfilled it. Now we're under faith by grace.

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While the law's moral principles

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may guide Christian ethics.

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Now this is a big statement here.

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We're going to develop on this a bit.

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While the law's moral principles

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may guide Christian ethics,

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its ceremonial and civil

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requirements are no longer binding.

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The first place they taught me that

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was in Bible college.

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And I'm going to teach you

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what they taught me,

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and hopefully the air doesn't go out of the room here

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like it went out of the classroom there.

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But let's talk about it.

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Abraham's Covenant's still in effect.

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Noah's still in effect.

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The no longer is the law in effect

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for believers.

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Notice for believers.

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The law is still here to point out

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if we're a sinner.

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So if we're not a believer,

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it's nice to know

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what we're doing wrong.

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But it can never save you.

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It doesn't give life.

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It just says you're wrong.

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Well, what do I do to get right?

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Well, that's where we go to Jesus Covenant.

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And then we forget the other side.

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Jesus Covenant is built on Abraham's Covenant.

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It's an extension of it.

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Now, sometimes people struggle with the concept

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that Moses Covenant or the law

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no longer applies to us.

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And some people struggle with it more than others.

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Depending upon

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that there's different flavors

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that go back into it,

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some Messianic Jews

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do really well with this.

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Some are still living in the Old Testament.

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They're believing in Jesus for salvation,

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but they're kind of living under the law.

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So it can become

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an issue for people

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in many areas of life,

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but it can become a big issue

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in tithing also.

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Because when tithing is brought up,

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the first thing I hear

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95% of the time is,

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well, we're not under the law.

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Yeah.

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The law has nothing to do with tithing.

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So what they just told me is they don't understand

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the Covenants.

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They don't understand the law was fulfilled.

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It has nothing to do with us as believers today.

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Tithing

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goes back to Abraham's Covenant.

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Scriptures that say

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Moses Covenant is no longer

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in effect for Christians

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that Jesus fulfilled it.

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Let me just give them to you

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for reference. And by the way,

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everything that we put up here

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is on a PowerPoint.

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It goes with the message on the website

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and you can download the PowerPoint

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and have all this stuff right there.

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Or you can view it online

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or however you want to do it.

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But all the PowerPoints

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are available

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online.

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Scriptures that say

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Moses Covenant

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is in effect

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is no longer

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in effect for Christians

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that Jesus fulfilled it.

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There's a group of Scriptures

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that say the law was only

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until Christ.

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The law was annulled.

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There's the Scriptures.

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It was set aside

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because it was weak and useless.

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There's the Scripture.

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Fault was found with it.

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It's now obsolete

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to us as believers.

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It was set aside

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to make room for the new Covenant.

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It was abolished.

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It was cancelled.

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And to belong to

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or to be married to Christ

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to be the bride of Christ

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we have to die

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to the law.

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You can't keep the law

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and be the bride of Christ.

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The two don't work together.

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So since we're talking about this

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we might as well go a little bit deeper

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and bring out some stuff here

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that we really need to think about.

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Some of us this is going to be old news.

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It's like, yeah, I knew that.

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No problem. Others of us

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it might make us blink once or twice.

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So take a deep breath and

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hang on to your seats.

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Let's go a little deeper.

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Romans 7

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Therefore, my brethren,

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you also have become dead to the law

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through the body of Christ

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that you might be married to another

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to him who was raised from the dead

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that we should bear fruit to God.

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That's the point I just made.

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Go to verse 6.

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But now we have been delivered from the law

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we're delivered from it

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having died to what we were held by

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so that we should serve in

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newness of the spirit

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and not in the oldness of the letter.

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Many Christians

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live by rules

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that is law

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that's legalism.

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We don't live

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by rules anymore.

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Our job now

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is to learn how to love.

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What did Jesus say?

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The law and the prophets

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are summed up

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in

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love God with all your hearts and mind and strength

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love your neighbors yourself.

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When we get to heaven

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He is going to ask us if we learned

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how to love.

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How do you

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treat other people?

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How do you handle them?

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How do you deal with other people

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when they do you wrong?

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When they do stuff

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that just makes you really angry?

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That's what we're going to answer for.

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We're not going to answer for...

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Now, hang on.

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We're not going to answer

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for the Ten Commandments.

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Did you know the Ten Commandments

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are part of the law?

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That's where the whole thing started.

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Where's the Ten Commandments?

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And people somehow

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separate out the Ten Commandments and say

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oh yeah, we're not under law

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but we got to keep the Commandments.

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The Commandments were the law.

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When in Bible

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in Bible college when the professor

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pointed that out and gave a scripture for it

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it's like the whole room just went

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because we were all, well I'll just say

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I was going to an assembly of God college

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and we were all raised assembly of God

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and that was near blasphemy.

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The Ten Commandments no longer apply

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thou shalt not

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no longer counts

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See, now the room is starting

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to feel a little funny.

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If we have to

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be dead to the law

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so we can be married to Christ

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the law started

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with the Ten Commandments.

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They were the law.

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We have to die to them.

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What's our goal now?

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Love God

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and love each other.

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Our goal is to treat each other

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with respect

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and dignity and honor

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and speak well of each other

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do what we can to help each other

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our goal is to

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love.

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And that's what he's going to ask us about

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when we get there.

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How well did you do in the love area?

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Well I never lied. I don't care

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how well did you do in the love area?

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Well I went to church

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every Sabbath.

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Yeah, that was yesterday.

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How well did you do in the love area?

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That's going to be the question

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because he said that's my command to you.

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Learn to love.

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Now, if I learn to love

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I won't lie to you.

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See, if I love you, I won't lie to you.

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I won't steal from you.

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I won't gossip about you.

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I won't spread all...

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Have you heard?

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Have you heard about this

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new pastor they got at Word of Life?

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I think he's a Russian spy.

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His wife seems alright

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but boy, I don't trust him at all.

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I'm just giving you warnings. Stay away from him.

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See, that's not love.

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That's not love.

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That's not how we talk about people.

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Well, did you know she was pregnant

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before she got married?

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And she walks around church

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like she's somebody.

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You gossip be all bitty.

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That's not love.

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Well, I'm not breaking any commandments.

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You broke the biggest one.

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Love.

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That's what he's going to hold us to.

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So here's the big thought.

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Even though the Ten Commandments

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are a good moral guide,

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just like Uncle Grock said,

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they don't show God to us.

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The Ten Commandments don't show God to us.

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They show sin to us.

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And what sin is,

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and that we've got to stop doing it.

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That was the whole purpose

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for the Ten Commandments.

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To show us we're guilty sinners.

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They don't show love.

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Their purpose was to expose

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and reveal sin.

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But they're no longer over us as believers.

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So let me show you another scripture or two for that.

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Here we're in Colossians 2.

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He's talking about,

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in him you were also circumcised

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with a circumcision made without hands,

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putting off the body of sin of the flesh.

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Okay, so stop right there.

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Why is circumcision such a big deal in the New Testament?

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Why was it a big deal?

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I'll ask it a different way.

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Why was circumcision a big deal

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to the Israelites or the Jews?

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It was part of the covenant that Abraham

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made with God.

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God said every male

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has to be circumcised, physically circumcised.

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We get to Jesus

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and Paul and we

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understand, oh

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this is circumcision of the heart.

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That was the picture.

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God told Abraham

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you've got to physically circumcise

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your children.

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It's kind of hard to do that

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if we're talking about their physical heart.

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But we get to the New Testament

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right here. You are circumcised

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with a circumcision made without hands,

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putting off the body of sin

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of the flesh, cutting sin away from us.

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By the circumcision

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of Christ, buried with him in baptism

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in which you were also raised in him

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through faith, working of God.

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Who raised him from the dead.

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And you being dead in your trespasses

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and sin in your trespasses

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and uncircumcision of your flesh,

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flesh means

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the sin

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of your heart, sins of the flesh

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third line down.

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You were dead in sin

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trespasses and your heart

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was still uncircumcised.

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He has made alive,

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He's made you alive together with

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Him. He forgave

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all your sin

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having

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wiped out the handwriting of

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requirements that was against

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us, which was contrary

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to us. He took it out

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of the way, having nailed it to

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the cross. What was

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the handwriting of

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requirements?

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The Ten Commandments

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They were hand written

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by God.

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Thou

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shalt not

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Thou shalt

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handwriting

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of requirements

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which we couldn't keep.

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It was against us. It was just to point

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out we needed a savior. We're sinners we need

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a savior.

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Having disarmed principalities and power

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so at the same time He took the law

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and nailed it to the cross

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He disarmed the demonic realm

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making a public

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spectacle of them trying

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over them. Same time.

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So because of that

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here's some Old Testament stuff.

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So let no one judge you in food

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or in drink or regarding a festival or a

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new moon or Sabbaths.

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Which there are a shadow of things to come.

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They were pointing to Jesus.

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But the substance is of Christ.

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So

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Oh, Pastor Verne.

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We don't keep

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the feasts at word of life.

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Nope.

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Not under the law.

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Well you can learn so much about it.

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Well you can.

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Nothing wrong with learning some things.

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But every one of those

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feasts pointed towards the work that Jesus

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did.

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We should be living in the work

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Jesus did.

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Not in celebrating the physical feast.

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Now we can learn more

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about that work by understanding

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the physical feasts. Because they are very

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detailed. They give a lot of information

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about what Jesus actually did.

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But

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I'm not going to celebrate the day of

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atonement.

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I'm going to get my

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sins forgiven over here.

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That's

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what that was picturing.

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Jesus blood.

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I'm not going to celebrate

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Pentecost.

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The way they celebrated it.

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I'm going to try to get everybody

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baptized in the Holy Spirit

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and living in the Holy Spirit.

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Because that's what the picture was.

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And my

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experience has been if you pay too much

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attention to the Old Testament

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feasts and Sabbaths and all that stuff

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you lose this.

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And it becomes a bunch of rules

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and laws again.

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And since it's done away with

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I'm not going to celebrate it.

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So he's trying to tell them the same thing.

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People are going to judge you.

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Because now you're eating bacon.

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You're drinking Mountain Dew.

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Or Coke.

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Coffee.

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Or regarding a festival.

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Different translations say a feast.

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They're going to judge you.

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You're not keeping the feast or whatever

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you're doing is wrong.

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The new moon, see the

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certain things were tied to the

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whole Old Testament was tied to the moon

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in timing. So certain things

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kicked into gear at every new moon

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and every Sabbath.

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And then you had the high Sabbaths and all this stuff.

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He said all of that was nailed

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to the cross. Forget about it.

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It was all talking about Jesus.

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Live in Jesus.

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Forget about all that stuff.

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So in the New Testament we're held

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accountable to love. Learning to love

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learning to live it.

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Just in case

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you need to remind it.

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The Pharisees heard that

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but when the Pharisees

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heard that he had silenced the Sadducees

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this is like

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Catholics and Protestants

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of the Old Testament.

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Pharisees and Sadducees.

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Oh yeah, we all serve

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God but we just don't get along.

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They were like two different

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mindsets.

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And the Sadducees

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had just asked him a question

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and Jesus kicked their feet out from underneath them.

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So the Pharisees thought,

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well that's cool. Never had any

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use for those people anyway.

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I'm going to ask a question now.

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So they gathered together. So here you've got

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the Pharisees huddling up.

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I imagine Jesus went,

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oh man they're going to be next.

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They're cooking up a question right now.

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They're going to come at me.

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And they did.

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Verse 35

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Then one of them

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a lawyer. Oh,

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they got the lawyers. The big guns

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are out now.

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Asked him a question, testing him.

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He didn't really want to know truth.

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He was just trying to trip them up.

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Saying, teacher, which is the

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greatest commandment in the law?

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Huh. See, so that's

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a trick question right there.

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Jesus answered it, you love the Lord

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God with all your heart and soul

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and your mind.

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This is the first or great

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commandment. And the second is

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like it, you shall love your neighbor

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as yourself. On these

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two commandments hang all

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the law and the prophets.

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So everything that had to do

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with Moses covenant

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and the law and everything

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is summed up right there.

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Love God,

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love your neighbor, everything

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hangs on that.

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So, now that we have

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a little bit of a history lesson

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let's quickly go and apply it to

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Oh, forgot to turn it for you, there it is.

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See, when I've got it in my hand

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and I'm not having to hold this mic

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it's like I can keep

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up.

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For whatever reason I'm not used to this

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and my mind doesn't keep up with

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turning the slide for you.

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So let's go to now. Let's

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apply it.

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Abraham, Melchizedek and New Testament

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tithing. Here's where it's

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found in Genesis. Melchizedek

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king of Salem

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brought out bread and wine.

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He was the high priest of God most high.

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We read this last Sunday so this won't be news to you.

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And he blessed Abraham

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and said, bless be Abraham,

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the God of God most high

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possessor of heaven and earth

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and bless be God most high

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who has delivered your enemies

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into your hands.

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And he, Abraham gave him

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Melchizedek a tithe

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of all. Now there's something

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I want you to notice here. There's a pattern

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that's going to go all the way through Scripture

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starting with Abraham.

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The priest of God most

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high gives the blessing

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of God. He doesn't have it

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in himself. He's speaking for God

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bringing into fruition in this earth.

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When the person

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is under the blessing

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the reciprocation on that

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is giving back to God

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and God specifically asked for the tithe.

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So

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we live in the blessing

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and God says, what are you going to do with that?

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How are you going to reciprocate?

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One

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of the ways, the financial

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way is the tithe.

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You're going to see that over and over now.

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I want you to see that financial giving.

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Blessing means what?

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We're going back

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to a series we did

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last year. Blessing means what?

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Empowerment

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to prosper

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in every area of life. Not just financially.

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Paul reiterates that

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in New Testament, sitting Corinthians 9.

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Everything. Your marriage

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can do well. Your children

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can do well. Your car won't

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break down every time you go out the driveway.

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Your chickens won't die.

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When you need eggs

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at ten dollars a dozen.

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On and on and on.

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Everything in your life

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is successful.

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That's what the word blessed means.

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The word of faith is near you, even in your mouth.

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We call and speak the blessing.

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As representatives of God, we speak

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blessings to each other

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and over our family and over our spouses.

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What are we doing? We're

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activating what he has available

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on earth. And the way he

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chose to do that is the word of faith

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is in your mouth. That's why

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Melchizedek spoke

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blessings over Abraham.

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He was activating

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that power for Abraham to

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prosper in everything.

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And then he blessed God and

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empowered him saying, oh, thank God

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what you did in destroying Abraham's enemies.

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You're going to see that

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principle over and over and over.

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But the supernatural power that is

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released in our life when we speak

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blessing. We're talking

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dunamis power. We're talking

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angels. We're talking

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supernatural gifts. We're talking

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this is the

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stuff that is supposed to be

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released to help us

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prosper.

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And it's released with

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our mouths.

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That's why the devil

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loves to get our mouth

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and turn us negative, turn

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us cranky, turn us nasty

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saying all kinds of stupid

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dumb things.

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You've always been

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a disappointment to me.

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Well, thank you for the blessing, Mom.

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That'll go a

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long ways.

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You're going to turn

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out worse than your brother.

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Well, thank you, Dad.

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If we understood words

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have creative ability,

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we'd quit dock talking

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so dumb.

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We should be blessing,

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not cursing.

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So let's see where

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that shows up in the New Testament. It's in

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Hebrew 7. This Melchizedek

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was king of Salem, priest of the most high God.

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He met Abraham, returning from

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the defeat of the kings, and he blessed

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him. Okay, so there he's referring

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back to the scripture we just read in Genesis 14.

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And Abraham gave

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him a tenth of everything.

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There is the principle, and I wrote that

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in at the end of the scripture. And there is

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a few places it's found.

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It's found all the way through the Bible.

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But there are some real obvious places.

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The blessing from God

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is given to us.

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The tithe is returned

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back to God as a reciprocation

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for that blessing.

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Remember, covenant means exchange.

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So we're exchanging here.

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And one of the ways you exchange

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is that. Here it is in Romans.

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And Macedonia and Achaia were

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pleased to make a contribution. These were

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two churches for the poor

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among the saints in Jerusalem. So they took

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up offerings for the churches,

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for the saints in Jerusalem from

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two churches, Macedonia and Achaia.

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They were pleased to do it.

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So they were happy to make the

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contribution for the poor. Now listen

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to this. And indeed,

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they owe it to them.

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For if the Gentiles,

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Macedonia and Achaia were

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not, those were not Jewish

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churches. Those were Gentile churches.

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For if the Gentiles

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have shared in the Jews spiritual

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blessings, they

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owe it to the Jews

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to share with them their material

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blessings. There it is.

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There's the principle again.

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Blessing comes to

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me.

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Giving goes back.

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First Corinthians.

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Nine. For it's

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treading out the green.

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Is it animals, Jesus,

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or God's concerned about? Now

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he's giving an example for

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us. Yes, this was written

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for us because when the plow

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man plows and the thresher threshes,

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they ought to do so in hope

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of sharing in the harvest.

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Here's the principle. If we

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have sown spiritual seed

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among you, is it

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too much if we reap a

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material harvest from you?

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Notice.

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Spiritual is given.

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Physical needs to come back.

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Hebrews

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7. First

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his name, speaking

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of, this is verse number

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2 now, speaking of

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Melchizedek. First his name means

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king of righteousness, then also king of

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Salem means king of peace.

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This guy was without father

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or mother, without genealogy,

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without beginning of days or end of life.

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Like the son of God,

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he remains a priest forever.

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Now if you read that

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commentators, most of them

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will say, well that just simply means

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they didn't have a record of his

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life. They didn't know who his parents were.

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They had no record.

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Okay.

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Now

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take your religious glasses off

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and put some common sense

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ones on.

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We have a king

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who is our priest

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and we have no idea

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who he is or where he came from.

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He just

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crawled out from underneath the rock one day

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and we said, let's make you king.

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How dumb is that?

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They knew exactly

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who Melchizedek was.

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So I'm going to

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give you something to think about it.

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I don't buy their

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commentators explanation. They're trying

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to stay away from the supernatural.

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I think

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this was a pre-incarnate

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visitation by Jesus.

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He did it

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numerous times. Go back

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without

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father or mother, without

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genealogy, without

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beginning of days or life, like

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the son of God, he remains a priest

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forever. Who lives forever

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was not physically

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born, has no ancestors,

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no beginning.

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He wasn't born

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at one point

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and then died at another.

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There's no beginning, there's no end.

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Who can do that besides

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God?

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Or nobody.

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I think we're talking about Jesus.

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Jesus was

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was Jesus a physical king

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and priest of Salem? He might not

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have been. Chances are

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good, no.

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But he owns the whole

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world and everything in it, so

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spiritually he was king and priest.

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And Jesus manifested

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in the physical to Abraham.

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Do you know what's real?

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If you would have went to the

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city of Salem, or later

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it was called Jerusalem, but it was called Salem

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at that point. If you would have went to that city

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and said, does anybody here know Melchizedek?

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When that happened,

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they maybe didn't even know there was a Melchizedek.

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Because

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if this was Jesus,

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he showed up as the king of Salem.

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What does the word Salem mean?

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Peace.

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He showed up as the king of

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peace

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and the priest.

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Who's the high priest now?

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Jesus.

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Who is the prince of

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peace?

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That's why he could say

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peace I give him to you. Peace not like

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the world gives give unto you. But I give

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you peace. Why? Because he was the prince of peace.

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Don't go with the names.

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Go with

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Jesus was the king of Salem.

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What does that mean? He was the king of peace.

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Oh.

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And he was the

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priest of God. Well, yeah.

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He ended up being the high priest.

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I don't think we're talking about a physical

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man here.

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I think we're talking about Jesus.

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And there's why.

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No human father mother, no human genealogy,

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no birth or death.

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A priest forever like Jesus. He lives.

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Did not die. Just goes on.

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Do you know who Abraham

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paid ties to? My understanding?

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Jesus.

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Who do we pay

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ties to?

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Jesus.

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It's his church. It's his

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kingdom.

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Way back.

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2000 BC.

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A covenant was cut

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where

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spiritual blessing was given, not just

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to Abraham, but to his seed,

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which was Jesus. And then through Jesus it goes on

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to us. And now, not like

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Noah's covenant. Noah's covenant was

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a broad brush stroke over the whole

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earth. I'm just going to reboot humanity.

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There wasn't any individual

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promises to people.

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But Abraham's

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covenant became

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individual promises

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to people, which then

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the law went and explained that.

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You're blessed if all these things are

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happening in your life. You're blessed. There was a

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promises and then you're cursed if all these things are happening. The law

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just opened up Abraham's covenant.

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But Abraham's

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covenant was spoken to individual

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people.

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The principle

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of tithing started

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with, I

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am living in the blessing

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of God.

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I will now

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give him

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his tenth. And we haven't talked about that yet.

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But the tenth is not ours.

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God says it's mine. It belongs to me.

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Ten

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cents out of every dollar.

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One animal out of every ten.

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One bush a lot of every ten.

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Well, however you want to cut it, it belongs to God.

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Doesn't even belong to us.

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But the whole principle

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of tithing started here. That's what I'm trying to get you to see.

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So just

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how great was this Melchizedek?

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Even the patriarch

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Abraham gave him a tenth

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of the plunder. Then it talks

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about how in the Old Testament Levi and his

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sons, their priests collect the tenth

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from their brothers and

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everybody else into the part

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there that's underlined. Yet he

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collected a tenth from Abraham

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and blessed him who had

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the promises. Now you got to get in the

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mind of the writer of Hebrews here.

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Abraham was the one

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who made covenant with God

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that brought God

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back into the picture of

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the earth and the

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salvation of man. He

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exchanged sons with

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him. Abraham

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said, I'll give you my son.

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God never took him. He took him right

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to the edge and said, now don't worry about it.

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It's all I needed.

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Now I will give you on earth

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my son. Covenant

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exchange. It has to be

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an exchange.

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Abraham was the one

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responsible

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for starting something.

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It's why we're saved.

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It's why we can know

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God. This all goes back

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to Abraham.

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Melchizedek was

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greater than the

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guy who held the covenant

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that literally changed the

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destiny of the human race.

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Who was this Melchizedek? How great

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was he that he

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even collected a tithe from

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this guy who holds the covenant.

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And he blessed

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Abraham. Who in the world

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verse 7

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and without a doubt the lesser person

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and I put in Abraham there. It's not going to be

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in your Bible. I just put it in parentheses.

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The lesser person Abraham is blessed by

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the greater Melchizedek.

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Just so you have it straight in your mind.

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In the one case, the tenth

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is collected by men who die. That was

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Levi. He just said that

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in those verses

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right there, explaining how the Old Testament

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worked. Now he's saying

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in one case, humans

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accepted the tithe.

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But in the other case, the tithe

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is received by

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him who is

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alive.

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I know it's not Resurrection Sunday.

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But Jesus is alive.

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Jesus fulfilled that picture

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of Melchizedek. So as Abraham

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our great spiritual

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ancestor father

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tithed to Melchizedek

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or Jesus pre-incarnate

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we now tithe

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to the one who fulfilled

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that. And we'll read it here in a second.

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Jesus

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Jesus was greater

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than Abraham.

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Jesus could bless

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Abraham.

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And Jesus had the right to bring

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to get the tithe from Abraham.

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If perfection

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could have been attained through the Old

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Testament priesthood, why is there still need

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for another priest to come in the order of

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Melchizedek?

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And what we have said

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is even more clear if another priest

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like Melchizedek appears.

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One who has become a priest

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not on the basis of regulation

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as to his ancestry. Anybody

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know who the priests, what tribe

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the priests came out of in the Old Testament?

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Levi.

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You had to be a physical

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offspring of Levi

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to become a priest.

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Melchizedek

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and Jesus

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both carry something in common.

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Surprise, surprise.

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One who has become priest

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not on the basis of

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the regulation which says

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you got to be born of Levi as to his ancestry.

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But

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they both became priests on the basis of

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the power of an indestructible

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life.

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So either we have

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an immortal living among us

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Melchizedek as a

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human being, he's never died.

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Indestructible life.

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Or something's going on here that

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maybe that was Jesus.

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For

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it is declared

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here the father spoke to Jesus

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you are a priest forever

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in the order of

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Melchizedek.

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The thing that qualified Melchizedek to be

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the priest for Abraham is he had

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an indestructible forever life.

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The thing that

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qualified Jesus who was not

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from the tribe of Levi.

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But he became

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our high priest.

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The thing that

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qualified him when he didn't have the

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right lineage is the power

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of an indestructible life.

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He lived forever.

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That's what it's saying right there in that verse.

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That's why

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my, the way, the only thing that makes

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sense to me, the same person who collected

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ties from Abraham is the same person who collects

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them from us.

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It's Jesus. And remember

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we're still under Abraham's covenant.

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The law made

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nothing perfect.

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And a better hope is introduced by

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which we draw near to God. See there's the

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blessings.

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And he became a priest with an oath

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when God said to him, the Lord has sworn and will

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not change his mind. You are a priest

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forever. That's speaking of Jesus.

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Because

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of this oath, Jesus has become a guarantee

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of a better covenant.

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Jesus lives forever.

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He has a permanent

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priesthood. The end of verse 24.

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Therefore

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he is able to completely

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or save completely those who

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come to God through him because

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he lives forever. He always

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lives

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to intercede for them.

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There's another

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concept of the blessing

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we get.

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Jesus is calling

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your name before the father

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today.

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He's alive

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and he's

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interceding for us.

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Such a high priest

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meets our need. One who is holy,

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blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted

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into the heavens. For the law

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appoints a high priest as men

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who are weak. But the oath, the promise

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made to Melchizedek and Jesus, which

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came after the law, appointed

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the Son who has been made perfect

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forever.

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Jesus became the high priest.

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So Jesus fulfilled

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the picture of Melchizedek. I think

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Jesus was Melchizedek. That's just my opinion.

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But either way, it doesn't

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really make any difference.

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The principle of receiving the

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blessing from the priest

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and returning the tithe

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back to the work of God

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remains the same.

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Whether Melchizedek was

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Jesus, Jesus was Melchizedek, how

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makes no difference.

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He fulfilled

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you will be in the order

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of Melchizedek

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fulfilling that.

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Huh?

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So

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if

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if Jesus was fulfilling

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the picture, let's say they weren't

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the same guy. Just, I don't know how you

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get around that, but let's say they weren't.

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If Jesus was fulfilling

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the picture of Melchizedek,

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fulfilling, he's made a priest in the order

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of Melchizedek. We're

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children of Abraham.

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Abraham received

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the blessing and returned the tithe.

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Jesus fulfilled that.

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We, whatever blessings we get

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now, come from

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the covenant that Jesus cut.

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This is Jesus working

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in our life.

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We return the tithe. That's

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the picture. Has

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nothing to do with the Old Testament law.

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The lesser

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us, we're

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blessed by, and that's a

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typo there. We the lesser are blessed

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by the Jesus.

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The word thus not supposed to be there.

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Blessed by Jesus, the greater.

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Just like Abraham.

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The exchange of that blessing is the

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principle of us returning the tithe to God.

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This is found all through

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Scripture. Well, show me in the mouth

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the two or three witnesses. I'll do better than that. I'll do

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Brother Caseman on you.

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This is found in seven witnesses.

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We just saw it in Genesis.

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It's repeated in the law.

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David talks about it over

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and over in the Psalms.

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The prophets talked about it.

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Jesus taught it

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in the Gospels.

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The acts of the Apostles

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lived like it. That's where the shift

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of the new covenant where God owns it all

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and we're servants and we're just, you know,

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they lived in it.

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And the letters written to the church, which are now

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doctrine, which we just read some of them to you.

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This is found all the way through Scripture.

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The application to us.

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Who is the lesser receiving the blessing?

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Us. Who is the greater giving

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the blessing? Jesus.

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Who declared to be

01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:02.560
living and a priest forever

01:00:02.560 --> 01:00:04.080
after the order of Melchizedek?

01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:04.740
Jesus.

01:00:06.200 --> 01:00:08.320
It's the principle of covenant

01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:10.580
exchange. That's where tithing

01:00:10.580 --> 01:00:12.480
has its foundation, its roots

01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:14.420
in. When a person receives

01:00:14.420 --> 01:00:16.060
the blessing from a minister

01:00:16.060 --> 01:00:18.180
who is the representative of God,

01:00:18.280 --> 01:00:19.120
this is all about God,

01:00:19.960 --> 01:00:21.640
the reciprocation on that

01:00:21.640 --> 01:00:23.200
financially is the tithe.

01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:26.700
This is Abraham's covenant,

01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:28.160
just a continuation of it.

01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:29.720
Now,

01:00:30.180 --> 01:00:32.240
here is God's idea. Say, why would God

01:00:32.240 --> 01:00:33.940
do that? That's how he is funding

01:00:33.940 --> 01:00:36.060
his earthly kingdom's work on

01:00:36.060 --> 01:00:37.960
earth. That's how he

01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:39.160
chose to fund it.

01:00:40.200 --> 01:00:42.140
And Jesus and Paul both agreed

01:00:42.140 --> 01:00:44.040
with that. They confirmed it.

01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:47.380
Let me...

01:00:47.380 --> 01:00:48.200
I'll go real quick

01:00:48.200 --> 01:00:49.460
and see if we can finish this.

01:00:50.460 --> 01:00:50.840
Paul.

01:00:51.980 --> 01:00:53.620
Well, let me hit this first.

01:00:54.760 --> 01:00:56.240
How does the temple get its money?

01:00:57.440 --> 01:00:58.100
How does the church

01:00:58.100 --> 01:00:58.740
get its money?

01:01:00.680 --> 01:01:01.400
Tithes and offerings.

01:01:03.400 --> 01:01:04.520
Ah, the church always wants

01:01:04.520 --> 01:01:05.600
my money. It's not your money.

01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:08.380
It's the 10%

01:01:08.380 --> 01:01:09.940
that God set aside. He said, I'm going

01:01:09.940 --> 01:01:11.740
to use this 10% to fund the kingdom.

01:01:14.910 --> 01:01:16.090
90% is

01:01:16.090 --> 01:01:16.770
you can use.

01:01:17.350 --> 01:01:18.490
Of course, you should ask.

01:01:19.990 --> 01:01:21.250
What do you want me to use this for?

01:01:22.310 --> 01:01:23.690
Not just presume we know.

01:01:25.230 --> 01:01:26.110
But 10%

01:01:26.110 --> 01:01:27.070
doesn't even belong to us.

01:01:27.810 --> 01:01:28.550
It's not ours.

01:01:29.270 --> 01:01:31.450
It's designed to fund what God's

01:01:31.450 --> 01:01:32.390
doing on this earth.

01:01:33.110 --> 01:01:35.010
And both Paul confirmed it and Jesus

01:01:35.010 --> 01:01:36.330
confirmed it. Notice this.

01:01:37.590 --> 01:01:39.070
Do you not know that those who

01:01:39.070 --> 01:01:40.630
minister the holy things eat the things

01:01:40.630 --> 01:01:42.310
of the temple and those who serve at the altar

01:01:42.310 --> 01:01:44.010
partake in the offerings of the altar?

01:01:44.710 --> 01:01:45.670
Even so,

01:01:46.570 --> 01:01:48.090
the Lord has commanded.

01:01:48.230 --> 01:01:49.510
So he's quoting Jesus here.

01:01:50.270 --> 01:01:52.110
The Lord has commanded that those

01:01:52.110 --> 01:01:54.070
who preach the gospel should live

01:01:54.070 --> 01:01:55.070
from the gospel.

01:01:55.850 --> 01:01:57.570
What is Paul presuming?

01:01:58.370 --> 01:02:00.090
He's presuming something in that scripture.

01:02:02.010 --> 01:02:02.610
Tithing

01:02:02.610 --> 01:02:03.930
and offerings were not

01:02:03.930 --> 01:02:04.710
new to anybody.

01:02:09.410 --> 01:02:10.610
This is...

01:02:10.610 --> 01:02:12.230
about tithing. He didn't have to explain offerings.

01:02:12.370 --> 01:02:13.310
Everybody knew about offerings.

01:02:15.230 --> 01:02:16.490
That's how you get

01:02:16.490 --> 01:02:18.630
the food necessary

01:02:18.630 --> 01:02:19.810
in the church.

01:02:20.030 --> 01:02:21.190
He's using the word temple.

01:02:23.750 --> 01:02:25.210
And Jesus said

01:02:25.210 --> 01:02:26.690
if you're serving

01:02:26.690 --> 01:02:28.090
in the temple or in the church,

01:02:28.750 --> 01:02:30.450
if you preach the gospel,

01:02:30.890 --> 01:02:32.130
you're supposed to get you living

01:02:32.130 --> 01:02:33.110
from that gospel.

01:02:35.910 --> 01:02:37.250
I'm supposed to get paid.

01:02:37.490 --> 01:02:38.730
Pastor Igor is supposed to get paid.

01:02:38.730 --> 01:02:39.890
Others are supposed to get paid

01:02:39.890 --> 01:02:42.350
because we all tithe,

01:02:42.650 --> 01:02:44.250
including Pastor Igor and I.

01:02:45.310 --> 01:02:46.450
We all tithe.

01:02:47.690 --> 01:02:48.890
It goes into the kitty.

01:02:50.050 --> 01:02:50.810
It's handled

01:02:50.810 --> 01:02:52.930
very responsibly. That's why we put out

01:02:52.930 --> 01:02:54.830
the financial report as detailed as we do.

01:02:55.890 --> 01:02:56.810
But we're

01:02:56.810 --> 01:02:58.690
supposed to earn our

01:02:58.690 --> 01:03:00.910
living from what we do.

01:03:04.330 --> 01:03:05.490
Jesus said that.

01:03:07.350 --> 01:03:08.830
So now Paul hits it from a different

01:03:08.830 --> 01:03:10.610
angle. He's kind of griping here.

01:03:10.790 --> 01:03:11.690
He said, I'm an apostle.

01:03:13.290 --> 01:03:14.290
I've seen Jesus.

01:03:16.690 --> 01:03:18.470
Why does other people get support

01:03:19.210 --> 01:03:19.670
financially?

01:03:20.530 --> 01:03:22.650
And I don't get any. Verse 5.

01:03:22.950 --> 01:03:23.890
Do I not have the right

01:03:23.890 --> 01:03:25.990
to take along a believing wife?

01:03:26.510 --> 01:03:27.910
Now, he wasn't married as far as we know.

01:03:28.090 --> 01:03:30.130
But Peter took

01:03:30.130 --> 01:03:31.470
his wife with him.

01:03:31.870 --> 01:03:34.290
His life, how he lived

01:03:34.290 --> 01:03:35.190
was being paid for.

01:03:35.870 --> 01:03:36.870
But Paul says,

01:03:37.030 --> 01:03:38.410
why aren't you people giving to me?

01:03:38.690 --> 01:03:40.270
Or is it only Barnabas and I

01:03:40.270 --> 01:03:42.350
who have the right to refrain from working?

01:03:42.710 --> 01:03:44.390
Who do not have the right to refrain from working?

01:03:44.410 --> 01:03:45.410
We've got to work for our living.

01:03:46.010 --> 01:03:47.910
What's going on here? Verse 8.

01:03:48.430 --> 01:03:50.010
Do I say these things as a mere man?

01:03:50.170 --> 01:03:52.370
No, because even in the law it says

01:03:52.370 --> 01:03:54.130
don't muzzle, the ox treads out the corn.

01:03:54.710 --> 01:03:55.490
Verse 10.

01:03:56.630 --> 01:03:58.610
Or does it say that for our sakes?

01:03:58.750 --> 01:03:59.450
For our sakes

01:04:00.870 --> 01:04:02.270
it is written that

01:04:02.270 --> 01:04:04.190
he who plows should plow in hope.

01:04:05.970 --> 01:04:07.790
I mean, would you work the fields as a farmer

01:04:07.790 --> 01:04:09.610
knowing you're never going to get anything back?

01:04:11.030 --> 01:04:12.250
There has to be hope

01:04:12.250 --> 01:04:13.110
to get you out there.

01:04:14.210 --> 01:04:15.830
And he who thrashes in hope

01:04:15.830 --> 01:04:17.310
should be a partaker of the hope.

01:04:17.890 --> 01:04:18.850
Here's the principle.

01:04:19.470 --> 01:04:22.130
If we have sown spiritual things for you,

01:04:23.010 --> 01:04:24.510
is it a great thing

01:04:24.510 --> 01:04:26.190
if we reap your

01:04:26.190 --> 01:04:27.510
material things?

01:04:27.890 --> 01:04:29.190
What are the material things?

01:04:29.190 --> 01:04:31.070
The tithes and the offerings.

01:04:32.330 --> 01:04:33.450
If others are partakers

01:04:33.450 --> 01:04:34.570
of this right over you

01:04:35.130 --> 01:04:36.650
we should be so much the more.

01:04:37.410 --> 01:04:39.330
Then he says, nevertheless I haven't used this

01:04:39.330 --> 01:04:40.910
right, and he goes on and talks about that.

01:04:41.610 --> 01:04:42.370
Verse 13.

01:04:43.330 --> 01:04:45.170
Do you not know that those who minister

01:04:45.170 --> 01:04:46.630
the holy things

01:04:46.990 --> 01:04:48.550
eat of the things of the temple

01:04:48.550 --> 01:04:50.370
and those who serve at the altar

01:04:51.030 --> 01:04:53.170
partake of the offerings of the altar?

01:04:53.630 --> 01:04:55.170
That was God's

01:04:55.170 --> 01:04:57.650
design to fund the kingdom.

01:04:57.650 --> 01:04:59.310
The tithes

01:04:59.310 --> 01:05:01.430
goes all the way back to Abraham.

01:05:02.210 --> 01:05:03.610
You say, well, why would it start with

01:05:03.610 --> 01:05:05.250
Abraham? Because

01:05:05.250 --> 01:05:07.550
Abraham was the one who made

01:05:07.550 --> 01:05:09.750
the covenant that cleared

01:05:09.750 --> 01:05:11.690
the way for Jesus.

01:05:13.890 --> 01:05:15.570
The promise was made

01:05:15.570 --> 01:05:17.650
to Eve, a Savior

01:05:17.650 --> 01:05:18.070
is coming.

01:05:19.530 --> 01:05:20.790
God told

01:05:21.610 --> 01:05:22.690
Abraham and Sarah

01:05:24.070 --> 01:05:25.650
the promise is

01:05:25.650 --> 01:05:27.390
for your seed.

01:05:28.910 --> 01:05:29.770
Not us.

01:05:31.130 --> 01:05:31.490
Jesus.

01:05:32.450 --> 01:05:33.490
And then through

01:05:33.490 --> 01:05:35.470
Jesus covenant, it explodes

01:05:35.470 --> 01:05:36.510
out to the world.

01:05:40.290 --> 01:05:41.570
The whole thing was designed

01:05:41.570 --> 01:05:43.850
to be funded that way.

01:05:43.950 --> 01:05:45.830
So let's just summarize everything and close it up.

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Tithing began with Abraham

01:05:47.670 --> 01:05:49.630
and McKizadek, it has nothing to do with the law.

01:05:50.630 --> 01:05:51.750
In the New Testament

01:05:51.750 --> 01:05:53.830
it continues on with Abraham's

01:05:53.830 --> 01:05:54.770
offspring and children.

01:05:54.770 --> 01:05:56.690
And the one who fulfills

01:05:56.690 --> 01:05:58.910
the order of Melchizedek, which is Jesus.

01:06:07.790 --> 01:06:09.890
Can you flip me to the next slide?

01:06:11.430 --> 01:06:12.290
Galatians 3

01:06:12.290 --> 01:06:14.410
If you belong to Christ,

01:06:14.630 --> 01:06:16.230
then you are Abraham's seed.

01:06:18.490 --> 01:06:19.590
And heirs

01:06:20.270 --> 01:06:22.270
according to the promise made to Abraham.

01:06:23.050 --> 01:06:26.370
So Abraham's covenant has to be in place.

01:06:28.370 --> 01:06:30.070
In one case, the tenth is collected

01:06:30.070 --> 01:06:31.790
by men who die. In the other case, it's

01:06:31.790 --> 01:06:33.990
collected by him who's declared to be

01:06:33.990 --> 01:06:34.930
living. Who's that?

01:06:36.070 --> 01:06:38.330
Jesus. So let me ask you some questions

01:06:38.330 --> 01:06:39.070
just to make you go,

01:06:39.190 --> 01:06:41.910
give you something to talk about over lunch besides me.

01:06:48.430 --> 01:06:49.870
Who are we heirs of?

01:06:54.190 --> 01:06:55.570
We are heirs of Abraham.

01:06:56.770 --> 01:06:57.730
Some people say,

01:06:58.070 --> 01:06:59.430
well, we're heirs of God.

01:06:59.530 --> 01:07:00.930
No, we're heirs of Abraham.

01:07:00.930 --> 01:07:02.950
And the blessing comes through him,

01:07:03.010 --> 01:07:04.210
through Jesus to us.

01:07:05.450 --> 01:07:07.070
It's Abraham's covenant.

01:07:08.310 --> 01:07:11.250
We are joint heirs with Christ,

01:07:11.550 --> 01:07:12.490
Paul said.

01:07:13.370 --> 01:07:14.790
So who's Christ in heir of?

01:07:16.090 --> 01:07:16.850
Abraham.

01:07:18.770 --> 01:07:20.850
Remember the promise was given

01:07:20.850 --> 01:07:22.470
to Abraham and Sarah

01:07:22.470 --> 01:07:24.830
and their seed.

01:07:25.230 --> 01:07:27.070
And in Galatians, Paul explains,

01:07:27.230 --> 01:07:28.630
the seed is not us.

01:07:28.630 --> 01:07:30.290
The seed was one.

01:07:30.450 --> 01:07:31.290
It was Jesus.

01:07:32.770 --> 01:07:34.290
Jesus inherited

01:07:34.290 --> 01:07:36.410
the promise through

01:07:36.410 --> 01:07:37.050
Abraham.

01:07:39.130 --> 01:07:40.290
He's an heir

01:07:40.290 --> 01:07:41.230
of Abraham.

01:07:42.390 --> 01:07:45.030
So if we're joint heirs

01:07:45.030 --> 01:07:46.490
with Christ, well,

01:07:46.550 --> 01:07:47.810
I'm a joint heir of Christ.

01:07:48.230 --> 01:07:50.370
We're inheriting from God. No, actually

01:07:50.370 --> 01:07:51.950
we're inheriting from Abraham.

01:07:52.790 --> 01:07:54.430
Jesus inherited from

01:07:54.430 --> 01:07:56.370
him and he opened up through

01:07:56.370 --> 01:07:58.430
his covenant so we could become

01:07:58.430 --> 01:07:59.850
children or offspring

01:07:59.850 --> 01:08:00.910
seed of Abraham.

01:08:02.690 --> 01:08:04.410
Jesus is referred to

01:08:04.410 --> 01:08:06.390
as our older brother. Why?

01:08:10.750 --> 01:08:11.950
Because we're joint heirs.

01:08:12.810 --> 01:08:15.130
He's our older brother, meaning

01:08:15.130 --> 01:08:16.590
we're in

01:08:17.170 --> 01:08:19.350
the family of Abraham

01:08:19.350 --> 01:08:20.930
by faith.

01:08:22.410 --> 01:08:23.290
Everything

01:08:23.290 --> 01:08:24.870
goes back

01:08:24.870 --> 01:08:26.810
to Abraham

01:08:26.810 --> 01:08:29.010
because that's where God

01:08:29.010 --> 01:08:30.610
got access again to this

01:08:30.610 --> 01:08:32.490
earth to bring a savior

01:08:32.490 --> 01:08:33.410
and change it all.

01:08:35.230 --> 01:08:36.910
Thank God

01:08:36.910 --> 01:08:38.850
for a man

01:08:38.850 --> 01:08:40.110
and a woman

01:08:41.310 --> 01:08:42.850
who were willing

01:08:42.850 --> 01:08:44.550
to leave the family

01:08:44.550 --> 01:08:45.910
business of

01:08:45.910 --> 01:08:46.750
idol makers

01:08:48.350 --> 01:08:51.050
and go cross country

01:08:51.050 --> 01:08:52.910
with camel, donkey,

01:08:53.070 --> 01:08:53.470
whatever

01:08:54.830 --> 01:08:55.990
to some place

01:08:55.990 --> 01:08:57.290
they had never been

01:09:00.990 --> 01:09:01.870
because God

01:09:01.870 --> 01:09:02.230
said

01:09:04.790 --> 01:09:05.810
the whole earth

01:09:05.810 --> 01:09:07.250
will be blessed through you

01:09:08.150 --> 01:09:09.370
if you follow me.

01:09:12.140 --> 01:09:13.240
The courage

01:09:13.240 --> 01:09:14.400
that took

01:09:15.660 --> 01:09:16.980
they didn't have the Holy Spirit

01:09:16.980 --> 01:09:18.060
living inside of them.

01:09:18.860 --> 01:09:20.740
They didn't have all the stuff we had now.

01:09:22.040 --> 01:09:23.060
The courage

01:09:23.060 --> 01:09:25.060
to thank God for a man and woman

01:09:25.060 --> 01:09:27.320
who were willing to take a stand

01:09:27.320 --> 01:09:28.380
and say

01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:31.210
yeah, we'll give our oldest son to you.

01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:35.780
If that's what you want, we'll sacrifice him.

01:09:37.520 --> 01:09:38.880
You say, why would they even think of that?

01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:40.680
Because they came out of paganism.

01:09:41.160 --> 01:09:42.640
Sacrificing children was normal.

01:09:44.260 --> 01:09:45.160
That's what they did

01:09:45.160 --> 01:09:47.060
to their idols. They give them their

01:09:47.060 --> 01:09:47.360
kids.

01:09:48.500 --> 01:09:50.580
That goes all the way back to the Samarians

01:09:50.580 --> 01:09:52.800
and I mean, that's normal.

01:09:55.240 --> 01:09:56.140
That's Easter.

01:09:58.120 --> 01:09:59.120
That's Ishtar.

01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:03.180
Sunrise service was sacrificing

01:10:03.180 --> 01:10:04.980
babies who had been conceived

01:10:04.980 --> 01:10:06.720
the year before by the priests

01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:08.720
on the altar that they were sacrificed

01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:10.040
on a year later.

01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:13.500
And to commemorate Ishtar

01:10:13.500 --> 01:10:14.720
who fell out of the sky

01:10:14.720 --> 01:10:16.760
in a big egg into the river

01:10:16.760 --> 01:10:18.400
and fish rolled her up in the bank

01:10:18.400 --> 01:10:19.940
and she came out this beautiful goddess.

01:10:20.700 --> 01:10:22.920
To commemorate that, they would take

01:10:22.920 --> 01:10:25.060
eggs and dip them in the blood

01:10:25.060 --> 01:10:26.840
of the babies they just sacrificed.

01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:28.400
Turned them red.

01:10:31.830 --> 01:10:33.190
That was normal for Abraham

01:10:33.190 --> 01:10:35.110
to go, oh, I'm supposed to sacrifice

01:10:35.110 --> 01:10:35.930
my son? Okay.

01:10:36.690 --> 01:10:37.590
We can do that.

01:10:38.650 --> 01:10:40.730
I don't know how I'm going to have offspring

01:10:42.150 --> 01:10:43.130
because God, you know

01:10:43.130 --> 01:10:44.970
how long it took Sarah to come around the first time.

01:10:46.910 --> 01:10:48.270
You know, we're going to have to do this again.

01:10:49.890 --> 01:10:51.130
But if that's what you want,

01:10:51.270 --> 01:10:52.130
I'll sacrifice Abraham.

01:10:52.130 --> 01:10:53.650
I'll sacrifice Isaac.

01:10:57.680 --> 01:10:58.440
Had Abraham not

01:10:58.440 --> 01:11:00.020
been willing to sacrifice his son,

01:11:00.120 --> 01:11:01.620
God could have not had the right

01:11:01.620 --> 01:11:02.980
to sacrifice his.

01:11:05.100 --> 01:11:06.120
Thank God for a man

01:11:06.120 --> 01:11:07.780
and a woman who took a stand

01:11:08.230 --> 01:11:09.280
for what God wanted.

01:11:11.040 --> 01:11:12.360
Thank God for men

01:11:12.360 --> 01:11:13.880
and women who are willing

01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:15.960
to take a stand today

01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:17.720
for what God wants.

01:11:18.300 --> 01:11:20.440
You say, well, I don't know what my life's producing.

01:11:20.900 --> 01:11:22.340
Abraham had no clue either.

01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:24.680
He just did

01:11:24.680 --> 01:11:26.340
what he felt God was asking him to do.

01:11:27.620 --> 01:11:28.840
If we will do

01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:31.280
what we feel God is asking us to do,

01:11:31.700 --> 01:11:32.720
the ripples

01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:34.360
that will go on

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forever,

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forever,

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we have no clue

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of how big those ripples will be.

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He's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddad.

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He set the example.

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Are you willing to pick it up

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and walk in that example?

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You know why he was so

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amazingly blessed,

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not only physically but

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every way?

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He obeyed.

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He obeyed.

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And with that blessing, which he knew

01:12:22.330 --> 01:12:22.870
it was God,

01:12:25.170 --> 01:12:26.090
with that blessing,

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he said, okay, I'll exchange with you.

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And he gave back the tithe.

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That's his example for us.

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Dear Lord,

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I pray in Jesus' name that there are

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men and women sitting

01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:46.040
in this place watching online.

01:12:46.220 --> 01:12:47.300
We'll watch the recording.

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Who realize

01:12:51.800 --> 01:12:53.420
there is a

01:12:54.320 --> 01:12:54.880
important,

01:12:56.240 --> 01:12:57.360
important destiny

01:12:57.360 --> 01:12:59.140
and reason why we're here.

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Why every one of us

01:13:03.740 --> 01:13:04.220
is here.

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And we need to be men

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and women

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who will put God first and say,

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God, whatever you want, I'm yours.

01:13:12.580 --> 01:13:14.380
Whatever you need of me, I'm yours.

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My whole life

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is yours. That's the New Testament.

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My whole life,

01:13:20.780 --> 01:13:23.140
everything I am, everything I have,

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everything I ever will be,

01:13:25.660 --> 01:13:27.500
everything I could ever accomplish,

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everything

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is yours.

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Thine be the kingdom and the power

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and the glory

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for anything good

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that comes out of me.

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Lord, help us

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be those

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people

01:13:48.490 --> 01:13:49.810
who follow

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our Father Abraham's

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example

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and bring Jesus into

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this earth to confront the dying

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starving, decaying

01:14:02.590 --> 01:14:03.490
corrupt

01:14:03.490 --> 01:14:05.770
devilish land

01:14:06.710 --> 01:14:08.490
and shine forth

01:14:08.490 --> 01:14:09.590
the gospel

01:14:09.590 --> 01:14:10.630
and the light

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in Jesus' name.

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Make us into that.

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Make us

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into that.

01:14:23.050 --> 01:14:23.610
Make us into that.

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In Jesus' name

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make me into that.

01:14:30.910 --> 01:14:32.290
I expected to be done

01:14:32.290 --> 01:14:33.910
with the prayer right there, but something's

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stirring here now.

01:14:36.290 --> 01:14:38.030
If you sense that stirring

01:14:39.010 --> 01:14:40.350
make me into that.

01:14:40.490 --> 01:14:41.590
Make me into that man.

01:14:41.790 --> 01:14:43.130
Make me into that woman

01:14:43.770 --> 01:14:45.190
who will face

01:14:45.830 --> 01:14:46.970
the enemy down.

01:14:48.410 --> 01:14:50.030
We'll kick that gates

01:14:50.030 --> 01:14:51.930
of hell down. The gates of hell

01:14:51.930 --> 01:14:53.470
can't hold out against us.

01:14:54.050 --> 01:14:55.610
And we'll go in and we'll rescue

01:14:55.610 --> 01:14:56.090
them out.

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Make us those people.

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Make us

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those people.

01:15:04.930 --> 01:15:06.110
If that's

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stirring inside of you, get on your

01:15:07.850 --> 01:15:09.750
feet and agree with me before God

01:15:09.750 --> 01:15:11.010
and you verbalize it.

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God, make me that man.

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Make me that woman

01:15:15.810 --> 01:15:17.710
like Sarah, like

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Abraham, who is willing

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to leave it all if you

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ask for it.

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Because we will produce a blessing

01:15:25.910 --> 01:15:27.890
that will go down through our lineage.

01:15:28.210 --> 01:15:29.970
We will produce an effect

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on this earth that will change

01:15:31.850 --> 01:15:33.770
this world. We will be

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a people who will stand for

01:15:35.550 --> 01:15:37.710
righteousness. We will stand for

01:15:37.710 --> 01:15:39.610
godliness. And if none

01:15:39.610 --> 01:15:41.770
go with me, I will still

01:15:41.770 --> 01:15:43.870
follow you. Make us

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those people.

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Make us those people

01:15:47.630 --> 01:15:50.010
that we exchange

01:15:50.010 --> 01:15:51.710
with you like Abraham

01:15:51.710 --> 01:15:53.830
exchanged. Our whole life

01:15:53.830 --> 01:15:54.930
is yours.

01:15:55.910 --> 01:15:57.230
And your whole life

01:15:57.230 --> 01:15:58.170
is ours.

01:15:59.250 --> 01:16:00.930
Make us those people

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in the name of

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Jesus.

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Amen.

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Amen. Be blessed.