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our first class this morning will be

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given by our brother cyril tennant from

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litchfield england

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his subject for the week

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is full of grace and truth

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and today's class number five

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is subtitled he was made sin for us

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brother tenet

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my dear brethren and sisters this

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morning we shall revert to consider the

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lord jesus christ

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we saw how that god was the very basis

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of all things

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he is the one who desires our salvation

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we have already seen that he sent the

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lord jesus christ to accomplish that

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salvation on our behalf

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they've also considered some of the

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teachings of jesus

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we have experienced some of his insight

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into our nature

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and received some of his words of

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exhortation

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this morning we revert to consider

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the lord jesus christ and what it cost

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we very often think

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of the disciplines of ourselves or our

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own lives

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we sometimes quite foolishly i think

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talk of the cost of the truth to us

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when in actual practice what we may

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think of as costs or disciplines are

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really blessings

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they constitute a new way of life

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to discipline ourselves not to partake

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of the

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pleasures of this world

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not to be eaten up by its business

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pursuits

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are in effect blessings in themselves

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not disciplines at all

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and they have their rewards

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become this morning to consider the cost

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of our salvation

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and he the lord jesus christ is the one

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who bore that cost

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in the parables in matthew chapter 13

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he is the man who

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found a treasure head in a field

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and sold all that he had to buy that

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treasure not ourselves

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we do not sell all that we have

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and even if we did we couldn't purchase

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our salvation

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and in the next parable that of the man

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seeking goodly pearls that is not

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ourselves

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we were not seeking the truth

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when god sent his son to die for us

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and even if we were to seek the truth

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we could not sell all that we have to

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purchase it

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that is a picture of the lord jesus

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christ and the price he paid for the

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pearl of great price the

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redemption of those who will ultimately

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form his bride

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we shall begin by looking at three

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verses

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second corinthians chapter five and

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verse twenty one

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for he hath made him

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to be sin

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for us

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who knew no sin

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we ask ourselves the question

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what did it mean for jesus to be made

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sin for us

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he bore our sins to the cross

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but what difference did this mean to

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jesus to be made sin for us

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the second quotation is galatians

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chapter 3

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and verse 13.

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christ hath redeemed us from the curse

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of the law

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being made a curse for us

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what did that mean

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talk about the law

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about the provision made for those who

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were hanged upon a tree and how they

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became accursed

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overly well to tie up the exposition

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very neatly in a parcel but what did it

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mean to jesus

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he was made a curse

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and the third quotation is first peter

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for even verse 21

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for even here unto were ye called

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because christ also suffered

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leaving us an example

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that he should follow his steps

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who did no sin neither was guile found

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in his mouth

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who when he was reviled reviled not

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again when he suffered he threatened not

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but committed himself to him that

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judgeth righteously

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who

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his own self

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bear our sins

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in his own body

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he was made sin for us

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he was made a curse for us

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he bore our sins in his own body

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we would like this morning to try and

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consider what those things meant

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physically

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not in a theoretical not in an

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expositional sense what they meant

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physically to the lord jesus christ

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and to do this we should examine

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just two passages of scripture

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psalm 22 and isaiah 53. we shall start

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with psalm 22.

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these two passages will of course take

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us elsewhere in scripture as is very

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in our consideration

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psalms 22 23 and 24

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are what we might call the shepherd

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psalms

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each of the psalms

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speaks of the lord jesus christ

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sometimes rather lightly

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are psalms 23 and 4 applied to our

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serials but i think their application

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should be to jesus himself as i hope to

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show in a moment

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psalm 22 speaks of jesus

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in the past

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what he has done for us

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psalm 23 speaks of jesus in the present

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what he is now doing for us

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and psalm 24 speaks of jesus in the

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future

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if you look for a moment at psalm 24

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we have the question asked who shall

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ascend

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into the hill of the lord or who shall

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stand in his holy place

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sometimes rather glibly and

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thoughtlessly we think that the answer

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refers to those who will aspire to the

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kingdom of god

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but if that were so there is no hope for

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any one of us

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he that hath clean hands

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and a pure heart

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who hath not lifted up his soul unto

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vanity nor sworn deceitfully

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shall receive the blessing

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from the lord and that rules out

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everyone in this room

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that is a picture of the one who will

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ascend

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into the hill of the lord and who will

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sit upon the throne of the lord in zion

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this is a picture of the greatness of

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the earth is the lord's

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and the fullness thereof the world and

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the question is asked who who is great

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who is good enough

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to occupy this position

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and the answer is the lord jesus christ

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he that hath clean hands and a pure

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heart who hath not lifted up his soul

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unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully he

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he shall receive the blessing from the

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and you will notice in

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verse 6

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we come to speak of ourselves

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this is the generation

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of them that seek him

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and that generation is spoken of at the

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end of psalm 22 in verse 30 a seed shall

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serve him it shall be accounted to the

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lord for a generation

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the picture therefore in psalm 24 is of

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the lord jesus christ by the work that

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he has done by the life that he has

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lived

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receiving the blessing from the lord and

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conferring that blessing upon this

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generation which is born

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let us look at the cost

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psalm 22.

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my god

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my god why hast thou forsaken me

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and we ask ourselves what is meant

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by that first verse

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we know very well that jesus spoke those

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words upon the cross

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it has been said that jesus was quoting

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but that shows i think lack of

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lack of understanding of inspiration

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it is not that jesus is quoting the old

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it is that old testament scripture by

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the power of inspiration is looking into

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the future and sees the lord jesus

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christ upon the cross and sees the lord

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jesus christ and hears him say my god my

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god why hast thou forsaken me

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this is no mere quotation of scripture

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this is a preview of that which would

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the psalm is obviously about jesus upon

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we have his confidence

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thou art he that took me out of the womb

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thou this make me hope when i was upon

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my mother's breast

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i was cast upon thee from the womb thou

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art my god from my mother's belly

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there's twelve many bubbles i've

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strong balls of basin have beset me

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pictures here of the

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israelites

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remember the

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territory of manasseh in which basian

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and here we have a picture of those

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jews who were half israel and half not

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those who were of theirs of israel but

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not israelites indeed

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those who were in the truth but not of

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the truth

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those who clamored for the death of the

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lord jesus christ

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they gaped upon him with their mouths as

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ravening

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as a ravening raving and a roaring lion

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we have jesus in verse 14 poured out

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like water

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his bones all standing out his heart

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melting like wax

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and then towards the end of the chapter

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we have his glorious vision of the

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back into the first verse

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why did jesus say

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why hast thou forsaken me

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i think we have to appreciate

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that the lord jesus christ

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was completely sinless up to this point

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and because he was absolutely sinless

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there was a fullness of fellowship

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it is sin which causes the barrier it is

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sin which clouds our vision

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it is sin which obscures

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from us

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but god really is

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but that did not apply to him

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he had all the way through his life

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enjoyed and known the fullness of

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fellowship with his father

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that he was placed upon the cross

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because he was sinless

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he was the perfect sacrifice

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he was the lamb

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without blemish without spot

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and at that moment he was accepted by

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god as the lamb which taketh away the

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sins of the world

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and at that moment

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upon him

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were placed the sins of the world

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not in a technical sense but in a real

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sense

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for him to have borne the sins of the

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world meant that he bore the

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consequences of the sins of the world

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and all that sin has done to us and does

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for us

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it did to him and for him

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the obscuring of the fellowship which

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there might be with god would happen to

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him on that occasion and for the first

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time in his life god would be obscured

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from him

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and he would cry

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my god my god

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why hast thou forsaken me

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he was made sin for us

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who knew no sin

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and in that dreaded hour

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worse than all the torture of the

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crucifixion

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with the isolation of sin which he bore

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on our account

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to understand a little further what is

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meant by

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is bearing our sins we have

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a very graphic picture portrayed in

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scripture

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it is the figure of leprosy

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leprosy

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was the worst of all diseases

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and since all disease is a consequence

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of sin

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leprosy has been the

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the disease selected

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to paint a picture of what sin really is

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and so we have a visible picture

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of the corruption of mankind

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as a leper molded slowly into dust

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we have a picture of the

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penalty of sin

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that we shall return unto the grave

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and in the leper we see it happening

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slowly as limb after limb

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molded and dissolves and integrates with

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the sand upon which the body lies as the

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eyes are consumed in their sockets we

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have a picture of what sin really is

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and in the horror of the contemplation

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of a leper we have the horror of the

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contemplation of sin in the eyes of god

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lepers were loathsome

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to healthy people

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by nature of the disease

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there are some diseases for which a

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person can be sorry for another and

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indeed one can have compassion for a

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leper but at the same time there is a

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loathing

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one

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recoils one draws back

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as indeed they did in old testament

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times because

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whatever leprosy might be today

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in those days there was no healing of a

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leper

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the leper was dead whilst he was alive

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and so we read in leviticus chapter 13

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that a leper had to adopt the attitude

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of one who was in mourning

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he was in fact a mourner at his own

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funeral

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we have all kinds of expressions

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since we're in the psalms we might turn

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to psalm 38

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where the language of leprosy is used to

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describe

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sin

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psalm 38

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there is no soundness in my flesh

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because of thine anger

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neither is there any rest in my bones

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because of my sin

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there's five my wounds stink and i

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corrupt

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because of my foolishness

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verse seven

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my loins are filled with a loathsome

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disease and there is no soundness in my

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flesh

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psalm 51

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verse 7

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purge me with his up

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and i shall be clean

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wash me and i shall be whiter than snow

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in leviticus 14 we read that hyssop was

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used in the cleansing of the lepers

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those whom

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god had seen fit to save from their

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disease were then purged with hyssop

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that they might be finally cleansed and

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presented to the people

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you've read this morning of the death of

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milliam

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there was in her life a time when she

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died before that

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when in her spirit of rebellion she

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became leprous and was excluded from the

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camp

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and aaron pleaded unto moses let her not

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be as one that is dead

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a very salutary lesson

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to those sisters who would

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seek to rival

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brethren in ecclesial office

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who would forget

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that there is a chain of responsibility

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which has been chosen by god

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himself

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his son

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the brethren

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and the ecclesia

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and that chain of office must always be

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respected and there are indications

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which we should show in our lives in our

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apparel

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in our behavior

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that we know and respect

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this chain

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of responsibility

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in ephesians we read of those who are

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past feeling ephesians 4 17 another

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figure taken from leprosy because the

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leper we understand

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in his disease

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couldn't feel the pain

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that as his limbs molded and dropped

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from him he could not feel the pain

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a very fitting picture of sin

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our consciences become seared and we

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no longer understand

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that we are offending against god

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the leper was excluded from both social

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and religious aspects

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of the community

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i want you to imagine if you can

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a leper

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who knew for the first time

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that he had got the disease

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how he would try to hide the fact

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how he would try to persuade himself

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that this wasn't leprosy at all but some

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other similar disease

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but how in the end

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it will become so obvious not just to

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himself but to others

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that there was something wrong

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and how after being visited by the

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priest

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he would be excluded

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from society

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he would leave his home

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for the last time

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he would leave his family and his

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children behind

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never to come back

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and to embrace them

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you would leave behind his work

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his means of employment of earning money

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of daily bread

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he would leave behind the temple

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and all forms of worship

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and would find himself

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an exile

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and those amongst whom he would live

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would also be lepers

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he would see in them what was happening

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to himself

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he would see in the later forms what

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would later happen to him

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no eyes

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no tongue

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no face that is recognizable

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others just lying upon the ground

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slowly motoring into dust

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the very ground upon which he walked in

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the holes in which he saw shelter

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would in fact be leprous

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that is the picture of the isolation

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which sin brings

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but i want you now to imagine if you can

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a man who was sound and healthy

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going down to the leper colony

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and deliberately taking upon himself

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that dreaded disease

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knowing that in doing so he could take

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it away from them

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because that is the picture one has in

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isaiah chapter 53

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verse 2

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you have no form nor comeliness

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and when we shall see him there is no

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beauty that we should desire him

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he is despised and rejected of then a

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man of sorrows and acquainted with grief

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and we hid as it were our faces from him

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in verse 4 we have him stricken

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the word used in leviticus 13 and 14

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something like 57 times

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of people and places stricken with

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leprosy

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and in verse 5 at the end we have

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our healing through his stripes and the

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word healed is the word used again

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in leviticus 13 and 14 to describe the

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cleansing of some from leprosy

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that

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pictorial representation of leprosy

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is meant to describe to us

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what it meant to the lord jesus christ

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to bear our sins

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there was something physical about this

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which he had to bear

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not just theoretical

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not just neat exposition

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he who was spiritually sound and healthy

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was made sin for us

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and in his own body he bore that sin to

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the cross

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that we might be freed and made clean

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there is no finer exhibition rather than

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sisters than just to read scripture

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and when we come to a passage of

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scripture such as isaiah 53

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it is a most moving experience to read

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it and to contemplate what it really

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means

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and with the understanding we have just

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had of this chapter

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i would like to read to you just a few

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verses from it

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that you might meditate yourselves and

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think of yourselves

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that we might

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understand what happened to the lord

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jesus christ for us

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and there is a beauty in this

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passage of scripture

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there is a rhythm in the text

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and as the passage is read one can feel

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almost the nails being driven

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no nothing to the hands and feet of the

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lord jesus christ but into the heart of

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those who meditate upon it

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he is despised

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and rejected of men

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a man of sorrows and acquainted with

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grief

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and we hid as it were our faces from him

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he was despised and we esteemed him not

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surely

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he hath borne our griefs and carried our

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sorrows

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yet we did esteem him stricken

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smitten of god and afflicted

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but he was wounded for our

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transgressions

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he was bruised for our iniquities

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the chastisement of our peace was upon

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him

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and with his stripes

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we are healed

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all we like sheep have gone astray we

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have turned everyone to his own way

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and the lord hath laid on him

576
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the iniquity

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of us all

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will you turn now to leviticus chapter

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13.

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00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:48.630
in this chapter we have

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the description of the disease which is

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yet was not to be seen amongst the

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children of israel

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and how they were to handle those who

585
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suffered from that disease

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all of which was prophetic

587
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the disease would come because of their

588
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iniquity

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and this was how they were to deal with

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it

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00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.470
in chapter 14

592
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:18.950
we have leprosy in houses

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00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:20.710
chapter 13 therefore

594
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:24.070
describes leprosy in people

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and is a picture

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00:28:25.760 --> 00:28:31.430
of sin in the individual

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00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:35.750
chapter 14 describes leprosy in houses

598
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and is a picture of sin

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00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:43.350
in the whole house of israel

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and the type

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00:28:46.159 --> 00:28:49.029
of the leper being cleansed shows how

602
00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:53.510
god deals with sin and with sinners

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and the type of the cleansing of the

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00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.310
house shows how god will indeed cleanse

605
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the whole house of israel

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00:29:02.399 --> 00:29:05.830
if we look now at

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verse 32

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chapter 14

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00:29:21.600 --> 00:29:23.750
a little further than verse 32 and in

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00:29:23.760 --> 00:29:27.990
fact to verse 35

611
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:30.549
he that owneth the house shall come and

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00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.110
tell the priest saying

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it seems to me

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there is as it were a plague in the

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00:29:37.120 --> 00:29:38.710
house

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00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:40.789
notice first of all the uh the reticence

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00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:43.029
in the man to admit

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00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:45.590
that it might be leprosy in the house it

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00:29:45.600 --> 00:29:48.149
it seems to me

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00:29:48.159 --> 00:29:49.909
this is very human and that the way in

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00:29:49.919 --> 00:29:51.590
which we try to excuse our

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00:29:51.600 --> 00:29:53.430
transgressions

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00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:55.909
uh trying to excuse our way of life it

624
00:29:55.919 --> 00:29:58.070
seems to me that there is

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something wrong here

626
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:02.549
the next thing is the priest shall

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00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:05.430
command that they empty the house

628
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:07.510
before the priest go into it to see the

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00:30:07.520 --> 00:30:08.630
plague

630
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and all that is in the house

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be not made unclean

632
00:30:12.159 --> 00:30:14.470
and afterward the priest shall go in to

633
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:16.470
see the house

634
00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:18.230
and so we have the situation that first

635
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:20.310
of all

636
00:30:20.320 --> 00:30:23.269
leprosy is suspected

637
00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:27.350
secondly the house is emptied

638
00:30:27.360 --> 00:30:29.350
and the priest goes in

639
00:30:29.360 --> 00:30:31.110
all the clutter

640
00:30:31.120 --> 00:30:33.110
all the things which tend to obscure are

641
00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:35.110
removed

642
00:30:35.120 --> 00:30:37.669
no moving a sideboard in front of the

643
00:30:37.679 --> 00:30:39.830
the bricks which are now eaten away with

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00:30:39.840 --> 00:30:41.110
leprosy

645
00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:44.310
everything is moved and made bare and

646
00:30:44.320 --> 00:30:45.510
obvious

647
00:30:45.520 --> 00:30:48.870
and then the priest goes in

648
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:50.470
and then you will notice

649
00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:52.789
the priest comes to the door of the

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00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:55.750
house and he proclaims his verdict his

651
00:30:55.760 --> 00:30:59.269
judgment verse 38.

652
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:00.950
if he is not certain the house is shut

653
00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:03.190
up a further seven days

654
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:05.430
there is a further inspection

655
00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:07.430
and then when the priest is certain

656
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:09.269
verse 40

657
00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:11.590
the priest shall command that they take

658
00:31:11.600 --> 00:31:15.350
away the stones in which the plague is

659
00:31:15.360 --> 00:31:17.669
and they shall cast them into an unclean

660
00:31:17.679 --> 00:31:18.549
place

661
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.789
without the city

662
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.909
and they take other stones

663
00:31:25.919 --> 00:31:28.789
and put those stones in the place

664
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:30.950
the stones taken out

665
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:32.789
and other mortar is taken

666
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:37.190
and used to plaster in those stones

667
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.750
and here we have a remarkable picture

668
00:31:41.760 --> 00:31:45.110
of the grafting in of the gentiles

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00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:47.430
the leprous stones being taken out and

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00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:50.389
new living stones being taken and graft

671
00:31:50.399 --> 00:31:54.630
in

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00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:58.470
but you will notice

673
00:31:58.480 --> 00:31:59.750
that there is a condition in this

674
00:31:59.760 --> 00:32:02.710
chapter to this house

675
00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:04.549
which causes the house to be completely

676
00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:06.710
broken down

677
00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:09.430
verse 44

678
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:11.350
then the priest shall come and look and

679
00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:13.990
behold if the plague be spread in the

680
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:15.350
house

681
00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:19.269
it is threatening leprosy

682
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:21.509
it is unclean

683
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.230
and he shall break down the house

684
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.389
the stones of it and the timber thereof

685
00:32:26.399 --> 00:32:28.310
and all the mortar of the house and he

686
00:32:28.320 --> 00:32:30.549
should carry them forth out of the city

687
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:34.630
into an unclean place

688
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:37.830
fretting leprosy

689
00:32:37.840 --> 00:32:39.430
the same thing applies to the individual

690
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:40.950
where this breaks out and becomes a

691
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:43.909
freaking leprosy reminds us of the words

692
00:32:43.919 --> 00:32:46.549
of the apostle paul in hebrews

693
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:48.870
that those who having been made clean by

694
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:51.350
the blood of christ then tread beneath

695
00:32:51.360 --> 00:32:52.950
their feet that blood with which they

696
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:54.630
are redeemed

697
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:56.710
who find themselves without any further

698
00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:58.950
hope of redemption

699
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:01.590
where there is fretting leprosy

700
00:33:01.600 --> 00:33:03.909
the house is unclean

701
00:33:03.919 --> 00:33:08.870
and it is completely destroyed

702
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:10.710
with that framework in mind turn with me

703
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:13.350
now to isaiah twin to matthew sorry

704
00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:32.470
matthew 23.

705
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:35.909
here we have jerusalem

706
00:33:35.919 --> 00:33:39.430
representative of the children of israel

707
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:42.549
laid there before the lord jesus christ

708
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:44.950
as the leprous house was laid there to

709
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:47.509
the priest

710
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:50.630
o jerusalem jerusalem thou that killest

711
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:52.230
the prophets and stones them which i

712
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.549
sent unto thee how often would i have

713
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:56.789
gathered thy children together even as a

714
00:33:56.799 --> 00:33:58.549
hen gathereth her chickens under her

715
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.350
wings and ye would not

716
00:34:01.360 --> 00:34:03.909
and he is here standing upon the door of

717
00:34:03.919 --> 00:34:06.950
the temple and he says behold your house

718
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.550
is left unto you desolate

719
00:34:10.560 --> 00:34:12.950
the whole house of israel at this time

720
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.190
was so corrupt

721
00:34:15.200 --> 00:34:20.790
that it was to be completely destroyed

722
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:22.869
not just a temple broken down as indeed

723
00:34:22.879 --> 00:34:24.710
it was

724
00:34:24.720 --> 00:34:26.790
but the whole nation ceasing to be a

725
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:28.710
nation

726
00:34:28.720 --> 00:34:30.869
and god was to build

727
00:34:30.879 --> 00:34:32.550
a new temple

728
00:34:32.560 --> 00:34:34.470
of new people

729
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:36.230
we turn over now into the epistle of

730
00:34:36.240 --> 00:34:42.550
peter

731
00:34:42.560 --> 00:34:47.990
and we learn about this

732
00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.629
because in chapter 1 in verse 23 we have

733
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:53.589
read about those who were born again not

734
00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:56.389
of corruptible seed but of incorruptible

735
00:34:56.399 --> 00:34:59.190
by the word of god

736
00:34:59.200 --> 00:35:01.910
then there is this exhortation in

737
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:03.910
chapter 2

738
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:07.030
that if we have been born again

739
00:35:07.040 --> 00:35:09.910
we must lay aside all malice

740
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:11.430
all guile

741
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:13.270
and hypocrisy and envision evil

742
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:15.190
speakings

743
00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:17.670
and as newborn babes desire the sincere

744
00:35:17.680 --> 00:35:20.150
milk of the word that we may grow

745
00:35:20.160 --> 00:35:22.069
thereby

746
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.030
if so be have tasted that the lord is

747
00:35:25.040 --> 00:35:27.910
gracious

748
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.390
to whom coming

749
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:35.589
as unto a living stone

750
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.150
this is in contrast

751
00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:39.589
with leprous

752
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:42.390
stones dead stones

753
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.829
the lord jesus christ

754
00:35:45.839 --> 00:35:48.870
who has made sin for us

755
00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:53.349
who took the leprosy of mankind away

756
00:35:53.359 --> 00:35:57.430
is indeed the living stone

757
00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:59.589
miraculous

758
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.950
that a stone could be given the disease

759
00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:06.710
and yet be a life-giving stone

760
00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:08.870
miraculous that the lord jesus christ

761
00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:10.790
who was sinless

762
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.829
had first to be made sin for us

763
00:36:15.839 --> 00:36:19.990
before we could become sinless

764
00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:23.670
and he had first upon that cross to cry

765
00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:26.710
i first

766
00:36:26.720 --> 00:36:28.550
before we could drink of the water of

767
00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:31.589
life

768
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:33.510
and so he goes on to say in this fifth

769
00:36:33.520 --> 00:36:35.750
verse

770
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:39.190
ye also as lively stones

771
00:36:39.200 --> 00:36:41.589
are built up for spiritual house and

772
00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:44.390
holy priesthood to offer spiritual

773
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:47.910
sacrifices acceptable to god

774
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.310
by jesus christ

775
00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:52.950
we too living stones

776
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.510
the leprosy of human nature taken away

777
00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:57.510
from us

778
00:36:57.520 --> 00:37:02.230
we made to live in him

779
00:37:02.240 --> 00:37:05.430
and there is a choice

780
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:06.550
either we

781
00:37:06.560 --> 00:37:08.630
desire to be left us and live in this

782
00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:11.910
world

783
00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.990
or we desire above all else the kingdom

784
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:18.230
of god and his righteousness

785
00:37:18.240 --> 00:37:21.270
either our vision is marred and we see

786
00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:26.390
what the world has things which we covet

787
00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:28.870
or our eyes are opened

788
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:30.870
and we see what the world has to be

789
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:33.270
nothing more than leprosy

790
00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:37.430
all muldering into dust into corruption

791
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.750
those things are not for us brethren and

792
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:41.829
sisters

793
00:37:41.839 --> 00:37:43.910
in a short while now we shall leave this

794
00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:45.349
place

795
00:37:45.359 --> 00:37:47.349
we shall leave the fellowship we have

796
00:37:47.359 --> 00:37:49.430
one with another

797
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:51.349
we shall leave the routine

798
00:37:51.359 --> 00:37:54.630
of daily bible readings together

799
00:37:54.640 --> 00:37:56.950
and of daily instruction

800
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:58.550
we shall miss the fellowship from the

801
00:37:58.560 --> 00:38:00.630
discussion we have one with another we

802
00:38:00.640 --> 00:38:03.430
shall find ourselves treading the paths

803
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:05.190
with our workmates

804
00:38:05.200 --> 00:38:07.589
with our neighbors

805
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:10.310
but how shall we see those workmates and

806
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:13.670
neighbors

807
00:38:13.680 --> 00:38:15.190
who to god we could take with us the

808
00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:18.310
picture of leprosy

809
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:20.470
would to god we can see that they and

810
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:24.870
all that they belong to and they own

811
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:27.670
are leprous

812
00:38:27.680 --> 00:38:30.150
and show them our compassion

813
00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:32.630
and the way they can be made clean

814
00:38:32.640 --> 00:38:34.790
but at the same time remain and retain

815
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:38.069
our purity

816
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:43.109
this chapter two concludes

817
00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:46.390
as all good excitation should

818
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:50.150
in the person of the lord jesus christ

819
00:38:50.160 --> 00:38:52.069
and after talking about leprosy as we've

820
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:55.190
seen it in the verses four and five

821
00:38:55.200 --> 00:38:56.790
and after having seen the connection in

822
00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:59.349
isaiah 53 we're not surprised to find

823
00:38:59.359 --> 00:39:01.829
that peter also has this connection

824
00:39:01.839 --> 00:39:06.630
because he now quotes from isaiah 53

825
00:39:06.640 --> 00:39:08.390
because

826
00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:12.470
christ also suffered for us

827
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:15.510
leaving us an example

828
00:39:15.520 --> 00:39:19.589
that ye should follow his steps

829
00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:21.910
who did no sin

830
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:25.750
neither was guile found in his mouth

831
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:28.390
who when he was reviled reviled not

832
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:29.589
again

833
00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:32.630
when he suffered he threatened not

834
00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:34.470
but committed himself to him that

835
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:38.550
judgeth righteously

836
00:39:38.560 --> 00:39:41.829
who his own self

837
00:39:41.839 --> 00:39:44.470
bear our sins

838
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.870
in his own body

839
00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:49.510
on the tree

840
00:39:49.520 --> 00:39:51.910
that we being dead to sins should live

841
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:55.270
unto righteousness

842
00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:57.510
by whose stripes

843
00:39:57.520 --> 00:40:01.190
ye were healed

844
00:40:01.200 --> 00:40:05.589
for ye were as sheep going astray

845
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:07.190
but are now turned

846
00:40:07.200 --> 00:40:08.950
unto the shepherd

847
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:10.390
and bishop

848
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:28.710
of your souls

849
00:40:28.720 --> 00:40:30.800
you