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good morning

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i'm not quite the linguist i think i'll

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stick to simple english

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we're going to be looking

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at

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four

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divinely designed celebrations

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during the week

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passover

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the day of atonement memorial service

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and the marriage and marriage supper of

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the lamb

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i'm sure we can all see that each of

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these have an application to ourselves

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for passover

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we look for that time when death will

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pass over us when our lives will be

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extended we know that jesus is our

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passover lamb the memorial service that

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we partake of was instituted at passover

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and is an extension of passover so

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there's a very direct connection to

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ourselves

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i think we can easily see the

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application to ourselves in the day of

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atonement memorial service and the

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marriage and marriage suffer the lamb

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this morning we'll consider

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passover as well as tomorrow

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number of questions we need to ask

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if we expect to participate

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in the ultimate the anti-typical

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passover when death will pass over us

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these questions should have significance

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to us

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and whenever we consider scripture we

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ask the basic questions who what where

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when

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why

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how

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so i think we need to ask questions like

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who was qualified to participate

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in passover

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what were the terms

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and why

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what were the practices and procedures

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of that day

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and why

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how do they apply to us

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what's the timing and the progression

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of the celebration

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and why

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when was passover to desert observed and

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why

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what are the principles and excitations

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involved in all of these details

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if we have an opportunity we'll review

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some of the rather significant passovers

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recorded in scripture

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we're going to have to

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touch on the high points of some of

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these

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questions because we don't have the

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whole week to look at passover

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first let's review

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the instructions concerning passover and

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exodus chapter 12.

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and let's just put these fresh in our

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mind

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and then we'll ask and try to answer

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those questions

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exodus chapter 12 and beginning to read

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at verse 1

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yahweh spake unto moses and aaron in the

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land of egypt saying

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this month shall be unto you the

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beginning of months it shall be the

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first month of the year to you

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speaking unto all the congregation of

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israel saying in the tenth day of this

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month they shall take to them every man

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a lamb according to the house of their

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fathers a lamb for an house and if the

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household be too little for the lamb let

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him and his neighbor next to his house

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take it according to the number of the

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souls every man according to his eating

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shall make your count for the lamb

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your lamb shall be without blemish a

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male of the first year you shall take it

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out from the sheep or from the goats and

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you shall keep it until the fourteenth

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day of the same month and the whole

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assembly of the congregation of israel

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shall kill it in the evening

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and they shall take of the blood

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and strike it on the two side posts

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and on the upper doorposts of the houses

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wherein they shall eat it

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and they shall eat the flesh

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in that night roast with fire and

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unleavened bread and with bitter herbs

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they shall eat it eat not of it raw nor

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sudden at all with water but roast with

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fire

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his head with his legs and with the

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pertinence thereof you shall let nothing

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of it remain until the morning and that

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which remaineth of it until the morning

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you shall burn with fire

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and thus shall ye eat it with your loins

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girded your shoes on your feet your

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staff in your hand you shall eat it in

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haste it is yahweh's passover for i will

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pass through the land of egypt this

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night and will smite all the firstborn

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in the land of egypt both man and beast

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and against all the gods of egypt i will

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execute judgment

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i am the lord and the blood shall be to

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for a token

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upon the houses where ye are and when i

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see the blood

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i will pass over you

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and the plague shall not be upon you to

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destroy you

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when i smite the land of egypt and this

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day

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shall be unto you for a memorial and you

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shall keep it a feast to the lord

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throughout your generations you shall

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keep it a feast by an ordinance forever

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consider the first question as to when

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god commanded the month of passover to

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become the first month

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of the jewish year now this is a time of

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spring

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newness

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planting sowing time of rebirth

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when life comes out of death

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when the death of winter is over and the

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rebirth of spring begins

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and spring the timing of the year

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presents

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a consistent message

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through all of the celebrations we look

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and that is death out of life

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this is the theme of passover

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life out of death is one of the great

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and permeating themes in all of

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the primary lesson of the blood which

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we'll examine tomorrow

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the primary lesson of atonement

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is death has to precede

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we have to die

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to the flesh

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before we can ever live

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to the spirit

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and we're going to examine

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this theme this morning in relation

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to well i should say tomorrow morning in

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relation to the blood on the doorpost

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blood is a common theme through each of

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the celebrations we'll look at as well

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on the day of atonement the high priest

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brought the blood into the most holy

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spattered it

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westward and eastward on the ark of the

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covenant

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the wine of the memorial service we are

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told should be understood as the blood

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of the messiah

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the wedding garments given to the bride

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of the lamb we're told are washed

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and made white and clean in the blood of

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the lamb

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blood is a common theme throughout all

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four of the celebrations we'll examine

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well it was on the tenth day

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that they would choose the lamb and they

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would keep it

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until the 14th

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when they would paint its blood on the

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doorposts

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uh and the little

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and they would eat the lamb

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and god would pass over them as he

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executed the firstborn of the egyptians

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this four day time frame is rather

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interesting because it is reflected in

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other events keeping with the same theme

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jesus the passover lamb

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is

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chosen and presented

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to the nation of israel

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when he's 30.

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he was kept

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until the fourth year

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three and a half years later

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he was offered as the passover lamb

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for all the descendants of abraham both

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by both genealogical lineage

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and by faith lineage as we qualify

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he was kept

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to the fourth day the fourth year

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just as we extended the timing

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of the passover lamb from days to years

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we can do the same thing with

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millenniums

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we look at the millennium application we

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have a consistent message

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when christ died and rose again

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we saw the reality

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of death being passed over of course

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exclusively applied to jesus but the

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was offered to all who would partake of

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and it is in the fourth millennium

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that event that we will see death passed

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in that fourth millennium

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the third millennium is what we wait for

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now the millennial kingdom

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at the end of that at the beginning of

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the fourth millennium

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we will see death passed over completely

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and that's exactly the way we hear it

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expressed at the end of revelation

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chapter 20 and death and hell were cast

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in the lake of fire this is the second

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death

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and what whosoever was not found written

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in the book of life was cast into the

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lake of fire the second death

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sin and death destroyed

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death is passed over we can see the

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timing of the choosing of the lamb and

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holding it to the fourth day

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is very consistent

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applying the days to years to

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millenniums it's prophetical of exactly

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what god has planned for creation well

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we should ask the question who qualified

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to participate in the passover meal

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very good question for ourselves

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how do we

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qualify

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a little further down in exodus

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we read

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of the qualification

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the lord said unto moses and aaron this

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is the ordinance of the passover there

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shall no stranger eat thereof but every

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man's servant that is bought for money

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one thou hast circumcised him

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then shall he eat thereof a foreigner

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and a hired servant

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shall not eat thereof in one house shall

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it be eaten thou shalt not carry forth

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ought of the flesh abroad brought out of

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the house

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neither shall you break a bone thereof

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all the congregation of israel shall

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keep it and when a stranger shall

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sojourn thee and will keep the passover

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of the lord let all the males be

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circumcised and let him come near and

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keep it and he shall be as one that is

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born in the land

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for no uncircumcised person shall eat

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thereof that's kind of a strange

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condition actually

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because passover participation

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is based

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on circumcision

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if one was circumcised they could eat at

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the passover and if they were not

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circumcised they could not

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now what's interesting about this is the

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first first thing that comes to mind is

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well on what basis

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could the women

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eat of passover

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they could not be circumcised

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they didn't qualify

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not the case

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it was

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their right on the basis

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of their relationship

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with either their father

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or their husband

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now there is a distinct

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spiritual principle

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reflected in that conclusion

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by what right

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do we expect to participate in the

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ultimate passing over of death

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the true passover will be the

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elimination of death in ourselves

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we participate in that right

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as the ecclesial bride

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and as the children

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of jesus christ

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he is our husband he is our father

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expressed both ways in scripture

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the fact that he is a bridegroom

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we're very familiar with this

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at uh

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probably all of our marriages

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we read from

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ephesians of christ being the husband

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of the ecclesia and how a marriage is

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supposed to reflect

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the principles

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of the divine marriage

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i'm sure we're very familiar with that

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but he's also

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presented as our father in scripture

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isaiah 9 and 6 for unto us a child is

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born unto us his son is given government

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shall be upon his shoulder and his name

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shall be called wonderful

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counselor the mighty god the everlasting

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father

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the prince of peace

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he should very definitely be understood

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as our father

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in isaiah 53

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verse 10 yet it pleased the lord to

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bruise him he has put him to grief when

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thou shalt make his soul and offering

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for sin

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he shall see his seed

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he shall prolong his

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days and the pleasure of the lord shall

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prosper in his hand we use that

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reference frequently in reference to the

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nature of jesus christ showing that his

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days had to be prolonged and immortals

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days can't be prolonged

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but his days would be prolonged but

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right next to that he shall see his seed

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he will have descendants

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we

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can participate in passover on the basis

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of our husband and father

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in

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genesis

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17

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we read of how

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yahweh instituted the act of

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circumcision itself

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i think we need to ask the question of

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why was circumcision

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the defining feature

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for qualification for partaking in

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passover

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i think we've demonstrated

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how the women could partake of passover

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legitimately under god's rules even

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though they couldn't be circumcised just

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the exact same way we qualify

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well what about circumcision in germa

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and genesis 17 starting at verse 10

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says every man child among you shall be

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circumcised

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you shall circumcise the flesh of your

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foreskin and shall be a token as that

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word again token just a blood was a

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token token of the covenant betwixt me

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and you he that is eight days old shall

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be circumcised among you every man child

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in your generations he that is born in

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the house or bought with money

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of any stranger which is not of thy seed

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he that is born in thy house and he that

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is bought with thy money must needs be

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circumcised and my covenant shall be in

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your flesh for an everlasting covenant

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and the uncircumcised man child whose

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flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised

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that soul shall be cut off from his

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people he hath broken

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my covenant

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okay

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so in reference to circumcision let's

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ask some questions

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who would be circumcised

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well the qualifier was the

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seat of abraham or those purchased

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well what is circumcision

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stated briefly

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it's a physical sign

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a token

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of the covenant in one's body

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what exactly was done

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the crown of a man's flesh was cut off

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and disposed of

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when was this performed it was performed

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on the eighth day

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of a man child's life

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how did circumcision change these people

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those circumcised came into covenant

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relationship with the creator they

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became heirs to the promises of abraham

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and responsible to the terms of the

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covenant

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and they qualified

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to be part of god's community

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why was circumcision required

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to qualify for partaking of passover

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well that's the question we're going to

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answer as we look at each of these

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considerations

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considering the fact that our our

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greatest hope

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is to participate in the anti-typical

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passover when we escape death forever

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and partake of the passover in the

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millennial kingdom

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being covered with the divine nature

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then i think we should pay particular

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attention

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to the features of circumcision that

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qualified one of the sons of abraham

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to participate in the divinely ordained

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celebration of passover

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the entire

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nation of israel was required to

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circumcise themselves as their first act

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upon entering the promised land

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after wandering

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through the sinai desert for 40 years

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before

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they could inherit the promised land

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immediately upon entering the land

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god required them to be circumcised they

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had not been circumcised during their

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journey in the wilderness

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now

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that's interesting

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feature of faith by the way

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because immediately upon entering the

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land

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they disabled themselves circumcision

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cannot be done without great pain

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as an adult

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i don't think any time it can be done

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without great pain

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that's something we have to understand

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because it's required of us if we're

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going to participate in the ultimate

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passover this can't be done without

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great pain

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they entered the land in the middle of

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their enemies god tells them to

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incapacitate themselves might remember

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what happened to the shakomites three

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days after they've been

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circumcised

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uh

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two of jacob's sons come in and wipe out

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the entire town

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they couldn't even defend themselves and

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here the entire nation

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is demanded that they

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circumcise themselves immediately upon

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coming into the confines of the enemy

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and trust completely in god

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it should also be understood

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that

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the misunderstanding

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of the significance and the application

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of

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circumcision was the first great

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stumbling block of the ecclesial age

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the beginning of the apostasy

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the apostasy was what changed

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the virgin ecclesial bride espoused to

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the son of god

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into the woman with child depicted in

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revelation 12.

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circumcision can be

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very much misunderstood

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so let's examine

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each of the responses to these questions

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first of all those who qualify to be

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circumcised were the seat of abraham or

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those purchased

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we qualify of course

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as those who must be circumcised in

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order to participate in the passover

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even though our circumcision is not

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physical but mental not a single

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act or ritual but a focus

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a frame of mind

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generating a lifelong direction away

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from fleshly deeds and lifestyle

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and we qualify on the basis of being the

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descendants of abraham

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by faith but we also qualify

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as those who have been purchased

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because we have

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we i'm familiar i'm sure we're familiar

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with the precedence of scripture that

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refers to abraham as the father of the

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faithful the father of us all

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but we should also understand that we

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have been purchased by the blood of

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christ first corinthians 6

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verse 19 paul says you are not your own

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for you are bought with a price

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therefore glorify god in your body

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and in your spirit which are god's we

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qualify on both counts

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we are the faithful lineage of abraham

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and we are those who have been purchased

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not a hired servant

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but a purchase servant

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leave that alone i'm sure

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that next class will deal somewhat with

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that

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so we qualify in both categories

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those who qualify to be circumcised

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circumcision it should be understood is

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a physical sign

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it's a token

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a sign of the covenant in one's body

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physical signs tokens of an agreement

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are frequently included in a divinely

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orchestrated ritual

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and quite often in events as well

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for example god describes the rainbow as

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the token of his covenant not to destroy

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the earth by water ever again

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we can look to the rainbow

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and remember the covenant and the

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promise it's a physical sign something

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visible to remind us of the covenant

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the blood painted on the doorposts at

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passover

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was accepted by god as a token

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of the faithful participation of those

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inside that bloody door

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inside the house from which they were

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not supposed to leave not to take some

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of the lambs to anyone else anywhere

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else had to be inside that house within

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that bloody door

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the uncut hair of the nazarite

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was a visible sign

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to everyone that this man or woman had

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separated themselves to yahweh they had

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separated themselves from

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specific products such as the anything

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coming from the vine alcoholic beverages

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separated themselves from the dead

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it was a sign that they had made a vow

572
00:21:33.679 --> 00:21:35.270
to god

573
00:21:35.280 --> 00:21:37.990
a physical sign a token

574
00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:40.310
of their faithfulness and just as god

575
00:21:40.320 --> 00:21:43.830
offers tokens or signs of his

576
00:21:43.840 --> 00:21:47.510
faithfulness to us he encourages us

577
00:21:47.520 --> 00:21:49.430
through divine ritual

578
00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:51.750
to recognize our need

579
00:21:51.760 --> 00:21:53.190
to offer

580
00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:54.230
tokens

581
00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:56.630
of our faithfulness to him

582
00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:59.190
outward visible signs

583
00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:00.870
advertising

584
00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:01.669
our

585
00:22:01.679 --> 00:22:04.870
willing and faithful participation in

586
00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:07.750
his plan and purpose for creation there

587
00:22:07.760 --> 00:22:09.990
has to be a visibility

588
00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.310
to our faith it's one of the keys of

589
00:22:12.320 --> 00:22:14.390
understanding circumcision it's a

590
00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:16.789
physical act in our body

591
00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:18.149
just as an israelite had to be

592
00:22:18.159 --> 00:22:20.149
circumcised to physically bear the token

593
00:22:20.159 --> 00:22:21.990
of the covenant in order to participate

594
00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.750
in passover so we have to offer visible

595
00:22:25.760 --> 00:22:29.669
tokens of our faith for everyone to see

596
00:22:29.679 --> 00:22:32.470
if we ever wish to participate in the

597
00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:35.510
ultimate passover

598
00:22:35.520 --> 00:22:36.470
the next

599
00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.230
consideration

600
00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:38.950
is

601
00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:39.669
what

602
00:22:39.679 --> 00:22:42.070
circumcision is the crown of a man

603
00:22:42.080 --> 00:22:45.990
child's flesh is cut off and disposed of

604
00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:48.149
and i think this is directly related to

605
00:22:48.159 --> 00:22:49.830
the last of our questions why

606
00:22:49.840 --> 00:22:52.070
circumcision why the act of circumcision

607
00:22:52.080 --> 00:22:54.549
was required to be performed to qualify

608
00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:58.230
for passover participation

609
00:22:58.240 --> 00:22:59.590
the flesh

610
00:22:59.600 --> 00:23:01.590
is a word that is used in scripture to

611
00:23:01.600 --> 00:23:02.950
encompass

612
00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:05.430
all the works of the flesh

613
00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:07.510
paul uses this expression in his letter

614
00:23:07.520 --> 00:23:09.909
to the galatians when he commands them

615
00:23:09.919 --> 00:23:13.270
not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh

616
00:23:13.280 --> 00:23:15.430
for he says the flesh lust against the

617
00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:17.590
spirit the spirit against the flesh

618
00:23:17.600 --> 00:23:19.430
these are contrary one to the other so

619
00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:21.430
you cannot do the things that you would

620
00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:23.270
now the works of the flesh are manifest

621
00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:25.590
which are these adultery fornication

622
00:23:25.600 --> 00:23:28.310
uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry

623
00:23:28.320 --> 00:23:31.430
witchcraft hatred variants emulations

624
00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:34.070
wrath stripes sedition heresies envyings

625
00:23:34.080 --> 00:23:36.870
murders drunkenness revelings and such

626
00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:38.230
like

627
00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:39.830
of which i tell you before as i've told

628
00:23:39.840 --> 00:23:42.390
you before in a time past they which do

629
00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.390
such things shall not inherit the

630
00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:45.830
kingdom of god

631
00:23:45.840 --> 00:23:49.350
we cut off the flesh we throw away the

632
00:23:49.360 --> 00:23:51.190
crown

633
00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:53.590
and we begin to qualify

634
00:23:53.600 --> 00:23:56.390
to partake in passover

635
00:23:56.400 --> 00:23:59.029
by denying the natural

636
00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:00.070
selfish

637
00:24:00.080 --> 00:24:01.430
impulses

638
00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:02.870
that emanate

639
00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:04.470
relentlessly

640
00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:06.549
from within us

641
00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:08.710
denying our natural

642
00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:09.750
selfish

643
00:24:09.760 --> 00:24:11.110
impulses

644
00:24:11.120 --> 00:24:14.710
is cutting off the flesh

645
00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:16.710
unfortunately

646
00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:19.669
human beings are born

647
00:24:19.679 --> 00:24:22.549
with a natural arrogance

648
00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:24.549
it's like a

649
00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:25.990
brackish

650
00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:27.190
geyser

651
00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.630
erupting perpetually within us

652
00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:32.310
constantly

653
00:24:32.320 --> 00:24:35.029
disguising its unclean nature

654
00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:37.510
with its greatest weapons

655
00:24:37.520 --> 00:24:42.310
rationalization and self-justification

656
00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:44.630
it is our natural impulse

657
00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:45.590
to do

658
00:24:45.600 --> 00:24:47.029
what is wrong

659
00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:51.029
and then redefine it as right

660
00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:53.269
scripture does not leave us in the dark

661
00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:55.909
as about what circumcision truly

662
00:24:55.919 --> 00:24:57.590
signified

663
00:24:57.600 --> 00:24:59.590
the answer to why circumcision was

664
00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:01.510
required to participate in passover is

665
00:25:01.520 --> 00:25:05.029
spelled out quite clearly in scripture

666
00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:06.710
the source

667
00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:07.669
of our

668
00:25:07.679 --> 00:25:10.549
brackish geyser of arrogance

669
00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:13.110
is our own hearts

670
00:25:13.120 --> 00:25:14.789
we're told that the heart is deceitful

671
00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:17.029
above all things and desperately wicked

672
00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:18.870
who can know it

673
00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.110
i think it's fascinating

674
00:25:21.120 --> 00:25:23.830
that the world around us

675
00:25:23.840 --> 00:25:25.990
the popular authors

676
00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:28.390
the journalists the tv

677
00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:31.110
movie scriptwriters

678
00:25:31.120 --> 00:25:32.950
the political leaders

679
00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:36.070
and definitely the religious leaders

680
00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:38.230
all preached the same message in our

681
00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:39.990
society

682
00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.870
listen to your heart and you can never

683
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:44.310
go wrong

684
00:25:44.320 --> 00:25:47.269
follow your heart and you'll always be

685
00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:48.870
right it will lead you in the right

686
00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:50.390
direction

687
00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:52.549
listen to your instincts

688
00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:56.310
scripture tells us exactly the opposite

689
00:25:56.320 --> 00:25:58.470
listen to the most deceitful thing in

690
00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:01.510
all of creation our own hearts will

691
00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:04.789
never be right we will always be wrong

692
00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:07.029
the wisdom of the flesh or the wisdom of

693
00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.950
the spirit

694
00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:10.870
our instincts

695
00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:13.830
tell us to believe our hearts

696
00:26:13.840 --> 00:26:15.430
but our instincts

697
00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:16.549
emanate

698
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:18.549
from the heart

699
00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:20.149
and our instincts

700
00:26:20.159 --> 00:26:22.830
are most often

701
00:26:22.840 --> 00:26:26.789
wrong told by god what to do

702
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:29.669
with the heart

703
00:26:29.679 --> 00:26:31.990
that's what circumcision is all about

704
00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.750
we circumcise

705
00:26:33.760 --> 00:26:36.710
the heart we cut off the crown and we

706
00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:40.630
dispose of it get rid of the arrogance

707
00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:42.789
unfortunately not permanently we have to

708
00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:45.590
do it repeatedly again and again

709
00:26:45.600 --> 00:26:47.430
and again

710
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:49.990
deuteronomy 10 and 16

711
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:51.590
one of

712
00:26:51.600 --> 00:26:53.029
one of the times

713
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:54.549
this

714
00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:56.870
statement is made circumcise therefore

715
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:59.830
the foreskin of your heart

716
00:26:59.840 --> 00:27:03.510
and be no more stiff-necked

717
00:27:03.520 --> 00:27:05.750
the ecclesial age

718
00:27:05.760 --> 00:27:08.630
is an age where ritual has been reduced

719
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:10.870
dramatically

720
00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:13.029
the

721
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:16.390
childlike instruction of ritual

722
00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:18.630
was for the initial stages

723
00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.310
we've come to a new stage we are

724
00:27:20.320 --> 00:27:22.870
required to be more mature to be able to

725
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:24.230
digest

726
00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:26.389
solid meat and not just milk

727
00:27:26.399 --> 00:27:27.830
we're supposed to know what these things

728
00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:29.830
represent and put them into effect

729
00:27:29.840 --> 00:27:31.350
without having to do them again and

730
00:27:31.360 --> 00:27:33.590
again and again that's not entirely

731
00:27:33.600 --> 00:27:35.510
exclusive of course we have

732
00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:37.430
for a collegial rituals that we have to

733
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:39.430
observe and a great deal of instruction

734
00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:40.710
both in the old testament and the new

735
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:41.990
testament concerning that we'll be

736
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.830
looking at one of them a little later in

737
00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:45.029
this week

738
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:47.029
but it's been greatly reduced we are

739
00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:48.549
expected

740
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.990
to be more mature spiritually

741
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:53.750
we're supposed to understand that

742
00:27:53.760 --> 00:27:56.470
circumcision represents

743
00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.630
the circumcising of our heart

744
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:02.630
if you'll notice the relationship here

745
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:04.789
in this particular verse to the act of

746
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:06.870
circumcising the heart and losing the

747
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:09.990
stiff-necked attitude the obstinates the

748
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:13.430
rebellious reliance on our instincts

749
00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:16.149
and the wonderful self-worship of the

750
00:28:16.159 --> 00:28:17.110
heart

751
00:28:17.120 --> 00:28:19.190
that the world constantly tries to

752
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:21.590
convince himself

753
00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:23.029
yahweh goes on in prophecy in

754
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:25.110
deuteronomy

755
00:28:25.120 --> 00:28:27.269
that at the time of the end

756
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:28.830
when he is going to

757
00:28:28.840 --> 00:28:31.269
personally circumcise the hearts of the

758
00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:32.710
jewish people

759
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:34.549
that they will at that time once the

760
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:36.389
hearts are circumcised they'll be able

761
00:28:36.399 --> 00:28:39.669
to keep the greatest of all commandments

762
00:28:39.679 --> 00:28:42.310
and therefore live

763
00:28:42.320 --> 00:28:44.389
we are told that this is the key to

764
00:28:44.399 --> 00:28:46.070
being able to keep the greatest of all

765
00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:48.950
commandments to circumcise the heart in

766
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:50.470
deuteronomy 30 where we have that

767
00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:52.470
prophecy one of those prophecies

768
00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:54.230
beginning in verse 6

769
00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:56.710
the lord thy god will circumcise thy

770
00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:59.669
heart and the heart of thy seed to love

771
00:28:59.679 --> 00:29:01.350
the lord thy god with all thine heart

772
00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:02.870
with all thy soul

773
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:06.630
that thou mayest live

774
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:09.269
and the lord thy god will put all these

775
00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:11.110
curses upon their enemies and on them

776
00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:12.870
that hate thee which persecuted thee and

777
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:15.590
thou shall return and obey the voice of

778
00:29:15.600 --> 00:29:17.190
the lord and do all his commandments

779
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:20.230
which i commanded thee this day

780
00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:22.789
circumcision of the heart

781
00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:24.789
allows us to obey

782
00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:27.590
the greatest of all commandments

783
00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:30.710
to love he who shall be our mighty ones

784
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:35.669
with all our heart strength and might

785
00:29:35.679 --> 00:29:37.830
the circumcision that's required of our

786
00:29:37.840 --> 00:29:38.950
age

787
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.190
so that we might qualify to participate

788
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:43.830
in the anti-typical passover is exactly

789
00:29:43.840 --> 00:29:45.830
that the circumcision of the heart to

790
00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:48.549
the recognition of our naturally evil

791
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:49.830
impulses

792
00:29:49.840 --> 00:29:52.389
the humble resistance of our urge to

793
00:29:52.399 --> 00:29:54.630
justify ourselves

794
00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:56.149
this was the problem of the jewish

795
00:29:56.159 --> 00:29:58.149
people

796
00:29:58.159 --> 00:30:00.310
at the time of jeremiah just before the

797
00:30:00.320 --> 00:30:02.870
northern invader babylon came and

798
00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:05.430
decimated their nation

799
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:07.990
interesting parallel to our own age we

800
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.750
are on the verge of the time when the

801
00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:12.230
northern invader will come down and

802
00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:14.870
invade israel and attempt to decimate

803
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:17.110
the nation

804
00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:19.110
jeremiah exhorted them in that age to

805
00:30:19.120 --> 00:30:21.269
circumcise their hearts jeremiah 4 and

806
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:24.070
verse 4 circumcise yourselves to the

807
00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:26.389
lord and take away the foreskins of your

808
00:30:26.399 --> 00:30:28.310
heart he men of judah and inhabitants of

809
00:30:28.320 --> 00:30:31.350
jerusalem lest my fury come forth like

810
00:30:31.360 --> 00:30:34.230
fire and burn that none can quench it

811
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.549
because of the evil of your doings

812
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:37.510
the

813
00:30:37.520 --> 00:30:39.510
the arrogance

814
00:30:39.520 --> 00:30:41.990
that needs to be cut away in the act of

815
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:43.269
circumcision

816
00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:45.190
uh was a major problem in the time of

817
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.669
jeremiah jeremiah constantly complains

818
00:30:47.679 --> 00:30:50.549
of the national attitude of his day

819
00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:53.669
in chapter 3 he says thou hast a

820
00:30:53.679 --> 00:30:56.470
forehead you refuse to be ashamed

821
00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:58.870
chapter 5 he says and though you say the

822
00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:01.990
lord liveth surely they swear falsely

823
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.470
o lord are not thine eyes upon the truth

824
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:06.389
thou has stricken them

825
00:31:06.399 --> 00:31:08.149
but they have not grieved

826
00:31:08.159 --> 00:31:10.149
thou has consumed them

827
00:31:10.159 --> 00:31:11.830
but they have refused to receive

828
00:31:11.840 --> 00:31:14.230
correction they have made their faces

829
00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:16.230
harder than a rock

830
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:19.350
they have refused to return they swear

831
00:31:19.360 --> 00:31:20.789
by yahweh

832
00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:22.630
but they don't act that way

833
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:24.870
jeremiah 8 were they ashamed when they

834
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:26.950
committed abomination nay they were not

835
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.070
at all ashamed neither could they blush

836
00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:32.470
they didn't even know how to blush it's

837
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:34.870
the circumcision of the heart

838
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.509
that allows us

839
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:38.470
to

840
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:41.669
observe the greatest of all commandments

841
00:31:41.679 --> 00:31:43.190
one of my

842
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:44.870
favorite stories in scripture depicting

843
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:47.029
the circumcision of the heart

844
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:48.789
is the story of naaman

845
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:49.909
the

846
00:31:49.919 --> 00:31:51.909
leprous syrian general

847
00:31:51.919 --> 00:31:53.990
he came to the prophet elijah

848
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.430
with a

849
00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:58.470
great entourage with immense

850
00:31:58.480 --> 00:31:59.430
wealth

851
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.029
with which he could

852
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:02.149
shower

853
00:32:02.159 --> 00:32:04.070
this seemingly

854
00:32:04.080 --> 00:32:05.669
poor profit

855
00:32:05.679 --> 00:32:10.070
he was ready to perform herculean feats

856
00:32:10.080 --> 00:32:12.950
to show his worthiness to be healed

857
00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:15.350
he was ready to do everything anything

858
00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:18.230
except one thing

859
00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:19.830
he was not

860
00:32:19.840 --> 00:32:24.310
ready to humiliate himself

861
00:32:24.320 --> 00:32:28.070
god definitely saw potential in naaman

862
00:32:28.080 --> 00:32:30.630
that needed to be developed

863
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:31.950
naaman

864
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:33.509
underestimated

865
00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:35.590
the challenge that was placed before him

866
00:32:35.600 --> 00:32:38.549
he never expected so difficult

867
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:40.549
a challenge

868
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:42.870
he wasn't being required to

869
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.669
fight any dragons or command the jewish

870
00:32:45.679 --> 00:32:46.549
army

871
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:50.070
uh to defeat his own syrians uh or to

872
00:32:50.080 --> 00:32:51.669
give up soldiering

873
00:32:51.679 --> 00:32:53.669
nothing like this at all

874
00:32:53.679 --> 00:32:55.350
he was invited

875
00:32:55.360 --> 00:32:57.509
to wash

876
00:32:57.519 --> 00:32:58.950
what he considered

877
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:00.710
the filthy and tiny

878
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.149
little jordan river seven times

879
00:33:04.159 --> 00:33:07.269
damon was instinctively indignant

880
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:09.509
and offended

881
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:12.630
no dramatic healing was performed

882
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:13.990
and the prophet

883
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:16.070
spurned his impressive arrival with his

884
00:33:16.080 --> 00:33:19.590
prodigious gift of wealth

885
00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:21.669
the true challenge

886
00:33:21.679 --> 00:33:23.190
was to deny

887
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:24.630
his natural

888
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:25.669
arrogant

889
00:33:25.679 --> 00:33:27.350
nature

890
00:33:27.360 --> 00:33:29.750
to circumcise his heart

891
00:33:29.760 --> 00:33:33.110
and humbly perform this simple

892
00:33:33.120 --> 00:33:34.630
unpretentious

893
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.190
task

894
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.909
naaman most definitely defeated

895
00:33:39.919 --> 00:33:42.630
the dragon

896
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:44.630
he killed the dragon all right

897
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:46.149
it would rise again

898
00:33:46.159 --> 00:33:48.230
but he beat at that time the one within

899
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:49.750
himself

900
00:33:49.760 --> 00:33:51.830
he cut off the crown of pride he

901
00:33:51.840 --> 00:33:53.990
circumcised his heart

902
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:56.149
and jesus speaks of naaman

903
00:33:56.159 --> 00:33:57.110
when he

904
00:33:57.120 --> 00:33:58.630
officially begins his ministry in

905
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:00.470
nazareth after the imprisonment of john

906
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:01.830
the baptist

907
00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:03.190
saying that there were many lepers in

908
00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:04.870
israel at the time of elisha the prophet

909
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:06.389
but only naaman

910
00:34:06.399 --> 00:34:07.750
the syrian

911
00:34:07.760 --> 00:34:12.310
was healed

912
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:13.109
when

913
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.270
was circumcision performed

914
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.510
and how did it change the participant

915
00:34:19.520 --> 00:34:21.109
the act of cutting off the crown of

916
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:24.230
flesh was observed on the eighth day of

917
00:34:24.240 --> 00:34:25.829
a man's life

918
00:34:25.839 --> 00:34:28.230
he then came into covenant relationship

919
00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:29.430
with god

920
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:31.669
he became a part of god's community

921
00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:33.589
eligible to inherit the promises made to

922
00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:34.790
abraham

923
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.190
and responsible for the terms of the

924
00:34:37.200 --> 00:34:38.629
covenant

925
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:40.950
the cutting off of the flesh on the

926
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:42.470
eighth day

927
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:45.909
is a promise of the time when all flesh

928
00:34:45.919 --> 00:34:49.750
will be cut off in the eighth millennium

929
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.149
when the seventh millennium is over

930
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.230
and the sabbath kingdom is ended

931
00:34:54.240 --> 00:34:57.190
the last act will be to throw death

932
00:34:57.200 --> 00:34:59.109
and the grave into the lake of fire

933
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:00.950
which is the second death

934
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:03.349
or perishing

935
00:35:03.359 --> 00:35:05.430
in the eighth millennium there will be

936
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:06.950
no flesh

937
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.710
there will only be spirit

938
00:35:08.720 --> 00:35:11.030
spirit-based life

939
00:35:11.040 --> 00:35:14.150
what an incredible change

940
00:35:14.160 --> 00:35:17.109
that that will

941
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:18.630
hard to imagine

942
00:35:18.640 --> 00:35:20.230
especially for finite minds we'll have

943
00:35:20.240 --> 00:35:22.310
more to talk about that

944
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:24.790
on the last day

945
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:26.390
paul tells the corinthians that at this

946
00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:28.870
time when death is the last enemy to be

947
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:32.069
defeated he expresses it in this way

948
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:33.030
god

949
00:35:33.040 --> 00:35:35.750
will be all

950
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:37.270
and in

951
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:39.589
all

952
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:41.510
what a comprehensive statement

953
00:35:41.520 --> 00:35:44.630
the creator will be in perfect harmony

954
00:35:44.640 --> 00:35:47.349
with his creation

955
00:35:47.359 --> 00:35:49.670
all flesh ruled and cut off death will

956
00:35:49.680 --> 00:35:51.109
have been passed over

957
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:52.470
completely

958
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.230
perfect harmony that's what the word

959
00:35:54.240 --> 00:35:55.990
peace represents

960
00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.630
scripture defines the word peace

961
00:35:58.640 --> 00:36:01.510
very well ephesians 2 for example

962
00:36:01.520 --> 00:36:02.790
when

963
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:03.910
the two

964
00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:07.030
are made one so making peace

965
00:36:07.040 --> 00:36:08.630
that's what peace is the presence of

966
00:36:08.640 --> 00:36:10.310
harmony unlike what the world tries to

967
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:12.310
tell us that peace is an absence the

968
00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:14.390
absence of aggression the absence of

969
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:15.589
disturbance

970
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:17.670
it's not an absence at all

971
00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:21.589
it's a presence the presence of harmony

972
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:24.550
this principle

973
00:36:24.560 --> 00:36:26.950
is also exhibited uh this of the eighth

974
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:29.589
days in the time frame required

975
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:31.750
for the ordination of the aaronic

976
00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:33.510
priesthood

977
00:36:33.520 --> 00:36:35.670
it was an eight-day process

978
00:36:35.680 --> 00:36:37.910
within which aaron and his sons were

979
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:41.349
ordained as the priests of god

980
00:36:41.359 --> 00:36:44.390
it was also an eight-day ritual for the

981
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:47.270
cleansing of a healed leper

982
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:49.750
a leprosy was a perfect disease to

983
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:52.390
reflect the principle of sin in the

984
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:53.750
flesh

985
00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:55.510
with leprosy the body

986
00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:58.069
corrupts as if it's a corpse in the

987
00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:00.310
grave but the person of course is still

988
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:01.829
living

989
00:37:01.839 --> 00:37:03.829
depicting the effects

990
00:37:03.839 --> 00:37:05.910
of the curse inflicted

991
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:07.510
in eden

992
00:37:07.520 --> 00:37:09.910
the healed leper

993
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:12.710
had to go through an eight-day ritual to

994
00:37:12.720 --> 00:37:16.390
re-enter the community of god

995
00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:18.230
just as we go through

996
00:37:18.240 --> 00:37:20.790
the eighth to the eighth millennium

997
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:24.069
to become in perfect harmony with our

998
00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:25.270
creator

999
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:28.150
i was also true of the person healed of

1000
00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:29.670
an issue

1001
00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:31.430
bodily issues

1002
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:35.030
uh constituted as as ritually unclean

1003
00:37:35.040 --> 00:37:37.430
under god's law reflecting the fact that

1004
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.510
that which naturally issues from the

1005
00:37:39.520 --> 00:37:41.270
flesh

1006
00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:42.550
is sin

1007
00:37:42.560 --> 00:37:45.510
making one unclean before god

1008
00:37:45.520 --> 00:37:48.150
in this ritual of

1009
00:37:48.160 --> 00:37:51.990
cleansing from an issue

1010
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.550
a person is healed of their issue and

1011
00:37:54.560 --> 00:37:56.710
after an eight-day process

1012
00:37:56.720 --> 00:37:59.829
they are ritually clean before god

1013
00:37:59.839 --> 00:38:01.910
depicting of course again the eighth

1014
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:04.150
millennium time frame by which creation

1015
00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:07.430
would be cleansed from the unclean issue

1016
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:12.550
of sin emanating from the flesh

1017
00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:13.589
when the

1018
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:16.710
creator cut off the flesh

1019
00:38:16.720 --> 00:38:19.030
in the earth with the flood

1020
00:38:19.040 --> 00:38:20.150
he left

1021
00:38:20.160 --> 00:38:21.510
eight people

1022
00:38:21.520 --> 00:38:23.430
the significance of this

1023
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:25.829
is punctuated by the statement that

1024
00:38:25.839 --> 00:38:28.310
peter makes that noah

1025
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:30.870
was the eighth person

1026
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:33.430
he says is in second peter 2 verse 5

1027
00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:35.589
says and spared not the old world but

1028
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:38.630
saved noah the eighth person a preacher

1029
00:38:38.640 --> 00:38:40.310
of righteousness bringing in the flood

1030
00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:41.990
upon the world of the ungodly now

1031
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.550
doesn't that seem rather strange

1032
00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:46.870
why would noah be called the eighth

1033
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:48.069
person

1034
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:50.069
he was the only one

1035
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:51.910
called by god

1036
00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:54.069
noah had no sons

1037
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:55.510
may not have even been married when he

1038
00:38:55.520 --> 00:38:57.670
was called to build the ark

1039
00:38:57.680 --> 00:38:58.829
he was the

1040
00:38:58.839 --> 00:39:00.390
first

1041
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:02.950
unfortunately

1042
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:05.270
numbers often lead us

1043
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:06.870
instinctively

1044
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.910
to think in terms of chronology

1045
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:11.589
or order

1046
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:14.550
noah was the first chronologically

1047
00:39:14.560 --> 00:39:16.630
he was the eighth person

1048
00:39:16.640 --> 00:39:19.430
and that he reflected the principles

1049
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.630
bound up in the number eight

1050
00:39:22.640 --> 00:39:25.030
he was a manifestation

1051
00:39:25.040 --> 00:39:27.990
of the man who would be identified with

1052
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.069
the number eight

1053
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:31.750
the man of eights

1054
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:33.030
and we'll look at that in a moment i'd

1055
00:39:33.040 --> 00:39:35.030
like to finish this first this thought

1056
00:39:35.040 --> 00:39:36.550
first

1057
00:39:36.560 --> 00:39:38.550
the cutting off

1058
00:39:38.560 --> 00:39:39.990
of the flesh

1059
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:42.390
the circumcision of the heart the

1060
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:43.990
denying

1061
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:47.589
of our arrogant selfish nature

1062
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:50.630
on the eighth day

1063
00:39:50.640 --> 00:39:54.310
is sacrificial in nature

1064
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:57.030
we don't indulge the heart when we

1065
00:39:57.040 --> 00:40:00.150
sacrif when we uh circumcise it we cut

1066
00:40:00.160 --> 00:40:00.870
it

1067
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:03.670
we slice it open and and fold it apart

1068
00:40:03.680 --> 00:40:06.069
so that the words of god can be written

1069
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.829
on our hearts as paul

1070
00:40:08.839 --> 00:40:13.270
expresses it's sacrificial in nature

1071
00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:15.109
instead of indulging

1072
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:17.430
ourselves selfish inclinations we

1073
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:19.190
sacrifice them

1074
00:40:19.200 --> 00:40:21.589
for the benefit of god for the benefit

1075
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:23.109
of others for the benefit of our

1076
00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:25.270
brothers and sisters our neighbors now

1077
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:27.670
this principle is also evident

1078
00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:29.750
in the fact that it was on the eighth

1079
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:31.030
day

1080
00:40:31.040 --> 00:40:32.150
of the life

1081
00:40:32.160 --> 00:40:34.550
of a sacrificial animal that qualified

1082
00:40:34.560 --> 00:40:36.790
to be acceptable and acceptable although

1083
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:38.069
offering that's when they became

1084
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.230
acceptable on that eighth day

1085
00:40:40.240 --> 00:40:43.270
in leviticus 22 and verse 27 when a

1086
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:46.150
bullock or a sheep or a goat is brought

1087
00:40:46.160 --> 00:40:47.109
forth

1088
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:49.270
then it shall be seven days under the

1089
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:50.470
dam

1090
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.510
and from the eighth day and thenceforth

1091
00:40:53.520 --> 00:40:56.069
it shall be accepted for an offering

1092
00:40:56.079 --> 00:41:00.069
made by fire unto yahweh

1093
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:02.870
okay we've seen the principle repeated

1094
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:04.550
a number of ways

1095
00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:06.150
let's look at the ultimate

1096
00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:08.390
representation

1097
00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:10.630
let's reconsider

1098
00:41:10.640 --> 00:41:13.589
a comment i made about the man of eights

1099
00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:15.750
this number eight is fulfilled

1100
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:17.430
completely

1101
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:20.550
in the man who cut off his flesh

1102
00:41:20.560 --> 00:41:22.069
every day

1103
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:25.349
every minute of his life

1104
00:41:25.359 --> 00:41:27.910
he was the perfect and the antitypical

1105
00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:30.150
sacrifice jesus christ

1106
00:41:30.160 --> 00:41:31.990
now we're spelled out very clearly in

1107
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:33.030
scripture

1108
00:41:33.040 --> 00:41:35.990
that the number 666 defines the man of

1109
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.190
sin

1110
00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:39.829
well the number 888

1111
00:41:39.839 --> 00:41:43.109
defines the man of righteousness

1112
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:45.190
i think most of us perhaps not all of us

1113
00:41:45.200 --> 00:41:47.349
so let me just repeat this most of us

1114
00:41:47.359 --> 00:41:49.030
are probably aware of how

1115
00:41:49.040 --> 00:41:51.430
the hebrew and the greek alphabets also

1116
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:53.670
constituted the numerical system the

1117
00:41:53.680 --> 00:41:56.550
study of gematria

1118
00:41:56.560 --> 00:41:58.309
and how we can

1119
00:41:58.319 --> 00:41:59.349
take

1120
00:41:59.359 --> 00:42:02.069
unlike ourselves we have an alphabet we

1121
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:04.309
have a numerical system a is not one but

1122
00:42:04.319 --> 00:42:06.630
in greek and hebrew the letter was also

1123
00:42:06.640 --> 00:42:09.589
the number and so we can take a hebrew

1124
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:11.670
word a greek word we can add up the

1125
00:42:11.680 --> 00:42:13.430
numbers that are the letters and get a

1126
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:17.430
value to that word or that name um

1127
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:18.950
and uh

1128
00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:21.349
if we do this with the name jesus in

1129
00:42:21.359 --> 00:42:23.030
greek we get

1130
00:42:23.040 --> 00:42:24.630
an interesting answer could my

1131
00:42:24.640 --> 00:42:27.109
designated assistants uh pass out those

1132
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:28.550
sheets now

1133
00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:33.589
and uh so we can have proof of this

1134
00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:35.030
you're going to get one of these it's

1135
00:42:35.040 --> 00:42:37.270
kind of a copy of a transparency that is

1136
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:38.630
faded so we're not using as a

1137
00:42:38.640 --> 00:42:40.550
transparency

1138
00:42:40.560 --> 00:42:42.470
but this is how

1139
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.109
the name jesus is spelled in the greek i

1140
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:46.470
out and i don't know if i'm pronouncing

1141
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:48.870
these greek letters correctly iota eta

1142
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:51.829
sigma omicron epsilon sigma these are

1143
00:42:51.839 --> 00:42:54.309
the numbers they are equivalent to

1144
00:42:54.319 --> 00:42:56.870
iot is equivalent was the number ten eta

1145
00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.349
was the number eight sigma 200 omicron

1146
00:42:59.359 --> 00:43:02.550
70 epsilon 400 and of course sigma again

1147
00:43:02.560 --> 00:43:05.349
200 when you add them up

1148
00:43:05.359 --> 00:43:07.589
you come to 8 8

1149
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:08.470
8

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00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:10.230
the name of jesus

1151
00:43:10.240 --> 00:43:12.390
8 8 eight

1152
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:13.510
he is

1153
00:43:13.520 --> 00:43:16.630
the man of eights

1154
00:43:16.640 --> 00:43:21.349
he is the ultimate

1155
00:43:21.359 --> 00:43:22.470
passover

1156
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.349
lamb

1157
00:43:25.359 --> 00:43:27.910
he is the ultimate sacrifice

1158
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.710
acceptable on the eighth day of its life

1159
00:43:30.720 --> 00:43:33.030
he is reflected in a number of eights

1160
00:43:33.040 --> 00:43:36.069
such as uh noah who was the eighth man

1161
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:39.430
such as david who was the eighth son of

1162
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:44.870
jesse

1163
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:47.829
well let's just take a

1164
00:43:47.839 --> 00:43:49.910
a moment to explain what we'll be

1165
00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:53.510
looking at tomorrow

1166
00:43:53.520 --> 00:43:55.990
tomorrow in reference to the passover we

1167
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.550
will be examining the issue of the blood

1168
00:43:58.560 --> 00:44:01.030
a major feature of the passover

1169
00:44:01.040 --> 00:44:02.790
the blood of the lamb had to be painted

1170
00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:05.030
on the the two sides

1171
00:44:05.040 --> 00:44:06.790
and the top of the door

1172
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.750
and you couldn't go out of that doorway

1173
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:11.750
everyone had to be in the house and

1174
00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:13.589
could not leave

1175
00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:14.710
so that the

1176
00:44:14.720 --> 00:44:17.750
death would pass over them

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00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:20.870
once they qualified with circumcision or

1178
00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:23.109
through relationship with one

1179
00:44:23.119 --> 00:44:26.230
circumcised as husband or father

1180
00:44:26.240 --> 00:44:27.109
then

1181
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:29.030
they went into the home

1182
00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:31.589
the blood was painted on the doorpost

1183
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:33.270
and the and the lintel

1184
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:35.510
and they ate the meal

1185
00:44:35.520 --> 00:44:37.190
tomorrow we will look

1186
00:44:37.200 --> 00:44:39.829
at the message of the blood on the door

1187
00:44:39.839 --> 00:44:41.430
a lot more closely and see how that

1188
00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:45.640
relates to ourselves as well