1 00:00:14,060 --> 00:00:17,320 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church Podcast. 2 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:24,059 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. 3 00:00:24,780 --> 00:00:26,600 Thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:35,980 --> 00:00:42,079 Glad you guys are here on such a nice night. I even wanted to stay home. I'm just kidding. 5 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:52,359 Stay out. Yeah, it's so funny. So remember last week or no, a couple weeks ago when 6 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:59,179 I taught on the bread and when I came down there was van covered in flour, right? I don't know if 7 00:00:59,179 --> 00:01:04,420 you guys heard that. So I just, you know, right before it's gonna be believing my youngest son, 8 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:10,000 Van, who's won this huge dough ball, I call him, and he comes down and he's got into the flour 9 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,560 in the pantry. He's covered in flour. And I was like, this is such funny timing of like 10 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:21,200 teaching on bread and flour. And then last week, as I was preparing I hear Maria go, 11 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:26,900 what is he getting into? And you know, it's a bad sign when your wife's saying that about 12 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:32,319 your son. I look over and there was, this week we're talking about the olive oil. There's literally 13 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:37,540 a thing of olive oil on the ground somehow in a gift that he's now covered in olive oil. So 14 00:01:37,540 --> 00:01:42,540 I was like, what are the chances? I feel like he's like a prophet or something. I don't know. 15 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:47,980 But I swear he must have read the end of the chapter with the stoning because as I'm laying 16 00:01:47,980 --> 00:01:53,079 there on the couch, he threw this big heavy mason jar on my face later. I'm like, I actually 17 00:01:53,079 --> 00:01:57,359 kind of a black eye you can kind of see right there. So I mean, he just is tuned into what's 18 00:01:57,359 --> 00:02:05,780 happening tonight. He's at home praying for me. But yeah, no, it's been a lot of fun. But who 19 00:02:06,620 --> 00:02:12,120 had just a great time this past week with Holy Week? Did anybody else like, who here's at, 20 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:18,039 I guess the Friday night, good Friday or Friday afternoon, good Friday service? That was awesome, 21 00:02:18,259 --> 00:02:23,000 so powerful. And like, honestly, the whole week, I don't know if it was the same for you. Sometimes, 22 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:28,520 you know, things could be chaotic, and you can't like take a step back. But this week, I just had 23 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:35,979 a lot more time during Holy Week from Palm Sunday to, you know, Easter, where I could just really 24 00:02:35,979 --> 00:02:43,479 tune into God this whole week. And it was just so powerful. If you guys were at the Palm Sunday 25 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:49,219 service, I was actually watching it on the train on the way to go see Jake down in Nashville. 26 00:02:49,740 --> 00:02:54,500 We're going turkey hunting. And for two whole days, we're in tick infested woods and didn't 27 00:02:54,500 --> 00:03:00,919 even hear or see a single turkey. So what a trip, but it was good to see him. But anyway, 28 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:06,020 on the train, I'm like listening to the Palm Sunday service, and I'm like, you know, crying, 29 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:10,300 and I'm like, trying to like look out the window of the train and like then, you know, 30 00:03:10,340 --> 00:03:15,139 I'm listening, I'm reading on the plane. And I just felt like God has really been showing up 31 00:03:15,139 --> 00:03:22,319 this whole week. And then good Friday was like such a heavy, but powerful day. Did anyone 32 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:27,699 else feel that like, and I feel like, I'm saying I feel like a lot, but this is the only way 33 00:03:27,699 --> 00:03:37,860 I could talk. I feel like this year for me coming into good Friday, I was more attentive to Jesus 34 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:44,500 and how he felt than I guess I have been in the past because, and I think Jesus, I think God in 35 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:51,599 general, since he is alive, he is active, he's real wants to be seen and understood at a deeper 36 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:58,560 level than just information of what happened on a day, but truly what he went through and how he 37 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:05,520 even feels about it to this day. Like on good Friday, there was such a sense of heaviness of like, 38 00:04:05,939 --> 00:04:12,680 Jesus, I can picture what you're going through. I can almost feel in my spirit what you might 39 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:18,160 have been feeling in a 1% of what you're going through. And like, you can't help but cry, 40 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:24,160 right? And it's like so much gratitude I felt in that service. And then I love, I mean, my dad's 41 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,779 sermons were great the whole weekend. Like remember the finished and done? I love that. 42 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,540 Like it is finished. The old is gone. It's dead. The law has been fulfilled. Your old life is 43 00:04:34,540 --> 00:04:40,680 totally done with finished. And then done is the new life has been prepared, right? We now 44 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,620 have the new banquet to walk into dinner is done, the table set, are you going to come 45 00:04:45,620 --> 00:04:51,560 and dine, right? And I just thought that was so powerful. So anyway, a lot of what we're going 46 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:56,180 to be reading today, I mean, you can't get away from what Jesus has done. Everything points to him. 47 00:04:56,420 --> 00:05:02,379 And, you know, I think that's good theology. If you read the word to see him, 48 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,860 that's good theology. And even Jesus says, all of the law and all the prophets speak of me. 49 00:05:07,980 --> 00:05:14,079 So we're going to look for him in this passage tonight. So the title is oil, bread, 50 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:19,139 and blasphemy. There's a ton we're going to cover. So, and I think we're going to have some good 51 00:05:19,139 --> 00:05:25,920 conversation afterwards. So let's just open up with prayer. Jesus, we thank you so much, Lord, 52 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:32,759 that you are here, God, that you are alive and active, Lord, and powerful in your word, 53 00:05:32,939 --> 00:05:37,459 Lord, is directly from your mouth. That what you're saying here is a letter, Lord, 54 00:05:37,459 --> 00:05:43,180 to us still to this day, God, and it still refines us, Lord, encourages, Lord, 55 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:48,740 makes us into your image, Lord. It's your Holy Spirit that does it and your word, Lord, 56 00:05:48,939 --> 00:05:53,519 illuminates God, our minds and our hearts to be able to even see you and understand you. 57 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:00,319 And I pray that tonight, Lord, as we read and as we think about and ponder God, how great you 58 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:06,319 are and how significant your life is, God, that we would just fall in love with you more, 59 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:14,100 Lord, because there's no better practical application in our Christian life than to love 60 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:20,480 you more. That is the ultimate, Lord, application we can have is can I want to love you more, Jesus. 61 00:06:20,860 --> 00:06:25,720 So I pray that you would speak, that you would move, and you would make this mess of notes, 62 00:06:25,819 --> 00:06:30,899 make sense, and we just thank you that you're here in Jesus' name, amen. So 63 00:06:32,379 --> 00:06:39,740 we're going to be reading Leviticus 24, but I want to start in John 1. John 1 is the ultimate, 64 00:06:40,019 --> 00:06:45,779 ultimate opening to a book of the Bible or a book in general, in my opinion. It really 65 00:06:45,779 --> 00:06:51,180 resembles a lot of Genesis 1, you'll see here in a minute, kind of similar feel, 66 00:06:52,399 --> 00:06:57,800 similar vibe as the kids say. I am 33, I don't say that, don't worry, even though I just did. 67 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:05,319 But it's just powerful and you could almost feel like a movie announcer, like the trailers, 68 00:07:05,980 --> 00:07:10,060 the voice in the trailers would be reading this, like, in the beginning was the Word, 69 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:16,939 you know what I mean, like it just feels like that. So it's an epic passage. I read it often 70 00:07:16,939 --> 00:07:22,660 and it just sets the stage for the gospel in such a powerful way. So let's read it. 71 00:07:23,460 --> 00:07:29,860 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 72 00:07:30,540 --> 00:07:37,959 He was in the beginning with God and all things, all things were made through him and without him, 73 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:44,160 nothing was made that was made. In him was life and the life was the light of men 74 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,180 and the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness did not comprehend it. 75 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:56,060 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. This man came for a witness to bear witness 76 00:07:56,060 --> 00:08:02,199 of the light that all through him might believe. He was not the light, he was not that light, 77 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:08,040 but was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light which gives light to 78 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,620 every man coming into the world. He was in the world and the world was made through him 79 00:08:13,620 --> 00:08:19,180 and the world did not know him. He came to his own and his own did not receive him, 80 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:26,360 but as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God 81 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:32,580 and to those who believe in his name who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, 82 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:39,019 nor of the will of the man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We 83 00:08:39,019 --> 00:08:47,460 beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth. Amen. 84 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:57,440 So we see he is the light. He's the light of the world. He's the light of God coming 85 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:04,779 into the darkness. And you see the first thing that Jesus does as it says he created the 86 00:09:04,779 --> 00:09:11,940 world which is amazing. Obviously, God, the Trinity is one God so they all were part of that. 87 00:09:12,220 --> 00:09:17,000 It wasn't Jesus off on his own doing it alone. They are fully together and fully one, 88 00:09:17,159 --> 00:09:23,340 but he's the Word and when God spoke, his words created it, Jesus actually created it 89 00:09:23,340 --> 00:09:29,519 because he's the Word. And so the first thing he creates is light. That's the first 90 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:37,139 clue to who God is. He's light. Before there was a star or a sun or anything, there was light 91 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:45,340 because he is the light. And in heaven, there is no sun. There's no need for it 92 00:09:45,340 --> 00:09:50,600 because his glory shines so bright that he is the light that illuminates heaven. Isn't that 93 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:58,919 just crazy? And this light never goes out. We're going to see in Leviticus how this 94 00:09:58,919 --> 00:10:06,139 lamp has to burn continually forever. This light never goes out because the light of Jesus never 95 00:10:06,139 --> 00:10:11,960 dies. Nothing can put it out. Think about the 2000 so years now of Christians being martyred, 96 00:10:11,980 --> 00:10:16,500 people covering up the Bible, trying to get rid of it, and all it does is it grows stronger. 97 00:10:16,899 --> 00:10:22,299 Faith grows stronger. You cannot cover up the truth of Jesus. The truth of God manifests 98 00:10:22,299 --> 00:10:27,779 through him. And he is the only way and he's going to continue to keep showing his light. 99 00:10:27,779 --> 00:10:31,799 Think about the Middle East when these Muslims who have never heard the gospel, 100 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:38,580 right? And they believe in this false God, Allah, and all these false teachings, 101 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,799 but then people are having visions constantly, like all the time apparently it's happening, 102 00:10:44,220 --> 00:10:50,340 of Jesus coming into their dreams and saying, I am the way. My name is Jesus of Nazareth. 103 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,440 Believe in me. Like, he is a light even to people who are in such darkness 104 00:10:54,440 --> 00:11:00,919 that he shows up spiritually in their dreams. And he's always going to continue to keep shining, 105 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,820 right? He's going to cast the darkness out of the room, the darkness out of your life, 106 00:11:04,919 --> 00:11:11,659 because he's destroyed the sin and the death that wants to keep us down, right? And for all 107 00:11:11,659 --> 00:11:16,639 of eternity, that's going to continue to be true because he's the God of light that came 108 00:11:16,639 --> 00:11:21,679 into a dark world to sinners trapped in sin and darkness. And through his life, death, 109 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:26,700 and resurrection, he frees us and then what? He fills us with his light. 110 00:11:28,139 --> 00:11:35,639 So, John, you will see that he has set, Jesus has seven I am statements. He says, which it's 111 00:11:35,639 --> 00:11:40,539 an awesome thing to study. I really recommend studying it. But the first two I am statements, 112 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:47,039 which in the Old Testament, God says his name is I am, which means essentially I am at all 113 00:11:47,039 --> 00:11:54,039 times, no beginning, no end, and I'm all present, right? So there's power in his name and he says 114 00:11:54,039 --> 00:12:00,179 seven times I am, I am. So immediately everyone knows he's claiming deity, right? He's claiming 115 00:12:00,179 --> 00:12:05,860 to be God. And the first two things he said is I am the bread of life and I am the light of 116 00:12:05,860 --> 00:12:14,919 the world. Side by side in this passage we're about to read is the light of the lamp and the 117 00:12:14,919 --> 00:12:21,860 bread of the showbread, the bread of the presence are side by side in Leviticus 24 and even in the 118 00:12:21,860 --> 00:12:27,480 holy place on the one side is the bread on the other side is the light, which is powerful. 119 00:12:27,940 --> 00:12:42,019 So let's hop over to Leviticus 24. Cool. All right. Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, 120 00:12:42,579 --> 00:12:49,799 command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light 121 00:12:50,340 --> 00:12:57,139 to make the lamps burn continually. Outside the veil of the testimony in the Tabernacle of 122 00:12:57,139 --> 00:13:01,679 Meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the Lord continually. 123 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:12,000 It shall be a statute forever in your generations. He shall be in charge of the lamps on the 124 00:13:12,599 --> 00:13:18,700 priest that those lamps can never go out. I can't even put the trash out on Wednesday nights 125 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:24,419 every week, but obviously there's more significance to this. I know if I'm in a place of worship 126 00:13:24,419 --> 00:13:29,340 for God I'm never going to let those candles go out, right? But at the same time that's a heavy, 127 00:13:29,539 --> 00:13:34,519 heavy calling that these can never go out because this is saying something about God. 128 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,840 And if that goes out it's an actual contradiction to who God is because his light never stops 129 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:49,139 shining. So this lamp, which I don't have the passage in front of me, but it's a magnificent lamp, 130 00:13:49,279 --> 00:13:55,899 like it has seven lamps on it. The menorah is also what it's called, but it's carved from 131 00:13:55,899 --> 00:14:01,639 one solid piece of gold, a whole massive chunk of gold they carved with all these different, 132 00:14:01,639 --> 00:14:10,740 flowers, and it's just amazing, right? And it was so beautiful that when in 70 AD, 133 00:14:11,659 --> 00:14:18,059 when Rome took over, the Romans took over Jerusalem, they actually took all the articles, 134 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:23,139 and this menorah was like a cherished item that they were blown away to have. There was nothing 135 00:14:23,139 --> 00:14:30,000 like it at all anywhere. This was an amazing article of the temple, and it was so amazing 136 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:36,299 that even to this day, if you go to Rome, there's a carving in this arch called the Arch of Titus of 137 00:14:36,299 --> 00:14:41,399 like all the different emblems and articles they took from this temple, and the one right in the 138 00:14:41,399 --> 00:14:47,419 middle, like the biggest one that these people are carrying is this lamp. Like even foreigners 139 00:14:47,419 --> 00:14:54,019 recognize how significant and how beautiful this thing was. And you know, I just think about 140 00:14:54,019 --> 00:15:01,700 Jesus, right? Like, he is the image of the invisible God. He is so beautiful, there's nothing, 141 00:15:02,139 --> 00:15:07,639 there's no one like him, right? And he's solid and whole from one piece, right? There's no, 142 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:14,139 it says that God is the father of heavenly lights in whom there is no shadow or variation 143 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:22,179 or shadow of turning, right? There is just one aspect, one holiness of God. There is no 144 00:15:22,179 --> 00:15:29,659 division or separation where things are joined together, right? Solid gold. And this beauty of 145 00:15:29,659 --> 00:15:34,440 who he is still is speaking to this day, like even people who aren't Christians, like you feel 146 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:38,340 like his name comes up all the time, right? Even in blasphemous ways, like everyone's saying 147 00:15:38,340 --> 00:15:44,860 JC, like all the time, but it's like you can't get, you can't get rid of him. Even the pagans 148 00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:51,360 of Rome still thought this was an amazing lamp. And still even to this day, people who aren't 149 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:56,100 believers think Jesus is amazing from his teachings, like there were no teachings like his. 150 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,120 And there's seven lamps on it. Obviously, there's a lot of significance to seven, 151 00:16:01,220 --> 00:16:04,860 which we'll talk about. But the thing that I thought was really interesting is, 152 00:16:05,039 --> 00:16:11,200 it was the only light in the tabernacle. There weren't a bunch of other candles or 153 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:16,820 torches apparently, and especially from what I read, like this would illuminate the whole 154 00:16:16,820 --> 00:16:23,159 inside of the tabernacle. And think about it, these people, these priests coming in here, 155 00:16:23,259 --> 00:16:27,679 the only way they can even see what they're doing, the only way that they can even minister to God, 156 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,360 the only way they can know about the truths of God through this worship they were doing 157 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:41,080 was from the lamp, right? The only way is from the light from this lamp. And I think there's 158 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:47,639 something truly profound here where we can't even know a thing about God without seeing him, 159 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:54,480 without seeing Jesus, without his light shining into our lives. Like think about before you were saved, 160 00:16:55,279 --> 00:16:59,639 like all the false things you believed about God, all the false things you believed about 161 00:16:59,639 --> 00:17:04,380 Christianity, how you looked at your life, right? And then when the light of Jesus 162 00:17:04,380 --> 00:17:09,599 shines in your heart, suddenly things make sense, suddenly everything changes, suddenly 163 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,920 you can actually understand God, you see that he's actually good, that he's actually loving, 164 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:20,740 and you can see like this tabernacle made a pure gold and how ornate everything was. This light 165 00:17:20,740 --> 00:17:25,480 just illuminated and you can see the beauty that was actually all around you from the beginning. 166 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,240 And his light, you know, he could have chosen a massive bonfire. You know, if I was God, 167 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,920 I would want everyone to know like the magnificence of like how huge I was, 168 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,839 that I would want like a massive bonfire, a hole in the top of the tent for all the smoke to go out, 169 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:52,319 like, but he said he wanted seven lamps, like seven gentle flames just burning there, burning eternally. 170 00:17:54,460 --> 00:18:01,839 Jesus is both glorious, like this golden lamp stand, but so approachable, right? Like just a 171 00:18:01,839 --> 00:18:08,099 lamp. It wasn't a burning fire that you can't even get close to. It was this gentle light shining. 172 00:18:09,460 --> 00:18:17,880 And you see how Jesus is in the Gospels, like the kids ran up to him, right? The sinners said, 173 00:18:17,980 --> 00:18:25,880 hey, come to my house and he came and would eat with them. Like he was so close and so 174 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:32,960 approachable then, and he was showing that through Leviticus 24, you can come and you can see. 175 00:18:33,819 --> 00:18:38,259 And he's still approachable to this day. Like we're going to see like, okay, when he comes back, 176 00:18:38,420 --> 00:18:44,299 he's going to rip open the sky. He comes in a different way, but he's still approachable right 177 00:18:44,299 --> 00:18:48,059 now. Even to sinners that don't believe in him yet, you can still come to him. There's a day 178 00:18:48,059 --> 00:18:54,039 when you can't. But even today, you can still come to him. But when you have him, 179 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:59,200 when you are in relationship with him, even in the eternal kingdom, even when like he's in his pure 180 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:05,220 glory, we can still approach him because his presence is in us. But I just think about what 181 00:19:05,220 --> 00:19:10,740 the priests probably saw, like as they come into this tabernacle, right? And they're in front of 182 00:19:10,740 --> 00:19:20,460 this light. It would have been so just amazing to see these seven flames 183 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,880 and representing the coming Messiah, right? To think that this is somehow pointing to God, 184 00:19:27,299 --> 00:19:33,819 that even like my breath, these things are moving. That's responding. It's alive. It's active, right? 185 00:19:34,839 --> 00:19:41,819 And then as you look around, you would see the blood. Like everything in this tabernacle had 186 00:19:41,819 --> 00:19:47,380 blood of the sacrifice dipped on it. Even the priests, I don't know how often I forget, 187 00:19:47,380 --> 00:19:51,420 but like they would have to be atoned for too. And when they were consecrated, 188 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:57,119 they had blood on the ear, the thumb and the foot. So when they're in the light of this lamp, 189 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:04,400 they would see the blood. And when we are with Jesus, we see that he makes us holy by his blood. 190 00:20:04,519 --> 00:20:09,619 That is the truth of our confession, right? Like we don't have to be afraid of what's 191 00:20:09,619 --> 00:20:15,559 going to come. We don't have to be afraid of losing our salvation because when we're in 192 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:20,160 his light, he reminds us you're covered in the blood. Everything. You're covered in the blood, 193 00:20:20,279 --> 00:20:27,599 you're made whole. So when they would look around, when they would be in there in the presence of 194 00:20:27,599 --> 00:20:33,960 this light, they would see Jesus if their eyes were open to it. He's just all over this whole 195 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:41,700 entire passage. And I think about 2 Corinthians 4-6. It says, For it is God who commanded 196 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:47,880 light to shine out of darkness, who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge 197 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:55,299 of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. His light shines from who he is, his face. It's not 198 00:20:55,299 --> 00:21:02,759 just his miracles. It's not just his teachings. It's obviously done through his death, burial 199 00:21:02,759 --> 00:21:06,839 and resurrection. That's how we can even enter it. But it's all encompassing who he is, 200 00:21:06,839 --> 00:21:14,819 this eternal Jesus Christ. We see his glory in his face of who he is. Of who he is, 201 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:22,460 he sacrificed himself for us. And we can see and understand him because he is the one who brings 202 00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:28,819 the light to us. Now, I wondered, you know, we talked about seven. There's a lot of 203 00:21:28,819 --> 00:21:34,019 importance to the number seven, right? It's God's number. It's perfection. It's wholeness. 204 00:21:34,980 --> 00:21:41,119 But in light of the fact that oil represents the Holy Spirit throughout the Bible, 205 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:52,240 I thought about seven. And I thought of Isaiah 11. In Isaiah 11, it says it references the Holy 206 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:59,099 Spirit resting on the Messiah, coming and resting on him. And it's in a seven, 207 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:05,539 seven ways that the Spirit is described as a seven fold spirit. His Holy Spirit is one spirit. 208 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:11,700 But this is a describing, a description of him in seven ways. It says the spirit of the Lord 209 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:18,000 will rest on him on Jesus. The spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and 210 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,880 of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of power, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear 211 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:30,940 of the Lord. So here we see the Holy Spirit resting on Jesus, the seven fold aspects of the 212 00:22:30,940 --> 00:22:38,279 Holy Spirit resting on him. And they have seven lamps coming off this menorah. Isn't that powerful? 213 00:22:39,859 --> 00:22:48,599 All of this points to him. And that same Holy Spirit on Pentecost, how does he come? 214 00:22:49,579 --> 00:22:54,220 He comes as tongues of fire, right? There's mighty rushing wind that comes through, 215 00:22:54,359 --> 00:23:01,000 and then these flames just come and rest on each person's head, saying, Hey, Jesus said it himself 216 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,579 in the Gospels, you are the light of the world. He's the light of the world. How are we the 217 00:23:05,579 --> 00:23:12,539 light of the world? We don't deserve that title in any way. But his spirit, because of his 218 00:23:12,539 --> 00:23:17,440 death, he made us pure so we could even receive his spirit. And now we're also lamps like him. 219 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:25,000 Not to the same degree because he is the Messiah, but because of who he is and what he's done, 220 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:32,180 now his spirit can rest on us and fill us. And we can also be lights of the world too. 221 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:39,380 Now there's so much significance to oil. The priests were anointed with oil, the leper 222 00:23:39,380 --> 00:23:43,380 after he's cleansed, which is a picture of us being cleansed of our sin. Man, 223 00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:48,740 he's just dumped with oil. Like this is the anointing of the Holy Spirit. And kings were anointed 224 00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:55,500 with oil and everything in the tabernacle, oil, oil, everywhere. And throughout the Bible, 225 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:03,240 the oil points to the Holy Spirit. And I'm not going to spend a whole study on all that, 226 00:24:03,339 --> 00:24:08,339 and I have a lot more to learn on it as well. But I think about 227 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:15,759 Jesus in this passage and the oil. And I think about the week we just had, right? Holy week. 228 00:24:16,299 --> 00:24:22,339 There's so much significance to the oil in Holy Week that I want to touch on. And it says, 229 00:24:24,859 --> 00:24:31,619 think about, so Jesus comes in on Palm Sunday, right? And everyone's just praising him. 230 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:39,440 And I think part of him might have felt like a little bit happy, but honestly he probably felt 231 00:24:40,220 --> 00:24:47,059 serious weight knowing what he's going through. But also almost I would be offended knowing that, 232 00:24:47,059 --> 00:24:49,960 hey, you're praising me right now, but you're the same people who are going to be saying, 233 00:24:50,059 --> 00:24:55,940 give me the murderer, right? Give me the Barabbas instead and crucify him. So it's almost like, 234 00:24:55,940 --> 00:25:02,740 could you imagine like, your spouse is going to severely hurt you in some way, like emotionally, 235 00:25:03,180 --> 00:25:11,599 whatever, like, you know, the Bible uses marriage and adultery. So let's say your spouse is about 236 00:25:11,599 --> 00:25:16,319 to commit adultery, but they throw you a surprise party like the day before. Be like, okay, I don't 237 00:25:16,319 --> 00:25:21,059 want this party. This isn't like, this isn't really what I want because I know what you're 238 00:25:21,059 --> 00:25:25,539 about to do. And now Jesus is coming to redeem all this. These people, a lot of these 239 00:25:25,539 --> 00:25:29,539 people are going to trust in him. So he sees through that, but can't you see in his humanity 240 00:25:29,539 --> 00:25:34,819 at the same time feeling like, ah, but I know what you're about to do. I know what you're about to do. 241 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,619 And so as he's coming in, he sees the Mount of Olives, which is where he's going to descend, 242 00:25:40,140 --> 00:25:44,220 or ascend, sorry, where he's going to send back into heaven after his crucifixion. 243 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:49,559 And he's just thinking about what he's going to have to go through. And he's riding on a donkey. 244 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:59,299 Right? Well, the way oil is made back then is a millstone would crush the olives into pulp, 245 00:25:59,839 --> 00:26:04,880 and it would be a big millstone in a circle with a big shaft that would go around. 246 00:26:05,759 --> 00:26:10,980 And many times they would use donkeys to pull this, to then crush these olives. 247 00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:16,359 And I just thought, man, the beginning of the crushing started right then, right? 248 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,339 For Jesus, the beginning started as he's riding in on the donkey, 249 00:26:20,799 --> 00:26:26,980 the crushing started. He was already entering into this crucifixion a week out. 250 00:26:28,220 --> 00:26:35,380 And oil, after it was crushed, then heavy slabs of stone were laid on top of the olive, 251 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:41,960 and then all the oil would come out. And Jesus, the night he's being betrayed, 252 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:50,799 is in the Garden of Gethsemane, which means olive press. It literally means olive press. 253 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:56,319 And while Jesus was feeling the weight of what he's about to go through, 254 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,279 the weight of the sin of the world being laid on him while he's perfect, 255 00:27:00,940 --> 00:27:07,140 and the weight of the punishment that we deserved, as it says in the scriptures, 256 00:27:07,140 --> 00:27:13,740 like the wrath of God, the separation of the Father, being buried, and then rising again, 257 00:27:13,839 --> 00:27:18,500 which is the good part, but literally he's thinking about that, and he's in such 258 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:26,000 anguish that drops of blood just come out of him. And I think just like those slabs pushing the 259 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:31,880 oil out, so are Jesus is under the weight of all that and out comes the drops of blood, 260 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:41,000 the pure blood of Jesus. And in that moment, he says, not my will but yours be done, 261 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:49,019 not my will but yours be done. Isn't that the most amazing verse like I've ever read? 262 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:54,539 Like literally he's God, and he's identifying with his humanity of man, I just wish there was 263 00:27:54,539 --> 00:28:00,720 another way, Lord. Like, if there's a way out, Lord, to still redeem the world and 264 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,559 not have to go through this, I want it, but I know there's not. Not what I want in this moment, 265 00:28:05,700 --> 00:28:11,359 but what you want, not my will but yours be done. And then in Isaiah 53 it says, 266 00:28:12,059 --> 00:28:19,059 he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment 267 00:28:19,059 --> 00:28:25,740 that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. By his crushing, 268 00:28:25,740 --> 00:28:32,680 we receive the Holy Spirit. By the crushing of these olives in the Old Testament for the lamps, 269 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:39,480 they got the oil to then light the light. And like we said in Pentecost, because of his crushing, 270 00:28:40,180 --> 00:28:45,059 we can now receive the Holy Spirit which revealed itself through fire and lamps, 271 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:48,519 like essentially you became a human lamp and this fire is on your head. 272 00:28:54,459 --> 00:28:58,940 Lord, we just thank you. Just thank you so much for what you went through. Lord, 273 00:28:59,019 --> 00:29:03,299 we don't want to just brush past this, God, the beauty of your word that pointed to you 274 00:29:03,859 --> 00:29:08,240 from the beginning of time, God. Lord, what you went through, how you were just 275 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:14,440 pressed and crushed down, God, to free us, Lord, and to fill us, Lord. 276 00:29:16,339 --> 00:29:22,200 I mean, honestly, like I'm just amazed by you, Lord. We love you and we just can't 277 00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:27,599 even comprehend how good you truly are, Lord. Amen. 278 00:29:30,059 --> 00:29:33,859 So everyone has the ability to be saved, and this is kind of 279 00:29:34,660 --> 00:29:38,660 pivoting into some interesting topics that I think we could talk about in 280 00:29:39,619 --> 00:29:44,579 in the small groups and stuff, but everyone has the ability to be saved, right? 281 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:49,940 And then we also know, like there's, okay, like, you know, predestination, free will, 282 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:55,940 all this stuff, I think it'd be fun to talk about. But I think it's pretty clear that like 283 00:29:55,940 --> 00:30:00,619 Jesus died for the world and it says he desires all men to be saved, but he foreknew 284 00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:04,680 and he predestined. So he almost knows you're going to choose me 285 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,759 and I am setting up everything to make that happen that you will choose me stay till the end. 286 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,420 So there's predestination involved, but it starts with foreknowledge to know, 287 00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:19,339 okay, this person's choosing me. But Matthew 25, and we could turn there. 288 00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:27,460 We're going to talk a little bit about this topic, but it's not really the point of what 289 00:30:27,460 --> 00:30:36,279 I'm trying to carry, but Matthew 25 is the parable of the wise and foolish virgins, 290 00:30:36,579 --> 00:30:43,579 which they're virgins, but really it's like bridesmaids. So then the kingdom of heaven shall be 291 00:30:43,579 --> 00:30:48,059 likened to 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now, 292 00:30:48,059 --> 00:30:52,859 five of them were wise and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and 293 00:30:52,859 --> 00:30:57,400 took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 294 00:30:58,099 --> 00:31:04,039 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept all of them. And that midnight 295 00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:10,200 a cry was heard, behold the bridegroom is coming, go out to meet him. Then all those virgins 296 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:15,599 arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, give us some of your oil, 297 00:31:15,940 --> 00:31:20,940 for our lamps are going out. But the wise answered saying, no, lest there should not 298 00:31:20,940 --> 00:31:27,059 be enough for us and you, but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves. And while they 299 00:31:27,059 --> 00:31:32,400 went to buy the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, 300 00:31:32,740 --> 00:31:38,759 and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 301 00:31:39,220 --> 00:31:42,539 But he answered and said, assuredly I say to you, I don't know you. 302 00:31:43,079 --> 00:31:48,079 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. 303 00:31:50,319 --> 00:31:57,119 So there's a lot of scripture on both sides to say if you can or can't lose your salvation. Like we 304 00:31:57,119 --> 00:32:03,420 know on the outside, like it says, nothing can separate us from his love. Like no external things 305 00:32:03,420 --> 00:32:08,279 can get in and remove you from him. Not at all, you've been sealed with the Holy Spirit. 306 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,420 But there's plenty of verses that also say you need to hold fast to your confession, 307 00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:18,119 right? You have to. It isn't saying you have to be perfect. It isn't saying never fall into sin. 308 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:23,700 It isn't saying like you can fall out of grace by sin. It's saying it's your confession, 309 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:28,839 like your actual belief. Jesus Christ is Lord and he's coming back for me, right? 310 00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:34,119 Like that is the confession that we have. So Matthew in 24 it says, 311 00:32:34,460 --> 00:32:37,779 but he who endures to the end shall be saved and the gospel of the kingdom will 312 00:32:37,779 --> 00:32:41,240 be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and then the end will come. 313 00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:47,079 So there's the side that nothing could take us away, but there's also plenty of denominations 314 00:32:47,079 --> 00:32:53,900 that believe, well you can walk away, right? And I think in the end, the end is still the same, 315 00:32:54,099 --> 00:32:59,839 but like explanation of what happened is different, right? So we have the side that says 316 00:33:00,779 --> 00:33:04,480 they were never truly saved if they don't hold faster confession to the end. Like if they 317 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,200 renounce their faith, they were never saved, which I can relate to because I'm like, I know 318 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:13,559 Jesus, I love him, I'm never going to renounce my faith ever. So I don't even understand how someone 319 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:19,740 who was saved could. So that side, I'm like 100%, like they were never saved. But then there's 320 00:33:19,740 --> 00:33:24,819 the other side that says things like, you know, Paul's delivering people to Satan because 321 00:33:24,819 --> 00:33:29,779 they blasphemed and they walked away from their faith, but it's all related to your faith and 322 00:33:29,779 --> 00:33:36,099 not like sin, right? But I think the thing that makes things like the clearest, the verse 323 00:33:36,099 --> 00:33:40,759 that I love, so it's, it's, they never were saved or they lost their salvation. We don't 324 00:33:40,759 --> 00:33:47,019 have to totally understand every aspect of that, but Hebrews 10, 22 and 23, if you want to write 325 00:33:47,019 --> 00:33:52,400 it down, it's a great one that I think simplifies things a bit. And it says, let us draw near 326 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:59,299 with a true heart in full assurance of faith. Having our heart sprinkled from an evil conscience 327 00:33:59,299 --> 00:34:04,680 by the blood by Jesus, he's sprinkling our conscience and our heart says making us holy 328 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:11,500 and our bodies washed with pure water. That is Jesus doing that, right? Let it, let us be 329 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:17,219 cleansed. And then it says in verse 23, let us hold fast the confession of our hope 330 00:34:17,219 --> 00:34:23,780 without wavering for he who promises faithful. So he's cleansed us, he's faithful to continue 331 00:34:23,780 --> 00:34:29,599 our faith to the end and we need to hold onto that assurance. That is kind of the end of the 332 00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:37,400 matter for me, right? There's so much hope in that. But in Matthew 25, the thing that I just 333 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:43,360 take away from it is not, oh, the salvation lost or all that, I take away the oil matters. The oil 334 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:50,980 matters so much, right? These, these bridesmaids did have oil to start with and then they ran 335 00:34:50,980 --> 00:34:57,219 out and they didn't bring any extra with them. And then their light went out, their light went 336 00:34:57,219 --> 00:35:00,699 out. What I, what I read about, when I read that, I'm like, okay, that kind of tells me 337 00:35:00,699 --> 00:35:06,000 either they weren't true believers or they, their faith, they literally rejected it, 338 00:35:06,019 --> 00:35:09,900 they had no light left. And then afterwards they wished they didn't give up on it because they 339 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:16,599 saw the bridegroom come. But either way, the, the oil matters so much, right? 340 00:35:19,460 --> 00:35:24,000 And when I think about that, I just think about how desperately I need the oil every day, 341 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:30,179 right? We don't know when he's coming and I want to be living the fullest possible life for him, 342 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:36,219 fully aware of him, fully filled with the Holy Spirit every day. We need it desperately, 343 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:44,139 the continued filling of his Holy Spirit. And I would say it wasn't like these bridesmaids or 344 00:35:44,139 --> 00:35:48,960 virgins were just feeling kind of spiritually dry and then Jesus was like, get out of here, 345 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:55,460 I never knew you. Like I think if you and I tell, like I'm telling you, I've felt spiritually dry 346 00:35:55,460 --> 00:36:01,460 plenty of times. That's a sign that you actually do belong to him. Your light didn't go out, you 347 00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:06,159 just realized, man, I've been away for a bit and I need him. That is a sign. Like take heart if 348 00:36:06,159 --> 00:36:12,380 you feel like, man, I need a fresh feeling. That is proof, proof that you belong to Jesus, 349 00:36:12,799 --> 00:36:18,960 proof that you are his and proof that he's coming back for you, right? And all it means is, hey, 350 00:36:19,019 --> 00:36:25,980 just come back, receive his spirit again, let him wash over you. And so Lord, we just, we thank you, 351 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,840 God, we thank you that your light never goes out, Lord. And even when we're dry, Jesus, you promise 352 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:36,719 to fill us with your Holy Spirit. We just need to be available to you, God. We need to be 353 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:43,719 available. So Lord, we make ourselves available tonight, Lord, and the rest of our lives in Jesus' 354 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:51,480 name. So let's read the next passage on the bread. And I, oh wow, okay, it's already 742. 355 00:36:52,139 --> 00:36:59,500 I talked about the bread a couple weeks ago. Leviticus 24. 356 00:37:03,739 --> 00:37:10,440 Okay. And you shall take fine flour and bake 12 cakes with it. Two tenths of an ephah shall be in each 357 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:16,820 cake. You shall make them in two rows, six in a row, one on the pure gold table before the Lord. 358 00:37:16,980 --> 00:37:22,199 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial 359 00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:26,739 and offering made by fire to the Lord. Every Sabbath he shall set in an order before the 360 00:37:26,739 --> 00:37:31,780 Lord continually being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. And it shall be 361 00:37:31,780 --> 00:37:37,079 for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place for it is most holy to him from the 362 00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:43,539 offerings of the Lord made by fire by perpetual statute. So, you know, we talked about the 363 00:37:43,539 --> 00:37:47,980 goal of the frankincense and the myrrh, pointing to Jesus so beautifully and stuff. And, 364 00:37:49,139 --> 00:37:53,480 you know, the thing I take away from it this time is it's always there. It's forever. 365 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:59,099 Forever this bread is in the presence and every Sabbath they eat it. Every Sabbath, 366 00:37:59,260 --> 00:38:03,179 the thing that was in the presence of God is now in them. And what does that say to me? 367 00:38:04,039 --> 00:38:10,599 In a place of rest, you receive Jesus. You can't strive and earn anything from God. 368 00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:18,199 Literally nothing. These people, the priests were holy because of him, and they received him 369 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,920 on the day of rest. No striving, no working, they just received him. 370 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:29,239 And that's what Jesus does for us. Like we have continued rest, eternal rest with him, 371 00:38:29,380 --> 00:38:34,920 peace with him. And now we rest in God all the time. There's no striving. Now, grace 372 00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:40,860 is anti-earning. It's not anti-effort. We still got to work out our salvation. We need to 373 00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:45,480 progress in our faith. But there's no striving that we can possibly do to ever, 374 00:38:45,619 --> 00:38:48,320 ever, ever earn what Jesus did for us. 375 00:38:51,179 --> 00:38:52,599 Let's talk about blasphemy. 376 00:38:55,059 --> 00:39:00,619 Okay, so verse 10. Now the son of an Israelite woman whose father was in Egyptian went out 377 00:39:00,619 --> 00:39:06,860 among the children of Israel and the Israelite woman son, sorry, and the Israelite woman's son 378 00:39:06,860 --> 00:39:11,760 and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp. And the Israelite woman's son blasphemed 379 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:16,739 the name of the Lord and cursed. And so they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was 380 00:39:16,739 --> 00:39:22,639 Shalameth, the daughter of debris of the tribe of Dan. I love how they provide the information. 381 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:28,400 You know this really happened. Then they put him in custody that the mind of the Lord might be shown 382 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,099 to them. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, take outside the camp him who has cursed, 383 00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:39,260 then let all who hurt him lay their hands on his head and let all the congregations stone him. 384 00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:44,820 Then you shall speak to the children of Israel saying whoever curses his God shall bear his 385 00:39:44,820 --> 00:39:48,679 sin. And whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. 386 00:39:49,219 --> 00:39:56,739 All the congregations shall certainly stone him. And the stranger as well as him who is born in 387 00:39:56,739 --> 00:40:02,059 the land, when he blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall be put to death. Whoever kills any man 388 00:40:02,059 --> 00:40:06,440 shall surely be put to death. Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal. 389 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:14,039 If a man causes disfigurement, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. We're trying to stay on time here. 390 00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:19,539 So then it says, then Moses spoke to the children of Israel and they took outside the camp him who 391 00:40:19,539 --> 00:40:24,559 had cursed and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. 392 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:35,199 So blasphemy, the definition is to speak with contempt about God to be defiantly irreverent. 393 00:40:35,980 --> 00:40:39,940 Blasphemy is a verbal or written reproach of God's name, character, work, or attributes. 394 00:40:41,780 --> 00:40:49,599 This guy saw what God did. This guy sees the fire over the tabernacle, the thing, the pillar of fire 395 00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:55,320 by night, the pillar of cloud by day. Literally, he sees the power of God. He saw, 396 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,400 he had to have seen the plagues, he came out of Egypt. So he saw all the plagues and he knows 397 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:09,039 that God is holy. God is all powerful and yet he curses them. Blasphemy isn't just something 398 00:41:09,039 --> 00:41:15,559 you can just kind of like say by accident. Like maybe some people will like not agree with me, 399 00:41:15,619 --> 00:41:21,179 but what we see in the scripture is like it's born out of, like out of your heart, 400 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,920 your mouth speaks. Yeah, out of your mouth, your heart speaks. One of those two you know 401 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:31,440 I'm trying to say. So this came from his heart and it's a stubborn evil blind heart. He saw God 402 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:37,699 didn't care. He was evil enough to curse him and he is so stubborn that we don't even read 403 00:41:37,699 --> 00:41:43,420 about repentance. Like literally they take him into custody and we don't read a thing about 404 00:41:43,420 --> 00:41:50,679 repentance. And I think God would have forgiven him if he repented because 405 00:41:53,119 --> 00:42:01,619 I see Jesus on the cross, right? On either side of him, on either side of two criminals 406 00:42:02,259 --> 00:42:07,340 and it says in two of the gospels that both blasphemed and cursed him. And then it says 407 00:42:07,859 --> 00:42:13,460 in another gospel that then one blasphemed and then the other said like what are you doing? Like 408 00:42:13,460 --> 00:42:23,940 this is the Son of God essentially. And what happens? I'm going to pull up the actual passage. 409 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:35,059 Did I not say that? But anyway, so he blasphemes then he says to Jesus. He sees Jesus, the light 410 00:42:35,059 --> 00:42:42,280 of the world, the bread of life crucified and he hears Jesus say forgive them, the people who are 411 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,440 crucified for they know not what they do. And in that moment he realized this guy is not from 412 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:51,980 here. This guy isn't from here at all. He's forgiving the people who are wrongfully crucifying 413 00:42:51,980 --> 00:42:58,739 him and the light goes off and he says this is the Messiah I've been waiting for. Like this guy who's 414 00:42:58,739 --> 00:43:04,340 evil who is just blaspheming suddenly realizes and he doesn't even think he deserves it. But 415 00:43:04,340 --> 00:43:10,039 in repentance he says hey remember me when you go to your kingdom. Just remember me. And Jesus says 416 00:43:10,039 --> 00:43:15,519 surely I tell you today you'll be with me in paradise. There's repentance. There's forgiveness. 417 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:23,880 We don't even read here that this guy repented in any way. But Paul he blasphemed. He forced 418 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:29,480 people to Christians to blaspheme and then he becomes one of the biggest spreaders of the 419 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:34,780 gospel. And even Jesus's brothers right they thought he was out of his mind and crazy. The king 420 00:43:34,780 --> 00:43:39,440 tried to pull him out like it's blasphemy like you're crazy Jesus. Like no he's the Son of 421 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:45,920 God. And then later they're forgiven and they walk with him. And they're also part of the early church. 422 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:56,440 So there is always forgiveness in Jesus. Amen. My voice cracking. I'm like 13 years old. 423 00:44:01,159 --> 00:44:05,960 So I don't even know if we have time for this. I'm not going to do it justice. 424 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:11,559 Well we could talk about another time. It was the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit which is a whole 425 00:44:11,559 --> 00:44:20,320 thing in itself. But one thing I do want to say is that this blasphemy right 426 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:28,820 is a sign of a hardened heart. And the Pharisees when they did blaspheme the Holy Spirit 427 00:44:29,780 --> 00:44:36,719 they I believe realized Jesus is from God. And they saw the power and the Holy Spirit of God 428 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:43,380 healing people doing miracle after miracle after miracle right. And then they were just so 429 00:44:43,380 --> 00:44:49,300 angry with him and had so much unbelief that they said hey this spirit is actually Satan. 430 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:51,400 And I think 431 00:44:55,039 --> 00:45:01,139 we see in the Old Testament that that Pharaoh hardened his heart a bunch of times and then it 432 00:45:01,139 --> 00:45:05,480 starts to say God hardened his heart. And there was no place for repentance anymore. 433 00:45:06,059 --> 00:45:10,840 Like he did all the work and then God finally said here you go you can have what you want. 434 00:45:11,119 --> 00:45:16,039 And he dies in the sea when he's chasing the Israelites again after just letting them go. 435 00:45:19,539 --> 00:45:28,519 And you know sorry but yeah so we see that. And these these people if I love how 436 00:45:29,119 --> 00:45:33,739 no one ever asks did you commit the unforgivable sin while you're getting saved right. That would 437 00:45:33,739 --> 00:45:37,840 be the weirdest thing. Like even in the early church after Jesus said this it's not like hey 438 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:42,360 did you commit the unforgivable sin okay then you're allowed in. The fact that you're 439 00:45:42,559 --> 00:45:47,800 coming to Jesus is proof you haven't. Because someone who commits the unforgivable sin 440 00:45:48,359 --> 00:45:52,739 of blaspheming the Holy Spirit is so hardened that they would never even come to a place of 441 00:45:52,739 --> 00:45:57,179 repentance ever. So that's kind of where I want to end that I guess. But 442 00:46:00,940 --> 00:46:08,679 I'm just so thankful Lord just for you. Let's just come around a prayer Lord we just thank you 443 00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:15,119 that while we were still sinners God and we blasphemed you Lord like the criminal and the cross 444 00:46:15,119 --> 00:46:21,539 Lord in a moment Lord all we had to do was turn to you and you forgave and you say I'll see you in 445 00:46:21,539 --> 00:46:28,639 paradise. And Lord we thank you that you are the light of the world you are the bread of life 446 00:46:28,639 --> 00:46:35,760 God we thank you Lord that we can have our souls fed and satisfied by you Lord every single day 447 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:42,079 in a place of rest not striving to be accepted by you Lord because you you did the work of 448 00:46:42,079 --> 00:46:49,519 accepting us into you. Lord now we can rest in you God it is finished and it is done. 449 00:46:50,420 --> 00:46:56,719 And Lord we thank you for your Holy Spirit Lord that you were crushed to give us the oil of the 450 00:46:56,719 --> 00:47:02,900 Holy Spirit Lord like in the Garden of Gethsemane. And we thank you God that you are the 451 00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:06,920 light Lord that shines in us when we don't know what's going on Lord when we feel 452 00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:14,119 confused and we feel just lost Lord when we feel dry God your light shines in and highlights 453 00:47:14,119 --> 00:47:21,500 things that are off highlights truths that we need to remember again God and you cast out 454 00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:27,340 the darkness everywhere you go. And we thank you for your power Lord we thank you for your love 455 00:47:27,940 --> 00:47:32,000 we thank you that you're here tonight and you're going to bless these conversations as we 456 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:37,860 think about you Lord. I pray that Lord that your Holy Spirit would just be all over us and filling us 457 00:47:37,860 --> 00:47:48,480 this week God. In Jesus' name Amen. Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God 458 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:55,099 and discuss his word. 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