Spring Camp Meeting 2017

Were the 10 Commandments Nailed to the Cross?

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Participants: Shelley Quinn

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00:13 Welcome to 3ABN's Spring Camp Meeting 2017:
00:25 Welcome to our 3ABN Spring Camp Meeting.
00:27 We've been blessed so far. Can we all say Amen to that?
00:30 Amen! And I know you're going to be blessed in this program.
00:33 A very important topic: Were the Ten Commandments
00:35 Nailed To The Cross?
00:37 And one of my favorite speakers - Shelley Quinn -
00:41 is going to divide the Word of God in a wonderful way
00:44 so please stay tuned. We know the Lord is going to
00:47 bless you tremendously. She's also going to pray
00:50 and so to give her the time she needs
00:53 because this woman of God knows how to divide the Word of God.
00:58 But we're going to pray for the Spirit of God to be in her life.
01:00 She's going to pray, but you continue to join us in prayer.
01:02 But before she comes to share from what the Lord has to tell
01:07 you today and how God has to lead and guide your life
01:11 we're going to have a song entitled The Power of the Cross
01:15 that's going to be brought to us by Celestine Barry.
01:18 After this song, the very next voice that you hear will be
01:22 that of Shelley Quinn.
01:47 Oh, to see the dawn
01:51 of the darkest day
01:55 Christ on the road to
02:00 Calvary.
02:04 Tried by sinful men,
02:08 torn and beaten then
02:12 nailed to a cross of wood.
02:20 This the power
02:24 of the cross:
02:28 Christ became
02:33 sin for us.
02:37 He took the blame,
02:41 bore the wrath:
02:44 We stand forgiven
02:47 at the cross.
02:59 Oh, to see the pain
03:04 written on Your face
03:08 bearing the awesome
03:13 weight of sin.
03:17 Every bitter thought,
03:21 every evil deed
03:26 crowning Your blood-stained brow!
03:33 This the power
03:37 of the cross:
03:41 Christ became
03:46 sin for us.
03:50 He took the blame,
03:54 bore the wrath:
03:57 We stand forgiven
04:00 at that cross.
04:21 Now the daylight flees,
04:25 now the ground beneath
04:30 Quakes as it's Maker
04:34 bows His head.
04:38 Curtain torn in two,
04:42 dead are raised to life,
04:47 "Finished"
04:49 the victory cry!
04:54 This the power
04:59 of the cross:
05:03 Christ became
05:07 sin for us.
05:11 He took the blame,
05:16 bore the wrath:
05:18 We stand forgiven
05:21 at that cross.
05:34 Oh, to see my name
05:38 written in the wounds
05:42 For through Your suffering
05:47 I am free!
05:51 Death is crushed to death
05:55 and life is mine to live
05:59 Won through Your
06:02 selfless love!
06:07 This the power
06:11 of the cross:
06:15 Son of God,
06:19 slain for us.
06:23 What a love!
06:27 What a cost!
06:30 We stand forgiven
06:33 at
06:36 the cross!
06:49 Ah... thank you so much Celestine!
06:53 Well I am so excited to have the opportunity
06:55 to present to you this hour what I hope will be
06:58 an eye-opening study of scripture...
07:02 one that will challenge an error that has been handed down
07:06 by the tradition of man.
07:09 One that has been received by many Christian circles
07:14 and accepted as truth.
07:16 I grew up believing that the old covenant was a covenant
07:21 of works and that the new covenant
07:24 in contrast was a covenant of grace.
07:26 And I was taught that the Ten Commandments
07:30 were nailed to the cross based on a single scripture:
07:34 Colossians 2:14. Let's look at that scripture.
07:48 Our objective this hour is to determine what was
07:52 and was not nailed to the cross.
07:55 You know, in the year 2000, two years before I became a SDA,
07:59 God led me on a study of the sanctuary
08:03 and His covenants. And this study... it was an
08:07 extensive study. But scripture exposed the counterfeit teaching
08:12 that had been handed down to me.
08:15 I found out that salvation had ALWAYS been by grace
08:20 and that righteousness was ALWAYS by faith
08:23 and that the moral law of God is still very much a part
08:27 of God's covenants.
08:30 It wasn't easy to change my mind.
08:34 Preconceived opinions effectively insulate our mind
08:39 against truth. So what I want to do right now
08:43 is let's pray and ask God to give us open-mindedness.
08:49 Heavenly Father, we come in the name of Jesus
08:52 and Father, we thank you so much for Your grace
08:55 and we thank you, Father, for this Camp Meeting
08:57 and this opportunity today
09:00 to speak about what was nailed to the cross.
09:03 Please send Your Holy Spirit to be our teacher, Lord.
09:06 Just get me out of the way. Speak through me, Father.
09:10 But in the name of Jesus I pray for everyone who is in
09:14 this audience or watching by TV, Internet, or on the radio, Lord.
09:18 Please give us open-mindedness
09:22 and give us ears to hear the truth that Your Holy Spirit
09:27 gives to us. In Jesus' holy name we pray. Amen. Amen!
09:33 To understand what was nailed to the cross
09:35 what we need to do is understand the progression
09:40 of God's covenants. So what we're going to do
09:43 in this hour is very ambitious.
09:46 We're going to take a rapid and sweeping review
09:51 of God's covenants. And in a race against the clock
09:54 we're not going to have time to look up every scripture.
09:57 So the scriptures will be on the side screens.
10:00 What we're going to do is answer three questions.
10:03 What is a covenant?
10:05 What was the purpose of God's covenants?
10:07 And what is the progression of God's everlasting covenant?
10:13 Now please don't get over- whelmed by the details
10:17 of this. What I'm asking you to do today
10:19 is sit back and see the pattern that develops.
10:23 See the big picture...
10:25 because until we see the big picture we're not going to
10:28 understand God's purposes
10:31 and His progression of HIS covenants.
10:34 In answer to our first question
10:36 a covenant is an oath-bound promise.
10:40 It is a solemn pledge to bless or serve another person
10:44 in a specific way. And God is the author
10:48 of the covenant concept.
10:50 He began it in the Garden of Eden.
10:53 In the Old Testament times people adopted and copied
10:58 that covenant concept. And with people, with human concepts
11:04 there are one of two types.
11:06 They were either bilateral where you had 2 parties involved
11:10 like a treaty or a contract or a partnership.
11:13 Or they were unilateral where there was only one person
11:18 involved. This would be a will or a testament.
11:22 Now this might surprise you -
11:24 at least some of you, particu- larly if you're watching by TV -
11:27 but ALL of God's covenants are unilateral.
11:32 Every single one of God's covenants is unilateral.
11:36 God is the only One who is making the promises.
11:40 Now sometimes His promises are unconditional.
11:43 Like to Noah He promised He would never flood the earth
11:46 again. Unconditionally.
11:48 To David He promised that David would always have a descendant
11:52 upon the throne. Unconditional promise.
11:55 But on other occasions God's promise-keeping is conditional.
11:59 It is conditioned upon a response
12:02 of mutual cooperation.
12:05 He requires faith to receive His promises.
12:09 Humans can only enter in into covenant with God
12:13 by accepting His offer with a response of trust
12:18 and faith and gratitude...
12:20 willingly submitting to the conditional terms that God
12:24 has set. We express our cove- nant loyalty and love to Him
12:30 by keeping covenant as He commands.
12:33 And within covenant context obedience is always
12:38 the pathway to blessings.
12:40 Now let me do a little sidebar here
12:42 because I know there are people who've been taught
12:44 the old covenant was bilateral.
12:47 That the people were making a covenant with God;
12:50 He was making a covenant with them.
12:52 I want to prove to you that God's covenants were
12:55 unilateral. We're going to look at a little language study.
12:59 What was the Old Testament written in? What language?
13:02 Hebrew. In the Hebrew the word for covenant is
13:07 beriyth. It means to fetter, to bind, to bond
13:11 and to obligate yourself.
13:14 It is used 280 times in the Old Testament.
13:17 Now two to three centuries before Jesus
13:20 the Old Testament was trans- lated from Hebrew into Greek.
13:26 That translation is called the Septuagint.
13:29 And you may have noticed sometimes it'll have LXX
13:33 for the Septuagint? That Roman numeral 70
13:37 is used because there were seventy Jewish scholars
13:41 who began the work of the Septuagint.
13:43 And these 70 scholars translated the first five books
13:47 of Moses. And when they translated this
13:51 every single time these 70 Jewish scholars
13:55 used the word in the Greek that means unilateral.
14:01 Let me explain.
14:03 In the Greek there are 2 words. One is suntheke.
14:06 Suntheke: this is when you have two parties
14:10 involved in the covenant. There's 2 terms in the Greek
14:14 for covenant. Suntheke is when there's two parties involved.
14:19 But diatheke is when there's only one person
14:23 involved like a will or a testament.
14:26 And these Jewish scholars used the word diatheke
14:30 every single time for all of God's covenants.
14:34 Now that's significant because it shows us
14:38 that all of God's covenants were unilateral.
14:42 And then in the New Testament - and by the way,
14:45 the Septuagint is quoted often in the New Testament
14:47 particularly by Paul, who was also a Jewish scholar...
14:51 But in the New Testament
14:53 any time that any of the writers
14:57 spoke of God's covenants - both the old and the new -
15:01 they used the same Greek word diatheke.
15:05 This is the word the Holy Spirit inspired them to use
15:09 to describe God's covenants.
15:12 So God is the One doing the promises.
15:16 So what is the purpose of God's covenants?
15:19 The unifying theme of scripture is that our Creator God
15:24 is a covenant maker and a covenant keeper.
15:27 This is how He defines and establishes His relationship
15:31 with mankind throughout all the ages.
15:34 And the heart of God is always seen in His covenants
15:38 because He is saying: "I will be their God
15:41 and they will be My people. "
15:44 God's covenants contain His promises for people
15:48 who are willing to enter into an intimate relationship
15:51 with Him... and that's why we were created!
15:54 We were created to enjoy a relationship
15:58 of love and mutual trust
16:00 and one of unbroken fellowship with God.
16:04 But fellowship with God requires what?
16:08 Holiness. Fellowship with God requires holiness.
16:12 We have to be set apart from sin.
16:14 So when humans disobeyed sin fractured this relationship
16:20 but it didn't catch God by surprise.
16:23 Before the beginning of time God determined
16:27 to have this bond of intimacy with His people.
16:31 How? Through His covenant of grace.
16:34 Let's look at II Timothy chapter 1 and verse 9.
16:38 II Timothy 1:9.
17:00 Grace was given to us in Christ before time began.
17:04 Revelation 13:8 says Jesus is:
17:11 His blood is the blood of the everlasting covenant...
17:15 the covenant of redemption by grace
17:17 established by God before time began.
17:20 Christ came to redeem us and restore us
17:24 to fellowship with God. He's the everlasting gospel...
17:29 that one gospel that has abided throughout the ages
17:32 from Adam and Eve onward.
17:35 And God's covenants are the progressive revelation,
17:40 the unfolding of His one eternal plan
17:45 of salvation by grace in Christ Jesus.
17:48 Let me repeat that.
17:50 God's covenants are the progressive revelation,
17:55 the unfolding of one eternal plan
17:59 of salvation by grace in Christ Jesus.
18:02 Righteousness has ALWAYS been by faith.
18:06 The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah called God
18:10 "the Lord, our righteousness. "
18:12 The Old Testament prophet Isaiah said that "our righteousness
18:16 is nothing but filthy rags before Him. "
18:19 And you know, it is amazing to me that salvation
18:23 has always been by grace because the Old Testament
18:27 and the New Testament said "sal- vation belongs to the Lord. "
18:32 In the Old Testament there is a word - a Hebrew word -
18:37 that is the equivalent for grace.
18:40 And I'm surprised we don't teach on this word more.
18:43 But it is hesed... H-E-S-E-D.
18:47 Let's look at this definition of hesed
18:50 that is used 240 times in the Old Testament.
19:19 This is a rich word that you should add to your vocabulary.
19:23 Grace? People say: "Oh, there was no grace
19:25 in the Old Testament. " Two hundred and forty times
19:28 it's speaking of hesed, which shows us God's character
19:32 and His grace. So let's take a quick look
19:35 at the progression of God's covenants.
19:38 His covenant with Adam and Eve. They were created in His image;
19:42 His moral character was imprinted upon them.
19:45 They knew His love, they knew His will. There was only one
19:49 commandment that was needed and that was: "Do not eat
19:52 from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. "
19:55 In other words, don't try to be your own God.
19:58 Don't try to determine for yourself what is good
20:01 and what is evil.
20:03 And then God said: "If you eat, you're going to die. "
20:07 But Satan said: "Oh no, you won't die...
20:10 you'll be like God. " And they were deceived
20:14 by Satan and they disobeyed God.
20:17 And the curse of sin came on them and they lost
20:21 their covering of light... that Shekinah glory
20:24 that was from the Lord. And they realized they were naked
20:28 and for the first time in their life they experienced guilt
20:32 and fear and they recognized their need for grace.
20:37 And grace was put into action the moment man sinned.
20:42 God by grace killed a lamb to provide the covering
20:46 for their sin and their nakedness.
20:48 And He established the substitutionary system
20:51 of sacrifices to obtain forgiveness of sin.
20:55 It's obvious that Adam and Eve passed this knowledge on
20:58 throughout the generations. We see with Cain and Abel
21:01 and the others. But the animal's death
21:04 foreshadowed the substitution- ary death, the redemptive work
21:10 of Jesus Christ. Now let's look at Genesis 3:15.
21:13 God announced the everlasting covenant of grace
21:16 in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3:15.
21:29 The Seed of the woman we are told repeatedly in the
21:32 New Testament was whom? Jesus Christ!
21:36 He is the One who would win the victory over evil.
21:40 He is the One who would destroy sin and restore paradise.
21:45 Now the covenant progressed to Abraham.
21:49 God promised Abraham that he would be the father
21:52 of a multitude and that all the nations
21:56 would be blessed through his Seed...
21:59 which Paul told the Galatians that descended Seed was
22:03 Jesus Christ. Let's look at Genesis 15:6.
22:06 We're going to look at the Amplified version.
22:09 Genesis 15:6. "And he - Abraham -
22:14 believed in... " And in the Amplified what you
22:19 see in the parenthesis is explaining the word before.
22:24 So to believe in in the Hebrew meant
22:27 to trust in, rely on, remain steadfast to the Lord.
22:31 "And He... " God... "counted it to him... "
22:35 He accounted it to Abraham... "as righteousness. "
22:39 As right-standing with God.
22:41 So the progressive revelation of God's covenant of grace
22:45 is that you would be justified by faith.
22:50 And Abraham was justified 14 years before he was circumcised.
22:55 Now let's look at Hebrews 11:8.
22:57 Hebrews 11:8.
23:10 The everlasting covenant of grace, this unilateral
23:13 covenant: God made all the promises
23:16 emphasizing what He would do.
23:19 But it was conditioned on faith.
23:22 It was conditioned on trusting in and relying on
23:25 and steadfastly following God's guidance.
23:29 Because of God's promised covenant blessings
23:32 Abraham obeyed. He left his countrymen,
23:35 his kindred. He even was ready to offer up Isaac
23:38 when he was tested. But he maintained covenant loyalty
23:42 to God. And obedience was his response of love
23:47 and appreciation for God's covenant blessings.
23:51 Now God takes Abraham's covenant after his death
23:54 and He renews it with Abraham's son Isaac.
23:59 Let's look at Genesis 26 verses 4 and 5.
24:03 God is speaking to Isaac, and God says in Genesis 26:4-5:
24:28 Abraham was justified by faith through grace.
24:32 The covenant blessings, though, were conditioned upon obedience
24:37 to God's voice. There was no written word at the time
24:40 of Abraham. Abraham spoke with God face to face
24:44 and he knew the principles of God's government.
24:47 He knew God's Ten Commandment law
24:50 and it is obvious that knowledge was passed from generation
24:54 to generation. When we look at the record of Genesis
24:57 we see that all of God's people knew His Ten Commandments.
25:00 For example, think about Joseph.
25:03 He knew he would be sinning against God to commit adultery
25:07 with Potiphar's wife. Jacob knew that it was a sin
25:11 to have idols in his camp and he got rid of them.
25:14 But now during the course of time what happened
25:16 to Abraham's descendants? They went into slavery.
25:20 They were in bondage in Egypt for 400 years...
25:24 just as God had said would happen.
25:26 And when they're there they cry out for deliverance
25:30 to God, and Exodus 2:24 says:
25:33 "God remembered His everlasting covenant. "
25:37 He remembered His promises to Abraham.
25:41 And God desired to share the very same covenant
25:47 relationship with the children of Israel.
25:50 Let's look at Exodus chapter 6 verses 2 through 7.
25:54 Exodus chapter 6 beginning with verse 2:
26:18 Now Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were familiar with the name
26:21 Jehovah or Lord, but they did not know by experience,
26:26 knowing that... seeing God as a covenant keeper
26:31 because they died before they saw the promises.
26:35 So now, speaking to Moses in verse 4 He says:
26:58 Any time you see therefore in scripture
27:00 or the word so this is a bridge
27:03 bridging what's just been said to what's coming.
27:23 In gracious hesed God powerfully redeemed Israel
27:28 bringing all of these judgments on Egypt.
27:32 And you know, after 400 years as slaves
27:35 in a pagan country where they practiced idolatry
27:39 God's people... it had been difficult for them to worship
27:44 as God had prescribed.
27:45 Over time they lost much of their understanding
27:49 of God's principles. But God graciously delivered them
27:53 from the bondage of slavery. He saved them
27:57 before they measured up to His moral standards.
28:02 Do you get that?
28:03 God saved Israel BEFORE they were walking
28:09 in obedience to Him in perfect obedience.
28:11 That was not the pre- condition of their salvation.
28:15 He delivered them through the Red Sea.
28:18 He brought them to the Mount of Sinai.
28:21 They were to be His covenant people
28:24 and enjoy the riches of the blessings and the inheritance
28:27 of Abraham. Let's look at Exodus 19.
28:32 Exodus 19:3-8.
29:29 He's relating back to His covenant with Abraham.
29:32 where He said to Abraham: "In you all the families
29:35 of the earth will be blessed. "
29:49 Now what had God commanded Moses to tell the people?
29:53 Simply: "Hey! I have saved you;
29:56 I have redeemed you in covenant love.
29:58 Now if you respond in covenant loyalty
30:01 by listening to My voice and walking in My ways
30:04 You're going to be My special treasure.
30:07 You're going to help Me spread the everlasting gospel. "
30:11 As Creator and Redeemer God wanted to establish
30:16 an intimate relationship with Israel.
30:19 He pledged His benevolence and protection
30:22 in exchange for their loyalty.
30:25 And the people responded I believe appropriately
30:29 pledging their covenant loyalty.
30:32 The people agreed to enter into covenant relationship
30:37 with God before He ever spoke the Ten Commandments
30:41 from the mountain. And this covenant was to be conditioned
30:45 upon hearing His voice. And obedience was to be
30:49 their appreciation for the sal- vation they'd already received,
30:53 an expression of their covenant relationship.
30:58 Now next in the history God now requires the people
31:04 to consecrate themselves.
31:07 He's going to appear on the mountain and He tells Moses:
31:11 "You tell them to consecrate themselves. "
31:13 The people had no sense of their own sinfulness
31:16 and they had no sense of God's glory and His holiness.
31:21 He needs to remind them that He is a holy God.
31:26 So He begins His "shock and awe" campaign
31:31 coming down on the mountain with thundering and lightning's.
31:36 And this is a pyrotechnic display of God.
31:40 And the mountain quakes and the trumped sounded loud
31:44 and long. This was all simply to humble the people
31:49 that they might revere the Lord
31:52 and to provide them a sense of His nearness
31:56 and His power to help them overcome sin.
32:00 But as the people trembled in the awe-inspiring presence
32:04 of God, God speaks Ten Command- ments to the entire nation
32:09 beginning with this preamble of love.
32:13 Let's look at Exodus 20 verses 1 and 2.
32:26 In other words: "I am your Redeemer.
32:29 I am the One who saved you. " Then God speaks
32:33 ten words... at least that's what it's called
32:36 in the Hebrew: aseret hadevarim.
32:40 And in the Greek it's called The Decalogue, which also means
32:43 ten words. Now it's interesting that we translate it
32:48 into English as commandments.
32:51 And the reason we do is the syntax, word arrangement,
32:55 indicates that these are commandments.
33:00 But the Ten Commandments were written in the future tense
33:05 which indicates that they are promises of God.
33:10 What was God saying? He is saying
33:13 "I am the Lord your God. I saved you; I redeemed you.
33:16 And I promise you, you'll have no other gods before Me.
33:20 You will not make idols and bow down to them.
33:23 You're not going to take My name in vain.
33:25 You will remember the Sabbath. You'll be excited
33:28 to come and spend this time with Me.
33:31 You will honor your mother and father.
33:33 You won't commit murder.
33:35 You're not going to commit adultery.
33:36 You're not going to steal.
33:38 You will not bear false testimony.
33:41 You will not covet. " Why?
33:43 Because that's what being in covenant relationship
33:48 with Me will be like. I am your Redeemer.
33:53 I am the One who will keep you from sin. "
33:56 The Ten Commandments revealed God's character.
34:01 The Ten Commandments revealed the people's sinfulness
34:07 but it also revealed their need for a Savior
34:12 and for the grace of God to meet His covenant moral standards.
34:17 So let's look at the rest of the timeline on the mountain.
34:21 The awe-struck assembly are shaking in their boots right now
34:26 and they ask Moses to be their go-between...
34:29 to be their mediator.
34:31 Did you know that this really disappointed Moses?
34:33 He knew... Oh, you guys didn't get it!
34:36 In Exodus 20:20 he said: "Oh, no, no, no...
34:39 do not fear for God has come to test you
34:43 that His fear may be before you. That His reverence
34:47 may be before you that you may not sin. "
34:51 Moses understood God's "shock and awe" campaign
34:54 on the mount. He understood God's character.
34:57 But the people still wanted Moses to be the go-between.
35:00 So he goes back up the mountain and God speaks to Moses
35:05 alone and He gives him words of a special covenant for Israel.
35:09 This covenant constituted the nation of Israel
35:14 as a theocracy. These words consecrated the nation,
35:19 set them apart for God.
35:21 And did you know that the Old Testament prophets
35:24 considered the old covenant as the marriage of Israel to God?
35:30 They believed that now God... the people would worship
35:34 and obey the Lord alone.
35:36 The principle of the covenant was simple: "Be holy
35:39 for I am holy. " And the purpose of the covenant
35:42 was: "As a holy nation I will use you to influence
35:47 the world. " There are five com- ponents in the Mosaic covenant.
35:52 Certainly the moral law, which was spoken before Moses went up
35:56 the mountain, but certainly the Ten Commandments.
35:59 The moral law was the heart of the covenant.
36:02 I think of it as the Bill of Rights for this new nation.
36:05 It called the redeemed to respond to the grace
36:10 that they experienced in salvation with a covenant
36:13 commitment first to God and then to the covenant community.
36:17 The first four commandments protect God's rights
36:21 as the covenant Lord... as their Creator and Redeemer.
36:24 And the last six protect the civil rights of the
36:28 covenant community.
36:29 Now the second component were civil laws.
36:32 These laws dictated the relationship with each other.
36:37 And these were ordinances and statutes for their civil
36:42 society but I guarantee you the judicial arrangements
36:46 for God's people were certainly far superior to anything
36:51 that were known at the time. And in fact it has become
36:56 the grand model that underlies much of modern legislation.
37:00 Thirdly, there were the ceremonial laws.
37:04 God spoke the ceremonial laws, the religious ordinances
37:08 dictating the worship. And Moses received a good portion
37:11 of the ceremonial law then on Mt. Sinai.
37:14 This expanded the existing system of sacrifices
37:19 and God added the annual Sabbaths,
37:22 these feast days and different things that foreshadowed
37:27 Christ's work. Now the fourth component
37:31 of the Mosaic covenant was God's righteous judgments
37:35 against lawbreakers. But the fifth component
37:39 is something we don't talk about much.
37:42 Those judgments were followed by the promises of God
37:47 as their King to undertake their guidance and their protection
37:53 by the provision of a special angel.
37:57 What does the word angel mean?
37:59 Messenger! So God had a messenger of the covenant
38:04 that was going to go with the people.
38:06 Let's look at Exodus 23 verses 20 and 21.
38:10 Exodus 23:20-21.
38:32 The messenger of the covenant was a manifestation of the
38:36 person of Jesus Christ. Many scholars believe this
38:40 including the widely-accepted scholar Matthew Henry.
38:45 Because all that was said about this angel
38:48 was attributed to the Lord.
38:51 So the covenant expectancy was that they would obey
38:58 and walk in obedience to Christ's guidance
39:02 and then the Lord would fulfill His good and gracious promises.
39:05 All right, turn in your Bibles to Exodus 24.
39:08 I want you to see this. Exodus 24.We're going to look
39:11 at verse 3 through 8.
39:13 Moses had been up on the mountain.
39:15 God had spoken the special terms of a temporary covenant
39:19 for Israel. And now Moses has come down the mountain.
39:23 Let's look at Exodus 24 beginning with verse 3:
40:28 Did you know that the Book of the Covenant is the
40:31 first-mentioned book of the written Word of God?
40:36 The Book of the Covenant is the first-mentioned word
40:40 of the written Word of God.
40:43 The people heard the covenant terms twice
40:46 and they had full understanding. But without one dissenting voice
40:51 they said: "All that the Lord has said we will do. "
40:54 You know, it shows to me two things.
40:57 First of all they were completely ignorant
41:00 of their own sinful condition.
41:03 And they were so self-confident that they could do this
41:06 in their own strength. But the ready acceptance of the terms
41:12 shows me that the Ten Commandments
41:15 were not new moral principles.
41:18 This was just sanctioning what was familiar to them.
41:22 The Ten Commandments - the principles of God's love -
41:26 were known to all generations through oral tradition.
41:30 And the civil laws must have appealed to their consciences
41:33 fair and right doing.
41:34 The ceremonial laws must have seemed like reasonable service
41:37 to the Lord so they say: "Sure! All that the Lord has
41:40 said we will do. " And immediately after ratifying
41:44 the covenant Moses goes back up the mountain
41:46 for 40 days and 40 nights. And God says to him
41:49 in Exodus 25 and verse 8...
41:52 Exodus 25:8:
41:54 "Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. "
41:57 He wanted to be with His people; He wanted to
42:00 bless them and forgive them. And the sanctuary
42:03 was the theology of grace in a physical form.
42:07 The services of the sanctuary were God's remedy for sin
42:13 and the substitutionary death was the foundation
42:16 of God's covenants because God's holiness and justice
42:22 are behind His covenants. Holiness and justice
42:25 demand that guilty sinners die.
42:28 So either the sinner or the substitute had to die.
42:31 Then God tells Moses in Exodus 25 and verse 16:
42:42 The Testimony of God is His Ten Commandments!
42:46 Then God writes these Ten Commandments - Amen!
42:49 and He gives them to Moses. Moses goes down the mountain
42:53 and what does he find? The people have already broken
42:55 the covenant. They have fashioned a golden calf.
42:59 They've got a pagan worship orgy going on.
43:02 So in righteous anger Moses breaks that, but then God
43:06 tells him in Exodus 34:1:
43:19 So God engraves these the second time
43:22 and Moses puts them on the inside of the ark.
43:25 That's significant because the ark was the throne of God.
43:29 This... stone shows permanency,
43:31 so this was the foundation of God's government.
43:37 The mercy seat was over it, though, 'cause mercy always
43:40 triumphs judgment. So it was the third month
43:43 after the exodus from Egypt that Moses wrote
43:47 the Book of the Covenant. And then in the ninth month
43:50 after the tabernacle was done he wrote Leviticus.
43:54 And in Leviticus this is the book of the priests
43:58 basically. This was supplemental.
44:00 It wasn't in the covenant terms... it was supplemental
44:04 and it had the ritual directions. It also had
44:07 the dietary laws and other health things
44:11 that were just an expansion of what God had already told Noah.
44:15 But 39 years later on the plains of Moab
44:19 Moses repeats and reinforces this Book of the Covenant.
44:24 And this is what is written in Deuteronomy.
44:29 Turn to Deuteronomy 31 24 through 26.
44:34 Moses now... They've been wandering for 40 years.
44:39 So now Moses before he dies
44:41 he addresses the people several times
44:43 and he expands the terms of the Book of the Covenant
44:48 and he writes it in what they call the Book of the Law.
45:15 This Book of the Law... the handwriting of Moses.
45:19 Now people confuse the Book of the Law
45:22 and the law of Moses. The law of Moses was what?
45:26 The first five books of the Old Testament.
45:30 But the Book of the Law was what was written in Deuteronomy.
45:35 Let me show you this from Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
45:57 So here it is on the side of the pocket...
46:00 the side pocket of the ark as a witness against them.
46:04 But, oh, don't despair, Israel, because by grace
46:09 everything about the sacrificial system points to Jesus Christ.
46:15 And this Mosaic covenant was so needed because
46:22 it helped man as a preparatory work
46:25 to understand his sin and God's holiness.
46:27 It was intended to awaken their desire for knowing God
46:32 and to bring them to Christ. The purpose of the old covenant
46:35 was to get them to accept salva- tion by grace through faith.
46:41 So now, this Book of the Law
46:44 in Deuteronomy was always meant to be temporary.
46:48 Paul said that it was added
46:51 "until the Seed to whom the promise was made
46:57 would come. " Who's he speaking of?
46:59 Who's that Seed? Jesus! Let's look at Isaiah 42:6.
47:03 I've gotta get this in. This is a Messianic prophecy
47:06 about Jesus. Isaiah 42 verse 6.
47:24 JESUS is God's everlasting covenant of grace!
47:28 He fulfills all of the covenants.
47:31 He's the Seed of the woman; the Seed of Abraham.
47:33 He's the end goal of the Mosaic covenant.
47:36 He is the King, the descendant of David,
47:39 who will sit on the throne forever.
47:41 He's the Alpha and the Omega of God's progressive covenants
47:46 of salvation by grace and righteousness by faith.
47:50 And here is our question:
47:53 we... the new covenant is unilateral just like the old.
47:56 It is conditional just like the old, is it not?
48:00 The new covenant is conditioned on accepting Christ
48:03 as our Savior and walking in living faith in Him.
48:08 But are the Ten Commandments still the foundation of God's
48:11 government? Are they the heart of the old
48:13 as they were the heart... the heart of
48:17 the new covenant as they were the heart of the old covenant?
48:20 Let's look at Hebrews chapter 8 verse 8.
48:24 Hebrews 8, we'll start with 8.
48:51 God found fault with the people of the old covenant.
48:55 Israel's sad history of dis- obedience and covenant breaking
48:59 continued, and they twisted and distorted
49:02 His... obedience to His law as a means of salvation.
49:06 And they would rigorously follow the ceremonial regulations
49:12 but they would break the moral laws.
49:15 They were satisfied with external religion.
49:18 Are we? God desires His children to be one with Him
49:23 in spirit and in mind so He writes His commandments
49:27 on our heart that we will be like Jesus
49:30 and delight to do His will.
49:33 Jesus! Let's look at Hebrews chapter 7.
49:38 Hebrews chapter 7. I want you to look at verse 22
49:43 and - boy - underline this one.
49:45 Hebrews 7, we'll look at 22, 24, and 25.
50:18 Now pay attention: Jesus is surety
50:24 to us for God's covenant obligations.
50:29 All of God's promises are yes and amen in Christ Jesus.
50:33 So Jesus is our surety
50:36 that all of God's promises are ours.
50:39 But Jesus is our surety for us.
50:43 Jesus is our guarantor
50:47 that we will meet our covenant obligations to God.
50:53 That's why Paul can write in Philippians and say:
50:57 "Hey, it is God who works in you to will and to do.
51:01 He will complete the good work that He has begun in you. "
51:04 Jesus is our surety!
51:08 It is impossible for a holy and righteous God,
51:12 our Creator, to take into His fellowship those who don't
51:16 walk in obedience. But the new covenant provides
51:20 a guarantee for obedience because Christ is our surety.
51:26 Christ undertakes the fulfillment of God's part
51:31 and our part. He gives us a new heart.
51:34 He puts His Spirit within us
51:36 and He causes us to be what He calls us to do...
51:39 to be. Jesus' death on the cross as our substitute
51:44 brought the new covenant in and made the old covenant obsolete.
51:51 The old covenant was ratified with the blood of an animal
51:54 that was symbolic of Jesus.
51:56 But the new covenant was ratified with the precious
52:01 lifeblood of Jesus Christ. Amen!
52:04 When He initiated the Lord's Supper Christ said
52:07 "This cup is the new covenant in My blood
52:11 which was shed for you. "
52:13 So Christ's death on the cross ushered in the new covenant.
52:17 Christ - our new covenant - nailed the old covenant
52:22 to the cross. The Book of the Law
52:26 from Deuteronomy and all of its supplemental ceremonial
52:30 laws that are found in Leviticus...
52:33 If the Book of the Law, Deuter- onomy, is nailed to the cross,
52:36 then Leviticus, those ceremonial laws have no purpose.
52:40 But not the health law... because the health law
52:44 in Leviticus wasn't part of the ceremonial law.
52:46 So the Book of the Law was on the side of the ark.
52:50 The handwriting of require- ments written by Moses
52:54 on a scroll, this temporary covenant
52:58 that had the symbolic rituals, sacrifices, ceremonial Sabbaths,
53:04 food and drink offerings: all pointed to Christ.
53:07 They were a shadow of things to come, a witness against them.
53:11 So let's look at our subject text one more time.
53:15 Colossians chapter 2. We'll begin in verse 14.
53:19 But I want to show you in context because people
53:22 confuse this so much. We're going to read through verse 17.
53:26 Colossians 2:14-17.
54:11 Food and drink offerings
54:14 that were in the book of Deuteronomy.
54:17 Part of the ritual... the ceremonial ritual.
54:21 Annual Sabbaths that pointed to Christ
54:26 and the work that He would do.
54:28 Is there any question that the Book of the Law
54:31 was nailed to the cross?
54:33 Now let's look at a parallel passage.
54:35 My time is nearly done.
55:16 Christ fulfilled the prophetic symbolism:
55:21 the sacrificial and ceremonial system.
55:24 His death abolished the ceremonial law.
55:29 The question: What was nailed to the cross?
55:32 As our ultimate substitutionary sacrifice
55:37 bringing an old covenant to the end
55:40 Christ had humanity's sin imputed to Him.
55:44 He paid our penalty.
55:47 Look at I Peter chapter 2 and verse 24.
55:52 I Peter 2:24.
56:10 Our sin and the old covenant,
56:15 the sacrificial, ceremonial, and civil laws,
56:20 like "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"
56:24 were nailed to the cross
56:27 but not the Ten Commandments.
56:31 The Ten Commandments are the foundation of God's government!
56:37 They are the heart of the old and the new covenant.
56:41 Christ died for our sins.
56:43 And let's look at I John 3:4
56:45 if we want to know what sins Christ died for.
57:09 Christ's death proved... PROVED!
57:14 that the Ten Commandments are unchangeable.
57:18 It was not the commandments that were nailed to the cross.
57:22 Because if God planned to do away
57:27 with the Ten Commandments
57:28 then Jesus Christ died in vain.


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