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00:09 Amen! Welcome back. We are here live
00:12 taking your questions with the Sabbath School panel. 00:15 It's always a privilege to open up the Word of God 00:17 and to study together. And we love to interact with you! 00:21 You are our 3ABN family. The questions are already 00:26 coming in and they've been coming in as we've been doing 00:28 the Sabbath School panel. And just want to remind you 00:31 if you have a question that you would like answered 00:33 by this panel just text us right now at: 00:40 That number again is: 00:44 And we would love to answer YOUR questions 00:47 and we will do this in as "expeditious" manner 00:51 as we can... meaning we will try to open up the Word of God 00:53 and share from it well and Biblically 00:56 but we will try to do it in as timely a manner as possible 00:59 so we can get to as many of your questions... 01:02 Pastor Ryan Day, Shelley Quinn, Pastor John Dinzey, 01:06 and Pastor John Lomacang. And let's just pray 01:08 before we go to this portion with the questions, 01:10 and Shelley, would you pray for us? Absolutely! 01:13 Father, once again we come before You in the name of Jesus 01:16 to thank you for Your plan of salvation by grace. 01:20 To thank you for all things, Lord, that You do for us. 01:25 And Lord, we ask right now 01:27 that as we have these questions coming in 01:32 Lord, please... will You give us the answers? 01:36 Anoint our lips; anoint our minds; 01:40 anoint our ears to hear 01:42 and help us to give proper answers in our limited time 01:48 that will lift up Jesus. Yes! 01:52 And we pray in the name of Jesus 01:54 that You will get all the glory. 01:57 Amen. AMEN! Amen. 01:59 Pastor John, we're coming to you first. 02:01 OK. This one is from May, and this question came in from 02:03 Canada, so thank you, May, for this question. 02:05 I know that the fourth commandment in Exodus 20 02:08 clearly refers to the seventh day of the week 02:11 as it mentions working for six days before resting on 02:13 the seventh day. Can you please explain 02:16 the other Sabbaths such as the Jubilee? 02:19 I know we were just in one in 2020. 02:21 Explain the significance and how to encourage or correct 02:24 others about the covenant when it comes to the Sabbath. 02:27 That's quite a loaded question. 02:29 Yeah. Leviticus as a matter of fact... If you go to 02:31 Leviticus chapter 23... 02:32 Let's go there very quickly 02:35 and you'll find that the Sabbaths are all outlined 02:38 in the book of Leviticus very carefully. 02:42 But since you brought up the question about the Jubilee 02:45 I'll quickly refer to the passage in Leviticus chapter 25 02:50 and verse 13. Now each of these Sabbaths 02:54 had a significance when it came to the ceremonial 02:58 observances. There was a civil calendar; 03:01 there was a religious calendar. 03:03 And the Jewish people... Each of these ceremonies 03:06 had a spiritual significance. 03:08 The one we know well is the Day of Atonement. 03:11 At-one-ment. So once again sealing that relationship with 03:15 God, the removal and the blotting out of sins. 03:17 But the Jubilee was the returning of the land 03:20 to the rightful owner. If you go to Leviticus chapter 25 03:24 and let's look at verse 13 03:26 it talks about the law of the Jubilee or the Jubilee Sabbath. 03:29 Um-hmm. It says in Leviticus 25:13 03:33 "In the year of Jubilee each of you shall return 03:36 to his possessions. And if you sell anything... " 03:40 verse 14... "to your neighbor or buy it from your neighbor's hand 03:43 you shall not oppress one another. 03:47 According to the number of years after the Jubilee 03:51 you shall buy from your neighbor and according to the number 03:54 of years of crops he shall sell you. " 03:57 And so you're going to find out when that was in verse 11. 04:01 "The fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you. 04:04 In it you shall neither sow nor reap 04:09 what grows of its own accord 04:12 nor gather the grapes of your unintended vine. " 04:16 So you had the 50th year which in this particular sense 04:20 the Lord was saying would be a Jubilee was also Pentecost. 04:23 Um-hmm. But you also found every seven years 04:26 the land was to rest or return to its rightful owner. 04:30 We find in Revelation that is going to happen again. 04:33 Yeah. Let's go to Revelation. And matter of fact, 04:36 as I referred to Revelation you know that... 04:38 I'll give you two texts: Revelation chapter 11 verse 15 04:41 and I'll read it to you 04:43 because the land of this earth is going to one day 04:47 return to its rightful owner. 04:49 Who is the rightful owner? 04:50 The Lord... the Creator of heaven and earth. 04:52 The Bible says in Revelation 11 and verse 15: 04:54 "And the seventh angel sounded 04:58 and there were loud voices in heaven saying: 05:00 'The kingdoms of this world have become 05:03 the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ. 05:06 And He shall reign forever and ever. ' " 05:08 And Daniel foretold this happening in Daniel 2:44. 05:13 "And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will 05:16 set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed 05:19 and the kingdom shall not be left to other people. " Why? 05:22 Because those who had it had to give it back 05:24 to its rightful owner. 05:25 That's right. And it says: "It shall break in pieces 05:27 and consume all these kingdoms 05:29 and it shall stand forever. " 05:31 And then how are we going to get that rest 05:33 because there was a 1-yr. period where the land was supposed to 05:36 rest? And also so we find the 6,000 years of sin. 05:39 When the 1,000 years of the millennium begin 05:43 the land is going to rest for the 1,000-year period 05:46 and then permanently the land will be returned 05:49 to its rightful owner as the earth is made new. 05:52 Amen! In a nutshell. Powerful! 05:55 In a big nutshell. 05:57 We could spend some more time on that. Yes! 05:59 Pastor Ryan, we're coming to you. 06:01 This is a rather lengthy question that came in 06:03 from David in Vermont. 06:05 The gist of what they're saying is this: they believe 06:07 we are making a mistake by not following the feasts. 06:11 Can you address this? Are we supposed to keep the feasts? 06:14 Absolutely. The clear simple answer is NO. 06:18 We are not obligated to keep those feasts 06:20 and we SHOULD NOT be keeping those feasts because 06:22 Jesus Christ was the fulfillment. His sacrifice 06:25 and His new covenant ratifi- cation with the shedding of His 06:28 blood brought an end to those feast days. 06:31 That's the simple answer. Let me back that up with 06:33 some evidence. Let's first go to John chapter 5. 06:37 Let's go to the book of John chapter 5. 06:39 I want to show you something really quickly here 06:40 that a lot of people miss in this case 06:43 when it comes to these feast days. 06:45 I believe it's very clearly communicated in Scripture 06:48 across the board. So John chapter 5 06:50 and we're going to start reading in verse 1 here. 06:52 Notice what it says here. Notice the very clear words. 06:54 It says: "After this there was a feast of the? " 06:57 "of the Jews and Jesus went up the Jerusalem. " 07:02 So take in that: Jesus went up to Jerusalem because 07:04 there was a feast of the Jews. 07:06 Turn over one more chapter to John chapter 6 & notice verse 4. 07:09 "Now the Passover... " What are the next words? 07:13 It says: "a feast of the Jews was near. " 07:16 All right? See a pattern here? 07:18 Turn over one more chapter to John chapter 7. 07:21 Let's read verse 2 there. It says: 07:22 "Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. " 07:27 You know, there's a lot of people that want to throw these 07:29 feast days, this ceremonial aspect of the covenant 07:32 that God made with Israel, they want to throw the Sabbath 07:35 in there too and they want to try to say: 07:36 "Well the Sabbath... it's a JEWISH Sabbath. 07:39 It's for the Jews. " But yet nowhere in Scripture 07:41 do we find the seventh-day week- ly Sabbath that God established 07:44 in the beginning of time - at creation - 07:47 do we see it referenced as the Sabbath of the Jews. 07:49 When you're looking and studying into these feast days 07:52 the Bible makes it very clear that these specific ceremonial 07:56 celebratory feast days 07:58 were given specifically to the Jews. 08:01 That is that special nation, that group of people 08:04 that God led out of Egypt back in the day 08:07 when He brought them out of Egypt and led them 08:10 to the Holy Land. 08:12 Now that being considered also, let's consider 08:15 Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 08:17 speaking of the 70 weeks' time prophecy. 08:20 As we go over to Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 08:22 you'll see there... excuse me, yes, verse 27 08:24 it's speaking of the 70 weeks time prophecy 08:27 when Christ would come. Verse 27 makes it very clear 08:30 speaking of Jesus Christ, and in the middle of that 70th week 08:33 which brings us to the year 31 AD 08:37 notice what it says there in verse 27. It says: 08:39 "Then He... " that's Christ... not an antichrist 08:42 but that's referring to Jesus Christ. How do we know? 08:44 Because it says: "He shall confirm a covenant 08:47 with many for one week. " 08:48 Only Jesus Christ can confirm the covenant. 08:50 And it goes on to say: "But in the middle of the week 08:52 He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. " 08:56 King James says "sacrifice and oblation ceases. " 08:59 That's talking about that ceremonial feast 09:02 celebratory aspect of the covenant that God made with 09:05 Israel beginning in Exodus ch. 19, 20, and onward 09:10 where HE speaks the Ten Commandments. 09:11 But because they didn't keep the Ten Commandments 09:14 it was given to them as a witness against them. 09:17 Now where do I get that from? 09:19 Let's go to Colossians ch. 2. 09:20 So God made a covenant with Israel in Exodus chapter 19 09:24 and in chapter 20 He brought about the heart of that covenant 09:27 which was the Ten Commandments. But because they were not 09:29 obedient to that covenant notice in Colossians chapter 2. 09:33 I know this is taking me a couple of minutes to 09:36 bring this about, but we have to spell this out 09:38 very clearly so that there's no confusion. 09:40 Colossians chapter 2. Notice we're going to be reading 09:44 in verse 14 and onward. Notice this. 09:47 Colossians chapter 2 verse 14. It says: "Having wiped out 09:50 the handwriting of requirements that was against us... " 09:54 OK? "which was contrary to us 09:57 and has taken it out of the way having nailed it to the cross. " 10:01 So there was some law, some handwriting of requirements 10:04 that Christ nailed to the cross when He died for our sin. 10:07 But then notice as you go on down to verse 16. 10:09 It says: "So let no one judge you in food or in drink 10:14 or regarding of a festival or of a new moon 10:17 or sabbaths. " Plural there... the lower case. 10:20 All of those are context clues dealing with what Pastor 10:23 was just referencing in Leviticus chapter 23. 10:25 If you go back to Leviticus 23, 10:27 you'll read about these differ- ent offerings: these food and 10:30 drink offerings that they had to give 10:32 at certain times throughout the year. 10:33 On special days of these particular feasts. 10:36 Also don't judge anyone by the new moon. 10:39 All of these particular feast days were observed 10:43 according to the cycle of the new moon that would come. 10:46 And of course when it said sabbaths in the plural 10:48 not talking about the weekly seventh-day Sabbath 10:51 according to the Ten Commandments. 10:52 We're talking about there were all of these different festivals 10:55 and celebrations, many of them were considered rest days 10:59 or sabbath days. It could have fallen on any day of the week. 11:02 And so you'll see here that verse 17... Now verse 17 11:05 is what I wanted to get to... All of this saying, notice what 11:08 verse 17 says: "which are a shadow of things to come 11:11 but the substance is of Christ. " 11:13 They were a shadow of things pointing forward to the time 11:16 when Jesus Christ would bring an end to all of this. 11:20 He would be the fulfillment of that. 11:21 So if you go to Galatians ch. 3, last text, I promise, 11:24 I'm going to shut up about this, 11:26 Galatians chapter 3. If you turn back to Galatians 11:28 chapter 3 and read with me verse 19 11:30 this puts kind of the nail in the coffin on the issue here. 11:33 This is speaking again that old law, that 11:35 ceremonial law, it goes on in verse 19: 11:38 "What purpose then does the law serve? 11:40 It was added because of transgression. " 11:42 That's talking about not the Ten Commandments. 11:44 The old law, the ceremonial law, was added because of their 11:47 transgression against the Ten Commandments. 11:49 It was temporary. Why? 11:52 It goes on to say here: "Till the Seed should come. " 11:54 Who's the Seed? JESUS! 11:56 Notice that Seed is capitalized. That Seed is Jesus! 11:58 "Till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made 12:00 and it was appointed through angels by the hand 12:02 of the Mediator. " My friends, Jesus Christ 12:05 brought an end to those old festival feast days. 12:08 And besides, more than half of them... 12:10 I think three or four of the seven feast days... 12:12 you actually had to go to Jerusalem. 12:13 So if you're going to actually keep those feasts 12:15 and you've got to get the lamb out; 12:17 you've gotta shed the blood of the lamb. 12:19 You've gotta offer food and drink offerings. 12:20 And many of these you have to actually geographically 12:23 travel to the actual temple location 12:26 and you have to keep them. Does Christ expect us to do that? 12:29 Absolutely not! And that puts an end to that. 12:32 Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of it 12:33 and we should not have to keep the feast days any more 12:36 because Christ is our Lord and we should place 12:39 our rest and our trust in Him. 12:41 I just have to add one... That was such a beautiful 12:44 answer. Yes it was! In Colossians 2:14 when it 12:48 was talking about He had wiped out the handwriting 12:53 that was against us. Let me give you 12:55 the scripture that goes with that. 12:57 It's Deuteronomy 31:26 13:00 where the book of Deuteronomy was the second giving of the law 13:04 before the new generation went into the Promised Land. 13:08 And he - Moses - wrote it out even more specifically 13:13 than in the book of the covenant and it's called now 13:15 the book of the law. And here's what the Lord said: 13:18 "Take this book of the law. Put it beside the ark 13:21 of the covenant of the Lord your God that it may be 13:25 there as a witness against you. " 13:28 Because it had all of the blessings and the curses 13:32 in that. Amen! THAT'S what got nailed to the cross. 13:34 That's right, Shelley. Great study already 13:36 and we only have 15 minutes and then we're going to 13:38 church. So we're going to accelerate it if we can 13:40 and try to answer the questions a little quicker 13:42 because there's more coming in which I'm going to pass down 13:44 the table here. Shelley, we're coming to you next 13:47 if you want to pass these down that way? Sure. 13:48 Shelley, it says... This person: Jim from Danville, PA. 13:52 We watch Sabbath School panel every Sabbath 13:55 and I have learned so much. 13:56 Thank you for teaching God's truth. 13:58 My wife and I have a question. 13:59 Why was the serpent cursed in the Garden of Eden? 14:03 What was the snake guilty of? 14:06 OK... if you want that answer we will turn to Genesis 14:09 chapter 3 and you'll see 14:12 the character of the serpent. 14:15 It says: "The serpent was more cunning... " 14:17 he was subtle - "than any other beast in the field 14:21 which the Lord God had made. 14:22 He said to the woman... " Now the serpent 14:25 is actually Satan "incarnated" if you will. 14:31 "He said to the woman: 'Has God indeed said 14:35 you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ' " 14:37 And the serpent goes on 14:40 to deceive the woman. He twists God's word; 14:45 he lies to the woman and says: "No, no, no, no. 14:48 God's lying to you, Eve. If you eat of this fruit, 14:53 you're going to become like God. " 14:54 So it was the serpent who deceived the woman 15:00 and she took of that fruit and she ate. 15:06 So the serpent... This is why in Genesis 3:15 15:10 hallelujah! as soon as sin entered 15:12 God says to the serpent: 15:15 "Hey devil... guess what? 15:17 This woman's going to have a Seed. 15:21 It's going to come from her loins 15:22 but He's going to bruise... You'll bruise His heel 15:26 but He's going to crush your head. " 15:29 Umm! Thank you very much. 15:31 Pastor Johnny, coming to you. 15:32 If according to Bible scripture such as John 3:16 15:36 and many others that state when a person accepts Christ 15:39 as their Savior and is baptized and receives Jesus' blood 15:42 that cleanses them from sin, 15:44 why is a person under probation 15:47 if the individual lives in Christ from that point onward? 15:51 The blood of Christ is con- tinuous throughout the duration 15:54 of one's life. Has probation been misapplied 15:57 or not explained correctly? 16:00 Well, I'm not sure how 16:03 the idea of probation has been presented to you. 16:06 But the fact is that once you become a Christian - 16:10 once you accept Christ as your personal Savior - 16:13 Satan does not go away and say: "Oh, we're done with this 16:15 one. Let's go on to the next one. " 16:16 No! He continues his attack 16:18 to derail you, to cause you to fall away. 16:22 And the Bible presents this idea of falling away. 16:25 So while you have made your decision for the Lord... 16:29 Praise God for that! continue following Jesus 16:33 with all of your heart. In the book of Revelation ch. 12 16:39 we're going to go to the scripture there that talks about 16:42 how Satan is angry or wroth with the woman 16:46 as it says in the King James version. 16:49 Notice there in Rev. chapter 12. Let's begin in verse 15. 16:53 "So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth 16:56 like a flood after the woman. " 16:58 So you see there is an effort to derail 17:01 those that are faithful to God. 17:03 And it says here: "But the earth helped the woman 17:05 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood 17:08 which Satan had spewed out of his mouth. 17:10 And the dragon was enraged with the woman 17:13 and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring 17:16 who keep the commandments of God 17:18 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. " 17:21 So while you have become a Christian and are following 17:24 the Lord - praise God for that! the blood of Jesus Christ 17:26 cleanses you and covers you. However, Satan 17:29 launches a relentless attack against you 17:33 so that you can fall away, turn away from the Lord 17:37 like Judas did and others that turn away 17:40 from the Lord. And Paul spoke of people 17:43 that would fall away and try to 17:48 bring false doctrines into the church. 17:50 So praise God for your decision. 17:52 Continue faithful to the Lord and he who endures to the end 17:56 the same shall be saved AND Philippians 1:6. Good. 18:00 That is really good; let's read that one. 18:02 It says here... 18:04 If somebody finds it before me. "Being confident 18:06 of this very thing... " "Being confident of this very 18:08 thing: that He that has begun a good work in you 18:10 will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. " 18:13 We have to quote it from the mind. 18:16 Time is short. We have to pass on to another question. 18:19 They're really coming in! Thank you for sending in 18:21 your questions. We're clearly not going to get to them all 18:23 right now, but hopefully later we'll have some more 18:26 Q&A's today and we can get to some more. 18:28 Pastor John, we're coming back to you. 18:29 OK. About the 144,000. 18:32 Are the 144,000 the saints that are going to be 18:35 saved? This is from Sabrina in Tennessee. 18:38 Well the answer is yes, but I think that's not the question 18:40 they're asking. They're probably asking 18:42 meaning are they the only ones that are going to be saved. 18:44 I would agree. I think that's probably what the person 18:45 is meaning because this idea has been communicated 18:48 quite a bit. The answer straightly is no. 18:51 Absolutely not because in Revelation 7 18:53 you find two groups mentioned. 18:55 You find first the 144,000 18:57 and then John is shown look I see a number that 18:59 no man can number of all nations, kindreds, 19:02 tongues, and peoples. And the question is asked: 19:03 "Who are they? And where did they come from? " 19:05 "These are they which came out of the great tribulation 19:08 and have washed their robes and made them white 19:10 in the blood of the Lamb. " But you clearly see 19:13 the 144,000 have a specific function. 19:16 And I believe that these are those who are going to proclaim 19:18 with great power as the Holy Spirit is poured out 19:21 on the church in the last days 19:22 that are going to proclaim with great power the culmination 19:26 of the three angels' messages. 19:28 The result of that as Rev. 18:4 says: "Come out of her 19:31 My people. " These are they that CAME OUT 19:33 of great tribulation and have washed their robes. 19:36 So there's a number of people and the Bible says 19:38 "a number which no man could number. " 19:40 How do I know that they are not the only ones 19:42 that are going to be saved? II Peter 3 and verse 9. 19:45 "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise 19:47 as some count slackness but is longsuffering 19:49 towards us not willing that ANY should perish 19:53 and that all should come to repentance. " 19:55 Any and all. "Whosoever will let him come. " 19:58 Everyone that comes to Christ will be saved 20:01 but the 144,000 have a special function. 20:04 And praise the Lord for that. 20:06 OK. I'm done! I was just lookin' at questions. 20:12 Shelley, we're coming back to you. 20:14 This is Carlos from Michigan. 20:16 How do you respond to someone who thinks Jesus 20:18 as the Son of God was created by God 20:21 and not God Himself or is equal to God? 20:25 Ah-ha-ha... OK. 20:27 Carlos, we just go to John chapter 1:1-3. 20:30 "In the beginning was the Word 20:33 and the Word was with God, the Word WAS God. " 20:35 You can go to Hebrews 1 verse 3 20:38 that says Jesus is "the express image of the Father. " 20:42 Philippians 2:5-8. "We see that it is God 20:47 who came down and became a man, 20:51 humbled Himself to become a man. " 20:53 So here's the point: 20:55 what people don't understand is covenant language 21:00 like begotten and firstborn. 21:02 I just did a whole sermon on that during this Camp Meeting 21:06 called Covenant Son and Surety. 21:10 Even the idea of being the Son of God 21:13 is a covenant title. It was only when God 21:18 came down to earth and was incarnated 21:22 that He became the Son of God. 21:26 Although eternally, in anticipation of the incarnation, 21:31 you can say: "Yes, He was considered the Son of God 21:34 but it wasn't until He became incarnated 21:39 that He actually was the Lamb of God, slain from the 21:42 foundation of the world or that He became the Son of God. 21:46 I encourage you to watch the sermon Covenant Son and Surety. 21:51 Um-hmm. Let me just add one last thing. 21:53 Great. Shelley, when you said read John 1 down to verse 3 21:57 verse 2 says He was "In the beginning with God. " 22:00 Yeah! And then it says in verse 3: 22:02 "All things were made through Him and without Him 22:05 nothing was made that was made. " 22:07 That includes Him. AMEN! 22:09 If nothing was made and all things were made through Him 22:12 and by Him, then He wasn't made 22:15 because nothing was made without Him. 22:17 Amen! That's good. Pastor Ryan, coming to you. 22:20 This is Joe from Saskatchewan. 22:22 I was born a Catholic 38 years 22:25 and I now believe the SDA remnant church 22:28 and also believe the Sabbath but this is my question: 22:31 how can I make the switch to become a Seventh-day Adventist 22:34 without a big hullabaloo in my family? 22:37 That's a great question because how do you 22:40 follow truth without it just exploding in your family? 22:43 Yeah, you know, honestly Joseph, the truthful answer 22:47 to that is you don't control that. 22:48 You can't control the way people are going to perceive you, 22:51 how they're going to respond to you. 22:53 You can make decisions to try to minimize that. 22:57 Obviously, we don't want... We have learned truth 23:00 and we're determined to follow God with all our heart. 23:02 We obviously don't want to engage in 23:05 you know argumental conversations 23:08 and heated arguments and disputes between our 23:10 brothers and sisters in Christ or our family members. 23:13 But the most important thing is that we keep in mind 23:15 that we can't control the thoughts and the ideas 23:18 and the feelings of others towards us. 23:19 The truth is Jesus said the truth offends people. 23:22 When He came He said: "I'm bringing the truth 23:25 'cause it's gonna bring division. " 23:26 And the truth DOES bring division. 23:29 It's like the Bible says: "The Word of God is like 23:31 a two-edged sword. " It cuts; it pierces; 23:33 you know, it divides. And the truth is 23:35 there's going to be some people even in our very family... 23:37 I'm a testament to this because I have family members 23:41 who still don't want to talk or have much to do with me 23:43 today since I became a Seventh-day Adventist Christian 23:46 because I was convicted of the Bible truth that I believed in 23:48 and saw in God's Word. 23:50 What we have to remember is that Jesus said 23:53 that "If you love your father, your mother, your son, 23:55 your daughter, your brother, your sister 23:56 anyone more than you love Me you are not worthy of Me. " 23:59 That doesn't mean we stop loving our loved ones. 24:01 We still love our loved ones but we put God first. 24:04 As Peter said in Acts chapter 5 verse 32 24:08 "We ought to obey God rather than men. " 24:11 I believe Abraham and Lot... you know, they had some 24:13 family contention there as Lot's wife was not too happy 24:17 with the truth that Abraham was an influence upon Lot 24:20 and upon the family and it led them off to Sodom and Gomorrah, 24:23 right? And you know how that ended. 24:25 Because Lot... he felt under pressure to what his family was 24:29 telling him and his wife was trying to pull him away 24:32 from the truth that God was leading Abraham and his family. 24:35 We see there very clearly that it led them to a very 24:38 unpleasant demise. We want to make sure that we follow 24:41 the Lord. So how do you keep that from happening? 24:43 Sometimes you just can't. Pray for them. 24:46 Don't look into it too much as far as to cause disputes 24:49 or arguments but trust in the Lord 24:51 and He will lead you through and He will see that everything 24:53 is well. Amen! Amen! 24:56 The last question we're going to ask - that's all we have time 24:59 for - we're going to toss it out for everyone to jump in. 25:01 This is actually question #5 that came in 25:03 if you have your papers. During SS panel this morning 25:06 John 1:29 was mentioned which says: 25:10 "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin 25:12 of the world. " What does take away the sin of the world mean? 25:15 Does it mean all our sins were laid on Him at the cross? 25:18 Or does it mean He will cleanse us from sin 25:21 so that we're no longer sinning on this earth? 25:24 This comes from Julie in South Dakota. 25:25 OK... I think the answer is actually both 25:28 because when the Lord takes away the sin of the world 25:31 that sin of the world, that broken relationship, 25:34 is going to be healed through Christ 25:37 and then sin is going to be permanently blotted out. 25:40 So when He takes away He doesn't do it partially. 25:43 He is mending the broken relationship 25:45 from the Garden of Eden and He is blotting out sin 25:48 permanently. But I just want to add this: 25:51 When God... during the Passover 25:53 when the Exodus from Egypt God told them 25:58 "take a lamb and take the blood and put it 26:01 on your doorpost. " If they had not appropriated the blood... 26:06 There's one thing to be the sacrifice. 26:08 This was representative of Christ as our sacrifice. 26:12 But when it says it takes away the sin of the world 26:15 He only takes away the sin for those who appropriate His blood 26:21 who receive the gift of salvation by grace. 26:24 You've gotta apply the blood. 26:26 Yes, Johnny, you were going to say something? 26:27 Yes, all this is wonderful that has been said. 26:29 And the wonderful thing also is that the Lord Jesus Christ 26:34 works in our heart so that we will hate sin. 26:36 He'll take the desire to sin away as we behold the Lamb 26:40 of God who takes away our sins, the sin of the world. 26:43 Amen! OK, I'll just add that Jesus died for all sins... 26:46 even the sin of the atheist. Those that don't even claim Him 26:49 or want to receive of... But yet it's our job, 26:52 it's our duty to receive that and claim that sacrifice 26:55 of what Christ has done for us. Why would we want to die 26:58 for our sins when Jesus has already died for them, right? 27:00 We have to accept that. And of course the other aspect 27:02 as Pastor brought out I believe very clearly 27:05 that Jesus... when it says the Lamb of God takes away 27:07 sin of the world, He wants to come and cleanse us 27:09 from all of our sin and to prepare us 27:11 to enter heaven without any sin at all 27:14 according to His perfect work in us. 27:16 Amen! Love working with you family: 27:18 Pastor John, Pastor Johnny, Shelley, and Pastor Ryan. 27:21 What a privilege to open up the Word of God 27:23 and to study together. And we love sharing with you 27:26 3ABN family at home. Thank you for texting in 27:29 your questions. Thank you for 27:31 studying with us as we study the Word of God. 27:34 For joining us for this special edition of 27:36 3ABN Sabbath School panel where we explored 27:39 the new covenant sanctuary. Make sure you join us 27:42 next week on 3ABN Sabbath School panel 27:44 when we'll be studying the covenant as well. 27:47 Stay tuned because divine worship hour 27:50 is coming up next with Danny Shelton. 27:53 His title is Expanding the Kingdom. |
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