Understanding Abraham And The Blood Covenant

Understanding Abraham And The Blood Covenant
This is a vastly important topic in God's plan for humanity, and needs to be fully understood.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome back to American OC Radio. Everybody. This is Mike Phillip.
It's very good to be with you today. A couple
of things. Uh, I was talking to Chet and Lena
last night and she said, is Taylor having a baby?
And I said, I don't know. I never heard that.
Turns out I did. I'm just dancing. I forget stuff

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sometimes because I deal with so many different people. But yeah,
Bow and Taylor have a fourth child being born into
their family, another little girl. So two boys and two
girls from Bow and Taylor, and I am going to
try my best to remember that phrase. Jesus. I've seen

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a lot of families that have come into the church
and got married and having children, Matthew and Sierra and
Bow and Taylor, and it is always a very joyous
occasion to see the Kingdom of Good growing one child
at a time. Praise God, and we love them so much. Hallelujah.
And Madeline says, are you expecting a new child, bou

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while I just answered the question. And it's good to
see you all today, Melanie. Good to see you back.
I see yesterday, but I assume you caught up on
the study. And good to see you back. Mary you
are welcome here. Let's just try and keep on topic today. Okay,
let's try and keep on topic. You are always welcome.

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Just stay on topic. Okay, here to listen. What was
the other thing I was going to say. So, we
got three of my boys, and I consider Jesse and
McCauley to be spiritual sons. I am not their biological father.

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So if you're watching, Glenn, I'm not challenging your fatherhood
or McCauley in any way whatsoever. But I have begotten
them through the Gospel, and they are going with my
son to Thailand. They are probably just getting on the
plane right now, and and I pray. I've prayed for them,

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and I will again for their safety and provision while
they are in that country. And I have no reason
to be concerned about them going there. In fact, you know,
people have said, well, it's dangerous, you know, the Muslims.
They're bombing places, and there are parts of the country
that are at war, but there are others that are

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very good and settled. And the fact of the matter
is I live in Edmonton, Alberta, and that can be
a dangerous place at times too, So it doesn't really
matter where you are, the Earth is the Lord's and
the fullness thereup. Let's say a quick prayer that God
will bring us understanding of this very important topic of

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the Blood Covenant, because a few weeks ago, Jesse reached
out to me and he said, Pastor, you did a
study on Abraham and the Blood Covenant. Do you know
where it is? Because I want mac to hear it.
And I said, oh, man, that was like a hundred
studies ago. I can't remember, but you know what, We're

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going to go through it again today. And each time
we do these topics, it opens up more to me
and becomes more real. And this is a very very
important topic. You need understanding on this, and what God
did with Abraham would have been easily recognisable ceremonially speaking

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to him and people of their day, and in fact,
the Apostles taught on this. The Book of Hebrews has
lots to say about it. But there are key aspects
to things in the process of this covenant that was
made with Abraham. Okay, there are key points that we're

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going to be digging into of things that happened, and
so just really quick, the Blood Covenant was men of
ould would sever an animal in half and then walk
through the blood. Okay, and see there was weight to

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that that covenant or deal or compact or contract between
these two men meant that if either one broke it,
that happens to you. Okay. Now we live in a
time where people are covenant breakers. We see a lot

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of covenant breaking with marriages, we see it with social contract,
we see it in all kinds of aspects of life.
And the apostle writing Hebrews. Depending on who wrote that
particular letter, I believe it was Paul. I'm not going
to get into that whole argument today. He said that

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without blood is nothing purged. He also, because God could
swear by no greater than him, he swore by himself.
And indeed that is what he did. God himself walks
between these animals that were cut in two. And so

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let's dig into that. After a quick prayer, that understanding
comes to this topic that you can apply to your life.
And this is very serious. Okay, this is serious stuff
we're talking about here in God's word. You need to
know this, you need to have it in your heart,
you need to have it applied. And I hope that

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those young fellows have wi fi on the plane so
that they can listen to this study, because Jesse really
wanted Mac to hear it. So we're doing it for everybody.
But it's a special request from my friend, my spiritual
son and brother, Jesse. Lord Jesus, I pray God that

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you would be with us all today. And I pray
God that there would be peace in the chat room
and in the lives of men and women. And I
pray Lord that understanding of your plan would be brought
about through the opening of the Word of God. Today.
I pray God that you would manifest yourself to the listeners.
And I pray Lord that your word would become more

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alive to them and light their path and their heart,
and that they would remember this for the rest of
their lives. And myself also in the name of Jesus
of Nazareth, the manifestation of the Spirit of the creator
of all things, the Great. I am our Father in Heaven,
Jesus of Nazareth. Amen, Praise Lord. And so in Genesis

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fifteen we have a place where the Covenant was made.
And like I said, Abraham would have understood this ceremony.
But there are key aspects of it that we are
going to dig into, and let's just read it through,
and I'm going to point out some of the key
aspects that we're going to expand on in this Blood

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Covenant ceremony. Praise Lord, Genesis chapter fifteen. After these things,
the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision, saying,
fear not, Abraham, I am. And there's an I am
statement before that was given to Moses in Exodus chapter three.

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And Jesus made several I am statements. I am the Way,
I am the Light, I am the Truth, I am
the door. I am he a man, meaning he is
the one God of the Old Testament manifest as a man.
Fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield, and I exceeding

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great reward. If you have Jesus in your life, he
is your protector, he is your reward. He is everything
you could want, Everything you could ever need is all
in him. And Abraham said, Lord God, what wilt thou
give me? Seeing that I go childless? And the steward

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of my house is this Elias ar of Damascus. So
if you were childless, then the inheritance went to a
child of a servant born in your house in that time.
Behold the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
this shall not be thine heir, but he that shall
come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

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And he brought him forth abroad and said, look now
toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able
to number them, And he said unto them, so shall
thy seed be. There's going to be a multitude come
out of him. Now, Notice that seed is not plural,
it is singular. Amen. The seed of Abraham was indeed

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the holy one of Israel that was born of a virgin,
come to save his own people from their sin. Amen.
And so if you have been born of the water
and spirit, the seat of Abraham is in you, and
in Abraham. Would all families of the earth be blessed

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because of that promise of that set in verse six,
it says. And he believed in the Lord, and he
counted it to him for righteousness. This is mentioned in
Hebrews eleven, the Heroes of Faith chapter. And he said,
unto him, I am there. It is again, Lord that

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brought thee out of the earth of the cheldst give
thee this land to inherit it. And he said Lord God,
whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it. So
he's looking for a a sign, a show of this covenant.

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And God, no doubt led him to this line of
questioning in order that we could read about it today.
And there is a broad lack of understanding in the
church world on this topic. I grew up in church,
and I never heard this taught on. It could be
too that it was touched on, but I was not listening.

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That is also a possibility. Praise God. And God said
to him, take me a heffer of three years old,
and she goat of three years old, and a ram
of three years old, and a turtle dove and a
young pigeon. The turtle dove and a young pigeon are

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clean birds. There are clean and unclean birds. Amen. To
this day, men will worship an image of an owl
because it is nocturnal and a hunter and dwells in
the night. Owls were not clean birds. Amen, Remember that
they are clean and un clean birds. In the Old

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Testament and so and and those were a show of
Jew and Gentile, clean and unclean. Today that that wall
partition between Jew and Gentile has been torn down in
the Kingdom there is neither jew nor gentile, but a
new creature in Christ, if you are born of water
and spirit. So verse ten. He took unto him all

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these and divided them in the midst That means he
cut them in half and laid each piece one against another.
But the birds he divided not. Remember they are these
clean birds, and they did not get cut into half.
The the ram, the ego, and the heff for did

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and so there would have been a lot of blood. Okay,
without blood, it's meaningless a man. We're gonna read that, Amen,
and listen to this. When the fouls came down upon
the carcasses, Abraham drove them away. So unclean scavenger birds

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were going to come and devour the sacrifice. But Abraham
freed them away. He showed he shoved them off so
that they could not come near the sacrifice. Okay, this
is important when we get into later prophecy. Remember this

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because we're going to show this in Jeremiah, and we're
going to show it in the Book of Revelation, and
Jesus talked about it as well. This is a theme
throughout the Word of God. So remember that that Abraham
freed and chased away the unclean birds from the carcass,
which was the sacrifice. When the sun was going down,

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a deep sleep fell upon Abraham, and low a horror
of great darkness fell upon him. Now great darkness fell
in in the land of Egypt. It was a plague,
but there was light in the midst of it in
the homes of Goshen. Now look what God does here,

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he said, unto Abraham. Know of a surety. Remember, Abraham asked,
how am I going to know that this is going
to happen? And God is like, well, just to show
you I'm serious, I'm going to make a blood covenant
with you. And Abraham would have understood what this meant.
But modern day people, the significance is lost on most

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of them. No of a surety, that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land that is not theirs,
and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them. Four
hundred years now, Joseph, Jacob's son commanded that his bones

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would be buried in the Promised Land when the children
of Israel left. Because of this statement by God, he
knew that they were going to leave Egypt after about
four hundred years, and he had faith in that that's
also recorded in the Chapter of Faith in Hebrews chapter eleven.

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And also that nation whom they shall serve, I will judge.
And that happened. Afterwards, shall they come out with great substance.
That happened. Amen. God moved on the Egyptians to give
great wealth to the children of Jacob, who is Israel.
When they left Egypt, he said, and now shall go

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to thy fathers in peace. Thou shalt be buried in
a good old age. You're going to die, and you're
going to be buried, guaranteed, Abraham. But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again, for the iniquity of
the Amorites is not yet full. In that fourth generation,

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the iniquity of the cup of the Amorites was full,
and Joshua came into the land of Canaan and destroyed them.
God was already watching them. God was watching them slowly
fill that cup of wrath that when it is full,
and God's wrath pours out. And you're going to see

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similar language about Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation. Remember,
Bible interprets Bible. It is self contained. You do not
need to go to a bunch of headlines that change
every single day to figure out what it is talking about,
because it's talking about Jesus and this covenant and his church.

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It was always about him, And so verse seventeen, it
says it came to pass that when the sun went
down and it was dark. Now, pay attention. This is
another key aspect that we're going to be getting into here.
When the sun went down and it was dark, behold

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a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between
those pieces. In the same day, the Lord made a
covenant with Abraham, saying, onto the ice seed, have I
given this land from the river of Egypt, one too,

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the great river, the River Euphrates, Camites, ken Zites, Cadmanites,
hit Tights, Perizites, ref Ams, and the Amorites, Canaanites, Gergasites,
and the Jebusites. Praise Lord. And so out of those
uh were going to come people that we're going to
be joined to Israel, that we're going to be joined
to God. There wasn't many. There was only a few.

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But the way that leads to narrow to eternal life
is very narrow, and very few people even find it.
You can have life more abundantly in this present world
and you can amen, but most people will not value it.

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They will not value the blood of the covenant. Now,
God himself passed through normally when you did a blood covenant.
And I just want to talk about the word covenant
just a little bit. Merriam Webster's says, covenant a usually formal,
solemn and binding contract or compact to a written agreement

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or promise, usually under seal by two or more parties,
especialty for the performance of an action the common law
action to recover damage or breach of a contract. So
this is a contract between Abraham and his seed. Now,
normally both parties of the contract would pass through. Abraham

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did not. God did himself in the form of a
smoking furnace and a burning lamp. We're going to get
into those significances of those words. But first of all,
just really quick, why did God himself pass through the blood? Well,
if we go to Hebrews chapter six in your New Testament,

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and I believe it is verse three, oh, No, thirteen,
I was close Hebrew six and thirteen, Why did God
alone pass through the blood? Writer of Hebrews says, for
when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear
by no greater, he swear by himself. He meant. In

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another place in Colossians, Paul wrote that God takes counsel
of his own will. Okay, kind of like when an
individual says, we'll see about that, and they're talking about themself.
They're talking or or let's see here, what are we
going to do about this? Looking at a situation while

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you're talking to yourself, right, taking counsel of your own will.
Let me read that again. For when God made promise
to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he
swear by himself, saying, surely blessing, I will bless thee,
and multiplying, I will multiply thee. And so after he
had patiently endured, he obtained the promise for men verily

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swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is
to them an end of all strife, the deals made
the hand, and to shaking the bloodshed. That's it. There
ain't no more contention deal done. Wherein God, willing more
abundantly to show onto the airs of promise the immutability

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of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath that by
two immutable things in which it was impossible for God
to lie. We might have a strong consolation who have
fled for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set
before us, which hope we have as an anchor of
the soul. You need an anchor for your soul. This

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life's going to blow you around and try to destroy you.
But you need an anchor, and you need your feet
planted on the rock when the wind and the waves come,
because they are coming whither The forerunner is for us entered.
Even Jesus made a high priest forever after the order
of Melchizedects. This is all showing about Jesus, all of it,

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all of it. So let's go back to Genesis fifteen,
and what we're going to do is we're going to
get into some things about this. Now, you remember that
Abraham he chased away the birds from the carcass These
were predat scavengers. They were unclean birds. But there were

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two clean birds, and the two clean birds did not
get severed in two the unclean ones did. Now let's
look at what the rest of the Bible has to
say about the breaking of the covenant. Israel broke that
covenant several times. God said to them. I brought them

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out of Egypt, and I was a husband to them.
But they broke my covenant. They broke it. They nullified
their marriage. Okay, they broke the marriage contract. Now, there
are several things about the birds devouring your carcasses if

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you break the covenant. Okay, And this starting off is
in the Book of Deuteronomy, in the list of curses. Now,
the other thing about the ancient world and today, it
was considered a huge dishonor to die and not be buried.
In fact, kings when they conquered other kings, they would

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go to their sepulcher and take their bones out and
lay them in the sun for everybody to see, just
to dishonor them. Okay, And think about it today, if
you died in the street, would you want people stand
around glucking at your body? I mean, it's just not good.

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Right now, Jesus, despising the shame, died hung up exposed
for all the world to see. But he knew the
glory that was going to come after it, and that
was God's fulfillment of the blood covenant that he made
with Abraham. Okay. And this wasn't the first time Cain

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and Abel brought sacrifices to God. Cain's had was of
vegetables or of the earth. Amen. He was worshiped the ping,
the creation, and not the creator. Abel, however, brought one
that took bloodshed. Praise Lord. And so Cain, in his

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anger towards the one who was accepted, shed his blood right.
And you see it over and over again. When Noah
got off the arc, he made a sacrifice. Amen. God
said it was a sweet smelling savor. Praise Lord. So
this is an ongoing theme throughout your Bible. Now, in

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Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, you have a list of blessings
and curses, and this is the contract. And Deuteronomy is
often called on track. Now, Deuteronomy twenty eight, if you
will go there from versus uh one to fourteen, you

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have blessings right, the exceeding great reward and shield. But
then if the covenant is forgotten and not treated with
sincerity and reverence for the contractor in verse fifteen to

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all the way to verse sixty eight, is curses. And
ultimately at the very end says the Lord will bring
you into Egypt again with ships by the way whereof
I spake under the you will see it no more again.
And then you shall be sold to your enemies for
bondmen and bondwomen, and no one will even buy you.

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You'll be so worthless, you'll be a free slave. And
there are a lot of people who are slaves today
to drug addiction or lust, or whatever the case might be.
But interestingly enough, when Jesus brought this up to Jerusalem
in Matthew twenty three and twenty four, when they were

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destroyed by the armies of Titus. According to the writings
of the Roman Jewish historian Josephus, the Romans took the
remainder of people that had not died from the pestilens,
the famine, in the war and death, and they were
sent to Egypt for free, right back to Egypt. And

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that was only two thousand years ago. And so we're
talking about Abraham fraying away the birds. Now. One of
the things in the Curses of disobedience read in Deuteronomy
twenty eight and verse twenty six. In the curses, let's

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start with twenty five, Lord shall cause thee to be
smitten before thine enemies. Thou shalt go out one way
against them and flee seven ways before them, and shall
be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. And
listen to this. Thy carcass shall be meet unto all

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fouls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth.
And listen to this, and no man shall fray them away.
You will not be able to claim Abraham as your father.

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You will not be able to fray away these birds
from the becoming you or your devours. And this has
happened several times in history. In fact, this is far
back as the fourteen and fifteen hundreds, when the Catholic
Church and the royalty in France in England were at

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war with different people. There was a siege of Paris, France,
where the bodies of the slain littered the streets and
blood ran, and there was a banquet of buzzards and
birds eating the people. It's not talked a lot about
in history class, but that is what happened. You can

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read about that in the history of Michael Cervadis, who
was set up to be murdered by the Catholic Inquisition
by John Calvin whose real name is Jean Chauvin, and
in fact Martin Luther was consenting to his death because

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he would not confess a doctrine that is taught nowhere
in God's Word, that is prevalent today. And it brought
death on them too. Amen. John Chauvin had a horrible death.
He died of massive acid reflux. He was in pain
all the time. But he got his reward for what

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he did, the things he did in his life to
Michael Servites. And it was all over a debate that
they had that servedus won and publicly made him look
like an idiot. That's what it was all. He carried
a bitter grudge against him for the rest of his life.
And then when they had him killed, they used green
wood so that it would be very slow. Michael Sermades

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burned to death over a period of half an hour
because he would not confess to a heresy. Praise Lord, Yes, Peyton,
they were they. I mean, Luke did some good things.
I will say that, but there are people still claiming

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him today. So let's get back to these birds. I'll
read that one more time for you, deuter On me
twenty eight and twenty six. Nike carcass shall be meat
into all the fouls of the air and to the
beasts of the earth. And no man shall fray them away.
Then we have been in Jeremiah chapter seven recently talking

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about how Jesus quoted that when he chased the money
changers out of the temple. And I've heard a lot
of people use that situation to claim that they should
be able to be violent against government or whatever. That
has nothing to do with it. Jeremiah chapter seven is

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about religious sinners that we're coming to the temple. They
were still doing all the animal sacrifices. Okay, they were
doing the ceremonial law. But just like the Pharisees and
Sadducees of Jesus's day, they were sinful. They were full
of sin. They did not believe God, they did not
believe his promises. He showed up right in face to

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face with them, and they plotted to murder their creator.
They plotted to murder somebody that was bringing healing, that
was freeing people from possession of demons, that was feeding
the masses with very little food. They hated every good thing.

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They were of the spirit of their father Cain, who
was a murderer of his brother. And so excuse me,
I had air bubble come up there. So Jeremiah seven.
He says, you know, are you're gonna come and stand
before me, And you got stealing and murder and adultery

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and swearing falsely and worshiping other gods, believing lies and
doctrines of the Canaanites around you. He said, you're gonna
come and stand before me in this house which is
called by my name, and say we are delivered to
do all these abominations. What does that mean? That means

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I'm saved, so it's okay for me to blatantly sin.
That's what they were doing. Now, Remember they had a contract,
they had a blood covenant, and God was gonna fulfill
it for them. He was gonna do his end. But
if they reneged, remember what we just read in Deuteronomy,

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in the curses, your corpses will be meet for the
fowls of the air, and there will be nobody to
chase them away like Abraham did. Now in Jeremiah seven,
and we read verses thirty to thirty four, he says,
this is what's gonna happen to you, And it did

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happen to them. Children of Judah have done evil in
my sight, said Lord. They've set their abominations in the
house which is called by my name, to pollute it,
to adulterate it. They've built the high places of top It,
which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom,

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to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire
which I commanded them. Not neither came it into my heart.
When people serve other doctrines than truth, it produces lust
and adultery. Okay, ask any Satanists, ask any wick and
ask any It is always there. There is like sex, magic,

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that's part of it. And it is an abomination. And
children are born and not wanted and sacrificed for convenience. Yes,
that is what they were doing. Now listen to what
he said. Therefore, because you are doing these things, befold

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the days come. Say it the Lord that it shall
no more be called Tafet, nor the valley of the
son of Hindhum, but the valley of slaughter, For they
shall bury in tap It till there be no place.
There's gonna be so many corpses because of what you
are doing. And you're fulfilling the ceremonial law and coming

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to the temple and the priests with your sacrifices. But
you won't repent. That's what Jesus was angry about when
he chased out the money changers. You don't have to
bury so many corpses that there's no going to be

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more room for holes to dig Verse thirty three. And
the carcasses of this people shall be meet for the
fouls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth,
and none shall fray them away. Then I will cease.

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I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah
and from the streets of Jerusalem. The voice of mirth,
that's happiness, happy noises of people, the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
For the land shall be desolate comfort, like a dead

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dry field full of corpses, and there shall be none
to fray away the birds will see. That language goes
back to the Abrahamic blood Covenant, which was spelled out
very clearly in the Curses and Blessings of Deuteronomy twenty
eight and in fact Leamiticus twenty six. See, they weren't

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talking about this, They forgot about this, They didn't care.
They thought, oh, that was a bunch of stuff. Guys
said one hundred years ago, and they were told over
and over again, and God sent the prophet Amen to
warn them. I'm warning you today. I'm warning you today.

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You see everybody's looking for a big national cataclysm. Well
what about cataclysm in your own life? What about your
own personal holocaust? Where God gets to a point where
he just lets you do what you're gonna do because
you don't listen. So we have two witnesses, and Moses

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and Jeremiah. Now I want to go to Revelation chapter eighteen.
Revelation chapter eighteen. Is that New Testament enough for you?
Revelation chapter eighteen, we see the same language again. Starting

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the verse one fall Babylon. He's referring to Jerusalem as Babylon.
In fact, John wrote and called Jerusalem Sowdom and Egypt
the place where our Lord was killed. He says, now
after these things, I saw and nother rangel come down
from heaven having great power, and the earth was lightened

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with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,
Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become.
Listen to this the habitation of and the hold of
every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and

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hateful bird. Now, if you take these things and disconnect
them from each other, you missed the point completely. You
missed the point completely. He was always referring to the

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same thing. And God is no different today, no different,
It's the same. Jesus even talked about this in the
Parable of the Sword Go with Me in Matthew chapter thirteen.
Matthew chapter thirteen. Same day when Jesus out of the house,

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sat by the seaside, and great multitudes were gathered together
unto him, so that he went into a ship and sat,
and the whole multitude sat on the shore, and he
spake many things unto them in parables, saying, behold, a
sower went forth to sow, and where and when he sowed,
some seed fell by the wayside. And listen to this,

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The fowls came and devoured them up. The birds came
and devoured the seed. What birds? Was he talking about?
Birds and seed? Is that what Jesus was talking about? No,
he went on to explain to them, and again this
goes back to the Abrahamic Covenant. If you go to

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eighteen through twenty, when he explains the parable of the sewer,
he says to his disciples. Here he therefore the parable
of the sewer. When anyone hear at the word of
the Kingdom and understand, if it not, then come at
the wicked one and catch it the way that which
was own in his heart. This was the he which
received seed by the wayside. The birds that took the

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seed that was not understood by the individual that heard it,
were devils, were spirits. See, you can either allow the
fowls of the air to uh devour your carcass, or

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you can have the great reward and shield. Blood is
all the way through Praise the Lord. Captain Malcolm Will says,
dead things come alive in the name of Jesus. Dead
things come alive with Jesus. But if you reject so

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great a salvation, and if you turn away and allow
the fouls in the air to steal the seed from
your heart, yeah, that's the covenant. This is written up
all the way through Praise God. In fact, that's what

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God was trying to show them with the Passover. What
happened in the Passover they killed the lamb without blemish.
They put the blood on the door with the hissip
and they ate it. They had to prepare that lamb
and eat it, Praise Lord. Their blood had to be

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shed of the tabernacle, remember the plane of the tabernacle.
We want to do this before. At the entrance at
the east gate, the priest went in the sacrifice and
killed it on the altar, and then went to the
door of the Holy Place and washed in water in

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the lava, and then went into the Holy Place where
he had to change out the unloving showbread, keep the
candles lit, and the incense burning, prayer, the word and light.
And then inside of that was the holiest of holies,

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where the priest went in once a year and sprinkled
it with blood. Moses sprinkled blood on the people to
the east. When Cain murdered Abel, he went east away
from the garden of Eden. That's a whole nother study.

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But we see now Bible interpreting itself, and Abraham freighted
away the words we are too free, away the birds. Amen.
I said this yesterday. You can't stop birds from flying
above you, but you can stop them from building a
nest in your head. We've got to chase away the

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unclean things and not let them let yourself or your
own life become a cage for every unclean and hateful
bird because they will devaluy you. Praise Lord. Now, let's
look at another aspect of this. God passed through a

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smoking furnace and a burning lamp. Smoking furnace and a
burning lamp. Does that mean well, God is a consuming
fire and his word is a lamp that lights your path.

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God showed up on Mount Sinai to deliver the Ten Commandments.
There was smoke and fire, big smoke and fire. When
the prophets had their vision of the Lord, there was
smoke and fire. Amen, turn me to Deuteronomy chapter six

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and verse four, or sorry four and twenty four. Deuteronomy
four and twenty four. Praise God four and twenty four
for the Lord. Thy God is a consuming fire. Even

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jealous God, he's jealous over his people. I will not
tolerate anybody putting a hand on my wife. I will.
I will allow people to hug them her after a

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family gathering and things like that. But if we are
out in public and somebody puts a hand on my wife,
you might be picking up your chicklets off the sidewalk.
Our God is it consuming fire. Fact. The writer of

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Hebrews wrote this. If you go to Hebrews chapter twelve
and verse twenty nine, thank you Barry, yep, God, chase
the boy, buddy. Don't let them set up shop. Don't
let them set up shop in your head because they'll
devour you. Amen. We saw better. We need something better. Amen,

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he'd be strong what God meant for us to be
as men. Praise Lord. Things in this life and the
world seek to steal your manhood away from you your dominion. Amen, Man,
be strong, Be strong in your house, be strong in

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your convictions. Make your word mean something. Praise the Lord.
Young Jesse's going to get married and bring a wife back.
You got to be a man. Hebrews Chapter twelve, twenty nine.

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Why smoking furnace and a burning lamp. Let's go to
verse twenty eight. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot
be moved. Let us have grace, whereby we may serve
God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. For our God

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is a consuming fire. Hallelujah. If he is your shield
and exceeding great reward, there is nothing anybody can do
to you. Amen. Now what about the lamp? He's the Lord?

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What about the lamp? Well. Jesus is the word incarnate
Psalm one and nineteen, the longest psalm in the Bible.
Psalm one hundred and nineteen the longest psalm in the Bible.

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And it's it is so full of stuff. Remember, Jesus
is the living word. In Kurnate so I one nineteen
one oh five. Thy word is a lamp unto my
feet and a light onto my path. I have sworn
and I will perform it that I will keep thy

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righteous judgments. Why because the lamp of the word. If
you don't have the Word lighting your path, you're gonna
fall in a ditch or an open manhole or walk
into a wood chipper. That's why the smoking furnace and

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the burning lamp was God himself, after the counsel of
his own will, because he can swear by no greater.
Abraham knew what that meant. Abraham new what that meant.
He's the Lord. And I'm glad to see the peace

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in chat today. Love one another. This is my commandment
that you love one another, that you enjoy might be full. Amen.
And I've got to pray for you. Guys. Don't make
me go before God grieving for you. Do well. Be bold,

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be storm, for the Lord died. God is with the man.
I'm feeling the Holy ghost up in here. I'll tell you,
Hallelujah Jesus. And so we see that our God is
a consuming fire. He's power. He's the smoking mountain, the furnace,

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the light to our path, the light the world. He
was the light of the world, and he came to
the world, and the darkness comprehended it. Not don't walk
in darkness. You don't have to. You don't have to.

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He's God. Let's talk about the blood. Why blood, because
without blood nothing is purged. Now again, Israel had it
in their head that they could just do these sacrifices
willy nilly and still perform abomina, abominash, abominable acts before God.

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I sounded like porky pig there. Yeah, that's abominable. You're
gonna say that, I'm delivered to perform abomination in my eyes.
He said that in Jeremiah to them, and then he said,
your carcasses are going to be meeting for the fouls
of the air, and there ain't gonna be none to

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fray them away. This beautiful valley, the sons of him,
it's gonna be called the valley a slaughter because you're
gonna run around a room to bury the bodies, so
they'll be laying out in the sun, eaten by every
horrible thing. Praise Lord. And I know people that they're

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being eaten alive in their life. He's God Blood. Hebrews
chapter nine, verses eleven to twenty two. Praise the Lord,
our God. Let us have grace whereby we might serve
him with reverence and godly fear. Praise Lord. And it's

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a really good thing that God is so patient, Because
there was a time when I was acting like real.
Jack asked, and you know what, the best thing that happened.
He allowed me to get beat around a little bit,
and he showed me that his mercy was greater than

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what I thought it was, because he did not want
me to be on the wrong side of the blessings
and curses. Amen, he doesn't want that for you. It's
not his will that, and he should perish. But if
you reject the greatest thing that has ever been in
the history of everything, what's he supposed to do? Make you?

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Praise the Lord. Hebrews chapter nine, verses eleven to twenty two.
There's just so much about this in a word, there's
so much about the blood, the blood Hebrews nine eleven
to twenty two. But Christ being come and high priest

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of good things to come by a greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of the building. Talking about the temple. Okay, I've
been having people saying to me, we should call this

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church the church made without hands. I like that. I
like that. I know preachers out there that their whole
focus is on having a building, and their building. Well,
if you got one, fine, I'm not condemning that, But
when it becomes your focus, that's what happened to the
children of Israel. This building neither by the blood of

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goats and calves, but by his own blood. Remember smoking
furnace in the lamp. God confirmed the covenant himself. He
took that blood and shed it so that you don't

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have to under the curse man. But remember Paul is
writing to hebrew believers in the New Testament. He's explaining
that Abraham covenant to believers, that that was about Jesus.
That blood was shed. He fulfilled his end of the

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bargain on that cross. He goes on. Let me read
that again verse twelve. Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood. He entered it
once into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal, eternal redemption,

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redeemed redemption. For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
and the ashes of half for sprinkling the unclean sanctify
to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall
the blood of Christ, too, through the eternal Spirit, offered

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himself without spot to God, parred your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God, make you alive with
that blood. That blood was said two thousand years ago.
Now remember, when the sacrifice is made in the tabernacle,

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you have to go to the brazen laver to wash
in the water. This is the gospel death, burial and resurrection,
alter of sacrifice, repentance, wash in the baptism in Jesus'
name for the remission of sin into the holiest of holies,

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in filling of the Holy Ghost. Acts two thirty eight,
summed up in the rest of the Bible. And so
he goes on. And this was God was so angry
with them because they habitually missed the point and listened
to a bunch of trash religious teaching from Canaanites that

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had not received the oracles of God. Isaiah Chapter one,
real quick, and we'll come back to Hebrews. Isaiah Chapter one.
Isaiah says to them, God says to them through the
prophet Isaiah. Let's just read this chapter one right off
the bat. He called them Sodom and Gomoorh. He said,

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this is the vision Isaiah, the son of Amos, which
he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of
Usaiah joatham AHAs has Akiah King's Judah. He called them
Sodom and Gomorrah. He said everything about you, he says

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in verse twelve, when you come to a peer before
me who has required this at your hand to tread
my courts, bring no more vein oblations. Incense is an
a bomb. Incense is an abomination. To be the new moons,
the Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies. I cannot away with it.
It is iniquity, even the soul of meaning your new moons,

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your appointed feasts. My soul hates them. They are trouble
to me, and I'm weary to bear them. And when
you spread forth your hands I will hide my eyes
from your hand, from you yay, when you make many prayers,
I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
With wash wash you make you clean. Put away the

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evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to
do evil. That's what he always wanted a man. Fact,
John Baptist came into wilderness baptizing repentance. And so he's
talking verse thirteen for the blood of bulls and goats,

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or verse fourteen. How much more the blood of Christ
through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God
to purge your conscience from dead works, to serve the
living God. And for this cause he is the mediator
of the New Testament, that by means of death, for
the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament,

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they which are called might receive the promise of eternal
in inheritance. That was the other aspect of the blood
covenant with Abraham. But this is a spiritual inheritance. We
look for a heavenly country. I love the United States

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of America. I'm proud to be an American. But I'm
looking for a heavenly country, Jerusalem, that's above. I don't
need to fly to Tel Aviv to be closer to God,
or touch some stupid wall, praise God, and so he

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goes on. We've talked about this before. Where a testament is,
there must also of necessity be the death of the
test state or for testament is enforced after men or dead,
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the

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test date are living. I mean, that's pretty simple. I mean,
you go to a funeral and then there's a reading
of the Last Well and Testament. Why because the guy
that wrote it died. Now, God wrote the Testament, and
then he came as a man to perform his end
of the blood covenant, becoming a seed of Abraham through

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whom all families of the ars shall be blessed. If
you find a narrow way, if you even care to,
or do you judge your own self unworthy of eternal life. Whereupon,

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neither of the First Testament was dedicated without blood. Blood.
That's why they did this blood covenant. For when Moses
had spoken every precept to all the people according to
the law, he took the blood of calves and of
goats with water and scarlet wool, and hiss up and

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sprinkled both the book and all the people saying, this
is the blood of the Testament, which God have enjoined
unto you, blood, the blood of the Covenant. God does

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not mess around. He plays for blood, for souls, for keeps.
Paul went and met with the elders of the Ephesian churches.
He said, I taught in your house to house. They
were house churches. He said, I have not shunned to

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declare unto you the whole council of God. I have
no blood on my hands. He said, take heed to yourselves,
and how you shepherd God's flock, which he purchased with
his own blood. God did not send a junior member

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of a trinity to go and die. He said, you
kill your own children. I never commanded that. That never
even come to mind for me. He did it himself.
Goes on. Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle

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and all the vessels of the ministry, and almost all
things are by the law purged with blood. And without
the shedding of blood there is no remission. It was
therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens
should be purified with these, But the heavenly things themselves

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with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered
into the holy place made with hands, where the figures
of the true, but into Heaven itself now to appear
in the presence of God. For us. One on the throne,
a man who is God, the headquartering of all government

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of authority, One Lord on one throne. Read John Revelation,
chapter four. I beheld and there was one throne with
one on it Zecharive fourteen. That day the Lord shall

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be king over the earth, and he shall be one,
and his name one. We're nott. That was for Derek
in Atlanta. Remember I get a text on my phone
that says, we're got. I know that Derek's got something

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good to tell me. That's the greatest joy that the
one God shed is blood to purchase you if you'll
have it, if you'll have it. But the cares and
worries of this life, and deceitfulness and riches, being freaked

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out about what's going on in the world will choke
out the seed and make you unfruitful. And John Baptist said,
the branch that bears not fruit will be hewn down
and thrown into the fire. I am here to bear fruit.

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Here to warn and exhort and build and root up. Amen.
I want you to make it. That's why we do
these Bible studies every day. You've got all kinds of
time to think about other things. You need this time
to soak in the Word and understand him, understand how

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he thinks, how he acts. I want to be known
of God and to know God. Amen. And this thing
with the blood, good stuff, Captain Malcolm Reynolds, I strive
to be apropos. So then all this about the blood,

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he says, Nor yet that he should offer himself often
as the high priest, and in the Holy Place every year,
with the blood of others. For then must he often
suffered since the foundation of the world. But now once
in the end of the world, hath he appeared to
put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Notice the

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writer of Hebrews said that that time two thousand years
ago was the end of the world. He said at
the beginning Hebrews too called it the last days, because
it was the end of the old Covenant. Then it
was the end of that world order, as it is

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appointed on the men once to die. But after this
the judgment, So Christ was once offered for the sins
of many, and unto them that looked for him, shall
he appear the second time without sin, unto salvation. Then
he goes on about the blood of bulls and goats

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in Hebrews chapter ten. Remember what we just read in Isaiah,
I added up for your sacrifices, your incense, your feacets,
your sabbath, your new moons. I hate it, he said,
He commanded them to do those things. What's wrong, we're

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doing what you said. Daniel was beloved of God. Daniel
wasn't taking animals to the temple to be sacrificed. And

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Jesus showed up and they were still doing those sacrifices.
And the point of it all was standing there looking
them eye to eye, and they thought, well, I've got
to kill this guy getting in the way of my fun,
calling me out in front of everybody like this. Hebrews

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chapter ten. He gets into it even more, says, the law,
having a shadow of good things to come, and not
the very image of the things, can never with those
sacrifices they offer, year by year continually make the comers
there unto perfect. And at the time he wrote this,

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they were still doing it. That temple was still standing.
He was exhorting them, don't go back to that system.
It's old. It's the test stat or died. You have
the ultimate. You don't need the blood of a goat

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for when? For then would they not have ceased to
be offered. How come a person couldn't just have a
cow sacrifice for them once in their life and then
it was all taken care of. How come Daniel wasn't
bringing sacrifices to the temple and he was clean and
good in God's eyes? What because he was faithful, He

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prayed three times a day, he was faithful to God,
and he recognized that they were under the curse. He
had set it. But in those sacrifices, there's a remembrance
again made of sin every year. For it's not it's
not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats

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should take away sin. You have people today saying that, well,
we need a new temple built, and we've got a
red heifer and we're gonna they're gonna kill the red
I know maybe they already did that. You're going back
to a dead system. It's sin that that's sin, that

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is outright obedience, that's missing the mark, and I hear
people talking about it today. I heard somebody just the
other day saying, well, no, see the Jews they have
a separate covenant because of an Abrahamic covenant. So they
have to rebuild the temple and keep doing those things.

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Hebrews ten four one more time for you. For it
is not possible that the blood of bulls and of
goats should take away sin. You can't do it. Missing
the point wherefore, when he comes into the world, he
saith sacrifice and offering, thou wouldest not but a body

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hast thou prepared me and burned offerings and sacrifices for sin?
Thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I
come in the bar the book. It is written of
me to do that will of God, the man submitting

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to that spirit, even unto death, to blood for you. Above.
When he said sacrifice and offerings and burnt offerings and
offering for sin, thou wouldest not neither had his pleasure

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therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, lo,
I come to do thy will o God. He taketh
away the first that he may establish the second by
the which will we are sanctified to the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all. For every
priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentime the same sacrifices,

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which can never take away sin. But this man, after
he'd offer his own sacrice for sin forever, sat down
on the right hand to God. What that means is
the power of God, not a right hand physical location.

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We have studied that many times in the Old Testament.
The right hand of God is his power and protection.
He told Jerusalem in the Book of Lamentations, I have
withdrawn my right hand from before the meaning their enemies.
It was open season on them without the right hand

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of power on them. Jesus said, you'll see me coming
in the clouds of the right hand of power to
the Pharisees. And that's when they sentenced him to death.
They were going to you anyway. But it was things
that he said, just like that that infuriated death. You

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know what he was speaking as God, and they knew
that that is what he meant. Remember that study with Peter,
we just did son of God meant God man. They
called Caesar the son of God, meaning all power and

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authority was in the Caesar, and what did Jerusalem do.
We have no king, but Caesar broke the contract and
in so doing, and their disobedience fulfilled it. But that

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wasn't going to get them into heaven. That's the thing
about this world. You are going and I am going
to do what the Bible says, whether good or evil,
darkness or light. God as will as going to be done.

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He kills and he makes alive. You can have life
or you could have death. Choosing this day whom you
will serve, whether the gods that our fathers served on
the other side of the flood, as for me and

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my house, we will serve the Lord. Praise God. I
sincerely olpe that this study has enlightened your eyes on
this topic of the Blood Covenant. And I barely scratched

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the surface in this last hour in fifteen minutes. See,
they were religious. Cain was religious. And when you do
the thing that is acceptable to God, religious people will

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dislike you. They'll try to pretend that they're one of you.
There's a lot of people out there that I have
not known the more perfect way, but they're coming to it.
I went to church for twenty years of my life
and had no clue what any of this meant. And
I did not know him. It was only when I

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got real honest with myself. I felt his presence at
different times. But some people the only presence of God
they're going to ever feel is in this life. And
he makes the rain pour down on the wicked and
of just He gives them good gifts. But at some point,

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if you call yourself a Christian, I'm going to drill
down and find out. The spirit is going to find
you out if you know the more perfect way, and
if you are honest, you will say, I need to
do things his way. I need to do things according

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to the pattern in the Tabernacle. I need to do
things according to the apostles doctrine, no matter what anybody
else told you. When I got honest with myself and
with him, I said, Jesus, I believe you are real.
I don't think I really know you. I want to

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know who you really are. And it was about a
month later that God opened up the scripture and gave
me the revelation of Jesus Christ. I was wrong about
a great deal of many things, but He was patient
with me, and like a newborn baby, he looked after me,

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and it has now been over thirty years later. I've
been pastoring for a few years and I love my job.
It's times when I may seem impatient, but what I'm

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really looking for people to do is get in and
get with the program. I don't want you to go
to hell. That is not God's will Father in heaven,
I will be done for everybody hearing my voice right now,

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you don't get to play with this. In fact, if
you have, I want to leave you on one note,
and it's back in Hebrews Chapter ten, verses twenty eight

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and twenty nine, he that despised Moses's law died without
mercy under two or three witnesses of how much sore
a punishment? Suppose you shall he be thought worthy? Who
hath trodden underfoot the son of God, and hath counted

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the blood of the Covenant, whereby he was sanctified an
unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace.
That's serious. That was very serious. It's his messages. Bless

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you today. We live by your tithes and offerings. There's
Peter downing call me, which shows that he obviously is
not watching right now. But I'll call him back. If
this show is blessed you today the study, you can

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matter the amount. And if you want to reach out
to me, you will find me to be very accessible.

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God loves you. Go and understand. Think on these things,
Meditate on what you've learned today. I might Philip bust
in Jesus name. Oh, by the way, we've got Mike
Bloom coming back tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
I wonder if there anybody here who laid had benight,
shed right until all because.

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
You love no one to help you along the way
and all long.

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
And if that is anyone, let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:21:02):
Let me tell you what I've done.

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
I'm a see to be offense around.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Me and protect me every day.

Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
I tell it, the wajee be a bird all around.

Speaker 1 (01:21:23):
When I get burned the world I want you to
better a travel world.

Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
Sometimes it will hurt you to your heart to see
loan one, see low one to the barn brought you've been.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
Then then the floor stranger to me, anyone, no.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Lord, but just the load.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
As you stay in the fall, you never have the
worry when they're knocking you overdo there's that Jesus to
be of fits around you and you never have to
worry anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
Just bottle down.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
So jeezus, peel bad wall around me when you get better.
So Gee, I want you to butter a p when
you get lone. Feel bad wall around.

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The world.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Jeeves bel bad, have a cro