Many Adversaries Part 2: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 What people don’t understand is there’s three kinds of laws in the Bible in the Old Testament. Are you ready? There’s civil laws. All right? Thou shalt not murder. That’s a civil law and it has a punishment if you break it. Then there are spiritual laws. Seek the Lord your God and you will find him. Pray, you know, come before him and sing. See that’s spiritual laws. And then there is shadow laws. As we heard earlier, shadow laws. Say the word shadow. Yeah. And this is what these people are confused about the difference between civil, spiritual, and shadow laws.

▶ 0:53 Now don’t look at me like that. I’m telling you the truth. Hebrews 10:1: “For the law having a— what? Shadow of good things to come.” Say it. Shadow of good things to come. “And not the very image of the things can never with these sacrifices which they offer year by year make those who approach perfect.” But you see, they pointed to Jesus who can make you perfect. Now, you see up there on the screen a shadow of a cross. Now, because you’re an intelligent society, you know that’s a cross, isn’t it? But can you tell me the color of that cross?

▶ 1:45 Can you tell me the dimensions of that cross? Can you tell me if it’s made of metal, wood, plastic, stone? No, all you can tell me is what? It’s a cross. And if I follow the shadow, I will get to what? The real cross. And I’ll see its color. I’ll know its dimensions. I’ll know its purpose. And so, you can’t understand the details of God’s words by following shadow laws. They point to the real thing, and that is Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, folks, that’s good stuff. And this is what Mr. Savage and Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama and Oprah has got all mixed up.

▶ 2:35 They don’t know their Bible. And they’re trying to tell people what the Bible says when they don’t know their Bible. Mr. Obama, I read my Bible. I know my Bible. And I know you’re wrong. Do you guys see that clearly? Yeah, it’s very clear. Did Jesus come to make us new people? Old things passed away. Isn’t that right? What’s our old things? Adultery, homosexuality, stealing, murder, hatred. You see, Jesus came and he has the power to fulfill what God destiny is for us. And when you bash the Bible who points to Christ, you are bashing Christ and you’re eliminating the force in your life that can change your life and change society.

▶ 3:33 So these are shadow laws, Mr. Savage. They have nothing to do with anything except to remind people in the Old Testament to live holy and right. Even in the Old Testament, Mr. Obama, God told him that he didn’t want these things. He told him that shadow laws were reminders to live right. Isaiah 1:11: “What purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? I don’t delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats when you come to me. Who has required this?” Well, he required it. He’s the one said to offer lambs. He’s the one said to burn incense. He’s the one said to take the Sabbath day off and worship God and meet together and come into the— He said all that. But see, his goal wasn’t the shadow.

▶ 4:25 His goal was good. And they were embracing the shadow, the example, and not doing what the example said to do. Are you with me? And we read on and we see it. Bring no more worthless sacrifices. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon, Sabbath, feast. My soul hates when you spread your hands and make many prayers. I will hide my eyes from you and I will not hear you. And then he says what those shadow laws are for. Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from my eyes. Cease to do evil and learn to do good. You see, the shadow laws were there to remind them to treat people right, to live right, and to do right. And they were caught up in the shadow laws.

▶ 5:20 See, they embraced the shadow. Is this clear to you? Now, watch this. Let’s bring it up to date. The Lord’s table. Jesus said, as of— do you do this in what? Remembrance of me. It reminds us that he died for our sins that we can get forgiveness even as a Christian. And he gives us that new life, that resurrection. That’s what the communion table’s for. But when we just take communion and embrace communion and don’t go to the real thing, we live any way we want, don’t we? Let’s take another one.

▶ 6:11 Assembling together. The Bible says, “Assembling yourself together, even the more so as you see the day approaching, stirring up one another to love and to good works.” See, that’s why we come together is to remind ourselves that we are to go out and be a light to this world that they may see our good works. That’s the purpose of assembling. It’s not music. It’s not drama. It’s not some prophet or priest. It’s we are supposed to be stirred up to love one another, not hurt one another, and do good when we leave. It’s not having a bell ringing message and you know some athlete come in and give their testimony or whatever. We should come to church too like the old the New Testament church when the Roman leaders wrote to each other about the church.

▶ 7:05 They get together on Sunday and they make a vow not to do wrong. Every Sunday they kept repeating the vow. Why? Because they messed up sometimes and they had to change and they had to recommit to doing right. Have any of you Christians ever messed up? Yeah. You see? Hallelujah. Praise and worship. My gosh. You know, when I got saved, praise and worship was taboo. Like the Holy Ghost baptism, man. If you were filled with the Holy Ghost, you were in a church on the other side of the street and everybody looked down on you. And if you praise and worship God, lifting your hands and dancing and, you know, being outwardly demonstrative, man, that’s horrible. Now everybody’s doing it. But folks, praise and worship is a sacrifice. In Hebrews, it says, “Bring therefore the sacrifice of praise, the fruit of your lips, giving thanks to his name.” That’s our sacrifices.

▶ 8:01 But the sacrifice is not what we embrace. We embrace who the sacrifice brings us to. And that’s the presence of Jesus. And Jesus wants us to live right. Isn’t that right? So it reminds us again to what? Live right, do good. And if your worship isn’t stirring you to live good, then you’re not worshiping. You’re enjoying music. That’s all. Hallelujah. H2O means water baptism in case you didn’t know that. You know, people got their baptism or certificate. Baptism doesn’t mean a hill of beans. Baptism reminds you that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, rose from the grave and made you a new man and an overcomer of sin.

▶ 8:51 He put away sin. The old man is dead. So every time we see someone baptized, we are reminded that we’re new creatures. Sin no more has control over us. See, it’s a reminder. But what do most American Christians embrace? Do they embrace the shadow of the thing or do they really get the reality of the thing? See, we’re putting confidence in our church. We’re putting confidence in our baptism. We’re putting confidence and I take communion on Sunday when it should be pointing us to Jesus Christ and living for him. And that’s a good place for an amen. Now, these people are just wrong. Here it is again. 1st Samuel 15:22.

▶ 9:42 Has the Lord a great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen better than the fat of rams. God wants us to listen to him and respond to him and live for him. And the sacrifices were there to direct us to that. Amen. Now I want to focus in on a very significant shadow law. This is important for you. You young Christians, you need to get this in your cranial vacuum. You old folks need to shake the cobwebs out of your head here and get this in there. Are you ready?

▶ 10:36 John 7:19, “Moses gave you the law, yet none of you keep it.” Why didn’t they keep it? Because it was impossible. Them guys were unclean every day. If they had sex with their spouse, they were unclean. If a bug landed on their— a bug landed on their plate or whatever, they were unclean. Every time you turn around, they’re unclean. They’re unclean. They spent all their life trying to get clean. The the shadow laws were impossible to keep. And yet the Jews embraced the shadow instead of what the shadow pointed to. And today we are embracing the shadow and to what the shadow points to. We’re in danger of that. Hallelujah.

▶ 11:24 Galatians 6:13: “Neither they who are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised so they may glory in your flesh.”

▶ 11:32 Why does the Catholic Church have holy water there and all that and all this [unclear] and all this? So they can glory. That’s a Catholic. It does nothing. The holy water does nothing. The holy water is the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the word of the Lord. That’s the holy water. That’s the real thing. Can I hear an amen? Amen. See, why does certain churches have you do the certain thing? They glory in your flesh. Why does Dan Savage try to get you to believe the Bible’s full of BS so he can glory in your flesh turning from the Bible? Yeah. Yeah, I got through. See, they want you to follow them. They’re not wanting you to follow Christ.

▶ 12:25 They want you to follow them, their group, their church. Now, that’s good preaching right there. And who are we to follow? And what word are we to follow? His word, right? Psalms 14 makes it even more clear. The Lord looked down from heaven to see if any understood who seek God. And his conclusion was they’ve all turned aside together. They’ve become corrupt. None does good. No, not one. You see, we mess up with these requirements of God. We mess up. But look at here. Us Christians make mistakes. Us believers make mistakes.

▶ 13:17 I I’m a believer and I make mistakes. How many believers say, you know, I make mistakes? I made them in the past. I’ll probably make them tomorrow. Yeah. You see, this is the importance of the shadow law. The shadow laws were impossible to keep. Why? Because they pointed to a requirement of God that was impossible without God for you to live up to. It’s impossible. And this is the importance of the shadow law. The biggest biggest one. Now listen to this. Have all your workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call on the Lord? See, this guy has the audacity to lambaste our Bible. A lot of these students walked out. When he started bashing the Bible, they walked out.

▶ 14:09 Others applauded. And see, these people oppose us. Yes, they can find fault with us because we’re coming into maturity. We’re coming into his image. They can always find. You can’t be good enough for people that are trying to find something to criticize the church about. Ain’t I right? But see, us Christians know that Jesus is the answer for us and our mistakes. And you shouldn’t be messing around with this church. You should not be messing around with this church, even with their flaws. You don’t want to mess around with God’s people.

▶ 15:01 Now, let me address homosexuality. Now, we we address the food, the clothing, the different clothing. It was all examples of living holy. Okay? The virgin or the woman that wasn’t a virgin on her [unclear] night, she got stoned because she said she was a virgin. They didn’t put that in there and she wasn’t. She lied and and she went into a marriage with a lie and deception. And you know how many people were stoned for that in the Bible? Zero. Interesting, isn’t it? Why? It’s a shadow law. God didn’t put it there for us to go around killing people that sinned.

▶ 15:56 It’s a shadow law. How many people were stoned for picking up sticks on the Saturday? One. One for working on Saturday and that was in in Exodus to give us an example of the judgment of God. You see there God is coming to judge and there is a judgment. But Jesus said, “I’ve not come to destroy sinners but to what? Save them.” See, God’s in his saving timetable right now. But when he comes again, folks, he’s going to judge. And stoning the people that messed up back there in the Bible is not the issue. It’s you are going to pay an eternal price.

▶ 16:49 That is what the shadow laws are trying to tell you. There’s an eternal punishment to pay if you flagrantly disobey. Hallelujah. Do you know what most people were stoned for in the Old Testament and in the New Testament? I didn’t think you did. Nabal was an innocent man. They wanted his vineyard and they used the shadow law to kill an innocent man. Prophets were innocent people. They used the shadow law to kill and stone prophets. Stephen was an innocent man. They use stoning. The Jews did the shadow law to kill Stephen. It’s these sinners like this Dan Savage that are twisting the scriptures to destroy people’s lives.

▶ 17:46 You get the point? Hallelujah. And America’s buying it. They are buying it hook, line, and sinker. See, this is what Christians know. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. You know, you say you’re Mr. Perfect, you’re lying through your teeth. You’re not looking at yourself good. Ask somebody that works with you. Ask somebody that lives with you in your home. They’ll tell you you got some problems. We can think real high and mighty of oursel, but the Bible says it’s not good for one to boast of himself. Let another boast of you. Let another who can see you right tell you the truth. And there might might not be much boasting there.

▶ 18:41 But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. See, we know that. We know the shadow law points to somebody that can do the impossible in our life. That which the law couldn’t do. The shadow laws could not do, Jesus can do. And so when we sin, we confess he’s reliable. He’s faithful. He forgives. And we go on. That’s what Mr. Savage and these people need to understand. And Jesus isn’t the shadow. He’s the real deal. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word’s not in us. See, that’s the importance of the shadow law. The superior shadow law is is impossible to live by.

▶ 19:36 Just like it is impossible for you to live by God’s laws of righteousness, but through Christ who strengthens us, who quickens us by might in the inner man, who comes and gives us empowerment to do all things through Christ. We can do these things. And if we mess up, we can get up and get going again. Shadow laws bring us to Christ. It’s got nothing to do with eating shellfish or not eating shellfish. And never nowhere. He said the Bible is wrong on masturbation. Folks, I’ve read that Bible 121 times. I’ve studied it for hours. There is nothing in the Bible about masturbation.

▶ 20:29 Zero. You have to fabricate it. To make a scripture talk about masturbation. You have to dream it up. See, he’s totally wrong. And I submit to Dan Savage, if he’s wrong in this elementary thing about the Bible, could he be wrong about homosexuality? The law was our school master to bring us to Christ. The only way I am come, Jesus said, to destroy the law, not to destroy, it should say, I’m come not to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them. Okay. Who fulfilled the shadow laws? [unclear] He plainly— Jesus plainly said he did.

▶ 21:22 You don’t need to sacrifice animals anymore. He did the sacrifice. You don’t need to give incense. You can pray right to him. You can go directly to God. You see, you don’t need to all do these shadows anymore. You got the real deal. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” No one Muslims. President Bush said Muslims and non-believers were going to heaven. Did you hear that? President Bush said Muslims and non-believers are going to heaven. Mr. President, you’re totally wrong. Muslims do not believe Jesus died on the cross. Muslims do not believe he rose from the grave. Therefore, Muslims do not believe that he is the only begotten son of God. He was God in the flesh and Jesus said, “I am the only way.” President Bush, you’re wrong.

▶ 22:21 Oprah, you’re wrong. Obama, you’re wrong. Jesus is the only way. And his word, the scriptures show us the way to him. Can I hear an amen? That’s good for you guys to know this so you have answers for people out there. We need answers for people. We need to be able to answer them back. There’s no truth outside of Jesus. There’s no life outside of Jesus. And he’s the only way to the father. And the father is God. And that’s why we need to reach the Muslims. That’s why we need to reach the homosexuals. That’s why we need to reach all people. Bring them to Christ. He can straighten them out. Now folks, some of these students [unclear]. Mothers, I submit to you today, would your child have walked out, or would your child have applauded this bashing of the Bible? Mothers, fathers, would you have applauded or would you have walked out?