When Eight Days were Accomplished 01/19/2020: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 Eight days of Jesus Jesus went to the temple as we remember the first 40 days is focused around this temple and Jesus went to the temple to be circumcised and as you know God wants his house to be full and there’s no way any man-made building can hold all the people of God isn’t there so we know that the building in the Bible was just an illustration of the heavenly building of spiritual people. His church that God was going to build Abraham was looking for a city made without hands and God is building a church a temple of living stones people made without hands so.

▶ 0:52 They bring Jesus to the temple. To be circumcised. Alright. Now remember. Not everybody like Jesus. Herod wanted to kill him just like civil authorities today they don’t like a higher ruler ruling than civil government neither do they like higher laws the priests the scribes the Sadducees the Pharisees all of those groups. Who knew the scriptures and knew the messiah was coming knew that Jesus was coming. When he come they didn’t go looking for it even though he knew they knew where he was going to be born and so forth when they heard that a king was born they did not go looking for it a lot of ministers.

▶ 1:50 Today though they know the scriptures don’t go looking for Jesus. All right and when they brought Jesus into this courtyard. They didn’t even recognize that it was Jesus only two people recognized it was Jesus and we’ll get into them in the coming. Sessions and Jesus was here in this courtyard and they didn’t let him in to the inner court or the holy place or the holy of holies that’s how you can know the scriptures and not identify. God when he moves and God himself are you with me.

▶ 2:45 So. We found last week that everything happened in the Old Testament was for our examples. Everything written was for our admonition upon. Whom the ends of the world are come okay so the Old Testament is relevant today and it was written for us do we understand that alright from last week then. He says let no man judge you in meat or drink or a holy day our new moon Sabbath days which our shadow of things to come all those and ceremonial laws and everything were just an example of things to come they never were intended to be the real thing.

▶ 3:41 Also the temple in Hebrews eight five was a shadow of the heavenly temple and the real temple of Moses is tabernacle and Solomon’s temple did not have this court this court was added by Herod and the priests and the Pharisees and Sadducees of that day are you there when God said make sure you build the temple according to the pattern they added this court there was no women’s court in in Solomon’s temple there was no women’s court in Moses his tabernacle they added that and that’s what humans do when you get religious you add to the world and they added not only the women’s court the women had to stay here they couldn’t go into the inner.

▶ 4:37 Court. But in Solomon’s temple the males females and children could go in are you with me but the Jews and many religious people even Christians in America think that the genitals. Determine your spirituality. Are you there and they want to suppress women today. But all of us can go into the inner court and meet Jesus at the altar meet him at the laver we can all go in amen we can all go into the holy place and the holy of holies we all need priests or anybody we have free access could that be is that an amen that’s not could that be an amen that isn’t a minute that’s what the Bible says okay so they had these chambers here over here is the leper chamber for the defective people and the defective people you know we got to keep them separate over here you have the nazarites the holy people the nazarites wouldn’t cut their hair they wouldn’t trim their beard they wouldn’t eat certain things you know they were certain clothes that’s the holiness people over here is the chamber of oils the anointed ones you know

▶ 6:07 the tongues prophecy interpretation gifts of healing wisdom knowledge oh they are special minister and then over here you got the wood chamber and the Bible says in Peter that in a noble house there is vessels of honor and there’s vessels of dishonor there’s gold and silver vessels then there’s clay and wood which are the common vessels so the common folks they got their little special place do we have that in the church world today oh yeah. All of these little groups you know got their little section. Fenced off and then you got the women’s court that was the that was the biggest one the women’s court you know that’s this is restrained the women and you notice every rule the churches make 90 percent of them is directed toward women you ever noticed that.

▶ 7:22 Anyway the temple is a heavenly. Example we enter into the gate Jesus this gate this court isn’t even here this gate Jesus we go to the altar to be cleansed of our sins we go to the laver to be cleansed of the water of the word and the water the spirit we go into the holy place where the spirit of God is the communion table is in the unity of the body these the altar of incense where we praise and we worship him and we go right into the holy of holies where God is and his word is and the way to get Revelation of the word is in the presence of the almighty God himself not from preachers and books. That’s where the word was the word was in the holy of holies so we remember all that stuff the law is a shadow of good things to come all these ceremonial laws are you know the labor of the sacrificed animals that’ll incense and all that they were all shadow laws pointing to the reality of what Christ was going to bring when he come the first time and folks they missed him the first time big time and I’m expecting most of the church world the missing the second time.

▶ 8:42 Because we have all so did the Jews they had this all figured out he was going to come he’s going to set up a kingdom he’s going to destroy the roman empire and they were going to be the ruling fooling you know his special people and all that and he came meek and lowly and humble and it just threw him off how many don’t want to miss Jesus when he comes yes. You can’t get everything figured out only the spirit can reveal things to you and there were two people that understood and had understanding of Christ’s first coming and we will be hitting those people later now. He said in the Old Testament that these were types in shadows when you appear before me who has required these things at your hand bring no more worthless sacrifices incense is an abomination to me new moon’s the Sabbath’s the feast days the calling of the assemblies your sacred meetings your special meeting he says all these things I hate they are troublesome to me I am weary of bearing them I never intended for them to be the reality they were pointed to the reality and he’s the one that said to do all these things but it was to direct us to the real thing and the real thing was I want you to wash yourself and make yourself clean that’s what all this stuff is about.

▶ 10:11 Put away the evil of your doings how do you make yourself clean but stop doing evil stop doing things that harm yourself and others. That’s what all these things were about and cease to do evil you see you stop doing evil you make yourself clean that’s the whole goal and intended purpose of God do we remember that from last week and a lot of good Christians who aren’t famous they’re the they’re over here in the common nobodies you know but they are washed they are clean they’re walking in the righteous word of God there are a light to the world their good works show the that the power of God is in them and they get not hardly any recognition because all these other folks get special attention are you there.

▶ 11:05 I mean just just soon be a good common ordinary Christian yes just walking everyday in the light of God’s word you can’t you can’t be a minister if you doesn’t call you to be a minister get that out of your head you can’t just decide you’re going to be a prophet or some special person God has to do that just you are special when you accept Christ and you accept being a good father a good mother a good child a living a as a good citizen in your nation that is God’s. Anointing to you amen and you’re just as special as these that have what we call the anointing. Hallelujah now. He says learn to do good and seek.

▶ 11:57 Justice. Learn to do good that’s what all those shadow laws are talking about learning to live right and speak right and that’s why the whole Old Testament was written so you could go and see what happened to these people who lived right and these people who didn’t live right. Are you there hallelujah so you can learn from them and live right and seek justice let me give you a good example present day of justice probably a lot of you have forgotten but a few years ago.

▶ 12:42 The same-sex movement and the socialists and the liberals tried to get an amendment to the constitution that all sex has to be accepted that means you can’t hire if you’re a church and there are homosexual whatever you cannot fire them or not hire them because of their sexual orientation they were going to make this an amendment to the constitution the constitution supersedes all the state and what most of you forgot is they came very close to pass annette they had 35 states they only needed 38 and then.

▶ 13:35 Five states took back and and changed their mind so they did get 30 states but they didn’t do it in the time allotted and so it’s a dead [unclear]. Amendment try right now but how many of you out there didn’t even know that it ended last year. And we came back close to. Have an amendment that any kind of sexual you know transgenders. Any kind of sexual invention sex with animals whatever. Was going to be protected by the united states constitution by this amendment and church.

▶ 14:28 Where it’s the church world. You know I hear ministers big ones talking about God wants you to be happy and we don’t tell our people that there is an injustice going on in America that an amendment to the constitution is close to being passed and that is an injustice in it. God want you to be rich God wants you to be happy yeah jeez God want you to be healthy and we overlook justice how many could sharpen their their focus more on justice yes we want our children to be raised in a just nation we won’t want to just come to church and do our little Christian thing and while our nation is falling apart and our future generations are going to be destroyed by these bad unjust laws.

▶ 15:36 Now that’s what God intended. Live right stand for justice and what’s right I don’t hear a lot of Christians standing up for justice we’re just happy with working going home and living the good life and then when in unjustice comes we’re gonna be so we got to seek God and pray we should be seeking God and praying about it now and doing something about it could that be an amen so. Romans 2:28 he is not a Jew who is one outwardly he is not a Christian who is one outwardly. But in a cross around your neck or a t-shirt that with a cross on it or whatever.

▶ 16:30 Doesn’t make you anything necessarily now I wear t-shirts that have scriptures on them and all that and a hat and all this but that doesn’t make me a Christian amen. Nor is circumcision I remember Jesus came to the temple to be circumcised all right and those are shadow things are not the real thing circumcision is a shadow thing points to the real thing he is not a Jew which is one outwardly nor circumcision which is one in the flesh see it’s not the fleshly circumcision well if it’s not what is it he is a Jew who is one inwardly the real Christian is one that’s been born by the spirit inside. We start from the inside out not the outside in.

▶ 17:29 Amen. All right the real Jew is one inwardly the real Christian is one anyway inwardly circumcision is of the heart oh. The heart the mind the will and the emotion. How many got emotions yeah how many have a will a desire for it yeah and how many have a mind what happened to the rest of you you guys get a left. See we have thinking capabilities and he wants to circumcise your mind. Your emotions and your desires. To conform to his wasn’t interested in that fleshly.

▶ 18:25 Circumcision in the first place it was simply an illustration of what he really wanted to do in you. All right and he is a Jew in the spirit we are a Christian in the spirit unless you are born of the spirit you know what Jesus said you must be born again of the spirit the spirit comes and works in you causes the conviction the word brings the faith you didn’t come to God by faith then people out there aren’t teaching you right. You heard the word and that word put faith in you. To come to Christ. Faith comes by hearing what the word.

▶ 19:23 [unclear] and it’s the word of truth and faith comes by anybody hearing anything but faith that’s from God comes from hearing his word of truth the Bible. Now faith comes by hearing the word of truth which one is greater truth or faith. Truth say it truth faith is nothing without truth. Man. Hallelujah. And then that spirit convicts us of sin righteousness and judgment to come see.

▶ 20:15 Conviction I don’t convict myself. People don’t convict me the spirit convicts me of sin I’m wrong of righteousness this is what I got to do and if I don’t do it there is a judgment coming that I’m accountable for. You young uns got that sin right wrong and if you do wrong and you don’t correct it there’s a judgment coming or you will be corrected and this is why felix trembled when Paul preached this simple message to felix the king he shook. Because he was going to be judged are you there alleluia.

▶ 21:10 I’d like to see more shaking in the church. From the conviction of sin and righteousness and less shaking in the emotional thing could that be anything. All right he says not in the letter not in nepal’s epistles not in the prophets letters none of that if you don’t exercise the word it is profitless to you and the shadow laws were never intended to be. The real truth. Are you with me so far all right a jew and a circumcised person of a heart. Prays does not come from men but from God what’s that mean well when you do things to satisfy men like the muslims they bow three times a day and they’d all do go through this routine and who are they giving honor to Muhammad told him to do it a man.

▶ 22:26 God didn’t tell him to do it a man told them to do it and so they do it to please the prophet Muhammad and his leaders that came down there are you there is it if I cut my hair a certain way because my church says I gotta cut it a certain way who am I pleasing God or the church the church. Think about that. Are we doing things because some organization or somebody out there is telling us to do it and not God himself that’s the difference.

▶ 23:17 We want to please God and have God pleased with us is that an amen all right now Ezekiel 36:26 I’m gonna give him a new heart and a new spirit and remove the stony heart that hardened heart that insensitive heart see before I got save I had an insensitive heart a hard heart toward God and toward his word of truth how many of you had the same thing yeah yeah we were we were pleasing ourselves and doing what we wanted to do God says I’m going to come and I’m gonna give you a new heart how does he do that through the circumcision he’s going to cut away the hardness of your heart so that you have a sensitivity of what’s right and what’s wrong and the conviction to do right in that beautiful it is a work of God it’s not joining a religion see I’m not a Christian because my parents were I’m not a Christian because I went through the assembly of God church I.

▶ 24:28 Was a Christian when I went to the [unclear] church one day after sitting there for a year and I went to the altar and I confess my sins I asked Jesus to forgive me of my sins cleanse me of my sins and to live inside me and boy was I shocked that it happened he came and convicted me of my sins and changed me washed those sins away and then the next weekend I got baptized in water and then I got baptized in the Holy Spirit okay I became a Christian not because I was raised in a Christian home I had an encounter with Jesus Christ are you there and I stay a Christian by keeping that encounter with Jesus Christ alleluia that which brings salvation maintain salvation if Jesus brings it he maintains it is that an amen.

▶ 25:32 And I don’t want to go back to being a religious person. Now. In closing. Jeremiah 31:31 I’m going to make a new covenant with my people in that day I am going to inscribe and write my laws in their heart. I’m going to do something now these people that say we’re not under law were under grace that’s all I hear on facebook bananana now I won’t agree if you’re not under law why did God in his new covenant say he’s gonna write his laws in your heart. Think about it.

▶ 26:24 We’re not under the shadow laws and we’re not under the law of sin and death but I am under the law of righteousness I’m under the law of wisdom I’m under the civil laws I can’t kill people I can’t steal I’m still under those laws can I hear an amen. And God is gonna write those laws in my heart and that’s the big difference but how’s he going to write up if I don’t get into the word and learn what the word says about the laws how is he going to do this I have to read his word study his word go to church have some guy guiding me into the word so I can speed up my growth and possess these things is that an amen hallelujah. Jeremiah 32:40 talking about that day of the new covenant I will put my fear in their hearts wow.

▶ 27:21 See this circumcision is important he wants to take away the [unclear] out of your heart your mind your will and your emotions and put good things in their place and one of them is the fear of the Lord as to what depart and hate evil. Depart from evil and hate evil as the fear though he said I’m going to put my fear in your heart how many could use that in their life hey. See this is a spiritual thing church. So they will never turn from me you see all these back sliders. There’s all kinds of back sliders you know teenagers they grow up in a good Christian home and all that with good parents with good values and then they go to public school or they go to college and they learn other ways and they deviate from their good parents ways and why because they never got circumcised in their heart they never followed on how many know the Bible says add to your faith.

▶ 28:29 Amen they just want to stay back there well I believe I believe I’m faith I’m faith and faith faith that no you got to add to your faith and adding to your faith circumcision of your heart is very important to get a sensitive heart. Sensitive to the things of righteousness the things of God and insensitive to the things of the world. They’ll never turn from me they’ll never turn that’s powerful church he’s gonna do something in me that I’m never and I’ve never back stood even in my mistakes I never once thought about leading God ever why I didn’t even know it at the time but he circumcised my heart I had a sensitivity to the things of God even when I made mistakes I would get up shake it off get forgiven for it and keep moving I never once thought about turning my back on Christ and not.

▶ 29:34 Because of anything in me because he kept his word even when I didn’t and circumcision of the heart he came and circumcised my heart and gave me a sensitive heart for the things of God. Hallelujah. Look at this Jeremiah 50 verse 4 talking about the same day in that day that day of the new covenant together. Unity. Together they will go my people will go and seek the Lord. Not music not some famous speaker. They’ll go and seek the Lord.

▶ 30:26 Jesus Christ. Is that why you come to church to seek the Lord and his word you want the word because you’re circumcised and you have a sensitivity a desire in your heart to learn the word and to follow the one you’re in love with Jesus Christ in that beautiful. Sea this is not hidden knowledge we’re talking about this is spiritual knowledge this is a spiritual work. This kind of faith comes from God. Hallelujah see I can read the Bible and I can have faith that I. Draw out of it for myself or I can read the Bible and he comes with his truth in his spirit and gives me faith to follow his truth not my opinions did I say that right yes there’s a big difference I’m not honored for reading the Bible I’m honored for reading it and living it exercising it.

▶ 31:41 Ezekiel 37:26 I will multiply them and set my sanctuary among them forever. Didn’t Jesus say I will never leave you I will be with you even to the end of the age that’s the covenant he made and that’s the kind of heart he wants to give you a sensitive heart for his truth for himself. To please God. Not intellectually done but the mind is involved but it’s spiritually done are you with me Jesus went to the temple to get circumcised in the flesh. He fulfilled the shadow laws we go to God’s house.

▶ 32:43 Or we go to Jesus in God’s house to circumcise the heart amen. We go and we keep needing it you know we can develop a hardness that we didn’t have before and we can come to Jesus and he cuts that out oh yeah yeah I’m sensitive again I’m sensitive again. We’re gonna sing a course. Out of Psalms 51. Creating me a clean heart of God. Right out of the scriptures. This is what David. Prayed after he messed up and I don’t want you raiding you raising your hands because we mess up one way or another now hopefully it’s not flagrant stuff it’s just you know those little things that drag us down.

▶ 33:50 And David prayed this prayer create in me a clean heart oh God see come and circumcise my heart Lord get this hardness out of me and get sensitivity to your truths back in me. Renew a right spirit within me remember he said I’ll give him a new heart and a new spirit how many could use a refreshing in your spirit yes amen cast me not away from in your presence and take not your Holy Spirit from me restore him to me the joy of your salvation it is a joy walking with God and if you don’t have it you need to get it and renew a right spirit within me now let me give you this illustration. Getting saved is like getting married. On that wedding day man that bride is decked out.

▶ 34:46 That groom is decked out. Everybody’s happy you know they have a feast I mean and they’re all happy and oh I’m gonna be the best husband I’m gonna be the best wife oh man our marriage is gonna be the best marriage and we’re gonna raise our kids the best way oh yeah and everybody yeah yeah. Then some time goes by and things you didn’t know within that person who comes out anger. Hatred. Selfishness a lot of things come out and suddenly the marriage isn’t exciting anymore because now we got to be responsible we had our honeymoon we had our sex and we were in high heaven. And then.

▶ 35:40 The daily grind of being responsible to be a good husband to be a good wife and treat each other right and do what we said in our vows we would do. Now [unclear]ts to dominate the other ones yelling and screaming at the other are you there and then divorce comes and that’s the way it is with a lot of selfish or people come to God God actually meets when they cry and they’re so happy all but it’s all my life. And then the time of just being responsible to live for God calmness and we start drifting away. Our opinions instead of his truths our hard gets hard.

▶ 36:38 But oh it started off so good. And then we wind up divorcing Jesus we wind up serving a Jesus that didn’t even in the Bible how many know you can create your own Jesus you didn’t know that yeah you could you can create your own Jesus and call him Jesus but it’s not the Jesus of the Bible the Jesus that the muslims talk about is not the Jesus of the Bible the Jesus that the hindus talk about is not the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus that a lot of preachers out there talking about talk about and preach about is not the Jesus of the Bible. We need to serve the Jesus of the Bible amen and in a marriage we need to keep our word and love one another be patient with one another we need to work at making that marriage successful.

▶ 37:40 And everything can’t be my goal. It’s got to be the right way. Everything’s got to be the right way is that an amen God’s way so this morning if you need a tune-up in your spirit Jesus is here to circumcise your heart get some hard things out of it and put some sensitive things back into it and if you want him to do a work in your heart today you know a lot of Christians don’t even read their Bible I’m on the internet they don’t read their Bible they just talk about they hear about it books Christian bookstores they just repeat something they read somewhere they don’t go to that Bible and read it and really share the balance of God’s word they never study it I mean define somebody studies the Bible is a rarity.

▶ 38:36 How many could read the Bible more and put some time for study that’s your food and that’s where the life comes from see that’s not the outward form of christianity that’s the inward form if you want Jesus to change your heart today that’s been about five minutes singing this song stand with me or stand for Jesus say Lord I mean it I want you to come and change me you.