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A change in heart and the cry was,

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rend your heart, not your garments.

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And any Christian has read their heart.

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If you remember, when you came to the Lord,

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you didn't do it in a blasé way.

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There was, if you're saved,

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and you really say there was a moment at some point

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when you realized you were lost in miserable,

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wretched sinner that couldn't save themselves

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and your heart was rent,

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and you cried out for a savior,

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and he saw you,

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and he rescued you, Hallelujah.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today,

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as we look into God's Word

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and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church,

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feel free to visit us at CityLightNYC.com,

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that's CityLightNYC.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit

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is already working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching,

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remember that you are deeply loved by God,

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that you are surrounded by His grace,

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and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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I want to minister to you today.

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If you're a guest,

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I'm just going to, I don't know how else to say,

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it's this range service today.

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It's going to be a weird service,

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because there's different kinds of services

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with different purposes.

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And most of the time,

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Lord will say, I want you to preach the Word,

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and the purpose of this service is to ignite their faith.

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That's important.

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I'll give you the Word to ignite your faith

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so you can receive the victory that's promised you by God.

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Sometimes there's a service where the Lord says,

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open up the Spirit realm and minister the Holy Spirit to them

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and preach the power of God,

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and the purpose of that is to get more of the anointing on you.

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All sorts of services.

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Today's service is kind of like a recalibration service,

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an alignment service.

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I want you to get aligned with what I believe is the Word of God.

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And statistically speaking,

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just statistically,

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and the way you may have been brought up,

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you're probably just statistically speaking

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than New York, especially in a story,

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or all the stats are thrown out anyway.

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But just in general,

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you will find this controversial,

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and you may not like it.

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Which whenever I don't like something I'm hearing,

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I lean into it.

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Yeah, because I want to know why don't I like it?

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And let me explore myself.

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And so I encourage you not to respond emotionally,

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but be like the wise Bereans in the Book of Acts,

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who went back home after they heard the Apostle's preach,

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and they searched the scriptures for themselves

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to see whether or not these things were true.

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Sound good?

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So my heart goes out to guests on Sundays like this,

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because if you're a guest,

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probably you're really hungry and you need God to meet you,

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and he's going to do that,

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I believe he can do that through anything,

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but it's not like the service was designed for that,

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for the guest and mine.

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So if you're a guest,

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I'm so glad you're here.

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Also, come back next Sunday, will you?

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Just come back.

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You'll see, you may not like me at the end of today,

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but next Sunday, be like,

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oh wow, look at that, his twin came,

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and he's much more chill, much gentler.

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Let's go to 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 9.

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This is the Apostle Peter,

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and he says, you are a chosen generation.

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Now that word generation in the Greek is Gennos,

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nation or race.

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use the term nation or race.

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I just wanted them to see that.

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But Peter is invoking this Old Testament verse.

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It's found in Exodus 196,

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and now Peter is speaking to believers in Christ.

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Who were the first century believers in Christ?

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except they were told no longer to identify as Jews or Gentiles.

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and the Bible calls that a new creation.

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So Peter is saying, you're a chosen race.

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By the way, talking about race,

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God only sees race in one way, saved, unsaved.

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When you're in Christ, well, you're a race supremacist,

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you're chosen, you're special, and you're unique.

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You can say, what happened in church today?

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There's over 80 nations represented every color under the rainbow,

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and it was like a race supremacist meeting,

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really wild what happens in a story.

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A royal priesthood, a holy nation,

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his own special people.

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specifically for Israel and Israel only.

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You're my special chosen people.

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You're the apple of my eye.

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You're the ones that I will fight for.

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The ones that I will protect.

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that's been opened up to others.

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Thank God for that.

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And any Gentile, they're not proud or arrogant about that.

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We have been grafted in, and we humbly say,

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even though we have no direct physical lineage to Abraham,

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we get all of the benefits of being God's covenant people.

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Hallelujah, I want to read you some benefits

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to being God's covenant people.

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Let's go to that list.

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It's very important to know who we are in Christ,

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and it's important to know our identity.

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Israel Houghton sang that song 15 years ago.

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I know who I am.

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Remember that? Anybody?

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How quickly musical taste change and we forget.

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The generals that went ahead of us.

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But knowing who you are in Christ is vital.

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So many times, backsliding's happened,

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and slipping away is happened,

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because the enemy causes us to forget who we are.

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and it's rooted in the covenant that God first establish

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Here's five benefits of being God's chosen people

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under the old covenant, all of which,

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and I'll show you scriptures, all of which apply now to you

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through faith in Jesus.

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There used to be a physical wall of partition at the temple.

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It was actually a physical wall,

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where Jews were on one side,

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and then converts to Judaism,

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proselytes, but they were still Gentiles.

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because they were still on that other side of the wall.

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it's been torn down,

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and out of two groups, he's made one.

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This is important, by the way.

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This actually has a very practical real-life application.

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I know it's, I'm only like three minutes in,

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and it seems like I've waxed very theological,

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and I may lose some of you, but just hang on.

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Because this is important with modern events,

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and what's happening.

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Five benefits of being God's chosen people

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under the old covenant.

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Number one, divine protection.

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Anything I read, you can say to yourself,

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that's me.

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That's for me.

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This applies to me.

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Deuteronomy 3210, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

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Deuteronomy 24, the Lord your God,

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goes with you to fight for you.

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It means you're never alone.

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God shielded his people from danger,

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defended them against enemies,

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and watched over them with deep, personal care.

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Not that bitmiddler God is watching us from a distance,

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but up close and personal.

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Shout, that's for me.

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Two supernatural protection, excuse me, provision.

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Deuteronomy 84, your garments did not wear out.

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That's actually was a miracle of provision.

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Their garments didn't grow old.

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Some of us would get sad if that happened.

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We want to get old, upgrade for better ones,

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but God actually kept for all those years

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traveling throughout the wilderness.

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God kept their garments in mint condition.

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Your garments did not wear out, nor did your foot swell.

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He fed you with manna.

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He provided for you God met every physical need,

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food, water clothing and health, miraculously and consistently.

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That's part of the covenant for you today.

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You as the chosen people of God,

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you as God's peculiar possession, the apple of his eye,

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his holy nation, these benefits come upon you.

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Three, clear identity and purpose.

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This is what they had under the old covenant.

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They knew who they were.

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They knew that they were chosen.

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They had an assignment.

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Today, you know who you are.

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The Bible says you are royal priesthood.

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What is a priest?

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It's an ambassador.

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It's a representative.

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It's a bridge builder.

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That's what the word priest actually means.

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A bridge maker who bridges the gap.

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So you don't have to wonder what on earth am I here for?

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You're here to glorify God.

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You're here to expand his kingdom.

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Share the gospel of Jesus.

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Wind souls.

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You have an identity.

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God's presence.

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He said, my presence will go with you and I will give you rest.

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Exodus 33, 14.

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God didn't stay distant.

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He dwelt among them.

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Leading, comforting and resting them.

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Just shout that's for me.

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Don't read these old covenant promises and just say that was so long ago

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and did something get lost in translation now.

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This is who he is today and this is who he is to the believer.

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The believer in who?

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In Jesus.

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The one who went to the cross and died in your place.

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The one who took all of your sins and received them in his own body.

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And then he received the wrath that those sins deserved

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so you can now be free from wrath.

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Free from guilt.

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Free from condemnation.

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And the Bible calls the new covenant a better covenant.

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Why is it a better covenant?

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Well, under the old covenant it depended on the people to keep their end to the bargain.

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They often failed and consequently they were often cursed.

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That's why have you ever noticed when you need a quick pick me up?

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You don't read like Deuteronomy.

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You never go, you know, I'm really feeling down in the dumps.

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Let me read some Leviticus.

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And then after that little second Kings, I'll salt and pepper on top.

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That's really going to get.

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No, you see it's sometimes very difficult to read.

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Why? Because they were supposed to keep their end to the bargain, but they couldn't.

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Under the new covenant, the person who's keeping your end to the deal in place is Jesus himself.

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And he doesn't slip up.

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He doesn't mess up.

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He's perpetually imperfectly holding the covenant together in your stead.

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What a relief that is.

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The pressure, that's why Jesus said, come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden,

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religiously, laboring, trying to cross every tea and die every eye.

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Come to me.

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I'll give you rest because I've already done it.

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It is done.

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It is finished.

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Hallelujah.

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Five.

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Inheritance and stability to a land flowing with milk and honey,

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God promised and delivered a secure and fruitful home.

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Everything under the old covenant was a type and a shadow.

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It pointed to not something but someone.

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It pointed to Jesus.

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A phenomenal passage after the resurrection is when Jesus is walking down the road to Emmaus.

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And he says, he comes upon two disciples and they're kind of confused and they're sad and they

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heard about Jesus.

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And it says, he opened up the Bible, then it was just the Old Testament, the Torah.

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And he said, beginning from Genesis, he revealed himself to them.

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Because you will see Jesus Christ on every single page of the Old Testament,

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every single page of the Torah.

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The promised land, back then physical land, it was pointing to Jesus.

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Pointing to you because you are now in Christ.

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Let's go to 2 Corinthians.

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2 Corinthians chapter 1 and verse 20.

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It says, for all the promises of God in him are yes and in him a man to the glory of God through us.

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What does that verse mean?

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That verse means that in Jesus, you find the fulfillment of every Old Testament promise.

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He is the fulfillment of Israel.

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He is the fulfillment of God's promises to Israel.

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I'll give you an example of some of those.

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In the Old Covenant, we had a physical temple.

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Under the new Jesus is the true temple where God dwells and we his people are also that temple.

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Under the Old Covenant Jesus, excuse me, the Old Covenant, there was a human high priest.

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Under the new covenant, he is your eternal high priest.

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Under the Old Covenant, they had animal sacrifices.

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Under the new covenant, he is the once and forever sacrifice that took away all the sins of the world.

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Under the Old Covenant, there was a Sabbath, a physical day of rest.

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Under the new covenant, every day is Sabbath day.

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Now, that's good news, isn't it?

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Every day.

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Do you say, I don't have to go to work?

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Well, you may get fired, but here's what that means.

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You don't have to try and work for God.

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See, now it's a spiritual rest.

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You don't have to try to work to impress God, to score points with God,

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so you don't have to try to work to be accepted by him.

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Jesus has already passed 10s, done that for you.

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And now you can rest in the finished work of the cross.

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Monday, you can rest.

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Tuesday, you can rest.

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Wednesday, you got it, Sabbath day.

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Sabbath day.

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Believe it or not, Sabbath day.

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Hallelujah.

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I knew this would come out different in the second service,

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because this sermon really...

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It could either be a six-week sermon, you know, series,

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which I don't want to do that.

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So I have to preach it in one.

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The question in 2023, 2024, controversial question was,

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what is a woman?

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And what is a woman?

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You know, people were being asked that, extreme progressives couldn't answer that,

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because they didn't want to offend somebody.

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Like five minutes ago, we all knew what a woman was, now we don't know what a woman is.

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But you know, I mean, you guys can call yourselves a woman.

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I mean, technically you could, but I don't believe you.

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And someone says, well, believe them, because they say so, you know, respect their feelings.

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No, I don't want to enter into their delusion and support their delusion.

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I mean, I can see the whiskers from here.

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They're not a woman.

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So God defines what a woman is, and God defines what a man is.

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It's the same way with marriage.

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You don't get to define marriage.

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I love this microphone.

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It amplifies my voice.

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Well, if you love it, why don't you marry it?

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Today someone will go, okay, you don't get to marry,

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whoever you aren't and call it marriages between a man and a woman.

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God define the institution of marriage.

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But the 2025 question is, what is Israel?

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Have you ever asked yourself that question?

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What is Israel?

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And we can't define Israel.

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You have to let the Bible define Israel.

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And God has to define Israel.

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And so before you answer, what is Israel, you better come with a lot of scripture.

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Now, I know scripturally what Israel is,

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but is the government and the nation that was established in 1948 akin to biblical Israel?

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Because you get the two conflated all the time.

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And so there's a lot of evangelical guilt that's thrust upon people.

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People ask, do you stand with Israel?

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Well, if you don't stand with Israel, you're anti-Semitic.

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You know what I'm not.

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I just, I personally, I just don't want to support yet another foreign war.

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But you got people chanting, making it the topic of the day.

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And frankly, I just want to ask, with respect, why do I even care?

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I know this is very hard for you to, well, that sounds so cruel.

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There's stuff that's happening in the world right now.

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You don't even know what's happening because the media didn't tell you to care about it.

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Do you know how many slaves there are right now in the world?

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Anybody know?

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More than at any previous time in history.

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Right now, there's 50 million slaves on planet earth.

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They'll be categorized as slaves.

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Some of them are indentured servants.

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But there's 50, you didn't know that, did you?

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So you didn't know to be mad about that.

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You didn't know that a few years ago in Armenia,

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tens of thousands of Armenians were being genocided.

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I didn't even know because it wasn't in our news.

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But remember, when we were meeting on 34th Street and Pastor Klaig,

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he was from Armenia and he was on social media all the time telling people.

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And we just didn't know because we weren't told to care.

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But all of a sudden, we're told to really, really care about a country,

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the size of New Jersey on the other side of the earth.

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And we're supposed to care as much as we care about America.

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And frankly, I just feel like we have enough of our own problems.

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But because it has the name Israel, I have to care.

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I mean, on the way through one of those taco stands,

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I met Jesus, but I didn't pray to him.

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You know, I didn't give my tithe to Jesus.

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He gave me two nice tacos.

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Because his name is Jesus, doesn't mean he's Jesus.

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King of kings and Lord of lords.

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And just because something is called Israel doesn't mean it's Israel.

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The Israel of God.

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Amen.

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You're all you're sounding anti.

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I am not anti-Semitic.

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I'm Jewish.

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How could I be anti-Semitic?

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I'm the Israel of God.

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You're someone that you're anti-Semitic.

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You know what's Semitic means?

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It means you're from the lineage of Shem, one of Noah's sons.

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You're Middle Eastern.

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So there's some guy from Russia or Poland with blonde hair and blue eyes.

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And if I say that I don't agree with the government of Israel

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and everything they say, I'm an anti-Semite,

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yet they're blonde hair and blue eyed from Russia.

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You didn't get that.

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Fighting with Semites in the Middle East.

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By the way, this isn't about the war.

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I honestly, I'm concerned about my mandate.

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My mandate is to win souls in America,

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specifically in New York City.

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What happened last week though, just last week.

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A lot can happen in a week.

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Remember last week we were wondering if a suitcase

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nuke was going to go off in Times Square.

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And we're wondering how much of a war

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and are we going to get pulled into?

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And a good question to ask if you're a Christian

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because there's such a pressure on Christians is

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why am I being pressured into having to support

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every single decision of modern-day Israel?

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You say you support the Palestinians?

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No, not them either, the Palestinians.

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By the way, any one of those two groups,

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if they could smash a button that would make you disappear,

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they would smash it without thinking.

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And that's the truth.

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And if you think otherwise, you're very, very naive.

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And this message, you know, I risk offending everybody.

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This is not a popular message.

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I promise there's people who may never come back

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because they're going to get emotional,

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they're going to get hurt,

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rather than search the scriptures themselves,

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they're going to get up in their head.

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And I run a lot of risk.

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And my only motive here is just asking,

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getting you to question some narratives

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and maybe do a little bit of digging and research yourself.

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So, with that, let's allow the Bible to define the Bible, shall we?

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And I'll give you a list since I'm so fond of lists today.

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All right, here is a list that shows that Christians

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that's both Jews and Gentiles are now Israel

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and Israel is the true people of God.

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We already did first Peter 2.9, your chosen generation.

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It's talking about you, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.

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Number two, Galatians 3.7.

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Therefore, know that only those who are of faith

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are sons of Abraham.

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Abraham was special, one true Jew, the first Jew,

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and God came to him.

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And he said, you are blessed.

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I bless you this day.

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And out of your loins, there is a holy seed.

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Messiah will come out of your loins.

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And then in Hebrews, it says that Abraham,

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prophetically, he saw into the future and he saw Jesus.

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He saw the one who would come and redeem people back unto God.

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And Jews hail from Abraham.

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Ethically, genetically, but the Bible says that the true Israel

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are those who aren't just ethnically or genetically,

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genealogically linked to Abraham, but they're the people of faith.

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Therefore, know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.

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Faith, not bloodline determines who belongs to Abraham.

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This completely redefines God's people under the new covenant.

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Who is Israel?

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Who is God's precious possession?

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Those who believe in Messiah.

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Those who believe in Christ.

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So, you're Chinese?

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You're like, wow, I never knew.

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I'm going to go get Alaska right now.

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Someone Indian here is like, man, I feel like I'm craving a canish.

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You didn't know.

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You were Jewish, did you?

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You didn't know that you were Israel.

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And in Israel, there are Jews and there are Gentiles,

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except they don't identify as that anymore.

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They have a new identity, Christian, in Christ.

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Hallelujah.

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Can you imagine?

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Alright, some of you, I don't feel like you're getting why I'm saying all this.

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I'm going to have to be very blunt.

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I believe and you can disagree, but at least

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do the research.

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And don't believe what your Sunday school teacher may have told you.

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Because your Sunday school teacher may have gotten it from a late-night

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televangelist.

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Maybe in your early years, you've binged out on TBN.

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Maybe you were scared of the blood moons that John Haguey was talking about.

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And you sent a bunch of money to him.

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And you really got into Zionism and dispensationalism.

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But why don't we all, since this is so important,

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go back to the drawing board.

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Hallelujah.

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Well, what happened to the Jewish people?

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Jesus said, I'm sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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He's preaching to them.

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And then you see, in the upper room, 120 people,

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what were those 120 people?

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Every single one of them, Jewish.

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And God pours out his spirit.

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And then Peter goes out and preaches that day, 3000 get saved.

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What were the vast majority of those people?

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Jewish.

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In fact, it was very, very rare for a Gentile dog to be saved.

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That's what they thought of Gentiles.

513
00:26:27.760 --> 00:26:29.920
That's actually what God told them to think.

514
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Because they weren't covenant people.

515
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.560
When David came against that Philistine, he said,

516
00:26:34.560 --> 00:26:37.680
who is this non-covenant, uncircumcised Philistine?

517
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:38.400
I'm special.

518
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:39.600
I have a covenant with God.

519
00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:44.400
And between Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 10,

520
00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:47.920
when Peter has the vision of the blanket with the unclean animals coming down.

521
00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:54.160
And he gets the apostolic mandate that now the gospel is open to both Jews and non-Jews,

522
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:56.240
they're seven to ten years that have passed.

523
00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.760
So mainly it was Jewish people who were getting saved.

524
00:26:59.760 --> 00:27:05.200
Because I find that modern-day Christians don't understand that the base,

525
00:27:05.840 --> 00:27:09.680
the majority of the first century church in the beginning was all Jewish people.

526
00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:13.920
Because you know, almost people make it seem like well, Jews rejected the Messiah.

527
00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:16.240
But many, many, many did not.

528
00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:22.400
And then came the destruction of the temple in 70 AD.

529
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:27.120
That was a big deal and most people don't even know what happened.

530
00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:29.360
No Jew ever thought it would happen.

531
00:27:30.560 --> 00:27:32.960
But Jesus spoke about it and he prophesied it.

532
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:36.320
And he spoke about it at length in Matthew 24.

533
00:27:36.320 --> 00:27:40.160
Of course, then came bad theology, preachers on TBN.

534
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:43.600
A lot of it honestly has to do with money and manipulating for money in the way they will

535
00:27:43.600 --> 00:27:49.120
emotionally try to guilt, trip, modern day Americans into sending money over to Israel.

536
00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:52.880
But at first they come in through their ministry where they take 87 cents on the dollar.

537
00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:54.400
That's another story for another time.

538
00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:04.480
But in 70 AD, the Romans came in and they ransacked and destroyed Jerusalem and the temple.

539
00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:09.600
And many of the Jews said, whoa, you know, I remember that prophet guy a few decades back,

540
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:11.680
the one who started his own cult.

541
00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:14.640
And he was warning that this would happen.

542
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:17.040
He even said when this happens, flee into the mountains.

543
00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:19.280
And he even told us what to look out for.

544
00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:21.680
He wasn't just a prophet.

545
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:24.000
He was who he said he was.

546
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:25.600
He was the Son of God.

547
00:28:25.600 --> 00:28:26.560
I believe.

548
00:28:26.560 --> 00:28:30.080
And there was another mass conversion of Jews who believed in Jesus.

549
00:28:30.800 --> 00:28:34.240
And then some, many also were slaughtered by the Romans then.

550
00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:38.400
And then some were dispersed in the diaspora and went off to different nations.

551
00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:43.120
But I just want to address that many Jewish people received Jesus.

552
00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:48.800
Galatians 3.7, now Galatians 3.29.

553
00:28:49.840 --> 00:28:56.640
And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.

554
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:03.760
So everybody in here, no matter what country you come from, if you believe in Jesus, you are one true Jew.

555
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:10.400
And what about if someone says, well, I'm more of a Jew than you because I'm physically Jewish.

556
00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:13.280
That's not how God sees it.

557
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:17.280
Maybe it's a point of pride for you, a badge of honor for you.

558
00:29:17.280 --> 00:29:18.640
Paul actually addressed that.

559
00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:23.200
He said, if anybody has the right to boast, I can boast.

560
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:25.760
He called himself a Hebrew of the Hebrews.

561
00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:29.040
And then listed his immaculate pedigree of the tribe of Benjamin.

562
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:32.800
He was, I mean, you don't get more Jewish than the Apostle Paul.

563
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:39.600
And then after listed, listing his impeccable pedigree, he said, I counted all his done.

564
00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:41.280
It's a pile of refuse.

565
00:29:41.280 --> 00:29:47.600
It's trash because that doesn't matter what matters is a heart that's born again.

566
00:29:47.600 --> 00:29:50.320
The circumcision of the heart and faith in Christ.

567
00:29:50.320 --> 00:29:57.360
And now you are adopted into the church, the Israel, the people of God, hallelujah.

568
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.760
Can you imagine if this is one of the greater deceptions of our time?

569
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:06.480
Can you imagine?

570
00:30:07.600 --> 00:30:09.920
I live in Rosalind, Long Island.

571
00:30:11.840 --> 00:30:16.960
Like, I've only lived, I spent over 20 years in Forest Hills Queens,

572
00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:20.000
more temples in synagogues and churches.

573
00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:23.120
Then I moved to Williamsburg for 15 years.

574
00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.840
Now I mean, look what God's doing in my life.

575
00:30:29.360 --> 00:30:34.640
Now I'm in Rosalind, Long Island and all my colleagues and all Jewish.

576
00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:38.000
But one thing I noticed, for example, I go around my every single house has the

577
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.240
star David and the American flag like this together.

578
00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:42.480
Why?

579
00:30:44.080 --> 00:30:45.520
Where does that star David come from?

580
00:30:45.520 --> 00:30:46.720
You think David had one of those?

581
00:30:48.320 --> 00:30:50.800
That star David was created around the ninth century.

582
00:30:51.760 --> 00:30:55.920
I know if some of you are emotional, see some of you, I know Christians,

583
00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:57.760
they've come in here, they don't last long.

584
00:30:57.760 --> 00:31:01.200
They like took a 23 in me and they found out they were once 16th Jewish.

585
00:31:01.840 --> 00:31:04.800
Next thing you know, they come with the shawl, they have the show far,

586
00:31:04.800 --> 00:31:08.080
they got a tambourine because they wanted banging like Miriam,

587
00:31:08.080 --> 00:31:11.360
banging on the other side and they're so proud.

588
00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:13.120
Like they're more special.

589
00:31:13.120 --> 00:31:16.880
I'm one, I'm one seeing, really well, I'm 100% Jewish.

590
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.520
You're only one 16?

591
00:31:19.520 --> 00:31:20.640
I've been grafted in.

592
00:31:21.360 --> 00:31:24.080
God sees me as His own, as His holy nation.

593
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:27.840
Paul the Apostle ends the book of Galatians saying,

594
00:31:27.840 --> 00:31:30.560
and blessed be the Israel of our God.

595
00:31:30.560 --> 00:31:35.520
He's talking to Gentiles and he's saying, blessed be the Israel of God.

596
00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:37.040
Who is He talking about?

597
00:31:41.520 --> 00:31:42.560
Hallelujah.

598
00:31:42.560 --> 00:31:44.960
Could you imagine now, where did this whole thing start?

599
00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:49.360
Because what I'm preaching, maybe new for you,

600
00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:51.760
but it's actually what the church believed for 1900 years.

601
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:56.960
Until this thing called a Skofield Bible came about.

602
00:31:58.160 --> 00:31:58.880
I have one.

603
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:06.080
The Skofield Bible came around in 1906 and it was the first Bible ever with footnotes.

604
00:32:06.080 --> 00:32:11.760
It was the King James Bible, but it had footnotes which were Skofield's interpretations of verses.

605
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:18.560
Now, it would appear that Skofield was funded by an outside agency.

606
00:32:19.520 --> 00:32:21.120
And Skofield's Bible

607
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.720
spanned through all denominations.

608
00:32:25.280 --> 00:32:30.560
It was the premier Bible at Dallas Theological Seminary which trained tens of thousands of

609
00:32:30.560 --> 00:32:36.880
pastors, tens of thousands of Baptist pastors, Methodist pastors, Pentecostal pastors.

610
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:40.400
They all had the Skofield Bible and they believed in this thing called Zionism.

611
00:32:42.320 --> 00:32:45.280
And then of course Israel is formed in 1948.

612
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:48.160
And if I had more time, I would get into that.

613
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:52.880
But again, just because it's called Israel doesn't mean it's God's Israel.

614
00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:57.520
We have to separate spiritual Israel from ethnic Israel.

615
00:32:57.520 --> 00:32:59.600
I'm looking at spiritual Israel right now.

616
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.840
Actually, I thought there would be more of a war this morning, but I feel like there's like a

617
00:33:09.840 --> 00:33:11.520
collective sigh of relief almost.

618
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:17.120
Like if I were to ask, how many of you suspected something was up this whole time?

619
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:23.360
How many of you just like you wanted to do the right thing, but you're always suspected,

620
00:33:23.360 --> 00:33:25.360
huh? I feel like I'm being messed with.

621
00:33:25.360 --> 00:33:26.880
Kind of like month three of COVID.

622
00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:29.680
You were like, I wonder if I'm being messed with here.

623
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:32.080
Now it's not all really connecting the dots.

624
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:40.800
But you mentioned this and the reason why I probably can preach this so freely is because I'm in

625
00:33:40.800 --> 00:33:47.200
New York. If I preach this in Texas, if I preach this in Florida, why?

626
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:54.000
Because they all grew up, their pastors, pastors from the 1940s, 1950s grew up with the Skofield

627
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.720
Bible. They don't even know that the church for 1900 years saw things differently.

628
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:06.720
Some of them don't even, they get frothing at the mouth and so passionate about this new country

629
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:13.360
that is called Israel, that is completely in the, and it's pure as definition, anti Christ.

630
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:18.480
It's anti the gospel. It's anti the Christian message.

631
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:22.160
You don't go and you'll see they're spitting at Christians.

632
00:34:22.160 --> 00:34:23.760
They're, you know, it's illegal.

633
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:27.040
It used to be we'd have groups that went over into Israel to evangelize.

634
00:34:27.120 --> 00:34:30.640
That's illegal now. You can evangelize and you'll get locked up.

635
00:34:31.600 --> 00:34:36.560
And by the way, speaking of getting locked up, why are we told that Israel is our greatest ally?

636
00:34:36.560 --> 00:34:38.960
This whole time, how many of you heard Israel is our greatest ally?

637
00:34:40.080 --> 00:34:40.720
Or how?

638
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:44.720
What have you done for me lately?

639
00:34:48.560 --> 00:34:52.080
Listen, I just wanted to get funny ideas. We just have security and they're strapped.

640
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:56.000
I'm telling you, I'm not kidding, they're strapped, legal, everything.

641
00:34:57.040 --> 00:34:59.120
He's watching me very close today.

642
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:04.080
Well, they're the only democracy in the Middle East.

643
00:35:04.080 --> 00:35:04.960
Really?

644
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:08.960
Netanyahu has been Prime Minister for 17 years. That's unlike a democracy to you.

645
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.440
Pastor, you a Palestinian sympathizer? No.

646
00:35:19.680 --> 00:35:24.160
Here's one God's people to be said free and realize who they are and not to be led astray,

647
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.480
chanting and hooping and hollering. Because when you get down to Zionism,

648
00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:34.400
it's this real weird transactional relationship that Christians have with Israel.

649
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:38.480
They will send money and gifts to Israel. Not because they care, but they're like,

650
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:40.400
well, if I bless you, God will bless me.

651
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:44.320
And also, I need you just to hang around this land right here and keep the lights on before

652
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:48.800
my Messiah comes back. And the Israel he's see right through that. I've spoken to them.

653
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:52.320
Do you think, have you ever met an Israeli that comes up to a Christian and goes,

654
00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:55.520
you know, the Catholics, I don't know about, they were a little cruel to us,

655
00:35:55.520 --> 00:35:58.480
but you have angelicals. You've sent hundreds of millions to us.

656
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:02.640
And we really appreciate it. You're not going to hear that. They know why you're doing it.

657
00:36:02.640 --> 00:36:07.520
And they say, no, it's a selfish motive. It's transactional in nature. There's no real love there.

658
00:36:08.560 --> 00:36:12.400
Is this making sense to anybody here? Man, if you could see the looks that I'm seeing right now,

659
00:36:13.200 --> 00:36:15.280
all different kinds of faces and looks.

660
00:36:17.200 --> 00:36:20.160
I'm deviating from my notes a little. Maybe it's for the best.

661
00:36:20.240 --> 00:36:21.360
On that note also.

662
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:31.840
Living for the end times, the reason why I grew up before I was even saved.

663
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.760
My parents, atheist parents, I remember seeing this book as a kid.

664
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:40.160
And it was something like Israel, Syria, and I ran in the last days.

665
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:47.600
We were born in a unique time in Christian history where it's all we talk about is the end times.

666
00:36:48.160 --> 00:36:51.840
And we know it has something to do with the Middle East and it's like end times and times and times.

667
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:56.160
For 1900 years, Christians were not obsessed with the end times.

668
00:36:56.160 --> 00:36:59.600
Today, somebody gets saved at City Light Church. The first thing I have to tell them is

669
00:36:59.600 --> 00:37:02.560
start with the Gospel of Mark. Don't start with the Book of Revelation.

670
00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:05.840
Because the first thing they do is they want to go into the Book of Revelation because they picked

671
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:12.240
up on it. Christians weren't obsessed with the end times. They understood that Jesus was coming

672
00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:18.080
back, but this was obscure, allegorical, prophetic language. And they weren't too sure what they

673
00:37:18.080 --> 00:37:22.960
thought. And they didn't live for the end times. But starting with that scoffield Bible,

674
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:29.200
all the talk was about the end times. In fact, in the 80s, I would come before I was saved.

675
00:37:29.200 --> 00:37:32.720
I would come across, how many of you know what I'm talking about, TV preachers?

676
00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:35.760
And all they would be doing was talking about the end times and times and times.

677
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:39.760
It actually turned me off. It was depressing. As a kid, I remember that emotional, like the

678
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:44.640
consulate talking by the end of the world. That's not how Christians were. They were sharing the

679
00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:51.840
Gospel, loving each other, expanding the kingdom of God and told to live ready. Not trying to read

680
00:37:52.640 --> 00:37:57.600
the paper and scroll on their phones and trying to relate it to modern-day Israel and wondering when

681
00:37:57.600 --> 00:38:02.480
will all get wrapped up. And maybe even some cheering for nuclear apocalypse because then God is

682
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:10.480
coming back and taking us all home. You really think about some of the stuff we're told to think

683
00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:16.800
about and it's just bizarro land. It's no wonder why unbelievers are like, you are weird. And sometimes

684
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:38.720
we really, really are. Hallelujah. Number four. Romans 9, 6-8. But it is not that the word of God

685
00:38:38.720 --> 00:38:47.200
has taken no effect for they are not all Israel. Listen to this anti-Semite, Paul, formerly known as Saul,

686
00:38:47.200 --> 00:38:54.160
who's also a Pharisee and a Hebrew's Hebrew of the tribe of Jenner Benjamin concerning the law

687
00:38:54.160 --> 00:39:00.400
blameless. I'm making a joke there because he sounds a lot like what I just said. So if you got upset

688
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:07.040
at me, you have to get upset at him too. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel. Nor are they

689
00:39:07.040 --> 00:39:13.840
all children because they are the seed of Abraham. This is exactly what Jesus told those Pharisees.

690
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:19.440
He said, you trust in your lineage. You trust in your bloodline. And he said, don't do that. God

691
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:26.160
is able from these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. The cry back then, you know, they would

692
00:39:26.160 --> 00:39:32.640
rend their garments to represent a change in heart. And the cry was, rend your heart, not your

693
00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:38.160
garments. And any Christian has read their heart. If you remember when you came to the Lord,

694
00:39:38.160 --> 00:39:42.480
you didn't do it in a blasé way. There was, if you're saved and you really say there was a moment

695
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:47.440
at some point when you realized you were lost in miserable, wretched sinner that couldn't save

696
00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:52.720
themselves and your heart was rent. And you cried out for it, saved your and he saw you and he

697
00:39:52.720 --> 00:40:05.680
rescued you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah for the amen. In Isaac, your seed shall be called, what's the

698
00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:12.800
importance there because Isaac means laughter and Isaac is a child of the promise and Isaac is

699
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:18.160
pointing to you. And that's why the Holy Spirit sometimes touches people to laugh because Isaac

700
00:40:18.160 --> 00:40:24.880
speaks of prophetic fulfillment and the fulfillment of the promise. A laughing Christian is a biblical

701
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:30.000
happy Christian. When a promise is fulfilled, you don't boo-hoo-hoo, you ha-ha-ho-ho-he-he.

702
00:40:34.240 --> 00:40:39.520
That is, those who are children of the flesh, these are not the children of God.

703
00:40:41.120 --> 00:40:46.800
That is, those who are children of the flesh, these are not the children of God. Who are the children

704
00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:54.000
of God? Gentiles and Jews who put their faith in the Messiah. But the children of the promise

705
00:40:54.000 --> 00:41:00.240
are counted as the seed. There's a distinction between ethnic Israel and spiritual Israel.

706
00:41:00.240 --> 00:41:05.280
God's covenant people are those born of the promise, those in Christ.

707
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:21.520
Chapter 2 of Ephesians, this is 0.5, verse 12, speaking of Gentiles. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

708
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:28.800
That at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. That's us.

709
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:33.760
We were without Christ and we were, we didn't have the benefit of the covenant and we were aliens

710
00:41:34.080 --> 00:41:40.640
from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise. That was a depressing time.

711
00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:48.400
Having no hope and without God in this world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were a far

712
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:55.680
off have been brought near how by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace who has made both

713
00:41:55.680 --> 00:42:01.600
one, both what? Both Jew and Gentile, he has made one. What's that one thing called?

714
00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:10.480
The church, it's by grace, good one, by grace, but now you're the church, Israel. Thank you.

715
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:17.440
The body of Christ being in, it's also called new creation out of two because before the

716
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:24.800
resurrection and the cross got only so two kinds of people. My people, Jew and not my people,

717
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:34.480
Gentile. But now it's the church and not the church. Saved, unsaved, in Christ, outside of Christ.

718
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:39.040
Who's in Christ? Both Jews and Gentiles. Who's outside of Christ? Both Jews and Gentiles.

719
00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:42.080
Hallelujah.

720
00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:51.520
By the way, there's all different kinds of Jews. There's Israeli Jews. They're different than

721
00:42:51.520 --> 00:42:58.720
Seinfeld Jews. No, all my Jews, no, what? See how uneasy you get.

722
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:05.760
No, all my Jewish friends are Seinfeld Jews. New York Jews, those are, that's a different kind of

723
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:11.120
Jew. 90% of my Jewish friends, I actually do, you think I'm just saying that? No, really,

724
00:43:11.680 --> 00:43:19.360
I have Jewish friends, lots. 90% of them are atheists. Do you have Jewish friends? Ask them,

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do you believe in Hashem? Do you believe in God? Well, you know, they're nice stories.

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Yeah, Woody Allen Jews, Seinfeld Jews, New York Jews. I actually had a point to this and now,

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because you're laughing so much, I don't know what my point was.

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But don't let anybody on that note. Don't let anybody weaponize the term anti-Semitic.

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If there was a Jew who was hurting, I would rush to them to help them, to bless them, to love them.

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And I pray you would too. If there was a Hindu, a Muslim, what would do the same thing, amen?

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But do not let anyone weaponize the term, there's Christians who aren't even allowed to ask questions,

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because they're afraid, maybe I'm asking the wrong question, and I'm going to get God upset,

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and I'm not blessing Abraham, and now God's going to curse me. Why? You are the seat of Abraham.

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You sing that song in Sunday's school. Father Abraham, have many sons,

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many sons at Father. Come on, sing a church. I am one of them, and so are you.

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Ephesians 2, we're continuing, for he himself is our peace who has made both one and has broken

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down the middle wall of separation. Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners,

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but fellow citizens with the saints and members of, so you were a stranger, you were a foreigner,

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but now you're members of the very household of God. Gentiles, most of us here, have full

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covenant inclusion through Christ. The dividing wall is gone. The church is now the new commonwealth

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or the new Israel. Philippians 3, 3, this is necessary. If for anything, it's necessary for me to

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preach this into the spirit realm. Some of you may, you just at least don't get pulled,

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pull the side, don't get led astray. Next week I'll have a real Holy Ghost filled message that

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will minister to your felt needs. But some things we just have to say, for we are the circumcision,

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he's talking to Gentiles, we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit,

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rejoicing Christ Jesus and have no, he's saying and we have no confidence in whether we actually

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have a circumcision, we keep the Sabbath, we're half Jewish, a quarter Jewish, fully Jewish,

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whatever amount it doesn't matter. If you have faith in Christ, you are a Abraham, you are a

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Israel and you are of the circumcision. Ladies, you didn't know you were of the circumcision, did you?

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Well, you are. It basically means that when you see the benefits of covenant, you can say that's

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for me. Romans 228. Boy, it's nice to have the Apostle Paul agree with me. You know, he must have been

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listening to my podcasts and now I say it first and look, he's backing me up because I'm just saying

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because when it comes up, I'm like, wow, people were getting upset with me, but you can't get up,

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for he is not a Jew who is one outwardly. You actually come up to your average evangelical and say

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that and go, hey, and then you wonder, why? What happened to you? You don't even have a passport,

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you never left Texas. Why are you so invested in this? Oh, because that preacher came on at 3 a.m.

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told you to be, because you got your old riled up about the end times and got you all scared that if

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you don't bless Israel, God's not going to bless you and now you just riled, riled, riled, what's

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happening over there? You don't even know what's happening over there. I know what's happening over

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there. They've been fighting for so long, they don't know what they're doing. Oh, that was

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cathartic. For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly nor is circumcision that which is outward in

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the flesh, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit,

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not in the letter, whose praise is not for men, but from God. Being God's covenant people is now

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inward and spiritual. Ethnicity is not what makes someone God's people. Regeneration does.

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Matthew 21, 43, I got about another five to seven minutes. Can you hack it? Amen.

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Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you. This is Jesus rebuking

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the Jewish leaders of the day. Do you know what was still messed up about the Pharisees? Why,

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why would they worry if you just read that we're very messed up? Why? Because of something called

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Talmudic Judaism, the Pharisees had a mixture of the inspired word of God, the Torah, but when they

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were led into captivity and Babylon, they didn't have their Torah and they didn't have certain sacred

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elements and many of them started to write other books and that got criss-crossed and mishmashed up.

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And so that's why Jesus had to correct so many things that they did and he called them white

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wash sepulchres. Nice and clean on the outside, but inwardly you were full of dead man's bones,

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he said. And then he rebuked him and he said, the kingdom of God will be taken from you,

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you who take so much pride in being Jewish, but you have no faith. I mean, talk about not having

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faith. I am he that all your scriptures have spoken of. I'm in your midst and you can't recognize me.

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Can you imagine being that religiously blind that Messiah is there healing blind eyes,

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unstopping deaf ears and all you're doing is getting riled up because he did it on the Sabbath.

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That's religious blindness. It'll be taken from you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you

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and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. That nation has a name and the name of that nation is

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Israel, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that born again you covenant believer. It was taken

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and who's in that just who's in that nation? Jews and Gentiles. Hallelujah.

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Do you know if you took a Jewish person from the first century, did I already say this and

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brought him today? I think I said in a second, but it's worth saying again because in order to

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have Judaism, you have to have two things. In order to have you you have to you have to have a

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temple and you have to have the Levitical priesthood without that, with the animal sacrifices,

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without that there is no Judaism. And God demolished that, putting an end to it. Why? Because he's

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mean, no, because it's no longer necessary. About 30 to 40 years after Jesus' resurrection,

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he said, I said it is finished and now all my words concerning how finished it actually is,

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are going to come to pass. And what else was destroyed then was the genealogical record. So nobody

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knows who is Jewish today. You can say you are, but you can't show me the records. God made sure

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of that because he didn't want you to boast in your lineage. If you took a Jew from the first

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century and brought him today and just said go check out some of the temples and synagogues around

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Long Island and New York, Hugo, what kind of a weird, strange pagan religion is this?

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This has nothing to do with the Judaism of the first century or 500 BC or 800 BC or anywhere in

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between, completely different. So what do we got here? I don't know, but we got to let God

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define Judaism, Israel, a man, a woman, marriage. Jesus warns the Jewish leaders that stewardship of

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the kingdom would be transferred. That nation is the church, the new spiritual people of God,

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worship team, you can come on up. Hebrews chapter 8 verse 6. But now he has obtained, talking

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about Jesus, a more excellent ministry and as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant,

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the new covenant, which was established on better promises in that he says a new covenant he has

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made the first obsolete. There are people living under the new covenant who also mix with the old

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covenant. Read the book of Galatians if you're wondering whether you should do that or not. The answer

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is no. There is no mixture. The old covenant is akin to Haggar. What does the spirit say?

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Put away, cast out the bond woman and her son. No more mixture, no more old covenant. There

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is a new one. The old covenant didn't help you anyway. You kept breaking it. Try the new one.

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All right. I have this whole thing on Romans 11 because eventually if you're into this,

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you're going to go into what does Romans 11 say? And may I suggest to you, go to Romans 11 verse 1,

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that a lot of the stuff we read in the Bible, we always put it in the future. I mean, that's how

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arrogant and self-centered we are. We don't read it thinking, wow, this has already been fulfilled

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for people group other than me. We always think, oh, this is still going to happen and preachers

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don't help. But there are evangelicals who believe that God is going to miraculously save every

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Jewish person all at once. If that happens, wonderful. But I don't see it in the scriptures.

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I don't see it in Romans 11. And it also sounds weird that you should rejoice about that. It's like

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for 2,000 years, 99% of you didn't believe in Christ. You died, you went to hell, and then you

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experienced all these wars and battles in the prophetic times. But don't worry, at the end,

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there'll be a little remnant of you left and all you will get saved. That sounds more depressing

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than hopeful. Paul just starts off saying, I say, this is too, I can tell you guys are tilt.

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The lights are up and no one's home. I say, then, has God cast away his people? Paul is saying,

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hey, I've said all this stuff. I've said, hey, he's not a Jew who's one outwardly. He's a Jews

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one inwardly. Not everybody who says they're a visceral or actually Israel. So he's wondering,

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maybe they'll think I'm anti-Semitic. Let me correct them. I say, then, has God cast away his

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people? Certainly not. For I am, present tense. He's not talking about this whole chapter of Romans,

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it's not talking about 2,000 years later. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham,

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of the tribe of Benjamin. And he basically goes on to paint a picture of this olive tree.

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The olive tree is the new covenant of God's grace. The foundation of that is

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ethnic Israel. We non-ethnicly Israel people, aka Gentiles, have been grafted in.

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And that's all he's saying. He's saying, until the fullness of the time of the Gentiles, he was

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living in that time. And then he says, this is where people get, all of Israel will be saved.

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So people say, oh, well, that hasn't happened yet. It must be in the future. No,

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all of Israel has been saved. You're a part of that. All of Israel has been and is being saved.

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The true Church of God, the called out ones, the Ecclesia, the body of believers. Amen. Hallelujah.

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Let me just pray for you. Some of you are like, I came on a funky Sunday.

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And for you, I pray you'd come back next week. If anything, I would just hope that this message has

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ministered some peace to you. And when it comes to the end times, I say this with love, don't worry

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about it. Don't worry about it. Live ready. Live ready like he's coming tonight, but don't get

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obsessed about it. And everything I just said, I'm not actually that staunch about other than what's

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very scripturally, very clear. But when it comes to the end times, I study this stuff in Bible

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school and Bible college. And I came away with my head hurting. And I felt guilty. I thought I

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was the only one until I started talking to others and teachers. And then I realized nobody really

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has cornered the market on this thing. So people ask me, are you pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib,

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are you a millennialist? I'm a pan-millennialist. It'll all pan out in the end.

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At the end, and if you were right and you give me a big I told you so and heaven, I'll be like,

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yeah, you were right. Praise God. That's awesome. I don't even feel bad about it. Great.

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We got important things to do here.

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I pray that Lord Jesus bless you. I pray he bless your home.

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You, his covenant people, his precious possession, the apple of his eye, to you, he said,

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I'll make you the head and not the tail. I will cause you to lend and not borrow, borrow. Your

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enemies will come against you one way, but they'll flee from you seven different ways. That's God's

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promise to you. And may that blessing increase all the more on your lives.

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And may you have the boldness of David for the enemies that come up against you to say,

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who is this uncircumcised non-covenant Philistine coming at me? You have the victory because you're

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covenant child, a covenant son and a covenant daughter of God. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Let's

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give the Lord a hallelujah. We're also going to worship the Lord with a tithes and offerings.

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The giving information is on either screen to my left and to my right. Give with a glad heart.

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Give with joy. Give and faith. Have we talked about how I was on vacation? Have we

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talked about how text to give is no longer a thing? Okay. If you're used to texting to giving,

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you only now have like three other ways of giving. So that had to go for some reason that I

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currently forget, but it had to go. What was it? They were doing something funny. Anyway, no funny

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business here. It was four ways to give. Now it's three ways to give. It's amazing how awesome the

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Lord is. Whenever I receive the tithes and offerings, I think, wow, we're going to be bankrupt by

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next week. Everyone's just looking at me not moving. Oh my God. And yet, you know, the tithes and

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offerings still come in. When do you all give? Everybody's just looking. You would think there's like

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two people keeping the church up. But hallelujah. I will say, listen, there was because giving

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is holy and the offering time is holy before everything was no contact. There was a holy time.

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You know, the buckets would come by. You'd get the little emolo. You'd pray over it. It would be

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this intimate moment between you and the Lord where you were giving unto him. Don't be robbed of

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that. Even if you give on your way to the church or there are people giving now and it's just like

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three phone taps. But have that moment with God. Why is that so important? Because you want to at

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least get to a place where you're releasing your faith. You're be conscious that you're worshipping

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God with your gift and release faith. What are you releasing faith for? A harvest. Amen. You're

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releasing faith that God is going to multiply it back to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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Well, ministry team, once you go to my left, you're right. If you want prayer for anything,

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anything at all, we have a wonderful, anointed and blessed ministry team that will lay hands on you,

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marinate and soak you in prayer. Get the glory and anointing of God on you.

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And if you need to go, you can go. Let's all stand. We invite you to stay for this next song,

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though. He's worthy of one more song and go in peace and go rejoicing. Be blessed, City Light

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Church. This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message,

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that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

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