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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night, and we've got the sound word bible study. Can't reach out Bremerton bible study. Ezekiel chapter 46 tonight. And, we got Brenda in the house. Everybody's gonna know that. Brenda's in the house. And and Al. Al's here. And Here we go. Yeah. Big Al. And, we got George over there. Hi, George. George. Yeah. Alright. So those of you that are home, you probably wish you were here because there's a big chocolate cake out there too. So so hate to tell you that. You can't eat that online. You can't you can't partake of that. You know? Alright. Well, let's pray. Father, we come before you, and we just thank you for tonight, the joy, the blessing of gathering together as Christians. And and tonight as we study in Ezekiel 46, we'll see that in the kingdom age, god's people continue to gather for meals and worship and fellowship and agape feasts, and it's just part of who we are, lord. We just love to break bread together, to worship you, to study your word, to have fellowship one another with you. And you prayed in John 17 that we'd be one with you even as you and your father are one. And, Lord, we pray tonight that you'd be our teacher, that you bless, that you inhabit the praise of your people. And, Lord, that we worship you tonight in spirit and in truth. And, Lord, be with those that couldn't be here. Many are struggling. Many need healing touch upon their bodies. And we lift up Sally and pray you continue to heal her, help the doctors, help her, and and James as he continues to care for her. Lift up my dad and thank you that he he's an anomaly. I don't know what's going on. I pray that you are healing him. I pray that he's getting better. I pray that he'll be able to walk out of there. And, Lord, we pray for Mike Goodson, and we pray that he would get warmer, that he'd be able to go outside and watch Jace play soccer and and just thank you how far he's come. Pray that you help him and Shannon and help him just get better and better. And we just lift up families who are struggling, marriages that are struggling, crazy things people are doing, Lord. And you know the events, you know the things that are happening, and, Lord, we just pray for your healing touch that you bring us all back around to that straight and narrow path. So bless tonight in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Worship a holy god, a righteous god, a holy god. Amen. Open the eyes of my heart, lord. Open the eyes of my heart. Amen. Praise the lord. God's holy. Is he not? Amen. Alright. Thanks, Rob. Alright. We are in Ezekiel 46. 46. 46, 47, 48, and then the book of Daniel. Woo hoo. You guys wanna go to the book of Daniel here? And everything. I don't know about that, but they they do tie together. You're right. Together. Yeah. I gotta do it together. Together. I know. I love you guys. You're so excited about God's word. So excited. It's getting exciting these days. I love hearing that. That's great. And a little scary. No. I'm just kidding. Don't be scared. Alright. Let's pray. Father, we come before you, Lord, and we just I thank you, Lord, for the enthusiasm, the zeal. You don't want us to be lukewarm. You want us to be on fire. And, Lord, the effectual fervent prayer, on fire prayer of a righteous man and woman veils much. So, Lord, we just ask once again, we ask that you'd be our teacher. You'd open the scriptures tonight to our understanding, and, that we'd be changed, that we'd be edified, built up, and strengthened, that we'd be more like you, Lord, that we'd be more like you as we leave here than we're than we were when we came in, Lord. So bless, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So thus saith the Lord God, the gate of the inner courts. Verse one through 10, he's gonna talk about the Sabbath, the new moon, the regulations for this. And so the Sabbath, sundown sundown Friday till sundown Saturday. The Jews go by a lunar calendar, and so their feasts are governed by a lunar calendar, and the earth is not flat. So there you go. Alright. So thus saith the lord god, the gate of the inner court that looks toward east shall be shut the six working days. But on the Sabbath, so you get a god worked for six days, made the earth in six twenty four hour days. Do you have that much faith? Yeah. Six twenty four hour days. How old is the earth? 6000. 6000. Young Earth? You have a young Earth persuasion? Yeah. Is anybody here believe there's a gap between Genesis one one and two that allows for chaos to ensue with Lucifer being thrust out of heaven and coming down to the earth and creating chaos? No? Okay. Just checking. Some commentators say that. So so six thousand year earth. Two thousand years ago, the time of Christ. So what's this next millennium, the seventh millennium? The rain of Christ? What? Is it Is it a millennium. Is it a time for the seventh day, the Sabbath rest? Sabbath rest. Is that the Sabbath rest as a kingdom age? Mhmm. One day is a thousand years. A thousand years is one day? Yep. Okay. I'm just checking. Just checking. I don't know. Oh, I never thought of it. I don't know. Six thousand. Okay. So east shall be shut and the six working days. So there's gonna be some people doing some working. I don't know about that. I'm gonna be rolling and reigning with them as a king and a priest. I guess that's a lot of work. But on the Sabbath it shall be opened and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened and the prince shall enter so who is this prince? David. And how do you know it's David and not Jesus? Some say it's day it's Jesus. Yeah. Some do. People are kinda vacillating like they're not sure. But That's in my bible. No. Because So 3424. What's 3424 say? Ezekiel. Should be pretty clear. He he is doing offerings. Right. Right. And he's doing offerings and sacrifices, and he has kids. So how could anybody say that this is Jesus? Right? So those are very good proof texts, but there's a verse, Ezekiel thirty four twenty four, that explicitly states that David, the prince. Alright? So you got that? Okay. So the way the porch of that gate from outside, David the prince and that of worship, and shall stand by the post of the gate and the priest shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offering and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate then he shall go forth but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. So how long was the gate, the door of the ark open? A hundred and twenty years. Hundred and twenty years. The door was left open a hundred and twenty years, Rob says. You guys all agree with that? And then there came a day where it was what? Shut. Shut. Are they talking about the millennium? Yeah. That's what I thought. Yeah. But we're going back to look at doors, open doors. Okay. Just a little little stir your mind a bit. Okay. So the times god said he's given us an open door that no man can shut. Right? So we have an open door to share the gospel. Right? But there's times where doors are doors are shut on us. The apostle Paul initially when he is wanting to go over to Asia Minor, the Lord shut the door on him and didn't let him go at that point in time. But later he opened the door for him. And so he shall worship at the threshold of the gate then how shall he go forth, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. So they've got an open door and likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of the gate before the Lord in the Sabbath and in the new moons. So in John 10, who's the door? Jesus. Jesus is the door and we have access. We go through that door. We can boldly come before his throne of grace in Hebrews chapter four. And so the door of the ark is open for a hundred and twenty years. How long has the door been open during the church age? Two two thousand years. Since Pentecost. About two thousand years since Pentecost. Right? And so the door is open. Whosoever will, let them come. Right? Right now, anybody that wants to come, the door is not shut. When is the door shut? The Tribulation. Halfway through the tribulation? No. Judgment day. We'll get there. Hold on. Just a minute. When is the door shut? Wait. I'm gonna I'm gonna figure this out. We're dancing reality. So When you die. When you die. When When die. Oh, that's it. When we go to sleep. Gonna die. So zip. When you die. Yeah. I get it. That's when the door's shut. Yeah. So let's say somebody lives door is shut. Yes. But that's that's the door. That's it. You're preaching the gospel. You tell them the door is open. The door is open. And then you die. And you're you're building an ark and you're saying, get in the boat. Get in the boat. Right? For a hundred and twenty years and there's billions of people and only eight people got in the boat. Eight people. Narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there be that find it. And Brandon's got the numbers. He's got the numbers how few there are in the church today that are truly believers. You got a professing church. People profess to know God. Right? And you say there's one God, you do well, the demons also believe and tremble. Right? We have an apostasy that's in place right now that's active. Apostasy means rebellion, a falling away from the truth. We're watching enormous amount of people that profess to know Jesus prove that they don't know Jesus by falling away from him and addressing heretical doctrine, false doctrine, even to the point of denying him as being god. You know? People who profess to be Christians saying, all roads lead to heaven. All religions are gonna get there. You know? And and Jesus, we're gonna make people romantic us. We're gonna say the exclusivity of Jesus Christ because he's he said, I am The way. Way. He said, I am the door Yeah. And I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father but by me. So destroy this temple. In three days, I'll raise it up. There's your proof. Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, Claus Schwab, Noah Yuval Harari, Bill Gates, doesn't matter who they are. They can spat off and talk real big, Voltaire. But the real proof is you go get crucified. Allow yourself to be crucified. Be buried and raise yourself from the dead three days later and we'll listen to you. And beyond that give us prophecy. Give us the more sure word of prophecy. Tell us what's going to happen in the future with 100% accuracy. Only the true living God can do that. So Jesus said in to the Pharisees, he said, search the scriptures, the old testament. In them you think you have eternal life, but they are they which testify of me. The volume of the book is written of Jesus. So we don't need to apologize for that or back off or but there's a door open. Whosoever will, let him come. The invitation goes out to whosoever will, let him come to Jesus. As many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God even to those who believe on his name. In John six, Jesus said, no man can come unto me except the father which sent me draw him, and and whosoever comes unto me, I will no wise cast out. So you have election, and you have their human responsibility there in John six. Election is we didn't choose him. He chose us. And no man can come unto me except the father which has sent me. Draw him. That's election. You were drawn. You were drawn to Jesus. And then he gives you measure of faith and you respond. And you could reject that. You could reject the bearing witness of the holy spirit, bearing witness of Jesus that he's the who who he claimed to be. In in rejecting that, you're operating unbelief and you're rejecting your very salvation. And so you have till till the point in time that you die according to Hebrews nine. It's appointed unto all men once to die and then the judgment. When the church age closes, when that door closes, the next age, the period of time, there's going to be what? Seven year tribulation. And in that seven year tribulation period, in Revelation six and seven, how many people are gonna get saved during the tribulation period? Innumerable multitude of people. So when the world is narrowed down to one decision, receive the mark or not, a whole lot of people say I'd rather lose my head according to Revelation 20 verse four as they are executed for refusing, you know, the mark of the beast. But apparently, there's gonna be even more people that line up to get that mark for convenience. It's convenient. It's easy way out, So they think for a period of time. But you gotta sell it. It's gotta be sold. So if you want toilet paper, you're gonna have to get that mark. I mean band aid it. Band aid it. Yeah. Yeah. You can't you can't live without toilet paper. So, you know, if you want if you want it. And it's funny how easy people will succumb to that kind of pressure, you know, mandated all of it. So we got the the ark, the Noah and the ark, preacher of righteousness, and a hundred and twenty years of preaching and building, and all the animals are smart enough to get in the ark. Right? But the people are just just dumb as stumps. Right? And and so why did it have to happen? Because God looked upon the heart of man. The heart of man in Genesis six was only evil continually. They they thought on things only evil continually, and they repented to God that he made man. And it says that there was a guy named Noah, and Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Right? And it also says that Noah was perfect in his generations. And we know he wasn't morally perfect. Right? Because there was a time where he was laying there naked all drunk, right, afterwards, after the Ark encounter. But when it speaks of him being perfect, he was perfect in his genealogy. He wasn't tainted. His DNA hadn't been tainted by the Nephilim that were sons of God that were coming and cohabitating and sleeping with women. And so God says, alright. I'm gonna I'm gonna take the seed that transitioned from Adam, and it's gonna come through Noah and his family, and and the messiah is going to come forth through through them. So god preserved seed is what he did by getting Noah there in the ark with his family, the eight people there. So an open door. And then after the tribulation period, door shut again, and we we enter into a seventy five day interval according to Daniel chapter 12. Blessed comes to the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day. And so in that seventy five day interval, Jesus in Matthew 25 is gonna separate the sheep from the goats. And for those who are sheep, the door is open. They get to enter into the millennium. And you and I as the church, the bride of Christ, we we get to go to heaven to the marriage ceremony as we're raptured, the fetching, and we're gonna spend seven seven years up there. Right? At least seven. The rapture could be more than seven years before the signing of the peace treaty. The peace signing of the peace treaty, Daniel nine twenty seven, starts the tribulation period. The rapture does not start the tribulation period. The rapture could happen right now in the formation of the 10 toes, the 10 crowns, the 10 kings that are gonna be part of this new government system. Could take a little time to form. The building of the temple in Jerusalem could take a little time to form. The economic system, the religious system could take a little time to form. We see the birth pangs. We see the sorrow. We see it moving in that direction presently. So it's gotta be close. But after the tribulation period, we enter into the millennium. And then he's gonna rule according to Revelation chapter 20 for a thousand years. Right? A millennium. And what happens after the millennium? Eternal state. Eternal state of Revelation twenty one and twenty two. A new heaven, a new earth, this whole earth is gonna be burned up, and a new heaven, a new earth coming out coming out of heaven upon the earth, new Jerusalem, and you and I ruling and reigning again in that next eternal age. And so all of this information here, if the church replaced Israel, there wouldn't be all this detail, would there? How would there be all this detail? Why would there be need a prince and all the Sabbath and and the new moons and the sacrifices and all these different things. So as a memorial, the Lord is allowing these sacrifices. We talked a couple weeks ago, four purposes of the kingdom system. Number one, as a memorial. You're looking back to the cross. Number two, the the the sacrifices, fellowship of the saints. You get together and, as we're gonna see in chapter 46 here, and you're gonna celebrate, you're gonna eat together, you're gonna participate. And part of that has to do with if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness so the kingdom system will there's still gonna be sin and people will be able to, for the sake of fellowship, agree with the holy spirit. And thank the lord that Jesus went to the cross, you know, years ago. Another aspect of it was ritual cleansing, cleansing of the temple, cleansing of because god is holy. And then the fourth is a theocracy. In that theocracy, we've mentioned that there's blessings if you walk in obedience. According to Zechariah fourteen sixteen through 21, in a theocracy with Jesus ruling and reigning David as his prince, these Gentile nations that begin to repopulate the planet, it's compulsory. They have to come to Jerusalem and celebrate the feast of tabernacles each year. And if they don't, according to Zechariah fourteen sixteen through 21, there's gonna be no rain where they're living, and there's gonna be a plague that's comes out. So obedience to the kingdom laws, the kingdom regulations, It's not a return to the mosaic law, although much of the mosaic law is a part of the kingdom law. The new moons, the Sabbaths, these various festivals come out of the, you know, Old Testament dispensation. So so there you have it with the with the sacrifices. That's another thing that happens is people say, well, you know, Jesus was, you know, smitten and crucified once. Why did he why would you have a if it's the golden age, the kingdom age, why would why would there be a need of sacrifices, you know, the blood of Jesus cleanse you of, you know, of all your sin or whatever. There's gonna be sin in the millennium. People are gonna sin. And and so these people are gonna live a long time like in Genesis of six, seven, eight, nine hundred years. And they're gonna have children, and these children are gonna be of a human nature. They're not gonna be born again immediately. And at the end of the millennium, we know it's an incredibly evil because the devil's loosed from the abyss and allowed to entice the Gentiles that repopulated the planet to come against Jesus and in that rebellion. So it shows the hearts of men even though they've had a perfect environment and Jesus ruling reigning with a rod of righteousness and the curse reversed in that the animals are all getting along with each other, the wolf, the lion, the lamb, and little child leading them and all. So it's a it's it's like the Garden of Eden in fellowship with the true living God. And yet the heart of man is the problem. The heart of man needs to change. God needs to change the heart. So likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the lord in the Sabbaths and in the new moons. And burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the lord in the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. So who does that lamb represent? Jesus. What did John the Baptist say? Behold the lamb and Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. So if you're a believer today and you're a born again Christian, then you're going to have a greater understanding and knowledge of what's happening today. You're gonna have a greater understanding and knowledge of the bible. You could be an unregenerate Christian attending church and just as you're an unregenerate Jew attending the Passover and not connect the dot that Jesus is the lamb. Do you see what I mean? But when you have faith and you connect the dot, then this it becomes really exciting because you see the that the lord Hosea 12 verse 10 that the lord spoke through similitudes, spoke through the prophets, but also through similitudes, so types, typology. And so the lamb represents Jesus and also the ram when in Genesis 22 when God told Abraham to take your son, your only son Isaac, to a mount that I'm gonna show you. In the types, that mount is Mount Moriah where this temple is built in the millennium, but it's also the place where Jesus was crucified, Golgotha. It's also the place Moriah where David bought the threshing floor of Aruna and focusing to the future that one day Jesus would be crucified there. And so Abraham's a type of god the father, Isaac type of god the son, and they have the knife and they have the fire. And as Isaac's walking along with his dad and they leave the servants behind and they say, the lad and I are gonna go worship and come again. Speaking of the resurrection. Right? Because he knows he's gonna go there and he he takes and he puts his son upon the altar that he builds, and his son being a type of crisis in complete submission to the father. Right? Jesus said, I do always those things that please the father. And Abraham's there and and he says in Hebrews 11, he's basically saying to the lord, lord, you've got a problem because I begged you, I told you, I asked you, I said, oh, that Ishmael might live before you. And you kept saying, nope. The work of the flesh isn't gonna work with me. The work of the flesh is not gonna work. In Isaac shall they see to be called according to seed of promise. It's a miracle. And so he lifts the knife. And as he lifts the knife, god stops him from bringing it down because Abraham believed in the resurrection. Alright. God, you're gonna have to resurrect him because there's no other way. And it was imputed unto Abraham for righteousness, that faith that was tested there. God wanted to test him. He said, I'm gonna test Abraham. And he concludes that, you know, I can trust Abraham. He'll do whatever I ask him to do thereafter. And and there's a ram that's caught in a sticker bushes, a thicket, and God instructs Abraham to take his son off the altar and to offer that ram as a type of Christ. And so that's what they did. And a picture of John three sixteen. Jesus said, Abraham rejoice to see my day and he saw it and he was glad. Abraham saw something there. Abraham could see up ahead the future. Righteousness is imputed to Adam and Eve. Righteousness is imputed to all the Old Testament saints. How? By faith. Faith. How? They're looking future to the cross. Right? And we're looking back to the cross. And by believing that he was crucified, buried, raised from the dead, it's imputed to us for righteousness. For them, as George is saying, for those in the Old Testament, they're looking future that one day he would. And that's why John the Baptist said, behold the lamb of God who doesn't cover sin Takes away the sins. But takes away the sins of the of the world. So we see in the book of Hebrews that he's not to be crucified over and over and over and over again. That's why Moses was to speak to the rock rather than smite the rock the second time. That rock that followed them in first Corinthians 10 is Christ. So smite the rock. Jesus crucified, and the water comes out, the living water. We'll see that next week too. In the second type, Moses blew it because he said, you rebels, must we bring forth water again? And God says, hey, come here. Come here. Come here. Hey, didn't I tell you to speak to the rock? You misrepresented me. And you're not gonna get to go on the promised land. So he's up on the Mount Of Transfiguration. What a better place to be with with Jesus rather than those people just driving him crazy. I'll tell you. I'd smite the rock too. Alright. And the meal offering shall be an ephah for a ram and the meal offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give in a hint of oil to an ephah. So what's the oil symbolize? The holy spirit. The holy spirit. And what does the bread symbolize? The meal. Jesus. The bread of life. He's the bread of life, man. They're making bread. This bread represents Jesus. He's the bread of life. Right? And he said it, I am the bread of life. I'm the manna come down from heaven. Right? And, again, people are so clueless they don't get it. Many of the people in John six were there for the false gospel. The false gospel falls apart when you face trials, when you face tribulation, pressure, when you lose your job at the shipyard, when they steal your retirement, when injustices happen, gross injustices happen to you as a Christian, like the early church, but you've been sold a bill of goods that if you follow Jesus, you're gonna get happy meal after happy meal. Free food. Free food. Free food. Right? And and it's it's crazy to me that the people didn't see him for who he is. They only came there for the benefits. You know? And and when he began to tell them the cost of following him, that they'd have to come for him, not just the fringe benefits, you're gonna have to eat his flesh and drink his blood, it says that many of his disciples no longer walked with him. That's what's happening right now. People are no longer walking with him. That's the apostasy. People are falling away from the truth. And if they don't get their own way, if they can't have the church of Burger King, have it my way, then they get really angry when they hear that, no, we don't do it like that here. And well, where do they? And and when they find out that God's not gonna honor that false gospel and turns around and bites them that this isn't the golden age they're espousing, and, oh, it's gonna be brutal to watch people watch people lose their minds. And Jesus turned to the 12 and he said, you're gonna leave me also? And Peter said, where are we gonna go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe that you're the Christ, man. Do you really believe? Do you really believe that? Who do men say that I am? Jesus asked. Some say you're John the Baptist. What was John the Baptist like? Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Pretty radical guy, pretty straightforward, not afraid of the religious leaders. Some say you're Jeremiah. What was Jeremiah like? He's a weeping prophet. Jesus wept. Jesus looked over the city often and gather you as mother hen has gathered her brood under her wings and you would not. He wept over the city knowing the destruction. Same way in Jeremiah looking over the city knowing the destruction that was gonna come to the nation. Nobody ever said that you remind us of Jonah. Why is that? The greatest evangelistic campaign up until the tribulation period is in Nineveh. More people got saved with a message of forty days and you're gonna perish, then please come. Please come. You'll have your best life now. Your best life, you know, begging people to come. He just point blank told him and they repented from the king on down, didn't they? The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom. Right? Beginning beginning of of knowledge. And but Jeremiah was a patriot and he did not like the Ninevites, the Assyrians. He didn't like them. He was angry. Well, that's Jesus doesn't remind anybody of Jonah. He's not angry at foreigners or different people. His blood is the blood to save every single ethnic group, every single group of people, not just the Jews. So the Jews were getting a little overly patriotic thinking they were because of their pedigree that they were better than everybody. And so the gospel goes out to male, female, barbarian, Scythian, bonder, free, whosoever will let him come. And his blood is we all got the same color blood. He's the savior of the whole world, especially to those who believe. So the disciples were getting ready and the lord was strengthening their faith and getting them ready for the point in time that he would he would leave them, but he would send the comforter. He'd send the oil. The holy spirit would come. And the holy spirit wouldn't just be upon them giving them strength like like with David or with Samson, but would indwell them. They would be born again and have the indwelling of the holy spirit, a transformation from body soul to body and soul and spirit. So in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish and six lambs and a ram and they shall be without blemish. And so again the types there. And he shall prepare a meal offering and an ephah for a bullock and an ephah for a ram and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto and a hint of oil to an ephah. And I've asked you guys this before because I'm kinda weird. Do you think Adam and Eve could talk to the animals in the Garden Of Eden? Yes? Think they talk back like Balaam's donkey? Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah? And case in point, didn't the serpent talk to Eve? She carried on a conversation with him. So in the millennium, do you think when the curse is reversed, we're gonna be able to talk to these lambs? I wanna talk to the horses. Talk to the horses. Mister Ed. Yeah. So you got you got a pet lamb and now now now you're we're we're we're taking you to Jerusalem and you're without blemish and we're gonna offer you as a sacrifice, you know. That's gonna be a little hard. Right? Yeah. We don't want them to talk about that. So when your kids are raising lambs and raising pigs and stuff like that, do you name them dinner or bacon or know? Do you give them names like that? Okay. Alright. I'm just checking. I told you I was weird, but I'm just thinking about that. Like, wait a minute, dude. These these animals can talk. What if they said, no, please. Please don't. You know? What would you do? Anyway, it's not my job. Somebody else job. Alright. So when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch. And I have to point out one more thing because I am crazy. They're not all vegans. They're carnivores. Yes. They're gonna they're gonna kill these animals, offer them, and then the priests and everybody are gonna have a huge agape feast. Isn't that great? Yeah. Carnivore. Carnivore is holy. Alright. Now you don't judge over types of eating. If you're a vegan, if you're if you like salads, great. Praise the lord. But don't get mad at me and forbid the eating of meat because we like meat or somebody does. So when the prince shall enter he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate and he shall go forth by the same way. How do you know the right way? If you're lost, how do you know the right way? Jesus is the way. Right? One way. You lift your finger up, you know, you greet people in the Jesus movement, you put your finger up one way one way. You're number one. When somebody cuts you off in the car, you're number one. You're number one. Peace. Yeah. Alright. Love your enemies. I saw an evangelist actually saying we need to pray for Joseph Biden because he's got cancer. Is are you that godly? You I don't think I'm that godly. But Jesus said to pray for our enemies. Right? Pray for our enemies. And and I think it's interesting, Just a discernment thing that I want you to think about. All of a sudden, it's coming out. Miss Babbitt, who got shot in the face and killed, her family's getting $5,000,000. And all of a sudden, there's irrefutable proof coming out that the twenty twenty election was stolen and that Pence did it, but it's coming out now. So we all knew it, but now it's coming out. It's coming on the table. This is it. The evidence is here. It was they stole it. It's coming out. Now, right against left, conservative, you know, you get this fight going. My my thought is how can you trust any republican that remains silent during that whole time? Because they all knew. They all knew. They all knew. And they allowed it. So you can't act like you're on the righteous side right now with your president because that whole group of people on the right allowed it to happen and actually helped it to happen. You know? So just be careful of getting sucked into a battle between left, right, conservative, you know, whatever, and you'll know them by their fruit. You know? So be be very be very careful moving forward because they're gonna wanna divide us, divide and conquer on many different fronts. Jesus said nation would rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and that's ethnic group. I got nothing against any other ethnic group. You know what I mean? I don't want to be in a fight with, you know, anybody. You know? The only thing I wanna do is stand for righteousness. So if somebody's trying to enforce evil, then I have to stand against that evil. But I don't have a preconceived prejudice toward any group of people that are evil and God is sending me out there as a hitman. So it's not happening. That's not who we are. Even gays, lesbians, doesn't doesn't matter. If they impose it upon children, if they impose it, we have to be salt and light and resist it. But the people themselves, whatever group of people they are, they would love for us to hate them. And I can see Jesus loving the harlots, sinners. I can see him loving the most broken people, the demoniacs, everybody. The ones that he had the hardest time with were the self righteous pharisees, those that thought they were better than everybody else. So all of us are narrowed down to sinners. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. So Jesus is the only way. There's only one way to be saved, that's through Jesus. So now we come to the people's worship. But when the people of the land shall come before the lord in the solemn feast, he that enters in by the way of the North Gate to worship shall go out by the way of the South Gate and he that enters in by way of the South Gate shall go forth by way of the North Gate. He shall not return the way of the gate by which he came but shall go forth the opposite way. Why do you think that is? Is this so many people that it's a means of traffic control? Going one way and come out the other way, a practical regulation or rule to help with all the people that are gonna be there at that time? Are gods a god of order? Pardon me? Because we got here. Got in order. He's a god of order. And and from a spiritual standpoint to apply, no backsliding. You're gonna make progress. Forward. Yep. No backsliding. Now the other thing is neglect not according to Hebrews ten twenty five. Neglect not the assembling of yourselves together as manner of some is, especially as you see the day of the Lord approaching. Right? So when you come to church and you walk through that door, do you leave the same way you came in? You shouldn't I mean, you've gone through a change. There should be a change. Yes. Every time you and I come to church, we should leave that building changed. It. Amen. Thinking. Right? If you're not being changed, if you're leaving the same way you came in, something's wrong. Some people can do that for thirty years unchanged. Vicky would call it an arrested state of development. I love that. You love that? I got that from pastor Chuck. That means you remain an infant, just an infant. Churches of infants. Churches of people that don't change. Now why do they lack the power and the capacity in these type of churches? Why aren't the people changed? Pastor isn't isn't preaching the word gospel. Isn't teaching the word, so the sheep need the word. But if the sheep don't want the word, what's the pastor supposed to do? And they fall asleep. But but see the people are looking for teachers having itching ears and the leadership's given into the people. So then the people lay of the sea means people rule. The people basically rule from the seats they're in demanding what they want, which is sermonettes. They wanna feel good. They want pep rallies. Right? And they want the warm fuzzies. If we're gonna follow Jesus, we gotta take our cross up and follow him. It's not my rules, my way. It's not Burger King. So if I come to church and the Holy Spirit hits me spiritually and the word of god's a mirror and the pastor's preaching or teaching and I'm reading and I see myself. Oh, man. I better not leave there as the way I came in. There better be something going on in my heart that says, hey, before you get to the car, you might want to tell Kathy you're sorry. Is that possible? That God could soften my heart enough to where I see my attitude, my action, what I've been doing, what I've been thinking, and the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword dividing the center of soul and spirit and joint to marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Only God's word can do that. Psychology can't do that. All these churches that are not teaching God's word, they're not gonna be able to get to the root of the problem, which is the heart of man. It's the heart of man that's the problem. It's not the environment. It's not the amount of money you have or don't have. It's it's the heart. So Jeremiah tells us the heart's deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? God knows it. God knows your heart. And he's the great physician. And he's the one prescribing the antidote. What's needed. What's needed is humility. What's needed is death. What's needed is servanthood. What's needed is love. And he's the only one that can put that love in your heart, that humility in your heart, and that desire to reconcile and to make things right and to confess your sin. I mean, how many people are online during the week dabbling in things, talking to people, making liaisons and and planning, actually planning to leave their husband. Actually planning the next season of their life. But they go to church and at church can they hear the Holy Spirit saying, you're going the wrong way. How do they know which way we're going? You're going the wrong way. He that has ear to hear let him hear what the spirit is saying to the churches. God always gives space for repentance. You don't wake up one day and say, I'm gonna trash my marriage. Doesn't happen like that. Hey. Today, I'm gonna go out and be an alcoholic. Doesn't happen like that. It's a slippery slope of backsliding. It's a slippery slope of not taking every thought captive. It's a slippery slope of not being a doer of the word only here and walking out of there and acting like you're the victim. Well, if she just hold my hand more, if she just make me my favorite foods, you know, and you start to allow division to take place in your heart and play the blame game, blaming the other person and all, when in actuality both couples need to die. It's a constant die. Marriage is death to sell. It's a lot of times the Lord's putting together two opposites so that we grind each other. And so it's a humility. It's a breaking. It's a dying to self. And as we die to self, then Christ is able to live through us. So he's teaching us what it means to be Christ like, to serve one another, to be faithful, to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. None of us wanna go through the motions and be found out later because our sin will find us out. But I love I love studying the bible. The bible has the power to transform me. I'm told to be not like the world, but be transformed by the renewing of my mind. And that transformation comes through the study of God's word, getting to know the Lord. And when I would had my young family, and I'd be struggling during the week, In between Sundays, you know, we'd go to other bible studies. And inevitably, I would I'd listen to bible studies all day long driving the car, the thirty hour bibles thirty minute bible studies all day long, all kinds of Calvary Chapel pastors. It's just a wonderful opportunity. You're not wasting time on the freeway, and you're getting nourished. And so I'd pick Kathy up and the kids, and they'd be ready, and we'd head off to church or a bible study, home bible study. And and I'm struggling with some things. I'm struggling because I'm I'm a dodo head and there's things going on in my head that that shouldn't be there. And and and then I go into that sanctuary and I begin to worship the Lord, and all of a sudden these things that are paramount that seem so big and so unjust and so unfair are just melting. They're just they're just melting. They're just not as important anymore. And then the pastor starts to teach and he didn't know what was going on in my head. And the Holy Spirit begins to take the word and it's like a message is just for me. Something I needed to hear. And the Lord gives me ears to hear and the Lord at the same time if you really want a good marriage guys, make sure your wife attends a Bible teaching church. She may not be able to hear from you anymore, but she'll be able to hear from the pastor who's teaching God's word. Right? And God's able to minister to her at the same time he's ministering to you. And the home is the foundation of our society. The home is is god's idea, his invention, and it's the home that needs to be strong, that needs to be built upon Jesus, being built upon the rock. And that's by being doers of the word, not hearers only. And then we're able to raise our children the nurtured admonition of the Lord, and disciple, and train, and and pour into. And it all comes from being transformed, from being changed from glory to glory. And that word changed is a metamorphosis. It's a it's a transformation. Being changed from glory to glory into the image of Christ. It's not all at once. So how how does god prescribe this to take place? By being men and women of the word. He's given us his word, and he's given us the holy spirit who he promises would lead and guide us into all truth. So there's there there's the essence of what church is. That's why we come together is that god would transform and change us and give us the opportunity to have a meal together, to love on one another, care for one another, and to worship Jesus. He's the center of attention. Not not our thing or whatever. So if you're not being changed, if you're attending a bible teaching church and you're not changing, chances are you're backsliding. You're falling away. You're being lured lured by the wicked one to a place you shouldn't be. So what's the way back? Real quick prayer. God save me. God be merciful to me. God change me. So no backsliding. And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in, and when they go forth, shall go forth. Who wants to read Psalm 42 verse four? This is a very fun time. God made it a festive. These are called feasts and festivals. It's a fun thing to go to church. Yes. It's especially if you've got food there and you get to stay all day with an agape feast and a picnic and and taking the sermon. We're we're gonna have one. Ask the lord what day that should be. Just ask him right now. Wanna know what when should it be. Psalm 42 verse four. When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in thee. For I had gone with the multitude. I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise. With a multitude that kept the holy day. Ain't that great? So if you've got the feast of tabernacles and it's less than a week, you know, or Passover and feast of unleavened bread and you're a little kid and you got your mom and dad and your grandparents and cousins and everybody, and all of you have been working six days a week and having your Sabbath off. And all of a sudden, a Passover festival comes, all of you get together, and your young little Jesus, 12 years old, and you go with the family, and everybody's going, you know, to go celebrate. And and then the family goes home and you're not there. You know? What happened? Didn't you know I had to leave out my father's business? But just the fun, the fun of the holidays. And I have good memories of the holidays. I have some bad memories, but I got some real good memories. So exciting that Christmas is coming and Easter and Thanksgiving and those kind of times. And so these guys are gonna experience this in the in the millennium. There's gonna be families and and believers and people that come together and all centered around Christ. And in the feasts and the solemnities, the meat offering, shalan ephah of a bullock and a ephah to a ram and to the lambs, and he is able to give an and a hint of oil to an ephah. Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary, so a free will offering, he'll prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offering voluntarily unto the lord, one shall then open for him the gate that looks toward the east. So the East West gates aren't open, it's only the north and south that the people are traveling. But for the prince if he wants to do an offering he's he gets the east gate open for him the gate that looks toward the east and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offering as he did on the Sabbath day when he shall go forth and after his going forth one shall shut the door. So be prepared. Be ready. Thou shalt daily prepare burnt offering under the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish and shall prepare it every morning. Pay close attention. Every morning. And thou shalt prepare a meal offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah and the third part of a hint of oil to moisten the fine flour in the meal offering continually by a perpetual ordinance under the lord. So in Exodus twenty nine thirty eight through 41, we had the morning and the evening offering. These are the morning ones in the millennium. Watch this. Thus shall they prepare the lamb and the meal offering and the oil every morning for a continual burnt offering. When was Jesus crucified? In the evening offering. Passover. He was crucified on the Passover in the evening, 03:00 in the afternoon which is considered the evening. Thus saith the Lord, so he spent six hours on the cross from nine to twelve, then twelve to three, the evening offering. Thus shall the Lord God, if the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance of it shall be his sons and it shall be their possession by inheritance. So the laws of Leviticus twenty five ten through 13, the laws of inheritance. And then when it speaks of the year of liberty, it's the year of jubilee. Every fifty years is the year of jubilee. Right? And then you have every seven years a slave would be released from his, you know, his bondage. And so god was wanting the property, the land, to be held in the family as an inheritance. And Proverbs thirteen twenty two says a good man provides an inheritance not only to his children but his children's children. And we're living in a time where God says in Ezekiel forty five eight and nine, no more is the government, the prince, gonna be able to oppress you and take away your inheritance. How effective are we in our culture of passing on an inheritance that stays in the family that's going to go to your kids and your grandkids? Most of us, we get sick toward the end of our life by design from the globalist, the med med people. Right? And most of your inheritance goes away in the form of maintaining you medically. 8,000 a month, 10,000 a month, 12,000 a month, what your insurance doesn't cover. And so you can watch estates you can watch estates where mom and dad will tell the kids, you're gonna get a million dollars when I die. And by the time mom and dad get cancer and die and have in home care, at the end it costs you $13 to bury them. Right? It's expensive. So many of us are unable to perpetuate or pass on these things. I don't know how they did it without medical insurance in the day. I don't know how how people did it. But they did. And the families take care of the family that's sick and you're taking care of your inheritance. You're insuring your inheritance. And we're it's very rare that we're willing to do that, you know, today and to manage our money in that way. And then there's taxes, inheritance taxes, and all those sorts of things that that take everything away and people people die broke, you know. And they had they had a nest egg. They had something that they worked for and and were were wise with their money and frugal. And my grandma, she was a depression era person, and she died this past year. But let me tell you, when grandpa died, she had less than $100 in the bank and owned her house free and clear, but she only had $1,300 a month to live on. She lived very frugally. She'd go to the dollar store and get her food and things like that. Now why didn't she do a reverse mortgage? Why didn't she sell that house and take a cruise and get a smaller downsize and take that house that's worth say 800,000, $1,000,000, and enjoy life a little bit? You know why? She wanted to give an inheritance to her children. She wasn't gonna do that. Kathy's mom was the same way. They were determined. They were they were gonna no. Could you say it'd be wrong if grandma did that? You know, reverse mortgage so she'd have you know, take the equity on that house and she she gets 5,000 a month to live on, make it a little easier on her, let her travel a little bit with all of her other people her age, know, travel and do things. Nope. She just stayed home there, her and her dog. But that's how a lot of them thought. They thought that they were gonna work and they're gonna pass it on to their kids. And it's how they roll. My mom's funny. She got addicted to gambling. And when she knew she had cancer, she leveraged everything and just gambled it all away. Jewelry, everything. House, all of it. Just crazy woman. Crazy. So anyway, in this in this legal system here, the prince, if he provides a well, we'll go ahead and read it. Thus saith the lord god what he gives to his boys is gonna stay in the continue with them. And this is interesting. It can't be Jesus because the prince has sons has has children. So thus saith the lord god, if the prince give a gift unto one of his sons, the inheritance, it shall be his sons and it shall be their possession by inheritance. So nobody can take it away from his sons. But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of Jubilee. So fifty years later that property that you allow your servant to have is going to come back into the family fold. They're not going to be able to hold on to it. And afterward it shall return to the prince but his inheritance shall be his sons for them. So the sons are gonna be able to keep their portion. It's gonna come back to him. Moreover the princes shall not take of the people's inheritance. So here he's saying according to Ezekiel forty five eight nine, you in the place of government, prince, you're not going to oppress and enlarge your inheritance by taking it from other people. You're not going to do that in the millennium. Not going to allow it. And the globalists want to own everything and you'll own nothing and be happy, Claus Schwab said. Right? Somehow they think as one percenters that they're entitled to own it all. I don't know. That's demonic. Right? That's demonic. Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression to thrust them out of their possession, but he shall give his son's inheritance out of his own possession that my people be not dispossessed every man from his possession. So no foreclosures. No losing your property. It's you're a jubilee gonna stay with you. And you remember Ahab and Jezebel in first Kings chapter twenty one one through 29? Ahab was a wicked king. He did more wickedness than all the kings before him. And he had a Sidonian princess, a foreign woman named Jezebel. Any of you name your daughter Jezebel? No. I didn't think so. And Jezebel was a Sidonian princess of the Philistines, and she worshipped Baal and Ashtoreth, and and she began to influence Ahab by allowing more and more of these temples to be built to Baal and to Astreth and all. And, you know, the big struggle that Elijah did, he killed the 450 prophets of Baal and had a had a thing with them. And and Jezebel threatened Elijah that, man, you're gonna be like them by this time tomorrow when I get my hands on you and all. And and Elijah, you know, took off, and he thought he was the only one left. I've been zealous for you, Lord, and he's running from Jezebel 15 miles, I think, and and he's exhausted, and the lord feeds him some meat or raven bringing him some food and water there and nurse him back to health. And and god finally tells Elijah, I've got 7,000 that haven't bowed their knee to the prophet Baal. I've got people everywhere. I got remnant of people. You're not the only one. Get back to work. You know? He was all wimping out but afraid of Jezebel. But Jezebel heard her husband try to negotiate with Naboth, a neighbor, that he wanted Naboth's field. Naboth had a really good vineyard, really good field, and Naboth says, no. It's in my family. I don't want it to be out of my family, and it's not for sale. So Jezebel says, I can get it for you. And so she takes and like they tried to do with Jesus, you take and you get a couple false witnesses to go and lie about him that I heard him blaspheme. I heard him do this or say this. You know? And it didn't stick with Jesus. But with Naboth, it did. These sons of Belial accusing him and stuff. And so according to the law, they take them out and stone them. And when they stone them, according to Jezebel's plan, Ahab was able to take the land of of Naboth. And God let Naboth or let Jezebel and them know that your blood's gonna be poured out on upon this plot of land eventually. And so in second Kings chapter nine twenty six, Jehu was taken over, and in battle Jezebel went up and was on the wall. Well, let's go ahead and read it. Second Kings chapter nine. Second Kings chapter nine. And when Jehu, verse 30, was, come to Jezreel and heard of it, she painted her face and attired her head and looked out through a window, speaking of of, Jezebel. And I like this, just a little little side note here. Look at verse 20 for those of you that drive a Prius. No no problem. And the watchman told saying he came even unto them and cometh not again. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshai for he drives furiously. I wrote next to that Kathy. That's how she drives. No. I'm just kidding. Just just so I know. And so So this wicked woman's there, and as Jehu entered in at the gate he said to had Zimri peace who slew the master, he lift up his face to the window and said, who is on my side? And there looked out at him two or three of the eunuchs. And he said, 'Throw her down.' So they threw her down and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses and he trodden underfoot. And when he was come in, did eat and drink and said, go see now the cursed woman and bury her for she is a king's daughter. And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. Wherefore they came again and told him and he said, this is the word of the Lord which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite saying, in the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel and the carcass of Jezebel shall be as refuse upon the face of the of the field in the portion of Jezreel so that they shall not say that this is Jezebel. Now turn to first Kings chapter 21. And it came to pass after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel close to the place of Ahab king of Samaria. And Ahab spoke unto Naboth saying, give me the vineyard that I may have it for a garden of herbs. The guy was into growing the herb, you know, and because it is near unto my house and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it or it seems good to thee, I will give it to the worth of it and money. And Naboth said to Ahab, Lord forbid me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. And Ahab came unto his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken of him for he had said I will not give thee the inheritance of my father's and he laid down upon his bed and turned away his face and wouldn't eat any food. Poor boy. Poor poor Ahab. Oh. But Jezebel his wife came to him and said unto him, why is thy spirit so sad? I mean think of what all this guy owns. All that he has. Know? God. Yeah. What a whiner. I've heard that before. Whiner. And why is thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no food? So he's depressed because he's obsessed with himself. Right? And he said unto her because I spoke unto Naboth the Jezreelzite and said unto him give me thy vineyard for money or else if it please thee I will give thee another vineyard for it and he answered I will not give you my vineyard and Jezebel's wife said unto him doest thou not govern the kingdom of Israel and arise and eat food and let thine heart be merry I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. Now some people call Jezebel, she has a nickname, her nickname's Hilary. And so she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles who were in the city dwelling with Naboth. And she wrote in the letter saying, proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people and set two men worthless fellows before him that bear witness against him saying, thou did blaspheme God and the king, and then carry him out and stone him that he may die. See how easy it is to to put a hit on some guy, you know, just to I mean, with AI technology right now and and all of the Internet stuff, any one of us could have our reputation smeared and destroyed in a heartbeat and they would have video of it and they'd have your voice and the whole thing. How would you ever prove your innocence, man? It's getting brutal out there. It's getting really hard to deal with it. And and the men of his city and even the elders of the nobles who were inhabitants of the city did as Jezebel had sent unto them and as it was written in the letters which he had sent unto them, they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth on high among the people. And there came in two men, worthless fellows, I met those guys, and sat before him, and the worthless men witnessed against him, even against Naboth in the presence of the people saying Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones so that he died. Then they sent to Jezebel saying Naboth is stoned and is dead. And it came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead that Jezebel said to Ahab, arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he refused to give thee for money for Naboth is not alive, he is dead. And it came to pass when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Aboth rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreb'site to take possession of it. And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbites saying, arise, go down and meet Ahab king of Israel who is in Samaria behold he is in the vineyard of Naboth where he has gone down to possess it and thou shalt speak unto him saying thus saith the Lord has thou killed and also taken possession and thou shalt speak unto him saying thus saith the Lord in the place where dogs lick the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood even thine. And so you can see that in second King or first Kings 22 verse 38 that it came to pass. And Ahab said to Elijah, has thou found me, oh, mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee thou has sold thyself to work evil. You sold your soul to the devil in the sight of the Lord. Behold I will bring evil upon thee and will take away thy posterity and will cut off from Ahab every male and him shall be shut up and left in Israel and will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam, the house of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation of which thou hast provoked me to anger and made Israel to sin. I never want God to be angry at me. And of Jezebel also spoke the Lord saying the dog shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel And he that dies of Ahab in the city the dog shall eat and him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. But there was none like unto Ahab who did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord whom Jezebel his wife Have you ever seen a guy just totally lose it because of a woman in his life? A Jezebel or a Delilah? His wife stirred up and he did very abdominably in following idols according to all the things that did the Amorites whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. And it came to pass when Ahab heard those words that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went softly and the word of the Lord came unto Elijah the Tishbite saying, seeest thou how Ahab humbles himself? Take note of that. God loves and resists the proud and he gives grace to the humble. He's not going to totally let him off. He's gonna die and the dogs are gonna lick him. But watch this. Seest thou how Ahab humbles himself before me because he humbles himself before me I will not bring the evil in his days. But in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. So you're gonna be you're gonna die, you're gonna be dead but I'm not gonna bring the evil that's coming you know while you're alive it's gonna be in your son's days and what an inheritance his sons are gonna, you know, receive. So another one to think about is Ruth the Moabitess, this laws of inheritance. So Ruth the Moabitess, she's a foreigner and you had at the beginning you had Elimelech, and Melon and Chilean, and Naomi. And Naomi is married to a guy named Elimelech, and there's a famine in the land, in the house of Bethlehem, the house of bread. There's no food to eat. So they travel away, and they go into Moab. And as they're there in Moab, their sons, Melon and Chilion, marry some women of the land. They marry Ruth and Orpa. That's where we hear from Oprah. Orpa. Oprah. Anyway, so it comes along that Melon and Chilean die. So now Naomi's there, and she says, call call me bitter. She comes back to Bethlehem, and she gives both the girls an opportunity to return with her. But Ruth is the one that says, your god will be my god, your people, my people, and all that. And Orpah doesn't want to. She's let go of the responsibility of caring for the elderly Naomi, and she went back to her people, her family, and all. And so Ruth the Moabites comes in, and now she's trying to navigate what it's like to be in Bethlehem. They've lost their land and everything, but they have a kinsman redeemer, a guy named Boaz. And Boaz isn't married, and Boaz has a huge field. And Ruth the Moabitess, she's of Moab, she takes and she goes and starts to glean out in that field, and Naomi starts to coach her a little bit. She catches the eye of of Boaz, and and then it comes to the place where, you know, you could purchase you know, she she she's available. And so there's a nearer kinsman than Boaz, and he lets him know that if you if you want this field, if you want to redeem this field that was in the family of Elimelech, then you're gonna also have to marry Ruth. And takes a shoe and puts it there, and and the guy says, no. No. I got a wife. I got I got enough of my hands. I can't do that. So Boaz isn't married, and Boaz goes to the time of threshing. And at the time of threshing, Ruth comes to his feet, and she lets him know that she would love for him to marry her and to be her kinsman redeemer for her and her family. And so you know the story. Boaz marries Ruth. Now the story is really good if you look at Ruth and you look back to how she became Ruth. She became Ruth because of Sodom and Gomorrah. When Lot fled, Lot went into his daughters got him drunk, and they went into him incestuous relationship, and there there was the Moabites and the Ammonites that came out of that relationship. So Ruth the Moabites, she marries Boaz, and Boaz is a near kinsman, And Boaz and so they're getting the land back. Right? And Boaz, the near kinsman, marries Ruth and Boaz had a son named Obed. Obed later on had a son named Jesse. Jesse had a son named David, eight sons. David the king, the prince had David and David is the root and offspring of Jesus. So if you go to Matthew one you see this lineage of Jesus as it transverses through very sinful people. All of them are sinful all the way. But Ruth is in the in the lineage just as Tamar, just as Bathsheba. Women named in the lineage is unheard of. So god lists these women in in Matthew chapter one coming over to Jesus. So Jesus is the root and the offspring of David in the land of Elimelech and of Naomi goes back into the family in Bethlehem there. Alright. So that's the laws of inheritance and couple examples how important that is to the Lord. From his own possession. Verse 19, afterward he brought me through the entrance which was at the side of the gate into the holy chambers of the priests which looked toward the north and behold there was a a place on the two sides westward. Then said he unto me, this is the place where the priest shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering where they shall bake the meal offering that they beat them not out into the outer court to or boil them yeah, bear them not out into the outer court to sanctify the people. So this is top chef right here. This is the priest kitchen. You could name your taco truck, your food truck, the priest's kitchen, but these are the priests that are doing the cooking. So this is holy smokes right here and these guys are these guys are cooking there in the temple. Then he brought me forth into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court and behold in every corner of the court there was a court. And in the four courts of the court the the court the court Reminds me of a song. Forget it. Such a child. Alright. Corners of the court, behold, in every corner of the court, there was a court. I need my gummies. In the four corners of the court, there were courts joined of 40 cubits long and 30 cubits I know what it was. It's a horse. Horse. A horse. What was there? Alright. Talking horses. I knew it was coming up. 30 bras. These four corners of the. And there was a row of building. Careful. We just got two more verses. Then you're free. Alright. The building roundabout in them roundabout the four and it was made with boiling places under the rose round round about the court the court the court. Then said he unto me these are the places of those who boil where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people. So here's the picture. People are going up the North Gate, the South Gate. They're all coming from all over. There's a feast to be had. They got the new moon. They got the Sabbath. They got the various feasts. And you have chefs there. You have top chefs. You have these priests that are gonna boil and bake. Kathy and I watch baking shows from Europe. And, you know, I'm learning how to make, you know, some really cool things. But, anyway, you got taco trucks all over the place, food trucks, and different kind of thing. You can get the OG there, and we would call them early on, we called them the agape feast. Remember an agape feast? Yeah. Love feast. And so the early church were going from house to house according to acts two forty two, breaking the bread into prayer. So you're seeing worship. They're coming together for worship corporately. They're coming together to worship Jesus. They're coming together to have a meal together and breaking bread together and the whole thing. And so it serves as a model of what we did tonight. We had a meal together. We're in the word. We worship. We're fellowshipping. We're praying for one another. And and savior fork, the best is yet to come. We got chocolate cake out there. Right? Okay. You know that story about savior fork? Do you know that story? I'm gonna tell you. So this woman who grew up in the church, as she's getting older and older, she's been to many many potlucks, many many agape feasts, many many of these celebrations. And always after people ate their food, there was an announcement made, save your fork. The best is yet to come because dessert was later. So when she knew that she was gonna die, she made arrangements and she said that when you put me in my coffin, I want you to put in my hand a fork because the best is yet to come. K? Alright. So if you ever hear me say that, I won't sing mister Ed ever again. Alright. I promise. I promise. Alright. Something in there. The court. The court. The court. The court. Alright. Father, thank you. Thank you for the joy of the Lord, which is our strength. And, Lord, we know that a lot of us go through such difficult things circumstantially, but joy is the fruit of the spirit, Lord. And as we get our eyes off ourself and our eyes onto you, Lord, we enjoy. We enjoy you. We're filled with rejoicing, and love fills our heart and peace that surpasses all understanding. And Lord, the people in the world can't experience this. They're addicted. They're bound to their circumstances. They go high. They go low. They're like roller coasters. And they have to use drugs and alcohol and other all other sorts of things to prop them up and to get through mentally and emotionally in every way. But we as Christians, Lord, we have the fruit of the spirit which is love. And Lord in that love, there's great joy. There's great blessing. There's great joy and blessing and looking ahead and knowing that we're gonna spend all eternity with you. That you're gonna rapture us. You're coming soon for us your bride. And Lord, this is the worst it's ever gonna be for us. And but it's the best it's ever gonna be for the unbeliever. And so Lord, we cherish we cherish the days ahead as we know you're coming for us your bride, and we're gonna rule and reign with you as kings and priests in your eternal kingdom and rule and reign with you during the millennium and the various responsibility and things that you have for us to do, just the blessing of being with you and watching everything put back in harmony, everything working according to plan, and you stopping evil, ruling and reigning with a rod of righteousness. Lord, we we know that you, Lord, are the only one that can lead. You're the only one that can govern as king of kings and lord of lords, every knee is gonna bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
