Sermon
Revealing the Sapphire Tablets
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Transcript
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I would like to provide a brief introduction of our
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speaker this morning, so I'll have a few comments to make.
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Elder Greg Loud joined the Seven day Adventist Church in
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nineteen ninety seven, and ever since joining the church, he
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has had a steady increase in ministry responsibilities.
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He started out.
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As a Saber school teacher in two thousand, a deacon
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in two thousand and two, head deacon two thousand and four,
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prison ministry director in twenty fourteen, and elder in two
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thousand and fifteen. He's also published a book that you
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can get on Amazon called Trials, Triumph and the Victory.
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But I think of all the ways he serves in ministry,
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I think Elder Greg Loud likes to talk about revealing
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the Sapphire tablets, and this morning we're very pleased to
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welcome him to this pulpit to share his message.
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Testing Amen. Yeah, I'm gonna thank Passor Might not only
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for inviting me to speak here on this subject, but
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he for the last several months has been mentoring me
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in this subject because it was Pastor Might back in
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two thousand and six actually discovered the scriptures which I'm
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in the speech for today. But before he began, I
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have a testimony ship with you? Is that Saim? Do
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we believe in testimony in the church? Because if we're
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just home and listen to sermons in her home and
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there's no testimony in the church, what purpose do we
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serve here? So passionate, my actually spoke about two things
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that we're gonna share was and one is snow and
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the other's prayer. Now I'm actually gonna combine it to
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and share about how the lure into some prayers doing
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this snow. Anybody have any problems or issues because of
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the snow? Yeah, I actually have some snow still left
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in the front of my house. I have not been
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to remove all of it. Quite honestly, I did not
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pray for the snow. However, two weeks of my sister
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caught me Sabbath afternoon about three point thirty and she said,
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my water is not working. I have no run running
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water in my house. And I said, okay, why don't
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you pack a badge and come stay with us because
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no plumber is gonna come during this storm until usually
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need some place to stay. And so she did, and
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one day we decided, that was Saturday, about Wednesday, we
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drove over to the house just to check on things,
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and sure enough, out there everything was fine, and something
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told me, check the face, now here's you. Not During
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this whole time we were trying to contact pumbers and
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so on, and sure enough, no one was able to
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come out. I ran into the bathroom, turned the foster,
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and the water can. Now I want you to know I
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first thing I did is said your water is on.
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You need to hume cities because I prayed that God
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would fix your plumbing issue without any outside help. Now,
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mind you, my sister is not a believer, but that
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day something spoke to her heart and she could not
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deny that God had intervened. In fact, and I professed
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it all the more. I said, you need to know
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it was my yoad had fixed that broken pipe. Your
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pipe was broken, you had no water, and now you
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do session testimony. How many of you like cats? Anybody
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I like shots? I actually have two chats that live
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outside of my home and my neighbor and I take
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care of them. And sure enough she even brought little
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house for them that teach it. And right when the
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storm began and it was snowing tremendously, the Chats left
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the house. Now I have no reason why they believe,
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but they were missing for days. Why, I said, a Lord,
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it's reason hold out. They're not connected to the food source.
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And now I need you to intervene. But sure enough,
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five days later, five days later, the Chats show up unharmed,
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not frozen to death, and now they're still back home.
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Now I want to say this. When passion Mike prayed
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about his missing wallet, that was a huge sting for him.
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I've lost the wallet and so I know what that
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feels like. But I wanted you to know. Also, here's
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our little prayers. A prayer's real friend who's in there
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a prayer for something. It may not seem big to
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them or you, but I said to you, say the
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prayer because he is the minister, and not just big things,
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but small things too. Finally, last testimony, Affer Differ friend
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of mine Zerah Jach differend of mine, halt me a
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couple of weeks of help and said she was interested
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in Bible study. Now, this friend and I used to
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work to the other years to heal, and I had
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the present opportunity of ministering to her in the office.
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And sure enough, there was one thing that must ruin
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her heart. And you know what, I shut the door
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to her office and I said, would you like me
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to pray about it? For the long story is short.
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Over several years prayers had been answered, and it was
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a couple of weeks ago that she's home and said,
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I'm interested in Bible study. And I said, wow, okay,
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she recommend a Bible study or something there, I should
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set well first ipsentation that the pastor of might change.
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But the long stewy is short. She was driving one
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day and met a neighbor of hers and she told
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her the same thing, I'm interested in Bible study. Well,
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you need to sect with my Bible study. And sure
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enough it just happened to be Pastor Mike's Bible study.
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Isn't that amazing howf I worked? And now I die
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a text message from her? Well doing the conversation Pastor
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Mike mention, we need to come to my church because
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a friend of ours, Reverie, is going to be speaking
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on the Sapphire tablets. It just says I know him.
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And so you know, all of this is to say,
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I have a special prayer of introducing my friend Lord
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who's here now today for the first time to share
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this message with us, let us have a prayer. Father John,
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We just thank you Lord for the big things and
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the small prayers that you ran to daily, and we
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asked you to bless the message that you've given to
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me and praise that all would be blessed because of it.
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In Jesus's name. Amen. So, of course I did not
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do this project on my own. There were several people
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who helped domnate to this project, and so I'm just
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offering a special acknowledgement for them. And uh, you know,
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I want to answer some questions too. Pastor Mice has
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done this message before. I'm going to be to you
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from a different perspective because when I first found out
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that the werere sapphire stones, I went, hm, I went
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online and I tried to find an image of them,
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and they weren't none. And this is in two thousand
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and eight, and sure enough, I said, if there's no image,
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maybe you need to be the one to make month.
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So I started out on this project. So to they,
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we're gonna answer some questions. What were the ten tablets
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made of? Who wrote the tention mondments, where did the
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tention mondments come from all right, that is the world
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believe that they shame from the side of Mount Sinai. Robert,
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the Israelites told to put a blue thread in their garments.
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Is Guy's law done away with it? And finally, how
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should we live today if the law is still vowed?
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So I'm gonna begin with the old and the New
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Covenant that going back to when Moses received the Law,
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received the tablets on Mount Sinai. And this is fifty
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days after Passover, so it passed over. They were still
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in Egypt, and now they've traveled through the desert, and
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now Moses was receiving them. And at the feast of
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shap woke the day of the Jimmy of the Law. Well,
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there were three thousand Souldiers that were lost that day
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when Moses came down from the mountain and they saw
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the apostasy of Israel. And we all know that Moses
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took the tablets and threw them down. And then because
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of their apostlesy Well, almost fifteen hundred years later, the
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Holy Spirit, on the day of Pensifass brought the people
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in and three thousand Souldiers were actually baptized that day
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and actually there was probably more like sixty sevens even
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eight thousand, because back then they only shounted men in
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their numbers, so when you fount the men and women
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received that there were much more than just the three thousand.
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So the people of America say we're a Christian nation
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and we believe in the Tenth Commandments, but they're asked
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how many of them actually read the Tenth Commandments. I mean,
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you know, we say we believe in we saved, we
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runt them and the shrews, and then the house and whatnot,
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but they actually don't know what they say. So if
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you don't mind, I would like us to actually read
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what they said. Would you join me and read them.
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It's twenty one to seventeen and it says if y'd spoke,
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sha't hear you? If y'all spoke all these words saying
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I am the lord your yard from Egypt, out of
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the house of bondage, you shall have all the yards
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before me. You make for yourself a hard image lord?
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Is it me? Or am I only hear them one
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or two people? I'm I'm one of us all to
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say this together, you shall make for yourself any hard
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image or any likeness of anything that is heaven above,
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or that is in the earth beneath, or that is
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in the water under the earth. You shall not make
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for yourself bound down to them, nor serve them. For I,
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the Lord your yard, am a jealous yad visiting the
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infinity of the foldings upon their children. To the third
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and fourth generations of those who hate me. You shall
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be but showing mercy to thousands to those who love me,
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and shap my commandments. You shall not take the name
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of the Lord your vald in vain, for the Lord
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will not hold him jutless who takes his name in vain.
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Remember the sabbath day to she be holding six days
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you shall labor and do all your work. But the
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seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your yard.
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In it you shall do no work. You know your son,
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know your daughter, know your male servant, know your female servant,
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know your shallowing, know your stranger within your age. For
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in six days the Lord made the heavens in the
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earth to see and all that is in them, and
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rested on the seventh day. They're for the Lord bless
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the saventh day and hollowed it. Only your father and
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your mother. You shall not murder, You shall not fament adultry,
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You shall not steal, You should not very false witnesses
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hint your neighbor. You shall not hobb it your neighbor's house.
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You shall not hobbit your neighbor's wife, knowr his male servant,
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nor his female servant, nor his aunts, nor his dunty,
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nor is anything that is your neighbors. So now be
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hume to when Moses received these tables as the pictures
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here in the movie The Ten Commandment. How many of
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you seen that movie. I've seen it. My wife and
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I must watch it at least ten times a year,
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just because it's a fascinating movie. It was one of
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a time, because it was one of the only movies
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where the Sessa b the milk actually hums out and
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says in nineteen fifty six and said, we have used
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the Bible as our time to produce this movie. And
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imagine the technology had seventy years ago. I mean, this
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was something. The imagery of Moses receiving those amendments and
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the lightning and the fire, I mean, it was just
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absolutely amazing. Even by today's technology, it's still a fascinating movie.
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God speaking without his bold voice, and then the firing
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lightning coming down. What an awesome in spectashar thing to witness.
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I'm gonna chase that.
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Look, oh that was no I mean I got alpagon.
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Oh that was my steel. Oh yeah, that was a
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moth bad falls witness again as the live neighborhood.
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Oh that was a moth colored anything that is like
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neighbor written with the finger of God.
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And I'll tell you what that sin is still just spectacled.
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And the fact that is for people in nineteen fifty six,
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even up the present day, is still a spectacular sins
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and the world believed, it believed every seccion of that sin.
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In fact, we never christened it. This is how it
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had to have happened me and nobody pictured this before.
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This is what God did. And yet my question is
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was it assurate? Was it assurate? So really it takes
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a look at the scriptures and I'm gonna just show
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you this was my depiction of if they were actually
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sapphire stonentes, and we know that they are, but I
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thought this is maybe how it looked for real. So
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if you have your Bibles, turn to extra chapter twenty
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four and verse nine to Trump. And here are the
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scriptures that point to the time has been sapphire and
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and I want us to know. These are the various
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scriptures that Pastor Mike did his presentation at the conference
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back in two thousand and six, well along serious shure.
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After the conference, Pastor Dave Ashrak had asked him for
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his notes. And then it was in twenty eighteen, so
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years later, sixteen years later, I heard this presentation and
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the words said, then Moses went up, also Aaron nay Dad,
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and by him and the seventy elders of Israel, and
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they saw the Jond of Israel, and they're under his
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feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone.
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And it was like the very heavens in its territy.
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And let me ask you, when you lift up in
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the shine, do we not they blew in the herety
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of the heavens? So here I mean, you know, sometimes
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the obvious thing is really just simple. The obvious is
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just simple. And then if it was on but on
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the nobles of the children of Israel that did not
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lay hands, so they saw job, they ate and drank.
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Then the Lord said to Moses, come up to me
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on the mountain and be there. And I wish if
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it happens this stone and the law and commandments which
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I've written, that you mean teach them. So by the
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depth of reasoning. What stone was mentioned in the early
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verse sapphire. There was no other. They didn't say diamond,
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they didn't say topaz, they said sapphire. So I mean
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him were drawing natural your conclusions here, and then afterwards
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it like a redding fist. They had the eight and
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they drank. Ever been to a redding And then afterwards
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you have a reception and you drink. So this was
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this part for the horse. Now I'm gonna move head
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to us chapter twenty eight, and it talks about the
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priestly garments, and again I'm moving through these, but again
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as we draw conclusions about why John said these stands.
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And you shall make the robe of the ephod all blue,
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and moving to Xenus twenty eight thirty seven, and you
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shall put a blue hood, then it may be on determined,
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and you shall be in front. And you should put
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a blue cord that he may be on determined and
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shall be on the front of the tournament. And then
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here we have just thirty one eighteen. And when he
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had made an end up speaking to him on Mount Sinai,
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he gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony of
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stone written with the fenier of God. So here we
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have the two testimonies written by the finger of God.
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There's himself yave to Moses. So then we again the
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only stone mentioned here was the sapphire that was a
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paved work under his feet. So literally, this law is
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actually the foundation of God's law and the foundation of
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his strokes. And too, Joe hand in hand. Now moving
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to Esendus thirty two, verse fifteen, Moses turned and went
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down from the mountain, and the two tablins of the
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testimony were in his hand, and they were written on
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both sides, on one side and on the other. And
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now the tabots were the orfect vibe, and the writing
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was a van and raved on the tabots. So Sham,
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we should seeing the conection here. And now Jan listening
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at what John says about the tassles on their environments,
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and it says is Jam Moses spoke Sam the Lord
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spoke to Moses. Sam speaking to the children of Israel,
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tells them to make tassels on the corners of their ghomans.
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And here's a tassel here, and here is a prayer
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shaw that they used that they would wear. And if
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you notice, this is also a blue also the blue
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and good and this actually came from Israel, mm hmm.
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And it says in the then the Lord spokes mothers
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are saying, speak to the children of Israel, and to
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put a blue thread in the tassels. And then here's
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him the tassel, and you shall have here's one of
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these pivotal scriptures. It says, and you shall have the tassels,
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that you may look upon it and remember all the
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humandments of the Lord to do them, and that you
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may not follow the Harran tree of it, to which
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your own heart and own eyes are in hind, that
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you and that you may may remember and do all
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my humandments and be holding for your good. I am
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the Lord, your Vald, who brought you out of the
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land of Egypt to be your John. I am the Lord,
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your VD. Now the question is it says put a
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blue tablet that they may look at it and remember
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the Lord God. If the law were not blue, why
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is there so much emphasis on put a blue thread,
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put a blue e fod. I mean, the correlation definition
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is very easy to make sure. I mean it doesn't
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take a rocket science to see the only fellers mentioned
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in these verses are blue or sapphire. Amen. Now remember
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the woman in Matthew. She had a full blood for
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twelve years. And I'm quite intrigued by this particular story
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because when I used to minister at Laurel Hospital in
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the mental health department, I would see people coming there
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who were truly tormented. They were tormented by attempted suicide,
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drug addition, et cetera. And I thought, here's a woman.
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It doesn't say if she was married, but it does
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say that she had fur above for twelve years. Well,
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we know in their time, even just during that particular
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time of month, the men would not come near their ribs,
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and even a cringe re scripture would not even touch them.
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Imagine this woman not being touched by anyone, embraced by
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anyone for twelve years. And now she hears this story
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of a man who's healing people, and she says, if
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I would just touched, if I've just touched the hem
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of his garmen, I would be made wrong. And so
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she reached out into the foul. Imagine and with Jesus
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when he was walking through the cities and things, he
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was always proud of by people, and I'm going to
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touch it. And she reads in and she touched him,
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and it says immediately she was made wrong. In fact,
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the strips would say that he was. He said he
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felt energy drawn away from him, and his listen said,
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who touched me? So the fact is Moses came down
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from the mountain. Moses heard the uproar in the sham,
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and he looked and he says, these are not my people.
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Maybe imagine putting up with them all few of the
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desert there plaining, they're whining about food, water, and I'm
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we're gonna die out in the desert. And now after
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forty days he's here. This is all. It says that
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he was so filled with the Holy Spirit that it
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says he's shone. He's lit up. And imagine the lights
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coming from him and hidding these tablets. And now he
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comes down and says, they are not worthy of.
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This whole unto the you're Israel, you have sinned a
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great sin in the sight of God. You are not
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worthy to receive these ten commands.
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They gathered against you, Gooses, you take too much upon yourself.
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We will not live by your commandments. We're free. There
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is no freedom without the law. Whose laws yours?
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Did you call those tablis to become a prince over us?
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Believe who is on the Lord's side? Let him come
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to me?
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So you have the people Jesu Jesu.
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He showed you now land flowing with milk and honey.
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I show you a god of gold.
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Come with me, polly Glassphever's idolaters.
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For this you shall drink bitter waters. God has set
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before you this day his laws of life and good
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and death and evil.
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Those who will.
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Not live by the Lord, die.
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By the Lord.
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M please graphics right. You know it's interesting. So we
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know did after Moses had destroyed the tabas you know
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in Judnonomy chapter ten, it talks about the second set
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of tabots, and it says at that time the Lord
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said to me, shoot for yourself two tablas of stone
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like the first. So I made an art of a
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shasha rug, and here two tablets of stone like the first.
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Then is where did the second set of tabats come from?
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Is?
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Even when Pastor Mike David's presentation that was one of
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the first things that people were asking, where'd then set
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come from? Well, and doing some research, I reached out
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to a pastor, dub Bassor, and he actually wrote me
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back and he says, deep Reverie, thanks you so much
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for sharing your Ten Commandment politics. I've heard this before
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about the Ten Commandments being written on Sapphire's stone and
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have no reason to disagree. There is some pushback from
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charlows because Moses harved the setons, sets and sets of stones.
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Sapphire was not typically found in Arabia desert point number one,
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and he mentions there are other places where sapphires are found,
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but not where he was. So we've eliminated that the
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stones him from here from Earth because what there's a
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scripture say there were stones like the first So if
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the first set shame from the base of Vurstrom, it
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would not make sense that the session set will also
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come from the base of valur Strom. Now the husson
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is how he received them, Well, leive me your back here.
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So in the thirty three, after they had fallen into
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a fosticee, Moses temp was literally moved away from the
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champ of the people where Jesus would actually meet him
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in a pillar of child and Mike and I had
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passed on my part of me had discussed this, and
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we believe that Jesus brought the sapphire stone not hut yet,
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and he used his staff which actually had moracous power
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even like a laser, that actually cut those stones out.
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Now what's interesting is I looked up on Google, what
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can hut a sapphire stone? Well, it either has to
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be a diamond or another sapphire. So the hardest stone
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you have is diamond, underneath is sapphire. Now listen to
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this sapphire, a very heart gemstone with a most hardness
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of nine Champion's hut and pods using specialized twos and
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techniques involving a brace of materials like diamond, the process
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is lapidary. Also, high tech methods like laser for ancusic
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xiety precision fasting are also important to shape and finish
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the sapphire stones. So certainly Moses didn't pull this from
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out of any rock or dirt from there, but Jesus
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brought it to him and then takes it back up
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to our father. And it says in that time the
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Lord said h for yourself two stone tablets of stone
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like the first. So I made an art of Esberg
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and shoot the two table system like the first. Now
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Here we have in his issuel in verse chapter ten,
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verse one, and I looked, and they're in the frontament
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that was above the head of the trump, and there
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appeared to be something like a sapphire stone having the
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appearance of a throne. And so here's him. We're just
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nothing dies here's him. We're from nothing scripture to scripture.
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And here you know, this is maybe an artistic rendering
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of what that base of that throne may ever looked at.
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And then the final verse on these is Joe twenty eight,
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verse six, and its stones are a source of sapphires
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and it contains road dust. And so when I read this,
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I thought, wow, that finisher is cutting into this stone,
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and maybe that stone that had to hold in it
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molded the lettering in it. And so this is how
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we have the lettering. And in the due as Jesus
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is also heard the line of Judah, which is also gold,
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and it says in there you have the dark blue
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sapphire and then the vote lettering. Now, when you compare
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scripture upon Scripture. The tim Commandments are in these sapphires.
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There's no question about that. And that's what my presentation
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was about today, was about showing us how did we
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come to believe something different? And maybe it's because of
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the movie and the tlogy, and this is how it
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was presented, and no one ever rushened it. And you know,
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some people believe that the Tension mandments were and are
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still a Jewish sting because they're given to Moses and
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the Israelites and their Jewish laws, and that they do
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not pertain to them. And so this is why some
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people mis said whether the law is done away with?
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When John j Moses the Tensher mandments, they were actually
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a think of beauty. I mean, what I present here
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today is a mere representation of that. But the fact
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is is that the law God is beautiful and they
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are not rigius to us. John fourteen fifteen Jesus said himself,
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if you love me, cheap my famandments. And then Revelation fourteen,
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verse twelve, it says, here is the patience of the
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saints who cheap the commandments if vow in the faith
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of Jesus, you know, and finishing up I mean, it's
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the Old Testament New Testament. In Jeremiah thirty one thirty three,
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it says, but this is the heavenant that I will
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make with the House of Israel. After those days, says
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the Lord, I will put my law in their minds
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and write it on their hearts, and I will be
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there if vah, and they shall be my people. And
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again in the New Testament in the Hebrews eight ten,
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for this is the heavenant that I will make with
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the house of the Israel after those days, says the Lord.
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I will put my laws in their mind and write
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them on their hearts, and I will be their God,
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and they shall be my people. Here we have Old
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and New Testament verses almost exactly the same, and that
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this law will be written on our hearts. You know,
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the fact is Jesus is the fulfillment of the law. Amen.
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So how shouldn't the law be done right with? I mean,
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how shoedd to be done right with the moral law
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of God. Sometimes we pay more attention to street laws
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than we do the true moral law of God. And
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my question to you today is I've let the Lord
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write the law on my heart. God to write is
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all in your heart today. Amen. Well, if you do,
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you can come up and I'll give you a happy
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for yourself.
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From on.
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I have him here. Yes, it's a coppy of the
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South fire Stone is the original drawings. Actually, don't be afraid, yes, bra.
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And then I just wanted to share with you the
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presentation all the scriptures from the news team James version uh.
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The Birfe Industry is by Jonathan Cohn Uh. This project
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was helped with passion Mike. This noticed by the Bashar
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but you ready to see them, so I have to
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tect you. This was seven years in the mation. This
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was a project that the Holy Spirit put on my heart.
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And the fact that there was no image back in
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twenty eighteen, I was determined that you have to be
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the one into Mason's. You have to be willing to
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share this and it was definitely a labor of love.
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But thanks you allow me to share this message. Thanks
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you your mic and allow me to share your pulpit.
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Before the closing prayer, how many of you like to
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say praise God for Gregor and his presentation today. And
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I'd like to say this, my heart was touched by this.
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They are really blue aren't they. He spent a fortune
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to make this so we could see this. And I
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would like to ask you a simple question. How many
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of you will pray for Gregory's ministry. He's been on
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three abn other places that as he shares this, the
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Lord will use him. He has overcome a stroke. The
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word was clear today. May you never doubt it. And
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God be praised. And after you have our closing prayer,
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they're going to have some strings here, so we've had
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a double blessing. I want to say thank you for
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coming Von, bringing those violins, bring them back where we're
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just very grateful, and finish with our closing prayer.
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Versed. Father in heaven, may your name be horrified and
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all that we do, all that be saying things, and Lord,
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I pray that each one will have received a special
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blessing to them and especially for our focus online who
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are watching him. Lord, we'll just if you dance and
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praise for this opportunity, keep is safe as we travel home.
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In Jesus' name, Amen,