The Cross Over

Very good. Let's open up in prayer. Father God, bless

this service, Bless this sermon. Bless your people that are here,

that are in listening shot across the internet. Just pray

that you would move upon us by your Holy Spirit.

Bring us Jesus in Jesus name. Amen.

Now if I tell you I have a Hebrew friend,

now you might naturally think that I have someone a

friend who comes from a distinct culture or language religion.

You might say, oh, maybe they have some Jewish ancestry.

And that's not necessarily wrong. But the name Hebrew actually

means one who transits, one who passes over.

The name Hebrew.

Comes from the verb a bar, and it means to

pass over, to cross over, as in crossing over a river,

the terrain, an obstacle. And that makes a lot of

sense to me from that perspective, because in the Bible,

Abraham is the first Hebrew.

And what does he do.

He comes out from the earth of the Caldes Babylon,

and he what transits. He crosses over a large swath

of desert Terraine, and he comes to where Canaan, the

promised land. All right, his descendants, the Israelites, they're in

bondage in Egypt, and in one night, after they participate

and experience the Passover, they transit and cross over from

slavery to freedom. Now, over time after the Wilderness, they'll

eventually cross over the Jordan River into the Promised Land.

And that's the title of the sermon, the Crossover, And

that's what I want to talk to you about today,

the crossover from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant.

Because through Christ and by faith in Christ, we can

cross over from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant,

and by doing so, we enter into a better.

Covenant with God.

Now, I promise you, in the next thirty minutes, I'd

like to invite you to cross over with me from

the Old.

Covenant to the New Covenant.

And my goal is simply this to strengthen your faith

in the superiority of the New Covenant. It's not that

the Old Covenant is bad, it's simply inferior to the New.

God had to establish the old, which would point to

the New. Now, at the end of this you're going

to better appreciate the differences between the Old Covenant and

the New Covenant. What Christ did for you, what He

is currently doing for you. And how the promises are

better and enable you to know who God is in

an intimate way. Now, before we cross over into the

New Covenant, we must first briefly examine the fundamentals of

the Old Covenant, and each part of the Old Covenant

has its counterpart in the New Covenant. First, let's define

some terms a covenant. What is a covenant? Sounds like

a fancy name covenant. It's simply an agreement between two parties.

Right in the Old Covenant Biblical, the covenant is simply

an agreement made between God and man. Now, what exactly

was the agreement? What was the covenant? Exodus thirty four

to twenty eight says this. So he was there with

the Lord forty days and forty nights.

This is Moses on Mount Sinai.

He did not eat bread or drink water, and he

wrote on the tablets the words of the Covenant.

The Ten Commandments.

Juteronomy four thirteen essentially says the same thing. So he

declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform,

that is the ten Commandments. And he wrote them two

tablets of stone, just like we write an agreement on

paper between two people or two parties contract paper. These

were written on tablets of stone, something enduring, durable, and

they were written on stone tablets, and they were supernaturally inscribed.

Exodus thirty one eighteen says this, when he had finished

speaking with them on Mount Sign, and he gave Moses

the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone written

by the finger of God. Now some say, well, that

was the first set, what about the second set. Well,

Deuteronomy ten two says this, I will write on the

tablets the words which were on the former tablets which

you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.

You see, God alone wrote them with his own finger.

He does not delegate that to Moses. That's the agreement.

That's the covenant. And eventually that covenant would be placed

in the arc of the covenant. Now the Israelites make

a promise to keep this covenant Exodus twenty four to three.

Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the

words of the Lord and all the ordinances.

And all the people answered with one voice and said.

All the words which the Lord.

Has spoken, we will do.

The covenant is the ten commandments written on stone tablets,

supernaturally by the finger of God and Israelites, and the Israelites.

Promise to keep it.

Now, there's a few four fundamental aspects of the Old Covenant.

What are the terms, in short form, obey and live.

Levidigus eighteen, verse four and five.

You are to you are to perform my judgments and

keep my statutes, to live in accord with them.

I am the Lord, your God.

So you shall keep my statutes and my judgments, by

which a man may live if he does them. I

am the Lord Ezekiel twenty eleven. I gave them my

statutes and informed them of my ordinances, by which if

a man observes them, he will live.

What if a man doesn't.

Observe them, that's a good question. What are the consequences?

Ezekiel eighteen four basically says this, The soul who sins

will die. Sin is transgression of the law. Ezekiel eighteen

twenty says, the person whose sins will die, the father's

not going to die for the sons of the for.

The sins of the son.

The son is not going to die for the sins

of the father. Jeremiah thirty one to thirty says everyone

will die for his own iniquity. Everyone dies their own responsibility.

A few more aspects of the Old Covenant. The Old

Covenant involves a physical sanctuary. God says to Moses, let

them construct a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

And the sanctuary was where God dwelt. And because it's

the place where God, it's the place where God dwelt.

Everything in the sanctuary system was holy. God set apart

the Levite tribe. They were holy, they were separate. Their

clothing was holy, their food was holy. The whole sanctuary

service was holy. The furniture in the sanctuary was holy.

Everything was holy about this service.

Why is that?

Because the sanctuary service was really a process of mediation

between God and man, because of sin. Sin separates man

from God. And it taught that the law of God

is enduring, and that sin against the law of God

is a serious offense. And it was through the blood

of the animal sacrifices that man could approach a holy God. Now,

the physical sanctuary had two parts, a holy place and

a most holy place, and it was separated by a veil.

God dwelt in the most holy place behind the veil.

Let me give you the basic operation of the system.

When someone sinned, they'd placed their hands in the lamb.

This is just one aspect of the service.

And that would symbolically transfer their sin to that animal.

And then that lamb was slain and instead of the

sinner dyeing, the lamb would die.

Now, with all going.

Through all the protocols of the service, that blood was

then taken into the Holy Place by the priests on

a daily basis, and then once a year, that blood

was taken into the most Holy Place and sprinkled in

the ark of the Covenant to cleanse the sanctuary. Can

you imagine the repetition.

Involved in this.

The Sanctuary Service was in continuous operation. Sacrifices were being

made daily. Everyone in Israel would know the seriousness of

the affect and the offensive sin. They had to take

the life of an animal and shed its blood. Blood

was the vital element to make the whole system work.

Without blood, the Sanctuary system could not work. Now, this

service went on year after year, decade after decade, century

after century. It required generation after generation after generation of

priests to sustain its operation. Let's review the basic elements

of the Old Covenant written by the Finger of God

on stone tablets the Ten Commandments. Israel promises to keep

them the terms our obey and live.

Every man dies for his own sins if not.

The Sanctuary had two compartments, a Holy Place and a

Most Holy Place. The priests are the only one that

can enter into the sanctuary service and even the high

priests can only enter into the Most Holy Place, and

many priests are required to administer this surface on behalf

of people, and blood is the sacrificial element, the substitute animal.

The blood of the substitute animal is the vital element

to make the system work. That's the old Covenant. Now

I should mention this. The New Covenant is the same

covenant as the Eternal Covenant. You see, from our perspective

as finite human beings, it's new.

We go from the old to the new.

But from God's perspective in eternity past, he already had

purposed in his mind and heart to redeem mankind before

the creation of anything. It was only a matter of

time to bring it to fruition. Are you ready to

cross over with me? We're going to cross over into

the New Covenant right now. I remember, each of the

elements that we just covered has its counterpart in the.

New And what I want to do is I just

want to break this into three parts.

To understand the superiority of the New Covenant. We're going

to break it into three parts. One, what happened at

the Cross of Christ. Christ did something for us. Two

something happens at the Resurrection, what Christ is continuously doing

for us? And then three, I'm want to cover the

promises of this New Covenant and how we can know

God in an intimate way. Now, the crossover point into

the New Covenant happens at the Cross. Rather than every

man die for his sins, one man dies for everyone's sins,

And rather than many animal sacrifices, only one sacrifice is required,

and the blood is sufficient for all time to cleanse

the sins. You see in the New Covenant. You don't

die for your sins. Christ dies for your sins. He

is your substitution. John one twenty nine says this. The

next day he saw Jesus coming in to him and said,

behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins

of the world. Jesus is the sacrificial lamb. He is

your substitute. There are not many sacrifices. There is only

one sacrifice, and it's sufficient.

For all time. Notice what Hebrews.

Ten verses nine to twelve says, Then he said, behold,

I have come to do your will. He takes away

the first in order to establish the second. By this

we will have been sanctified through the offering of the

body of Jesus Christ once for all. Every priest stands daily,

ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which

can never take away sins. But he having been offered one,

But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time,

sat down at the right hand of God. The cross

is the pivot point between the old and the new.

You don't die for your sins. Christ dies for your sins.

All the daily and yearly sacrifices in the Old Covenant

collapse at the cross, and it's that one single sacrifice

is all sufficient for all time to save forever.

Now.

Just as blood was the vital element in the Old Covenant,

it is the decisive and vital element in the New Covenant,

because it's required for our salvation, for our redemption. Have

you ever thought about this? Why blood? Why did God

use blood to do all of this? Because there's life

in the blood Deuteronomy twelve twenty three. Only be sure

not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life,

and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Right there, blood is life.

Notice what Christ says about his body, body, and his

blood in John six point fifty three. So Jesus said

to them, truly, truly, I say to you, unless you

eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink

his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

You see that blood life verse fifty four.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has

eternal life, and I will raise him up on.

The last day.

Now I know some Christians innocently believe that during a

communion service, which we have next week, that they're actually

consuming the body and flesh of Christ. What this verse

is saying, No, we appropriate the blood and body of

Christ by faith. These are symbols that we take, and

by faith we consume the body and blood of Christ.

Acts twenty twenty eight says that Christ purchased the church

which with his own blood. Ephesians one seven says that

we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our

trespasses Revelation one to five says that Christ released us

from our sins by his blood. Blood is the vital element.

We just sang the song today. Power in the blood, right, Oh,

that I would be from the burden of sin.

There's power in the blood, passion and pride.

I'm free that we would know that for certain, that

Jesus is our king. You know, if you think you've

gone too far, I've sinned, I've done something terrible.

The Lord will never forgive me. That's a lie.

The blood covers and washes away every sin, every sin.

Don't let the devil tempt you or think that your

sins cannot be forgiven. They can and are forgiven through

the blood of Christ. I've experienced so much guilt and

shame for my sins. I can't even begin to tell you,

but I look to the blood of Christ because it

is the cleansing agent.

I'm shameful for my sins. I don't like that I

did that. I did it.

But you know what, Thank the Lord Jesus Christ that

he shed his blood for me. He shed his blood

for you. There's nothing that can separate you from the

love of Christ. That's what happens at the Cross, Christ

died for your sins. All of your sins, past, present,

and future were.

Placed upon Christ.

Now, in the Old Covenant, let's take a look at

what happens shortly after the cross at resurrection. Right, let's

do a little Bible study right here, real quick, a

couple of verses. In the Old Covenant, there were many priests,

generation after generation after generation of priest. However, in the

New Covenant, Christ becomes our single and only high priest

who ministers in the heavenly sanctuary for us. No longer

is there in earthly We shift to the heavenly Sanctuary

on the first day of the week at the Resurrection.

On Resurrection Day, Christ was designated by God as high priest.

I can show you this in just a couple of verses.

Look at Acts thirteen thirty two, and we preach to

you the good news of the promise made to the

fathers that God has fulfilled this promise to our children

in that watch this in that he raised up Jesus.

As it is also written in the second Psalm, you

are my son today, I have begotten you. In the

context talking today, I have begotten you. That's resurrection Sunday

Hebrews five to five will affirm this. Notice this so also,

Christ did not glorify himself so as to become high priest.

But he who said to him you are my son.

Today I have begotten you, just as he also says

in another passage, you are a priest forever according to

the order of Melchizedek. Now it's true, Jesus doesn't come

from the tribe of Judah.

I'm a tribe of Levi.

He comes from the tribe of Judah. And we know

perfection cannot come through the priesthood, the levitical priesthood. That's

why he is our high priest. And it comes through

Jesus through the tribe of Judah. It's not on the

basis of the vitical law, coming from a descendant of Levi,

but it's based on the power of an indestructible life.

But you know what I find most comforting about the

fact that Jesus is our high priest. It's that he

placed himself in humanity. The second person of the Godhead

places himself in humanity, and he becomes the god man,

Jesus Christ.

That's called the incarnation.

That's the indissoluble unbreakable union of God and Man. Christ

did that for us. He became something he was not.

He joins the human race. I think, in all the

vastness of the universe, how do I touch, how do

I reach out?

How do I connect with God Spirit?

How do I even think about that? In the vastness

of the universe. And he places himself in humanity. One

day we're going to be able to touch him and

embrace him. We can relate to him, and he can

relate to us, you know.

Hebrews two eleven says this. He says that he is.

Not ashamed to call us his brethren. Despite his vast

superiority and wisdom. He condescends into the human race, and

he calls us brethren, and he's not ashamed. In fact,

he had to be made like us Hebrews two seventeen.

Therefore he had to be made like his brethren in

all things, so that he might become a merciful and

faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make

propreciation for the sins of the people.

For since he himself was tempted in that which.

He has suffered, he is able to come to the

aid of those who are tempted.

That is very reassuring to me.

You know, when we read the Gospels, we realized Christ

had the full human experience. He hungered, he tired, he thirsted,

he wept, he cried out, he teared, He experienced mental anguish.

He swept blood, and he shed blood. He was a

man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Every sin that

you've ever committed, past president and future he experienced in

his own mind. He touched you, and he experienced the

sins of all of the world. And because of he

did all of this because he loves you. That's why

we can say we love him. We love him because

he first loved us. Hebrew seven twenty four says this.

But Jesus, on the other hand, because he continues forever,

holds his priesthood permanently. Therefore he is able also to

save forever those who draw near to God God through him,

since he always lives to make intercession for.

Them Hebrews nine twenty four.

For Christ did not enter a holy place in the context,

Christ did not enter a holy place heavenly sanctuary made

with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but

into Heaven itself to appear.

In the presence of God.

What's the last two words there? For us.

To appear in the presence of God?

For us? For you, do you ever mess up, you

feel awful right, Know that you have a brother.

Know that you have a brother. Know that you have

an advocate, one.

Who supports you, encourage, encourages you, intercedes for you. You know,

my daughters have taught me something about drawing near to God.

When they mess up, they come running and embrace me.

They know they've done wrong. But how often do I

do something wrong and I run? I don't pray, I

don't read my Bible. I say I need a week

to go by before I can enter into God's presence? Again,

not true. God wants us to draw near and when

they drop, when my girls come to me, I don't

come down harshly upon them. I embrace them. I encourage him. Yeah,

you made a mistake, but Daddy loves you. Now. You

know what's even more encouraging is in the old Covenant,

only the priests had access into the sanctuary. But the

New Covenant Christ freely opens us the way into the

heavenly sanctuary Hebrews ten, verse nineteen. Therefore, Brethren, since we

have confidence to enter the Holy Place by the blood

of Jesus. We have confidence to enter the Holy Place,

heavenly sanctuary by what the vital element of the New Covenant,

the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way

which He inaugurated for us through the veil that is

his flesh.

That's the cross of Christ.

Right there. The transition point is the cross Old Covenant

cross New Covenant. And since we have a great high

priest over the House of God, let us draw near

with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having

our hearts sprinkle clean from an evil conscious and our

bodies washed with pure water. Let's do a quick review

of what the superiority is of the New Covenant before

we get into the final phase one. You don't die

for your sins. Christ dies for your sins. There's not

multiple sacrifices day in day out. There's one single, all

sufficient sacrifice through Christ, and his blood is the vital

element to redeem you and forgive you. There's not many priests.

There's one priest, and he can sympathize with you. And

this high priest can save forever if you draw near

to him, and he freely gives us access to the

heavenly sanctuaries with him.

Now, the promises, I.

Believe this is some of the most amazing things about.

The New Covenant that I want to share you with

right now.

This is the last phase, and these promises enable us

to know God in an intimate way. Watch this now,

do you remember the Israelites in the Old Covenant said

all that the Lord has said, we will do. They

made a promise. Now that covenant was a bilateral agreement

between them and God. God never intended it to be

a bilateral agreement. Right, they entered into that bilateral agreement,

and there was a fault.

On their part. Why was there a fault?

Did they keep the covenant? No, they did not keep

the covenant. They didn't keep their part of the agreement.

Look at Hebrews eight, verses six through nine, and go

through this slowly.

Look at verse six. But now he has.

Obtained a more excellent ministry talking about Jesus Christ by

as much as he is also the mediator of a

better covenant.

There it is better covenant.

Which has been enacted on what better promises. Let's take

a look at these promises. For if the first Covenant

had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for

a second for finding fault with them.

Finding fault with them, they.

Said all that the Lord has said, we will do,

And then it hadn't been even forty days before they sinned.

For finding fault with them.

He says.

Behold, days are coming, says.

The Lord, when I will affect a new covenant with

the House of Israel and with the House of Judah,

not like the covenant which I made with their fathers

on the day when I took them by the hand

to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For

they did not continue in my covenant, and I did

not care for them, says the Lord. Now notice this

we're about to read the next couple of verses. Notice

this is not a bilinal covenant anymore. It is a

unilateral government from God to Israel, from God to his people,

from God to you Hebrews eight, verse ten. For this

is the covenant that I will make with the House

of Israel. After those days, says the Lord. I will

put my laws into their minds. I will write them

on their hearts, and I will be their God, and

they shall be my people. Did you notice who's doing

all the work. I will make, I will put, I

will write, I will be their God. God alone is

establishing the terms of the new Covenant. He is powerful

and faithful to keep the new Covenant, the eternal covenant.

You see.

Instead of the law, now, here's the next thing.

Instead of the law being externally on tables of stone,

God will internalize that law and write it on our hearts.

Just as he wrote the law on the stone tablets,

he would write it on our hearts. Now. I don't

have time to go through this, but in a Bible study,

I can show you that his finger is the Holy Spirit. Right,

he writes his law by his Holy Spirit onto our hearts.

You see, regarding the law, the only difference between the

old Covenant and the New Covenant.

You know what the difference is, you know.

It location, location, stone tablet's heart. Oh, this is our heart,

this is our physical heart, right, this is our heart,

our mind where we make decisions. Now the law becomes internalized.

You know, we don't follow.

The law of God from an external source, as if

it were a checklist. We follow it from an internal source.

And this internalization goes with us wherever we go. It

enables us to love God and to love others as

our selves.

Because this is it.

To internalize the Law of God is to internalize the

love of God. To internalize the Law of God is

to internalize the love of God. Look at Matthew twenty two,

verse thirty six. Notice what Jesus says, Teacher answers this question, teacher,

which is the greatest commandment in the Law. And he

said to him, you shall love the Lord your God

with all your heart, and with all your soul, and

with all your mind.

This is the great and foremost commandment.

The second is like it's you shall love your neighbor

as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole Law

and the prophets.

You see, the Law has always been about love. The

first four we love the.

Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and mind.

The next six we love others as ourselves. It's not

by the works of the Law that we're saved. God

does it all through Christ and establishes the New, the

Eternal Covenant, by writing his law on our hearts. We

get to experience. It's the internalization of God's law. It's

all by the works of Christ. Now, some people say,

all right, I believe that. Well, if the law of

God is in my heart, then why do I struggle?

Why do I still struggle in this life?

I'm not perfect. I struggle. I mess up, That's okay.

Paul expresses the same concern in chapter seven of Romans.

He says, I want to do what the law says.

I know it's good. But ah, this flesh within me.

Who's going to free me from the body of this death?

Because until Christ returns, we will still be struggling with

this body of flesh. All right, it's always constantly tugging

at us. But when Christ returns, this mortal must put

on immortality, this corruptible must put on incorruptibility.

We will be free from the presence and nature of.

It'll be out of us completely. But in the meantime, say,

why would God do that?

Right now?

Why do I have to still struggle?

I want to be free? Why? I agree with you.

It's an opportunity for us to rely upon the Holy Spirit,

to rely upon the power of Christ living within us.

It's about struggling.

Daily, developing the characters that God wants us to develop,

because our characters need to grow, and as we continue

to surrender to the Holy Spirit and allow him to

have his way and his will with us.

We are growing and maturing as Christians. Now.

Notice what the result of having the law of God

written on our hearts is Hebrews eleven Hebrews eight, verse eleven.

We shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen and everyone

his brother's saying, know the Lord, for they will all

know me from the least to the greatest. That's a promise.

The result is that we will know God. I mean,

think about this. What's the greatest knowledge that you could

ever have?

I mean, I love reading books. My wife knows time

and time.

I mean, my bookshelves get full, I start stacking them up.

I say, ooh, that's a good book. I need to

buy that one. I want to fill myself with knowledge.

But I know that the source of knowledge is the Bible.

I know that that's my flash getting distracted. That's not

the knowledge that we're talking about here. The greatest knowledge

that we could ever have is the knowledge of God.

I mean, what does God really like? Who is he?

Many people ask that question, and many sincere unbelievers. Is

there a God? Does he love me?

What is he like?

And the New Covenant its superiority, says, God will enable

us to know him because he places his law within

our hearts.

It's a law of love. Some people say eternal life.

Every think about that, living forever. I try to fathom

that concept. Can you imagine living for five billion years?

And you're like, huh, We've only just begun.

We think eternal life is this state of consciousness that

never ends. And that's true. But you know what internal

life is. According to the Bible. Go to John seventeen,

verse three.

This is eternal life that they may know you.

Wow, this is eternal life that they may know you.

That's eternal life to know God. And He's placed his law,

his character within our hearts. He's internalized it with us.

That's the beginning of knowing God. Now we will continue

to learn and grow and know God in all of

heaven and all eternity. But to have that intimate knowledge

right there, knowing God, this is eternal life that they

may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ,

whom you have sent. Picking up on that, let's just

take a look at a couple other scripture verses. Look

at first John two, verse three. By this, we know

that we have come to know him. If we keep

his commandments. Of course, if his commandments are written on

our hearts, we would walk in obedience. The one who

says I have come to know him and does not

keep his commandments as a liar, and the truth is

not in him. But whoever keeps his word in him,

the love of God has truly been perfected. By this,

we know that we are in him. The one who

says he abides in him ought himself to walk in

the same manner as he walked. You know, I don't

have the scripture up on the screen or on the monitor.

But Matthew seven, verse twenty one basically says, not everyone

who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom

of heaven. And they'll say, oh, but I prophesied in

your name, But it did miracles in your name. I

cast out demons in your name. And the Lord will

say to this, depart from me. I never knew you,

you who practice lawlessness.

Do you see the connection right there?

Knowing God, loving God, keeping God's commandments.

Walking in obedience.

Again, it's not to earn salvation. We don't buy the

works of the law earn salvation. No, But we now

know God from an internalization. There's one more promise in

the New Covenant.

That I want to share with you.

Hebrews eight, verse twelve, next verse, for I will be

merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins.

Know more. Wow, I really like that.

I mean, I remember terrible sins that I'm deeply shamed

about and guilty about. And God knows them too. But

He's going to never remember them. In fact, he's going to.

Forget them all.

Look at Micahs seven eighteen, who is a god like you,

who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of

the remnant of his possession. He does not retain his

anger forever because he delights in unchanging love. He will

again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities underfoot. Yes,

you will cast all their sins into the depths of

the sea. And did you know in the New Heaven

and New Earth there is no sea. Sins are completely

gone xpiated from the universe. In the New Covenant. You

don't die for your sins. Christ dies for your sins.

Christ does this single all sufficient sacrifice. His blood, his

life is the vital element to redeem you. And forgive you,

and He can sympathize with you and save you forever

if you draw near to Him. And you draw near

to Him into the Heavenly Sanctuary promises God makes a

unilateral covenant with you, provided you receive it by faith.

We receive the New Covenant, a unilateral covenant with you.

The laws not externalized. It's internalized, and it enables us

to know God. Our sins are not only forgiven, they're forgotten.

Members. Our sins no more. That's the superiority of the

New Covenant. That's our journey.

We just crossed over from the Old to the New,

which is the Everlasting Covenant.

Now I want to bring this to a close.

There's one more aspect to the New Covenant that I

didn't address. You see, in the Old Covenant, the sanctuary

had two physical compartments, a holy place and a most

Holy Place, and it was separated by a veil. Now

in the Heavenly Sanctuary, there are no compartments and there

is no veil. But just as there was a holy

placed ministry and a most Holy placed ministry in the

earthly Old Covenant, there is a holy placed ministry and

a most Holy placed ministry in the New Covenant. Now,

I can't prove that to you right now. That's a

Bible study. I can do that with you in a

separate time. But I want to point this out that

that great truth, a holy placed ministry and a most

Holy placed ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary, that was the

truth that established this church. In the early eighteen hundreds,

God led a remnant of his people to cross over

from where Jesus was ministering in the Holy Place to

where he now ministers in the Most Holy Place. Now,

at that time, they thought that Jesus was going to

return to the earth. They studied the time prophecies, and

they were convinced that on October twenty second, eighteen forty four,

Christ would return, And when he didn't, they were bitterly disappointed. However,

God revealed to them that something did happen on that date.

Christ moved from the Holy Placed ministry to the most

Holy Placed ministry. Because it was all about preparing a

people for the second coming of Christ. Now I stand

before you because of that truth. Now I can see

from the Bible. Now I can see from the Bible

and the Bible alone, that God led his people to

this truth. I can see how they crossed over by

the experience, through the historical records and by comparing scripture

with scripture, God is preparing his people for his second coming.

And I'm so grateful for this church.

The faithful teachings of this of the Word of God

has enabled me.

To cross over.

Now I crossed over from living in Babylon to living

in the Beautiful Land. And I'm living in the full

awareness and assurance of the New Covenant and the First, second,

and Third Angel's messages. And I've brought I've been brought

nearer to God in the heavenly Sanctuary than ever before.

Now I'm conceited a first generation Seventh Day Adventist, first generation.

I came to these truths as an adult, and my

wife is also a first.

Generation Seventh Day Adventist.

And you know what scares me a little bit, Maybe

not scares, but it's ever present in my mind. My

daughters are second generation Seventh Day Adventists. They don't know

it yet, but they've crossed over with us. The experience

church life with us. We share the truth with us.

They are experienced, in one sense, the beautiful Land. Now

they need to know that for themselves. For those of

you to know, I have a three and five year old.

I want them to know.

I'm going to teach them, I'm going to show them,

but they have to cross over themselves, and I'll do

everything I can to love them into the kingdom. But

you know, maybe you're a second generation, maybe you're a third,

maybe you're a fourth, maybe a fifth generation, seventh day

in dentist and maybe you might be like the hebrew Christians,

where after the Cross of Christ.

They started to drift.

That's what the Book of Hebrews is all about, bringing

them back to Christ. They may have drifted. Maybe unbelief

might be taking hold in your life. Some even quote

attending church. But I want to encourage you to stay alert,

hold on firmly to the truths that you have, focus

on Jesus, and remain.

Faithful to your calling.

Now I leave you with a quote from my favorite

Theologian Testimonies to the Church is Volume five, page four

fifty five. God has called his church. Now in context,

she's speaking of this church. God has called his church

in this day, as he has called ancient Israel, to

stand as a light in the earth. By the Mighty

Cleaver of truth the messages of the First, second, and

Third Angels. He has separated them from the churches and

from the world to bring them into a sacred nearness

to himself. He has made them the depositaries of his law,

and is committed to them the great truths of prophecy

for this time. Like the Holy Oracles committed to ancient Israel,

these are a sacred.

Trust to be communicated to the world.

The three Angels of Revelation fourteen represent the people who

accept the light of God's message and go forth as

his agents to sound the warning throughout the length and

breadth of the earth. Christ declares to his followers, ye

are the light of the world. To every soul that

accepts Jesus. The Cross of Calvary speaks, behold the worth.

Of the soul.

Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel

to every creature.

You know.

While we're standing, I just want to ask, is there

anyone who needs a special touch from Jesus Christ directly,

anyone who's ready to cross over into the New Covenant.

If you are, I'll be here after you can talk

with us elders and deacons. We can get your name,

or maybe you just need a refresh recommitment to our message,

our first, second, third Angel's message, and take and proclaim

the gospel.

Live the light of Christ. Let's close in prayer, Father God,

I just pray that you would move upon your congregation.

May your Holy Spirit just touch them, comfort them, encourage them.

May we realize, fully realize the superiority of the New Covenant,

that you are the one time sacrifice. Your blood washes

every sins away. We stand on your promise, Lord, that

you would make assure people that you would place your

law within our heart. Bless everyone today, Encourage them In Jesus,

maybe we'd be rooted and grounded and that Christ would

live within us.

In Jesus' name, Amen,