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Our Hometown Mankind has Forgotten

World Mission Society Church Of God

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  1. Hello, This is Cirebria from the World Mission Society, Church

  2. of God, recording cities of refuge and the Earth. So

  3. we go to Numbers, chapter thirty five, verse nine, And

  4. the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, speak to the people

  5. of Israel, and say to them, when you cross the

  6. Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall select

  7. cities to be cities of refuge for you. Then the

  8. man slayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.

  9. The city shall be for you a refuge from the avenger.

  10. That the man slayer may not die until he stands

  11. before the Congregation for judgment. And the cities that you

  12. give shall be for you, shall be your six cities

  13. of refuge. You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan,

  14. and three cities in the land of Canaan to be

  15. cities of refuge.

  16. These six cities shall.

  17. Be for refuge for the people of Israel and the stranger,

  18. and for the sojourner among them. That anyone who kills

  19. any person without intent may flee there.

  20. But if he struck him down.

  21. With an iron object so that he died, he is

  22. a murderer. That murderer shall be put to death. And

  23. if he struck him down with a stone tool that

  24. could cause death and he died, he is a murderer.

  25. The murderer shall be put to death. Or if he

  26. struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause

  27. death and he died, he's a murderer. That murderer shall

  28. be put to death. The Avenger of Blood shall himself

  29. put the murderer to death.

  30. When he meets him.

  31. He shall put him to death. And if he pushes

  32. him out of hatred, or hurld something at him, lying

  33. in wait, so that he died, or an ms him

  34. down with his hands that he died, then he who

  35. struck the blow shall it be put to death. He

  36. is a murderer. The Avenger of Blood shall put the

  37. murderer to death when he meets him. But if he

  38. pushed him suddenly without enmity, or held anything on him

  39. without lying, and we use a stone that could cause death,

  40. and without seeing him, dropped it on him so that

  41. he died, though he was not his enemy and did

  42. not seek his harm, then the congregation shall judge between

  43. the man slator and the Avenger of Blood, and accordance

  44. with these rules, and the Congregation shall rescue the manslayer

  45. from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the

  46. congregation shall restore him to the city of refuge to

  47. which he had fled, and he shall live in it

  48. until the death of the High Priest who was anointed

  49. with Holy oil. So he's talking about the city of

  50. Refuge and intentional and unintentional murderers fleeing there. And the

  51. unintentional was the only one that had a chance to

  52. be freed from the city of refuge by the death

  53. of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.

  54. So only by the death priest, the death of the

  55. high priest who was anointed with holy oil, could the

  56. man slayer or murderer be freed from the city of Refuge.

  57. So this appears in the law of this system of

  58. the unintentional murderers. The difference between unintentional intentional murderers is

  59. the intentional murderers must be put to death.

  60. It's life for life.

  61. God made the law of this year of refuge for

  62. unintentional murderers, not just the law of Moses.

  63. This is a This is a.

  64. Prophecy about the earth, the city of refuge in the earth,

  65. the city of refuge represents the earth where we dwell,

  66. where there is intentional and unintentional.

  67. Murderers.

  68. But the intentional murderers have no choice but to be

  69. put to death by the avenger of blood. But the

  70. intentional murderers can be freed from their death by the

  71. death of the High Priest who was anointed with holy oil.

  72. No bail can release the prisoners. There's no amount of

  73. money that could take the prison anders out of jail.

  74. Then how long is the jail time for people in

  75. the city of Refuge? It depends on the death of

  76. the High priests. Sinners in the law had to stay

  77. in the City of Refuge until the death of the

  78. High Priest. So we need to understand the reality of

  79. the city of Refuge, and where is our hometown?

  80. If this is a dwelling place.

  81. Where our bodies dwell temporarily, then where's our hometown? Who

  82. is the high priest and who is the sinner for

  83. whom the death the high priests sacrifice for So we

  84. need to find out the answers to this. This is

  85. a shadow, Then where can we find the reality? This

  86. is a show, it's history that repeats itself, and it's

  87. also a reality of the spiritual world Hebrews ten, verse.

  88. One to eighteen.

  89. For since the law has been a shadow of the

  90. good things to come, so the law is a shadow

  91. of the good things to come, instead of the true

  92. form of these realities. It can never, by the same

  93. sacrifices that are continued offer a year after year make

  94. perfect those who draw near.

  95. Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered.

  96. Since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, will no longer

  97. have any conscience, consciousness, conscious consciousness of sins. But in

  98. these sacrifices there is a reminder of since every year

  99. possible for the blood of bulls and golds to take

  100. away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,

  101. sacrifices and burnt offerings you have not desired, but a

  102. body you have prepared for me. In burnt offerings and

  103. sin offerings, you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, behold,

  104. I have come to do your will of God, as

  105. it is written of me in the scroll.

  106. Of the book.

  107. When he said above, when he said above, you have

  108. neither desired nor taken pleasure In sacrifices and offerings, and

  109. burnt offerings and sin offerings. These are offered in accordance

  110. with the law, which we know is a shadow. Then

  111. he added, behold, I have come to do your will.

  112. He does away with the first in order to establish

  113. the second, and by that will we have in sanctified

  114. through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once

  115. for all, and every high priest stands daily at his service,

  116. offering repeatedly the same sacrifices.

  117. Which can never take away for sins.

  118. But when Christ has offered for all time a single

  119. sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand

  120. of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should

  121. be made a footool for his feet. For by a

  122. single offering he has perfected for all those for all time,

  123. those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also

  124. bears witness to us for us. After saying, this is

  125. a covenant that I will make with them after those days,

  126. declares the Lord, I will put my laws on their

  127. hearts and write them in their minds. Then he adds,

  128. I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.

  129. Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no.

  130. Longer any offering for sins.

  131. So God writes the law of the New Covenant on

  132. our hearts and minds to forgive our sins. So it's

  133. not it's only by the body of Christ the death

  134. of the High Priest that prisoners on the earth murderers,

  135. unintentional murderers can receive forgiveness of sins and returned to

  136. their homeland.

  137. Hebrews eleven eight to seventeen.

  138. By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go

  139. out to a place that he was to receive as

  140. an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he

  141. was going. By faith, he went to live in the

  142. land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in

  143. tents with Isaac and Jacob airs with him of the

  144. same promise. For if he was looking forward to the

  145. city that the foundations whose designer and build her as God.

  146. By faith, Sarah herself receives power to conceive, even when

  147. she was past the age, and she considered him faithful,

  148. who had promised. Therefore from one man and him as good,

  149. from one man, and him as good as dead, were

  150. born descendants, as many as the stars of having, and

  151. many as the innumerable gret of the stand by the seashore.

  152. These all died in faith, not having received the things promised,

  153. but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and

  154. having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

  155. The people who speak thus make it clear that they

  156. are seeking a homeland. If they have been thinking of

  157. the land from which they had gone out, they would

  158. have had the opportunity to return. But as it is,

  159. they desire a better country, that is a heavenly one. Therefore,

  160. God is not a shame to be called their god,

  161. for he has prepared a city for them. So the

  162. hometown of mankind is the heavenly country. The earth, where

  163. we live in this body, is a city of refuge

  164. for our souls.

  165. It is a prison.

  166. All men are criminals on death row, who were sentenced

  167. to death from heaven, passed down to earth and confined.

  168. Then what is the secret hidden in the death of

  169. the high priests that flees death row prisoners?

  170. First Peter one, verse eighteen.

  171. Knowing d which states knowing that you were ransom from

  172. the feudal way inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable

  173. things such as silver or gold, but with the precious

  174. blood of Christ, like that of a lamb, without blemish

  175. or spy. He was borne on before the foundation of

  176. the world, but was mad made manifest in the last

  177. times for the sake of you, who, through him are

  178. believers in God, who raised him from the dead and

  179. gave him glory. So that your faith and hope is

  180. in God, having purified your souls by.

  181. Your obedience to the truth.

  182. For since youre brotherly, love, love one another earnestly from

  183. a pure heart, since you have been born again, not

  184. of perishable seed, but of imperishable seed, through the living.

  185. And abiding Word of God.

  186. For all flesh is like grass in all its glory,

  187. like the flower of grass. The grass weather's and the

  188. flowers fall. But the word of the Lord remains forever.

  189. And this is the word. This word is the good

  190. news that was preached to you. So what what we

  191. preached about. We were preached about the blood of Christ.

  192. It's not with money, silver, or gold, anything like that

  193. that we could be redeemed from this empty way of life.

  194. It is only with the precious blood of Christ Ephesians one,

  195. verse seven. In Him we have redemption through his blood

  196. spiritual blessings in Christ. In Christ we have redemption through

  197. His blood. The forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the

  198. riches of His grace, which he lavished upon us in

  199. all wisdom and insight, making known to us the mystery

  200. of His will, according to his purpose, which he set

  201. forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time,

  202. seen all things in Him, things in heaven and things

  203. on earth. So we have only forgiveness, only redemption through

  204. His blood, the forgiveness of our sins. So all the

  205. sacrifices presented as sin offerings in the shadow in the law,

  206. but even in the law, the passover was the way,

  207. was the way to socri vice lambs.

  208. But Christ came as.

  209. Our passed over lamb, so we could inherit the flesh

  210. and blood of God, who judges all other gods, and

  211. disasters pass over us. And so through only through the

  212. passover can we received protection from disasters. Escape this, escape

  213. the judgment on the city of refuge, and returned to

  214. our hometown, the Kingdom of Heaven. I hope you received

  215. the truth through this message, and God bless you.