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City of Refuge and the Tent of the body

World Mission Society Church Of God

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  1. Hello, This is Cireh Bria at two forty on March nineteenth,

  2. twenty twenty four, recording a podcast a sermon. I want

  3. to study about the law of the city of refuge

  4. and how it relates to our life on this earth.

  5. Every law on the Old Testament is a shadow. Then

  6. the reality is in the spiritual world, and in the

  7. New Testament we can see its fulfillment. And the Lord

  8. said to Moses saying in number thirty five, verse nine.

  9. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the

  10. people of Israel, and state to them, when you cross

  11. the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then he shall

  12. select cities to be cities of refuge for you. But

  13. the man player who killed any person without intent may

  14. flee there. The city shall be for you a refuge

  15. from the avenger that the man slawyer may not die

  16. in place stands before the Congregation for judgment. So the

  17. cities of refuge were for people that did it without intent,

  18. without unintentional criminals, and they need to stand before the

  19. Congregation for judgment. So we need to know what this means.

  20. And the cities that you shall give shall be for

  21. you six cities of refuge, for anybody who kills without

  22. intent may flee there. But if he struck him down

  23. with an iron object so that he died, he is

  24. a murderer.

  25. That murders shall be put to death.

  26. And he struck him down with a stone tool that

  27. caused death and he died, he is a murderer.

  28. The murderer should be put to death.

  29. Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool

  30. that caused death and he died, he is a murderer.

  31. The murder should be put to death. The avenger of

  32. luchlumsoft put the murderer to death. When he meets him,

  33. he shall put him to death. And if he pushed

  34. him out of hatred, or hurled something at him lying

  35. in wait, so that he died, and m andy struck

  36. him down with his hands so that he died, and

  37. he who struck the blood shall be put to death,

  38. either murderer. The avenger of Blood shall put the murder

  39. to death when he meets him. But if he pushed

  40. him with suddenly without enmity, or held anything on him

  41. without lying and wait, or use the stone that could

  42. cause death without seeing him, dropped it on him so

  43. that he died though he was not his enemy and did.

  44. Not seek his harm.

  45. Then the Congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the

  46. Avenger of Blood in accordance with these rules, And the

  47. Congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hands of the

  48. Avenger of Blood, and the Congregation shall restore him to

  49. the city of refuge to which he had fled, and

  50. he shall live, and to the death of the High

  51. Priest who was anointed with holy oil in.

  52. Verse thirty two.

  53. And you shall accept no ransom for him who has

  54. fled to the city of refuge, that he may return

  55. to dwell on the land.

  56. Before the death of the high priests.

  57. Then only the death of the high priest in the

  58. law of Moses, which is a history that repeats itself

  59. in the spiritual world, the death is the high priests

  60. the only thing that can save an inmate that was

  61. a murderer. So what does it mean standing in congregation

  62. for judgment, no ransom for unintentional murderers, except that the

  63. death of the high priest.

  64. And what is the city? What are these cities of refuge?

  65. So the reality of the high priest and the is

  66. the order of malchisedec. It's the eternal order Romans three,

  67. verse one H. What advantage then, is there being a Jew?

  68. Or what value is there in a circumcision? Much in

  69. every way? First of all, the Jews have been entrusted

  70. with the very words of God.

  71. What if some were unfaithful?

  72. Will the unfaithfulness know if by God's faithfulness not at all?

  73. Let God be true in every human being a liar,

  74. as it is written, So you maybe proved right when

  75. you speak, and prevail when you judge. So we we

  76. have faith in the blood of Christ, that he redeemed

  77. our sins.

  78. By faith.

  79. Abraham, when called to go to a place he would

  80. later receive it as his inheritance, obeying when even though

  81. he did not know where he was going, by faith,

  82. he made it his home and the promised land. Like

  83. a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents,

  84. as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him

  85. of the same promise, for he was looking forward to

  86. the city with foundations whose architect and builder is God.

  87. And by faith by faith, even Sarah, who was past

  88. child bearing age, was enabled to bear children because she

  89. considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so

  90. from this one man, he came who, and he as

  91. good as dead, came to descendants, as numerous as the

  92. stars in the sky, and as countless as it stands

  93. in the seashore. All these people are still living by faith.

  94. When they died, they did not receive the things promised.

  95. They only saw them and welcome them from a distance,

  96. admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People

  97. who say such things show that they are looking forward

  98. to a country of their own. If they had been

  99. thinking of the country they had left, they would have

  100. opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country,

  101. a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not a shame to

  102. be called the God, for he has prepared a city

  103. for them. So it is by faith that we enter

  104. the heavenly country. The Kingdom of Heaven is our hometown.

  105. Then, And what is the earth where we live first?

  106. For we know that it's the earthly tent we live

  107. and is destroyed. We have a building from God, an

  108. eternal health, heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile, we've

  109. grown longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,

  110. because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

  111. For we that are in this tabernacle do grown being burdened,

  112. nor for that we would be unclothed, but clothed up,

  113. that mortality might be swallowed up of life. He now that,

  114. and now he that hath rowed us for the self

  115. same thing. In God, we also have given us the earnest,

  116. earnest of the spirit.

  117. Therefore we are always.

  118. Confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body,

  119. we are absent from God. We walk by faith, not

  120. by sight. We are confident, I say, and I'm willing

  121. rather to be absent from the body and to be

  122. present with the Lord. So the tent of the body

  123. is our earthly tent, our flesh, our body, our earthly

  124. but our earthly nature.

  125. We live in this.

  126. Earth and the body, which is a city of refuge

  127. for our souls. All men are criminals on death row,

  128. who were sentenced to death from having cast down and confined.

  129. What is the secret hidden in the death of the

  130. high priests which please death row prisoners? For you know

  131. that one Peter one, verse eighteen. For you know that

  132. it was not with perishable things such as silver gold

  133. that you were redeemed from the empty way of life

  134. handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the

  135. precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish defect. He

  136. was chosen before the creation of the world, but was

  137. revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him,

  138. you believe in God who raised him from the dead

  139. and glorified him. And so your faith and hope are

  140. in God. Now that you have purified yourself by obeying

  141. the truth that you have sincere love for each other.

  142. Love one another deeply from the heart.

  143. If you have been born again, not of perishable see,

  144. but of imperishable Be the living and enjoying Word of God.

  145. For all people are like grass and all their glories

  146. like the flowers of the field. The grass brothers, and

  147. the flowers fall. But the word of the Lord endures forever.

  148. And this is the word that was preached to you.

  149. So with the precious blood of Christ we are redeemed.

  150. That is the death of the high priests. Is the

  151. precious blood of Christ. For I received from the Lord,

  152. but I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus,

  153. on the night he was betrayed, shook bread. When he

  154. had given things, he broke it and said, this is

  155. my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance

  156. of me. In the same way, also he took the

  157. cup of after supper, saying, this cup is the new

  158. covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you

  159. drink it, and remembrance of me. So we know the

  160. passover is the only way to celebrate the death of

  161. the high priests, that we can go back to a

  162. heavenly country. Consider the people of Israel. Do not those

  163. who eat the sacrifices participate in the altered? Do I

  164. mean that the food sacrifice to an idol is anything,

  165. or then idols anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans

  166. are offered of demons, not to God. And I do

  167. not want you to be participants with demons. You drink,

  168. cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup

  169. of demons too. You cannot have a part in both

  170. the Lord's table and the table of demons. So we

  171. can only we can only believe in the one God

  172. that saves us from our sins, which we know in

  173. this last dage is Christ on song home? And what

  174. is the congregation for judgment that we have to that

  175. we all have to face. Look on Zion, the city

  176. of our festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode,

  177. a tent that will not be moved if staves will

  178. never be pulled up there, any of its rope is broken.

  179. There the Lord will be our mighty one. It will

  180. be a place of broad rivers and streams. No galley

  181. with oars will ride them, no lightyship will ship sail them.

  182. For the Lord is our job. The Lord is our lawgiver,

  183. The Lord is our king. It is he who will

  184. save us. Then only if we come to Zion can

  185. we receive and dwell there till the end. Can we

  186. receive forgiveness of sins, and come and our sins and

  187. all other gods will be judged, so that we can

  188. enter the Kingdom of heaven. And heavenly mother is Jerusalem,

  189. who is the immovable tent. She's in the body, waiting

  190. for her children all to come home. Thank you for listening.