City of Refuge -the Tent of the body where we live on earth

Hello, it's Sarah with the Romans Society Church of God.

I want to study city of refuge and the tent

of the body that we live in on the earth

numbers thirty five, verse nine to thirty. Then the Lord

said to Moses, speak to the Israelites, and say to them,

when you cross the Jordan into Canaan, select some towns

to be your cities of refuge to which a person

who has killed someone accidentally may flee. They will be

places of refuge from the avengers, that anyone accused the

murderer may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.

These six towns you give will be cities of refuge.

Give three on the side of the Jordan and three

in Canaan as cities of refuge. These six towns will

be a place of refuge for Israelites, for foreigners residing

among them, among them, so that anyone who has killed

another accidentally can flee there. If anyone, but it's life

for life. If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with

an iron object, the person is the murder that the

murderer is to be put to death. But if anyone,

without malice, afterthoughts, shoves another or throws something at them

intentionally so that they die. Or if out of mitty

one person hits another with their fists and that the

other die, that person has to be put to death.

That person is a murderer.

But if without enmity, someone suddenly pushes another or throws

something at them unintentionally without seeing them, drops on them

a stone heavy enough to kill them and they die,

then since that person was not an enemy and no

harm was intended, the Assembly must judge between the accusing

the avenger of blood. According to these regulations, the Assembly

must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger

of bloods and they chuse back to the city of

Refuge which they fled. The accus must stay there until

the death of the high priest who was anointed with

holy oil. The accused must stay in the city of refuge.

In verse twenty eight, the accused must stay in the

city of Refuge till the death of the high Priest.

Only after the death of the high Priest may they

return to their own property. Then this is not just

the law of Moses. It's a past, which is a

history that repeats itself and shows the spiritual world.

In Romans, fifteen four.

It is written everything that was written in the past

was written to teach us that through the Endurance and

in the scriptures taught in the scriptures, we might have hope.

So everything, everything taught in the past and the scriptures,

meaning throughout the scriptures the past, meaning in the Old

Testament or New Testament, was written to teach us.

That are here today.

And Ecclesiastes one, verse nine, what has been will be again,

what has been done will be done again. There is

nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which

one can say, Look, there is something new. It was

already here long ago, was here before our time. So

the law of Moses is a is the shadow, and

the reality is found in the law of Christ. In

Deuteronomy twenty nine, verse nine. Carefully follow the terms of

this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.

All of you are standing here, all of you standing today.

All of you are standing today in the presence of

the Lord, your God, your leaders and chief men, your

elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,

together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners

living in the camps who chop your wedding carry your water.

You are standing here in order to enter into a

covenant with the Lord, your God, a covenant the Lord

is making with you this day and stealing with an

oath to confirm to you this day, as his people,

that He may be your God, as you promised and

as He swore to your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I am making this covenant with his oath, not only

with you who are standing here with us today in

the presence of the Lord or God, but also with

those who are not here today. That means the people

that weren't there when God gave the Old Covenant. He's

there for the ones that are here now that weren't

there at the time of the Old covenants. This was

made for us, not just our forefathers of faith. Unintentional

murders can escape their death penalty by the death of

the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.

It's not only a past.

What is written in the Bible in the past is

the history that repeats itself and teaches us who are

alive now. The reality is the spiritual world Hebrews ten

first one. The law is only a shadow of the

good things that are coming. Not the realities himself. For

this reason, it can never buy the same sacrifices, repeated

endlessly year after year, make.

Perfect those who draw in near to worship.

Otherwise would they not have stopped being offered for the worshippers,

but have been cleansed once.

For all, and they no longer felt guilty for their sins.

But those sacrifices, the animal sacrifices, are an animal reminder

of sins.

Is impossible for.

The blood of golds and bulls and goats to take

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

sacrificing offering he did not prepare, But a body you

prepared for me with for offerings and stan offerings. You

were not pleased, Then, I said, Christ said, here I am,

and it is written about me and this girl.

I have come to do your will, my God.

First, he said, sacrifices and offerings were offerings and ston offerings.

He did not desire nor you pleased with them, though

they were offered in accordance with the law.

Then he said, here I am. I have come to

your will.

He sets aside the first covenant to establish a second,

and by that will we have been made holy through

the sacrifice for the body of Jesus Christ, once and

for all. Day by day, every priest stands and performan

says religious duties. Again and again he offers the same sacrifices,

which can never take away sins. But when this priest

had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he said,

up down at the right hand of God, And since

that time waits where his eney has been made his footstool,

for by one sacrifice he had made perfect forever those

who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies

to us about this. First, he says, this is a

covenant I will make with them. After that time, says

the Lord, I'll put my law in their hearts and

write them on their minds. Then he adds the sins

and lawless, as I will remember no more, and whether

where there has been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no

longer necessary. So the old covenant. They continually offer animal sacrifices.

But once we're cleaned with the blood of Christ, that

we don't need him to sacrifice again, because his one

time sacrificing on the cross cleaned our sins once and

for all. He's not going to remember our sins anymore

faith in action Hebrews eleven, verse one to forty. Now

faith is confidence and what we hope for in assurance

about we about what we do not see. This is

what the ancients were commended for. By faith, we understand

that the universe was formed at God's commands, that what

is seen was not made out of what it was visible.

By faith, Able brought God a better offering than Cain did.

By faith, he was commended as righteous when God spoke

well of his offerings. By faith, Able still speaks even

though he is dead. By faith, Enoch was taken from

this life so that he did not experienced death. He

could not be found because God had taken him away,

for before he was taken he was commended as one

who pleased God. And without faith is impossible to please God,

because anyone who comes to him must believe that he

exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him

by faith. Noah, when warned about things not yet seen

and holy fear, built an arch to save his family.

By his faith, he condemned the world and became heir

of the righteousness.

That is keeping with faith by faith.

Abraham when he called to go to a place he

would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even

though he did not know where he was going. By faith,

he made his home in the promise land, like strangers

in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as at

Isaac and Jacob, who were errors with him at the

same promise. For he was looking forward to the city

with foundations whose architect and build her as God. And

by faith even Saa, who his past child bearing age,

was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful

who had made the promise. And so from this one man,

as good as as he, as good as dead, Abraham

came to send us as numerous as the stars of

the sky, and as callous as a stand on the

sea shirt. All these people were so living by faith.

When they died, they did not receive the things promise.

They only saw them and welcomed them from a distance

of anything, that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.

People who say such things show that they are looking

for a country of their own. If they have been

thinking of the country they had left, they would have

opportunity to return, and said they were longing for a

better country, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not a

shame to be called their god, for He has prepared a.

City for them.

Hometown of mankind is the heavenly country the earth where

we live in the body is the tent, is the

city of refuge. The tent of the body is a

city of refuge for our souls. All men are criminals

on death row, who are sentenced to death from heaven

to the earth and confined to the body. What is

the secret hidden in the death of the high priest

who flees death row prisoners. Let's see before we see

the secret of the death of the high priest which

flees the death row prisoners, Let's confirm that this body

we are living in is is the city. This is

a prison, is a city of refuge for our souls.

Roman seven twenty four Apostle Paul wrote, what a wretched

man I am, who will rent asking me from this

body that is subject to death. He was a slave

to the law of sin and death until he learned

about Christ. Then he became a slave to God's law.

But if we follow our sinful nature, we are slaves

to the law of sin in our body. The law

of sin and death two Corinthians five, Verse one to ten,

awaiting the new body.

For we know of that this earthly tent we live

in it is destroyed.

We have a building from God and an eternal house

in heaven, not built by human hands. So this tent,

that this earthly tent that means the body we live in,

is when it's destroyed. We have a building from God

in an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile,

we grown when we're in the body, be grown longing

to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when

we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For

while we are in this tent, we've grown in our burden,

because we do not wish to be unclothed, but to

be clothed and stead we our heavenly dwelling, so that

what is mortal may be swallowed.

Up by life.

So the tent of the body is mortal. In verse six.

Therefore we are always confident. We know that it as

long as we are at home in the body, we

are away from the Lord.

We live by faith, not by sight.

So we make it our goal to pleating whether we

are at home in the body or away from it.

We must all appear before the judgment seat of price,

that each of us may receive what is due for

the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

So we can see the tent of the body. Apostle

Paul was describing it, and Second Corinthians five, verse one

to ten. Yeah, we just read that. And then one

Peter one, verse eighteen to twenty five. First Peter one,

verse eighteen to twenty five. For we know, for you

know that it was not with perishable things such as silver,

gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of

life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with

the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

So it was not with physical golds on this earth

that we were redeemed from the empty way of life

hand downs from our ancestors.

The people who keep.

The Law of Moses, the earthly Israelites, receive physical blessings

for keeping the physical law of Moses, but we receive

heavenly blessings for receiving for following the law of Christ.

He was chosen before the creation of the world, but

was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through Him,

you believe in God who was raised from the dead

and glorified Him. So your faith and hope are in God.

Now that you have purified yourself selves by obeying the truth,

do you have sincere love for each other, Love going

another deeply from the heart. For you have been born again,

not a perishable steed, but the imperishable.

Through the living and enduring Word of God.

All people are like grass and their glories, like the

flowers of the fields. The grass brothers, and the flowers fall.

But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this

is the word that was preach to you. So only

through the precious blood of Christ can we be redeemed

from the body of sin and death and return to

our home, the city of refuge, our home, the heavenly country.

This earth is the city of refuge, where we dwell

in a prison in the body, because we sinned in heaven,

and we're driven out of heaven as murderers to this earth.

But if we are forgiven through the past over by

the death of the High Priests, and receive his blood,

we can return to our heavenly country and escape that.

Thank you,