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If the Bible is only one ,
How many truths exist ??
How many ??
Only one.
and why are there so many religions?
If the Bible is only one and only one truth, Why does so many religions?
How are we saved since the death of Jesus through here?
We are saved by the grace through faith.
Let's say it everybody together
for encouragement and get in tune .
Saved by the Grace.
Let's we say so : We are saved by the grace through the faith in Jesus Christ.
Lets say it together??
We are saved by the grace through faith in Jesus Christ our Lord.. Amen!!
When it forth??
Since when??
Since when sin entered into?
but you never heard someone say:
We are saved by the faith or by the grace in the New Testament
and in the Old testament were saved by the Law ??
never heard that ?
have heard someone saying that :
No, was in the old testament that was saved by the law,
Now we are saved by the grace.
we are saved by grace now or was in the Old Testament by the law?
both ??
was by the law in the Old and now by the grace??
Have you doubts??
I have to speak with you today something that fills my soul with joy
that makes me so very very excited
As you guys have a term here called : excited, is in it??
this makes me so excited !!
crazy for Jesus
When I open the Bible upon these texts that we will read today
and I want to invite you to stay with the bible in hand
Let's start in Genesis chapter 3 in verse 21
Do you know what book of the Bible that I like the most?
this is Genesis
If you have ever watched a bit of "Clamor of Midnight" I say it several times.
Genesis to me is a great big book of revelations!!
In chapter 3 Verse 21
we find a statement like this:
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Only that this little verse has a lot of revelations,
has a lot of light on it, much of it inserted
When Does God made this garment of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them?
Soon after, soon after sin
Adam and Eve had received instructions from God to be safe inside the Garden
God had done for them a world, a whole planet, and in that planet he planted a garden in Eden
and planting this garden in Eden especially for them to live as couple's home
God gave man authority over everything. We'll see this later
but when sin entered, the bible says Adam and Eve made for themselves,
they realized they were naked, and here is a tremendous thing
the conversation between Eve and the serpent, between the serpent and Eve,
pay attention to this as described here the conversation between Eve and the serpent
In chapter 3 verse 1 says:
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made:
and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Satan used the serpent as a medium, seized her, and he began to talk
and the biggest mistake of Eve, the woman, was start talking
was starting to talk and argue with the snake, thinking she could defend God
none of us is authorized to enter into a biblical debate with anyone
and I usually say this: if you go talk to someone who likes to debate the Bible
You know, there are people who like to discuss the Bible,
if you go talk to people like that, if meddling discussing the bible
what you should never do
Look and listen if the person has a bible like this
never enter into debate with that person.
Never... Do you know why?
It is very heavy !!!
and if the person decides to hit you with a bible in your head
It will hurt a lot !!
because there are people capable of beating each other on the head with the Bible
discuss the Bible is something ignorant
there is no such thing
if someone wants to study the Bible together, in a spirit of prayer
and the two are open to hear the voice of God through the word, then yes,
but bible debate, I will defend my religion and you yours
Eve has come into debate with the devil, with the serpent,
she was defending God.
Now, look what the serpent said to them:
In Verse 5 said to her :
for God knows that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened
and as God, you guys will be knowing good and evil
First, the serpent is saying :
that her eyes would be opened
that means :
this means that the serpent was saying that her eyes at that moment
before sin, the serpent was saying :
your eyes are closed today !!
and your eyes will open, you are blind today, but you will see,
you will be like God, and the serpent said :
you will be knowledgeable of good and evil.
the devil is always very clever. He mixes truth with lies and falsehood with truth,
he never lets you know the meaning of lying
He only lets you know the meaning of lie after you're already in the mire of sin.
Then he can show you clearly the lie and you will follow it, because you belong to him,
but when you are with God or if You are undecided, he mixes truth with lies,
Because really, he could say :
your eyes, which are closed today,
Was it true or false, that their eyes were closed?
lie ?
True or false ??
was partially true!!
because he should have said : the eyes of you that are closed today for evil,
they will open up to evil, and you guys will be knowledgeable of evil
that was the truth.
But he said : Your eyes, which are closed today,
will open for you guys to be equal to God and you guys will be knowing good and evil,
The well, they already knew
he mixed truth with falsehood, falsehood with truth, with good thing bad thing
He always do that..
Look, the confirmation of that is here,
verse 7, And the eyes of them both were opened ( she sinned and ate of the fruit )
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
The Bible is confirming, Moses, inspired by the spirit of God
is confirming saying so : Their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked,
Their eyes were opened to what?
for evil, for sin
and you begin to get a clear view of the following :
Before sin, their eyes were opened to the well,
into the spiritual world, into the presence of God and angels.
and they could see God, they could see the angels,
they had a daily meeting with God directly, they spoke with him face to face,
they sang to God face to face, they praised God, face to face
They received the physical presence of God
but they could not see the evil, because God protected them from seeing it,
Because evil is not good, he's bad
but when they sinned, their eyes were opened to evil and sin
And closed for good and the spiritual world
That's why today you don't see the spiritual world.
Can you?? Can you see??
The word of God says, for example, that Jesus cast seven demons from a woman
He cast out of one Gergesene, a legion of demons
and you will surely pass on the street and have people who have one, two, three, ten demons,
a legion of demons.
And God does not let us see it today
otherwise we would go crazy
Ever thought you walking down the street and seeing that pile of demons
There is a bloody spiritual war , happening right now, here.
There is a spiritual war bloody, happening right now, here.
The angels of the Lord, the angels of the enemy
The Spirit of God, the Spirit of the devil
They are fighting with you, and for you!!
and they're all here,
while the spirit of God is trying to talk to you, Satan is also trying to disrupt everything
putting things and creating feelings in your mind.
And all the time when you are out there this bloody war happens
in you..
And that's why I need to be always connected with God all the time
Look at the scene that God describes :
How does Satan surrounds us?
because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
He is saying that the enemy does not give rest to you.
He is walking around, roaring like a lion trying to devour you
Now, how Does God work with us in the spiritual world?
How does he act?
Have you read :
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising,
Does he know?
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
And now I can understand why that Satan is walking around me,
roaring like a lion trying to devour me.
It is because God builds a protective shield while I'm connected to Him
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
It's like that !!
That is why, the longer you are connected with God, you will be protected,
if you disconnect, the alarm goes off and he comes.
He enters subtle, sneaky, he eludes you
It puts you in wicked feelings
you cling to those feelings, and it causes situations,
The Lord God, he seeks to bring you, he tries to reach you
It seeks to achieve your heart and soul, all the time.
and then the Lord comes, Adam flees,
and God does in place of clothes of fig leaves,
then the Lord does what?
Clothes, Is it done from what?
garments of skins, skin of what ? skins of Lamb is what the Bible says.
Interesting, is in it?
Then once I was giving a lecture to a group of young people from my church,
and we were talking about clothes, apparel,
and than, I was talking about sizes of clothes, lengths
and than one girl so young said:
Pastor, then Eve must have used a very short clothes!
What leads you to think that?
It is because the Bible says that God, He killed a lamb
to dress them up.
Both were huge, a lamb to make clothes for them, the clothes had to be very short !!
And most interesting is that you can read in the bible and it's in the plural
Skins of sheep or Skin of lambs
It's what says there!
I mean, even that it leads us to understand
was not only a lamb, but the Lord God, when sin entered,
And I like it, I see, I see, in my mind
I like to meditate on God's word, and I visualize Adam, soon after sin feeling insecure,
If ever in your life you felt at peace with God, If at any time you felt your sustained by God,
when you made peace with God, or when you lived guided by the Spirit
that wonderful feeling that invades your heart
Adam and Eve felt it, and more than that all the time.
So thats why when for the first time in life they felt unsafe, that was terrible for them,
They felt insecure, they felt fear, trembling.
Feelings which they were not used to it,
Adam shook, he had sinned
he was feeling insecure, completely insecure.
And God said to him: Adam, gets there that little lamb,
and Adam took the little Lamb.
Adam had given the name of each animal,
He loved every animal
And God said, take that piece of sharp stick and smite the neck of the little lamb.
Adam with his hand trembling, He had never felt that !!
And he was sweating.
And then he smote the lamb's neck with the stick,
And started gushing blood.
And Adam saw the lamb's blood flowing, and ending his life,
And Adam embraced the lamb, and wept as if wanting to restore life to the lamb.
And when the lamb has expired, gave his last breath,
Adam held the lamb, covered with blood, sweat and tear,
He looked at God and said : I killed the lamb.
And God said to Adam, no, you killed me!
I am the lamb who takes away the sin of the world.
I'll die in your place, Adam.
I.
Your sin has killed God, so that you can stay alive.
The lamb.. is the gospel of the Old Testament.
The Lamb announces salvation by grace, through faith, in the Old Testament.
And if you, at some point in your life, ever heard someone,
Sorry for the term.
Hallucinately.......Crazily...
say that the Old Testament no longer fits, only the New Testament is in effect.
Oh my God!!
Jesus said: Never, ever. The world may pass, but will not pass any one jot and tittle of my law.
of my word, nothing will pass.
nothing, till all be fulfilled!
Everything has to be fulfilled.
The Bible is a whole.
2Timothy 3 : 16 says : All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable,
All scripture. Is the whole bible.
The little lamb was the gospel of grace in the Old Testament.
Do not forget this ever again!
Therefore, those who killed the little lamb,
they were the evangelists of the Old Testament.
And then you begin to look a tremendous situation,
because shortly thereafter, we will follow here in Genesis 4, the following:
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain
and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Verse 3 : And in process of time it came to pass,
that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
I always read it when I was a kid, when I was young,
and I was like, I thought, poor Cain. Why so much upon Cain?
Look here, Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
Cain was a farmer, he brought the best he had for the Lord
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
And Cain was very angry, but it is logical, because if I brought my best for God.
I'm Farmer, and I took the best offer I had, what was best, and I brought God.
And my brother, who is pastor of sheep, brought the best out of it!
why God was pleased with him and was not pleased with the other?
Tell me !!
Tell me !!
God had ordered the lamb. Why? It may be because he is so very temperamental?
Why ??
It is because there is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood !!
The man had to understand that God was going to die,
That's why God taught the way.
And that's why my friends are there so many religions.
Do you know why?
God puts in the word, what He wants from you and me,
Are you paying attention to what I'm saying?
God says so, I'm teaching, the way to save is thus
I want you to do like this,
But then I say this:
No, but God is so good, and I'm doing my best to God,
You know !!
Let's suppose God had said like this :
My color is Blue !!
and there would have a lot of people who would say :
But Lord, the red signifies the blood of Christ !!
The Lord is asking the blue, but I'll use the Red, which means the blood of Christ.
Lord, It is with every good intention
It is with all my good will !! Does the Lord accept the red?
But why are you wanting to use the red, the color he asks, is blue ?
God says no!!
God in his word determines what he expects from you and me
what to do for him.
The Lord determines exactly what I should believe, what I should stop believing,
And why do I want to switch things of God?
And when God says: My day is Saturday and someone says, for I will give the Sunday!
It's simple!
When God says something, when God says yes, do not say no
when God says no, don't say yes.
Do not try to say, but it's my best. It's my way.
Ah, it's true. It is your way. It is not God's way !!!
It's your way ..
Look what God said to Cain
Look what's he says in verse 7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
God is saying to Cain, You must control yourself or you will die in your sin.
Self control, he said to Cain. And most amazing is
that, starting from there
Cain, kills Abel
Because when God rebukes a person with a good heart
and that person loves Him,
When someone is reprimanded, and this person longs to God,
he grows spiritually
But when God rebukes someone who does not love Him,
that person turns away from God,
and sometimes that person rebels against God.
Because the wise, with the rebuke becomes wiser,
And the ignorant, with the rebuke he becomes even more ignorant.
It's like that.
The wise accepts the rebuke, The ignorant, crazy, no.
That is why the Lord works this way.
Now get this. Cain turned away from God,
In place of Abel, Seth is born.
The other son of Adam
Moreover, let me pose a question to you guys,
Born two, one died, Seth was born, how many were left?
It was easy, right?
It was easy because I told history ..
And you will see that the Bible calls the descendants of Cain
Of the sons of Man.
And the descendants of Abel: the Children of God
Have You seen it?
HaveYou ever noticed that in the Bible, or Not ?
Have you noticed, or not?
Was well separated so
And Cain went and dwelt in the land of Nod,
And there are people .... I can not take much, I can not be giving much detail,
But I like these details,
Because there are people who say so: but how is that Cain went to the land of Nod
They said that there he married, and had sons and daughters,
If only there were Cain and Abel. And He killed Abel,
And went to the land of Nod. How was he married?
I'll tell a history pretty quickly for you guys.
When I was fifteen, I went to Sorocaba - SP, met Marysel
married her and we had three children
Did You understand that, with fifteen years I have had three children ?
Humm!!
Of course not!
So why do you understand that Cain married in the Land of Nod when he got there?
Cain lived over nine hundred years.
He had time to go back to get a woman, to go there, and everythig !!
He had plenty of time!
So please, do not confuse the things of God, which are simple.
Because sometimes you question, how was he married whom?
now, back in our history,
Let's separate things: Children of Men,
and the Children of God, the descendants of Seth
They were the evangelists of the Old Testament.
They kept sacrificing lambs,
and the others, not.
And then, the big problem happened,
Just before the Flood
For, according to the Bible, what happened before the Flood?
Seing, Genesis 6
verse 1 : And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them,
Seeing the children of God, that the daughters of men,
Aha, who are the children of God?
Descendants of Seth
And the children of men, descendants of ... Cain
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man
for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
And then came the Flood
Everything was going well, until again, Satan has infiltrated
It was a strategy..
What Did he do??
He gathered the good with the bad
Truth with falsehood, good with the bad
mixed the two
and now the human race once and for all
at once, degenerated spiritually.
Now, see what happens soon after the flood, when Noah leaves the ark.
Genesis 8 verse 18 onwards :
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth,
after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD;
and what did he do??
and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Noah was a what?
He was an evangelist of the Old Testament!
Let's say it again !!
Noah was an evangelist of the Old Testament!
Salvation by grace,
We kill the lamb here, and that means that Jesus will die
And what I am doing to save me? nothing!
I'm believing that Jesus will save me,
God will become a man. It is the gospel according to Grace
In the Old Testament.
This also happened with Abraham!
Abraham also killed the lambs, he also built altars,
This also happened with Jacob!
And you will see Abraham and Jacob, building their altars
Until the people was taken to Egypt as slaves.
And the people stopped sacrificing
and evangelize
talk about salvation
But God was there and pulled the people out of Egypt
And there in the middle of the desert,
after four hundred years of slavery in Egypt
What Did God say to Moses?
What Did God say??
First, who the lamb represented?
Who ??
Jesus !! Very well !!
The lamb represented Jesus.
Exodus, chapter 25,
How long did that they not kill lambs?
Four Hundreds Years..
Four hundred years of slavery in Egypt
and the lamb was not slain anymore
and the gospel was not preached
And the Lord God in Exodus 25: 8 says:
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
What Did God ask them to do?
A Sanctuary. Do you remember what was in that sanctuary?
Look, pay attention to what I say,
Do not sleep. I know that many of these things you already knew,
but do not be thinking about it
watch where we'll get
Because God has lots of light and enlightenment to you, tonight
Open your eyes, open your ears,
So far, God had revealed a bit of himself,
It's amazing how God deals with human being !!
Have you gave for a baby one year old, a pasta??
What about eight months ??
five months ??
The younger, is even worse. Is in it??
That is why, in the history of mankind, God could not reveal itself all at once.
God was revealing Himself, gradually.
and pay attention:
You will find much in the writings,
The word "The present truth"
You know what "The present truth" means ?
Is the portion of light of God's revelation to this day,
Or for those days, which we live.
What is "present truth" today,
many before, did not know existed
before the desert, the people knew only one aspect of God
which was what?
God is the..
God is the... of the Savior God ?
The Lamb !!!
God is the Lamb who came to die in the place of man
God had already revealed that.
Within the plan of salvation, he knew only one aspect.
God is the... (let's say it with me)..
God is the Lamb. This is the Gospel !!!
In the sanctuary, now had:
First, when you entered the sanctuary
in fact, you could not enter, is in it ??
You could only go up in the yard!
I'll enter the sanctuary,
Let's pretend that the Church is the Sanctuary
So when we enter, this place here is the patio of Sanctuary.
Here, in the patio of the sanctuary,
Humm.. let's do it different..
The patio will be out here,
The sinner, in that place, was only allowed to enter up to here,
Do You know what it had here?
Back there, had an altar of sacrifice
for what, Does the altar of sacrifices was used ??
To slay the lamb.
And afterward, it had, before entering the sanctuary, a Sink
where the priest washed himself.
and then, here, when he entered the holy place
And the Holy place, begins in this glass door
and ends at the beginning of that staircase.
What was on the right side of the holy place?
was a table with twelve loaves.
What we had in the middle?
An altar of incense, very close to the veil.
Which, separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy
and what we had on the other side?
A candlestick with seven lamps.
Who, each of these furniture represent?
Who ??
Are you Sure ??
The table represented Jesus,
because there was twelve shewbread.
And He says, I am the bread of life.
The candlestick represented the Lord Jesus, because he had seven lamps
And He, through his spirit, says:
I am the light of the world!
and what Did the altar of incense meant ??
It ... What ??
I want to hear
It represented the intercession of the Lord Jesus
leading the prayers of the saints,
who were outside, in the courtyard, praying
And he took before God.
But inside the sanctuary we had another character,
a human character. Who was it?
The High Priest. Only he could get into that place, which was the Most Holy Place.
Only he could get into that place,
How many times in the year?
Once a year.
The High Priest killed lamb out there,
brought the blood of the lamb and placed before the altar
Once a year, he had to purify himself or he would be killed,
Here was the ark of the covenant
The ark of the covenant
On one side of the Ark, a cherub gold
On the other side, another cherub gold
And the two wings meeting up here
and a light came out here from the middle
It was the physical presence of God in there.
It had no chandelier, had no oil, had no fuel
This light was produced by God,
The name of this light was Shekinah
And that light manifested itself here
And the high priest came before the physical presence of God
The High Priest represented the Lord Jesus.
which, intercedes for mankind.
We have only one intercessor
Who is our intercessor??
The Lord Jesus Christ
Besides Jesus, There is no man born into this world,
who intercedes for us.
Can you understand that??
No other man or woman
or the mother of Jesus, nor the Apostle Paul, nor the Apostle Peter,
Besides Jesus, No one can intercede for you in heaven,
He is the High Priest ..
He is Our High Priest..
Now, God was revealing new facets of himself, for humans.
God was saying, I am the lamb
I am the Light of the World..
I Am the Bread of Life. I am the Intercessor
I am the High Priest.
Jesus was revealing His other faces
and also others, for the salvation of the human
and then the gospel continued to be preached
Salvation by Grace,
If you have any doubt that all this represented Salvation by Grace
In the Old Testament
Take note, Hebrews 11, read it later, the hall of faith
And you will read there: By faith Abraham was saved
Samson was saved, by faith Jacob,
You will see that in the Old Testament, no one was saved by the law,
They were all saved by faith. all of them !!
By Grace through faith,
Salvation by grace in the Old Testament
This sanctuary of Israel. It was God, approaching the man
God was wanting to get close to the Men,
Because God said so: and let them make me a sanctuary
that I may dwell among them.
It was God trying to get close to the people.
But God, the light and His glory was so intense,
And he dwelt in the Sanctuary.
This is the only sanctuary that exists throughout the Universe
Yes or Not ??
No ??
Is there another??
What Sanctuary ??
In heaven ??
A Sanctuary equal to the earth?
Let's read Hebrews ..
Pay attention, do not be thinking that you already know this story,
You know nothing !!
Pay attention, you know nothing. You will find out today.
I will tell you..
The spirit is revealing.
Hebrews 4, verse 14 onwards
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God
let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities;
but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Chapter 7, verse 23 onwards
And They, ( here He is talking about the Priests of the Earth),
And they truly were many priests,
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
Paul is explaining here, the following:
Look, the priests who were in Israel
They did not continue the ministry of them because they died..
So, they were prevented by death from continuing their ministry.
Verse 24, Now he talks about Jesus,
But this man, because he continueth ever,
hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Wherefore, (If you by chance not find, write the text,
but please do not miss the explanation,
Otherwise you'll be looking for the text, and will miss the explanation
But this man, because he continueth ever,
hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,
seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Chapter 8, verse 1
Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum:
We have such an high priest,
who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty. Where??
Wait a minuet..He is saying that our High Priest set on the right hand of
What Does it say in your bible? on the right of ??
of the throne. on the right of the ??
I want to hear that word from your mouth
who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
What it is saying is : JESUS is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Pay attention on that,
It's why I made you repeat this word
As minister of the sanctuary,
and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Wait a minute, here is saying that he is A minister of the sanctuary
and of the true tabernacle, ie the true, original
This from Earth, was it only??
One copy of the Sanctuary of heaven ..
That God pitched, and not man ..
because, who does buit this here on Earth??
Moses, with the people of Israel
Up there, who does build that Sanctuary ??
Who, Did built it there??
GOD.
Verse 5 : Who.., (He is again speaking of the priests of the earth!)
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things,
as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle:
for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern
shewed to thee in the mount.
Look that, God is saying through Paul :
Look, when God told Moses to build the Sanctuary
God showed Moses Shrine of Heaven and he saw it
and God said, ye see? This is the model,
now builds, and Moses, built the same as the Shrine of Heaven
the same model as the heaven.
Now, verse 6 : But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry,
by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant,
which was established upon better promises.
This is the last passage in Hebrews that I'll read, let's read Hebrews 9: 23
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens
What was the pictures of what is in heaven?
The Sanctuary of Earth!
and all figures that were in the Shrine of the earth
were figures of things which are in heaven.
should be purified with these, the sacrifices which happen there.
but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Do you understand that??
He is saiyng this : look, that sacrifice was to purify the thing of Earth,
but the heavenly things had to purify themselves
with sacrifices greater than this.
The lamb's blood cleansed the Earth Shrine.
But the sanctuary of heaven can not be cleansed with the blood of the Lamb.
Must be cleansed with the blood of Jesus.
He is the true Lamb, represented by such lambs.
Verse 24 : For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God for us:
clearer than that, it is impossible
It says that Jesus is the High Priest in the sanctuary of heaven
wow!!
So, we have a sanctuary on earth (rather, had)
and also happened to have a sanctuary in heaven, or had,
No, wait a minute, no, came into existence? no, because ..
If the Earth's sanctuary was built based on the sanctuary of heaven
Which existed first? the one on Earth or the one in Heaven?
Which Sanctuary existed before?
The one in heaven.
What He is saying is that :
The heavenly sanctuary existed since when?
Someone says : Since the foundation of the world,
others say after the foundation of the world.
I want you to read with me,
Isaiah chapter 14
Let's go to Isaiah chapter 14
Pay attention, because now things will change
If until now, you paid attention, now, you will be rewarded.
Chapert 14... verses 12 trough 14
Isaiah describes the fall of Lucifer.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.
Isaiah is saying that before the sin, Lúcifer was saying like this :
I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God
I'll put my ...what?
throne..
Do You remember the text of Hebrews we read awhile ago?
Jesus in heaven, is set on the right hand of what ??
on the right of what ??
of the Throne !!!
Lúcifer, before everything, says:
I'll put my trone above the Throne of God!!
Hum.. Throne.
Lucifer wanted to reign. For throne has the meaning of power.
Authority, control, rule, power..
Throne..... I'll put my Throne above the Throne of God..
God's Trone ??
Throne..
Where is the throne of God?
Where is the throne of God?
II Samuel Chapter 6 : 2 Read with me..
Second book of Samuel Chapter 6 verse 2
Let's also read verse 1
Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah,
to bring up from thence the ark of God,
whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
There is saying that David brought the Ark
and the Lord God sits above of the..
above what??
the cherubims.!!
But where does the cherubim were?
In the Ark !!
So says the Lord sits on his Ark above the cherubim
It may be that he is trying to say that the Ark is the throne of God?
Or am I exaggerating this text?
What Do You Think??
Is it clear, or more or more or less clear??
So let's read one other text
come with me to Psalms
Psalm 99
and verse 1
The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble:
he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
We just discovered that the Throne of God and the Ark, are the same thing!
And in Heaven, in its sanctuary, the Ark of course is what is called "The throne of God"
What's inside of the Covenant Ark??
What's inside of the covenant Ark ??
The Law of the Ten Commandments !!
You only needs to read Exodus Chapter 25 and you I'll see that
that God commanded put into the ark the Law of the Ten Commandments
When Lucifer says: I'll put my throne above the throne of God
He is saying : I will put my laws above the God's Law, that's what I'll do!
God, in His Sanctuary , from the Most Holy Place, runs the Universe
The Ark is the Throne of God, because into there is the God's Law
and it is trough His Law that He commands the Universe
and I will put my command, my laws, above the God's Law
and now I will rule the World an dominate it, and I will have authority over this World.
Has he succeeded?
Has he succeeded, or Not??
NO ???
Are You Sure ??
Let's read Genesis
Genesis
Chapter
One
and verse 26 where is written :
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have,
Have them, what??
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
What else ??
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
God created this world, and He puts a Garden in Eden
And gave to man the power, authority, dominion over the earth
God gave the earth to man, and legalized it.
and gave dominion and authority to Them. It's what God did..
When Adam and Eve sinned
What Did they do with that??
Did they gave the dominion to Satan ??
Was that ??
Yes or No ??
YES..
That is why you read there in Job chapter 1, verse 6 onwards
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves
before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
God in heaven, gathers representatives of each world he created
Who was supost to be in that meeting?
Adam..
But Adam was not, who was?
Lúcifer... and talk between God and Lucifer was more or less like this:
Whence comest thou?
and he said : From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job,
Is that the conversation isn't ??
In fact, when you read in Hebrew, the real conversation is as follows:
The real meaning is that :
What are you doing in here ??
and Lúcifer replys to that : I have the right ,
I'm coming from my property,
I'm coming from Earth. There, is my dominion. Is like that !!
And then God said : So Do you know that in your dominion
I have there my Servant Job ??
Because back there in your dominion, any human being who look at me
and trough the blood of the Lamb, which is Jesus, accepts me and choose me
They can live down there in your kingdom, but they are citizens of my Kingdom
WOW !!!
You may think, doesn't matter I live here on this Planet, surrounded by problems,
surrounded by sins, envy, curse, but you are a citizen of the kingdom of Heaven
That is why God says: You can walk with your feet on earth,
but do not take your eyes of Heaven
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt,
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt,
Do It !!
The spiritual kingdom, the kingdom of God, not the kingdom of Earth
All this is confirmed , once more,
Let's open the Bible in Luke Chapter 4, let's go there and read
Are you tired of flipping through the Bible ?
No..
This " NO " was to weak !!
Luke, Chapter 4
and here says :
This chapter is about Jesus's temptation.
In verse 5 says : showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Who took Jesus to the mountain?
Satan !!
taking him to a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
kingdoms. Can you understand it ?
The kingdoms, authorities, principalities of the world.
And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and splendor
for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to.
So if you worship me, it will all be yours."
What Did he say ??
I give you authority over all these kingdoms,
because that authority was given to me
By whom it was given ?
By Adam, So I give to whoever I want.!!
So if you worship me, it will all be yours, because it belongs to me.
And Jesus did not say you're crazy, it does not belong to you
Just as in Job He did not say to the devil
stop saying that the earth belongs to you
He (Satan) is a usurper
He receives temporary authority in this world
temporarily!!
The fact is that when he tricked the man and woman,
God had to respect their freedom of choice
That's why He let it all happen .
The man had to know what it was like to live here in this world full of sin.
God had said, do not choose this god (Satan, Lucifer),
Choose Me !!
He will show you guys a life of sin, pain, death, loneliness, misery and betrayal.
that's what he has to offer to you guys.
But look at me. I Am Your God. And the man did not want.
He heard the voice of the serpent and thought :
I'll be like God, knowing good and evil, and did it.
He (The man) gave the authority.
God could have left the world at the mercy of luck,
but He offered His son instead,
And when the Lord Jesus volunteered to die in place of man,
God was giving to the mankind a check to be cashed in the future..
And with that God was saying, I will die in place of Men
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Therefore, everyone who believed in the lamb,
the lamb that was sacrificed on the altar,
the lamb that was in the Sanctuary,
and then the lamb that was in the temple,
because Solomon built a temple, which was twice the size of the sanctuary.
A majestic and beautiful temple, and there was where the lamb was slain.
And the Glory of God's presence was also in the temple that Solomon had built,
with the permission of God.
And now the man could have salvation,
and that's why Lucifer's authority was temporary.
Because when the world was to be disgraced in the hand of man and Lucifer
The Lord Jesus, who promised to die rather than man, said:
Father, the Earth is in danger
So what we feared before creating the earth, happened.
The Men turned back from Us.
The Men spat in our face.
The man chose death instead of life.
But Father, I still worth dying for those who somehow accept me.
Those who hear my voice and follow me
Therefore, Father, we lay back on Earth a headquarters
A branch of the headquarters of our kingdom, our Sanctuary.
And God placed an altar in front of Adam
And God placed a Sanctuary there among the people of Israel.
This is the sanctuary of Earth,
which is a branch of the headquarters of the throne of God here on earth.
Therefore, the sanctuary there in Israel,
represented the presence of God in this world.
God, holding back the four winds of the earth
To not let Satan destroy this world, very long ago
He tried to destroy with the Flood, and failed
He tried in *** and Gomorrah and failed,
He is trying since the world began, But God holds it,
Because God had promised His Son.
And the Lord Jesus died, nailing the cross on land,
And getting suspended between earth and heaven,
paying the debt that Heaven had with Earth.
and, earth with heaven!
However, this story does not end there..
Let's read 1 Corinthians, And I hope these are the last two verses
1 Corinthians, This is The first letter of Paul to the Corinthians
Chapter 6
verse 19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit,
who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
you were bought at a price.
Therefore honor God with your body.
This wonderful God.
After Jesus ascended,
and the sanctuary here on Earth was no longer useful, God said :
The Lord Jesus went to the Sanctuary of Heaven, and He is working there.
But here on Earth I'll leave not only a place
that represents the throne of God
but instead, I'll leave many places.
Now your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,
And God does not live there anymore, in that most holy place,
He dwells in your heart and in your soul.
You are fully representative of God's power and God's authority on earth.
You and I are direct representatives of God
And when I walk, I carry The Sanctuary, the Temple of the Holy Spirit, with me.
And the spirit dwells within me
He is inside of my heart and my soul, wherever I go.
So when you're talking with your wife,
remember that you're talking to a temple of the Holy Spirit of God.
So when you talk to your child, remember that
you are speaking with the Holy Spirit of God.
So that when you touch a child, remember that
you're touching in a sanctuary of the Holy God.
And when you deal with a human being,
know that he is a temple of the Holy Spirit of God.
And when you eat, know that
you are putting food in the sanctuary of God.
And when you deal with your body,
you're dealing with the sanctuary of God here on earth.
God comes even closer to you !!
If it were up to him, he would not live only inside the sanctuary,
but he wanted to live inside the human being.
Never in the history of the Earth, there was a time
when God was so close to humans, like today.
God is inside of me
And I get the Spirit of God, when
I receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
And when I renew myself, I become a vase,
a container filled with the power of Spirit of God and His glory.
The story of God is so magnificent.
God, from heaven, from his sanctuary, from his throne, above the Ark,
from where he ruled the universe, its laws, and all that he had done.
He decided to create the earth even knowing what it would become.
Then sin entered here. And after sin entered, God says, I will die.
Look to the Lamb. And then after the Lamb God says,
Now I'll put on earth a branch of the sanctuary of God,
God's throne, the headquarters of God.
So God put the sanctuary there. And then He put the temple
and after the Temple God says that He wants to get closer to the human being,
So now, you are a Sanctuary of the Spirit of God
That was how he planned!
And today, you and I are temples of the Spirit.
If you and I, we put in our mind, at every moment,
at every second, the importance of this
If we put in our mind, in our soul, the importance of this truth !!
Because now we can not see spiritual things.
We can no longer ..
Or Can we ?
Can we ??
What Do you think ??
A while ago, in 2009
Yes, end of 2009
I read in a Brazilian magazine called "Veja"
Released the list of Forbes magazine, about the most powerful men in the world of 2009
Some information surprised me a lot.
That the thirty-seventh most powerful in the world at that time,
was Osama Bin Laden !!
Gone so long.
And he was the thirty-seventh most powerful.
Second thing was that two steps above, was Lula.
And he was the thirty-fifth most powerful man in the world
And I was thinking, do you think that Lula's mother when he was born
there in the Hinterland, ever imagined that he would be the thirty-fifth
most powerful in the world?
Who was in first place??
I want to hear
Obama.
Barack Obama
First Place..
He was in first place
It may even be that his popularity is not the same,
But he is still the most powerful man in the world because he rules this nation.
Until the elections he still will!
At that time I had received by email a recording,
that maybe some of you have seen,
A statement made by Obama from a Muslim Mosque.
Where he starts saying : Whatever we have been in the past
We are no longer a Christian nation, have you heard that??
Have you??
We are no longer a Christian nation.
Wow!!! You who live here, you know what that means.
A break with Christianity by the President of the Republic
We are no longer.
Whatever it is, it is a thing of the past
But he is very intelligent !!
very !!
He says: We are a nation of Christians, non-Christians,
Buddhists, Hindus, a nation of atheists,
So I thought, this is true.
here has it all, is in it ??
He said : if we were to govern our country through the Bible,
which the text of the Bible should we choose?
First he said : whose religion should we follow?
And he mentioned two or three exponents of the Christian religion here in the United States.
And then he asks. Which text of the bible would we choose?
We would choose maybe Leviticus,
And he mentions Leviticus in a pejorative way.
and he mentioned the Sermon on the Mount
And he said something more or less like this, about the Sermon on the Mount :
It is so radical that it would put our national defense system in check.
And I thought to myself,
Why the Sermon on the Mount is so radical
that it would put the USA defense system in check ??
I reasoned a bit and I thought, hmm, can be,
because Jesus says : When someone strikes you on the right side,
offer also the left side.
Ok, It is strange to govern a nation based on this principle
If someone attacking from the south I say oh! also invade from the north!
It's strange..
there is no way, really.
Wow !!
it is true!!
And than he says,
For example, we all know the story of Abraham
And Abraham was called by God to take his son and sacrifice him up on the mountain.
And when Abraham raised his knife and was ready to kill Isaac
God Provided,
And he did not have to kill his son!!
And then, Obama said:
Now, we who are here inside, we can imagine,
Where was he ??
In a Muslim mosque.
Let's imagine that all of us, when we leave here, we see
Abraham on a roof of the house, with Isaac lying on top of a table
and Abraham ready to kill him. What would you do?
He (Obama) said, we at least call the police !!
And we would want them to take Isaac's custody from the hands of Abraham.
And I thought, Wow !!!
It is true !!
And he ends by saying:
Why ??
It is because Abraham saw and heard, things that we do not see nor hear!
Therefore, it is best that we all be guided by what we see and hear.
Let's do that.
Be guided by what we see and hear.
No, by that we do not hear or see.
Because Abraham saw and heard things that we do not see nor hear
Was he right ??
Was ??
Or is this the last text?
2 Corinthians
Chapter
It's 1 Corinthians
Sorry, I'm in doubt between the first and second. Let me go to the second again,
I just hope I find the text. To not be ashamed.
2 Corinthians Chapter 4
In these verses, Paul gives a recipe for you to not give up.
Even if you suffer, you will not be discouraged, on the contrary, you still get excited over.
Do You want to know this recipe? He says,
Therefore we do not lose heart.
Therefore, What?? He didn't say Yet!!
Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
He has not said for what, yet.
But he is saying that on the contrary,
He will tell us, but he is saying that
Even if the body becomes exhausted, the spirit is renewed
that is how you are?
2 Corinthians Chapter 4 verses 16 and 17
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us
an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
In other words, he is saying, even if I go through the tribulation
it will seem light and small
and beyond all comparison will bring me to an eternal reward of glory.
Is that how you feel too?
Even if your body becomes exhausted, the disease comes,
you get excited over, every day, Is it like that??
Does the tribulation seems small to you and temporary?
Is it? And it still brings a higher glory?
And now, he'll reveal his secret, he says :
verse 18, So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
The apostle Paul thinks totally the opposite of Barack Obama!
He says, Because we look at things that we do not see.
That's the secret.
Because what we see, does not last long, and what we do not see, is eternal!
So we better be guided by what we do not see.
for what we don't see !!
Because one day we saw these things. Our parents saw it.
Now, we are spiritually blind, but God is begging for you and me
that we accumulate treasures in heaven, to seek God,
to cry out to God to be the temple of the spirit,
He is asking you to rely on the things of heaven, and not on things on the earth.
Dear, I hope you have understood the importance of what is,
and how did you become the temple and the indwelling of the Holy spirit of God.
Like this !!
It was God's plan and dream, make you a representative of God on earth.
headquarters of God, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,
Vase full of spirit, spirit overflowing all the time for others.
That's the plan and God's dream for you and me.
And how important is it ??
All of importance in the world!
all
And that's what we'll find out from now onwards.
Because our study now turns, moves completely.
And God begins to give us other approaches,
based on these truths that we study here and back.
be prepared now,
to learn and know things that God will reveal to you and me, going forward.
Things that He wants to clarify for you and for me,
based on those truths which until now have been placed.
The Lord God has much, much more light for us.
But today, He expects of you, an adjustment with Him.
A adjustment in which you wish and want to be the temple of God's Spirit.
Do You want to be a temple of God's Spirit?
Really?
Do you want to be used? Want the Lord dwell in your life, your soul,
so that He can transform your life ??
I'll tell you what that means.
People out there are clamoring for a church to solve their problems.
Are they or aren't they??
They care about financial problems, worry about things they want to acquire,
cars, houses, for everything,
money.
Meanwhile, God wants to solve your problem in a simple way.
DoYou have employment problem?
Do you have any other kind of problem? Do You have marriage problem?
there is a way to solve it!
It's just you become the temple of the Holy Spirit.
And for that, you already know what you have to do.
What do you have to do?
What do you have to do??
ask
have to cry for it
How ??
insistently
Cry out with anguish of heart and soul.
To claim, beg, cry, mourn,
That's it..
With Fasting, cry and ask, become available and say, God dwells in me
And then, your problem of marriage, your relationship problem,
your problem of sin will be solved.
And along with that, will be resolved financial, employment problem,
Do you know why ??
It is because you will not mind them.
This does not mean that God will give you all the money, all jobs and all
No..
He will make you not care for it, You will tell if this is good or bad, I do not care!
Because my eyes are turned to heaven,
In the Lord.
That's how he will solve.
And resolves easily !!
You just need to have a meeting with God.
You just need to accept, you just need to say, Lord I'm here,
For mercy Lord, use me,
take me in your hands, take my soul, my heart, my body
and Abide in my heart.
Use me Lord
Do you want to ask that for Jesus ??
He has an appeal to you today.
If you want to ask that,
While I'm singing, you'll get up again inside of your heart
Pay attention, there's no way to hide from God,
Cry out to Him, talk to Him, say, God is my time
It's my time Lord !!
Use me please !!
Go inside of my soul, talk to Him,
Cry out, ask, and then you just have to keep asking,
This is God's way of reach your life.
This is God's way of reach your soul.
This is how God dwell in your heart.
In your soul, in your house, in your work,
in your children, in your relationships,
And He wants to dwell in your empty body of Christianity.
You need to open fully, and put yourself in His hands,
Under his influence.
Ask Him now, Cry out to Him, talk to Him
I always want to be,
Before thy face,
I want to worship, thy sovereign glory,
Before the Altar I always want to be,
I want to get involved Lord
in your plans.
Use me, Use me Lord,
Here I am, here I am Lord.
I want to dive in the rivers of Your Heart
I want to dive in the rivers of Your Heart
I always want to be before your face,
I want to worship, thy sovereign glory,
Before the Altar I always want to be,
I want to get involved Lord
in your plans.
Use me, Use me Lord
Here I am , Here I am Lord
I want to dive in the rivers of Your Heart
I want to dive in the rivers of Your Heart
Use me, Use me Lord
Here I am, Here I am, Lord
I want to dive in the rivers of Your Heart
I want to dive in the rivers of Your Heart
O Lord, take in your hands your people
Your children who are hidden in the middle of this congregation.
Take Lord in your hands each of us,
That we approach here, and now we open our heart and soul to the Lord,
O Lord dwells in our body, our minds, our hearts,
Father, help us focusing on things unseen
We commit ourselves in Jesus' name, Amen!