I'm pastor stephen brooks and welcome
today to our online
internet around the world church service
i'm so
happy that you're here and i believe
that god will supply to you
all that you need for the joy and the
happiness
and the blessing that he intends for you
to walk in
thank you jesus now today let's take a
look
at the book of leviticus chapter 23
and let's go to verse 34. i want to
share just a few things about the feast
of tabernacles
because it's coming up very very soon
leviticus 23 verse 34
the lord spoke to moses saying speak to
the children of israel
saying the 15th day of this seventh
month shall be the feast of tabernacles
for seven days
to the lord now the feast of tabernacles
is called in hebrew the feast of sukkot
and it centers around these little bitty
tint-like
structures that would be called booths
and they're called in the hebrew the
sukkah
praise the lord so this is a very
happy festival this is a time
when almost all of the crops of israel
have been brought in
the only remaining crop that still
perhaps being brought in would be the
olives but some of the israelis would
have already had their
their olives harvested and now they
would be
more into the pressing of the oil but
for some
because you know in different regions of
the of the land of israel
some crops would mature a little faster
than others
in some places they're still bringing
that final harvest in
but tabernacles is also a look back
over all of the harvest of that year the
spring
the summer and now the final one the
fall harvest
so everything is in uh with a few more
things that are just rounding off
and it's a time of rejoicing because
tabernacles is also getting all of that
crop
not not just out of the field but
once it's harvested now you've got to
take care of it and
the rain's coming the latter rain is
coming so if you don't get it out of the
rain it's going to rot
so going up to the feast of tabernacles
means you've got it all done and you can
relax you can rejoice
you can praise the lord and it's just an
absolutely
wonderful time praise the lord verse 40
and you shall take for yourselves on the
first day the fruit of beautiful trees
branches of palm trees the bows of the
leafy trees and
willows of the brook and you shall
rejoice before the lord your god for
seven days
you shall dwell in booths for seven days
all who are native
israelites shall dwell in booths so
those little booths
the feast of booths or as the
english often says tabernacles that is a
small
tent like temporary type structure
that your generations may know that i
made the children of israel dwell in
booths
when i brought them out of the land of
egypt i am the lord your god
so they came out of the land of egypt
and they're going through the wilderness
for all of those years
living in temporary type structures
so that is a reminder a look back of
god's faithfulness
and where he brought them from to where
he now has them
at praise god now it's important for us
to understand
that all of the feasts are fulfilled
in the lord jesus christ for example you
have the feast of
passover christ fulfilled passover
because he
is the sacrificial lamb that was slain
for the sins
of the world and then you have pentecost
and we all know what happened on
pentecost it was the birth of the church
it was the day that the holy spirit was
poured out
praise the lord jesus and jesus is the
baptizer in the holy spirit he is the
one that immerses his people
in the holy spirit so we see pentecost
fulfilled through christ and also
we come up to the beautiful feasts the
grand finale
the feast of tabernacles and christ has
also
fulfilled that feast as well john
chapter 1 verse 14 and the word became
flesh
now the word would be the name of jesus
before he ever came to
earth in eternity past as the second
person of the godhead deity
he was always known as the word that was
his title his name
so the word became flesh
and that took place through jesus being
born through the virgin mary
praise god a supernatural birth so the
word became flesh and dwelt
among us so in the greek which the new
testament is written in greek
that greek word right there for dwelt is
actually the same
hebrew word for tabernacled he dwelt
among us he tabernacled among us
so here's god in a flesh and
blood body walking around now on the
earth
talking to people ministering to people
and
it is a fulfillment of the feast of
tabernacles christ
is the feast of tabernacles praise god
because he came into
and tabernacled among us hallelujah now
we also see
further prophetic symbolism of this
feast
in the sense that it is the final in
gathering
where everything must be brought in and
we see a reflection of this
in the gospel of matthew chapter 24 in
verse 14
where jesus said and this gospel the
good news
it's never bad news it's good news the
good news of the kingdom
will be preached in all the world now
that's a big assignment
it will be preached in all the world as
a witness
to all the nations and then the end will
come
the end of that particular age will
close out
but it's not going to happen until we
preach
the gospel to all of the world and we
see
some foreshadowing of that with the
feast of tabernacles where
all the fruit the precious fruit of the
earth
all those who god knows will receive his
son jesus as their savior
they're all going to be brought in and
many theologians would call it the great
end time harvest and so we have all this
technology today
super fast internet we have television
we have the ability to print
books at almost lightning fast speed we
have so many various platforms that we
could use to take the gospel to all the
world
and we're going to do just that praise
god
now i have shared with you that
a major television network contacted
my ministry and they asked me to create
special programs that are evangelistic
in nature that will be used to reach
the lost when a door like that
opens and uh god's in that you just have
to go through the door you have to step
out in faith and go through it
so we have already recorded we didn't
waste any time
we just finished at the studio recording
six programs praise the lord and the
network said
they said pastor stephen if you'll
record them and create them
we will take them now watch this and we
will play them
through the months of november and
december
over and over again at no charge for the
air time
to play them so it it did take
cost to create them because we go into
our pure gold studio
and not only do we have the cost for
that and we've already
we've already filmed them they're
actually in post-production right now
but we also uh have it on the schedule
to go back into the studio
very soon so that we can record season
three of pure gold
which is airing on these various
networks and on this one particular now
as you know those of you that watch the
pure gold half hour television program
these new series that we do we have done
uh
season two and also season three every
one of them
has and everyone will have at the
conclusion
of the program an invitation for anybody
watching who doesn't know christ as
their lord and savior
to receive salvation through faith
in the name of jesus so if you want to
go fishing with me
for not fish but for the souls of men
hallelujah come on jump on this
opportunity with me
and even as david in the old testament
for samuel chapter 30
when he and the soldiers went off to
attack
the enemy that had stolen and plundered
their goods
there was a certain part of david's team
that stayed back
and watched the camp but david made a
rule
he said when he came back with all the
spoil and plunder he said we're all
going to share in this because we're all
in this basically together
so my friends when we get to heaven
let's have some reward on the other side
where the lord says thank you for having
my kingdom
heart uh at the forefront of your heart
and going after souls and
living for me and you know what we can
do it praise god we have a ministry goal
of winning 1 million souls to the lord
and we're not taking it lightly we're
going all out and we're on various
networks and we're pushing on all fronts
because
because this gospel of the kingdom will
be preached we're going to do it
it will be preached in all the world as
a witness to all the nations
and the end will come so let's get the
job done
it's a big world tonight i'm not
um over exaggerating on this
there are millions upon millions
who have never heard the gospel present
it to them
they've never heard it presented in a
very simple form at all they don't know
anything about the bible
they don't know anything about jesus so
come on let's let's take it to him the
love of god
the good news and so that is what we're
connecting with
on the feast of tabernacles on sunday
october
the 4th between now and
then i'm asking you to sow your best
seed so that we can record
these new pure gold programs and that we
can cover the cost for the programs
we've just
recorded and the ones that we're going
to and you know what i
i'm believing also that we can have such
a blessing come in through the feast
from tabernacles offering
that we can expand we can expand
and be able to acquire more air time and
just keep
preaching the gospel keep preaching the
gospel and also at the conclusion of
every program
throw the net and pull it in hallelujah
glory to god
you know what as we're doing this god's
opening the doors
so let's go through them thank you
praise god now
if you would like to mail in your
special
feast of tabernacle seed and also bring
the tithe in and you want to do that
through mail please send your tithe and
your special seed
to stephen brooks international p.o box
717 moravian falls north carolina
the zip code is 28654 if you prefer to
go online
please visit the ministry website
stevenbrooks.org
there's a header that's called projects
and if you click on that
you'll see that one of the projects
which is our focus right now
our primary focus is the feast of
tabernacles
special offering seed and this is for
the
the covering of production cost and also
for the expansion
of air time so that we can literally
take the gospel
into these uh remote places
uh and not just remote places but oh i
mean there's there's people in the big
cities of the world they've never heard
it
uh we we've just got to take it
everywhere so we're blanketing
as much as we can so right now we have a
potential viewing audience over 1
billion people
we're just going to keep pushing because
there's over 7 million people
glory to god hallelujah so let's just
keep reaching
and do our very best for the lord and
let's celebrate the feast of tabernacles
by
honoring the lord and uh sowing this
special seed
and doing it for souls and i'm praying
and believing
that god will bless you with his very
best harvest
multiplied back into in your life in the
area
where you need it the most to praise god
so father i pray for your people
as they're praying and they're asking
you what they should sow what they
should do
i thank you father that your holy spirit
will impress upon their hearts what it
is they're supposed to do
and they'll by faith do that with great
joy and rejoicing
and i just thank you father god for a
blessed feast of tabernacles that seven
day period
that it will be so happy it starts on
october 7th
excuse me october 2nd and goes to the
ninth but father by the fourth they'll
get that seed in
and it'll be a very special time for
them thank you father god thank you
thank you thank you father for jesus
whoo hallelujah we give you praise in
jesus name amen amen amen amen amen
you know the more we understand this
feast the more we understand
christ because everything in the old
covenant
is pointing towards jesus the messiah
the savior of the world
and particularly these feasts they're
loaded with what
the theologians would call typology or
maybe you could use a
more loose word like symbolism that we
could see
symbols and elements of these feasts
that are referring to jesus
our lord and savior and we're going to
dive a little deeper into that
today also here in just a moment
concerning the day of
atonement so thank you for your special
feast of tabernacle
seed glory to god hallelujah thank you
jesus
now let's go to the book of leviticus
today
and we're going to be in chapter 23.
chapter 23
we're going to drop down to verse 27.
we're going to discuss
a little bit the day of atonement and
how god wants us to draw
near let's pray heavenly father
as we're jumping into your word we ask
for your holy spirit to illuminate the
scriptures
so that we can understand them and so
that we can take them and apply them to
our
lives thank you thank you father god
in the name of jesus we pray and we all
say amen
now the word today is going to build
faith in your heart
to experience everything that christ
purchased for you at calvary
in a particular area today see on that
table of blessing
of what jesus made available for us
there are many choice and wonderful
things
but as i'm teaching today as the word
goes forth
faith will be generated in your heart to
partake of something special
that's on that table for you at this now
moment
hallelujah it's always there on the
table but faith will rise
for you to get up and take it today
now leviticus chapter 23 verse 27
also the tenth day of this seventh
month shall be the day of atonement
now the word atonement means to cover so
this is a day of covering
a day of atonement it shall be a holy
convocation for you
you shall afflict your souls
and offer an offering made by fire to
the lord
now during this time in israel the whole
nation
pretty much shuts down now of course
israel learned
hey don't shut down the military so the
military is actually on high alert
because that's the the enemy the devil
he never fights fair and
so he'll attack sometimes if you if you
ever tried to
take the break or you know relax uh you
know
when there's the lord's protection he'll
give you refreshing
but remember you always still have to
keep your guard up so
israel the whole as a nation is pretty
much
shut down on the day of atonement even
jews that would be how can we say
non-orthodox in other words you have a
lot of secular
jews in israel and what i mean by
secular
is that although they're jewish they
have no interest in god
and they're they're not afraid to tell
you that they're you know some of them
they just want to make a bunch of money
and they want to enjoy life and uh that
to them is all life is about
but you have you know the orthodox jews
that are
scholars and students of the old
testament
and they take things like this of course
very very seriously but the whole nation
has an identity that is able to connect
with the day of atonement
is very special to the jewish people and
as we have understanding of that
then we can see more fully the beauty
and the marvel of what christ has made
available to us
um just a couple days ago uh
pastor kelly was talking with somebody
that was doing some work at our home
and uh he said well can i come back on
monday
and and finish it she said no she said
uh
mundy is uh kapoor and on
yom kippur uh we won't be working
he said uh now he's an evangelical
christian
uh and i don't know how long he's been
in church i i wouldn't be surprised if
he's been in church
raised in church most of his life but he
said
what's that what's young
kapoor what is that kelly said well
that's the day of atonement
he said well what's that and he didn't
understand so what i'm
what i'm trying to say is that while
christ
is the fulfiller of all of these old
testament
prophecies and feasts and special days
yet when you understand it when you
understand it
then you have a much fuller image of who
christ
is and what he's accomplished and not
only what he accomplished but what he
has made available for us that's why we
need
as new testament believers to have very
good understanding
of the old covenant because it just
really allows you to enjoy the new
better and it also helps you to see that
the new is a
whole lot better glory to god hallelujah
now yom kippur
it begins on sunday
today if you're watching this program on
sunday and begins
at sunset sunday
september 27th it begins at sunset
and it's going to end on monday as the
sun goes down
it's a 24-hour period
thank you lord jesus let's examine
what actually took place on this special
day
it was a very very impo we're actually
the most important day for the jewish
people in the old covenant
it was the only day out of the entire
year
where the high priest was allowed
by god to go into the holy
of holies and he did so with
a lot of trembling he did so thinking
boy i hope i get this right
don't mess anything up because you know
he wants to live
there would also be planned for the high
priest a
feast afterwards so that he could
relax and and be like oh god it over
with for another year
you know so but it was like a terrifying
moment
a terrifying moment to go into that holy
place
because remember they were under the law
they were under what we know
as the old covenant and there was not a
lot of tolerance for mistakes
or error we see how
even us when he reached up to try to
steady
the ark that was being pulled by oxen on
a cart and he just
he just touched the ark and he dropped
dead
right on the spot so the jewish people
were
well aware of the glory they were aware
of the
requirements the strict requirements of
god because
sin was a deadly thing and
this involved the covering of the sins
not only of the individual jewish people
including the high priest but
for the whole nation wow very very
important day so
you could see how the nation in a sense
were they were they were holding their
breath
like okay he's going in there okay
everybody you know
everybody praying because we want him to
come back out and everything to go well
so that their sins could be covered so
that's what atoning
means it means to cover
thank you jesus we must now move to
hebrews chapter 9.
now of course when you get into the book
of hebrews
the theologians you know this
theological talk
hebrews is one of those books where the
author
is not identified
but as the theologians you know i'd say
probably 98
agree there is nobody else who could
have written this book
besides the apostle paul nobody else had
that level of understanding
like he did the same way nobody else
could have written romans
except for the apostle paul but we know
he wrote
romans because it says so and i'm fully
convinced that he also wrote
what we know as the book of hebrews and
i want to read some things to you today
from chapter 9 and this
is concerning what would take place on
the day of atonement
and the role of the high priest now
we're in hebrews chapter 9
and we're going to drop down to verse 1.
it says that first covenant between god
and
israel had regulations for worship and a
place of worship here on earth
there were two rooms in that tabernacle
okay so you had the holy place but then
you had the
had the holy of holies there were two
rooms in that tabernacle and the first
room were a lamp stand
a table and sacred loaves of bread
on the table that would be called the
showbread
this room was called the holy place then
there was a curtain
and behind the curtain was the second
room called the most
holy place now when it says there was a
curtain
don't skip past that real quick you have
to understand
the size of that curtain
the curtain was 40 feet wide
20 feet high and the curtain was
four inches thick so this is not like
just a little drape they put up you know
like maybe in your house to keep the
light out you put a little drape over
your window no
this was a curtain extremely thick and
extremely heavy
and remember that curtain that separated
the holy place from the most holy place
when christ
died that curtain was torn in half
from the top to the bottom so there was
an angel up there
that just tore apart
and there's there's great symbolism in
that basically saying that thou
we through the shed blood of christ can
come
into that holy place which previously
the high priest could only go into it
once a year
pray use the lord then there it says
verse 3 again then there was a curtain
and behind the curtain was the second
room called the most holy place
and that room wore a gold incense altar
and a wooden chest called the ark of the
covenant
now let me say this about the incense
altar
theologians say well was it really in
the holy place or the most holy place
the it was a little bit of both it was
really in the holy place
but the the poles the two wooden poles
on one side
and the uh incense itself were the holy
place but it also reached through the
poles
into the most holy place so you could
say it was in both
in that room there were a golden incense
altar in a wooden chest called the ark
of the covenant
which was covered with gold on all sides
now gold would also be a symbol
for deity praise the lord
inside the ark were a gold jar
containing manna
aaron's staff that sprouted leaves and
the stone
tablets of the covenant above the ark
were the cherubim of divine glory
whose wings stretched out over the ark's
cover the place of atonement
but we cannot explain these things in
detail now
when these things were all in place the
priest
regularly entered the first room as they
performed their religious duties
but only the high priest ever entered
the most holy place
and only once a year
and he always offered blood for his own
sins
and for the sins of the people and for
the sins the people had committed in
ignorance
so let me say this about sin
there are certain things that that are
wrong and you can do them you're like
well that that was a sin that that was
wrong but there's other things
that can be sinful that you can do and
you don't even know that you've done it
and those are that's also why there
needs to be the shedding of blood
somebody could say well i haven't done
any sin well first of all we know you
have
because the only soulless person was
jesus so somebody
could say well i haven't done any sin i
haven't i haven't lied i haven't
i cheated on my taxes but there could uh
even if there were a person like that
and there's not but even if there were
there's still so many areas where we can
fail
and come up short and sin even when we
don't know we've done it
that's why there needs to be
a way to deal with the sin problem and
under the old testament
it was done through the covering of sins
through
the shedding of the blood of innocent
animals
now let's continue on praise god
verse 8 by these regulations the holy
spirit revealed that the entrance to the
most holy place
was not freely open as long as the
tabernacle and the system it represented
were still in use
this is an illustration pointing to the
present
time for the gifts and sacrifices
that the priests offer are not able to
cleanse the consciences of the people
who bring them
that's very very important while there
was a cleansing
of the sin of the people that inward
conscience of a person
it was never really made clean what is
your conscience
the conscience is the voice of your
spirit
well why would your conscience still not
be
made clean although the sins are covered
simply because of this reason
they're covered but underneath that
covering
they're still there okay so that that
was the problem
with the blood of animals it's getting
it's getting you along
so it's like a credit card the old
testament system was like a credit card
where you're making purchases and
you know you're just paying the minimum
balance you're paying the minimum
balance
how many of you know uh that card
is never gonna get paid off you know and
the credit card companies know that
that's why they like for you just to
make the minimum payment because you
won't get paid off forever so
it's still there it's still there
somebody is eventually going to have to
come along
and pay that debt off and deal with the
debt that just keeps sitting there and
growing because of the interest rate
and that's what jesus did and so what's
amazing about jesus
and his sacrifice it's not only able to
cleanse and take away your sins
so that the sins are gone it totally
cleans your conscience
your conscience is absolutely totally
clean that's how powerful the sacrifice
of christ
is praise god
now verse 10
for that old system deals only with food
and drink and various cleansing
ceremonies
physical regulations that were in effect
only until a better system could be
established
so christ has now become the high priest
over all the good things that have come
he has entered that greater
more perfect tabernacle in heaven which
was not made by human hands
and is not part of this created world
with his own blood
not the blood of goats and calves he
entered the most holy place
once for all time and secured
our redemption forever under the old
system
the blood of goats and bulls and the
ashes of a heifer
could cleanse people's bodies from
ceremonial impurity
just think how much more the blood of
christ
will purify our consciences from sinful
deeds so that we can worship the living
god
for by the power of the eternal spirit
christ
offered himself to god as a perfect
sacrifice for our
sins whoo glory to god no more
guilty conscience it's gone it's gone
that's how powerful the cleansing blood
of jesus
is thank you lord jesus verse 23
that is why the tabernacle and
everything in it which were copies of
things in heaven
had to be purified by the blood of
animals but the real things in heaven
had to be purified with far
better sacrifices than the blood of
animals for christ did not enter
into a holy place made with human hands
which was only a copy
of the true one in heaven see
god told moses to build
the tabernacle with the holy place
and the most holy place and have
the manure the lamp stand have the
showbread
have the altar of incense and then over
here in the most holy place
have the ark of the covenant see he's
telling him to build
all of this after the pattern what
pattern
the pattern of the one that's actually
in heaven
whoo praise the lord so see when christ
died as high priest
he took his blood and he went to heaven
with it
and he went into the holy place there
and there
his blood was presented
and placed upon that
altar upon that mercy seat that is there
in heaven what a beautiful picture what
a beautiful picture praise god
verse 25.
and he did not enter heaven to offer
himself again and again
like the high priest here on earth who
enters the most holy place
year after year with the blood of an
animal if that had been necessary
christ would have had to die again and
again ever since the world began
but now once for all time
he has appeared at the end of the age
to remove sin by his own death
as a sacrifice and just
as each person is destined to die once
and after that comes the judgment
so also christ was offered once
for all time as a sacrifice to take away
the sins of many people
he will come again not to deal with our
sins
can you shout hallelujah he will come
again
not to deal with our sins but to bring
salvation
to all who are eagerly waiting
for him so here's
here's the deal if you have put
your faith and trust in jesus christ
and you walk with him and that blood is
cleansing you
and if you you blow it and you make a
mistake and you say lord i've sinned
i've sinned again then that and you
confess that
lord i'm sorry i didn't mean to do that
don't plan on doing it again
you walk in the light of god and his
word and that blood is just cleansing
and washing
cleansing and washing and you have no
expectation of wrath or punishment
why because at calvary at calvary
all of the punishment of sin was placed
on
christ my friends
sin is an awful thing sin
demands punishment god is a
just judge he can't just let it go
because that would be a character flaw
to just say well yeah i saw you do that
i saw you murder that person but
you know we're going to let that slide
you know i'm in a good mood today we're
just going to ignore that
no a righteous holy god
saw it and there has to be a punishment
for it
so somebody's going to have to get
punished okay so jesus
came as a sacrifice
a sin in the sacrifice died on the cross
and the punishment that we deserved for
our sins
the punishment went on him so when you
put your faith and trust in jesus
then you received the benefit of what he
accomplished
at calvary which was what the payment
for and and the payment of what the
payment for the penalty of sin
and he was smitten and struck with the
wrath of god
he had to be because sin demands what it
meant it demands death what are the
wages of sin it's death
wow and thus thus you have that
statement
in second corinthians chapter 5 verse 21
that the apostle paul made for he that
would be god
made him that would be jesus
who knew no sin see he was a sinless
sacrifice
who knew no sin to be sin for
us when where how at the cross
at the cross he who knew no sin
it says he became sin for us that we
might become the righteousness of god in
him
so when you put your faith and trust in
christ there is a
there's an exchange that takes place
he takes your sin your filth every every
awful thing you've ever done
he takes it and in place of that he
gives you his righteousness
and in the mind of god the father he
took it jesus took all of your sin
all of my sin at calvary when he was on
that cross it was all placed upon him
then
all of it for all of the humanity
those living at that time those living
before those living now those living
later even those who haven't even been
born yet the sin
penalty has been paid but you have to
receive
christ as your lord and savior
um and then you can have an expectancy
of his return
because when he comes again for you the
believer
he's not coming to deal with your sins
he's already dealt with them at calvary
praise god that doesn't mean you go out
and start living like a
crazy person well he's already dealt
with my sins i'm going to go out just
live why no that is an abuse of the
grace of god
and you'll get in trouble if you
practice sin you're pla you're opening
the door to the devil
you're opening the door to the devil and
uh
he'll come right on through it he'll be
happy to oblige you so don't
play with sin sin is deadly
stay away from it stay away from it and
walk in the protection
and in the blessing of the lord jesus
died at calvary to redeem you from sin
and to also empower you to be able to
say
no to it and to resist the devil praise
the lord
hallelujah glory to god thank you jesus
now hebrews chapter 10
hebrews chapter 10
and we go to verse 19.
therefore brethren having boldness to
enter the holiest by the blood of jesus
see jesus is now our high priest
he's our high priest and we have
boldness to enter the holiest by the
blood
of jesus well how can i get in there
pastor stephen how can i go into that
holy place
through the blood through the blood of
jesus
the believer the christian is washed
with the blood
of jesus just feels good to say it
say it out loud the devil hates it say
it out loud say the blood of jesus
whoo glory to god by a new and living
way
oh it's very different isn't it from the
old testament system
where only one man could go in there
once a year
and he did it with uh with great
trepidation
if i do something wrong i could die
but we have a better way a new and
living way
which he consecrated for us through the
veil
that is his flesh see that veil was
torn his flesh
upon that cross as a sacrifice
for us allowing us to get back
into relationship and fellowship
with the holy god he consecrated for us
through the veil that is his flesh and
having a high priest over the house of
god
in other words because of all of this
let us draw near
with a true heart in full assurance of
faith
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience
and our bodies washed with pure water
well uh pastor stephen my conscience i i
don't feel good in my conscience i've
done some things that aren't good well
you need to get into the holy place
you you through the blood of jesus need
to go draw near to god
and hang out spend time with god and
understand who you are in christ
and go before the lord if there's any
sin get it dealt with
and understand that's washed away and
also in the presence of the lord
and meditation upon what christ has done
for you as your high priest
know also that your conscience can be
cleansed from even the vilest
most awful sins
and the lord promised in this new
covenant that your sins and your
iniquities
he would wash them away and he would
remember them
no more hallelujah praise god it's a
beautiful thing
well pastor steven i still have memory
though i'm glad that god doesn't
remember it but i shall have memory
that memory of that is nothing but
empty ashes that have all been burned up
and they can't hurt you anymore
i had a campfire the other night and me
and
kelly with the grandkids and our oldest
daughter and her husband we all got
together had a campfire
and uh that started out with these
beautiful logs and the the logs were so
beautiful and
we get the fire going but two hours
later
there's nothing left of that fire but
ashes nothing left of that wood but
ashes and those ashes can't hurt anybody
hallelujah that's all the memory of your
past sins
is it's nothing but burnt up ashes and
you'll see that
in leviticus chapter one with the burnt
offering
where the animal would be completely
devoted to god
and the entire animal and if it was a
bull even the skin
everything the intestines the all the
organs the head hoofs
everything uh for those that couldn't
afford to give the offering of a bull
it would be a you know a lamb
or a sheep or goat or if you didn't have
that
kind of money to give an offering like
that you would give a dove
a turtle dove or a pigeon but either way
it's it's an offering because back in
those dates
uh in in those days meat was a very
high-end commodity so whether you've got
the meat of a goat
or the meat of a bull or the meat of a
bird hey at least you've got some meat
so they give that as an offering it's
very very special
but that was a whole burnt offering and
that offering was for
the taking away of sin and the person
giving the offering would actually lay
their hands on that animal
in uh the imparting of sin
into that uh innocent animal but the
whole animal was burned up
and the only thing that was left was
ashes that's it
well i have memory pastor stephen what
we all do but
the memory can't hurt you just burned up
ashes praise god
and god god can give such a witness on
the inside of your spirit by the holy
spirit
that it's all gone and you're clean and
you just draw near
hallelujah you don't have a guilty
conscience or anything like that i tell
you
this is something so far beyond the old
covenant this new covenant is
absolutely beautiful and very very
powerful okay i want to close with this
it says here let us draw near with a
true heart
full assurance of faith and our hearts
sprinkle from an evil conscience
praise the lord this is the time to draw
near
now the the book of ezekiel and i want
us to go there just for a moment
ezekiel chapter 20 the book of ezekiel
was written in the year 571
bc so we're looking
at a truth now that is about
2500 years old that the rabbis
the jewish sages have taught this now
ever since this was recorded in holy
scripture
what god had the prophet ezekiel say
they had an understanding of what was
taking place when it was
uttered and said and this has been
something
they've known as a as a tradition for
about 2 500 years now
i'm going now to ezekiel chapter 20
verse 37. it says i will make you pass
under the rod. now this is not a passage
under the rod
where god's going to hit you over here
with this rod you know this is something
that the shepherd would do with the
sheep
this is not punishment this is
inspection this is maybe what we would
call a checkup
from the neck up but for the sheep it
wasn't just from the neck up
the the sheep would pass under the rod
one by one one by one every tenth one
would be marked with a red vermillion
colored uh
type of uh uh blotch that would
represent the tide that goes to the lord
and the thing was is that the shepherd
just couldn't put them all in the pen
and say let's just take ten of them
and put ten over here that was a tie
that would not be allowed
they had the pass underneath the rod and
then every one
that was the tenth that would be set
apart as a
tithe sheep so this is not anything to
do with punishment
this is inspection i will make you pass
under the rod
and i will bring you into the bond of
the covenant now the jewish rabbis have
taught
ever since ezekiel expressed this that
this
passing under the rod takes place once
a year and it takes place on
the day of atonement yom kippur and i
want you
to be aware of
not so much what we would call a sheep
inspection
although that's really what was going on
the shepherd would just he would take
that rod and
literally run it through the sheep's fur
and just take a look make sure there's
you know there's no lice or ticks or
these various things that a shepherd
would know and
the various conditions that certainly
isn't my specialty uh dealing with
livestock
but they would know and they would just
you know they could look at the nose
look at the eyes
and they could look very carefully and
the sheep would then pass on by
and he would know well you know that one
needs a sheep dip or whatever the case
might be or
he could uh he could get a good checkup
on his
on his animals praise the lord
but on this day is a day that the lord
likes to
visit his people commune and fellowship
with his people on what the jews know
as the day of atonement now remember
this starts tonight
at sunset it starts at sunset tonight
goes for 24 hours
and there's many prophetic ministers all
over the world
that have known for years and years and
a long time in the mystics knew this
that the lord likes to visit
his people during this time as
as his people the church passed before
the lord during this time
not only as a body of believers a
collective body of believers
you know the health of the church the
spiritual well-being of the church but
also
as individuals well pastor stephen we
can't meet right now because of you know
coronavirus or whatever
where we're limited in what we can do
well um the lord will take care of the
inspection of the corporate body now
remember when the lord
looks at the church it's it's not just
like a national church
it's a global church so he look he looks
differently uh
from his viewpoint from the way we can
see it in our limited understanding
but there's also the personal time
with the lord where the lord loves to
share pertinent information
with those who are informed and that's
why we studied the old covenant
that's why we read the old testament
scriptures we we dig into them
why it helps us understand the new
covenant better
and jesus we know is our high priest
and so the jewish scribes have always
taught on the day of atonement
that not only is the high priest going
into
the holy of holies but also
the messiah is also inspecting
his people as we metaphorically pass
beneath the shepherd's rod
so that's something that's going on
within this 24-hour window
and all i'm trying to say in a nutshell
as we boil this down is what paul said
back here in hebrews chapter 10
let us draw near draw near
why especially on that day the day of
atonement why
let's just today that the lord likes to
give some special attention to the sheep
to those that are open to that
how does faith come faith comes by
building a
word foundation or platform that you can
stand on based upon scripture
and so my friends this is a window
where there is just a real easy grace
why because there's faith for it
of the lord communicating to his people
so i would encourage you to do this
when sundown comes uh you know don't
wait till like monday
you know you know it's like four o'clock
you know the sun's about to go down and
you only got a little bit time left
you're trying to rush to hear from god
no
i would just say uh prepare your heart
and when the sun goes down recognize
that this is that day
when the high priest would go into i
mean he would go the next day but
you're now into the day of atonement
because on the jewish calendar the day
begins at
you're now into that day uh where you
can be meditating on this
and positioning yourself to have some
extra quiet
alone time with the lord you know what
maybe you want to sit in your favorite
chair where it's quiet and peaceful or
your
couch or something like that grab your
bible notepad just say lord i'm all ears
lord take the rod lord and uh pass it
over me and
uh and remember he's not gonna whip you
or hit you with it he's not like that
he's a good shepherd
and he'll just take the rod and it's
like an x-ray scan
it's like you know the uh these sport
doctors they can do these mris on you
it's painless doesn't hurt
they just scan you and they can tell you
oh you know you've injured your knee or
your elbow or shoulder or something like
that it's pain free
but the lord can do these inspections
and he'll talk with you and talk with
you about your future talk with you
about the upcoming year because we have
also
moved into the new jewish year with the
recent passing of rosh hashanah
10 days ago so we are now in the new
year you want to get
you want to get information from the
lord concerning that
hallelujah so it's a special opportunity
i want to encourage you
to take this message to heart draw near
to the lord
understand that jesus your high priest
would like to meet with you and would
like to share some things with you and i
really believe that if you'll just take
your bible and you'll take your your
notepad
and your pen get along with the lord
spend some time there don't try to force
anything just say lord i'm here and just
pray and enjoy the lord have good
fellowship with the lord pray in the
spirit
maybe you also want to get up in the
middle of that night and spend some time
in prayer
maybe an hour maybe a little bit longer
if you're having a good time
and just say lord thank you jesus you're
my high priest
i'm so glad that we don't have to do
this offer this this um
you know this thing over and over every
year i'm so glad that i have a clean
conscience my sins are washed away
it's once and done jesus you you did
what nobody else could do
lord i i'm just hanging out jesus you're
my high priest what would you say to me
concerning
your plan for my life lord there's some
things i'd like to know lord i'm all
ears i've got my pen and my paper ready
and just have a good time with him and i
believe as you sit there
up out of your spirit will flow
revelation up out of your spirit will
flow
revelation from the good shepherd to you
praise the lord and you'll receive what
you need to know
in this phase in this current chapter of
your life now for those of you
how can i say you've uh you're rare
you're aware of this this is not like uh
something new for you although hearing
it again does
re-strengthen the foundations of your
faith
but what i'm saying for those of you
that may be a little more developed
be aware that the holy spirit could lead
you into
visionary experiences that's not
uncommon
where that begins to happen and again
don't don't try to force something
because you try to force
something the evil the enemy evil
spirits can accommodate that
so just go before the lord hang out with
the lord and should the holy spirit
begin to open that realm up
whether through seeing or hearing or
even through scent
because even tonight while i've been
ministering this message to you
i wanted to get it to you early i'm
actually recording this
on saturday night so we can get this out
sunday morning very very early
i want as many people to see it as
possible before sundown
this whole time i've been preaching i've
been smelling the burning of wood
and i know that represents sacrifice
praise god thank you lord jesus
hallelujah
glory to god thank you lord jesus
so we need to be sensitive prepare your
heart and should that
realm begin to open up just lean into it
just lean into it and
very very importantly after a visionary
type
encounter you receive something from the
lord remember
a short pencil or short pen
is a whole lot better than a long memory
don't think oh i'll never forget that
you know 10 years 20 years go by you
might be like now wait a minute what
really no no don't
write it down write it down and you'll
be so glad that you did
write it down and then you have
something that even as the apostle paul
told to timothy wage a good warfare with
the prophecies
that have been delivered to you in other
words when you get prophetic utterance
from the lord from the spirit of god
and you you're getting information from
headquarters write that down you can
wage a good warfare with that
this is the direction the holy spirit
would have me go this is god's plan
and you dialed in on that praise the
lord
hallelujah glory to god let us draw near
with the true heart praise the lord draw
near draw near
the veil has been torn wide open you can
go straight into the holy of holies
before your heavenly father and enjoy
rich
and fulfilling fellowship with him
praise god father i pray for your people
today
that they will take advantage of this
special
moment that we are in where in a sense
because christ is our high priest
father we can come before you anytime
day or night
but we thank you that there is a there's
a grace
during this time because this is when
the sheep
pass beneath the rod of the shepherd
this has always been that special time
and so we'll use our faith to
springboard father off of that promise
from
ezekiel 20 verse 37 and 38
and also hebrews chapter 10 and verse 22
hallelujah we'll use this time to just
draw near to you
and we thank you we thank you that
you're going to share some good stuff
with us
as individuals you'll speak to that
person who's going to draw near
father we thank you we thank you we
praise you
in jesus name in the name of jesus we
pray
we all agree and say amen
praise god hallelujah
now i want to read a verse as we're
getting ready to take holy communion
a verse from psalm 130
and this would be verse 3 praise god
the psalmist said if you lord
should mark iniquities now iniquities
are a type of sin
it's it's different from direct sin in
the sense that iniquities
are things that you do that are wrong
and you know that you know they're wrong
and just do them anyhow
you know like and it's used iniquities
also involve the hebrew meaning of bent
there's a crookedness to it it's it's
just bad stuff okay
it's bad twisted things if you lord
should mark
iniquities oh lord who
could stand well the obvious answer to
that
is that nobody could stand nobody could
stand if the lord is
marking iniquities we've all sinned
and even david said i was born steeped
in iniquities iniquities passed down
from
you know parents and grandparents and
generational
curses and generational problems and
weaknesses and inherited things they
struggled with passed on down the
bloodline
and i mean the psalmist says lord you
know if you should mark iniquities who
could stand
well again nobody has ever lived a
sinless
iniquity-free life except for jesus
christ
he did not have a natural father to pass
all of that stuff into the into him he
was conceived
through virgin birth and the seed that
was
put into mary came from god praise the
lord so jesus he had joseph as a
stepfather
but his true father was god in heaven
thank you lord jesus and that's how he
also redeemed lost humanity
back to god because the first adam
sinned
and spread sin into the entire human
race and the devil said i've got it
i've got the human race now nobody will
ever deliver them now because they're
all tainted with sin there can't be a
deliverer anywhere on the planet
oh but god had an idea i'll send my son
born of a virgin into the earth and he
won't have a natural father
god was the father so uh
it's like now you've got another atom on
the planet that's why the apostle paul
said
he's the last adam not the second adam
or the third or fourth
you kept maybe trying to do it but never
could do it no he was the last adam
everything the original adam lost jesus
redeemed it and restored it back to the
human race
for those that will put their faith and
trust in him
if you lord shall mark iniquities o lord
who could stand
but there is forgiveness with you that
you may be feared that you may be
worshipped reverenced and respected
yes there's forgiveness in the lord but
you have to receive the lord
in order to receive that forgiveness if
not
there's still the iniquity and there's
still the sin and
there's going to have to be a punishment
for that so if you don't know christ
you're in hot water you're in trouble
there is no
other remedy available unto men
for the condition of sin and the
punishment that sin deserves
except for salvation in the lord jesus
christ
i give you the invitation and the
opportunity right now to receive christ
as your lord and savior
if you never have and you would like to
pray this prayer
after me say lord jesus i am a sinner
jesus come into my heart you died for my
sins
at calvary you hung on the cross
and shed your blood from me
jesus write my name in your book
of life i accept you now
as my lord and savior take control of my
life
from this day forward jesus
in your name i pray amen
and amen and let me be the first to say
to you welcome
to the family of god now if you're a
christian watching
but you're backslidden and you're far
from the lord and
you're not in a good place right now
turn from your sin repent of practicing
sin
and come back to the lord say lord jesus
i've drifted
too far from you jesus forgive me
i repent of those things i've gotten
tangled up in
that are displeasing to you please
forgive me
and restore me unto you right now
in your name i pray amen amen amen
hallelujah what a faithful high priest
we have praise god
thank you jesus now let's take holy
communion together
grab some unleavened bread grab some
grape juice and let's pray
father we thank you for the bread the
juice
we pray over it and set it apart through
this prayer
as being holy this is now the body and
the blood of christ our savior
father we thank you that as long as we
partake of this
we proclaim his death what he
accomplished there at
calvary the awful sacrifice
of allowing all of our filth and sins to
go upon him
so that we could experience that
exchange
and receive his righteousness thank you
father thank you for jesus we receive
his body
we thank you that we can draw near and
lord
we're going to do just that we thank you
for the day of atonement
that special time where there is the
spiritual
mri hallelujah hallelujah thank you
father
god the spiritual x-ray
of our spirit and our soul the checkup
that we can enjoy thank you oh lord we
thank you for wisdom revelation flowing
help and answers that we need we give
you all the praise thank you father for
the body of jesus
let's receive his body now
the psalmist said in verse 5 i wait for
the lord
my soul waits and in his word i do hope
how about waiting in that word
that you'll pass beneath the rod of the
shepherd how about waiting for that word
how about waiting for that word of
hebrews 10 we have a high priest
draw near to the father draw near
confidence he said my soul waits for the
lord
more than those who watch for the
morning yes more
than those who watch for the morning see
there was a night watch there
at the temple and they would be watching
for the sun to come up they were not
allowed to go to sleep
maybe you want to do a little prayer
watch
hanging out with the lord just hanging
out with the lord as david said my
soul waits for the lord this is a great
anticipation there seeking the lord
praise god seek the lord on this special
day of atonement yom kippur
i believe god has some special things
he'll share with you father thank you
for the blood of jesus
our high priest once and done
never to be needed to be done again
the ultimate sacrifice it is finished he
said
and it certainly is he's paid the price
father we receive his blood now thank
you thank you father in jesus name
amen let's drink together
hallelujah praise god so my friends on
that beautiful buffet table
of everything that jesus has made
available to us through the new birth
experience
through salvation in him through his
shed blood
we receive the special blessing of
drawing near
we receive the special blessing take it
right now of drawing near
on the day of atonement and passing
beneath the precious rod of the loving
shepherd
and receiving encouragement edification
comfort receiving direction guidance
whatever we need to hear from the lord
even correction
insight praise the lord the lord
is the good shepherd my friends thank
you for watching today may you have a
very blessed yom kippur
i really feel the lord will pour his
heart
out to you as you seek him with all of
your heart
and thank you also for supporting this
ministry as we are
increasing through the television
ministry to reach as many
souls as possible thank you for standing
with us
and together together we're going to
reach a lot of souls
praise god praise god our goal is a
million
praise the lord i believe we can do it
may the lord richly bless you
i'll see you back next time bye-bye