Can you hear me? Okay, I'm not going to do anything. Good morning. It is amazing.
It is amazing. Can we talk about the scripture and the screen? First Corinthians chapter 15, from 12 to 49th place, is proclaimed as waste from the day. How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the day?
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your feet is in vain. Another fact of the matter is that our preaching is useless and our feet is useless. And that's why this morning when we were thinking this verse, it is Lord, it is Lord, it is raising from the dead.
It is Lord. Everything was bad. Every tongue must come first. Jesus Christ is Lord.
Dead thoughts, He has won. The Bible says the wages of sin is death. It became sinned for us so that He could die on our behalf. On that faithful day, which now called good Friday, dead thoughts, He has won.
We will go ahead and have another plan. And we are here this morning because of that plan that the next could not keep in his life. Hallelujah. Let us pray.
A rotten father will thank you for this morning. Thank you for the grace that you have bestowed upon us to call you Father. Thank you for the finished walk of your Son, Jesus Christ. Thank you.
He laid down his life. Nobody could take his life away from him. He is God. But he laid it out willingly.
He made a choice so that we can have life. Thank you, our last new father. We acknowledge this and will return all glory and hold not to you. Thank you for rising up on the top day.
Thank you for the hope that you are giving us that we will live and eternal life with you. Thank you. In this hope, we rejoice. In this hope, we worship.
Thank you for the last new father. In Jesus' name, Amen. This morning, I don't know why I got that lady to my heart. Over the month back, during the breaking of the race service, I think someone stood up and spoke about this passage.
And ever since the world from up to bottom, I just talked to my heart like I couldn't just let it go. And I've been thinking, thinking about it. So from Matthew 27, from about 50 to 51, then Jesus shouted out again and it released his spirit. At that moment, the cotton in the sanctuary of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
The art shook rocks split apart in the sanctuary of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Today's a significant, it's a memorable day for believers, for we all believers. Because we believe today signify the day, the thought day, that our Lord Jesus Christ, that was certified, dead, buried. In fact, they had soldiers at the tomb guiding the tomb because they believe the Spirit is going to raise, it's going to come back on the third day.
So they didn't want that to happen. Or by the power of resurrection, it came back to life on the third day. But on that day, I died, something happened. So I'm going to roll us back maybe two days to that day, from today, it starts to defy the day.
Caught in the sanctuary of the temple was torn from bottom. So why the cotton? How did he even come into the picture? Exodos 26, from Vrastar 32, 33.
This is got up into Moses. It wants him to set up a tabanacle for him. He wants to drop in their presence. And he said, from Vrastar 3, set up this tabanacle, according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain, for the inside of the tabanacle will make a special cotton or finely woven linen.
The great is with blue, purple and scarlet crack, and with a carefully embroidered hare room. Hand this cotton on the gold hooks attached to the fore post of Achaia wood. Overly the post with gold and set them in four silver pieces. Hand the inner cotton from the clasp and put the up of the hand of the net in the room behind it.
This cotton will separate the holy place from the most holy place. I'm in your weather with the king's palace before Chayav. I don't know if you have been there. I don't know if you have been there.
I don't know if you have been there. I don't know if you have been there. I don't know if you have been there before. Okay.
So I'm not the only one anyway. So we all know that in the compound of the palace, it depends on how mighty or how big the king is. It's so all the so massive. What there is always a place in the palace that the king resides.
It has a strong and just one spot in the palace. That's where I would like us to look at because when we are talking about God, he is holy. That is nature. In Leviticus 16, sorry, Leviticus 19 from Vass 1 to 2.
He said, the loath such moses give the fallen instruction to the entire community of Israel. You must be holy because have the Lord your God. I am holy. So that's God giving instruction to moses because he is holy.
Now holy place from the most holy place. And in my class of reading study for this, I discovered that human intelligence or capacity cannot comprehend how deep holy means when we are talking about God. God is holy, is deep. And something that came into my mind about that is one thing for you to say, this is who I am.
It's another thing for you to be consistent about it. God as ever being consistent about his holiness is actually his absolute God. In fact, the Bible says Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever. It's only God.
You might not have that capacity. Some of us here, we all had a new year in resolution. This is what I am going to be this year. This is what I intend to be.
And this is just a prayer. Some of us are filled with those resolutions. We can't even keep up with it. But God said I am holy and he has never deviated from that.
As a matter of fact, he helped us to see that through the laws that he gave moses to see how sinful we have and how holy the extent of his holiness. Now, I was, how do I distinguish between holy place and most holy place? So three actually came to my mind and that was accessibility. We can see people in those places and the function.
What do they do there? When you go in there. So for all the place, we can see that both priest and high priest have access to that place. God gave Aaron to again some of the children as priests and you have some duties that perform at the holy place.
And most holy place is there no good day. Only one person is allowed in there. And that is the high priest. During that time, it was here on the high priest.
It was chosen as the high priest. And on frequency, as you can see, we have daily activities going on within the holy place. During that time, there are two types of sacrifices ongoing. One is the daily one which falls under the category of bond offering, sin offering, peace offering.
So all those ones are done personally with the person, relating with the priest involved. But when it comes to the holy place, you only go there once in a year. And there is a lot of, there's a lot of mister guidelines that must be followed by the priest and the people. And it's a national event where the high priest is going to the presence of God on behalf of the nation.
So, and the other place we have in there, we have the last time, the table of bread, the earth of incense. And in the most holy place, we have the heart of covenant. And that symbolizes the presence of God himself. If we want to read more about this, we can read Exodus, the book of Exodus 30, 29, 27, Leviticus 16.
They all do read. If they are likely, at one point, I was wondering, the coffin was torn in the temple, not in the tabernacle. Temple, tabernacle. So, what's the difference?
And that helped me. Dig, dig, dig. The tabernacle is quite different from the temple. But the tabernacle, the tabernacle, that was a pattern given to Moses by God.
And the same pattern was replicated in the temple. So, this idea is a brief description of what they look like. The tabernacle is a part of the temple, like sanctuary. An instruction, the pattern given to Moses, Exodus 25, verse 9.
Build this according to the pattern that I will show you. Build during Israel's wilderness, Johnine, showed that God was traveling with his people and called the assembled and dismantled as the people moved. So, if we look at Numbers 4, from verse 1 to 3, then there was a set of movies and errands. Record the names of the members of the corners and families of the co-hathites, divisions of the tribe of Levi.
List all the men between the ages of 30 and 50 who are eligible to serve in the tabernacle. If we go to verse 13, they must remove the hashes from the altar for sacrifices and cover the altar with the upper clothes. All the altar, utensils, the fire panels, meat forks, shovels, business and all the containers must be placed on the clothes. And the covering of the fine God's new leather must be spread over them.
Finally, the most good carrying poles in place. The camp will be ready to move when Aaron and his sons are finished covering the sanctuary and all the sacred articles. The co-hathites will come and carry this to the nest destination. But they must not touch the sacred objects or they will die.
So these are the things from tabernacle that coathites must carry. So the coathites, they were from the Levi tribe. So their duty is to carry the tabernacle when Aaron and his sons have done the nidful according to God's instruction. They moved from one location to another location.
So, non-tempo, the temple, we all know the temple. They had a very strong conversation with Prophet Nathan. They said, you know what? I need to do something.
My God has been outside for a while sleeping there. I want to build him a permanent home. And the rest is history. Although it is in beauty, God said, no, I want the son to do it for me.
And God built the upper, the rest is the land constructed on the king's settlement. And it's a fixed structure not meant to be moved. So, now, what is the significance of the coathites? The coathites symbolized the separation between Holy God and sinful man.
Genesis, the book of Genesis chapter 3, gave a detailed account of over-fell shots of God's tongue and of God's glory. As a matter of fact, in that chapter, we lost everything. Truly the disobedience of one man, Hire. We lost our righteousness.
Physical debt was introduced from dusty palm from dusty return. Spiritual debt, which is separation from God. And the environment, the ground was caused. So, the very hard one.
Romans 3, verse 23, says, for all I've seen. All of everyone I've seen. Regardless of where you come from. Nigeria, Canada, Argentina, Norway, Nicaragua.
You know as much you can hear me and I can see you. You were born in sin. All I've seen. And four shots of the glory of the kingdom of God.
Romans 5, 19, says, yes, and I'm one scene. Brings condemnation for everyone. But Christ, one has of righteousness. Brings a right relationship with God.
A new life for everyone. Because one person disobeyed God. Many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many would be made righteous.
Separation between Holy God and sinful man. God is too holy. It can never behold iniquity. It can never behold sin.
But he loves us. He wants us. He holds the ways to have it in the guiding of your name. And he won't stop until you restore it back to how you study.
The significant of the cotton restricted hases. It's amazing if we read the book of Genesis, the Bible says, in the evening time, God walks down in the guiding and we have a nice time. All of a sudden, it's not happening again. There used to be very direct, easy assets.
Now became a restricted asset. You cannot go beyond this line. I'm going to read from two passages to show how serious that was. Leviticus 16 from Vaz 1 to 2.
And this is Herod. Painting that it can just go in and out of the Tabernacle. Anytime it feels like. The lost of the Mosseus after the death of Eren's Tucson.
Who died after the entire lost presence and born the wrong kind of fire. Another Vazian says, in sense, before Eren. The lost of the lost of the Mosseus won your brother. Not to enter the most holy place behind the inner cotton when never it chooses.
If it does, it will die. For the act of the cover, the place of a thulment is there. And high, myself, and present in the cloud above the atonement cover. It's my joke.
I am holy. And it's written that by letting them know that you are not crying enough to come to my present as you like. Numbers 18, verse 7, where you and your sons, the priest, must personally handle all the priestly rituals associated with the halter. And with everything behind the inner cotton, I am giving you the priesthood as a special privilege of service.
Here comes instruction. Any unauthorized person who comes too near the sanctuary will be put to death. Any unauthorized person, number 18, verse 7 will be put to death. Now, if we sum all these all, we have a relationship that is shaped by fear and spiritual distance from God.
Man can only stand outside, looking from fire. They are aware of God's presence. But they cannot draw near the piano. What others remind us?
Three things. Access to God required mediation, forgiveness required sacrifice. And worship involved reverence and order. You don't do it the way you lie.
Someone has to be chosen by God on your behalf. Forgiveness required sacrifice. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. Hebrews 9, verse 22.
And there is a specific order we are meant to be followed when we want to worship. Now, in the sanctuary of the temple was torn into from top to bottom. If we reflect back from where we are coming from, the kind of fear that has been instilled. In the proposed hearts, you are brave with me and no man dare try to touch the cotton, because you are not even allowed within the perimeter.
From top to bottom. That was a divine action. God needed to intervene for us. But it didn't just happen.
Something preceded it. And if we go back to that quest, then Jesus shouted again and he released his spirit that happened first. He died for us. It was true his death that God had to split the cotton.
He released his spirit. When people die, I don't think they had one in charge of their spirit. I don't think they had one in charge of their spirit. In this circumstance, it was written that he released his spirit.
And that means if he has me, that looks like something of choice. For you and I, he released his spirit. He died for us. He took the position, our position, our sinful position, and died for us.
And then the cotton in the sanctuary of the temple was torn from top to bottom. Now, this was not human. This was not a walk of human effort, but a divine action. It was a declaration of a new way to approach and to relate and to encounter God, like, and start in a new chapter, to intervene by himself.
We didn't have the capacity. Everything that was done that time was done repeatedly. Yay, yay, yay, yay. God had to calm down.
John chapter 1, verse 14. So the world became human. One one, John chapter 1, was one described the world. In the beginning was the world, and the world was the God.
In fact, the world was God. Then when he came to 14, he said, and the world became human. And made his home among us. It was full of faith, love, and faithfulness.
And we have seen his glory, the glory of the fathers, one and only son. God intervened by himself to see us. Philippians 2 verse 5 to 8 says, you must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus heard. There was God, it did not think of equality with God as something of Klingon, though it was God.
That's something to think about. It gave up his divine privileges and took the humble position of his life and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, it's something that can relate to it. He humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross.
A criminal's death on a cross just where you and I to receive. My time is running. Now, in his sanctuary was turned into from top to bottom. What does this signify again?
Fulfillment of the old sacrificial system. If you agree with me, everything, all the arrangement, everything around the old sacrificial system. Now we can know that it was pointing to our Lord Jesus Christ. It was a shadow of something greater that God was planning for a long time, and it was pointing to Jesus.
For the courting, who was permanently removed, Jesus Christ became the perfect lamp and high priest. It became the perfect lamp and high priest. If you want to read more on that, Hebrews, chapter 9 and 10, it's a good read. I love this particular passage in Hebrew 9.
In fact, the day I stumbled on it, it changed a lot in my mind. So Christ has now become the high priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that greater and more perfect tabanaku in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not asked of this created world. Wow, the tabanaku that was not made by human hands.
So that was the pattern that God was showing Moses. It's not making sense. So during his death, he entered into tabanaku, the heavenly one. The one you and high doesn't have access to.
Where God is seated, not the blood of the lamp, not the blood of God's this time around with his own blood. He entered the most holy place once for all time and secured our redemption forever as a believer. This is something we should always reflect on. The fact that Hanima sacrifices had to admit every day, continually through that they were in themselves in adequate.
The sacrifice of Christ was so perfect and complete, the ultimate, it will never be repeated. And God doesn't even want us to repeat it. He only has to do something in remembrance of him. And that's to break the bread and drink the wine, which you do here at Nodru.
Do this in remembrance of me. Now, the third one is direct access. Now, we have direct access to God. Why?
Because Jesus Christ has become the perfect lamp and our high priest. Direct access has transformed our relationship with God from fear to confidence, from distance to closeness, and from ritual to relationship. Through his son, Jesus Christ, God has removed the barrier that the cotton has seen, making it possible for us to approach him personally freely and with confidence. That sounds like a sweeping right?
Personally, freely and with confidence. Now you can have some privacy with God on your own. You don't need anybody. You can go on your own through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It will fall from 14 to 16. So then, since we have a great high priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us go firmly to what we believe. This high priest of hers understands our weakness, for it faced all of the same testings we do, yet it did not sing. So, let us come boldly to the throne of our Lord, of our precious God.
They have received this message and will find grace to others when we need its most emphasis on boldly. Now you can come to the throne boldly. On a continent. You yourself, in your room, in your kitchen, when you are driving.
Isn't that wonderful? Now, but everything you've been talking about seems to be like it's relatively Jewish people. So, I'm involved in all this. I'm glad, let you know, this morning that the invitation has been extended to everyone.
It is no longer limited to a specific tribe or group. No one is far too gone and no one is left out. The access is no longer based on woodworks, religious performance or Passon Air Force. It's no longer for the qualified, but for the willing.
John 3, 16, 16, this is how God loved the world. It gave its only because it's not over. It's not open to everyone without restriction, condition or limitation. You can now come in as you have through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us read Romans 3, 21, 13, and 1 half of time. But now, God has shown us a way to be made right without keeping the requirements of the Lord. as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. We were made right with God by placing our feet in Jesus Christ.
And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we have. For everyone has sinned. We are. We are all false shots of God's glorious standard.
Yet God in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this true Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty of our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People and made right to God when they believed that Jesus sacrificed his life.
Shredding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being feared when he held by anti-knock on his toes who sinned in times past. For it was looking ahead and including then in what he would do in this present time. God be the east of the demonstration's righteousness.
For he himself is feared and just. And in next scenario right in his sight when they believe in Jesus. And we boast then that we have done anything to be accepted by God. The answer is no.
Because our Creator is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. So we are made right to go through faith, not by obeying the law. After all, it's God the God of the Jewish only.
Isn't he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is. The Gentiles. What does that mean?
Very not. I've always heard about Gentiles. Gentiles. What does that mean?
It means all the nations. Aside from the Jews. All the nations. Aside from the Jewish nation.
There is only one God. And in next people right with himself. Only by faith. Whether they are Jews or Gentiles.
Well then, if we emphasize faith. Does that mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not. In fact, only when we have faith do we truly feel the law.
Jesus Christ made us know in March 5, in 17. In case you are not getting it right. I have not come to nullify the law, to abolish the law. No, I have come to fulfill it.
It's now our choice to put our faith in a finished work on the cross of power. I'm almost done. Here is the highlight of everything I've been saying. Number one, there is no longer the need for an headlimb dietro or human intermediary.
We now relate directly to God through our great high priest in person of Jesus Christ, our Savior. There is no longer the need for repeated sacrifices. The blood of Jesus is sufficient once and for all time. There is no longer the need for a physical temple.
Access to God is now spiritual and personal. If we remember or recall the events between Jesus Christ and the American woman had it well. In John 4, that was a very interesting discussion. In my Bible, I have to try to eat man's gazen versus those gerrys selling.
But Jesus Christ made a statement there. Now you know what? God is spirit. Any time is coming.
Those who are worshiping, we have to worship Him in spirit and in truth. Any time is now. Thanks to the work of Jesus Christ. Salvation is a gift available to all.
It's not its in work. It's a gift available to all. No one can earn it. It is given by grace.
When it comes to salvation and forgiveness of sins, God no longer requires human efforts or offerings. Jesus Christ has paid everything, it completed it. What we want now is our own living to live in the finished work of His only son, Jesus Christ. Everything that was once required by law has now been fulfilled through the death of His only son.
And the preparation of this, I was thinking about how to conclude. Sometimes you just want to put the conclusion, but I couldn't. I have to find into prayer, which I think everyone of us is going to take away from here. In Psalm 119, it says, I give up with that verse, as a memory verse in my Sunday school time.
It says, open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. God has done everything for us. Everything is up to us to see it, if we are willing. And I say, if we are willing because we have the capacity sometimes, if we can read, if we can hear.
I mean, now we have Bibles in different versions, as a ability to eat. So I've been very incredible lately. It's now up to us. And the point for me here is that you only have a shit while you understand.
It's not a good thing. You only have a shit while you understand. It's not going to flash to my mind. I love my father.
I love my father, growing up. But I think I love him more when I have my own children, because some of the things I consider that I thought it wasn't that perfect. Growing up, I realized that I could begin to do it, when I said I have my own children. Now, I appreciate his efforts.
That's fine. And sometimes, that's how it is to us as you remember. Whatever you don't take time to study, you don't appreciate it. It's just one of those things to you.
Love helps me to understand and appreciate all you have done for me. God has done everything for us. He does care not his only son. What else can you not give us freely?
It's now to us. Happy Easter. Let's pray. Ever after all, thank you for this glorious moment.
We thank you for the gift of your son, that you sent into this world to redeem us from the trap of sin. It saved us. It saved us. And reconciled us back to you.
Now, it is with confidence that we can call you, Father. It is with confidence that we can pray. And know that you hear us. It is with that confidence that we rejoice and we worship you.
Thank you for lasting, Father. We pray this morning that you'll help us to understand you more, so that we can keep appreciating you for the rest of our life. We want to do this for the rest of our life. And we want to even pass it down to our children.
Our children pass it down to their children. This is our wish. We ask and we pray for this grace. Thank you for lasting, Father.
In Jesus' mighty name I pray. Amen.