WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.495 --> 00:00:18.179 Okay, welcome. 2 00:00:18.189 --> 00:00:22.518 How many of you were here last week? 3 00:00:22.528 --> 00:00:28.420 How many of you are within the sound of my voice? 4 00:00:28.430 --> 00:00:32.278 More of you were here than that. 5 00:00:32.288 --> 00:00:37.899 Anyway, okay, what did we talk about last week? 6 00:00:40.810 --> 00:00:59.502 We took a trip through the sign of the Son of Man, and at least on one comet, and we looked at different points on that path, 7 00:00:59.512 --> 00:01:09.969 and we saw how it corresponded to something in the history of Israel. 8 00:01:11.150 --> 00:01:13.631 Remember what it was? 9 00:01:13.641 --> 00:01:21.440 What was the story that this comet tells in the history of Israel? 10 00:01:21.450 --> 00:01:22.730 The Exodus. 11 00:01:23.620 --> 00:01:28.510 First, they were in Egypt, the land of bondage, 12 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:40.790 and it was at midnight when the angel passed over those who had the blood of the lamb on the doorpost of their house. 13 00:01:42.219 --> 00:01:49.172 Then they came out of Egypt, and where did they find themselves next? 14 00:01:49.182 --> 00:01:55.519 They went through the wilderness until they got to the Red Sea. 15 00:01:57.500 --> 00:02:06.980 That is represented by this place in the sign where the water crosses into the sign. 16 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:15.129 They came to the Red Sea, and then they were frightened. 17 00:02:15.129 --> 00:02:21.577 They didn't know what to do because the Egyptians were behind them, and they couldn't go through the sea. 18 00:02:21.587 --> 00:02:25.629 But you know the story, God parted the sea, and they went through. 19 00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:34.610 We're going to spend a little bit more time talking about that today. 20 00:02:34.620 --> 00:02:39.460 I think it will be a very interesting study. 21 00:02:39.469 --> 00:02:49.240 But just to refresh our minds, then we came to this point here where the two paths cross. 22 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:57.612 Now I want to show you this live in Stellarium. 23 00:02:57.622 --> 00:03:00.589 Let me show it here. 24 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.250 There is the sign. 25 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:06.491 Now let's locate the . 26 00:03:06.501 --> 00:03:06.585 . 27 00:03:06.595 --> 00:03:06.679 . 28 00:03:06.689 --> 00:03:15.159 this is where the comet is right now, at the present moment, and hopefully this will work for me now. 29 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:17.997 Yes. 30 00:03:18.007 --> 00:03:29.090 Notice where it is, this is now that same crossing, it's at a little bit different angle, but it's that same crossing there. 31 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:36.472 You notice it's right at that crossing. 32 00:03:36.482 --> 00:03:44.211 This is May 26th at 10 o'clock in the morning. 33 00:03:44.221 --> 00:04:03.020 But if we put our time to Jerusalem, then we see that it's actually in the evening, just at the end of the 26th. 34 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:06.399 And that of course, it's about sunset. 35 00:04:06.409 --> 00:04:11.476 And in Hebrew thinking, the sunset is when the day begins. 36 00:04:11.486 --> 00:04:16.970 So this is really the beginning of what we would call May 27th. 37 00:04:18.910 --> 00:04:27.073 And who can tell me on God's calendar what day May 27th was this year? 38 00:04:27.083 --> 00:04:29.299 That was Pentecost. 39 00:04:29.309 --> 00:04:32.575 Exactly when the comet was . 40 00:04:32.585 --> 00:04:32.701 . 41 00:04:32.711 --> 00:04:32.828 . 42 00:04:32.838 --> 00:04:37.220 now I lost my place here, there we go. 43 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:47.850 Exactly when the comet was at that crossing, was right to the hour even, at the beginning of the day of Pentecost. 44 00:04:49.149 --> 00:04:52.850 And in the history of Israel, what happens on the day of Pentecost? 45 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:59.149 The law was given at Mount Sinai. 46 00:04:59.159 --> 00:05:06.412 So therefore, this point represents, this point in the sign of the Son of Man, 47 00:05:06.422 --> 00:05:19.243 it points us back to that time in the history of Israel when God was on Mount Sinai with all the drama and the lightning and the thunder, 48 00:05:19.253 --> 00:05:22.870 and he gave them the Ten Commandments. 49 00:05:25.810 --> 00:05:29.350 That crossing points to that time. 50 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:45.207 And if that's not amazing enough, then we come a few months later, four months later, let me get back there, and this time, 51 00:05:45.217 --> 00:05:48.737 instead of looking at Comet E3, 52 00:05:48.747 --> 00:05:53.149 we're going to look at the other comet. 53 00:05:53.910 --> 00:06:05.129 This is the path of the Comet K2, and it comes and it makes this tight loop, and right when it is at that day. 54 00:06:05.129 --> 00:06:06.370 Maybe I can do it this way. 55 00:06:07.509 --> 00:06:22.677 Here is, you see, Comet 2017 K2, and if I show some markers and some dates, and then we look at that, very close up, 56 00:06:22.687 --> 00:06:28.300 and right here at the tip is September 26. 57 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:49.057 So the comet comes here right at the tip of this curve, it's coming up this way, crosses over, and right at the tip is September 26, 58 00:06:49.067 --> 00:06:55.050 and that was what day on God's calendar? 59 00:06:55.060 --> 00:07:03.529 This was Yom Kippur in the first possibility of the month. 60 00:07:05.980 --> 00:07:21.366 Now Yom Kippur was also a special day in Jewish history, and very connected with the day of Pentecost, because what happened on Yom Kippur? 61 00:07:21.376 --> 00:07:25.019 Where did Moses go on Yom Kippur? 62 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:36.350 He also had received two tables of stone on Yom Kippur, he went back up the mountain, 63 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:45.889 this time it was after Israel had sinned and Moses threw the two tables of the stone down, 64 00:07:45.899 --> 00:07:48.300 that was at Pentecost. 65 00:07:49.129 --> 00:07:58.286 Then they received instructions for the tabernacle, and he went back up the mountain, and that was on Yom Kippur, 66 00:07:58.296 --> 00:08:01.770 and he received two fresh tables of stone, 67 00:08:01.780 --> 00:08:03.310 written with what? 68 00:08:05.259 --> 00:08:08.780 They were written with the finger of God. 69 00:08:08.790 --> 00:08:17.464 God himself wrote in the stone, and that's very significant, we'll see that again today in our study. 70 00:08:17.474 --> 00:08:17.540 , 71 00:08:19.649 --> 00:08:26.839 So here in the sign of the Son of Man, we see two points. 72 00:08:27.129 --> 00:08:42.152 Let me just take off these markers, we see two important points, these two crossings here and the tip, that point to Israel's history, 73 00:08:42.162 --> 00:08:45.179 precisely at the very day. 74 00:08:46.090 --> 00:08:51.298 One with this comet when it crosses exactly on Pentecost, 75 00:08:51.308 --> 00:09:00.802 the other with this comet when it reaches that sharp point at the end exactly on the day of Yom Kippur, 76 00:09:00.812 --> 00:09:03.269 the beginning of that day. 77 00:09:06.100 --> 00:09:18.750 So that is a very impressive lineup of events that this comet points to, these comets, the sign of the Son of Man as a whole, 78 00:09:18.760 --> 00:09:22.090 points to this series of events. 79 00:09:22.090 --> 00:09:30.049 From the Exodus, the Red Sea crossing, then they were in the wilderness and they received God's law, but they broke it. 80 00:09:31.110 --> 00:09:40.110 And then they received it again, and they received his forgiveness, that was the assurance of their forgiveness when they came down, 81 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:41.610 when Moses came down. 82 00:09:50.990 --> 00:09:55.800 Yes, that's a good point, the lightning and thunder, 83 00:09:55.810 --> 00:10:07.179 all that volcanic activity that was connected with the law is also seen in the 7th trumpet that we talked about last week. 84 00:10:08.340 --> 00:10:11.379 I won't reference that again today, 85 00:10:11.389 --> 00:10:17.940 but in the 7th trumpet it talks about seeing and hearing the lightnings and 86 00:10:17.950 --> 00:10:24.230 the thunderings and a great earthquake just like it was at Mount Sinai. 87 00:10:24.789 --> 00:10:30.248 And here again when he received the law for the second time, 88 00:10:30.258 --> 00:10:39.710 it reflects or it has a relationship to that time when God thundered with lightnings and an earthquake. 89 00:10:39.710 --> 00:10:43.779 And there was even a sound of a great trumpet when they received the law. 90 00:10:44.990 --> 00:10:51.683 The difference between these two points is here they received the law but it wasn't in their hearts, 91 00:10:51.693 --> 00:10:57.440 whereas at Yom Kippur it points to a time when the law would be written in the heart. 92 00:10:58.149 --> 00:11:13.481 This was in the case of Israel, though in their experience it hadn't yet been written in their heart, but it pointed forward to that time, 93 00:11:13.491 --> 00:11:25.480 and it represented God's forgiveness for their sin that they committed in creating the golden calf earlier. 94 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:33.869 So then they have the wilderness wandering where, and here it passes right by the throne. 95 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:39.179 This is, these three belt stars of Orion represent the throne of God. 96 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:54.000 Interesting that there are three stars because there are three persons through the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 97 00:11:56.940 --> 00:12:05.490 And then at the end they finally were to cross the Jordan into the promised land. 98 00:12:06.029 --> 00:12:17.200 So that points to the time when we can expect to cross the heavenly Jordan that separates us from God. 99 00:12:19.100 --> 00:12:26.065 So the whole process from the exodus of Egypt to the crossing into the promised land is 100 00:12:26.075 --> 00:12:32.710 all represented in the key points that God brought the children of Israel through. 101 00:12:32.710 --> 00:12:41.661 And we talked about the entry point with the clock before. 102 00:12:41.671 --> 00:13:01.417 So yeah, we talked about the clock a couple weeks ago, and entering into Christ's rest in the symbolic form, just as Jesus said, 103 00:13:01.427 --> 00:13:04.039 I give you rest. 104 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:17.120 Now let's look at the next part of this series, and this is when they crossed the Red Sea. 105 00:13:20.950 --> 00:13:28.473 Now I want to look at what Paul says about this. 106 00:13:28.483 --> 00:13:43.049 First Corinthians chapter 10 in verse 2, he talks about the children of Israel going through. 107 00:13:43.450 --> 00:13:51.748 And in verse 2 he says, they were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 108 00:13:51.758 --> 00:13:54.740 Now that's kind of interesting. 109 00:13:56.259 --> 00:14:01.860 He points out that they were under the cloud and they all passed through the sea. 110 00:14:02.470 --> 00:14:08.485 Now the sea was parted, and they went through, and the sea was like a wall of water on either side, 111 00:14:08.495 --> 00:14:11.220 and they had the cloud over the top of them. 112 00:14:11.220 --> 00:14:13.570 So they were surrounded in water. 113 00:14:13.580 --> 00:14:21.759 So Paul connects that with baptism, and he says they were all baptized, and then he says something kind of strange. 114 00:14:22.730 --> 00:14:28.361 They were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 115 00:14:28.371 --> 00:14:30.313 What does that mean? 116 00:14:30.323 --> 00:14:39.820 Are some baptized into Moses, and others are baptized, I thought were baptized into Christ, right? 117 00:14:41.509 --> 00:14:49.408 So why does he say some were baptized into Moses? 118 00:14:49.418 --> 00:14:59.080 Well, let's go back to the first person who baptized people. 119 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:00.504 Who was that? 120 00:15:00.514 --> 00:15:03.033 Who originated baptism? 121 00:15:03.043 --> 00:15:06.419 It was John the Baptist, right? 122 00:15:07.090 --> 00:15:14.132 So what did John the Baptist say about baptism? 123 00:15:14.142 --> 00:15:30.468 If we look at Mark chapter 1 verse 8, this is talking about when John the Baptist was baptizing, and he says, 124 00:15:30.478 --> 00:15:36.309 I indeed have baptized you with water. 125 00:15:37.980 --> 00:15:40.451 He was in the Jordan River. 126 00:15:40.461 --> 00:15:52.725 He baptized the people in the water, and then he said, but he, and he's talking about one who is mightier than he who comes after him. 127 00:15:52.735 --> 00:15:54.820 He's speaking of Jesus. 128 00:15:56.019 --> 00:16:04.996 Jesus shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. 129 00:16:05.006 --> 00:16:12.759 So John's baptism and Jesus's baptism. 130 00:16:12.769 --> 00:16:18.870 So now we have three baptisms. 131 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:24.691 John, Jesus, and Moses. 132 00:16:24.701 --> 00:16:29.979 How do we make sense of all of this? 133 00:16:29.989 --> 00:16:41.423 Well, it's very interesting when we consider what happened at Jesus's baptism. 134 00:16:41.433 --> 00:16:48.000 Let's look at Matthew chapter 3 and verse 11. 135 00:16:48.000 --> 00:17:01.468 This is the same event that we just read about in Mark, but it's described a little bit differently. 136 00:17:01.478 --> 00:17:07.529 But I want to look at a different verse here. 137 00:17:10.380 --> 00:17:20.990 Just after he speaks of Jesus's coming, that he would baptize with the Holy Spirit, then Jesus came to him. 138 00:17:22.660 --> 00:17:29.130 In verse 13 it says, Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him. 139 00:17:31.190 --> 00:17:37.589 But John forbade him and said, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 140 00:17:39.230 --> 00:17:50.658 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. 141 00:17:50.668 --> 00:17:53.210 And then he suffered him. 142 00:17:53.210 --> 00:18:05.092 And it says, And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water, and lo, the heavens were opened. 143 00:18:05.102 --> 00:18:09.190 That's always an interesting expression. 144 00:18:09.609 --> 00:18:17.680 When we see the heavens opened, hmm, what do we see in the heavens that relates to that event? 145 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:32.190 The heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. 146 00:18:33.779 --> 00:18:41.068 He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. 147 00:18:41.078 --> 00:18:49.929 And lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. 148 00:18:49.939 --> 00:18:50.440 Okay. 149 00:18:52.109 --> 00:18:58.655 Now let's start to put the pieces together. 150 00:18:58.665 --> 00:19:08.103 And we can do that when we look at the sign of the Son of Man. 151 00:19:08.113 --> 00:19:12.680 What do you see in the middle? 152 00:19:12.690 --> 00:19:20.119 We see a person here in the river being baptized. 153 00:19:22.890 --> 00:19:26.765 And we see the dove coming down. 154 00:19:26.775 --> 00:19:29.803 So whose baptism is this? 155 00:19:29.813 --> 00:19:32.598 This is Jesus' baptism. 156 00:19:32.608 --> 00:19:42.509 And that's logical, because this is the sign of the Son of Man, the sign of Jesus. 157 00:19:43.549 --> 00:19:48.495 So it represents Jesus' baptism. 158 00:19:48.505 --> 00:19:59.786 But that's not all that is there, because we have different symbols here. 159 00:19:59.796 --> 00:20:04.277 What does the dove represent? 160 00:20:04.287 --> 00:20:06.730 We just read it. 161 00:20:06.730 --> 00:20:08.300 The Holy Spirit. 162 00:20:08.310 --> 00:20:13.707 It said the Holy Spirit came down like a dove upon him. 163 00:20:13.717 --> 00:20:18.799 So here we have a representation of the Holy Spirit. 164 00:20:21.869 --> 00:20:24.968 And what about this? 165 00:20:24.978 --> 00:20:28.851 If this is whose baptism? 166 00:20:28.861 --> 00:20:32.890 It's the baptism of Jesus. 167 00:20:32.900 --> 00:20:36.463 And who baptized Jesus? 168 00:20:36.473 --> 00:20:39.107 John the Baptist. 169 00:20:39.117 --> 00:20:42.835 John baptized with what? 170 00:20:42.845 --> 00:20:44.490 With water. 171 00:20:45.329 --> 00:20:47.877 And Jesus baptized with? 172 00:20:47.887 --> 00:20:50.116 With the Holy Spirit. 173 00:20:50.126 --> 00:20:58.405 So we see John's baptism of Jesus, but it was when John baptized him in water. 174 00:20:58.415 --> 00:21:00.190 That's this part. 175 00:21:01.349 --> 00:21:08.868 And then there's Jesus' baptism, who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. 176 00:21:08.878 --> 00:21:11.683 Is that all that's there? 177 00:21:11.693 --> 00:21:15.060 There was a voice from heaven. 178 00:21:15.070 --> 00:21:17.059 We'll get to that. 179 00:21:19.450 --> 00:21:28.640 There's also this tool kind of strangely left there, as though somebody didn't pick up their tools in the workshop. 180 00:21:29.730 --> 00:21:39.581 What is this tool that's here between these two symbols of the baptism? 181 00:21:39.591 --> 00:21:42.782 It's called the caelum. 182 00:21:42.792 --> 00:21:45.269 It's a Latin term. 183 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:47.526 It's a chisel. 184 00:21:47.536 --> 00:21:51.341 It's actually a sculptor's chisel. 185 00:21:51.351 --> 00:22:03.529 Somebody who makes an image, a carved image or a sculpture, they use this kind of a chisel to form the shape. 186 00:22:05.710 --> 00:22:31.746 Now that might seem a little bit strange in this context, but I think it will become clear when we consider what that really points to. 187 00:22:31.756 --> 00:22:40.628 And to see that, let's look at something else. 188 00:22:40.638 --> 00:22:48.140 The Old Testament sanctuary was a path. 189 00:22:48.170 --> 00:22:48.200 \ 190 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:55.607 You would enter in through one door into the courtyard. 191 00:22:55.617 --> 00:23:03.504 And in the courtyard, there was the altar of sacrifice and the laver. 192 00:23:03.514 --> 00:23:07.609 The laver represents baptism, water. 193 00:23:08.099 --> 00:23:18.568 They would clean themselves before they would go through the second door into the sanctuary. 194 00:23:18.578 --> 00:23:31.200 And then once a year, they would even go into the third part, through the third door, into the most holy place. 195 00:23:34.579 --> 00:23:36.839 Now, I want you to see something. 196 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:50.587 In Matthew chapter 3, verse 11, John explains his baptism. 197 00:23:50.597 --> 00:23:59.906 He says, I indeed baptize you with water unto what? 198 00:23:59.916 --> 00:24:02.837 Unto repentance. 199 00:24:02.847 --> 00:24:03.730 Okay. 200 00:24:04.619 --> 00:24:06.549 Unto repentance. 201 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:11.020 Now, let's look back at this picture. 202 00:24:11.030 --> 00:24:21.259 When the children of Israel recognized that they had sinned, they would bring a lamb. 203 00:24:24.259 --> 00:24:34.751 And when they came through that first door, it represented their repentance. 204 00:24:34.761 --> 00:24:41.930 They offered the lamb as a sign of their repentance. 205 00:24:41.930 --> 00:24:52.549 They would actually confess their sin on the head of the animal, and it would be then slain and burned on the altar. 206 00:24:59.500 --> 00:25:08.323 So when they would enter, they came in with an attitude of repentance. 207 00:25:08.333 --> 00:25:13.501 And that corresponds with John's baptism. 208 00:25:13.511 --> 00:25:18.660 John baptized with water unto repentance. 209 00:25:19.299 --> 00:25:24.800 And we know that Jesus identified himself with the doors. 210 00:25:24.810 --> 00:25:27.898 Remember he said, I am the door. 211 00:25:27.908 --> 00:25:34.450 And we talked about this before, where these three doors have names. 212 00:25:36.109 --> 00:25:37.778 What are the names? 213 00:25:37.788 --> 00:25:41.126 The name of the first door is the way. 214 00:25:41.136 --> 00:25:43.420 Second door was the truth. 215 00:25:43.430 --> 00:25:45.859 The third door was the life. 216 00:25:47.029 --> 00:25:52.598 So Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. 217 00:25:52.608 --> 00:25:55.577 He said that of himself. 218 00:25:55.587 --> 00:26:09.549 And John baptized to repentance and brought people through that first door, the baptism of water unto repentance. 219 00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:14.988 But Jesus had a different baptism. 220 00:26:14.998 --> 00:26:18.807 It was the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 221 00:26:18.817 --> 00:26:23.429 And where is the Holy Spirit in the sanctuary? 222 00:26:23.439 --> 00:26:25.845 Where is he represented? 223 00:26:25.855 --> 00:26:26.657 In what? 224 00:26:26.667 --> 00:26:27.619 Furniture. 225 00:26:28.230 --> 00:26:29.348 In the lamp. 226 00:26:29.358 --> 00:26:40.529 The Holy Spirit, you can see it there, in the seven-branched candlestick inside the second compartment of the sanctuary. 227 00:26:43.380 --> 00:26:52.859 In here was the bread, the lamp, and then right next to the third door was the altar of incense. 228 00:26:54.740 --> 00:27:07.361 Now when you would cross into that second door, cross through, what would you see? 229 00:27:07.371 --> 00:27:19.059 You would see the lamp, the table of showbread, and you would see the altar. 230 00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:23.191 And how would you see that? 231 00:27:23.201 --> 00:27:25.646 This was all closed in. 232 00:27:25.656 --> 00:27:34.250 No, we would see it by faith, the priest, when he would walk in, he could see it. 233 00:27:34.509 --> 00:27:36.640 And how did he see it? 234 00:27:36.650 --> 00:27:38.007 With his eyes. 235 00:27:38.017 --> 00:27:40.341 And what illuminated it? 236 00:27:40.351 --> 00:27:42.773 The light of the candles. 237 00:27:42.783 --> 00:27:47.779 This was the light that shined inside the sanctuary. 238 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:53.381 And that represents the Holy Spirit. 239 00:27:53.391 --> 00:27:56.509 The Holy Spirit shines inside. 240 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:05.750 So as soon as you walk in, immediately you're surrounded by the light of the Holy Spirit. 241 00:28:07.369 --> 00:28:08.873 It's all over. 242 00:28:08.883 --> 00:28:19.410 You know that the walls, they were made from wood, but over the wood, they were covered with what? 243 00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:22.965 With gold on the roof, with skin. 244 00:28:22.975 --> 00:28:26.920 But the walls were covered with gold. 245 00:28:27.710 --> 00:28:30.369 Now is gold dull or shiny? 246 00:28:30.379 --> 00:28:31.504 It's shiny. 247 00:28:31.514 --> 00:28:34.276 It would reflect the light. 248 00:28:34.286 --> 00:28:36.200 So there was light. 249 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:39.167 It was like being in a mirrored room. 250 00:28:39.177 --> 00:28:44.460 There's light shining around everywhere from that one candlestick. 251 00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:59.849 So literally when the priest would enter into the sanctuary, he's completely surrounded by these, the lights reflecting around all over. 252 00:29:00.690 --> 00:29:04.496 It's like he's bathed in light. 253 00:29:04.506 --> 00:29:16.039 And this represents that second baptism, the baptism that Jesus baptized with the Holy Spirit. 254 00:29:17.309 --> 00:29:28.525 When you would go through this door, you're baptized with the Holy Spirit because when you walk through, you're immediately in the presence, 255 00:29:28.535 --> 00:29:31.490 surrounded and bathed in that light. 256 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:35.307 Yes. 257 00:29:35.317 --> 00:29:35.850 Amen. 258 00:29:35.860 --> 00:29:43.099 It's the light of truth and the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth. 259 00:29:44.490 --> 00:29:51.850 So John's baptism led through the first door to repentance. 260 00:29:51.860 --> 00:29:54.979 The door is still Christ. 261 00:29:54.989 --> 00:29:59.710 We come to Christ with our repentance. 262 00:29:59.819 --> 00:30:03.019 He is represented by the lamb that is slain. 263 00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:08.016 The second door is Christ's baptism. 264 00:30:08.026 --> 00:30:19.190 When the baptism that he baptizes us with which is that of the Holy Spirit, he baptizes us in the Holy Spirit. 265 00:30:19.569 --> 00:30:27.686 Every believer, when you first come to Christ, you're cleansed. 266 00:30:27.696 --> 00:30:35.296 That's a one-time thing that you become, we say, justified. 267 00:30:35.306 --> 00:30:40.440 And that means you're counted righteous. 268 00:30:40.950 --> 00:30:44.930 You're now in the camp of God's people. 269 00:30:44.940 --> 00:30:55.240 But then when we come into the second baptism with the Holy Spirit, I want to use my words carefully. 270 00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:07.680 It's not really the second baptism, but it's Christ's baptism with the Holy Spirit. 271 00:31:08.789 --> 00:31:22.769 And he gives us the Holy Spirit, just like it was illustrated in the lives of the apostles after Christ's death and resurrection. 272 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:39.040 He sent the Holy Spirit and it was given to them and they had tongues of fire on their head, much like the candlestick has fire on the top. 273 00:31:39.050 --> 00:31:45.049 That was the symbol of their baptism with the Holy Spirit. 274 00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:52.613 So we see this process. 275 00:31:52.623 --> 00:32:05.454 And I should add that in this compartment of the sanctuary, you have the bread, the table of the Lord, 276 00:32:05.464 --> 00:32:12.876 where we commune with God in the light of the Holy Spirit. 277 00:32:12.886 --> 00:32:14.250 He's in us. 278 00:32:14.289 --> 00:32:15.999 He dwells in us. 279 00:32:16.009 --> 00:32:21.029 And that is represented there in those symbols. 280 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:23.690 But there's a third door. 281 00:32:26.630 --> 00:32:31.626 And that third door is interesting. 282 00:32:31.636 --> 00:32:46.769 It's not typically recognized by modern Christianity, at least not in the way that it is shown to us here. 283 00:32:46.779 --> 00:32:54.039 So we see the water baptism through the first door. 284 00:32:55.009 --> 00:33:03.001 There's the baptism of the Spirit through the second door of the sanctuary. 285 00:33:03.011 --> 00:33:13.549 Could it be that this tool has something to do with the third door in some kind of a third baptism? 286 00:33:15.029 --> 00:33:18.129 Again, I want to be careful. 287 00:33:18.139 --> 00:33:27.869 It's not a first, a second, and a third baptism, but it is three aspects to our baptism. 288 00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:40.789 We're baptized into Christ, and when we're baptized into Christ, you know, he is the door, but he's the way, the truth, and the life. 289 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:42.702 He's all three doors. 290 00:33:42.712 --> 00:33:45.410 So we're baptized into Christ. 291 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:54.297 Through Christ, we have access all the way to the most holy place in the sanctuary. 292 00:33:54.307 --> 00:33:57.256 All three doors represent Christ. 293 00:33:57.266 --> 00:33:59.660 So it's not three baptisms. 294 00:34:00.180 --> 00:34:06.410 It's one baptism with three different aspects, three perspectives. 295 00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:31.682 Now let's look at that sculpting tool, because this one has to do with that third compartment to the sanctuary. 296 00:34:31.692 --> 00:34:41.360 Okay, so in this third door, it's very interesting. 297 00:34:41.690 --> 00:34:47.451 The priest would only go there one time, one day out of the whole year, 298 00:34:47.461 --> 00:34:57.190 and there's a whole chapter in the Bible dedicated just to the procedures that the priest would have to do on that day. 299 00:34:57.949 --> 00:35:11.859 That was the day of Yom Kippur, and when he would go into the most holy, I want you to see what the Bible says he would do, 300 00:35:11.869 --> 00:35:15.929 and notice what altar is that here. 301 00:35:15.929 --> 00:35:23.320 This is the altar of incense that was right there at the door of that most holy place. 302 00:35:24.670 --> 00:35:38.989 All right, so let's look at the Bible back in Leviticus chapter 16 and verse 12. 303 00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:49.010 These are the laws that the priest would have to follow on the day of atonement. 304 00:35:50.130 --> 00:35:57.214 And when he would go into the most holy place, it says he would take, 305 00:35:57.224 --> 00:36:04.710 he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar. 306 00:36:04.710 --> 00:36:10.289 So he would take that from the altar of burnt offering. 307 00:36:10.299 --> 00:36:21.650 He would take a scoop of coals from the altar before the Lord and his hands full of sweet incense, beaten small. 308 00:36:22.539 --> 00:36:29.996 So he had a handful of incense and bring it within the veil. 309 00:36:30.006 --> 00:36:33.486 The veil is that third door. 310 00:36:33.496 --> 00:36:44.039 So he had hot coals, a handful of incense, and he would come through that third door. 311 00:36:44.690 --> 00:36:46.236 What did he do? 312 00:36:46.246 --> 00:36:52.738 In verse 13, he shall put the incense upon the fire, the coals, 313 00:36:52.748 --> 00:37:04.590 before the Lord that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony that he die not. 314 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.386 So get the picture. 315 00:37:08.396 --> 00:37:19.500 He's coming in, he has the coals in the censer, and he puts a handful of incense on it. 316 00:37:19.500 --> 00:37:32.318 So that's quite a bit of incense on these hot coals, and immediately a big cloud of smoke is produced, a pleasant smelling smoke, 317 00:37:32.328 --> 00:37:36.789 and he would enter with this cloud of smoke. 318 00:37:38.380 --> 00:37:43.920 And then in the most holy place, there was the the Ark of the Covenant with the mercy seat. 319 00:37:45.510 --> 00:37:58.250 So whenever that one time when he did enter the most holy place, it was completely surrounded with this cloud of smoke from the incense. 320 00:38:01.219 --> 00:38:03.936 What is that like? 321 00:38:03.946 --> 00:38:05.757 Yeah, it is. 322 00:38:05.767 --> 00:38:09.691 It's a lot like the cloud. 323 00:38:09.701 --> 00:38:20.840 It reminds us of the cloud that was over Moses and the children of Israel. 324 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:29.406 And remember, the word baptism simply means immersion. 325 00:38:29.416 --> 00:38:31.686 That's all it means. 326 00:38:31.696 --> 00:38:35.079 It just means you're immersed. 327 00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:38.614 So John immersed in water. 328 00:38:38.624 --> 00:38:45.167 Jesus immersed the people, the believers in the Holy Spirit. 329 00:38:45.177 --> 00:38:59.550 And here, when the priest went into the third place of the sanctuary, the most holy place, he was immersed in this cloud of incense. 330 00:39:00.829 --> 00:39:16.272 So it's also a baptism or another aspect, again, of our baptism into Christ, a baptism in incense. 331 00:39:16.282 --> 00:39:21.324 Now what does incense represent? 332 00:39:21.334 --> 00:39:33.289 Let's see what the Bible speaks about incense and what it is connected with. 333 00:39:35.949 --> 00:39:39.484 Psalms 141 verse 2. 334 00:39:39.494 --> 00:40:01.619 David says, Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 335 00:40:04.889 --> 00:40:09.545 Prayer as incense. 336 00:40:09.555 --> 00:40:14.728 What does that mean? 337 00:40:14.738 --> 00:40:27.650 And then let's look at Luke chapter 1 and verse 9. 338 00:40:29.500 --> 00:40:47.241 It speaks of the time when Zacharias was, the angel came to Zacharias to announce that he would beget a son who was John the Baptist. 339 00:40:47.251 --> 00:40:51.110 And Zacharias was the priest. 340 00:40:52.510 --> 00:41:03.970 And so according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 341 00:41:03.980 --> 00:41:13.489 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without, outside the temple, at the time of incense. 342 00:41:14.389 --> 00:41:21.699 So he was burning incense inside the temple, and all the people were outside praying. 343 00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:30.765 So prayer is represented by the incense. 344 00:41:30.775 --> 00:41:41.269 So what does it mean when we have a baptism into or with prayer? 345 00:41:47.349 --> 00:41:51.379 Revelation chapter 8 and verse 4. 346 00:41:51.389 --> 00:42:06.030 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. 347 00:42:10.139 --> 00:42:13.793 So what prayer is this talking about? 348 00:42:13.803 --> 00:42:23.469 There's the prayers of the saints that are represented with this incense that comes up before God. 349 00:42:24.539 --> 00:42:36.581 Now remember, in the sign of the Son of Man, this represents what part of Israel's history? 350 00:42:36.591 --> 00:42:47.829 The crossing of the Red Sea, which Paul connected to a baptism, a baptism unto Moses. 351 00:42:49.449 --> 00:42:55.062 So what did he mean, a baptism unto Moses? 352 00:42:55.072 --> 00:43:04.150 What was Moses representing that Paul was trying to connect that to? 353 00:43:06.449 --> 00:43:16.988 And I think we can find the answer when we look at Moses's prayer. 354 00:43:16.998 --> 00:43:25.769 Yeah, now let's look at Exodus chapter 32 and verse 32. 355 00:43:29.050 --> 00:43:40.110 This comes at the time when Israel had made the golden calf. 356 00:43:41.250 --> 00:43:56.064 They sinned, and Moses was in the mountain with God, and God said, they've sinned, let me destroy them, wipe them off the face of the earth, 357 00:43:56.074 --> 00:43:59.980 and I'll make of you another nation. 358 00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:11.820 And Moses, he went, he made a plea with the Lord. 359 00:44:13.219 --> 00:44:22.110 In verse 31, Exodus chapter 32 verse 31, and Moses returned unto the Lord and said:. 360 00:44:22.699 --> 00:44:32.015 Oh, this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold. 361 00:44:32.025 --> 00:44:47.033 Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. 362 00:44:47.043 --> 00:44:49.869 That's Moses's prayer. 363 00:44:51.309 --> 00:45:03.677 He was praying to God, they have sinned, but forgive their sin, and if you don't forgive their sin, blot me out. 364 00:45:03.687 --> 00:45:07.773 That was the desire of Moses's heart. 365 00:45:07.783 --> 00:45:17.369 He didn't take God's offer to say, okay, blot them out and make me into a great nation. 366 00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:39.429 We see that blotting out even represented like an X over this constellation showing that blotting out. 367 00:45:40.460 --> 00:45:46.121 Somebody would be blotted out because of their sin. 368 00:45:46.131 --> 00:45:58.219 Either the people, God said, the people would be blotted out, and I'll make a great nation out of you, Moses. 369 00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:06.391 Moses said, no, no, no, blot me out instead. 370 00:46:06.401 --> 00:46:11.300 Don't blot them out, blot me out. 371 00:46:11.310 --> 00:46:16.209 And what did God respond to that? 372 00:46:16.219 --> 00:46:31.480 The Lord said unto Moses in verse 33, whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. 373 00:46:37.380 --> 00:46:48.396 So it was either the children of Israel who would be blotted out, or as Moses proposed, it would be himself. 374 00:46:48.406 --> 00:46:52.895 Lord, let me be blotted out instead of them. 375 00:46:52.905 --> 00:46:57.597 Whose character did he reflect in that prayer? 376 00:46:57.607 --> 00:47:00.739 He reflected Jesus's character. 377 00:47:02.179 --> 00:47:06.223 And who actually was blotted out? 378 00:47:06.233 --> 00:47:07.458 No, Jesus. 379 00:47:07.468 --> 00:47:14.453 Of course, the unbelieving, they are blotted out as well. 380 00:47:14.463 --> 00:47:28.769 But those who believe of Israel, they believed in Christ, because Christ is the one who is blotted out on our behalf. 381 00:47:29.429 --> 00:47:42.594 And Moses, in his prayer, reflected that character that Christ demonstrated. 382 00:47:42.604 --> 00:47:47.280 Christ had the same prayer. 383 00:47:47.290 --> 00:47:58.010 He said, blot me out, and not them, while he was on the cross. 384 00:47:58.010 --> 00:48:05.226 He said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. 385 00:48:05.236 --> 00:48:13.501 And he took the burden of our sin on himself, and God did blot him out. 386 00:48:13.511 --> 00:48:15.469 He saw in Christ. 387 00:48:16.210 --> 00:48:22.590 Though Christ never sinned, he said, let him who has sinned against me, let him be blotted out. 388 00:48:24.699 --> 00:48:37.657 It shows us when Christ was on the cross, God didn't see Christ, but like Paul says, he became sin for us. 389 00:48:37.667 --> 00:48:38.880 He saw us. 390 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:49.070 He saw our sin instead of his own son, and therefore he blotted out his son. 391 00:48:49.080 --> 00:48:59.530 Christ took upon himself the death that was due to each of us who have sinned. 392 00:49:01.619 --> 00:49:20.019 But that character, that willingness to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of others, that is the prayer of Moses that we are baptized into. 393 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:32.359 That is the incense that rises to God as a sweet smelling savor. 394 00:49:32.369 --> 00:49:43.969 Let's look back at Psalm 141 that we saw, because David says two things. 395 00:49:45.050 --> 00:49:58.579 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 396 00:50:01.139 --> 00:50:05.476 He connects sacrifice with the prayer. 397 00:50:05.486 --> 00:50:13.471 You know, you can imagine him praying to God with his hands lifted up, 398 00:50:13.481 --> 00:50:22.139 and he's connecting this with the smoke that would rise from the sanctuary. 399 00:50:22.860 --> 00:50:31.566 There was smoke from the incense, his prayer, and there was also smoke from the sacrifice itself, the burnt offering, 400 00:50:31.576 --> 00:50:34.320 and that smoke would rise up to God. 401 00:50:40.340 --> 00:50:45.212 Now let me ask you a question. 402 00:50:45.222 --> 00:50:50.257 Who lifted up his hands for us? 403 00:50:50.267 --> 00:50:51.891 Jesus did. 404 00:50:51.901 --> 00:51:09.279 So this baptism that we see, this baptism into the incense, the prayer of Moses, is it a different baptism, 405 00:51:09.289 --> 00:51:15.614 or is it also the baptism into Christ? 406 00:51:15.624 --> 00:51:18.670 It's all in Christ. 407 00:51:19.250 --> 00:51:32.271 This is the baptism into Christ's character, where we can take our cross like Jesus did, lift up our hands, 408 00:51:32.281 --> 00:51:37.869 and our prayer can be like it was with Jesus. 409 00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:47.926 Forgive them, and let me take the penalty instead. 410 00:51:47.936 --> 00:51:52.530 It's about the character. 411 00:51:53.969 --> 00:52:05.854 Now God didn't didn't take up Moses on that offer, because that's Jesus's role, but the character, the willingness to be able to do that, 412 00:52:05.864 --> 00:52:08.196 the willingness to to say, 413 00:52:08.206 --> 00:52:12.099 I would rather that I myself am blotted out. 414 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:17.880 You know, when we're blotted out of God's book, that means forever. 415 00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:32.434 It's an eternal blotting out, and it would be better that we are eternally blotted out of God's book than to see others, 416 00:52:32.444 --> 00:52:39.119 to see his people blotted out instead for their own sin. 417 00:52:39.789 --> 00:52:46.079 And therefore this prayer is the prayer of forgiveness. 418 00:52:46.309 --> 00:52:47.352 Forgive them. 419 00:52:47.362 --> 00:52:49.205 Let me take the burden. 420 00:52:49.215 --> 00:52:51.440 Let Christ take that burden. 421 00:52:53.579 --> 00:53:04.000 That is the third element to the prayer, to the baptism rather. 422 00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:16.438 We have the baptism of water that John baptized into repentance from sin, that first part of the sanctuary. 423 00:53:16.448 --> 00:53:22.130 There's the baptism of the Holy Spirit that Jesus did. 424 00:53:22.590 --> 00:53:32.284 He gave the apostles the Holy Spirit, not just the apostles, but they were the forerunners, the first ones of Christianity, 425 00:53:32.294 --> 00:53:35.280 but throughout the Christian history. 426 00:53:37.340 --> 00:53:43.695 When we come into the body of Christ, we receive the Holy Spirit. 427 00:53:43.705 --> 00:53:50.251 Now what does this tool have to do with Moses' baptism into prayer, 428 00:53:50.261 --> 00:53:57.579 or our baptism into the prayer of Moses would be a better way to say that. 429 00:53:58.869 --> 00:54:24.272 Remember, this is a sculptor's chisel making an image, and the Bible says that in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 27, 430 00:54:24.282 --> 00:54:32.590 so God created man in his own image. 431 00:54:34.170 --> 00:54:36.171 So who's the sculptor? 432 00:54:36.181 --> 00:54:38.000 God is the sculptor. 433 00:54:38.010 --> 00:54:41.630 We're not talking about human sculpting. 434 00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:44.971 This is God's sculpture. 435 00:54:44.981 --> 00:54:48.196 God is creating us in his image. 436 00:54:48.206 --> 00:54:51.099 He did that in the beginning. 437 00:54:51.099 --> 00:54:53.625 He created man in his own image. 438 00:54:53.635 --> 00:54:59.150 In the image of God, created he him, male and female, created he them. 439 00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:11.590 Interesting that it's connected with the male and female, something that is greatly confused in today's generation. 440 00:55:15.449 --> 00:55:27.119 But the sculptor's chisel is not a chisel that any man can use, because it's in heaven. 441 00:55:28.550 --> 00:55:32.314 Only God can use these tools. 442 00:55:32.324 --> 00:55:36.348 This is God's sculpting chisel. 443 00:55:36.358 --> 00:55:49.579 He is the one that writes his character in our heart, and that's the baptism into the prayer of Moses. 444 00:55:49.579 --> 00:56:01.827 That's the baptism into the character of the Father. 445 00:56:01.838 --> 00:56:02.780 Yes? 446 00:56:02.790 --> 00:56:03.732 Yes. 447 00:56:03.742 --> 00:56:04.889 Amen. 448 00:56:12.039 --> 00:56:12.647 Amen. 449 00:56:12.657 --> 00:56:24.196 It's an engraver's chisel also, you know, like he would write in stone, and who wrote in stone? 450 00:56:24.206 --> 00:56:29.409 God with his finger, and what did he write? 451 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:42.019 He wrote the law, and when that law is written in our hearts, that's included in the baptism. 452 00:56:42.029 --> 00:56:50.079 All three of these symbols are part of our baptism into Christ. 453 00:56:53.340 --> 00:57:02.353 Unfortunately, Christianity focuses on the water baptism and on the spirit baptism, 454 00:57:02.363 --> 00:57:16.469 but too many have forgotten that there's also that time when this is effectively the finger of God writing his law in our hearts. 455 00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:22.093 That's also part of our baptism. 456 00:57:22.103 --> 00:57:30.239 It's a process, a process of going through the sanctuary. 457 00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:33.487 We have the justification. 458 00:57:33.497 --> 00:57:47.316 We have the sanctification where God takes away the things that are wrong in our character, and then in the end, 459 00:57:47.326 --> 00:57:55.212 there is the final step where his law is written in our hearts. 460 00:57:55.222 --> 00:57:57.670 It's a new creation. 461 00:57:58.690 --> 00:58:03.567 That's the glorification step. 462 00:58:03.577 --> 00:58:04.390 Amen. 463 00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:22.761 When Jesus was lifted up in his prayer, he spoke of, he asked the Father to show his glory, and that was when he, 464 00:58:22.771 --> 00:58:30.235 that was shown in his sacrifice on the cross, 465 00:58:30.245 --> 00:58:35.760 when he was also under the cloud. 466 00:58:36.340 --> 00:58:48.460 Remember at the cross, there was the dark cloud that overshadowed the cross, and then we have the cloud of incense. 467 00:58:48.769 --> 00:59:02.357 There's the cloud that the children of Israel went through in the crossing of the Red Sea. 468 00:59:02.367 --> 00:59:05.236 Isn't that amazing? 469 00:59:05.246 --> 00:59:05.829 Yes. 470 00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:15.209 Paul, who made reference to Moses, he himself said, I wish I would be accursed for my people. 471 00:59:15.219 --> 00:59:21.300 This isn't the sacrifice like many in our generation might make. 472 00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:27.559 Oh, I will give anything to have my dream job, or my dream house, or whatever. 473 00:59:28.510 --> 00:59:31.193 That's a selfish sacrifice. 474 00:59:31.203 --> 00:59:34.285 This is a sacrifice for others. 475 00:59:34.295 --> 00:59:41.730 That's the character of Christ, and that's the complete picture of baptism. 476 00:59:42.780 --> 01:00:10.347 It's one baptism in three parts, but we have access even to the most holy through Christ, because Christ is the way, the truth, 477 01:00:10.357 --> 01:00:13.386 and the life. 478 01:00:13.396 --> 01:00:14.698 Right. 479 01:00:14.708 --> 01:00:22.719 At each step, that's why it's a door. 480 01:00:24.179 --> 01:00:29.670 At each step, you can either go through the door or stay outside. 481 01:00:29.680 --> 01:00:37.700 If you don't come to Christ, if you don't accept him and come through the door with repentance, 482 01:00:37.710 --> 01:00:43.187 that's the repentance aspect of baptism that John baptized with, 483 01:00:43.197 --> 01:00:46.480 then you're not in the body of Christ. 484 01:00:48.349 --> 01:00:59.683 But if you don't come through the second door and allow him to change your heart as we commune with him in the word, 485 01:00:59.693 --> 01:01:02.126 as we observe ourselves, 486 01:01:02.136 --> 01:01:06.816 our own hearts through the light of his spirit, 487 01:01:06.826 --> 01:01:10.920 we do those things to let him cleanse us. 488 01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:22.895 That's that process, that lifelong process of constantly taking away the wrong things. 489 01:01:22.905 --> 01:01:33.709 If we don't enter that door, then we're in the camp of once saved, always saved. 490 01:01:33.719 --> 01:01:34.239 Yes. 491 01:01:36.980 --> 01:01:40.889 It's said that we are to be refined as gold tried in the fire. 492 01:01:41.469 --> 01:01:53.179 And in this compartment of the sanctuary, there's the gold that reflects the Holy Spirit. 493 01:01:54.389 --> 01:02:07.489 And through that, we can see any impurities and let God refine us through the fire of his spirit. 494 01:02:09.630 --> 01:02:19.656 And then there's the final door that we also have to make that choice to enter by faith with the priest. 495 01:02:19.666 --> 01:02:23.320 You know, all the people were outside. 496 01:02:23.820 --> 01:02:25.840 All they did was pray. 497 01:02:25.850 --> 01:02:27.309 It was a prayer. 498 01:02:28.820 --> 01:02:34.679 But they, by faith, followed the priest into the most holy place. 499 01:02:36.670 --> 01:02:44.059 And they knew that he was making the atonement for their sin as he entered there. 500 01:02:44.309 --> 01:02:58.613 And so they went by faith with him into that most holy place of the sanctuary. 501 01:02:58.623 --> 01:02:59.530 Amen. 502 01:03:02.300 --> 01:03:12.619 This is the baptism scene is represented there in the middle of the sign. 503 01:03:14.550 --> 01:03:18.870 It's like a pillar, if you will. 504 01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:24.280 There's more that we can say about that, 505 01:03:24.290 --> 01:03:38.455 and I think I want to continue on this theme next week because there are other very interesting aspects. 506 01:03:38.465 --> 01:03:39.119 Okay. 507 01:03:39.619 --> 01:03:45.420 So yes, this is the central part of the sign of the Son of Man. 508 01:03:45.590 --> 01:03:52.460 Baptism into Christ is the very core and essence of Christianity, 509 01:03:52.470 --> 01:04:01.550 and you can see why because it represents the entire process of our reunion with God. 510 01:04:02.789 --> 01:04:06.000 So let's conclude with a prayer. 511 01:04:08.570 --> 01:04:22.579 Dear Father in heaven, we thank you for the mystery of baptism that you have presented in the sign of the Son of Man. 512 01:04:26.179 --> 01:04:35.649 We thank you for revealing these things through your Word and your Spirit, 513 01:04:35.659 --> 01:04:45.630 and connecting the different baptisms that we see in the Bible all in Christ. 514 01:04:48.199 --> 01:05:04.400 We just praise you for your marvelous works, how you have packaged all of these things together into one sign, the sign of the Son of Man. 515 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:13.645 And we want to be in the body of Christ, baptized into his character, 516 01:05:13.655 --> 01:05:28.250 receiving that character in our own hearts that is willing to sacrifice ourselves for the benefit of others. 517 01:05:31.050 --> 01:05:36.891 And as you write that character in our hearts, 518 01:05:36.901 --> 01:05:46.231 we pray that many will be touched by your Spirit to enter the fullness of 519 01:05:46.241 --> 01:05:55.306 your baptism into the body of Christ and into the character of Christ, 520 01:05:55.316 --> 01:06:00.639 receiving your law written in our hearts. 521 01:06:01.380 --> 01:06:05.361 That many may be saved as a result. 522 01:06:05.371 --> 01:06:06.840 We thank you. 523 01:06:07.079 --> 01:06:08.359 We love you. 524 01:06:08.369 --> 01:06:16.257 We look forward to all that you have in store for us in these coming days. 525 01:06:16.267 --> 01:06:16.780 Amen. 526 01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:22.195 Thank you, and we'll see you next week.