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Creflo Dollar - The Old Testament Shadow Vs. New Testament Reality

April 9, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Old Testament Shadow Vs. New Testament Reality
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Old Testament Shadow Vs. New Testament Reality | April 9, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: so the old testament is jesus concealed
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  • In scripture.
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  • The new testament is jesus revealed.
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  • Jesus concealed, jesus revealed, but the whole book about jesus.
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  • We try to chop it up and say it's about this, this,
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  • This, this.
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  • The whole story is his story.
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  • Creflo: hopefully you're gonna choose to let heaven determine
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  • Your thinking because whatever choice you make, then that's
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  • Gonna be your mentality for today.
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  • Creflo: can you say that he's a waymaker?
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  • Yes.
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  • Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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  • Creflo: and so here's what we're gonna talk about this morning.
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  • Very, very interesting.
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  • I think it's gonna clear up a lot of questions that you've had
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  • In the past.
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  • We're going to talk about "the old testament shadow versus the
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  • New testament reality."
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  • The shadows that are located in the old testament versus the new
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  • Realities that are in the new testament.
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  • And we're going to look at things that were shadows and
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  • You're going to have to decide am i satisfied with the shadow,
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  • Or am i gonna move on to the reality of what's causing
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  • That shadow?
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  • I said to you before, a shadow of a dog has never bit anybody.
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  • But at the same time, if you see a shadow of a dog, you might
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  • Want to move because that dog is somewhere because the reality is
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  • That dog's somewhere.
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  • And so likewise, as christian people, have we been living off
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  • And by shadows of jesus, or have we finally got to the point
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  • Where we can locate the reality of jesus?
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  • And so what i'm going to do if you'll allow me this morning,
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  • I'm going to go through the scriptures and show some shadows
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  • And then trace it back to the jesus who's casting the shadow.
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  • Show you some things that we don't even ask the question
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  • About when we see it in the old testament and trace it back
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  • To jesus.
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  • Show you some things that jesus said about this.
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  • And i think it would be so awesome to be able to have a
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  • Church, not just leadership, not just ministers, but to have you
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  • To understand how to connect all of this so that you don't see
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  • The bible as a book of contradictions, that you see the
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  • Bible as, "oh, wow, we get to live in the reality where they
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  • Were just existing by the shadows," all right?
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  • So let's begin here this morning in the book of hebrews chapter
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  • 10 and verse 1, and i'm going to read this out of the king james,
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  • The nlt, and the mirror.
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  • I just want us to get a fullness of what's going on here.
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  • Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 1, he says, "for the law having a
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  • Shadow of good things to come," did you see that?
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  • "the law having a shadow of good things to come," from that place
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  • Of the law, it was a shadow of something to come or someone to
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  • Come or the kingdom to come.
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  • And he says, "and not the very image of the thing."
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  • So the law didn't have the very image of the thing.
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  • The old testament is divided up into two parts: the law and
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  • The prophets.
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  • Joshua identifies the law as the book of exodus, numbers,
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  • Leviticus, and deuteronomy.
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  • Those are the books of the law, okay?
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  • And then from judges to malachi, those are the books of
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  • The prophets.
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  • Now luke 16:16, hold your place there in hebrews 10, i think you
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  • Need to see this.
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  • Luke 16:16 tells us about the law and the prophets; the law
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  • Being those 4 books that make up the law, and then the prophets
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  • Are those books from judges to malachi.
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  • And here's where you're making-- here's where the body of christ
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  • Is just missing a lot.
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  • Now right here he says--read verse 16 out loud with me.
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  • Ready? read.
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  • "the law and the prophets," were?
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  • They were what?
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  • Okay, what does that mean?
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  • Okay, so it lasted until-- until--so when jesus, full of
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  • Grace and truth, showed up, you notice jesus showed up, john
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  • Baptized him, then they arrested john and they cut john's
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  • Head off, why?
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  • Because the law and the prophets ended with john because john
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  • Ended that day because jesus full of grace and truth came in.
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  • And he says, "since that time the kingdom--" since the time of
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  • John, "the kingdom of god is preached," since john.
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  • Someone said, "what's the kingdom of god?"
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  • It's the kingdom of grace, it's jesus, full of grace and truth
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  • Was preached.
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  • And he said, "and every man presses into it."
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  • Now, it was interesting to know jesus shows up, there's now a
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  • New dispensation that's on the horizon.
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  • The dispensation of jesus full of grace and truth.
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  • The dispensation of the law and the prophets ended with john.
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  • If you don't get that, you're going to continue to try to mix
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  • Everything you read in the law and the prophets, and try to mix
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  • It with what jesus brought into this new and living way.
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  • Now, show you something very interesting.
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  • Go back to hebrews chapter 10 and verse 1.
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  • Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 1.
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  • Now notice what he said, "for the law having a
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  • Shadow of good things to come, and the--not the very image of
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  • The things, can never with those sacrifices," all of those
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  • Sacrifices they made, "which they were offered year by year
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  • Continually make the comers thereunto perfect."
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  • So the shadow could never make anybody complete or perfect.
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  • Even though they came every year to make sacrifices, they would
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  • Continue to have to come because those sacrifices would never
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  • Make you perfect.
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  • It wouldn't end the process.
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  • Why?
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  • Shadows don't end the process, shadows are not the reality.
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  • To have a shadow of a sacrifice to deal with your sin versus
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  • Having the reality, jesus the sacrifice, to deal with your
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  • Sin, one of them, the first sacrifices of animals, cause sin
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  • To continue to go.
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  • But when jesus, the final sacrifice, showed up, he dealt
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  • Finally with your sins once and for all.
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  • You understand that?
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  • Now, let's look at the nlt.
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  • I got to get rocking and rolling.
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  • I spent all that on just one.
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  • Look at the nlt.
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  • He says, "the old system under the law of moses was only
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  • A shadow."
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  • That's clear, right?
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  • It's only a shadow.
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  • "it was a dim preview of the good things to come," a preview
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  • Of what was to come, "not the good things themselves," not the
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  • Good things themselves.
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  • "it's the sacrifices under that system were repeated again and
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  • Again, year after year, but they were never able to provide
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  • Perfect cleansing for those who came to worship."
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  • It's pretty clear, right?
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  • Let's look at this in the mirror translation and then we'll
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  • Move on.
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  • All right, "for the law presented to us a faint shadow,
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  • Outlining the promise of the blessings anticipated in the
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  • Coming of christ, even detailing its future significance.
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  • The mere sketch," oh my god, "however, could never be
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  • Confused with the actual object that it represented."
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  • The sketch represented the object but it couldn't do it
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  • Right, well, or complete.
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  • "the annual sacrificial rites as shadow of eventual object would
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  • Always leave the worshiper feeling inadequate and be a
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  • Reminder year after year of the sinfulness of mankind."
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  • So, church, today you have to make a decision.
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  • Are you going to continue to live by the law and the prophet?
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  • Continue to live by shadows that will never be able to do for you
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  • What the reality of the coming of jesus can do for you.
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  • And you keep going back to the law and the prophet.
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  • You keep opening yourself up, hearing sermons and teachings on
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  • The law and the prophet.
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  • You keep doing that kind of stuff because you don't really
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  • Understand what that shadow was for.
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  • That shadow was a sketch of what's to come.
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  • When an artist does a sketch, it's not the finished work.
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  • You don't have the color in there, you don't have all the
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  • Details in there, it's a sketch.
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  • The law and the prophet was a sketch.
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  • Why are you continuing to live-- some of y'all think, "well,
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  • Okay, we get it.
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  • Okay, what's up?"
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  • But you got--you know what i'm saying?
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  • There are people who they just, "nah, that ain't what my
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  • Bible said."
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  • All right, it--and so that explains the intensity that i
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  • Have just trying to make sure that you have it today,
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  • All right?
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  • Pray for me, all right?
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  • So the law itself was not the ultimate reality.
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  • But it was a foreshadowing of christ and his works.
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  • "well, why they gave us the old testament with the new?
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  • Why they just didn't give us the new?"
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  • You wouldn't appreciate the new unless you had the old.
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  • So let's see why he would do this.
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  • What was the purpose of the things that were
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  • Written aforetime?
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  • Romans chapter 15, verse 4 of the king james and the nlt.
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  • What is the purpose for the things that were
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  • Written aforetime?
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  • And you got to rightly divide.
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  • You got to know over here it says that, oh, but that string
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  • Leads to jesus and then that, oh that's, and that leads to jesus.
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  • I'm going to let you in on something.
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  • Everything in the law and the prophets lead to the real, his
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  • Name is jesus.
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  • Everything.
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  • So i appreciate having the shadow 'cause it gives me an
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  • Even deeper understanding of jesus, hallelujah.
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  • Jesus is my passover lamb.
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  • Oh, glory to god, calm down.
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  • You ain't got started yet.
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  • Leave it alone.
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  • All right, now, watch this.
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  • "for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written
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  • For our," what?
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  • "our living."
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  • So we can live by it.
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  • The things were written aforetime was written for
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  • Our what?
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  • Learning, why?
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  • "that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures that
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  • We might have hope," or that we might have an
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  • Earnest expectation.
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  • And now look at this in the nlt.
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  • There's--there was an expectation that came when you
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  • Read those.
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  • "such things were written in the scriptures long ago to teach us.
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  • And the scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait
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  • Patiently for god's promises to be fulfilled."
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  • Now you got to put yourself in the perspective, they're talking
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  • To people who were under the law, living under the law,
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  • Before jesus came.
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  • So they're reading these, the laws and the prophets, all of
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  • These things to give them hope of something's coming.
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  • It's kind of like revelation, we read that we know
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  • Something's coming.
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  • Alright now, watch carefully.
  • 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:28.343
  • So the old testament is jesus concealed in scripture.
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  • The new testament is jesus revealed.
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  • Jesus concealed, jesus revealed, but the whole book about jesus.
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  • We try to chop it up and say it's about this, this,
  • 00:13:48.630 --> 00:13:50.565
  • This, this.
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  • The whole story is his story, amen.
  • 00:13:51.900 --> 00:13:57.705
  • The whole thing is about jesus, guys.
  • 00:13:57.705 --> 00:14:00.475
  • The whole thing, it's not about you, it's--the whole thing is
  • 00:14:00.475 --> 00:14:03.444
  • About jesus.
  • 00:14:03.444 --> 00:14:05.380
  • And the whole thing is about jesus trying to help you to
  • 00:14:05.380 --> 00:14:09.484
  • Realize you are his in the same image.
  • 00:14:09.484 --> 00:14:14.756
  • He's trying to show you him so you can see yourself.
  • 00:14:14.756 --> 00:14:17.959
  • So it's not just these things were written for our learning.
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  • What is it that he wants us to learn as we read these things?
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  • He wants you to learn about who you are in relationship to the
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  • Hope that is to come.
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  • Y'all better come on here somebody, that thing.
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  • He trying to--what have you learned about you?
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  • Ooh, better be glad ain't no table up here.
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  • I will wreck that thing.
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  • I was about to ask you if you're on the bus, but i'm like saying
  • 00:14:48.856 --> 00:14:50.925
  • You better hurry up and get on this bus because the bus
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  • Is moving.
  • 00:14:52.593 --> 00:14:55.463
  • All right, now, let's look and see what jesus himself said
  • 00:14:55.463 --> 00:14:58.766
  • About it.
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  • John 5, verse 39 and 40, let's look at it in the king james, in
  • 00:15:00.234 --> 00:15:05.807
  • The message, and in the mirror.
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  • John 5:39 and 40.
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  • So this is what the old testament scriptures are
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  • All about.
  • 00:15:15.183 --> 00:15:16.551
  • Jesus is getting ready to tell us about what it's all about.
  • 00:15:16.551 --> 00:15:19.687
  • "well, why are you teaching this to us at church?"
  • 00:15:19.687 --> 00:15:22.857
  • 'cause you can't grow if you don't understand how to rightly
  • 00:15:22.857 --> 00:15:25.593
  • Divide the bible.
  • 00:15:25.593 --> 00:15:27.462
  • And if you keep rightly dividing it wrong, you're going to come
  • 00:15:27.462 --> 00:15:29.197
  • Up with these weird ideas and then you're going to get on
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  • Tiktok and start talking about what you don't know.
  • 00:15:32.033 --> 00:15:37.105
  • You're up there prophet lying all the time, just
  • 00:15:41.075 --> 00:15:42.844
  • Prophet lying.
  • 00:15:42.844 --> 00:15:46.047
  • 'cause you didn't know that was the shadow.
  • 00:15:46.047 --> 00:15:47.915
  • That ain't the reality.
  • 00:15:47.915 --> 00:15:49.817
  • Case in point, we'll talk about it later, you sitting up there
  • 00:15:49.817 --> 00:15:51.853
  • Arguing about what day is the sabbath.
  • 00:15:51.853 --> 00:15:56.257
  • The shadow leads to the true sabbath, jesus.
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  • Jesus is our sabbath rest.
  • 00:16:02.296 --> 00:16:05.400
  • And why?
  • 00:16:05.400 --> 00:16:06.768
  • The reason why he's talking about the sabbath day because
  • 00:16:06.768 --> 00:16:08.102
  • That was--that indicated rest and it pointed towards resting
  • 00:16:08.102 --> 00:16:12.240
  • In jesus.
  • 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.009
  • You still arguing about saturday or sunday, friday or monday.
  • 00:16:15.009 --> 00:16:19.147
  • When your podcast come on, "is sunday really the day of rest?"
  • 00:16:22.717 --> 00:16:28.489
  • You must have did that, did you?
  • 00:16:28.489 --> 00:16:31.192
  • I'm just playing. i'm just playing.
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  • All right, now watch this, verse 39.
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  • Here's jesus talking and when you rightly divide the word, you
  • 00:16:38.666 --> 00:16:42.070
  • Identify who's doing the talking.
  • 00:16:42.070 --> 00:16:45.740
  • He said, "search the scriptures; for in them you think you have
  • 00:16:45.740 --> 00:16:52.180
  • Eternal life."
  • 00:16:52.180 --> 00:16:53.514
  • Very interesting.
  • 00:16:53.514 --> 00:16:55.416
  • You ever met somebody who knew all the scriptures and they
  • 00:16:55.416 --> 00:16:57.518
  • Thought that they got some extra credit from god because they
  • 00:16:57.518 --> 00:17:00.855
  • Knew all the scriptures?
  • 00:17:00.855 --> 00:17:03.458
  • And then you meet somebody who didn't know hardly none of the
  • 00:17:03.458 --> 00:17:05.526
  • Scriptures but they knew jesus?
  • 00:17:05.526 --> 00:17:06.961
  • You have to pick which one you want.
  • 00:17:10.798 --> 00:17:12.333
  • I want to know jesus.
  • 00:17:12.333 --> 00:17:15.703
  • "search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal
  • 00:17:15.703 --> 00:17:20.041
  • Life: and they are--and they are they which testify--the
  • 00:17:20.041 --> 00:17:26.747
  • Scriptures are they that testifieth of me.
  • 00:17:26.747 --> 00:17:31.119
  • And you will not come to me, that you might have life."
  • 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:36.624
  • All right, now look at this in the, what did i say?
  • 00:17:36.624 --> 00:17:38.292
  • The next translation, the message.
  • 00:17:38.292 --> 00:17:41.963
  • "you have your heads in your bibles constantly because you
  • 00:17:41.963 --> 00:17:45.600
  • Think you'll find eternal life there.
  • 00:17:45.600 --> 00:17:50.171
  • But you miss the forest for the trees.
  • 00:17:50.171 --> 00:17:54.942
  • These scriptures are all about me!
  • 00:17:54.942 --> 00:17:59.814
  • And here i am, standing right before you, and you aren't
  • 00:17:59.814 --> 00:18:03.584
  • Willing to receive from me the life you say you want."
  • 00:18:03.584 --> 00:18:09.423
  • And for us it's even a bigger deal.
  • 00:18:09.423 --> 00:18:11.792
  • Here i am living on the inside of you and you ignore everything
  • 00:18:11.792 --> 00:18:15.096
  • I tell you to do.
  • 00:18:15.096 --> 00:18:17.165
  • All right, let's go to the next version, mirror.
  • 00:18:19.800 --> 00:18:21.836
  • "you scrutinize the scripture tirelessly, assuming that in
  • 00:18:25.439 --> 00:18:31.012
  • Them you embrace the life of the ages--yet i am what the
  • 00:18:31.012 --> 00:18:34.749
  • Scriptures are all about.
  • 00:18:34.749 --> 00:18:37.852
  • Still you refuse to resort to me as the very source of the life
  • 00:18:37.852 --> 00:18:43.624
  • You seek."
  • 00:18:43.624 --> 00:18:46.894
  • Ah, i know what some of you are thinking.
  • 00:18:46.894 --> 00:18:48.296
  • "well, you know, in the beginning was the word, word
  • 00:18:48.296 --> 00:18:50.598
  • With god and word was god."
  • 00:18:50.598 --> 00:18:51.933
  • Stop it.
  • 00:18:51.933 --> 00:18:54.802
  • It's very clear 'cause i was asking the same thing and i
  • 00:18:54.802 --> 00:18:57.905
  • Said, "lord, you need to give me something because i'm gonna have
  • 00:18:57.905 --> 00:18:59.507
  • Them kind of folks in church tomorrow."
  • 00:18:59.507 --> 00:19:01.676
  • All right now, before i answer that question, in john 5 move
  • 00:19:04.612 --> 00:19:08.516
  • Down to the end of that chapter, verse 46 and 47 in the
  • 00:19:08.516 --> 00:19:11.552
  • King james.
  • 00:19:11.552 --> 00:19:12.887
  • King james, message, and mirror, same thing.
  • 00:19:12.887 --> 00:19:14.255
  • Look at this what he said.
  • 00:19:14.255 --> 00:19:15.590
  • Now he's--this is awesome.
  • 00:19:15.590 --> 00:19:16.958
  • He said this about moses.
  • 00:19:16.958 --> 00:19:18.292
  • John chapter 5:46.
  • 00:19:18.292 --> 00:19:20.995
  • Come on, john 5:46-47.
  • 00:19:20.995 --> 00:19:26.267
  • All right, "for had you believed moses, you would have believed
  • 00:19:26.267 --> 00:19:34.342
  • Me: for he wrote of me."
  • 00:19:34.342 --> 00:19:39.714
  • Oh my goodness.
  • 00:19:39.714 --> 00:19:41.048
  • He said all the stuff moses wrote was about me.
  • 00:19:41.048 --> 00:19:44.118
  • And if you don't believe what moses wrote, you would have
  • 00:19:47.421 --> 00:19:50.024
  • Believed me.
  • 00:19:50.024 --> 00:19:51.359
  • Because moses was writing the shadow of me who was the caster
  • 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.396
  • Of that shadow.
  • 00:19:55.396 --> 00:19:59.033
  • And look what he says in the next verse.
  • 00:19:59.033 --> 00:20:02.303
  • "but if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe
  • 00:20:02.303 --> 00:20:06.741
  • My words?"
  • 00:20:06.741 --> 00:20:11.045
  • Oh, wow.
  • 00:20:11.045 --> 00:20:12.713
  • This stuff getting--jesus is wanting a personal relationship
  • 00:20:12.713 --> 00:20:19.186
  • With you.
  • 00:20:19.186 --> 00:20:21.922
  • He wants to know you and he wants you to know him so he can
  • 00:20:21.922 --> 00:20:26.294
  • Be your teacher.
  • 00:20:26.294 --> 00:20:28.329
  • Well, what do you mean you know him?
  • 00:20:31.265 --> 00:20:32.600
  • I'm talking about get to know him.
  • 00:20:32.600 --> 00:20:33.968
  • And you know anybody you try to get to know, you got to spend
  • 00:20:33.968 --> 00:20:36.704
  • Some time with them.
  • 00:20:36.704 --> 00:20:38.039
  • Anybody you get to know, you got to talk to.
  • 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:39.807
  • Anybody you get to know, you got to listen to.
  • 00:20:39.807 --> 00:20:42.176
  • But you think that through your scrutinizing of the scriptures
  • 00:20:42.176 --> 00:20:46.314
  • That you're going to have the life and the source of life is
  • 00:20:46.314 --> 00:20:50.117
  • In you, that he talks to you, but you can't hear him because
  • 00:20:50.117 --> 00:20:53.020
  • Your brain, your mind, is so cluttered with everything else.
  • 00:20:53.020 --> 00:20:57.825
  • He's trying to get to know you but you might not be doing the
  • 00:20:57.825 --> 00:21:01.662
  • Same kind of thing to try to get to know him.
  • 00:21:01.662 --> 00:21:06.000
  • The scripture talks about you.
  • 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:10.104
  • The scripture is talking about jesus.
  • 00:21:10.104 --> 00:21:12.073
  • So we should engage and embrace a relationship with jesus as the
  • 00:21:12.073 --> 00:21:17.445
  • Source of life eternal.
  • 00:21:17.445 --> 00:21:20.314
  • I want a relationship with the one who's the source of life.
  • 00:21:20.314 --> 00:21:25.152
  • I'm not talking about by being well educated.
  • 00:21:25.152 --> 00:21:27.955
  • Nothing wrong with being educated in the scriptures.
  • 00:21:27.955 --> 00:21:30.157
  • Nothing wrong with you studying the scripture.
  • 00:21:30.157 --> 00:21:31.959
  • The bible says study to show your self approval.
  • 00:21:31.959 --> 00:21:34.395
  • You know, we can't--christian people got to stop doing this.
  • 00:21:34.395 --> 00:21:37.264
  • We show you something and then you make this adjustment way too
  • 00:21:37.264 --> 00:21:40.434
  • Far, way over here make an adjustment.
  • 00:21:40.434 --> 00:21:43.704
  • And the only thing i'm telling you is this, okay, so what
  • 00:21:43.704 --> 00:21:46.774
  • You're studying is good, make an adjustment.
  • 00:21:46.774 --> 00:21:49.610
  • It's like this, jesus.
  • 00:21:49.610 --> 00:21:51.812
  • And i study the scriptures because i know more about him.
  • 00:21:51.812 --> 00:21:54.849
  • And when i talk to him, "hey jesus, you know what i found
  • 00:21:54.849 --> 00:21:56.884
  • Out today?"
  • 00:21:56.884 --> 00:21:58.219
  • I said, "i found out in the scripture that you already know
  • 00:21:58.219 --> 00:22:01.122
  • What i'm gonna pray for before i pray it.
  • 00:22:01.122 --> 00:22:04.024
  • So i'm going to start talking to you from that basis."
  • 00:22:04.024 --> 00:22:08.562
  • You follow what i'm saying?
  • 00:22:08.562 --> 00:22:09.897
  • Rather than you discovered what he said about prayer and then
  • 00:22:09.897 --> 00:22:13.834
  • Now you get a ministry called the prayer ministry of such, of
  • 00:22:13.834 --> 00:22:21.442
  • Damascus, and you--
  • 00:22:21.442 --> 00:22:24.478
  • And you're not getting to know him.
  • 00:22:27.148 --> 00:22:30.317
  • I need you to hear what i'm saying, guys.
  • 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:34.522
  • If you were to get born again today and ask me what's the
  • 00:22:34.522 --> 00:22:37.224
  • First thing i do, i'll respond, "get to know jesus."
  • 00:22:37.224 --> 00:22:41.562
  • But you know how we've responded, and it's not wrong,
  • 00:22:41.562 --> 00:22:44.265
  • It's not wrong.
  • 00:22:44.265 --> 00:22:45.766
  • "get in the word, read the word," that's not wrong.
  • 00:22:45.766 --> 00:22:48.803
  • But keep first things--keep the main thing the main thing.
  • 00:22:48.803 --> 00:22:52.473
  • I'm getting in the word, that'll help me to get to know jesus.
  • 00:22:52.473 --> 00:22:56.243
  • I'm meditating in the word, help me to get to know jesus.
  • 00:22:56.243 --> 00:22:59.847
  • I'm confessing the word, help me to get to know jesus.
  • 00:22:59.847 --> 00:23:03.884
  • The primary point here is after my study, does it enhance
  • 00:23:03.884 --> 00:23:09.190
  • My relationship?
  • 00:23:09.190 --> 00:23:11.625
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  • 00:23:11.625 --> 00:23:14.128
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  • 00:23:14.128 --> 00:23:17.131
  • Realize that he loved and cared for you that much.
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  • Ministries financially.
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  • You may not be called to preach on a pulpit or perform missions
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  • Work in another country, but you assist those who are called to
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  • Do these things each time you give financial gifts to
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  • This ministry.
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  • God bless you, and i'll see you next time right here on
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  • "changing your world."
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  • Announcer: to support our kingdom mission of winning souls
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  • For jesus, you may call us or give online
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  • At creflodollarministries.org.
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  • Thank you for giving and enabling us to share this gospel
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  • Of grace all over the world.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring
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  • This message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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