WEBVTT 00:00:02.859 --> 00:00:07.000 We realize that the sanctuary is God's gift to 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:10.539 humanity because not only is it all about Jesus, 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.900 but it's all about salvation, how we are saved, 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:18.420 in what ways. And it's the seventh -day Adventist 00:00:18.420 --> 00:00:22.940 gift to the Christian world. We're not bragging 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:25.140 when we say we've studied it more than other 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:28.280 denominations because it's just true, because 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:32.439 of our theology and our history. Everything, 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.060 you know, we are scholars of the scripture. We 00:00:36.060 --> 00:00:39.479 base our complete faith on the Bible. All of 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:42.539 our 28 fundamental beliefs are based directly 00:00:42.539 --> 00:00:48.159 on the scriptures. And so we thank the Lord that 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.600 he's given us this incredible visual aid to teach 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:59.679 us about Jesus and his salvation. So as it says 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:03.520 on the screen, it's... The sanctuary is God's 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:07.200 battle plan on how to deal with sin. And it's 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.260 from the beginning to the end. It's amazing how 00:01:10.260 --> 00:01:14.040 complete it is. It's the whole plan of salvation 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:18.920 in symbols. Of course, there's the altar of burnt 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:23.340 sacrifice. You notice on the north side, you 00:01:23.340 --> 00:01:27.280 see two people. That's where the lambs were sacrificed. 00:01:27.459 --> 00:01:32.219 The lamb died there. and then was sacrificed 00:01:32.219 --> 00:01:39.780 on the altar of burnt sacrifices. So we looked 00:01:39.780 --> 00:01:44.299 at the views of the sanctuary, the salvation 00:01:44.299 --> 00:01:48.519 experience, Jesus' experience, and then the second 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.879 coming experience. And it's all right there in 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:57.349 the sanctuary and the festivals. So the Bible 00:01:57.349 --> 00:01:59.909 says that we have such a high priest who is set 00:01:59.909 --> 00:02:02.069 at the right hand of the throne of the majesty 00:02:02.069 --> 00:02:06.469 in the heavens. We know that there's a sanctuary 00:02:06.469 --> 00:02:09.689 in heaven. And the one here on earth was just 00:02:09.689 --> 00:02:13.229 a little tiny model and miniature of the glorious 00:02:13.229 --> 00:02:16.449 sanctuary that's in heaven. It's the throne of 00:02:16.449 --> 00:02:20.370 God. And the Bible says, thy way, O God, is in 00:02:20.370 --> 00:02:25.169 the sanctuary. Who is so great a God as our God? 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:28.740 Isn't that true? And that's what we want to talk 00:02:28.740 --> 00:02:36.360 about, God's way in the sanctuary. And so Jesus 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:40.740 has created an incredible world for us, don't 00:02:40.740 --> 00:02:44.539 you think? I mean, when you look around at the 00:02:44.539 --> 00:02:49.620 world, in spite of the 6 ,000 years of sin, it's 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:53.699 still beautiful. There's still incredible beauty 00:02:53.699 --> 00:02:59.120 in nature. And God gave us this beauty to praise 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.020 him, to learn about other things. You know, nature 00:03:02.020 --> 00:03:05.340 teaches us about God as well. Not as accurate 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:08.360 as the Bible, but there's still lessons to be 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:13.979 learned in nature. But what if we couldn't see 00:03:13.979 --> 00:03:19.819 the beautiful colors of nature? What if God had 00:03:19.819 --> 00:03:22.860 created us with a black and white world? You 00:03:22.860 --> 00:03:25.300 know, he could have, right? Just like I tell 00:03:25.300 --> 00:03:28.900 people, you know, God could have given us motor 00:03:28.900 --> 00:03:33.960 oil to eat for energy. He could have given us 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.740 anything to eat, and it would have been a chore. 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.039 I've got to stay alive, so I've got to stuff 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.860 this junk down my... Instead, what did he do? 00:03:44.419 --> 00:03:47.780 He gave us incredible things to eat, strawberries 00:03:47.780 --> 00:03:51.599 and blueberries. raspberries, and everything 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:53.879 under the sun that you can eat. And it's all 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:58.759 what? Delicious. God is such a wonderful God. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.780 He loves us so much. He's given us so many wonderful 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:04.939 things. So he's given us the colors of the rainbow, 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:09.659 and our eyes are incredibly made, just incredible. 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:13.740 Talk about something that totally defies evolution, 00:04:14.020 --> 00:04:17.860 the human eye, or other animals' eyes, for that 00:04:17.860 --> 00:04:21.019 matter. However, there's one little problem. 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:27.800 Sin has come into our world, and we don't see 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.759 as well as we used to. And some of us are colorblind. 00:04:33.540 --> 00:04:35.480 So we're going to talk about the colors of the 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.019 Bible, so we have to have a little test and see 00:04:38.019 --> 00:04:42.620 what numbers that you see here. And if you don't 00:04:42.620 --> 00:04:46.279 see them all, then you might just be a little 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.279 colorblind. So just a little test to start a 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:54.199 service. So you can see all these numbers. If 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.920 you didn't see one, if it was just like nothing 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.259 there, then, you know, you have to go to your 00:05:00.259 --> 00:05:06.639 optician, I guess. So did you see all the numbers? 00:05:07.779 --> 00:05:12.060 Yeah? Okay, good. Great. So we're going to talk 00:05:12.060 --> 00:05:14.379 about the colors of the Bible. There are five 00:05:14.379 --> 00:05:19.259 colors. In the sanctuary service. Five, specifically. 00:05:19.899 --> 00:05:24.620 No more, no less. Or if you call bronze a color, 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:30.300 I guess you could make that one more. But here 00:05:30.300 --> 00:05:34.180 are the colors. White, red, blue, purple, and 00:05:34.180 --> 00:05:37.459 gold. Gold is yellow, actually. And that's what 00:05:37.459 --> 00:05:41.079 they call it in the jewelry business. It's yellow 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.819 gold. Because gold can be... Different shades. 00:05:46.019 --> 00:05:50.399 But it's yellow in its essence. And God has given 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:53.660 us an incredible world that reflects all these 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:57.839 colors. Imagine a sunset has all the colors of 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:01.120 the sanctuary. All the colors are there. It's 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.759 amazing. So we'll talk about that maybe a little 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:11.319 later if we have time. But does the Bible use 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:14.540 color? As a symbol for anything? Does it really 00:06:14.540 --> 00:06:17.860 use an abstract word? Colors is an abstract idea, 00:06:18.019 --> 00:06:22.779 right? Does it use abstract ideas to symbolize 00:06:22.779 --> 00:06:25.600 something in God's kingdom? And of course the 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:30.860 answer is obvious. Come now and let us reason 00:06:30.860 --> 00:06:34.279 together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:38.560 as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:42.350 they be red like crimson, They shall be as wool. 00:06:42.629 --> 00:06:46.209 Did you notice something? He uses three different 00:06:46.209 --> 00:06:51.670 words for red and three different things for 00:06:51.670 --> 00:06:55.050 white. I think he's saying this is important 00:06:55.050 --> 00:07:00.170 stuff. Take note. You know, your sins, like red, 00:07:00.410 --> 00:07:03.790 they're just staining you all over. But guess 00:07:03.790 --> 00:07:09.490 what? I can help you clean yourself of sin. And 00:07:09.490 --> 00:07:13.649 you can be as white as snow. So it's God's promise 00:07:13.649 --> 00:07:17.189 to us. So red represents sin. It's extremely 00:07:17.189 --> 00:07:21.089 obvious. But it also, well, let me tell you what 00:07:21.089 --> 00:07:24.990 scientists talk about the word, or the color 00:07:24.990 --> 00:07:29.350 red. It's the most dominant color. It's filled 00:07:29.350 --> 00:07:33.329 with energy. It accelerates growth, raises the 00:07:33.329 --> 00:07:36.490 blood pressure, raises the pulse rate, helps 00:07:36.490 --> 00:07:40.019 direction. attention, direct attention outward, 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:44.000 and it's a stimulant. Those are the attributes 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:49.699 of the color red. Red is exciting. Don't let 00:07:49.699 --> 00:07:52.540 anybody fool you. Sin is exciting too, isn't 00:07:52.540 --> 00:07:57.720 it? God wants us to wean our way away from the 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:04.779 excitement of sin. So red also represents the 00:08:04.779 --> 00:08:10.050 cure for sin. Jesus' blood on Calvary. He died 00:08:10.050 --> 00:08:15.069 for you and me that we can have life eternal. 00:08:15.829 --> 00:08:18.649 And he shall sprinkle, this is from the sanctuary 00:08:18.649 --> 00:08:21.949 in Leviticus, and he shall sprinkle the blood, 00:08:22.069 --> 00:08:26.470 the blood of the animal, upon it, or the horns 00:08:26.470 --> 00:08:29.769 of the altar, with his finger seven times and 00:08:29.769 --> 00:08:32.730 cleanse it and hollow it from the uncleanness 00:08:32.730 --> 00:08:35.980 of the children of Israel. So there was a lot 00:08:35.980 --> 00:08:39.820 of blood in the sanctuary. I'm glad I'm living 00:08:39.820 --> 00:08:44.500 in New Testament times. I don't know. I'm sure 00:08:44.500 --> 00:08:46.080 I would have handled it because I would have 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:47.899 been raised that way. You know, you get used 00:08:47.899 --> 00:08:52.840 to it. But there was a lot of sacrificing, a 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.600 lot of killing of animals. And some people could 00:08:55.600 --> 00:09:00.500 call it cruel. But guess what was cruel? Killing 00:09:00.500 --> 00:09:04.750 the creator of the universe on the cross. That 00:09:04.750 --> 00:09:07.629 was cruel. As a matter of fact, that's the cruelest 00:09:07.629 --> 00:09:10.769 thing that the universe could ever even think 00:09:10.769 --> 00:09:14.610 about. Think about that. The creator, the giver 00:09:14.610 --> 00:09:21.450 of life, dying. It's an incredible thought. We 00:09:21.450 --> 00:09:24.049 will study that throughout eternity. That's how 00:09:24.049 --> 00:09:30.200 deep it is. Amazing. wounded for our transgressions. 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.399 He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:36.259 of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes 00:09:36.259 --> 00:09:42.220 we are healed. So Jesus wants to heal us. You 00:09:42.220 --> 00:09:44.799 know, there's a curious sacrifice in the Old 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:49.879 Testament, and it was the red heifer sacrifice. 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:56.399 Red heifer sacrifice. The Bible says, And the 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.440 priest shall take cedar wood. What color is cedar? 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:05.519 Red. And hyssop. Purge me with hyssop and I shall 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.240 be clean. Hyssop is a cleansing agent. Literally. 00:10:09.580 --> 00:10:13.440 It's not just a symbolic. Hyssop was an actual 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:18.600 cleansing agent, like soap. And scarlet. And 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.000 cast it into the midst of the burning of the 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:25.870 heifer. How do we... What do we say about fire? 00:10:26.809 --> 00:10:31.730 We usually think of it as red. Fire trucks most 00:10:31.730 --> 00:10:35.909 of the time are red. And then there's the heifer. 00:10:35.970 --> 00:10:39.610 So all these things represent cleansing. We're 00:10:39.610 --> 00:10:42.110 going to cleanse. That's what Jesus wants to 00:10:42.110 --> 00:10:46.009 do is get rid of sin from his human beings. So 00:10:46.009 --> 00:10:48.990 the red heifer was sacrificed outside the camp. 00:10:50.129 --> 00:10:53.429 He was sacrificed seven times in Jewish history. 00:10:54.090 --> 00:10:57.950 That's through the Jewish history. They tell 00:10:57.950 --> 00:11:00.889 us about it. It's not necessarily in the Bible. 00:11:01.230 --> 00:11:04.169 But it was sacrificed with hyssop, cleansing 00:11:04.169 --> 00:11:08.769 agent, fire, cleansing agent, sacrificed with 00:11:08.769 --> 00:11:15.250 cedar wood, red, and scarlet cloth. And then 00:11:15.250 --> 00:11:25.919 it was red itself. So why was the heifer red? 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.879 All of these red things, all of this put together, 00:11:29.980 --> 00:11:34.460 unique sacrifice. And by the way, the Zionists 00:11:34.460 --> 00:11:36.440 that believe that the Jews are going to rebuild 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:39.600 the temple have made sure that they have a red 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:46.080 heifer already in Israel. So anyway, but the 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.460 Bible tells us why the heifer was red. For he, 00:11:50.580 --> 00:11:56.440 God, hath made him, Jesus, to be sin for us, 00:11:56.539 --> 00:12:00.519 who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:07.279 of God in him. He became sin itself. Wow, another 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:12.779 mind -boggling idea. The pure Son of God becoming 00:12:12.779 --> 00:12:18.059 sin and receiving the punishment of sin for us. 00:12:18.379 --> 00:12:22.159 Again. Come now and let us reason together, saith 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.179 the Lord. He is a reasonable God. And one of 00:12:25.179 --> 00:12:28.100 the reasons I love the Adventist church is because 00:12:28.100 --> 00:12:32.980 it's a reasonable religion. It takes its theology 00:12:32.980 --> 00:12:36.740 directly from the Bible and says, let's reason 00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:40.500 this thing out. What's truth? It takes the whole 00:12:40.500 --> 00:12:43.440 Bible, not just a few passages here and there. 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:47.679 So come now and let us reason together, saith 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.899 the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they 00:12:50.899 --> 00:12:55.360 shall be as white as snow. So it's obvious what 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:59.100 white represents. He that overcometh, the same 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:03.879 shall be clothed in white raiment. It is the 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:08.080 righteousness of Christ. He is our salvation. 00:13:08.100 --> 00:13:11.919 He is our righteousness. We have none of our 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:18.500 own. We can depend on his. And it's done. It's 00:13:18.500 --> 00:13:25.820 settled. Every person on earth is saved. You 00:13:25.820 --> 00:13:30.440 have to receive it to get it. But Jesus died 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:34.659 for everyone, didn't he? And if only people would 00:13:34.659 --> 00:13:37.139 know that. That's why the message is so important. 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:42.440 To go tell it to the world. You're saved in Christ 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:49.419 Jesus. Red is a warm color. Blue is a cold color. 00:13:50.059 --> 00:13:53.620 Now, blue, red and white are obvious. They're 00:13:53.620 --> 00:13:57.679 very, very clear. Blue, we have to look at a 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:02.200 few more passages to see what blue is. But let's 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.620 talk about blue. Blue is a restful and a sedateful 00:14:05.620 --> 00:14:10.639 color. It lowers blood pressure and lowers pulse 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.639 rate. So it has a calming effect. Have you ever 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.759 wondered why the sky is blue? Here's a theological 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:20.320 reason. Because God says, look, I know that in 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.620 the last days especially, you guys are going 00:14:22.620 --> 00:14:26.620 to be totally stressed out. So you have living 00:14:26.620 --> 00:14:29.620 in a world that's going to try to calm you. Green, 00:14:29.620 --> 00:14:32.759 by the way, is another restful color. So, you 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:38.269 know, no wonder God says, go out in nature. Relax. 00:14:38.269 --> 00:14:43.230 Life doesn't have to be so stressful. So who 00:14:43.230 --> 00:14:46.570 prefers blue and green and avoids red? Those 00:14:46.570 --> 00:14:53.110 who keep their emotions in check. So blue stimulation 00:14:53.110 --> 00:14:56.289 was associated with increased relaxation, less 00:14:56.289 --> 00:15:00.009 anxiety, and less hostility, while stimulation 00:15:00.009 --> 00:15:03.250 with red definitely increased tension and excitement. 00:15:04.809 --> 00:15:08.549 During red stimulation, manifest levels of anxiety 00:15:08.549 --> 00:15:11.509 significantly correlated with increased psychological 00:15:11.509 --> 00:15:16.070 activation and subjective disturbance, while 00:15:16.070 --> 00:15:19.750 the converse was true with blue stimulation. 00:15:20.570 --> 00:15:24.450 Interesting. Now, there's an artificial light, 00:15:24.529 --> 00:15:27.029 but we don't have time for that. So we'll go 00:15:27.029 --> 00:15:32.409 on and talk about the Bible. So, moreover, thou 00:15:32.409 --> 00:15:36.169 shalt make the tabernacle. of fine twine linen, 00:15:36.429 --> 00:15:41.610 and blue, and purple, and scarlet with cherubims. 00:15:42.450 --> 00:15:45.710 So we have those three colors. They were all 00:15:45.710 --> 00:15:49.750 over. They were in the covering above. It was 00:15:49.750 --> 00:15:52.190 in the priest's garments. It was in the curtains 00:15:52.190 --> 00:15:56.029 that separated the compartments. And all of that. 00:15:56.230 --> 00:15:58.789 So the Bible says, Speak unto the children of 00:15:58.789 --> 00:16:02.419 Israel. and bid them that they make them fringes 00:16:02.419 --> 00:16:04.299 on the borders of their garments throughout their 00:16:04.299 --> 00:16:07.100 generations, and that they put upon the fringe 00:16:07.100 --> 00:16:12.679 of the borders a ribbon of blue. Ah, now we're 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:15.120 getting somewhere. And what was that supposed 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.019 to tell us, remind us? And it shall be unto you 00:16:19.019 --> 00:16:21.559 for a fringe, and remember all the commandments 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:28.860 of the Lord, and do them. So blue represents... 00:16:29.100 --> 00:16:33.799 the commandments of God. Jewish tradition tells 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:36.120 us that the original Ten Commandments that were 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:40.899 written by God's hand were written on a sapphire 00:16:40.899 --> 00:16:45.100 stone. It was a blue stone, the commandments. 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:51.559 Interesting. And here's another passage in Exodus. 00:16:52.019 --> 00:16:54.820 And they saw the God of Israel, and there was 00:16:54.820 --> 00:16:57.480 under his feet, as it were, a paved work of... 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:01.500 sapphire stone and as it were the body of heaven 00:17:01.500 --> 00:17:06.519 in his clearness. So interesting to juxtapose 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:10.480 the sapphire and all it was clear as heaven. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.940 It's amazing. So and on the breastplate of the 00:17:14.940 --> 00:17:18.099 high priest there were 12 stones and of course 00:17:18.099 --> 00:17:22.640 one of them was the sapphire stone. Then I looked 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.059 and behold again in Ezekiel in the firmament 00:17:27.110 --> 00:17:28.990 Firmament sounds like it should be the earth 00:17:28.990 --> 00:17:31.950 because it's firm, but it means heaven. In the 00:17:31.950 --> 00:17:34.390 firmament that was above the head of the cherubims, 00:17:34.410 --> 00:17:37.009 there appeared over them as it were a sapphire 00:17:37.009 --> 00:17:42.069 stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a 00:17:42.069 --> 00:17:45.930 throne. Now that, now we're getting somewhere. 00:17:47.829 --> 00:17:52.430 The Ten Commandments, we're told, are the foundation 00:17:52.430 --> 00:17:58.410 of God's government. So he sits on a throne, 00:17:58.589 --> 00:18:03.690 a sapphire stone. It's his throne. It's because 00:18:03.690 --> 00:18:08.849 it represents the Ten Commandments. So blue represents 00:18:08.849 --> 00:18:13.089 the Ten Commandments. Great peace have they that 00:18:13.089 --> 00:18:16.650 love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. 00:18:17.529 --> 00:18:22.789 So we're, you know, blue is an incredible color. 00:18:23.660 --> 00:18:28.259 So, radical sin. Red is the blood of Jesus, our 00:18:28.259 --> 00:18:32.200 grace that saves us. We're saved by grace only, 00:18:32.380 --> 00:18:37.519 not of works, lest any man shall boast. White 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.799 is the purity, the sinlessness that Jesus gives 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:45.000 us. We don't deserve, but he gives it to us. 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.519 And the blue is the Ten Commandments of the law 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:54.140 of God, which Jesus said. In the last days, here 00:18:54.140 --> 00:18:56.660 are the patience of the saints, and here are 00:18:56.660 --> 00:19:03.299 those who keep the commandments of God. So it's 00:19:03.299 --> 00:19:07.619 pretty clear. Purple is neutral biologically. 00:19:07.859 --> 00:19:11.819 It's very aesthetic. It's a combination of red 00:19:11.819 --> 00:19:17.559 and blue, and it's a royal color. Then came Jesus 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.900 forth wearing the crown of thorns. They crowned 00:19:20.900 --> 00:19:25.099 him in mockery as the king of the Jews, making 00:19:25.099 --> 00:19:29.799 him bleed from his head. And they put upon him 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:35.880 a purple robe, mocking again as the king of the 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:40.559 Jews. Again, we'll study his death on the cross 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.440 throughout eternity. That's how important it 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:49.880 is. It is the center of time and space. It's 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:52.559 such an important event. We can't even begin 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:57.960 to emphasize its importance. So red is that warm 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:01.259 color. Blue is the cold color. Jesus puts them 00:20:01.259 --> 00:20:05.400 together in his body. He is the embodiment, and 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:09.859 his purple represents Jesus. So we're supposed 00:20:09.859 --> 00:20:13.259 to spend a thoughtful hour each day contemplating 00:20:13.259 --> 00:20:20.819 Jesus and his great love for us. So we're told 00:20:20.819 --> 00:20:26.160 that grace and the law kissed at the cross. Isn't 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:30.619 that true? Jesus kept the law perfectly, and 00:20:30.619 --> 00:20:35.700 yet he died the death of a sinner to give us 00:20:35.700 --> 00:20:41.400 grace so that we could be saved. Without that, 00:20:41.539 --> 00:20:48.759 we'd all be lost. And again, come now and let 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.599 us reason together. The invitation goes out very, 00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:55.900 very clearly. Believe in Jesus and you will be 00:20:55.900 --> 00:21:01.460 saved. So I love the color wheel. I was an art 00:21:01.460 --> 00:21:04.720 major in college, actually. Later on, I went 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:07.680 back to the seminary, got another degree, but 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:11.539 I have a degree in art. And the color wheel is 00:21:11.539 --> 00:21:15.759 amazing. But I want to tell you something that 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:19.359 you may not know. The color wheel was not devised 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:23.519 by human beings. God created the color wheel. 00:21:25.299 --> 00:21:29.559 You see, when you spin a color wheel, what happens? 00:21:29.660 --> 00:21:36.230 All the colors merge, and you see white. White 00:21:36.230 --> 00:21:39.309 light is composed of all the colors of the rainbow. 00:21:40.329 --> 00:21:44.589 And so there's a really interesting thing that 00:21:44.589 --> 00:21:48.049 happens in the human eye. It's called complementary 00:21:48.049 --> 00:21:56.269 color. In the color wheel, you notice red is 00:21:56.269 --> 00:22:02.109 opposite of what color? Green. What is blue opposite 00:22:02.109 --> 00:22:06.390 of? Orange. What is purple opposite? Yellow. 00:22:07.549 --> 00:22:10.390 We're going to come back to that. But first I 00:22:10.390 --> 00:22:13.450 want to prove to you what I'm talking about. 00:22:14.549 --> 00:22:18.369 Your eye, God created. I want you to look at 00:22:18.369 --> 00:22:21.789 that flag. Look at the dot in the middle. And 00:22:21.789 --> 00:22:24.430 I'm going to time you. We have time for this. 00:22:24.730 --> 00:22:27.109 I know I'm running out of time, but we have time 00:22:27.109 --> 00:22:30.349 for this. So I'm going to time you a minute. 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:34.640 while you look at that black dot in the middle 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:38.779 of the flag. And my watch keeps turning itself 00:22:38.779 --> 00:22:44.200 off. So just keep looking. And what's going to 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:48.599 happen is your eye will automatically call up 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.480 the complementary colors of those colors. See, 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:59.599 we have green and orange. And so in another 30 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:04.079 seconds, I'm going to move to a blank screen 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:08.980 and keep looking at the screen. And sometimes 00:23:08.980 --> 00:23:14.619 some people don't see this, but most do. So it's 00:23:14.619 --> 00:23:17.559 almost, I think it's time enough, 45 seconds. 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:24.220 Let's try this. What do you see? You see a red, 00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:27.920 white, and blue flag? If you didn't, let's try 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:34.579 this one. Look at her nose. Keep your eye, the 00:23:34.579 --> 00:23:38.039 more you can keep your eye still on her nose, 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:41.799 I know it's a little difficult, the better it 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:44.900 is. Now, you notice what this looks like. It 00:23:44.900 --> 00:23:46.940 almost looks like a black and white photo, a 00:23:46.940 --> 00:23:50.779 negative. It is a negative, but it's not black 00:23:50.779 --> 00:23:56.539 and white. Because in another 30 seconds, when 00:23:56.539 --> 00:23:59.950 I switch this, you're going to see the miracle 00:23:59.950 --> 00:24:04.450 that God put in your eye. God put a miracle in 00:24:04.450 --> 00:24:07.890 your eye that when you see one color, your eye 00:24:07.890 --> 00:24:12.289 automatically calls up its complement. And that 00:24:12.289 --> 00:24:18.670 is an incredible theological implication. So 00:24:18.670 --> 00:24:26.829 again, I think 50 seconds is good enough. Yeah. 00:24:28.589 --> 00:24:31.109 For some reason, we see it better with a female 00:24:31.109 --> 00:24:36.170 than the flag. Not sure why that is. Okay, so 00:24:36.170 --> 00:24:42.450 the color wheel is made by God. And theologically, 00:24:42.690 --> 00:24:46.569 guess what's happened? Modern religion has moved 00:24:46.569 --> 00:24:50.730 one color. When you spin the spinning wheel without 00:24:50.730 --> 00:24:55.109 blue, you don't get sanctification. You don't 00:24:55.109 --> 00:25:02.900 get white. Now notice, I haven't told you what 00:25:02.900 --> 00:25:07.920 yellow is yet, or gold, because I wanted to wait 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:12.339 till now. Guess what happens when you, remember, 00:25:12.539 --> 00:25:19.720 purple is Jesus' color. When we have that thoughtful 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:23.779 hour of contemplating the life of Jesus every 00:25:23.779 --> 00:25:29.980 day, something happens in our soul. Gold is faith 00:25:29.980 --> 00:25:37.460 and love. And so when you see Jesus, faith and 00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:41.200 love automatically spring up in the heart. There's 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.759 no way you can create love in your heart. Did 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:49.880 you manufacture love for your spouse? Or was 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:52.779 it just for some reason it was just there, right? 00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:56.359 That's the same way with God. When we look at 00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:00.950 Jesus, love springs up in our hearts. Our task 00:26:00.950 --> 00:26:06.130 is to keep our eye fixed on the Savior so that 00:26:06.130 --> 00:26:10.190 we have this faith and love springing up into 00:26:10.190 --> 00:26:13.930 our soul. That's what God wants. It's a natural 00:26:13.930 --> 00:26:18.490 reaction to studying the life of Jesus is to 00:26:18.490 --> 00:26:25.339 have faith in God and love. So one of these days, 00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:30.039 God's going to come and take us home. And it 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:34.259 is by beholding that we become like Jesus. When 00:26:34.259 --> 00:26:38.940 we go to heaven, we will be like Jesus. We will 00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:45.119 have love, faith, joy, all the attributes that 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:49.279 God wants for us because we have kept our eyes 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:55.349 fixed on the Savior. So white is sanctification, 00:26:55.589 --> 00:26:59.750 and we are going to be sanctified when we get 00:26:59.750 --> 00:27:03.470 to heaven. God does the miracle in our hearts. 00:27:03.609 --> 00:27:07.170 There isn't anything we can do to conjure up 00:27:07.170 --> 00:27:13.410 faith and love. It's by beholding Jesus that 00:27:13.410 --> 00:27:17.369 it happens. So Jesus says, I am the light of 00:27:17.369 --> 00:27:20.490 the world. Isn't that perfect? I'm the light 00:27:20.490 --> 00:27:24.089 of the world. and his raiment became shining 00:27:24.089 --> 00:27:27.910 exceedingly white as snow, so as no further on 00:27:27.910 --> 00:27:30.250 earth can white them. That was when the disciples 00:27:30.250 --> 00:27:33.910 were up on the mountain with Jesus. And here 00:27:33.910 --> 00:27:39.410 he was, his raiment was glowing. So balance is 00:27:39.410 --> 00:27:44.029 another word in the Christian faith. The balance 00:27:44.029 --> 00:27:48.069 of keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus and not letting... 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.160 Other little things distract us, which that's 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:54.119 what Satan does all the time, try to distract 00:27:54.119 --> 00:28:00.500 us. So in every truth, there's a counterfeit, 00:28:00.619 --> 00:28:08.259 except for obedience. There's no counterfeit 00:28:08.259 --> 00:28:11.220 for obedience. There's a counterfeit for love. 00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:14.500 You can imagine the words I might say for the 00:28:14.500 --> 00:28:16.440 counterfeit of love. There's a counterfeit of 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:19.079 all kinds of things. But there's no counterfeit 00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:23.339 or substitute for obedience. God is going to 00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:28.440 come back and take us to heaven with him. The 00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:31.720 heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament 00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:37.880 shows his handiwork. And now with our telescopes, 00:28:38.099 --> 00:28:44.140 we have incredible pictures of the heavens. And 00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:47.289 look what's there. All the colors of the sanctuary. 00:28:49.170 --> 00:28:54.750 Incredible. Happens to be Orion. The heavens 00:28:54.750 --> 00:28:58.990 declare the glory of God. Day unto day utter 00:28:58.990 --> 00:29:01.450 a speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. 00:29:03.009 --> 00:29:05.630 Their line is gone out through all the earth, 00:29:05.710 --> 00:29:09.609 and their words to the end of the world. In them 00:29:09.609 --> 00:29:13.730 hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. Isn't that 00:29:13.730 --> 00:29:17.950 interesting? Tabernacle for the sun. Next time 00:29:17.950 --> 00:29:23.430 you see a beautiful sunrise or sunset, you'll 00:29:23.430 --> 00:29:25.650 know that God is painting a beautiful picture 00:29:25.650 --> 00:29:29.670 of himself in the sky to remind you of who you 00:29:29.670 --> 00:29:36.150 are and where you're going. Let us pray. Father 00:29:36.150 --> 00:29:39.809 in heaven, we thank you so much for Jesus. His 00:29:39.809 --> 00:29:43.390 incredible world that we are living in. Lord, 00:29:43.450 --> 00:29:46.910 help us to praise him often during the day. Help 00:29:46.910 --> 00:29:50.289 us to think and talk of Jesus and let self be 00:29:50.289 --> 00:29:54.589 lost in him. And we pray that you'll bless us 00:29:54.589 --> 00:29:58.109 with your presence. In Jesus' name, amen.