WEBVTT 00:00:01.739 --> 00:00:05.599 Welcome to NECF. We're thrilled you're here. 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.339 Make sure to stay with us till the end, where 00:00:09.339 --> 00:00:12.179 we'll share some great resources to deepen your 00:00:12.179 --> 00:00:16.179 faith. Now, let's dive into this week's sermon. 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:23.059 Look at verse 15, Ephesians chapter 5, verse 00:00:23.059 --> 00:00:27.300 15. I want you to walk with your Bible. I mean, 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:29.800 I want everybody to open his Bible because... 00:00:30.250 --> 00:00:33.310 I believe that you should be looking at your 00:00:33.310 --> 00:00:35.969 Bible. Don't just be walking. Don't just be walking. 00:00:36.210 --> 00:00:38.429 That's the essence of Bible teaching. That's 00:00:38.429 --> 00:00:42.030 the essence of Bible teaching, that to also study 00:00:42.030 --> 00:00:44.570 the Bible together. And so study means to pay 00:00:44.570 --> 00:00:47.250 attention, to pay attention to detail, to pay 00:00:47.250 --> 00:00:53.450 attention and be focused. Look at verse 15. See 00:00:53.450 --> 00:00:57.670 then that you walk circumspectly. That word means... 00:00:57.820 --> 00:01:01.579 to walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise, 00:01:01.820 --> 00:01:05.620 redeeming the time because the days are evil. 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:10.920 Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.579 the will of the Lord is. That word redeeming 00:01:14.579 --> 00:01:19.120 the time means make most of every opportunity. 00:01:19.140 --> 00:01:22.359 That means the time there is opportunities. You 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:24.900 understand? Now, we're here in Cyprus. We have 00:01:24.900 --> 00:01:28.140 an opportunity. You are here in the church, you 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:32.099 have an opportunity to study the Word, to pay 00:01:32.099 --> 00:01:35.099 attention to what you are taught. He said, redeeming 00:01:35.099 --> 00:01:38.359 the time, which means that the way to redeem 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:43.060 the time, because when last year, if you were 00:01:43.060 --> 00:01:48.420 16, this year you are 17. And that means 17 will 00:01:48.420 --> 00:01:51.799 never come again. But how to redeem opportunities 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:56.920 is to make most of the opportunities. I have 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.319 talked to so many of us that are here. Some of 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.180 you may not have liked the courses you are taking 00:02:03.180 --> 00:02:06.000 now in school, you are studying, because they 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.219 forced it on you. Daddy and mommy said, if you 00:02:10.219 --> 00:02:13.800 don't study engineering, I will not pay your 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:16.939 school fees. So you have no choice than to study 00:02:16.939 --> 00:02:21.599 what they have imposed on you. But one thing 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:24.090 that... And not a lot of young people need to 00:02:24.090 --> 00:02:26.889 understand is that whether you are an adult or 00:02:26.889 --> 00:02:30.349 a young person, you have to understand that somebody 00:02:30.349 --> 00:02:33.370 will take decision for you. Oh, are you getting 00:02:33.370 --> 00:02:37.030 me? Are you getting me? Now, are you the president 00:02:37.030 --> 00:02:39.169 of your country? So that means somebody is taking 00:02:39.169 --> 00:02:42.210 decision on your behalf and is going to affect 00:02:42.210 --> 00:02:45.310 you. So don't always look at it as if, you know, 00:02:45.310 --> 00:02:48.189 the way we used to paint it in the sand. This 00:02:48.189 --> 00:02:50.569 is what I want to do. Yes, it's good that parents 00:02:50.569 --> 00:02:53.729 allow us to make our choices. But sometimes when 00:02:53.729 --> 00:02:55.370 you don't have a choice, what I'm trying to say 00:02:55.370 --> 00:02:59.189 is that in life, it's a reality. We're not saying 00:02:59.189 --> 00:03:01.610 that it's good for a curse to be imposed upon 00:03:01.610 --> 00:03:04.389 you. We're saying that is a reality. It happens 00:03:04.389 --> 00:03:07.530 in life. Some decisions are made, not without 00:03:07.530 --> 00:03:13.189 you. Whether you like it or not. He knew man 00:03:13.189 --> 00:03:17.159 would fall. Man would die. But he needs to be 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.039 rescued. You do understand what I'm saying? We 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:25.500 say that word Ezar means a savior, a rescuer. 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:32.560 Ezar, E -Z -E -R. It's a rescuer. So when Jesus 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:37.240 took on flesh, are we together? When he took 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:41.240 on flesh, that is Ezar coming to help man. That 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:50.900 is Ezar coming to help man. Did you understand 00:03:50.900 --> 00:03:53.259 what I'm saying? He rescued man from darkness. 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:59.099 He rescued man. So that word means rescuer. It 00:03:59.099 --> 00:04:06.759 means a deliverer. One who saves you. One who 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:11.120 takes you from darkness and from death. And we 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:16.490 saw. That the woman is not man's Ezzah. Because 00:04:16.490 --> 00:04:20.029 the woman that is coming to a man's life, or 00:04:20.029 --> 00:04:22.470 a man coming to a woman's life, you know, we 00:04:22.470 --> 00:04:25.449 always describe it in the other way. But it's 00:04:25.449 --> 00:04:27.370 both coming to each other's life. Are we together? 00:04:28.069 --> 00:04:30.810 So, when they come to each other's life, when 00:04:30.810 --> 00:04:35.230 a woman comes to a man's life, she is not coming 00:04:35.230 --> 00:04:38.050 as a savior. You understand what I'm saying? 00:04:38.389 --> 00:04:42.089 She is not a rescuer. She's not coming to save 00:04:42.089 --> 00:04:45.709 the man from darkness. Except you are darkness. 00:04:45.870 --> 00:04:48.750 I know and I know. When I married my wife, I 00:04:48.750 --> 00:04:51.189 was in the light. And I'm still in the light. 00:04:51.670 --> 00:04:54.029 And I'll continue to be in the light. You understand? 00:04:54.470 --> 00:04:57.930 You remember Ephesians 5? It says you were in 00:04:57.930 --> 00:05:02.269 darkness, but now you are light in him. So my 00:05:02.269 --> 00:05:05.490 wife did not come to give me light. And God did 00:05:05.490 --> 00:05:09.709 not institute the marriage to bring... people 00:05:09.709 --> 00:05:13.050 into light. I know some people say, I am with 00:05:13.050 --> 00:05:15.810 him because I want to convert him. Thank you, 00:05:15.829 --> 00:05:19.829 Holy Spirit. God has not put marriage as a means 00:05:19.829 --> 00:05:22.829 to bring people into light. So the woman is not 00:05:22.829 --> 00:05:27.490 coming to rescue the man from darkness. No. There 00:05:27.490 --> 00:05:32.490 is nowhere, at no point, that the scripture teaches 00:05:32.490 --> 00:05:37.870 that the woman is man's Ezzah, is man's helper. 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:41.959 So helper in that context, helper in this text 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:45.939 is not literal. It's not saying that she is your 00:05:45.939 --> 00:05:47.420 house help. Do you understand what I'm saying? 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.339 I know this teaching is spoiling some men's strong, 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:56.040 strongest scripture in their arsenal in bringing 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:57.980 their wives into subjection. When the wife want 00:05:57.980 --> 00:06:01.500 to complain and say, don't you know that? He 00:06:01.500 --> 00:06:03.420 say, I want to remind you what the Bible says. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:07.449 He say, you are my helper. Did you realize that? 00:06:07.589 --> 00:06:10.569 Brother, don't you think you are wicked? That 00:06:10.569 --> 00:06:13.569 her father took her to school, pay her school 00:06:13.569 --> 00:06:17.389 fees. She went to the university, got degree. 00:06:17.610 --> 00:06:20.529 Her degree was not in Kuchino. And then you carried 00:06:20.529 --> 00:06:23.290 her and said she must continually cook for you. 00:06:23.790 --> 00:06:26.910 How about now? Don't you see that your heart 00:06:26.910 --> 00:06:31.589 is terrible? Okay, wait. Give birth to a child. 00:06:32.329 --> 00:06:35.790 Give birth to a daughter. Train her. Which one 00:06:35.790 --> 00:06:41.329 is it? Medicine. Train her in medicine. I think 00:06:41.329 --> 00:06:44.329 here we pay about 13 ,000 euros, right? Or thereabout. 00:06:44.889 --> 00:06:49.949 That's about 22 ,000, 22 million, probably thereabout 00:06:49.949 --> 00:06:52.870 in Nigerian, whatever, Naira. Are we together? 00:06:53.709 --> 00:06:58.829 A year. And you do that for five, six years, 00:06:58.889 --> 00:07:01.970 right? When you are finishing, that means you 00:07:01.970 --> 00:07:05.050 must have paid up to about 70 something thousand 00:07:05.050 --> 00:07:08.069 euros, right? Are we together? Doctors in the 00:07:08.069 --> 00:07:12.230 house, right? Imagine you paid that money, you 00:07:12.230 --> 00:07:16.930 understand? Some of you, even to help your roommates, 00:07:17.250 --> 00:07:20.490 you say, brother, the Lord will help us. Now, 00:07:20.490 --> 00:07:23.230 somebody trained his daughter with such money. 00:07:23.870 --> 00:07:26.870 And you will carry her and keep her in the house 00:07:26.870 --> 00:07:28.930 to be cooking for you. Didn't you see the way 00:07:28.930 --> 00:07:31.170 your heart is? And you will not do the same. 00:07:31.370 --> 00:07:34.170 So the point I'm trying to say is that there 00:07:34.170 --> 00:07:38.569 is nowhere in scripture because the water helper 00:07:38.569 --> 00:07:42.410 tells us of a message of salvation. Remember, 00:07:42.670 --> 00:07:45.230 he said, in the day you eat it, you will die. 00:07:45.350 --> 00:07:48.069 And he said, and the Lord said, the next scripture. 00:07:48.310 --> 00:07:52.199 I don't want a man to be in that position. He 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.259 said, I have already made a provision for his 00:07:55.259 --> 00:07:59.079 rescue. And I am his helper. Are we together? 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.639 I used to like that song. My, my helper. My. 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:05.819 It's just that the other line, that's just the 00:08:05.819 --> 00:08:08.879 problem. Maybe you have to adjust that. That 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:11.980 word. There is something that makes me come into 00:08:11.980 --> 00:08:14.139 your. Where have you been? That's just the line 00:08:14.139 --> 00:08:17.639 that is. Where have you been? You understand? 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.259 Since the day we received him, we have come into. 00:08:21.769 --> 00:08:23.209 And we have been there. We will remain there 00:08:23.209 --> 00:08:26.750 forever. Glory to Jesus. You have not gone anywhere. 00:08:27.529 --> 00:08:30.149 Not there is something. You are already there. 00:08:31.029 --> 00:08:33.690 So adjust that line. But else, I love this song. 00:08:33.929 --> 00:08:37.970 You know what I'm trying to say? So the point 00:08:37.970 --> 00:08:42.070 I'm trying to point out is that marriage is a 00:08:42.070 --> 00:08:45.970 union. It's a mutual union. Oh, let me say it 00:08:45.970 --> 00:08:49.710 again. Marriage is a mutual union. It means a 00:08:49.710 --> 00:08:54.309 symbiotic relationship. It's not a commensal 00:08:54.309 --> 00:08:58.409 relationship where only one benefits. It's not 00:08:58.409 --> 00:09:02.870 also parasitic where one is harmed. No. It's 00:09:02.870 --> 00:09:07.269 a symbiotic relationship. So the man helps the 00:09:07.269 --> 00:09:10.639 woman. The woman helps the man. If you are using 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:13.600 that word literally, it's not just one way. You 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.860 come together to be a team, to be able to do 00:09:16.860 --> 00:09:19.960 greater things so that when you get married, 00:09:20.059 --> 00:09:22.960 you become better, both of you. You do that in 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:25.940 business. When two people join hands to come 00:09:25.940 --> 00:09:29.700 together, they join thinking, they join energy, 00:09:29.860 --> 00:09:33.980 they produce a better thing than each one of 00:09:33.980 --> 00:09:36.539 them will have done it. Are we together? Marriage 00:09:36.539 --> 00:09:39.720 is a union where we both help each other. Are 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:46.779 we together? Therefore, woman is not the help 00:09:46.779 --> 00:09:51.000 of man. Glory to Jesus. Now look at verse 21. 00:09:51.379 --> 00:09:56.059 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall 00:09:56.059 --> 00:10:01.120 on Adam, and he slept. And he took one of his 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.299 ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then 00:10:05.299 --> 00:10:09.580 the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:16.220 he made into a woman. And he brought her to the 00:10:16.220 --> 00:10:18.720 man. I want you to pay attention, please. Note 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.659 something in verse 21. Particularly, took one 00:10:22.659 --> 00:10:28.039 of his ribs. In verse 21. And then the rib which 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.480 the Lord God had taken from man, he made into 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.759 a woman. Verse, note that word. The reap which 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:40.240 the Lord or which the Lord had taken. Verse 22. 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:43.419 You know, people have used this verse also to 00:10:43.419 --> 00:10:47.419 take it very literal that and they call the woman 00:10:47.419 --> 00:10:51.519 the missing reap. Meaning that the man has one 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:56.639 reap missing because God took it and from the 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:03.139 woman. So the woman is one reap. The man is left. 00:11:04.350 --> 00:11:09.730 with 23 rips, that this one is missing. And I 00:11:09.730 --> 00:11:12.490 have checked. I had to go online again. I become 00:11:12.490 --> 00:11:16.909 foolish for just a few seconds. I said, let me 00:11:16.909 --> 00:11:19.789 check, you understand? I know this is, Pastor, 00:11:19.889 --> 00:11:22.750 anything is possible. Pastor Emma recently, he's 00:11:22.750 --> 00:11:25.690 had to become pharmaceutical, international relations. 00:11:25.809 --> 00:11:29.250 So there is nothing that you cannot create. Hallelujah. 00:11:31.580 --> 00:11:34.679 But paucococci is a red anatomy. You understand? 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.899 Now you understand that first and foremost, I 00:11:39.899 --> 00:11:43.600 check to find whether there is any normal human 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:49.220 being. You understand? First, any normal man 00:11:49.220 --> 00:11:51.519 that has an incomplete rib. You understand? And 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.360 I have found none. Then I check, okay, let me 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.259 check any woman. Any normal woman that has only 00:11:58.259 --> 00:12:04.639 one rib and I couldn't find. Okay. And then I 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:07.440 check, I discover that every, regardless of sex, 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:15.580 every person, male, female, have 12 pairs of 00:12:15.580 --> 00:12:21.460 ribs. That's 24, right? 24. The exception is 00:12:21.460 --> 00:12:24.559 abnormal. What is abnormal? Maybe you had an 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.759 accident and then some, the curse just broke 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:32.750 someone's. Or? You went for cosmetics these days. 00:12:33.009 --> 00:12:36.490 Hey, Jesus. There is a cosmetic surgery they 00:12:36.490 --> 00:12:39.490 do these days that they remove your lips to make 00:12:39.490 --> 00:12:42.490 your waist align. You know what I'm saying? I 00:12:42.490 --> 00:12:47.370 saw one woman, she removed six of her lips. What 00:12:47.370 --> 00:12:50.409 is it? That she wants to make herself happy. 00:12:50.509 --> 00:12:54.669 She's on YouTube. That she wants to look... Oh, 00:12:54.669 --> 00:12:58.009 Jesus. She wants to look like a cartoon. That's 00:12:58.009 --> 00:12:59.960 what will make her happy. You see this place 00:12:59.960 --> 00:13:02.840 very thin. If it is that one, that's artificial. 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.820 It's not normal. Or a side accident, or you have 00:13:06.820 --> 00:13:09.000 a genetic disease, you understand. Or sometimes 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.799 even can be removed surgically for any kind of 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:16.539 maybe disease, when maybe you have discomfort 00:13:16.539 --> 00:13:19.259 around this area there, so they have to remove 00:13:19.259 --> 00:13:23.500 it to help you feel, I mean, to relieve you from 00:13:23.500 --> 00:13:26.659 the pain. But besides these cases I've mentioned, 00:13:27.289 --> 00:13:29.409 normal human beings come with complete rifts. 00:13:30.409 --> 00:13:33.590 Then that means, how did it happen? Is it mutation? 00:13:34.309 --> 00:13:37.470 When God removed that of Adam, and then over 00:13:37.470 --> 00:13:39.529 there they give birth, then there's mutation, 00:13:39.830 --> 00:13:41.429 and then the other one grows back. Or what? I 00:13:41.429 --> 00:13:43.669 don't understand. So what I'm trying to say, 00:13:43.750 --> 00:13:47.370 I want you not to throw away your brain when 00:13:47.370 --> 00:13:48.970 you are reading the scripture. Do you understand 00:13:48.970 --> 00:13:50.850 what I'm trying to say? Yes, don't throw away 00:13:50.850 --> 00:13:53.929 your brain. You need to ask questions. Remember, 00:13:54.169 --> 00:13:58.559 don't forget. When you are reading. That Adam 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:03.419 didn't read anatomy. And I mean Moses did not 00:14:03.419 --> 00:14:08.980 read anatomy. Moses is a prophet. And the goal 00:14:08.980 --> 00:14:12.580 of Moses is not to give you a textbook of anatomy. 00:14:12.980 --> 00:14:16.279 That's not his goal. Because you know Moses is 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:19.559 a prophet. And you know his goal. What God called 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:22.519 him. Then you have to be careful how he writes. 00:14:23.340 --> 00:14:25.840 You have to pay attention because you can't just 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:29.360 assume that's what he meant. No. Just like I 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.100 gave you an example with Jesus. You know why 00:14:32.100 --> 00:14:34.779 he's here or not. You know what he's about to 00:14:34.779 --> 00:14:38.659 do. So when he was teaching and he uses parables 00:14:38.659 --> 00:14:42.419 and he writes in that pattern, you don't think 00:14:42.419 --> 00:14:44.360 that he's teaching people how to do business 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:47.919 when he gave the parable of the talent. He said, 00:14:47.940 --> 00:14:52.500 this is the business secret of the Bible. The 00:14:52.500 --> 00:14:55.740 business secrets from Jesus himself. However 00:14:55.740 --> 00:14:58.879 now, that is not how to study the Bible. Go back 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.700 to that verse. Look at that verse. Let me just 00:15:01.700 --> 00:15:04.419 do some things in that verse. Verse 21. Are you 00:15:04.419 --> 00:15:08.840 there? And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.940 Adam. I mean to fall on Adam. To fall on Adam. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:16.460 What is that reap? And he slept and he took one 00:15:16.460 --> 00:15:20.860 of his reaps. What is this reap then? If it is 00:15:20.860 --> 00:15:24.179 not biological, if he's not talking about literature, 00:15:24.259 --> 00:15:27.960 what is it? What is Moses trying to communicate? 00:15:29.220 --> 00:15:32.559 Now, the first thing, you know, every teaching 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.779 we teach you, we also teach you how to read Bible. 00:15:35.899 --> 00:15:38.759 When you encounter this kind of a thing, all 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:40.600 the first thing, I think I taught you during 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.360 the catatismus, one of these catatismus, I think, 00:15:43.379 --> 00:15:47.500 no, the last, no, not this last, the 2024, the 00:15:47.500 --> 00:15:51.210 2023. When Pastor Olu was here, you understand. 00:15:51.490 --> 00:15:56.009 I say, how to know that you have accurately divided 00:15:56.009 --> 00:15:58.809 the word of truth? You have to subject it through 00:15:58.809 --> 00:16:01.789 some certain principle. You understand? One of 00:16:01.789 --> 00:16:03.889 the principles, when you are juggling, you are 00:16:03.889 --> 00:16:05.549 trying to understand the meaning of the word. 00:16:05.870 --> 00:16:08.929 We just did that in the cell with the issue of 00:16:08.929 --> 00:16:11.429 water and the spirit. Are we together? One of 00:16:11.429 --> 00:16:14.289 the things we did was to follow through John. 00:16:15.009 --> 00:16:19.049 And look, how did he use water? Are we together? 00:16:19.710 --> 00:16:24.509 From chapter 3, we look at the context of discussion, 00:16:24.809 --> 00:16:27.250 and the context includes a number of things. 00:16:27.850 --> 00:16:31.389 One is to look at the immediate context. What 00:16:31.389 --> 00:16:34.730 is the major theme discussed there? The theme 00:16:34.730 --> 00:16:38.009 discussed is being born again, which means being 00:16:38.009 --> 00:16:40.789 born of what? Of the Spirit. And how will you 00:16:40.789 --> 00:16:43.110 do that? How will you be born by the Spirit? 00:16:43.470 --> 00:16:45.149 By faith. Did you understand what I'm saying? 00:16:45.309 --> 00:16:49.809 That is the theme. nowhere physical water is 00:16:49.809 --> 00:16:53.009 mentioned. Then that means, and that's the only 00:16:53.009 --> 00:16:55.690 place he said water and the spirit. And John 00:16:55.690 --> 00:17:03.570 was writing it to say to us that Jesus was saying 00:17:03.570 --> 00:17:07.589 it as a further explanation. Because in verse 00:17:07.589 --> 00:17:11.869 3, he told him that except you are born again, 00:17:11.950 --> 00:17:16.660 you will not see the kingdom. And the man didn't 00:17:16.660 --> 00:17:20.240 understand and took it literally. Although he 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:23.299 was a Pharisee, although he was a teacher of 00:17:23.299 --> 00:17:25.680 the law, he never understood what born again 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:29.200 means. He thought that a man would be born twice, 00:17:29.220 --> 00:17:31.519 meaning he has to go back to his mother's womb. 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:34.460 You understand? And then he asked Jesus, what 00:17:34.460 --> 00:17:36.640 do you mean? And then Jesus said, no, no, no, 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.039 no, no, no. This is what I mean. And then he 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:42.799 reiterated himself. In verse what? Verse 5. That 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:45.220 means whatever he's saying in verse 5 is not 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:47.039 different from what he was saying in verse 3. 00:17:47.140 --> 00:17:51.259 And then he further verse 6, verse 7, and then 00:17:51.259 --> 00:17:55.380 continues. When you move to chapter 4, you saw 00:17:55.380 --> 00:17:58.839 Jesus with the Samaritan woman, right? And then 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.180 they were talking about there was literal water 00:18:01.180 --> 00:18:05.299 there. But he uses that also figuratively. He 00:18:05.299 --> 00:18:08.420 said, I will give you the living water. Will 00:18:08.420 --> 00:18:11.579 you mean? Jesus is talking about that. The woman 00:18:11.579 --> 00:18:15.119 also did not understand. She has to begin to 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:18.140 ask, you don't have the, you don't have anything 00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:20.819 to draw the water. How are you going to give 00:18:20.819 --> 00:18:24.380 me? Then Jesus began to explain further. When 00:18:24.380 --> 00:18:27.619 you read chapter 7, again he talks about water. 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.359 He calls it the living water. What we are trying 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.960 to say is that if you follow the author, you 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:36.380 will know what he means. Now again, what we will 00:18:36.380 --> 00:18:40.789 do, we will follow Moses. How did he use the 00:18:40.789 --> 00:18:44.549 word reap? Are we together? Are we ready? Okay, 00:18:44.589 --> 00:18:46.950 let's follow Moses. Let's look at how did he 00:18:46.950 --> 00:18:51.789 use the word reap in his writings. Hallelujah. 00:18:52.150 --> 00:18:56.329 Exodus chapter 25. Exodus 25. So just follow 00:18:56.329 --> 00:19:00.390 me quickly. Exodus 25 verse 18. Sorry, verse 00:19:00.390 --> 00:19:07.680 8 to 14. Exodus 25. Verse 8. And let them make 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:13.200 me a sanctuary, that I might dwell among them 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:18.519 according to all that I saw you. That is the 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.000 pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:25.880 all furnishing, just so you shall make it. Verse 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:29.920 10. And they shall make an ark of acacia wood, 00:19:30.220 --> 00:19:35.769 two and a half cubits. Shall be its length. A 00:19:35.769 --> 00:19:40.650 cubit. And a half. Its width. And a cubic. And 00:19:40.650 --> 00:19:43.910 half its height. Verse 11. And you shall overlay 00:19:43.910 --> 00:19:48.930 it with pure gold. Inside. And outside you shall 00:19:48.930 --> 00:19:53.750 overlay it. And shall make on it. A molding. 00:19:54.210 --> 00:19:57.450 Of gold. All around. Look at verse 12 please. 00:19:57.789 --> 00:20:09.059 And you shall cast. Full. Of the gold. That word 00:20:09.059 --> 00:20:16.259 sight is the same word as rip. The word there 00:20:16.259 --> 00:20:23.880 in Hebrew is selah. S -E -L -A. Selah. S -E -L 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.940 -A. That's the word in Hebrew. So that word sight 00:20:27.940 --> 00:20:33.430 is the same word selah. Let's continue. He said, 00:20:33.549 --> 00:20:36.650 and two rings on the other side. And you shall 00:20:36.650 --> 00:20:40.410 make pole of acacia wood and overlay them with 00:20:40.410 --> 00:20:44.730 gold. You shall put the pole into the rings on 00:20:44.730 --> 00:20:49.230 the side of the ark. That the ark will be carried 00:20:49.230 --> 00:20:52.230 by them. Now look at that word. He said the rings, 00:20:52.430 --> 00:20:59.609 verse 14. That word sides. Sides is also means. 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.099 The rip. What can you see here? That means we 00:21:03.099 --> 00:21:07.059 see now here in this text, rip. Rip as what? 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.539 Side of an ark. The rip here is what? The sides 00:21:11.539 --> 00:21:16.839 of what? An ark. Look at Exodus 26. Exodus 26. 00:21:17.180 --> 00:21:20.740 Look at verse 20. And for the second side of 00:21:20.740 --> 00:21:24.019 the tabernacle. Now look at that what side again. 00:21:24.619 --> 00:21:27.740 Is the word to reap. Which is selah. Side of 00:21:27.740 --> 00:21:30.980 the tabernacle. The north side. There shall be 00:21:30.980 --> 00:21:37.259 20 boats. Look at verse 26. Verse 26. So Exodus 00:21:37.259 --> 00:21:44.940 26. We read verse 20. Now 26. And you shall make 00:21:44.940 --> 00:21:48.680 bars of acacia wood. Five of the boats of one 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:51.980 side. That word side again. Is the word what? 00:21:52.180 --> 00:22:15.619 Reap. Selah. Look at verse 27. What do you see 00:22:15.619 --> 00:22:20.240 again here? That means here, reap is what? The 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:22.940 site of what? The tabernacle. Are we together? 00:22:23.450 --> 00:22:27.349 Oh, are you with me? Sight of what? The tabernacle. 00:22:27.589 --> 00:22:33.190 Look at chapter 27. Chapter 27. Chapter 27, verse 00:22:33.190 --> 00:22:38.970 7. The pole shall be put in the rings, and the 00:22:38.970 --> 00:22:44.769 pole shall be on the two sides of the altar to 00:22:44.769 --> 00:22:48.349 bear it. Two sides of the altar. That was sight 00:22:48.349 --> 00:22:51.690 again. That was sight again. Here we see is a 00:22:51.690 --> 00:22:56.299 sight. of the altar. Side of the ark, side of 00:22:56.299 --> 00:23:00.539 the tabernacle, side of the altar. Look at chapter 00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:04.660 30 verse 4. Chapter 30 verse 4. Chapter 30 verse 00:23:04.660 --> 00:23:10.339 4. We're still in Exodus 30 verse 4. Two gold 00:23:10.339 --> 00:23:15.380 rings you shall make for it. On the molding on 00:23:15.380 --> 00:23:20.660 both sides you shall place them on it. two sides. 00:23:20.980 --> 00:23:24.759 Now that word side, again, both its sides. Sides. 00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:28.960 You shall place them on its two sides and they 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:32.619 shall be holders for the poor witch to bear it. 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:36.799 So we see side. Reap a side, O Selah. Chapter 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:43.319 36. Chapter 36. Verse 25. And for the other side, 00:23:43.700 --> 00:23:47.339 that word side is Selah, of the tabernacle. Move 00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:53.299 to verse 31 of that. Exodus 36. And he made bars 00:23:53.299 --> 00:23:58.180 of acacia wood, five for the boat on one side 00:23:58.180 --> 00:24:02.299 of the tabernacle. One side of the tabernacle, 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:06.920 verse 32. Five bars for the boat on the other 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:10.259 side of the tabernacle. Now, you could see that 00:24:10.259 --> 00:24:13.339 in all these verses, verse 31, verse 32, verse 00:24:13.339 --> 00:24:17.509 25. Again, what do we see? Reap of Selah. As 00:24:17.509 --> 00:24:21.569 what? Sides of the tabernacle. Sides of the tabernacle, 00:24:21.609 --> 00:24:26.549 verse 37. Sorry, chapter 37. Next is chapter 00:24:26.549 --> 00:24:32.730 37, verse 3. And he casts for it four rings of 00:24:32.730 --> 00:24:37.809 gold, for gold to be set in its corners, in two 00:24:37.809 --> 00:24:42.230 rings on one side. That word side again is rip. 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:50.259 And two rings on the other side of it. Again, 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:54.259 we see sides. Look at verse 5 of that chapter 00:24:54.259 --> 00:24:57.440 37. Are you there with me? He said, and he put 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:01.359 the pole into the rings at the side of the ark 00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:05.299 to bear the ark. That side again. 27, verse 27. 00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:09.700 Verse 27 of chapter 37. He made two rings of 00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:14.799 gold for it under its molding. By two corners. 00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:20.940 By two corners. On both sides. As holders for 00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:25.640 the pole. With which to bear it. Look at chapter 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:31.339 38. 38 verse 7. 38 verse 7. Then he put the pole. 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:36.680 Into the ring. On the side of the altar. With 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:40.779 which to bear it. He made the altar hollow. With 00:25:40.779 --> 00:25:44.819 both sides. Of the altar. That word sight again. 00:25:45.019 --> 00:25:48.980 What can we see here? That means Selah. As all 00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:52.599 we are. This is. They enter in all Moses writings. 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:55.680 You understand. These are places Moses used the 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:58.619 same word. With that word he used in Genesis. 00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:05.339 We see it as the sight of a building. Of a tabernacle. 00:26:05.619 --> 00:26:10.180 The sight of an ark. Sight of the altar. Sight. 00:26:10.859 --> 00:26:13.660 So in all these instances, Moses taught rips 00:26:13.660 --> 00:26:18.299 in reference to building. Moses taught what? 00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:22.900 Rip in reference to what? Building a tabernacle. 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:26.279 Because all these things we talk about is about 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:28.500 the building of a tabernacle. Are we together? 00:26:28.940 --> 00:26:32.359 The building of a tabernacle. Now, I want you 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:33.940 to note something again because we are trying 00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:37.700 to look contextually. Why will Moses be using 00:26:37.700 --> 00:26:39.680 this same word? That's the question I want to 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:42.720 ask now. Why would Moses be using this same word 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:45.759 in reference to a tabernacle? Why would Jesus 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:49.319 be using a lot of parables with agriculture? 00:26:50.980 --> 00:26:53.660 Are you together with me? Are you together with 00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:57.920 me? Because the choice of Christ to use more 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:02.000 of agriculture to speak about what he wants to 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:05.079 speak is in reference to his audience. Oh, are 00:27:05.079 --> 00:27:10.509 we together? Oh, are we together? Amen. I want 00:27:10.509 --> 00:27:14.230 you to note Moses' choice of what? Moses' choice 00:27:14.230 --> 00:27:19.170 of even the issue of tabernacle was because of 00:27:19.170 --> 00:27:22.809 the experience of the Israelites. The issue of 00:27:22.809 --> 00:27:25.190 tabernacle is not a strange thing to Israel. 00:27:25.869 --> 00:27:29.950 Are we together? The children of Israel are conversant 00:27:29.950 --> 00:27:34.309 with tabernacle, with temples in Egypt because 00:27:34.309 --> 00:27:38.509 that is where idol worship takes place. Are we 00:27:38.509 --> 00:27:42.039 together? Idol worship takes place where? In 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:46.299 a tabernacle. So when Moses was using to build 00:27:46.299 --> 00:27:50.339 a tabernacle, he didn't choose that because he 00:27:50.339 --> 00:27:52.920 just wanted to choose that to communicate the 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:56.619 gospel. Because I think we did hypodigma, right? 00:27:56.700 --> 00:27:59.039 When we are dealing with Leviticus, the gospel 00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:03.619 in Leviticus. We even studied the issue of in 00:28:03.619 --> 00:28:08.440 Hebrew and we saw that the tabernacle. was a 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:13.200 hypodigma, was an example, was a pointer. Are 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:15.519 we together? To the building that God will do. 00:28:15.579 --> 00:28:20.619 Are we together? Amen. So when Moses make a choice 00:28:20.619 --> 00:28:25.380 to build the tabernacle and to describe it, he 00:28:25.380 --> 00:28:30.359 is speaking from a point to make his audience 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:33.460 have a connection to what he's saying. So note 00:28:33.460 --> 00:28:37.230 this one, that the deliverance. Let me tell you 00:28:37.230 --> 00:28:41.130 one thing. Tabernacle, the knowledge of the tabernacle 00:28:41.130 --> 00:28:45.410 or temple emanates from Egypt because Egypt is 00:28:45.410 --> 00:28:47.509 a place of idol worship. That's where they knew. 00:28:48.190 --> 00:28:53.910 So most times when we describe the exodus of 00:28:53.910 --> 00:28:58.230 Israel from Egypt, we describe it as if God is 00:28:58.230 --> 00:29:02.450 just saving them from oppression. But it's not 00:29:02.450 --> 00:29:05.859 just oppression. Yes, it's oppression. But equally, 00:29:06.099 --> 00:29:10.619 God was saving them from idol worship. Because 00:29:10.619 --> 00:29:12.539 when he told Moses, he said, go and tell Pharaoh 00:29:12.539 --> 00:29:16.140 that I want my people to go and serve me. Are 00:29:16.140 --> 00:29:20.400 we together? Hallelujah. So God was not just 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:23.519 only saving Israel from oppression in Egypt, 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:26.420 but he was saving them also from idol worship, 00:29:26.579 --> 00:29:29.759 from idol worship. Hallelujah. He was saving 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:32.390 them from idol worship. Now, let me give you 00:29:32.390 --> 00:29:35.190 just an introduction of something. Look at Exodus 00:29:35.190 --> 00:29:38.750 12. I want to just show you that Egypt, about 00:29:38.750 --> 00:29:41.829 tabernacle and idol worship, Israel lent it from 00:29:41.829 --> 00:29:44.650 where? From Egypt. So when Moses was speaking 00:29:44.650 --> 00:29:48.250 using tabernacle, they understood what Moses 00:29:48.250 --> 00:29:51.349 was communicating. They understood what Moses 00:29:51.349 --> 00:29:53.849 was communicating. Exodus chapter 12, verse 12. 00:29:54.910 --> 00:30:00.029 For I will pass through the land of Egypt. On 00:30:00.029 --> 00:30:02.789 the night, and I will strike all the firstborn 00:30:02.789 --> 00:30:06.009 in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and 00:30:06.009 --> 00:30:11.690 against all the gods of who? The gods of Egypt. 00:30:11.890 --> 00:30:14.650 And I will execute the judgment. I am the Lord. 00:30:14.769 --> 00:30:20.430 The gods of Egypt. The gods of Egypt. The gods 00:30:20.430 --> 00:30:25.349 of Egypt. Look at Joshua 24. Joshua 24. Joshua 00:30:25.349 --> 00:30:30.759 24. Look at verse 14. 24 verse 14. Now, therefore, 00:30:31.099 --> 00:30:36.180 fear the Lord. Serve him in sincerity and in 00:30:36.180 --> 00:30:40.480 truth. And put away what? The goat which your 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:44.500 father served on the other side of the river. 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:49.119 In where? Oh, talk to me. In where? In Egypt. 00:30:50.220 --> 00:30:53.119 That's where they learned it. That's where they 00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:55.480 learned it. Look at Ezekiel 20. That's where 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:58.980 I will stop. Look at Ezekiel 20. Ezekiel 20. 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:02.579 And we shall continue from there. All glory to 00:31:02.579 --> 00:31:06.579 Jesus. What I'm trying to say is that when you 00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:11.359 see Bible writers use things, it is not accidental. 00:31:11.980 --> 00:31:15.619 They don't just choose what have hazardly. They 00:31:15.619 --> 00:31:18.480 choose it deliberately. Are we together? That's 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:20.559 what we're trying to communicate. Are you in 00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:24.180 Ezekiel? Ezekiel 20. Look at verse 5. Let me 00:31:24.180 --> 00:31:26.119 read quickly here because I want you to see. 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:29.779 so much here before we close excuse me verse 00:31:29.779 --> 00:31:33.599 five say to them so says the lord on the day 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:37.259 when i choose israel and raise my hand in an 00:31:37.259 --> 00:31:40.200 oath to the descendants of the house of jacob 00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:43.980 made myself known to them in the land of egypt 00:31:43.980 --> 00:32:17.660 i raise my hand in an oath Verse 7. With the 00:32:17.660 --> 00:32:20.539 idols of Egypt, I am the Lord your God. But, 00:32:20.539 --> 00:32:25.640 verse 8, they rebel against me and will not obey 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.000 me. They did not all cast away the abominations 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:33.859 which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake 00:32:33.859 --> 00:32:36.539 the idols of Egypt. Then I said, I will pour 00:32:36.539 --> 00:32:39.900 out my fury on them and fulfill my anger against 00:32:39.900 --> 00:32:42.380 them in the midst of the land of Egypt. But I 00:32:42.380 --> 00:32:45.920 acted for my name's sake, that I should not be 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:49.119 profaned before the Gentiles, among whom they 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:52.319 were, in whose side I had made myself known to 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:54.980 them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. 00:32:56.170 --> 00:32:59.089 made them to go out of the land of Egypt and 00:32:59.089 --> 00:33:02.269 brought them into the wilderness and I gave them 00:33:02.269 --> 00:33:05.529 my status and showed them my judgment which even 00:33:05.529 --> 00:33:09.390 man does he shall live by them moreover I also 00:33:09.390 --> 00:33:13.210 gave them my sabbath to be a sign between them 00:33:13.210 --> 00:33:18.259 and me that they might know that I am the Lord 00:33:18.259 --> 00:33:22.119 whom sanctified them. Yet the house of Israel 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.759 rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:28.779 not walk in my status. They despise my judgment, 00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:34.359 which if a man does, he shall live by them, and 00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:37.680 they greatly defile my Sabbath. Then I said, 00:33:37.819 --> 00:33:41.279 I will pour out my fury on them in the wilderness 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:45.109 to consume them, but I acted. For my name's sake, 00:33:45.190 --> 00:33:48.970 that it shall not be profane before the Gentiles, 00:33:48.970 --> 00:33:53.130 in whom side I had brought them out. So I also 00:33:53.130 --> 00:33:56.529 raise my hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, 00:33:56.710 --> 00:34:00.809 that I will not bring them into what? Into the 00:34:00.809 --> 00:34:03.130 land which I had given them flowing with milk 00:34:03.130 --> 00:34:06.170 and honey, the glory of all the lands. Verse 00:34:06.170 --> 00:34:09.469 16. Because they despised my judgment and did 00:34:09.469 --> 00:34:30.329 not... But I said to them, to their children 00:34:30.329 --> 00:34:33.460 in the wilderness, I said to their children, 00:34:33.659 --> 00:34:36.559 he said, do not walk in the status of your father, 00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:42.019 nor observe their judgment, for nor defile yourself 00:34:42.019 --> 00:34:46.559 with their what? With their idols. Now, when 00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:50.519 Moses make a choice to build a tabernacle and 00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:54.559 to use the word to reap and to describe, sorry, 00:34:54.699 --> 00:34:57.739 he was not describing anatomy. He was describing 00:34:57.739 --> 00:35:01.440 and using things familiar to his audience. using 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:03.599 things familiar to his audience to communicate 00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:07.300 something. Are we together? So even the Israelites 00:35:07.300 --> 00:35:10.639 were delivered from Egypt. Even though they were 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:12.639 delivered from Egypt, they were still not free 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:15.559 from what? For their idols. They were not free. 00:35:15.820 --> 00:35:19.559 They were not free. That thing they have imbibed 00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:22.519 was following them. When we come, we will see 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.139 some of the trouble that they had in the wilderness. 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:27.900 And then the idea is that we are following gradually. 00:35:28.909 --> 00:35:32.369 to come to understand what was Moses communicating 00:35:32.369 --> 00:35:36.309 when he used that the Lord took a rip, took a 00:35:36.309 --> 00:35:39.250 rip and built into a woman. What did he mean 00:35:39.250 --> 00:35:42.289 by that? But one thing I want you to understand 00:35:42.289 --> 00:35:47.210 is that at this moment, that Moses was not communicating 00:35:47.210 --> 00:35:50.269 by logic. Are we together? That that word rip 00:35:50.269 --> 00:35:54.730 is a term in building and the building is about 00:35:54.730 --> 00:35:58.519 the tabernacle. And he... The tabernacle is about 00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:01.360 what they are familiar with. And he's using that 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:04.599 to communicate the plans of God for their life. 00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:08.639 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We're thankful you joined 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:12.300 us today. Don't forget to subscribe so you're 00:36:12.300 --> 00:36:15.940 always connected to our latest sermons. You can 00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:19.139 also explore more about NECF on our website or 00:36:19.139 --> 00:36:22.500 follow us online. We look forward to having you 00:36:22.500 --> 00:36:24.780 with us next time. God bless.