Bryan Alan White: The Father's Proxy where we are, Pro XY. We're your host. I'm Brian. This is Jamie Z. last week we had our finale on our three-part series of the Johnson's testimony. we ended with their Brookshire story and their little jelly truck that's on the way because the Johnsons are expecting a baby. and then we did some little bit of QA as well. Today we're actually back doing a Bible study. I know it's been a minute, but we've had a lot of testimonies, and again, we're gonna challenge you. To do your testimony. but we're back in our the Bible, we're in Genesis 22. we're gonna be talking about Abraham and Isaac. and the chapter begins with God testing Abraham's love for him. so we're gonna read through these verses and then we're gonna come back and talk a little bit more about them, break down, break them down, give a better understanding of the text. So as it begins, it says, After these things, God tested Abraham and said to him, So when it's saying after these things, We're talking about the treaty with Abimelech. it's also talking about the birth of Isaac. So those were the things that were preceding it. So check back on a couple episodes and you'll actually hear about that. but that's what he's talking about here. So after these things, God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham, and he said, Here I am. He said, Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. So verses one and two, we're talking about a willing sacrifice of Abraham's only son, and that's by Sarah. that is. So it's he's not talking about the son Ishmael from Hagar. I was gonna say that was kind of striking of the one he loved because I could tell he wanted to love Ishmael, but Sarah did not, you know. When he says the land of Moriah, he's talking about Golgotha. So that Golgotha, if you didn't know, is where Jesus was crucified. So Abraham actually is taking Isaac to Golgotha. So that's fun fact. Foreshadowing like no other. So let's let's go to verse three. So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac, and he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. so when it's talking about cuts the wood and he heads to the altar, this is symbolizing Exodus and faithfully following God's plan or path and plan. It also when he's talking about cutting the wood, it's the cross. Yeah. Talking about the cross. So these are gonna refer back to other things in the Bible, but they're mostly gonna refer back to Jesus. So we are the entire time, thank Jesus, because that's what we do, it's thank Jesus. let's get to verse four. It says on the third day, again, third, so think three days. Wow. huh. on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Again, the third day they head to the altar. And again, that's symbolizing Jesus' resurrection on the third day. And then again, remember the number three, the Holy Trinity. There's so many that there's so much importance behind the number three in the Bible. So again, remember that. Let's move on to verse five. Then Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you. and Abraham's basically telling his men to hang back. Isaac and him will go worship and then come back, which is symbolizing the return of Christ, right? He's gonna go away and then he's gonna come back. That sacrificial lamb's coming back. Which I thought was pretty crazy when I was reading it. If you look at it that way, you're like, man, this is. This is crazy when you start looking at it like this. a little tidbit. Abraham tells his men to hang back. They're gonna go, and then we will come back. it's talking about Abraham's faith. We're gonna touch a little bit more on this in a minute. but just remember his faith, and we've talked about it before. Abraham had very, very strong faith. as we go to verse six, and Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac, his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. Now, this is symbolizing the cross that Jesus carried, which is also symbolizing the sin that Jesus had to carry in defeat, which the sin entered the world through none other than a tree and the tree of knowledge of good and evil, right? So he's got to reverse this curse that happened. Mm-hmm. Now on to verse seven. And Isaac said to his father Abraham, My father, and he said, Here I am, my son. He said, Isaac. Behold the fire in the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Ooh, this I just I'm reading. Abraham replied, God himself will provide the lamb. And it's jet just hit me because it's like he provided his son. Yep. It c this is so foreshadowing that it's And and you don't think about it when you're when you're reading it initially, but So Isaac's asking where the lamb is, indicating Isaac does know something's up. He knows that something's not right. He's And he's not a like young child. I mean, he's a he's a young man. I mean, he's old enough. He's an adolescent. Yeah. He's he's an older man. He's a young man. but he obeys his father anyway, even though he knows. Now, again, who does that foreshadow? Jesus. Jesus. Right? And Isaac, he could have easily overcome Abraham and saved himself, but he chose not to do so. This again symbolizes Jesus and how he could have saved himself, yet chose to save humanity instead. it also symbolizes the sacrifice Jesus had to endure to reverse the curse of sin, which we just talked about. since Jesus was sinless and made an atonement for all the sin, past, present, and future, he is the ultimate sacrifice, which is why. We don't still offer sacrifices anymore because he was our ultimate sacrifices. So we don't have to offer offer those sacrifices for our sins. however, we do have to sacrifice our fleshly desires and die to our worldly way of living to follow Jesus. So we do still have to make a sacrifice, but it's of our fleshly desires for those sins, and we have to take up our cross and follow Jesus. That would reference Matthew 1624 if we're looking at it, which Jesus told his disciples, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. So that's what he's talking about and what we're talking about when we say take up your cross. It's you know, I find it funny because it's like, you know, first time he saw Christ in the flesh, he said he was negotiating. He didn't even negotiate this time. He literally was I'll do it. Didn't even hold on. It's like He knew, okay, my son is gonna be the sacrifice, but he never, hey, can we do something else? He never negotiated with them. He just went with it. Yep. And as we go on to verse nine, when they came to the place which God had told them, which would be Golgotha, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Like we talked about before, putting Isaac the son on the wood, it symbolizes Christ's death. on the cross, and it symbol it symbolizes the sacrifice of the only begotten son. If we reference scripture in the New Testament, John 3 16, which is one of my favorite verses, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Now most people stop right there. And I would encourage you, I'd highly encourage you to continue on reading from there and go. Verses seventeen through twenty-one. And let me tell you why, because it's one of the most beautiful passages in all the Bible. And it says, For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God, and this The judgment, the light has come to the world, and people love the darkness rather than the light, because their works were evil. For every one who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his work should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God. That just spoke to me about the Pharisees. It's like they they loved their own deeds, and the and the Son The one they studied day and night was in front of them and they still it didn't even click. It it just blows my mind. Think somebody said it, I heard it on a video, it was like, think about the people that knew the word the most missed it. Missed it. Right in front like it's just right in front of them. And it was just like, if you heard everything that you studied, wow, how does he know this? Wow, he's conv well and it's like they just want shhh. Silence. I know. I know. It's it's incredible, right? So verse ten. then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. He is about to literally kill his son with a knife. With I mean he had the intention of slaughtering Isaac right then and there. But like we talked about with faith, Abraham he believed that even if he killed his son Isaac, that God would bring him back. Let's reference scripture. New Testament, Hebrews eleven, verses seventeen through nineteen. It says, By faith, Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received these promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, Through Isaac shall your offer offspring be named. He considered that God was able to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. It blows my mind that Isaac surrendered to his dad. He didn't invite him. Yeah. No, d don't do this, Father. Stop. Just he surrendered. And it's like that's exactly what Christ did to the Father. And that's also Isaac's faith because they like he was trained up by Abraham, right? Which is what we're called to do as men. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. And so ironic I wore this. Lead like a real man, that's what he's talking about. And his faith goes just to show you, like he fully believed that God would take care of him. And God does. God provides. He always does. So let's move on. Verse 11. it says, But the angel of the Lord, the angel of the Lord is talking about Jesus. When it says the angel of the Lord, it means Jesus. So the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham, and he said, Here I am. He said, Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me. Basically, what he's saying here is like. Don't lay a hand on that boy. You proved your love and your fear for me. you didn't withhold anything from me. Abraham's actions symbolize God's love for us and that he's willing to die to save us because we can't save ourselves. That also symbolizes how we should live our lives for Jesus. Everything we have is his anyway. So we should be willing to give it all to him since he gave us, he gave up everything for us. If you look at it, Isaac's from that bloodline. Ishmael wasn't. You think the firstborn, it wasn't. Isaac was his firstborn from Sarah. And it's in that bloodline. Now we get on to verse thirteen, which is one of my favorite ones when we start talking about what God's plan is and how he reveals it to us. So thirteen, and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So the Ram is a scapegoat, right? which is kind of where they come up with the word scapegoat, and there's there's more that goes to that. But the ram's provided in place of Isaac, and Isaac becomes a scapegoat. Now, I know it's been a while, we talked about this before, but back in episode 15, I said that I thought Abraham was looking for a scapegoat to blame his fear on. So I said that because I thought he was looking to blame his fear on something, which he was. But I think this thing's coming full circle because now Isaac becomes the scapegoat for Abraham, and the ram becomes the scapegoat for Isaac, and Jesus becomes our scapegoat for all of sin, right? And it just kind of keeps going. But it's mind-blowing when you think about it that way. And then we let's talk about a scapegoat. What is a scapegoat? Let's go to Leviticus 16. and it talks about the day of atonement, which revolves around two identical goats. Each which serves a different purpose. One is a sacrificial goat, and the sins of the the people are placed on the goat and it gets slaughtered. The other is a scapegoat, the priest lays his hands on that goat, and then it gets released into the wilderness. But when he lays his hands, we're gonna talk a little bit more about that. So that has meaning. The laying the hands, he didn't just pat it on the head and say, See you later. There's a reason why that he does that. So let's go a little bit more in depth on this, the significance of the Day of Atonement, and the importance to us as Christians, because this again is pointing To Jesus when we're talking about the Day of Atonement. We're again, we hardly have, we haven't even left the first book of the Bible. We're still in that. We're in episode whatever, 20 something. This is how in-depth God is. And and we haven't even touched on all of it. There's still stuff that we, I'm sure, miss or whatever. Anyway, get very excited about this stuff. So the Day of Atonement, it included sacrifices. The sacrifices were a way to deal with the Israelites' sin. and for our sin for that matter, which is what the whole point of sacrifice was. so let's talk a little bit about the sacrifices in the Old Testament. They included sweet savor offerings, which would be whole burnt offerings, which would include an entire sacrifice consumed on the altar in complete consecration, cereal or grain offerings, which would be bloodless offering, which symbolize the expression of devotion. Then we have peace offerings. Which would be a shared meal on the expression of reconciliation. Then we've got our guilt offerings, which would be your sin offerings, blood offering. Bready goat. Yeah. Scapegoat. then we have our trespass offering, which is like restitutions, compensation. You stole from me, I gotta give back to you. But not only give back to you, I should give back more. And we'll get more in depth in this when we the later we get into the book. And and there's many of things we're gonna touch on. This is kind of high level just to get to We're kind of introducing the law, but we're not there yet. But this is literally where this is what is what explained of the law because there's so much there's so many laws. Yeah. So and Jesus fulfills all the laws and takes away the sacrifices and saves us. Wow. All the things he does. Amazing. But sacrifices, they taught that the atonement For of sin had to come from an outside source. So that's what the whole sacrifice, the meaning, the point of a sacrifice is that it can't be done by you. Meaning you can't fix your own problems. It has to be an outside source. That's what God is telling the Israelites. That's what He's telling us is that we need another source to fix these sins that we have committed. So let's talk about a sin offering. An animal is selected. For those of you that don't know anything about sacrifices, this is what it's for. Or if you want to learn a little bit more, the animal is selected, and it's a male without blemish, which symbolizes the pure, perfect, and blameless substitute was needed for the sacrifice. Jesus. Weird. again, that's gonna, if we look at new the New Testament and 1 Peter 1:19, it says, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of the lamb without blemish or spot. The person offering the sacrifice had to lean on the animal, right? I talked about leaning on the animal, which represents the transference of their guilt onto the object of the sacrifice. So that's why they're they're leaning laying their hands because they're taking the guilt that was from that sin and putting it on the said goat. And we can see in the New Testament, 2 Corinthians 5 21, which says, For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that In him we might become the righteousness of God. So that's talking about Jesus who became sin. We gave you just a little preview of the gospel to sum it up in a nutshell. That was basically the one of the best verses to sum it up. Now the death of the animal. This shows the penalty for the s of sin was severe. I mean it's death. Romans six twenty-three says, For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. And a substitutionary sacrifice was needed in order for us to live. So we see that in Romans 4 25. Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification? Romans 5 6, we see this as well. For while we were still weak, and at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. This is the only way God can be just and the justifier. Romans 3 26, it says It was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. There you go. That's it's you have to have these things so he can still become fully just and he can be you know justify our sins, which is it's mind blowing. It's mind blowing, honestly. And he hits you in the chest. Now, there's more. Again, these sacrifices, they mean a lot. that's why if you're if you're not reading this in context. This stuff just sounds like words, and we're like, okay, what what does it matter that you killed a game? He just slaughtered and sprinkled blood on an altar for what? Yeah. This is what it means, and this is why it's so important. so the blood of the animal was sprinkled on the mercy seat of the altar, symbolizing the propitiation, big word, which means turning away wrath of an offended person or deity by offering a gift, sacrifice, or appeasement to regain favor and goodwill. So the propitiation of sin. Satisfying God's wrath for the sin. It symbic symbolically showed there was no approach to God apart from the blood. So you couldn't even get to God because it was behind a veil. And another fun fact is this mercy seat is the Ark of the Covenant. so you know my tidbit. Yeah. It's the Ark of the Covenant. And one thing about it is only the priests were allowed to do this. Nobody else. we're gonna Yeah. We'll get into that. So Dramy brings up a good point because if I did this and I'm not a priest, I can't get in there and atone for my sins. Again, further symbolizing someone else has to atone for it. No one could approach God apart from the blood, which Hebrews 9 12. He entered once for all into the holy places, not by the means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. And Hebrews 10 19. Therefore, brothers. Since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus. So again, we have to have his blood in order to do these things. Jesus was the only way we had access to this. That's it. Without him, we have nothing. Yeah. We have no atonement for these sins. Nothing. So finally the sacrificed animal was burned, which showed reconciliation and puts his wrath to rest, talking about God's wrath. in Ephesians five two, we see this and it says And walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. That's what it's talking about. So if you're reading the New Testament and the Old Testament together, you see how they align and they're nowhere, they're centuries apart, right? Thousands of years written apart. It's it's incredible. but let's get back to the day of atonement, right? So basically it's dealing with sin and requires purity and humility to deal with the sin, which is where you're talking about with The priest. So sinners can only approach God through a sinless priest. Hold up. Wait a minute. I'm pretty sure priests are people and they are human and they also sin. Romans 323, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. How can we imagine a priest? Hey, can I get that extra chicken? For who? Me. You just don't know about that. So When it's talking about the Day of Atonement, the priest had to make a sacrifice for his own sin first before he could approach God as blameless. So he had to do this as well. Now, thing with priests. They were usually dressed to the nine. So they were in their like fancy clothes. They look like better than everyone else. They're dressed up, they look, you know, they have royal dignity about them when they're walking around. However, on the day of atonement, they get stripped down to simple linen cloths. Who got stripped down on the cross? Who had to have a linen cloth over him and his burial? And it's still striking evidence in scientists and laboratories to this day because they can't even explain it. The Shroud of Turin, and it's called the Jesus Discoveries. It's a great book. you want to read that. Anyway, but that's what it's pointing to, and it's crazy to me. Like it's all pointing to Jesus. and then this Day of Atonement had to repeat it. Had to be repeated every year because again we're sinners. and then the Israelites kept sinning. They had to keep doing this over and over and over until we get who? Jesus. Who the person of that problem. Exactly. So then finally, let's finish up with verse fourteen. It says, So Abraham called the name of that place, the Lord will provide. And it was said to this day, On the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided. Again, God always provides, right? So so we know that. And just keeps his promises. Yeah. I mean that's that's what he does. And again, we saw that he promised Abraham before we talked about when we first started talking about Abraham. He keeps his promises always. Let's talk a little bit about more about Scapegoat, the Day of Atonement, and the Passover, how to all of them tie together. Yeah. What it just gets better in better. Do we did we add more stuff? Of course we did, because that's how God works. Anyway, so Ishmael, right? We talked about him a little bit. He was Isaac's half brother. But Ishmael becomes the scapegoat for Isaac. He left. He was in the de Ew. So Ishmael becomes the scapegoat. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. so he so he became the scapegoat for Isaac. Both only sons, Ishmael and Hagar. So Ishmael's the only son of Hagar. Isaac's the only son of Sarah. Ishmael is the firstborn of the two. and but God has chosen Isaac, which he normally If you read the Bible, just watch it. Most of the time the firstborn is not the chosen one. It's always like the second or third or whatever it is. I mean, David is like the seventh or the eighth person. yeah. So look at Cain and Abel. Yeah. Right. Cain doesn't get chosen. Abel's the one that becomes the sacrifice. Wait a minute. Weren't we just talking about a sacrifice? Anyway. Yeah. If you missed that. Uh-huh. Anyway, so Ishmael's the firstborn of two. God always goes with the least likely person. again, that's we just know that's what he does. And that's that's his beauty and and like anybody can be used. We can name his disciples. A ta who would have thought a tax collector would be a f a best friend to Christ. Who would have thought that a person who persecuted Christians would would write half of this New Testament and bring so many pe anyway. Okay, so the Passover, for those that don't know, it can be found in the book of Exodus, chapter twelve, and it's where the ten plagues that God sends down on Egypt, because Pharaoh would not let the Israelites go, who were slaves at the time. he wouldn't let them leave Egypt. We can get more into this later, and we will in another episode. but the ten plagues was to refute the gods that were worshipped in Egypt. At the time. So each plague was specific to a specific God being worshipped at that time in Egypt. The tenth plague is the one that we're talking about here because the other ones were like, you know, the frogs were the frog god, and then the Nile, like when they turned it river, the Nile, River Red, it's because they worship the Nile River God or whatever it was. Anyway, the tenth plague is the one that's important here. And that's the one that's directed directly towards Pharaoh because he believed he was godlike. Right. So he thinks he's God and that. There is no other God but him, which is false. And so that's why the tenth plague is the death of the firstborn son. and all of Egypt. So the way the firstborn would be protected is if the lamb without blemish was sacrificed, and the blood of the lamb was put on the doorpost of the lentil of the houses with hyssop. Hyssop is a key word there. We'll get back to that. If the blood of the lamb was covering the doorpost, then the Lord would pass over the house and the firstborn. Son would be spared. So later we have a Passover meal, which was held each year because of the sparing of the firstborn son. The Passover meal is very specific. And everything done at the mill had meaning and symbolism. So let's talk about a little bit of the symbolism there. So there's four cups that are drank during the meal at specific times and they had specific meanings. Keep your ears open. So the first cup is the cup of sanctification, remembering God bringing them out of Egypt, right? So that's why they drink the first one. The second one is the cup of deliverance. It remembers God delivering them. The third is the cup of redemption. God will redeem you. And lastly is the the fourth cup, the cup of restoration. God will bring you back to his people. The Passover meal was never completed until the fourth cup was consumed. That's very, very important. Remember that. Very important. Could not complete the Passover until the fourth cup is consumed. Now, let's fast forward. We're in the New Testament now. Jesus is having the Last Supper, so we're gonna fast forward to that, which is the Passover that's coming weekend. This is where we get Easter, but anyway. In Matthew, we see Jesus intentionally does not take the fourth cup. So he does not take the fourth cup. He gets up and goes to the Garden of Gethsemane, which means the crushing place. Whoa, like olive press. huh. What does he pray about when he's in the garden? Father, let this cup pass from me. Not my will be done, but your will be done. He's asking to pass the cup if he could, but he knows that it can't. And he's gonna go his father's will. So then Jesus is standing on trial. there's a Jewish tradition where a prisoner is released for the Passover. so again, we're talking about a scapegoat. Jesus takes Barabbas' place to be crucified, and that guy's name, his full name they believe is Jesus Barabbas. So not only was he the scapegoat, but his name was the same. It was Jesus, and this which that name means Jesus, son of the father. yeah, Baravas means son of the father, and then his first name Jesus. So Jesus, son of the father. And he did not live like Jesus. No, he was a murderer, he was a thief, a liar, he was the worst of the worst to be sentenced to death already. Jesus, the son of God, the father, sinless, blameless. Two identical metaphorical lambs. One gets slaughtered, the other gets released. Scapegoat. Jesus becomes a scapegoat for all of mankind's sins. He frees us from our sin, our guilt, and our shame. There is no coincidence that the chapter of Genesis is perfectly aligning with Psalm 22. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Exactly. It's no coincidence that David defeats Goliath, cuts off his head, buries it in the place where Jesus is supposed to die at Golgotha. Skull, the place of the skull. That's what Golgotha means is the place of the skull. It's no coincidence that Abraham travels to Golgotha to sacrifice his son on the exact same spot where the Son of God was sacrificed later. It wasn't done for no reason. God knew that's why he's doing it. And we see it throughout the Bible. It wasn't just here in Genesis. We're seeing it in the Psalms. We see it in first and second Samuel where it's talking about David. This is the all this is. Leading up to the New Testament and it's prophecy. And no and his prophecy fulfilled. That's the even better part. And when you read this book for what it is, then you start to understand these things and it makes a lot more sense than just reading it without It's like he gives you a sign, but then it leads into the revelation. Jesus is always that revelation. Yep. Jesus is stripped down. He's completely humiliated, which is like the priest had to be, and he's our ultimate priest, right? he's naked, beaten, he's mocked, signs. That are above his head that said King of the Jews. And it was in three different languages, by the way. the language, the three most common languages of that time, so that every passerby would know what it said. It wasn't just in Greek. it was it was in Greek, it was in Aramaic, and it was something else, but it was so that anybody that was walking by knew exactly what it said. and that's was by design, it wasn't on accident. and so Jesus doesn't cry out. Like you said, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me for no reason? He was referencing Psalm twenty-two at that point, which is all the Jews that were there who studied the scripture and who had to memorize it would have known what he was talking about when he said, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? they knew exactly what he was talking about, and that he was the king of kings and the lord of lords, and he is the Messiah. And some of them were convicted right then. Going back to your It was in three different langu the thing that popped in my head was every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. It's like he just wanted to get that all out there that everybody. Again I'm I'm setting it in stone. Remember this day. Yep. And I I there's a three again. So again, the importance of three. It's I'm telling you, it's amazing when you start looking at it 'cause you don't think about it until you start reading this stuff. But what happens next on the cross? John nineteen twenty eight says Basically, Jesus says, I thirst. Now, he says this not because he's thirsty. He says it to fulfill scripture. so what do they give him? They give him wine vinegar and they give it to him on a sponge, on a hyssop branch. Remember, they had to take a hyssop yeah, for in the Passover, they had to take a hyssop branch for the blood, right? And to put it on the post. And he hands it to him on a hyssop branch. Yet again, hyssop. So this is the fourth cup. This right here, when he takes the hyssop branch and drinks it, it's the fourth cup. It's where he he willingly takes the fourth cup and he says to Telestai, it's finished. that's what that means. And he hands over his spirit. The Passover abruptly ends right then and there, and the Passover is complete. This point perfectly to the promised Messiah. But that's why he didn't take it originally. Which you miss that if you're reading it. You don't, and I have missed it for a long time. And you go look and you go, that's the fourth cup. And you don't realize that's when the Passover meal meals or that's when it's completed, and then he dies immediately after that, and then Passover begins, and they they had to rush to get his body taken care of because they're trying to observe Passover and all that good stuff. It's crazy. Now, this is back to Jamie's point, which he'll he'll talk a little bit more about this. But Jesus's blood, when he's on the cross, it drips down the blood of the lamb, because he is the the lamb, it dripped down through the earth and landed on. The mercy seat. The Ark of the Covenant. Yeah. It's like that earthquake had to happen. And I always said, Why did the why did it happen? The earth cried. Its creator died. But that blood literally, the earth cracked so much that his blood literally ran on that on that mercy seat. And the thing about it was no one knew where it was for 600 years. So it's like the sprinkle of the altar. I never got it until I was showed that. And it's like, it's like you're reading, you're like, Dad? You blew my mind again and again and again. And it's like you still continue to do it. And it's like that's the beauty of this book. And that's what if you really love it, this is what this word means. And it's like when you get revealed that it's like clean up my brain sp matter. It's like my head just exploded for the millionth time. So the other thing is the veil is torn, right? This is Jesus making a way for us to have direct communication with God because He is the ultimate perfect priest. Who is sinless, blameless, and are sacrificed for our sin, our guilt, and our shame. Right. So that right there had to happen. It had to drip down on there so we could have a direct line of communication with God. Right there is where He fulfills all the law, and there's no more sacrifice needed. So there's a reel out there that the magicians pin and teller, pin Gillette, and he's the taller one that usually does all the talking. teller's the guy that's quiet. but he says in this reel that he thinks the quickest way to become an atheist is by simply picking up the Bible and reading it cover to cover, not having someone tell you what it should be, but actually reading it in order of what the words do say. right out of the gates, there's a story about God telling Abraham to kill his son, even though he says, just kidding at the last moment. And then he says that if someone, this is pin, he says, if someone tells me to kill a member of my family, they're not my friend. So that's what Penn says. What Penn fails to realize, that I'm sure a lot of people fail to realize, the story of Abraham and Isaac is a scapegoat story, right? So that's what it is. It's alluding to Christ before Christ came to earth in the form of man to right the wrongs of mankind. God works in his own timing. And if you look at history, the perfect time for the gospel to spread globally was actually what historians call the fullness of time, which is when Jesus passed away. This story is a story about faith. when we're talking about Abraham and Isaac, it's a story about faith. It's it's trusting in God to provide when something is out of our control. Now the key is out of your control here. So when it's out of your control, that's what it's talking about. If you leave your like just as an example, if you were had power tools and you left them outside and the forces that cast said there's not likely rain in the future, and you ask God, Hey God, will you protect these tools from the rain that's possibly gonna come? well, that ain't gonna cut it because if you're too lazy to get out of bed to go get your tools, God's saying, Hey, hey, hey, hey, you have the ability to get up and go get the tools and bring them in. That's in your control. When it's out of your control, that's when I'm gonna step in, that's when I'm gonna take care of it. What Penn did with that story is he he read it out of context. It was out of context. He wasn't reading it with an open mind, one, and reading it in fullness or reading it in context. He didn't spend any time researching or trying to understand how the world worked back then because it was completely different than right now. And unfortunately, lots of non-Christians and Christians alike do this. they do the very same thing and they don't read it for what it actually is. They read it for where I can do all things through Christ and it's lifting weights, but it's like that was Paul saying, I've been beaten, imprisoned, but I still have the strength of Christ in me to to endure this, you know. Just people think I can do all things through Christ and they're powerlifting or you know, whatever. And it's like, I can take this verse out of context. And so does everybody else. Uh-huh. And it's very important to read in full and understand the context of any text that you're reading. Absolutely. Mm mainly the Bible, but any text. and the same can be for the digital information out there, the stuff coming across your social media feeds, news broadcasts, any of that. if you're not viewing the Full context of something, you're wrong. Peter, I mean, that's just what it is. If you don't view the full context, Charlie Kirk got that all the time. People wouldn't look at his whole what he exactly what he was saying. They took one little snippet and said, he's a bad dude. He was not. The other thing that can happen is false teaching and a case in false teaching in a case in point would be your Texas representative James Talerico. This man is notorious. I mean, he is absolutely notorious for pulling scripture out of context. and even calling writings like the gospel of Thomas scripture, which is not considered scripture by any means. It doesn't follow the same pattern as the scripture. It's it doesn't say it was inspired by God. It's nonsense. It's ludicrous. And he's one, he quotes it as being scripture, but he also misquotes the gospel of Thomas as well when he talks about stuff. So he hopes that you won't fact-check him because you're just gonna listen to what he says, because that's what he's going off of. And he He's even talking about like the most insidious thing that can happen in this day and age is if we let Bible scriptures be read in schools. Yet, yet it's okay to have because that would be indoctrinating them if if we let them read the scriptures, but it's okay for transgenderism and for pride parades and them to be read stories by a transgender person or whatever. No, that's not how it works. he is a false teacher and it's he's wrong. He's in the wrong. If you are a Christian and you're following him, I'm telling you, read his stuff and read the Bible. It don't check out. Wolf and sheep's clothing at its fine. 100%. now the other thing about the reel that pen and teller or that pen said, he mentions in the reel that it's a Christian's job to tell others about Jesus. He says that if you believe that there is an everlasting life, then you should try and convince him of this. He says morally that has to be your position. He goes on to state that his position is to disagree with you. But I we'll end with this. So it's our job as Christians to know and understand the truth of a truth-based doctrine, the Bible, and it's our job to spread the truth to the world. Matthew 28, 19 says, Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. That is our pastor's go-to verse, by the way. And it's it's not just spreading the word. It's it's it's a command. Well, spreading the word isn't just sitting in church, in the church building on a Sunday. It's going out. It's planting the seeds of the gospel, it's telling your story, your testimony, having real conversations with people about Jesus. It's it's holding your brother or sister in Christ accountable, or being able to be held accountable without retaliating against them because When they're calling you out in love, now it's got to be done in love. It's not just, hey, you made a mistake there. It's hey, you aren't following Jesus. You're not taking your cross up. You're you're doing the opposite of what he says to do. It's loving God before anything else and loving your neighbor as yourself. That's what that is. So if you want to sum up the two perfect commands of the law, Christ said these are the greatest. Yeah. Matthew twenty-two, verse thirty-seven through thirty-nine. And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. That is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself. There's the gospel summed up. Two things. So that's all we've got for today. guys, thank you for listening. I hope you liked our rants and and all the things that we talked about today. please like, share, subscribe, follow the Father's proxy. You can watch us on YouTube. you can listen to us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Come see us the 7th of May and get plugged in. There's two services. We got a 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. And if and if you can't make either one of those, we've got a live stream. So check us out on the live stream. bring your kiddos to Iwanas. Wednesday nights. The meal begins at 5 15. Awana starts at 5 45, ends at 7 20. It's starting back at school, like soon, I think in the next September 16th will be the official first night. September 16th, this will start. Bring your kiddos. I promise you. There's food you guys can eat. Adults can eat too. There's studies. There's a Romans class. 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And I I can say that your wife should be your best friend. And if you're not doing it like that and you don't view her like that as without blemish, you're doing it wrong. Yeah. And a co-equal, not subordinate to you. So remember that. All right. We appreciate you guys being here. This is Father's Proxy Where We Are. Pro XY, led by the Holy Spirit.