The Day of Atonement-Three Elements that Reflect our Christian Walk

The title, of course, is so simple. It's a Day of Atonement. Today is not just a holy day. It's not just a Sabbath. But it is actually a high Sabbath. Sabbath. Sabbath and Sabbath. It hardly ever happens about every seven, twelve years or something. It pops up that we actually have the Day of Atonement, which is a high day, on a Sabbath. To the Jews, it is the most holy day of the year. I listened on the radio as I had quite a drive yesterday. I went up to Melbourne and back and listened to various shows. And then I also heard some men talking that were going to be off today because it is Yom Kippur. And so they were explaining. And kind of in a lighthearted mood or whatever about why they wouldn't be working. Because they were Jewish. They said, if we don't go to any other day, we're going to be at this day. And another man on the show, Catholic, said, why? And he said, because we get forgiven for all of our sins tomorrow. And the other benefit is that every year at this time, if you show up and you get your sins forgiven, all the Jewish people get these special blessings so you can get all this money and you can have all this stuff you want during the next year. It's good for a year. He said, wow, okay. He said, so you only go once a year? And he goes, yeah, he said, well, we have to go. I'm a Catholic and I have to go in and confess. You know, I'm supposed to do it every week, but I end up, I only do it every month. Okay, so they were just discussing this as their way of life. It's what they do. Does it line up totally in Scripture? No. But that is what they do. And God required to fast. It's the only day of the year he asks his people of mandatory to fast. I'm going to fast other times because of my job. Other things come up with fast. You may have something come up in your life in your fast. But we are asked by God to fast.

I went to the prison on Wednesday to take a feast gift as I bring food to LeMay, select. And I take a big package from us as a church. And so they actually let him have it. So the second year in a row, they let him have this package. And it's heavy. And I load it with almonds and chocolates and stuff, mango, dried mango, stuff that he can eat all eight days of the feast. So he will save this and even share it with people and have those during the eight days. So I met the chaplain. And it's interesting because he goes, he says, you know, I have all kinds of things. So I actually have 15 different religions in this prison. And so I said, I have all these different people. He said, I have this for Ramadan. I have this certain time for Jews. And he says, so this is Yom Kippur. He says, I understand. I said, well, we call it the Day of Atonement. The Jews call it Yom Kippur. And he goes, so I need to give this to him. I said, no, he won't be eating Saturday or drinking Saturday. He says, are you sure? I said, yeah, for sure. He said, because I actually brought food in for some of the Jews for Yom Kippur. I said, you sure? He said, yeah. I said, do all of them eat? Not all of them, different ones. He said, you know, they're different. It sucks. So we have this for them. And I said, well, we won't. We don't. This is for the Feast of Taberna. So he really didn't understand, because there's such mixed messages out there, even in the Jewish community. But this is the holiest day of the year to most Jewish people. But you think of all the millions of Jews that are out there, and there are some Messianic Jews who actually believe in Jesus Christ, but most of them, most of the Jews that observed this day today, say, Christ is not even in the picture. They don't even believe in Him. So look at all the 7.2 billion people in the world. How many people are keeping this day, as God had intended? Not many. Not many. Because Jesus Christ is at the forefront of this day. And not only because of what Jeff said, but because of other things too. But since we're not Jews, why do we keep this day holy? Well, because of our God. And not just because of our God, but because of the ecclesia. Ecclesia.

Oops, let's not do that one. It didn't even fail today.

Ecclesia! Anybody tell me what ecclesia means? Yes. Sorry, kids, don't be doing that. I know what my wife will say later. Look what you just did. Ecclesia! It's a Greek word. It's a word that's translated also for church. But it means not only called out ones, because it does mean called out. Because we are the church, we are called out of what? The world. Okay? That fits. But it also can mean called together. So it has two meanings. It means basically, if you just put one word, it would mean call. Call out and called in. Called together as a body. Ecclesia! That's what we are. We're called out of this world, and we're called into the body of Christ.

His Holy Day. That's why we're here. It's God's Holy Day. It's not ours. It's not the Jews. It's God's. And He asked us to come here and meet. So this actually has three parts in the sermon today. It's not a three-part sermon. It is a three-part sermon, but I'm not giving it all in one part today. That sounds confusing enough.

First thing I want to talk about is we celebrate. Hopefully you celebrate this day. Some observe. Some keep. But some actually celebrate the Day of Atonement. I even referred to this a few years ago, I don't know, seven, eight years ago, as the Feast of Atonement, which didn't receive great praise. Feast? Well, God gets left out to eat. But it is. If we want to draw close to God, if we look at this thing, give us extra time. Mary didn't fix me any breakfast this morning. I didn't fix my own. Won't have lunch today. Okay. I have more time. Matter of fact, these things are going on in my head. Should be some tabernacles. I actually woke up at 3.30 this morning and finished the sermon I was working on. And then started this one. Because I feel it. I feel Feast Fever coming over. Looking forward to it. Getting excited about this. Excited. You know, some of it's work, but once I get there, it's all done most of my work. Done most of my work. But this to us is the Day of Atonement and not... Let me get this. Yom Kippur. How could that be? Wait a minute. Isn't the Greek translation of of Yom Kippur just Day of Atonement? Was that all me? Yom Kippur. Yom. Yom Kippur.

What it means? Day. Okay. Kippur. Actually means to cover. To cover. Cover something. Okay? So. It's a day to cover. That's what Kippur means. Cover also means to atone. But by atoning, you are covering. Where it came from? Okay? But brethren, I must tell you this morning, in case you did not know, your sins are not covered. Our sins are not covered. Let's get that clear. That's why it's not Yom Kippur. It's not a day of covering for us. Okay? Some have been confused. Cheap goats and bull's blood covered Old Testament sins temporarily. Even though it did for 4,000 years. Even that atoning that was done at the very first where Abel came and he gave that offering before God. All that helps us to picture the true atonement that we're becoming when God Himself came to this earth. And died. I want to show something here about this, because there is a difference between what we believe in the Jews group. Big time. When we sin, actually, there's a mark. They actually talk in different references. It's a mark against you when you sin. It's a mark. And so when Israel sinned, there's a mark against them. But God made a plan so that those sins could be covered. Okay? So with the blood of bulls and goats and rams, those sins were covered. Were they removed? They're still there, aren't they? They're just covered. That was the plan of God. As we'll see later, Paul, our writer, Hebrews said, the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin. All they did was cover it. And that's why the book of Hebrews goes into great detail explaining that so they could understand that a greater than Moses came and brought new instruction. You'd say, well, wait a minute. Why did God do this? Why did He go through all that? Why did God plan at the very first that He said to Israel, children of Egypt, I want to make you a nation of priests. How did that work out? Was a problem with that? Making priests? No! He wanted a whole nation of priests! It's the people! He couldn't even do it. And then he found out some of his priests couldn't even. So if you can't get a priest to teach other prayer, how are you going to do this? What's the problem with the plan? What's the problem with the people? To God, I was able to actually modify things. So the blood of bulls and goats only cover. What does Jesus Christ's blood do? He takes it away. It is gone. Psalm 103, as far as east is from the west, your sins are forgiven. It's gone! Our sins are gone. You prayed this morning, hopefully. You were cleansed. They're gone. Totally, totally gone. This was God's plan. I'm sure you've had plans. You may have had plans for your kids. You may have had plans for your life that had to be modified. Because things just didn't go according to plan, did they? Great thing is, God's a master planner. And he knew these are these would be a problem. Let's go. Go with me now to Leviticus 17. Leviticus 17, as he talks here, verse 11. He says, For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. These were farmers. These were going to be agriculture people. These are going to be people who raised these lambs, had everything. This is how they were going to make their living. And guess what? When you had to, because of your sins, had to go and take something out, like your best lamb, and kill it, it makes an impact. And he was trying to make an impact on them. He was trying to get them from the physical to the spiritual.

They never went there. They still haven't gone there today. They're still into all the physical rituals. These are his holy days. They're not physical rituals. They're times of worship.

We keep 59 Sabbaths in a year, not 52. Why do we keep 59? God's certain. This year, because one of them ends up on site, we're only going to keep 58. We can get a Sabbath on them. But we keep 52 every Sabbath day, and then we have seven other high Sabbaths that we keep. He requires it, if you want to follow him, worship him. Like he asks, not like somebody designs it. And he mentions this in Leviticus 23, of keeping the day of atonement, of when you should keep this time, as it should be. Why don't you go to Hebrews, as we get why we keep this day? Turn to the book of Hebrews.

Just kind of like Grant's tomb. The old question, who is a book of Hebrews written to? He is a book of Hebrews. Yeah, Jews! Hebrews! Who's buried in Grant's tomb? Grant, hopefully. But this was written to the Hebrews at this time to the Jews by whom? He never signs his name. Sounds like Paul. All my studies, it's pretty well Paul. I can't think of anybody who could teach them better than Paul. Because he had to be taught on his knees, blinded, that there's another way. But let's go to Hebrews 7, verse 1. And for all of you who have been here for the last year, you will see that I have been teaching for the last year on the Melchizedek priesthood, and how it is our destiny, how it is what we are about, what we are training for. And this year is coming to an end. And there will be another theme coming through next year. But as you can see, I wanted to bring you to this, as we started with this last year, after the feast, and we're going to end here. Because in Hebrews 7, verse 1, For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham, returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom Abraham gave a tenth of all, first being translated, king of righteousness. You ever heard anybody else call him king of righteousness? And then also king of Salem, meaning king of priests. And then he goes on to explain, because he's writing to the Jews, that this Melchizedek, which happened to be Abraham, and everybody worships Abraham. Oh, the Jews were all about Abraham. Oh, Father Abraham, Father Abraham. You know? Well, guess what? Even great Abraham worshiped and tithed to him. But he says, this Melchizedek was, in verse 3, without father, without mother, without genealogy. How's that happen? I'm amazed that I'll read some of the commentaries. And there's at least two-thirds of the commentaries that still can't figure out who this Melchizedek was. They can look at this and go, well, you know, it's probably this king, or it's probably this, or it's probably that. They don't know! Is this hard? Is this tough theological doctrine here? No. It's pretty simple. Yes. You know, without genealogy. Having neither the beginning of days nor the end of life. But made like the Son of Man. Well, see, that throws it away. See, it didn't say it was Christ. Made like the Son of Man. Melchizedek didn't look like Christ when he was on earth. He was human form, but Christ can take any form. They didn't need the disciples. Couldn't even see who it was when he was cooking fish after he was resurrected. And he was sitting on the beach cooking fish for them.

But like the Son of Man, remains a priest continually. Now consider how great this man was. To whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils. Now in verse 11, Therefore, if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received the law. What further need was there for another priest? A nation of priests should rise according to the order of Melchizedek. If the Levitical priesthood worked, there was no need for another priesthood. There would be no need for Jesus Christ to come.

But it didn't work, did it?

Nation of priests. He was still going to have to die. Die for all mankind and not just for the Jews. That's something they still can't understand. Their Messiah is... The Messiah they're looking for is coming back to this earth the first time for them. The difference between us and them? We're waiting for a second return. We know He's already been here. They haven't figured that out yet. And I'm not mocking or making fun of the Jewish people. They don't understand. They're leaders. They could not accept Him. And so that has followed all the way down.

Another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek and not be called according to the order of Aaron. For the priesthood, being changed of necessity, there was also a change of law. It was necessary. For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, which no man has officiated at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood. He wasn't supposed to. This is a different priesthood. He didn't come from the tribe of Levi. And the Levitical priesthood was made for the descendants of Levi.

Verse 15. Verse 15. And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest who has come, not according to the law of the fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life, eternal life. For He testifies you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. What are we? We just heard. You shall be kings and priests. That's what Melchizedek was. That's the order we will follow. It's of the Melchizedek order. It's a Melchizedek priesthood. We will be kings and priests. His plan. Beautiful plan.

Verse 22. By so much more, Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. See, He was trying to teach. This letter was written to the Jews, written to the Hebrews, too. He's thinking, I can change them. If they understand what I understand, when they understand, they're going to be so excited that Jesus Christ came, the Messiah came. But what happened to Paul when he tried to teach that message around any of the Jews? Ha! Tried. Should have succeeded. Many times. Stoned him. He threw him in jail. Wanted to kill him.

And there were many priests because they were prevented by death from continuing. But he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Well, that's what's big about this Melchizedek priesthood. It's forever! It's not like the Levitical priests, you would come in at 30 and then at 50 you're done.

With the major work. It's not a 20 year, 30 year job. Oh, we're done! This priesthood is what? Just like the one that came before us, Jesus Christ, Melchizedek, it's forever. You see why it's so important that God gets the right people in there?

That he chooses those who, what? Have a big one of these. A big heart. And they shall mercy and love, and they're like his son. That's the beauty of this thing. Therefore, he who is able to save to the utmost those who come to God through him, since he ever lives to make intercession for them.

For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and to become higher than the heavens. Who does not need daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifices. First for his own sins, and then for his people. For he did it once, for all he offered up himself. He died and offered up himself. He became the priest and the sacrifice.

He was greater than anything. He created everything. Not could they even question that. Hebrews 9 in verse 11. Go with me here as we finish this about Christ. As he continues to plead his case, that the people weren't listening, but thankfully he gave it to us so that we can understand this.

But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come. Wow! What good things? Wait until next week and you'll hear. With greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is not of creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, he entered the most high place once for all, having retained eternal redemption.

For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies and the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? He's telling them, this is your chance to change!

Thank you. And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant, by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Verse 28, So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many to those who eagerly await for him. He will appear a... first time? A second time! He's going to appear a second time! That had to be like stabbing the heart to them, because they were so righteous doing all their stuff, physical stuff.

And what Christ said in vain, do they worship me teaching his doctor and the commandments of men? He said he will appear a second time, apart from sin and for salvation. Now, chapter 10, verse 4. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sin. Wasn't possible. Only Jesus Christ's blood. What a beautiful story. And see, we have to understand, as Isaiah 59 too said, sin separates us from God. God wants to be close. Sin separates us. We need to have that sin taken away. And I guarantee you, if everyone here was honest, when you've sinned and you've committed sin, and guess what?

I'm not the only one who did yesterday either. You know what? When you admit it and you pour that out to God and say, I don't know why I did that. Why did I think that? Why did I say that? Why did I do that? Please forgive me. And with heartfelt repentance, what happens? I don't know about you, but I get up off my knees and I am back. I'm back. I'm back.

I'm back with God. I'm back with me. I'm made whole again because I'm cleansed. I'm clean. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. And it's an individual thing. I don't go in when Mary's praying and go, oh, let me hear what you're saying there. I'll make sure you repent of those things you said against me. One thing, she probably has shout loud enough to get out of my room because when she's praying, it is her room. Respect that. She alone would come before the judgment of Christ.

And he says, we do daily. It's Peter's. It's me. Not, let me get my wife in here. God, let me tell you what she can do. You don't want to do that because she dragged me in there probably more.

The second part. As Jeff covered quite a bit of it, this day symbolized the Old Testament goat. The goat! See, I got somebody back there. I'm not the only old goat here. I don't think you've ever called me that, have you? There's been some other names, but she never called me an old goat. See? It's like hiccups that can take you. But this day is symbolized by the Old Testament. The goat pictures Satan being bound for a thousand years. We saw that earlier. He covered it, but I'd like to go back just one, just to get a couple things. Let's go back to Revelation 20. I won't retrace everything, but I think it's very important that Revelation 20... I won't go through three, but I want you to look at, as Jeff read Revelation 20 and verse 1. But look at verse 2. Look at verse 2. God leaves no doubt.

Who is our problem? And he leaves no doubt who he's going to bind. Who he's going to take out of the picture. No doubt. He says, he laid hold of the dragon. Okay. He didn't stop there, did he? He laid hold of the dragon. That serpent of old, who is devil and Satan. Four different names. He wanted to make sure you knew this individual God for a thousand years. Isn't that beautiful? And it starts on this day. But as Jeff actually talked about, you know, there is a return, as he's let loose for a little while, to test, to tempt, and to try those who've never been around him before. Those who lived over through the thousand years. There's some that's never been tested, never been tried. We've been tested and tried. We're tested and tried now. They will be. They accept him. And there's one thing you can say about those people that come with Satan at the end. They're not real smart. Not real smart. They gather around. You can see Jerusalem with Jesus Christ in the center, and all the saints around. And these people come up like a mob, and they come up going to put war, come war against God and all the kings and rulers of Melchizedek priesthood with power, everything there. And they come up as it says in verse 9, they went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And as I've said before, I just look forward to seeing that time, not because I want to see destruction. I look forward because this is better than any movie you will ever see, because Christ is going to go, come here, watch this, come here, watch this, as we all gather around the wall.

And what's going to happen? And then...

I made a mistake one time, and I understand this, times one trillion. I made a mistake one time because I was burning brush. And so I had to put all this brush from the farm up there, and I thought the container had kerosene and it had gasoline. Okay? I've ran kerosene everywhere, got all that. So I... And then I just want to get in the middle where I had a piece of paper there, and so I lit that match, and it was supposed to go, and it went, and it singed my eyebrows, my hair burnt, and back then I was 18 and had a lot of hair, and it just turned my hair, half of it was gone. But it was just an explosion! See, that's what's going to happen here, kind of like Sodom and Gomorrah, you know? Because now they don't even know where Sodom and Gomorrah, because God ran down from me, down from heaven, and boom! It's gone! That's what this will be. Wow, what a time! What a time! See, the Old Testament account looks back as part of the Old Covenant. We keep atonement today as part of the New Covenant, as training for the future priesthood, brother. That's what we're here for today. We're continuing this training until we die or until Christ returns. How do we conduct ourselves? Let's go back. You know this verse, but I need to cover it anyway. Romans 12. That should be a memory scripture to everybody. Romans 12, verse 1, says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a what? A living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable servant, which is only reasonable for you to do, because he died for you and gave his Holy Spirit. What? A living sacrifice. So where to go on? Jesus Christ came and he lived, and he was a living sacrifice, and he was also a sacrifice that had to die. But you know what? He didn't ask us to die, has he? He didn't ask us to go. Yet. All he asked us to do right here is be living the sacrifice. Do we? Are we? What did... How do we know how to be a living sacrifice? Just look at him! Just look at Jesus Christ's life, right? He came and he sacrificed everything! What about the people God brings in your life? Is there sacrifice? What do you do? What do you do for others? Are you like Christ? Christ not only healed people, he said people. He looked after people, he comforted people, he instructed people. That's us! That's part of our training! And you know what he did? And we have to make sure, and sometimes it's very hard for us, he loved people! Do we love people? Do we go, oh people, people, people! Come into my life! Or do we go, oh people, people, people. Right? We have days of both, but hopefully we're working, hopefully we're working it there, so that we can be there. Finally, final part of this, part three. Hang on time. One more step. Oh, here we go.

At one minute.

Is that ever what this is about? This day pictures a time in the future when mankind can finally be at one with God. See, he gives us this little day right now for us. Okay, he gives us his day, and he says, you know, you don't eat, you don't drink, but I want you to worship. I want you to come and talk to me. We have more time to pray and to study in any other day on this day. Should be. And so we have his chance to draw close to him.

Will we? Will it be memorable? Will it go, man? There's... hungry!

Oh, where will we go? At the end of this day, we take that water, take that food, and say, God, I've been fed. I was fed today. I was fed by you. My spirit is full! Man, do I feel close to you, because he's at one. He wants us to be at one with him. Just like a husband and wife, he pulls them together, one. He wants us on this day.

But that's for us today, within the future. It is because of the absence of evil that we can finally be at one with his creation. He'll be here. Say, he'll be locked away. He can be at one. He has been such a problem! Oh, do you mind?

Hand these out. Would you mind handing this out on this side? I didn't do this. Somebody a lot smarter than me put this together. I asked my wife, I said, I'm doing this study on Satan, just how he influenced us. Would you mind looking up a few things for me? She put this together, and I'm going, wow, that's better than I could have done. In any way, shape, or form. I'm going to use this if you don't mind. She didn't mind. I want you to have this piece of paper so you can take it home. You can look at it, because I have read it a couple of times. I will read it even today, even more. Because it just shows what an influence Satan is in our life, in the life of all mankind, and how great it will be when he's gone. All that influence. So why are you looking at that? I want to read you a few verses. You don't have to turn there, because they're not very long, because I'll just give you a few. 1 Chronicles 21, verse 1 says, Now Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number them. Okay. Luke 22 and verse 3 said, That Satan entered Judas. Hmm. You see the story in Daniel, where Daniel's fasting, and Satan delayed him three weeks from getting an answer from them. Satan has been a pain for all mankind. He is the adversary. He is the problem. Read there. You can read it there in John 8 and verse 44. What does it say? He was a murderer and a liar from the very beginning. He influences us, and he's the father. I guess that's why my father, when I was a kid, I didn't think about it, but when I would tell a lie, he said, I'm going to beat the devil out of him. Okay? Kind of makes sense now. Because he does influence us. What do you do, murder? You get angry first. And that leads to what? Go far enough. It will. 1 Thessalonians. Go with me there. 1 Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians 2.

And verse 18. Therefore, we wanted to come to you, even I, Paul, time and again, but Satan hindered us, every one of us. We kind of know when he gets in our face. We kind of know when he throws people in our way, don't we? We kind of know when he's lurking around. We kind of know when he's lurking around. Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to worry about that? There is a time, and this beautiful day pictures that time, when you're going to be able to tell people in the kingdom of God that never knew Satan, what it was like. They're going to have a hard time believing. 1 John 5 1 John 5. I want to read from the New Living Translation, because you read just while I'm turning there. 1 John 5, verse 18 and 19. In your translations, read that. Because when I went to the original Greek, I found that my New King James wasn't really very accurate. I always had trouble with that scripture. I wondered why, and all it is is translation.

1 John 5, verse 18 says, We know that whoever is born of God does not sin. What? What? Does not sin? Everybody sins. Why is that written? I knew that didn't make sense. But in the original Greek, you go there, and the New Living Translation translates it to what it should mean and what the meaning of it really is. And I'll read that. 1 John 5, verse 18, New Living Translation says, We know that God's children do not make a practice of sinning. Make more sense now? God's children do not make a practice, for God's Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them. Continually sin. When we sin, what happens? We take it to God. We take it and call upon the blood of Jesus Christ. Call upon the sacrifice Jesus to take that away. And He doesn't. He gives us spirit and helps us as we say, Help me! And you don't go back and do that again the next day. Maybe another sin, but you're not that one. You're not continuing in sin. That's beautiful. We know that we are the children of God, and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one. He wants us to sin. He's the one that tempts us. He brings these things forward. Finally, Hebrews. We're from Hebrews. Hebrews 2. Hebrews 2. Verse 14, the last scripture today. And I'm going to be on time. Today, Hebrews 2. Verse 14. It said, Because God's children are human beings, made of flesh and blood, the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who had lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.

And so there's so that, Sado's almost immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King. Free at last, free at last, God Almighty, and free at last.

By putting down the atmosphere, by giving us a strength that can only come from Christ, we are not slaves to Satan. With his Holy Spirit, we are not slaves to Satan. We are not slaves to Satan. Would he may be the temporary ruler over this planet right now, but we don't owe anything to him. We have no allegiance to him. We have allegiance to our King who will be here soon. Minds me, I almost think of that story as almost when it tells the story of Robin Hood, and how they're waiting for the King to return. And the wicked King is over his brother who has taken his place. And they keep waiting for it. What is it? The relaxly of whatever the name was from the books. Here with Forrest, yes. We're waiting. Yes, we're waiting for the King to return. And we have to live in this world, but we don't have to be a part of it. Doesn't have the power over us. Because if you look out there, there's power over so many people. They can't give it up. That's why, even if God took this gospel to them now, they couldn't do it. They could not do it. And He knows that they cannot give up the world. So when He's not calling me, and thank God He's merciful and He isn't, but we have to understand that too. The Kingdom of God. One thousand years, no Satan, no evil influence. This has been a three-part, as it envelops this entire day, about the Day of Atonement.

See, this day, as we focus on it, is about the past, the present, and the future. The past, the present, and the future. We have a goat! We have a goat! Here we go. Sound effects. We have Christ's sacrifice. And we have the priesthood. That's the story of today. We had the past, we had the present, Christ's sacrifice, that's where... And then we have, when He returns as King and Priest. Isn't that beautiful? No! Okay, but you see, that's the story of our life. You see, that's the story of your life and my life.

My past. I was a goat. Before He ever called me. I love that goat thing. He used to have a thing on Saturday Night, I think we got a new one. But, goat! We were all goats! Hard-headed, did whatever we wanted to do, when we wanted to do it. And before God called us, that's our past. We were all about whatever Satan's world had to show us to give us, weren't we? And I led the pack, guaranteed, you didn't want to know me then. You see, this is the story of our life. And then, in came what? Christ. That's where we are now, aren't we? That's the now! That's the now! We can repent of our sins. He guides us. He teaches us. We're learning. We're all about Him. You see? The past, the present, and the future. What is the future? The future? The royal, the priesthood. The Melchizedek Priesthood. That is our future. We will be kings and priests. So, this atonement is more than just about Old Testament. Brother, it's a story of our life. In one very small piece of paper, it's a story of my life. It's a story of my future. And it's a story of the wonderful blessings. And we all look forward to the King and the God. I will now, as I leave, I will ask you to watch something as it prepares us.

Because at the end of this day, hopefully we're all going to look forward to the Feast of Tabernacles and what it pictures. And United Church of God, the United Church of God, send me a video to play on the opening night of the Feast of Tabernacles, which I will be playing in both of our feasts. But it's a five-minute and 36-second video. I think they did a wonderful job on it. And to me, after this day, it sets the tone. It sets the tone. Try to get this out of the way.

Of what it will be like when Satan is bound, Jesus Christ comes and rules. And we finally get to be and see what it's like in the Kingdom of God.