We'll start off with a couple of places. Go to 2 Timothy chapter 2, and then get 1 Corinthians chapter 14. We'll be turning to a few scriptures tonight, and we'll deal with what we talk about sometimes when we talk about dispensational truth. It basically has to do with rightly dividing the Bible, studying the Bible properly. And tonight, Lord willing, we're gonna talk about some of the the precision of Bible study. Look in 2 Timothy chapter number 2, verse number 15, most of you probably know the verse, probably have it memorized. Notice the only command in the Bible to study the Bible, verse 15. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. So there has to be proper divisions in your Bible study. has application for an Old Testament Jew under the law, doesn't have application for a New Testament Christian under grace. So you have to make that division. Look over in 1 Corinthians 14, here's a good verse. 1 Corinthians 14, come down to verse 33, the whole chapter's dealing with the situation of tongues speaking. But notice what he says in verse 33, and I think it can be applied to anything when you refer to God. Look what it says, 1 Corinthians 14, 33. For God is not the author of confusion. So when you read the Bible and you come across one verse that says this and another verse that says the opposite, and you think there's confusion, that's because we're looking at it wrong. Like you read Matthew chapter number one and Luke chapter number three, and you think, there's a problem here. The genealogy of Jesus, these are all different people. And so unsaved man says, there's a contradiction in the Bible. But when you rightly divide the word of truth and you realize God's not the author of confusion, you understand that oftentimes the word son means son-in-law. So what you have is the son-in-law in the book of Luke. So that's Mary's genealogy. So Joseph is the son-in-law of Heli, I think is the name of the guy. And then you go all the way through there, and it traces Mary's genealogy all the way through David, as Joseph's genealogy is also traced to King David as well. No contradiction, no confusion, but the confusion's on our part. So you have to rightly divide. Notice another thing in 1 Corinthians, since you're there, go back to chapter 10. 1 Corinthians chapter 10, look in verse number 32. Here in this chapter, Paul's talking about trying not to offend people making sure you have a good testimony, and he mentions these three categories of people. 1 Corinthians 10, 32, give none offense, neither to the Jews, that's one category, nor to the Gentiles. You say, who's a Gentile? Anyone who's not a Jew. And then he says, nor to the church of God. If you're saved, you're in the church, the body of Christ. So there's your three distinctions. And that'll really help with Bible study when you read it, because you'll find some verses that are aimed at Gentiles. For example, when you read some passages in Romans chapter number one, it's talking about the Gentiles that didn't have the law. And what they did is they followed their conscience. If they said, hey, you stole something, we're going to cut your hand off. Why did they do that in the heathen countries? They didn't have the Ten Commandments that says thou shalt not steal, but they did that because they had the law in their hearts. And so those Gentiles, they followed their conscience. They didn't have the law. And God saved them based on the truth that they had and the light and the knowledge that they had and what they followed. And so you've got to make that distinction. That does not apply today. People going around all over the place and they can follow their conscience all they want, but if they die without being saved, they go to hell. And so you want to make that distinction in this age. Same thing with a Jew. A Jew in this age has got to turn to Jesus Christ and be saved or they're not going to go to heaven. And so you've got to make the distinction as you read through the Bible because the Bible is written by over 40 authors on three different continents over a period of 1,500 years. What an amazing book. The oldest book in the world is the Book of Job. It predates the Pentateuch, which is the first five books of Moses. Job is back in around the time of Abraham about 1800 BC Moses is about 1500 BC So Job's the oldest book in the world and you have this book and there's no contradictions with all of that. That's a miracle Now I want to talk about two systems of theology and really when you look at how to look at the Bible It's kind of like when you you grab your binoculars, you know and you want to you look through those lenses and then you can see and you can see real far off. Now if you grabbed a microscope and you pulled it up, you're not going to see anything up there. You're going to see it real close here. It would depend on the lens you have. Those of you that have ever used telescopes, you have different lenses, different powers you put in there. And so it depends on the lens. Now you're going to look at the Bible through basically when we whittle everything down. I could give you all kind of stuff with hermeneutics and all that kind of junk, but I want to whittle it down to two things. When you whittle it down, you basically have two systems of how to study the Bible. The Bible way or God's way and the devil's way. There you go. Or the right way and the wrong way. Now these are two systems. Now these are with Christians, okay? So we're going to include Christians in this because you have people that come to the Bible and they believe it like you do. You pick it up and say, okay, Lord, I believe every word of this. I'm not going to change it, not going to add to it. And you believe it. A lot of people don't pick it up like that and believe it. They question it. They doubt it. And they say, well, let me find another translation, because I don't think this one's right. Or this word could be translated this. Or this commentary says that Moses really didn't write the first five books of the Bible. This commentary says they crossed the Sea of Reeds, not the Red Sea, because that would be too big of a miracle for God to make the water part. So that surely isn't true. And some of those people, they've actually trusted Jesus as their Savior, but they're apostates. You have a Bible-believing system of studying the Bible and a Bible-denying system. Now, in theology, the Bible-believing system is typically referred to as dispensational theology. That word dispensation is used about four times in the Bible. But typically, that's called dispensational theology because basically we rightly divide. In other words, you divide the Bible up and say, hey, this stuff over here applies to the Jews. That doesn't apply to us. We're the church. We're in the body of Christ. We're not the same as the Old Testament Jews. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out. That's dispensational theology. The other side is what we call reformed theology, and it's based on the reformers. Martin Luther and those guys, Zwingli and Melanchthon and Calvin, especially Calvin, because the reformed theologians, they are Calvinistic. You've probably heard of Calvinism before. And if you, this Presbyterian is one of the most liberal Presbyterian churches, but nine times out of 10, a Presbyterian church is gonna be very hard Calvinistic. And your Reformed churches, up north you'll find Reformed churches or Orthodox churches. Protestant churches, they believe in Reformed theology. So here's a good way to trace it when you simplify it. Okay, you have a Bible believing system. You pick it up and say, I believe it just like God said it. That's written over to a Jew. It's against the law to go open somebody's mail, right? If I come to your house and say, what's in the mailbox? And I start going through your mail, I think it's a federal offense. So when you go to God's Word, you just can't go tramping through there and taking somebody else's mail and applying it to yourself. That's a Bible-believing system, dispensational theology. Reformed theology is totally different. Reformed theology is a Bible-denying system, and it says, you know what, this is just one book for everybody, and there's only one people of God. We'll get into that in just a second. And we apply everything all across the board because there's really only, well, three covenants, but really only two covenants. And we're under that same covenant they were under in the Old Testament. When you trace these two systems, I'll give these to you if you're taking notes This would have been a great night to take notes by the way because we're not gonna hold up We're gonna fly through it a Bible denying system a Bible believing system the Bible believing system comes out of Antioch of Syria That's where the manuscripts come that formulate the text base for the King James Bible Antioch of Syria the Bible denying system originates from Alexandria Egypt that's where the text base for the new Bibles come from and it's kind of a simplified way to look at it. I know that However, when you study what's called allegorical interpretation, it comes from what the scholars refer to as the Alexandrian school of theology. And that was specifically a fellow named Origen down there that got a hold of a lot of the documents and did a lot of corruptions of the Bible. about 250 A.D. and he does all these corruptions in the scripture and that comes from allegorizing the scriptures. And so that's looking at the Bible saying, well, you know, I think really Adam and Eve, it just represents something. There were not really two people, I mean, come on, let's not believe God made two people and that's where everything, these represent good and evil and how we are to, that's allegorizing the Bible. The best rule to read and study the Bible is this. When the Bible says something, just take it literally. Unless it's absolutely impossible. Jesus says you need to pull the beam out of your brother's eye. He's not talking about a guy walking down the road with a little 2x4 sticking out of his eye. And I think we understand that. The Bible oftentimes, as we've studied in the book of Revelation, it will give you the interpretation when it does use allegorical speech and figures of speech. So you have a Bible-believing system out of Antioch of Syria, a Bible-denying system out of Alexandria, Egypt. You have a literal interpretation from the Bible-believing dispensational position. You have an allegorical interpretation from the Reformed theology. In Bible-believing dispensationalism, typically you have eight covenants, and we won't get into those tonight. Basically eight covenants. Reformed theology proposes three covenants. Bible-believing dispensationalism is pro-Israel. Pro-Israel, we'll give you a verse in Romans in a minute on that. Reformed theology proposes what's called replacement theology. That's why you have some Christians that are what they call pro-Palestinian Christians because they really don't believe Israel as a political nation today has any place or any right from God at all to have that land because they believe in replacement theology. The church has literally replaced Israel as the one people of God now in the New Testament. That's reformed theology and they get that actually from Catholicism. as something that the Reformers got left over from Rome. And remember, all of your Protestants come out of the mother harlot. The mother had daughters, Revelation 17, and that's Protestantism. Martin Luther never would have left Rome until they kicked him out. Amen, amen, amen. I know he finally got out of there and called the Pope your most hellishness. You know, and all that kind of stuff. But he was loyal to Rome and he held on to baptismal regeneration as a teaching from John 3 verse number 5. He held on to sprinkling babies and he stayed constant against the Anabaptists who believed like we do the whole time. And he said, we need to persecute the Jews. Go figure. I wonder why Germany did what they did. I'm not a Lutheran. Lutherans, there are some conservative Presbyterians and all that, but they are Reformed theologians. Replacement theology instead of pro-Israel. The next thing would be that a dispensational Bible believing student of the Bible would be what we call pre-millennial. That means Jesus Christ is coming back. We are getting ready to study it in Revelation 19 in our Sunday School. He is coming back before the Millennium. He will set up His Kingdom and then the Millennium will take place. Reformed theologians will Some of them will be premillennial, but the majority of them will be post and amillennial. That means the millennium will take place after Jesus Christ comes back. Or Jesus Christ has come in spirit in 70 A.D. and we are in the millennium. This is the kingdom and his kingdom is now. So we pray, God, we pray as we build your kingdom on the earth that you would help us to make the right decisions as we try to spread your kingdom. That kind of language, you don't realize it when people sometimes say it because they're ignorant, that stuff comes from post-millennialism. We're not building a kingdom on the earth. We're getting ready to leave this earth. The Lord's going to snatch us out of here before he burns the place up. And then he's going to set it up and he's going to make it new. But that's postmillennialism, that's reformed theologians, and that's Protestantism, which Protestantism would have done the same thing as Catholicism would have in this country. They did in Massachusetts for a long time. They took taxes from people to pay for their churches. That's a church state in America. And thank God we had the congregational form of Bible believers over here that heavily influenced Madison and some of the other framers of our Constitution and things like that to have this whole separation of church and state. So we have the reformed theologians, they are post-millennial, and then we have two words I like to sum it up like this. Bible-believing dispensationalism is consistent. It brings consistency to the Bible, no contradictions. Reformed theology, it brings confusion. It just brings confusion. Now, let me give you some things on covenant theology, so you need to know where people are coming from. Covenant theology teaches the covenant of redemption. You basically have two covenants, the covenant of redemption and the covenant of works, or three when you add this covenant. The covenant of redemption basically took place before the foundation of the world. And God decreed who would be saved and who would be damned. That's Calvinism. That's Reformed theology. Before the foundation of the world, God picked and predetermined all those who would be saved and be lost. That's the covenant of redemption. Then you have the covenant of works. It's sometimes called the covenant of creation by the Reformed theologians. And by the way, your major seminaries all across the country, this is what they teach. If you pick up any major systematic theology, I've got several of them in my office. They're all Calvinist, every one of them. This is it. The covenant of works, sometimes called the covenant of creation, is supposed to be a covenant God made with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and it was conditioned on their obedience. So that's the covenant of works. God says, this is what you need to do. If you take of that tree, then you're sunk. And then, since they failed to disobey God's word, God then made a covenant of grace, whereby those who were already in the covenant of redemption, before the foundation of the world, Whereas those that were already chosen to be saved before the foundation of the world, they become converted when they believe on Jesus Christ. All the way from the fall of, right after the fall of Adam, the time of Abel and all those, all the way up until now. The Westminster Confession of Faith, you've probably heard of that before. I'll give you a quote from it. It presumes that believers in the Old Testament look to Jesus and in Him they trusted. Now think about that for a minute. Jesus hadn't even been born. Here's Cain and Abel, and they have no clue who Jesus is. Here's Abraham. He has no clue who Jesus is. Here's Moses. He has no clue. And even when you come all the way up into the time of the disciples, they didn't look to the cross for salvation. They tried to keep Jesus from going to the cross. That's theology. That's not Bible study. See, the problem is these guys get trained in seminary and they mix up their seminary training with the Bible. That's a bad mixture. You want to take seminary training and put it where it belongs. Right there. Look, I study it all. I critique it all. You've got a book. You can critique any scholar, any theologian. You don't have to back down from them. But I'm telling you, what happens is they begin to mix all this high thinking. Some of these Presbyterian scholars, you take Burkhoff's systematic theology and Hodge and those guys. Brilliant minds, some of these people. They're so smart, they're stupid. And you've got to watch that stuff because those people in the Old Testament, they had no clue. and you'd be kind of gullible if you thought that. Now, they said that the Old Covenant was how Israel was saved and they were saved in the faith and the blood of Jesus Christ. This is an actual quote from Westminster Confession as well. I'll just put these two together. Believers of the Old Testament looked to Jesus and in him they trusted. The Old Covenant by which Israel was saved was the blood of Jesus Christ and faith in it. That's Reformed theology. So to a Reformed theologian, there's only one people of God. Now let's take our Bibles and look at this, and I'll show you the two people of God real quick. Go to 2 Samuel 14 and Acts chapter 7. This will be the Old Testament Israelites. 2 Samuel 14 and Acts chapter 7. 2 Samuel 14 and Acts chapter number 7. What you're going to see in these passages is that the people of God under the Old Testament, the Old Covenant, these are Jews. These are Israelites. And they're the people of God by natural generation. They're people of God because they're born the people of God. Look at 2 Samuel chapter 14. This is when Joab tries to get the woman to get Absalom back. Notice what statement she makes here in chapter 14, verse number 13. The woman said, wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? You see that phrase? The people of God. She's a Jew. She's talking to her king, who's a Jew. And the Jews are considered the people of God. Now come to Acts chapter 7 and you'll see how. You'll see the covenant and how the connection is made. Acts chapter 7. Acts chapter 7, God's Rather, Stephen is given an account of God speaking to Abraham about his seed sojourning in a strange land, verse 6. Verse 7, the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge. Verse 8, and he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day and Isaac begot Jacob and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs. That's the covenant God made with the Jews and it's a covenant by circumcision. Natural generation. Natural birth, they become the people of God, and the sign, of course, is circumcision. Now, look over in 1 Peter 1 and 1 Peter 2. They're both here together, and now you'll see the people of God under the New Testament. 1 Peter 1 and 1 Peter 2. We'll take 1 Peter 2 first. If there's any question who he's talking to, look in 1 Peter 4. Look in verse 16. Yet if any man suffer as a what? Christian. That's who he's talking to. Christians. Come back to 1 Peter 2, verse 9. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. That kind of rings true when you think about Revelation 1 when John says he's made us under our God kings and priests. Verse 10, which in times past were not a people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. And he says you need to keep your conversations honest among the Gentiles. And so this is a converted people. So the church, if you're saved, you're the people of God, not by natural generation. You didn't become a child of God by being born physically. You became a child of God by being born spiritually. Look back in 1 Peter chapter number one. Look in verse 23. 1 Peter 1, 23. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. So Jews are the people of God by natural birth. You're the people of God by spiritual birth. Big difference. Huge difference. No one in the Old Testament had eternal security. No one in the Old Testament was sealed with the Holy Spirit. No one in the Old Testament placed their faith in the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Now I want to give you some of these comparisons. I'm hoping we'll get through them because I want to deal with the precision. The precision of our Bible study, when we look at it and we see the two people of God, that's really one of the main distinctions when the theologians talk all their jargon and you read through all the stuff, basically they say, okay, you dispensationalists, what you're saying is, you're saying there's two people of God. The church is separate from Israel. Yeah, absolutely right. They are. Now here's a good way to understand this. First of all, come to the book of Go to Exodus chapter 31. Get Exodus chapter 31 in one hand and Acts chapter 20 in the other. I can't give you all the references on this. We'd be here until midnight. But the first one is this. When you look in a comparison between the Jews and the church, we compare the Sabbath day with Sunday. The Sabbath is not Sunday as our Reformed brothers would like to have us believe. I told you before in early America they had what's called Sabbath laws, Exodus 31 and Acts chapter number 20. They had what's called Sabbath laws because a lot of those Bible blockheads, as nice as they were and as great as they were, even people like Jonathan Edwards and some of those, George Whitfield was a Calvinist, Jonathan Edwards and some of those guys, as Bible blockheads as they were concerning some things, God did use them to bring about the great awakening. And they thought, man, we got all this revival, we need to put some of these laws in place so you shouldn't hear cussing around the place. And you know what? We need to have a law that nobody can do anything on the Sabbath. They considered the Sabbath Sunday. The Bible does not teach that Sunday is a Sabbath at all. Nowhere in the Bible will you find that. Nowhere in the Bible will you find a New Testament Christian giving a tithe. So what is a tithe? A tithe is a tenth of all the fruit that you harvest from your, and the wheat and all the stuff you harvest from your fields. People don't even know what it is. That's why they had to have a storehouse at the temple so when they brought it, they'd have somewhere to put it. But what we've done is we've allowed this Reformed theologian to get in our Bible study and start mingling all these Old Testament, and by the way, and I'm not getting on to you guys, you know. You just don't know what you're talking about when you pray, but I forgive you. This is not the house of God right here. I know, respectfully, you can call it that because we honor it as the church house. I'll call it a church house because the church comes in here. And if you want to call it the house of God because we are all here, I understand that. But God, this is not a holy building. This thing's got brick. It's got roaches in it. I'm sure there's probably some spiders hanging right on top of your head right now. Watch out, girls. Right above your head. I remember years ago we were sitting here and there was a spider crawling behind me and I noticed everybody acting crazy and some spiders crawling on the wall. This is not the house of God. We're going to get to that in just a second. The house of God in the New Testament is your body if you're saved. And the Sabbath is Saturday, it is not Sunday. That's called rightly dividing the word of truth. And I know this stuff bleeds into our culture, and I get that. That's why they had Sabbath laws, you know, going around, making sure the businesses were closed on Sunday. That's pretty good practice. I like it. But that's crazy. There's nothing in the New Testament about you doing that. Look in Exodus, whatever I told you, 30, 31. Here's the thing about the Sabbath. Look in, and then we get Acts chapter number 20. It's pretty clear as you read through these scriptures. Exodus chapter 31, come down, if you will, to verse number 12. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbath ye shall keep, for it is a sign between me and the church throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord. Is that what your Bible said? Y'all didn't even hear it, I said church. It doesn't say church. It is a sign between me and you throughout your generations. That's Jews. Verse 14, you shall keep the Sabbath, therefore it is holy unto you. Everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death. Did you break the Sabbath last week? Anybody got their pistol with them? Go ahead and take care of following the law of God, amen? I'm gonna believe every word of it. I believe all those words, not just the ones in red. Better not break the Sabbath, I'll kill you. You better watch that thing. Man, if you really took this thing and said, hey, there's one people of God and we need to go back to Reconstructionism, which is a brand of theonomous theology, then you better make sure you put the death penalty for all the homosexuals. That's what God did in the Old Testament. And by the way, when somebody commits adultery and they go get a divorce, you go ahead and capital punishment. Whichever one committed adultery, if both of them did, you go ahead and kill both of them. That's Old Testament. You light a fire on the Sabbath day. What about the guy gathering sticks? What did Moses do? The guy's picking up sticks to go burn a fire on the Sabbath day. They bring him down there and kill him. They stone him. You better rightly divide the word of truth or you're going to be looking for some shelter somewhere. I mean, you'd be crazy not to rightly divide the word of truth. Come to the book of Acts. Acts chapter number 20. Precision in Bible study. Acts chapter number 20. Look at verse 7. We don't have time to give you all the verses, I'll give you another one you can jot down. Acts 20, verse number seven, upon the what? First day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached to them, ready to depart on the morrow. First Corinthians 16.2 is another good reference on that. It says, when you come together, I'll give it to you real quick. First Corinthians 16.2, upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered in that there be no gatherings when I come. They took a collection on the first day of the week. They gathered on the first day of the week. And so that's a big distinction there. The Jews, they had the Sabbath, the church, we have Sunday, the first day of the week, that's when we gather. It's a big distinction, you wanna make sure you understand that. Here's another one, we'll get into this one. Go to the book of Leviticus chapter number 11 and then get 1 Timothy chapter four on the other hand. Leviticus chapter number 11 and 1 Timothy chapter four. If you've ever read through your Bible and come to Leviticus 11, You're probably thinking, man, look at all these prohibitions on what they can eat. 1 Timothy 4, Leviticus chapter 11. Just read through Leviticus 11 and look at it. Speaking to the children of Israel, verse two, these are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts. Whatsoever parteth the hoof and his cloven foot, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat. And then he tells them what they can't eat. They can't eat the camel, and they can't eat the coney, and they can't eat the hare, verse number six. The swine, verse number seven, there goes your bacon and sausage. Uh-oh. Whatsoever have no fins, verse 12, there goes your catfish, is an abomination. And you read through that whole thing, And you see all of these prohibitions on what they can eat come to 1 Timothy in the New Testament, chapter number four. And a good cross-reference for this, for those of you taking notes, is Acts chapter 10. Do y'all remember when God came to Peter and said, hey, I want you to go to the Gentiles? He's like, Gentiles? They're unclean. I'm not supposed to be close to Gentiles. He let this big sheet down from heaven. It had all these unclean animals on it, pigs and everything. And he says, rise, Peter, kill and eat. He says, not so, Lord. I ain't doing it. He told God no. He says, nothing uncleans everyone in my mouth. I am an orthodox Jew. I only eat what you said in the Old Testament to eat. Kosher. Kosher hot dogs. What's the kosher hot dogs? The Hebrew national brand? He said, I ain't doing it. And the Lord says, you can eat it now. That's New Testament. Now look at it in 1 Timothy chapter number 4. First Timothy chapter number four, here's the spirit speaks expressly in verse number one, that some are gonna depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, verse three. Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Look in verse four. For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of God in prayer. There's nothing unspiritual about what you put and what you don't put in your mouth unless God's given you conviction on it. That thing's covered over in 1 Corinthians and Romans. If you esteem something unclean, to you it's unclean. If the doctor says you need to stay away from it, you're trying to take care of your body, God's entrusted you with taking care of your body, you put that in your body and it's hurting your body, then that's under your conscience and your conviction. But I'm not going to go up and tell you what you're supposed to put in your mouth and what you're not supposed to put in your mouth. I'm not going to do it. Every creature of God is good, nothing be refused. If you pray about it, have at it, dig in. That's between you and God. And what happens is a doctrine of devils comes in when you start thinking you're more spiritual because of what you put in your mouth and what you don't put in your mouth. There's people out there that don't even believe in God that are way more healthy than a lot of us. On Sundays, they put their Speedos on and ride their bicycles. They take care of their bodies. They discipline their bodies. It's called will worship. Dietary laws. So here's a good way to remember it. Sabbath, Sunday. Diet versus desserts. The church, eat whatever you want to eat. You just need to pray about it. I don't think you need to abuse your body, obviously. But don't be walking around and saying, OK, we're going to have this class, and we're going to teach you what you can. And you're not spiritual as us because you don't fast three times a week like we do. You better watch that. That stuff's the doctrine of devils. 1 Corinthians 6, I'll give you this one and we'll stop. 1 Corinthians chapter 6. I already kind of mentioned it so it's kind of a give me. 1 Corinthians chapter 6. Precision in Bible studies. So there's two people of God. We see obviously the Old Testament Jews as the people of God and then we see the church, the body of Christ in the New Testament. Big distinction here. 1 Corinthians chapter number 6. Look down in this. Come down to verse 19. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? You see that? What's the temple in the New Testament? It's your body. The Holy Spirit lives inside of you. Come back to Chapter number three. 1 Corinthians chapter three, you'll see the same thing. He's talking about the judgment seat of Christ and us giving account. We have to build upon the right foundation. Notice what he says in verse 16. 1 Corinthians 3, 16. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. So the Old Testament, they had a temple. The New Testament, we have a body. And that body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. And so that's a big distinction. We have time maybe for one more, and this'll lead into next week, we'll get into a few more of these. But go to Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. Close to where we were Sunday morning. Hebrews chapter number 10. I actually read it. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 11. In the Old Testament, not only did they have a temple, but that temple structure was set up to receive the blood of animal sacrifices. And that blood atonement from animals goes all the way back to when Adam and Eve first sinned. When Adam and Eve sinned, you know what they did, they tried to cover up by making aprons. They went to the apron factory and made them some underwear. And it didn't work too well. It was made out of fig leaves and they withered up And God said, that's not gonna work. And so the Bible tells us that he made coats of skins and clothed them. So he killed an animal, probably a lamb, and he made them some skin coverings. You ever think about a lot of the things from their creation, how they're still, those birds and all these animals, they do the same thing they've done ever since God made them. God made us and put something inside of us knowing one day we're gonna figure out how to do MRIs. and figure out how to take out a gallbladder. And one day, figure out how to do back surgery. And one day, figure out all these things. And he made us with no clothes on. All the animals, we're not animals, all the animals had clothes. A guy one time was arguing with me. He says, we're just animals. I said, well, take your clothes off then. Come on, take them off. You're just an animal. What's the big deal? Take your clothes off. What's this embarrassment walking around in your birthday suit for? I'll tell you why, it goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden and it tells you from the very beginning they were naked and they were not ashamed. But when they sinned, something happened. Whatever covering from God's glory that they had was gone. They lost that image. And so in the Old Testament what God did is He had animal sacrifices. It goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden to atone for their sin. Blood had to be shed. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission. And that principle of animal sacrifices all through the Old Testament. Cain and Abel, you know Abel has the little sheep he brings, the lamb, and he kills the lamb for the sacrifice and God's pleas and accepts the blood. And so that is the Old Testament is animal sacrifices. Look in Hebrews 10 verse 11 notice the difference to the New Testament. Referring back to the Old Testament, verse 11, every priest standeth daily, ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. But this man, after he offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. Look at verse 14, for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. So the Old Testament, they had animal sacrifices and they had to do them individually when they committed trespass, which a lot of times they didn't do because they lived long ways from the temple. So they had three times in a year that all their men came as representatives of their family and they brought an offering. And they came three times a year and they had in what we would call September, if I'm getting it right, correct me later on, the Day of Atonement. And on the 10th day of the month, that thing started. And the day of atonement, that priest would go in there and he would take the blood and put it on the mercy seat. Now before that, he'd take two goats, live goat and a scapegoat. And the live goat that he would kill, he'd take the blood. But the scapegoat, he would confess all the sins and he'd send him away into a land not inhabited. And so all the sins were confessed and sent away. And then an animal died and the blood was put on the mercy seat inside the Holy of Holies. Only one time a year did the high priest go in there. was forgiven. There was a covering. But even though they were forgiven, the sins weren't taken away. They were forgiven on credit because Jesus' blood's the only blood that can take away sins. The blood of bulls and goats can't remove sins. So that's a huge difference between Old Testament salvation when you look at it regarding the sacrificial system and the New Testament, the finished work of Christ. So we'll get into some more things next week. and we'll talk about that a little bit more. Probably we may do some of this Sunday night, we'll see. All right, let's stand for prayer and be dismissed.