Holy Vessels [Part 2]

Alan White, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless the holy vessel of God you can't be made on holy misuse to be in the wrong place, think and do the wrong things, but you could simply be running contrary to your home or Alan Wright into another message of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new life by being the excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series belonging to God as presented at renewal the church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now.

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The Babylonians had MSA advertisers right in here flat as I had left Belshazzar on the throne and this scene is taken place. 539 BC Belshazzar comes from the name Dell dollar bell and is referring to this pagan deity saying Maybelle protect the king's eyes pagan all the way through. It wasn't uncommon that I king would throw a huge, huge party like this.

We have historical records of Persian kings though party for as many as 15,000 people. Alexander the great party for 10,000 noblemen. What's fascinating is that we have actual history that shows that on the night that Babylon fell to the Persians.

We we know that very night was October 12 539 BC because Herodotus and another Greek historian Xenophon testified they wrote down that there was a huge banquet that was going on the night of the Persians sacked Babylon was puzzling is why Belshazzar would be throwing a party like this and big drunken party right when the Persians were literally at the city gates and they can only conjecture as to why is about just say this that there can be the illusion that you are somehow having power over your enemy.

If you are exerting power over the symbols of that which you feel like you have conquered and somehow the desecration of that which is holy, gives the illusion of power and reason arrays.

That is because I want to just be aware of that and I think this is one of the principles of hell is that there is an illusion of Lordship and illusion of power. If hell could desecrate what is been consecrated is holy unto the Lord, and I do say it more plainly, I think of all the powers of hell would like to take you to holy and try to get you be in use for unholy things which are the holy vessel of God you can't be made on holy you can be misused you to be in the wrong place you can think and do the wrong things, but you would simply be running contrary to your holiness, you would just be the golden vessel. There was being at that moment, misuse, and I do say let us not be naïve. We have an enemy. They would like to misuse us to gain the illusion of control. These golden vessel. Some of them dated back all the way to the time of Moses. They set up a temporary portable worship center called the tent of meeting of the tabernacle in some of these golden vessels have been preserved even from that time and they were placed into the glorious temple that Solomon built and that's where they were when Nebuchadnezzar came and raised the temple and destroyed it destroyed the city, and immediately took away all of these. It's interesting that in the very opening words of the book of Daniel that these vessels are mentioned in chapter 1 verse one the third year of the rain. Enjoy camping of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and seized it in the Lord did your hiking king of Judah into his hand with some of the vessels of the house of God, they brought into the land of Shinar the house of his God and place the vessels and the treasury was gone.

So an opening verses of Daniel we see these vessels there being mentioned. These ones are to come back and be seen in this gruesome scene in Daniel chapter 5 was interesting is that this whole idea of demonstrating your power and prowess by taking the spoils of your war would be highlighted later. Many, many years later, in the famous arch of Titus Dr. Titus is actually erected by Emperor Domitian, the younger brother of Emperor Titus after Titus died and on this big huge arch that was erected around 80 A.D. after Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D. and the temple was torn down and they took all of the holy things out of the temple and in great relief on a close-up of this you can see that permanently etches a picture of the Romans carrying off the golden candelabra. The menorah in all of these different utensils of all the spoils of the things that were taken out of the temple of Jerusalem. The devil just absolutely love to put on display the desecration of the sacred things of God.

So pathway to victory for the Christian is not trying to buy any of your own power overcome your sin nearly so much as it is to find yourself seeing in Christ, your holiness, so that those things that might have formally felt appropriate for you no longer feel appropriate because you're too holy for that to start thinking like this time I'm too full of the Holy Spirit.

I'm too holy to gossip onto holy to be thinking about that talking about that I'm too holy to the Lord to be involved in that. I'm too holy to walk around in bitterness onto holy, holy vessel of God and what happened is it just our screen readers are when you want. I just didn't fit me. I swear this. This is really the way to grow in Christ. And so may Christians are confused by this are trying to go just backwards of them.

Many of you may know the story of our executive director, Mickey Thigpen, my dear friend and calling for so many years that when he was a student thinking is in the middle school early years of hospital care, member and family, going to college and not imagine Mickey when thinking of going to college either and he came out Monday. I'm thinking testing that made a poor grade on it. I can remember thinking so the C- and a teacher that really love the new Mickey well the stain across the hall and she saw the paper as an is that McVeigh militancy that is editor and is that she was and she said you know see student. She said your one of the smartest boys I've been around severe negative and she said five sadly will be a Morehead scholar won't make it in order Morehead scholar was probably the most banal and most prestigious scholarship that University North Carolina but when the most prestigious scholarships and all the southeastern United States, but he went home and looked it up and discovered what was Mickey thinking became a Morehead scholar.

I'm just saying that if something goes inside of you is your identity.

It's amazing how much you live up to it. I decided to blubber that you are the holy vessels of God your precious to him and you are for him and him alone. The more you know that the more that you know your victory over sin in every dimension of your life on a long talent right will have more teaching moment from today's imported series mountain for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you I'll never forsake when you feel cherished.

The what would happen if I'm hundred scene person said that sugar can FME measure up. I don't think I love you anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% unconditional love poison. The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my having rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church, the apostle policy outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan Wright's 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free, and empower you with pure grace. It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power the grace of God. When you make your gift to Alan Wright ministry said I will send you Pastor Alan's messages in an attractive CDR pump with your digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. Now these are the final days. This offer is being made available to you this month.

Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor at Gatwick today's teaching now continues here once again is Alan writing this in the symbol of the Golden copy is not new is something that has a thematic element that runs through the Scriptures and everywhere you see this golden cup is either a symbol of great blessing or a symbol of tremendous judgment.

For example, in Psalm 75 verse eight for in the hand of the Lord.

There's a cop with foaming wine well mixed. He pours out from it and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs so that one image of the Bible that has this picture of a cop like a sister foaming filled with poison. Harassment and so it is a picture of judgment. If you drink it, but on the other hand, will over and over will see this picture of the cop like we do in Psalm 23, where you know is that the blessing of the Lord to symbolize my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life or for example in Isaiah 5117 awake, awake, rise about Jerusalem, you have drunk from the handle. Lord, this cup of his wrath. You have drained it to the dregs the goblet that makes men stagger. There's the image of the cup again and it's a now picture of judgment, but you can turn around and read Psalm one 1612.

What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me I will lift up the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. It's interesting in the story of Joseph when he's reunited with his brothers. Maybe you know the story when he gets reunited with his brothers to test the brothers is effective change. He has more of a service put a silver cup down into Benjamin, the youngest boys bag but of the EE, then send them away and he sent a servant after them and said look semi-store my Masters silver caught me looking and there's an amendment that and Joseph just wanted to see what would the brothers do when they turn on Benjamin and just feel let him go over they try to defend anyone to see where they whether they change these brothers that had thrown Joseph a why would they just throw Benjamin away so the cop becomes a symbol of his are going to be a picture of blessing is it not be a picture judgment over and over. You see it like that Paul speaks to the Corinthians that we should not be drinking a cup of demons, and the cup of Christ said this is a very curious image in the Scripture, the golden cup that seems to be other. This terrible foaming judgment on this unspeakable overflowing blessing that is seen both, so I point all this to say that what happens is that this picture finds its fulfillment in Christ because Christ speaks of the suffering that he is going to endure as being like drinking the cup of the wrath that we sing quoted in the Scripture says in John 1811. The cup was a father giving me shall I not drink it. 30 describes what happened in his suffering is ranking of the cup and in Gethsemane.

You remember the Lord's sweats blood because he is so grieved that the text as it is always sorrowful, even on the death.

He was so weighted down emotionally by what he was about to suffer.

It almost killed him and he said father I wish you take this cup from me.

But he added, but not my will yours be done. Commentators pointed out that there was a particularly gruesome form of Roman punishment was often utilized amongst the military if a Roman leader had discovered that there had been some sort of rebellion in the ranks with sometimes randomly choose one soldier to drink from a cup of hemlock poison and one swallow of it would be lethal but is not instantly legal there be time to drink the whole cup and they would give the Roman soldier the option to drink at all or just drink and swallow her to be the way he would die. They didn't drink at all in the company past the next person and they would drink. They didn't drink at all.

In the past. The next person and they would drink, but if the first soldier would drink it to the dregs the none but he would die and I think that what Jesus knew was God and given Adam and Eve, a beautiful cup to drink from date of the fruit of the trees of any in this garden walk in fellowship with me with the devil a Lord to them to drink from another cup and it was as though that cop that began with her own sandwiches pass right down came drink of it when he saw that his brother received a blessing from the Lord that he didn't believe he was filled that he did receive is filled with envy and resentment and there was a spirit of murder and that cup he killed his brother and they handed it down. Every generation is drunk from it all were born in sin. I see that cop that Jesus was going to drink us the very picture of all the poison of sin and shame is been handed down generation after generation. Century upon century and that cup from which Jesus would drink there is the poison that infected the first murder earned every murder sentence and that cup was the spirit taste and saliva. Every form of perversion. Every evil is ever been perpetrated in the world, and every center drink from it and added their own vile saliva to it until it just became foaming cup of wrath and poison death and Jesus said, father, could you take this cup from me and not my will yours be done. Jesus went to the cross and beloved. He drank it. They didn't drink, and in part he drank it to the directs not just my standard also mushing. He who knew no sin became sin and we would become the righteousness of God. He the golden vessel Jesus was taken outside of Jerusalem and he was crucified and he was mom and every demon in hell just like Belshazzar thought in desecrating the most holy vessel ever been on this earth that somehow there was a victory, but there was not what Belshazzar was not acknowledging that night that he was getting drunk drinking out of Israel's sacred vessels was that Persia was at the gates. And so what happened from continued read this story is immediately fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace opposite the lampstand and the text says in Daniel five the King Saul the hand as it wrote in the king's color change in his thoughts alarmed him and his limbs gave way leaves not together they called in Daniel, who was known as an interpreter of such things, the common interpret what it has meant in Daniel came when restarting verse 23 of chapter 5 Daniel comes in and he rebukes the cane. He says you praise the gods of silver and gold and bronze and iron wood and stone. Would you not see or hear or know God, in whose hand is your breath, and his all your ways you not under then from his presence. The hand was sent in this writing was inscribed and this is the writing that was ascribing men a minute. I technical person. This is the interpretation of the matter minute I got is numbered. The days of your kingdom.

MNA the word, and in Aramaic. Sounds like numbered and check out sounds like the way you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting and Perez related to the word parson and Aramaic. Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians and that very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean King was killed and Darius the Mead receive the kingdom, but Belshazzar didn't know was that by God's design. Cyrus had been raised often Persia and he would restore Israel and if we had time would look to Ezra and read about the joyous day that they brought all of the sacred vessels back into Jerusalem and restore them to their rightful place. What I'm saying is that Jesus is ultimately that a golden cup taken outside of the city and they attempted to desecrate him and they mocked him, and he drank all the poison to its dregs, but they did not understand that there were angels at the gates and that death could not hold him and that hell had no fury that could overcome him, but on the third day he was raised again from the dead, and he was raised to the right hand of father God, and there he is interceding raining victoriously and you beloved you the holy vessels are engrafted into him the one true temple and you are restore to your rightful place, and guess where you are. The Bible says your seated with Christ in the heavenly I'm saying beloved is astounding as it is you are the restored holy vessels of the temple of God and that the gospel Helen running and chin up. It's good news for today.

It's our teaching holy vessels in belonging to God, a series currently in Allen is back in a moment with additional insight on this for your life in a final word today knocking for nine days in a row.

Someone tells you, I love you I'll never forsake when you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundreds day that same person. Sad sugar get enough for me to measure up on the Colletti anymore.

When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison.

The other 99% which is 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my having rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church, the apostle policy outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Allen rights, 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with pure grace. It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power the grace of God when you make your gift to Alan Wright ministry said I will send you pastor Alan's messages in an attractive CDR pump with your digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. Now these are the final days. This offer is being made available to you this month.

Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor and dialect with her friends have been listening throughout the entire series. Or maybe today was the first time you you tuned in.

Either way, we have been repeating over and over and over with Ed with Paul, you are holy. Even if you don't feel like it him him a man in your holy vessel and the Christ was treated like a unholy vessel. He was treated as one as if he was unholy though it was only and in so doing, God made a great transfer. He took the curse he took the sin and he drank the cup of wrath so that anyone can trust in Christ can be a pure and holy vessel doesn't mean that you're gonna live a life and you don't do anything wrong. It just means that if there is sin in your life it's running contrary to how holy you actually are is the pure and holy vessel of God that is set apart to be used by God overcome sin in your life not by trying harder to be holy overcome it by seeing how holy you are today's good news message is a listener supported production of Allen White ministries