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[00:00:00] We have historical evidence that the days of Noah were way before your African ancestors. This thing did not start or originate with Africans. This was Noah. This was before the time of your ancestors, after the flood. Your ancestors were not there yet your African ancestors. We are Africans is what makes us Africans. This is the time of Noah. It says once and for all, forever. He has perfected forever by one sacrifice. God Almighty performed a sacrifice by one sacrifice. He perfected forever. Now, that is the point. That is the reason and the point of sacrifices and altars.
[00:00:40] That was the end of all sacrifices.
[00:00:45] There should not be any other sacrifice again after the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, whether it's for the nation of Israel, for the children of Israel, unto God himself, God Almighty himself, or whether it is to the Gentiles who were sacrificing to their gods. Christ is the end because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Spirit, the creator of the universe. This supreme spirit being can now be involved in my life because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ that God made upon God's altar. This is God's altar. God created an altar for himself, for all of us, because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. That Jesus had to die so that God could now legally come into our lives. Now, that is the point. That is the reason and the point of sacrifices and altars.
[00:01:46] Praise the Lord. Welcome to Trust Triumph here on what the Word says. My name is Shingi and we are back and we're going to get into what we know how to do, which is look at what the Word says. And here on Triumph in this year, we are talking personal altars. I trust that the previous episode of Personal Altars was awesome. It was. It blessed you. If you haven't watched it or if you haven't listened to it, please go on whatthewordsaysays.org and go and look for triumph. Glory to God. Triumph. And we're talking about Triumph 8, which is personal altars. Personal altars. It'll bless you. And we're going to continue with that.
[00:02:25] Glory to God.
[00:02:27] Without further ado, we're going to continue.
[00:02:30] So last week we went into the scriptures and we saw how the patriarchs. Hallelujah. The patriarchs had these personal altars.
[00:02:39] Your Abraham, your Isaac and your Jacob. I think we probably didn't get into Isaac and Jacob, but we can get into that right now. Quickly.
[00:02:50] Okay, let's just, you know, while we're in Genesis, let's just go over some of the scriptures that we went to, that we went through in Genesis.
[00:03:00] Chapter 8 from verse 20 says, and Noah builded an altar unto the Lord and took every clean beast and every clean fowl and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Glory to God.
[00:03:14] Glory to God. And then we also went to speak about Abraham as well. We saw the same thing with Abraham. So these were personal altars. And what we said last week was that, you know, these personal altars, you found them with these men of God and with these prophets of God and with these people that had a relationship with God Almighty, with the supreme being, with the supreme creator of the world, which is God Almighty. Glory to God. And then when Moses comes in, he now formalized those altars. Glory to God. And even with Jacob. You see now that with Jacob, it was actually God that commanded Jacob to go to Bethel and build an altar there. Glory to God. We'll have a look at it just now. So now let's read about Abraham says, and the Lord appeared unto Abraham and said unto thy seed, will I give this land.
[00:04:04] Glory to God. Will I give this land. This is Genesis 12:7.
[00:04:09] And there builded he an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him.
[00:04:14] Verse 8. And he removed from thence unto the mountain unto the east of Beth El and pitched his tent, having Bethel. Bethel. We said that Bethel is the house of God. Glory to God. Beth El is the house of God. Okay, it says, and he pitched his tent, having Beth El on the west and Haite on the east. And there he builded an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. He called upon the name of the Lord. Glory, glory, glory, glory. Beautiful. And now let's have a look at.
[00:04:46] Read from verse.
[00:04:48] From verse one. And Abraham went up. Genesis, chapter 13, verse one. And Abraham went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had and lot with him into the south. And Abraham was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold. And we say that Abraham, from the moment Abraham builded an altar, all right? And he started to offer to call upon the name of the Lord, which is a very important detail. Calling upon the name of the Lord is a very important detail that we will look into in one of the episodes of triumph. And we will look at what name was Abraham calling. And then what are these names that these patriarchs called upon? What is the actual name that he was using, Hallelujah at that altar? And we'll get into that so that.
[00:05:32] So that you can also have that detail with you. Okay, and then what else did we look at? Okay, we're still there.
[00:05:42] And he went on his verse three. And he went on his journeys from the south unto Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning between Bethel and Hai, unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first. And there Abraham called on the name of the Lord. Abraham called on the name of the Lord on that altar. Hallelujah. So what we got to see was that an altar was a place of encounter. An altar was a place where men encountered God, where God came and communed with men, all right? Where God came and communed with men there, God came and had fellowship with men. He visited men. And at those places, all right, these men of God, the patriarchs, these men of God will build altars there, all right? So that. So and. And they'll always come back to that same place of visitation where they would encounter God, and they will have encounters with God. And God would visit them there, and God would give them instructions and commandments there at that place or that altar. So now what we. What the Spirit of the Lord has been saying to us is that he wants us to now, consciously, by revelation, build our own personal altars. Yes, there are those formalized ones. The formalized altar where we participate in whether that would be at your local church. Glory to God. He says those ones. Those are great. Keep doing that. All right. But then what the Lord wants us to do now, all right, in this generation, in this time, in this season, is for us to build our own personal altars.
[00:07:12] That is the purpose of why Jesus Christ made us temples. And we saw by revelation from the APostle Paul in First Corinthians 3, you know, we saw that we are the temples of God. God made us living Bethel. So we are living Beth Els. So everywhere we go, we carry the temple of God. Our bodies are the temples of God. And everywhere we go, there's an altar inside us. And from there, we can call upon the name of the Lord there. And we can offer spiritual sacrifices.
[00:07:39] Spiritual sacrifices as living temples of God.
[00:07:45] Incredible. So the Bible says that. And there Abraham called upon the name of the Lord. All right? So that was what we were sharing about. And we looked at Hebrews, what kind of sacrifice? We looked at Hebrews, chapter 13.
[00:08:01] We might get into there, but now we want to get into Isaac. Okay, so what happened with Isaac as well?
[00:08:13] Let's go to Genesis, chapter 26.
[00:08:17] I'll read from verse 23. Genesis, chapter 26 from verse 23. And he went up from thence to Beersheba, and the Lord appeared unto him. There was an encounter. Isaac had an encounter with the Lord. Isaac came. The Lord came to have an encounter with Isaac.
[00:08:34] And the Lord appeared unto him the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham, your father. Fear not, for I am with you. And I will bless you and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
[00:08:47] And then remember what Isaac did from that encounter. Isaac, verse 25. And he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord like his father. He called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants digged a well. Okay? So we see the same thing with Isaac. Wherever there is this relationship, wherever there is this fellowship, wherever there is this communion, this manifestation, these encounters with God Almighty, there is an altar. Hallelujah.
[00:09:18] Okay, so when we say personal altar, that means that you need to build a place of personal encounter with God. That is what we're talking about. And we're going to show you here on Triumph how to do that. Glory to God. That is what the Lord is calling us to do in this time. Okay, and then let's see. Okay, that was with Isaac. Now let's see with. With Jacob.
[00:09:43] Genesis, chapter 35. Jacob, a very interesting character. Okay? And God said unto Jacob, arise, go unto Beth El. Where? To Beth El. That's from his grand. That. That is the place where his grandfather had his altar. Okay. Where his grandfather kept going there.
[00:09:58] And his grandfather would have encounters and. And God would appear to him there. So now God is the one now that gives Jacob that instruction. Says, God said unto Jacob, arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there.
[00:10:12] And Bethel is the house of God, and dwell there and make there an altar unto God that appeared unto you when you fled from the face of Esau, your brother. Then Jacob said unto his household and to all that were with him, put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean and change your garments, and let us arise and go up to Beth. Let us arise and go up to Beth El.
[00:10:36] Glory to God. And I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went. Glory, glory, glory. Okay? There he builded an altar at Beth El. So Jacob went to Beth El, and he had more encounters and visitations from God. So the personal altar is a place where you have communion, fellowship. Hallelujah. And encounters with God restored fellowship and restored encounters with God Almighty. All right? And God wants to have this with us personally on a personal level, not only when you go to the church meetings, but also on a personal level in your home, on a personal level with your family, on your personal level, with your children, with your wife, you need to build this personal altar. And for your house, all right? It is critical because there you will have encounters with the Lord there, you call upon the name of the Lord there, and God will reveal and he will manifest, and he will come and give you instructions and guidance. And there's a lot of other things that I'll show you from the word of God that comes with building a personal altar. Glory to God.
[00:11:52] Okay, let's go to Genesis, chapter eight. Okay, so somebody, you know, somebody would.
[00:11:58] Somebody would probably ask, okay, so what about before, the patriarchs? Okay, so we see the patriarchs, they had a personal altar. And now, even with Jacob, God now asks Jacob to go to Beth El to build an altar. And then Moses comes and he delivers, helps to deliver the children of Israel from Egypt. And then God also now gives Moses an instruction to build an altar for the children of Israel, okay? So that they can continue in that. So there's something about this altar.
[00:12:28] Okay. There's something about this altar. Okay. Glory to God. So an altar is a place of encounter. An altar is a place of sacrifice. An altar is a place of sacrifice.
[00:12:40] So you see the patriarchs with it. You see now the children of Israel with it, with Moses, and then even with Adam. Adam's first breath.
[00:12:51] Adam's first breath.
[00:12:53] Glory to God. Adam's first breath was an encounter with Elohim in Genesis chapter two. When you go there, he was now having encounters with Elohim. So having encounters in relationship and fellowship with God was always God's plan From the beginning.
[00:13:09] Okay, from the beginning.
[00:13:11] So why did it now have to require altars like this? Okay, maybe I'll get into that in this episode. I'll get into that in this episode so that we can understand the significance of why these men of God started to now have these altars. Okay, so you see that with.
[00:13:36] You see that with Adam.
[00:13:38] Okay, you see that with Adam? Why? Let's go to Genesis, chapter three. I'll read from verse seven. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. Fig leaves. Mark that. They made fig leaves together. Okay, cool. And made themselves aprons.
[00:14:00] And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the cool of the day.
[00:14:05] And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. So clearly, this was a regular occurrence.
[00:14:13] Okay? The Lord coming into the garden to commune and to have fellowship with Adam was a daily occurrence, right? And when they heard, so they knew what was happening, they knew who was coming, and they took and they hid themselves. Okay? So remember what Abraham did, all right? In the place of his encounter with the Lord at the altar, the Bible says he called upon the name of the Lord. So now pay attention to what happened here with Adam, okay?
[00:14:40] Verse 9. And the Lord God called unto Adam. Ah, the Lord called unto Adam.
[00:14:49] That is so something is clearly. This was not supposed to be the case.
[00:14:55] Adam is supposed to call unto the Lord. Adam is the one that was supposed to call unto Elohim.
[00:15:03] Even when the serpent had come, Adam could have called on Elohim, but he didn't call on Elohim.
[00:15:11] It was Elohim that came and called unto Adam. Okay? So the Bible here says, and the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, where are you, Adam? Where are you? And he said, I heard your voice. So he knew what time it was. It was time for them to have an encounter and to meet with God, all right? And he knew that, you know, things were not the same. So he hid himself, him and his wife.
[00:15:39] And he said verse 10. And he said, I heard your voice in the garden. And I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. So in this instance, you know, it was God calling unto Adam, all right? Where it was supposed to be the other way around, where you see with Abraham, Abraham calling unto the Lord, okay? Glory to God. So that is how it was supposed to be from the beginning, even with Adam, okay? And even when you go to Genesis chapter four, when you see with Cain and with Abel, they were having regular fellowship, regular encounters with God. And even when God was not pleased with Cain, it was because of the offering that Cain made. All right? And also the offering that Abel gave was a sacrifice, okay? It was a sacrifice because Abel was a keeper of sheep. So he took a firstling, all right, from his sheep, and then he made a sacrifice, okay?
[00:16:46] Which is very striking. But before we go there, I want to show you another scripture that is very important and key to why you begin to see the patriarchs, these men of God, these people that had relationships with God, build altars and offer sacrifices.
[00:17:02] What is the significance of sacrifices? Because you're probably here and you're probably wondering, okay, I'm reading from this goddess Bible, and he said God was asking people to have animal sacrifices, you know, animal sacrifices. What is the. What.
[00:17:17] What.
[00:17:17] What interest did he have in these animal sacrifices?
[00:17:21] Okay, all right, all right. And remember, a lot of cultures and traditions that do sacrifices, especially here in Africa.
[00:17:32] What the word of God says about those things, I think we'll address that in this episode so that you can know what is going on, what is behind this.
[00:17:39] You can have the wisdom from the word of God to know what you're dealing with, because a lot of people are still into those practices, including Christians.
[00:17:47] Okay? But we'll see what the word of God says about those things. Okay? But another thing that I wanted to show you here is that remember when God came and was calling unto Adam, okay? God came into the cool of the day. So the cool of the day was the spirit, the spirit, the rua. There was a wind that God used to come and move in. He would go and commune with God. And remember, Adam's first breath was an encounter with Elohim, Adam's first breath.
[00:18:17] So man was created. And the first thing that he was used to, the first thing that was about his life, was communion with his creator, was communion with his Maker.
[00:18:30] So that is an important thing about these altars that we're talking about. Okay? That is why God insisted on these altars.
[00:18:38] Because man was created for encounter, for fellowship, for communion with God.
[00:18:46] Man was created to be one with God, to be in communion with God, to be in fellowship with God, to be in communication with God.
[00:18:55] Okay?
[00:18:56] So remember when God now comes into the. Into the. Into the garden, looking for Adam and calling unto Adam, instead of Adam calling unto Elohim, you know, Elohim is calling unto Adam.
[00:19:09] How loud loving God is. Okay? Remember, Adam took leaves and he sewed aprons. Okay? He sold aprons to cover his nakedness. But what he didn't know is that he was still naked. Okay? He was still naked.
[00:19:24] Okay, so what did God do? God looked at their aprons.
[00:19:28] Yes. Even though maybe they were covered. They were covered physically, but spiritually there was still a problem.
[00:19:36] And how did God deal with that problem? I'll show you Genesis 3:21, which will get us to the question that a lot of people have that probably would have when they encounter this message. And they're like, okay, altars, sacrifices, animals being killed. What is that all about? Where did that come from? Where did Abraham get that? Where did Noah get that from? How did they. Do you understand? I'll show you who started this thing. Okay? What the word of God says here. Okay? So now when you go to Leviticus, chapter 17, you know, I think it's verse 11 where the Lord says that for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I'll require the blood for atonement, for your souls. So now why would God say this to the children of Israel? Because this is the standard that he already set himself for atonement. So as a spirit being, he would require for the life of the flesh to die for atonement. All right, and then let's go to Genesis. Let's continue with this one. Genesis, chapter three, verse 21. And Adam, and unto Adam also, and his wife, did the Lord God make coats, coats of skins and clothed them.
[00:21:10] But I thought that they were clothed. Okay, so where did God get the clothes of skins from?
[00:21:17] So clearly there was an animal that had to be sacrificed here.
[00:21:21] And who performed the first animal sacrifice to cover man's nakedness? It was the Lord God who made coats of skins.
[00:21:35] Coats of skins of animal hide.
[00:21:41] So God is the one that started with these animal sacrifices to clothe man, okay, of his nakedness.
[00:21:52] So there's.
[00:21:54] But we saw here that the Bible, the word of God telling us that Adam and Eve had put on sold leaves.
[00:22:04] They sold leaves to cover their nakedness, but they were still naked until God killed that animal and clothed them. So that was the first animal sacrifice for the atonement.
[00:22:16] It was also for the atonement of Adam. That animal died in the place of Adam for Adam's transgression. And that animal skin was used to clothe and to cover.
[00:22:32] So in as much as there is a physical covering that was happening there, there was an atonement that God performed for the soul of Adam here, which was temporary. So this was not the plan, you know, clearly, but it was temporary. So now you begin to find this thing, okay, you begin to find these things now, these sacrifices for the atonement. So now these people that had encounters with God, obviously, because they're prophets and they heard from God, they builded an altar and they made these sacrifices for atonement, for their souls because of the sin of Adam, so that God could now continue to have fellowship with them.
[00:23:12] So imagine the blood of an animal, the blood of animals was being used by God Almighty for him to have fellowship with mankind.
[00:23:25] So the death of that animal and the blood of that animal, God began to use it to have fellowship with man, to restore fellowship back to man, for him to continue to be involved and to have communication with man.
[00:23:42] Legally, it required what it required the death of that animal.
[00:23:48] And the first animal sacrifice for the atonement of man's sin was performed by God himself here in Genesis, chapter three, verse 21. We've seen it. Okay, let's go to Leviticus quickly.
[00:24:03] Okay, but before we go to Leviticus, I'll show you another important detail. Okay, so now the Supreme Spirit being required the sacrifice of an animal to maintain fellowship with Adam, the Supreme. So now that animal had to die in the place of A.D.
[00:24:29] okay. So that God could continue to have fellowship and communication and communion with him.
[00:24:36] And also so that Adam's sin could be covered so that. That.
[00:24:42] That skin that God used to cover. Also the implication of that is that Adam's sin, Adam's nakedness and Adam's sin was covered by God. So God was the first one to cover Adam's sin with the sacrifice of an animal.
[00:25:00] Okay.
[00:25:03] So the devil didn't come up with this.
[00:25:08] It's not man's idea. Yes. You African? Yeah, I'm an African too.
[00:25:14] As an African, yes. It's our custom. It's our tradition. It's our. It's our. It's our. It's our.
[00:25:26] Okay. And. But you need to now understand it from God's perspective. Understand it. Get the wisdom of God. Get the idea. Get the knowledge of God about it.
[00:25:39] Get the knowledge of God about it.
[00:25:42] Because these things that a lot of people call tradition and culture, and this is who we are. This is what makes us who we are here in Africa.
[00:25:51] This, that and the other. I've seen all of those things.
[00:25:55] I've seen all of those things. I've been to all of those places. I grew up around those things.
[00:26:01] Those sacrifices at the village. What, what, what? Sacrifices for this. Sacrifices. When somebody dies, Sacrifice something. When some. Somebody gets a job, when somebody gets a child, there must be a sacrifice. All these. I've. I've. I grew up and growing up around it, seeing it, seeing people who are involved in those things. I never saw anybody.
[00:26:27] I never saw anybody make anything out of their lives from those things.
[00:26:38] Okay, let's go to Genesis 8.
[00:26:42] Let's go to Genesis, chapter 9. Okay, let's start from Genesis at the end there with, okay, verse 20. And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord and took off every clean beast and every clean fowl. Of every clean.
[00:26:56] And of every clean fowl. And offered burnt offerings unto the Lord.
[00:27:04] And the Lord smelled the sweet savour. And the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground.
[00:27:11] Okay. I will not again curse the ground because of the sacrifice of Noah of the beast and the bird.
[00:27:19] This was Noah.
[00:27:24] This was before the time of.
[00:27:31] The time of your ancestors, your African ancestors. We are Africans. It's what makes us Africans, this is the time of Noah, after the flood.
[00:27:46] Your ancestors were not there yet.
[00:27:55] Your ancestors or whoever, whoever it is that your culture, your tradition, this is specifically dealing with African people.
[00:28:07] We have historical evidence that the days of Noah were way before your African ancestors.
[00:28:17] There's historical evidence for this.
[00:28:20] And the Bible says that Noah was already offering sacrifices to. And who was he making those sacrifices to? He was making sacrifices to Elohim, to the God of the Bible.
[00:28:37] So he built that altar and he made sacrifices to the God of this Bible before your African ancestors ever existed.
[00:28:49] So, so. So it didn't. This thing did not start, Originate with Africans to say, it's African, our tradition, it is our custom. It is what makes us who we are. This is how we worship our gods or whatever you want to say, deception, deceiving yourselves.
[00:29:15] Deceiving yourselves. Okay, says, and the Lord and the Lord.
[00:29:20] And the Lord. This one, this sacrifice that Noah made, it was to the Lord. This one, the same Lord of the Bible.
[00:29:31] And the Lord smelled a split sever. And the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake. For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, while the earth remains, that is, from the time Noah makes that sacrifice and he starts to have these encounters with God.
[00:29:52] So clearly the sacrifice and the encounters that Noah started to have with his family from hereafter are connected.
[00:30:02] But remember, the person, the personality that first performed an animal sacrifice for sin atonement was Elohim in Genesis chapter three with Adam and Eve.
[00:30:21] Not your ancestors, your African ancestors. So listen, I'm African too, so I know about it.
[00:30:37] Okay?
[00:30:39] All right. And then he started to have these encounters with Jehovah from the sacrifice on the altar that Noah built.
[00:30:49] Okay, let's go. Genesis, chapter nine. I will show you something.
[00:30:56] And before I show you some more things about these sacrifices, these sacrifices, because when we talk about these sacrifices, sacrifices that means something is dying. Sacrifices, that means. But what was the purpose? What is the reason why this thing had to die?
[00:31:12] Okay, we'll look at what the word says here.
[00:31:15] So when you look at the times of these things, your ancestors from Africa were not alive yet when sacrifices were being made here on these altars.
[00:31:27] So the tradition or the custom or the culture of sacrificing at the village, sacrificing goats, sacrificing cows, it didn't start with you Africans.
[00:31:47] Okay, so what does the God of the Bible says? The word here is now telling us Genesis. I'm in Genesis chapter nine. We're talking about Noah, Noah's encounters, Noah's encounters after he made a sacrifice. So Noah started to have encounters with the supreme, the Creator. So this is the God that created all things, and he offered sacrifices. And we saw in. In Genesis 3, after Adam's transgression, the first animal sacrifice for atonement for Adam was done by God himself.
[00:32:14] And from there, God required that men make atonement for their sin to restore fellowship with him by the death, the penalty of the death of another animal. Okay, let's read here what he said again to Noah. Now he's giving no instruction. Noah is having encounters after that sacrifice on that altar. Now Noah is getting instructions from God almighty. Okay? Verse 4 says, but flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood.
[00:32:47] So the life of the flesh is in the blood.
[00:32:51] So God is saying to Noah, flesh, the life of the flesh is in the blood.
[00:32:59] So for the life of the flesh, for the flesh that participates in this physical world, for it to participate, for that spirit or for that person to have to be able to participate in the physical world, he needs blood. He needs blood in his flesh that gives access. It's a gateway that gives access to the spirit of a man to be able to participate in this physical world.
[00:33:32] Without blood, this flesh dies, and your spirit has to leave this physical world.
[00:33:39] So in order for you to participate in this physical world, these are laws, these are spiritual laws that govern existence in this physical world. The moment the blood. Yeah, okay. The moment the blood that is in your body, if it is drained out, this flesh will die.
[00:33:56] Okay? And then if the flesh dies, because the life of this body is in the blood, okay, this is before Jesus came. But then the life of this body is in this blood.
[00:34:08] So the blood represents the life of this flesh because this blood is what keeps the body, the flesh, alive.
[00:34:14] That gives it the legal right to be a legal participant in the physical world.
[00:34:22] So now God will now use the life of the animal to be a legal participant in this physical world, in communion and participation in the man's life.
[00:34:31] So that's why he required the blood of the animal for atonement, for the man's soul, for his sin. Because that sin is what separated, that separated God from involvement in the man's life, the sin of Adam.
[00:34:49] So you see where the sacrifices come from, the purpose of the sacrifices. So it wasn't just like, okay, this is a great idea. What are we going to do? We're going to kill these animals and we hope that something happens. No, it didn't happen like that, there's spiritual significance and implications to these things.
[00:35:07] And if they're done wrongly, there are also spiritual implications with the kingdom of darkness, with these things, okay? So it says, but the flesh with the life thereof is the blood thereof. Then he says, here, you shall not eat, okay? And then Mark, there's something striking here that he. That God says to Noah, says, and surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of every beast.
[00:35:38] So what is he saying? What he's saying is that if an animal, if an animal kills a human being, he says, I require the life of that animal.
[00:35:50] So it's life for life with an animal.
[00:35:53] That is very significant.
[00:35:55] Why would he say, because now this would allow him now to reverse it and say, for your life.
[00:36:02] Since the. I've equated that the life of the human being that is taken by an animal, the life that animal has to atone has to pay for taking the human's life with its own life, okay? With its own life. The animal has to pay with its own life, okay? So now, many years later, so now God now. So now Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so now they start to offer these rams, okay, in their place so that God could have fellowship and continued community. God could legally, God could have legal rights to have continued involvement in the lives of the patriarchs, okay?
[00:36:58] So they would have spiritual support.
[00:37:01] Spiritual from God Almighty, from the angelic.
[00:37:05] Angelic support, angelic participation in their lives. God could be involved.
[00:37:12] So that's why God could now, at the place of the sacrifice, of the altar, at the place of the sacrifice, God would always come there. Why? Because you're invoking the legal rights with the life of that animal for God to come and have fellowship with you.
[00:37:29] Because that life is now making an atonement for Abraham's soul. That life that was being sacrificed on that altar was making atonement for Isaac's soul. That life that was being sacrificed on that altar was being used for the atonement of Jacob's soul so God could be involved in their lives, okay? So what about those people that sacrifice and they're killing animals? And it's not unto the God of the Bible, this God, this one that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were sacrificing to.
[00:38:06] Now the Bible also tells us something about that. And I'll show it to you because it's very important because. So that you understand what these altars are about when we say personal altars, what are we talking about when we say personal altars, what is the significance? What, what Is the spiritual significance. There is a spiritual significance about it.
[00:38:26] And it involves sacrifices. It involves the death of either animals or the death of a human being, the death of a person. And it involves, in our case, it involves the death, the sacrifice where God himself came and offered a sacrifice of his son for atonement for us forever so that we no longer have to, you know, kill animals like Abel, like Noah, like Abraham, like Isaac. We no longer have to do that anymore. So God came and performed the ultimate sacrifice so that there should be no sacrifices anymore, unless you are sacrificing unto other deities, unto other spiritual beings, which we'll hear what the Bible says about that in a moment. Says, and surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of every beast will I require it. So he's saying that if a beast kills a man, that beast must pay with his life. So he's equating now he's saying he's requiring the life of the beast for the life of that man.
[00:39:39] So now God, Leviticus. Now why? Because in the same way, God is accepting the life of that beast that is being sacrificed in the place of that man, right? He's accepting it to say that the life of that ram equates to this man's soul, to this man's life. So instead of this man dying, okay, the beast is going to die in his stead.
[00:40:05] And because the beast has died in his stead, then I, as a spirit being, as the supreme being, God, the spiritual being, I can now have involvement your life. I can now have access in your life. I can now have influence in your life. I can now give direction, I can now give protection. I can now give you guidance, and I can now give you sustenance.
[00:40:25] Haya.
[00:40:28] Okay, what about those that are making these sacrifices and it's not to this God of the Bible we will get to that.
[00:40:38] Are my African brothers and sisters.
[00:40:41] Some of you are even Christians. Some of you even believe in Jesus Christ. Some of you have received Christ, but you will not let go. You are still going to the village and you know that they're offering these things. You're still going to the village when, you know, when we're seeing from the word of God here, the God that you worship, the God that you believe in, he made a sacrifice. He was the first to make a sacrifice for the atonement of Adam's sin in Genesis, chapter three.
[00:41:14] And then he required for everybody all these things, you know, these things.
[00:41:20] And then. But that was not enough. And then he required Abraham Isaac and Jacob to make atonement for this by these sacraments. That's why they had these altars.
[00:41:30] Because for God to legally be involved in their lives, they had to make atonement.
[00:41:41] That's why God accepted and was pleased with the offerings.
[00:41:50] And that was the purpose of the altar.
[00:41:53] So the purpose of the altar was to make atonement, was to make atonement for their souls so that they could be what they could be restored fellowship between God and man. So the altar was the symbol of restored fellowship where they would sacrifice the animal in the place of that man so that God could come and fellowship could be restored between man and God.
[00:42:22] Because the penalty for sin is death.
[00:42:27] And God said that I will accept the death, the life of this animal in your place here. He says, okay, if the animal kills a man, I will accept the life. The life.
[00:42:42] I want the life of that animal to also to pay for killing the life of a human being.
[00:42:54] That's a striking detail. Now let's go to Leviticus.
[00:42:58] Let's go to Leviticus. And you know the story. And you know the story. You know the story when with Abraham and Isaac, and Abraham goes up to sacrifice Isaac.
[00:43:11] And then Isaac asks his father, where are we going to get the ram?
[00:43:17] Where are we going to get the ram? And Abraham preaches the gospel.
[00:43:21] Abraham preaches the gospel. The Lord shall provide a ram for himself. The Lord shall provide a ram for himself. The Lord shall provide the sacrifice for himself. That was the gospel. Abraham was preaching the gospel. Everything that Jesus did because Abraham believed that if Isaac would be offered as a sacrifice, God would raise him back to life.
[00:43:50] God would raise him back to life. So the gospel is preached by Abraham and Isaac in that altar.
[00:43:56] And what happened? And God provided a ram.
[00:44:01] God said, abraham, Abraham, stop. Now I believe that. Now I know that you what? That you trust me. Abraham, trust. Abraham believed that God would raise Isaac up.
[00:44:13] And the Bible says that Abraham killed Isaac, even though Isaac was not killed. But the word of God says he killed him.
[00:44:29] And then the Bible says that the Lord provided a ram. God said, look, there's a ram there. The Lord provided the sacrifice for himself, okay?
[00:44:41] So instead of sacrificing his son, all right, the Lord received the sacrifice of the ram in Abraham's son's place.
[00:44:55] Okay? And then now God comes to the children of Israel and says, I require these sacrifices of these rams from you.
[00:45:02] Okay? And then he says, because of the promise that I made to Abraham, I no longer want the sacrifices for these rams.
[00:45:14] I'm going to provide the sacrifice of my son in place of these rams. In the same way Abraham provided Isaac to be sacrificed in place of that ram. God says, I'm going to return Abraham's favor to mankind. I'm going to return Abraham's favor to mankind and I'm going to provide my son. My son is going to come and die in the place of all the. Because the atonement is not working. Okay?
[00:45:41] The appeasement. The appeasement of these sacrifices, of these bulls and these goats and these birds, okay? They had to do it year after year after year.
[00:45:53] It could not take away man's sin.
[00:45:59] But then the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God came and he performed the ultimate sacrifice.
[00:46:11] My African brothers, God performed the ultimate sacrifice.
[00:46:22] You have no.
[00:46:24] Why are you still sacrificing again?
[00:46:26] Why do you still need to sacrifice again when God sacrificed his son?
[00:46:32] So that you no longer have to make any other sacrifice either to him or to any other deity.
[00:46:39] Says once and for all, forever. He has perfected forever by one sacrifice. God Almighty performed a sacrifice by one sacrifice. He perfected forever so that that was the end of all sacrifices.
[00:46:55] There should not be any other sacrifice again after the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Whether it's for the nation of Israel, for the children of Israel, unto God himself, God Almighty himself, or whether it is to the Gentiles who were sacrificing to their gods. Christ is the end. Christ is the end. Christ was the end. He was the final sacrifice that brought forth the end of all sacrifices.
[00:47:25] Okay, let's go to Leviticus quickly.
[00:47:29] Leviticus, chapter 17.
[00:47:34] So why am I talking about this? Because a lot of you. Okay, so you. You'd come here if I. If we don't explain this, and you come and you see personal altars. Okay, what's happening at an altar? Okay, you know, maybe some new believers, some new Christians, some Christians. Maybe you've been a Christian, you didn't know. Okay, what is the point of these altars anyway? What is the point of these sacrifices anyway? What was the reason behind these sacrifices?
[00:48:02] There are spiritual implications. There was a reason. God didn't do it because he had run out of ideas to do.
[00:48:11] In this world, there are laws, there are physical laws, and there are spiritual laws.
[00:48:18] And those physical laws and those spiritual laws were established by the creator of the world, including this one of sacrificing that Africans like to do a lot.
[00:48:29] It didn't start with you.
[00:48:33] The Bible tells us here that it started with God in the garden with Adam and Eve.
[00:48:42] God is the one that Performed the first animal sacrifice. It wasn't you. So it's not your thing.
[00:48:48] And there was a reason why God did it, since it started with him and he had a reason for it. Then you need to find out from him why he was doing it and what is the purpose and what are the implications about it.
[00:49:03] But us as Africans, we were just born seeing people do it. You say it's our culture. It's my culture. It's my.
[00:49:10] Really.
[00:49:17] Verse.
[00:49:21] Verse 11. Leviticus, chapter 17, verse 11. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that makes atonement. For your soul, it is the blood that makes atonement. So now that atonement is what appeases God. To now come to have fellowship with you, a spirit being to now come to have fellowship with you.
[00:49:48] We're talking about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God that communicated and communed with Adam, the God that created all things.
[00:49:59] He said that the life, the sack, the blood, the life of the animal, the blood, the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I've given it to you upon the altar for an atonement unto your soul.
[00:50:13] So that means that now God can now continue to have fellowship, communion, koinonia, involvement in the children of Israel's lives because of this atonement, because of this sacrifice of the life of this blood that they sacrificed on the altar.
[00:50:31] So now that gives a spirit being access into the physical world to be involved.
[00:50:39] So what about those that are still making sacrifices today?
[00:50:43] But it's not to the God of the Bible.
[00:50:47] What does the Bible say about that?
[00:50:49] Okay, so now when God Almighty now sacrificed his son for us, what did that do? What did that do? It now gave God. It now gives God the legal rights because of the atonement that Jesus Christ made for the remission of our sin.
[00:51:08] Okay, now God can now be involved in my life. Now I can be the temple of God. That is what makes me that God can now come and live with me because of the sacrifice of Jesus. So God sacrificed his son. That now gives God the legal right to come and to be in my life.
[00:51:30] Now God can be involved in my life.
[00:51:34] The Spirit, the creator of the universe, this supreme spirit being can now be involved in my life.
[00:51:41] Hey, yeah. Because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ that God made upon God's altar. This is God's altar. God created an altar for himself, for all of us.
[00:51:55] And because of that sacrifice there was that Jesus had to die so that God could now legally come into our lives.
[00:52:03] God could now legally be involved in us. That is the point. That is the reason and the point of sacrifices and altars to appease the supreme Spirit being to be involved in the lives of us human beings in this physical world.
[00:52:30] So now, because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, hallelujah. I no longer have to offer sacrifices again because of the sacrifice that God made with Jesus Christ. I no longer have to go to the village to sacrifice again because of the sacrifice that God made with Jesus Christ.
[00:52:45] No more sacrifices.
[00:52:46] Whether it's for the children of Israel, no more sacrifices. Whether it's for the Gentiles, no more sacrifices. Jesus Christ is the perfect sacrifice. There can be no better sacrifice than the sacrifice of God's. So than Jesus Christ that can now give God Almighty, the creator of the universe, the supreme creator of all things, of heaven and earth, the creator of things visible and invisible, to now be a part of my life.
[00:53:14] Ha. This is what the sacrifice of Jesus Christ means.
[00:53:20] But with the patriarchs, with Adam, with Cain, with Abel, with the children of Israel, with Moses, they had to sacrifice these animals on the altar for God to be involved in their lives, for God to be a part of their lives, for the God that created the universe to be. He required those sacrifices for the atonement of their sin.
[00:53:43] Okay, so that is. That was the purpose of the altars.
[00:53:51] So now we come here, triumph. Now we're talking about building personal altars. What are we talking about?
[00:53:58] Okay, before I connect that one, before I connect that one, because we're running out of time. We might have to continue this one on the next one. Let us go. So he says, I require Leviticus 17, it says, I require these for atonement, for your souls.
[00:54:20] Incredible.
[00:54:24] Let's go to First Corinthians.
[00:54:35] So with. With the patriarchs, with Noah, with Abraham, with Isaac, with Jacob, with the children of Israel, there were these sacrifices that they have to. That they had to offer on the altar, okay? Before they could have fellowship and communion with God, with the God of the universe, with the creator of the universe, okay? Same thing with Adam and Eve. We saw, I showed you with Adam and Eve, okay? God is the one that performed the first sacrifice, animal sacrifice for the atonement, for the covering of Adam and Eve's sin. He covered them. He took. Now the skins. He took. That animal had to die for God to be able to get the skins to cover Adam and Eve.
[00:55:24] So it is not your ancestor that started animal sacrifices.
[00:55:30] So it's God Almighty who started it. And He. He knows why he did it. So you need to find a way. And this was before your ancestors ever lived, that this was already happening.
[00:55:50] First Corinthians, chapter 10. I read from verse 14. Now, the apostle Paul now reveals what this is about.
[00:55:55] Okay, so with the children of Israel and with the patriarchs, and with those that lived before the patriarchs, we know who they were sacrificing to, who asked for those sacrifices. It was the God that created all things. All right, okay, all right, so he's the one that asked for those sacrifices. Okay, but with you Africans, okay, who. Who is it?
[00:56:24] Who's this one?
[00:56:28] That's the only question that I have. Because me being an African, those are the questions that I also had. Okay, who is this one that we have to sacrifice? Okay, we have to go to the village to sacrifice. Okay, to who for what? And what is going to happen? And because I also like results. Okay, so what are the results that come from this?
[00:56:44] Okay, because the Bible now shows us the results that came from the sacrifices that they.
[00:56:59] First Corinthians 10:14. So to them, it was to the. To God.
[00:57:06] Okay, so we have evidence of this. Okay, so now what about to everybody else that was making these sacrifices? Who are they sacrificing to?
[00:57:16] First Corinthians, 10:14. Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
[00:57:22] Verse 15. I speak as to wise men, you judge what I say.
[00:57:28] The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion? The koinonia says, the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the koinonia, the oneness, the fellowship?
[00:57:38] Is this not the encounter, the fellowship?
[00:57:44] Is it not a declaration of our fellowship?
[00:57:48] Now he's talking about spiritual things, the spiritual implications of the practices that we do as Christians when we take the communion.
[00:57:58] So when you take the communion, because Jesus is the one that instructed us to take the communion in remembrance of him. So now he's telling us the spiritual implications of us taking the communion. Why? Because he's saying that that cup that Jesus took and he blessed, all right, was for the covenant of the shedding of his blood.
[00:58:17] So he says. Now, when Jesus instructed us to take that communion, now he was saying that because of the sacrifice that God made of Jesus's blood, when you take the communion, you are making a declaration in the realm of the spirit.
[00:58:34] You are making a confession in the spirit. The communion is a confession in the spirit that I am marked by the blood of Jesus.
[00:58:46] I am covered by the blood of Jesus, I have I communion. It says, is it not the communion? Okay, let's read.
[00:58:56] Okay, I'm getting excited. It says, the cup which we. The cup of blessing which we bless. Is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?
[00:59:06] Aya, is it not the communion? Now we're talking about sacrifices here, okay? Because we saw it with the patriarchs, we saw it with Noah, we even saw it with Abel in Genesis chapter four. We saw it God performing the first animal sacrifice for the covering or the atonement of Adam's sin in Genesis chapter three.
[00:59:31] Okay, and then, now God now comes and then he says, okay, I'm going to sacrifice myself once and forever. It says, now, when we now come together and take the. This is why the communion is so powerful. Why? Because it's a spiritual. It's a spiritual declaration. Yes, you're doing something physically here, but there's a. There's a spiritual declaration of the blood of Jesus Christ in the realms of the spirit.
[00:59:58] Hey.
[01:00:03] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:00:05] You see, now we're talking about what? We're talking about personal altars. And now we're going to talk about how you're going to offer your sacrifices. Spiritual sacrifices.
[01:00:16] Spiritual sacrifices.
[01:00:19] Okay, so now in our personal altars, we do not. We do not sacrifice animals anymore. What do we do? We take the communion.
[01:00:31] We take the communion. Why? Because the communion represents. Is a declaration. It represents the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.
[01:00:44] The sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.
[01:00:47] So when we take the communion.
[01:00:50] Take the communion, that is a spiritual sacrifice.
[01:00:54] That is a spiritual sacrifice that we now offer.
[01:01:00] Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they had to offer these animals. Noah had to offer these animals. The children of Israel had to offer these animals. But God looked at him and said, okay, I'm going to offer my son, so you no longer have to offer these animals anymore. Hallelujah. But now what do you do? You offer spiritual sacrifices.
[01:01:17] Spiritual sacrifices. And part of that spiritual sacrifice is taking the communion. Okay, now let's go, let's finish that. It says, the bread which we break, is it not the communion or agreement? Our agreement, the communion. The word there is koinonia. It says, our oneness with the blood of Christ.
[01:01:38] With the sacrifice of the blood of Christ.
[01:01:40] When we take the communion, we're making a declaration of our oneness, of our agreement of our identification with the sacrifice of the blood of Christ.
[01:01:57] The bread which we break, is it not the communion?
[01:02:01] Our koinonia. The koinonia of the blood of Christ. Verse 17. For we, the Many are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. Verse 18. Behold, Israel, after the flesh, are not those who eat of the sacrifices also partakers of the altar?
[01:02:27] What then do I say that the idol is anything? So now he's now telling you about the altar and the sacrifices that they had to make, the children of Israel, the altar and the sacrifices that they had to make and the spiritual implications of those sacrifices.
[01:02:44] What were the spiritual implications of the sacrifices that the children of Israel had to make on the altar?
[01:02:49] What were the spiritual implications that this. Of the sacrifices that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had to make? We read about it.
[01:02:57] There were spiritual implications.
[01:03:01] A spirit being came and got involved in their lives.
[01:03:05] That was the implication, that was the spiritual implication of a physical sacrifice of an animal. He says a spirit being now came and started to talk and get involved and started to protect them and started to increase them and started to bless them.
[01:03:25] So now what are the spiritual implications of those who make sacrifices, but not to this God, but to their own God? What are the. What are those? They are implications, my fellow African brothers and sisters.
[01:03:41] They are implications.
[01:03:48] Verse 18. Behold Israel after the flesh, are not those who eat of the sacrifices also partakers of the altar says, what then? Do I say that the idol is anything or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything?
[01:04:06] But I say verse 20. But I say that the things which the nations sacrifice.
[01:04:11] Now he's talking about the other nations that are not the children of Israel, that are not the nations of the people from the Bible. Now he's saying that what I'm saying to you, what I'm revealing to you, is that those other nations, my African brothers and sisters, he's talking about you and me, says, but I say that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God.
[01:04:42] And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons. And that word fellowship is koinonia. It means partnership. That means that when you make the sacrifice, when you go to the village and they make those sacrifices, when they make those sacrifices, he says that what happens is there is that there is communion, there's fellowship. There you are joined together with demonic spirits, not the spirit of God.
[01:05:13] That is what the word says.
[01:05:16] Those sacrifices, those animal sacrifices that people are still making after God made the ultimate sacrifice of his son, he says you're not dead because God does not receive those sacrifices.
[01:05:31] He does not receive those sacrifices because he already received the sacrifice of his son, Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice of his son, Jesus Christ was the end of all sacrifices between God and man. And now because of that sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we can now have koinonia fellowship, oneness, participation, agreement with the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[01:06:02] The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is involved in my life because of the sacrifice of his son. He's involved in my life.
[01:06:12] So now what do we do? He says, I want you to offer spiritual sacrifices.
[01:06:16] Spiritual sacrifices. What are those spiritual sacrifices? We'll look into those spiritual sacrifices in the next episode, okay? So that you know, you know what you need to do to build your altar. To build your altar. Hallelujah. And so that you can offer spiritual sacrifices to the God of Abraham, to the God that was with Adam and Eve, to the same God that was with Abel, to the same God. Hallelujah. That was with Noah, to the same God that appeared to Abraham, that appeared to Noah, that appeared to Isaac, that appeared to Jacob, to the same God. Hallelujah.
[01:06:55] Now he requires a specific, a different kind of sacrifice from us because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He now requires a specific sacrifice from us.
[01:07:05] And it is revealed here in the word of God. Okay, First Peter.
[01:07:11] First Peter. Okay, let me. Because some of you are still. Do you understand? Some of you, you are still.
[01:07:17] You're still not convinced.
[01:07:19] But there is so much historical evidence in your face that this God and father of the Lord Jesus Christ is not an ordinary God.
[01:07:37] There is so much evidence, and you know it.
[01:07:44] Historical evidence.
[01:07:48] Let me read in the ISV, First Corinthians, chapter 10, from verse I read from verse 19, am I suggesting that an offering made to idols. So when you go to the village and sacrifice and they say, yeah, the God of our. Of our family, this is what he's referring to. Yeah, this is the God. This is our totem. We sacrifice to that totem.
[01:08:14] The word of God says it's a demon you are sacrificing. You're not sacrificing it to God. You're sacrificing it to a demon.
[01:08:24] That one that you're calling your God is actually a demon according to the Scriptures, okay, it says 1 Corinthians, chapter 10, from verse 19 ISV. Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything or that an idol itself means Anything? Verse 20. Hardly what they offer, they offer to demons and not to God.
[01:08:46] And I do not want you to become partners with demons.
[01:08:53] Says you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. So he was telling the people the Corinthian church here that you know, you are now Christians, okay? You cannot go and participate in these traditional customs of sacrifice anymore. Now you are now a Christian brother. You are now a Christian African brother. You are now a Christian.
[01:09:16] You are now a Christian.
[01:09:20] The Apostle Paul in the scriptures here, he was admonishing the Corinthian church that you can no longer participate in those traditions and customs anymore.
[01:09:32] Because those traditions and customs are sacrifice. They are offerings to demons.
[01:09:38] He says, and I don't want you, Christian brother, to be partners, to be in fellowship, to invite, to invoke, to summon demons into your life, because that is what it does.
[01:09:53] Then it says, you cannot drink the cup of the Lord.
[01:09:58] And the cup of demons says, you cannot dine with the Lord and dine with demons. He calls it dining with demons.
[01:10:09] But Jesus Christ is the end. Hallelujah. Jesus Christ is the end of any sacrifice, of all sacrifices.
[01:10:16] Jesus Christ is the end. Hallelujah.
[01:10:19] Oh, glory.
[01:10:21] Oh, glory to God. First Peter. Let me go to First Peter in closing.
[01:10:35] First Peter, chapter two says, as new as newborn babes, okay, now he's talking about those that have come into Christ. When you go to chapter one there, he talks about being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which lives and abides forever. And then here in chapter two, it says, as newborn babes says, desire the sincere milk of the Word that you may grow thereby. That's in verse two, okay?
[01:11:06] Says, if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious, says, to whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God. And precious says, you are chosen of God and precious.
[01:11:18] Hi. You're chosen of God and precious says you also, as lively stones says, I built up a spiritual house.
[01:11:26] You have been built up a spiritual house. You no longer have to go and offer any sacrifices anymore. You no longer have to offer sacrifices to your auntie, to your uncle. You don't have to offer any sacrifices at your village, for whatever says you are now built up.
[01:11:40] It says, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which lives and abides forever as newborn bathed desire the pure milk of the Word that you may grow thereby. And then it says, you also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices.
[01:11:59] To offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. When you jump to verse nine. And then he says, but you are a chosen generation, a Royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Hey, we'll pick up from there and we'll get into spiritual sacrifices.
[01:12:25] We'll get into these spiritual sacrifices. I touched on one of them earlier. Okay.
[01:12:31] I touched on one of them earlier. And we'll get into more details of these spiritual sacrifices so that you can begin to build your own personal altar and.
[01:12:38] Okay, but I've, you know, when I was, when I went into personal altars, like with the first episode and everything, you know, I knew that there was a lot of people that had no idea how this had to. Anything to do with their lives, including some, some Christians. Some Christians would have quoted. Some Christians could have caught it, you know, But a lot of them just, they don't know the implications.
[01:13:06] What is an altar? What is the purpose of an altar? So we looked into that today, the purpose of the altar, why they were sacrificing on those altars.
[01:13:16] And when you are now sacrificing and offering sacrifices, and it's not to God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The word of God tells us that you're making those sacrifices to demonic spirits.
[01:13:34] And he says that you are now inviting, inviting demons to be a part of your life.
[01:13:41] But by the sacrifice of his son, Jesus Christ, now through his blood, through the blood of Jesus Christ, we can now have God in our lives. That's how we now have the supreme being God, the Creator, the supreme creator of the world to be involved in our lives. Through the blood of Jesus Christ. You don't need to make another sacrifice again. You don't need to go to the village and sacrifice things again. You don't need that.
[01:14:11] Jesus Christ is the greatest sacrifice that was ever made.
[01:14:15] And you know what? It is God Almighty that made the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for you and for me.
[01:14:23] And you just have to, to accept, accept him into your life.
[01:14:27] And then you just walk away. Walk away.
[01:14:31] Walk away.
[01:14:33] Walk away from those sacrifices. Walk away from that life.
[01:14:37] Walk away from those altars at the village. Walk away and come to have a relationship and fellowship with God. And then you can build your own personal altar. You can build your own personal altar where you can make sacrifices and you give offerings unto God.
[01:14:59] Sacrifices and you make offerings unto the God that created the universe, the maker of the universe, the creator of the universe, the Creator of heaven and earth, the one that made everything visible and invisible. That is the one that you want to be making sacrifices to and from these scriptures, he showed us how to do it. How to make those spiritual sacrifices. Sacrifices that are to him and not to demons. And we'll get into that. We'll get into that in the next episode. My name is Shingi. I love you. I trust that you learned something. And remember that this is your time, Sam.
