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ASI Southern Union

John Bradshaw

The Savior and the Sanctuary

The year was 1985 and an event would take place, or even perhaps a series of events, that would have a major impact on the United States of America.

Not an election, not a sporting event, not a death, not a natural disaster.

No, the way things played out, some people would tell you this was even more important than that.

In the mid-1980s, Pepsi-Cola had begun to sell more product in supermarkets than Coca-Cola.

In an effort to win back market share, Coke executives decided to do something absolutely radical.

In taste tests, it was revealed that people appreciated more, preferred Pepsi because it was sweeter.

And so Coca-Cola decided to produce a new sweeter version of their drink and they stopped selling the regular Coca-Cola.

To start with sales went fairly well but over a period of time, actually a relatively brief period of time, all that changed.

A psychiatrist hired by Coca-Cola said that many people who called the Coke company about the demise of the old Coke and the introduction of the new Coke sounded much like they had lost a family member.

It was as though they were discussing a death.

Talk show hosts and comedians derided this new Coke.

Fans at sports games would boo when ads for Coca-Cola showed up on scoreboards.

Down here in the south, bottles were emptied in the streets and Coke bottlers said that some of their friends had stopped talking to them and that they were being emotionally harmed by the change in the drink.

When it was announced less than 3 months later that the new Coke would disappear and the old Coke would come back, Peter Jennings, the newsreader, interrupted the nightly news to make that special announcement.

1 senator called the reintroduction of old Coke a meaningful moment in US history.

77 days after being taken off the market, classic Coke was reintroduced.

In other words, 1 of the most venerable and venerated companies in these United States tried something after much testing, after much research, and what they did was a colossal monumental categorical failure.

There are all kinds of failures if you can attempt it then you can fail at it.

I read about a kicker for a college football team.

He had 2 opportunities, I believe an extra time to kick the match winning, the game winning field goal.

It would have meant glory for his university and certainly an amount for him.

We've all failed, never feels good, but we have failed.

You bake bread, the bread didn't turn out, that's a failure.

But maybe you needed that bread or that cake for a birthday party so the stakes were actually kind of high.

You tried to fix the car, you said I'll save some money, you didn't get the job done, might have even made things worse.

Failed to find the perfect gift, forgotten an anniversary or a birthday, not completed a project, you were gonna make a dress or a bookcase or you were gonna make a model airplane or complete an assignment, didn't happen on time, had a relationship go bad, failed an exam, just didn't get everything done that you wanted to get done on a certain day and that's not a good feeling.

Failure can leave you feeling miserable or hypocritical or useless or it can leave you feeling like a failure.

There are some failures we experience that bring with them much greater consequences than others.

You can't get that stain out of your child's clothing.

But in your spiritual life, what happens then?

The Bible says that all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God sin according to Isaiah Separates us from God and Paul wrote to the Romans and informed them and us that the wages of sin is death.

You lose it with the kids, you're less than honest, you're not kind to your spouse, you don't feel good about that, You waste money that you know was really earmarked for something more meaningful and that's not good.

But when it comes to spiritual failure that can be crushing.

That can suck the spiritual life right out of you.

You tell yourself, it doesn't really matter how I keep the Sabbath as long as I meet some bare minimum requirement, but there are very few people who actually believe that.

It doesn't feel good to know that you've let God down or perhaps let yourself down.

You might've thought at the time that your flirting was harmless, but really upon reflection, or maybe even then, you knew that it wasn't.

And when you realized that you were out of line, you felt slimy, you felt like a failure.

We've done wrong spiritually, it gets to us because we were raised, we've read the Bible, all of this leads us to believe that there is a right way, and when you don't go that right way, it's okay, your business doesn't take off, you have a slow year, the practice isn't working out quite right, you set some goals, you didn't meet them, all right.

But spiritually, when you know you're not, and I'm gonna use this phrase measuring up, when you know your profession is 1 thing, but the way things are playing out in your life, it's another altogether.

It's just as well that God has a remedy for spiritual failure.

And he spoke about that to us when the angel spoke to Daniel in Daniel 8.14 and said, will be cleansed.

A remedy for failure in Daniel chapter 8, unto 2, 300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Daniel knew what the cleansing of the sanctuary was.

He knew that was judgment day, the day of atonement.

Judgment day, believers came before God and they made sure that they had confessed their sins and put them away and the sacrifices had been offered.

They knew because they had confessed their sins throughout the year that now their sins were blotted out.

The record of sin was blotted out and they were at 1 with God, the atonement, the atonement.

Daniel 8, 14, you know, speaks about a judgment that's going to take place, and we understand that this will be at the time of the end, somewhere down here near the end of time in the grand scheme of things.

And when the angel explained to Daniel that this time period of 2, 300 days would begin with a decree and in 2, 300 years later he was shining a light on our pathway.

Daniel was told that he could know when this judgment would begin.

It would begin when the command would go forward to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.

From then to Messiah the Prince would be so long.

69 weeks, 483 years, and there was a decree and we know where it is found and it's too bad that we don't read books like Ezra a little bit more.

In Ezra chapter 7, there's a passage where that decree to both restore and rebuild Jerusalem is found.

And when 1 does the math, 1 finds out readily that judgment would begin in the year 1844.

And it troubles some people because as we meet here tonight, it's now 2019.

It's getting on towards 200 years since that judgment began.

But I would tell you this, we need not be troubled.

You don't want to look at the calendar of time and say 1844, God must have forgotten about us.

1844, God must have fallen asleep on his throne.

Judgment began in 1844, and here we are, this much closer to the return of Jesus Christ.

Here we are, reminded by God, because there is a judgment taking place in heaven, that God has said to us through the prophet Amos, prepare to meet thy God.

Jesus said in Matthew chapter 24, be ye also ready.

It's important that we are, because 1 day gravity is gonna lose power over the souls of the feet of the saved, and they are going up.

But there'll be another group of people, the larger group, upon whom gravity still holds power.

We know that they'd come to the sanctuary with a lamb.

Priest would take the blood of the Lamb, now sin-laden blood inside the sanctuary.

When the sinner confessed over the Lamb his sin, her sin was, well it was a him doing this sacrificing, the sins of the people were transferred to the Lamb.

The blood was taken into the sanctuary, the sin was taken into the sanctuary.

So notice that at the sanctuary, the people were separated not from their God but from their sins.

God speaking to us and saying he wants there to be a separation that takes place telling us that through the Lamb there may be there must be it is inevitable that through Jesus there be a separation not between us and God but between us and our sins through Christ we may be freed from our sins.

Book of Romans speaks so much about justification, being at 1 with God.

The Book of Romans speaks about being separated from sin, being dead to sin, and being raised up by God to walk in newness of life.

This is what the book of Romans speaks to us about.

Paul cried out and he said, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

And then he said, I thank God through Jesus Christ, my Lord.

The Savior and the Sanctuary

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