A PRIEST WITH URIM AND THUMMIM
November 26, 2000 pm
MF BLUME
Exodus 28:29-30 And Aaron shall
bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment
upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial
before the LORD continually. And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment
the
Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when
he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children
of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
Ezra 2:61-63 And of the children of the
priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of
Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite,
and was called after their name: These sought their register among
those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore
were
they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. And the Tirshatha said
unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things,
till
there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
After coming from Babylonian captivity, among the people of Israel
were priests who were called of God to minister and to go into the holy
place and eat most holy things.
Exodus 40:9-10 And thou shalt take
the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein,
and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels,
and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
But when Israel came from Babylon, confusion, the people who knew they
were priests did not have a genealogy to prove it.
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They were considered as polluted.
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They were not actually polluted, but were considered as polluted.
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So they were not allowed to eat of the most holy things.
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We find that the most holy things were only to be eaten by people who were
clean.
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Leviticus 22 says that the unclean person who is not fit in God’s sight
cannot enter the holy place and eat the most holy things for penalty of
being cut off from the Lord.
So many people today who are born again, and are therefore priests unto
God feel that they are unclean and polluted.
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In their minds they are polluted.
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The reality of it is that they are cleaned and as clean as can be by the
blood of the lamb.
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They are in Christ.
Babylon is confusion.
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Jerusalem means PEACE.
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What a contrast!
When you come out of confusion and enter into peace, there are going to
be some changes occur, and life is going to be lived differently for the
better.
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Confusion today is found in all the religions of the world.
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All the traditions of mankind with its superstitions.
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And not only that but all the churches and all the christian denominations
are enough to confuse anybody.
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And amidst all the confusion, people have been trained to think of themselves
as awful.
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The overbearing people have put intimidation into people’s hearts.
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People live in fear.
Ezra said that the priests would be considered as unclean and polluted
UNTIL a priest stand up with urim and thummim.
URIM AND THUMMIM means LIGHTS AND PERFECTION.
We are all priests if we are new creatures in Christ.
Revelation 1:5-6 And from Jesus
Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten
of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved
us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings
and priests unto God and his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for
ever and ever. Amen.
Among us priests is rising up some priests with urim and thummim.
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Pray for the preachers and pastors and prophets of our day.
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Pray God use them to minister these things.
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Among us is rising up a priesthood with urim and thummim.
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A priesthood with a ministry that gives light as to the perfection that
we have in Jesus Christ.
LIGHT AND PERFECTION.
There is a ministry today of preaching the full glory of the gospel
and showing people who they are in Christ Jesus.
The people of God are afraid to enjoy the most holy things that is their’s
because due to the confusion many of them have come from they are as polluted
in their minds.
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There is that overbearing thought that they are not good enough for God.
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They cannot shout His praises nor raise their hands because they think
they are not good enough.
And God’s Spirit led ministry is preaching and preaching who we are in
Christ.
There is so much preaching that is off the issue today.
When I studied this morning’s message concerning the first curse-free
birth, I referred to how Isaiah 6:7-8 says that an unprecedented event
occurred.
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A woman brought forth a child in one day before her pain came and before
her travail occurred.
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She no sooner was travailing when her child was born.
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Who heard such a thing?
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And in verse 8 of my Amplified Bible a footnote was referred to which said
this:
“Never in the history of the world had such a thing happened before,
but God keeps His word. As definitely foretold here and in Ezekiel
37:21-22 and 38:10-11, Israel became a recognized nation, actually ‘born
in a day.’ After being away from their homeland for almost 2000 years,
the Jews were given a national homeland in Palestine by the Balfour declaration
in November 1917. In 1922 the league of nations gave great britain
the mandate over Palestine. On May 14, 1948, Great Britain withdrew her
mandate, and immediately Israel was declared a sovereign state, and her
growth and importance among nations became astonishing.”
What concerned me about this note was that nothing was thought about
concerning the Church!
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In Gal. 4:26 Paul wrote that Jerusalem which is above is free, and the
mother of us all.’
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This is the church.
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1 Peter 2:9 says that the church is a holy nation.
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And Isaiah’s 66's reference to a nation being born in one day, and Jerusalem
mothering so suddenly and birthing so many children obviously referring
to the Church, is ignored by these folks.
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The nation was the people of God born in one day!
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The day of Pentecost.
Even if there is a dual prophecy to be seen of natural Israel and spiritual
Israel, the Church, why is nothing said about spiritual Israel, by far
the greater and more important issue?
And we can get so confused and off the main subject.
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If Natural Israel’s birth is a concern with God it is not so much a concern
as is the CHURCH!
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Nothing is as dear to God’s heart as those born of His Spirit!
But a ministry is occurring in which the main things are being taught and
the main things are being stressed.
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The things of the Spirit.
This priesthood has urim and thummim.
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It ministers light of your perfection in Christ.
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It clears away the clutter of confusion.
Every born again believer is a new creature in Christ.
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But our pasts and our memories cloud up the issue.
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In our minds we are still like we were polluted.
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No matter what the truth of the Bible says, if we have not been taught
the truths of the Bible, then we are in confusion concerning our positions.
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We will think we are polluted, and in our minds we are.
In Christ we are perfect so far as our pleasing God is concerned.
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We need the light of the revelation of what died with Jesus when we died
with Him.
One man asked me a question, who has been studying this truth for sometime
on our website, “What exactly died with me when I died with Jesus?”
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I related to him that mankind was supposed to die because sin came into
the world.
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one
man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon
all men, for that all have sinned:
All of us will die one day due to sin.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth,
it shall die
If we had never served God, and we grew old and died, the penalty would
have been paid.
That is the reason Jesus Christ died on the cross.
So that we could take His death and say we already died.
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Sin cannot rule over us any more because we paid its price.
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In order for God to look at us as having already died when we died with
Jesus on the cross, IT MEANS THAT AS FAR AS GOD IS CONCERNED, EVERY BIT
OF US DIED AND WAS BURIED.
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As much as naturally dying and being buried forever to be left in the earth,
as our loved ones walk away from our graves to see us no more, THAT IS
WHAT HAPPENED TO US WHEN WE DIED WITH CHRIST.
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What died?
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EVERYTHING ABOUT US DIED!
Though the world cannot see a different face on you than the one you had
as a sinner...
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Though your voice still sounds the same...
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Though you still have memories of that old person you used to be...
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2 Corinthians 5:17 says that if we are in Christ Jesus then we are new
creatures!
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OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY AND ALL HAS BECOME NEW.
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DOES ALL STILL MEAN ALL AROUND HERE?
In God’s eyes, we died and are new creatures.
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But since its so easy for the world to think you are still the same person,
because your face is the same and the voice is the same, etc., our untrained
minds ignorant of the teachings of the Bible will make us think the same
way.
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We will think we are still unclean.
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Though we are actually cleansed and are new creatures and a priesthood
fit to eat the most holy things, WE ARE AS POLLUTED IN OUR MINDS.
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And as a man so thinks in heart that is the way he truly is to him!
ANOTHER TRANSLATION READS ROMANS 12:2 AS FOLLOWS:
Stop assuming an outward expression that does
not come from within you and is not representative of what you are in your
inner being and patterned after this age. But change your outward
expression to the one that comes from within and is representative of your
being by the renewing of your mind.
This brother called me from Tennessee Thursday night after bible study
here at the church and thanked me again and again for these studies I have
on the internet.
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It revolutionized his life.
Folks, this man had his thinking changed.
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Some ministry giving light as to his perfection in Christ so far as cutting
him off from the person he used to be is concerned, renewed his mind.
The real is deep inside you in your inner man.
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That genuinely changed.
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Don’t walk after the flesh, or go by what you see in the mirror.. The same
face you had before you were saved and the same voice and the same outward
appearance.
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That is what Paul meant by saying walking after the flesh.
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You will die if you do that.
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WALK AFTER THE SPIRIT.
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Live according to what the Bible says.
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If the Bible says you are a new creature then act like it!
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Live according to what you are in the inner man.
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Not by sight but by faith!
Our deep inner creaturehood must come out through into our minds and then
be expressed.
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You only act the way you think you are.
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But that is the problem.
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Our minds.
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If our minds are not informed as to what and who we are since we got saved,
then we are going to act the same way we did before we got saved.
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We will think WHY NOT GET DRUNK.... I AM STILL THE SAME AS I ALWAYS WAS.
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Wrong!
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You are a priest unto God.
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And this LIGHT of teaching you about WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST is going to
clear away the confusion and show you THAT YOU ARE A PRIEST.. YOU ARE FIT
TO EAT THE MOST HOLY THINGS.
We take communion and some will not take it.
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Are they born again?
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Yes.
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Then what is wrong with them?
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They do not eat of the most holy things.
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The bread is not literally most holy nor is the wine.
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But they represent the most holy BLOOD AND BODY OF JESUS.
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And they think they are not fit to eat it.
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Because they have no teaching.
In your minds you will be polluted because we are so accustomed to living
by what we see and what others see in us that when we are changed in our
spirits deep inside, we cannot tell, and with the devil saying SEE?
YOU STILL LOOK THE SAME AND YOU STILL ACT THE SAME.... then we believe
we are the same and nothing has changed.
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But to make yourself available for teaching and preaching and for the light
about your perfection in Jesus, is to renew your minds so that you can
learn that you really are a priest.
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You are fit to eat of the most holy things.
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Enjoy the things of the Lord.