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Bishop Jakes - The Mystery of the Red Heifer

(KJV) Numbers 19:1-6, 10-12

I will not make you unclean and not give you provision to get clean again.

God says save the red heifer for him (rare)

Rarity suggests value- if you want to cheapen something, let it become common (even you)

I'm going to give you the answer before you ask the question.

The heifer was brought to the priest- Jesus was brought to the priest.

God protected him from being murdered because he was meant to be offered up; not murdered. Christ had to be examined.

"I've found no fault with his man"- Pilott cleared him but could not sacrifice him because he was a Roman.

The high priest nodded his head and he cross went from execution to sacrifice.

The red heifer was to be burnt- sin offering. The heifer had to carry the cedar to the sacrifice- Christ had to carry the cross.

The soldier brought him the hyssop. His robe was red (scarlet).

No one can stop you from getting to Christ.

He died outside of the camp. He died outside of the system. Your God is nit locked up in a booth- He will come to where you are. If you repent, He will come where you are.

Think outside the box.

You have a God that works outside the box.

Get outside the box an do something different for God in your life.

The oddity of the red heifer is not in it's life, it's in its death. It's in its ashes. The body changed forms.

At the Last Supper, they think they are sitting with the body, but he breaks bread and says eat.

The red heifer is more powerful in it's death than it is in its life.

I am going to do a new thing in your life.

When the fire stops, gather the ashes.

Anyone would have thought that the value was in the heifer- not the ashes.

What is better about something that has been through the fire than something that has not?

There is something that you learn in the fire that you cannot get another way.

You can't know the power of the resurrection without knowing the power of the cross.

Firey folk aren't always the ones shouting the most.

We are a generation who only see the value in the things that they lost.

Your miracle is in the ashes. Your

Miracle is in what you have left when the fire is over.

God never performs miracles with what you lose.

Are you always looking back at what you lost or looking forward at what you have left.

Looking back- a priest touching a corpse. The reason your prayers aren't being answered is because roughage defiled yourself b touching dead things.

The dead things in your life are killing you. As a priest unto God, you are forbidden from gouging that which is over. Let the dead bury the dead.

You are a priest. You are supposed to live above dead things. You ate a living thing. A glorious thing. A moving thing.

Anytime that you hear a hung is dead, make a sudden change.

You're going to touch a dead thing every now and then- that's why he said take the ashes...

You have a habit of cleaving to dead things

The Red Heifer sanctifies you.