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  Hebrews chapter 13. Let us pray, our Father, who is
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  in heaven, holy is your name, your Kingdom come, and your will
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  be done here on this earth, just as it is there in heaven.
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  Give us this day Our Daily Bread, and forgive us for our
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  many sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
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  Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
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  For yours is the power and the Kingdom and the glory, forever
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  and ever and ever in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name,
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  I pray, Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Let brotherly love continue. So here the writer of Hebrews,
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  he's expecting that the brotherly love is going to
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  continue this phileo love, friends, he is in expectation of
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  it because this is seeming of a person who calls themself A
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  believer. The love of Christ indwells us,
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  friends. When you finally realize just
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  how much you have been forgiven. When you finally realize your
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  position in Christ Jesus. When you finally realize, no
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  matter death or disease, no matter if we have tragedy or
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  bankruptcy, no job loss, loss of limb, loss of a child, when we
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  finally see it in the full of what is ours and what is
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  available to us in Christ Jesus, there is no reason for us to be
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  bitter. There is no reason for us to
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  have strife. There is no reason for us to
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  have resentment and anger and unforgiveness.
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  Friends, in the light of His glory, there is nothing but
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  gladness and joy. There are a lot of things that
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  plague us here on this earth. There are so many things that
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  could go wrong and we air whenever we focus and hyper
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  fixate upon those things instead of upon Christ's face, His
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  beautiful, majestic face. And when you finally get to the
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  place where you realize your inheritance and everything else
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  fades away. And the most important thing
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  that you could ever do is to make sure that you are in
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  Christ. And to make sure every single
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  person that you come across, your spouse, your children, your
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  friends, your family, your coworkers, your constituents,
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  all of your fellow citizens in the population of the world, it
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  is to make sure that they know where they're going to spend
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  eternity. That is the mandate that is
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  placed on every single blood bought, born again believer
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  friends. And when you finally live in the
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  light as he is in the light and darkness does not dwell there,
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  then you will have this brotherly love, this Koinonia,
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  this one anothering one another, the fellowship that is so
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  pleasing to a holy God. Verse 2 Be not forgetful to
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  entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels
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  unaware. Can you even imagine that there
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  are times in your life, even today, as you go about your
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  business, your daily routine, friends, you're going to rub
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  shoulders against an Angel? Angelic beings in human form,
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  these strangers that come and go just as fast.
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  What an idea how this changes our entire view of the world
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  around us. And whenever we are too pious,
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  and whenever we are judgmental, and whenever we disallow people
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  to be in the congregation because of the way that they
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  look or the way that they smell, friends, we have sometimes sent
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  angels on their way. And what a mark against those
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  who are supposed to be lovers of God, those who are supposed to
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  have the mind of Christ. And if you truly understood
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  God's heart, you would understand that He sends angels
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  into our camp and you would know that when they are amongst you,
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  they are reporting back to God Almighty the things that you are
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  saying and doing. What a thought.
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  This should change everything. This should change the way that
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  we view people that we come across every single day.
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  Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in
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  by doing so, some have entertained angels along the
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  way. Verse 3 Remember them that are
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  in bonds as bound with them, and them which suffer adversity as
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  being yourselves also in the body.
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  Here Paul wants the Hebrews. And by the way, the Hebrews here
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  the word Hebrew means those that have crossed over.
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  And that should be our mark as well.
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  That should be our identity. We have crossed over from sin to
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  life. We have crossed over from
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  bondage into freedom, friends. And here Paul is wanting, or the
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  writer of Hebrews is wanting to remind his readers that they
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  should not forget those that are in prison.
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  As Paul was accustomed to being in prison many times and
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  persecuted with affliction for the faith, he stirred up the
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  readers in the remembrance of showing hospitality to even
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  those that are wrongfully incarcerated.
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  And if you are imprisoned for doing wrong, there is no reward
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  in that. But when you are imprisoned for
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  doing the right thing, count it all as joy, for marriage is
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  honorable in all and the bed undefiled.
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  But whore mongers and adulterers?
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  God will judge. Think about it for a second,
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  friends. God instituted marriage, and God
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  is the only one that can put two people together.
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  That is not the government's job.
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  That is not an official's job. That is not a judge's job is to
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  put two people together. That is God's holy institution.
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  And you can see here that it is God only who can make the
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  marriage bed. Holy friends, and that does not
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  just give us permission to do all kinds of disgusting things
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  within the marriage bed. That does not what this text is
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  talking about, but it is holy and it is honorable when 2
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  become one and God is in that moment and we need to invite God
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  into the marriage bed, friends and that is a foreign idea to
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  most people and that is the devil's playground.
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  Friends is whenever we keep God on the other side of the door
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  while we engage in sexual activity, we need to invite God
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  into that space, friends. He sees everything and
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  everything is naked and bare before His eyes.
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  Pray with your spouse. And this is a call for those who
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  are cohabitating, those who are just playing house, those that
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  refuse to get married. This is a call for them to leave
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  their fornication, to leave their lifestyle of debaucherous
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  living. God desires for you to be
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  married to your partner and not just to play house and live
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  together. Friends Five, let your
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  conversation be without covetousness and be content with
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  such things as you have. For He has said I will never
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  leave you nor forsake you. You need to understand that we
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  don't need more money, we need more contentment.
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  So many of us think that if we could just get to another level
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  of earning we would be satisfied and it never works that way.
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  It is contentment friends. When God finally unlocks that in
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  your life, when you finally step into the reality that God is the
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  provider, He puts the OR in the earth that we value our currency
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  off of. He is the one that put the
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  digital threads throughout all of this creation so that we can
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  have digital currency friends and it is God Almighty who
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  instituted every single thing all around us.
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  He put it all in to the fabric of this existence in this world
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  and the universe at large. Friends and everything hangs on
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  His word. And if God is for us, who can be
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  against us? Friends.
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  And he told us with food and clothing to be content, friends.
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  And you can see that He's never going to leave us.
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  He's never going to forsake us. He knows how to give good gifts
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  and perfect timing. And we need to trust Him
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  whenever we perceive lack. There is no lack in the Father's
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  house. It is only a lesson for us to
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  work on our contentment, friends.
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  And that is the call for us who are consumers, for all of us who
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  just want more and more and more and we're not satisfied with
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  what we have and we're not taking care of what we have.
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  Friends, God wants to work on your contentment.
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  And you say that you need a new car, but you don't.
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  You just need to take care of the car that God has given you.
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  You say that you need a new pair of shoes, but you do not.
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  You just need to take care of the shoes that God has given
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  you. Friends and with food and
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  clothing, be content. Godliness with contentment is of
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  great gain, and we should not suppose that gain equals
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  godliness. It does not work that way. 6 So
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  that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not
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  fear what man shall do unto me. Do not fear the one that can
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  kill the body, but fear the one that could kill the body and
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  cast your soul into hell. And that is what you need to
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  understand is that God is fighting our battles.
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  We are more than conquerors, we are the peacemakers.
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  Friends, God goes before us. He's our rearguard and our right
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  guard. Friends, He's our left guard.
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  He is our light and we push towards him and we do not fear
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  what man can do to us. Let fear of man fall off of you
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  today. Break off fear of man friends,
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  it is not from God. Fear and faith never cohabitate.
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  7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken
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  unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the
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  end of their conversation. So this is what he wants us to
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  know. The writer of Hebrews here is
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  telling us that those that have been put in authority over us to
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  speak the truth in love whenever they are speaking the word of
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  God, we obey the word of God, friends in in By doing so we
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  will obey those that are in authority over us.
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  This is not a blanket statement to just go along with any person
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  who propagates false teaching, and this is a call for wisdom.
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  Hate Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.
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  He is immutable friends, you can not wear him out.
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  You can never exhaust Jesus Christ.
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  It only gets better with time. And you can see here that Jesus
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  Christ never changes. He said what He means and He
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  means what He says. And we don't need to try to
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  subtract anything from the Word of God or to add anything to the
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  Word of God. It is finished to tell us die
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  paid in full, friends. And from Genesis to Revelation,
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  there is no error and there is no fault.
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  It is congruent from beginning to end.
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  And if, if we will build our entire life on the chief
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  cornerstone, Jesus Christ, we will never be put to shame. 9 Be
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  not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines, for it is
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  good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with
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  meats which have no profited them that have been occupied
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  therein. So he's saying, don't worry
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  about this strict dietary law, don't worry about festivals and
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  new moons and all of these days of observance.
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  It is grace, friends, and it is grace through faith that we are
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  saved by. And He's warning us not to just
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  go along with all of these false teachings, all of these false
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  prophets, all of these strange doctrines, this strange fire.
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  Friends, we do not need to just go along with it because they
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  sprinkle Jesus's name in it, because they sprinkle God's name
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  in it, because they sprinkle the Holy Spirit into their speech
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  and conversation and they twist the words just like Satan did
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  all the way back in the garden. Friends, we don't need to be
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  carried away. We don't need to be so gullible
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  and this is a call to be like the Bereans, to actually search
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  the scriptures for ourselves to make sure that what is being
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  taught lines up with the Holy Scriptures.
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  Friends, that is the call. That is the mandate that has
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  been placed on our lives. Do not just wait around and be
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  spoon fed. Don't just get your doctrine in
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  theology by what feels good or what is being given to you by
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  short videos and sound bites. Friends.
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  Actually get into to the Word of God.
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  Actually fall in love with the Word of God.
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  Let the Word of God be your worldview, friends.
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  You'll never be put to shame. 10 We have an altar whereof they
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  have no right to eat, which serve the Tabernacle.
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  You are the temple of God, friends.
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  And he instituted the Holy Supper, He instituted the
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  breaking of bread, He instituted the drinking of the wine,
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  friends, in remembrance of what he did on that cross for us.
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  And they have no right to partake in that.
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  The word of God is clear that if anyone takes of communion of the
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  Lord's Supper and they do it in a way that they have not went in
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  checked themselves, then they have brought about all kinds of
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  disease upon themselves. They have no right to take the
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  communion friends of the remembrance of the broken body
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  of Jesus Christ and the spilled out blood for you and for me and
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  it is not something that we just approach haphazardly.
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  This is something that is in reverence as we take of the
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  Lord's Supper. 11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is
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  brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are
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  burned outside the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he
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  might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside
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  the gate. He's talking about the day that
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  Jesus Christ was crucified at Golgotha, friends, you can see
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  that they led him out of Jerusalem and it was just like
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  all of the beast for the Day of Atonement had to be slaughtered
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  outside of the the temple. And then the blood brought in.
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  And that is what the writer to the Hebrews is referencing, is
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  that Jesus Christ lines up perfectly with the atonement for
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  sin. His perfect spotless blood, the
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  only one that was found worthy to open the scroll, the land
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  that was slain before the foundations of the earth.
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  And it pleased God to crush him. 13 Let us go forth therefore
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  unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
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  Do not be surprised whenever you have to bear the reproach of
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  Jesus Christ. He says, If they hate you,
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  remember that they hated me first.
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  If they persecute you, remember that they persecuted me first.
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  We don't need to be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 14
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  For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
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  We seek new Jerusalem, friends, the city of God that will come
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  down out of heaven and touch literal planet earth.
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  And he is going to make sure that the gates are never shut.
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  He's going to make sure that there is no unclean evil inside
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  of that city. And we will be there with him,
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  and he will be with us forever more. 15 By him, therefore, let
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  us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.
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  That is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
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  So you can see that God desires for us to enter the gates with
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  praise and Thanksgiving. Far be it from us to be those
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  that withhold conversation from a loving God who desires our
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  communication. He desires for us to dialogue
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  with Him, friends, and sometimes we go through a lot of hardships
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  because He is increasing the communication between Him and
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  you. You should start that when the
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  chips are high. You should start that when
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  things are good. You don't need to wait for
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  tragedy. You don't need to wait, friends,
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  for persecution and tribulation to come before you start
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  speaking to ABBA 16 but to do good and to communicate.
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  Forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
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  These are sacrifices friends. Doing good and communicating to
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  God is a sacrifice that is pleasing unto Him.
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  Our prayers are like incense to His nostrils.
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  Friends, the prayers of the Saints is what God desires and
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  you must know that the prayers of a righteous man availeth
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  much. We do not need to be those that
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  hold back on our prayers. If you could understand what
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  your prayer does in the spiritual realm, you would pray
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  a lot more. 17 Obey them that have the rule over you.
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  Submit yourselves for they. Watch for your souls as they
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  that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with
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  grief, for that is unprofitable to you.
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  So you need to understand that God puts people in your life to
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  disciple you. And discipline never feels good
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  in the moment, but it produces the character that God is after
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  for all of eternity as He sanctifies you forever and ever.
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  And when your sanctification is complete, job well done, good
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  and faithful servant, you will be ushered into the presence of
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  God. And he's telling us that when
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  you have someone who is truly teaching God's Word, we don't
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  need to be those that backbite and gossip and slander.
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  We do not need to be those that try to break them down when
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  they're doing God's work. And you need to know that those
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  that step in to the arena of teaching the Word of God will be
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  judged on a more strict basis. 18 Pray for us, for we trust we
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  have a good conscience and all things willing to live honestly.
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  So he is admonishing the readers of the book of Hebrews to
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  continue in their prayer, and he knows that the prayer is
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  effectual for so many of the breakthroughs that he has
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  experienced in his ministry. Friends, that is the power of
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  prayer. You need to understand that the
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  prayer life of a St. is so precious to a holy God.
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  You need to understand that it unlocks the angelic host and it
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  sends them on mission. Friends, it unlocks prison
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  doors. Friends, it cures diseases.
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  Friends, it sets the captive free.
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  Friends, increase your prayer life. 19 But I beg you the
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  rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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  So he's telling us to live honestly and to increase our
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  prayer life. And by doing so he would be
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  restored to them. It would release him from prison
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  to come to them sooner. 20 Now the God of peace that brought
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  again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of
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  the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.
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  So God has put us into the dispensation, the age of grace.
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  Friends, this is holy and this is pleasing to God, and this is
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  everlasting, friends. And you need to know that we are
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  a royal priesthood and we will rule and reign with him,
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  friends, for 1000 years. And you need to understand that
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  God is peace, and if we have a relationship with God, we will
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  experience the peace and that He is able to raise us from the
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  dead in the same way that He brought Jesus Christ back and
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  resurrected him. 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do
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  his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his
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  sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever,
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  Amen. So he is making us perfect.
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  Friends, This is the process of sanctification.
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  And there are sometimes that the good die young, and it is
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  because God was done with the sanctification process of that
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  person. 22 And I beg you, brothers, suffer the word of
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  exhortation, for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
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  He calls these 13 chapters in the book of Hebrews few words.
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  I have to imagine that the writer of Hebrews had much more
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  to say, but he's telling them to go ahead and start eating the
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  steak dinner. This exhortation to them to do
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  good and to continue on in the will of God for their lives. 23
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  know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with
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  whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
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  So Paul here or the writer of Hebrews here is mentioning this
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  Timothy that we've seen many times throughout the New
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  Testament. And he's referenced here at the
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  end of the book of Hebrews, which tells us that this is
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  probably Paul writing, and he's saying that Timothy has been set
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  free and that if Timothy will come to them, it will be as if
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  Paul is coming to them also. 24 Salute all them that have the
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  rule over you and all the Saints, they of Italy salute you
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  time after time after time after time.
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  In this one chapter you see Paul referencing them that have the
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  rule over you. This seems to be a theme of this
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  chapter. And what you need to understand
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  is that this 13th chapter of the book of Hebrews is a love
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  chapter. And you need to know that the
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  12th chapter was the faith or the IT was the hope chapter.
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  And then we saw in the 11th chapter it was all about faith.
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  So you have in 11-12 and 13 faith, hope and love.
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  What an amazing thought. And you can see here at the very
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  end, Paul is or the writer of Hebrews is intertwining all of
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  it together and he's talking about those that have the rule
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  over you. And he is letting you know that
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  we have to respect those that God has been has put in
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  authority over us. We do not need to be those that
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  try to find fault all the time and try to stir the pot all the
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  time and try to rally the troops against somebody that is not the
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  heart of God. We'll end on 25.
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  Grace be with you all. Amen.
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  How amazing is our God that He could inspire the writer of
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  Hebrews to give us all of these eternal words, friends, that we
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  can sit and meditate upon for a lifetime.
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  This entire book of the of Hebrews has been a wonderful
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  discourse where we can go back and we can look at each little
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  highlight and we can see so much theology being unraveled that we
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  can view the rest of Scripture off of.
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  And we are eternally blessed by the inspiration of the Holy
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  Spirit to speak and to have it pinned down and preserved for
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  our edification. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.