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Hebrews Part 31 - Simply Christ Bible Study · Simply Christ Podcast

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Welcome to our Monday night webinar Bible Study, where we
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inspect God's Word and we let it transform our lives.
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For the next hour, like always, we're going to go through the
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of this Bible study as well. So tonight we are going to start
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in Hebrews chapter 10, and we are in verse 19.
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Last week we touched briefly at the end verse 19/20/21 and 22.
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That long sentence there. But we're going to revisit that
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just briefly before we keep rolling.
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Without further ado, though, I'd ask Dan Blatz to lead us in a
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prayer. Father, we are here in the name
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of Jesus. We want people to know you
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better. We ourselves want to understand
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and know you better. So we ask that you open up the
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Word to us. Help us to gain a little more
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insight into who you are and what you've done.
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And help us especially to be able to expound upon your
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beautiful words, to encourage people, to motivate people, and
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most of all, to persuade people of the truth of the gospel.
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We pray that you would be present and active in our hearts
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and in our lives as we speak tonight.
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And we pray that you would bring forth fruit from this
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conversation and this Bible study.
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We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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That's right. All righty.
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Chapter 10, Hebrews 10, verse 19.
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I'm going to read those 4 verses there.
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Having therefore, Brethren, boldness to enter into the
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holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he
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hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his
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flesh. And having a high Priest over
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the House of God, let us draw dear with a true heart in full
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assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
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conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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And I just wanted to comment a little bit on verse 22 to get us
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started. Then I'll toss it over to you,
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Dan. But to draw near with a true
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heart for one. But secondly, the fact that he
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talks about having that full assurance of faith and, you
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know, being able to be convinced of the fact that God is true and
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good and holy and righteous, and that we are called sons and we
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are reconciled totally to Him and we are a new creature.
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Our old man has passed away along with all its sins and all
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its tricks that it uses. And the more that we can know
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that, the more that we see that full assurance of faith, that
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confidence that we can actually stand in front of a just the
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holy God, if we can understand who we actually are, who God
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actually calls us as believers. So it's an interesting and
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powerful position that we hold with God through his Son Jesus.
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And so anyway, Dan, go ahead. Yeah, this this verse to me
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speaks a lot about obviously our position before God with Christ
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through Christ, but it tells us a lot about prayer, right?
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Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the
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holiest by the blood of Jesus. So we we picture ourselves
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entering into God's presence by the blood of Jesus, walking on
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the ground of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing
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that our way is paved by him. So not only does this give us
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confidence that we're saved, we have to have confidence that
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we're saved, but we should also be extremely confident that we
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are perfect in His sight or else we could never enter in with
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boldness that we can. We know that we are righteous in
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God's sight. And this is the kind of faith
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that very much honors God. And I think if I understand your
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guys's backgrounds correctly, this would fly in the face of
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all that our religious upbringing taught us is that you
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got to approach God very, very cautiously, very, you know,
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timidly, never with any kind of arrogance or obviously arrogance
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is a negative way of thinking about it.
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But he does say that we should enter boldly with confidence,
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knowing that there's a way consecrated for us, that through
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his, the veil that is his flesh, we have this new and living way
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consecrated for us that we can go straight to God.
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We can have our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
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We can have a true heart and full assurance of faith.
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You know, it's just in in the Mennonite low German language,
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it said, we always said become Los Hopen.
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We can only hope. We can't.
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We can't. No, we can't have a confidence.
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We can't actually know God like that.
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But this again flies in the face of all of that.
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We should be praying in a way where we're entering into God's
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presence with absolute certainty and confidence that the way is
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made open and that it's a living way that we can go and approach
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God at any time. Not because we're doing the
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right things, or we wearing the right clothes or going to the
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right church, but because the way has been made open through
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the Lord Jesus. And 1st on Colossians chapter
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121, it says, And you that were sometime alienated and enemies
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in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in
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the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
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unblameable and unreprovable in his sight.
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So there's coming a day when Jesus is going to present you to
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the Father as holy, unblameable and unreprovable because of the
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death in his body, because of what he did in his body.
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But we can go to God in prayer as holy and unblameable and
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unreprovable all the time. Like I can enter in his presence
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right now. I can live in His presence
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knowing that there's nothing that separates me from him.
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I'm never at any moment kind of there's never a wedge between us
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because every sin has been dealt with.
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All all things that could have hindered me from coming to him
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have been done away. And now he says, come boldly,
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come confidently, come with full assurance.
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And there's just awful lot of good truth in these passages or
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this passage. Yeah, for sure.
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Amen. I was just thinking about when
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he said it's like he stuck that verse 21 in there and having in
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high priest over the House of God, like kind of in the midst
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of those two approaches that you do with confidence.
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And I was thinking about, it's like, I don't know, I was, I
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guess I'm kind of broadening out in picturing this whole thing,
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but it's kind of like you've got, as Dan just said, really
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well, you've got Christ paving the way, but you've also got him
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standing there at God's right hand pleading your case, right?
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So it's kind of like, like I said, I can't really improve on
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what he said about him paving the way, but I think that that
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he sticks that in there and having a high priest over the
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House of God, let us draw near with a true heart.
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It's it's kind of like what I picture is it's like Christ has
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paved the way. He says he's even opened it up
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or consecrated it through his flesh, through the veil that is
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his flesh and he's and he's like, they're waiting beside God
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for you as well. You know what I mean?
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Like I think that's really good. But yeah, that's what I see is I
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see a wave paper Christ and him waiting there, if you will, or
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standing there by the Father also pleading your case.
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And it's like he's he's ironing these things out, if you will,
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for you there, you know, like made the way and standing there
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ironing the things out for you, you know, asking God to look at
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his blood and not your lives anymore.
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And so yeah, that that's all I'll add to that was just does
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mention him being a high priest. Yep.
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That's right. Melvin.
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Yeah, so when I read these verses, it's it's so encouraging
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because so many times we come to God or we think we want to come
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to God like a kid coming to a candy store, right?
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We're just coming to God in prayer and we, you know, just
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want to ask and tell him what we want, right?
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And that God. But we if we fully understand
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these verses and if we can come to God boldly like you were
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saying through Christ that the way that Christ has made and
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knowing that Christ is there sitting on the right hand and
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the father there is like it said there in verse 21.
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We can come to God like that. Then it's just it's so how do
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you say it's like a coming to him in in thankfulness and just
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because the Bible says that that we are to come to him with
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thankfulness. And so many times we just barge
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in, so to speak, into, into God's presence when we're
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praying and, and just, I don't know if we can fully grasp this,
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what it's saying here. And that I am holy and I am
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righteous in Scott in the sight of God.
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And I can come to him like a son to a father that he actually
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cares about me. And, and, and I don't know that
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just that just changes everything.
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When I brought a hold of this, it was just so it's so I don't
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know, life changing right in your in, in how you come to God.
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So that's all I. That's good.
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That's good, Andrew. Yeah, it's some of the most
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humbling verses. He just got done telling us how
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he in in the few verses prior to this, how he has provided an
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everlasting atonement, not remember our sins anymore,
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taking away our sins once and for all and forever, gone
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through history forever. And the whole, the whole book
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has been talking about how that what Jesus is doing is so much
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better than the old way based on what he's all said so far.
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He says now this allows us to come to God boldly into the
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holiest of all by the blood of Jesus.
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We now have the freedom to get to know God one-on-one like we
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didn't have it before, by a new and living way which He had
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concentrated for us through the veil that is His flesh, us
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dying, going the grave with His flesh, our flesh and His flesh
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going down in there, planted together in the likeness of His
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death. It's how He has consecrated us
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and made US1 We were united with Him and He was contaminated with
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our sin and He was made-up of sin, went down in the grave,
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united together and left Egypt, left sin in the in the in the
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grave, just like Moses was. Says the children were baptized
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in the sea. The enemy stayed there.
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Moses came out on the other side victorious and with no enemy
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anymore following them. And he's, he's saying we're in
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the same way now by a new and living way.
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We went through the veil without the flesh.
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The flesh got destroyed and that thing where sin dwelt, the body
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of the sin needed abided and dwell in.
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That was done away through the flesh of Jesus Christ.
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And now that's why we now are allowed and have the opportunity
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to come to God by faith and go right in because we've been
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changed by the power of Christ and what He has done on the
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cross. And what stands out to me, it's
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verse 22. Let us draw near because of all
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this with a true heart. God always talked to the
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Pharisees about their untrue heart.
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You know, he made comments like you.
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You honor me with your lips, but your heart's far from me.
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The dishonesty of someone thinking that they're being
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righteous when their heart is evil.
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So it's an untrue heart. Now we can be honest, we can be
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upright and we can say, look, I am a Sinner, I am bad.
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But Jesus made it way. And we, there's no more hiding.
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There's no more dishonesty. There's no more this problem of
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trying to confess our sins to the priest.
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Honestly, are we hiding anything?
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You know, are we being honest? And that really stands out to
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me. I remember in the Amish, I would
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always feel guilty even after a confession, that I might have
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not been fully honest with my confession and the depth of the
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evil. I would kind of sugarcoat it
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just a little bit because just so embarrassing.
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All that's gone. I don't have to wonder if I've
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been completely honest with my sin.
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I just know that I'm I'm any sin makes me lost and if I'm in
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Christ, all sin is gone and I have freedom, true freedom.
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It's all gone and dealt with. And that's what gives me
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boldness and confidence and full assurance.
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There's no hesitation to come to God now.
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And the other thing is having our hearts sprinkled from an
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evil conscience. I've been studying that because
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of the that the doctrines that are creeping into our fellowship
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to a certain extent where it deals with this, this thing of
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people trying to bring the dietary laws and all that stuff
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back into the body of Christ. And God tells us that their
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conscience is seared and also defiled.
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And that really stood out to me this weekend when me and my wife
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were just talking about it. Isn't it scary that the thing
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that gauges good and evil, our conscience can be messed up by
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doctrines of devils like evil doctrines that are not of God to
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the point where things bother us that shouldn't you know, our
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conscience messed up. And so this verse is powerful.
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Having our hearts sprinkle from an evil conscience.
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You can have an evil conscience, defiled conscience, the seared
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conscience, and he's saying the word of Christ made us,
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delivered us, sprinkled us from an evil conscience and washed
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our bodies with pure water. That's just good stuff.
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Yeah, that's right, Dad. You want another turn or?
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Actually I don't if you don't mind just very briefly Ezekiel
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36 prophecies of a sprinkling a clean water of a new heart.
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I will put in you heart of flesh and that thing.
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So that's a good, good passage to look at.
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But first Corinthians chapter 6, verse 9 very common passage.
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He says, know ye not that the unrighteous just shall not
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inherit the Kingdom of God? You know, no, neither
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fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate nor
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abuser themselves of mankind. These kinds of people will not
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inherit the Kingdom of God, nor thieves, nor covetous drunkards
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and such were some of you. But ye are washed, but ye are
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sanctified. Ye are justified in the name of
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the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God.
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I sometimes hear people say that they feel like I just can't
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approach God. I can't pray to him.
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If you're living with a guilty conscience, that makes sense.
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Right. But if God has called you clean,
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don't call yourself unclean. You know Peter said, Jesus said
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that to Peter what God has cleansed call not thou common or
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unclean. And he was referring to the
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Gentiles. And if God has actually said
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this about you, you were a fornicator, you were an
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adulterer, you were effeminate, you were all those things.
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But you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified.
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Then stop calling yourself dirty, unclean and filthy.
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Start calling yourself what God calls you.
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Cleansed, sanctified, justified. I can now approach boldly, not
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because I've been good, but because I've been washed.
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Yeah, that is so good. You know, I, I always find it
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amazing, something that's just really nifty.
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You know, it's one thing to have, you know, God calling us
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in like this, you know, telling us that we can draw near through
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Christ. But I mean, if you really think
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about how amazing that is because this is a God that knows
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every thought and every intent of our heart.
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And yet the sacrifice of his Son is so complete and so thorough
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that he can actually want us to draw dear to him, a true holy
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God. Isn't that amazing?
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Like, if you think about the disconnect that there is here
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that is fixed, that gulf that is actually spanned by the blood of
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Jesus, It's it's not a little crack that we can jump over.
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Yeah, it's amazing. It's an amazing gift that we
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have there. OK, 23 And that'll be another
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long sentence there. Let us hold fast the profession
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of our faith without wavering, for He is faithful that
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promised. And let us provoke, consider one
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another, to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking
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the assembly of ourselves together, as the matter matter
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of some is, but exhorting one another.
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And so much the more as you see the day approaching.
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I'll let you pick that apart as a whole or individually, as you
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please. They're here.
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Yeah, I would like to kind of separate 23 and say that with
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with all that you all said and Dan done a real good job of
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summing it up there. I think I think 23 is in there
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to say that being said. Keep.
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Believing that. Right, let us.
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Hold fast the profession of our faith.
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You know, it's like I, I don't know, I mean, maybe I shouldn't
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say this to give somebody the wrong impression, but I feel
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like I see, I see waves or up and downs of, of my confidence
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or I don't know, I maybe I should say faith.
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I don't know, but I I do see A and it's only on my part.
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It's not on God's part. I'm just saying there are times
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that I get busy or I get distracted and I feel less close
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and I think this verse is there to say.
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Don't waver. Right.
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It doesn't matter what's going on.
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It doesn't matter how you feel. Don't waver from this truth.
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In other words, I, I hear Dan say that and I'm like, yeah,
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man, that's right. That's good stuff.
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And he's saying hold that fast, right?
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It hold that fast regardless of your situation, regardless
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what's going on, believe that in spite of what is going on in
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your life. I mean, believe just continue to
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hold that fast without wavering, you know, or he is faithful
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because that's the point. He is faithful that promised,
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right? In other words, it's not based
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on your feelings, it's based on his promise, right?
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So all those things are true, not based on how you feel.
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And, and like I said, I just, and I'm really saying that to
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encourage the people that might not feel so great, right?
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I mean, there's been times I didn't feel so great.
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But he says it's not based on you, it's based on his promise
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and it is faithful. But and then we said, like I
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said, I hated the separate 2, but it's to me two totally
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different things. But then in 24 and 25, I know we
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said this, I think before we got on here, but I really think from
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these two verses, and I know they've been used as verses to
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try to keep your attendance up at churches, but I really don't
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care. I think it's good for us to meet
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as a body. I mean, if if he didn't mean
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what he said over there. And what is it in First
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Corinthians when he talks about if the whole body were an eye
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were with the hearing, if the whole body was a hand with the
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foot. If we are a body then, and there
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is many members and it takes many members to make up that
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body, then we ought to be gathering with the bodies of
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people somewhere like I, I think that that is good for us.
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And, and that's really, if you read the verse, he says, let us
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consider one another to provoke, to provoke and the love and the
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good works. In other words, that's the goal.
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You come together and you don't discourage one another.
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You don't try to get people to do evil, you try to encourage
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them to do the right thing. And he says not forsaking.
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In other words, we should come together to provoke the love and
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the good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
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together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another.
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And I think this is very key. The last part of that is and so
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much more as you see the day approaching, it's almost like
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the further we get from Christ rising from the dead, the more
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important it is. But do you agree with that
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right? As you see the day approaching,
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like so much the more the the further we get from his
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resurrection. So, and, and I think that I
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don't know, you could say maybe it's the evilness of the world
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or, or whatever, but but I do think it's important.
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I really think it's important for us to to be with one
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another. I agree with that.
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Melvin yeah, I. I think it's very important
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here. I think God is trying to really
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get get us across here that he doesn't want us to be wavering.
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He said, you know, let us hold fast to the professional of
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faith without wavering because James 1 is very familiar verse
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for all of us. But he says, but let him let him
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ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavered is like he
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waved the sea driven with the wind and toss for let not that
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man think that he should receive anything of Lord.
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And so I think it's important very important here that to
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point out that you know he God doesn't want us wavering.
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He doesn't want us being tossed to and fro.
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He wants us to hold fast to the to Christ the rock, the
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cornerstone right and just what he explained us there and
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another thing that stood out to me is considering one another to
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provoke unto love and good works that word provoke another word
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is used for that is called incitement, which means to move
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to action. And So what the body of Christ,
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when we come together, the idea of that is assembling together,
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like you said, you know the body, but members coming
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together to move us. Into.
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Action because when you're by yourself, right?
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I mean, it's just it happens. I've been there where when you
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by yourself and alone, you just kind of get Tinley Palm.
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You just sit, you know, you just get relaxed, so to speak.
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You just kind of get LAX even with your own relationship with
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God, not just, you know, with other.
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So provoke unto love. And another thing I want to
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point out is he says there he first says love and then unto
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good works. So let us remember that we don't
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do works to be any closer to God, but at first it's faith in
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Christ and then comes the works. And yeah, then just not
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forsaking the assembly of ourselves together as the manner
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of some is. So obviously some of the
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believers here were not gathering together here when he
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wrote this letter. And he he says what is
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important, why it is important that we assemble together to
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exhorting one another. And so much the more as you see
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the day approaching. And so it's just important for
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the body price to get together and to lift each other up.
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And the Bible also says the reason the body gets together is
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to edify one another. And so that is very important.
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Who doesn't need edification, right?
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I mean, you know, deep down, we, we know we, we need that and we
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need one another. It's just that simple.
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Because someday we're going for us to just sit here and say,
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well, someday we're going to be in heaven together, right?
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And all everything's going to be grant and glory.
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Well, actually that's not, I mean, yes, God wants, that is
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God's plan and we look forward to that.
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But believe it or not, God has he planned for your life right
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now, where you live and what you're doing right now.
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And so that's a good. Preaching there, Andrew.
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Yes, Sir. I like that verse. 23 a lot too
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where it says not. Wavering.
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For he is faithful that promise, and.
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I think the most precious. Promise that I can think of
26:58
right now is the fact that he promised that he dealt with our
27:02
conscience. Like you all were saying.
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It's hard sometimes to not let our conscience still bother us.
27:12
It's you know which. I'm not saying it shouldn't
27:14
bother our conscience when we sin, it should.
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But the part that it's been taken care of shouldn't bother
27:20
us because he says if we understand the gospel, we should
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have no more conscience of sin. That's.
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A promise. From God and I'm still wrestling
27:30
with that one. That's tough.
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I mean that's a that's a promise now that's a big promise and I'm
27:38
still I'm not there. I mean, it's just I mean that's
27:42
a tough one And and he did it and he says, you know what, you
27:45
need to come together and tell each other that.
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I mean, you know, old fast to the fact that the guy that
27:52
promised those things is faithful and you know, it's
27:56
good. And he says let us consider one
27:59
another to broken the good works not.
28:02
Forsaking. The assembly someone.
28:11
That. Doesn't want to get together
28:12
with believers. Must have had a really bad.
28:16
Experience and I'd get it. I've had bad experiences too, to
28:21
the point where you just don't want to be with Christians
28:24
anymore. In your mind, you think.
28:27
That but. To come together to.
28:30
Find believers that are honest and that are humble and that
28:37
come together to actually provoke on the good, on the law
28:41
and good works. That's actually the goal.
28:44
It's actually you, you. I'm really sorry for those that
28:49
don't have the opportunity to come together.
28:54
It's so good. We have a great time and there's
28:59
many times I look at the at the crowd and.
29:06
I ask. Myself, what is it that?
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People come together. And it's so good without all the
29:16
structure and without all the things in place to make people
29:19
act a certain way. And the main thing that I would
29:25
point out and focus on is there's a lot of good marriages
29:28
there. There's a lot of strong.
29:31
Dads there, there's there's people that are strong at home,
29:35
their wives are sweet, they're good marriages.
29:38
They're, they're already have practice of nurturing and being
29:41
a man. And that's what we're lacking in
29:44
the church is men. Men that are able to be wrong or
29:49
not have their way and take it with grace and realize that it
29:54
wasn't their day to be right or to be in control and to be
29:58
humble and to let someone else shine if that's the time and the
30:02
place at the moment. You see people that have great
30:06
marriages understand how to have grace, how to nurture, how to
30:11
build people up, how to see the good in people instead of always
30:15
trying to find something that they disagree with or a reason
30:18
to fight, a reason to gossip, a reason to fuss and the reason to
30:23
just show themselves that I'm going to be strong.
30:25
And I am see, I'm so passionate about this and I just can't let
30:29
it go. You know, they sit there and
30:31
they fuss and and they, they're just, they think that somehow
30:35
they're so virtuous by being so compassionate about their weird
30:38
doctrine or something. And I guarantee they probably
30:42
don't have a great marriage either.
30:43
They don't know how to nurture. They don't know how to see
30:46
things from other angles. So I say it comes down to humble
30:52
yourself, have a good marriage, good strong family, be a man.
30:56
No one to stand up and no one that'll be a leader with your
31:00
woman and not just let her run you in the ground and not, you
31:03
know, just be a man. You know, that's what we need is
31:07
men with strong families. And when you come together where
31:10
people are looking at each other in that way, where they build
31:12
you up, where they provoking the love, where they are able to
31:15
exhort. We have such weight wussy men
31:17
anymore and women that we're so soft that if any reproach or
31:23
provoking or exhortation comes along, we're all buried over it.
31:27
And we're now we're gossiping about, oh, was that directed to
31:30
me? Well, if you're guilty about it,
31:32
then take it like I'm just fed up with it.
31:35
I don't I don't have time for it.
31:37
And sometimes we'll just need a good hurt.
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Many statements, you know. Yeah.
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Yeah, bad. Yeah.
31:45
That's it's true. I went to a men's event the
31:48
other day at a, at a local church and it was very good
31:51
teaching, very good instruction for men.
31:54
But along those lines, I, I've come to see that there's a huge
31:57
shift in the, in the church in the last probably 6080 years.
32:01
I from what I can gather from history, it's become very, very
32:05
feminized, especially since Second World War when a lot of
32:07
the men were out, women kind of took charge of these things.
32:11
And the music for one, is super, super feminine.
32:14
And we sang a song there with a group of men, like all burly,
32:18
Husky looking men. And we're singing a song about
32:22
Jesus being a lover of my soul. And I'm like.
32:27
The the guy. The guy.
32:28
Leading the music too, like it just did not fit right.
32:32
Like it was just, I don't know, that's kind of besides the
32:35
point. But if we want men to come
32:38
together and and edify each other, provoke one another, we
32:42
need to make sure that church is representing masculinity also,
32:46
right? That there would be good, you
32:48
know, songs that we can raise our voices to and doctrine that
32:52
we sing to God and then teaching that actually provokes and
32:56
encourages and isn't just fluff, right?
32:58
So, but on verse 23, I just wanted to say one quick thing
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there because you guys all covered it quite well.
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Some people when they hear the term hold fast your profession
33:10
of faith, they think that they need to have more confidence in
33:13
their profession. Like as if if they had enough
33:18
faith built up, they can release it on God and grab hold of him.
33:21
You know, just got to have stronger faith, but he he says
33:24
in parentheses there for he is faithful that promised.
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So our confidence is not in our faith.
33:30
Our confidence is a response to God's faithfulness.
33:34
And so because he's faithful, we should hold fast to our
33:38
profession. We should not waver because he's
33:40
faithful, not because your faith is something substantive or
33:43
something, you know, great performance in some way.
33:46
It's hit. You're trusting and you're
33:48
confident in his faithfulness. And then in regards.
33:53
To this last passage about consider one another to provoke
33:57
into love and good works, I would just like to ask the
34:00
question when you do gather with the Saints, do you gather to
34:05
provoke other people or do you? Come.
34:08
Just to get your ears kind of filled or get a little bit of
34:11
spanking because you feel bad for your bad week that you had
34:14
or you're just coming to get something from it.
34:17
Or you come in there to ask a brother to say, hey, man, how
34:19
you doing? Or to share something at the end
34:21
of a service or to, you know, reach into somebody's life to
34:25
say, hey, you know, I've been visiting the elderly on such and
34:28
such a day. I'd love to have you come with
34:29
me or we're going to take care of our neighbors property and
34:33
you're provoking someone to love and then to good works and to
34:36
kind of them on. I can definitely sense the
34:40
difference in myself if I go there because we've made a
34:43
transition in the last couple years from where I was leading
34:47
and I felt like I was very involved with provoking and, and
34:50
encouraging people. And I always, it didn't matter
34:54
to me who was preaching on any given day.
34:56
It didn't matter. I'm going there to provoke
34:58
somebody. And even if I know this sermon's
35:00
going to be subpar or I'm not going to really like it as much,
35:03
it's totally fine because I'm there to get involved, to hear
35:07
what he has said, to comment on it, and then to provoke
35:10
somebody. But if I go there and I'm just
35:13
hearing a message, then sometimes when I know a certain
35:16
preacher is preaching, it's like, I just assume not go.
35:20
Why? Because my church attendance is
35:22
just about me getting something from the service.
35:25
And that's our services are kind of set up to be that way where
35:29
it's just one man, he has the gift and he provokes everybody.
35:33
It's like we as a church are trying to prop up our one
35:37
soldier when it should be. You know, the ministers and the
35:41
gifts that we have in the church are there to prop up the 200
35:44
soldiers, right? Like it's we're.
35:47
Trying to. He says in in Ephesians chapter
35:50
4 there that the gifts were given to provide for the service
35:55
and for the ministry of the Saints so that we can minister
35:59
to one another and then have that love and that good works
36:02
overflow to the community around us.
36:05
And so you can really go to church with the wrong mindset.
36:08
But there's this old illustration that I've heard so
36:10
many times. A brother stopped coming to
36:12
church for a while. He had wasn't showing up, wasn't
36:15
showing up. And finally the preacher showed
36:17
up to his house and he's sitting there by the wood stove and he,
36:20
he takes one of the coals or the embers and pulls it away from
36:23
the rest of them. You've all heard this before.
36:25
And it slowly cools off and it turns black and it's not red
36:28
anymore. And then the guy, he doesn't say
36:31
a word. He just kind of sits there.
36:32
And then he pushes that ember, that coal back into the fire and
36:35
it brights, brightens right up and it turns fiery red because
36:39
it, it can't produce flame on its own.
36:42
It can't keep heating the same way on its own, right?
36:45
So we should be gathering daily from house to house and
36:49
gathering in homes and we should be provoking.
36:51
It's not all about going to a church building.
36:54
It's about gathering together with Saints and then provoking
36:57
each other constantly. So much the more as we see
36:59
today, approaching this kind of thing, getting online, doing
37:02
text messages, sending something in a WhatsApp group where you
37:05
know people are listening and that kind of thing is something
37:08
we should be doing constantly. One another ring, right?
37:12
And I would say that. People don't sometimes.
37:16
You don't realize. You don't realize you have
37:19
contributed to the whole when you have, right?
37:23
I mean, there's people that I, that I know that.
37:26
They're not. They're just being.
37:27
Their self, but they're building me up in faith and they're not
37:31
even necessarily trying to. So I'll just say that kind of
37:36
all along Dan's line is we look at it like the only one that's
37:39
doing any provoking is the preacher, But people are
37:43
provoking and and you whoever you might be listening, you're
37:47
probably provoking people and don't realize it.
37:50
You know, like and like you said.
37:52
So I want to say one thing. Too I I think I know this is not
37:55
possible like in church setting maybe.
37:59
But I appreciate what you said, Dan, about we should be
38:02
provoking one another every day or, or, or every other whenever
38:06
we can. Because the simple fact is, is
38:09
when you get together and like eat together, like eat food
38:13
together and whether it's at your house, at a friend's house
38:16
or, or a gathering or you're just gathering together for
38:20
whatever may be. But when that happens, then
38:25
there is provoking that happens with one another, like we move
38:29
each other into action. So I appreciate what you said
38:32
about not just at church necessarily, because I think we
38:35
get in our minds that, you know, we, we just go to church to do
38:39
this. And that's not what the Bible
38:41
says or what it portrays. So.
38:44
There's a popular sentiment in fairly nominal Christians where
38:48
they say I'm all good with Jesus, I like him, I'm just not
38:50
a big fan of his church. Church is full of hypocrites.
38:53
Well, you know if the moment you stop going there, there's one
38:57
less hypocrite, right? So.
39:00
But what? But what if you, what if you
39:03
could? What if you could get along with
39:05
those people, right? I mean, why does everything,
39:08
everyone have to be perfect for you to get along with them?
39:11
You're not perfect yourself, right?
39:13
I mean exactly. Well.
39:15
And I have a. Good marriage either.
39:18
Yeah. And I would say that just.
39:20
Like we talked about earlier that holding fast our
39:23
profession. I would say that.
39:26
It's very likely well, I'll just give it a a personal experience
39:30
a lot of times if. Me and my wife are.
39:34
Hardly ever. Down about.
39:37
Life at the same time, you know what I mean?
39:40
If I'm having a down spell, she'll be on a good note and
39:44
vice versa. And I would say that that's the
39:45
way it is with the church is if you if you are down, the more
39:50
reason to be there because probably somebody else is not
39:53
down and they're going to help build you up.
39:56
You know, like that is kind of the point of it I think, right?
40:00
Yeah, and I. Appreciate.
40:02
Too what Dan was, you mentioned it a little bit about not just
40:05
being a consumer. You know, a lot of us, we get
40:09
the notion we want to go to church and we want to sit there
40:11
and be edified, whatever that means, you know, and where I
40:15
think that we should be contributors.
40:17
And if you look at the text here, it actually it actually
40:20
kind of talks about that in verse 24, what stood out to me,
40:23
and it's interesting how everybody has their own thing
40:26
that that they kind of see when they read, but it says, let us
40:30
consider one another. And when you consider one
40:35
another, that is something that you do.
40:37
That's right. And and.
40:39
If you look at that definition of the dictionary, it's just
40:41
interesting. It is to fix the mind on to
40:44
study or to meditate, you know, and if you actually are
40:50
concerned or you have friends that you should be concerned
40:53
about, you're going to do that to some degree.
40:57
I mean, you don't, I mean, you're going to, you're going to
40:59
worry about them. If you see something wrong,
41:01
you're going to you're going to actually consider that.
41:04
And so, yeah, it's, it's important that we don't just sit
41:08
there and warm the bench and have our ears tickled.
41:11
Oh, it should be like. When we have a work day to build
41:14
on a structure, not everybody is doing the same thing, but
41:20
they're all there to help build this structure.
41:23
That's the way we should come together with church.
41:25
We're all there to do whatever part we're good at doing and do
41:29
it with joy. So I'm going to read.
41:33
Verse 20. 6 through 30, because I think it all goes together.
41:36
Actually, it's part of the same thing, but I want you to mostly
41:40
focus on verse 26 and 7. For if we sin.
41:44
Willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the
41:46
truth. There remaineth no more
41:48
sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for a
41:52
four of judgment and firing indignation.
41:56
Which shall devour the. Adversaries, actually, let's
42:00
just stop right there. There is a period there.
42:01
I'll just stop right there. So go ahead, Air with 26.
42:08
Well. I'll just start it by saying
42:11
this. This is what I my love hate
42:15
relationship with a Bible study like this is we we pull out so
42:19
many good details that we kind of lose the picture.
42:22
And I think you have to see the picture for this verse to make
42:25
any sense, right? OK.
42:27
I mean, we've been in the picture started.
42:29
Well, I guess it started in the beginning of the book, but.
42:32
Certainly. Started.
42:34
In chapters 8-9 and ten, he has been building up this this
42:38
reality of Christ going and atoning for our sins and he has
42:44
played that out to the point that we saw clearly that he
42:47
actually went into heaven itself offered for our sins.
42:50
His own blood cleansed us completely cleansed our
42:54
conscience told us there in verse 18 and chapter 10 that
42:58
we're remission of these is there is no more offering for
43:01
sin and then told us based on that truth we could have
43:05
boldness and we could draw near to God.
43:07
We ought to be coming near to God, but we should also be
43:11
gathering together and encouraging one another.
43:14
And then he turns around and says if we sin willfully after
43:17
that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there
43:19
remaineth no more sacrifice for sin.
43:21
In other words, as we said a long time ago, this whole book
43:25
is encouraging them to keep the faith right?
43:28
They are to keep their confidence in Christ, not go
43:31
back into the old law. And I think that that is what he
43:34
is. I think that's the, the willful
43:37
sin here is him encouraging them not to go back and turn away
43:43
from this belief they have in Christ to something else because
43:49
there's no more sacrifice for sin, right?
43:51
I mean that he's, that's why I said you have to see the hole
43:54
here. He's been establishing 1
43:56
sacrifice for sin forever. That's it.
43:58
If you turn away from, if you willfully turn away from this,
44:02
there's no, there's nothing you're not going to find
44:04
anywhere else. There's no other sacrifice for
44:06
sin. So I guess I would end it by
44:09
saying I don't believe that he's saying you a person, which is
44:15
the way I always heard it taught.
44:16
A person can sin as long as they accidentally sinned and not
44:22
knowing that they were sinning when they did it right.
44:25
I agree. Agree with that.
44:27
Yeah, yeah, very good, Melvin. Yeah, I mean.
44:31
So he says, therefore, if we sin willfully after we have received
44:36
the knowledge of the truth, and if you go down and read the
44:41
other verses later, you didn't read them yet, but he says
44:45
about, you know how, how? What God is going to?
44:49
Do if if you reject the gospel, if you reject it and so that's
44:55
all he's simply saying here. He got done like you said,
45:00
Aaron, he got Scott done explaining to us a new way that
45:04
the high priest, the Ottoman high priest Christ and and he
45:08
just and a new way and and no more the law this is.
45:12
Now. A new way and it's in Christ and
45:16
and we just got done going through how, how Christ's blood
45:20
allows us to come boldly unto unto the throne of grace.
45:24
And so now he's saying that if you, if you have received this
45:30
truth and you just act like it's nothing like you just tread it,
45:36
it says in 2 verses down. If you just tread over that,
45:40
that gospel, over that truth, then there remains no more
45:44
sacrifice for sin because Christ is not going to die again there.
45:47
There's not another sacrifice. Christ has died, and it's over
45:52
once and done. And so it's up to you and me to
45:58
what we're going to do with this truth.
46:01
If I'm going to. Believe it or not.
46:04
Amen. That's right.
46:05
Andrew, Amen. Yeah, I.
46:07
Just agree with that. But it's not saying that's a
46:11
farce, that people say that, oh, I did that unwillingly or that
46:20
was willful or this one, this sin was not willful.
46:26
There is no such thing. There's no place in the Bible
46:31
where God said, hey, did you murder that person?
46:34
Yeah, but not willfully, right? You know.
46:39
It's. Just it's not a.
46:40
Thing So what he's saying is if you willfully, like you guys
46:44
already said, reject the gospel, count it as nothing.
46:48
That's what he's going at you count the gospel as nothing.
46:52
You trot it on your foot like it's gone it's done like you
46:55
don't want anything to do with it and it's not even I would say
46:58
you would have to probably do it over a long period of time.
47:00
Like I don't even think it is when you're upset your wife
47:03
dies, your children get murdered, raped, whatever, and
47:06
you're just really angry and you just like you know what if Jesus
47:10
loves me and he gave save himself for me and I have to
47:13
victory in him, Why did this happen to me?
47:15
Right now? I don't feel anything for Christ
47:17
or I don't feel anything for the gospel.
47:19
I don't think you'd even lose it then.
47:20
I think you have to willfully walk in the in a lifestyle of.
47:27
Jesus a debt. To me, I don't want anything to
47:28
do with it. That's total.
47:30
Rejection. Dan.
47:36
Yeah, I don't think I need to. Add a whole lot to that, but
47:39
all, all sin is willful. In fact, sin resides in the
47:43
intention. That's where sin comes from.
47:45
It's what? What were you trying to do?
47:47
What were you thinking? Right?
47:49
Like you did this thing, but it came from somewhere.
47:52
It came from your intent. And in Romans chapter 5, verse
47:56
13, it actually says that until the law, sin was in the world.
48:01
But sin is not imputed where there is no law.
48:03
So if if someone does not know better, if someone is mentally
48:08
challenged or if somebody is too young to under understand or
48:12
comprehend, then sin is not imputed to them.
48:15
There's no law yet. There's no understanding, no
48:17
comprehension yet. So he's basically saying that
48:20
once you know and then you do sin, do something you ought not
48:24
to do, then it's it's imputed to you as sin because you intended
48:29
it. And so all sin is willful sin.
48:32
And so that's why he's he like Melvin already said, he expounds
48:37
on and expands what this willful sin is in verse 29.
48:41
And it's trotting under foot the blood of the Son of God that
48:44
that counting it as an unholy thing and doing despite to the
48:48
spirit of grace. That is the sin that he's
48:51
talking about. If you do that sin willfully,
48:54
then there is no mercy for you. There is no hope for you.
48:57
Like you're you've you've out, you've out sinned the one thing
49:02
that can forgive you, right. Yeah.
49:04
And I think that's. Relevant again to kind of look
49:07
at the whole picture. These people.
49:11
Have a choice to stick with believing in Christ or they're
49:16
being pressured to turn back to the law, right.
49:18
I mean, we we've said that over and over again.
49:19
That's what the book is that they are they are they are in a
49:22
straight betwixt too. Stick them with Christ or turn
49:26
them back. And he's saying, if you make the
49:28
choice, if you willfully decide you're going to give up this and
49:33
go backwards, then then like you, you all said, he's going to
49:38
go on to say it's like you just trodden Christ under foot.
49:40
You know you made that choice to do that.
49:44
Yeah, yeah. I mean if if.
49:47
You don't read it that way, which the context bears that
49:50
out. The the like Aaron said, the
49:52
entire book bears this idea out if you think that it is a sin
49:58
that you did. And then you have to.
50:02
Determine there is a huge weight of responsibility on you to make
50:08
sure that you know, like how do you determine whether it was
50:12
will for kids? Like I agree that every single
50:14
city is willful. You know, you spend a little
50:16
more thought on some of them that you do on others, I will
50:19
admit, but they're all willful. You could just not do them, I
50:23
guess or whatever. Maybe I could clarify a.
50:25
Little bit about that because in Romans Paul does say the things
50:29
that I would not those things I did like he did what he didn't
50:33
want to do before. He's a believer before Jesus
50:36
Christ delivered him. So there is a sense that's I
50:40
think what people are saying. I did not want to do it, but I
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just slipped up and did it anyway.
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But I have I have an embarrassing testimony, really
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embarrassing. The first time I was I was
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following counsel to be baptized and in the meantime I found out
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that masturbation is sent. And I told the.
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Ministers. And they were like, oh, we
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can't, you know, we can't baptize you.
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And the first thing that I asked was like, was it willful?
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And I was. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have
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done. It if I didn't want to, you
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know. So.
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So that really messed me up. Showed their ignorance is.
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What that did and. And I was like, you know, and
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then they found out, so they locked me a lot and they wanted
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to not throw, you know. Upset the wagon.
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So they realized that I didn't know that that was sin.
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Is that based on that we're back?
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But you know, that's. When I found out about willful
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and that's how they used it and I was like, yeah, I guess I want
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it. I mean, I, I felt like then it
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would be lying to say no, I didn't want to that's.
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That's the funniest. Story I've heard in a while
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that's actually not funny because, I mean, that is exactly
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how this willful thing gets used, though, yeah.
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Anyway, all right, I'm going to. Read the rest of kind of, I
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mean, you already commented on 29 a little bit, but I'm just
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going to read the next sentence here and we'll finish with that.
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It's going to be kind of short. He that despised Moses Law died
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without mercy, under two or three witnesses.
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Of how much sore? Punishment.
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Suppose ye shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under
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foot the Son of God, and have counted the blood of the
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covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, and on the holy
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thing, and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace?
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They will stop right there. But.
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This is I. Mean this is a really good verse
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when you're talking about losing your salvation.
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Because I mean. He hath counted, He has tried
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not to foot the, and hath counted the blood wherewith He
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was sanctified, you know. So there is a point where, and I
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know losing your salvation is a bad term because because of the
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connotation. But anyway, go ahead and comment
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on that in addition or like in in part with 26 and seven.
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Yeah, well, I'll just kind. Of repeat what I already said,
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but that's why I was saying the whole context of it because.
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When you look at this. Verse going with 26 and on and
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on back it is like and I'm not saying that the Hebrews people
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he wrote this to her own people capable capable of it, but I'm
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just making the point that he is saying you all have picked
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Christ right you you put your faith in Christ and now you're
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being faced with the choice the the willful choice to turn away
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from him and he's saying it's like walking on him.
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You know, it's like, it's like just trotting it under foot and
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acting like it's the I was thinking that I just saw that
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verse. You know, when he says the salt
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loses its savour, it's good for nothing to be trodden under
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foot. You know, it's like, it's like
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you counted it like salt that had no flavor anymore, right?
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You just walked on it when you turned around and left it.
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And that that was, I mean, that's all I'm going to say
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about it. But I do think it, like I said,
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I'm not saying a specific only could happen to these people,
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but it is a specific situation in which someone has believed it
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and they're debating on forsaking it is.
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The way I'll see. That.
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That's right. Melvin.
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Well. When you when you read it there
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he says suppose he how should he be thought worthy.
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We have trotted under the foot of Son of God.
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I've counted the blood covenant whereas he was sanctified, an
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unholy thing and so for someone to.
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Say that the blood. Of Christ is an unholy thing.
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Once they were sanctified by the blood of Christ is not something
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you just move in and out of on a regular basis.
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Like you don't just count it unholy and then the next day
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hold it like, like I hear so many people say, well, I've,
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I've been, you know, I was, I'm a Sinner and I'm, I'm born a
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Sinner and I'm, you know, and I need God's grace every day,
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which we do. We need God's grace every day,
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but we. Don't.
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Move in and out of of salvation. And so because he says here that
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the person that does that, when they get to that point, which is
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a long process, obviously, but if they get to that point,
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they're going to be judged the same as an unbeliever looking
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for the judgment and theory in indignation who should devour
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the adversaries. And then he makes a point there,
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he says because in the law, he that despised Moses law died
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without mercy under two or three witnesses.
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So obviously I didn't look that up in the Old Testament, I
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guess, but obviously in the law, if someone counted the law as an
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unholy thing, they were, they were killed, obviously.
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So that's all I have to say about that.
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Andrew yeah, I wanted to highlight the.
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Fact that there's much sore punishment for those that knew
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Christ so there's also a verse in the Bible that is better to
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not know and die like that than to know and reject it so but the
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other thing I wanted to talk about is how that.
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Paul said that if. You keep one part of the law,
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you're fallen from grace. One.
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One part. You're guilty of the whole
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thing. So would it be going too far to
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say that you're counting the blood of Christ, an unholy
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thing, if you go anywhere else to hopefully contribute to some
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sort of sanctification and completion of your sin problem
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or your soul to bring a little bit of reconciliation or help
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with the reconciliation? You're not counting the blood
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and the sacrifice of creatures as Christ is sufficient as full.
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You're counting it a little bit partially unworthy in certain
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areas of your life. So you need to go somewhere else
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to find completion. And I think that gets very
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dangerous when we do that. You're counting the blood, the
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finished work, unworthy. Hey there, that's good.
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Andrew Dan. Yeah, under Moses.
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'S law. We saw a man collecting sticks
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on a Sabbath day to make a fire, and Moses commanded that he be
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put to death by the camp. A bunch of men gathered around,
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grabbed big rocks and bashed his head in.
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Murderers. Thieves, adulterers, rebellious
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people, children, rebellious teenagers, and so on.
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All of that punishable by stoning, by death.
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And he says, Of how much soror punishment suppose ye, shall he
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be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the blood the
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Son of God, and hath counted the blood an unholy thing?
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And all you need to do to count the blood of the cry of Christ
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an unholy thing, is to go to some other means of
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sanctification. Go and approach God by some
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other methods. Go try to get to God by your
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good works or by offering some other sacrifice.
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The Hebrews were tempted to go back to the temple and it was
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still standing in their day and they were tempted.
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They were thinking maybe it isn't worth waiting for Christ.
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Maybe we should go back to the old way.
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He says by doing that you would be counting the blood of the Son
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of God as an unholy thing and you would be doing despite under
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the spirit of grace, you have been fully sanctified, fully set
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free from all your sins. Nothing's counted against you.
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And yet if you go back to some other method of approaching God,
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you're now counting Christ's blood as unholy.
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And it's a, it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
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living God. It ought not to be something
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that we toy with. This again is not talking about
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1 willful disobedient sin. This is not talking about
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masturbation or pornography or lying or something that you did
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wrong. And you know you ought not to
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have done wrong all of that. We have the mediator between God
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and man who speaks on our behalf continuously.
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And we can have full access to God on our worst day and on our
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best day. What does despite to the spirit
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of grace and what counts the blood of the Son of God as an
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unholy thing is going back to God after you sin in some
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alternate way other than the one way that He has made this new
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and living way, which is Jesus. Amen.
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Amen. Thank you for recapping that.
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That's very good and I appreciate that a lot.
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All right, times up. Here's another hour gone.
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So as we conclude today's study, remember Hebrews 11.
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Faith is a substance of things hoped for and the evidence of
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things not seen. And I pray that your faith would
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grow and grow to it would reveal biblical truths more clearly
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that your physical eyes can perceive the things before.
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Join us next Monday. We're going to do the same thing
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starting in verse 30 and discover the rest of the story,
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as they say. So God bless you guys.
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Thank you very much. Appreciate it, guys, and we'll
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see you all next week.