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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter one. In the past, God spoke to our
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  Speaker 1: ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways.
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  Speaker 1: But in these last days He has spoken to us
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  Speaker 1: by his son, whom he appointed heir of all things,
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  Speaker 1: and through whom also he made the universe. The sun
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  Speaker 1: is the radiance of God's glory, in the exact representation
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  Speaker 1: of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
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  Speaker 1: After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. So
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  Speaker 1: he became as much superior to the angels as the
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  Speaker 1: name he has inherited is superior to theirs. For to
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  Speaker 1: which of the angels did God ever say, you are
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  Speaker 1: my son? Today I have become your father. Or again
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  Speaker 1: I will be his father, and he will be my son.
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  Speaker 1: And again when God brings his first born into the world,
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  Speaker 1: he says, let all God's angels worship him. In speaking
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  Speaker 1: of the angels, he says, he makes his angels spirits
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  Speaker 1: and his servants flames of fire. But about the Son,
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  Speaker 1: he says, your throne, O, God will last forever and ever.
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  Speaker 1: A scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore, God, your God,
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  Speaker 1: has set you above your companions by anointing you with
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  Speaker 1: the oil of joy. He also says, in the beginning, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens
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  Speaker 1: are the work of your hands. They will perish, but
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  Speaker 1: you remain. They will all wear out like a garment.
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  Speaker 1: You will roll them up like a robe. Like a garment.
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  Speaker 1: They will be changed, but you remain the same. In
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  Speaker 1: your years will never end. To which of the angels
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  Speaker 1: did God ever say, set up my right hand until
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  Speaker 1: I make your enemies a footstool, for your feet. Are
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  Speaker 1: not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who
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  Speaker 1: will inherit salvation Hebrews chapter two. We must pay the
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  Speaker 1: most careful attention therefore to what we have heard, so
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  Speaker 1: that we do not drift away. For since the message
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  Speaker 1: spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience
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  Speaker 1: received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we
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  Speaker 1: ignore so great a salvation. This salvation, which was first
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  Speaker 1: announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those
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  Speaker 1: who hurt him. God also testify to it by signs
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  Speaker 1: wonders in various miracles and by gifts of the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit distributed according to his will. It is not two
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  Speaker 1: angels that he has subjected the world to come about
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  Speaker 1: which we are speaking. But there is a place where
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  Speaker 1: someone has testified what is mankind that you are mindful
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  Speaker 1: of them, a son of man, that you care for him.
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  Speaker 1: You made them a little lower than the angels. You
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  Speaker 1: crowned them with glory and honor, and put everything under
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  Speaker 1: their feet. In putting everything under them, God left nothing
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  Speaker 1: that is not subject to them. Yet at present we
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  Speaker 1: do not see everything subject to them, but we do
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  Speaker 1: see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for
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  Speaker 1: a little while, now crowned with glory and honor, because
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  Speaker 1: he suffered death, so that, by the grace of God,
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  Speaker 1: he might taste death for every one. In bringing many
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  Speaker 1: sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God,
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  Speaker 1: for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the
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  Speaker 1: pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. Both
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  Speaker 1: the one who makes people holy and those who are
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  Speaker 1: made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. He says
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  Speaker 1: I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: in the assembly, I will sing your praises, and again
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  Speaker 1: I will put my trust in him. And again he says,
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  Speaker 1: here am I and the children God has given me.
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  Speaker 1: Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared
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  Speaker 1: in their humanity, so that by his death he might
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  Speaker 1: break the power of him who holds the power of death,
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  Speaker 1: that is the devil in free those who all their
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  Speaker 1: lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
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  Speaker 1: For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.
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  Speaker 1: For this reason, he had to be made like them,
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  Speaker 1: fully human in every way, in order that he might
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  Speaker 1: become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God,
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  Speaker 1: and that he might make atonement for the sins of
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  Speaker 1: the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted,
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  Speaker 1: he is able to help those who are being tempted
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews Chapter three. Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, whose share
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  Speaker 1: in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom
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  Speaker 1: we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. He was
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  Speaker 1: faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses
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  Speaker 1: was faithful in all God's house. Jesus has been found
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  Speaker 1: worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder
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  Speaker 1: of a house has a greater honor than the house itself.
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  Speaker 1: For every house is built by someone, but God is
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  Speaker 1: the builder of everything. Moses was faithful as a servant
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  Speaker 1: in all God's house, bearing witness to what would be
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  Speaker 1: spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful
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  Speaker 1: as the sun over God's house, and we are his house.
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  Speaker 1: If indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the
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  Speaker 1: hope in which we glory. So as the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: says to day, if you hear his voice, do not
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  Speaker 1: harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during
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  Speaker 1: the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors
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  Speaker 1: tested and tried me. Though for forty years they saw
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  Speaker 1: what I did. That is why I was angry with
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  Speaker 1: that generation. I said, their hearts are always going astray,
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  Speaker 1: and they have not known my ways. So I declared
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  Speaker 1: on oath and my anger, they shall never enter my rest.
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  Speaker 1: See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you
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  Speaker 1: has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as
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  Speaker 1: it is called to day, so that none of you
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  Speaker 1: may be hardened by sins deceitfulness. We have come to
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  Speaker 1: share in Christ. If indeed we hold our original conviction
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  Speaker 1: firmly to the very end, as has just been said
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  Speaker 1: to day. If you hear His voice, do not harden
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  Speaker 1: your hearts as you did in the rebellion. Who were
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  Speaker 1: they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those
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  Speaker 1: Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he
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  Speaker 1: angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned,
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  Speaker 1: whose bodies perished in the wilderness? And to whom did
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  Speaker 1: God swear that they would never enter His rest? If
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  Speaker 1: not to those who disobeyed. So we see that they
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  Speaker 1: were not able to enter because of their unbelief Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: chapter four. Therefore, since the promise of entering His rest
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  Speaker 1: still stands, let us be careful that none of you
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  Speaker 1: be found to have fallen short of it. For we
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  Speaker 1: also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just
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  Speaker 1: as they did. But the message they heard was of
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  Speaker 1: no value to them because they did not share the
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  Speaker 1: faith of those who obeyed. Now, we who have believed,
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  Speaker 1: enter that rest, just as God has said so I
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  Speaker 1: declared on oath in my anger, they shall never enter
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  Speaker 1: my rest. And yet His works have been finished since
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  Speaker 1: the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken
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  Speaker 1: about the seventh day in these words. On the seventh
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  Speaker 1: day God rested from all his works, and again in
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  Speaker 1: the passage above he says, they shall never enter my rest. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: since it still remains for some to enter that rest,
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  Speaker 1: and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed
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  Speaker 1: to them did not go in because of their disobedience,
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  Speaker 1: God again set a certain day, calling it today. This
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  Speaker 1: he did when a long time later he spoke through
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  Speaker 1: David as in the passage already quoted today. If you
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  Speaker 1: hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, for if
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  Speaker 1: Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken
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  Speaker 1: later about another day. There remains then a sabbath rest
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  Speaker 1: for the people of God. For anyone who enters God's
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  Speaker 1: rest also rests from their works, just as God did
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  Speaker 1: from his. Let us therefore make every effort to enter
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  Speaker 1: that rest, so that no one will perish by following
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  Speaker 1: their example of disobedience. For the Word of God is
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  Speaker 1: alive and active, sharper than any double edged sword. It
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  Speaker 1: penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow.
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  Speaker 1: It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him, to
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  Speaker 1: whom we must give account. Therefore, since we have a
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  Speaker 1: great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the
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  Speaker 1: Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith
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  Speaker 1: we profess. For we do not have a high priest
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  Speaker 1: who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses. But we
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  Speaker 1: have one who has been tempted in every way just
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  Speaker 1: as we are, yet he did not sin. Let us
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  Speaker 1: then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that
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  Speaker 1: we may receive mercy and find grace to help us
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  Speaker 1: in our time of need Hebrews. Five. Every high priest
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  Speaker 1: is selected from among the people and is appointed to
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  Speaker 1: represent the people in matters related to God, to offer
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  Speaker 1: gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal
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  Speaker 1: gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray,
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  Speaker 1: since he himself is subject to weakness. This is why
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  Speaker 1: he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins as
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  Speaker 1: well as for the sins of the people. And no
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  Speaker 1: one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it
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  Speaker 1: when called by God, just as Erin was. In the
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  Speaker 1: same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory
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  Speaker 1: of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,
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  Speaker 1: you are my son. Today I have become your father,
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  Speaker 1: and he says in another place, you are a priest
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  Speaker 1: forever in the Order of Melchizedek. During the days of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions,
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  Speaker 1: with fervent cries and tears to the one who could
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  Speaker 1: save him from death, and he was heard because of
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  Speaker 1: his reverence submission. Son though he was, he learned obedience
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  Speaker 1: from what he suffered, and once made perfect, he became
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  Speaker 1: the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
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  Speaker 1: and was designated by God to be high priest in
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  Speaker 1: the Order of Melchizedek. We have so much to say
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  Speaker 1: about this, but it is hard to make it clear
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  Speaker 1: to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: though by this time you ought to be teachers, you
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  Speaker 1: need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word.
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  Speaker 1: All over again. You need milk, not solid food. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not
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  Speaker 1: acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is
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  Speaker 1: for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves
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  Speaker 1: to distinguish good from evil Hebrews. Six. Therefore, let us
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  Speaker 1: move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken
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  Speaker 1: forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance
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  Speaker 1: from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,
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  Speaker 1: instruction about cleansing rights, the laying on of hands, the
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  Speaker 1: resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment, and God permitting
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  Speaker 1: we will do so. It is impossible for those who
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  Speaker 1: have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift,
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  Speaker 1: who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of the Word of God and the powers
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  Speaker 1: of the coming Age, and who have fallen away, to
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  Speaker 1: be brought back to repentance to their loss. They are
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  Speaker 1: crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting
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  Speaker 1: him to public disgrace. Land that drinks in the rain,
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  Speaker 1: often falling on it, and that produces a crop useful
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  Speaker 1: to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing
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  Speaker 1: of God. But land that produces thorns and thistles is
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  Speaker 1: worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end,
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  Speaker 1: it will be burned. Even though we speak like this,
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  Speaker 1: dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case,
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  Speaker 1: the things that have to do with salvation. God is
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  Speaker 1: not unjust. He will not forget your work and the
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  Speaker 1: love you have shown him. As you have helped his
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  Speaker 1: people and continue to help them. We want each of
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  Speaker 1: you to show this same diligence to the very end,
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  Speaker 1: so that what you hope for may be fully realized.
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  Speaker 1: We do not want you to become lazy, but to
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  Speaker 1: imitate those through faith, in patience, inherit what has been promised.
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  Speaker 1: When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was
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  Speaker 1: no one greater for him to swear by, he swore
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  Speaker 1: by himself, saying I will surely bless you and give
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  Speaker 1: you many descendants. And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received
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  Speaker 1: what was promised. People swear by someone greater than themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and the oath confirms what is said and puts an
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  Speaker 1: end to all argument. Because God wanted to make the
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  Speaker 1: unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the airs
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  Speaker 1: of what was promised. He confirmed it with an oath.
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  Speaker 1: God did this so that by two unchangeable things in
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  Speaker 1: which it is impossible for God to lie, we who
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  Speaker 1: have fled to take hold of the hope set before us,
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  Speaker 1: may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an
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  Speaker 1: anchor for the soul. Insecure it enters the inner sanctuary,
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  Speaker 1: behind the curtain where our forerunner Jesus has entered on
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  Speaker 1: our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in
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  Speaker 1: the order of Melchizedek Hebrews seven. This Melchizedek was King
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  Speaker 1: of Salem and priest of God most high. He met
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  Speaker 1: Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,
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  Speaker 1: and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the
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  Speaker 1: name Melchizedek means king of righteousness. Then also King of
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  Speaker 1: Salem means king of peace, without father or mother, without genealogy,
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  Speaker 1: without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the
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  Speaker 1: son of God. He remains a priest forever. Just think
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  Speaker 1: how great he was. Even the patriarch Abraham gave him
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  Speaker 1: a tenth of the plunder. Now the law requires the
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  Speaker 1: descendants of Levi, who became priests to collect a tenth
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  Speaker 1: from the people, that is, from their fellow Israelites, even
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  Speaker 1: though they also are descended from Abraham. This man, however,
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  Speaker 1: did not trace his descent from Levi. Yet he collected
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  Speaker 1: a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
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  Speaker 1: And without doubt, the lesser is blessed by the greater.
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  Speaker 1: In the one case, the tenth is collected by people
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  Speaker 1: who die, but in the other case by him who
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  Speaker 1: is declared to be living. One might even say that Levi,
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  Speaker 1: who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, because
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  Speaker 1: when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body
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  Speaker 1: of his ancestor. If perfection could have been attained through
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  Speaker 1: the levitical priesthood, and indeed the law given to the
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  Speaker 1: people established at that priesthood, why was there still need
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  Speaker 1: for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek,
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  Speaker 1: not in the order of Erin. For when the priesthood
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  Speaker 1: is changed, the law must be changed. Also he of
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  Speaker 1: whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe,
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  Speaker 1: and no one from that tribe has ever served at
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  Speaker 1: the altar. For it is clear that our Lord descended
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  Speaker 1: from Judah, and in regard to that tribe, Moses said
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  Speaker 1: nothing about priests. And what we have said is even
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  Speaker 1: more clear. If another priest like Melchizedek appears, one who
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  Speaker 1: has become a priest not on the basis of a
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  Speaker 1: regular as to his ancestry, but on the basis of
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  Speaker 1: the power of an indestructible life. For it is declared
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  Speaker 1: you are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
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  Speaker 1: The former regulation is set aside because it was weak
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  Speaker 1: and useless. For the law made nothing perfect, and a
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  Speaker 1: better hope is introduced by which we draw near to God.
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  Speaker 1: And it was not without an oath. Others became priests
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  Speaker 1: without an oath, but he became a priest with an
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  Speaker 1: oath when God said to him, the Lord has sworn
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  Speaker 1: and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever.
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  Speaker 1: Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarranteur of
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  Speaker 1: a better covenant. Now there have been many of those priests,
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  Speaker 1: since death prevented them from continuing in office. But because
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  Speaker 1: Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. Therefore he
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  Speaker 1: is able to save completely those who come to God
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  Speaker 1: through him, because He always lives to intercede for them.
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  Speaker 1: Such a high priest truly meets our need. One who
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  Speaker 1: is wholy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above
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  Speaker 1: the heavens. Unlike the other high priests, he does not
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  Speaker 1: need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his
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  Speaker 1: own sins, and then for the sins of the people.
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  Speaker 1: He sacrificed for their sins once for all, when he
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  Speaker 1: offered himself for the Law appoints as high priests men
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  Speaker 1: and all their weakness. But the oath which came after
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  Speaker 1: the Law appointed the son who has been made perfect
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  Speaker 1: forever Hebrews. Eight. Now, the main point of what we
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  Speaker 1: are saying is this, we do have such a high
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  Speaker 1: priest who sat down at the right hand of the
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  Speaker 1: throne of the Majesty in heaven, and who serves in
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  Speaker 1: the sanctuary, the true tabernacle, set up by the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: not by a mere human being. Every high priest is
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  Speaker 1: appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So it was
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  Speaker 1: necessary for this one also to have something to offer.
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  Speaker 1: If he were on earth, he would not be a priest,
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  Speaker 1: for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed
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  Speaker 1: by the law, they serve as sanctuary, that is, a
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  Speaker 1: copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is
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  Speaker 1: why Moses was warned when he was about to build
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  Speaker 1: the tabernacle. See to it that you make everything according
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  Speaker 1: to the pattern shown you on the mountain. But in fact,
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  Speaker 1: the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to those,
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  Speaker 1: as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior
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  Speaker 1: to the old one, since the new covenant is established
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  Speaker 1: on better promises. For if there had been nothing wrong
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  Speaker 1: with that first covenant, no place would have been sought
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  Speaker 1: for another. But God found fault with the people and said,
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  Speaker 1: the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will
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  Speaker 1: make a new covenant with the people of Israel and
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  Speaker 1: with the people of Judah. It will not be like
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  Speaker 1: the covenant I made with their ancestors, when I took
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  Speaker 1: them by the hand and led them out of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and
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  Speaker 1: I turned away from them, declares the Lord. This is
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  Speaker 1: the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: After that time, declares the Lord, I will put my
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  Speaker 1: laws in their minds I will write them on their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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  Speaker 1: No longer will they teach their neighbor or say to
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  Speaker 1: one another, know the Lord, because they will all know ME,
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  Speaker 1: from the least of them to the greatest. For I
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  Speaker 1: will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.
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  Speaker 1: By calling this covenant new, he has made the first
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  Speaker 1: one obsolete. And what is obsolete and outdated will soon
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  Speaker 1: disappear Hebrews nine. Now, the First Covenant had regulations for
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  Speaker 1: worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set
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  Speaker 1: up in its first room, where the lamp stand and
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  Speaker 1: the table with its consecrated bread. This was called the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called
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  Speaker 1: the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of
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  Speaker 1: incense and the gold covered arc of the Covenant. This
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  Speaker 1: arc contained the gold jar of manna, air and staff
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  Speaker 1: that had budded, and the stone tablets of the Covenant.
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  Speaker 1: Above the ark were the Cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing
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  Speaker 1: the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in
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  Speaker 1: detail now. When everything had been arranged like this, the
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  Speaker 1: priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on
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  Speaker 1: their ministry. But only the High Priest entered the Inner room,
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  Speaker 1: and that only once a year, and never without blood,
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  Speaker 1: which he offered for himself and for the sins the
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  Speaker 1: people had committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit was showing
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  Speaker 1: by this that the way into the Most Holy Place
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  Speaker 1: had not yet been disclosed as long as the first
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  Speaker 1: Tabernacle was still functioning. This is an illustration for the
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  Speaker 1: present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered
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  Speaker 1: were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.
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  Speaker 1: They are only a matter of food and drink in
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  Speaker 1: various ceremonial washings, external regulations applying until the time of
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  Speaker 1: the New Order. But when Christ came as high Priest
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  Speaker 1: of the good things that are now already here, he
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  Speaker 1: went through the greater and more perfect Tabernacle that is
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  Speaker 1: not made with human hands, that is to say, is
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  Speaker 1: not a part of this creation. He did not enter
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  Speaker 1: by means of the blood of goats and calves, but
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  Speaker 1: he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by
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  Speaker 1: his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of
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  Speaker 1: goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled
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  Speaker 1: on those who are ceremonially unclean, sanctify them so that
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  Speaker 1: they are outwardly clean. How much more than will the
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  Speaker 1: blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
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  Speaker 1: unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from the acts that
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  Speaker 1: led to death, so that we may serve the living God.
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  Speaker 1: For this reason, Christ is the mediator of a new covenant,
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  Speaker 1: that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: now that He has died as a ransom to set
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  Speaker 1: them free from the sins committed under the First Covenant.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of a will, it is necessary to
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  Speaker 1: prove the death of the one who made it, because
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  Speaker 1: a will is in force only when somebody has died.
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  Speaker 1: It never takes effect while the one who made it
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  Speaker 1: is living. This is why even the First Covenant was
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  Speaker 1: not put into effect without blood. When Moses had proclaimed
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  Speaker 1: every command of the law to all the people, he
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  Speaker 1: took the blood of calves together with water, scarlet wool,
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  Speaker 1: and branches of hissop, and sprinkled the scroll and all
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  Speaker 1: the people. He said, this is the blood of the
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  Speaker 1: covenant which God has commanded you to keep in the
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  Speaker 1: same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: and everything used in its ceremonies. In fact, the law
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  Speaker 1: requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without
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  Speaker 1: the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. It was necessary,
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  Speaker 1: then for the copies of the heavenly things to be
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  Speaker 1: purified with these sacrifices. But the heavenly things themselves with
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  Speaker 1: better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a
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  Speaker 1: sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy
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  Speaker 1: of the true one. He entered Heaven itself now to
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  Speaker 1: appear for us in God's presence. Nor did he enter
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  Speaker 1: Heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the
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  Speaker 1: high priest enters the most Holy place every year, with
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  Speaker 1: blood that is not his own. Otherwise Christ would have
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  Speaker 1: had to suffer many times since the creation of the world.
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  Speaker 1: But he has appeared once for all at the culmination
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  Speaker 1: of the ages, to do away with sin by the
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice of himself. Just as people are destined to die
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  Speaker 1: once and after that to face judgment, so Christ was
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed once to take away the sins of many, and
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  Speaker 1: he will appear a second time, not to bear sin
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  Speaker 1: but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter ten. The law is only a shadow of
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  Speaker 1: the good things that are coming, not the realities themselves.
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  Speaker 1: For this reason, it can never by the same sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw
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  Speaker 1: near to worship. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being
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  Speaker 1: offered for the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all,
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  Speaker 1: and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
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  Speaker 1: But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. It
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  Speaker 1: is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to
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  Speaker 1: take away sins. Therefore, when Christ came into the world,
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  Speaker 1: he said, sacrifice in offering you did not desire, But
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  Speaker 1: a body you prepared for me. With the burnt offerings
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  Speaker 1: and sin offerings, you were not pleased. Then I said,
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  Speaker 1: here I am, it is written about me and the scroll.
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  Speaker 1: I have come to do your will, my God. First,
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  Speaker 1: he said, sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings
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  Speaker 1: you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them,
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  Speaker 1: though they were offered in accordance with the law. Then
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  Speaker 1: he said, here I am, I have come to do
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  Speaker 1: your will. He sets aside the first to establish the second,
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  Speaker 1: and by that will we have been made holy through
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  Speaker 1: the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ. Once for all,
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  Speaker 1: day after day, every priest stands and performs his religious duties.
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  Speaker 1: Again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can
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  Speaker 1: never take away sins. But when this priest had offered
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  Speaker 1: for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of God. And since that time
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  Speaker 1: he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.
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  Speaker 1: For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those
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  Speaker 1: who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies
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  Speaker 1: to us about this. First, he says, this is the
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  Speaker 1: covenant I will make with them. After that time, says
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts,
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  Speaker 1: and I will write them on their minds. Then he
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  Speaker 1: adds their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.
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  Speaker 1: And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is
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  Speaker 1: no longer necessary. Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have
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  Speaker 1: confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, by a new and living way open for
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  Speaker 1: us through the curtain that is his body. And since
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  Speaker 1: we have a great priest over the house of God,
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  Speaker 1: let us draw near to God with a sincere heart
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  Speaker 1: and with the full assurance that faith brings. Having our
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  Speaker 1: hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience, and
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  Speaker 1: having our bodies washed with pure water, let us hold
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  Speaker 1: unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised
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  Speaker 1: is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur
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  Speaker 1: one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving
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  Speaker 1: up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing,
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  Speaker 1: but encouraging one another. And all the more, as you
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  Speaker 1: see the day approaching, if we deliberately keep on sinning,
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  Speaker 1: after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation
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  Speaker 1: of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the
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  Speaker 1: enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses
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  Speaker 1: died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: How much more severely do you think someone deserves to
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  Speaker 1: be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot,
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  Speaker 1: who has treated as an unholding the blood of the covenant,
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  Speaker 1: that sanctified them, And who has insulted the spirit of grace.
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  Speaker 1: For we know him who said it is mine to avenge,
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  Speaker 1: I will repay, and again the Lord will judge his people.
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  Speaker 1: It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the living God. Remember those earlier days after you
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  Speaker 1: had received a light, when you endured in a great
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  Speaker 1: conflict full of suffering. Sometimes you are publicly exposed to
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  Speaker 1: insult and persecution. At other times you stood side by
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  Speaker 1: side with those who were so treated. You suffered along
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  Speaker 1: with those in prison, and joyfully accepted the confiscation of
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  Speaker 1: your property because you knew that you yourselves had better
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  Speaker 1: and lasting possessions. So do not throw away your confidence.
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  Speaker 1: It will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so
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  Speaker 1: that when you have done the will of God, you
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  Speaker 1: will receive what he has promised for in just a
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  Speaker 1: little while. He who is coming will come and will
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  Speaker 1: not delay. And but my righteous one will live by faith.
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  Speaker 1: And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.
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  Speaker 1: But we do not belong to those who shrink back
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  Speaker 1: and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and
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  Speaker 1: are saved Hebrews chapter eleven. Now faith is the confidence
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  Speaker 1: in what we hope for, an assurance about what we
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  Speaker 1: do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at
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  Speaker 1: God's command, so that what is seen was not made
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  Speaker 1: out of what was visible. By faith, Abel brought God
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  Speaker 1: a better offering than Cain did. By faith, he was
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  Speaker 1: commended as righteous when God spoke well of his offerings,
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  Speaker 1: and by faith, Abel still speaks even though he is dead.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, Enoch was taken from this life so that
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  Speaker 1: he did not experience death. He could not be found
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  Speaker 1: because God had taken him away, for before he was
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  Speaker 1: taken he was commended as one who pleased God. And
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  Speaker 1: without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone
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  Speaker 1: who comes to him must believe that he exists and
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  Speaker 1: that he rewards those who earnestly seek him by faith. Noah,
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  Speaker 1: when warned about things not yet seen and holy fear,
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  Speaker 1: built an ark to save his family. By his faith,
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  Speaker 1: he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness
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  Speaker 1: that is in keeping with faith. By faith, Abraham, when
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  Speaker 1: called to go to a place he would later receive
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  Speaker 1: as his inheritance, obeyed and went even though he did
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  Speaker 1: not know where he was going. By faith, he made
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  Speaker 1: his home in the promised land, like a stranger in
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  Speaker 1: a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
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  Speaker 1: For he was looking forward to the city with foundations,
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  Speaker 1: whose architect and builder is God. And by faith, even Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: who was past child bearing age, was enabled to bear
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  Speaker 1: children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.
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  Speaker 1: And so from this one man and he, as good
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  Speaker 1: as dead, came descendants, as numerous as the stars in
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  Speaker 1: the sky, and as countless as the sand on the
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  Speaker 1: sea shore. All these people were still living by faith.
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  Speaker 1: When they died. They did not receive the things promised.
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  Speaker 1: They only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,
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  Speaker 1: admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People
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  Speaker 1: who say such things show that they are looking for
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  Speaker 1: a country of their own. If they had been thinking
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  Speaker 1: of the country they had left, they would have had
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country,
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  Speaker 1: a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be
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  Speaker 1: called their god, for he has prepared a city for them.
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  Speaker 1: By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as
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  Speaker 1: a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises, was about
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  Speaker 1: to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God
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  Speaker 1: had said to him, it is through Isaac that your
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  Speaker 1: offspring will be reckoned. Abraham reasoned that God could even
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  Speaker 1: raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking,
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  Speaker 1: he did receive Isaac back from death. By faith. Isaac
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  Speaker 1: blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future. By faith. Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons and
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  Speaker 1: worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
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  Speaker 1: By faith. Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about
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  Speaker 1: the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions
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  Speaker 1: concerning the burial of his bones. By faith. Moses's parents
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  Speaker 1: hid him for three months after he was born because
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  Speaker 1: they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were
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  Speaker 1: not afraid of the king's edict. By faith, Moses, when
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  Speaker 1: he had grown up, refused to be known as the
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  Speaker 1: son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along
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  Speaker 1: with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was looking ahead to his reward. By faith,
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  Speaker 1: he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger. He persevered
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  Speaker 1: because he saw him who is invisible. By faith, he
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  Speaker 1: kept the passover in the application of blood, so that
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  Speaker 1: the destroyer of the first born would not touch the
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  Speaker 1: first born of Israel. By faith, the people passed through
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea as on dry land, But when the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. By faith,
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  Speaker 1: the walls of Jericho fell after the army had marched
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  Speaker 1: around them for seven days. By faith, the prostitute Rahab,
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  Speaker 1: because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those
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  Speaker 1: who were disobedient. And what more shall I say? I
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  Speaker 1: do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson,
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  Speaker 1: and Jephtha, about David and Samuel, and the prophets, who
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  Speaker 1: through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised,
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  Speaker 1: who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of
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  Speaker 1: the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword, whose
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  Speaker 1: weakness was turned to strength, and who became powerful in
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  Speaker 1: battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead,
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  Speaker 1: raised to life again. There were others who were tortured,
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  Speaker 1: refusing to be released so that they might gain an
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  Speaker 1: even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even
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  Speaker 1: chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning,
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  Speaker 1: They were sawed in two, they were killed by the sword.
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  Speaker 1: They went about in sheepskins and goat skins, destitute, persecuted
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  Speaker 1: and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them. They
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  Speaker 1: wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in
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  Speaker 1: holes in the ground. These were all commended for their faith,
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  Speaker 1: Yet none of them receives what had been promised, since
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  Speaker 1: God had planned something better for us, so that only
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  Speaker 1: together with us would they be made perfect Hebrews chapter twelve. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: let us throw off everything that hinders in the sin
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  Speaker 1: that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance
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  Speaker 1: the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the pioneer and perfector of faith, for the joy set
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  Speaker 1: before him. He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and
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  Speaker 1: sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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  Speaker 1: Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that
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  Speaker 1: you will not grow weary and lose heart in your
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  Speaker 1: struggle against sin. You have not yet resisted to the
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  Speaker 1: point of shedding your blood. And have you completely forgotten
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  Speaker 1: this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father
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  Speaker 1: addresses his son. It says, my son, do not make
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  Speaker 1: light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart
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  Speaker 1: when he rebukes you. Because the Lord disciplines the one
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  Speaker 1: he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.
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  Speaker 1: Endure hardship as discipline. God is treating you as his children.
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  Speaker 1: But what children are not disciplined by their father. If
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  Speaker 1: you are not disciplined, and everyone undergoes discipline, then you
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  Speaker 1: are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and
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  Speaker 1: we respected them for it. How much more should we
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  Speaker 1: submit to the father of spirits and live. They do
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  Speaker 1: disciplined us for a little while as they thought best.
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  Speaker 1: But God disciplines us for our good in order that
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  Speaker 1: we may share in His holiness. No discipline seems pleasant
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  Speaker 1: at the time, but painful later on. However, it produces
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  Speaker 1: a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have
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  Speaker 1: been trained by it. Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and
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  Speaker 1: weak knees, make level paths for your feet, so that
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  Speaker 1: the lame may not be disabled, but rather field make
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  Speaker 1: every effort to live in peace with everyone, and to
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  Speaker 1: be holy. Without holiness, no one will see The Lord
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  Speaker 1: see to it that no one falls short of the
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  Speaker 1: grace of God, and that no bitter root grows up
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  Speaker 1: to cause trouble and defile. Many see that no one
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  Speaker 1: is sexually immoral or is godless, like Esau, who for
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  Speaker 1: a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. Afterward,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing,
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  Speaker 1: he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears,
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  Speaker 1: he could not change what he had done. You have
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  Speaker 1: not come to a mountain that can be touched, and
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  Speaker 1: that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom and storm,
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  Speaker 1: to a trumpet blast, or to such a voice speaking
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  Speaker 1: words that those who heard it bag that no further
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  Speaker 1: word be spoken to them, because they could not bear
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  Speaker 1: what was commanded. If even an animal touches the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: it must be stoned to death. The sight was so
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  Speaker 1: terrifying that Moses said, I am trembling with fear. But
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  Speaker 1: you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands
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  Speaker 1: upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the Church
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  Speaker 1: of the First Born, whose names are written in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: You have come to God, the judge of all, to
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  Speaker 1: the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood
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  Speaker 1: that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
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  Speaker 1: See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks.
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  Speaker 1: If they did not escape when they refused him who
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  Speaker 1: warned them on earth, how much less will we if
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  Speaker 1: we turn away from him who warns us from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: At that time his voice shook the earth. But now
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  Speaker 1: he has promised once more, I will shaken not only
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  Speaker 1: the earth, but also the heavens. The words once more
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  Speaker 1: indicate the removing of what can be shaken, that is,
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  Speaker 1: created things, so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
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  Speaker 1: Let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably, with
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  Speaker 1: reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter thirteen. Keep on loving one another as brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,
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  Speaker 1: for by doing so, some people have shown hospitality to
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  Speaker 1: angels without knowing it. Continue to remember those in prison
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  Speaker 1: as if you were together with them in prison, and
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  Speaker 1: those who are mistreated, as if you yourselves were suffering.
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  Speaker 1: Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed
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  Speaker 1: kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all
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  Speaker 1: the sexually immoral. Keep your lives free from the love
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  Speaker 1: of money, and be content with what you have. Because
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  Speaker 1: God has said, never will I leave you, never will
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  Speaker 1: I forsake you. So we say with confidence, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is my helper. I will not be afraid. What can
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  Speaker 1: mere mortals do to me. Remember your leaders who spoke
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  Speaker 1: the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of
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  Speaker 1: their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: is the same yesterday and to day and forever. Do
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  Speaker 1: not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.
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  Speaker 1: It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace,
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  Speaker 1: not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit
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  Speaker 1: to those who do so. We have an altar from
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  Speaker 1: which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right
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  Speaker 1: to eat. The High Priest carries the blood of animals
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  Speaker 1: into the most holy place as a sin offering, but
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  Speaker 1: the bodies are burned outside the camp, and so Jesus
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  Speaker 1: also suffered outside the city gate to make the people
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  Speaker 1: wholly through his own blood. Let us then go to
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  Speaker 1: him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For
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  Speaker 1: here we do not have an enduring city, but we
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  Speaker 1: are looking for the city that is to come through Jesus. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise,
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  Speaker 1: the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. And
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  Speaker 1: do not forget to do good and to share with others.
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  Speaker 1: For with such sacrifices God is pleased. Have confidence in
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  Speaker 1: your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep
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  Speaker 1: watch over you as those who must have give an account.
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  Speaker 1: Do this so that their work will be a joy,
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  Speaker 1: not a burden, for that would be of no benefit
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  Speaker 1: to you. Pray for us. We are sure that we
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  Speaker 1: have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in
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  Speaker 1: every way. I particularly urge you to pray so that
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  Speaker 1: I may be restored to you soon. Now, may the
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  Speaker 1: God of Peace, who through the blood of the Eternal Covenant,
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  Speaker 1: brought back from the dead, our Lord, Jesus, that great
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  Speaker 1: shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for
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  Speaker 1: doing his will. And may he work in us what
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  Speaker 1: is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be
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  Speaker 1: glory forever and ever. Amen, Brothers and sisters, I urge
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  Speaker 1: you to bear with my word of exhortation, for in
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  Speaker 1: fact I have written to you quite briefly. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to know that our brother Timothy has been released.
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  Speaker 1: If he arrives soon, I will come with him to
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  Speaker 1: see you. Greet all your leaders and all the Lord's people.
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  Speaker 1: Those from Italy send you their greetings. Grace be with
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  Speaker 1: you all Hebrews Chapter one. In the past spoke to
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  Speaker 1: our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in
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  Speaker 1: various ways. But in these last days he has spoken
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  Speaker 1: to us by his son, whom he appointed heir of
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  Speaker 1: all things, and through whom also he made the universe.
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  Speaker 1: The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the
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  Speaker 1: exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his
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  Speaker 1: powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he
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  Speaker 1: sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: So he became as much superior to the angels as
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  Speaker 1: the name he has inherited is superior to theirs. For
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  Speaker 1: to which of the angels did God ever say, you
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  Speaker 1: are my son? Today I have become your father. Or
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  Speaker 1: again I will be his father, and he will be
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  Speaker 1: my son. And again when God brings his first born
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  Speaker 1: into the world, he says, let all God's angels worship him.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of the angels, he says, he makes his
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  Speaker 1: angels spirits and his servants flames of fire. But about
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  Speaker 1: the sun, he says, your throne, o, God, will last
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  Speaker 1: forever and ever. A scepter of justice will be the
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  Speaker 1: scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore, God,
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  Speaker 1: your God, has set you above your companions by anointing
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  Speaker 1: you with the oil of joy. He also says, in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and the heavens are the work of your hands. They
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  Speaker 1: will perish, but you remain. They will all wear out
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  Speaker 1: like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe.
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  Speaker 1: Like a garment. They will be changed, but you remain
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  Speaker 1: the same, and your years will never end. To which
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  Speaker 1: of the angels did God ever say, set up my
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  Speaker 1: right hand until I make your enemies a footstool, for
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  Speaker 1: your feet? Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to
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  Speaker 1: serve those who will inherit salvation Hebrews chapter two. We
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  Speaker 1: must pay the most careful attention therefore to what we
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  Speaker 1: have heard, so that we do not drift away. For
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  Speaker 1: since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every
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  Speaker 1: violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we
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  Speaker 1: escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation,
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  Speaker 1: which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to
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  Speaker 1: us by those who hurt him. God also testified to
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  Speaker 1: it by signs, wonders, in various miracles, and by gifts
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. It
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  Speaker 1: is not two angels that He has subjected the world
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  Speaker 1: to come about which we are speaking. But there is
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  Speaker 1: a place where someone has testified. What is mankind that
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  Speaker 1: you are mindful of them? A son of man that
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  Speaker 1: you care for him. You made them a little lower
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  Speaker 1: than the angels. You crowned them with glory and honor,
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  Speaker 1: and put everything under their feet. In putting everything under them,
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  Speaker 1: God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet
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  Speaker 1: at present we do not see everything subject to them,
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  Speaker 1: but we do see Jesus, who was made lower than
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  Speaker 1: the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory
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  Speaker 1: and honor, because he suffered death, so that, by the
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  Speaker 1: grace of God, he might taste death for everyone. In
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  Speaker 1: bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting
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  Speaker 1: that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should
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  Speaker 1: make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.
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  Speaker 1: Both the one who makes people holy and those who
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  Speaker 1: are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: in the assembly, I will sing your praises, and again
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  Speaker 1: I will put my trust in Him. And again he says,
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  Speaker 1: here am I in the children God has given me.
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  Speaker 1: Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared
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  Speaker 1: in their humanity, so that by his death he might
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  Speaker 1: break the power of him who holds the power of death,
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  Speaker 1: that is the devil, and free those who all their
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  Speaker 1: lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
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  Speaker 1: For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.
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  Speaker 1: For this reason, he had to be made like them,
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  Speaker 1: fully human in every way, in order that he might
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  Speaker 1: become a merciful and faithful high priest and service to God,
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  Speaker 1: and that he might make atonement for the sins of
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  Speaker 1: the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted,
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  Speaker 1: he is able to help those who are being tempted
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter three. Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, whose share
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  Speaker 1: in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom
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  Speaker 1: we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. He was
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  Speaker 1: faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses
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  Speaker 1: was faithful in all God's house. Jesus has been found
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  Speaker 1: worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder
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  Speaker 1: of a house has a greater honor than the house itself.
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  Speaker 1: For every house is built by someone, but God is
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  Speaker 1: the builder of everything. Moses was faithful as a servant
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  Speaker 1: in all God's house, bearing witness to what would be
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  Speaker 1: spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful
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  Speaker 1: as the sun over God's house, and we are his house.
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  Speaker 1: If indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the
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  Speaker 1: hope in which we glory, So as the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: says today, if you hear his voice, do not harden
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  Speaker 1: your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the
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  Speaker 1: time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested
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  Speaker 1: and tried me. Though for forty years they saw what
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  Speaker 1: I did. That is why I was angry with that generation.
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  Speaker 1: I said, their hearts are always going astray, and they
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  Speaker 1: have not known my ways. So I declared on oath
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  Speaker 1: and my anger, they shall never enter my rest. See
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  Speaker 1: to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has
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  Speaker 1: a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: But encourage one another daily as long as it is
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  Speaker 1: called today, so that none of you may be hardened
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  Speaker 1: by sins deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: If indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the
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  Speaker 1: very end, as has just been said today, if you
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  Speaker 1: hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you
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  Speaker 1: did in the rebellion. Who were they who heard and rebelled?
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  Speaker 1: Were they not all those Moses let out of Egypt?
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  Speaker 1: And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was
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  Speaker 1: it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness? And to whom did God swear that they
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  Speaker 1: would never enter his rest? If not to those who disobeyed.
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  Speaker 1: So we see that they were not able to enter
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  Speaker 1: because of their unbelief Hebrews chapter four. Therefore, since the
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  Speaker 1: promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be
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  Speaker 1: careful that none of you be found to have fallen
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  Speaker 1: short of it. For we also have had the good
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  Speaker 1: news proclaimed to us, just as they did. But the
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  Speaker 1: message they heard was of no value to them because
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  Speaker 1: they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we who have believed, enter that rest, just as God
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  Speaker 1: has said. So I declared on oath in my anger,
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  Speaker 1: they shall never enter my rest. And yet His works
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  Speaker 1: have been finished since the creation of the world. For
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  Speaker 1: somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words.
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  Speaker 1: On the seventh day God rested from all his works.
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  Speaker 1: And again in the passage above he says, they shall
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  Speaker 1: never enter my rest. Therefore, since it still remains for
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  Speaker 1: some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly
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  Speaker 1: had the good news proclaimed to them did not go
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  Speaker 1: in because of their disobedience, God again set a certain day,
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  Speaker 1: calling it today. This he did when a law long
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  Speaker 1: time later he spoke through David, as in the passage
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  Speaker 1: already quoted today. If you hear his voice, do not
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  Speaker 1: harden your hearts, for if Joshua had given them rest,
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  Speaker 1: God would not have spoken later about another day. There
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  Speaker 1: remains then a sabbath rest for the people of God.
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  Speaker 1: For anyone who enters God's rest also rests from their works,
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  Speaker 1: just as God did from his. Let us therefore, make
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  Speaker 1: every effort to enter that rest, so that no one
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  Speaker 1: will perish by following their example of disobedience. For the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God is alive and active, sharper than any
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  Speaker 1: double edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,
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  Speaker 1: joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of
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  Speaker 1: the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is uncovered, laid bare before the eyes of Him,
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  Speaker 1: to whom we must give account. Therefore, since we have
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  Speaker 1: a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the Son of God. Let us hold firmly to the
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  Speaker 1: faith we profess, for we do not have a high
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  Speaker 1: priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses. But
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  Speaker 1: we have one who has been tempted in every way
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  Speaker 1: just as we are, yet he did not sin. Let
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  Speaker 1: us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so
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  Speaker 1: that we may receive mercy and find grace to help
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  Speaker 1: us in our time of need Hebrews. Five. Every high
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  Speaker 1: priest is selected from among the people and is appointed
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  Speaker 1: to represent the people in matters related to God, to
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  Speaker 1: offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to
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  Speaker 1: deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray,
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  Speaker 1: since he himself is subject to weakness. This is why
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  Speaker 1: he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins as
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  Speaker 1: well as for the sins of the people. And no
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  Speaker 1: one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it
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  Speaker 1: when called by God, just as Erin was. In the
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  Speaker 1: same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory
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  Speaker 1: of becoming a high priest, but God said to him,
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  Speaker 1: you are my son. Today I have become your father,
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  Speaker 1: and he says in another place, you are a priest
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  Speaker 1: forever in the Order of Melchizedek. During the days of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions
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  Speaker 1: with fervent cries and tears to the one who could
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  Speaker 1: save him from death, and he was heard because of
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  Speaker 1: his reverence submission. Son though he was, he learned obedience
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  Speaker 1: from what he suffered, and once made perfect, he became
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  Speaker 1: the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
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  Speaker 1: and was designated by God to be high priest in
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  Speaker 1: the Order of Melchizedeic. We have so much to say
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  Speaker 1: about this, but it is hard to make it clear
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  Speaker 1: to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: though by this time you ought to be teachers, you
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  Speaker 1: need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's
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  Speaker 1: word all over again. You need milk, not solid food.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is
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  Speaker 1: not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food
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  Speaker 1: is for the mature, who by constant use have trained
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  Speaker 1: themselves to distinguish good from evil Hebrews six. Therefore, let
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  Speaker 1: us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be
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  Speaker 1: taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: in God, instruction about cleansing rights, the laying on of hands,
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment, and God
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  Speaker 1: permitting we will do so. It is impossible for those
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  Speaker 1: who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift,
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  Speaker 1: who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of the Word of God and the powers
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  Speaker 1: of the coming Age, and who have fallen away, to
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  Speaker 1: be brought back to repentance. To their loss, they are
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  Speaker 1: crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting
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  Speaker 1: him to public disgrace. Land that drinks in the rain,
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  Speaker 1: often falling on it, and that produces a crop useful
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  Speaker 1: to those for whom it is farmed, receives the blessing
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  Speaker 1: of God. But land that produces thorns and thistles is
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  Speaker 1: worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end,
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  Speaker 1: it will be burned. Even though we speak like this,
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  Speaker 1: dear friends, we are convinced of better things. In your case,
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  Speaker 1: the things that have to do with salvation. God is
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  Speaker 1: not unjust. He will not forget your work and the
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  Speaker 1: love you have shown him. As you have helped his
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  Speaker 1: people and continue to help them. We want each of
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  Speaker 1: you to show this same diligence to the very end,
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  Speaker 1: so that what you hope for may be fully realized.
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  Speaker 1: We do not want you to become lazy, but to
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  Speaker 1: imitate those who, through faith in patience, inherit what has
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  Speaker 1: been promised. When God made his promise to Abraham, since
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  Speaker 1: there was no one greater for him to swear by,
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  Speaker 1: he swore by himself, saying, I will surely bless you
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  Speaker 1: and give you many descendants. And so after waiting patiently,
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  Speaker 1: Abraham received what was promised. People swear by someone greater
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  Speaker 1: than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and
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  Speaker 1: puts an end to all argument. Because God wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to
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  Speaker 1: the airs of what was promised, he confirmed it with
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  Speaker 1: an oath. God did this so that by two unchangeable
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  Speaker 1: things in which it is impossible for God to lie,
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  Speaker 1: we who have fled to take hold of the hope
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  Speaker 1: set before us, may be greatly encouraged. We have this
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  Speaker 1: hope as an anchor for the soul firm insecure, it
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  Speaker 1: enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where our forerunner
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has entered on our behalf. He has become a
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  Speaker 1: high priest forever. In the order of Melchizedek Hebrews. Seven.
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  Speaker 1: This Melchizedek was King of Salem and priest of God
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  Speaker 1: most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of
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  Speaker 1: the kings and blessed him, and Abraham gave him a
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  Speaker 1: tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means king of righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: Then also King of Salem means king of peace, without
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  Speaker 1: father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or
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  Speaker 1: end of life, resembling the son of God. He remains
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  Speaker 1: a priest forever. Just think how great he was. Even
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  Speaker 1: the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the law requires the descendants of Levi who became priests
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  Speaker 1: to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from
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  Speaker 1: their fellow Israelites, even though they also are descended from Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him,
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  Speaker 1: who had the promises and without doubt the lesser is
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  Speaker 1: blessed by the greater. In the one case, the tenth
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  Speaker 1: is collected by people who die, but in the other
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  Speaker 1: case by him who is declared to be living. One
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  Speaker 1: might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid
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  Speaker 1: the tenth through Abraham, because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi
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  Speaker 1: was still in the body of his ancestor. If perfection
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  Speaker 1: could have been attained through the levitical priesthood, and indeed
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  Speaker 1: the law given to the people established at that priesthood,
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  Speaker 1: why was there still need for another priest to come,
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  Speaker 1: one in the order of Melkiss, not in the order
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  Speaker 1: of Erin. For when the priesthood is changed, the law
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  Speaker 1: must be changed. Also he of whom these things are
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  Speaker 1: said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from
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  Speaker 1: that tribe has ever served at the altar. For it
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  Speaker 1: is clear that our lord descended from Judah, and in
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  Speaker 1: regard to that tribe, Moses said nothing about priests. And
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: what we have said is even more clear. If another
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  Speaker 1: priest like Melchizedeck appears, one who has become a priest
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  Speaker 1: not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry,
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  Speaker 1: but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.
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  Speaker 1: For it is declared you are a priest forever. In
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  Speaker 1: the order of Melchizedek. The former regulation is set aside
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  Speaker 1: because it was weak and useless. For the law made
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  Speaker 1: nothing perfect, and a better hope is introduced by which
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  Speaker 1: we draw near to God. And it was not without
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  Speaker 1: an oath. Others became priests without an oath, but he
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  Speaker 1: became a priest with an oath when God said to him,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.
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  Speaker 1: You are a priest forever. Because of this oath, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: has become the guaranteur of a better covenant. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: have been many of those priests, since death prevented them
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  Speaker 1: from continuing in office. But because Jesus lives forever, he
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  Speaker 1: has a permanent priesthood. Therefore he is able to save
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  Speaker 1: completely those who come to God through him because he
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  Speaker 1: always lives to intercede for them. Such a high priest
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  Speaker 1: truly meets our need. One who is holy, blameless, pure,
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  Speaker 1: set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. Unlike the
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  Speaker 1: other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: day after day, first for his own sins, and then
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  Speaker 1: for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their
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  Speaker 1: sins once for all, when he offered himself for the
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  Speaker 1: Law appoints as high priests men and all their weakness.
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  Speaker 1: But the oath which came after the Law appointed the Sun,
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  Speaker 1: who has been made perfect forever Hebrews. Eight. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: main point of what we are saying saying is this,
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  Speaker 1: we do have such a high priest who sat down
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty
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  Speaker 1: in heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle,
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  Speaker 1: set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.
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  Speaker 1: Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices.
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  Speaker 1: So it was necessary for this one also to have
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  Speaker 1: something to offer. If he were on earth, he would
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  Speaker 1: not be a priest, for there are already priests who
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  Speaker 1: offer the gifts prescribed by the Law. They serve at
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  Speaker 1: a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what
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  Speaker 1: is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when
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  Speaker 1: he was about to build the tabernacle. See to it
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  Speaker 1: that you make everything according to the pattern shown you
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  Speaker 1: on the mountain, But in fact, the ministry ge Jesus
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  Speaker 1: has received is as superior to those as the covenant
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  Speaker 1: of which he is mediator is superior to the old one,
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  Speaker 1: since the new covenant is established on better promises. For
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  Speaker 1: if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant,
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  Speaker 1: no place would have been sought for another. But God
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  Speaker 1: found fault with the people and said, the days are coming,
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  Speaker 1: declares the Lord. When I will make a new covenant
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  Speaker 1: with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
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  Speaker 1: It will not be like the covenant I made with
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  Speaker 1: their ancestors, when I took them by the hand and
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  Speaker 1: led them out of Egypt. Because they did not remain
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  Speaker 1: faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them,
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  Speaker 1: declares the Lord. This is the covenant I will establish
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  Speaker 1: with the people of Israel. After that time, declares the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I will put my laws in their minds. I will
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  Speaker 1: write them on their hearts. I will be their God,
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  Speaker 1: and they will be my people. No longer will they
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  Speaker 1: teach their neighbor or say to one another, know the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: because they will all know ME, from the least of
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  Speaker 1: them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness
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  Speaker 1: and will remember their sins no more. By calling this
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  Speaker 1: covenant new, he has made the first one obsolete. And
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  Speaker 1: what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear Hebrews nine. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the First Covenant had regulations for worship and also an
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  Speaker 1: earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up in its first room,
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  Speaker 1: where the lamp stand and the table with its consecrated bread.
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  Speaker 1: This was called the Holy Place. Behind the second cur
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  Speaker 1: was a room called the most Holy Place, which had
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  Speaker 1: the golden altar of incense and the gold covered arc
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  Speaker 1: of the Covenant. This arc contained the gold jar of manna,
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  Speaker 1: aaron staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of
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  Speaker 1: the Covenant above the ark or the Cherubim of the Glory,
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  Speaker 1: overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things
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  Speaker 1: in detail now. When everything had been arranged like this,
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  Speaker 1: the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry
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  Speaker 1: on their ministry. But only the High Priest entered the
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  Speaker 1: inner room, and that only once a year, and never
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  Speaker 1: without blood, which he offered for himself and for the
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  Speaker 1: sins the people had committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: was showing by this that the way into the Most
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  Speaker 1: Holy place had not yet been disclosed as long as
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  Speaker 1: the first Tabernacle was still functioning. This is an illustration
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  Speaker 1: for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: being offered were not able to clear the conscience of
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  Speaker 1: the worshiper. They are only a matter of food and
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  Speaker 1: drink in various ceremonial washings, external regulations applying until the
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  Speaker 1: time of the New Order. But when Christ came as
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  Speaker 1: high priest of the good things that are now already here,
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  Speaker 1: he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that
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  Speaker 1: is not made with human hands, that is to say,
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  Speaker 1: is not a part of this creation. He did not
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  Speaker 1: enter by means of the blood of goats and calves,
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  Speaker 1: but he entered the most holy place once for all
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  Speaker 1: by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood
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  Speaker 1: of goats and bowls and the ashes of a heifer
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  Speaker 1: sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean, sanctify them so
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  Speaker 1: that they are outwardly clean. How much more than while
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  Speaker 1: the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
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  Speaker 1: himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from the acts
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  Speaker 1: that led to death, so that we may serve the
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  Speaker 1: living God. For this reason, Christ is the mediator of
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  Speaker 1: a new covenant, that those who are called may receive
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  Speaker 1: the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died as
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  Speaker 1: a ransom to set them free from the sins committed
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  Speaker 1: under the First Covenant. In the case of a will,
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  Speaker 1: it is necessary to prove the death of the one
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  Speaker 1: who made it, because a will is in force only
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  Speaker 1: when somebody has died. It never takes effect while the
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  Speaker 1: one who made it is living. This is why even
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  Speaker 1: the First Covenant was not put into effect without blood.
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  Speaker 1: When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to
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  Speaker 1: all the people, he took the blood of calves, together
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  Speaker 1: with water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled
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  Speaker 1: the scroll and all the people. He said, this is
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  Speaker 1: the blood of the Covenant, which God has commanded you
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  Speaker 1: to keep. In the same way, he sprinkled with the
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  Speaker 1: blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed
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  Speaker 1: with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is
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  Speaker 1: no forgiveness. It was necessary, then, for the copies of
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  Speaker 1: the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but
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  Speaker 1: the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For
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  Speaker 1: Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands
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  Speaker 1: that was only a copy of the true one. He
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  Speaker 1: entered Heaven itself now to appear for us in God's presence.
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  Speaker 1: Nor did he enter Heaven to offer himself again and again,
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  Speaker 1: the way the high priest enters the most holy place
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  Speaker 1: every year, with blood that is not his own. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: Christ would have had to suffer many times since the
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  Speaker 1: creation of the world. But he has appeared once for
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  Speaker 1: all at the culmination of the ages, to do away
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  Speaker 1: with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as people
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  Speaker 1: are destined to die once and after that to face judgment.
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  Speaker 1: So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins
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  Speaker 1: of many, and he will appear a second time, not
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  Speaker 1: to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who
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  Speaker 1: are waiting for him. Hebrews, chapter ten. The Law is
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  Speaker 1: only a shadow of the good things that are coming,
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  Speaker 1: not the realities themselves. For this reason, it can never,
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  Speaker 1: by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make
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  Speaker 1: perfect those who draw near to worship. Otherwise would they
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  Speaker 1: not have stopped being offered, for the worshippers would have
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  Speaker 1: been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have
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  Speaker 1: felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an
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  Speaker 1: annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood
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  Speaker 1: of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when
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  Speaker 1: Christ came into the world, he said, sacrifice in offering
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  Speaker 1: you did not desire, But a body you prepared for me.
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  Speaker 1: For the burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
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  Speaker 1: Then I said, here I am, it is written about
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  Speaker 1: me and the scroll. I have come to do your will,
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  Speaker 1: my God. First he said, sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings
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  Speaker 1: and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you
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  Speaker 1: pleased with them, though they were offered in accordance with
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  Speaker 1: the law. Then he said, here I am, I have
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  Speaker 1: come to do your will. He sets aside the first
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  Speaker 1: to establish the second, and by that will we have
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  Speaker 1: been made wholly through the sacrifice of the body of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ once for all, day after day, every priest
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  Speaker 1: stands and performs his religious duties. Again and again, he
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  Speaker 1: offers the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.
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  Speaker 1: But when this priest had offered for all time one
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand
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  Speaker 1: of God. And since that time he waits for his
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  Speaker 1: enemies to be made his footstool, for by one sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First,
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  Speaker 1: he says, this is the covenant I will make with them.
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  Speaker 1: After that time, says the Lord, I will put my
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  Speaker 1: laws in their hearts, and I will write them on
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  Speaker 1: their minds. Then he adds their sins and lawless acts,
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  Speaker 1: I will remember no more. And where these have been forgiven,
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. Therefore, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: since we have confidence to enter the most holy place
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  Speaker 1: by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living
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  Speaker 1: way open for us through the curtain that is His body,
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  Speaker 1: and since we have a great priest over the House
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  Speaker 1: of God, let us draw near to God with a
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  Speaker 1: sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings.
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  Speaker 1: Having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience,
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  Speaker 1: and having our bodies washed with pure water, let us
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  Speaker 1: hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who
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  Speaker 1: promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may
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  Speaker 1: spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not
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  Speaker 1: giving up meeting together as some are in the howait
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  Speaker 1: of doing, but encouraging one another. And all the more,
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  Speaker 1: as you see the day approaching, if we deliberately keep
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  Speaker 1: on sinning. After we have received the knowledge of the truth,
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  Speaker 1: no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful
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  Speaker 1: expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume
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  Speaker 1: the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of
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  Speaker 1: Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or
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  Speaker 1: three witnesses. How much more severely do you think someone
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  Speaker 1: deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of
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  Speaker 1: God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the
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  Speaker 1: blood of the Covenant that sanctified them, and who has
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  Speaker 1: insulted the spirit of grace. For we know him who
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  Speaker 1: said it is mine to avenge, I will repay, and
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  Speaker 1: again the Lord will judge his people. It is a
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  Speaker 1: dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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  Speaker 1: Remember those earlier days after you had received a light
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  Speaker 1: when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you are publicly exposed to insult and persecution. At
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  Speaker 1: other times you stood side by side with those who
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  Speaker 1: were so treated. You suffered along with those in prison,
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  Speaker 1: and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property because you
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  Speaker 1: knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. So
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  Speaker 1: do not throw away your confidence. It will be richly rewarded.
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  Speaker 1: You need to persevere so that when you have done
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  Speaker 1: the will of God, you will receive what he has
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  Speaker 1: promised for in just a little while. He who is
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  Speaker 1: coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous
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  Speaker 1: one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure
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  Speaker 1: in the one who shrinks back. But we do not
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  Speaker 1: belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but
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  Speaker 1: to those who have faith and are saved Hebrews chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for
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  Speaker 1: and assurance about what we do not see. This is
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  Speaker 1: what the ancients were commended for. By faith. We understand
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  Speaker 1: that the universe was formed at God's command, so that
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  Speaker 1: what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, he was commended as righteous when God spoke
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  Speaker 1: well of his offerings, and by faith, Abel still speaks
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  Speaker 1: even though he is dead. By faith, Enoch was taken
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  Speaker 1: from this life so that he did not experience death.
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  Speaker 1: He could not be found because God had taken him away,
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  Speaker 1: for before he was taken he was commended as one
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  Speaker 1: who pleased God. And without faith, it is impossible to
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  Speaker 1: please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe
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  Speaker 1: that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly
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  Speaker 1: seek him by faith. Noah, when warned about things not
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  Speaker 1: yet seen and holy fear, built an ark to save
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  Speaker 1: his family. By his faith, he condemned the world and
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  Speaker 1: became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with
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  Speaker 1: faith by faith. Abraham, when called to go to a
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  Speaker 1: place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went,
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  Speaker 1: even though he did not know where he was going.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, he made his home in the Promised Land.
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  Speaker 1: Like a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents,
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  Speaker 1: as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him
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  Speaker 1: of the same promise. For he was looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: the city with foundations whose architect and builder is God.
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  Speaker 1: And by faith, even Sarah, who was past child bearing age,
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  Speaker 1: was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful
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  Speaker 1: who had made the promise. And so from this one
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  Speaker 1: man and he, as good as dead, came descendants, as
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  Speaker 1: numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless
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  Speaker 1: as the sand on the sea shore. All these people
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  Speaker 1: were still living by faith. When they died. They did
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  Speaker 1: not receive the things promised. They only saw them and
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  Speaker 1: welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners
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  Speaker 1: and strangers on earth. People who say such things show
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  Speaker 1: that they are looking for a country of their own.
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  Speaker 1: If they had been thinking of the country they had left,
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  Speaker 1: they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were
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  Speaker 1: longing for a better country, heavenly one. Therefore, God is
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  Speaker 1: not ashamed to be called their god, for he has
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  Speaker 1: prepared a city for them by faith. Abraham, when God
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  Speaker 1: tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had
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  Speaker 1: embraced the promises, was about to sacrifice his one and
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  Speaker 1: only son, even though God had said to him, it
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  Speaker 1: is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. Abraham
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  Speaker 1: reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so
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  Speaker 1: in a manner of speaking. He did receive Isaac back
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  Speaker 1: from death. By faith. Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: regard to their future. By faith. Jacob, when he was dying,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: blessed each of Joseph's sons and worshiped as he leaned
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  Speaker 1: on the top of his staff. By faith, Joseph, when
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  Speaker 1: his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of
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  Speaker 1: his bones. By faith, Moses's parents hid him for three
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  Speaker 1: months after he was born because they saw he was
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  Speaker 1: no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the
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  Speaker 1: king's edict. By faith, Moses, when he had grown up,
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  Speaker 1: refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God,
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  Speaker 1: rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He
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  Speaker 1: regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater
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  Speaker 1: value than the treasures of Egypt. Because he was looking
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  Speaker 1: ahead to his reward. By faith, he left Egypt, not
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  Speaker 1: fearing the king's anger. He persevered because he saw him
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  Speaker 1: who is invisible. By faith, he kept the passover in
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: the application of blood so that the destroyer of the
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  Speaker 1: first born would not touch the first born of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, the peoples assed through the Red Sea as
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  Speaker 1: on dry land, But when the Egyptians tried to do so,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: they were drowned. By faith, the walls of Jericho fell
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  Speaker 1: after the army had marched around them for seven days.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, the prostitute Rayhab, because she welcomed the spies,
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  Speaker 1: was not killed with those who were disobedient. And what
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  Speaker 1: more shall I say? I do not have time to
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  Speaker 1: tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephtha, about David and Samuel,
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  Speaker 1: and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice,
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  Speaker 1: and gained what was promised, who shut the mouths of lions,
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  Speaker 1: quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge
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  Speaker 1: of the sword, whose weakness was turned to strength, and
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  Speaker 1: who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women
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  Speaker 1: received back their dead, raised to life again. There were
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  Speaker 1: others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that
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  Speaker 1: they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers
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  Speaker 1: and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put
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  Speaker 1: to death by stoning. They were sawed in two, they
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  Speaker 1: were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins
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  Speaker 1: and goat skins, destitute, persecuted, and mistreated. The world was
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  Speaker 1: not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: living in caves and in holes in the ground. These
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: were all commended for their faith, Yet none of them
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  Speaker 1: received what had been promised, since God had planned something
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  Speaker 1: better for us, so that only together with us would
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  Speaker 1: they be made perfect Hebrews chapter twelve. Therefore, since we
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  Speaker 1: are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let
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  Speaker 1: us throw off everything that hinders in the sin that
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  Speaker 1: so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the
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  Speaker 1: race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the pioneer and perfector of faith, for the joy set
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  Speaker 1: before him. He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and
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  Speaker 1: sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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  Speaker 1: Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that
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  Speaker 1: you will not grow weary and lose heart in your
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  Speaker 1: struggle against sin. You have not yet resisted to the
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  Speaker 1: point of shedding your blood, And have you completely forgotten
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  Speaker 1: this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father
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  Speaker 1: addresses his son, It says, my son, do not make
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  Speaker 1: light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart
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  Speaker 1: when he rebukes you. Because the Lord disciplines the one
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  Speaker 1: he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.
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  Speaker 1: Endure hardship as discipline. God is treating you as his children.
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  Speaker 1: But what children are not disciplined by their father. If
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  Speaker 1: you are not disciplined, and everyone undergoes discipline, then you
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  Speaker 1: are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and
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  Speaker 1: we respected them for it. How much more should we
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  Speaker 1: submit to the father of spirits and live. They disciplined
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  Speaker 1: us for a little while as they thought best. But
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  Speaker 1: God disciplines us for our good, in order that we
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  Speaker 1: may share in His holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at
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  Speaker 1: the time, but painful later on. However, it produces a
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  Speaker 1: harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been
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  Speaker 1: trained by it. Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees,
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  Speaker 1: Make level paths for your feet, so that the lame
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  Speaker 1: may not be disabled, but rather healed. Make every effort
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  Speaker 1: to live in peace with everyone and to be holy.
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  Speaker 1: Without holiness, no one will see the Lord see to
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  Speaker 1: it that no one falls short of the grace of God,
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  Speaker 1: and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble
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  Speaker 1: and defile. Many see that no one is sexually immoral
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  Speaker 1: or is godless, like Esau, who for a single meal
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  Speaker 1: sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. Afterward, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he
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  Speaker 1: was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears,
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  Speaker 1: he could not change what he had done. You have
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  Speaker 1: not come to a mountain that can be touched, and
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  Speaker 1: that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom and storm,
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  Speaker 1: to a trumpet blast, or to such a voice speaking
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  Speaker 1: words that those who heard it beg that no further
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  Speaker 1: word be spoken to them, because they could not bear
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  Speaker 1: what was commanded. If even an animal touches the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: it must be stoned to death. The sight was so
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  Speaker 1: terrifying that Moses said, I am trembling with fear. But
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  Speaker 1: you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands
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  Speaker 1: upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the Church
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  Speaker 1: of the first Born, whose names are written in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: You have come to God, the judge of all, to
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  Speaker 1: the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood
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  Speaker 1: that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
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  Speaker 1: See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks.
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  Speaker 1: If they did not escape when they refused him who
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  Speaker 1: warned them on earth, how much less will we if
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  Speaker 1: we turn away from him who warns us from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: At that time his voice shook the earth. But now
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  Speaker 1: he has promised once more, I will shaken not only
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  Speaker 1: the earth, but also the heavens. The words once more
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  Speaker 1: indicate the removing of what can be shaken, that is,
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  Speaker 1: created things, so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,
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  Speaker 1: let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably, with
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  Speaker 1: reverence and awe, For our God is a consuming fire
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter thirteen. Keep on loving one another as brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,
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  Speaker 1: for by doing so, some people have shown hospitality to
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  Speaker 1: angels without knowing it, continue to remember those in prison
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  Speaker 1: as if you were together with them in prison, and
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  Speaker 1: those who are mistreated, as if you yourselves were suffering.
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  Speaker 1: Marriage should be honored by all in the marriage bed
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  Speaker 1: kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all
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  Speaker 1: the sexually immoral. Keep your lives free from the love
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  Speaker 1: of money, and be content with what you have. Because
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  Speaker 1: God has said, never will I leave you, never will
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  Speaker 1: I forsake you. So we say with confidence, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is my helper. I will not be afraid. What can
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  Speaker 1: mere mortals do to me? Remember your leaders who spoke
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  Speaker 1: the word of God to you, Consider the outcome of
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  Speaker 1: their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: is the same, yesterday and today and forever. Do not
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  Speaker 1: be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It
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  Speaker 1: is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace,
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  Speaker 1: not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit
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  Speaker 1: to those who do so. We have an altar from
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  Speaker 1: which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right
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  Speaker 1: to eat. The High Priest carries the blood of animals
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  Speaker 1: into the most holy place as a sin offering, but
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  Speaker 1: the bodies are burned outside the camp, and so Jesus
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  Speaker 1: also suffered outside the city gate to make the people
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  Speaker 1: wholly through his own blood. Let Us then go to
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  Speaker 1: him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore, for
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  Speaker 1: here we do not have an enduring city, but we
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  Speaker 1: are looking for the city that is to come through Jesus. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise,
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  Speaker 1: the fruit of life, lips that openly profess his name,
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  Speaker 1: and do not forget to do good and to share
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  Speaker 1: with others. For with such sacrifices God is pleased. Have
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  Speaker 1: confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because
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  Speaker 1: they keep watch over you as those who must have
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  Speaker 1: give an account. Do this so that their work will
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  Speaker 1: be a joy, not a burden, for that would be
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  Speaker 1: of no benefit to you. Pray for us. We are
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  Speaker 1: sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to
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  Speaker 1: live honorably in every way. I particularly urge you to
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  Speaker 1: pray so that I may be restored to you soon. Now,
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  Speaker 1: may the God of Peace, who through the blood of
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  Speaker 1: the Eternal Covenant, brought back from the dead, our Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything
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  Speaker 1: good for doing his will. And may he work in
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  Speaker 1: us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to
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  Speaker 1: whom be glory forever and ever. Amen, Brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation,
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  Speaker 1: for in fact I have written to you quite briefly.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know that our brother Timothy has
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  Speaker 1: been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with
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  Speaker 1: him to see you. Greet all your leaders and all
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's people. Those from Italy send you their greetings.
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  Speaker 1: Grace be with you all