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Christ the True and Better - Hebrews 3:1-6 - The True and Better Prophet pt.1 · Mount Eaton Church

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  All right, here we go.
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  Hebrews 3, 1 through 6.
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  Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle
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  and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him, who appointed him, just as
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  Moses also was faithful in all God's house.
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  For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, as much more glory as the
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  builder of the house has more honor than the house itself.
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  For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
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  Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant to testify to the things that
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  were to be spoken later.
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  But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son.
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  And we are his house if we indeed hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
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  Three basic principles I'm going to be sharing with you and some supporting statements that
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  go along with that scripture and other things.
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  So let's go.
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  First principle number one, Christ the builder and faithful delegate to the family of God
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  reminds us of our heavenly calling.
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  Christ the builder and faithful delegate of the family of God reminds us of our heavenly
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  calling.
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  You guys remember that wonderful hymn?
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  Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
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  Look full into his wonderful face and the things of earth will go strangely dim in the
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  light of his glory and grace.
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  There's a verse in there that says this, his word shall not fail you, he promised.
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  Believe him and all will be well.
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  Then go to a world that is dying, his perfect salvation to tell.
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  Helen H. Lemel, 1922.
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  Now in Hebrews, when we're dealing with this issue of Christ the better prophet, there's
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  some clarifications that are being said here I want you to pay attention to.
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  It says therefore holy brothers, holy brothers.
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  This means the brethren in Christ or those exalted to the same heavenly place.
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  That's important because there's this term right afterwards that says you who share in
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  a heavenly calling.
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  Now what's interesting is A would imply that there would be many heavenly callings but
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  there's only one.
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  It's actually I think the right translation, the right word that should have been used
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  there is if we as holy brothers, those who are exalted to the same heavenly place as Christ,
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  we are with him in his heaven and that he sits at the right hand of God the Father,
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  then we who share in that heavenly place have what we share is the heavenly calling, the
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  heavenly calling.
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  There is one heavenly calling.
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  That heavenly calling is the calling to salvation.
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  It's like I don't have a different calling than you.
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  God doesn't have a purpose for my life and he has a purpose for yours.
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  It's the same purpose.
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  It's the same calling.
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  Eternity with Christ, the eternal calling.
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  It's important that we understand this because when he says consider Jesus, you'll understand
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  that this word consider means to fix one's mind or eyes upon.
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  So when you're running a race and you want to finish the race and you feel like you want
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  to give up, the reason why you finish the race and you run hard is because you see the
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  finish line.
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  You know there is a goal and so you're striving so he is our prize as we have stated before.
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  Fix one's mind or eyes upon Jesus.
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  Consider Jesus.
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  Do you think about Jesus?
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  Are you looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith?
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  Very important as we are considering him, as we are fixing our minds upon him.
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  Why should we fix our minds upon him who is our heavenly calling?
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  Well, because he is the apostle.
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  He is the delegate and messenger.
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  He is the first apostle.
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  He is the better apostle.
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  You can only be an apostle if you have, one, if you're Christ, two, if you've been taught
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  directly by Christ, have seen Christ and have walked with Christ.
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  Very important.
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  No one else can claim that.
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  There's no other apostles on the earth.
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  So if there's a denomination that teaches you, hey, that's apostle such and such, run.
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  There is no other apostle.
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  The apostles that all of the Word of Faith movement and the Charismatic movement keep
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  pushing apostleship.
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  There aren't no apostles.
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  There are no apostles.
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  I know aren't no is a double negative.
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  That's why I said it.
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  That means no, no, no more.
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  Okay?
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  That's not good English, but as a preacher, I think we can get away with the aren't no
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  or as they would say the ain't no.
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  All right?
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  Now if Christ is the apostle and the high priest of our confession, then you understand
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  why we should fix our eyes upon him.
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  He's the message and he is the messenger.
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  He is the high priest, the one who on our behalf goes before the father and cares for
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  us, deals with our sin.
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  He is the advocate for you.
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  What is this confession?
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  The word confession here also means the profession.
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  What do we profess?
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  Christ crucified.
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  Paul says, I have known nothing before you except Christ and him crucified.
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  The gospel is our confession and the gospel is what we profess.
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  So if this is true, then we don't need anything else and I don't need.
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  You like that?
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  All right.
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  Good.
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  He is our apostle and high priest.
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  Now what's interesting is verse two, who was faithful to him who appointed him?
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  In other words, God, the father has set before time, he who would be our propitiation.
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  Do you remember we talked about that last week?
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  That's why he is the one who was faithful to accomplish what the father has planned
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  perfectly.
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  This is not by surprise.
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  This was by design.
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  You're like what?
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  God has designed salvation.
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  He is the creator of it.
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  He's the one who plans it.
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  He's the one who established it.
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  He's the one who sets it up and has fulfilled it.
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  It's an amazing redemptive work of God.
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  And if this never happened, if man never sinned, you would never experience the amazing character
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  of God's redemption.
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  It's necessary.
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  So much bigger than our minds can ever imagine.
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  So when he says, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house, meaning God's family,
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  who's more faithful?
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  So this word God's house is the family of God.
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  It's not a building.
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  You are that building.
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  You are the living stones.
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  You are the household of God, the family of God.
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  Two, as believers.
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  Principle number two, unless the Lord builds the house, those who build labor in vain,
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  Psalm 127, one.
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  Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain, Psalm 127, verse one.
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  Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be a wise man who built
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  his house on the rock.
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  Matthew 7 24.
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  That's what Jesus says.
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  Jesus is the builder.
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  He is the rock.
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  Now in Hebrews three, three and four, it says this, for Jesus has been counted worthy.
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  Really, really an amazing word.
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  Axial.
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  Axial means deserving, fit or right.
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  In other words, he is the one who is deserving.
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  He is the only one who is fit and he is the only one who is right of more glory than Moses.
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  Now why would the writers say this?
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  Because understand, apart from Moses, there is no greater prophet in the mind of a Jew.
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  He is in their minds the pinnacle.
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  Because many times you would see in the conversation that Jesus has, well you're greater than our
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  father Abraham or you're better than Moses.
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  Yes, he is.
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  And that's the point.
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  He is the only one who is deserving, fit or right of more glory than Moses.
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  Moses is so unique that out of all the prophets, a prophet would receive a word from God by
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  vision or dream.
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  That's how he would hear from God.
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  Moses, though, on the other hand, is the only prophet that God spoke face to face.
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  That's how unique Moses is.
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  And what the writer is saying, what the father is saying here is Jesus is the one who is
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  more deserving, fit and right of more glory than that.
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  Why?
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  Because he is the one who spoke to Moses.
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  Here check it out.
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  He says, as much more glory as the builder has or of a house has more honor than the
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  house itself.
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  In other words, Christ is the builder and if Christ is the builder, the house doesn't
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  get more glory.
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  The builder gets the glory.
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  I wonder if we really understand that.
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  Because there's a lot of houses of worship, quote unquote, being built in the name of
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  God, but it's not in the image of God.
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  And so this word builder means to equip, prepare or make ready, to erect or construct.
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  See he is the only one who is worthy, who is capable of equipping his people, preparing
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  his people, making ready his people, building a temple of his people and constructing that
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  temple.
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  He is the one who carasculco a Zeus.
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  And that house, the builder has more honor than the house itself.
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  But what do we talk about when we talk about churches?
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  Do we talk about Christ, the king of the church?
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  Or we talk about man, you got to go to that church.
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  It's amazing.
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  That music is awesome.
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  You ever notice that?
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  Churches are recognized for the music they play, not for the Christ they reflect.
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  Isn't that interesting?
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  You know, I mean I have to go to Elevation Worship, that music is banging.
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  But then you look at their life and go, your life is trash.
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  But that's church.
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  People want churches that fit their taste buds, but they don't want churches that are biblically
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  sound.
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  We are committed as a part of the body and the family of God to reflect Christ in everything
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  we do.
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  Everything.
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  And sometimes that's going to make people uncomfortable.
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  And that's okay.
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  So if this is true, look what it says in verse 4.
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  For every house is built by someone.
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  There's a lot of people building houses, but the builder of all things is God.
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  And what's interesting is, if God builds it, he can also take it down.
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  What's amazing about the church, in the church that he's building is, not even the gates
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  of hell can prevail over her.
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  That building of people is firmly established.
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  Why?
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  Because anyone who builds a house on the rock is wise.
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  Wise.
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  Third principle.
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  Christ the true heir and rightful owner and deed holder of all that was promised.
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  Christ is the heir of the promise.
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  Christ is the rightful owner of the promises and he is the deed holder of the promise.
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  I want you to get that.
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  It's very important.
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  Think about this.
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  Christ comes, gives his life, pays the price, his world, his land, his city, and then we
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  go, no, it doesn't belong to him.
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  It actually belongs to, you guessed it, the Jews.
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  And that's not biblical.
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  If he's the one who fulfilled the rightful promises, if he's the one who accomplished,
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  if he's the one who fulfilled the deed that's required for it, then he's the one who owns
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  it.
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  And that's clarified here.
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  Here's the scripture.
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  All things have been handed over to me by my father.
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  All.
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  What's all things?
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  All things have been handed over to me.
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  In other words, I am the owner.
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  I am the heir and I am the deed holder.
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  Mine.
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  He has the right to that.
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  He is the one who is fit and right to receive all of those things.
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  He is the faithful.
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  Now if all of this is true, it continues to say in Matthew 11, 27, and no one knows the
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  son except the father and no one knows the father except the son and anyone to whom the
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  son chooses to reveal him.
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  Interesting.
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  Many people claim rights to something they don't own.
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  God owns it all.
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  This is important because in verse five through six, we clarify this.
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  Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant.
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  Moses was faithful in all of God's family as a servant.
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  What is a servant?
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  He's a slave.
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  His job is to serve.
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  He is the one to serve.
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  He's to serve the owner.
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  Now what's interesting about this particular word in the Greek, this word is theropon.
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  Theropon.
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  Now theropon is, what I liked about this particularly is it speaks especially to Moses.
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  It's like one word that's not, it can apply to many others, but specifically when you're
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  talking about the servant Moses, this is his word.
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  Out of all the words, this is the word that they would associate servant Moses, theropon.
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  The word means an attendant or discharging the duties committed to him.
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  Isn't that interesting?
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  Out of everyone, Moses was the servant of God.
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  Moses was the deliverer.
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  Moses was the redeemer.
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  Moses was the high priest.
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  Moses was the what?
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  The general leader.
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  He was all these things to the people of Israel.
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  But nonetheless, he was not the builder owner.
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  He was the servant.
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  He was the theropon.
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  Now if Moses is the one who is the attendant or the discharging of the duties committed
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  to him, specifically speaking of Moses, what was he discharged to do?
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  Well that's a good question because it's right there in the verse.
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  To testify of the things that were to be spoken later.
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  What things?
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  Jesus talks about this when he's on the road to Emmaus.
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  Does he not?
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  A couple guys come around and he says, have you not learned all that Moses and the prophets
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  had spoken about me?
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  These are the things that were to be spoken later.
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  These are what Moses was pointing to.
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  Moses the servant, the faithful witness, was pointing to someone greater than him.
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  He was pointing to Jesus the better.
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  That's the point.
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  And so we read in verse 6, but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son.
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  If Moses was faithful over God's house as a slave, as a servant, as a theropon, then
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  Christ is faithful over God's house as the heir, the owner.
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  No matter where you go, you can go to verse after verse after verse.
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  If God has given him all things and he is the rightful heir of the inheritance of God,
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  then why in the world would he exclude one particular thing?
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  The land of Israel.
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  Does that make sense?
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  Oh no, it doesn't make sense.
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  As a matter of fact, he clarifies this because you see what he is talking about.
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  It's never been about the land.
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  Look what it's about.
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  The second part of verse 6, Christ is faithful over God's house as a son and we are his house.
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  You are his inheritance.
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  You.
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  Everything he has is for himself to be with his people for eternity.
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  That's the point.
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  He is far better than Moses ever could be.
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  And Moses knew this.
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  I mean, can you imagine you go up to Mount Sinai and you stand there and you're watching
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  a bush not burn and the one standing in the midst of the bush is one who was the son of
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  man.
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  Jesus is standing in the bush.
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  Conversation.
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  He goes, he comes back, he meets with them again on Mount Sinai and what's he do?
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  Has a conversation.
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  Let me see your glory.
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  No, you'll die, buddy.
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  Well just let me see the back.
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  Okay.
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  And then he meets with Jesus face to face and have a conversation.
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  I mean, it's an amazing thought.
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  You think Moses didn't know?
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  Of course Moses knew.
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  He knew exactly who he was talking to.
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  And so Moses was always pointing to the one who he spoke to face to face.
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  See Jesus.
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  See Jesus the better tabernacle.
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  See Jesus the better sacrifice.
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  See Jesus the better prophet, the better messenger.
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  See Jesus.
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  See Jesus the one who was to be lifted up.
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  Your salvation.
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  It's always been pointing to him and Moses knew this.
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  And so if Christ is faithful over God's house as a son and we are his house, what's the
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  proof that we are his house and here it is.
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  You ready?
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  Last part.
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  If indeed we hold fast and are boasting, right?
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  With confidence and are boasting in our hope.
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  So here it is.
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  If we, if we indeed hold fast, this word hold fast means to keep secure or firm possession
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  of.
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  Let's the scripture say that in the last days will happen.
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  Many will fall away from the faith.
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  What is the faith?
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  The gospel.
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  What do you see all over the place?
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  Anybody preaching the gospel?
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  No.
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  And so many have fallen away.
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  They're not, they're not holding their confidence.
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  So if we indeed hold fast, keep possession, firm possession of our confidence, parousia
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  is the word here.
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  Parousia, if you want to roll the Rs.
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  Free and fearless confidence.
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  Do we really live in a way where it is free and fearless confidence?
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  How confident are you in Christ in his gospel?
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  Right?
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  So when we're looking at this reality of the fear, the free and fearless competence, do
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  we really walk in that with that kind of, that kind of, uh, of, uh, boldness.
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  And then he uses the word of our boasting.
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  This boasting means that of which one glories.
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  Do you glory in your hope?
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  Do you have confidence in the hope?
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  If you have confidence in the hope, fear, free and fearless confidence.
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  If you glory in the hope, what is your hope?
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  Now what's interesting about this word hope is this word hope means joyful and confident
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  expectation of salvation or he who is its foundation.
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  Oh, so he's the better builder.
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  It's his house.
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  And if he builds his house, he builds his house on him who is the cornerstone and the
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  servant do thereupon points to the builder and says, he is the better.
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  And we who are his building, who are his house, we who, who, who, who are his family, we need
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  to make sure that we have established firmly our confidence and our boasting our glories
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  in the one who is its foundation.
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  Christ is the cornerstone.
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  He is the beginning.
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  Christ is the foundation, which the prophets and the apostles have left for us.
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  He is the truth, the foundational.
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  He is the sound doctrine that we walk in.
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  Can there, can there be anything that will blow this house down?
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  No.
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  Why?
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  Because if he has established her on the rock, then we will be strong and firm.
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  The wise man who built his house on the rock, who's the wise man?
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  Jesus is that wise man.
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  So why is Christ the true and better prophet? because Moses can't even compare.
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  He's a candlestick compared to the, the brightest glory you can imagine.
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  So let's get ready for a little walk in the Old Testament next week to clarify this out
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  more as we look at the servant Moses and his pointing to Jesus.
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  So we can see the real, true and better prophet.
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  Father, I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness.
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  Thank you that you, Lord Jesus, are the true and better.
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  That you in your wisdom have built a house that is firmly established upon you and upon
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  your doctrine, your truth, and that you are continually building her up and that we are
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  your family, that you in your loving grace not only elect us and call us into your home,
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  but that you sanctify us and purify us that we may be presentable, washed by the water
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  of the word and be presentable to you for when you come.
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  May you be honored and glorified in Jesus name.
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  Amen.