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Hebrews 10 Pt. 2 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good Tuesday morning as we head into this day. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start it the best way possible, and that is by
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  Speaker 1: spending time with God. I just love reading God's word,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, every day, and at the start of the
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  Speaker 1: day is the best time possible because you kind of
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  Speaker 1: set your mind for the day. It focuses your life
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  Speaker 1: so that all day these thoughts can be helping you.
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  Speaker 1: Approach life with God's perspective, and that's the way to
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  Speaker 1: approach life every single day of your life. We're reading
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  Speaker 1: through the book of Hebrews, and we're in chapter 10
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  Speaker 1: this week. I love the passage that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: read today because of what it says to you about guilt.
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  Speaker 1: Let me read it.
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  Speaker 1: He starts off, therefore brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Since we have confidence to enter the holy places by
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  Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus, and you remember he's been talking
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that Jesus once for all through His
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice of Himself.
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  Speaker 1: He took the place of those sacrificial animals that were
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  Speaker 1: offered in the Old Testament. Those don't need to be
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  Speaker 1: offered any more because He is the thing that all
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  Speaker 1: of those were pointing towards, and that is Jesus died
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  Speaker 1: on the cross for you and me to take our
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  Speaker 1: place so that we could be forgiven by God. In
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament temple, there was a most holy place
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  Speaker 1: that represented the place of the presence of God.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a big curtain separating that from everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Only the high priest could go there and only once
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  Speaker 1: every year to offer his sacrifice for the sins of
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  Speaker 1: the people.
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  Speaker 1: But no more. When Jesus died on the cross, that curtain,
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  Speaker 1: that separating thing in the temple, was ripped in two
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  Speaker 1: by God, showing us that that way is open for us. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the writer says, since we have confidence to enter the
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  Speaker 1: holy places, that is, to come right into the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God.
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  Speaker 1: By the blood of Jesus, by the new and living
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  Speaker 1: way that He opened for us through the curtain, and
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  Speaker 1: that is through His flesh, and since we have a
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  Speaker 1: great priest over the house of God.
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  Speaker 1: Let us draw near with a true heart in full
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  Speaker 1: assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an
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  Speaker 1: evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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  Speaker 1: I love that picture. You've been totally prepared to go
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  Speaker 1: into the presence of God. You don't need to come
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  Speaker 1: fearfully wondering if God's going to judge you, wondering what
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  Speaker 1: He's going to do to you. No. Whatever God held
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  Speaker 1: against you has been paid in full by what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did at the cross. He not only took your penalty,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says He took your guilt itself.
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  Speaker 1: So when you think of coming to God, if you've
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  Speaker 1: got this load of guilt that you've been dragging around
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  Speaker 1: and you think, I can't go to God, all these
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  Speaker 1: things just keep coming up into my mind anytime I
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  Speaker 1: think about getting right with God, and I know God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to see me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you need to forget those things because God has
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  Speaker 1: forgotten them. Your guilt itself was taken by Jesus, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he paid your penalty, because He took your guilt.
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  Speaker 1: And that means when God looks at you now, if
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  Speaker 1: you've put your trust in Jesus and asked God to
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  Speaker 1: forgive you on the basis of what Jesus did at
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  Speaker 1: the cross, He sees you as clean. He sees you
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  Speaker 1: as pure.
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  Speaker 1: He sees you as not guilty. He's so ready for
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  Speaker 1: you to draw near to him.
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  Speaker 1: Not near grovelling but near as his dear son, as
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  Speaker 1: his dear daughter, to just come right to him, put
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  Speaker 1: your arms around him, you see what he says, draw
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  Speaker 1: near with a full assurance of faith, with your heart
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  Speaker 1: sprinkled clean from an evil conscience. If your conscience is
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  Speaker 1: telling you you're too guilty to go to God, that's
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  Speaker 1: an evil conscience. It's not right.
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  Speaker 1: And you need to teach your conscience what is true
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  Speaker 1: is what God says about me, and that is that
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  Speaker 1: He loves me. He's forgiven me, He sees me as
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  Speaker 1: clean and pure, and I can come to Him close
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  Speaker 1: to Him with confidence. Do that right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North