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Hebrews Part 27 - Simply Christ Bible Study · Simply Christ Podcast

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All righty, welcome to tonight's webinar.
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We are getting ready to study the Bible and go through that
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again. We're going to inspect God's
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Word. We're going to look at it and we
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are going to let it be Trump and transform our lives for the next
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hour. We are going to discuss through
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Hebrews. We're going to be in Chapter 9
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and going to discuss that piece by piece through the we're
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missing a couple guys tonight, but that will not stop us would
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be just fine. And if anyone else is listing in
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point of view on some of these verses, we would definitely
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Ministries. Tonight we are going to start in
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Hebrews Chapter 9 verse 23. We're going to take up the rest
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of Chapter 9 hopefully and on into 10 probably.
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you'd like. All right, before we get
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started, let's let's have a word of prayer.
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God, we just thank you for a spoop of believers.
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We thank you for your word. God, we thank you for your
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spirit that you have given us to guide us to make alive this word
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that you gave us. And God, tonight as we look at
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these words, I hope that you would open our eyes.
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I pray that you would guide us to speak the truth and bring to
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mind the things that should be talked about and let us forget
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the things that shouldn't. And God, I also pray that
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whoever is listening, that their hearts could be open to the word
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of God, that they could transform and change each of our
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lives. God, we just thank you for the
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commitment of these the guys that are on this webinar.
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Bless us. Amen.
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Amen. OK, ah, going to start in kind
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of honor. Ah, verse here.
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Let me find it real quick. I should have had my Bible open
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to it and I was paging around on some other stuff.
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Chapter 9, verse 23 says it was therefore necessary that the
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pattern of things in the heavens should be purified with these,
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but the heavenly things themselves with better
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sacrifices than these. And to get a running start a
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little bit. We are still talking here and we
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didn't get very far last week because we got kind of went down
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a Bunny trail and and it was, it was really good.
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We talked about how that in verse 22 and almost all things
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are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood,
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there is no remission. So we were talking about how
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that our sins are actually paid for.
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And we were talking about how that we tend to want to like go
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the extra mile and, and you know, do all this confessing
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stuff or whatever and go back to kind of a, a works or something
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that we can do to hopefully please God.
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Where he is making the point here very clearly that it is the
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blood of Jesus that cleanses us from all sin.
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It's that simple. It's that cure pure.
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If you are under the blood and if you're a believer, you are,
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then you are clean and you stand 100% OK with God the Father.
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Such beautiful, simple truth here that he's talking.
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So that's kind of what we were talking about.
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That's kind of what Hebrews is trying to get us to see is that
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there's not it's not in angels, it's not in the keeping of the
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law. It's not in Melchizedek.
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It's not in all this different things goes through.
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It's not about it's and and most recently he's talking about the
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Tabernacle, the physical Tabernacle and how that Jesus is
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even better sacrifice than what the the sacrifice is made by the
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blood of calves of goats. And so anyway that's that's
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going to be the context running start.
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But we are going to start there with verse 23 and talking about
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how that I'll read it again. It was therefore necessary that
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the pattern of things in these heaven in the heavens should be
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purified with these but the heavenly things themselves with
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better sacrifices than these than these sacrifices that are
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that are being made by the sprinkling of the blood.
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He just got done saying that that the in the law they took
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the blood of calves and the goats with water and scarlet
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wool with his up and sprinkled both the book and all the people
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and all that, you know, the physical ordinances that they
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went through. And so with that, I'll toss it
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to you, Andrew, and if you have any, if you have anything
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really, it's kind of a in between verse here.
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We'll get into some other stuff here a little bit later.
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Yeah, I guess I want to say it. It says it was therefore
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necessary that the patterns of the things in the heaven should
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be purified with these, but with in the heavenly things
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themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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So if you go back just a little bit that we went through in
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verse 11, he says, But Christ being common high priest of good
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things to come by greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not
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mate with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by
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the blood of goats and cast, but by his own blood.
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He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
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redemption for us. Or if the blood of bulls and
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goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean
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sanctifier to the purifier of the flesh, how much more shall
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the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
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himself without spot to God, purchase your conscience from
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dead works to serve for living God.
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And that I think that ties in here where it says it was
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therefore necessary that the patterns of things in heaven
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should be purified with these what the heavenly things
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themselves with the better sacrifice than these.
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So Christ was that better sacrifice.
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That's what he's still building up on is how much better Christ
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is and his sacrifice than the bulls and goats.
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And also that it has to be done in the heavenly one, the true
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Tabernacle. It's not good enough with just
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the earthly one, with #1 with the bulls and goats.
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That blood is not sufficient. But it was a way of remission.
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It was a type of blood for temporary remission for sin.
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But we need a better blood, and we need the true Tabernacle.
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Sprinkle with a better blood and he's going to tell us what that
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there is here in the next verse and what it does.
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Yeah. So the pattern of things in the
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heavens that should be purified with these that the patterns of
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things is, is the things that he just got done listing that were
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in the earthly Tabernacle, right.
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And so that had to be sprinkled with blood.
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We we just read that last week. So that's what he's talking
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about of the patterns of things. Those are the things.
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But then he says, but the heavenly things themselves with
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better sacrifices than these. And he's just, he's going to
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show us in the next verse what that, what the heavenly things
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looks like. But in first Peter, it says you
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got to remember that the, the, all the things that are in the
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earthly Tabernacle, the, the, all the yeah, the sheer bread
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and, and the table. Oh, I can't think of what it's
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called. Yeah, the cherubims.
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All that stuff was God commanded it to be covered with gold and
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how that was all supposed to happen.
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And in first Peter it says this, it says for so much then as you
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know that you are not redeemed with corruptible things as
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silver and gold from your vain conversation received by the
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tradition from your Father's, but with the precious blood of
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Christ. So that's what he's about to
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show us here, the what is the heavenly things, but with the
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precious blood of Christ as of a land without blemish and without
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spot. So those gold, the gold and
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silver things, the things that would have been redeemed as
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corruptible things, those are all corruptible.
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The, the things that were in the earthly Tabernacle, even though
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they were coated, coated with gold and, and built with
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precision, and God told him exactly how to make them, they
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were, they would have, they're going to corrupt, they're going
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to rot, they're going to disappear, right?
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And that's what he's trying to show us here then said it goes
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on to say there that who barely was for ordained talking about
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Christ before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in
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these last times for you who by him do believe in God that
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raised him up from the dead and give him glory that your faith
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and hope might be God. So that is, that's the what he's
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pointing out here, that Christ is so much better than these
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corruptible things that were a pattern, an earthly pattern of
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the true Tabernacle, which is in heaven.
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And Christ came and covered his blood.
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And we're we're going to get into that in the next chapter,
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in the next. Verse Yeah, it might also be
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good to remember again this if before we went through where he
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pointed out the significance of an eternal Tabernacle in
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everlasting, like forever. So God, you know, like you said,
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this Tabernacle was destroyed, so it was very corruptible
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because it doesn't even exist to this day.
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And there's an eternal where God dwells, a place up there where
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it matters, where heaven itself, where God dwells, that
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somebody's going to make it up there.
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We're going to see you in the next where somebody's going to
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make it up there and get into the holy of the holiest with
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blood, a better blood. Somebody's going to make it in
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there without dying, without getting stopped, without
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getting. He doesn't need a chain around
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his ankle. He doesn't need a chain around
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his ankle. He's he's the kind of high
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priest that he's going in there by himself.
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He's going to go in there with his blood, his own blood, not
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the blood of calves, not the blood of goats, but his own
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blood. And he's going to go to the
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other one in the heaven itself that is eternal.
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And that's going to have eternal significance to all the people
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that he did it for. Yeah, and he, he's not going to
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have to purify himself like the the high priest had to right the
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earth, the high priest and they had to purify themselves.
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Before they went to the Holy Holies.
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Jesus was perfect. He was.
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Holy perfect, he didn't have to purify himself.
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Right. Yeah, I need a bell around his
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ankle. Yeah, he didn't need a bell or
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nothing. Yeah.
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Yeah, there was there was there was no danger of him being
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killed by God for the sin because he had none.
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You. Know because he went up there
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without spot. Yeah, yeah, it's I was just
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reading that in verse 14. Yeah, 914 without spot.
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There was no, no, I, I find it interesting.
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You know, it's kind of like I remember as a as a young child
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standing, you know, coming where we're somewhere for Sunday
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afternoon or whatever baby cooking.
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You know what we used to do? Go look at the babies when they
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were, but that was kind of customary that we would go
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visit, you know, after someone had a baby.
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And, you know, sometimes we, the boys would get into stuff that
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we knew was probably wrong or something that dad wouldn't
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approve of. And then you, you know, when you
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get back to dad, you, you kind of, you don't look him in the
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eye. You're shifty, you know, you
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your conscience isn't quite right, you know, and you, you,
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you're, I wouldn't say you're scared, but you're not, you're
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not at peace, right. And then contrast that with like
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Jesus coming into the presence of God with that, with that
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blood, which I'll read here in just a second, you know, perfect
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and pure. There, there he can look at
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straight in the eye and, and behold him and there's no.
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Can you see those balloons? Like, yeah.
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That's. What I do when you use your
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hands or something? It seems like every time I move
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my hands a lot. Isn't that cute?
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I like that. Yeah.
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Good around my beard I kind of like.
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That I think it's the beard that creates all these blooms.
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I don't know, maybe I shake my hands too much anyway, so I'll
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read that verse. I just, I just, you know, it's
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great to be able to stand in any authority figures presence with
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a clean conscience, you know, a cop or your dad or, you know,
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whatever. And, and so that's, that's who,
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who that's what Christ did. Yeah.
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What you're sharing is exactly what he talked about in verse
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14. Perch your conscience.
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That's as deep as it goes. Yeah, anyway, yeah, all right.
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Sounds good, Cam. Yeah, lol to the Blues.
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Yeah, same in great, great resting point for a person's
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purses conscience. That is awesome.
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I love it all right. Verse 24 for Christ is not
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entered into the holy place places made with hands which are
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the figures of the true, but into heaven itself now to appear
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in the presence of God for us. You know, I I just like it and
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I'll just say this I'll I'll let you go Andrew.
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But some of the most comforting language in this verse is the
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last two words. Exactly.
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For us, I mean that this this whole entire thing is, is done
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for us, you know, and, and all that we're reading, we're in
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chapter 10 of Hebrews and we're almost at the back cover of the
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Bible here. And all this was reading written
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and done for us. And so I, I think highly of a
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God that sent his son, spent his own son's blood for the payment
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on the three that are US. I think that's beautiful.
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So anyway, I will let you go ahead, Andrew, if you're ready.
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Did you hear all that ruckus? I heard some noise back there,
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yeah. Yeah, a cat got in the house and
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the girls freaked out and it's from Gaze it Out.
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I can send you some balloons if you think.
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That yeah, it's a black cat too. Good.
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You're not superstitious. I.
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No, no, no, I'm not. Yeah, this.
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This is one of the most powerful verses in the Bible.
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I believe Christ is not entered in the holy places made with
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hands. So where are we going to go when
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we die to? Heaven.
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Where are we going to meet? The heavenly places, Heaven the
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place. Itself, right?
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Like we're going to meet God where he dwells.
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That's right. Where he's at, you know, when he
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was down here at the Tabernacle, he appeared to the people in the
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like with the Ark of the Covenant.
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It was sort of like he was there.
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But this is home. This is this is where we're
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going to meet and this is where we're going to be judged.
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This is where you're going to face God.
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This God that throughout our whole lives, his Spirit was
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saying, hey, that's wrong. Hey, you need, you're guilty,
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you need, you know, our whole lives, that thing that's been
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pricking in our conscience, that thing that has been bothering us
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when we did wrong, we were created by God for him, but yet
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we were not like him because we were evil.
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We had sin, we were separated. But God is constantly saying,
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hey, hey, I, you're not at a good place.
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You need me, you need my love, You need to be reconciled, you
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need to be restored, you need to be, You need me because you're
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going to meet me one day. And here Jesus is preparing for
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us to meet God. In peace, hey?
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Man Amen. It's not going to have that.
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What's that thing called the thing that even you put it down
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and it kills its death or scepter.
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Yeah, we're not afraid of that thing.
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Jesus Christ is not going into any kind of man made temple that
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Solomon built. He's going into the one that
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that the true one that was the built according to the true like
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the IT the the one down here was built according to the one that
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Jesus is going into with blood, the everlasting one for us.
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Amen. For us.
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That's right. Ah.
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To all who will believe, right? Yeah.
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And the next verses are going to explain the significance of him
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going in there obtaining eternal redemption for us.
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Yeah. I'll make more comments later as
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we go down through there. But right now I'm going to leave
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it at. That and the other thing is I
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was just thinking now as you were talking that you know the
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reason that God commanded Moses to construct a earthly
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Tabernacle is because we can't come in the presence of God in
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in these in this body like we need a glorified body.
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And so for us as. Man in the flesh, if there had
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to be an earthly Tabernacle, that God would come between the
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cherubims like we described, right for the High Priest to go.
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Into the Holy. Holies, right.
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And to meet with God. Yeah, Because there was no other
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way, right? That's right.
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Right. So now, now Christ is the only
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one that could enter into the actual heavenly Tabernacle,
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right? Because there's no man, there's
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no physical man like a fleshly man like me or you or anybody
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that can go could go up into the heavenly Tabernacle with blood
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and redeem mankind from their sins.
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And, and so that's what he's saying here.
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Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands.
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It couldn't be made with hands. That heavenly Tabernacle is not
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made with hands. It's not earthly, it's heavenly.
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So he was perfect and pure and entered into that with, with
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with his blood, but into heaven itself now to appear in the
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presence of God, like you said, Leanna, for us.
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For. You and.
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For me, right? And so why, why would I think
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that I could somehow create my own righteousness or, or come to
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God with my own works or, or whatever?
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I mean, it's just not possible. You just Christ has done it for
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you and I. It's done it it it happened 2000
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/ 2000 years ago and it's not going to change and it's
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complete. It's done.
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All we have to do is believe that by faith and enter into
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that and then God is going to well in us with his Spirit.
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But yeah. My question to that, you know,
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like why? Why would we do that?
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Go and establish our own righteousness?
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My question is like, why would we?
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Why would you attempt that? Even with such a perfect
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sacrifice that we're reading about, there's there's no way
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you're going to top that anyway, or even get.
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Well, if you don't understand, like if you don't study this the
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way we're studying it, right? If you don't understand, like
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this has been a blessing to me myself, right?
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Reading through this in Hebrews here verse by verse, and it's
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just it, it blows your mind the significance of what Christ has
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done. And if you don't understand that
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or see that and you're just going around here on the earth,
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you know, trying to make a living and and trying to do all
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these things on your own, which I have not.
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I did for many years. And you don't think about all
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that, right? And so you just it.
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Yeah. And that's what I would say.
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Why, right. That's why I ignore.
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That's right. Hey.
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Cam just raised his hand to say. Cam, can you hear me OK?
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Yes, I got you all. Right.
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Can I do the video too or would you rather be on the on the
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audio? Oh yeah, you look tough.
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You guys aren't going to fall back.
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Hey, yeah, yeah, go ahead and chime in.
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There he is. Yeah, there we go.
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That we can see you what's good evening Pacific that you wanted
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to talk about Cam? Yeah, I just, I just thought I'd
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also highlight on something that that I see here while you guys
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are talking. You asked the question.
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You asked the question, why would a person go about like
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this, going about to establish your own righteousness?
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The main thing is, and that's the reason for this study and
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this scholarship here is that people, people actually don't
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know. They're ignorant of what God is
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doing. That's.
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Right. Though so yeah, they're they're
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absolutely ignorant of the works that were completed on our
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behalf. Like they, they think it if
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there is this awesome eternal redemption that's supposed to
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function and it's without works, it's hard for a person to grasp.
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Well, let's I like, I like these studies here the way we have it
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just to show the works of Jesus Christ.
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But there are works behind what we believe.
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There is there's actually eternal perfection behind what
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we believe. And so we we need to show that.
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And verse 2627 and 28 really slow it down.
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I've been reading them over and over here since you guys, while
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you guys have been talking. And it's amazing how it goes
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from the foundation of the world to to the the end of the world.
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Here in verse 26, it actually points that out twice.
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And that's very that's very, very important for the person
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who who needs a map that basically time and you basically
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you need a bird's eye view and overlay of what's going on in
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the world. Like what in the world is going
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on. Well, verse 26 tells you it
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comforts the human conscience. I believe so, yeah.
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That's all. Yeah.
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And if you want to stay on, you can or or you could turn that
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off yourself if you would like cab Either way is fine with me.
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I'd like to have you. If you want to stay on, I'll
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read. Yeah, that's good.
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Verse 25 and 26 And then I'll let Andrew go ahead, and Melvin,
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and that you, if you want to come in OK, go ahead.
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So 25 and 26 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as
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the High Priest entereth into the Holy place every year with
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blood of others. For then must he often have
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suffered since the foundation of the world, but now once in the
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end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the
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sacrifice of himself. And I think that's beautiful.
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I I thought about what exactly what Ken was saying like.
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So he gave us the requirement. He told us where we are not able
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you know, he gave us a requirement told us yeah, showed
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us how that we're not able to to do this and then he then he
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gives us a way to him like he he's giving us the road map
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here. This is actually what is
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required and so and he's really diligent the author here in
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Hebrews. I beloved this as we study how
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that how how pointed that he keeps on the path here with no
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it it is this way. This is the way and there's
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nothing more satisfying or, or stabilizing, I should say, as a
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that you could trust when you're driving somewhere and you have
27:07
something that you could trust. That's that's peace, I'm telling
27:11
you. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't get any better
27:16
than this. Not yet.
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That he should offer himself often.
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That's big deal to me. You know that the kind of
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sacrifice, the kind of blood that is sprinkled up in that
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holiest of all is an eternal redemption type of blood.
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That it doesn't need to be re re sprinkled every year.
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As sins keep coming in, as people get born and they keep
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sinning, new generations come about and sins after we believe
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just, you know, the sins of the people, the sins of the human
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race were atoned for when he went in there with that blood.
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That's the type of blood it was. It was a blood that was better
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than the blood of bulls and goats #1 and it was delivered by
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a priest that was a better priest than any other priest
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that will ever exist with an everlasting priest after the
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order of Melchizedek. It wasn't Moses talking from God
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and telling the people what to do and what they have to do to
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in order to not die. It wasn't the prophet coming and
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speaking to us, and it wasn't angels.
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Nobody heard a voice from heaven, and we have to somehow
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believe that. But God came and was made flesh
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dwell among us, and we held him, we touched him, we leaned on him
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and we saw him die. We saw blood bleeding, running
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down the cross. And he came back up three days
28:49
later and we couldn't touch him. He said he had to go somewhere
28:54
and he had to go up and he went up to heaven itself to prepare
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to, to, to put blood on the altar in heaven itself for us.
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And now he says it, he it, it was a type of offering, a type
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of sprinkling that is a one time deal.
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It's not often. It's not even every year.
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And then he said it's an everlasting atonement for them.
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Must He often have suffered since the founding of the world
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as sins come in? But no.
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But now once in the end of the world, had He appeared to put
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away sin by the sacrifice of himself?
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Again I got to mention verse 14 says, how much more shall the
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blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
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without spot to God, perch your conscience.
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And earlier he's talked about the purifying of the flesh.
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So this is the method. This is how sin was put away.
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This is how sin was dealt with. This is how it was done.
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Christ came up and obtained eternal redemption for us, and
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it's an everlasting redemption. He's not going to die again.
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He's not going to have to sprinkle the altar again next
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year because you got a whole pile of sins accumulated again.
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So he's not waiting for you to confess your sins like we talked
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about last time. He's not waiting for you to get
30:26
right with him. He makes you right when you
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confess him as the Savior. When you confess with your
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mouth, the Lord Jesus Christ died and his blood speaks for
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you. This is the best thing.
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Like when you understand this gospel, you don't try anything
30:43
else because it would be like, it would be like finding a wife
30:46
and getting married and then keep looking for a wife.
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You know, you don't do that because you have found one and
30:52
now you enjoy the wife of your youth.
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This, this, this is time when you are thankful.
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There's a time when you say thank you.
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Jesus, let that blood speak in my life.
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Let that resonate. Let that shine throughout our
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lives and spread it through all our neighbors and friends that
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are struggling that are hurting that like Cam was saying that
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are ignorant of this gospel. This delivers this true this
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atonement that is an everlasting one time atonement that you can
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put faith in and rest for our throughout all eternity.
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Be be ready to meet God. Yeah, Amen.
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Meet him right up there and having it so.
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It's with a clear conscience on top of that.
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Hurts conscience, never lasting atonement.
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And again, we didn't do anything here.
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What have we done to make this happen?
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Not a thing. The only thing that we have done
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to make it happen, if we were any what at all involved it was
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putting a spirit in his side and hanging him on a cross.
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That's about how much we did to obtain our own redemption was we
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killed the guy. We believe the story, Yeah.
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Wow, Melbourne. Yeah, I did.
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That's very significant, Andrea. Just the significant thing to me
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is that nor yet that he should offer himself often as a high
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priest entered in the holy place every year with blood of others.
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So Christ see like we were talking like I was talking
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earlier about the earthly Tabernacle.
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So right, the the high priest had to go in there with the
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blood of of goats or lambs. And so here in the heavenly
32:39
Tabernacle, Christ entered with his own blood, right?
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He didn't enter with someone else's blood is what it's saying
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right. And so there's significance in
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that. And then the other thing there
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in verse 26, it says for then most he often has suffered since
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the foundation of world, but now once in the end of the world has
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he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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So there it points out again that it was him, it was Christ
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himself and his blood. And that's why it only needed to
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happen once, right? In Romans, it says in Romans 6,
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it says in verse 9 and 10 following that Christ being
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raised from the dead dieth no more death, have no more
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dominion over him. See, Christ rose from the dead.
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He's not dead anymore and he can't die again because he arose
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from the dead and he's alive. And like we read back in, I
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don't know, chapter 6 or whatever, he's sitting at the
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right hand of the Father. So he's still there, right?
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Well, that's why it's that's why we can put this in the bank and
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know that it covers our sins because he is still alive and
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he's sitting there and he only had to do it once.
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And then it says in verse 10 of Romans 6.
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For in that he died, he died under sin once, but that in that
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he liveth, he liveth on the God. He's sitting up there right now.
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Yeah, so good. Yeah, Cab, go ahead.
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Yeah, Amen, boys, brothers. Yeah, even as in, even as in
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Adam all died. Even so in Christ we shall all
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be made alive, right? In Adam we all die.
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And the closer we get, the closer we get to a full
34:33
understanding of, of the, of human depravity and the human
34:39
condition. The, the, the deeper the
34:42
concupiscence, the guilt works in our conscience because the
34:46
conscience stays pure to a certain level, so, so much so
34:51
that it always is there. It's always loud enough for God
34:55
to draw us back even from like from a very, very low level of
35:00
where humanity speaks Stoops to the conscience is still still
35:05
capable of of pulling us back and being loud enough.
35:08
So that conscience is a very unique thing.
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And that's why this is mentioned so often here in the book of
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Hebrews with, with advertising and offering Jesus Christ as the
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high priest doing things once for all.
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That mindset is there. It's spread.
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That mindset is talked out here a little, there a little.
35:29
And then, yeah, it's amazing. It's I just wanted to highlight
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on that once for all and how that needs to be preached and
35:39
that needs to be offered to to people listening.
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Yeah. For sure.
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That's good. Oh yeah, I you know concerning
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this I just I thought about Colossians 2 and we've we've
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talked about this verse over and over and it's one of Andrews
35:55
favorites there. But talking about this subject
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that says which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is
36:03
of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your
36:06
reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,
36:09
intruding to those things which he has not seen, mainly pumped
36:12
up by his flexible Yeah. And he just, you know, that is
36:16
our that is our tendency. And I just like how it says let
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nobody beguile you. Let no man take this simple
36:24
truth and, and beguile you and, and twist it to where it's no
36:29
longer a simple truth. But now it's something that that
36:32
puts us in bondage and makes us unsure of ourselves and makes,
36:35
makes all kinds of tension and and angst there because we we
36:40
can't never be sure, you know? So somebody that would beguile
36:44
someone of this, this simple truth is, is is a force to be
36:50
reckoned with. It's something that we fight
36:52
against all the time. This.
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Yeah. When I was going to say earlier,
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Leon, you mentioned something about a road map or someone
37:01
said, I don't remember. I think Leon said something
37:03
about, you know, that this is like Hebrews is showing us the
37:07
road right, showing us the route, the right route.
37:11
And I had to think about that, you know, so the Bible, God has
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given us the word of God and it's perfect.
37:20
And it's it, it shows us exactly where we need to go.
37:25
And so that's what we're doing, right?
37:28
We're going through the Bible and it's showing us perfectly
37:31
the route that we need to take. And so most times a lot of
37:35
people, you know, they're not really necessarily using the
37:39
Bible as a road map. They're using church rules or,
37:44
or another man's thinking or, or whatever it is.
37:51
So anyway, I just had to think about that it.
37:53
It's so comforting to know that the Bible is perfect and I can
37:58
rely on the Word of God and just the Word of God and nothing
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else. Yeah, Amen.
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All right, 27 and 28, you know, time together as it is, and as
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it is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the
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judgment. So Christ was once offered to
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bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he
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appear the second time without sin of salvation.
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I love the the contrast that he uses here or the the idea you
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know that man they're going to either it is appointed that man
38:39
should die once and that's and then the judgment.
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You know, it's very simple. We know that we die then there's
38:46
a judgment that's that's clear. We can read that multiple
38:49
places. That same way is how Christ was
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once offered. It's not simple, it's the truth
38:57
that you can't escape. Yeah, what I think the if if I
39:05
could shout something loud that echoes throughout every
39:11
denomination, throughout every church building, and I could
39:15
somehow get into the loudspeaker, I would tell
39:18
everybody. If I could only have one word,
39:21
it would be once, once, so significant.
39:27
That changed everything in my theology.
39:32
I was all into this thing of trying to deal with sins after I
39:36
was a believer, trying to be sorry, trying to get God to
39:40
forgive me over and over and over and over and over.
39:44
And when my brother MO showed me Hebrews 10/10, which we're not
39:48
there yet there in that in Hebrews 10, a lot of times 1 is
39:53
used. But here he's already starting
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to get us that idea of the significant, you know, of a one
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time deal. But he says as it is pointed and
40:05
the man wants to die. So you're only going to get one
40:07
shot at that anyway. But as and after that, it is the
40:11
judgement. That's what's going to happen,
40:13
you're going to be judged. So Christ was once offered to
40:16
bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him shall He
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appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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You want to appear before God without sin.
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Look for His coming, look for Him.
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Put your put your trust in Him. When he is your hope, He is your
40:40
salvation. When you're following this story
40:43
of the book of Hebrews, I don't know how you cannot have your
40:46
faith in Him and be convinced, fully persuaded man.
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This priest makes me free. No even conscience of sin.
40:54
He did it one time. It's over, I'm done.
40:57
My sin problem is dealt with. My old man is dealt with the
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flesh, the body of sin has been destroyed by his dying and
41:05
rising again. It's gone forever.
41:07
One time he's not going to die again.
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Like Melvin said, died once you know, dies no more.
41:15
And I was just thinking today because I had a conversation
41:18
with people that think we're they'll preach both in one
41:22
sermon that we're dead and that we're alive and that we need to
41:25
die. It's this simple.
41:30
My cow is either dead or alive when I go to shoot it period.
41:38
Butcher it to have meat. I don't constantly after I shot
41:43
it and I'm already cutting it up, checking to see if it's
41:46
still, if it's for sure still dead.
41:50
Like that's how that's how sure this thing is.
41:59
It's not. You can't believe both people
42:01
tried to think that somehow they believe both that yeah, we are
42:06
dead, but we're also not. That's impossible.
42:10
That'll be like my cow all of a sudden kicking after I shot it
42:14
and I got already got it gutted and the heart's out.
42:18
It's already went down to the grave like it already come
42:21
decomposed, but somehow it still keeps popping up like I keep
42:25
seeing the cow and that pasture again broke through the fence
42:29
again. I got to fix the fence again.
42:32
Something got, you know, got back up.
42:34
It's impossible. You cannot believe that you died
42:38
and rose again from Christ. If you don't, if you still
42:42
believe that the old man is still around, you can't believe
42:45
both. You also can't believe that
42:49
Jesus Christ died for your sins and then say I need to do
42:54
something to make that true for me.
42:57
I need to confess Him. I need to be sorry.
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I need to do these things. Then you're not believing it.
43:02
It can't be both. You can't say that it's not of
43:06
works, lest any man should boast.
43:07
And then there's something you can do because then you could
43:10
boast. The gospel is set up in a way.
43:14
Salvation is set up in a way that no flesh can.
43:16
Glory. You can't.
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The only thing you can do is bring glory to the one that did
43:21
the work. And that is God came up with his
43:24
manifold wisdom. Even Christ won't be the one
43:27
that gets the final glory. He says that.
43:29
And there's a verse that says that all honor and glory may be
43:34
given to God. Like he's going to sum it all
43:37
up. And Jesus Christ himself was
43:39
even going to give God his Father the glory even though he
43:43
did the dying. And so who are we to come and
43:46
try to steal some glory or steal some boast or like we've done
43:52
something. I'm telling you, we're way worse
43:55
off than we thought. And then we ever think and God
43:58
did something way better than we ever think.
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If we were, if we wouldn't see what God has actually done, I
44:05
don't know if we could handle it.
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I think we're going to have to have a glorified body to have a
44:10
full revelation of the significance of the sacrifice
44:14
and the atonement and eternal redemption that God has.
44:18
Jesus has performed for us in heaven so that we can face
44:24
judgement with a smile. Yep, about Melvin.
44:30
Yeah, there's there's one thing that is sure in his life, in
44:33
that set, we're going to die. And we're only going to die
44:37
once. We're not going to get a second
44:38
shot at it. And if you're not putting your
44:43
faith in Christ, in his death and resurrection and in Christ
44:47
alone, then you will experience judgment from God, eternal
44:53
judgment. Because in Revelations, I just
44:56
want to read this. I read this over and over and
44:58
just blows my mind. So if you're, if you're not in
45:01
Christ, if you're not relying in Christ alone, this is what's
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going to happen. In Revelations 20, verse 11
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through 15, it says, And I saw a great white throne, and him that
45:13
sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away,
45:18
and there was found no place for them.
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And I saw the dead small and great stand before God.
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And the books were opened and another book was opened, which
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is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of
45:30
those things which were written in the books according to their
45:34
works. And the sea gave up the dead
45:36
which were in it. And death and hell delivered up
45:39
the dead which were in them. And they were judged every man
45:42
according to their works, and death and hell were cast into
45:46
the lake of fire. This is the second death.
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And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was
45:53
cast into the lake of fire. So if you're not putting, if
45:57
when you put your trust in, in what we just read in Hebrews
46:02
just in the previous chapter, you're not putting your trust in
46:05
Christ and in Christ alone, and that he's a perfect high priest,
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then you will be judged according to your works.
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And if you are relying on that, then your name is written in the
46:17
book of life, and and then you will not be judged by your
46:22
words. It says in Hebrews 9, sorry,
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first John 4/17. It says this herein is our love
46:30
made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment,
46:33
because as he is, so are we in this world.
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So when Christ makes us the same as God in this world and because
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of that, we can have boldness in the day of judgment in Christ.
46:48
Outside of that it's it's it's a bad deal.
46:52
So anyway, that's all I just wanted to say about about that
46:55
about judgment. And then again, like you're
46:59
saying Andrew, he's saying for Christ was once in the next
47:03
verse 28 was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto
47:06
them that look for him. So he appeared the second time
47:09
without sin and salvation. See, Christ has appeared already
47:15
to bear the sins of all of us a little over 2000 years ago, and
47:19
He's going to appear again. And if we're looking for him for
47:24
that appearing, he's going to come without sin unto salvation
47:29
for us. He's coming for us, for the
47:30
bride, for his bride, the bride of Christ.
47:34
So and that's why we shouldn't be looking for another wife like
47:38
Andrew was saying, because we are married to Christ when we
47:42
trust in Him and trust in Him alone and we are his bride and
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so we shouldn't be looking for another wife.
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And man. That's right.
47:50
That's right. I didn't realize we'd read verse
47:53
28 as well, so. Oh, I'd be.
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Submit on that after. That's what, Yeah.
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Yep. Cameron, do you have anything on
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27 today? Yeah, verse 27, I believe was
48:06
was placed there in the wisdom of God because this, this
48:09
doctrine here in this book is capable of ministering to the to
48:14
the thought that would pop through a believer's head as
48:16
he's reading this. You know, what if I like, you
48:21
know, a person reading a spiritual book like this, a lot
48:24
of times get LED, gets led to think, you know, where am I
48:27
going after I die? Like so many people think that
48:30
in this book premeditates that thought administers to it and
48:34
and just states it directly out of the Old Testament.
48:39
It's appointed unto a man wants to die and after the after this,
48:43
the judgment. So it's like a it's like a
48:45
little bit of a reset button. Yes, this this is ministering to
48:48
this concern that I have. I, I, I mean good hands here.
48:51
I need to keep and here's what I would personally, personally
48:55
inject here out of my own heart is that you keep mixing this
48:59
doctrine, keep mixing this this testimony of Jesus Christ with
49:04
faith that is in you. There is some faith in you if
49:07
you believe that God created this world.
49:09
And a lot of times the New Testament and the the New
49:13
Testament writers go back to creation to to just hit that
49:16
reset button and say, yes, God who created this world is
49:22
creating this fellowship as well.
49:25
It could be because it's it's just so hard to believe.
49:28
And I think that this appointed until man wants to die.
49:33
But after this, the judgment that is like a little assurance,
49:36
just a little assurance update here that yes, that worry that
49:41
that worry, that concern that you have, it's being ministered
49:44
to just keep keep reading. I think that's what that verse
49:46
is is doing for for believers here as well.
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That's it. Thank you.
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Amen. Yeah.
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Amen. Andrew, you follow up on the
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48th. Did we all see where it says
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without sin? Yeah, without sin.
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That's right. Amen.
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When we see that He did that for us, our response shouldn't be
50:13
what can I do to be sinless? What can I do to get a clean
50:18
slate? Our response is I'm glad he did
50:23
something. You know, there's a majority of
50:27
people in Christians that don't believe this.
50:32
They say they believe it, but their works deny their claim of
50:36
believing this. There's many people that think
50:42
that wouldn't say it, but here's the reality.
50:44
And I would just want to put this challenge out there for
50:47
anyone that's listening. Like Paul said, it's either by
50:53
grace or grace is no more grace either.
50:57
If it's work, then it's not grace or work is no more worth.
51:02
And if and, and God says that based on this sacrifice, God
51:12
makes your slate clean and it gives you your Holy Spirit, his
51:16
Holy Spirit to guide you and to lead you.
51:20
And if you're doing anything other than that, if you have a
51:25
church system that has a guidelines, then you're not
51:31
being led by the Spirit. That's impossible.
51:34
You can't have guidelines and call them innocent and say
51:40
you're led by the Spirit. That's impossible.
51:43
There is no such thing that would be that's that is the that
51:52
is to have guidelines is an admission, an outward work of an
51:57
admission that you don't believe the gospel and you don't believe
52:00
and trust the Holy Spirit. That's a way of testifying and
52:05
telling the world you don't believe and trust in the Holy
52:08
Spirit and his guidance in people's lives.
52:12
So you make up your own men orchestrated form of what you
52:17
think godliness is supposed to look like.
52:19
And you tell people to follow that man made man orchestrated a
52:26
poem of godliness. And you still say all the things
52:32
that we just read. And you would say holler and say
52:34
Amen. But what you're doing when
52:36
you're doing those guidelines, that tells me you say these
52:40
things with your mouth, but your heart's far from it.
52:43
You say the gospel with your mouth, but it's lip service.
52:48
You don't believe it. If you wouldn't believe it, you
52:50
wouldn't have guidelines. You would trust the Holy Spirit
52:52
to do the work in the people's lives, and you wouldn't no
52:56
longer be doing things. You wouldn't have confession
52:58
meetings up front. When you have it, when you
53:02
confess your sins, you're not believing this.
53:04
You can't believe though for. Sure or not?
53:07
If you believe that Christ took away the sins forever one time
53:14
and he's saying right now if you're looking for Christ,
53:17
you're going to appear before God without sin based on that.
53:25
So if you believe that short, what I'm trying to say is you
53:29
won't try anything else. You won't when you're doing
53:32
other things that are supposedly somehow going to keep you clean
53:36
before God, then you don't believe this right?
53:39
Stop fooling yourself. God says if you're circumcised,
53:43
Christ prophets, you know you're falling from grace if you don't
53:46
do some simple thing. It's a law of circumcision or
53:49
not eat certain meat. You don't believe this.
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He says you're a hypocrite and a liar.
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You don't believe the gospel. Stop saying you believe the
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gospel. Stop saying you believe in the
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sacrifice and the atonement of Christ when you are still
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abstaining from some meat or whatever.
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Stop saying it. You're lying.
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God see, when God says that you're lying and that it's a
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hypocrisy, when he sees it through, sees through that whole
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thing and says you're lying, then you are lying.
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Amen. Don't don't think then.
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Well, I'm doing in a more innocent way.
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I because I understand that Christ died for everything.
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I'm not doing it for salvation. No, God says if you're doing it,
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you don't believe the God when you're lying.
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That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
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And then they say, well, if your fruit doesn't show that you're
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free, if you don't have fruit to show that you have victory in
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Jesus, then you're not his. That doesn't change the fact.
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If I go and murder somebody and I say I have faith and I go and
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murder somebody, does not change the fact that the children of
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God are led by the Spirit. If it looks like it's not
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working, doesn't change the truth of the fact that God's
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people are led by the Spirit, because everybody is gladly.
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We're pointing out all the faults of the people that say
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they're led by the Spirit. That doesn't make it now not
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true. So that we have to come up with
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our own man made, orchestrated way of getting people to live
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righteously. Yeah, it's impossible.
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You can't believe both. We can't come with an
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alternative if we see with our eyes that it looks like people
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that say they're led by the Spirit are not freeing forth
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fruit meat for repentance or righteousness.
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So do you believe the gospel if you're keeping some kind of a
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law? The true answer is you don't.
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Yeah. You don't.
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So I I think that there are several camps on this.
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Like. So you made the the argument
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really good and that you can't be alive and dead.
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You're right, OK. Same thing goes for this.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly. So there's there's this thing
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that that you know, we stand faultless before God.
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Yeah. Through the blood of Jesus OK,
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right. But so there's, there's another
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camp, though, that there's a, there's a group of people that
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they're not in rebellion to that idea, but they don't, they don't
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realize that the Romans 7 battle between against sin in the flesh
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while you walk this earth. That Roman that, that Paul
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describes in Romans 7, you know, they, they tend to view, there's
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a group of people that would tend to view that battle as as
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like, well, you know, but, but we're always trying to please
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God, but we're always trying to do the right thing.
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You know, the, the flesh always draws us away, the spirits
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always drawing us to God. You know, there's, there's this
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battle, but I would just want to say we're real clearly here that
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that battle is not for salvation.
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That battle that he describes there is for testimony.
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It's for the fruit of your life for whatever it's not that
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you're fighting for for salvation at all.
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That has already been taken care of it.
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You know, in this in this situation, right.
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I mean, So what I'm trying to be for those that are listening or
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that would listen to this, you know, there is a provision made
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for when you fail. That provision is the blood of
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Jesus and and that provision is always there is not something
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that has to be renewed every time you become aware of your
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shortcoming. That's what is. 4%.
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Should happen is you should explode in thanks that this has
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been paid for, that this has been taken care of.
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Every shortcoming, every, every long coming too, you know, I
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mean, if you do really well, you still need the blood of Jesus.
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So I just want to make that that point.
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I think there's that camp too. They're not in open rebellion.
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They just don't know for sure what to deal do with that stuff
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that happens when you're living life.
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No, except for the fact that I would say the Romans 7 maturity
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of it is talking about before he met Christ, because he said who
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shall deliver me from this problem, this thing of doing
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what I don't want to do? Then he says, I thank God
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through Christ Jesus our Lord. So I would say, even though it's
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still true that the Spirit and the flesh are warring at this
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time, right now, that war is going on, but we live in the
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faith. We live and walk by faith.
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And when we walk after the Spirit, I look at walking after
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the Spirit as believing this gospel, not believing my
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experience, not believing my, my mess up or my sin.
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I'm believing this gospel and I'm going to walk after that.
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And if I walk after the flesh, I'm going to have consequences.
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It's going to bring a bad light of the gospel that I claimed to
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have and the victory that I claimed to have.
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And that's that's the way I walk in the in this life.
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If I sin, I'm misrepresenting who I am.
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I'm misrepresenting my Redeemer. But that's why it's bad.
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Yeah. But I'm under the blood.
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You're still. You're still.
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Not. And then we're all lost and
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there is no salvation. Yeah, yeah.
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Yo, you're still a son. You're still a daughter.
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You're you're loved. You're you're highly favored.
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You're blessed. I mean, it's you're all this
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stuff. Regardless, God loves you to the
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point that this these shortcomings are not good.
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He's like, oh, well, you're just a piece of trash.
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You know, that's yeah, you know, he, he his love is actually real
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and it's complete. And he can do that and and
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administer it to us for the blood of his son Jesus.
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So that is that is such good news.
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And that's what what makes you know, seeing these truths laid
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out and talked about is always exciting.
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I always got to get go lay down for a nap right after this
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Bible. I think I took the milk.
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It's time off. Sorry.
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Yeah. Yeah, it's time.
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Time to cutter. I don't know how an hour went by
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this quick, but anyway, it did so anyway.
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All right, Well, hey, as we conclude today's study, remember
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Hebrews 11/1, and we're getting right up close to that.
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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
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things not seen. And I pray that your faith would
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reveal biblical truths more clearly than your physical eyes
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could see the things around you because that's what faith is,
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allows us to see the spiritual truths.
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So anyway, join us next Monday as we continue in chapter 10.
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It's going to be a good one. And I just want to thank you for
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your time and your effort into this.
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God bless you guys and have a great week.