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Hebrews chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Hebrews chapter 2. Let us pray our Lord, our King,
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  our everything. Father.
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  Father us Lord, we exalt your holy name above every other
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  entity. God, I pray that fear of man
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  will break off. God I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that we will not succumb to all of the cares of this life.
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  But God we will rise up Lord, and be great men and women of
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  faith who are called by your name.
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  Father, little Christ. Father, I pray that we will
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  mirror and model the ministry of Jesus Christ to this wicked and
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  perverse, this dying generation. God, I pray that you'll help us,
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  Lord, to be your hands and feet. Lord, give us your eyes.
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  Give us your ears. God, give us the right
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  responses. Lord, let us feel the depths of
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  the things that you feel, God, and take us to new heights with
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  you as we study the Word today. God, I pray that the Word will
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  get into US. Lord, I pray that the Word will
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  discern us. God, I pray that the Word of God
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  will quicken in the inner man and help us, Lord, help us to be
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  those who are worthy to be called by your name.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll help us, Lord, to not grow weary.
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  Help us to not give up and slack off and forget God, but I pray
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  that we will finish this race well.
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  Help us God. Lord, I pray for marriages.
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  God, I pray for people who are suffering under the illness.
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  I pray for the incarcerated. God, I pray that you'll be so
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  close to them. Lord, I pray that you'll whisper
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  to them in the still small voice.
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  God, I pray that you'll help the caretakers.
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  God, I pray that you'll help those that are in the hospitals.
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  God, I pray, Lord, that you'll help the staff.
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  God, I pray that you'll help those that are trying to teach
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  and teach well. I pray for all those of that are
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  on the front lines, God. I pray that you'll help them,
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  Lord, to see that they are ministers of reconciliation,
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  God. They are instruments in your
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  hand, God, And you are moving everything mightily on the
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  prophetic timeline, God. So I pray that as we get out of
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  our own understanding, God, that we'll get into your Word and let
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  the word wash over us today and renew us today and give us the
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  mind of Christ today. Lord, we love you, you, and this
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  in King Jesus, holy and precious and powerful name, that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things
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  which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
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  That is the call here, friends. That is what we are to do is we
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  are to take heed, and we are to call into remembrance all of the
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  ways that God has showed up. And for us to not be forgetful
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  people, for us to not let our faith wane, friends, but we need
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  to let it grow. We need to let it grow larger
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  and greater. We need to increase our faith,
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  friends, and we need to be more in tune with God than we ever
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  have been. As time goes on, friends, it
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  should become more and more intimate.
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  It should not become blase. It should not just become
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  calloused hearts, friends, but we desperately need to grow in
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  the faith and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ by
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  coming to him each and every day.
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  His mercies are new every day. And we come and we sit and we
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  learn at his feet, friends. And he's got many gems and
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  jewels. He's got a treasure trove that
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  He wants to show us and to give to us friends and let us
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  discover as we get in. And we mine all of those.
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  Then He gives them to us, and we will have those for all of
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  eternity. But we do not need to be those
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  who think that we've learned it all and that we know it all and
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  that we fall down right here at the end of the race.
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  Let us be the wise virgins that fill our lamps and trim our
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  Wicks. And we look up and we see our
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  redemption is drawing near. There are many who are going by
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  the wayside and they say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we they've been
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  saying that my whole life and it has not come.
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  And there is the problem because they have started to become numb
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  to all the promises of God. When the Bible said 2000 years
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  ago that the day was near, how much more nearer is it today
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  than it was back then? And that is the way you need to
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  view it. You don't need to think that God
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  is slack, as some are in the habit of doing.
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  And they think that everything just goes on and on and on.
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  And it's all about game, friends.
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  And it's all about this world friends.
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  That is where we air grievously is whenever we stop looking
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  through the lens of prophecy, when we stop looking at all the
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  things that are happening all around from the world through
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  the lens of the Bible, and have a biblical worldview.
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  If we are trapped in the culture and we're trapped in the here
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  and the now, and we're trapped in prosperity and we're trapped
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  in materialism and we're trapped in selfish, greedy gain and
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  lustful desires, then you're going to miss it, friends.
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  You're going to miss the whole mark and you're going to sin,
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  and you're going to be just like the recipients of the book of
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  Hebrews here that Paul was warning.
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  Verse 2. For if the word spoken by angels
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  was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience
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  received a just repayment of reward. 3 How shall we escape,
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  if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first
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  began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by
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  them that heard him? So here the writer of Hebrews
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  wants them to know, and God Almighty wants us to know, to
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  not grow weary, and to not just fall into sinful lusts.
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  Friends, because if we neglect such greatest salvation, there
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  is no other salvation apart from Jesus Christ.
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  He is the only way unto the Father for God also, bearing
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  them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with diverse
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  miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own
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  will. How will we escape the eternal
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  separation from God Almighty if we do not place our faith
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  accurately in Jesus Christ and Christ alone?
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  There is no salvation apart from Jesus Christ, and if we neglect
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  that, then we will forever be separated from a loving God who
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  gave us the way. And His name is Jesus, and He
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  showed us that with many miracles and with the gifts of
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  the Holy Ghost, and He gives us no excuse.
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  No one will stand before God Almighty and say that they did
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  not know. All of creation proclaims His
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  name. Even the rocks will cry out, and
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  He can raise up sons to Abraham from these stones.
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  We do not get to stand in front of a loving Almighty Holy God
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  and tell Him that we did not know.
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  He has given us chance after chance after chance after chance
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  after chance, and His mercies are new every day.
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  And if you woke up this morning, then He's not done with you and
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  you have another chance to put your faith in Christ and Christ
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  alone. It's not Christ plus self.
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  It's not Christ plus the world. It's not Christ plus money.
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  It's not Christ plus abilities. It's not Christ plus attributes.
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  It's not Christ plus a party. It's not Christ plus your own
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  selfish pleasures. It's Christ, and it's Christ
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  alone that is going to get us there, and that is the only way
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  that we will ever stand before an Almighty God and be seen as
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  perfect and blameless and holy because of what Christ did. 54
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  unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come
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  whereof we speak? So you can see that not only is
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  this world that we live in subject to God Almighty and to
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  Christ, and the finished work that He snatched the keys to
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  death and the hell, but the world to come everlasting and
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  everlasting, is given to him. But he is seated right now
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  awaiting the final time when God will put him on his rightful
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  throne in literal geographical Jerusalem, and he will rule and
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  reign for 1000 years. And we look forward to that. 6
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  But one in a certain place testified saying what is man,
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  that you are mindful of him or the Son of man, that you visit
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  him? So Jesus Christ loved this
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  messianic title, the Son of man. And you need to understand that
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  Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man.
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  He was no lesser man and he was no lesser God.
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  He was beautifully both and if you try to take one away, then
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  none of the scriptures make sense.
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  It is Jesus Christ as God and Jesus Christ as man and here
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  when he says what is man that you are mindful of him.
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  He took on the flesh friends. He felt the things that you and
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  I feel. He hungered and he thirsted, and
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  he was tired, and he was still fully gone.
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  What an amazing thought. 7 And you've made him a little lower
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  than the angels. You crowned him with glory and
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  honor, and did set him over the works of your hands.
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  So mankind is lower than the angels in regards to we are
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  mortal and we have to eat, we have to sleep, and angels are
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  immortal and they were here prior.
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  But God calls us the masterpiece.
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  We are made in His image, and this is the beautiful tapestry
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  that the writer of Hebrews wants to harken us back to is that the
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  angels are looking at mankind. And as Jesus in his full deity
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  took on his earthly tent, that was subject to hunger and
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  thirst. It was subject to the bodily
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  movements, it was subject to all of the pressures and the cares
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  of this life. He was still fully God.
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  And it is so beautiful. Beautiful thing 8 And you have
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  put all things in subjection under his feet, for in that he
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  put all in subjection under him. He left nothing that is not put
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  under him. But now we see not yet all
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  things put under him. So he still awaits the time when
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  God is going to put him on his throne in Jerusalem.
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  And right now he's seated at the right hand and he says, I go to
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  prepare a place for you. And that is what we will see one
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  day. We will see everything under
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  subjection. And right now the enemy is
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  having a field day and he's having a hay day.
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  And here the enemy thinks that he can outwit and outsmart God,
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  but God will not be outwitted and outsmarted, friends.
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  And you need to understand that all of the things that are
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  happening in the world right now are on the prophetic timeline of
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  how God has orchestrated it and is going to bring him the most
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  amount of glory. And if all of the demons and all
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  of the satanic revolt would have known that the work of the cross
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  was going to disarm them and put them to public spectacle, they
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  would not have placed Jesus Christ on that cross.
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  What an amazing thought. And right now the adversary is
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  writhing, knowing that his head is going to be crushed, and he's
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  trying everything within his limited power to keep that from
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  happening. 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than
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  the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
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  honor, that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for
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  every man. Think about it, friends.
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  Jesus Christ came as a little baby and lived 33 years on this
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  earth and suffered a criminal's death on the cross.
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  But then he snatched the keys to death and hell, and we do not
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  need to fear death any longer because of the finished work of
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  Jesus Christ on the cross. 10 For it became him for whom are
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  all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to
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  glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through
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  sufferings. Jesus Christ the Captain of our
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  faith. Jesus Christ the captain of our
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  salvation. What an amazing title.
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  We see Him at the helm, we see Jesus Christ steering the boat,
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  we see everything pointed towards Him and everything
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  points towards Him. And everything will always point
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  back to Jesus Christ. Even in the Ezekiel temple.
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  Everything will point back to the cross of Christ and what He
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  did for us when He won and wrought our salvation.
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  And He has brought many sons to glory.
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  And I pray that that is your story, friends.
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  And it was through his sufferings that we found
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  healing, and it was through his death that we find life. 11 For
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  both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of
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  one, For which 'cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers.
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  Jesus, our elder brother. What an amazing thought.
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  He's not ashamed to call us his brothers, and he is sanctifying
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  us and he's making us more and more like himself each and every
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  single day. And you are blood bought and
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  bulletproof from now until he calls you home.
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  And if you get snuffed out early, if you find out you have
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  disease, friends, if it is your time to depart from this world,
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  then the sanctification process is finished. 12 saying, I will
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  declare your name unto my brothers, in the midst of the
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  church will I sing praise unto you.
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  Jesus is not ashamed to call us his brothers.
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  And here we can see the ekklesi of the called out ones singing
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  his praises forever and ever. 13 And again I will put my trust in
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  him. And again behold I and the
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  children which God have given me.
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  So we can see that Jesus Christ has a family.
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  We can see that Jesus Christ is the groom and we are the bride.
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  And it pleases God Almighty for us to all be 1 14 For as much
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  then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He
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  also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death
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  He might destroy him that had the power of death.
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  That is the devil. We are partakers of every
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  inheritance of Jesus Christ, as He became a partaker of our life
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  and how we have to live in the way that we have to die.
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  And He came, and He lived it. He came and he experienced it as
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  fully man and fully God. And now we get to partake in all
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  of his inheritance, friends, for all of eternity, just by the
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  simple act of belief. Believe in him, call upon his
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  name, friends, and be saved. And something supernatural
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  happens when he sends the Holy Ghost to indwell inside of you.
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  And deep calls to deep. And he disarmed and dismayed and
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  he ashamed all of the powers of hell and darkness and the devil.
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  And he has no grip on us. He has no hold on us, friends.
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  And we do not need to fear death. 15 And delivered them,
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  who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
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  bondage. That is, the greatest tool that
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  the enemy has in his tool belt is fear of death.
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  And how many people have squandered their inheritance for
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  a mess of pottage because of this fear that grips them and
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  overwhelms them, and they turn and tuck tail and they deny A
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  risen Lord. And it is because they allowed
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  the enemy to inflict them with fear of death.
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  We do not need to fear the one that can kill the body, but we
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  need to fear the one that could not only kill the body, but to
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  cast your soul into hell. That is who we fear.
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  If we will fear God, everything else bows unto him.
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  We do not need to fear the defanged, declawed lion that
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  tries to roar, the adversary that prowls.
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  We do not need to fear him, friends, in the face of
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  adversity. We cling to the hem of the
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  garment, friends, knowing that it profits a man nothing to gain
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  the whole world but to lose his soul. 16 For truly he took not
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  on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of
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  Abraham. So when Jesus Christ came, he
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  did not come as an Angel, He came as a little baby in a
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  Manger. What an amazing thought. 17
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  Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like
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  unto his brothers, that he might be a merciful, faithful high
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  priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for
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  the sins of the people. That is the work of the cross.
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  That is what He did for us. He reconciled us to God through
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  His perfect life. He took on our sins and we took
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  on His righteousness so that we can stand before an Almighty God
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  and be at one with God. And we don't need to fear all of
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  our sins that we have done or are doing or will do.
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  And we do not abuse grace as some are in the habit of doing.
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  But when we sin, we know that His mercies are new every day.
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  18 will end here. For in that He Himself has
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  suffered being tempted, He is able to aid them that are
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  tempted. He helps us, friends.
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  He gives us a way out. He gives us a clear conscience.
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  He gives us a clean slate. We don't need to get marked and
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  marred by our sins, friends. We need to know that they are
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  all forgiven. They are all under the blood of
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  Jesus Christ. And in that knowledge we will
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  want to obey and to do the things that God has for us to
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  do. And we can know that Jesus
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  Christ felt all of those things and he never succumbed to any of
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  them. And He can help us through all
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  of our temptations and trials if we will place our faith in Him,
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  if we will acknowledge Him in the fight and not try to go out
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  on our own strength. And He is faithful to help us.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.