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Hebrews 1:5-14 - Jesus, Greater Than the Angels · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hi there, faithful listeners, Welcome to the Bible
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  Speaker 1: Explained podcast on this lovely Thursday morning. I am so
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  Speaker 1: thankful all of you guys are here to share a
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  Speaker 1: delicious cup of coffee with me. We're gonna be talking
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  Speaker 1: about a fantastic subject today in Hebrews chapter one, that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is above the angels and how all of the
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  Speaker 1: prophecy in the Old Testament proves this. And we're also
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about how Jesus is not Michael the
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  Speaker 1: Archangel based upon some biblical facts in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: So stay tuned for this discussion. All right, faith listeners,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to jump right into this topic. But first,
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  Speaker 1: And now that you have all your things for today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: let's go ahead and read Hebrews chapter one five through fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be jumping around in scripture a lot today,
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  Speaker 1: possibly more than I ever have before. So forgive me
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  Speaker 1: if I forget where I'm going from time to time,
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  Speaker 1: because there's so many tabs opened in my computer right
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  Speaker 1: now that I might mix them up. So forgive me
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  Speaker 1: for that. In advance, Let's read Hebrews one five through
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  Speaker 1: fourteen for t which of the angels did he say
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  Speaker 1: at any time you are my son? And today I
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  Speaker 1: have become your father. And again I will be to
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  Speaker 1: him a father, and he will be to me a son.
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  Speaker 1: When he again brings in the firstborn into the world,
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  Speaker 1: he says, Let all the angels of God worship him.
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  Speaker 1: Of the angels, he says, he makes his angels wins
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  Speaker 1: and his servants a flame of fire. But of the Son,
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  Speaker 1: he says, Your throne, O, God, is forever and ever.
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  Speaker 1: The scepter of uprighteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: You have loved righteousness and hate iniquity. Therefore, God, your God,
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  Speaker 1: has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
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  Speaker 1: And you Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.
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  Speaker 1: They will perish, but you continue, they will all grow
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  Speaker 1: old like a garment does. You will roll them up
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  Speaker 1: like a mantle, and they will be changed. But you
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  Speaker 1: are the same. Your years won't fail. But which of
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  Speaker 1: the angels has he told at any time sit at
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  Speaker 1: my right hand until I make your enemies the footstool
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  Speaker 1: of your feet? Aren't they all serving spirits? Send out
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  Speaker 1: to do service for the sake of those who will
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  Speaker 1: inherit salvation. When we started Hebrews on Tuesday, I talked
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  Speaker 1: about the points that you need to understand about Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in order to recognize him as God. So the first
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  Speaker 1: thing I mentioned is that firstly, you have to realize
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was not created. In John chapter one, it
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  Speaker 1: mentions that Jesus was in the beginning with God the Father,
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  Speaker 1: and that Jesus was the creator. Everything was created through Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And that's also what Hebrews one mentions as well, that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself not only is the creator, but is sustaining
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  Speaker 1: the entire world as we speak. He is sustaining everything
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  Speaker 1: by the power of his word. So Jesus has not
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  Speaker 1: been created because he is the creator. And secondly, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about how Jesus is also sitting at the right
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  Speaker 1: hand to God the Father. That is another thing that
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  Speaker 1: proves his divinity is that he is able to be
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  Speaker 1: near God the Father. And actually, something I did not
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  Speaker 1: mention on Tuesday that I just thought of. Whenever we
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  Speaker 1: see God's glory talked about in scripture, it is overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: to the point of somebody feeling like they're going to die.
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  Speaker 1: Like whenever a human being encounters God's glory, they fall
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  Speaker 1: over as if dead because they are terrified being in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of somebody so much greater than they are,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that they offended that person. So they fall over
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  Speaker 1: as dead because they probably believe that they are going
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  Speaker 1: to be dead. And then on top of that, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the Book of I Believe it's Ezekiel.
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  Speaker 1: When Ezekiel has visions of God's glory, he sees these
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  Speaker 1: angels flying around, and even the angels can't handle God's glory.
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  Speaker 1: They have to fly around with their faces covered, so
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  Speaker 1: they have three wings. They have two wings at the
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  Speaker 1: top that cover their face, and then they have two
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  Speaker 1: wings that they fly with, and then two wings that
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  Speaker 1: cover their feet. Because even the angels can't handle being
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  Speaker 1: in God's glory, and yet Jesus is able to sit
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  Speaker 1: right next to God the Father, and he is perfectly
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  Speaker 1: able to handle it because he is God himself. And
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  Speaker 1: that's something I didn't mention on Tuesday that I just
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  Speaker 1: thought of. But also the third thing we need to
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  Speaker 1: understand about Jesus being God is that he is better
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  Speaker 1: than the angels. And that is what the author of
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews goes into more in depth today in this passage,
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  Speaker 1: starting in verse five, it says, for to which of
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  Speaker 1: the angels did God say? Did he or God say,
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  Speaker 1: at any time? You are my son. Today I have
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  Speaker 1: become your father, and again I will be to him
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  Speaker 1: a father, and he will be to me a son. Now,
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  Speaker 1: first things I want to point out about those two verses,
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  Speaker 1: which are found in the Old Testament. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: both of those verses show that Jesus already existed, because
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  Speaker 1: God is talking to an individual that already exists. So
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  Speaker 1: this shows that Jesus was not born, he was not created,
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  Speaker 1: He just is. And so God is now revealing Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as his son. That's actually what some versions do translate it,
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  Speaker 1: as for example, the NLT says you are my son
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  Speaker 1: today I reveal you as my son. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's an interesting way to put it, because that's essentially
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  Speaker 1: what it comes down to. Actually, Jesus is God's only son.
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  Speaker 1: He's the only begotten son. Now don't forget that word begotten,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm going to come back to that word in
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  Speaker 1: just a second. But you might be like, well, jen
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  Speaker 1: and God has a lot of sons. It actually says
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  Speaker 1: in scripture that we, like humans, are God's sons and daughters.
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  Speaker 1: And it also says that the angels are God's sons
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of Job. Let's turn to Job chapter
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  Speaker 1: one and read verse six real quick. Here's what it
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  Speaker 1: says about this. Now, on the day when God's sons
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  Speaker 1: came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so that verse shows pretty clearly that the angels are
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  Speaker 1: also called God's sons. And not to mention, the New
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  Speaker 1: Testament says over and over and over again that you
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  Speaker 1: and I, when we believe in Jesus, we have become
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  Speaker 1: the sons and daughters of God. So then how can
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews one claim that Jesus is the only son and
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  Speaker 1: that God never called the other angels his sons well,
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus is the only begotten son. The angels might
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  Speaker 1: be God's created sons, You and I might be God's
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  Speaker 1: adopted sons, but Jesus is the only begotten son. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most famous verses in the entire Bible,
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  Speaker 1: John three sixteen says that very thing for God so
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  Speaker 1: loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  Speaker 1: that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have
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  Speaker 1: everlasting life. That's from the King James version. And we
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  Speaker 1: don't use the word begotten anymore in our English language
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  Speaker 1: because it's just old fashioned. But the word begotten is
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  Speaker 1: actually really important. I'm kind of sad that the web
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  Speaker 1: does not mention this word right here, because if you
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  Speaker 1: read the NKJV or the KJV, it'll say in Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: chapter five, you are my son today I have begotten you.
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  Speaker 1: And that word begotten is actually very important. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to the Greek as to what the word begotten
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  Speaker 1: actually means. It is monogenes. I believe it's pronounced I
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  Speaker 1: might be wrong about that. It says it's a Greek
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  Speaker 1: adjective frequently translated in the Bible as only begotten. It
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  Speaker 1: derives from monos only and genos kind generally meaning a
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  Speaker 1: unique soul, unparalleled, specific relationship. It describes Jesus as uniquely
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  Speaker 1: divine and of the same essence as the Father. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: think about the breakdown of that word monos and genos
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  Speaker 1: monos meaning only, genos meaning kind. In other words, of
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  Speaker 1: the same kind or of the same class. You might say,
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  Speaker 1: that is what the word begotten means. Jesus is the
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  Speaker 1: begotten son of God. He is of the same kind
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  Speaker 1: and of the same class. So he is equal to
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  Speaker 1: God the Father, through and through. That is what the
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  Speaker 1: word begotten means. And I'm kind of sad that our
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  Speaker 1: English language has sort of dropped that word because it's
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  Speaker 1: a really important word to understand when talking about Jesus
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  Speaker 1: being the son of God. He's not just the son
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  Speaker 1: of God, but he is the only begotten son of God.
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  Speaker 1: He has begotten. He is of the same kind as God,
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  Speaker 1: the Father. God never told the angels that. He never
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  Speaker 1: told the angels you are my only begotten son. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to reveal you as my son today. He never
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  Speaker 1: told them that. But Jesus is special because he is
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  Speaker 1: of the same kind as God the Father, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what Hebrews is trying to prove here. And then it
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  Speaker 1: says in verse six, when he again brings the firstborn
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  Speaker 1: into the world, he says, let all the angels of
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  Speaker 1: God worship him. Now, that word firstborn here has confused
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people because they say, oh, well, if
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the firstborn, clearly he has to have been born.
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  Speaker 1: And that makes a lot of sense as to why
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  Speaker 1: people think that, because you know, when we think of
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  Speaker 1: a firstborn child, we think that that child is truly
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  Speaker 1: the first born of the parents. But you have to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the cultural Hebrew understanding of what firstborn
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  Speaker 1: means in order to understand what the author is trying
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  Speaker 1: to say. The word firstborn was a title. It was
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  Speaker 1: not an origin story, we should say, because actually, if
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  Speaker 1: you look in the Old Testament, there were a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times where children who weren't the firstborn got the
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  Speaker 1: title of firstborn. A really famous example of this in
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament is Jacob and Ysau. You know, Jacob
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  Speaker 1: was the second born son Esau was the firstborn. But
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  Speaker 1: Esau rejected God, and so God stripped Esau of his
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  Speaker 1: title of firstborn and gave it to Jacob. So when
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  Speaker 1: somebody is called a firstborn, that's the title to mean
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  Speaker 1: that they inherit everything that their father owns, meaning that
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  Speaker 1: that child is on the same exact level as his father,
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  Speaker 1: because his father is in trusting everything that he has
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  Speaker 1: to him. So that's why Jesus here is called the firstborn.
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  Speaker 1: And the author of Hebrews mentions this verse, which says,
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  Speaker 1: let all the angels of God worship him. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: verse is found in the septuagent version of Deuteronomy chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty two, verse forty three, which the versions that you
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  Speaker 1: and I have today, for whatever reason, don't include that
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  Speaker 1: little portion, but there's always a footnote that talk about it. So,
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  Speaker 1: for example, the footnote in the web if you turn
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  Speaker 1: to Deuteronomy thirty two, verse forty three, it says for
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  Speaker 1: this verse, the Sebtuagent reads, Rejoice you heavens with him,
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  Speaker 1: and let all the angels of God worship him. Rejoice
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  Speaker 1: you gentiles with his people, and let all the sons
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  Speaker 1: of God strengthen themselves in him. For he will avenge
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  Speaker 1: the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance
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  Speaker 1: and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them
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  Speaker 1: that hate him, and the Lord shall purge the land
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  Speaker 1: of his peoples. Now, I'm not gonna lie. I did
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  Speaker 1: not look into why are current bibles don't include the
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  Speaker 1: subtuagent version of that verse, because we have like the
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  Speaker 1: shortened version of it, which says, rejoice you nations with
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  Speaker 1: his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants,
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  Speaker 1: he will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he will
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  Speaker 1: make atonement for his land and for his people. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the web says. So I don't really know why
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  Speaker 1: the subtuagent version is not included in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: But regardless, we do have the footnotes that talk about
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  Speaker 1: the subtuagent here. And also Hebrews chapter one mentions that
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  Speaker 1: verse from the subtuagen let all the angels of God
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  Speaker 1: worship him, which shows that Jesus is above all the
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  Speaker 1: angels of God. And then verse seven it says of
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  Speaker 1: the angels, he says, he makes his angels wins and
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  Speaker 1: his servants a flame of fire. Now that is a
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  Speaker 1: verse found in Psalm forty five. Oh just kidding, It
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  Speaker 1: is found in Psalm one oh four, verse four, which
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  Speaker 1: says he makes his messengers wins and his servant's flame
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  Speaker 1: of fire. Now that is, of course talking about just
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  Speaker 1: the normal angel, and that verse again Hebrews is pointing out,
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  Speaker 1: shows that angels are mere servants of God, whereas Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is something greater, He is God himself. And this should
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  Speaker 1: give anyone who thinks that Jesus and Michael the Archangel
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  Speaker 1: are the same entity pause, because Jesus is clearly greater
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  Speaker 1: than the angels. Michael the Archangel is described only as
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  Speaker 1: an angel, nothing more than that. If you turn to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel chapter let's see here Daniel chapter ten, twelve through fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: This is how Scripture describes Michael the Archangel. It says,
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  Speaker 1: then he said to me, don't be afraid, Daniel, for
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  Speaker 1: from the first day that you set your heart to
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  Speaker 1: understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words
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  Speaker 1: were heard. I have come for your word's sake. But
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  Speaker 1: the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia with study me
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  Speaker 1: for twenty one days. But behold, Michael, one of the
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  Speaker 1: chief princes came to help me because I remain there
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  Speaker 1: with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to
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  Speaker 1: make you understand what will happen to your people in
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  Speaker 1: the latter days, for the vision is yet for many days.
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  Speaker 1: So those verses essentially describe an angel that came to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel and was telling Daniel about this problem that he had,
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  Speaker 1: where Michael the Archangel came to help him. And this
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  Speaker 1: angel describes Michael as being one of the chief Princes,
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  Speaker 1: not the chief Prince, but one of the chief princes,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that there are multiple chief princes. So yes, Michael
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  Speaker 1: the Archangel is certainly an archangel. He is one of
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  Speaker 1: the great princes of the angelic realm. But he is
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  Speaker 1: not the Prince. He is not the King of kings,
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  Speaker 1: he is not the Lord of lords. He's just an
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  Speaker 1: angel with a lot of authority in God's kingdom. So
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  Speaker 1: scripture does differentiate My the Archangel and Jesus, and not
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  Speaker 1: to mention. If you continue in verse eight of Hebrews one,
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  Speaker 1: it says, but of the son he or God says
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  Speaker 1: your throne, O, God is forever and ever. The scepter
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  Speaker 1: of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. You have
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  Speaker 1: loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, your God, has
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  Speaker 1: anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is a verse from Psalm chapter forty five,
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  Speaker 1: six and seven, And we actually did discuss this one
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  Speaker 1: over on the Bible Explained on Fridays. But this verse
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  Speaker 1: is God the Father calling Jesus God, and then Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in turn calls God the Father his God. Not to mention,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus was down here on earth, he did pray
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  Speaker 1: to God the Father while he was up on the cross, saying,
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  Speaker 1: my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? So
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did call God the Father his God, and then
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  Speaker 1: in turn, God the Father also called Jesus God. So
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  Speaker 1: it shows right there that Jesus and God the Father
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  Speaker 1: are one and the same because they're both God and
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  Speaker 1: they both call each other God. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a cool little verse where yes, God the Father indeed
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  Speaker 1: says that Jesus Christ is God. Now, before I end
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  Speaker 1: the episode, I want to throw a little caveat in there,
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  Speaker 1: because something that came to mind when I was researching
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  Speaker 1: this is the fact that we see in the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament where people actually refer to God as the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of God. And in my mind, not gonna lie, that
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  Speaker 1: kind of threw a wrench in things. If you turn
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  Speaker 1: to Exodus chapter three, verse two. Here's what it says.
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh's angel appeared to him in a flame of fire
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  Speaker 1: out of the middle of the bush. And he looked
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  Speaker 1: and behold the bush burned with fire, and the bush
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  Speaker 1: was not consumed. Moses said, I must go now and
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  Speaker 1: see this great sight. Why the bush is not burned.
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  Speaker 1: When Yahweh saw that, he came over to see God
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  Speaker 1: called to him out of the middle of the bush
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  Speaker 1: and said Moses, Moses, he said, here I am. Those
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  Speaker 1: verses right there show that the angel causing the bush
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  Speaker 1: to burn was actually God himself. And that's where things
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  Speaker 1: get really confusing, because Jesus is greater than all the angels.
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  Speaker 1: But yet scripture does actually say that Jesus is an angel.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he's called the Angel of God on a
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  Speaker 1: handful occasions in the Old Testament, specifically in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Joshua I believe, and also later on in the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Judges, when the Angel of God appeared to
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  Speaker 1: Samson's parents and gave them a message. Samson's parents actually
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  Speaker 1: offered to the Angel of God and worshiped him and
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  Speaker 1: said I have seen God. So that shows right there
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  Speaker 1: that sometimes in the Old Testament, when the Angel of
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  Speaker 1: God shows up, it is probably Jesus himself. So how
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  Speaker 1: do we remedy that with the fact that Hebrews Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one says that Jesus is above all the angels. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the best explanation for that is by looking at the
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  Speaker 1: word angel it self. The word angel just means messenger,
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  Speaker 1: and we see the word angel not always referring to
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  Speaker 1: just the angels. At the beginning of Revelation, John was
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  Speaker 1: actually writing letters to the churches, and he said to
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  Speaker 1: the Angel of the Church of Philadelphia, for example, And
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  Speaker 1: it's very possible he's not writing that letter to an
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  Speaker 1: actual angel, but to a messenger. So the word angel
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  Speaker 1: can sometimes get confusing because it means messenger. But when
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter one is talking about the difference between angels
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus, he's talking about the difference between God's creation
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus himself, who was not created. Because the angels,
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  Speaker 1: as we know of them, were the servants of God.
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  Speaker 1: That is what Psalm one of four says. That is
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  Speaker 1: what Hebrews here quotes about how angels are different than
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  Speaker 1: Jesus because the angels are created servants of God, whereas
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is not a servant he might at times be
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  Speaker 1: a messenger for God's words, but he is not a servant,
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  Speaker 1: because he is the begotten son of God. He is
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  Speaker 1: equal to God across the board. In fact, Hebrews one,
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  Speaker 1: verse three says that Jesus is the radiance of God's glory,
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  Speaker 1: the very image of his substance, and upholding all things
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  Speaker 1: by the word of his power. So that shows right
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  Speaker 1: there that Jesus and the angels or the servants are different.
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  Speaker 1: But let's go ahead and conclude Hebrews one, starting in
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  Speaker 1: verse ten. Here's another verse that Hebrews mentions, you Lord,
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning lay the foundation of the earth. The
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  Speaker 1: heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish,
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  Speaker 1: but you continue. They will all grow old like a
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  Speaker 1: garment does. You will roll them up like a mantle,
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  Speaker 1: and they will be changed. But you are the same.
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  Speaker 1: Your years won't fail. Those are verses from Isaiah forty
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  Speaker 1: five twelve and also Psalm one oh two. Those are
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  Speaker 1: describing Jesus. What did these verses say, Well, they say
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was in the beginning, and he laid the
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  Speaker 1: foundations of the earth. It says the heavens are the
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  Speaker 1: works of his hands. They will perish, but Jesus continues,
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  Speaker 1: meaning he is eternal, he is everlasting. They will grow
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  Speaker 1: old like a garment grows old. Jesus will roll them
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  Speaker 1: up like a mantle and they will be changed. But
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  Speaker 1: you are the same, and your years won't fail. That
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  Speaker 1: is talking about Jesus. That is what Hebrews says. Right here.
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  Speaker 1: These verses are describing Jesus. So that's another thing we
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  Speaker 1: have to understand about Jesus in order to recognize him
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  Speaker 1: as God, is that he is eternal. The first point
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  Speaker 1: that I talked about on Tuesday is that Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: not born. The second point is that Jesus is sitting
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of God the Father. The third
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  Speaker 1: point is that Jesus is above all the angels because
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  Speaker 1: God the Father actually said so in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth reason being that Jesus is the creator, so
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  Speaker 1: he could not be created. And the fifth point is
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is eternal. He existed at the beginning and he
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  Speaker 1: will exist forever. Even after the earth completely perishes, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: will still be His years won't fail. He will be
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  Speaker 1: the same. The earth may fail, but he will be
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  Speaker 1: the same. And then verse thirteen But to which of
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  Speaker 1: the angels has he told at any time, sit at
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  Speaker 1: my right hand until I make your enemies the footstool
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  Speaker 1: of your feet. That's another verse from the Psalms, that
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  Speaker 1: is Psalm one ten, verse one. God never told this
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  Speaker 1: to any angelic being. He never said that to them.
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  Speaker 1: He said this to Jesus, that Jesus was going to
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  Speaker 1: sit at the right hand of God the Father, which
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  Speaker 1: is where he is right now. By the way, In fact,
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  Speaker 1: this prophecy is currently coming true. Sit at my right
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  Speaker 1: hand until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.
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  Speaker 1: That is what God the Father is doing. He's telling Jesus, hey,
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  Speaker 1: sit right here next to me, my son, until I
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  Speaker 1: finish what I have started, until I make your enemies
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  Speaker 1: your footstool, which means I put them underneath you. God
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  Speaker 1: never said any of these things to the angels, which
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  Speaker 1: shows that Jesus is not Michael the Archangel. He is
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  Speaker 1: not any angel. Because angels are God's servants, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what Hebrews concludes with right here in verse twelve. Aren't
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  Speaker 1: they all serving spirits sent out to do service for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of those who will inherit salvation. That's the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of the angels right now is to do service
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of the people who will inherit salvation.
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  Speaker 1: That is what the angels are doing. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of mystery surrounding that. And I understand people's fascinations
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  Speaker 1: actually with the supernatural. I get it, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of fascinated with it. And scripture is kind of
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  Speaker 1: vague when it talks about angels in a lot of ways. Hebrews,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, actually talks about angels maybe the most
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  Speaker 1: out of any book in the New Testament or Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: So we don't really know a lot about angels or
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual realm for that matter. But what we do
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  Speaker 1: know is that Jesus created all of it. Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the creator. He created the angels, He created the angels
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  Speaker 1: who chose to fall, He created human beings who chose
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  Speaker 1: to fall. He created everything. And so since Jesus sits
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of God the Father, we as
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  Speaker 1: Christians must worship Jesus as God. Thank God, I got
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  Speaker 1: through this episode. When I first started researching this today,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, how am I going to talk about this?
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  Speaker 1: How am I going to do it? This is so
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  Speaker 1: beyond me and yet and I sat down and prayed
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  Speaker 1: and God gave me the words. So thank you so much, God,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for helping me and get through
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  Speaker 1: this episode. This was one I was really really concerned about. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: all right, faith for listeners, we're ending on a high note.
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  Speaker 1: goodbye after that. I hope you understand now why Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: is my favorite book of the New Testament. I just
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  Speaker 1: love it. It is so cool, so fun to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: and there's so many points in it that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't really talk about when discussing other portions of
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  Speaker 1: the Scripture. So it's just been a lot of fun
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  Speaker 1: to discuss Hebrews. And there's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: more great topics from the Book of Hebrews specifically. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people claim that the Book of Hebrews proves that people
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  Speaker 1: can lose their salvation, and I'm going to show why.
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  Speaker 1: I personally don't believe that, and I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews proves that at all. But I think Hebrews lines
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  Speaker 1: up perfectly with the rest of Scripture, where it says
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  Speaker 1: that you know, nobody can be plucked out of Jesus's hands. Like,
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  Speaker 1: once Jesus got you, nobody can take you out. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into topics like that and other topics as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the Order of Malchisedek is coming up in
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews also, and I'm excited to talk about that subject also.
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  Speaker 1: we're going through the Book of Psalms right now, which
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  Speaker 1: interestingly enough, we already discussed a lot of the Psalms
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  Speaker 1: that we talked about today on Hebrews Chapter one. You'll
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