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Hebrews chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Hebrews chapter 4. Let us pray.
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  God Almighty, who reigns on high, we love you, Father, we
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  love everything about you. God, we'd love you for all the
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  many times that you showed up, all the many times that you
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  rescued us from sin and self. God, I pray that we will charge
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  the hill, that we will not grow weary.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus, God Almighty, that you'll
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  be well pleased with the reading of your text today.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll give us sound doctrine and sound
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  theology. God that will walk in the truth
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  will walk in the light. Father, I pray that Jesus will
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  be glorified and magnified in the highest through every land
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  and every continent and every people group and every language
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  and tongue. God, I pray that it'll be Jesus
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  lifted up high. God, I pray for prayer to come
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  back to the schoolroom. God, I pray for the 10
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  commandments in the courtroom. God, I pray that the
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  judeo-christian values will come back to the land.
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  Father, I pray that we will do away with abortion.
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  God, in the mighty name of Jesus, I pray for the nation
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  Israel. Lord, I pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem. Father, I pray for all the
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  ethnic Jews, Lord, to come into the fold and the saving
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  knowledge of Jesus Christ the Messiah.
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  We love you. Father, we thank you for your
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  holy Scriptures. Lord, we worship you, the God of
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  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Lord will your lay down lovers
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  help us to finish this race well show up today.
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  God Almighty, I pray as we read your words that your words will
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  saturate us. Let them become part of who we
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  are in the way that we see everything happening all around
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  us. God, I pray that you'll heal
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  diseases today. I pray that the lame God will
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  walk again. God, I pray you'll regrow limbs,
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  Lord, and heal heart disease. And God, I pray that you will
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  heal cancer today, God. Heal diabetes today.
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  God, take away dementia and Alzheimer's, Father.
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  God, take away childhood cancers, Lord, in the mighty
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  name of Jesus, God, heal prostates today.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will heal breast cancer
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  today, Father, in the name of Jesus, God, I pray that you'll
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  heal and reverse kidney disease. God, I pray, Lord, you'll heal
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  colon cancer today, God. In the name of Jesus, I pray
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  Lord, that we can touch the hem of your garment and be healed
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  today. In the mighty name of Jesus
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  Christ. Let the Shadow Fall upon us,
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  Lord, and be healed, God, as we touch the handkerchiefs, God, I
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  pray in the name of Jesus, Lord, we don't desire silver or gold.
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  We only desire the true word of God in our lives, Jesus our
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  Master, Jesus our Lord. I deny Maranatha Elroy in Jesus
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  Christ holy and precious name I pray, Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. Let us therefore fear, unless a
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  promise being left us, of entering into his rest, any of
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  you should seem to come short of it.
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  This is the idea of a runner who finishes second place.
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  We are called to finish strong. We are called to not fall short,
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  friends. We are called to run all the way
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  to the end. We don't need to fail to enter
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  into the rest that he has for us, and that rest is in Christ
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  Jesus. We don't need to just approach
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  God from an intellectual standpoint.
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  We don't need to know enough about God to be able to teach
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  it. We don't need academia, friends.
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  We need for Him to touch our heart.
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  We need for Him to give us a new heart and a new mind.
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  We need the regeneration and the rebirth.
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  Friends, we don't need enough of Jesus just to not have to go to
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  hell. We need Jesus enough to finish
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  this race. Well, two, for unto us was the
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  gospel preached, as well as unto them, but the word preached did
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  not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard
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  it. It's not enough, friends, just
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  to hear the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  It's not enough just to have an emotional response.
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  This is the person who received it into shallow soil.
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  This is the person who received it joyfully, but the bird came
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  and snatched it. This is the people who received
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  it. But the tears came up and choked
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  out all of the fruitfulness. Friends, these are the ones who
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  were at the door. They heard the good news, but
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  they failed to attain to the saving knowledge of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ in the Lord Jesus Christ alone. 3 For we which
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  have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have
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  sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest.
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  Although the works were finished from the foundation of the
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  world, God has predestined and chosen us before the foundation
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  of the earth. He's the Alpha and the Omega and
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  He knows who belongs to him and He's bringing them in for, For
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  He spoke in a certain place of the 7th day on this way, and God
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  did rest the 7th day from all his works.
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  He's called us into the rest. He has prepared the rest, just
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  like He prepared the promised land for them to go into.
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  But there were many who were at the gates, and they failed to
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  enter into that promised land. There are many who hear the good
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  news, but they fail to accurately place their faith in
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  the Lord Jesus Christ and enter into his rest. 5 And in this
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  place again, if they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing,
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  therefore, it remains that some must enter in it, and they to
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  whom it was first preached entered not in because of
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  unbelief. So whether the people came in or
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  not, it did not change the fact that the place of rest had been
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  prepared. So that is what the writer of
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  Hebrews wants us to know, that the place is prepared and it is
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  set and it is secure, but we must choose to come into it, and
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  that is free will, friends. So you can see these two
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  opposite ends of the spectrum that we do not need to fall off
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  either side of the Cliff on. It is free will, but he already
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  knows who's going to be there. 7 Again he limits a certain day,
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  saying in David today after so long a time, as it is said
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  today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
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  Time and time and time again, the writer of Hebrews has
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  brought us to today. We don't need to be people who
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  are so wrapped up in yesterday's wins or losses, and we don't
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  need to be those who are so incredibly worried about
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  tomorrow. Today is all that we have.
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  It is a gift, it is a present, and today is the day of
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  salvation. Place your faith in the Lord
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  Jesus Christ today and it is not a question of can you tell me
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  when or have you ever and it is definitely not.
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  I will wait for a more convenient time.
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  The question is, are you now following after the Lord Jesus
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  Christ? And you will experience that
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  rest. Do not harden your hearts, do
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  not sear your consciences. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit,
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  Friends. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he
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  not afterward have spoken of another day?
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  There are many who were right outside the gates.
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  A three-week journey took 40 years, friends.
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  And that is the irony that there are many who are right at the
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  gates, but they refused to come in nine.
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  There remains there for a rest. To the people of God.
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  I pray that you've entered into that rest.
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  Just as Noah, his three sons, and their wives had to enter
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  into the boat to be saved, we must enter into Jesus Christ to
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  be saved. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also
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  has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
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  So Jesus Christ seated at the right hand of God, waiting on
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  the perfect time to make his enemy a footstool. 11 Let us
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  labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall
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  after the same example of unbelief.
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  That's the key, this unbelief. Increase your faith, increase
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  your belief. Friends, do not be like the
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  Father who says I believe, but help my unbelief.
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  We have full confidence that Jesus Christ is enough.
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  He's enough to save us, and He's enough to bring us in to that
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  rest. 12 For the Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than
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  any 2 edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
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  and spirit, and of the joints of marrow, and is a discerner of
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  the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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  What an amazing verse in God's Word.
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  We can see that the Word of God is alive and active, friends,
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  and is sharper than any 2 edged sword.
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  And you can see this point that pierces us on the sword, and
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  that is the work of God. He is able to be profitable for
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  our outward life and he's able to be profitable to the inward
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  life of a believer. He's able to deal with all the
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  external things that are happening in your life, and He's
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  able to deal with all the internal things that you're
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  trying to wrestle with inside of your own mind and heart and
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  inside of your own body. Friends, this is the God that we
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  serve. He can Pierce us in the deepest
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  parts of our life that no man could ever reach.
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  And it falls on the right place at the right time, and it breaks
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  a man. And that is the only thing that
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  could ever reach somebody is God's Word, and it is
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  profitable, and it goes out to the ends of the earth, and it
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  saves to the utmost, friends. And I pray that that is your
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  story, and no man could ever get the credit for it.
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  It is God's Word that is alive and active, and it is powerful,
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  and it is sharp, and it pierces, and he discerns our thoughts,
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  and He knows the intents of our hearts.
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  Nothing is hidden from God. He knows all of your selfish
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  motives. He knows all of your thoughts
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  and your intents. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not
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  manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and open unto
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  the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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  God sees everything. God knows everything.
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  There's nothing done in the dark that is not as light to God.
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  There is nothing whispered that God does not hear.
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  There is nothing that we internalize and think in our own
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  minds that God does not know about.
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  He knows all. What an amazing thought.
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  All of creation is laid bare. And don't think that God doesn't
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  care about all the little things in your life.
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  He's because He does. He's not too busy running the
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  universe that He doesn't care about all the little prayers
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  that you don't think are necessary, because He does.
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  He cares about all of your little prayers.
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  He cares about all of your thoughts.
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  He cares about your emotions. He cares about your feelings.
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  He cares, friends, He is so powerful and he is so good and
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  he is so loving. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest
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  that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us
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  hold fast our profession. We don't need to shrink back.
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  We don't need to give up. We don't need to slack off,
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  friends, We must press on, and He will give us the endurance to
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  finish if we will hold fast to our profession of faith in
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  Christ Jesus and not allow this world to beat us down to the
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  point where we give in and give up. 15 For we have not a high
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  priest which cannot be touched with feelings of our
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  infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are,
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  yet without sin. Don't think that Jesus doesn't
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  know what you're going through, because He does.
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  He was able to bear it, friends. He was able to go through it and
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  never gave in to sin, which was much harder than anything that
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  we could ever go through. He went through it and did not
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  give into it. And how many times do we fail
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  and how many times do we give in to sin, friends?
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  And he was sinless. We'll end on 16.
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  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that
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  we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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  We don't deserve the mercy. We don't deserve the eternal
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  life. We deserve Hell friends.
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  And aren't you glad that you don't get what you deserve?
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  That is the beauty of what Christ did for us is that if we
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  will come to Him and we'll place our full faith in Him, then He
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  is well pleased to impute to us His righteousness where we can
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  stand before a holy Almighty God and not get what we deserve.
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  We get what He deserves, which is eternal life forever in the
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  presence of God. I pray that you look forward to
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  that. I pray that you're not stuck in
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  sin. I pray that you're not stuck in
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  the sinful cycle. I pray that you're not kicked
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  down. I pray that you are emboldened
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  and have zeal for His house. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.