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Hebrews 1:1-4 · Providence Baptist Church - Sermons

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  Hebrews 1, just to read with me in chapter 1, verse 1.
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  Long ago, at many times, and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.
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  But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son,
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  whom He appointed the heir of all things,
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  through whom He also created the world.
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  He is the radiance of the glory of God.
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  He has given the exact imprint of His nature,
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  and He upholds the universe by the word of His power.
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  After making purification for sins,
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  He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
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  having become much as superior to angels
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  as the name He has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
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  One of my favorite little descriptions of who Jesus is in the whole Bible,
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  and so what we're going to talk about this morning is just the person of Christ,
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  who He is, what He's done.
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  I thought, man, if you have just to talk about one thing,
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  what could you talk about?
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  And I thought we'd just talk about how excellent and glorious Christ is.
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  And so some of you who were here last semester on Thursday night
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  might have heard a variation of this message.
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  I've changed it a little bit, but it was good for me just to reread it
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  and adapt a few things.
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  But many people today are wondering who Jesus really is.
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  Some of you may be, but most of you, I assume,
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  have encountered and experienced Christ in a real way.
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  And during the first century, in 94 A.D.,
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  there was a Jewish historian named Josephus,
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  and he was captured by the Romans,
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  and the Romans were coming into Judea
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  and trying to suppress the uprising that happened.
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  It's the same time when the temple was destroyed by Titus.
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  But he was taken back to Rome,
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  and they allowed him to write and to do things there
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  and to kind of represent the Jews in some way.
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  But he wrote, he was a Pharisee,
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  and he helped lead the rebellion before his capture.
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  But this is something he wrote in the histories, he said,
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  about the first century.
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  Now there was almost at this time,
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  there rose a source further in the trouble of one person, Jesus.
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  So he's saying there's a lot of trouble,
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  but this man Jesus caused more trouble.
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  A wise man who performed surprising works,
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  a teacher of men who gladly welcomed strange things.
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  He led away many Jews and also some Gentiles.
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  He was the so-called Christ.
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  When Pilate, acting on information supplied by the chief men around us,
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  condemned him to the cross,
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  those who attached themselves to him at first did not cease,
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  did not cause trouble.
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  And the tribe of Christians,
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  which has taken his name from him,
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  is not extinct to this day, 94 A.D.
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  So a lot of people look at Christ,
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  and they don't really know what he was about and what he was.
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  This is somebody who lived around that time,
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  who actually heard and maybe even saw Jesus in the flesh walking around.
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  He didn't really know who Jesus was.
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  He was the so-called Christ.
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  But he did say he was a wise man.
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  And another translation of this same text said,
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  if it be lawful to call him a man,
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  is something else that Josephus writes.
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  But we, who have been saved and redeemed by Christ,
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  have a completely different relationship as someone who does not.
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  And one man who actually did have an awesome brother of ours,
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  a long time ago in the colonial America, 1700,
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  Jonathan Edwards,
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  he had a sermon called,
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  The Excellency of Christ.
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  And it's a great sermon.
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  You ought to go and look it up and just read it.
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  But it's from Revelation 5 that compares Christ to both the lamb and the lion,
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  and how Christ is lamb-like and lion-like,
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  and how he is so beyond anything like any human could imagine.
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  And his excellencies are so diverse.
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  And I'll just read you a couple of things that he wrote in the sermon.
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  So although he was worthy of all good,
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  he had amazing patience just to endure evil.
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  It says,
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  We admire him because of his sovereign dominion over all the world,
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  but even more because his dominion was clothed with a spirit of obedience and submission.
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  This is really cool.
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  We love the way he stooped the proud scribes with his wisdom.
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  And we love it even more because he could be simple enough to like children and spend time with them.
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  So awesome stuff.
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  Like Christ was unlike anything.
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  He's so diverse, so infinite,
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  that even the greatest among us, the greatest theologians in history,
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  couldn't even tap who he really was.
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  Right?
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  There's so much of him to be had.
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  But yet, at the same time, a child can understand him and know him.
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  The diversity of Jesus.
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  So when we say Jesus Christ, our Lord,
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  like what are we actually saying?
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  This is a great way to even just share Christ with somebody,
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  someone who calls themselves a Christian or a follower of Christ,
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  and ask them,
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  what do you mean by saying that?
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  Jesus is the Hebrew, or from the Hebrew, the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua.
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  Right?
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  It means to save, designates the Savior.
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  And Christ, the Greek form of Messiah,
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  the one who would save us and deliver us from sin,
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  the one that the anointed one of whom the Spirit would not ever pull away from,
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  that rested on without measure, Scripture says.
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  He's called the Son of Man.
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  From Daniel, right?
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  Where he pictured the Son of Man coming in the clouds of power and great glory.
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  Then, the Lord, meaning the ruler, the sovereign over all things.
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  You know, the Son of God.
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  The third person of the Trinity.
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  You know, three in one.
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  Jesus Christ.
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  So if you look at our text in verse 1,
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  in Hebrews, it says,
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  Long ago, and many times in many ways,
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  God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.
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  But in these last days,
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  He has spoken to us by His Son.
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  And so throughout the centuries,
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  God has had a prophetic eloquence of communicating with us.
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  And where it says there, many times in many ways,
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  it means many portions in many ways,
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  emphasizes the great diversity of speech in which God has communicated to us.
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  So think about it.
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  In the Old Testament,
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  He communicated to Jacob through an angel.
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  Moses through fire at Sinai, right?
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  Balaam through a donkey.
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  Elijah with a whisper.
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  Such a huge diversity of communication.
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  God could use whatever He wanted to use.
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  And then even by the law, right?
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  The law that came to Moses.
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  The teachings, the warnings, and the exhortation found in the law.
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  So God greatly accommodated us in breaking Himself down so that we could understand Him.
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  Right?
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  Because just the human mind, the human soul is not able to completely take in at one time
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  the fullness of who God is.
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  So He's broken Himself down for us to understand throughout the centuries.
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  And so, it's His loving desire to do that, to break Himself down for us to understand.
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  So He's accommodated us.
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  And as you see in the Old Testament, there's like a progressive revelation of who God is kind of going on.
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  So, more and more we learn about Him.
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  But all that eloquence of the Old Testament was not complete.
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  It remained kind of unfinished.
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  It was fragmented.
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  And it was sufficient a little bit for the time, but it was lacking.
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  And it called for something greater.
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  Right?
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  And as we can see in our text, God has spoken in these last days through His Son.
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  Not...
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  So, that's it.
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  Nothing else.
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  He's spoken to us in His Son.
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  Not...
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  And more prophets.
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  And more creepy ways that people come up with that think that God communicates to them.
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  He's spoken to us in the Son.
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  That means literally in Son.
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  Meaning that the fullness of who God was was communicated by the coming of His Son.
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  He embodies everything that God is.
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  So, if you want to see God, you look to Christ.
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  Jesus is the ultimate medium of communication between us and God.
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  So, as Moses couldn't see God's full glory.
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  Remember that?
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  On Sinai, like I said,
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  Show me your glory.
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  I can't.
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  It'll kill you.
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  I'll show you my backside.
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  Hide you in the cleft of the rock.
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  Moses couldn't see that.
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  But in Jesus, God has accommodated Himself in the ultimate way in communicating to us.
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  The old phrase,
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  In veiled in flesh, the Godhead see.
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  Right?
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  Jesus, our Lord.
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  Turn to John 1.
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  Keep your hand in Hebrews, but turn to John 1.
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  John 1.
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  John 1.
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  Excuse me.
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  God has drawn near to us in the greatest way in Jesus.
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  And even His name, Emmanuel, God with us, implies the same thing.
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  But in John 1, you look at verse 1.
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  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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  He was in the beginning with God.
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  There's a description of our Lord.
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  Jump down to verse 14, same chapter.
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  The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory.
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  The glory Moses could not see.
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  Right?
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  We have seen His glory.
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  Glory is of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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  Look at verse 18.
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  No one has ever seen God.
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  Alright?
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  So, false prophets that have come in the past.
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  Joseph Smith, Muhammad, they all have claimed to have actually seen or encountered this kind of stuff.
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  No man has ever seen God.
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  The only God who is at the Father's side, He has made Him known.
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  So, Jesus came from the Father.
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  He's the only one who came from the Father to make Him known.
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  And that's it.
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  Not and more prophets or anything else.
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  Right?
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  He took on flesh.
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  God became flesh, literally, and walked among us.
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  Right?
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  In the person of Jesus.
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  St. Augustine, he said about this idea of the incarnation,
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  He took to Himself what He was not, while remaining what He was.
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  He continued to be what He is, while appearing to us as we are.
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  Really awesome.
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  Awesome stuff.
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  He took to Himself what He was not, while remaining what He was.
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  He continued to be what He is, while appearing to us as we are.
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  Awesome.
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  So, God has communicated Himself in the ultimate way in Jesus to us.
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  There's not any other way that He could have done it more fully than sending His Son.
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  So, we're going to look at, back in Hebrews, turn back to Hebrews, chapter 1.
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  We're going to look at, we're going to break those few verses down and look at each little phrase that's used here to kind of get a better picture of who Jesus is.
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  So, if you're taking notes, this would be number one.
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  We see that Jesus is the inheritor.
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  The inheritor.
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  Verse 2.
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  All right.
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  Everything in existence will ultimately end up under the control and rule of Christ.
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  So, in addition to inheriting the universe, you think that that's pretty awesome.
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  Like, to inherit the universe, what greater inheritance could Christ have?
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  And He does have a greater inheritance than just the universe.
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  And that inheritance is us.
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  The saints.
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  Right?
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  We are His most treasured possession.
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  He bought us with His blood.
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  Ephesians 1, 18 says this.
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  Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which you have been called.
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  And here it is.
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  What are the riches of Christ's glorious inheritance in the saints?
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  See that?
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  So, Paul is praying that we would understand more fully how treasured and how valued we are by Christ as His inheritance.
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  Right?
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  He has heavens and innumerable worlds at His disposal, but we are still His treasured possession.
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  Bought with His own blood.
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  And one day, all the nations will rightfully give Him praise.
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  The nations are His inheritance.
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  Right?
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  Psalm 2.
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  Ask of me and I will make the nations your heritage and the ends of the earth your possession.
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  So, Christ is the inheritor of all things.
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  Not just the universe, but of us.
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  The people that He saved and bought.
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  So, that's the first one, the inheritor.
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  Number two.
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  We see that Christ is the creator.
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  Right?
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  Look at verse 2, the second part.
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  It says,
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  Through whom He created the world.
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  Right?
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  So, if you read the rest of the scriptures, even in Genesis 1, let us create.
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  Let us create.
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  You see this idea that Christ was the agent of creation.
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  He existed before creation.
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  This is why He cannot be just never created being.
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  Turn to Colossians and hold your place in Hebrews again.
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  But turn to Colossians 1.
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  There are just a few places to turn this morning.
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  I don't want to overwhelm you, but it's good to look at stuff.
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  Colossians 1.
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  If Christ created all things and He existed before creation,
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  then He Himself was not created.
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  He existed with God.
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  Just like we read in John just a little while ago.
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  So, He created all things, both visible and invisible.
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  Alright?
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  Look at this.
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  Verse 15 in chapter 1.
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  He, Jesus, is the image of the invisible God,
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  the firstborn of all creation.
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  And that idea of firstborn just has to do with rank,
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  not the way that some people would think of that.
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  It has to do with rank.
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  Of the highest rank, Jesus.
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  For by Him all things were created,
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  in heaven and on earth,
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  visible and invisible,
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  whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities,
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  all things were created through Him and for Him.
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  So, stuff exists for Jesus too.
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  For His glory, for His honor.
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  Right?
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  I have a...
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  I think he's my second cousin.
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  I think he is.
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  My dad's side of the family is from Alabama.
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  Before you start hating on Alabama,
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  like, my family doesn't meet any of those stereotypes
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  that people think about.
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  They are farmers.
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  It's like stepping back a couple centuries
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  if you go back to where they are.
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  But they are great people.
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  But among the farmer family over there,
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  there's one guy.
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  I think he's my second cousin.
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  His name's Johnny Frank.
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  And he works in Huntsville at the NASA station.
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  And he's worked there for a long time, actually.
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  And I don't even know what his salary is,
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  but he makes a lot of money.
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  He's working for NASA.
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  But he's also a brother in the Lord.
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  And he always has told me, like,
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  man, the stuff that we look at
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  and the stuff that we talk about,
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  not just the people at the Space Center here,
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  but the astronauts that come in
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  that have actually been there and seen things,
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  like, it's impossible to just believe
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  that this just happened by chance,
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  that there was or had to have been
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  an all-powerful creator who made all this stuff.
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  It's foolish to think otherwise.
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  And even most physicists actually are thinking that way, too.
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  They don't want that to get out to people.
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  But I think this just can't happen by itself.
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  But he would say, like, wow, like, God made all of this.
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  You know, all things visible and invisible he made.
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  Not just me and you and things that we can see,
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  but also angels, demons,
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  the things in the spiritual realm.
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  He created those things in the beginning, right?
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  And he created them good before they were corrupted.
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  So absolutely nothing was made without him.
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  And John 1, verse 3, it says,
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  All things were made through him.
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  And without him was not anything made that was made.
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  He was in the world, and the world was made through him.
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  Yet the world did not know him.
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  That's John 1, 3, and 10.
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  So he created all things, you and me.
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  So, number three under this, back in Hebrews,
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  number three is he is the sustainer of all things.
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  He's the sustainer of all things.
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  So not only is he the creator,
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  he created things,
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  but then he just didn't back away from them
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  and let them run on their own.
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  But he actually is actively upholding these things,
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  like actively involved in every little thing that goes on.
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  Verse 3, first part, it says,
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  He upholds the universe by the word of his power.
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  Right?
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  So he's not just holding dead weight.
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  He is actively involved in what goes on.
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  Right?
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  And what's really cool here,
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  that word, word,
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  that's used here in verse 3,
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  it means like a spoken word,
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  like an active word that's coming out of his mouth.
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  It's not like he spoke it,
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  and now he's not speaking.
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  He is speaking, like right now.
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  The reason that the universe is doing what it's doing
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  and the reason that your heart is beating
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  is because he's speaking.
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  Remember Jesus,
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  man does not live by bread alone,
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  but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
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  Right?
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  That's an active tense.
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  God is speaking and keeping us alive,
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  sustaining us and upholding us by the word of his power.
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  Colossians 1, verse 17,
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  says that Christ is before all things,
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  so before anything was made,
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  and in him all things hold together.
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  Right?
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  This was this idea of this old word
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  that I like to use a lot,
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  but you don't hear much anymore in the church,
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  but the word providence,
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  God,
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  God's sovereign governing and involvement
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  of all things in his creation.
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  Everything,
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  from a bird,
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  a sparrow falling,
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  that's what Jesus says,
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  right to the grass growing,
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  to empires,
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  rising and falling,
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  like God is in control of those things.
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  He's not just distant,
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  he is actively involved.
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  He upholds the universe
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  by the word of his power,
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  governing and sustaining all things.
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  So,
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  let that be a comfort to you,
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  right?
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  That he's not away from you right now.
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  If you indeed have Christ,
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  he is going to uphold you
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  and he's going to do what he promised.
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  Right?
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  He can't be thwarted.
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  There's no power outside of him
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  that can overtake him.
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  He has all things under his control.
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  And I had to even believe that this morning,
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  even like in a frustrating situation,
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  but I thought,
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  am I going to believe what I'm talking about?
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  You know,
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  one of those things.
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  And so,
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  God is in control of all things.
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  It demands such worship to understand that,
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  that Christ is in control.
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  Right?
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  So,
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  your heart beating,
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  your lungs taking breath,
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  that's being sustained by the active word of Christ right now.
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  So,
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  he's the sustainer,
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  but he's also,
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  number four,
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  he's the radiator.
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  Not like a car radiator,
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  but a different kind of radiator.
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  Look at verse three,
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  where it says,
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  he is the radiance of the glory of God.
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  Right?
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  I hope that your English translation doesn't use the word reflection.
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  And if it does,
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  just cross it out.
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  It's okay.
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  And put the word radiance instead.
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  Because there's a vast difference.
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  Big difference.
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  One really proves to not be true at all about Jesus.
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  And one proves to be true.
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  How much difference?
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  Well,
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  to reflect and to radiate.
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  A vast difference is much as like,
• 21:56
  the sun and the moon difference.
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  The sun,
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  excuse me,
• 22:00
  the moon,
• 22:01
  has no light of its own.
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  You know that,
• 22:03
  right?
• 22:04
  There's no such thing as the light of the moon.
• 22:06
  It's,
• 22:06
  it's reflecting the sun's light.
• 22:09
  Right?
• 22:09
  The sun,
• 22:10
  unlike the moon,
• 22:11
  the sun radiates light.
• 22:13
  It's the source of light.
• 22:15
  Right?
• 22:15
  So,
• 22:15
  if you're saying that Jesus is just a reflection,
• 22:18
  you're saying that he really is not,
• 22:19
  the scripture says,
• 22:21
  that he is God.
• 22:22
  That he's not just reflecting the source,
• 22:24
  but he is a part of the source itself of light.
• 22:28
  Right?
• 22:30
  Jesus doesn't reflect it.
• 22:31
  He is a part of the glory of God.
• 22:34
  And that's shown even in the transfiguration.
• 22:37
  Right?
• 22:38
  Briefly,
• 22:39
  Peter,
• 22:39
  James,
• 22:39
  and John got to see this.
• 22:41
  Right?
• 22:42
  To look at the full strength of who he is.
• 22:45
  In Mark 9,
• 22:46
  verse 2,
• 22:47
  it says this,
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  we're not there yet.
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  We will get there.
• 22:52
  In Mark,
• 22:53
  after six days,
• 22:54
  Jesus took with him Peter,
• 22:56
  James,
• 22:56
  and John,
• 22:57
  and they led him up to a high mountain by themselves.
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  And he was transfigured before them.
• 23:03
  And his clothes became radiant.
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  There's the word.
• 23:08
  Intensely white,
• 23:09
  as no one on earth could bleach them.
• 23:13
  Intense moment.
• 23:13
  I've mentioned this before,
• 23:16
  but,
• 23:16
  like,
• 23:18
  you wonder,
• 23:19
  if you read that passage in Luke,
• 23:20
  and you read it here in Mark,
• 23:22
  it says that,
• 23:23
  like,
• 23:24
  they actually fell asleep.
• 23:26
  And you would think,
• 23:27
  what a lame time to fall asleep.
• 23:29
  Like,
• 23:29
  you're,
• 23:29
  you're standing there,
• 23:31
  watching Christ transfigured,
• 23:33
  and you fall asleep.
• 23:34
  Um,
• 23:36
  that's not what happened,
• 23:38
  really.
• 23:38
  But when you really read the language there,
• 23:41
  it kind of gives us impression
• 23:42
  that they were so overwhelmed
• 23:44
  with what happened,
• 23:46
  like,
• 23:47
  adrenaline,
• 23:47
  everything,
• 23:48
  that they literally just,
• 23:49
  like,
• 23:50
  lost their strength
• 23:50
  by being there,
• 23:51
  probably.
• 23:52
  They just passed out.
• 23:54
  Um,
• 23:54
  so whenever you ask,
• 23:55
  like,
• 23:56
  just to,
• 23:56
  God,
• 23:57
  show me your faith,
• 23:58
  show me your glory,
• 23:58
  like,
• 23:59
  it's a really intense moment.
• 24:01
  Most people in Scripture
• 24:01
  have terrifying experiences
• 24:04
  when they ask for God
• 24:05
  to show them His glory.
• 24:07
  Um,
• 24:08
  it's not something
• 24:08
  you just kind of waltz into.
• 24:09
  It's something that will
• 24:10
  terrify you.
• 24:12
  Um,
• 24:13
  so,
• 24:13
  he is the radiance
• 24:15
  of the glory of God.
• 24:17
  It's the same radiance
• 24:18
  that blinded Saul,
• 24:19
  right,
• 24:20
  on the road to Damascus.
• 24:22
  And back in the Nicene Creed,
• 24:23
  uh,
• 24:24
  381 A.D.,
• 24:26
  they wrote,
• 24:27
  God of light,
• 24:28
  God of God,
• 24:29
  light of light,
• 24:31
  very God of very God,
• 24:33
  Jesus Christ our Lord,
• 24:34
  right?
• 24:35
  That's the description
• 24:36
  of who Jesus is.
• 24:38
  So,
• 24:38
  number five,
• 24:39
  he's the representative.
• 24:41
  It's a big word.
• 24:43
  Um,
• 24:44
  number five,
• 24:45
  representative.
• 24:46
  And back in Hebrews,
• 24:48
  the third part of verse three
• 24:51
  says that Jesus is the
• 24:53
  exact imprint
• 24:54
  of his nature,
• 24:56
  of God's nature.
• 24:58
  And this idea
• 24:59
  of an imprint
• 25:00
  refers to an image
• 25:01
  on a coin
• 25:02
  which perfectly
• 25:03
  corresponds to the die,
• 25:05
  right?
• 25:06
  It's being used,
• 25:06
  the image of the die.
• 25:08
  So,
• 25:08
  Jesus is,
• 25:09
  in fact,
• 25:10
  completely the same
• 25:11
  as the Father.
• 25:12
  He also,
• 25:13
  but he also isn't just the same,
• 25:14
  but he is a representative
• 25:15
  of the Father.
• 25:17
  He's the source.
• 25:18
  John 1,
• 25:19
  like we said,
• 25:20
  the Word was God.
• 25:22
  Not just,
• 25:24
  um,
• 25:24
  the Word was,
• 25:25
  was like a God.
• 25:26
  It was,
• 25:26
  the Word was God.
• 25:29
  Um,
• 25:29
  Jesus is the representative
• 25:30
  of all things,
• 25:32
  especially his people,
• 25:33
  right?
• 25:34
  And the Word was with God.
• 25:36
  Uh,
• 25:36
  turn back to Colossians.
• 25:38
  I should have told you
• 25:39
  to keep your hand there.
• 25:40
  I apologize.
• 25:41
  But,
• 25:41
  there's two more places to turn.
• 25:44
  This one and one more.
• 25:44
  but also just hold your place
• 25:47
  in Hebrews.
• 25:51
  So,
• 25:51
  when we see Christ,
• 25:53
  we see the Father,
• 25:54
  right?
• 25:55
  But,
• 25:56
  he also is a distinct person
• 25:57
  bound up in the mystery
• 25:59
  of the Trinity,
• 26:00
  right?
• 26:01
  He is,
• 26:01
  he is God,
• 26:03
  but he also is a distinct member
• 26:04
  of the Trinity.
• 26:07
  Don't look at two verses here.
• 26:10
  Colossians 1,
• 26:10
  verse 19.
• 26:12
  For in Christ,
• 26:14
  right?
• 26:14
  All the fullness of God
• 26:16
  was pleased to dwell.
• 26:20
  Alright,
• 26:20
  look at that.
• 26:21
  Then jump to Colossians 2.
• 26:23
  Just go down a little bit.
• 26:25
  Colossians 2,
• 26:26
  verse 9.
• 26:30
  It says,
• 26:30
  For in him,
• 26:31
  the whole fullness of deity
• 26:33
  dwells bodily.
• 26:35
  And you have been filled with him,
• 26:37
  who is the head and rule,
• 26:39
  head of all,
• 26:40
  rule and authority.
• 26:42
  Okay?
• 26:42
  So,
• 26:44
  you see these words of all fullness
• 26:45
  dwelt in Christ.
• 26:48
  Pleruma.
• 26:49
  The idea of fullness.
• 26:51
  It means,
• 26:52
  at least in the Greek,
• 26:53
  what this would imply
• 26:53
  was the sum total
• 26:54
  of divine power and attributes.
• 26:57
  The fullness.
• 26:57
  The sum total of divine attributes
• 26:59
  dwelled in Christ.
• 27:01
  And that's used eight times
• 27:03
  in Colossians.
• 27:04
  That phrase.
• 27:06
  That the fullness
• 27:06
  dwelt in him of God.
• 27:08
  Right?
• 27:09
  And so,
• 27:09
  and that word dwell
• 27:10
  means to be at home permanently.
• 27:12
  So he didn't ever lose it.
• 27:13
  It stayed there.
• 27:15
  Like he embodied
• 27:16
  all of who God was
• 27:17
  at all times.
• 27:19
  Right?
• 27:20
  There's,
• 27:20
  there's not another created thing
• 27:22
  that could actually say that.
• 27:24
  No created thing
• 27:25
  could say what Jesus said.
• 27:26
  He said,
• 27:27
  you think that Abraham was great,
• 27:30
  but I tell you truly
• 27:31
  before Abraham was,
• 27:33
  I am.
• 27:34
  That same name
• 27:36
  that God used of himself
• 27:37
  at Sinai.
• 27:39
  So,
• 27:39
  that's why they tried to stone him.
• 27:41
  So,
• 27:41
  yes,
• 27:43
  the fullness of deity
• 27:44
  dwelt in Christ
• 27:45
  at all times.
• 27:47
  So he's the representative
• 27:48
  of God here
• 27:49
  before us.
• 27:50
  Number six.
• 27:51
  Just two more.
• 27:51
  Number six.
• 27:52
  He's the purifier.
• 27:55
  Back in Hebrews.
• 27:57
  The purifier.
• 27:59
  Verse three.
• 28:02
  After making purification
• 28:04
  for sins,
• 28:05
  he sat down
• 28:06
  at the right hand
• 28:07
  of the majesty on high.
• 28:09
  Right?
• 28:11
  No.
• 28:11
  Christ has shown himself
• 28:13
  to be the priestly purifier.
• 28:15
  Right?
• 28:15
  He is our high priest.
• 28:16
  He represents us
• 28:18
  before God.
• 28:20
  So unlike the other priests,
• 28:21
  Christ offered himself,
• 28:23
  his own body,
• 28:24
  right,
• 28:24
  as a sufficient sacrifice
• 28:26
  for our sins.
• 28:27
  And he died.
• 28:29
  He died.
• 28:29
  No priestly,
• 28:30
  no earthly priest
• 28:31
  could do this.
• 28:32
  The priesthood of Aaron
• 28:33
  was lacking.
• 28:34
  It had so many issues.
• 28:36
  Right?
• 28:36
  And God just tolerated it
• 28:38
  for a short time,
• 28:39
  pointing to
• 28:39
  a greater fulfillment
• 28:41
  when Jesus would come
• 28:42
  to be
• 28:42
  the ultimate high priest.
• 28:45
  And he would,
• 28:46
  nothing in the Old Testament,
• 28:47
  even today,
• 28:48
  right,
• 28:49
  nothing can cleanse
• 28:50
  our conscience.
• 28:52
  A guilty,
• 28:53
  sinful,
• 28:54
  broken conscience.
• 28:55
  So if you're without Christ today,
• 28:57
  that may be how you feel.
• 28:59
  And just know
• 28:59
  there's hope in Christ.
• 29:01
  Christ can take care of this
• 29:02
  because of what he has done.
• 29:04
  Right?
• 29:05
  We are all filthy
• 29:06
  and unrighteous
• 29:07
  before God.
• 29:08
  Yet Hebrews 9,
• 29:09
  14,
• 29:10
  says this,
• 29:11
  how much more
• 29:13
  will the blood of Christ
• 29:14
  who through the eternal spirit
• 29:16
  offered himself
• 29:17
  without blemish to God
• 29:19
  to purify our conscience
• 29:21
  from dead works
• 29:22
  to serve a living God.
• 29:25
  Right?
• 29:27
  His blood,
• 29:28
  his sacrifice,
• 29:30
  his priesthood
• 29:31
  can cleanse our conscience.
• 29:34
  What an awesome gift.
• 29:35
  Like,
• 29:36
  I don't think,
• 29:37
  to a man at least,
• 29:38
  there is nothing more appealing
• 29:39
  than just an approving conscience
• 29:41
  because of what you've done.
• 29:43
  Right?
• 29:43
  Because of,
• 29:45
  excuse me,
• 29:45
  because of what Christ
• 29:46
  has done for you.
• 29:48
  And so,
• 29:49
  and the Levitical priests,
• 29:50
  most of you could be aware
• 29:51
  of this probably,
• 29:52
  but they were always
• 29:53
  moving around.
• 29:53
  There was never no resting.
• 29:55
  When the time
• 29:55
  for sacrifices came,
• 29:57
  stuff got busy.
• 29:58
  Animals being
• 29:59
  slaughtered like crazy.
• 30:01
  Right?
• 30:01
  Blood dripping everywhere.
• 30:04
  They never sat down
• 30:05
  because they always
• 30:06
  had work to do.
• 30:08
  But as we read here
• 30:08
  in Hebrews,
• 30:10
  back in verse 3,
• 30:11
  it says that Christ
• 30:11
  sat down
• 30:12
  at the majesty on high
• 30:14
  after making
• 30:15
  purification.
• 30:17
  Right?
• 30:18
  Awesome.
• 30:19
  He sat down
• 30:20
  symbolizing that
• 30:21
  he was finished.
• 30:22
  That nothing else
• 30:23
  had to be done.
• 30:24
  That it was the perfect
• 30:25
  sacrifice.
• 30:26
  And he sat down
• 30:27
  showing that his work
• 30:29
  was sufficient,
• 30:30
  decisive,
• 30:31
  final.
• 30:32
  He's not going to
• 30:32
  go do it again.
• 30:34
  So,
• 30:34
  whenever,
• 30:34
  even as believers,
• 30:35
  I think that all the time,
• 30:37
  man,
• 30:37
  I've got to be
• 30:38
  cleansed again.
• 30:39
  That's how you think.
• 30:40
  You wouldn't say that,
• 30:41
  but like you think,
• 30:42
  man,
• 30:42
  I've screwed up again.
• 30:44
  I've gone back to this
• 30:46
  or I've done something
• 30:46
  grievous to the Lord.
• 30:48
  It's still there.
• 30:49
  His work was
• 30:50
  decisive and final.
• 30:52
  And you can rest
• 30:52
  in that truth.
• 30:54
  He sat down
• 30:55
  at the majesty
• 30:55
  on high.
• 30:57
  Then,
• 30:58
  lastly,
• 31:00
  number seven,
• 31:01
  he is the ruler.
• 31:04
  Christ is the ruler.
• 31:06
  Verse three.
• 31:08
  It says,
• 31:08
  after he sat down
• 31:09
  at the right hand
• 31:10
  of the majesty
• 31:10
  on high,
• 31:12
  having become
• 31:12
  as much superior
• 31:14
  to angels
• 31:14
  as the name
• 31:15
  he has inherited
• 31:16
  is much more
• 31:18
  excellent than theirs.
• 31:20
  Right?
• 31:20
  So,
• 31:22
  in Hebrews,
• 31:24
  a huge theme,
• 31:25
  huge theme,
• 31:26
  I won't dare say
• 31:26
  the only theme,
• 31:27
  but a huge theme
• 31:29
  is that Christ
• 31:29
  is much,
• 31:31
  much better
• 31:32
  than what they
• 31:33
  used to have.
• 31:35
  So,
• 31:35
  if you start
• 31:36
  reading Hebrews,
• 31:36
  you'll see that
• 31:37
  he is better
• 31:37
  than the old covenant.
• 31:40
  He is better
• 31:41
  than Aaron's priesthood.
• 31:43
  He is better
• 31:43
  than Moses
• 31:44
  as a deliverer.
• 31:45
  He is better
• 31:46
  than the Sabbath
• 31:47
  they had.
• 31:48
  All these things.
• 31:49
  And so,
• 31:50
  another thing is
• 31:50
  they all had a big deal
• 31:52
  with angels.
• 31:53
  Angels this
• 31:54
  and angels that.
• 31:56
  Like,
• 31:56
  Christ created angels
• 31:57
  and he has a much
• 31:58
  more excellent name
• 31:59
  than them.
• 32:00
  He rules over them.
• 32:02
  Right?
• 32:04
  The last place
• 32:04
  I wanted you to turn,
• 32:05
  Psalm 110.
• 32:09
  Psalm 110.
• 32:10
  All things
• 32:16
  are under the
• 32:16
  authority of the Father,
• 32:18
  but yet the Father
• 32:19
  has granted authority
• 32:20
  to all things
• 32:21
  for the Son.
• 32:22
  Right?
• 32:22
  Christ is the ruler
• 32:23
  over all things,
• 32:24
  the authority
• 32:24
  over all creation.
• 32:27
  This is a,
• 32:28
  Psalm 110
• 32:29
  is a
• 32:31
  messianic psalm
• 32:32
  that talks about
• 32:33
  Christ,
• 32:34
  David,
• 32:35
  King David
• 32:36
  prophesying,
• 32:37
  speaking of
• 32:37
  the Messiah
• 32:38
  to come.
• 32:40
  I love this,
• 32:41
  this psalm.
• 32:43
  Verse 1.
• 32:45
  The Lord
• 32:45
  says to my Lord,
• 32:47
  or God the Father
• 32:48
  says to the Son,
• 32:50
  sit at my right hand
• 32:52
  until I make
• 32:53
  your enemies
• 32:54
  your footstool.
• 32:55
  The Lord
• 32:56
  sends forth
• 32:57
  from Zion
• 32:57
  your mighty scepter.
• 32:59
  Rule
• 33:00
  in the midst
• 33:01
  of your enemies.
• 33:02
  Your people
• 33:03
  will offer
• 33:04
  themselves freely
• 33:05
  on the day
• 33:06
  of your power
• 33:06
  in holy garments
• 33:07
  and from the wound
• 33:09
  of the morning
• 33:10
  the dew
• 33:11
  of your youth
• 33:12
  will be yours.
• 33:13
  An awesome
• 33:14
  prophecy,
• 33:15
  right?
• 33:16
  That Christ
• 33:17
  will rule
• 33:17
  and his people
• 33:19
  will offer
• 33:20
  themselves
• 33:20
  freely.
• 33:22
  You know,
• 33:22
  why did you
• 33:23
  come here today?
• 33:23
  Did you come here
• 33:24
  because you had to
• 33:25
  or because you
• 33:26
  wanted to?
• 33:27
  Did you offer
• 33:27
  yourself freely
• 33:28
  today?
• 33:30
  Most of us
• 33:30
  who have come
• 33:31
  to know Christ,
• 33:31
  we want to
• 33:32
  not do anything
• 33:34
  out of duty.
• 33:35
  We want to
• 33:36
  because we love
• 33:36
  him and we're
• 33:37
  thankful,
• 33:38
  right?
• 33:38
  We offer
• 33:39
  ourselves
• 33:39
  freely.
• 33:40
  So when Christ
• 33:41
  returns,
• 33:42
  it says that his
• 33:43
  people will be
• 33:44
  ready.
• 33:44
  They'll like
• 33:45
  gladly offer
• 33:45
  themselves
• 33:46
  when he
• 33:47
  returns.
• 33:48
  John Calvin
• 33:49
  said of this
• 33:50
  text here
• 33:51
  in Psalm
• 33:51
  110,
• 33:53
  awesome phrase
• 33:55
  here,
• 33:55
  listen to this,
• 33:56
  from this
• 33:57
  text we learn
• 33:58
  that however
• 33:59
  numerous those
• 34:00
  enemies may be
• 34:01
  who conspire
• 34:02
  against the
• 34:02
  Son of God
• 34:03
  and they
• 34:04
  attempt the
• 34:05
  subversion of
• 34:05
  his kingdom,
• 34:07
  all will be
• 34:08
  brought unavailing
• 34:09
  for they shall
• 34:10
  never prevail
• 34:11
  against God's
• 34:12
  immutable purpose
• 34:13
  but on the
• 34:14
  contrary,
• 34:15
  they shall by
• 34:16
  the greatness
• 34:16
  of his power
• 34:17
  be laid
• 34:19
  prostrate at
• 34:20
  Christ's feet.
• 34:21
  Isn't that
• 34:21
  awesome?
• 34:22
  Like nothing
• 34:23
  can stop this.
• 34:24
  Yes,
• 34:25
  I'm so happy.
• 34:26
  Like nothing,
• 34:27
  no power can
• 34:28
  stand against
• 34:29
  Christ,
• 34:30
  right?
• 34:30
  Remember
• 34:31
  King Herod?
• 34:33
  He tried to
• 34:33
  do so many
• 34:34
  things to
• 34:35
  thwart the
• 34:36
  work of
• 34:36
  Christ.
• 34:37
  Both Herods
• 34:37
  did.
• 34:38
  Do you
• 34:39
  remember in
• 34:39
  Acts 12
• 34:40
  that he
• 34:42
  was singing
• 34:43
  or conducting
• 34:44
  some kind of
• 34:44
  poem and
• 34:45
  they began to
• 34:45
  applaud him
• 34:46
  and they
• 34:47
  said,
• 34:48
  the voice of
• 34:48
  a God
• 34:49
  and not a
• 34:50
  man.
• 34:51
  And what
• 34:51
  happened?
• 34:52
  Herod was
• 34:52
  struck down
• 34:53
  right there on
• 34:53
  the spot and
• 34:54
  he was eaten
• 34:54
  by worms,
• 34:55
  like right in
• 34:56
  their sight.
• 34:56
  The same
• 34:57
  guy who
• 34:58
  stood in
• 34:58
  judgment of
• 34:59
  Jesus.
• 35:00
  Right?
• 35:01
  Who spat
• 35:02
  on the
• 35:02
  glory of
• 35:03
  Christ.
• 35:04
  He was
• 35:04
  eaten by
• 35:04
  worms.
• 35:05
  It says he
• 35:05
  breathed his
• 35:06
  last.
• 35:07
  Right?
• 35:08
  No ruler
• 35:09
  can stand
• 35:10
  against Christ.
• 35:11
  Some of you
• 35:12
  probably may not
• 35:13
  know this,
• 35:13
  but in history
• 35:14
  there was a
• 35:14
  Roman soldier
• 35:16
  named Julian
• 35:17
  and he took
• 35:18
  it,
• 35:18
  his personal,
• 35:20
  made it his
• 35:20
  personal mission
• 35:21
  to help
• 35:21
  persecute and
• 35:23
  exterminate
• 35:23
  Christians.
• 35:24
  He made,
• 35:25
  he basically
• 35:25
  challenged Christ,
• 35:26
  like, I
• 35:27
  will basically
• 35:28
  blot out
• 35:29
  your name.
• 35:31
  But he
• 35:31
  was wounded
• 35:33
  severely,
• 35:33
  morally wounded
• 35:34
  and was
• 35:34
  dying.
• 35:35
  He took
• 35:36
  some of
• 35:36
  his blood
• 35:36
  and he
• 35:37
  threw it
• 35:37
  up to
• 35:37
  Heather
• 35:37
  and he
• 35:38
  said,
• 35:38
  you have
• 35:38
  conquered,
• 35:39
  oh you
• 35:39
  Galilean.
• 35:40
  That's like
• 35:40
  what he
• 35:41
  said,
• 35:41
  like Christ
• 35:42
  ruled over
• 35:43
  him.
• 35:45
  Right?
• 35:46
  So,
• 35:47
  you don't
• 35:48
  want to
• 35:48
  stand in
• 35:49
  opposition to
• 35:50
  this king.
• 35:50
  This king
• 35:51
  is powerful,
• 35:53
  you can't
• 35:54
  resist him,
• 35:54
  but he
• 35:55
  also is
• 35:56
  good and
• 35:56
  he'll call
• 35:56
  you to
• 35:57
  himself and
• 35:57
  he'll save
• 35:58
  you.
• 35:59
  Right?
• 35:59
  The
• 35:59
  omnipotent
• 36:00
  power of
• 36:00
  Christ,
• 36:01
  the work
• 36:02
  on the
• 36:02
  cross was
• 36:03
  for our
• 36:03
  everlasting
• 36:04
  good as
• 36:05
  believers.
• 36:07
  One last
• 36:08
  little quote
• 36:08
  by my
• 36:10
  John Calvin
• 36:10
  on that
• 36:11
  passage in
• 36:11
  Psalm 110.
• 36:13
  He says,
• 36:14
  however much
• 36:14
  the world
• 36:16
  may rage
• 36:17
  against
• 36:17
  Christ,
• 36:19
  it will
• 36:19
  never be
• 36:20
  able to
• 36:20
  hurl him
• 36:21
  from the
• 36:21
  right hand
• 36:22
  of the
• 36:22
  Father.
• 36:24
  Moreover,
• 36:24
  as he
• 36:25
  does not
• 36:26
  reign on
• 36:26
  his own
• 36:27
  account,
• 36:27
  but for
• 36:27
  our
• 36:28
  salvation,
• 36:29
  we may
• 36:29
  rest assured
• 36:30
  that we
• 36:31
  will be
• 36:31
  protected
• 36:32
  and preserved
• 36:33
  from all
• 36:34
  ills under
• 36:35
  the guardianship
• 36:36
  of this
• 36:36
  invincible
• 36:37
  king.
• 36:38
  Isn't that
• 36:39
  awesome?
• 36:39
  We are
• 36:40
  protected by
• 36:41
  this king
• 36:42
  forever.
• 36:44
  So,
• 36:45
  just in
• 36:45
  conclusion,
• 36:47
  like,
• 36:47
  I've looked
• 36:48
  at,
• 36:49
  I've probably
• 36:49
  been a believer
• 36:50
  since I was
• 36:50
  18,
• 36:51
  I'm 31
• 36:52
  now,
• 36:53
  probably,
• 36:53
  that range
• 36:56
  of time.
• 36:59
  And as
• 36:59
  I've grown
• 37:00
  in my
• 37:01
  faith,
• 37:01
  Christ has
• 37:02
  gotten
• 37:02
  bigger to
• 37:03
  me,
• 37:04
  he has
• 37:04
  gotten
• 37:05
  more
• 37:05
  glorious
• 37:05
  to me,
• 37:06
  and I
• 37:07
  hope that
• 37:07
  that's the
• 37:07
  same for
• 37:08
  you.
• 37:09
  The more
• 37:10
  and more
• 37:10
  I see
• 37:11
  my sin,
• 37:12
  the greater
• 37:13
  Christ looks.
• 37:14
  That's a
• 37:14
  mark of
• 37:15
  true maturity
• 37:15
  as a
• 37:16
  believer,
• 37:16
  the more
• 37:16
  and more
• 37:17
  you'll see
• 37:17
  of your
• 37:17
  sin,
• 37:18
  not the
• 37:18
  less
• 37:18
  you'll see
• 37:19
  of it.
• 37:19
  But then
• 37:20
  it helps
• 37:20
  you kind
• 37:20
  of like
• 37:21
  forget about
• 37:21
  yourself and
• 37:22
  take heart
• 37:23
  in who
• 37:23
  Christ is.
• 37:26
  But as
• 37:27
  we grow
• 37:27
  in our
• 37:28
  faith,
• 37:29
  as children
• 37:29
  grow,
• 37:30
  as you
• 37:30
  grow,
• 37:30
  adults,
• 37:31
  older
• 37:31
  adults,
• 37:32
  students,
• 37:33
  like you're
• 37:33
  going to
• 37:34
  hopefully have
• 37:35
  an enlarged
• 37:36
  view of who
• 37:36
  Christ is.
• 37:38
  And in
• 37:38
  C.S.
• 37:39
  Lewis's
• 37:39
  Prince
• 37:41
  Caspian,
• 37:41
  the Chronicles
• 37:42
  of Narnia,
• 37:42
  it kind
• 37:43
  of depicts
• 37:43
  a cool
• 37:44
  picture of
• 37:44
  a growing
• 37:46
  idea,
• 37:46
  a growing
• 37:47
  view of who
• 37:48
  Christ is
• 37:48
  throughout
• 37:48
  those stories.
• 37:50
  And in
• 37:50
  Prince
• 37:51
  Caspian,
• 37:52
  young Lucy,
• 37:54
  on her
• 37:54
  quest,
• 37:55
  she saw
• 37:55
  the lion,
• 37:57
  Aslan,
• 37:57
  who represents
• 37:58
  Christ in
• 37:59
  the story,
• 37:59
  and she
• 38:00
  ran to
• 38:00
  him in
• 38:01
  the moonlight,
• 38:01
  right,
• 38:02
  and she
• 38:02
  burst of
• 38:03
  emotion,
• 38:04
  just laid
• 38:04
  hold of
• 38:04
  him,
• 38:06
  buried her
• 38:06
  face in
• 38:06
  his mane.
• 38:08
  And I'll
• 38:08
  just read
• 38:09
  you this
• 38:09
  little section
• 38:09
  here.
• 38:11
  She says,
• 38:11
  Aslan,
• 38:12
  dear Aslan,
• 38:14
  sobbed Lucy,
• 38:15
  at last,
• 38:17
  the great
• 38:17
  beast,
• 38:18
  rolled over
• 38:18
  on his
• 38:18
  side,
• 38:19
  so that
• 38:20
  Lucy fell,
• 38:21
  half sitting,
• 38:22
  half lying,
• 38:23
  between his
• 38:24
  front paws.
• 38:25
  He bent
• 38:25
  forward and
• 38:26
  just touched
• 38:27
  her nose
• 38:27
  with his
• 38:28
  tongue.
• 38:29
  His warm
• 38:30
  breath became
• 38:31
  all around
• 38:31
  her.
• 38:32
  She gazed
• 38:33
  up into
• 38:34
  the large,
• 38:35
  wise face.
• 38:36
  He said,
• 38:37
  welcome,
• 38:37
  child.
• 38:39
  Aslan,
• 38:40
  Lucy said,
• 38:41
  you're bigger.
• 38:43
  That is
• 38:43
  because you
• 38:44
  were older,
• 38:46
  little one,
• 38:47
  he answered.
• 38:48
  not because
• 38:49
  you are.
• 38:50
  I am not,
• 38:51
  Aslan said,
• 38:52
  but every
• 38:53
  year you
• 38:53
  grow,
• 38:55
  you will
• 38:55
  find me
• 38:56
  bigger.
• 38:57
  Pretty cool.
• 38:59
  So,
• 38:59
  expanding souls
• 39:00
  encounter and
• 39:01
  expanding Christ,
• 39:02
  right?
• 39:03
  Like,
• 39:04
  as we grow in
• 39:04
  our faith,
• 39:05
  Christ will
• 39:05
  seem more
• 39:06
  and more
• 39:06
  glorious,
• 39:08
  more bigger
• 39:08
  to us.
• 39:09
  Like,
• 39:09
  there's enough
• 39:09
  of him
• 39:10
  to go around
• 39:11
  for eternity,
• 39:12
  right?
• 39:13
  That's
• 39:13
  what we're
• 39:13
  going
• 39:14
  be
• 39:14
  doing.
• 39:14
  Pretty
• 39:15
  awesome.
• 39:16
  Right?
• 39:17
  So let's
• 39:17
  just pray
• 39:17
  together.
• 39:18
  Let's
• 39:18
  Let's