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Hebrews chapter 6 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Hebrews chapter 6 Let us pray. Oh Lord God almighty El Elion,
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  the Most High God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God
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  Almighty Yahweh, I deny. Lord, we love you.
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  We love everything about you, Father.
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  We love the way that you move God.
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  We love the things that you speak.
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  God, we love your heart. We love that you are good, You
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  are wholesome. Father, we love that you save to
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  the utmost. God, we love you because of who
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  you are. And Father, we desire to know
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  you more intimately, to know you deeper.
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  We long and love sick Lord, for you and for a touch from you,
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  God, we want to touch the hem of your garment.
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  Father, we receive our healing today.
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  We adore you, God. We adore your face.
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  Your eyes like fire and hair like wool.
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  The voice of the many multitudes, Sea of glass mingled
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  with fire, peals of Thunder. God Almighty, reign supreme,
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  Father, over all of your creation.
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  God, we lift up our eyes to the Maker of heaven and earth.
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  We know where our help comes from.
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  We say yes and Amen to all of the promises contained in your
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  book. Lord, we thank you that our
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  names are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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  We thank you, God for salvation. We thank you for eternal life.
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  We thank you for the forgiveness of sins.
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  God, we thank you that we are at one with you.
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  We have been bought with a high price.
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  Father, we have been redeemed. Lord, we are justified.
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  God in your sight. Lord, make us holy as you are.
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  Holy Lord God, I pray that you'll open up our hearts and
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  minds as we open up your word today.
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  God, hide it in our hearts. Help us, Lord, not to sin
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  against you. Help us to love our neighbors as
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  our self. God, forgive us for the many
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  times that we've fallen short and we've come up short.
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  We've missed the mark, God, many times that we have sinned
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  against you. God, I pray, Lord, that you help
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  us to extend forgiveness out to those who have wronged us, who
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  have heard us. God, help us not to find our
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  identity in our past. Help us not to find our identity
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  and all of the things that have happened to us.
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  God, I pray against being fearful.
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  God, I pray against the spirit of suicide and the pray against
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  the spirit of anxiety. God, in the name of Jesus, I
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  pray for a peace that surpasses all understanding, joy
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  inexpressible. Father, spring up inside of your
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  believers, your church. You're called out ones.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that we can be your hands
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  and feet right now in this world for such a time as this.
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  Lord, let the train of your robe filled the temple today.
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  God, we hide our eyes, we cover our mouths.
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  Father, we just cry. Holy, holy, holy are you.
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  We get out of our own understanding.
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  We get out of our own way. Father, we yield.
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  We bend towards you. God, help us to mirror you, to
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  mirror your glory, God, to be resplendent out into the
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  nation's. God, I pray as we open up your
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  word today, give us sound doctrine and sound theology
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  today. Father, Holy Spirit, you teach
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  us. Hide me, hide my words, hide my
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  thoughts, hide my motives, hide my emotions, hide any part of me
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  in Holy Spirit. You speak, I decrease as you
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  increase. Maranatha, the Spirit and the
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  Bride says, come, help us to fill our lamps and trim our
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  Wicks. Be wise and be warned, God, and
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  help us to watch and pray and wait.
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  Lord, come and get your glory. In the mighty name of Jesus
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  Christ, I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of
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  Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the
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  foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward
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  God. Verse two of the doctrine of
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  baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of resurrection of
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  the dead and of eternal judgment.
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  Verse 3 And this will we do if God permits.
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  I know we blew through the 1st 3 verses, but I want to give the
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  context here, friends, what the writer of Hebrews is desirous to
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  do in this moment is to say, listen, there have been many
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  things that have been written and talked about about all of
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  the simple criteria of who is a believer and what Jesus did.
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  And the writer of Hebrews is saying, let's go deeper.
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  We've talked about all these things.
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  If you've been following along for any amount of time from
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  Matthew all the way to Philemon, there has been much groundwork
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  that has been laid about justification, much groundwork
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  laid about repentance, about restoration.
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  There's been much groundwork laid about baptism and speaking
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  in tongues and all of the likes. And here the writer of Hebrews
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  is saying, listen, we've already laid the foundation, let's go
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  deeper. You do not need to be put into
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  remembrance of all of the elementary things that we've
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  been talking about redundantly over and over and over
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  repetitively. So it'll sink in, so it'll
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  actually stick. And that is the way of God.
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  He gives us 4 gospels on purpose.
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  We get so many stories repeated over and over throughout the
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  Bible on purpose. It is not that there's not great
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  subject matter to go deeper into, but God gives us what is
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  the most important thing, and He repeats it, and He repeats it
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  again and again and again. And how many of the same
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  recurring themes have we seen laid out from Matthew all the
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  way to Philemon? And here we are in the 6th
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  chapter of Hebrews, and the writer of Hebrews is saying,
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  let's go deeper. We've talked about the
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  foundation, we've talked about repentance, we've talked about
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  all the dead works. We've talked about faith towards
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  God. We've talked about doctrine of
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  the baptisms. We've talked about the laying on
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  of hands and of resurrection of the dead.
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  We've talked about eternal judgment.
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  And he's saying if God will permit and if he'll open up your
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  understanding, we'll leave this elementary and we'll go higher
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  and we'll go deeper with God. And you also need to know the
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  context that a lot of this was Jewish backgrounds of ceremonies
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  and things that they had already known about because of their
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  Hebrew background, their Jewish background.
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  And they could use a lot of the same Christian connotations in a
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  Jewish context and escape the persecution.
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  And there could very well be some fear of man and fear of
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  loss of life and fear of livelihood that is happening
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  within the context here. But for us believers, there is
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  so much more to learn about God than just the basic principles
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  of the AB CS To admit that we are sinners and that we need a
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  Savior. To believe that Jesus Christ is
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  Lord and that God raised him from the dead, and to confess
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  him as our Lord and our Savior and to receive our salvation.
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  Friends, it goes much beyond walking a Nile and getting
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  dunked in some water and praying a Jingle of a prayer to receive
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  salvation. There's so much more to this
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  walk with Christ, friends, and we cannot just be satisfied with
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  the elementary rudimentary AB CS of the faith.
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  God desires to go deeper, and that is what we will do if God
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  permits. Verse 4 For it is impossible for
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  those who were once enlightened have tasted of the heavenly
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  gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 and have
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  tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come.
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  Six, if they shall fall away to renew them again unto
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  repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God
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  afresh, and put him to an open shame.
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  What's he talking about here? Well, I would have you to know,
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  friends, that this is one of the passages in God's Scripture that
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  people say you can lose your salvation.
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  And what you need to understand is that this Arminianism and
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  this Calvinism working together, friends, they're not enemies.
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  They're not two sides of the ditch that you should wreck on
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  friends. God gives you free will, but he
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  already knows what you're going to do.
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  He already knows who's going to be there with him.
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  And yes, he desires for us to be soul winners.
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  And we don't just rest on our blessed assurance.
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  We also don't think that our election somehow relieves us of
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  actually evangelizing and fulfilling the Great Commission.
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  It does not work that way, friends.
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  But you need to understand in the context of what he is saying
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  is there is no more salvation apart from Jesus Christ.
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  Jesus Christ is the only way. And if you woke up this morning,
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  he's not done with you. He's giving you another
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  opportunity to surrender to Him. You are never too far from God
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  to turn, turn away from sin, to turn away from self and turn
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  towards a loving Savior. And the only time that we have
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  lost that opportunity is when we take our last breath.
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  As long as you have breath in your lungs, you can always turn
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  back towards Him. And what He is mentioning here
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  is apostasy. He's mentioning those who fall
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  away completely. This is not just these one off
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  shoots where you go into a tangent of a sinful debaucherous
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  moment where you spend maybe days, weeks, months or even
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  years away from God, but then you come to your senses like the
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  prodigal son and you come running back home and he puts
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  the ring in the robe on you. Friends, if you have breath in
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  your lungs, it's not too late. Come back to the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. Don't believe the lie of the
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  enemy, that God is mad at you and He doesn't want to have
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  anything to do to you. And because you have somehow
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  found yourself back in a sinful state, that there is no more
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  repentance and no more salvation for you.
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  That is a lie from the enemy. Friends, what the writer of
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  Hebrews is referencing are those who are looking for salvation
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  somewhere else in this world, salvation in themselves,
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  salvation in another religion, salvation through works, and
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  there is no salvation apart from Jesus Christ.
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  Jesus is the only way to the Father and that is what you need
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  to understand. Seven for the earth, which
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  drinks in the rain that comes often upon it and brings forth
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  herbs, meat for them by whom it is dressed, receives the
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  blessings from God. So here Paul is letting us know
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  that the fruit will prove that the Holy Spirit is home within
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  the believer. You're not going to have a holy
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  habitation that is mixed with profanity.
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  This strange fire offered up to God, it does not work that way.
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  You will be able to tell who belongs to Him by what comes up
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  out of their heart and out of their mouth, friends.
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  It will reveal where they stand with an almighty loving God.
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  There are many who sure look the part, but if we will sit and
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  listen to their conversation, it gives them away their speech
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  Berea them. 8:00 But that which bears thorns and briars is
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  rejected, and is near unto cursing.
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  Whose end is to be burned. You need to understand that the
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  tree that gives no fruit and the tree that gives bad fruit are
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  both cut down and thrown into the fire.
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  We must bear fruit, friends. It is a natural overflow of a
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  life that is completely yielded over to God Almighty to bear
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  fruit. It is natural.
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  His yoke is easy. His burden is light.
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  It's work nonetheless, but it is a labor of love, friends, and He
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  supernaturally empowers us to go out into the harvest.
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  He supernaturally enables us to have his heart, to have his
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  eyes, to have his ears, to know what he is thinking, his
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  emotions for a certain particular situation.
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  Friends, it is God Almighty and dwelling us that helps us to
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  navigate through the hardest parts of life, and here you're
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  going to be able to see if someone is truly attached to God
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  Almighty or not through the fruit that they bear. 9 But
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  beloved, we are persuaded better things of you and things that
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  accompany salvation. Though we thus speak so the
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  writer of Hebrews, he kind of softens his tone and he says,
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  but these things should not apply to you because you know
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  better. So now he's got them in a place
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  where they're ready to learn about Melchizedek.
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  They're ready to go deeper with God in the understandings of the
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  things of his eternal nature and his plan for the ages and who
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  Christ is and what our position in Christ should look like and
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  to be. 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work
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  and labor of love, which you have showed towards His name, in
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  that you have ministered to the Saints and do minister following
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  after the Lord Jesus Christ looks like work.
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  It is not just an easy, carefree, lazy, slothful
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  position to follow after the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  He beckons us into the harvest. He beckons us into His work that
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  He desires for such a time as this.
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  We are His hands and feet and you cannot outwork the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. He has given us every
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  opportunity to perform the works that God has planned for us
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  before the foundations of the earth, and we cannot squander
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  that. Friends.
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  We cannot make it about ourselves.
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  We cannot grow despondent and lazy in these last days.
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  We must stay locked in and on track with Him, friends, and
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  fulfill all of the purposes that he has for our lives.
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  We do not need to sit on our blessed assurance and think that
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  it's somebody else's job to get out there and to do the work of
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  an evangelist. 11 and we desire that everyone of you do show the
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  same diligence to the full assurance of hope and to the
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  end. So here it's all about finishing
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  well. It's so easy to start a race,
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  but it is very, it is extremely difficult to press on when your
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  body is telling you to quit, when everything's screaming at
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  you. You must continue to press on
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  towards the end and to finish well.
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  There are many ministries that have started out on the right
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  foot. They started out in the right
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  posture. They had the heart of Christ.
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  They were doing the things that were required of them.
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  And then somewhere along the way they got deceived, They got
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  sidetracked. They stepped into carnal,
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  lustful, earthy emotions and feelings and thoughts.
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  They made it about mammon friends.
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  They made it about vanity friends.
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  They made it about their youthful lusts.
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  And they fell away this apostasy and there is no more salvation
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  apart from Jesus Christ. We must have a full assurance of
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  hope all the way into the end. 12 That you be not slothful.
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  But followers of them who through faith and patience
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  inherit the promises, It could not be more plain.
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  Friends, Jesus Christ is beckoning us into the harvest.
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  We cannot leave ripe fruit on the vine to rot.
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  Look up and see the harvest is plenty, but the workers are few.
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  And we can be followers of the Lord Jesus Christ if we in faith
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  and impatience continue on with Him, not slacking off, not
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  giving up friends. And through that we will inherit
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  all the promises that God has given to us.
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  We must view the Bible as a book of promises, not as a book of
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  rules. There are so many of us who are
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  turned around thinking that the Bible is just a bunch of rules
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  for our lives and we do not enjoy having rules placed upon
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  us. But it is not until you switch
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  gears and you highlight and underline and write in the
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  margins and write in your notebook all the promises of God
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  contained from Genesis to Revelation.
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  And then you will start to be excited about the Word of God
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  because you're going to see so many promises that He has given
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  to us. He promises us to be there with
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  us when we walk through the water, when we walk through the
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  fire, friends, He promises that we are more than conquerors and
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  we are peacemakers. Friends, He promises us eternal
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  life. He promises us resurrected
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  bodies. He promises us that He's going
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  to be with us and us with him. What an amazing book we hold in
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  our hands. The God of the universe desires
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  a relationship with you, friend. 13 For when God made promises to
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  Abraham because he could swear by no greater, he swore by
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  himself. You're going to see that,
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  friends, in the book of Genesis where Abraham goes and he cuts
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  the animals and sets them, and then the flame of fire passes
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  through and God swears by himself, by his own name, that
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  he's going to make Abraham into a great nation. 14 Saying
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  surely, blessing, I will bless you, and multiplying I will
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  multiply you. So we can see this wonderful
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  promise of God towards Israel. And it's still in effect to
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  today that those that bless Israel will be blessed, and
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  those that curse Israel will be cursed, friends. 15 And so after
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  he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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  So Abraham was put to the test. He was put under trial.
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  He was heavy laden with so many things that he had to reach up
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  and grab a hold of by faith that he could not see how at 90 years
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  old, Sarah was ever able to have a child.
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  He could not see, friends, how he was going to have more
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  descendants than the stars in the sky.
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  He could not see how he was going to be the father of many.
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  But he had to take it by faith. And then came Isaac, and he had
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  to take him up on the mountain as God told him to sacrifice his
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  own son, as God would do one day with Jesus Christ.
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  This type in the shadow. And by faith Abraham had to
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  believe that God could raise Isaac from the dead if he wanted
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  to. You see that Abraham is the
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  father of faith. 16 For men truly swear by the greater, and
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  an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
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  Jesus Christ said, Let your yes be yes and your no be no, that
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  any other swearing is not from God.
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  And you can see that God has no one greater than to swear by
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  than himself. 17 wherein God willing more abundantly to show
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  unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel
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  confirmed it by an oath. You cannot get more secure than
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  when God gives you a promise. God's promises you can build
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  your entire life upon. In God's promises, you can take
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  them to the bank. They are as good as done.
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  All of the prophecies that have not happened yet will happen
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  exactly to the letter of how they are written about in God's
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  Word. These are promises to you and to
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  me, friends, and we underline them, we highlight them, we
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  write them in our margins because they are precious to us.
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  18 That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for
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  God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled
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  for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.
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  I hope that the Bible is your place of refuge, your strong
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  tower that you run into friends. I hope that all the things that
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  God has promised to you through His Word, you hold him up to and
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  you remind God about and you take it and you wave it in front
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  of him and say, God, you said this would be so.
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  And I'm building on it and I'm banking on it.
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  And I know that you are not a liar.
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  God, you cannot lie and I am looking for consolation in this
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  moment. I need you to console me.
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  God, I need you to come and be my comforter.
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  God, I need you to remind me of my inheritance, of who I am in
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  Christ and all the promises that I'm banking on and believing.
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  God, I need you to make them real in my life and He will.
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  It is the hope He has set before us.
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  There is no hope outside of Jesus Christ.
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  He is our hope. Friends, Man is not our hope.
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  The nation is not our hope. Our wealth and prosperity is not
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  our hope. Our reputation is not our hope.
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  The amassment of arms is not our hope.
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  Our military might is not our hope is Jesus Christ and the
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  promises that He has given us that we place all of our hope in
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  in Revelation chapter 3, verse 10, he says, and I will keep you
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  from the hour that is coming to test all the inhabitants of the
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  earth, friends, and we build our whole lives upon that promise.
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  We say, yes God and we believe it and that settles it. 19 Which
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  hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both shore and steadfast,
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  and which enters into that within the veil.
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  The veil was ripped from top to bottom.
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  We come boldly into the throne room of Grace, friends.
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  We dine and we Sup with Him. We are seated with Him in
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  heavenly places. We are anchored to Him, friends.
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  We are still here on this earth as His hands and feet.
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  But we have an anchor, this ladder that stretches from him
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  to here, and the angels ascending and descending upon
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  the Son of Man. We have this anchor that is
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  sure. It is steadfast, it is
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  immutable. It is unmovable, friends.
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  It is rock solid. It is the chief cornerstone and
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  we build our whole lives upon it, and we'll never be put to
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  shame. We'll end on 20.
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  Whether the Forerunner is for us.
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  Entered. Even Jesus made it High priest
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  forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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  There's that character again. Who is this that we keep
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  Speaking of? We're going to find out,
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  friends. Stay tuned until next time and
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  you need to understand that Jesus is the forerunner.
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  He's the first born from the dead.
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  He is when man entered into heaven, friends, and the same
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  power that resurrected Jesus Christ from the dead lives in
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  you and lives in me. St.
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  And he is our high priest and he is our king.
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  He is a king and he is a priest. He's the king and the priest,
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  and we wait expectantly upon him.
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  Let's not get sidetracked today. Let's not squander our
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  inheritance for a mess of pottage.
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  There's a lot of distractions and amusement that's out there
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  in the world. But remain in him, and he in
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  you, and you will produce much fruit, and you will see greater
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  things. Friends, I hope you've been
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  blessed by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I love you, God loves you.
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  Jesus loves you, Holy Spirit loves you.
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  Stay in the Word of God. Don't slack off, slack up.
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  Don't check out. Stay rooted and grounded in
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  God's Word. Memorize it, friends.
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  Own it. Live it.
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  Put it to practice in faith. Put it to the test, friends, and
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  watch how it's a sturdy foundation that you can walk
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  across the chasm of your sinfulness and God's holiness.
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  And the cross of Christ reminds us how much He loves us.
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  I'm praying for you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.