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Hebrews chapter 3 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Hebrews chapter 3. Let us pray.
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  Oh Lord, we love you. We love everything about you.
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  We thank you God for another day to come and worship you in
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  spirit and truth. God, I pray that you'll teach
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  us. Holy Spirit, guide us through
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  these holy scriptures. Guide us through the spoken word
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  of God Almighty Yahweh, from everlasting, the Most High God,
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  the Banner, our Provider and our Healer God.
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  We know that you see, We thank You Father, that You are Lord
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  and You are God Almighty. And we get out of our own
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  understanding, we get out of our own reasoning, we get out of our
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  own intellect to God, and we believe and we trust in You,
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  Lord, we take every single syllable to heart, God.
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  We memorize and hide your word in our hearts, God, so that we
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  might not sin against you. Holy Spirit, fill us
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  overflowing. Holy Spirit, guide us.
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  Holy Spirit, give us discernment.
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  I decrease as you increase. And it's all about King Jesus.
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  Help us show up and show off today.
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  In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. Wherefore, holy brothers,
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  partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle
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  and high priest of our profession, Jesus Christ.
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  Imagine this one little verse here.
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  We can cherry pick it. We can pull it apart.
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  It's an amazing nugget of truth encapsulated in syllables.
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  We are holy because He is holy. We are his brothers as He is the
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  elder brother. We are partakers of the heavenly
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  calling. Imagine that we will rule and
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  reign with Him, Friends, we will come back with Him after the
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  seven years and rule and reign. We are partakers of the heavenly
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  calling, and He has imputed unto us His righteousness.
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  As we consider the apostle. He's the highest ambassador of
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  God Almighty that this world has ever known.
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  He's higher than any Angel. He's higher than Moses and
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  Abraham. He's higher than the 12
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  apostles. He's higher than Paul the
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  apostle. It is Jesus the Apostle who is
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  given the highest honor as an ambassador of God.
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  He is our high priest. He's higher than any of the high
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  priest that were implemented during the 12 tribes.
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  He is higher than Melchizedek. He is the high priest of our
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  faith, Christ Jesus too, who was faithful to him that appointed
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  him as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
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  So Jesus Christ was faithful to God.
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  God sent him to earth to live a perfect life and die a
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  criminal's death to rot for all of mankind, salvation and
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  atonement and propitiation, friends, for all of our sins to
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  be forgiven. And he was faithful to the last
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  letter. He was faithful to the highest
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  degree. He cannot scrutinize not one of
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  his acts or words. He never had to ask for
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  forgiveness or make an apology. He was perfect in all of his
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  ways. And here the writer of Hebrews
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  wants us to know that Jesus Christ is much higher than
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  Moses. As good as Moses was in his
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  office. Jesus Christ is much better, and
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  we place our faith in Jesus and not in Moses and not in the law.
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  Jesus fulfilled all of the law to the last letter. 3 For this
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  man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he
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  who has built the house has more honor than the house.
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  Jesus Christ is the one who is building the house, and the
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  house is the bride. The house is the church,
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  friends. He's building it.
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  And we can see here that as faithful as Moses was, he cannot
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  even hold a candle to what Jesus Christ did and what he is doing
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  and who he is. And Jesus Christ was fully man,
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  He was fully God, and that is not anything that Moses could
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  ever attain to, because Moses is not divinity.
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  He was just a very obedient man unto God, and he walked his
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  office out to the best of his abilities.
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  But when he should have spoken to the rock, he struck it.
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  And Jesus Christ never failed, not on one single test or
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  syllable, not one iota. He was perfect and innocent.
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  For for every house is built by some man, but he that built all
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  things is God. Jesus Christ spoke, Jesus Christ
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  is God and everything is hung on his words, friends.
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  And he put the tapestry, He put the fabric of all of life and
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  all sustenance in every single atom and molecule is hung on the
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  Lord Jesus Christ's words. Five.
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  And Moses truly was faithful in all his house as a servant for a
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  testimony of those things which were to be spoken after.
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  Jesus Christ is no servant, friends.
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  He is the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  And you can see here that Moses was given a wonderful ministry,
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  and he fulfilled it to the best of his abilities. 6 But Christ
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  as a son over his own house, whose house are we, if we hold
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  fast to the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto
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  the end? There's a big if there.
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  It's easy to start a race, but it is hard to finish it.
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  And this is a call for all the recipients here, these new
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  converts into the faith of Christianity from Judaism.
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  And he's saying, if you will hold fast to the things that you
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  have been taught about Jesus Christ as God, as Lord, and you
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  do not go back to all of the Jewish customs, then you will
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  inherit all of the promises. And we can see that Christ is a
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  son and not a servant. 7 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost
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  says, today, if you will hear his voice.
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  So we know that today is the day of salvation.
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  We know that we can't live in the past, and we don't need to
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  be fretful over the future. But today, if you woke up today,
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  place your faith in Him today, friends.
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  And if you get another day, place your faith in Him
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  tomorrow. 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation in
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  the day of temptation in the wilderness.
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  So you need to understand that those that fall away were never
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  truly His to begin with. They were just going all along
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  with Jesus as long as He behaved in the way that they wanted Him
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  and needed Him to. But when a fence came, and when
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  the bird came and snatched the seed, they fell away.
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  They hardened their hearts, because Jesus wasn't the God
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  that they formed in their own minds. 9 When your Father's
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  tempted me and proved me, and saw my works. 40 years.
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  So you can see here this cloud by day, in this pillar of fire
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  by night. You can see the Red Sea being
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  parted, friends, in the water gushing from the rock, in the
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  bitter waters, made sweet in the quail, in the manna, friends,
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  and they still went back to their idol worship.
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  And they murmured and grumbled, and were devoured by serpents,
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  friends. And God said that they would not
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  enter into his rest, save Joshua and Caleb.
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  9 When your father's tempted me and proved me, and they saw my
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  works 40 years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that
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  generation, and said, They do always air in their heart, and
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  they have not known my ways. 11 So I swore in my wrath they
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  shall not enter into my rest. 12 Take heed, brothers, lest there
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  be any of you, an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the
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  living God. That's the key, friends, is
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  belief. This unbelief is a sign of
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  somebody. In their wilful disobedience,
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  they deny God Almighty. And it is not that God has not
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  given them enough substance and proof of who He is.
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  It is because they are steeped in idolatry.
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  They are steeped in their own carnal earthly pleasures.
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  They are steeped in their sinful behavior, and they love the
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  world. And they loved evil more than
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  they loved a loving God who only wanted what was best for them.
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  This rest and this promised land, friends.
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  And that is the mark of so many people who only want enough of
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  God to not have to go to hell. And whenever there are things in
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  this life that they pray the paint off the wall for and it
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  doesn't happen, they fall away, friends.
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  And it is because they were never his to begin with. 12 Take
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  heed, brothers, lest there be any evil heart in you of
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  unbelief and departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one
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  another daily while it is called today, lest any of you be
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  hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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  That's the call for us, friends, as we are our brother's keeper,
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  we need to make sure that we are checking in on those who call
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  themselves believers and making sure that they are not being
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  deceived and buying into heretical teachings.
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  And they're not just looking for these little sound bites in
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  short videos that spoon feed them drops of poison every day
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  that lead them astray in their theology and doctrine.
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  It is by being rooted and grounded in God's Word that God
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  will be pleased to give you sound doctrine and full counsel
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  of who He is and what He's doing.
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  It is by not calling any of these words into question.
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  It is by believing every single syllable, every jot, and every
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  title from Genesis to Revelation, that God will give
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  you his mind and his plans for the ages. 14 For we are made
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  partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
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  steadfast unto the end. There's another if, friends.
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  If you think that you are standing, you just might be
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  sinking. Friends, The little bit that you
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  have will be taken from you. This is the call to every blood
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  bought, born again believer to stay in the faith.
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  Do not check out, do not compartmentalize, do not nail
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  Jesus Christ back up on the cross.
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  It is by trusting and believing in every single one of these
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  words. It's by remaining in the faith
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  even when persecution comes. It's by choosing God over this
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  world every day. It's by choosing Jesus Christ
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  over every relationship that you have in your life.
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  It is by using all of your idle time to be sanctified and to
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  choose every moment of every day to stay in prayer with Him.
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  It is by choosing Him over everything, everyone, and every
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  single experience. It's Jesus and Jesus alone that
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  keeps us in the river of life. It will bring us to the end, and
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  we will not grow faint, we will not grow weary, but we will
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  mount up like eagles, and we will run friends, all the way to
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  the end. 15 While it is said today, if you will hear his
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  voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, today is the
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  day of salvation. He has rest for you today.
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  The rest that you can experience is in Jesus Christ.
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  It's not in this world, it's not in your finances, it's not in
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  your abilities, it's not in your vanity.
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  Friends, the rest that you can find today, the peace of God and
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  the peace with God is found in Christ Jesus.
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  Do not harden your hearts, do not grow callous, do not grieve
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  the Holy Spirit, friends, but keep that relationship vibrant
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  as you keep your lamps full of the Holy Ghost. 16 For some,
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  when they had heard did provoke. Howbeit, not all that came out
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  of Egypt by Moses. So you got to understand all
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  these Israelites getting LED out of captivity and out of bondage,
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  and they get over the Red Sea and they start murmuring and
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  making these golden calves and bowing down to worship and
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  getting up to play. And now God left them in the
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  wilderness and only let Joshua and Caleb taste the Promised
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  land. And the next generation came in,
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  but that first generation was left behind, engraves in the
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  wilderness. And that is what is referenced
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  here. Friends, we do not need to
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  murmur and grumble. We don't need to make this about
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  what it's not. This is not about prosperity and
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  this is not about you. This is all about King Jesus. 17
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  But with whom was he grieved 40 years?
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  Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in
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  the wilderness? 18th And to whom swore he that
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  they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed
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  not? That's the key here, friends, is
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  belief. If you want to enter into the
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  rest, you must believe all of the promises of God's Word.
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  You must believe that God is. You must believe that Jesus
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  Christ is able. You must believe that Jesus is
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  the Son of God. You must believe that the blood
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  of Jesus is enough. You must believe that there is
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  eternity to come. You must believe friends in the
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  Holy Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation, and nothing added
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  and nothing subtracted. We'll end on 19.
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  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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  There it is. We've got to do away with
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  unbelief. We cannot let this world be the
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  one that's steering the boat. We cannot allow unbelief to
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  creep in. And it comes in through way of
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  science and it comes in through way of our own strength and
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  abilities. It comes in through ways of the
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  love of Mammon. It comes in through the way of
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  wanting this life in the next to come.
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  It's comes in through the ways of questioning Jesus and
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  questioning the Bible and questioning our existence and
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  how we evolved. This is how unbelief comes in,
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  friends, and we've got to stiff arm it.
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  We've got to do away with all of the unnecessary distractions and
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  build our entire life on the Word of God, and you will never
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  be put to shame. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  amazing chapter in God's Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.