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Hebrews Part 33 - Simply Christ Bible Study · Simply Christ Podcast

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All right, welcome guys. We are here, most of us are, and
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another one probably coming still, but anyway, if not, we'll
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proceed. Thanks for being here.
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Appreciate it. We're going to look into the
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Word of God tonight and let it determine how we live and what
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we think about ourselves and Him actually.
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So for the next hour we're going to discuss out of Hebrews
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chapter 10 and we are going to see what that that has to what
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From tonight's study, we are going to start in verse 37 of
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Hebrews 10. We did not quite get that
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chapter finished, but there's some really good content here.
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These last few verses as I was studying for tonight.
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Looking forward to it. So.
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But before we get started, what would you open us up with?
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A word of prayer. Sure, let's pray.
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Father, we praise you tonight and we thank you for this time
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that we can spend looking into your word.
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And Father, I just pray that you anoint us again with tonight
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with your Spirit on, that your word would penetrate and people
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could have clarity of your word, be more clear about your Word,
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and that you could work in people's lives through your word
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and through this Bible study. And so, Father, we just ask you
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who guide us and direct us tonight, and we thank you for
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most of all for your Son Jesus to die for us on the cross and
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to redeem us from sin, and that we can be righteous in your eyes
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only through the blood of Jesus. And we thank you, and we honor
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you, and we bless you in Jesus name, Amen.
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Amen. All right, OK, yeah.
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Verse 37 says that it breaks right into the middle here, but
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it says for yet a little while. And he that shall come, will
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come and will not tarry. And this comes on the heels of
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having spoken in verse 32 and on between there 37 now, how he is
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asking them to remember, you know, how they grabbed a hold of
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the gospel and what pain that caused them or whatever.
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They had a great fight of afflictions, he says there and
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he's encouraging them to stay with it, to stick with it.
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And he's just, he just kind of pushing them to, you know, it's
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not the beginning, not the guy that starts the race that wins,
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but the guy that actually finishes it, that kind of thing.
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So that is a context here when he says this.
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And just as a side note, I think this kind of having gone through
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Hebrews 10 thus far, just today, I was thinking about how that
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God is never surprised by our needs.
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You know, when he when he designed us, when he made us,
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when he did this, this universe, there are creatures on it, the
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the human beings that he breathed his breath of life into
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making them different than the animals and stuff, the Holy
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Spirit, the breath of life, the how that our needs that we had.
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In other words, we came up short in the way of, you know,
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righteousness. We came up short in a lot of
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different ways that did not catch him by surprise.
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He actually knew that was going to happen already and he already
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had a remedy for that in mind that was already set up.
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And I just, I just had to think about how stabilizing that is to
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my life to know that God isn't surprised.
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He he never was surprised by our Idiocracy.
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He he knew already what we needed before he started.
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So there's no emergency going on here.
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He's very capable, completely sure of his plan and his his
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method. And I just had to think of that
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thinking about the the thoroughness is that a word of
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Hebrews, the book Hebrews, how thorough it is in describing and
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maintaining that Jesus Christ is the way because it because it is
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the way that God set up for us to come to him.
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And so this is just more and we'll see more of it in the
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remaining books or writing chapters of Hebrews about this
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exact same thing. He's he's still going to keep
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going back to the same thing. So anyway, Aaron, that was kind
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of a log, but I just, I had to think about that.
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I thought that was that. Yeah, yeah.
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I'll just, I guess I would kind of reference you back to the
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things that he said they were going through, how they've been
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made a the gazing stock and they became companions of people that
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have been used that way. And then he turns around and
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says in the last part of verse 36 that you have needed
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patience, that after you've done the will of God, you might
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receive the promise for yet a little while.
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And he that shall come will come and will not tarry.
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So I think he's just trying to encourage them of the return of
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Christ. And it's like you could look at
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it a couple ways. There is in the Book of
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Revelation, there are those people, those Saints that are
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crying out, why don't you avenge our blood?
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Remember that like in Revelation, there's those Saints
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crying out, why don't you revenge our blood?
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And that is going to, you know, that's going to be a part of
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something that Christ is going to accomplish eventually.
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And then also, I guess the you could save the promise there at
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the end of verse 36 might refer to their, you know, the promise
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of a new body or that of rest that's coming that we talked
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about in earlier chapters. And I think all those things
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will be relevant to a people that are suffering for the
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gospel sake, right? In other words, I think all
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those things that Christ would accomplish, whether it be
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bringing the judgment or bringing the new body or
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bringing the new Jerusalem or whatever it might be, I think
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he's just trying to say keep, keep going forward, keep
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believing because he that has promised he's going to come,
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will come. And it may seem like a long time
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to you, but it's actually not going to be that long.
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Like it's a it is something that will happen eventually.
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And that's that's kind of what I thought about verse 37.
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Yeah, yeah, that one. Yeah, so there's a saying where
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people say that there's only two things in life that are
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definite, and that is taxes and death.
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But in fact, there's three things.
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And that is, is that Jesus is going to come back someday,
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right. And so that's what it's saying
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here. He's he's reminding them just
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like you said Aaron, he reminded them in verse 36 that that they
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need patience because they that they might receive the promise
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and then he's saying for yelling in a while and he that shall
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come will come and will not tarry.
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So part of that promise. I don't know exactly maybe can't
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think of exactly my mind what that promise.
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My me doesn't really say exactly what that promise is, but it
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involves Christ. Obviously it involves Jesus and
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so there's a verse I seen in James actually that says this
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says in James 5789. It says be patient.
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Therefore, brother unto the coming of the Lord.
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Behold, the husband waited for the precious fruit of the earth,
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and have long patience for it until he received the early and
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latter rain. Be also patient and establish
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your heart for the coming of the Lord.
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Draw nigh, grudge not one against another, brethren,
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unless you be condemned. Behold, the judge standeth
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before the door. So obviously God is waiting,
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patiently waiting for the coming of the Lord, for Jesus to come
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back, to tell him to come back, so that the fruit, like fruit
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can be fully developed. He says there until you receive
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the early and latter rain. It says that God is waiting for
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the fruit to come forth out of the earth like the what I see
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and that is believers, you know, people coming to Christ and
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believing in Christ by faith. And then he says, because of
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that, be ye also patient and establish your hearts for the
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drawing of the coming of the Lord draw of nine.
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And so I'm just going to say this is that obviously when
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Jesus comes back, if he comes back before you die is if you
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haven't given your life to Christ and haven't believed in
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the salvation of Jesus Christ through the blood of Christ and
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only that, then it's going to be too late, right?
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If if Christ comes back or if you die before you do that, it's
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going to be too late. And so he's just reminding them
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hear that Jesus is coming back and hold fast.
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You know, that's what he was saying before.
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He said earlier in the earlier verses He's telling them to hold
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fast and to to not go back to the law but keep their eyes on
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Christ and Christ only. Amen.
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Yeah, I just, I think the definition of the word patience
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is something that this book really, really highlights.
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Sometimes we think of the word patience in that, you know, like
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if you're you're a child and you you want the ice cream and your
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dad is saying just hang on, just wait a little bit.
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Just wait a little bit and and you know, hey, you're not being
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patient. You know, that's that's the way
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we typically use the word patience, right.
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But the word the the whole of life and all of Christianity,
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all of the life of Christianity is a waiting game and it is
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patient Patience is faith drawn out over time.
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It's continuing to abide, continuing to trust, continuing
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to hold fast. And he started that way in verse
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35. Cast not away.
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Therefore your confidence. You have need of patience that
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after you've done the will of God the the whole idea of
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Chapter 11 is going to speak much more to this concept of
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faith and patience. But the minor sufferings that we
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go through the difficulties that the Jews were facing just before
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70 AD we're we're about to get pretty extreme in in Jerusalem
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in particular, especially the Jewish people who didn't leave
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the city they had the Christians have need of patience to just
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hang on Christ is going to return.
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You don't need to panic. You don't need to stress out.
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Like Melvin said, death and taxes are a sure thing.
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Actually, the coming of Christ is more sure than death because
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some of us will not see death right.
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And so he's, he's saying for yet a little while and he that shall
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come will come. In Romans chapter 8, he says
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that the the glory that will be revealed is not worthy or the
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the, the suffering that we have now is not worthy to be compared
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with the glory that shall be revealed in US.
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He's been building on this theme constantly.
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Hebrews 928 he said so Christ was once offered to bear the
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sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the
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second time without sin unto salvation.
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So that he's he's trying to continue to hold out that hope.
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So faith, hope and patience, they're all so intertwined and
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connected. We are saved by faith.
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But Romans chapter 8 also says we are saved by hope.
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And so faith, hope and patience are all some element of faith.
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We believe Christ is returning and now we're being tried and
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tested and it feels like he's not coming.
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Well, that's faith stretched out over a period of time.
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That's patience. Our hope is laid up for us in
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heaven. We are confirmed by that.
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We are absolutely convinced of the thing that's waiting, that
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we're waiting for, right? And so we latch onto it by
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faith. We continue to hold onto it with
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patience, and our hope is reserved for us and it cannot be
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corrupted. So the final coming of the Lord
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will happen according to Romans 10/11/12, that whole section,
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It's when the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, then we
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know that Christ will come down and gather his Saints to
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himself. So many of these people had
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lived through some pretty unbearable times, and people in
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our days lived through some pretty unbearable times.
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But I would, he's trying to say, basically, take heart.
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Even if you have, even if the rest of your life is a life of
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suffering, the next 40 years, it'll still be worth waiting.
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It'll still be worth tearing. Just be patient, get a little
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while. And yes, 40 years is just a blip
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on the radar. It's just a little while.
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There is no other hope than Christ.
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Do not turn back. Don't don't think that there's
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some other options, right? So just wait a little longer.
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And I, it seems like that's kind of what the whole book is about,
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right? Don't turn back, continue to
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wait. Hold on to this thing.
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Don't, don't draw back, right? So patience is kind of the key
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here. And that's, that's like, if you
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think about the, oh, I don't know, for me, maybe the two
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weeks before I turned 17 took forever.
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Two weeks before my wedding date, it was the longest two
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weeks in the face of the Earth, you know, And so to say to to
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have patience, it is a it is hard that that, you know, for
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some of these people whose pain is very intense, a minute seems
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like a very, very long time, you know, So, but he's asking us to
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just hang in there. I wanted to talk a little bit
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about the word Terry. You know, it says he won't,
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Terry. But yet here we are 2000 years
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later, still waiting. But he says he won't, Terry.
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And I just, I just had to think of what the what the word means
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there is to linger or delay. And I just want to say that, you
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know, when, when it is not time yet, you're not delaying, you
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know, So when I tell my kids to go at 3:00, you guys go take out
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the trash. They're not, they're not
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delaying their work until 3:00. After that, now they're
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lingering. Now they're tarrying.
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And So what I, what I'm trying to say is when, when it says
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that God will not tarry is when the fullness of time has come,
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he will be here not a moment later, that the issue that he is
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not here yet is that it's not time yet.
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You know, we, we can rest knowing that he's not going to
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hold back and say, well, you know, let's give him another,
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you know, five years. Let's give him five more years.
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That's not the case. He knows that time and when that
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time is right, he will be here for or we will go to him or
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whatever, however you want to say that.
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Jesus actually warns against that thinking of all.
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He's just tearing. The Lord delays His coming in in
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Matthew 2448. But if that evil servant shall
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say in his heart, my Lord delayeth his coming or while the
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bridegroom tarried, it seems like the bridegroom's taking too
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long that the day slumbered and slept in Matthew 25.
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And so that that concept is well, is well versed in the in
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the Gospels, Jesus kind of says, don't think that the Lord will
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delay his coming. So that the people, the evil
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servant thinks that the Lord is tarrying that he's delaying his
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coming, but he knows when he's coming.
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Yeah, I just, I just want people to understand that God is not
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slack concerning his promises when it's time, he'll be here,
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you know, it's for sure. All right. 38 Now the just shall
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live by faith. But if any man draw back, my
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soul shall have no pleasure in him.
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And it says, I had looked up here in Habakkuk. 24 says,
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Behold, his soul, which is lifted up is not upright in him,
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but the just shall live by faith.
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I just thought that was as almost directly there quoted,
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but very, very interesting verse.
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Go Ahead aired with it. Yeah, I just, I think Dan done a
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really good job of kind of summing up.
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The last. Part of this book with what he
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said there. But yeah, I guess I would just
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say that I think verse 38 is it is a compare and contrast
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because the just shall live by faith.
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And like Dan said earlier that that that patience is just faith
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drawn out. So you would be comparing
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somebody that is living by faith with somebody that is drawing
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back from what they believe or what they have confidence in or
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what God has promised, right? I mean that that's the way I see
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that is it's a compare and contrast.
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The just are going to live by faith.
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They're going to continue to believe what God has promised.
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They're going to have that patience to continue to look for
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that promise, regardless how long it takes for it to come to
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them. But then if a person draws back,
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if he says, I don't think this is worth waiting on or I don't
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think this is worth anything, then he says my soul shall have
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no pleasure in him. So that is that is the and I
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know we kind of struggle sometimes with with what weak
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faith or whether you believe or stop believing or whatever.
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I know sometimes people struggle with that.
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But I understand that there are, I think the Bible totally
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accounts that there are moments that we are that faith is can be
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weak. It can be whatever, but there's
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a difference. I guess my point is there's a
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difference in having a moment of weak faith or a time or a spell
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of faith that is weak in that of actually drawing back from what
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you believe, right? You know what I mean?
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Like I would distinguish those two things one from another is
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he's not saying the guy that draws back is the guy that is
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consumed with the with the, the troubles of life.
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And he's a little distracted and he's, you know, we've all talked
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about the things that that will pull us away from our closeness
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with God. And I think that this is not
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that this is a drawing back. This is, I mean, like we said,
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that's the whole point of the book.
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This is a stopping having confidence in what you started
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your confidence out on. It's not just a a bad day,
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right? It's kind of a reiteration
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actually of verse 26, little bit.
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Oh yeah, if you will. Yeah, I guess.
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If you if you look there where that word draw back, one of the
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words it uses there is to withdraw.
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So if we think of like, let's just say like America.
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You know, with we withdrew our troops out of Iraq.
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Or Iran or whatever that was here a year or two ago, whenever
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was I'm not booked up on that stuff.
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But So what they did is they left that country, right?
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They they totally withdrew from that country.
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And so that's kind of the picture that it that I see here.
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And that's exactly what you were saying, Aaron.
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It's not, it's not a bad day in our life where our faith we
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don't have as solid faith in God.
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This is an actual turning away or withdrawing from salvation in
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Christ. Because the next verse kind of
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talks about that. Yeah.
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Then. Yeah, very much.
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Just to reiterate the same thing.
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I was thinking the same thing verse 26 for if we sin
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willfully. This is kind of another
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description of that is not living by faith that drawing out
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of our faith. We continue in that some people
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have this once saved, always saved kind of mentality towards
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Christianity and that is that you.
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I once prayed a prayer, I once confessed my sins.
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I once walked down the aisle or I once got baptized.
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Therefore I'm still safe. So I mean, I can kind of live,
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however do whatever, walk however I want.
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And it's just this assurance that God wrote my name down and
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there's no way he can ever blot it out.
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So things are fine and good. That's that's the American
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Christianity to a large degree, right?
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It's this. Just make a decision for Jesus.
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Put your hand up after a sermon or something like that.
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Yeah, but he's telling us very clearly here that those that are
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saved in the end are those that live by faith, that that only
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believers are saved, not unbelievers, not those that are
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going about their lives, not actually trusting Jesus.
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But for the the these verses bother sincere Christians or
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sincere religious folks more than they do the loose people.
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For some reason, the loose Christians don't really read
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this. They're not concerned about it.
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They're just secure in their false sense of security.
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But the people that concern me are the ones that think that
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they can just suddenly fall off of Christianity by mistake.
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Like like Aaron was talking about, they had a rough day.
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They feel bad for what they've done.
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Now they're like, well, I'm not sure if I'm still a Christian
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now because I've I've fallen in some way.
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I've slipped up in some way. He's not talking about that.
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He's talking about drawing back unto perdition, as he's going to
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call it in the next verse. If any man's drawback, God's
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soul will have no pleasure in that man.
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You you've now done despite and the spirit of grace.
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You've counted the blood of the covenant wherewith you, a
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sanctified and unholy thing. You're no longer trusting in
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that. You've completely departed.
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You're you're not still wishing like, oh God, please save me.
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No, that that's not your mentality anymore.
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You're like, OK, I tried the Christian thing.
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I'm going back to Judaism or I'm going to some other way of
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justification. So it it's a reiteration of the
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whole book constantly here, I think, but it, it pays to
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continue to go over that because there should be a fear in those
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loose nominal Christians to say, hey, look, if you've drawn back,
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if you're not living by faith, God's soul has no pleasure in
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you. Whatever you think you are,
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whatever you think that claim to faith was, it doesn't please God
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in any way. And in your lack of security or
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lack of confidence, your lack of holding to what Christ has done
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is in no way pleasurable to God. And the just shall live by
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faith. And as we're going to see in the
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next verse, we don't want to draw back onto perdition.
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And he encourages us that that's not the case.
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So. Yeah, very good.
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And that's yeah. So I'll read verse 39.
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But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them
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that believe to the saving of the soul.
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I think that is crystal clear what he is telling us.
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There should be no question. And like what you said that
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about, you know, some of them being unconcerned.
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If you would actually read this and just read this verse, I
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mean, you can see very clearly that it's the unbeliever that's
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in trouble, the believers, OK, That the entire eternal
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destination hinges on that one thing, whether you believe in
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him or not, right there. Yeah, it's it's like it's like
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he said the positive in 38 first, you know, the Joshua
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lived by faith. That's the positive.
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The negative was drawing back and then he reverses it in 39
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and says the negative first. You know, we're not them who
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draw back under prediction, but then that believe to the saving
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of soul. So you could you could equal
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living by faith is believing to the saving of the soul and
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drawing back is equal to well, he says drawback in both places.
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You know, like you use the same term drawback, drawback and
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equals under perdition, right? That's what that equals.
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So I think you could, you know, say what I'm saying, like you
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could equate those two things. Living by faith is believing to
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the saving of soul and drawing back is going to equal
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perdition. Like I like that.
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He just, you know, like I said, he said the positive 1st and
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then the negative and 38 and then switched it and said the
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negative 1st and then the positive side of it.
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Yep, Melvin. Yeah, I think you've covered it
25:30
pretty well really. I there's just one thing that I
25:34
want to say is that he says there but we are not of them
25:38
that draw back onto tradition. And so another thing that comes
25:43
from my mind is This is why this is not just a bad day you're
25:47
having and and your lack of faith in pricing from a
25:51
day-to-day basis is because the drawback under perdition.
25:55
Perdition means damnable or destruction or to perish.
25:59
And so it's not like it's not a just a how would you say, I
26:06
don't know what the right word, but it's not a light thing.
26:08
In other words, is what I'm trying to say.
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And so, but of we I, I just want to take comfort in that he is
26:18
saying we are not of them that drawbacks tradition, but of them
26:22
that to believe in the saving of the soul.
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And like you were saying, Aaron, believing is to the saving of
26:30
the soul, obviously is all part of faith.
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And because he's introducing faith here now into the next
26:36
chapter, we're going to go through what actually living by
26:40
faith looks like. And so he's introducing that and
26:44
that has to do with believing to the saving of the soul through
26:48
Christ and only Christ. Yeah, What I get out of these
26:54
passages like this is that I don't think God wants us to be,
26:59
what's the term, the a theologian that puts God in this
27:05
perfect box where this is how God operates, this is how he
27:10
doesn't operate. He said this, Therefore this
27:13
verse doesn't mean what it says here.
27:14
I think he wants us just to take him at his word.
27:17
And that illustration, Mike Pearl uses it.
27:19
And I heard a preacher named Timothy Keller use the exact
27:21
same illustration about Paul standing before Caesar.
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God told Paul that he would stand before Caesar.
27:29
Paul didn't want to go on the ship because he said there's a
27:32
storm coming. He says that if we go, we might
27:34
all die. But then the ship captain says
27:36
we're going anyway, get on board.
27:38
And he says, OK, well, I'll get on board.
27:39
And then he prays and God clearly tells Paul, you are all
27:43
going to make it. Not a soul on this ship will be
27:45
lost. He says, Sir, as I perceive that
27:48
this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the
27:51
ship and the lading, but also of our lives.
27:54
That's what he warns them. But they didn't listen to Paul
27:57
and they set sail anyway. And then a few days later when
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they're all distraught and thinking that they're going to
28:03
die after three days of this constant wind, they started
28:06
tossing out the tackling of the ship and so on and so forth.
28:09
Many days the sun and the stars, whatever appeared, it says.
28:12
And then after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst of
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them. This is Acts 2721.
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And he said, Sirs, you should have hearkened unto me and not
28:21
have loosed from Crete, and have gained this great of this harm
28:23
and loss. And now I exhort you to be of
28:26
good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any man's life among
28:30
you, but of the ship. So Paul originally said, we're
28:33
all going to make it. Paul knew he was going to stand
28:36
before Caesar East. Now he then he tells them, he
28:38
says, if we go, we might all, we might all perish.
28:41
And now after long abstinence, he says, it's OK, the ship's
28:44
going to be destroyed, but we're all going to make it.
28:46
Everyone cheered. They were cheered by that
28:48
message. They took food and they started
28:49
eating. And then some of the seamen got
28:51
to the point where they thought, well, I'm going to bail on the
28:54
rest of these passengers. I'm going to get into the
28:55
lifeboat and I'm going to make my way to shore after they had
28:58
anchored the ship there. And Paul says to them, except
29:02
you abide in this ship, you cannot be saved.
29:05
And he actually says that they're all going to perish if
29:07
they get out of the ship. So Paul, Paul wasn't this kind
29:11
of feel theologian that would put God in a box and say, no,
29:15
no, God, you can't say that because you said this before.
29:18
Well, here God has told us that he will not lose any.
29:24
He's told us that as many as he preordained them, He also
29:27
sanctified them. That he sanctified them He also
29:29
justified, then he justified, then he also glorified.
29:32
So we can now argue with God and say, no God, you said I'd be
29:35
glorified. No, He said, if you don't
29:37
believe, if you don't continue to hold fast, you will draw back
29:41
under perdition. No, but God, you said no.
29:43
I'm telling you now that if you don't live by faith, you will
29:47
perish. Oh, so I better turn back.
29:49
Yes, turn back, get back in the ship.
29:51
Because if you get out of the ship, there's no hope for you.
29:53
So what happens in the end? Well, the men get back in the
29:56
ship. They don't go into the lifeboat.
29:58
Everybody is saved alive. And so God uses these kinds of
30:02
means. He, he strongly warns them,
30:04
saying do not draw back. My soul will have no pleasure in
30:07
you. There's no pleasure for the
30:09
death in God's sight for those kinds of people.
30:13
And there will be perdition on the other side of turning back
30:15
on your faith towards Christ. But that warning in itself will
30:21
will cause believers to stay in the ship.
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If you know what I'm saying. And then he actually says, he
30:26
reiterates right after he says do not draw back.
30:29
But we are not of them that drawback.
30:31
So he while he's warning them not to draw back, he also
30:35
encourages them to say, but we're not of those.
30:37
So in the same way that Paul was kind of saying don't get out of
30:40
the ship. If you do, we're all going to
30:43
perish. What would have happened if
30:44
those soldiers would have gotten out of the ship?
30:47
Well, they they would have died, but God said they wouldn't.
30:50
Yeah, they wouldn't because they had to stay in the ship.
30:52
Did they stay in the ship? Yeah, they did.
30:54
And so we're not, we don't need to play these theological mind
30:57
games with God and say, yeah, but you said here, you said
31:00
there. If God says I am firmly grasped
31:03
in his hand and nobody can Take Me Out of it, I rejoice in that.
31:07
I don't ever want to. I don't ever want to take that
31:09
from somebody. Don't, don't second guess your
31:12
security in Christ. Rejoice in it when God says
31:15
don't turn back or else perdition, don't, don't try to
31:19
minimize that. Don't try to take away the the
31:21
severity of that by saying, Oh no, but God said you can't.
31:25
No, no, just let both of them stand because both of them have
31:28
their purpose and both of them have their place.
31:31
The strong encouragement, the strong warning and the warning
31:33
will serve the purpose of keeping us in the faith as well.
31:37
So God uses means to keep us, but it's still him keeping us.
31:42
We are kept by the power of God unto salvation ready to be
31:44
revealed in the last time. So it's not up to us to keep
31:47
ourselves, but we have to continue in faith.
31:50
And he's going to keep us in the faith through these kinds of
31:53
warnings and, and all kinds of different things, like even if
31:56
he goes further in First Corinthians and he actually save
32:00
some by killing off their body, it seems are weak and sickly and
32:03
many sleep and so on. That's a slightly different
32:06
topic. But God's job is to keep us in
32:08
the faith. One of the methods he uses to
32:10
keep us in the faith is by warning us sternly that there's
32:13
no hope outside of this ship. You better stay in right?
32:16
Sorry, that was a little long winded.
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No, that's really good and I appreciate hearing that because
32:21
they're it's not either or, but it's both true, whatever that is
32:27
true. Even if you could theologically
32:31
put about odds with each other. I was just wondering if any of
32:35
you have any input on kind of overview on Hebrews 10 before we
32:40
dive into 11 there at all. Any anyone cared?
32:43
I know, I mean, I know it's been pretty methodical, just like
32:46
take a 10,000 foot beauty of anything that comes to mind
32:49
regarding Hebrews 9 or 10 or both or whatever.
32:55
I guess I would just say that you you kindly had to me, it
33:00
started probably an 8. I don't know, maybe in seven you
33:04
could say. But I feel like he has we said
33:07
this over and over again. He says it several ways several
33:12
times. He gives us this.
33:14
Well, I mean, I can personally say it was one of the most eye
33:18
opening set of chapters. I.
33:20
Ever. Encountered as I was seeing the
33:23
gospel like Hebrews 8-9 and ten. Just really opened my eyes and I
33:28
think he knows that it has that kind of power in it and that's
33:31
why he comes around here at the end of 10 in my opinion.
33:35
I mean, it's just my thought on it.
33:36
But in my opinion, that's why he comes back around at 10 and ends
33:40
it this way because it is so powerful.
33:43
It is so eye opening. It is so methodical in the sense
33:46
of this is actually the what happened, take your sins away,
33:53
right? Isn't it's a real story.
33:54
Like I say this all the time, I've had several lessons on
33:57
this. It's not a just because God said
34:01
so. It's a actual, you could say
34:04
like a legal document if you will, that God said this is the
34:09
way it is. And in order to be justified,
34:12
this atonement has to be made. Here's a pattern of how it's
34:15
going to happen. Here's the real time that it
34:18
happens. And he just lays it out so well,
34:21
like I said, just so perfectly that I think it's fitting that
34:26
this warning comes in at the end of 10 and says, now listen,
34:30
here's the facts. Do not draw back from this.
34:33
Like they may have never heard it so clearly.
34:35
And now he's like, don't draw back from this.
34:38
And then he's going to give us, I think in Chapter 11, the
34:41
examples of what it actually looks like and work, right?
34:45
He's going to say, here's how it plays out.
34:48
Here's how this plays out in real life.
34:51
Yep, good, Good idea. Good.
34:53
Yeah, that's kind of what I see too.
34:55
It's just it is explained to us very clearly what what ha, what
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Christ did for to turn for our sins.
35:06
And and alongside of that, he is also comparing it to the old
35:11
law, like, you know, this is the law house on it and this is the
35:15
new, the new way, the new, the new team words he uses is a more
35:20
excellent ministry, new covenant, more perfect
35:24
Tabernacle, the the bet, a better high priest.
35:31
I know it's kind of a word. And so, yeah, it's just really
35:35
explaining it to us what salvation in Christ looks like.
35:41
Yep. Deb.
35:44
Yeah, I think just the very much the same thing as you guys are
35:47
saying already. But if if anyone's lacking
35:50
security, meaning that they're, they're feeling like they don't
35:54
measure up, that they are not quite clean enough, that they're
35:58
not quite good enough or that they've done too many things to
36:01
fail God in one way or the other.
36:03
This these couple chapters, especially 9 and 10 should just
36:07
lift you up out of that and cause such celebration in your
36:10
soul and such confidence before God that you can boldly approach
36:15
him at any time, any place. Under the old covenant.
36:18
We had no such thing as this. There was absolutely no
36:21
semblance of this kind of confidence, this kind of
36:23
boldness. Everything was with timidity,
36:26
with fear, and rightfully so. Our our God is a consuming fire
36:30
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
36:33
We had we should have that reverence for him.
36:35
But if Hebrews 9 and 10 are true that there was one offering made
36:40
for sins for forever, and Christ sat down and all of our sins are
36:44
paid for and the only thing that we need to do is hold to that by
36:49
faith, then then we're completely free.
36:52
Like we're literally off the hook for every single thing
36:55
we've ever done. And it might sound to some
36:58
people like, well, then us let us do evil that good may come.
37:01
Their damnation is just as, as Paul puts it in Romans.
37:05
We we should have that kind of clear conscience toward God, no
37:10
matter how badly we may have messed up, because that's the
37:13
only way to actually get your life cleaned up.
37:16
Everything else will always just cause more condemnation, more
37:20
guilt, more shame, because you'll never ever get there.
37:23
But if you can celebrate in this one thing, Christ Jesus took my
37:27
sins, past, present, future, all sins of all sinners at all
37:31
times, and He laid himself down. He made one sacrifice.
37:34
God was pleased with that sacrifice, and He now sat down
37:38
at the right hand of God, so much so that any Sinner, no
37:41
matter how great, can come to him right now and have complete
37:45
once for all forgiveness. Then there should be a constant
37:49
confidence no matter what. You know, it should really
37:53
'cause that the only warning is continue to believe that,
37:57
continue to trust that. And that's Hebrews 9 and 10,
38:00
very, very enlightening and confidence boosting in what
38:04
Christ has done. And like Aaron said it, it
38:06
describes what he did to actually accomplish this for us.
38:10
Yeah, Yeah. That's really good and like I
38:15
think Aaron had mentioned too, is that, you know, now we're
38:18
going to talk we're we're going to hear the word faith a lot
38:22
here in a Lavin, of course, which is what a result of
38:27
believing something. You know, it is what you do.
38:30
Faith is what happens right kind of a thing.
38:33
So this is this is kind of a newish word actually for Hebrews
38:38
here thus far. This is going to be very
38:42
interesting going forward. So I will read verse one of of
38:48
11 and we'll see where this all goes.
38:53
So he says and he's I, I would say that he's not actually
38:56
really switching gears here. This is a continuation.
38:59
Remember, the chapter marks were not there in the original.
39:03
This is this is just a reference point for us.
39:07
So he's, he's going on with the story here and he says now faith
39:10
is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
39:13
seen. I think that he is in
39:15
endeavoring to describe the word faith here and he's going to do
39:20
so through a series of short stories basically, or short
39:26
accounts through this as we go. I just, I just want to, I guess
39:32
the one thing that I always think about it in Hebrews 11, I
39:36
like that it says that faith, faith is the substance and a
39:40
substance is actually a, a thing, You know, it's not a pie
39:46
in the sky, you know, whatever, whatever faith is actually the
39:51
substance of the things that we hope for.
39:57
I find that interesting. But anyway, go ahead, go ahead
40:00
and. You know, I never, it's funny.
40:04
I honestly, it's probably one of the first times I've ever said
40:07
it this way before, but you all I would nor I'll tell you what I
40:11
would normally do. I would normally take verse one
40:15
and say, OK, he he gave us the definition.
40:19
Now he's going to show us what that looks like in the rest of
40:21
the chapter. But it actually just hit me
40:22
because we came out of 10 that you could actually go, you could
40:27
do that. You can certainly can do that.
40:28
You could go forward and say this is what here's the
40:32
substance. You could say in 11 here's the
40:34
substance of what they believe. They did this.
40:36
They did this by faith, right? But you could also go backwards
40:41
like we just came out of and say, you know, when he says
40:47
that, that cast not away your confidence, which you have,
40:52
which has great recompense of reward.
40:54
In other words, he's he's saying in the previous chapter that
41:00
they need well, I read that one that was 35.
41:03
Cast not away there for your confidence, which hath great
41:05
recompense reward 36 said for you have need of patience that
41:09
you have done the will of God. You might receive the promise.
41:12
So he is reminding them in 10 to think about what you believe.
41:18
Think about the things that you hoped for, think about the
41:23
things that you did because of something that you've not seen.
41:28
Right. Like in other words, all my
41:30
point is is I would always take one and go forward and say this
41:33
is what it looks like. But you can back up and say he's
41:37
telling them what it means to have faith or encouraging them
41:41
what to do. How to have faith is to remember
41:44
the former days. Remember he said that in verse
41:47
32. Remember the former days.
41:49
Remember that you did something, you gave up something because of
41:54
something you believed that was faith, right?
41:56
In other words, he's reminding them, I think 11 could be said
42:02
that you could, I know I've said it three times, but you can look
42:06
back at this and say that's what he was encouraging them to do is
42:10
have faith when he told them to remember the former days, to
42:13
hold that confidence, to continue to believe in that
42:16
promise that they were given and think about what they had gave
42:20
up. Because like I said, if you
42:22
think about their particular situation, think about the
42:25
people he wrote it to, he's saying to them, you did this
42:30
because you believed. You suffered this because you
42:33
believed. In other words, you could say
42:36
that faith. He's not given them a definition
42:39
of something they need to acquire.
42:41
He's actually given them the definition of something they
42:43
already had, right? And saying, don't forget that.
42:48
Don't depart from that. You've already you've already
42:55
had the substance and the evidence of faith.
42:59
Don't. Stop having that.
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Right. But like I said, that's just
43:03
really, I've never thought of it like that till we just read it
43:06
tonight. But I've never went backwards
43:08
and looked at the definition. But that's what I just thought
43:11
about. Yeah, that that's interesting
43:13
because like you said, in the end, when the Bible was written,
43:17
it was not necessarily written in chapters.
43:20
It's just a continuation of of the letter.
43:22
And if you go back to Hebrews 10/22, it says this, let us draw
43:28
near with the true heart in full assurance of faith, having a
43:32
heart sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
43:35
with pure water. So yeah, that's right.
43:38
I would have read this too, thinking, you know, that from
43:41
here on through 11, he's talking about faith.
43:45
But in reality, if you look at the whole picture of Hebrews,
43:49
he's been talking, I mean, he has talked a little bit about
43:53
faith before, right? And so that is one of the things
43:58
that stood out to me too. And the other thing is, is that
44:02
what stood out to me is he says now faith is the substance of
44:06
things. So in other words, faith has a
44:08
substance like it is a thing, right?
44:12
It is something. And so we're going to see what
44:16
that looks like in the next verses here.
44:19
But it's just interesting to me that faith is something like
44:26
it's a substance. It's there.
44:27
Like, in other words, you were talking earlier about, you know,
44:32
people that just, you know, say they went to the altar and, you
44:36
know, asked to use into the heart and that's it.
44:38
They just live however they want to after that.
44:40
And and that's so true. Like, I'm not saying I, I think
44:46
people can actually truly get saved in that way because I've
44:50
heard of testimonies of that, you know, of people going to the
44:54
altar and getting saved. We're not saying that you can't
44:56
get saved in that way. But the simple fact is, is that
45:00
after you have the need in Christ, there is it is going to
45:05
show in your life like there is going to be a substance.
45:10
You're going to act differently, you're going to live
45:13
differently. You you are not going to be the
45:16
same. The the Bible says that you're a
45:18
new creature. It says in Corinthians.
45:20
So that's what stood out to be here.
45:25
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think if if we didn't
45:29
have chapter 10 here, and I know a lot of people actually do,
45:32
like you hear Hebrews 11 preached quite a lot in churches
45:36
that wouldn't preach Hebrews 9 and 10.
45:38
And it's almost, it's almost like go have faith, go build a
45:44
boat, go take on giants, go go have lots and lots of faith.
45:49
But that's not how faith works. Like you need a description of
45:53
what is real, of what actually happened, of what builds your
45:57
confidence. And then faith is something that
45:59
happens. It's like, oh, yeah, of course,
46:02
of course I trust in this. I have absolute confidence.
46:06
That's in fact the word that's translated substance here is
46:10
translated in two places, 2nd Corinthians 9 four and 2nd
46:13
Corinthians 1117. In this way it says lest happily
46:18
if they of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we
46:21
that we say not you should be ashamed of this same confident
46:26
boasting. It's the same Greek word
46:28
translated substance is translated confident boasting
46:32
and then in second Corinthians 11/17 it says that which I
46:36
speak. I speak not after the Lord, but
46:38
as it were, foolishly in this confidence of boasting.
46:42
So when you look at the word substance now, faith is the
46:45
confident boasting of things hoped for.
46:49
Right. Wait, that's.
46:50
Good. What are you hoping for?
46:51
What? What are you convinced of it?
46:54
Like the only reason Noah built a boat was because he was
46:57
convinced there was rain coming. You know it wasn't because I'm
47:01
going to try to build a boat and see if rain will come.
47:03
You know it's you can't get the cart before the horse there.
47:07
It's substance. It's, it's the actual only thing
47:10
that we have. It's the only evidence that we
47:12
have the word. The word evidence is also
47:14
translated interestingly, where it's translated as the word
47:18
reproof. All Scripture is given by
47:21
inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for
47:23
reproof, for correction, for instruction, righteousness.
47:27
So now faith is the substance. It's the confident boasting and
47:31
it's the evidence. It's the reproof.
47:33
It's the proof of things not seen.
47:35
And so you could mix this word, the sentence up and say it in
47:38
all different ways, right? Faith is the substance and
47:41
evidence of things hoped for but not seen that we're, we believe
47:47
that Christ did something behind the scenes.
47:49
We believe he took his blood up into the most holy place that he
47:53
deposited it there before the throne.
47:55
We trust this thing. It's, it's the only, I mean,
47:58
can't you see that I'm living according to it?
48:01
I'm rejoicing because of it. I'm getting over my guilt and my
48:05
shame and my condemnation. I'm living for the glory of God
48:08
and for the sake of other people.
48:10
Why? Well, because I'm absolutely
48:12
convinced that's the, it's my faith is the substance of that,
48:16
of that thing, the thing that I'm hoping for, right.
48:19
So substance is this real physical matter.
48:21
As you guys have already said, a person that has lots of things
48:25
would we would say he has much substance but we are made
48:29
partakers of Christ. If we hold the beginning of our
48:32
confidence. That's that same word again
48:33
confidence substance steadfast unto the end.
48:37
So it's very much tied to chapter 10.
48:41
Faith is the substance and evidence of things hoped for but
48:44
not seen. Very, very encouraging verse
48:47
that kind of defines what how we should believe.
48:50
Not trying to get faith, but trusting in the thing that that
48:54
we're convinced of. So when you're trying to get
48:56
somebody to believe, don't tell them have faith, just have
48:59
faith. Just have faith.
49:00
Tell them again what Christ has done.
49:03
Tell them again that God was satisfied.
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Show them again what Christ did to accomplish, and then their
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faith starts getting boosted, right?
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It's not about trying to have faith.
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It's having confidence in the thing that we have glory in,
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right? And I get.
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To say what I was trying to say maybe.
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A little clearer earlier is I. Think he's trying to tell them
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by this definition, you all have faith in Christ.
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You went through sufferings for Him.
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You gave up these things for him.
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Like keep that, keep that going, that willingness to suffer, that
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willingness to go on to be, you know, a partaker of them that
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are used like that. Like that's that's what I was
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trying to say is I've never saw it like that, that he is
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actually telling them. You all did have that right.
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You know, I mean when he, when he reminds me that you all
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already have faith. Keep it up.
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Well, and that's so good what you're saying, Dan, I, I looked
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up that word. I should have looked at it
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before you're dead on. That's what that word was.
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It says assurance and confidence, though, when you
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look at it in that way, like he's just got done explaining
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what the confidence that we have right in Christ.
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And and that's so good because when we're confident in
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something, if you are fully assured, if you're confident in
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something, then you are going to live different, right?
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If you're not totally confident in something, then you're and
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you're just kind of, you know, wishy washing along, then that's
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how you know your life is going to be.
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And so that's very good. I like that.
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I didn't. I didn't catch that.
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That goes with, you know, like so you can believe or not
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believe, but the to the degree that you have confidence in what
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you believe, that is your degree of faith.
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You know, So I, I've, I've said this before about this verse.
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I, I think this is, I mean, it's a lot, it's a much quoted verse
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11/1 here. Of course you see it, see it all
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over the place. But so I, I like it.
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I would say that a magnified glass or a what do we call it
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about a telescope, but the little microscope.
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Microscope. That is the substance, that
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little finely ground and polished piece of glass is the
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substance that gives me confidence that germs exist.
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It allows me to see something that I cannot see.
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And what he is saying here, he's saying that faith is the
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substance that allows us to, it is the evidence of the things
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that we cannot actually see. Like so we look through this
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finally polished a ground piece of glass to see that is a
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substance. That glass is a substance that
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we look through to see a germ and therefore have confidence
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that they exist, right? And faith is what allows us to
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see things that we cannot otherwise see, and that's the
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substance that we look. And faith isn't really even the
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point that we brag on, though it's confidence that we have in
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him, right? So I always have this, this
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illustration in my head. Like you come to this great
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cavern, there's a forest fire behind you.
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There's a huge gulf in front of you.
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And you got to get over to the other side to get away from this
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fire. Now, if there was a rickety old
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rope bridge with one of their strings already stressed snapped
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and some of the boards breaking through and I get on that thing
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and get across or maybe be halfway across, you would say,
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man, you've got a lot, a lot of confidence.
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But that then my faith would be something to brag about.
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But just next to it, there's this massive concrete bridge and
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there's, you know, 40,000 LB Mack trucks driving over it.
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And I walk across that bridge. You wouldn't talk much about my
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faith, right? Like it just wouldn't be a point
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of, of issue. My confidence is something
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absolutely secure. It's not, I'm not trying to have
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faith in it. I'm convinced of the thing to
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get me across. Like, continue to walk on that
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path, continue to trust in what he's done right.
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Well, and a lot of you know, you hear people say, well, you know,
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I just need more faith, like I need to believe more.
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I need to. But no, in reality, you just
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need to be confident. You need to be more confident in
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what Christ did for you, right So.
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And the and the way that you get more confident, I think Cam
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commented there and he said the second part, that he would
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mental competence to keep God's promise in memory is often
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lacking. Yeah, that's why sound teaching
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and frequent Bible reading is critical for our development.
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What develops my faith and my confidence in God is to read
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stuff like what we've been reading here in Hebrews 10.
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That's right. If you take that to the bank,
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you have great confidence that your eternal security is there
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and was going to stay there. Yeah, well, obviously faith
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cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
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So I mean, it is true. It's not something that verse
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there tells you that. It is not something that you
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just stir up, work up, you know, get excited up and and it comes
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out. It is something that comes from
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at least hearing a story, right? You.
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At least have to hear a story. I mean, you at least have to
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hear something in order to have confidence in it, right?
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It'd be like saying you have confidence, something that you
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never heard or that you don't know.
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I mean, we'd say that's just ridiculous, right?
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You have to have a story, you have to have something that you
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have heard, been told, read whatever to have confidence in
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it. And and I think that that is
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what you're going to see in the in the next chapter is what
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these people did because of the confidence they had.
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And this is just AI don't know. Maybe I'll say it again in
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another time, but every time I think about this, this Hebrews
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Chapter 11, I always think that that is what God has always
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desired is for people to believe him.
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And I, and I'm, I'm saying I and I, and I'm not saying this to
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pretend that there's not different dispensations, but it
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is true that regardless of the time from Adam till the end, it
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is whether or not people will believe in God and have
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confidence in God, right? That is the thing that has
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always been what God is looking for.
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And I don't think anybody ever is, is accounted righteous
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without it, right? I mean, it's always been that
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way and will always be that way up till the time he returns.
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That is, that is the because that hit me so plain because I
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used to think. I used to think, what is it?
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I mean, was it that there was something people did back then
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and now God changed it to a different set of things that I
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do now? I mean, I think we all but had
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some kind of works based system. We all thought that it's like it
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was a it was a set of rules that please God then, or it's a new
56:23
set of rules now or whatever. But no, it's actually always
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been whether or not you have confidence in God.
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Like that is what it's always been.
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That's it. Yep.
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Habakkuk, what I just read, you know there already.
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He said that the just shall live by faith.
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Yeah, and and God takes pleasure in that, right?
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Because he said he does not take pleasure in those that draw
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back, you know, so that's. Good stuff.
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One one final thought that's kind of slightly off topic, but
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when you look up heat Greek or Hebrew words that are translated
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into English, sometimes you get some interesting texts, right?
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But in in Hebrews chapter 1, so same author, he uses this same
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Greek word he says in Hebrews chapter one, verse 3, Speaking
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of Jesus, who being the brightness of his glory and the
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express image of his person is the same word as substance.
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So Jesus is the person of God. He is the express, he's the
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evidence, he's the substance of who God is, right.
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And so when you think about our, our faith is like the embodiment
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of what we believe. It's, it's the evidence.
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The only thing I can point to, like sometimes people will say,
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well, how do you know it's true? Well, I, I believe it, I'm
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trusting it, I'm convinced of it.
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I'm walking according to it, right.
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It's it's like the person personhood of my belief.
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And it's kind of a weird thing to explain.
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And then maybe it's not a perfect carryover, but the word
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person is the same word as substance.
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So I don't know what you guys make of that.
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Oh. Yeah, I saw it too.
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I. Thought that was really neat.
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Yeah. The express images, the image
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that you see, it's again, it's the evidence you know, it's the
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evidence, the express, which is why you could see when you
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express something. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Because it's like what Philip said, show us the Father.
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And Jesus said, have I been so long with you?
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And you don't know me, Philip, You know, like it was the
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evidence. It was the substance of who God
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was. You know, like if you've seen
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me, you've seen the Father. Yeah, he said.
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I and the Father are one. And that's what the Jews had
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such a problem with. Is Jesus making himself equal to
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God? But he he was evidence of God.
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So, so it's 8:00. But you see, So what is the
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evidence of the things not seen? Faith, faith.
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Faith is that expression, that express that expression.
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That's interesting. That's good stuff.
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I'm telling you, I love it. All right, I guess we'll quit.
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That is it for today. Thank you very much.
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Appreciate it as we conclude today's study, remember Hebrews
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11/1, which is exactly where we were are tonight.
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Faith is a substance of things hoped for the evidence of things
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not seen and actually I just like what we were saying.
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I really hope that we could go through this word and let it
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build your faith to the point that you can actually see these
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truths in your own life in your inner man that they could see
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these truths and be changed by it.
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That's that's that would be my my wish for everybody, of
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course, and then we can see those things.
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So anyway, join us next Monday again, we do the same thing 7:00
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same time. Be back here in Hebrews 11 in
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verse 2. So God bless you.
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Thank you very much for your time.