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Hebrews Part 30 - Simply Christ Bible Study · Simply Christ Podcast

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OK, I guess we're ready to get started.
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We're all here that are going to be here for the study tonight.
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Dan is on a hiatus. Somewhere could be here.
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So we are going to do it ourselves.
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I want to welcome you to the weekly Bible Study webinar where
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we inspect God's Word and we let it transform our lives as the
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truth does when we look at it. For the next hour, like always,
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we're going to go through the book of Hebrews.
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We've been working on that for a three quarter year now and we're
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getting there, but it's been an interesting walk.
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All right, tonight we're going to go through Hebrews.
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We are in chapter 10 and we are going to start in verse 11 and
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we're going to see what God has for us today.
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Let's see. I would ask Eric Keith maybe to
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open us up with a word of prayer.
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Our most holy and righteous Father, we are thankful again
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for Your word, and you know that the power is in your word and in
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believing it. And just pray that we would
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maybe put the preconceived notions that we have out of our
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mind and be able to just listen to what it has to say and clear
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mind of those things we think it says and just hear what it
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actually says to us. And just pray that you guide us
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in that. Pray that the Spirit would
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reveal the truths clearly to us and not be able to say something
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that would encourage each other. And those that would be
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listening or seeing this, just ask your blessing on our efforts
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to do that. And our efforts to preach your
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Son's name just as Father, that you'd help us to not, not get
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tangled in our own thoughts or our own desires of what we
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wanted to say, but that we would say it clearly, and that we
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would be led by your spear. All these things vast in
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Christ's precious name all. Right, verse 11, Hebrews 10,
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verse 11 and every priest stand the daily ministry and offering
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oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.
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Now, if you've been following along here, you will notice that
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this is not the first time that we've talked about this
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particular subject. And we've talked about before
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about how often that Hebrews, the writer reiterates the same
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concept as we go along here. So this is another time where
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he's finishing this out. But I do just want to touch to
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get a running start on us a little bit here before I turn it
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over to Aaron. Last week we talked a lot about
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being sanctified of what that process, if you can call it that
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is. We were saying it's it's not a
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process. It's either you're set a fart
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for a special purpose or you're not.
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And so we know that being sanctified just simply needs to
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be set apart. And we really focused, rightly
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so, on the end of verse 10 where it says we're sanctified through
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the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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And I just wanted to mention I was thinking about that this
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afternoon after I listened to our last week's podcast.
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And you know, there when we are sanctified, when we are set
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apart, that is instantaneous. That happens the moment you
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believe, OK. But then there is a period of
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time that we spend learning. There's a lot of stuff that I
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learned about God, about Christ, about about being set apart,
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about living that way, about associating with our brothers
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and our sisters and our our workers and that kind of thing
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that I didn't know before. So there's a lot of learning
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that goes on after that. You are saved.
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But that is the wrong word. It's not sanctified.
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You're not getting sanctified. It's actually the wrong use of
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the word sanctified to use that word in that regard.
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But so I just wanted to clear that up.
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We, we do learn an awful lot if we give ourselves to the word.
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The Holy Spirit makes things alive to us.
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I, I love being in that living as a Christian for the last, you
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know, 10 years or almost and what God does in your life.
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It's amazing. So anyway, all that to say, we
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are again in verse 11 now talking about how that the
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sacrifices that the priest did daily cannot take our sins away.
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Is there anything else that you'd want to add to that in
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this context here? Yeah, I mean, I think he did a
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good job talking about the sanctified, but I I never, I'll
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never forget. I heard Mike Pearl say it this
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way. He was, he was saying that these
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priests were just painting a picture like, you know, he's a
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painter and and it's true. It's it's like they were
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standing up there every day and saying it by their actions and
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by what they did. That blood has to be shed for
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sins. Rather painting the picture of
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blood being shed for sins, blood being shed for sins.
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That's that sins actually require the innocent to die.
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Like they're the painting that picture over and over again.
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And, and it's funny, it's like we just said that he repeats
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this over and over again to us. And now he's saying they already
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painted the picture over and over again to you, right?
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Like you all should recognize this.
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They painted that picture every day almost that they were
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shedding that blood. So it says every priest standing
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daily. Like.
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They were doing some kind of ministering daily and offering
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oftentimes the same sacrifice, which can never take away sin.
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So again, I just want to kind of calm contrast that it's there's
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a difference in painting a picture and accomplishing an
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action, right? And that's what he basically
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says is what they did never actually paid the price percent.
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And this is, I don't want to necessarily go down this rabbit
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hole, but it's I just preached on this yesterday, that that's
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why all those souls were held captive in either paradise or in
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hell itself, there in the center of the earth.
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They're held captive because this didn't work, right?
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The reason Jesus could lead captivity captive is because he
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finally does. Pay.
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The price and it works like it's, it actually works then.
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So up to that point, in other words, the fact that Jesus goes
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into the grave and preaches to the spirits in prison.
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That's what the Bible says there.
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You know, in first Peter, he preaches to the spirits in
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prison. They are in prison because what
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they did under the law could never take away sin.
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And like I said, I'm, I know it's kind of a rabbit hole, but
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I just kind of wanted to make that point with it.
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That's the reason they're still there is because it didn't work.
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Right. So they still had to hear the
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gospel and and believe that in order to be actually saved and
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go with Jesus. Well, and I, I mean, that's
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true. I, I don't disagree with that,
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but I, I was really just making the point that it proves that it
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didn't, that what they did didn't work and what Christ did
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did work. You know what I mean?
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Like other words, they're held captive because a legal payment
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has not yet been made for their sins.
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Yep, Amen. Yeah, I, it was just looking
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here. So he said in verse 10 that we
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are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
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Christ once and for all. And then it, it seems like he's
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kind of describing in the next 3 verses what that looks like or
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how that happened, right. And so I know you just read the
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one verse that I'll just concentrate on now, but that's
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kind of what it looks like to me.
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Like he is describing what that sanctification through Christ,
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through the offering of Christ is and, and what it was because
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he says that every priest standard ministry, dealing,
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offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, right?
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They would do the same. You know, think about it when
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when I don't, you get tired of the mundane things in life,
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right? I mean, for me, it's like, you
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know, over and over, like you just have to do this over and
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over your whatever it may be. Maybe maybe it's getting up for
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work every day or whatever it is that and that's how this was for
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sacrificing for their sins. It is like it was like just a
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mundane thing that had to be done.
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The same thing, the same thing over and there's no how would
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you say there's no freedom in that?
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There's no hope in that, so to speak.
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It's like, OK, so we did it. Now we're going to have to do it
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again. He's telling us here that Christ
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did it once, once and we don't need to worry about doing it
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again. We don't try to be sanctified
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again. And and so I don't know what the
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right word is. You described it good about
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sanctification and Leon, but so there is and I was trying to
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think what the biblical term of that would be and maybe somebody
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could help me out. But for me, it was like after I
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got saved, I like I there was a growing that happened and I'm I
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don't know what the biblical word is for that, but.
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I always use it. Yeah, mature.
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There you go. That's probably one of the
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words. Maturity, like there was a
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maturing that happened. There was something that
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happened in my life, like I grew, but it wasn't that I got
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more sanctified, right? The Bible says I am sanctified
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at the moment that I believe in Christ and that actually Christ
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ended on the cross and I just need to believe that so.
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Andrew. So on that topic, I thought it
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was really good. What what was it?
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Yunus session at camp? Maybe Moses?
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Well, I'm not sure who maybe was Aaron, I don't remember, but God
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realizes that he put us into a place that we can't fully grasp
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for the rest of our lives. We've been trying to understand
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and grasp who we really are in Christ.
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The significance of all the work that he did and he I forget the
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verse, but it was like, you'll never find it all out.
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Like it's not that why? So to, for someone to say, yeah,
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I know where I stand in Christ and what all that means, you're
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lying like, because God just said you can't.
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Like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's so amazing.
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That's why I said, I think the last time that we're probably
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butchering this chapter and we think it's really rich.
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But I mean, what Christ did is something.
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And the point that he wants us to get is it's no more.
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Many times like I, I had to think of years ago, we're still
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Amish and we didn't want to allow any equipment, even for
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logging. We had to bring our logs over
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and we had to cross a Creek that was too soft.
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The horses, we would Dolly and everything would just get stuck.
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There's no way to get logs across that Creek with the
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horses except we build a bridge and roll them across.
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So let's use that for an example.
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Let's say that the log is our sin problem and it and the
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bridge is just like we're, we build a bridge, we come well,
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first maybe we try to get across with the horses and it doesn't
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make it. So we try something else.
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We try over and over and over, but with the law it's even
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worse. They had to do the same
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sacrifice over and over, but we roll all down the bridge.
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It breaks. It didn't get over.
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We got to build it again, try to make it stronger and be more
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determined, a little more fear of God, a little more
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understanding. We try to get that law across
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again, and we get halfway through and the thing breaks
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again, which is finally we get the bridge made.
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We find the bridge just right, the strength theory, we get that
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log across. Once that log is across, we're
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no longer trying to find a bridge to make the law come
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across. It's done.
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Like we're not now going, OK, now let's let's build another
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bridge or let's keep working on the bridge or let's keep
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perfecting the bridge. We found the bridge that the log
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made across. Now let's keep our eyes on the
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bridge and remember how we made this bridge.
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But no, the locks across. It's done.
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Like why are you still trying to figure out how we got the lock
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across or, or how to keep the log across or how do we keep the
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lock from rolling back or no, he's over on the other side of
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the Creek laying there. He's there like he's not moving,
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like he's not coming back, like the job done, it's over.
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And that's what he's trying to get us to realize.
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They said Jesus Christ, unlike the law, made us perfect.
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The law with all those sacrifices could not make the
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commerce perfect. That was the only problem.
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That was a problem. Didn't make him perfect.
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Now, if I build something like Melvin, if you build a house and
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it's perfect, you're not going to go home and tell your wife
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tomorrow I'm going to go pack my tools and I'm just going to go
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walk around the house and make sure it stays perfect.
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Or I'm going to like, I'm just going to be there with my tools,
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you know, just in case. Yeah, No, you're done.
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You're going to sit down at the dinner table at the right hand.
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You're going to say, honey, I'm. I finished the project and it's
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done. And because of that, you're not
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going back to that job site. You'd be an idiot.
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Everybody would laugh at you if you would go back to that job
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site. But that is what we're doing
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with Christianity all the time. All the time.
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We're going to a job site, trying to do something and
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everything's done that. The roof is on, the cutters are
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there, everything, the landscaping, it's perfected.
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Everything is just, it's one of those homes you drive by,
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there's like they overdid it. I mean, it's just, there's
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nothing lacking. Now, if you see a tree trimming
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truck coming by and slowing down and you'd be like, no, no, no,
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don't mess with the trees. Like it's perfect.
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Or you see a landscaping guy slowing down with some old dirt
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in the back, like no, no, no, don't, don't mess with this.
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It's precious, It's beautiful, it's perfect, but we come with
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our little wheelbarrow and a bunch of our dirt and we ruin
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this beautiful landscaping, this beautiful home that's perfect.
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And that's what I see when we come with our own garbage, when
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we see instead of just seeing the gospel, seeing its
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perfection and embracing it and believing in this is its grace.
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That's why God is really brutal in Titus, I think it was where
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it says, you know, if you're going to do law, well, Kelly,
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you're you're reprobated every good word.
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Like if that's God's conclusion for and that's his view of us
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trying to somehow please him by keeping some laws that somehow
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that's going to like the the old way that could not make the
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commerce perfect. Somehow that's going to please
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him. If we do those services now that
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we're a believer and he tells us it's a reprobate mind.
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It's a defile conscience that caused you to do that.
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If that's how God views it, why do we do it?
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Why would we do it? It's this, that's how disgusting
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it is. It's going to apply a perfect
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home and putting our fingerprints on a perfect piece
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of concrete before it's dry like a dog running through the
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concrete that is already dry and not dry yet, but it's perfect.
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You know a concrete guy, which is yell at you, but we're doing
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that to Jesus all the time. You know, the the the, the with
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a lot of fancy speech and much talking.
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They can get you to think that you're doing it innocently, but
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was forget what God says. Like somehow I can innocently
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keep certain parts of the law for my benefit and for the well
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pleasing of God. But God has such a nasty view of
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it. Why would we do it?
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I was thinking today that would be like reading where it says
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not to fornicate and then go out and say I can pull it off
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without lusting. I can pull it off without.
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I can do it innocently. I could do it in a way that
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pleases the Father. I can fornicate any way the way
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I do it. Like, yeah, fornication in the
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way that God's time, yeah, that's bad.
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But I can do it in a way without lusting.
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I can look at pornography without lusting.
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I can do it innocently. That's what I would say to
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people that say they are somehow still tying in.
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Well, just know what Hebrews is about is that these people are
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still trying to bring some old Jewish laws in and he says why
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are you messing with something that's perfect?
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And it was done one time. That's right.
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And to make that analogy, finish that with Melvin, what he's done
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with his tools, he doesn't just set him down, he sells them.
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He has. He has known him for those tools
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ever again because he did the house completely.
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That's how Jesus did. He sat down.
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He got rid of all the stuff that he used to make this salvation,
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if that's even a thing. The mold, The mold.
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He even threw away the. Mold.
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Yeah, Amen. All right.
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And I apologize, I should have read and I was going to, I
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forgot the first 3 verses there because they're all kind of the
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same thing. So I'll read to 12 and 13 now
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and if you want to add anything to it, you can says but this man
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after he had offered one second sacrifice for sins forever sat
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down on the right hand of God from henceforth expected till
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his enemies be made his footstool.
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There's the rest of the story to verse 11, Aaron, if you want to
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comment on anything there. Just I mean you all already said
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it, but I I haven't like highlighted in my Bible the back
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in Chapter 9 verse 12, it says by his own blood he entered in
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once in Chapter 9 verse 26, he says, but now once in the end of
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the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
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himself. Verse 28 says so Christ was once
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offered to bear the sins of many you read in the beginning.
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Verse 10 says through the offering of the body of Jesus
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Christ once for all. Verse 12 says 1 sacrifice for
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sins forever. Verse 14 says for by one
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offering he hath perfected forever them that are
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sanctified. So he is nailing that home
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right. I mean he's he's really pointing
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out that unlike something because it I guess I'll tie it
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in this way. We 11 said it could never take
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away sins. It's not like it's not true that
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as long as they did it the right amount of times throughout their
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life, it would work. It just wouldn't work.
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But what he did, he did one time and it did work, right.
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I mean, I just like I said, I know that's just another way I
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said what you already said. But but I do think he's driving
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that point home that they were doing something that regardless
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of the number of times they did it, it didn't accomplish
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anything. He he does something one time
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and it never has to be done again.
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You know, like that is the point of all those verses.
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So yeah, that, that's and then and then I guess to build even
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further that thought out verse 13 says there's no expectation
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of having to. Fight.
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Or I say fight 'cause I just mean he says waiting till his
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enemies are his foot. So there's nothing he's, he
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doesn't even have an expectation that he's going to have to go
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back and add to it, right? You know what I mean?
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Like it's one sacrifice for sins forever from henceforth.
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Like as as far as forever, he doesn't have to go back and
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touch it up as you all said. With the tools or add.
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To it. It's just done and he's waiting
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till it's all wrapped up. Just waiting till his enemies
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are made his footstool. Man.
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That's right, Melvin. Yeah, that, that's the thing
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that I was going to point out here is that in 13 there he
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says, I think this is very powerful.
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He says from henceforth expecting to his enemies be made
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his footstool. Jesus, like you said, he's
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sitting there at the right hand of the Father and he's not
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expecting to have to do it again, like die on the cross
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again or add or or take away or anything.
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It was it was perfect until his enemies made his footstool,
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starting with, you know, the thousand year reign.
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And then, you know, the revelation tells us that Jesus
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is going to rule for 1000 years actually here on this earth.
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And then it's says the revelations that God is going to
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lose Satan from the bottomless pit, and then he's going to
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gather all the nations. And then there's going to be the
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battle of Armageddon, one last revolt against God and against
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Jesus, against Jerusalem, and God going to, you know, bring
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fire down from heaven. And then and then the judgment
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is going to be, and so Jesus is, and then the great White throne
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judgment is going to happen. And then there's going to be the
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new heaven in New York. And then it's going to be we're
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going to be with him for eternity.
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And so Jesus is expecting right now at this moment while we're
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speaking and ever since he has completed what we just were
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talking about when he died on the calls 2000 some years ago.
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He's expecting that that's, that's it.
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He's he's just waiting until the father says, OK, now is the
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time. So.
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Andrew. Yeah, I feel like I spent a lot
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of time on that already with that little analogy and
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everything. But I would like to.
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I would just like to say to those that really, I think the
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reason most people struggle with this type of teaching, which
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sounds bad because almost sounds like we're teaching something
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different than what most people teach, but it's just the Bible.
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I mean, it's not bad, but it's gotten to this, to this, to
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where you teach the Bible. It's like, oh, they're teaching
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some weird thing. But where I think you lose
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people is they're looking at their experience and they're
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looking at their lives and they're saying, well, if that
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was true, if that way of taking it, if it was that literal, it
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was that. If that was the reality, if God
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actually did that, then I wouldn't, I wouldn't have got
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angry last night and my flesh wouldn't have rose up and I
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wouldn't have done all these things.
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So that can't be true. So I can't believe it.
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That must be a heresy, which is what everybody would say.
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And so you can't go with it. The only reason that we still
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sin and would none of us have an excuse to sin anymore because
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Jesus is giving us a full victory in himself by destroying
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our sinful body on the cross. The only reason we still spend
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is we either forget it, or we don't remember it, or we don't
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believe it, or and we don't walk in it or we're lacking.
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We're lacking on the spiritual wisdom, we're lacking spiritual
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understanding and we're lacking access based on the things that
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we do that block the spirit. And you know, you can, you can
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live a lifestyle that is friendly to the Holy Spirit and
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a lifestyle that makes you just kind of get cold and you just
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you block out like that's a walk.
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You can walk in a way that you grow in spiritual wisdom and
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understanding, and you can walk in a way that you just kind of
26:54
kind of die spiritually. And I'm bringing that out
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because he keeps telling us to grow and to ask for wisdom,
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spiritual wisdom, understanding for what?
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That we may know what we have in him.
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Why? So that we can walk in, so that
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we can walk in. Let's look at the Ephesians here
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starting verse chapter one, verse 15.
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Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus
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and love to all the Saints, cease not give thanks unto you,
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make a mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our
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Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the
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spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.
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The eyes of your understanding enlighten that you may know what
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is what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of
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the glory of his inheritance and the Saints.
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And it keeps going on and on. Good stuff wants to know wants
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us to know where where we're sitting.
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We're sitting in heavenly places with him and all our spiritual
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blessings are up there. He wants us to know all these
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things. And as you keep going through
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all the like the entire letter of the Ephesians, he's going to
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bring it to the way that you then walk.
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You walk in response to what you know about Jesus Christ.
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And that is why you need to know that there was only one
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sacrifice and you will walk accordingly.
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That's why you need to know that there's only one way that you're
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made perfect and it's through a one time sacrifice of Jesus
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Christ perfecting you forever. And that changes the way you
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walk. It changes the way you view God.
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It changes the way you view sin. It amplifies sin.
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It makes you realize that a measly confession and like the
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the sacrifice he's going back over and over was trying to get
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making an atonement. There's a reason that God was
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done with all that he's done with all our work and he said
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I'm going to go to their heart. I'm going to circumcise their
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heart and that is where every religious person does not want
29:08
to go. Every lost person does not want
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to go is for you to point through an evil heart.
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Put your finger on an evil, selfish, entitled heart that
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thinks to have it right and that full of pride.
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We don't want to. We want something.
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We want an excuse for our lifestyle.
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We want to justify our sinful lifestyle.
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Well, it's the old man. Well that made me do it.
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Well, it was the devil if you had.
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God wants us to be way above that by and the reason and which
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is why he wants us to know the hope that we have.
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He wants us to know the victory that we have.
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He wants us to know that it's that he brought us a complete
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victory and covered US 100%. We're completing him.
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He wants us to know that and it changes the way we walk.
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Yeah, totally hope to go back to that verse 13 expecting till his
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enemies be made his foot still the word expecting to be.
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And I just you guys correct me if I'm wrong here or off at left
30:17
field somewhere, but that has a the I mean, if you expect
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something you are you're looking for a result, right?
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So when I when I give directions to my crew on Monday morning and
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then I when that's all finished, I we've we've went through it.
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We made sure everyone understands their assignment.
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We made sure we know where the jobs are.
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We made sure everybody's on the right page.
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OK, Then I go back down and sit at my desk.
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They leave and I sit there expecting results, you know, is,
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is this is is that the right the right idea here?
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God set everything out. He through Jesus Christ gave us
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this sacrifice that is perfect and righteous and holy and he
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sits there expecting his this to yield result.
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In other words, saved people that actually are 100% righteous
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or whatever that whatever that result would be.
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Any feedback on that idea? Yeah, I would say the way I when
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I saw that it's another way of him saying the work is done.
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I'm sitting down waiting for it to play out and I already know
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I'm waiting for to destroy evil like Revelation, like I'm I'm
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waiting for the time frame now the work has been done and I'm
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going to receive the reward and I'm just here expecting like,
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you know. So, so the so the method has
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been set up. Now all we're waiting is for
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these millions that will eventually choose, be and be
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redeemed. And then it's going to come out,
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you know, you know how it's going to happen, Revelation.
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Like he's going to come out and all his enemies, you know, will
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be. He mentions the enemies.
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I hear I can. Oh, yeah.
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So that's just a matter of time, right?
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The victory has been won. He's triumphed over all, every
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principality and power, so it's just now they're expecting and
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waiting until it comes to fruition.
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Yeah, it's not like I'll say it in an example like this.
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He's any, I mean, there might be confident generals that was in a
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battle or was in a trying to defeat somebody else and they
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might have a plan that they feel like is inevitable to win, but
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they're not. They don't have the the ability
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to set back knowing that victory is sure because they don't know
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what the other side's going to do.
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Jesus knows that there is no, there's nothing he can do
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against this, right? I mean, he's not going to
32:56
overcome the devil is not going to overcome God.
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And it's not a let's see if this plan works.
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It is going to work and he's sat down with all confidence it's
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going to work. That's good.
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That's why that passage is significant right here, you see?
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, so good. Yeah, if you look at other
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places where that word is used it in the scriptures, it it uses
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the word waiteth or waiting. So.
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Yeah, I looked. That up real quick before I said
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what I said about expecting because I wanted to make sure
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that it that it has the idea of waiting for results and and
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that's actually kind of what it what it is.
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So yeah. I just thought it's not.
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Hoping it's not hoping, yeah. No, exactly.
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It's expecting and there's a difference there.
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The the parameters have been set.
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Now all we need is some time for people to accept this.
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Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
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OK, yeah, that's good stuff. All right, 14 four by one
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offering hath the perfected forever them that are
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sanctified. Now we just read that in verse
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10, didn't we? Listen the other way of saying
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the same thing. Is there anything you want to
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touch on that error? The rest?
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I mean, I, I feel like we've thrashed it out really well,
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but. Melvin or anything that any
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anything that you like to. Yeah.
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No, no, I I think it's something like that.
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It's just and I I appreciate an author that does that reiterates
34:20
that point to its to its burned in your mind because of this.
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This point is important whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness
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to us for after that he had said before this is the covenant that
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I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord I
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will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I
34:44
write them and their sins and iniquities will I remember no
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more. That's all one big long sentence
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there that that starts in verse 15.
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So here is this is a little bit something different that he
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hasn't touched on much yet, or not real recently anyway.
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The idea of having the Holy Ghost as a witness to us.
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But Aaron will have. Well, I hate to go against what
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you just said, but I feel I actually feel like it's just
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another way of saying or the thing that I focused on was
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another way of saying it the same thing we've said.
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I focus on the end of that. He makes the whole quote, but
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the end of that verse 17 says and their sins and iniquities
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will I remember no more, which would relate in my opinion to
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verse 14. One offering hath he perfected
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forever them their sanctified and we know from Romans 4 that
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that's the way imputed righteousness works is God says
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all right, this person has believed me.
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I am counting them righteous and their sins and their iniquities,
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whether it's the past ones or the future ones.
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I'm not going to remember like I it's it's like we were talking
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about a little bit beforehand this forget this idea of
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forgiveness. This is the case in which he
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says I am going to look at you in a different light.
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I'm not going to remember who you.
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Were. Because you are a new creature
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in Christ. So he this this is a never
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remembering their sins and their iniquities no more, which again,
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I guess you could relate that all the way back to when he said
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back in the beginning of this chapter the about making the
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sack the sins offerings there year by year.
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You know, there was a remembrance made.
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They were being reminded all the time that they needed this
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bloodshed on their behalf. Right there.
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He's painting the picture over and over again.
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Well, once he makes the one offering for sin forever, then
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God says you don't need to remember that anymore.
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I'm not going to remember it anymore like at this when this
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happens. In other words, let's go back to
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the beginning of it. This is the covenant that I will
37:02
make with him. In other words, when this new
37:04
covenant comes into place, then I can say, don't I won't
37:10
remember your sins anymore. Up to this point, he was
37:13
remembering then, like right? I mean, he there was a
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remembrance made again every year.
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That's what we read earlier in the other chapters.
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But now this new covenant makes it to where there's sins and
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their equities, I will remember no more.
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So like I said, I just, I mean I agree it is a different twist,
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but I I saw how it also relates back to what was just talking
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about as well. Yep, I agree with you
37:40
absolutely. Yeah, it seems like he's saying
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there. So he's just, he's saying that
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where are the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us for after that
37:52
he had said before then he says, you know, this is the covenant
37:55
that I will make with them. I put the laws in their hearts
37:57
and in their minds. So he said that back in the Old
38:03
Testament, right? And so he's saying now that the
38:07
Holy Ghost was given to us in after Christ died on the cross
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as a witness to what he was referring to back in the Old
38:20
Testament about putting the laws in their hearts and in their
38:24
minds. There's AI like while we in
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first Peter, I think is is a pretty good scripture.
38:35
It says searching what? First Peter 1/11/12 It says
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searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which
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was in them did signify when it testified beforehand the
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sufferings of Christ in the glory that should follow.
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So in other words, the Spirit of Christ actually revealed to many
38:56
of the Old Testament, you know like David and that prophesied
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in the Old Testament of what is going to happen.
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You know, like in Isaiah, for instance, like Isaiah 53, I
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think it is about the sufferings of Christ that was revealed to
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Isaiah. And then he says in verse 12
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unto him it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us
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they do minister of things which are now reported unto you by
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then that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy
39:28
Ghost sent out from heaven, which things the angels desire
39:32
to look into. And so it's just he's showing us
39:36
that, hey, the Holy Ghost is a witness of this, this Christ
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coming and, and dying once and we are sanctified.
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And all this is, is, is witnessed by the Holy Ghost.
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And it's so, yeah, that's what I see.
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Yeah, yeah, enter. Yeah, I just, I guess I was also
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thinking about the fact that he's going to send the comforter
40:03
afterwards. Which I think is also a witness.
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I think I believe it's I heard you guys can correct me if I'm
40:12
wrong, but I think Romans 816 feels with this says that the
40:16
spirit itself, friends witness our spirit that we are the
40:20
children of God, God. I think God didn't just leave us
40:26
even with just a promise to believe.
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He also gives us a spirit that witnesses to these truths like
40:34
when you that's why I think, remember how God says that the
40:39
carnal man can't understand the spiritual things.
40:43
So it says exactly spirit shows like the spirit, you have to be
40:48
spiritual mind to be able to see spirit.
40:50
And also I think there's a verse verses where it says you can't
40:53
know anything except by the spirit.
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So it's it's, I think it's very cool that he puts slights that
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right in there. If you're, if you're having a
41:08
hard time with this, if you have the spirit and if you get
41:12
spiritual minded, it'll really connect like you'll this'll,
41:15
this'll really witness. And what happens is when all of
41:19
a sudden, let's say someone is reading this and they're not
41:22
saved. And there's just that they're
41:23
really struggling with these words.
41:26
Like what is he saying? This doesn't make any sense at
41:28
all. And then he reads this and goes
41:30
the spirit with the Holy Ghost witnesses when he goes like,
41:33
well, I need the Holy Ghost comes to God against the Holy
41:37
Ghost. He gets saved and all of a
41:38
sudden this is just clearance day and he's charged
41:42
worshipping. And, you know, I think the Bible
41:45
would come to life when we have that witness spirit.
41:48
Yeah, for sure. All right, 18 now where
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remission of these is there is no more offering for sin.
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I think we heard that those words prior to any comments on
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it or? Well, I mean, the only thing I
42:11
would say is I guess the people listen wasn't in the
42:17
conversation we had prior to this, but you know, we were
42:21
talking before we got on here a little bit about forgiven
42:26
trespasses or things against other people.
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And I think this word remission is, is deeper than that.
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Like it's, it would relate to no word.
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I, I would say you can define the word remission with verse 17
42:43
by saying sins and iniquities that are not remembered anymore,
42:47
right. In other words, where something
42:49
is paid. For because because.
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I remember seeing that and finding great comfort in that.
42:57
It's not like it is. We don't.
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We do not have the kind of relationship with God that we
43:04
often we shouldn't have, but we have often with our spouses.
43:08
Or with our. Kids, we say, I forgive you for
43:12
that, but we actually, if we need it, we'll pull it back out
43:17
and use it against them, right? In other words, we'll claim to
43:21
have forgiven such and such thing.
43:23
But if we, if we can, if we need, if we need to, to to make
43:30
them feel bad, we'll pull that thing back out and say, well,
43:35
don't you remember when you did this before or whatever?
43:38
And God says, Oh, no, where there's remission these I don't
43:42
remember him anymore, right? Like I'm not going to pull this
43:46
back out of the hat and say, Oh, well, well, here it is again,
43:50
right? I mean, it's, it's gone.
43:52
And so I that was one thing I thought about there on that
43:56
verse, but I guess I feel like that's what I thought about.
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But I also think he's just making the point again there in
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the end of the verse that like we already said, it's not like
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Jesus is expecting to have to do something further in the future.
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It's just there's no more offering for sin.
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And you could say on his behalf, he's not worried about it.
44:21
And you could say on your behalf, you need to forget about
44:23
it because there's nothing you can bring to the table that is
44:27
going to make God more pleased or more willing to forget your
44:32
sins than what his sons already did, right?
44:34
I mean, it's not like you're going to do something.
44:36
He's going to be like, well, you know, I was thinking about
44:38
bringing it back up, but now that you did that, I won't,
44:42
right? It's just there is no more
44:44
offering for sin. There's nothing else to do
44:47
that's going to make him forget more than what he already has.
44:49
That's right, Melvin. Yeah, it seems like he's kind of
44:57
sealing that verse 17 with verse 18.
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You know it says and and their sins and iniquities will I
45:04
remember no more now where remission or a lot of times the
45:10
word forgiveness is used instead of remission where other places
45:14
where this word is used in the scriptures forgiveness.
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There is no more offering for sin and so he's kind of
45:23
explaining verse 17. But I think the thing that that
45:27
comes to my mind is, you know, a lot of times we look at, we
45:35
don't think about how God doesn't remember our sins
45:38
anymore. Like we, we somehow think that
45:42
by remembering our sins or remembering our past, it makes
45:47
us more holy somehow or more righteous.
45:51
I don't know, just and dude, God has forgiven and he will not
45:57
remember anymore. Like he's never going to think
46:01
about. So just today I was thinking
46:03
about it. You know how God when we pray,
46:06
imagine, you know, like, OK, kind of what brought me to this
46:10
thinking is, you know, Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
46:13
Here's his stadium pack for whatever 70 some thousand
46:17
people, right? And when you look at, at that,
46:20
it's like, wow, that is a lot of people.
46:22
And that is just a small percentage of the, the body of
46:27
Christ that is actually in the world, right.
46:30
And so think about when we pray, you know, God hears us when we
46:34
pray, right? He hears us.
46:36
He, he doesn't always answer a prayer, but he hears us when we
46:40
pray. And so if it if if God that can
46:45
hear all of us praying when we pray to him, come to him when we
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bless him, when we worship him, not just coming for a request,
46:55
but but coming in thankfulness and whatever it may be that that
47:01
same God doesn't remember your sins anymore.
47:04
Like, you know, if we could just grasp that and believe that and
47:10
walk in that. I think so many people are
47:14
living their Christian life according to their experiences
47:20
that they're having in their life, like with sin and and with
47:24
God, and they're not actually living according to what the
47:27
Scripture says. Yeah, right, Andrew.
47:32
Yeah, it's just what I was going to say is where it's hard makes
47:37
it really hard to believe this and it's hard to know what to do
47:43
with it. When you have the concept
47:45
believe in the concept that you're responsible for your sins
47:50
in in the fact that you have to deal with fun.
47:53
If you don't deal with them, then they're not forgiven.
47:57
And if you have about view, then if you thin again until you stop
48:02
sin completely, you're going to your conscience is going to be
48:06
bothered like you. You don't you don't believe the
48:09
fact that your conscience, it's hard for us when we sin again to
48:15
not have any conscience of sin. And he's saying this type of
48:19
sacrifice is supposed to fix that this help us that like you,
48:25
you shouldn't have any milk conscious.
48:27
And it's hard for us to accept that kind of love.
48:31
Yeah, it's hard for us to embrace that kind of love where
48:36
he put us in a place. Let's like think of it this way.
48:42
Let's say we were a broken window that is stained with sin.
48:47
Aren't aren't any light comes into the house anymore.
48:50
That window is really bad. It needs to be changed, but most
48:56
Christians and most people religious people would say God
49:00
needs to come and clean that window.
49:02
God needs to put new, new paints or whatever you call that in the
49:08
in the window. He can he can fix that window
49:10
right up, but God doesn't do that.
49:14
He comes and takes that window and gives you a new window that
49:19
has blood in It's stained with blood and the sin stains are
49:24
washed away. There are no sin stains and he
49:28
replaces our dark sinful window window that is cure in white
49:38
covered either this blood and there's nothing you're not going
49:44
to look at that window and look at your past window and try to
49:47
reconcile them, which is what religion is trying to do.
49:51
You just believe of embrace of worship.
49:55
The fact that you're in a new window.
49:58
How do we know that's true. You can't die with Christ and
50:01
not this this not be true. It couldn't be any other way.
50:05
There is no continuing dying is it's it's done like you're it's
50:11
a one time deal. It's not a process.
50:13
So he had to just make a change. The old for the new.
50:21
That's the only way it's going to work.
50:23
It's the old or the new. So now that window is no longer
50:27
ours because we're no longer our own.
50:31
We're bought with a price and it's no longer our
50:34
righteousness. It's not our glory hanging there
50:37
in that wall. We don't see us there, but we
50:41
see a perfect, beautiful window there that Jesus Christ made and
50:45
purchased and put there on his own while we were just hanging
50:50
there. A black window, right?
50:54
Yeah, I just looked up the Greek word and I'm not a big fan of
50:59
always one of the Greek, but this is interesting for the word
51:01
remission. That Greek word is used 17 times
51:05
in the King James Version and it is 9 times remission.
51:10
It is 6 times forgiveness, one time deliverance and one time
51:16
liberty. That kind of rounds out that I'm
51:19
I like that picture. When we think about remission,
51:23
there is no, you know, liberty that's set free, so paid back in
51:29
full like. Taxes on.
51:33
Yeah, and I just wanted to say, Cameron, you quoted there,
51:37
imagine if the Bible wasn't a spiritual big.
51:39
This goes back to the previous discussion that we had there.
51:43
It wouldn't be capable to minister to our spirit.
51:45
And I appreciate that. I think that's right on.
51:47
You know, that is where the Holy Spirit being involved makes the
51:53
difference from it being a book with paper and a book that is
51:58
written by God that we can relate to and it relates to us.
52:01
So yeah, that's a really good point.
52:03
Thanks for that. Appreciate that.
52:07
OK, we're going to attempt the next 4 verses and we'll finish
52:12
with this. We'll have to hurry a little
52:13
bit, I think. Therefore, brother, is that
52:16
possible, And therefore, brethren, boldest to enter into
52:20
the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way
52:24
which He had cut, created for us through the veil, that is to
52:27
say, His flesh. And having a high priest over
52:30
the House of God, let us draw deer with a true heart in full
52:36
assurance of faith. Having our hearts sprinkled from
52:40
an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
52:45
Ping doll full a lot, a lot of little small points there that
52:48
could be drawn out. But as you can see, it does want
52:52
us to draw deer with a true heart of faith air.
52:57
I'm actually only going to address verse 19 and I'll try to
53:03
keep it short, but if you have understood, if you have realized
53:10
the point that he's driving home that there is there was only one
53:16
sacrifice and it and it didn't happen until Christ did it
53:21
himself. Everything else didn't work.
53:24
And once that happened, it will not happen again.
53:29
I think that's the point of verse 19.
53:31
If you actually grab hold of that, then you can come boldly
53:37
to God because I mean, I guess there is people, I mean, there's
53:42
the story about the Pharisee and the public and going up in the
53:45
temple to pray. And that guy's, he is kind of
53:48
coming boldly to God. But it's, it's a very
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self-righteous boldness, right? I mean, I here's what I do,
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here's what I don't do, but I would, I would think that you
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couldn't in all sincerity come boldly in that self-righteous
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manner. But if you realize this truth,
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you can come knowing that if it was, if it was the one thing
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that happened that doesn't have to happen again, I can be
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confident that God is going to forgive me based on this thing,
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right? I mean, that's what I that's
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that's what I see in that verse. Having therefore, like, if you
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get what we just said, having therefore bold, brethren,
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boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
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In other words, if you realize that God has accepted this and
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that it is done, then I can come and I, I can, I can approach God
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knowing that he has been satisfied with that one
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offering, right? That's the only way to have real
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boldness. I mean, like I said, I that was
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the example. I thought it was that pub that
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Pharisee that goes up in the temple to pray.
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He seems bold, but I bet if you really nailed him down, he, he
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knew better than that. You know, like he's, he just,
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he's really just saying, look at the other guy God, right?
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You know what I mean? Like just compare me with him,
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right? But this way you can come boldly
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to God and approach him knowing that what you're approaching him
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with has been accepted. But.
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That's right. That's good stuff.
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That would. Yeah, I like when he says there
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what stood out to me is by new and living way.
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So this whole thing is a new and living way which he hath Christ
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consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say his flesh.
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So I don't know, it just stood out to me that the idea that
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Christ through him sacrificing his own flesh, his own body on
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the cross through the what we were saying, the temporary veil
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in the temple was rent, you know, when he died on the cross.
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And because of that, and that is a new and living way.
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That's what he's trying to get across here is that, you know,
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this whole thing is a new thought and a new, new way.
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And it's not the old anymore. It's now the new.
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And so many times, like even us, like now we're looking here.
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He's talking to the Jews. I think most mostly right.
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But even us living after Christ died on the cough, right?
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And we have the scriptures and everything we have is in full.
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The mystery the Bible says has been revealed to us by the
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mystery of Christ. And even us tend to want to
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somehow go back to the old way like, but he's saying, no, it's
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a new way. And and so you don't you're not
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supposed to go out back to the old.
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Like in other words, if I'm going to buy a new car, this
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might be a stupid analogy, I don't know.
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But in my mind, and I'm going to buy a new car and I get rid of
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my old car. I'm not going to go back to the
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guy I sold my old car to and say, hey, look, I want my old
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car back. You know, I'm not going to do
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that. I got a new car, a new truck,
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and I'm going to drive that new truck.
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I'm not going to go back to my old one.
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And so that's what he's saying here.
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And I first think it's interesting that through Christ
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we have now boldness to come to the throne.
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And we talked about this earlier, but this very
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significant. I think it's just if we can come
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to God in that way, we could have a lot of power in our
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lives, I think. Right.
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You know, Amen. Andrew.
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Yeah, he's just saying in like Aaron was saying, the response,
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the response of understanding what he he just said here should
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give you boldness. Like you heard whatever he was
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saying you should have boldness and you would draw near with a
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true heart without having a conscience.
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That's saying man, I don't know about meeting this guy.
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You know if you understood what he was saying that he has
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perfected forever, then that are sanctified.
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If there's one offering once for all forever.
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You can for all near to God with a true heart full assurance of
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faith. Having our hearts sprinkled from
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an evil conscience. You read the verses about our
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conscience earlier. You would you'd be able we can
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do that and it's hard. I mean, I'm doing this.
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I'm speaking on this and I you know, I cringe at the idea of
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meeting God with a you know, full shrines of faith like, you
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know, it's that's how I guess Conall we are, but that's that's
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how it should be. If we understood the previous
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verses and draw full shrines, faith, having a heart sprinkle
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of an evil conscience and our bodies washed with that pure
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water should come as running to God like our little kid does
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when we come home. He's mentioned this earlier when
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chapter 2 verse 15 and his goal was to to deliver them who
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through fear of death or all their lifetime subject to
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bondage should be gone. Yeah, that's good.
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And we'll probably touch on these verses again.
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I do. That was going to happen.
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We kind of rushed through it. But anyway, we'll maybe revisit
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them just a little bit. I did want to play one thing out
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there in verse 22. It says from an evil conscience.
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That's that same conscience that he was earlier talking about
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having no more conscience of sins that actually evil.
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You know, that's the same thing. It it's actually, you know,
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which I mean evil. We think of evil as, you know,
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Satan or whatever, but it just beats bad.
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Like they he called that fruit bad evil.
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He called it evil anyway. So yeah.
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I think we can with we can proclaim that He wants us to
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live in this new and living way which He has consecrated for us.
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Very. So anyway, it's 8:00.
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We are going to call it quits, I guess right in the middle of it.
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You'll just have to come back to listen to the right next thing.
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All right. So anyway, as we conclude
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today's study, remember Hebrews 11/1.
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Faith is a substance of things hoped for.
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And it is. Faith is the evidence of things
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that we can't see. And I pray that your faith would
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reveal biblical truths clearly, more clearly than your physical
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eyes can perceive the things before you.
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Join us next Monday as we do the same thing, same time, same
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place as we look at the word of God through the substance of
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faith. God bless you and thank you for
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your time. Appreciate you.