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Hebrews chapter 12 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Hebrews chapter 12. Let us pray.
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  Oh Lord, we love you. We love you so much.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will be here in
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  our midst. Show up and show off and show
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  out. God, reveal to us eternal
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  truths. God, we lift your name up higher
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  than every other name. God, it is your name that is on
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  our lips when we wake up, when we go to bed.
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  God, we are enamored with your beauty.
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  We are enamored with who you are.
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  God, we love you. We love everything about you.
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  Teach us your eternal paths. Take us to new heights and let
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  us experience new depths of your love and your mercy.
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  Your grace fill us. Holy Spirit, Jesus, come, Lord,
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  come and it's in your holy precious name, I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Wherefore, seeing we also are
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  compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay
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  aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us,
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  and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
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  You know, it's easy to start a race, but it sure is hard to
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  finish it. And you see it in so many men
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  and women's lives and ministries.
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  You see it in so many families. They started out well, but
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  somewhere along the way they got entangled with all of life's
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  cares and they made it about the wrong things.
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  They started trusting in self and trusting in money.
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  They started trusting in government, started trusting in
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  the arms that they were amassing in the food storage.
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  They started a trusting in the military.
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  They started trusting and all the wrong things and they were
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  easily entangled and that is attack of the enemy.
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  Friends is he wants you to get your eyes off of God and put
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  your eyes on self in the world. And anytime that we take our
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  eyes off of God we sink friends. It is a weight that causes us to
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  sink like the apostle Peter, whenever he took his eyes off of
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  all off of our Lord, he started to sink.
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  And that is what you need to understand.
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  That is what you need to ingrain in your psyche, friends, is
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  every time you start to get dismayed, every time you start
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  to get down, put your eyes upon Christ and He'll carry you
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  across the water. This cloud of witnesses, friends
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  cheering us on, clapping and applauding us.
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  Whenever we put our eyes upon Christ, they are cheering for
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  us. They're rooting for us, friends,
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  to make it there with them, to looking unto Jesus, the author
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  and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
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  him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set
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  down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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  His work is finished, friends. He finished the race well.
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  He did not let the shame and the pain and the mocking and the
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  jeering, the pulling out of his beard and the scourging and the
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  excruciating pain of the cross and the embarrassment of being
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  stripped and hung on the cross, keep him from finishing the work
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  that God had for him to do. And that is a call for you, and
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  that is a call for me to not allow the fear to take over.
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  We must remain courageous in the face of all persecution,
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  friends. And if we will look to Jesus, He
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  will author and He will finish our lives in faith.
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  Don't take your eyes off of Him, friends. 3-4 Consider Him that
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  endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
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  you be wearied and faint in your minds.
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  Consider Jesus when you're ready to give up, when you're ready to
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  throw in the towel, when it's all too hard and it's all too
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  much and you feel like you're hard pressed.
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  Just remember that He's producing diamonds, friends.
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  Just remember he's producing pearls from all of the
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  irritation that you and I have to go through.
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  Just remember, friends, that He's not done.
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  If you've got life, if you've got breath, then He's still
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  sanctifying you and getting you ready for all of eternity.
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  Do not faint, Do not be weary. Considered Jesus Christ, He's
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  suffered so much so that we can have eternal life, for you have
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  not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin.
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  He's saying that anything that we go through pales in
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  comparison to what Christ Almighty went through for us as
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  the Father turned away from Him and as the entire sin of the
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  entire world was placed upon Him and Him who knew no sin became
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  sin. So that we can become the
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  righteousness of God and we can be holy because He is holy.
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  Five. And you have forgotten the
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  exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, my son,
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  despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you
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  are rebuked of Him. As what you need to understand
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  is that a loving father disciplines his children.
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  We do not need to think when God is disciplining us that it is
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  because He hates us. You need to know that if you are
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  not being disciplined by God, it shows that you're not truly His.
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  God disciplines us and He gets us ready for all of eternity,
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  and He only has about 100 years time to do so. 6 For whom the
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  Lord loves. He chastens and scourges every
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  Son whom He receives. This should bring us much
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  pleasure. In the midst of trials and
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  tribulations and persecutions is knowing that God is sanctifying
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  us. He's pulling out the dross and
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  the impurities. And if your life doesn't look
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  anything different than the rest of the world, then something is
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  awry and something is amiss. And you must check yourself
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  before you wreck yourself, friends.
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  Seven, if you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons.
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  For what son is he whom the Father chastens?
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  Not so. There's a big If there, your
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  life should look different than the world's, and if it does not,
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  it is a red flag. 8 But if you be without chastisement whereof
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  all are partakers, then you are bastards and not sons.
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  It's a good way. It's an indicator, friends, if
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  you actually belong to God or not.
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  If everything is easy pie in the sky spiritual platitudes, If
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  it's all about the numerical value in moving a decimal church
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  attendance, friends, then you've missed the mark.
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  If it's all about prosperity to you, then you have no place with
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  God Almighty. 9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh,
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  which corrected us, and we gave them reverence.
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  Shall we not much more rather be in subjection unto the Father of
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  spirits and live? He says, Look to him and Live
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  Today. Friends, if we obeyed our
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  earthly fathers, how much more shall we obey God?
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  And our earthly fathers were flawed, and they were not very
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  good representations of a loving, holy God Almighty who is
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  perfect in all of his ways. But they were there as an
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  example of what it looks like to not look.
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  Live in rebellion, friends, and do not rebel against a holy and
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  loving God. And you don't have to understand
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  all of His ways. We just get out of our own
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  understanding, and we bow in reverence and subjection to
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  God's infinite, beautiful, lovely plans. 10 For they truly
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  for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure, but He
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  for our profit, that we might be partakers of His Holiness.
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  So our earthly fathers only had us as little children for a
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  short time, but God Almighty deals with us for 100 years or
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  so. And in that 100 years or so,
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  He's teaching us lesson upon lesson upon lesson upon lesson
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  as He pulls out all of the things that don't belong so that
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  we can become more and more and more and more like Jesus Christ
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  every day. And if you woke up today, He's
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  not done with you. And His mercies are new every
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  day, friends, and He's still working on you.
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  And whenever your sanctification is complete, it will be time for
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  you to go home. 11 Now no chastising, for the present
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  seems to be joyous, but grievous nevertheless.
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  Afterwards it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
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  unto them, which are exercised thereby.
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  So you can see here that God is after fruit, friends, and we
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  cannot despise the root. You don't get the fruit without
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  cultivating the root, friends. And it takes the pruning and the
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  cutting off of the things that don't belong, And it never feels
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  good in the moment. But give it time, and in due
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  season it'll produce the fruit that God is after. 12 Wherefore
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  lift up your head, hands which hang down, and the feeble knees.
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  He said don't be downcast when you're corrected.
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  Just remember that correction is not rejection and He's calling
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  for maturation. Friends, we are not animals, we
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  are not effeminate, we are not little boys, We are called to be
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  great and mighty men of God, Friends, and take the whole word
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  to the whole world. 13 and make straight paths for your feet,
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  lest that which is lane be turned out of the way.
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  But let it rather be healed. God puts the balm of Gilead upon
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  that oozing, pussing, infectious, sore wound friends,
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  and He heals it, and he straightens those crooked legs
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  up, and he lights up the path for your feet, so you don't trip
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  and you don't fall down and become apostate and fall away.
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  14 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man
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  shall seek the Lord. You need to understand that we
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  have to love the Lord God with all of your heart, with all of
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  your mind, with all of your strength, and love your neighbor
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  as yourself, and then do by and by doing so, you have fulfilled
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  all the law, friends, and you will see the face of God.
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  That is what is referenced here. Try to live peaceably as best as
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  you can amongst your neighbors and love God with everything
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  you've got. Give him your all 110% towards
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  God. Nothing.
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  Held back, all naked and bare before his eyes. 15 Looking
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  diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any root
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  of bitterness springing up, trouble you, and thereby many be
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  defiled. That's what it looks like for a
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  Christian to become embittered. It's completely opposite.
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  Bitterness and following after God should not ever be in the
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  same body, and He's saying here that we have to cut out this
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  root of bitterness before it ever matures into a tree that
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  actually is destructive to many people.
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  There are many ministries that were built upon this bitterness
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  and it actually caused many to fall away because they didn't
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  see any difference inside the church that they did out in the
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  world. All they saw was hypocrisy and
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  duplicity and all they saw was backbiting and murmuring and all
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  they saw were lives that were actually unchanged.
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  And it did the word of God and it did the House of God much
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  damage. Friends 16 lest there be any
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  fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of meat
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  sold his birthright. That's what it looks like,
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  friends whenever we squander our inheritance for a mess of
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  pottage. That's what it looks like,
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  Friends when we've come all the way to the door but we refuse to
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  go in. That's what it looks like
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  whenever we wear the badge of Christ.
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  But we are dirty and disgusting and deplorable in our private
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  lives, and we will be found out, and everything done in the dark
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  will be talked about in the light.
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  And that is God's business, and He will reveal all of the
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  wickedness. And we need to confess and
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  repent today. We need to go and receive
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  forgiveness today. And we need to forgive ourselves
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  today. And we need to stay away from
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  those places. Do not even go near the door,
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  friends. 17 for you know how that afterward, when he would
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  have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no
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  place of repentance, though he sought for it carefully with
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  tears. When the five foolish virgins
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  come to the door and they bam on it and they bang on it and they
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  knock on it and they plead and cry to come in, the door is
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  already shut to the bride chamber.
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  Friends, the wise virgins have already gone in with the groom.
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  When we stand before Jesus Christ and we say we've
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  prophesied in your name, we've cast out demons in your name,
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  we've performed miracles in your name.
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  And he says, depart from me, for I never knew you.
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  There's no amount of tears that will ever make him know you like
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  you can be known today. Don't wait until it's too late.
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  18 For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and
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  that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
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  Tempest. 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words.
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  Which voice they that heard and treated that the word should not
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  be spoken to them anymore. So here we can see Mount Sinai,
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  and we can see it right next to Mount Zion, and we can see what
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  our inheritance is. And we can see how the
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  Israelites were so afraid and Moses was so afraid.
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  But we have a better inheritance, friends, And you
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  can see mercy all throughout the Old Testament and you can see
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  much judgment all throughout the New Testament, Friends.
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  It is not that God all of a sudden flipped the script and
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  turned things around. It's Jesus from Genesis.
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  It's Jesus all the way through to Malachi and is Jesus from
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  Matthew to Revelation, Friends. It is Jesus Christ the same
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  yesterday, today, and forever, friends.
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  And you can see here that God desired during this Mount Zion.
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  You could see that it was during this time, friends, that God
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  Almighty was showing us a better way.
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  And the Israelites all the way back here, they were so afraid
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  of God's voice and they told Moses, just tell us what to do
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  and we'll do it. And not long after that, they
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  got up and played and had disgusting, deplorable idol
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  worship after they had already experienced all of the blackness
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  of the gloom when they've already experienced the voice of
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  God thundering and trumpets blasted, and they did not let
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  their revelation of God's power and might actually produce.
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  The things that God wanted in their lives.
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  And we can see here the writer of Hebrews is beckoning us back
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  to this moment, and he's saying that you have a much better
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  inheritance than the Mount Sinai, which is the law.
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  But we are called to Mount Zion, which is the good news of the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. 20 For they could not endure that which was
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  commanded. And if so much as a beast
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  touched the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with
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  the dart. 21 And so terrible was the sight that Moses said, I
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  exceedingly fear and quake, so we could see the earth shaking.
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  We could see it here as Moses received the law. 22 But you are
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  come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the
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  heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.
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  So we can see here that we're headed towards New Jerusalem.
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  Friends, we can see here that we have the good news.
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  We're looking back as Moses and all the Israelites of old and
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  the prophets of old look forward to Jesus.
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  We look back and we can see it in the full scope.
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  How much more responsible are we?
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  And God is going to ask you, what did you do with his Son?
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  23 To the General Assembly and Church of the first born, which
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  are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the
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  spirits of just men, made perfect.
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  That's you and me, Saint. We're being made perfect because
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  of what Jesus Christ did. Nothing that we do, but
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  everything that he did. And he is the first born.
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  He is all man and all God, and he ascended to the right hand of
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  the Father and took humanity into God's presence. 24 And to
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  Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
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  sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
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  So here we see Abel's blood crying out for vengeance, and we
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  see now Christ's blood cries out and says it is finished, that
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  everything is under the blood of Jesus Christ. 25 See that you
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  refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not, who
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  refused Him that spoke on earth much more Shall we not escape if
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  we turn away from Him that speaks from heaven?
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  This apostasy, friends, there is no more redemption, there is no
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  more forgiveness outside of Jesus Christ.
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  He is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes unto
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  the Father except through Him. And if we turn our backs on
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  Jesus, there is no more saving for you. 26 Whose voice then
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  shook the earth. But now he has promised, saying
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  yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
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  When Jesus Christ died on the cross, there was an earthquake,
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  friends, and it shook the earth. But what God is saying, He's
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  going to shake not only heaven, but he's going to shake earth.
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  Again, friends, And anything that can be shaken will be
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  removed, and only those things that are built upon the solid
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  rock, the chief cornerstone, Jesus Christ, will remain. 27
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  And this word yet once more signifies the removing of those
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  things that are shaken as of things that are made, that those
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  things which cannot be shaken may remain.
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  This is not semantics, friends. Lock in.
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  He's saying that his Word will never returned.
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  Boyd. He's saying that heaven and
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  earth shall pass away, but not one of his words will ever pass
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  away. And he is the Word.
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  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among men. 28 Wherefore we
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  receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace
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  whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and
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  godly fear. Work out your salvation with
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  fear and trembling, and make sure that you have grace on the
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  ignorant and on those who do not know yet.
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  And don't be afraid to share with every single man, woman and
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  child that you come in contact with today about Jesus Christ.
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  Do not fear if they will accept it or reject it, just shower
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  them with God's grace. We'll end on 29 for our God is a
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  consuming fire. No one has even looked at God
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  and lived. He's brighter than all the Suns
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  that we even know about. In all of the universe all put
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  together. You cannot even stare at the
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  known sun that we have in our sky, much less try to stare at
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  God. He is an all consuming fire.
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  To even look upon Him, you would be vaporized.
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  The only way we can see God is if we look to Jesus Christ.
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  And if you've seen Jesus, then you've seen God.
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  What an amazing thought. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this incredible chapter here in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you, so does God.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.