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Christ the True and Better - Hebrews 2:10-18 - The Better Adam pt.2 · Mount Eaton Church

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  Please open your Bible to chapter 2.
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  We're actually going to finish this chapter today.
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  Hebrews chapter 2.
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  We're going to go through 10 through 18 today.
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  And I want to clarify some things in this message,
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  and the importance of paying attention to the context of what's being said here.
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  Because there are some things that are said in translation, I think, can have a tendency,
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  and in many cases has had a tendency to draw us away from what God is trying to say here.
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  This is part 2 of Christ the Better Adam. You'll see that in this message.
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  And just the importance of allowing the scripture to interpret scripture, context upon context, precept upon precept,
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  the importance of biblical hermeneutics, right?
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  The interpretation of the word.
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  So there are many things, especially in these days, where interpretation is taken way out of context.
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  And as a result, really does do harm to the church.
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  So that being said, I want to deal with one particular issue.
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  I think if you guys have been on YouTube at all, or any of the news, Fox News or anything else,
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  you've heard about this new quote unquote law that has been passed called 60-90.
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  Okay, the 60-90 law is this law that's been passed concerning anti-Semitic statements.
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  And that because of this law, it puts Christianity in a very bad situation,
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  because what they're claiming is that in the scripture it says that the Jews had killed Jesus,
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  and you're accusing them to be murderers, and as a result, it's anti-Semitic.
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  So let me clarify some very important things.
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  As long as the First Amendment of the Constitution exists, there's nothing they can do.
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  So don't worry.
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  It's a fear-mongering thing, so that we can keep the alt-right and the alt-left at odds with each other.
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  And it really deviates people's attention from the reality and the importance of the gospel
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  and the purpose of what we do as a church.
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  So even if they were to use that to jail us or call us anti-Semitic,
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  we as God's people will not succumb to the tyranny of evil government.
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  We will preach the gospel in its full entirety, and we will commit to the sound truth of the word of God,
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  because they can't take the word from us or out of us.
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  So just stand firm, be confident in the word.
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  If persecution comes, great, because then we're going to grow.
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  The church is going to blow out the seams.
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  So you want real true revival, real true growth? Persecution.
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  So just understand that. Don't lose your bearing.
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  Don't let that push, especially among some of the Christian nationalists from that perspective,
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  really take you from what you've been called to do, and that is to the sound preaching and teaching of the gospel.
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  So just hold to it. Don't worry about it. Not a big deal.
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  Let them bring it. That being said, we're going to start off in chapter,
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  we're going to read chapter two, verse five through nine, go right into verse 10,
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  and then we're going to kick off our message from there.
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  Father, I want to thank you so much for your word. Thank you that your word is faithful and true,
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  and that it will accomplish exactly what you have set it out to do.
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  What I pray is you show us and teach us your word, that the full counsel of your word is spoken,
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  that we would understand the importance of the true and better Adam,
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  that you are not only the founder of our salvation, of our faith, you are the author of our salvation,
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  the redeemer of our salvation and the finisher.
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  Lord, you will complete what you have started and we give you praise.
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  Lord, help us to see clearly what chapter two says for your honor and glory.
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  We ask these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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  Verse five, for it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
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  It has been testified somewhere, what is man, that you are mindful of him, the son of man, that you care for him.
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  You made him a little lower than the angels and you crowned him with glory and honor,
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  putting everything in subjection under his feet.
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  Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.
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  At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him,
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  but we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus,
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  crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death,
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  so that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.
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  Now it's important, let's keep going.
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  For it is fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist in bringing many sons to glory,
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  should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
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  So in order for us to really understand verse 10, we need to understand the whole context of what's being said here,
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  because this starts to pull some things out that we need to be paying attention to.
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  Principle number one, Christ's suffering completed and fulfilled the great salvation to bring many sons to glory.
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  Christ's sufferings completed and fulfilled the great salvation to bring many sons to glory.
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  Here is the supporting scripture, the context here.
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  Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
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  let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely,
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  and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
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  looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,
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  and for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
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  despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God, Hebrews 12, 1 and 2.
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  So there it is, the supporting truth of the reality that he is the beginning and the perfecter,
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  the finishing, the ending of our faith. He is our faith.
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  Now, some very important words in chapter two, verse 10, for it was fitting.
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  Prepo is the word here. So this word prepo literally means to stand out, to be imminent.
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  It is fit or right. That's what this word prepo means.
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  So this word fitting in translation is actually a good word.
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  So it is fit or right. It is fit or right for him to stand out, for him to be imminent.
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  It is fit or right that he is the founder, that he is the perfecter,
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  that he is the one who is accomplishing this great salvation in us,
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  and that everything that is associated with this amazing salvation, this great salvation,
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  it is fitting for him. Why? Why is it fitting? Why should he stand out?
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  Why should he be imminent? Why should it be right?
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  Because that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, he is the reason why you exist.
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  He is the creator. So it is fitting for him to have accomplished all of this. Why?
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  Because he created it. All things exist because of him.
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  And as a result of the creator who put on flesh and became like one of us,
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  he then can bring many sons to glory. Isn't that amazing?
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  Notice he doesn't say all sons, all of human life to glory. Only many. Only many.
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  Now, why many? Why just this few?
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  Because he, bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder, the beginning,
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  the author, the completer, the finisher of our faith, of their salvation perfect.
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  This word perfect is telieo.
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  Telieo means to bring to an end, complete, finish, or fulfill.
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  What did he bring? What did the founder of our faith, the author of our faith do?
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  He, through telieo, brought an end or completed, finished, or fulfilled
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  what was required for our salvation through suffering.
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  So I don't know if I like this word perfect because it makes a lot more sense that he,
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  who brought many sons to glory, should make the founder, the beginner of our salvation,
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  the author of our salvation, he should bring an end and fulfill what's required
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  for salvation through suffering. That's what this means.
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  But that Christ, through the work, fulfilled it through suffering. That's what this means.
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  When you read that, you're like, well, I don't see that there, but that's exactly what it means.
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  The word study is clear.
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  A lot of word study in this message.
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  Christ, second principle, Christ has satisfied, justified, and made us acceptable to and for him.
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  It is, if Christ is not ashamed of you, why should you be ashamed of him?
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  Especially for all he has done for you.
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  I can't help but think there are many Christians when it comes to the knit and grit
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  of being a faithful example and a witness are really ashamed.
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  They're just hesitant, don't want to talk about it.
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  So they avoid talking about it.
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  Why? Maybe don't know enough for, but the reality is if the Spirit of God lives in you,
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  then you will know what to say.
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  Hebrews 2, 11 through 13, clarify some very important things here.
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  For he, Christ, who sanctifies, he's the sanctifier, and those who are sanctified,
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  meaning us, all have one source.
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  What's interesting in the actual language is this word source doesn't exist, it's implied.
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  It literally says for he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one.
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  That's it.
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  All have one what? Founder of your salvation.
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  All have one finisher of your salvation.
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  All have one, right, author of your salvation.
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  That through Christ, he who sanctifies, we all have one.
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  One what? One faith, one hope in Christ.
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  One ultimate purpose and goal and plan was accomplished.
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  We are in the Father.
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  If we are in Christ, then Christ is in the Father, then we are in the Father with Christ.
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  That's what this means.
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  Interesting.
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  So in reality, the word source can be applied there in assumption.
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  He is the source of all things for us concerning life and godliness.
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  Why do I share that with you? Because what's coming next in the verse?
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  That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers.
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  For he who sanctifies Christ sanctified all and that we are one with him in the Father.
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  And that is why he is not ashamed to call you a brother or a sister.
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  Like think about that.
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  It'd be kind of difficult if in reality he was ashamed of us.
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  But we are one in him.
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  Because of that, he can say with confidence that he is not ashamed to call us brothers.
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  This word that is why is itea, not Ikea.
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  Itea, this word itea means a cause or reason or one worthy of punishment.
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  Think about that.
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  He became the punishment for us.
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  He took the punishment that we deserved.
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  He is the cause and the reason of our great salvation.
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  This cause and reason in reality which we deserved, he has taken upon himself
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  and he has sanctified for himself a people.
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  And if this is true, then you understand that if we are in him as one,
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  then he is not ashamed to call us brothers.
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  Because if he was, his salvation would be worthless.
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  What's the point of dying and saving a people if you are ashamed of them?
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  So now you understand a little bit why the writer writes in this way.
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  Itea, it's a word there.
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  So verse 12 starts to make a little bit more sense.
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  If he is not ashamed to call us brothers, then in verse 12 when it says,
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  saying, I will tell your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation,
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  I will sing your praise.
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  And again, I will put my trust in him and again, behold, I and the children God has given me.
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  In other words, look at me and the children that God has given me.
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  Behold.
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  And so what we come to understand is if he is not ashamed of us and he has told,
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  he has shared and told us about the name of the Lord God, Yahweh, to his brothers,
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  and he sung praise among them in the congregation or praise of God in the congregation,
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  then why should we be ashamed?
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  Are you willing to tell of God's name to the brothers in the midst of the congregation
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  to sing his praise?
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  And are you willing to put your trust in him?
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  Because behold, I and the children God has given me.
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  All that the Father has given me, I will not lose.
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  We are his forever.
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  Nothing can pluck us out of his hand.
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  That's what this means.
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  I'm starting to make a lot more sense when you read this from this perspective.
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  Don't worry.
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  This ends up being a monkey wrench thrown in here and you go, well, where did that come from?
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  I got it.
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  Third principle.
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  Through Christ's death and suffering, we are set free from lifelong slavery and penalty of sin,
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  which is death.
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  Here's the scriptural context.
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  So if the son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
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  John 8.36.
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  Hebrews 2.14-15 says, since therefore, in other words, hey, since all of this is true,
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  everything that I've just said to you, therefore, the children share in flesh and blood.
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  Since therefore, we who are children or brothers of Christ share in flesh and blood,
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  he himself likewise, portook of the same things that through death, he might destroy the one who has
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  the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver all those through fear of death were subject to
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  lifelong slavery.
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  And you go, there it is.
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  The devil did it.
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  You guys ready for a little bit of, you're about to get totally confused right here.
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  I'm confused.
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  When I said devil, I was like, why is that there?
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  Like, what's the point of the word devil?
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  And we all assume it's the devil, and it's not.
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  It's not Satan.
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  You guys knew I was going to do that.
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  So far, we've been dealing with the issue of sin, have we not?
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  Have we not dealt with the reality of what sin has put upon our lives, that sin is the one that
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  brings death?
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  Here we go.
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  Since therefore, the children share in flesh and blood.
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  What's that mean?
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  We're human.
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  We have flesh and blood.
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  We will die.
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  And so, he himself, Christ, likewise, partook of the same things.
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  He also became flesh and blood like us.
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  Why?
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  Because he thought that through death, he might destroy the one who has the power of death.
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  Now, think about that.
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  Now, if we read this and keep reading it, it says the devil, you would assume the devil has the
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  power of death.
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  Am I right?
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  Is that what the scriptures say?
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  Let's think contextually about this.
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  The wages of sin is?
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  Say it.
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  So, what has the power of death?
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  Sin.
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  Are you ready?
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  Here we go.
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  So, this thing that has the power of death, the word devil, it is the word Diablos, but it's
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  lowercase d.
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  And if you read and understand what Diablos means in the Greek, it does not ever, ever, ever
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  associate as an individual.
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  It says figuratively that it could, in figurative, point to a person who acts like this.
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  Read the translation.
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  But here's what it means.
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  This is the actual translation for Diablos.
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  It means accuser, slanderer, or culminator.
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  That's what it means.
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  No secret meaning.
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  Now, let's use this from the translation and kind of grasp what he's saying here is that
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  this very thing that he destroyed, the one who has, or the thing that has the power of
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  death over you, which is the accuser, slanderer, and culminator that brings death to you, then
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  when he delivers us, we are no longer slaves to it.
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  And so what do I mean?
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  Well, what I mean is I don't know about you, but there are many, many days I wake up and
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  I am literally in a battle mentally and emotionally with this thing that I live with called sin.
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  Just because I am born again and my spirit is alive and made perfect in Christ, I still
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  live in this body which is at war with me and wants to kill me.
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  And the fact is that one day if the Lord tarries, it will kill me.
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  Death will come to every one of us.
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  Why?
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  Because of sin.
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  And so every day you wake up, it accuses you.
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  Every day you look in the mirror and you don't like the way you look, it slanders you.
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  Every day you get up and it's a culminator against you, it's an enemy.
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  And every day there are Christians who have been told in the pulpit that it's the devil,
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  live lives defeated and wonder why they can never get beyond where they are today.
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  Because they aren't really dealing with the real true enemy that they live with every day.
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  They're dealing with an enemy that they've been told is their enemy.
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  The devil is a small enemy compared to the reality of the enemy of sin.
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  Sin is still destroying people today.
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  It is a big enemy.
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  So much so that this very enemy has the power of death over everything.
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  That's the point of why Jesus came to deliver us from this power of death called sin.
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  The very thing that sin holds over us.
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  It makes a lot of sense when you read Romans and you read in context what's being said here.
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  That the very thing that the first Adam could not do but brought death to us,
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  as the scripture says, because one man sinned, all sinned, because all sinned, all will die.
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  Christ came to deliver us from that enemy, not the devil, not the angelic being.
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  It's not the right understanding here.
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  It's the right translation.
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  But as good scripture, good expository preaching should be showing you the reality
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  that it's the accuser, the slanderer, the culminator you wake up with every day called sin.
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  And that Christ has destroyed that for his people, though we will live with it for a little while.
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  And so let's keep reading.
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  This word deliverer, apolosso, means to remove, release, depart, set free, or deliver.
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  He will apolosso or he did apolosso all those who through fear of death were subject.
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  Anakos. Anakos means bound or under obligation or subject or liable.
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  We were bound to sin. We were under the obligation of sin.
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  We were subject to sin. We were liable to sin.
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  And as a result, we were lifelong slaves.
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  But he delivered us from slavery to sin.
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  How do we know that?
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  Because it says that we, if we have a sinful nature, were slaves to sin.
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  But now that we've been set free from sin, we are now slaves to Christ.
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  I love being able to look through the scripture and bring context and clarity to the truth of his word.
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  It's so good.
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  It's heartbreaking to see so many people abandoning the faith.
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  I was looking at, I was watching a man who left Reformed theology to go to Orthodox theology.
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  He said that the word of God that we have today is wrong, that the true faith is Orthodox Christianity.
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  No, the truth faith is biblical Christianity.
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  That's true faith. Get in line with that.
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  Teach the full counsel of God's word. Understand what God's word says. You'll be okay.
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  But people jump and ship fast.
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  And so for us who at one time feared death and were subject to lifelong slavery, he has freed us.
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  I'll say it in this way. This is my translation.
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  I kind of wrote it so I can help clarify in a statement what all of that means to kind of help to relax the waters.
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  And so here's my translation of verse 14 and 15.
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  Since therefore we share in being human flesh and blood, Christ had become a partaker of the same things born in the likeness of man.
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  He experienced the struggles and pains of being human, but he did not sin.
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  He through death put an end and did away with that which possessed us, the power of death,
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  that which accuses, slanders, and personally attacks us, the enemy called sin.
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  He delivers all who fear death to which we were lifelong slaves.
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  That's what this means. Makes a lot more sense now, doesn't it?
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  Last principle. Christ the true and better Adam was for us what the first Adam could not be, our gracious and faithful high priest and king.
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  Those who belong to the family of faith through Christ's work on the cross have what no other faith has.
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  No faith on the planet can declare this statement.
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  A God who understands his people in every way and is our ever present help. Why?
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  Because he came as man. He had to come as man. He could not be an animal.
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  I don't know about you. I don't look like a sheep. An animal, a lamb? Nah.
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  We might act like sheep, but I don't look like a sheep.
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  Sheep are not created in the image of its creator. We are.
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  And so the only right sacrifice is the God who created us to give himself as a sacrifice.
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  We were created in his image. We are the image bearers and as a result the only right and perfect sacrifice would be himself.
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  If that was not true, God would have continued to allow animals to be sacrificed.
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  But they're not appropriate sacrifices.
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  What's amazing is that his sacrifice was once for all.
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  Now, let's prove this out a little bit here.
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  Hebrews chapter 2 verse 16 through 18, this is the last.
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  For surely, in other words, this is an absolute fact, it is not angels that he helps.
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  He didn't come to deliver angels. He didn't come to help angels get through their struggles every day.
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  But he helps the offspring of Abraham. Who are the offspring of Abraham?
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  Here's the answer, Galatians chapter 3 verse 6 through 7.
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  You want to know who the offspring are? Here it is.
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  Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness, know then it is those of faith who are sons of Abraham.
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  It's not the world. God doesn't come to help the world.
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  He come to help his people. The world doesn't want his help.
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  If you have any questions about that, read John the Gospel chapter 11 on. Actually, you can go even further than that.
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  He came to deliver them and he rejected them over and over and over again.
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  He has come to help his offspring, his people.
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  And his people are designated as the people or the offspring of Abraham.
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  What was special about Abraham? He was a man of faith.
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  So then those of faith are sons of Abraham.
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  That puts a monkey wrench in a lot of theology.
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  Verse 17 says, Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every way.
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  He had to put on flesh like us. He had to be tempted and not sin like us.
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  He had to feel pain and struggle like us. He had to suffer like us.
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  Why? So that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God for us.
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  He is the one who stands in our behalf.
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  As the accusers accuse us, he declares us innocent.
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  He is your advocate. And as your advocate, you'll see this word coming up,
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  which we taught the kids in a little bit ago.
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  As an advocate, he can, without any hesitation, make propitiation for the sins of his people.
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  The sins of the people who? The people of faith.
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  Why do I say that?
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  Not many people teach the issue of propitiation or atonement,
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  substitutionary atonement from this perspective, but I want to clarify it.
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  Some would probably disagree. Not my problem. That's fine.
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  The reality of God's atonement or propitiation, specifically his substitutionary atonement,
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  his offer is to the world for God so loved the world that he gave.
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  Here's the offer. The application of that atonement is only to the believer.
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  God is not obligated to apply atonement to everyone.
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  He is only obligated to apply atonement to his people.
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  But because God is gracious and good and loving, he offers atonement.
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  But what do they choose? Because of their nature.
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  Because they are elect. They love their darkness. They don't want atonement.
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  And that is the reality of the world we live in.
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  And so this makes a lot more sense so that he might become a merciful high priest in the service of God
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  to make propitiation for the sins of the people who? The people of faith.
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  What's wonderful about this word propitiation, helascomai,
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  it means to appease or to overcome the hostility of, to win over, to atone for, or to make amends.
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  Now think about that. Didn't Jesus do all that?
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  He appeased the anger and the wrath of God by becoming our sacrifice.
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  God poured his own wrath, the father, on his son.
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  The scripture says that the father was pleased to destroy the son.
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  That was an appeasement.
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  Second, Jesus overcame the hostility of the wrath of God.
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  Trust me, if you don't accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you go to hell,
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  you're going to experience a whole lot of hostility.
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  Not going to be fun.
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  Next, he has won for us.
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  He has won us over because of his sacrifice.
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  He is also the atonement, the object that God has used to pour his wrath out.
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  The blood sacrifice for us that has taken away our sin.
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  He is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
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  And he makes amends.
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  He makes right what we could never make right.
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  You see, what Adam failed to do, Jesus has accomplished.
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  He is the true and better Adam.
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  That's the point of this chapter.
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  And because of all that, verse 18, for because he himself, Christ,
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  has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
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  He understands our struggle.
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  And because he has suffered and died and has gone through temptation
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  and has won without sin, perfectly obeyed God the Father in all things,
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  he is absolutely able to help you when you are tempted.
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  So what is this word tempted?
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  Turn to James chapter 1, which makes a lot more sense now
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  that we've clarified chapter 2 in Hebrews.
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  That our enemy is sin and how you as a believer in God
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  can live a life that is victorious.
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  Not perfect, not without suffering, but victorious.
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  And here it is.
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  What is temptation?
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  How does he help us?
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  Well, think about it this way.
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  You guys ready?
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  Many would say, the devil made me, at least if you read chapter 2
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  and you would assume that the devil is the person and not sin,
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  you'd be like, see, it's the devil's fault.
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  He's messing with a lot of people.
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  Pretty amazing how powerful that guy is.
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  Look what it says.
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  Trust me, I'm not denying the existence of the devil.
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  But the scripture says he's before the throne accusing the saints night and day.
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  I don't know about you, but night and day means a whole long time.
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  Okay?
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  So let's see.
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  Look what it says in verse 13.
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  James 1 verse 13.
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  What is temptation?
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  Let no one say when he is tempted, I'm being tempted by God.
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  For God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
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  You guys ready?
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  This is going to hurt.
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  But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
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  There's your enemy.
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  Sin right there.
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  Look what it says.
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  Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin,
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  and sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death.
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  Isn't that interesting?
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  How come it doesn't say each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by the devil?
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  We are lured and enticed by our own sinful desires.
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  We are by nature sinful beings in our body.
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  And this body is showing that every single day.
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  One day he will make our bodies like his, incorruptible and immortal.
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  But until then, we have got to walk with Christ, with intent and purpose.
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  So when we read chapter two of Hebrews, I almost said Romans, of Hebrews,
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  man, do you see the clarity of what's being said here?
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  You want to live a victorious Christian life?
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  Let Christ live.
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  Stop blaming everyone and everything else.
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  And look at the reality that he has freed you and has destroyed the power of death over your life called sin.
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  We choose our sinful nature instead of choosing Christ, our spiritual nature.
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  So, whom the Lord has set free is free indeed.
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  Father, I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness.
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  To you be honor and glory and might.
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  Thank you so much that you are the founder, the finisher, the perfecter of our faith that you will complete what you have started.
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  Help us to walk in real, true victory in the truth of your word.
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  To stand firm for your glory in Jesus' name, Amen.