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Hebrews 1:1-4 - 3 Ways We Can Know Jesus is God · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio how Dying. Good morning, friends and faithful listeneries.
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  Speaker 1: I am so excited to get into the Book of
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews with you guys today because it is one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite books of the Bible. It is my favorite
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  Speaker 1: book of the New Testament specifically. So we will get
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  Speaker 1: into Hebrews chapter one and talk about the supremacy of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in just one second. All right, faithful listeneries, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you are as excited as I am to delve into
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Hebrews. But before we get into it,
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  Speaker 1: here's a quick word from a sponsor or two. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: faithful listenaries, grab your Bibles out of the version that
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  Speaker 1: you prefer. But I will be reading from the web.
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  Speaker 1: And this is an episode I must warn you where
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be jumping around in scripture a lot,
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  Speaker 1: because we're only talking about four verses today in Hebrews,
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  Speaker 1: but there's so many parallels in other portions of the
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  Speaker 1: Bible that I really want to drive my point home.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to be jumping around in script quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit today, so just to be aware of that.
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  Speaker 1: But grab your cup of coffee or your cup of tea.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be reading from the web as usual. God, having
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  Speaker 1: in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets
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  Speaker 1: at many times and in various ways, has at the
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  Speaker 1: end of these days spoken to us by his son,
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  Speaker 1: whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also
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  Speaker 1: he made the worlds. His son is the radiance of
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  Speaker 1: his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding
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  Speaker 1: all things by the word of his power, who, when
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  Speaker 1: he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat
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  Speaker 1: down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
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  Speaker 1: having become as much better than the angels, as the
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  Speaker 1: more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.
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  Speaker 1: One of the reasons I love the Book of Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: so much as it gets right to the point it
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  Speaker 1: says in verse one, God like that's literally the first
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  Speaker 1: word of the first sentence God, because that is what
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Hebrews is talking about. It is discussing Jesus, specifically,
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  Speaker 1: how he is God. If you were to give a
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  Speaker 1: synopsis of the Book of Hebrews, that is what it's about,
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  Speaker 1: the supremacy of Jesus, and that Jesus is God, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the reason that we worship him. And how the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament also points to Jesus. In fact, the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Hebrews is going to refer to the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: a lot, because it's specifically talking to the Jewish Christians
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  Speaker 1: of the day, who would have understood the laws and
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  Speaker 1: the prophecies of the Old Testament. And so the author
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  Speaker 1: of Hebrews is taking those principles of the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: and bringing them forward, saying, this is how the law
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  Speaker 1: and the prophets and the psalms relate to Jesus. How
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  Speaker 1: it all points to Jesus, because Jesus is our Savior
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus is God. That is the entire Book of
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews in a nutshell. But before we dive into what
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews is really talking about here, who wrote the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Hebrews. Well, no one knows. It was written by
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  Speaker 1: an unknown author, But of course there's so many names
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  Speaker 1: that are brought forward as potentials that could have written
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Hebrews. Obviously the most famous one would
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  Speaker 1: have been Paul, because the Book of Hebrews does feel
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  Speaker 1: a little bit like Paul's previous letters. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: sounds like some of the language Paul would have used,
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  Speaker 1: not to mention. At the very end of the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Hebrews, it mentions Timothy, and Timothy was Paul's best friend,
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  Speaker 1: a son to him. You know, Paul mentioned Timothy a
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  Speaker 1: lot in his letters. So many people say, well, Paul
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  Speaker 1: may have written this because of those two reasons, not
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  Speaker 1: to mention that Paul would have had a very good
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  Speaker 1: grasp of the Old Testament as well. You know, Paul
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  Speaker 1: was a Pharisee before he became a Christian. He was
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  Speaker 1: somebody that understood the Old Testament laws inside and out.
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  Speaker 1: And whoever authored the Book of Hebrews certainly understood the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament laws inside and out. So that is why
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  Speaker 1: Paul is a potential for somebody who wrote the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Hebrews. But other people say it couldn't possibly have
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  Speaker 1: been Paul because the Book of Hebrews was written in Greek,
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  Speaker 1: and even though Paul could speak and write in Greek
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  Speaker 1: and did speak and write in Greek, that was not
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  Speaker 1: his native tongue. According to people who study the Bible
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  Speaker 1: in its original languages, the person who authored the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Hebrews was somebody who spoke and thought in Greek.
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  Speaker 1: So this would have been somebody who grew up in
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  Speaker 1: a Greek speaking household, and that would have been his
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  Speaker 1: native tongue. Not to mention that there's a verse in
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter four, I believe, where it says the author
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  Speaker 1: is referring to himself, and he says, we learned these
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  Speaker 1: things from the apostles. And Paul would never use language
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  Speaker 1: like that to describe himself, because he was an apostle.
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  Speaker 1: Not to mention that at the beginning of the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Hebrews, it just jumps right into the topic rather
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  Speaker 1: than stating who the letter is from where Paul had
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  Speaker 1: a habit of stating who wrote the letter, Like he'd
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  Speaker 1: say that the very beginning of his letters, Paul an
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  Speaker 1: apostle of Jesus, or Paul a prisoner of Jesus, or
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  Speaker 1: a servant of Jesus, or something like that. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why people say Hebrews couldn't have been written by Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was written by Luke, who was a Greek
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  Speaker 1: speaking man and also a gentile. But then others say
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  Speaker 1: Luke couldn't have possibly written it because Luke was a
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  Speaker 1: gentile who may have not had a solid understanding of
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament laws as much as a Jewish man did.
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  Speaker 1: But then of course that goes down the rabbit hole
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  Speaker 1: of all these other people who may have authored Hebrews,
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  Speaker 1: like a Paulos or Barnabas or Priscilla and Aquilla. So
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  Speaker 1: in essence we have no clue who authored Hebrews. But
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  Speaker 1: if I were to bring my two cents forward, I
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  Speaker 1: personally think that Luke authored the Book of Hebrews, but
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  Speaker 1: that he'd compiled a bunch of letters that Paul had
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  Speaker 1: written along with Paul's sermons, which is why it feels
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  Speaker 1: a lot like the way Paul speaks while still having
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  Speaker 1: that you know, Greek kind of influence to it. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what I personally think is that Luke authored this book,
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  Speaker 1: but he pretty much just allowed Paul and maybe some
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  Speaker 1: of the other apostles to do the speaking in the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Hebrews. But like I said, that's just my
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  Speaker 1: two cents, is that Luke compiled a bunch of sermons
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  Speaker 1: that Paul and some of the other apostles may have spoken.
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  Speaker 1: So starting in verse one, it gets straight to the point.
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  Speaker 1: It says, God, having in the past spoken to the
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  Speaker 1: fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
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  Speaker 1: has at the end of these days spoken to us
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  Speaker 1: by his son. Right off the bat, this letter gets
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  Speaker 1: straight into the topic. It is talking about God, and
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  Speaker 1: it's talking about how God spoke to his people, specifically
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament. It says that God would speak
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  Speaker 1: through the prophets at many times and in various ways.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've been reading through the Old Testament on
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  Speaker 1: Monday and Wednesdays, and it's really interesting the different ways
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  Speaker 1: that God would speak to the Israelites. You know, for example,
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  Speaker 1: we think about the burning bush with Moses. We think
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  Speaker 1: about the pillar of fire and the pillar of cloud
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness. We think about the prophets and the
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  Speaker 1: miracles that took place. We think about some of the
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  Speaker 1: crazy demonstrations the prophets would do where they're running naked
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  Speaker 1: through the streets because God told them to, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: cooking their food overdung. You know, just like really crazy
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  Speaker 1: stuff that God would do to get the attention of
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  Speaker 1: the people. That is how God spoke to the people
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament. But now in these latter days,
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  Speaker 1: the author says, which is all the days from the
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  Speaker 1: ascension of Christ until Jesus comes again, that is the
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  Speaker 1: latter days. This is the end age essentially, so when
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  Speaker 1: Jesus comes back, everything at that point will essentially be done.
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  Speaker 1: It says that Jesus in these latter days spoke to
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  Speaker 1: us by his son, who he appointed heir of all things.
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  Speaker 1: Now this shows that God does not speak to us
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  Speaker 1: in the same ways that he spoke to the people
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament. Now he is speaking to us
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  Speaker 1: through his son. And Paul actually explained this a little
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  Speaker 1: further in his letters when he talks about the mysteries
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  Speaker 1: of God. I don't know if you guys remember us
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  Speaker 1: talking about that, but Paul often said that God revealed
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  Speaker 1: a mystery to us. You know, the Old Testament, peoples
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  Speaker 1: knew that there is some sort of mysterious thing taking place,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't quite know what it was. But Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: when he came down to earth and died for our sins,
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  Speaker 1: revealed that mystery to us. That God in human flesh
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  Speaker 1: came to earth and sacrificed himself on behalf of humanity
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  Speaker 1: for the forgiveness of our sins. That is the mystery
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  Speaker 1: that was revealed. But people in the Old Testament didn't
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  Speaker 1: quite understand this. They didn't know who Jesus was going
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  Speaker 1: to be. They didn't know what the Messiah was going
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  Speaker 1: to do. They thought that the Messiah would be like
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  Speaker 1: a conquering war hero that came down and saved Israel
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  Speaker 1: from all of their oppressors. That's what they believe. That
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  Speaker 1: was what was taught in their days. They didn't quite
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  Speaker 1: understand the prophecies that were taking place. But now this prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: this mystery, has been revealed to us in these latter days.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus himself, God, himself in human flesh, revealed this
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  Speaker 1: mystery to us. And continuing on in this verse says,
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  Speaker 1: the Sun was appointed heir of all things, through whom
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  Speaker 1: he also made the worlds. So this here is talking
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  Speaker 1: about the supremacy of Christ. That Jesus himself is God
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  Speaker 1: because he made the worlds, he was the creator of
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  Speaker 1: all is what Hebrews says. And actually other scriptural passages
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  Speaker 1: completely support this. For example, John chapter one one through
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  Speaker 1: five also talks about the supremacy of Christ. And here's
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  Speaker 1: what this says. In the beginning was the Word, and
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  Speaker 1: the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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  Speaker 1: The same was in the beginning with God. All things
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  Speaker 1: were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that
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  Speaker 1: has been made. In him was life, and the life
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  Speaker 1: was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and the darkness hasn't overcome it. And then also in
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  Speaker 1: verse ten, jumping down, it says he was in the
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  Speaker 1: world and the world was made through him, and the
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  Speaker 1: world didn't recognize him. So, in other words, Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: God because he created the world. But we have to
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  Speaker 1: understand a few things about these two passages, the ones
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  Speaker 1: in Hebrew and also John, in order to really grasp
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  Speaker 1: the godhood of Jesus. The first thing we have to
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  Speaker 1: understand is that Jesus was not created. This is a
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  Speaker 1: common belief that many people have. For example, in John
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  Speaker 1: chapter one, verse four, it says in him was life,
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  Speaker 1: and the life was the light of men. The light
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  Speaker 1: shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.
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  Speaker 1: Some people have translated that verse to say that when
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  Speaker 1: God created the light at the very beginning on Day one,
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  Speaker 1: that was when God created Jesus. But that is not
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  Speaker 1: possible if you want to stay true to what scripture
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  Speaker 1: actually says, because in John chapter one, verse one, it says,
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning was the word. The word was with
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  Speaker 1: God and the word was God. That is talking about
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  Speaker 1: before the creation of everything. Jesus is and was and
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  Speaker 1: will be. So Jesus existed at the beginning. He was
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  Speaker 1: not created. And that's what it says in verse two. Here,
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  Speaker 1: the same was in the beginning with God. So Jesus
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  Speaker 1: existed before the world was even created, so he could
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  Speaker 1: not have been created on day one. And also on
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  Speaker 1: top of that, the reason he couldn't have been created
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  Speaker 1: on day one was because there were things already created
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  Speaker 1: on day one. If you go back to the story
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis, God had already begun the creation process before
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  Speaker 1: light even existed. And that is something that we are
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  Speaker 1: not taught. You know, when we are a little kid
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  Speaker 1: going through Sunday school and we were learning about God
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  Speaker 1: creating things on each day, we're taught that God only
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  Speaker 1: created light on the first day, he only created fish
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  Speaker 1: on the third day, he only created this or that
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  Speaker 1: on the fourth, fifth, or sixth days. But that's not
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  Speaker 1: the whole picture. God created a lot more on day
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  Speaker 1: one than just light. He created the foundations of the earth. Essentially,
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  Speaker 1: it actually says that the earth was formless and void
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  Speaker 1: and darkness was on the face of the deep and
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of God was hovering across the face of
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  Speaker 1: the water. So that shows a few things. That the
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  Speaker 1: earth was already there, even though it was formless and void,
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  Speaker 1: and that water already existed, and darkness already existed as well.
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  Speaker 1: So God was in the process of creating a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things before he even created light. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to stay true to scripture, if Jesus was the
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  Speaker 1: one who created everything and was in the beginning with God,
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  Speaker 1: then that means he would have had to create water,
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  Speaker 1: the beginnings of the shape of the earth, and also
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  Speaker 1: the darkness. Jesus created these things. He was not created himself.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the first thing we have to understand if
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  Speaker 1: we're going to really grasp how Jesus is truly God,
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  Speaker 1: that he was not created, and also that he was
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning. And then the last thing we have
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  Speaker 1: to understand in order to truly grasp the supremacy of
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  Speaker 1: God is if we go back to Hebrews chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: it says in verse three, his son is the radiance
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  Speaker 1: of his glory, the very image of his substance, and
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  Speaker 1: upholds all things by the word of his power. This
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  Speaker 1: means that Jesus is the exact embodiment of God the Father.
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  Speaker 1: One of the funniest things I hear people say about
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  Speaker 1: the Bible is that the God of the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: is me, and the God of the New Testament is nice.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to follow the God of the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: not the God of the Old Testament. Right, And that's
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  Speaker 1: of course people saying that God the Father is mean
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus is nice. But Jesus is exactly the same
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  Speaker 1: as God the Father. That's what people don't understand. Hebrews one,
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  Speaker 1: verse three says, this very thing, the son is the
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  Speaker 1: radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance,
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  Speaker 1: and upholding all things by the word of his power.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and God are one and the same. Jesus is God.
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  Speaker 1: Not to mention if you go to Isaiah chapter nine.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the most famous Christmas verses. And
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  Speaker 1: I did not go there myself. So let me do
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  Speaker 1: that real quick. Isaiah nine. Oh maybe it's not Isaiah nine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes it is, Yes, it is, okay, Isaiah nine,
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  Speaker 1: verse six through seven. Here's what it says about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: For to us a child is born, to us, a
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  Speaker 1: son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: and he will be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
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  Speaker 1: Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace.
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  Speaker 1: There will be no end. He will reign on David's
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  Speaker 1: throne and over his kingdom, establishing it and upholding it
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  Speaker 1: with justice and righteousness. From that time on and forever.
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  Speaker 1: The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. So
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  Speaker 1: that right there is talking to us about the supremacy
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. Right how Isaiah says that Jesus is going
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  Speaker 1: to be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and
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  Speaker 1: Prince of Peace. So basically Jesus is the same as God,
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  Speaker 1: because if Jesus were not the same as God, he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be called Everlasting Father and mighty God and wonderful counselor.
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  Speaker 1: These are all words that we used to describe the Trinity.
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  Speaker 1: For example, wonderful counselor isn't usually something we describe Jesus as,
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  Speaker 1: but that's something we describe the Holy Spirit as. Mighty
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  Speaker 1: God is not something we'd typically say that Jesus is. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we might, but we'd also say that God, the Father
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  Speaker 1: is Mighty God, everlasting Father. We would never call Jesus
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  Speaker 1: our father. We call the Father our father. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if if you're being honest, you don't call Jesus your father,
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  Speaker 1: you call him maybe your high priest. You call him
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  Speaker 1: your savior, your messiah. But we don't call him the Father.
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  Speaker 1: But we would call him the Prince of Peace, which
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  Speaker 1: is also what Isaiah nine, verse six says right here.
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  Speaker 1: So that verse is the embodiment of the Trinity, and
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  Speaker 1: that verse is also saying that Jesus is going to
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  Speaker 1: be called the same names that we attribute to the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit or to God the Father. I think that's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Hebrews chapter one says right here that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the same as God the Father. He is
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  Speaker 1: the exact embodiment of God the Father. And not only this,
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  Speaker 1: he upholds everything by the word of his power, so
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  Speaker 1: he is sustaining everything. And that again is talked about
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  Speaker 1: in other portions of scripture. For example, if you jump
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  Speaker 1: to Colossians chapter one, verses sixteen through seventeen, here's what
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  Speaker 1: this says. For by him, all things were created in
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  Speaker 1: the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things,
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  Speaker 1: whether thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers, All things
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  Speaker 1: have been created through him and for him. He is
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  Speaker 1: before all things, and in him all things are held together. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, Jesus holds all things together. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews Chapter one says. Right here too, it says he
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  Speaker 1: is upholding all things by the word of his power.
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  Speaker 1: So what we learn today is that Jesus is the
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  Speaker 1: person of the Trinity, who did the creating and also
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  Speaker 1: sustains the entire world by the word of his power.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is literally holding the fabric of the world together.
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  Speaker 1: As we speak at this moment, we are breathing and
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  Speaker 1: existing because Jesus declared it. So he is holding everything
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  Speaker 1: together by his power and moving forward. In verse three
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  Speaker 1: of Hebrews one, it says, who, when he had by
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  Speaker 1: himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the
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  Speaker 1: right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as
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  Speaker 1: much better than the angels, as the more excellent name
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  Speaker 1: he is inherited is better than theirs. So this verse
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  Speaker 1: means that Jesus came to earth and he proved himself
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  Speaker 1: as God by purifying us of our sins. And then
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  Speaker 1: also ascending up into heaven and sitting at the right
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  Speaker 1: hand of the Majesty on High. So in this short
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  Speaker 1: little passage we see multiple ways how Jesus proves himself
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  Speaker 1: to be God. The first thing is that he made
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  Speaker 1: the worlds. Another scriptural path passages prove this as well.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus is our creator. He is also the embodiment
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  Speaker 1: of God the Father, which is proven in other portions
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  Speaker 1: of scripture, like Isaiah chapter nine that says that he
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  Speaker 1: the Son will be called wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
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  Speaker 1: Prince of Peace. So Jesus is the embodiment, of course,
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  Speaker 1: of God the Father and of the Trinity, and that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is sustaining all things by the word of his power,
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  Speaker 1: and is also at this moment until he comes again
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  Speaker 1: sitting at the right hand of God most High, having
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  Speaker 1: become as much better than the angels, as the more
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  Speaker 1: excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think the reason that the author of Hebrews goes
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  Speaker 1: into angels a little bit more was because there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Israelite people that were starting to worship
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  Speaker 1: angels and the angelic realm. They were very fascinated with
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff, and this is something that hasn't
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  Speaker 1: really gone away. You know, people are very fascinated with
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  Speaker 1: the supernatural. But the author of Hebrews here is saying
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is above all of these things. So we
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be worshiping the angels or anything else supernatural, because
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  Speaker 1: those things are just mere creations. But Jesus is God
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  Speaker 1: over them all, So we should worship God, not the creation.
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  Speaker 1: And this rings true for everything, whether it's an idol
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  Speaker 1: formed by our own hands, whether it's another human being
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  Speaker 1: that we might idolize or put on a pedestal, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's an angel or a supernatural being, all of these
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  Speaker 1: things are under Jesus. So we worship Jesus as our God,
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  Speaker 1: not anything else. So that's why the Book of Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: is so powerful, and it's one of my favorite books
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible, is because in these first four verses
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  Speaker 1: it talks about the power and supple and godhood of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in such a cohesive and understandable way, and it's
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  Speaker 1: backed up by everything else we see in scripture when
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  Speaker 1: it talks about Jesus and the Trinity. Now that being said,
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  Speaker 1: it is hard to understand the trinity, and I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people really struggle with that point, so
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  Speaker 1: that how can you know God be three persons but
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  Speaker 1: also be one, you know, because we're just our own
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  Speaker 1: person and we never have encountered a being like that.
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  Speaker 1: And truly, we're never really going to understand the trinity
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  Speaker 1: because it's just so beyond us. Like God is so
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  Speaker 1: much bigger than us, He's so beyond us. But the
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  Speaker 1: point is is we don't have to understand every single
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  Speaker 1: aspect about God to worship him. We just understand that
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  Speaker 1: he is God, that he is supreme over us, that
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  Speaker 1: he created us, and that the Creator deserves to be
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  Speaker 1: worshiped for who he is. All right, faith listeners, here
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  Speaker 1: is a quick ad break before I say goodbye to
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  Speaker 1: all of you guys. I hope you all enjoyed the
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  Speaker 1: first episode of Hebrews. I think it was a good
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  Speaker 1: introductory episode because we talked about what Hebrews is about,
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  Speaker 1: who may or may not have written it, and also
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  Speaker 1: the supremacy of Jesus, which is the most important thing
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  Speaker 1: that we need to understand as we get into the
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  Speaker 1: nitty gritty of the Book of Hebrews. It's a very
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  Speaker 1: advanced book actually in a lot of ways. I think
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  Speaker 1: what's really funny is a lot of people think that
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament is really hard to understand, but for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually the New Testament is much more difficult because
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  Speaker 1: it talks a lot more about who God is, Whereas
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament is just history. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of crazy people doing crazy things. But the New
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  Speaker 1: Testament talks about these fundamental truths that are just really
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  Speaker 1: hard to understand. But faithful listeners, I hope to see
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  Speaker 1: all of you guys on the podcast tomorrow as we
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  Speaker 1: discuss second Chronicles. I will see all of you then
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  Speaker 1: six am or whenever you choose to wake up and listen.
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  Speaker 1: Happy listening, and God bless. I just want to take
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