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Hebrews chapter 9. We've taken a little break from Hebrews in the last couple of

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months. We had VBS and then we were getting ready for revival but we are

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going to work our way back into the book of Hebrews this morning. Hebrews chapter

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9. We'll start in verse 1, Lord willing. We will make it through verse 14 this

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morning. We'll start off by praying and we'll kind of catch up on where we left

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off and then we'll just begin to go through the text a few verses at a time.

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So let's pray and then we'll get started. Father God we come to you and I thank

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you for the freedom we have to come in here this morning and to hear your word. I

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pray God that your Holy Spirit would be among us that you would hide me behind

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the cross dear Lord. That every word that comes from my mouth today would be a

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word that comes from you. Let your Holy Spirit take over this morning. I pray

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that you help each of our ears to be open. Help our eyes to see your word and

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our ears to hear your word and our hearts to respond to your word. I pray

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that you would free us of the distractions of this world, the worries of

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this world. Dear Lord I pray that in these few minutes that we have this

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morning that we wouldn't miss your word, that we wouldn't miss the power of

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Jesus Christ and that through these few minutes God you would strengthen us and

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I ask all these things in Jesus name and pray that everything today is for the

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glory of Jesus. Amen. We left off in the last couple of chapters in the book of

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Hebrews really getting to the main point that the author had been building up

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toward through the whole first few chapters. He had been making the point

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with a variety of examples of how Jesus was better than everything that had come

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before him. But the real point that he is building up to is the point of the New

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Covenant that has been established through Jesus Christ and he really

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begins to build this point up in chapter 7 and chapter 8 where he goes all the

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way back to an Old Testament character called Melchizedek. We won't rehash that

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since we talked about it in great detail. You can go back and listen to all that

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online if you'd like to catch those past sermons. But he referred to Jesus and

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compared him to Melchizedek. The main point being that the author of

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Hebrews was establishing that Jesus was a high priest. He was a new high priest

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who established a new priesthood. And so when there is a change of the priesthood

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there is a change of the law he tells us. And then he goes on to say look that

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means that the old is passing away and the new has come. And he's proceeding

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here in chapter 9 to tell us about the New Covenant that has been established

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through Jesus. Now you have to understand we'll talk about this for a second. I

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know we have a lot but it's been a while so I'll refresh your memory. You have to

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remember and understand what was going on here. These were Jewish people who

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had come to faith in Christ but were in danger of turning from Jesus and turning

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back to the Old Testament sacrificial system. That is they heard the gospel

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they knew of Jesus they knew that Jesus had died for them and their sins. They

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had trusted him and were living for him but in the midst of hard times and

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difficulties and tribulations they were being tempted to turn back to the old

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ways. There were certainly plenty of Jews who were still living under the old

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system. The old tabernacle the old sacrificial system and that was the way

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that God had established in what we would call the Old Testament. But what

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God had told us in the Old Testament was that there was a Messiah who was coming

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and indeed Jesus the Son of God was the Messiah who was coming. And so Jesus had

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been sacrificed. He had given his life on the cross. He was crucified and

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resurrected by God and so God had established this new covenant through

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Jesus. And the author of Hebrews is reminding his audience of this important

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and crucial fact. And so he says look don't go back to the old priesthood and

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the old sacrifice because Jesus is our new high priest and he offered himself.

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He sacrificed himself and he in fact is a better sacrifice therefore what is old

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is passing away. That's what he tells us at the end of Hebrews chapter 8. Why?

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Because the new has come and so the new covenant has been established in Jesus

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and the old covenant is gone. And so you have to understand that anytime

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something new comes around we have a tendency to like the old better. We

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don't really like new things. Obviously the Jewish people when Jesus came onto

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the scene some of the Jewish people followed him some did not. We don't

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really like new things and so you got to imagine for these people it's a natural

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tendency for them when times got difficult to go back to what they knew.

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We like to go back to what we know. We don't like new things. Some of you

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may remember back in 1985 Coca-Cola had this grand idea that they were going to

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introduce new Coke. Now this was before my time. Some of you probably

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remember it. They announced new Coke. We're not doing old Coke anymore. New

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formula, new flavor, new Coke and they released it and what happened? Everybody

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went berserk. The whole world went berserk, went crazy over this Coke and

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people were just complaining and sending it. It was a huge thing and 79 days after

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they released new Coke nobody wanted new Coke they wanted to go back to the old.

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They announced we're doing away with with or they didn't do away with new Coke.

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They said we're bringing back the old Coke and would you believe that in the

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middle of the day in the middle of General Hospital on ABC News Peter

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Jennings had a special report that broke in the General Hospital that says

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breaking news Coca-Cola is going back to the old formula. So we understand that we

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don't really like new things. We don't like change. We like to go back to the

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old. We get we get used to the old and we don't like the new and so if we do that

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about our Coca-Colas then maybe we can kind of in some way begin to understand

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what was going on here. They had been living in this in this religious system

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for so long and they kind of had tried this new system and and probably

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genuinely so had trusted in Jesus but but now they're saying okay we want to

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go back to the old but the author of Hebrew says don't go back to the old the

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new system in this case is better. Now newer is not always better. New Coke was

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probably not better than old Coke but but in this case newer was better. So out

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with the old in with the new and so he's building his case now. Okay if Jesus is a

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better high priest and a better sacrifice bringing in a better system

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then the author of Hebrews says I need to deal with the old system and we need

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to get over this hump from what happened in the old system and what's happening in

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the new system and how the old system pointed to Jesus in the new system and

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that's what we see in Hebrews chapter 9 verse 1. Now the first covenant also had

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regulations for ministry and an earthly sanctuary for a tabernacle was set up

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and in the first room which is called the holy place where the lampstand the

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table in the presentation loaves behind the second curtain the tabernacle was

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called the most holy place it contained the gold altar of incense and the Ark

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of the Covenant covered with gold on all sides in which there was a gold jar

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containing the manna, Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant

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the cherubim of glory were above it overshadowing the mercy seat. It is not

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possible to speak about these things in detail right now. Now he just sums up a

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lot of stuff. Now if you want to go back and read in great detail and there is

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great detail of how God wanted his people to make the tabernacle you can

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find that starting in about Exodus 35-36 for a few chapters there he begins to

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lay out a lot of detail about how the tabernacle is to be constructed. It was

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kind of like a tent that they would construct and it would have an outer

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wall and very specific. Oh look we got a picture of it right there. This is kind

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of a picture to give you an idea. It wasn't terribly huge but this is what the

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tabernacle would look like. Now here he says I'm not going to go into great

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detail about this right now and maybe for two reasons. Maybe one time he didn't

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have time to go and rehash all these chapters about the details and two his

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audience was Jewish they probably had a pretty good idea about the tabernacle

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and how it was built and how it worked. We however may not have quite as good an

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idea as to how the tabernacle works so we will take a few minutes this morning

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and go into the details. Now some of you may know what the tabernacle looked like

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and how it functioned. If you do then this will be a refresher. If you don't

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maybe you'll learn a little bit and understand it better when you read about

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the tabernacle in the Old Testament. So we're going to have an overhead shot of

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the tabernacle put up. This is if you're if you're in a drone looking down at the

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top of the tabernacle. I know this is not the best picture but maybe it'll give

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you an idea. This is what the tabernacle structure looked like that God's people

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would have used before the temple was built but the temple followed a very

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very similar structure very similar layout but nonetheless God's people as

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they traveled through the wilderness they would they would build this when

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they when they set up for camp they would build this structure and it would

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move from place to place and and they would carry out the sacrificial system

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and so the entrance of the temple would be to the east so we'll start going from

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right to left or from east to west. This is where the entrance would be you can

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see that red square maybe there on the side it says entrance and this is where

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the people would enter into and once the people entered into that that area you

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see that there's some livestock there. Well this would be a place where

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sacrifice would take place and that sacrifice would take place on the bronze

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altar. You'll see it right there after you come into the door. There was a

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bronze altar there and there was a variety of sacrifices that would be

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made and there were lots of priests who had helped make these sacrifices and so

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you can imagine it was a it was a really bloody nasty place it wasn't it wasn't

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like church when we talk about the tabernacle in the Old Testament it's not

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like everybody went there every Sunday morning and went to church that's not

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what the tabernacle was. The tabernacle was a place that that the normal folks

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could go into the courtyard area but they would bring their their offerings

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in and the priest would offer those offerings and then from there we move on

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and we see the bronze laver. Now this would be simply a wash basin. This would

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be somewhere that the priest would use because as you can imagine offering the

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sacrifices getting bloody and dirty and nasty the priests would need to clean

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themselves up that was important that they would be clean that they would be

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pure that they would be ready to enter into the holy place and so this is this

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wash basin this bronze laver that the priest would use. From there the priest

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could go into what is called the holy place. Now this rectangle on the backside

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is a part that's kind of like a covered tent area and it was about 45 foot long

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by about 15 foot wide and so it was split up into two sections the first

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rectangle here was about 15 by 30 and then the second rectangle was 15 by 15

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the first area is called the holy place all the priests could go into the holy

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place but the next area the holy of holies was only a place where the high

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priest could go and there was only one high priest and the high priest could

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only go there one day a year and that was called the day of atonement when the

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sacrifice would be made and atonement would be made for the people sin day of

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atonement you may have heard of it before yom kapur maybe you've heard of

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that word maybe you've seen it on your calendar you say I don't know what yom

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kapur is well yom kapur is the Hebrew word for day of atonement now Jewish

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folks still celebrate that we as Christians don't celebrate yom kapur

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because we know our atonement comes in Jesus Christ but nonetheless there's a

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little bonus for you today so this is the holy of holies and the holy place

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now we're gonna zoom in on those and see those a little closer now in this first

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section in the holy place there were there were three items here that were of

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significance that God wanted his people to place there one was the table of the

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showbread and there was always to be bread there that was to be replaced

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every week and the priest who went into this room would eat of this bread we

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also see the golden lamp stand there at the bottom the golden lamp stand had an

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obvious purpose it was to produce light this tent didn't have any windows it was

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closed off it had a veil to the front entrance and so it would be dark in there

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and so the lamp stand would provide light for the priest when they went into

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the holy place and right at the back of the room in the center of the room was

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the altar of incense and this incense was to be left burning all the time

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before the Lord now all the priests could go into this holy place we see in

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the front but between the holy place and the and the holy of holies or the most

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holy place was the veil there was a big veil there and only that high priest

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could go through that veil once a year and beyond the veil was the Ark of the

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Covenant and that's what's being talked about here in this passage you talked

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about the things that were in the Ark of the Covenant the jar of manna the staff

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of Aaron that budded the stone tablets these were things that we see throughout

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the Old Testament that were kept in the Ark of the Covenant but it was here in

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this most holy place that God would bring his presence down among the people

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and nobody else could go there only the high priest could go there and so when

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we talk about the old sacrificial system when we talk about the Old Covenant when

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we talk about the old priesthood this is what we're talking about we're talking

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about these sacrifices we're talking about this structure we're talking about

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this holy of holies we're talking about the necessity of a priesthood and most

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importantly the necessity of a high priest who would atone for the sins of

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the people okay so now we kind of get an idea we got a visual a we understand

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what's going on now the author of Hebrew says I'm not going into detail about

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this we went into a little bit of detail about it so he's he's making his point

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he says okay here was the old system here was the old way things used to be

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and now I'm gonna tell you why that old system was not sufficient but why Jesus

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is let's continue on in verse 6 with these things set up this way the priest

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enter the first room repeatedly performing their ministry but the high

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priest alone enters the second room and he does that only once a year and never

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without blood which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people

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committed in ignorance the Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into

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the most holy place had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was

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still standing this is a symbol for the present time during which gifts and

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sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshippers conscience they

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are physical regulations and only deal with food drink and various washings

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and pose until the time of restoration okay so he goes over a little bit about

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what would take place about what we talked about about the priest about the

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sacrifices but he says that this system was never going to be sufficient it was

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sufficient and what it was intended to do it's not like it was pointless it had

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some purpose and it served its purpose but what does he say here he says that

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it cannot perfect the worshippers conscience that is it could never fully

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do away with the sins of the people it could never really offer a true eternal

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peace for God's people why because people God's people continue to sin and

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so there would continually have to be atonement made year after year for the

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sins of the people the priests would sin even the high priests would sin God's

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people would sin and so this was a process that was repeated and repeated

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and repeated and repeated and animals were sacrificed and blood was shed

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because there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood as we will

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see as we continue on in the book of Hebrews and so this is the system that

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God had put in place to give them some some some momentary atonement if we can

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call it that it was atonement that was good in the moment but it was never the

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true and real atonement that the people needed their real debt to sin had not

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been paid this is a bad example but I'll use this anyway perhaps it's kind of like

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when we when we when we charge up stuff on our credit card we got a big debt

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well we get the bill every month and they say here's the minimum payment and

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you can keep paying the minimum payment and you'll be up to date so to speak but

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eventually you're gonna have to pay that minimum payment again and you're gonna

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have to pay that minimum payment again but what happens if you only pay the

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minimum payment you're never getting rid of the debt instead the debt is

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building and building and building and maybe on some level that's that helps

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us kind of understand what's going on here there was atonement that was made

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in the Old Testament and this atonement continued to be made but the sins of the

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people was great and the debt was building and building and building and

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the blood of these animals was insufficient to pay the debt of the sin

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of God's people so the author of Hebrews says look there's this old system here's

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how the old system worked but the old system was never going to be sufficient

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there needed to be a better system a more perfect system and that perfect

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system comes in and through Jesus Christ so he tells about the old system he

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talks about what's been going on but then listen to what he says in verse 11

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but the Messiah has appeared here's the old system here's how the old system

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worked here's how you used to do things this is the way that God had set it up

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but the Messiah has appeared that is to say the new has come that is to say when

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the new comes the old has passed away when there is a new priesthood there is

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a change in the law this was the law that God had given this is the law that

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God has established this is the priesthood that God established and this

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is how that priesthood works but now the Messiah has appeared okay now the old

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system is done because the new system has presented itself in Jesus Christ and

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a new covenant has been established that's why Jesus told his disciples

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there at the Last Supper he said look by this we're establishing I'm establishing

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a new covenant this blood this this this wine represents the blood this this

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bread represents my body that has been given for you and I am establishing a

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new covenant the author of Hebrews is telling us the same thing that Jesus

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had already told his disciples there was the old way this is how the old way was

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done but he says the Messiah has appeared high priest of good things that have

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come in the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is

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not of this creation okay so Jesus is is greater than this tabernacle our earthly

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high priest went into the Holy of Holies but Jesus has ascended into heaven Jesus

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is not serving in an earthly tabernacle Jesus's ministry is greater than the

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earthly tabernacle now these this audience here they want to go back to

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the temple they want to go back to the old system the old sacrifices the old

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priesthood but he says don't forget remember listen pay attention Jesus has

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appeared the Messiah has appeared and therefore he has established a better

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priesthood that is not of this world that is above this world and it is

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greater than this world so don't turn back to what is lesser when you have

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experienced what is greater that's a good good thing for us to remember today

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there are too many times in our life that we know the Word of God and we've

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trusted God and we walked with God and times in our life get difficult in the

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same way that they did for the for the audience here and what do we do we turn

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to the lesser instead of holding on to what is greater we turn to what is not

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going to offer us peace and salvation that's only going to bring us down

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that's only going to bring us into more sin what we need to do is when times get

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tough is not turn to the lesser but refocus our attention on the greater

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because the Messiah has appeared and he is our high priest and he is our

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sacrifice verse 12 he entered the most holy place once and for all once and for

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all that is no more what did the Jews here want they wanted to go back for

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some priest to continue to go through the veil and continue to offer the

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sacrifices but what does he say Jesus did this once and for all that is to say

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there will never be a need for sacrifices again the sacrifices are done

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God has done he is he has abolished this system it's done once and for all through

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Jesus Christ not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood having

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obtained eternal redemption for at the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes

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of a young cow sprinkling those who are defiled sanctify the purification of the

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flesh how much more will the blood of the Messiah who through the eternal

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spirit offered himself without blemish to God cleans our consciences from dead

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works to serve the living God he says if the blood of animals had some purpose

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and they serve that purpose how much greater is the blood of the Son of God

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Jesus Christ the Messiah and if the blood of the goats and the bulls and

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the ashes of a young cow couldn't clear your consciousness well there's good

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news he said because Jesus can clean your consciousness he clan can forgive

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your sin he can give you a peace that surpasses understanding now sometimes we

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try to we try to get through our sin we try to get through our struggle on our

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own terms on our own ways and our guilty conscience it just eats away at us and

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maybe even here today there's some of you and it eats away at you and it's

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gonna eat out way at you tonight when you go to bed but I'll tell you it

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doesn't have to eat away at you anymore because there is one who can clean your

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conscious and that one is Jesus Christ it is through Jesus Christ and Christ

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alone that you can find peace this morning boy isn't that a beautiful word

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isn't that a beautiful thing that we need we need it in our life because our

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lives are so hectic and our lives are so difficult and there's pain and there's

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heartbreak and there's tragedy and there is stress and there is worry and there

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is sickness and there are all these things that really really begin to to

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kind of pull our peace away from us but we need to remember what our source of

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peace is and maybe if we don't know peace today it's because we have pulled

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ourselves away from the source maybe if we don't know peace today we've never

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known the source but the author of Hebrews tells us that through Jesus

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Christ we can have a clear conscious we can have a peace that comes through

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Jesus Christ alone so everything in the Old Testament had a purpose everything

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in the Old Testament was not like God said okay I'm gonna try this way well

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this way didn't work so let me try another way no everything in the Old

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Testament had a purpose and everything pointed to Jesus Christ Jesus tells us

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and John that he is the door well there's no way to the Father except

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through Jesus Christ it is Jesus Christ who has become the perfect sacrifice on

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our behalf we don't go before a bronze altar and I'll offer up a cow today

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because Jesus has become our sacrifice we don't have to cleanse ourselves in a

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bronze basin today because it's Jesus who makes us clean as white as snow we

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see that everything in the Old Testament system was pointing to Jesus even in the

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holy place Jesus says I am the bread of life Jesus says I am the light of the

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world it's Jesus himself who offers a prayers for the saints and John chapter

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17 and it's through Jesus Christ that God tore the veil into the Holy of Holies

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granting access to every one of us today and to the presence of God that was

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something that was reserved for only one person once a year but when Jesus Christ

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was crucified on the cross the scripture tells us that God tore the veil between

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the holy place and the most holy place from top to bottom and do you know why

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he tore the veil because now we have access to God through Jesus Christ so

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even in the old tabernacle system everything that was established there

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that had to be done Jesus has accomplished it and the most perfect way

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that there is so why would we go to anything else why would we turn to

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anything else there's only one who can forgive our sins today and that is Jesus

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Christ there's only one who offered their life as a sacrifice for our sins so we

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wouldn't suffer the wrath of God and that is Jesus Christ there's only one

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who can make us as white as snow today and that is Jesus Christ there's only

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one who can sustain us today with the bread of life and the living water and

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that of Jesus Christ there's only one who can light your path today and that is

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Jesus Christ the Son of God and there is only one who we can enter into the

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kingdom of God that our sins may be forgiven and we may receive eternal life

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and be with God in his presence for all of eternity and that is through Jesus

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Christ so the author of Hebrews says look don't settle for anything else now

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look we're not tempted this morning to go out there and build a tabernacle and

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start sacrificing animals but there may be times on our life that we settle for

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something less than the perfect Word of God and the perfect will of God and the

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perfect Son of God and Jesus Christ and we need to repent of our sins we need to

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repent of the times that we are living for the world that we are trusting in

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the world that we're trying to find joy and peace and happiness in the world

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because we will not find it but we will find it in Jesus Christ we'll find a

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peace that surpasses understanding we'll find one who will give you a clear

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conscience maybe you need that today maybe your conscious is eating you up

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today maybe your sin is eating you up today well I've got good news for you the

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Bible says that if we confess our sins that God will hear those prayers and

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that God will forgive us of those sins but we must call on the name of Jesus

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Christ we must confess our sins acknowledge that we are a sinner maybe

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you've never put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ today maybe you've been

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living for yourself you've been thinking you've been good enough but you're not

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good enough because your sin is ever before you and it's only washed away

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through the blood of Jesus Christ and if you've never put your faith in Jesus I

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pray this morning that you would pray and ask God to forgive you of your sins

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that you would that you would go before God today that you would follow Jesus

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Christ today to say no more will I live for myself no more am I living for me

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but now God I want to live for Jesus the one who died for my sins if you've never

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put your faith in Jesus we're about to have a time of invitation and as the

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music plays this morning if God has spoken to you in some way if you need

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prayer come down I'll be glad to pray for you maybe you want to come kneel

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down here and pray or maybe you want to walk up this morning and you want to say

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brother I've accepted Jesus today I have I have prayed I have asked God to

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forgive me of my sins and I'm putting my faith and trust in Jesus and I want to

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be baptized because that's what Jesus says that once we become Christians once

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we've been forgiven of our sins that we need to follow through in baptism and

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maybe you want to do that today so as we have our song of invitation now is your

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chance to respond let's pray father God we come to you we thank you for your

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good word I pray dear Lord that we won't settle for lesser things in our life

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sometimes we do dear Lord sometimes we try to find our joy and we try to find

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our peace we try to find our our our everything in life and and something

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other than your word something other than your son and I pray that you'd

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forgive us for that God I pray that today that we would refocus our lives

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God maybe we're not so so different from from these folks in the book of Hebrews

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dear Lord maybe there are some things in our life that's been pulling us away

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from Jesus and maybe this is a good reminder today that we need to we need

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to refocus our attention dear Lord we need to realize that Jesus is all that

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matters and that there is no forgiveness there is no hope there is no peace there

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is nothing apart from Jesus Christ God maybe if there are some in here today

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that that do not know Jesus Christ I pray God that you would help them to put

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their faith in Jesus Christ maybe even now your Holy Spirit's convicted them I

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pray God that they would repent I pray that they would ask you to forgive them

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I pray that they would live their life for Jesus Christ from this moment forward

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I pray God that there any who have made that decision today that they would come

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forward and let us know that that we can rejoice with them this morning God maybe

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there are some here today and they're yours and they just got some things

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going on and they need that peace and they're looking for it but dear Lord

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maybe they've been looking for it in all the wrong places I pray today that they

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had looked to the cross of Jesus Christ the one who gave his life for him dear

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Lord that we would find peace and security and comfort whatever we may be

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going through whether it's a difficulty in life or a sin that we struggle with

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we would repent of that give it to you and that you'd let us leave with peace

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today rejoice it in you and I ask these things in Jesus name amen