1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 He was born, we're excited, let's move on to the sermon. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,800 So I have a question to start. 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:11,040 How many of you have ever met somebody famous? 4 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:14,760 I put that on there because famous is subjective, right? 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,920 Mike, who did you meet? 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,080 Lead singer of your favorite band, thanks for that 7 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,240 because everyone knows what you're talking about. 8 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:25,640 I'm gonna take it to Amberlynn, right? 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,520 And the front runner's name again is? 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,640 Steven Christian, all right. 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:32,480 Anybody else know Steven Christian? 12 00:00:33,580 --> 00:00:35,040 Oh, one in the back, very good. 13 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,000 Up there, Jamie, you rose your hand. 14 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,480 Who did you meet? 15 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,880 Vanna White, may I buy a vowel, all right. 16 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:46,160 Very good. 17 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,560 I said that really awkwardly, I apologize for that. 18 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,820 Even though that's what you say on the show. 19 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,480 Let's move on, okay, others? 20 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:00,480 Yeah, Jess, okay, no Conan O'Brien, John Walsh, who's that? 21 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,760 All right, someone on America's Most Wanted, okay, great. 22 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,480 And Conan O'Brien, anyone else? 23 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,480 Yeah, Holly, Johnny Bench, who? 24 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:24,480 Who was that? 25 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,820 Catcher for the Reds, I'm a White Sox fan, I don't care. 26 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,120 Anybody else, in the back? 27 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:39,040 Yep, Lou Ferrigno, the Hulk, wow, that's phenomenal. 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:41,920 Yeah, did you shake his hand? 29 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,300 How massive was that hand? 30 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:46,000 It was massive, it was enormous, yeah. 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 So those, okay Ron, go ahead, Joe Lewis, okay, the boxer. 32 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,440 Very good, all right, were you polite? 33 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,280 Good, yeah, very, that makes sense. 34 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,640 So when we meet someone famous, right, 35 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,400 so Mike, you were the first one to bring it up 36 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:03,680 to people no one knew in here, 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,120 but what was that like to meet him? 38 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:13,140 Okay, really cool to see someone who wrote the songs 39 00:02:13,140 --> 00:02:15,540 that mean so much to Mike, and Mike and I, 40 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:18,400 we have a love for Amberlynn, it's a great band, 41 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:19,960 if you wanna check them out. 42 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,120 Ron, when you met Joe Lewis, what was that feeling like? 43 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,960 In awe, thank you, okay, that's, yeah, in awe of what? 44 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:34,560 In what he's accomplished, right? 45 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,400 Famous boxer, famous people, right, Jess, 46 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,080 I could see that for Conan, right, all the stuff he did, 47 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,840 I don't know about the other guy, but that's okay, 48 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,240 you know, that there was, there's this kind of awe 49 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,000 that like, I watch you on TV, right, 50 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,640 and how many people know or remember the band DC Talk? 51 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,280 Okay, now how many people really remember the band DC Talk? 52 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,520 A lot more hands, if you are not raising your hand 53 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:00,960 for that, that's okay. 54 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,440 I got to meet them in tour when I was in junior high, 55 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,520 and I got Toby Mac's bucket hat, 56 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,080 he had signed the bucket hat, and he gave it to me, 57 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,980 and then I wore it thinking I could pull it off, 58 00:03:14,980 --> 00:03:17,480 I couldn't, but it was still just very cool 59 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:22,480 because I kind of idealized DC Talk, I loved their music, 60 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,100 their music impacted my faith when I was in grammar school 61 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:28,400 and in junior high, even in high school, 62 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,000 and Toby Mac now, God, okay, we will stop talking 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,800 about famous people, I get it, we'll get to you, 64 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,440 but understand that when we meet famous people, 65 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,760 there's something that goes on in us, 66 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,080 but one of the things that I would probably venture 67 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,280 to guess, it's not relatability. 68 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,100 Like when I meet Toby Mac, I kind of know that I know 69 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:55,720 that I know I can't do what Toby Mac does. 70 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,680 My guess is Ron, brother, I love you, when you met, 71 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,360 I forgot his name already, Joe Lewis, my guess is 72 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,720 there's an understanding that he could do stuff 73 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,200 in the boxing realm that you couldn't do, 74 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,320 that there is, exactly, that there's an acknowledgement 75 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:17,320 of talent, there's an acknowledgement of almost greatness, 76 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,460 if you will, and even as I talk about it, 77 00:04:21,460 --> 00:04:23,720 I feel uncomfortable because we automatically put 78 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,880 some of these people on pedestals that we know 79 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,800 we shouldn't do, and I'm not thinking that any of us 80 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,220 idealize them or have what would Conan O'Brien do 81 00:04:32,220 --> 00:04:34,360 on a wristband or anything like that, 82 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,440 but when we meet someone famous, it can stir up a lot 83 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,580 in us, kind of awe and wonder, maybe you kind of 84 00:04:41,580 --> 00:04:43,500 didn't know what to say and acted like a fool 85 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:45,820 in front of them, which I bet you weren't the only one 86 00:04:45,820 --> 00:04:50,400 to ever do that, but as we go through this book of Hebrews, 87 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,600 here's the tie, it's one of the biggest things 88 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,120 that the writer of Hebrews, again, we don't know who it was, 89 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,480 written mid to two-thirds into the first century, 90 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,140 this is what they were talking about about Jesus, 91 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,960 that they wanted people to know, the writers of this book 92 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:13,960 and the readers of this book, excuse me, and us in 2023, 93 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:19,560 that Jesus is the highest, that Jesus is the greatest, 94 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,920 and that what he offers, as we talked about last week, 95 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,920 is and should be irresistible, that what Jesus offers us 96 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:34,360 in salvation and grace should be something irresistible 97 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,720 to us, yet we talked about, last week as we ended, 98 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,080 the way we live out our faith, do people see, experience, 99 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:46,240 acknowledge, or desire the same irresistibleness 100 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,300 of the faith, of Jesus, of the church, or whatever, 101 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:54,000 that we should be showing, or do we give people 102 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,800 a version of Christianity, of Jesus, or the church, 103 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,800 that people go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 104 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,440 I'm actually gonna resist that, because at times, 105 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,720 the greatness of Jesus can, not that his greatness 106 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,120 never gets skewed eternally, but our version of him 107 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,920 to the world may actually do a lot of damage, 108 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,800 and that's one thing that we're gonna walk through, 109 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,160 and the writer here in chapter two is gonna continue, 110 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,920 but I also wanna continue in one of our confessions, 111 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,200 we looked at a couple articles of the Canons of Dort 112 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,240 last week, we're gonna look at article two and three 113 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,120 of the section Christ's Death and Human Redemption 114 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,200 Through It, so let's throw this one up. 115 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,920 So the first one is article two, okay? 116 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,400 The satisfaction made by Christ, since however 117 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,520 we ourselves cannot give this satisfaction 118 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,640 or deliver ourselves from God's wrath, 119 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:53,480 God in boundless mercy has given us a guarantee, 120 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,400 his only begotten son, as a guarantee, 121 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,400 his only begotten son, who was made to be sin 122 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:05,160 and a curse for us in our place on the cross, 123 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,800 in order that he might give satisfaction for us. 124 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,600 So let's stay there for a minute, go back. 125 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,680 Actually no, we'll continue, because the rest, yeah. 126 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,240 No, that's article three, so go back to article two. 127 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:22,240 This satisfaction, what does that mean? 128 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:26,280 That means Jesus on the cross, his life, his death, 129 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:31,280 his resurrection made a satisfaction for something. 130 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:36,280 It fulfilled a covenant for us and for God, 131 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:40,480 and that, as we talked about last week, 132 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,880 imputed righteousness, salvation, atonement 133 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,280 for your sin and my sin, Jesus took that, 134 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,400 put him upon himself on the cross, 135 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:54,400 and made satisfaction that we can have a audience 136 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,160 and a relationship with God. 137 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:02,160 Ultimately, that's what Christ's death satisfies for us, 138 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:08,200 that we can stand before a holy and just and perfect God, 139 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,000 not of our own attempts to be good, 140 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,480 not at our own, the amount of cadet campouts we go on, 141 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,960 the amount of Bible studies we lead, 142 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,280 the amount of terms we have as elder and deacon, 143 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:24,560 the amount of years as a pastor or preacher, or whatever, 144 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:25,760 because we try to do that. 145 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,960 God, look at my resume, look at all the things I've done. 146 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,340 I really didn't even wanna do this one, 147 00:08:30,340 --> 00:08:31,640 but Pastor made me do it. 148 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,520 All of these things, we try to show that to God, 149 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:36,160 say, can I get in now? 150 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,520 That's not how it works, 151 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,880 but a perfect sacrifice needed to be made, 152 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:44,120 and that was Jesus Christ. 153 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:45,320 Let's go to Article Three. 154 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:49,920 The infinite value of Christ's death, 155 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,640 this death of God's son, is the only 156 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:57,640 and entirely complete sacrifice and satisfaction for sins. 157 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,640 Let's leave it there for a second. 158 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:04,640 The only and entirely complete sacrifice 159 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:08,640 and satisfaction for sin. 160 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:13,040 The sin atonement, the blood offering, 161 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,440 if you go back to old Jewish culture 162 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,860 around the time of Passover, they would slaughter, 163 00:09:18,860 --> 00:09:23,860 they would send a perfectly white, kind of pure baby lamb 164 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:25,600 and send it out. 165 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:32,200 And then they would kill the kind of the spotless lamb 166 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,800 as the atoning sacrifice to God 167 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,860 back in the sacrificial system. 168 00:09:36,860 --> 00:09:40,760 Jesus was that for us. 169 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,560 And a only and entirely complete sacrifice. 170 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,560 It is of infinite value and worth, 171 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:51,120 more than sufficient to atone 172 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:55,360 for the sins of the whole world. 173 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:58,880 Sit with that for a minute. 174 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:00,720 20 seconds. 175 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,120 That Jesus' death on the cross atones 176 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,800 for your sins that were, the sins that are, 177 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,480 and the sins that will be. 178 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,640 Now, a little rabbit trail. 179 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,960 Don't take this as, well then I can go ahead and sin 180 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,320 because I know Christ's death's going to make recompense for it. 181 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:22,440 He's gonna atone for it. 182 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:23,560 It's called cheap grace. 183 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:25,800 Paul talks about that in the epistles. 184 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,280 Should I continue to sin so grace may abound? 185 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,160 Surely not. 186 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,240 That a changed life, the irresistibleness 187 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,080 of the grace and love of Christ 188 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,240 is acknowledging that you are forgiven 189 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,160 and walking out forgiveness. 190 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:46,040 Which should really fly in the face of those times 191 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,560 when we don't want to forgive each other. 192 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:52,960 Whether it's maybe a brother saying mean things 193 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:54,400 to other brothers, 194 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,360 or when someone hurts us 195 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,320 and we go, no, I forgive you. 196 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:07,760 It's really hard to offer forgiveness through gritted teeth. 197 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,580 Knowing that, oh yeah, I forgive you now, 198 00:11:12,580 --> 00:11:16,960 but I'm sure is not gonna forget. 199 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,880 And that's not forgetting, fair enough. 200 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,360 It's not holding them to that sin. 201 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:24,840 And then when they hurt you again, 202 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,240 bringing it up and going, now this is the second time. 203 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,040 So I'm doubly mad. 204 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,960 That's not how it works. 205 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:35,720 And one of the things we need to look at 206 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,520 in the book of Hebrews, not only is why, 207 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:44,160 but what Jesus went through for you and for me. 208 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,160 We talked about him being above the angels last week. 209 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,440 Jesus was not angelic. 210 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,000 Jesus was the son of God. 211 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,580 We talked about that there's a difference, 212 00:11:56,580 --> 00:11:58,580 but as we're gonna talk about today, 213 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,240 Jesus is also attainable. 214 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:04,560 As I said in the beginning of service, 215 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:08,240 there is a relationship in intimacy that Jesus wants 216 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:09,600 with each and every one of us. 217 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,120 And you may be scared of that word, intimacy. 218 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,560 You may not trust that word, intimacy, 219 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:17,120 because you've been hurt, you currently are hurt, 220 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,720 or in the future you will be hurt. 221 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,040 But that intimacy doesn't stop. 222 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,040 So let's jump into the book of Hebrews. 223 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:27,240 We'll be in Hebrews chapter two. 224 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,840 We're gonna start with verse five. 225 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:31,920 And again, we're gonna talk a little bit about the angels 226 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,520 and then we're gonna, after this, 227 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,540 we're not gonna talk about angels too much. 228 00:12:35,540 --> 00:12:37,840 We're gonna kinda move on from the angelic, 229 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,600 the holy, all of that, down to the real life 230 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,760 and then throughout history. 231 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,800 It's another, a little foreshadow 232 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,040 of where we're going to go. 233 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,000 For it was not made to angels 234 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,000 that God subjected the world to come, 235 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,240 for which we are speaking. 236 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,400 It has been testified somewhere. 237 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,960 What is man that you are mindful of him, 238 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,000 or the son of man that you care for him? 239 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,240 You have made him a little lower than the angels. 240 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,720 You have crowned him with glory and honor, 241 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:13,320 putting everything in subjection under his feet. 242 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,040 Friends, that's powerful. 243 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,120 That's a powerful statement. 244 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,200 And in there is one of the more confusing 245 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,200 verses of all of scripture. 246 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:27,640 And so we have to understand, 247 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,880 it kinda gives us the right perspective, 248 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,180 the right purview, the right perch, if you will, 249 00:13:32,180 --> 00:13:35,600 to see the rest of the chapter. 250 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:40,280 So let me read again in verse six. 251 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,120 It has been testified somewhere. 252 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,600 What is man that you are mindful of him, 253 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,320 or the son of man that you care for him? 254 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,120 Both talking about us and Jesus. 255 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,520 You have made him a little lower than the angels. 256 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:56,360 Time out. 257 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:01,360 The last chapter said the exact opposite. 258 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,540 So now this is really confusing. 259 00:14:04,540 --> 00:14:06,800 It shouldn't be, but this is the way Hebrews, 260 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,280 in some ways, builds and takes away 261 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,000 some of the high points of what the writer 262 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,720 was trying to get us to understand. 263 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,720 You made him a little lower than the angels. 264 00:14:19,020 --> 00:14:21,920 It's confusing because the chapter before, 265 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:23,660 Jesus is supreme. 266 00:14:23,660 --> 00:14:27,240 Jesus is the ultimate, and Jesus, 267 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,640 as Davidic son of God, right? 268 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:35,640 Perfectly holy, 100% God, absolutely. 269 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,960 Higher than the angels every day and twice on Sundays. 270 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,080 But let me ask, is that relatable? 271 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:48,880 For those of us that once wore the WW or still do, 272 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:53,160 the WWJD bracelet, is the deity of Jesus 273 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,200 what you're trying to attain? 274 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,400 Right, at the lunch table, let's use Rachel, 275 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,520 at the lunch table, it's okay, we'll get through this, 276 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,440 are you trying to create your five loaves and two fish 277 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,280 to feed all of Munster High School? 278 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,080 No, you don't even like fish, and that's fine, 279 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,220 but understand, the deity of God, the deity of Christ, 280 00:15:14,220 --> 00:15:18,760 is not what we are, we're not actively trying to pursue. 281 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,160 For those that come into my office 282 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,560 and try to say, well, I'm gonna be like God 283 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,200 and I'm gonna try to be a God, eh, you're doing it wrong. 284 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,760 The deity side of Christ is what atoned for yours 285 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,860 and my sin, something that we cannot, 286 00:15:36,860 --> 00:15:39,960 will not ever be able to match. 287 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,100 I love you all, but your death on the cross 288 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:46,200 or my death on the cross would have accomplished nothing. 289 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:51,200 Jesus is holy, a 100% perfect person 290 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,640 needed to die on the cross. 291 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,440 But as the writer now says, you've made him 292 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,440 a little lower than the angels. 293 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,880 So let me ask, how many of you have ever said 294 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,680 I wanna be like Gabriel or Michael the Archangel? 295 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,160 Now, they don't get a lot of play in our conversations, 296 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:10,320 we don't preach about them a lot 297 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,560 because it's hard to understand, 298 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,400 but we also have to understand who else was an angel? 299 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,560 Lucifer, I don't know anyone that's like, 300 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,040 I wanna be like him. 301 00:16:24,140 --> 00:16:26,240 If you've ever said that, please, let's find a, 302 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:27,200 let's have a conversation 303 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,240 because I don't think you get it, right? 304 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,380 We don't try to be like angels, that's why it's confusing. 305 00:16:32,380 --> 00:16:36,380 And the relatability, the understanding of the intimacy 306 00:16:36,380 --> 00:16:41,380 that we have with Jesus really is found in that verse. 307 00:16:41,380 --> 00:16:46,400 And for a time, right, you can read that into the Greek, 308 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,100 that this is a quantifiable amount of time, 309 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:54,440 that Jesus was made low, that Jesus, the humanity, 310 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,740 fully God, fully man, this is the part 311 00:16:56,740 --> 00:16:59,180 that we can connect to. 312 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:03,480 Be holy as I am holy, absolutely. 313 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,440 Because what is the definition of holy in the Scriptures? 314 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,680 Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly. 315 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,820 We do our best not to sin in life, 316 00:17:11,820 --> 00:17:15,300 but it's part of our DNA, it's who we are. 317 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:18,660 That's why there's grace and forgiveness. 318 00:17:18,660 --> 00:17:21,100 If we were perfect, Jesus would never need to die. 319 00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:23,400 If you were perfect, you'd never have to come to church. 320 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,000 If you all were perfect, I wouldn't have a job. 321 00:17:28,140 --> 00:17:29,980 But that's never been the landscape. 322 00:17:29,980 --> 00:17:31,480 That never will be the landscape 323 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,420 until we're with him in glory. 324 00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:37,080 But until that time, we needed something to attain. 325 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,420 We needed something to not chase after, 326 00:17:39,420 --> 00:17:42,860 that's the wrong way to look at it, but strive for. 327 00:17:45,020 --> 00:17:47,000 And that's the humanity of Jesus. 328 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,940 For a time, Jesus was made lower than the angels. 329 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,600 And you have crowned him, it says, 330 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,540 with glory and honor, putting everything 331 00:17:59,540 --> 00:18:01,940 in subjection under his feet. 332 00:18:01,940 --> 00:18:04,740 This is the King Jesus. 333 00:18:04,740 --> 00:18:08,900 This is the physical man that was mocked and lied about, 334 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:11,600 that stings were put out to capture him. 335 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,740 This is the Jesus that was spit upon, 336 00:18:13,740 --> 00:18:17,620 that was mocked and beaten, flogged, 337 00:18:17,620 --> 00:18:21,620 to the point of great agony and injury. 338 00:18:22,180 --> 00:18:25,660 It's the same Jesus that carried that plank of the cross 339 00:18:25,660 --> 00:18:29,320 to the top, through Golgotha to the top of Calvary, 340 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:34,960 whose hands and wrists and feet were nailed to the cross. 341 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:41,000 Who ultimately, the physical body died of suffocation, 342 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,000 that was crucifixion, we'll get to that later. 343 00:18:45,780 --> 00:18:49,280 Who felt the pain of the nails. 344 00:18:50,820 --> 00:18:52,820 Who I guarantee was discouraged. 345 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:53,880 How do we know? 346 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,660 He said it. 347 00:18:55,660 --> 00:18:58,520 In the Garden of Gethsemane, before all of us, 348 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,420 before all of that, he said, 349 00:19:00,420 --> 00:19:04,020 Father, if it be your will, let this cup of death 350 00:19:04,020 --> 00:19:09,040 pass from me, but not my will, your will be done. 351 00:19:11,340 --> 00:19:15,340 For I've made him a little lower than the angels. 352 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:22,840 Because if Jesus remained in that 100% God and not man, 353 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,880 that wouldn't have happened. 354 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,880 So you and I can relate. 355 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,060 You and I, you can understand if you're going through 356 00:19:33,060 --> 00:19:35,600 something right now and it's painful, 357 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,600 you can understand that Jesus sits with you. 358 00:19:41,060 --> 00:19:45,060 Because what if Jesus had never gone through any of that? 359 00:19:45,060 --> 00:19:48,340 What if Jesus on the road to Calvary just said, 360 00:19:48,340 --> 00:19:52,040 you know what, boom, done, and seen. 361 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,040 I don't want to go through this, I'm going back to the ranch. 362 00:19:55,040 --> 00:20:00,040 There wouldn't be a whole lot to talk about. 363 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:05,060 But out of his love, his infinite and intimate love 364 00:20:05,060 --> 00:20:08,060 for you and for me, he went to the cross 365 00:20:08,060 --> 00:20:12,060 because as the king, everything was put under his feet 366 00:20:12,060 --> 00:20:14,560 and he said, this is what makes Christianity 367 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,060 different than any other world religion 368 00:20:17,060 --> 00:20:20,560 and I will back that with whatever I can. 369 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,580 Where the creator, the creation comes down, 370 00:20:23,580 --> 00:20:28,580 lives amongst the creation and dies 371 00:20:28,580 --> 00:20:32,580 so that the creation can be with the creator. 372 00:20:35,580 --> 00:20:38,580 That was part of Jesus' glory. 373 00:20:38,580 --> 00:20:41,580 And as a church, we do a good job of celebrating that 374 00:20:41,580 --> 00:20:45,600 one week a year and we really love Easter. 375 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,600 Let's call spade a spade in the church. 376 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,600 We love Easter. 377 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:54,600 We love our Super Bowl. 378 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,600 But here we are in the middle of September 379 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:01,600 with the realization of what Jesus did, why Jesus did it, 380 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,620 and what it means for us. 381 00:21:05,620 --> 00:21:09,620 And I don't know about you friends, but that's a lot. 382 00:21:09,620 --> 00:21:15,620 So should that not come into mind when we live out our days? 383 00:21:15,620 --> 00:21:18,620 And here's, this is going to be more than a week record. 384 00:21:18,620 --> 00:21:20,620 A month record or maybe a series record. 385 00:21:20,620 --> 00:21:23,620 Please come back. 386 00:21:23,620 --> 00:21:29,640 The way we live out our faith, the things we do in our life, 387 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:35,640 we're putting out to the world that Jesus died for that. 388 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,640 And I don't know about you, but there are ways 389 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,640 that I live out my Christianity that it's the opposite 390 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,640 of what I'm conveying. 391 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,660 That when I live the life that I do, the thoughts I have 392 00:21:47,660 --> 00:21:49,660 in my head, the things that come out of my mouth, 393 00:21:49,660 --> 00:21:51,660 all of the things I do with my hands and feet, 394 00:21:51,660 --> 00:21:57,660 knowing that sin is riddled in there in that friction. 395 00:21:57,660 --> 00:22:01,660 But there are days that I just walk out that sin, 396 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:03,660 and that's what I'm showing the world. 397 00:22:03,660 --> 00:22:06,680 Hey, Jesus died for this. 398 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,680 And a world could easily be asking, 399 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,680 then why are you doing it? 400 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,680 Then what are you doing? 401 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,680 As a young man, right, as kind of men grew up 402 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,700 in a very digital age, we can all agree that the Internet 403 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:25,700 is not something that is for everybody 404 00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:29,700 or has just good things. 405 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:32,700 And any of us, boy, girl, doesn't matter. 406 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:35,700 The Internet can be a very dangerous place, 407 00:22:35,700 --> 00:22:37,700 and we can bring harm to ourselves 408 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:42,700 with what the Internet can offer. 409 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:45,720 I remember I had a youth pastor once say, 410 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:50,720 before you go online, I'll be a little codeic today, 411 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,720 just so you don't have awkward conversations later. 412 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,720 I had a youth pastor once say, 413 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,720 pretend like Jesus is with you as you're surfing on the Web. 414 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,720 That he's sitting right next to you, 415 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,720 and you're going to show him everything 416 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,740 that you're about to look at. 417 00:23:06,740 --> 00:23:08,740 Well, there were times growing up, 418 00:23:08,740 --> 00:23:11,740 I probably should not have touched a computer then, 419 00:23:11,740 --> 00:23:15,740 if that's how it really was going to be. 420 00:23:15,740 --> 00:23:18,740 But take the Internet out and put something, 421 00:23:18,740 --> 00:23:21,740 whatever else you struggle with, in there. 422 00:23:21,740 --> 00:23:23,760 That if Jesus says, I am with you always 423 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,760 to the very end of the age, and he is right there with you 424 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,760 as you walk through the things you walk through, 425 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,760 as you say the things you say, as you think the things you think, 426 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,760 as you do the things that you do, 427 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,760 and if Jesus is with you through it, 428 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,760 what more that conversation would be like? 429 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,780 If all of a sudden he manifest himself right there, 430 00:23:45,780 --> 00:23:50,780 that you could see him, speak to him, touch him, 431 00:23:50,780 --> 00:23:54,780 what would he say? 432 00:23:54,780 --> 00:23:56,780 There's a part of me that plays out that he would look at me 433 00:23:56,780 --> 00:24:01,780 and go, Jim, really? 434 00:24:01,780 --> 00:24:06,800 When really, because of what he went through for you and for me, 435 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:12,800 Jesus should be cheering us on in trying to live a sinless life. 436 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,800 Jesus died for the struggles that you're going through. 437 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,800 What Hebrews is telling us is that not only is he relatable 438 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,800 and intimate, but he is with you. 439 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,820 He went to the cross for you, for those moments, 440 00:24:25,820 --> 00:24:30,820 so that if you do sin, right, there's a way of forgiveness, 441 00:24:30,820 --> 00:24:33,820 but not cheap. 442 00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:37,820 But every time we walk it out in a cheap way, 443 00:24:37,820 --> 00:24:40,820 what are we saying about the cross? 444 00:24:40,820 --> 00:24:44,840 And you all know whatever sin, you know the sin that you struggle with, 445 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,840 and you may know the habitual sin that you fall into time and time again. 446 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,840 And maybe for you it's, hey, I went a week without, 447 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:57,840 whatever it is, way to go, keep going. 448 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:02,820 But for all of us that set ourselves up to sin, say we're sorry, 449 00:25:02,820 --> 00:25:07,820 sin, say we're sorry, sin, say we're sorry. 450 00:25:07,820 --> 00:25:10,820 Is Jesus going to forgive you? Yeah, he is. 451 00:25:10,820 --> 00:25:12,820 But what does that say about you? 452 00:25:12,820 --> 00:25:15,840 What does that say about me? 453 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:21,840 That Jesus' death is really worth a half-hearted sorry. 454 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,840 But people live it out that way. 455 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,840 Lord, forgive me! 456 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,840 Forgive me for what I just did! 457 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,840 Forgive me for the thoughts that I thought! 458 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:39,860 And forgive me two days from now when I forget this situation and I go ahead and do it again. 459 00:25:39,860 --> 00:25:42,860 That's one of the reasons why he went to the cross, 460 00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:45,860 is so that we could have the mindset. 461 00:25:45,860 --> 00:25:48,860 I'm not going to say the heart set, because that doesn't make any sense. 462 00:25:48,860 --> 00:25:52,860 The heartbeat. 463 00:25:52,860 --> 00:25:59,880 To keep Christ in the conversation and to shed those areas of our life. 464 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:05,880 To flee from them, as the writer of Hebrews is going to get to in a couple weeks. 465 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,880 Lay aside all of the things that trip us up. 466 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:18,900 We have that power, we have that right, and we have that responsibility to shed that sin. 467 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:25,900 The sin that so easily entangles us. 468 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:27,900 And how do we know it's for our good? 469 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:35,900 Because Jesus was crowned with honor and glory for it. 470 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:42,920 Fully God, fully man died on the cross for you and for me. 471 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,920 That Jesus came with a mission. 472 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,920 Jesus came to do what he said he was going to do. 473 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:56,920 What was prophesied about him from the very, very beginning. 474 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:06,940 As we continue this book of Hebrews, as we continue to walk through why Jesus is the awesomest of awesome. 475 00:27:06,940 --> 00:27:09,940 Why Jesus is the highest of high. 476 00:27:09,940 --> 00:27:13,940 Why Jesus is the most superior of the superiors. 477 00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:16,940 There is a reason. 478 00:27:16,940 --> 00:27:18,940 He backed it up. 479 00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:24,960 He didn't just say like a lot of world religions, keep doing what you're doing and try to make it to me. 480 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,960 No. 481 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,960 But he was brought low for the times that you feel low. 482 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:36,960 He was raised in glory for the times that you're doing really well in your life. 483 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,980 Your accountability partner is working with you or whatever it is. 484 00:27:39,980 --> 00:27:42,980 Your spouse, you're working through all of the muck in the mire. 485 00:27:42,980 --> 00:27:45,980 You're working on restoration if trust has been broken. 486 00:27:45,980 --> 00:27:52,980 You're working through hurt and pain to find healing and comfort. 487 00:27:52,980 --> 00:27:57,980 Because Jesus accomplished that. 488 00:27:57,980 --> 00:28:02,000 He was made low for that reason. 489 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,000 But he never lost his divinity. 490 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:10,000 The wrath of God was put on his shoulders. 491 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:16,000 All the things that maybe you have thought about if you've been paying attention today was put on Jesus' shoulders. 492 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,980 And he died for that so those would not be held against you on the last day. 493 00:28:21,980 --> 00:28:25,980 Whether the last day or your last day. 494 00:28:25,980 --> 00:28:31,000 Christ's righteousness is bathed all over you. 495 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:38,000 And we hear those words, well done good and faithful servants. 496 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Friends, I struggle with that. 497 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000 Because there are days and weeks I go, well done? 498 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Jim, this is worth a well done? 499 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,020 This is worth a, eh, try again. 500 00:28:55,020 --> 00:29:01,020 Jesus comes with and says, Jim I love you. 501 00:29:01,020 --> 00:29:03,020 Let's work on this. 502 00:29:03,020 --> 00:29:07,020 I am calling you to something greater than yourself. 503 00:29:07,020 --> 00:29:14,040 And he can call you to that because he is it. 504 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,040 You're having rocky times in your marriage? 505 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,040 Be more like Christ. 506 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,040 You're having rocky times with your friends? 507 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,040 Be more like Christ. 508 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,040 You're having issues with your brothers saying hurtful things to you? 509 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,040 Be more like Christ. 510 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,060 You can't stand your boss and you want to quit? 511 00:29:34,060 --> 00:29:36,060 Be more like Christ. 512 00:29:36,060 --> 00:29:39,060 It's the easiest advice I can give. 513 00:29:39,060 --> 00:29:42,060 It's some of the hardest to walk out. 514 00:29:42,060 --> 00:29:48,060 But if we are more and more daily like Christ, like I only got to like three chapters or three verses, 515 00:29:48,060 --> 00:29:56,080 the rest of chapter two says, you may find it's just a little bit easier. 516 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,080 Because the other thing we have, and this is where we're going to get to, not next week, 517 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:05,080 but the following week, is what happens if you say you're a believer, 518 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,080 and let's say your friend says that they're a believer. 519 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,100 There's a lot of non-believer stuff going on between you. 520 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:18,100 It's not just a them issue, it's an us issue. 521 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:22,100 And Christ walks out how we're supposed to handle it. 522 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:30,100 He gives us the opportunity to resolve conflict of whatever size, together. 523 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:38,120 Because that's also what's in his death and resurrection, the way to reconcile. 524 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:43,120 Colossians puts this at all of his blood, the death reconciled all of us to the cross, 525 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:50,120 and when he rose there was that new life in Christ. 526 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,120 So that should cut to the heart of all of our grudges. 527 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:59,120 That should cut to the heart of all of our arguments, of all of our hurt and pain. 528 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:05,120 Sit with each other and say, how can I be more like Christ? 529 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:10,120 What I didn't just say is tell them how they could be more like Christ. 530 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:15,120 We'd have way too much fun with that, and it probably wouldn't go well. 531 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:19,120 But the person you're in conflict with, what if you ask them, 532 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,120 how can I be more like Christ for you? 533 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,120 I guarantee that's going to change the conversation. 534 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:33,120 Now, if they get scared and flee, then maybe there wasn't a relationship to begin with. 535 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:42,120 But if you're in Christ, that is our responsibility to show the world that Christ. 536 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:47,120 And as we walk through next week, the following week, it's going to get very tangible. 537 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,120 It's going to get real hard. 538 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:55,120 Because if Jesus is the superior, if Jesus is the ultimate, and he shows us a way to do it, 539 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,120 then what does that mean for us? 540 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:05,120 What does that mean in the hurt and pain of life? 541 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,120 But more on that in a couple weeks. 542 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,120 Let's pray. 543 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:19,120 Father, the relationship that we get to have with you is unbelievable. 544 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:26,120 Show us what it looks like to invest more and more into that relationship. 545 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:31,120 Father, allow us to have the hurts and pains, physical, emotional, spiritual, 546 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:38,120 to not define the type of Christianity we walk out. 547 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:45,120 That our Christianity is not defined by hurt and pain, but by hope and peace and comfort and healing, 548 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,120 even if it's small. 549 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:53,120 As we walk that out this week, it may not get easier. 550 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,120 But as we're going to read, you persevered. 551 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,120 You kept walking so we can keep walking. 552 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,120 We love you. 553 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:30,120 In your holy son's name, amen.