1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Thank you, you may be seated. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Do you think about heaven? 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000 I hope you think about heaven. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Heaven, I want to tell you just from the beginning, it's a real 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 place. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Heaven is a real place. 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 People are right there right now. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 It's going to be incredible when we get there one day. 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Are you looking forward to it? 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Man, it's going to be amazing. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Here's something you need to know about heaven. 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,000 God's there. 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 And God's perfect. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 And it's a perfect place. 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Believers proceeding us in death are there. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Who's got some people in heaven? 17 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Yeah, can't wait to see them. 18 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,000 There will be representation from every people group of the 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 planet in heaven. 20 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 It's going to be a very diverse group of people that are there. 21 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 And there's some things that aren't in heaven. 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Are you ready? 23 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Got a list. 24 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Some things not in heaven. 25 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Pain, crying, cancer, temptation. 26 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,000 You like my list? 27 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Yeah. 28 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Grief, regret, wrinkles, surgeries, cavities. 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 I'm guessing commercials. 30 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Maybe there'll be commercials. 31 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Only funny commercials. 32 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Okay. 33 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,000 I don't know. 34 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Terrorism, racism, sexual confusion, pornography, traffic, 35 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 anger, rage, foul language. 36 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 I don't know if this one's the calories. 37 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 I put it on my list. 38 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 I don't know. 39 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Presidential elections. 40 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 We know who's in charge in heaven, amen. 41 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 And there's not an election cycle. 42 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 He'll be king forever, amen. 43 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Abortions, funerals. 44 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 It's not in heaven. 45 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Who likes my list? 46 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 There's a whole lot more. 47 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Bullets, drowning, snake bites, dog bites. 48 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Mosquitoes. 49 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 No mosquitoes. 50 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 At least they won't bite anyway. 51 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,000 My pain is what I'm trying to say really comes from Revelation 52 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 chapter 7 where it says there are some former things that will 53 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 pass away. 54 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,000 God will continue to make all things new. 55 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 All things new. 56 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Look at this passage real quick. 57 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Revelation chapter 21 verse 1 through 7. 58 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 This is amazing. 59 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I saw a new heaven and a new earth. 60 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 For the first heaven and the first earth will pass away. 61 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 There was no more sea and I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem 62 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:05,000 coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned 63 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 for her husband. 64 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 You guys know Miles got married yesterday. 65 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Anybody watch that online? 66 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 We can watch weddings online now. 67 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 He didn't just kiss her once. 68 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 He kissed her twice. 69 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Did you see that? 70 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,000 He kissed her when it was time and then they got halfway down the 71 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 aisle and he put her over and then he kissed her there too. 72 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 And then there's like a part where they're doing the knot and 73 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 there's like a lot of hugging. 74 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 There's a lot of premarital hugging going on, you know, on the 75 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 stage. 76 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Yeah, it was, we'll talk when he gets back. 77 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:40,000 But anyway, what a beautiful image of a bride adorned for her 78 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 husband coming. 79 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 And here's what, here's this new heaven, new earth, this bride 80 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 coming out of heaven as a prepared for a bride, as a bride 81 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 adorned for her husband and I heard a great voice out of heaven 82 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:56,000 saying, behold the tabernacle, key word in the sermon today, 83 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:03,000 tabernacle of God is with men. 84 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 And they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them 85 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 and be their God and God shall wipe away all tears from their 86 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying. 87 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Neither there shall there be any more pain for the former things 88 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 are passed away and he that sat upon their phone said, that's 89 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Jesus. 90 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Behold, I make all things what? 91 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 New. 92 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 And he said unto me, right, for these words are true and faithful 93 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 and he said unto me, it is done. 94 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,000 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning of the end and the end. 95 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I will give unto them that is a thirst of the fountain of the 96 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 water of life freely. 97 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 He that overcomes shall inherit all things and I will be his 98 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 God and he shall be my son. 99 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Who is looking forward to heaven? 100 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 It's going to be amazing. 101 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,000 What if this life contains some things that really are pointing 102 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 us to the next? 103 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 I believe that this is the case and I think you're going to see 104 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 it in today's text. 105 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 C.S. Lewis in his book, mere Christianity put the concept this 106 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,000 way. 107 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Most people if they had really learned to look into their own 108 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,000 hearts would know that what they do want and what acutely 109 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 something that cannot be had in this world. 110 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give 111 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,000 it to you but they never quite keep their promise. 112 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:32,000 If I find myself in myself a desire which no experience in 113 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,000 this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I 114 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,000 was made for another world. 115 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy but only 116 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. 117 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000 If that is so, I must take care on the one hand never to despise 118 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 or to be unthankful for these earthly blessings and on the 119 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 other never to mistake them for something else of which they are 120 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 a kind of copy or echo or mirage. 121 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:07,000 I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country which 122 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 I shall not find till after this death. 123 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside. 124 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other 125 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:23,000 country and to help others do the same. 126 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 One of the things that I am trying to do in this series, this is 127 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 sermon number I believe 20 or 21 as we have walked through the 128 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,000 book of Hebrews. 129 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 What I am trying to do is bridge the gap between the theological 130 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,000 and the conceptual and the everyday. 131 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,000 What I want you to know, the practical, right? 132 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 You guys need to live this week, right? 133 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 You are going to work and school and you are going to do family 134 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,000 stuff and you are making the choice to live a life right now. 135 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 You have a bunch of decisions to make this week, don't you? 136 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,000 You do. 137 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 You have a lot of things to live out. 138 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000 I am trying to help you understand that your everyday life shows 139 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 up here in the theological and the conceptual and making it 140 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 practical. 141 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 What I want you to know is that the point of each passage, the 142 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 point I am trying to do is to make the point of each passage the 143 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,000 point of the sermon and to help that impact your life. 144 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Hebrews is all about what God has done in revealing himself to 145 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 us throughout the scriptures. 146 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 The main point is that what he has revealed in the Old Testament 147 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 is bettered or is made greater in the New Testament. 148 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Jesus is central to the whole of scripture and the whole of 149 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 history. 150 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Let me say that again. 151 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Jesus is central to the whole of scripture and the whole of 152 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 history. 153 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 This is a book about Jesus. 154 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 It is a book about how we can't meet God's standards and we 155 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 can't keep God's law so Jesus came in the gospels and kept the 156 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 law we could not keep and died the death we were supposed to die. 157 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 But he didn't stay dead. 158 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 He rose again. 159 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 And because of his sacrifice and because of this new promise, we 160 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 can be right with God. 161 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And one day we can go to be where he is. 162 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Jesus really is greater. 163 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Jesus really is better. 164 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,000 And Hebrews has laid out this case and will continue to lay at 165 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 this case that Jesus is greater. 166 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 And in the last few weeks, we took a break for Mother's Day and we 167 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 love the mothers. 168 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:36,000 We come today continuing through Hebrews chapter 8 and the writer 169 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:41,000 of Hebrews who has been making a case that Jesus is our great 170 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 high priest who has remembered us talking about Jesus as our 171 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 great high priest. 172 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,000 And as our better high priest, he's a priest after the order of 173 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Melchizedek, it's a better order, better than that ironic order. 174 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Our priest, our better high priest, because of him, we can have 175 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 intimacy with God right now. 176 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:12,000 You can have a relationship with the God of the universe this 177 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 week. 178 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:20,000 You can commune with God apart from any other person. 179 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 You don't have to go to anybody else. 180 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,000 You can go right to God through the person and work of Jesus 181 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Christ. 182 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 In that way, we are all kind of priests. 183 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,000 We teach the priesthood of the believer that if you know Christ 184 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,000 as your savior, you can go to God. 185 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 You don't have to go through anybody. 186 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,000 I'll pray for you if you ask me. 187 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 There are some others here that I'll pray for you. 188 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 They are close to the Lord. 189 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,000 But my prayers don't get there better than anybody else's prayer 190 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 because I'm the pastor. 191 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Are you with me? 192 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 We can live a life of intimacy with God this week. 193 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 And one of the things that has been happening in my life here 194 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 lately is as I have been kind of reaffirmed in all the things I 195 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 am learning, you know what, I learned from what I am studying 196 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 and preaching to you. 197 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 And I am really helpful. 198 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Thank you for letting me preach to you. 199 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Because I get to preach to me first. 200 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 And you know what I come away with on this? 201 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000 I want you to know that I have not accessed God like I had the 202 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 opportunity to. 203 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 There have been times when I have not been as prayerful as I 204 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 needed to be. 205 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Can anybody get on the boat with me? 206 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 I can go to God every day. 207 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Think about all the decisions you have made. 208 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 And I thought about this a lot. 209 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 All the decisions that I have made apart from seeing what God 210 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 had to think about it. 211 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Going to him about it. 212 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 We have access to the God of it. 213 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 He knows everything. 214 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 He owns everything. 215 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 He loves me. 216 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 He cares about me. 217 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 He knows what is going to happen in my future. 218 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 I should access that. 219 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 So should you. 220 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Are you with me? 221 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,000 He is out there to serve me. 222 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:22,000 But he has offered himself to me through the person of Jesus. 223 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 You guys are not excited. 224 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Come on. 225 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 I know I say that all the time. 226 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 But I want you to feel this. 227 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,000 We can have victory over sin. 228 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 We can have intimacy with God. 229 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 We can have direction for life. 230 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Through his word and through prayer because we have access to 231 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 him. 232 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Because Jesus is our great high priest. 233 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 And he can help you this week. 234 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 He can help you today. 235 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 And as you enjoy things in his word and learn things from his 236 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:03,000 word and in this life, know that this life is pointing to the next. 237 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Here is the summary statement of the sermon and the proposition 238 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 I am going to make to you today. 239 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,000 We can have, we can live a life of incredible intimacy with God. 240 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,000 And victory from God by living according to the truth that Jesus 241 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Christ is our better high priest. 242 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,000 We can see that he is our better high priest in two ways I am going to 243 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 talk about today that come up in this passage. 244 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Sometimes when we have the reading of scripture and I was so 245 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,000 thrilled when you guys got up today without being prompted as 246 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,000 the scripture is being read because I believe this ought to be 247 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 honored when we read it. 248 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Amen. 249 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,000 And so thank you for honoring God's word today. 250 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Sometimes when we read it and you just kind of read it for what 251 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,000 it is like, okay, what is he trying to say? 252 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Doc when he heard that he was teaching today and what is the 253 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,000 verses that he is reading, Hebrews 8, the whole thing, yeah, 254 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 the whole thing, right? 255 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 There is a lot there. 256 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 It is amazing when you dig in what you can learn. 257 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 And so it is going to talk about how Jesus is our better high 258 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 priest and he is going to talk about it in two ways in the text. 259 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 The first way that he talks about it and if you want to take 260 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,000 notes in the bulletin, there is a place for you to take notes 261 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,000 and I hope you will follow along there. 262 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,000 First, the first way he is a better high priest is number one, 263 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,000 he is a minister of a better tabernacle. 264 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000 A minister of a better tabernacle. 265 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Let me explain that. 266 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Verse 1 says, now of these things which we have spoken, this is 267 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 the sum. 268 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000 This is the kind of author, the preacher doing what they do 269 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 sometimes what we preachers do is you come to a point and you 270 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,000 go, okay, let's just stop and say what we have already said. 271 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Kind of give a summary. 272 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 I like that that is happening here. 273 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 We have such a high priest. 274 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,000 What kind of high priest is he about to tell you? 275 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Talking about Jesus. 276 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the 277 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 heavens. 278 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:16,000 A minister of the sanctuary and of the, here it is, true tabernacle 279 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:22,000 which the Lord pitched and not man. 280 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Now here we are given a summary of the kind of high priest we have 281 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 in Jesus. 282 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 And he is saying, Jesus is a better high priest because he 283 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 ministers in a better tabernacle. 284 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:38,000 That means letter A, Jesus is better because of where he sits. 285 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,000 In verse 1 and 2 we see the place where he serves contrasted with 286 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 the ironic priesthood. 287 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Jesus Christ is at the right hand of God. 288 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 He is on a throne. 289 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:58,000 The expression here, majesty in the heavens gives us a picture of 290 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 that place. 291 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Isaiah 6 talks about where Jesus, where God is. 292 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Isaiah saw a throne high and lifted up. 293 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,000 It says, in the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting 294 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 upon a throne high and lifted up and his train filled the temple 295 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 with the Holy Spirit. 296 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 And above it stood the seraphims. 297 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Each one had six weens with 20 covered his face and with 20 298 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,000 covered his feet and with 20 he did fly. 299 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 And one cried to another and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord 300 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000 of hosts. 301 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,000 The whole earth is full of his glory. 302 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,000 And the post of the doors moved at the voice of him that cried 303 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000 and the house was filled with smoke. 304 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Isn't that an incredible picture of where God is? 305 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,000 And the Lord told us about where Jesus sits and the fact that he 306 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000 is sitting and Hebrews 1.3 says, who being the brightness of his 307 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:54,000 glory, talking about Jesus, Jesus reflected the brightness, he 308 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,000 was the express image of his person, Colossian tells us, 309 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000 right, that Jesus is the brightness of his glory, the 310 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 express image of his person and upholding all things by the word 311 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,000 of God. 312 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Where is Jesus? 313 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 He is in heaven. 314 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,000 And where other priests never sat down, he has sat down. 315 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,000 We will talk more about that in a little bit. 316 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 He is, it says in verse 1, who is set. 317 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,000 He is not having to be up and around. 318 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 He is sitting. 319 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 It's a place reserved for him. 320 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 It's a heavenly place and not an earthly one. 321 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Notice the description, it says it's called a sanctuary. 322 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,000 The word for sanctuary here is hagyon. 323 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:47,000 It means a holy place or a sanctified place. 324 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 It's a place set aside from a common use. 325 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 It's a dedicated place. 326 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 That's where he's gone. 327 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,000 It's called another description there of the, it says true 328 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 tabernacle. 329 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,000 God's commands to Moses and the law was to create a tabernacle. 330 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:08,000 That tabernacle was a tent in the wilderness wanderings and 331 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 eventually became the prototype for the temple later on. 332 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 And in that place, I think I showed you pictures before, I 333 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 didn't put them on here today. 334 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:21,000 There's an outer place where anybody could go that was Jewish. 335 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Then there was an inner place, the holy place, and then there 336 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,000 was a holy of holies, the holy of holies. 337 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:34,000 It was a traveling set of tents made by specific tradesmen. 338 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:39,000 And these men are described in Exodus 25, 26, 31, 1, and 31, 6 339 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 as having the skill to make the tabernacle and everything in 340 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 it. 341 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,000 This passage speaks of a true tabernacle. 342 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 It's not the one that, it's not that, when it says that it's a 343 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000 true tabernacle, it's not saying that the one in Exodus was a 344 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 false one. 345 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Are you with me? 346 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 It's not saying that was a false one, it's just saying it wasn't 347 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 the first one. 348 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Are you with me? 349 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,000 The tabernacle up there is in a copy of the one down here. 350 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:16,000 The one down here is a representation of the one up there. 351 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Do you get it? 352 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,000 We'll see from the future that the one in Exodus is a copy and 353 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 not the original. 354 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:30,000 It's the tabernacle, here's what it says, which the Lord pitched 355 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 and not man. 356 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Do you see that in verse 1 and 2? 357 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,000 This sanctuary and true tabernacle is not made. 358 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 It was made by God himself. 359 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:49,000 This is the place where our true high priest ministers right now. 360 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Do you get it? 361 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Right now there is a place where Christ lives, where Christ 362 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 resides, where Christ sits. 363 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 It's a place set apart in heaven, designed and constructed by 364 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,000 God, where Christ was placed to serve as our intercessory 365 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 minister. 366 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Our high priest, where I can go to God at any time to commune 367 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,000 with God, to abide in Christ, to spend time with Him, to find 368 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000 strength. 369 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Anybody here need strength? 370 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Yes. 371 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,000 He ever lives to make intercession for us, the Bible says. 372 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 And to fellowship with Him. 373 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,000 You can fellowship with the God of the universe. 374 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Listen, you talk to me, I don't always understand. 375 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Anybody ever felt that? 376 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Have you ever felt like there's no one that gets me? 377 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Okay, like Doug's saying yes. 378 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Anybody else feel that way? 379 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Teenagers, have you ever felt my friends don't understand 380 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:52,000 me, my parents don't understand me? 381 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:57,000 I always felt like girls never understood me. 382 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,000 My wife's trying, she's so sweet, she's trying to get me. 383 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 It's hard. 384 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 And don't even get me started on getting girls. 385 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,000 I don't get them, I don't get you people at all. 386 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Okay. 387 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Jesus understands. 388 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 He gets you. 389 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 He made you. 390 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 He knows you better than you know yourself. 391 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 And He loves you. 392 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 He loves you so much He died for you. 393 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:32,000 And now, those He saved to the uttermost, Hebrews says, He now 394 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:37,000 lives to make intercession for them. 395 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,000 He sits in a better place. 396 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,000 He's better, He's a better high priest, in a better tabernacle 397 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 because of what He does. 398 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Look at verse 3. 399 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 He says, for every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and 400 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,000 sacrifices. 401 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Where for it is of necessity that this man have someone else, 402 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 someone else to offer. 403 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:04,000 The old priesthood, the Aaronic priesthood, what they did, what 404 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:09,000 they did on a daily basis, basically they were butchers. 405 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:14,000 In terms of what they did, they sacrificed animals. 406 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Those were the gifts and the offer. 407 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,000 It's more than that, but that's what they were doing. 408 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,000 They were offering sacrifices to God on behalf of the people. 409 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 That's what they were doing. 410 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,000 And so when you say that Jesus is a high priest, what the 411 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:34,000 writer of Hebrews is saying is, well, the Jewish person reading 412 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 this is going, well, priests, they do a lot of sacrificing. 413 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,000 So if Jesus is a high priest, what's the sacrifice? 414 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 And that's what He says. 415 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Verse 3. 416 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Where for it is of necessity that this man have someone to 417 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 offer. 418 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 For if he were on the earth, he should not be a priest, seeing 419 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law. 420 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 So He's saying if his priesthood wasn't up in the real tabernacle, 421 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,000 wasn't up in heaven with God, if it was down here, He would, as 422 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,000 the high priest down here, he's still a priest, if he's down 423 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,000 here, he wouldn't be offering, he's not going to do ministry the 424 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:15,000 way they did. 425 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 They were always the ones making these offerings according to 426 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000 the, it says there are verse 4 into verse 4 what? 427 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 According to the law. 428 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 They were just doing what they were told to do by God through 429 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 the law. 430 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Verse 5. 431 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Who serve under the example and shadow of heavenly things. 432 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000 What's He saying? 433 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000 What they were doing was picturing what was going to happen. 434 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Do you get it? 435 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,000 What they were doing was do you get the whole idea of picture of 436 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 the real? 437 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Not real, real. 438 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Image, metaphor, picture, real, authentic, forever, eternal. 439 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Temporary, eternal. 440 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Do you get it? 441 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Verse 5. 442 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Who serve under the example and shadow of heavenly things as 443 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Moses was in the mosh of God when he was about to make the 444 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 tabernacle for see, sayeth he, that thou make all things according 445 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,000 to the pattern showed thee in the mount. 446 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:19,000 What he's saying is, that was the whole idea from the beginning 447 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:25,000 when God gave the plan to Moses to pitch the tent to make a 448 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 tabernacle. 449 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 And God said, oh, by the way, I made some guys who had the skill 450 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 and the reason I made them with that skill was so they could help 451 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,000 me make the tabernacle. 452 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,000 When he said, do all this stuff, this is how he told him to do 453 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,000 it and he quotes, Exodus 2540, which said, quoting God to 454 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Moses and looked at thou make them after their pattern which 455 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,000 was shown thee in the mount. 456 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 He's saying, there was a plan. 457 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:57,000 The plan was to make something that pictured what was up there, 458 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000 the true tabernacle. 459 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000 So what does Jesus do? 460 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 He has a sacrifice too, right? 461 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Verse 5, wherefore it is a necessity that this man, who is he 462 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,000 talking about, Jesus, have somewhat to offer. 463 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,000 They offered animal gifts and sacrifices in a place that was 464 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 patterned after a true place here on earth. 465 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 That's what they did. 466 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 What does our priest do? 467 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 He does something different. 468 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,000 He sits in a true tabernacle making intercession for us, not 469 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:39,000 based on sacrifices that continue. 470 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 That's why we get to number 2. 471 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Not only is he the minister in a better tabernacle, number 2, 472 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,000 he's a mediator of a better testament. 473 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000 He's a mediator of a better testament. 474 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Look at verse 6. 475 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:01,000 But now, hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, that he 476 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 there is Jesus. 477 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,000 He's got a better, more excellent ministry than the ones that 478 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 the priest had down here. 479 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,000 By how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, 480 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:20,000 better ministry, better covenant, better testament, same word. 481 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Which was established upon better, what is it? 482 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Promises. 483 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Jesus is greater because of what he does in the tabernacle. 484 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,000 We see this thought continued but in reference to the better 485 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 testament or better covenant. 486 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000 The word here covenant and testament are interchangeable. 487 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Jesus is greater, he has a better ministry, he is mediating a 488 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 better covenant. 489 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000 This covenant is making better promises. 490 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000 What am I talking about? 491 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,000 He's making this argument to people who have had an affection 492 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,000 for scripture. 493 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Hebrews is written, you understand the name of the book of 494 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Hebrews, is written to Hebrews, right? 495 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Mostly who were saved, some who thought they were saved but it 496 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 weren't and some who were not saved. 497 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:12,000 And people who had grown up with an old covenant system, an old 498 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:17,000 testament system, a sacrificial system. 499 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,000 And just like we, anybody here have an affection for some of our 500 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 traditions. 501 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Come on, who likes fireworks? 502 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Right? 503 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Who thinks it's good that we still celebrate Memorial Day where 504 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000 we remember people who gave their lives so that we can have 505 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,000 freedom, right? 506 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 So if you feel as an American, any kind of an affection for 507 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 those kinds of things, thanksgiving, who has an affection 508 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000 for thanksgiving, right? 509 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000 And literally the giving of thanks but also turkey and football, 510 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000 right? 511 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 Like that's cool too, right? 512 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,000 So they were like that, they had this affection for this old 513 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 system. 514 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Some of them may have even known priests. 515 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Some of the ones he's writing to might have been priests. 516 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000 There's some people that think, because we all argue about who 517 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 the author of Hebrews is, some think that the author of Hebrews 518 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 is a guy who used to be a priest. 519 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Kind of interesting. 520 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 We'll find out one day maybe. 521 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,000 So he's making this argument to people that had an affection 522 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 for the Old Testament, for the past ceremony, for the 523 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Aaronic priesthood, for the past ritual and the past tradition. 524 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:32,000 It's not that it was wrong, it's that it was incomplete. 525 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Even at the point of the writing of Hebrews, some of this was 526 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 still current. 527 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000 The temple did not come to ruin until 8070 to say that this 528 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000 thing was better is to infer that the Old Covenant was not 529 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 perfect and that's exactly where he was going. 530 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,000 We see here that Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant. 531 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,000 In that we see, A, the failure of the Old Covenant. 532 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 The failure of the Old Covenant. 533 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Look at verse number seven. 534 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,000 He says, for if that first covenant had been faultless, 535 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,000 then should no place have been sought for the second. 536 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Pretty simple. 537 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,000 There wouldn't be a need for a new covenant if the Old Covenant 538 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 was sufficient. 539 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Okay, you get it. 540 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000 There's an Old Covenant and a new covenant. 541 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,000 To say that the law was not perfect and that there was a need 542 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000 for a better priest and a better covenant on its face could 543 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000 offend some Jews. 544 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000 Think about it. 545 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,000 They killed Jesus in part because of a defense of their own 546 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,000 authority based on the mediation of the Old Covenant, 547 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000 the Old Things, the Old Way. 548 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 The author of Hebrews did not what had to be done when you 549 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000 make such a case. He took them to Scripture. 550 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000 And he had to challenge their thinking with Scripture. 551 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,000 And he did this by quoting Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 31 552 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000 through 34. 553 00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:00,000 This quote, what he's about to quote in verses eight goes all 554 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,000 the way down through verse 12. 555 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,000 And he's literally quoting, what's written here is a quote 556 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,000 from Jeremiah. 557 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Here's what it said. 558 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Let's read it. 559 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,000 For finding fault with them, he says, he saith. 560 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 And here's the quote begins. 561 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Behold the days come saith the Lord. 562 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,000 Okay, here's a prophecy. 563 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000 There's a day coming. 564 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000 God declares to Jeremiah to the people of Israel. 565 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 When I shall make a new covenant with the house of Israel and 566 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 with the house of Judah. 567 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,000 So what's the argument he's making? 568 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:38,000 Even in the Old Testament, the Old Testament, are you with me? 569 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:44,000 God foretold that there would be a new Testament, a new covenant. 570 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000 So the writer of Hebrews is saying, don't get offended, 571 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,000 Jewish people. 572 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,000 I'm not telling you something because I'm trying to entertain 573 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,000 some new thing and get you to get part of my cult. 574 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000 That's not what I'm doing. 575 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,000 I'm just telling you what God predicted would happen. 576 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000 What God said is there's coming a day when there's going to be a 577 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000 new covenant. 578 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,000 And if there's a new covenant, that means that the Old Covenant 579 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000 wasn't enough. 580 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000 Can I tell you? 581 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:17,000 Well, don't get ahead of myself. 582 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,000 Verse 9, not according to the covenant that I made with their 583 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000 fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out 584 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,000 of the land of Egypt because they continued not in my covenant. 585 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,000 And I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 586 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,000 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of 587 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Israel after those days, saith the Lord. 588 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts 589 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,000 and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people and 590 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000 they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his 591 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,000 brother saying, know the Lord for all shall know me from the 592 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,000 least to the greatest. 593 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins 594 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000 and their iniquities while I remember no more. 595 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000 End quote. 596 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000 The first part of this quote in verse 8 declares that there's 597 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 going to be a new covenant with Israel. 598 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:11,000 And as a Gentile, I'm not Jewish, I must be careful in my 599 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,000 reading of these passages because I could be tempted or 600 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 confused into reading myself and the church into this in the 601 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000 wrong way. 602 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,000 So this is a very complex thing and I don't even know, here 603 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000 comes Sunday, right? 604 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000 I have to preach this because it's the next passage and I 605 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:32,000 don't claim to know everything about every passage. 606 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Sorry. 607 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Okay. 608 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,000 What I will say is I know that you have to be careful about how 609 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000 you read this. 610 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000 We are saved though by the new covenant. 611 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000 The blood sacrifice of Jesus for our sins. 612 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000 Consider the following verses. 613 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000 I looked this up this week and actually a couple of weeks ago 614 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 and I've been thinking through this. 615 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000 Consider the following verses that are interpreted as new 616 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 testament or new covenant. 617 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,000 You literally do a search on the Greek word that talk about 618 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000 this new covenant and I can pull up with my Bible software, all 619 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000 the places where that term is used. 620 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000 Here's a few of them. 621 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,000 Ready? 622 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000 I want to point something out to you. 623 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000 Matthew 26, 28. 624 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,000 For this is my blood of the new testament which is shed for 625 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,000 many for the remission of sins. 626 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,000 So you see there blood, the blood of Jesus shed and this idea 627 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000 of new testament, new covenant. 628 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000 Mark 14, 24. 629 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,000 And he said unto them this is my blood of the new testament which 630 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,000 is shed for many. 631 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,000 Luke 22, 20. 632 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000 Likewise also after the cup after suffer saying this cup is the 633 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,000 new testament in my blood which is shed for you. 634 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,000 After the same manner also he took the cup, 1 Corinthians 11, 635 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,000 25 saying this cup is the new testament in my blood. 636 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000 This do ye as often as you drink it and remember it's a me. 637 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000 Hebrews 9.15 which we will study next week. 638 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,000 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, 639 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,000 new testament that by means of death for the redemption of the 640 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000 transgressions that were under the first testament, they which 641 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:16,000 are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 642 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000 And then here's some that refer to new covenant, Jeremiah 31, 643 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000 31 which we just read. 644 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,000 Behold the days come say to the Lord I will make a new covenant 645 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,000 with the house of Judah and Hebrews 12, 24. 646 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000 And Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant and to the, what does 647 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,000 it say? 648 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,000 Blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of 649 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 able. 650 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,000 What am I trying to point to you? 651 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000 What am I trying to point out to you? 652 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000 There's a link in the scripture between the word for covenant 653 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000 and testament and blood or sacrifice. 654 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000 Do you see it? 655 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,000 And the Bible says that God was going to make a new covenant or 656 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000 a new testament with the children of Israel at some point in the 657 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,000 future. 658 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,000 Why? 659 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Because the old one which was begun when they left Egypt and 660 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000 went into the wilderness has failed to do what needed to be 661 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,000 done. 662 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000 The old covenant was not perfect. 663 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000 The old covenant could not save. 664 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000 He says that this new covenant won't be like the old. 665 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000 What were the events surrounding the establishment of that old 666 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,000 covenant? 667 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000 You had the Passover meal. 668 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,000 The children of Israel were told to take a spotless lamb and to 669 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000 sacrifice it and to take the blood of a lamb and put it on the 670 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,000 doorpost. 671 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:33,000 And when he saw the blood he would pass over or pass by. 672 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,000 They were told to eat a meal by faith with their sandals on. 673 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000 They were supposed to have their traveling gear on. 674 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000 They had their, what do you call those bags? 675 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000 Fanny packs. 676 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000 They had their fanny packs on. 677 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000 They were ready to go. 678 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,000 That was dumb. 679 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000 Why did I bring that up? 680 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Okay. 681 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000 They were doing that by faith. 682 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Moses, so then God brought them out of Egypt and he brought them 683 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000 through the water up to the wilderness. 684 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,000 They made it through the Red Sea to Mount Sinai where God gave them 685 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000 the law through the Moses. 686 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000 And Moses received from God instructions about the law, the 687 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000 Levitical priest and the sacrificial system. 688 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Essentially what he says is that lamb that you sacrificed isn't 689 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000 the last lamb that you will sacrifice. 690 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,000 I'm going to put a whole system into place. 691 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Priesthood and sacrifices. 692 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Are you with me? 693 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000 And in verse nine we're given the reason why this covenant was 694 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000 with the children of Israel failed. 695 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000 The wilderness generation showed that the old covenant would 696 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000 never be enough because of their disobedience to it. 697 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000 They were breaking God's law as it was being given to them. 698 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Do you remember? 699 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000 The covenant was weak and that it could not be kept, not on 700 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000 man's side. 701 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000 That's why it says in verse nine, not according to the covenant, 702 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000 I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the 703 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000 hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they continue 704 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000 not in my covenant. 705 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000 And I regarded them not say at the Lord. 706 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 You see the contrast in that verse between I took them by the 707 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,000 hand and I said, there's also one important point to be made in 708 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000 verse eight and nine, okay? 709 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000 Stay with me. 710 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,000 The word for will make in verse eight is the word santecho, 711 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,000 which means to bring to an end all together to fulfill. 712 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000 Verse eight, for finding fault with them he says, behold the 713 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000 day shall come and say at the Lord when I will make a new covenant. 714 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,000 The word made in verse nine, not according to the covenant I 715 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000 made, there's a contrast, it's the word poeo, which is to make 716 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,000 our do. 717 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000 Basically in verse nine, he uses a stronger word for the new 718 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,000 covenant than he does for the old. 719 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,000 This indicates that the new covenant will not need a subsequent 720 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,000 new covenant later. 721 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 Do you get it? 722 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000 We won't need another covenant. 723 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,000 We won't need another covenant. 724 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000 What was deficient in the old covenant? 725 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000 They had to obey it. 726 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000 And they did not obey it. 727 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000 More sin meant more sacrifice. 728 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000 The sin never stopped and the sacrifice must therefore never 729 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000 stop because it was never enough. 730 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,000 And so those old priests would get in that holy place and just 731 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,000 day after day, year after year, day after day, year after year, 732 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:30,000 slaying animals to take away the sin. 733 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,000 But that's not the nature, let it be of the new covenant. 734 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Look at verse ten. 735 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000 He says, for this is the covenant that I will make with the house 736 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000 of Israel after those days. 737 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 This is Hebrews quoting Jeremiah saying there's a new covenant 738 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000 coming. 739 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,000 This is the covenant I'm going to make with them. 740 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,000 I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts 741 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000 and I will be to them and God and they shall be to me a people 742 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000 and they shall not teach every man as neighbor and every man as 743 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000 brother saying, know the Lord for all shall know me from the 744 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000 least to the greatest for I will be merciful to their 745 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,000 unrighteousness and their sins, their iniquities while I 746 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000 remember no more. 747 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000 Here's a few things you need to know about the new covenant. 748 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:15,000 Number one, it's unconditional. 749 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000 God gives this new covenant by making the covenant without 750 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,000 condition. 751 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,000 He says, I will in those verses some five times. 752 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:28,000 I will make, I will put, I will be, I will be, I will remember 753 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000 no more. 754 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000 When someone puts their faith in Christ Jesus because of the 755 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000 new testament sacrifice of his blood for their sins, they are 756 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000 saved. 757 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 No more sacrifice has to happen because sacrifice has been 758 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,000 done. 759 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000 The blood of the spotless lamb has been shed for the redemption 760 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,000 of anybody that's going to come to him. 761 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:55,000 There is no more sacrifice that needs to be done. 762 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000 And that's why, okay, let's just say it out loud, that's why 763 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000 when we do communion, it's a symbol. 764 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000 It's not the actual body and blood of Jesus because the 765 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 sacrifice has already been done. 766 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:10,000 You don't need those priests and you don't need that communion. 767 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000 Do you get it? 768 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,000 I don't hate them. 769 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000 They're wrong. 770 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,000 Because Jesus is the full and final sacrifice. 771 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000 It's already been done. 772 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:28,000 It doesn't have to keep happening. 773 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,000 Number two, it's spiritual. 774 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000 Verse 10, where does he put his law? 775 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000 He puts it in their mind. 776 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Verse 10, in their hearts. 777 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000 Those who are part of this new covenant know Christ because his 778 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000 spirit is put inside of them. 779 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000 His spirit is put inside of them. 780 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,000 His spirit is put inside of them. 781 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,000 His spirit is put inside of them. 782 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:55,000 The third person of the Trinity lives inside of those who know 783 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000 them. 784 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:02,000 And we keep grieving them because we sin and he can't leave. 785 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:07,000 Are you with me? 786 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000 Number three, it's universal. 787 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,000 The new covenant was made like the old to the Jews. 788 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000 But Jesus said salvation is of the Jews. 789 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000 They could not break the old covenant but they could disobey 790 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000 it and not take part of its blessings. 791 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000 The Abrahamic and Davidic covenants were unconditional but 792 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,000 the mosaic covenant was conditional. 793 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000 There was a law to be kept to enjoy the blessings. 794 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,000 We can reap the blessings of the new covenant by trusting in 795 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,000 the same blood of Jesus Christ and the Savior who gave his 796 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,000 blood as a new testament, a new promise that shed for many. 797 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,000 He became a propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only 798 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:48,000 but for the sins of the whole world. 799 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:54,000 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son 800 00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:00,000 that whosoever believeth in him, whosoever believeth in him, 801 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,000 whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have 802 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,000 everlasting life. 803 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,000 It's universal. 804 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000 Number four, it's eternal. 805 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000 It's eternal. 806 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,000 Verse 13, this is amazing. 807 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:21,000 In that he saith a new covenant, he hath made the first one old. 808 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Old covenant, new covenant. 809 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Old sacrificial system, once for all sacrifice made by Jesus. 810 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,000 Are you saying that people that sacrificed in the old covenant 811 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:42,000 didn't make it to heaven because they were relying on the old 812 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,000 covenant? 813 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:49,000 No, what I'm saying is that God, and Bible says Abraham believed 814 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000 God and it was counted to him, imputed on him his righteousness. 815 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,000 So when they did that by faith, the blood of bulls and goats 816 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,000 didn't get them to heaven. 817 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,000 God knew what they did not totally understand yet, that there 818 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,000 was another one coming who would die on the cross for their sins 819 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,000 that are past. 820 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,000 And when they were sacrificed and they were just obeying the light 821 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:16,000 that they had, believing that God would save them, and God did 822 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,000 save them because of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. 823 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:24,000 Do you get it? 824 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000 In that he saith a new covenant, he made the first one old. 825 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,000 Now that which decaith and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. 826 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,000 And you know what happened? 827 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000 Exactly that. 828 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000 That's exactly what happened. 829 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,000 There is no sacrificial system now. 830 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:46,000 They're going to try to do it again in times. 831 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000 There wouldn't have to be a new covenant if the old covenant were 832 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,000 sufficient. 833 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,000 God did not fail at the old, get this, this is so important. 834 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,000 God did not fail at the old covenant, and so then we have to 835 00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,000 come up with a new. 836 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,000 The new covenant was always in God's plan. 837 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,000 Do you get it? 838 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,000 The old covenant was only sufficient and effective in that 839 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:12,000 it pointed to what would happen in the new. 840 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,000 What did John the Baptist say when he saw Jesus? 841 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:20,000 Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world 842 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,000 one day. 843 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:28,000 In the book of Revelation you see people worshiping the Lamb. 844 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,000 That's Jesus. 845 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,000 What are you saying about that today? 846 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,000 Now that word is finished, the symbol. 847 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Now that that new covenant is finished, the symbol or the 848 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,000 shadow or the picture of that work has become history. 849 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,000 The old sacrificial system has succumbed to the once and for 850 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,000 all sacrifice for sins made by Jesus. 851 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:59,000 The old Aaronic order is ended because Jesus Christ saves to 852 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:07,000 the uttermost and ever lives to make intercession for us. 853 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,000 Don't we serve an incredible God? 854 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,000 So what shall we say to such things? 855 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,000 How shall we then live? 856 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,000 Four words will take us out of here today. 857 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,000 Are you ready? 858 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,000 Salvation. 859 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,000 You can repent and believe and be saved today by the blood of 860 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,000 Jesus. 861 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,000 You can have your sins forgiven. 862 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,000 All the things that you did in the past, all the things that 863 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,000 you are doing right now and all the sins you are going to do in 864 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,000 the future can be forgiven. 865 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,000 The price for them has been paid. 866 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,000 You can be saved. 867 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,000 The Bible says repent and believe. 868 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,000 Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 869 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,000 The thief said to Jesus on the cross, Lord remember me when you 870 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000 come into your kingdom. 871 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,000 And Jesus said today, you will be with me in paradise. 872 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,000 Salvation. 873 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:13,000 If you are not saved, you are not getting there by any other way. 874 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,000 There is no work that you can offer up. 875 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,000 God already did it. 876 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,000 Stop trying to do what God already did. 877 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,000 Salvation. 878 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,000 Number two, sanctification. 879 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,000 It's a big Bible word. 880 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,000 Sanctification just means growing, set apart. 881 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,000 You can grow into who God wants you to become by his help. 882 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,000 Because now he ever lives to make intercession for you. 883 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,000 Number three, declaration. 884 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,000 Salvation, sanctification, declaration. 885 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,000 People need to know about what God has done for them through 886 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,000 Jesus. 887 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,000 People need to know what God has done for them through Jesus. 888 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,000 People need to know what God has done for them through Jesus. 889 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,000 Do you believe that? 890 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000 People got to know. 891 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,000 And how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they 892 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,000 preach except they be sent. 893 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,000 And by the way, the preacher isn't the preacher. 894 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,000 The preacher is... 895 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,000 You're not dismissed. 896 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,000 You're sent. 897 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,000 You're not sent. 898 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,000 You're not sent. 899 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,000 You're not dismissed. 900 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,000 You're sent. 901 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000 Declaration. 902 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000 Here's a good news. 903 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,000 Last word. 904 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,000 Glorification. 905 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,000 One day it's going to all be over. 906 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,000 Everything will be made right. 907 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,000 We should be animated by what will happen in the future. 908 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:45,000 The covenant promises all of them will be fully and finally 909 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,000 fulfilled. 910 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:53,000 And we will be like him because we will see him as he is. 911 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,000 Heaven's coming. 912 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,000 Heaven's coming. 913 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,000 Jesus is coming back. 914 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:05,000 Let's labor while it is day the night comes when no man can 915 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,000 work. 916 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,000 Would you bow your head and close your eyes.