1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,240 2020, I was in the middle of finding out about Finley, Ohio, and Trinity Baptist Church. 2 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:20,560 And of course, 2020 was a weird year, who agrees with me? 3 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,120 That was a very strange year. 4 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,800 And I walked down into our basement and we had about a hundred-year-old home in Canton, 5 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,920 Ohio, that's where we lived at the time, Canton. 6 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,680 And the house that we lived in was about a hundred years old. 7 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:39,600 It had a basement, and the basement was mostly finished downstairs. 8 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,080 We had a second kitchen. 9 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,000 For some reason, they had put a kitchen in, and they had put it in a long time ago because 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,040 the kitchen that was down there was, let's just say it was pretty clear it was from the 11 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,040 60s. 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:52,880 It was all metal. 13 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,480 It was a color that I think the last time anybody painted that color was in the 60s. 14 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:58,920 Ever seen what I'm talking about? 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:00,920 Some kind of weird color. 16 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,600 I think it's some kind of weird green. 17 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,640 I can't remember what it was. 18 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,560 But you know, some of you were there. 19 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:09,560 Amen. 20 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:14,960 And so, I went downstairs and there was kind of a weird smell. 21 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:21,480 And worst thing that could happen to a homeowner is there's just a mess with the plumbing downstairs. 22 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,080 It was not good. 23 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:29,040 And of course, this is like we're thinking we may end up moving to Finley, and God did 24 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,040 that for us. 25 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,720 But in the meantime, there was a major problem. 26 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,600 And so, we had insurance and all the things and contractors. 27 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,040 I don't know anything about fixing anything, basically. 28 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,840 I'm not very good at fixing things. 29 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,240 I married a woman who is very good at fixing things. 30 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:47,240 She's very handy. 31 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,920 It's always good to have a woman that's handy, amen. 32 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,440 And so, I have that. 33 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,600 And so, we had the people come down and they cleaned it out and did all kinds of things. 34 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,160 And then they fixed our home. 35 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:06,240 And of course, we had lived there for six and a half, almost seven years. 36 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,560 And the basement was finished, but it never was quite that nice. 37 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,560 And then they got it all fixed. 38 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:13,560 And I saw a transformation. 39 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:18,120 How many of you guys have ever been in a situation where you've seen construction and remodeling? 40 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,400 And it goes from, oh, you ever been there? 41 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,960 Isn't that awesome to watch? 42 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:29,720 There's whole channels on TV dedicated to that whole idea, just to watch it go from 43 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:31,800 not that great to great. 44 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:32,800 Transformation was awesome. 45 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,880 And we were so lucky. 46 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,120 It got done right the day before we needed to put it on the market. 47 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,960 We did it, put it on the market. 48 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,800 That basement was awesome, and we never got to use it. 49 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,600 But it's okay. 50 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:46,600 It's okay. 51 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:47,920 The house sold in record time. 52 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:48,920 And God is here. 53 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:51,000 And we got a nice house, a nice place here. 54 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,720 So praise the Lord for that. 55 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,920 I love seeing transformation. 56 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:57,320 Don't you? 57 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:03,040 Seeing things change for the better is an amazing, amazing thing. 58 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,840 And it's kind of rare. 59 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:10,840 I don't know if you've noticed that transformation. 60 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:16,560 I want to talk to you today about transformation. 61 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:24,960 In that situation in my home in the basement, a crisis called for transformation. 62 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:26,360 Something really bad happened. 63 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:32,240 And so the pain of not letting it go, the pain of letting it go made it to the point where 64 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,680 we got to do something with this basement. 65 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:41,680 And so it took this crisis to spur us on to experience in that basement that transformation. 66 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,600 Today I want to talk to you about that. 67 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:50,560 But not with houses, I want to talk to you about how people change. 68 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:55,640 Transformation seems to come more easily with things than it does with people. 69 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,160 Have you noticed? 70 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,160 Transformation can happen a lot more easily sometimes it feels like with things than with 71 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,160 people. 72 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:08,080 The tendency that people have, if you're a people, you'll feel this. 73 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,840 If you're a person, I know. 74 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,480 It's hard to change. 75 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,080 Do you have something in your life that you want to have changed? 76 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,080 Yeah? 77 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,360 Anybody here tired of sin? 78 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,680 I'm tired of it. 79 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,160 Sometimes, sometimes I'm not tired with it like I should be. 80 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,240 Our tendency is to stay the same. 81 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,360 One of the things that I've noticed in ministry is that often crisis is what spurs people to 82 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,160 even look at change in their lives. 83 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,080 The pain of not changing has to outpace the pain of transformation. 84 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,720 We certainly notice transformation when it happens. 85 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,360 We notice it because it's so rare, right? 86 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:57,720 When that actually happens, when somebody changes, that stands out to us. 87 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,160 Here's what I want you to feel this morning. 88 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:06,440 I want you to feel this on a cold, snowy Sunday morning. 89 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,080 You need change. 90 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:10,080 So do I. 91 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,200 We need transformation in our lives. 92 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,920 In some area of your life, there needs to be an overhaul. 93 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,720 The Bible's word for this is this word, ready? 94 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:23,720 Sanctification. 95 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:24,720 Sanctification. 96 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,480 That's the Bible word for it. 97 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,440 So that's the word we like to use. 98 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:33,080 And sanctification means to set apart or to make holy. 99 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:34,600 This happens when we get saved. 100 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,480 When you accept Jesus Christ as your savior, and if you don't know what that means, hold 101 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,880 on, we'll make sure we explain it today. 102 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:46,160 When you accept Jesus Christ as your savior, when you put your faith and trust in Jesus, 103 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,480 God sets you apart. 104 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,160 He sanctifies you. 105 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,160 Theologians call that positional sanctification. 106 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,240 You go from not believing to believing. 107 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,000 You go from unholy to holy. 108 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,200 We spent 20-something weeks going through the book of Ephesians, which told us what 109 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,000 our identity was in Christ, where we said, this is who you are because when you're saved, 110 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,120 all these things happen to you. 111 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,240 You're blameless and holy, and God seals you with this Holy Spirit, and all these things 112 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:14,240 happen. 113 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,240 That happens positionally. 114 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:16,800 When you get saved, God sets you apart. 115 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,080 You are already that, right? 116 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,080 Isn't that cool? 117 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,720 Who's excited about that? 118 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:23,000 Yeah. 119 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,120 But then there's, when God does that, He sanctifies us. 120 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,160 He justifies us positionally. 121 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,920 He looks at us and declares us as righteous, and then treats us as righteous because of 122 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,200 what Jesus did on the cross. 123 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:40,520 But then God's desire for your life, Pastor Ben, I want to know what God's will for my 124 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:41,520 life is. 125 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:42,520 You know what it is? 126 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,600 He wants you to grow. 127 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,920 He wants you to become like Jesus. 128 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:52,960 Because if you become the version of Jesus, the version of you that's the most like Jesus, 129 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,360 God will get you where He wants to get you and use you how He wants to use you. 130 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,200 And that's what we all want, right? 131 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,760 I hope it is. 132 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:06,040 And so, God's desirable for your life is to become more sanctified. 133 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,760 And theologians call this progressive sanctification. 134 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,200 There's a positional sanctification. 135 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,840 I'm already set apart as holy by God. 136 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:14,840 I'm justified. 137 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:15,940 I'm sanctified. 138 00:07:15,940 --> 00:07:18,960 But also, I'm growing to be more like Jesus every day. 139 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,680 Who here is not as much like Jesus as they want to be? 140 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:22,680 Yeah, right. 141 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,220 We all are there, right? 142 00:07:26,220 --> 00:07:28,080 This is called progressive sanctification. 143 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:34,400 Okay, if you want transformation in your life, it happens just like it happens to me in that 144 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:35,600 basement. 145 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,920 For that kind of transformation to happen, it took the right people with the right tools. 146 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:41,920 It wouldn't have been me. 147 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,680 I didn't have the tools for it. 148 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,000 I needed someone to help me. 149 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,840 It's the same thing with us becoming like Jesus. 150 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,920 We need Him to do it because we can't do it on our own. 151 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,360 Anybody here try to clean themselves up? 152 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,640 How long did that last? 153 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:58,640 That's super long. 154 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,520 Jesus is the one that has to do it and He has the right tools. 155 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:10,680 In Hebrews chapter 3, we are presented with Jesus as an owner and as a builder. 156 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,640 He is a transformer. 157 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:17,320 And here's why you need to listen to me today, not because of me, but because of this particular 158 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,800 passage. 159 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,520 You're going to hear about Moses. 160 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,560 You're going to hear about Christ. 161 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,720 You're going to hear me explain the details of this passage that you can understand what's 162 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:27,920 being said. 163 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,880 But there's a practical reason for you to listen to me today. 164 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:37,640 No matter who you are or where you are today, you need transformation. 165 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,840 You need to be more like Jesus. 166 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,760 God's will for your life is to be more and more like Him. 167 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:51,720 And I want you to walk away understanding that Jesus is incredible at transformation. 168 00:08:51,720 --> 00:09:00,360 That's what He specializes in, making people different, giving them life and helping them 169 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,760 to live out His life and then. 170 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,280 He has the right tools for the job. 171 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:12,920 The way He is shown to be great at transformation in this particular passage is by being compared 172 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,000 with Moses. 173 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:21,480 The author of Hebrews is talking here to a Jewish audience and they would have held 174 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,440 like Jews do today. 175 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,400 They would have held Moses in really, really high esteem. 176 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,920 Moses was a major league hero for the Jews. 177 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:36,880 And so the author of Hebrews tells us, and here's the summary of the sermon today, that 178 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:42,040 Jesus is greater at transformation. 179 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:43,040 Jesus is greater. 180 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,440 The whole point of the book of Hebrews is He's better. 181 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:46,440 Better. 182 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,160 We have a better thing going. 183 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:49,160 Jesus is better. 184 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:50,160 How? 185 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:51,160 He's better at transformation. 186 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:55,720 He's better at seeing how He's greater than Moses here in Hebrews chapter 3 verses 1 through 187 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:56,720 6. 188 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,560 Here's the first way that Jesus is greater than Moses and how it will impact our lives 189 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:01,560 in transformation. 190 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:02,560 Are you ready? 191 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:04,680 He has a greater identity. 192 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:06,440 He has a greater identity. 193 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,440 Jesus has a greater identity than Moses. 194 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:10,440 That's what I'm trying to tell you. 195 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,320 And you're like, okay, I kind of already knew that. 196 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,120 I'm like, okay, good. 197 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:16,200 Let's talk about it. 198 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:23,040 Think of verse 1, wherefore holy brethren. 199 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,920 Now that gives us two things we got to consider. 200 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:32,000 One, when someone says wherefore, they're alluding to what they've already said. 201 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,360 Because of what I've said, listen up. 202 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:42,120 He also says holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling. 203 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,820 Now let's talk about what Jesus said. 204 00:10:44,820 --> 00:10:51,560 He says partakers of the heavenly calling and he talks about holy brethren. 205 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:58,000 This is because he said in the last couple of chapters, chapters 1 and chapter 2, stay 206 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,400 with me, this is going to get good. 207 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,720 Jesus is greater in every way. 208 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,120 That's what he's been trying to tell us. 209 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,840 That he is a greater revelation of God who's revealed himself in the person of Jesus Christ. 210 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,960 Do you remember what it said in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 1? 211 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,320 God who at sundry times and in diverse manners, spake in times past according to the prophets. 212 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:23,000 Hathen Lee's last days spoken unto us by his, you guys remember? 213 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Son. 214 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,000 He used to speak by the prophets. 215 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,040 Now he spoke to us by Jesus, by whom he created the worlds. 216 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,880 Jesus is greater than creation because he made it. 217 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:33,880 Jesus made everything. 218 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:35,400 Isn't that awesome? 219 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,360 So he's a greater revelation. 220 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,560 He is greater than creation. 221 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:44,320 He says he's greater than the angels, right? 222 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,520 The Hebrews, the Jews held angels in high esteem. 223 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:48,960 He says they're greater than the angels. 224 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,200 He says that he made Jesus the heir of all things. 225 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:57,840 So not only does Jesus greater and created all things, but he owns it all. 226 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,400 It's all his, right? 227 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,160 And he's seated on the right hand of God. 228 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,160 And we learned in chapter 2 that he's made, he was made a man. 229 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:07,920 He was made a little lower than angels. 230 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:08,920 Why? 231 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:14,560 He was made lower than the angels by being made a man so that he could suffer and die, 232 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:15,760 right? 233 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,440 So that God can make him perfect through sufferings, it says. 234 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,200 So Jesus could die for us on the cross. 235 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,640 And because he was God, he could do it without sin and become a high priest, someone who 236 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:31,840 goes to God on our behalf, having dealt with all the things we deal with. 237 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:32,840 Who's pumped about that? 238 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,060 Isn't that cool that Jesus did that for us? 239 00:12:36,060 --> 00:12:41,280 And so because of that, God, he did it without sin and because he comes a high priest, the 240 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:46,840 Bible says that he is not ashamed to call us brethren. 241 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:53,000 We're brothers and sisters with Jesus, and God has called us his sons and daughters. 242 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:59,400 We have a family relationship with the God of the universe when we accept Christ as our 243 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:00,400 Savior. 244 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,680 That's awesome. 245 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:08,520 They get to stay at my house. 246 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,560 What do we just sing? 247 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:11,880 Him of heaven. 248 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:20,920 When we get to be family, guess where we get to go? 249 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,720 You guys are not excited about it. 250 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:25,200 Have you heard of heaven? 251 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:29,280 Did you hear about it? 252 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:33,200 Because the gold is the pavement. 253 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,640 There's no hunger in heaven. 254 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,720 All the food doesn't taste like vegetables. 255 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:40,720 I made that up. 256 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,160 I made that up. 257 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,000 The food's going to be awesome, right? 258 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,160 And more importantly, God's there. 259 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:47,160 Jesus is there. 260 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:48,160 We're going to live forever. 261 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,440 Are you excited about heaven? 262 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:51,600 We get to go be with them. 263 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:52,600 That's amazing. 264 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:53,600 Right? 265 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,320 So this is a big deal. 266 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,760 And this is what God has done for us. 267 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:05,040 And so He says, Hebrews chapter 3 verse 1, you are partakers of the heavenly calling, 268 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,320 the calling to salvation. 269 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,240 You get to calling to a family. 270 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:14,000 You get to calling to being a part of God's sons and daughters and Jesus' brothers and 271 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,400 sisters and we're together with them. 272 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,640 But He says, think about this. 273 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:28,560 I want you to consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. 274 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,120 Now that's interesting. 275 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,600 He calls Jesus an apostle. 276 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,040 The word apostle means one who is sent. 277 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,160 Have you heard about sending lately? 278 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:41,160 Right? 279 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,560 Later, I'm not going to dismiss you. 280 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,760 We're going to be sent, right? 281 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:45,760 Jesus was sent. 282 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,640 Jesus said, as the Father has sent me, so send I, you, right? 283 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,320 So Jesus was sent on a mission. 284 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,760 He accomplished his mission. 285 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,760 He was made perfect through sufferings and through obedience. 286 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,520 And so He came to us on behalf of God who agrees. 287 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:03,520 This is really cool. 288 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:04,520 He's an apostle. 289 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:05,600 He is a sent one. 290 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:10,440 And out of His authority, He sends us, go into all the world, make disciples of all nations, 291 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,920 preach, teach all nations, baptizing the name of the Father, Son, the Holy Ghost, teaching 292 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:16,840 them to observe all things whatsoever. 293 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,680 I've commanded you and lo, I'm with you always. 294 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,240 He's told us to go into all the world and preach the gospel. 295 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:22,640 That's what He's told us to do. 296 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,240 And so He is a sent one. 297 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,520 And it also says here, consider the apostle and what? 298 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:29,520 High priest. 299 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:38,080 A high priest, he came to us to rescue us, sent from God, and then he went back to God 300 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:45,320 and sits on the right hand of the Father and ever lives to make intercession for us. 301 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:50,800 God Jesus Christ goes to God on our behalf. 302 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,640 Who's excited about that? 303 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,840 That's pretty cool, right? 304 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:00,880 He mediates between us and God. 305 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,760 So what an incredible thing He is and what an incredible thing He does. 306 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,840 And that's the apostle, the high priest of our profession. 307 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,640 Isn't that cool that it's our profession? 308 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,000 That's how we get, we're saved because we put our faith in Jesus. 309 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,640 He makes us this. 310 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:17,640 Christ Jesus. 311 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:18,640 And it says this about Him. 312 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,040 Who was faithful to Him that appointed Him. 313 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,320 Who appointed Jesus? 314 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:24,400 God the Father. 315 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,120 Was Jesus faithful in every way? 316 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,120 We'll talk about that in a minute. 317 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:30,680 But then He makes this comparison. 318 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:38,480 He was faithful to Him that appointed Him as Moses was faithful in all His house. 319 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,880 Now remember the book of Hebrews was written to what kind of people? 320 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:49,960 Hebrews, Jewish people, some believing, some not. 321 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,840 And it says here, Moses was faithful in all His house. 322 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,280 I want to explain that to you. 323 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,840 I want you to think about the identity of Moses this morning. 324 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:05,360 Moses is not as big a deal to us like he was in the days of the Jews to whom this letter 325 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:06,880 was written. 326 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,320 Moses was the greatest hero of the Jewish faith, one of the greatest ones. 327 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,480 I mean, he's definitely one of the most important that ever lived. 328 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,920 Everything about Moses was wonderful to the Jewish people. 329 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,760 Remember his miraculous preservation at his birth? 330 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,660 The Pharaoh decided he was going to kill all the... 331 00:17:27,660 --> 00:17:30,080 What's with leaders wanting to kill babies? 332 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:34,440 It's like it stuck around for a long time, okay? 333 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,960 Happened it there, it happened at Jesus' birth. 334 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,400 It's still going on. 335 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,560 Get your baby bottle. 336 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,280 That was free. 337 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:51,160 When Moses' mama had this baby, she was supposed to kill all the sons. 338 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:55,680 And so he put them in a basket filled with pitch, put them on the Nile River. 339 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:01,900 And God and His sovereignty brought that basket right to the princess of Egypt who picked 340 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:05,400 him up out of the water and named him, drawn out of the water. 341 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,920 Moses means drawn out of the water. 342 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,920 And so even his name, rescued God. 343 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,680 The princess didn't rescue him. 344 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,280 God did, right? 345 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:19,120 And then he had this unique ability because of his upbringing, because God did that, to 346 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:21,440 be both Jewish and Egyptian. 347 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,960 That's exactly what God was going to use him to do, to be sent. 348 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:25,960 Remember he... 349 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,520 You guys remember the story, right? 350 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:32,960 He grows up, he sees an Egyptian killing a Jewish person. 351 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:37,480 The Jews were there in Egypt because God preserved them through Joseph to get them to Egypt so 352 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,400 that they could continue to live. 353 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,720 And from there, they became not just a family, but a nation. 354 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,880 A Pharaoh arose that did not know Joseph, who delivered them. 355 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,240 And so they had this nation that was growing up in the Egyptians. 356 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,360 The Egyptians decided, hey, we got to kill the babies. 357 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:56,280 We got to make all of them slaves because they're going to take over. 358 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,760 So God gives this baby. 359 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,120 God does that too sometimes. 360 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:09,840 To the nation, he grows up being part Egyptian, part Jewish, and culturally. 361 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,120 And he's all Jewish. 362 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:20,480 He sees this Egyptian getting killed, or getting beaten, or so, I'm mixed up, sorry. 363 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:25,160 He sees a Jew getting beaten by an Egyptian and he ends up slaying the Egyptian. 364 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,840 Then he sees a couple of Jewish people later arguing with each other. 365 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:29,840 He tries to stop them. 366 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:30,920 They're like, are you going to kill us too? 367 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,720 And he realizes, I'm not the only one that knows this. 368 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:34,720 And so what does he do? 369 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,040 He goes into the wilderness. 370 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,160 And while he's there in the wilderness, God shows up. 371 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:40,840 He sees a burning bush. 372 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,480 Do you guys remember this? 373 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,520 And it's burning hot but not consumed. 374 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,760 He's like, how is that on fire? 375 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:48,040 But it's staying on fire. 376 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,720 It's not going away. 377 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,280 And he gets there and this voice comes out and says, hey, take off your shoes. 378 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:57,720 And he says, who's, and he starts talking to them. 379 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,160 And what did God say through this bush? 380 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,280 Go to Egypt. 381 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:03,800 Tell them to let my people go. 382 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:05,960 He tells them to take off your shoes where you're staying. 383 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,440 He's in the presence of God. 384 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:16,000 And what does the bush, God, do with Moses? 385 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,360 Go, what does he do? 386 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,360 Did you get it? 387 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:23,360 Everybody say what he did. 388 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:24,440 What did he do? 389 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,440 He sent him. 390 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:27,440 Interesting. 391 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,880 Sent him to do what? 392 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:34,840 Deliver the people of God from bondage. 393 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,040 And they got out of Egypt. 394 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,720 It took a while, there's 10 plagues, but they got it. 395 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:40,720 They went through the water. 396 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:41,720 That's interesting. 397 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:42,720 The Bible talks about that. 398 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:48,480 And then they come to the other side and God gives Moses his law. 399 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:49,680 He writes it down. 400 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:55,520 And sometimes God, Moses is like a prophet going to the people, hey, this is what God 401 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,520 says. 402 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,880 Sometimes he's going to God on behalf of the people. 403 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,520 Don't kill him, Lord. 404 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:01,520 Right? 405 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,640 And he's, he's mediating between, it's kind of a similar ministry. 406 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,520 He understands this. 407 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,280 Right? 408 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:10,440 And what did Moses do? 409 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,760 What was, and we'll talk about this more in the next point, but what did Moses end up 410 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:14,880 doing? 411 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,760 Because of Moses, they got the law. 412 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:18,760 Who wrote the law? 413 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:19,760 God did. 414 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,400 The Holy Spirit gave it to him. 415 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,800 More on that tonight. 416 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:30,520 But Moses was a human instrumentality to do what he did in terms of giving him the law. 417 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,840 It was in that, that they also got the tabernacle, right? 418 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:40,240 The tabernacle was this thing that later on was the temple where God came and actually 419 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,720 and dwelt in the temple and his presence was there and they would do sacrifices and all 420 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,760 of those things. 421 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:52,080 This was Moses. 422 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:59,440 And it says here about Moses that he was found faithful in all his house. 423 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,520 I hope that I'm faithful like that. 424 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:03,520 I want to be faithful. 425 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,080 Who wants to be faithful? 426 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:06,720 Yeah. 427 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:13,160 But at best Moses was just a human being with normal frailties and failures like we have. 428 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:18,720 Moses messed up at times, but the Lord Jesus Christ was the eternal become, the eternal 429 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,080 God becoming a man walking on this earth. 430 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:28,680 In every detail and in every degree, the Lord Jesus Christ was totally faithful. 431 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:34,320 He 100% of the time did the will of the heavenly, of our heavenly Father. 432 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,120 Jesus is faithful. 433 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:38,120 Jesus is faithful. 434 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:41,680 He will never let you down. 435 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,760 He also is one that has majesty. 436 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,040 Look at verse three. 437 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:57,360 It says for this man, Jesus was counted worthy of more glory than Moses in as much as he 438 00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:01,600 who has built of the house has more honor than the house. 439 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:06,560 You remember talking about the glory of Jesus being greater than Moses. 440 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,600 What story does that make you think of? 441 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:17,360 Jesus in Matthew 17 goes up to the mount and he takes Peter, James and John with them up 442 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:18,360 on that mountain. 443 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,360 You guys are, some of you are shaking your head. 444 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:21,920 You know where I'm headed. 445 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:28,800 And he gets up on that mountain and the Bible says that in one moment, a couple of things 446 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,800 happened. 447 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:35,920 One, the radiance of Jesus' glory shows in a way it wasn't shown before. 448 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:36,920 Right? 449 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,120 His humanity, I don't know how it happened. 450 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:40,120 It's a mystery. 451 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:41,120 We don't know how it happened. 452 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:42,120 It's a miracle. 453 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,880 Who agrees it's a miracle? 454 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,720 But it was pulled back and the radiance of his glory was shown. 455 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,560 He was identified in a way that was incredible. 456 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,720 But then at the same time, there's two Old Testament people that show up. 457 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,440 Moses and Elijah. 458 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,640 I'm not the first one to say that's like the law and the prophets. 459 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,920 Moses, did you know Moses wrote Genesis through Deuteronomy? 460 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,680 God did it through him. 461 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,680 And then Elijah is an Old Testament prophet and it kind of represents both things. 462 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,240 Remember what Peter did? 463 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,920 Peter was there. 464 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,440 One thing you do sometimes when you disciple people is you take them and let them experience 465 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,040 things. 466 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:22,680 And Peter, was there any experience? 467 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,880 This incredible moment. 468 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,240 In 17.3, this isn't on the screen, but here's what it says. 469 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,800 Behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with them. 470 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,520 Then answered Peter and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. 471 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:50,840 If thou wilt, let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias. 472 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,720 I love this next phrase. 473 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,440 While he yet spake. 474 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,560 God didn't wait for the words to get out of Peter's mouth. 475 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:07,120 Behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them and behold a voice out of the cloud which said, 476 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:10,960 this is my beloved son. 477 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,960 This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 478 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,680 Here ye him. 479 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:25,200 Under honor our text here in Hebrews, the Bible refers to Moses as a servant, but Jesus 480 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,720 as a son. 481 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,240 Jesus is greater than Moses. 482 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:37,560 Jesus is greater than Moses in his identity. 483 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,840 Verse five, it says that Moses was faithful as a servant. 484 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,520 The word servant there is a different word. 485 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,560 It doesn't mean a slave. 486 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:45,560 Mean as a slave. 487 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,840 It means someone who gave personal service freely at a great cost. 488 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,480 So Jesus was much more than a servant. 489 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,320 In verse six it says, but Christ is a son over his own house. 490 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,580 Moses was a servant, but Christ was a son. 491 00:25:56,580 --> 00:25:58,560 He was God's son. 492 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,680 When God got ready to send a savior into the world, he didn't just send a servant, he sent 493 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:12,040 his son. 494 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,900 That ought to move us so much. 495 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:23,000 We are calling these verses to this understanding of the identity of Jesus. 496 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,360 He has a greater identity. 497 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:27,740 Number two, he has a greater ministry. 498 00:26:27,740 --> 00:26:28,740 A greater ministry. 499 00:26:28,740 --> 00:26:30,320 Look at verse three. 500 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:36,640 For this man, Jesus was counted more worthy of more glory than Moses, and as much as he 501 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,720 who has built the house, has more honor than the house. 502 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:46,120 For every house is built by some man, but he that built with all things is God. 503 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:49,040 Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant. 504 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:56,840 Here it is for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after. 505 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,000 What was Moses' ministry? 506 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,840 I'm still talking about transformation. 507 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:02,840 Just hold on. 508 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,560 We're going to get there. 509 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,240 Moses' ministry, like Jesus, he was sent. 510 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,480 He was sent to deliver. 511 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,920 He led God's people out of Egypt. 512 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,920 He wrote the law through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the first five books of the 513 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:16,920 Old Testament. 514 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,640 The law included God's instruction about the tabernacle. 515 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,840 That was a precursor to the temple. 516 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,040 We'll talk more about that later. 517 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,480 Moses acted at times as a priest. 518 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,360 We talked about that going to God on behalf of the people. 519 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:30,640 Of course, Moses was faithful, but he was not perfect. 520 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,040 He didn't do everything right. 521 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,400 He messed up at times. 522 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:40,680 Moses had an incredible ministry, but his ministry was really a testimony, a picture 523 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:46,880 of pointing to the full and final ministry of Jesus. 524 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:51,240 Look at what he says at the end of verse number five. 525 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,400 Of Moses, he was faithful in his house as a servant for a testimony of those things 526 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,720 which were to be spoken after. 527 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,680 A testimony of those things which were to be spoken after. 528 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,000 So many of the things that instituted in the law were a picture of what Jesus was going 529 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,000 to do fully and finally in his ministry. 530 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,400 Look at what Jesus said in John 5.46. 531 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:21,360 Eric, wherever you are, he used this verse earlier. 532 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:24,320 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me. 533 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,640 For he, who's he? 534 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:34,320 Moses wrote of, who's he talking about? 535 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,040 Moses was just writing about what was going on. 536 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,360 He was picturing something that was coming. 537 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:47,200 Who received instruction about the sacrificial system and instituted that. 538 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,600 Moses, what did John say? 539 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:55,560 Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. 540 00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:01,240 The sacrificial system was a way of pointing to the Jesus, the Messiah, the Lamb of God 541 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,760 who would take on the wrath of God as a substitutionary atonement for you and for me. 542 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,320 Who agrees with me? 543 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:12,120 When Moses wrote about Abraham going to Mount Moriah sacrificing his one and only son and 544 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,600 getting a substitute ram in place of what was he writing about? 545 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,760 He was writing about Jesus. 546 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,680 That's what he was writing about. 547 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:27,960 Jesus had a greater ministry by definition because the ministry that Moses did pointed 548 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:28,960 to Jesus. 549 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,720 God can't save us. 550 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,160 Every religion in the world says you become something by doing enough good things. 551 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,680 You become accepted by God by doing enough right things. 552 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,820 And what Jesus comes in and says is you're messed up. 553 00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:48,440 You can't do enough good. 554 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,560 I'll be good for you. 555 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,280 And I'll give you my righteousness. 556 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,000 And I'll transform you. 557 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,520 What's the offer? 558 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,800 Jesus has a better, who agrees? 559 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,800 He has a better ministry than Moses. 560 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,800 Number three, we might get out of here early. 561 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,560 He has a greater house. 562 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,000 Jesus has a greater house than Moses. 563 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,680 The Hebrew word for house is used six times in this passage. 564 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:26,580 It's used seven times in English. 565 00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:30,080 It speaks here this word house. 566 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,880 You see here a house that Moses worked in and a house that Jesus built. 567 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:35,880 Look at verse three. 568 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,360 For this man was kind of worthy and more glorious than Moses. 569 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:46,720 And as much as he who has built the house has more honor than the house. 570 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,800 The law was God's idea. 571 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,120 The tabernacle was God's idea, God's design. 572 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,880 God gave Moses the instructions on how the tabernacle was to be built down to the smallest 573 00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:58,880 detail. 574 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,640 And Moses built the house just the way God told him to build it. 575 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,040 When it was completed, God came down and dwelt that house. 576 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:10,400 Do you remember what they called the place where the Ark of the Covenant was? 577 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,800 It was called the Holy of Holies, right? 578 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:19,000 And that's where God's manifest presence was there in that place. 579 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,560 When it was completed, the glory cloud hovered over that tabernacle in the wilderness and 580 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,680 God came down and dwelt in earth among his people. 581 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,000 By the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, Moses house, the tabernacle had been superseded by 582 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,280 a larger, more elaborate house that was known as the temple. 583 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,160 It was built basically on the same design as the tabernacle, just bigger and even more 584 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,160 ornate. 585 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,440 When the temple was built, God came down in the glory cloud and dwelt there. 586 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:48,120 The building was God's dwelling place on earth. 587 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,000 Now, there's two houses that are talked about here. 588 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,840 And I believe it's not just talking about the tabernacle and the temple, but definitely 589 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,320 includes it. 590 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:03,680 The people of God are who he's talking about, some that were Moses and some that are Christ. 591 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,920 As we read this passage this morning, we have to keep in mind that the first readers of 592 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,280 this book of Hebrews were Jewish Christians who were steeped in Old Testament terminology. 593 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,440 They understood the house that Moses built because that's where the sacrifices would 594 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,200 take place. 595 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,600 That's where the Jews worship. 596 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,440 That's where the priests did all that they did. 597 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,560 That's where they rooted and grounded and embedded in that house. 598 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,240 All of that, that was all rooted in the house that Moses built. 599 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:38,400 Then one day on a hill outside of Jerusalem, the one named of the Lord Jesus Christ was 600 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:39,640 hanging on the cross. 601 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:48,320 And on that cross, he said one word in Aramaic, Tetelestai, it is finished. 602 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:49,320 And what happened? 603 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:55,000 When Jesus said that, the Bible says that the veil in the temple was torn into from 604 00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:02,280 top to bottom. 605 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:08,440 God's presence isn't just in a place then. 606 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,360 We can go to the holy, holy. 607 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,320 On that day, Moses' house was rendered obsolete. 608 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,080 Read the last two verses with me. 609 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,640 And Moses was fairly, was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those 610 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,240 things which were to be spoken after. 611 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:38,160 But Christ as a son over his own house, whose house are we. 612 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:46,600 Why are you not yelling and excitement right now? 613 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,840 Where the house? 614 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,520 Where the house? 615 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,480 If we hold fast the confidence in the rejoicing hope, hope for them to the earth, it's at 616 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:56,480 the end. 617 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:00,640 He's saying those who are transformed will be transformed and they won't, God's going 618 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,040 to hold them to the end. 619 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,480 Versics gives us insight into the house that Jesus is building. 620 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,480 Who is the house? 621 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,480 Where the house? 622 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:16,360 The holy brethren who profess Jesus as Lord, apostle and high priest of our profession. 623 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:22,120 God does not just inhabit a place, now God inhabits a people. 624 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,320 He inhabits us. 625 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:31,000 Just a few weeks ago, Sunday school, we studied a passage about this woman at the well, the 626 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,400 Samaritan woman. 627 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,120 Remember that? 628 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:41,160 And Jesus connects with her, he talks to her, which is weird because Jewish men didn't talk 629 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,880 to even Jewish women, much less Samaritan women. 630 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:48,480 The half breeds the one that disagree with us theologically and historically and all 631 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,680 these other things. 632 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,320 Most Jews wouldn't even go into their part of the world. 633 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,480 And she's coming at noon to the well, there's no other women around. 634 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,720 She's been ostracized by her own community, these Samaritans, because she's had five husbands 635 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:01,800 and she doesn't know that Jesus would know this. 636 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,960 Here's this Jewish man sitting on a well. 637 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,520 The Samaritan comes up, woman comes up and she says, and Jesus says, hey, can I have 638 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:08,520 some water? 639 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,560 She's like, you're talking to me? 640 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:13,960 Why are you talking to me? 641 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,960 You're not supposed to talk to me. 642 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:20,800 He's like, oh, you don't even, yeah, there's a whole conversation. 643 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,920 But at one point in the conversation, Jesus says this, verse 16, Jesus said to her, go 644 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,000 call thy husband and come hither. 645 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,600 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. 646 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,360 Wouldn't someone that was ashamed of their past answer that way? 647 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,640 I don't have a husband. 648 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,140 Technically true. 649 00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:43,140 That's what Jesus said. 650 00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:47,800 Now as well said, I have no husbands for the house had five husbands and he, the now has, 651 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,080 is not that house, my husband and this house says truly. 652 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:56,920 The woman said it then to him, sir, I perceive that that were the profit. 653 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,520 You know things you should not know. 654 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,600 This is before the internet, right? 655 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,800 Now I'd be like, did you see my Facebook? 656 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:07,800 Yeah. 657 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,920 I perceive you're a prophet. 658 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:11,920 Then what does she say? 659 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:12,920 Check it out. 660 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:20,920 Our fathers, the Samaritans, our fathers worshiped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem 661 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,680 is the place where men ought to worship. 662 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:32,560 Now I think she brings this question up because she's perceiving that he's a prophet. 663 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,960 Yours profits come from who? 664 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:35,960 God. 665 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:41,240 So she's like, you're from God, but you're Jewish. 666 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:42,960 So I've got this theological question. 667 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,120 If you're a prophet, I need to know. 668 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,720 I got someone here that's truly representing God. 669 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:51,120 The people that have been teaching me say I have to go to the mountain, but the people 670 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:55,160 that seem to be aligned with you are telling me we got to go to Jerusalem. 671 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,080 What does Jesus say? 672 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,940 Woman, believe, now that woman wasn't like a woman. 673 00:37:00,940 --> 00:37:03,200 It's a term of endearment. 674 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:11,640 Woman, believe me, the hour comes when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at 675 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,520 Jerusalem worship the Father. 676 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,080 He's not saying that you can't worship in those places. 677 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,080 He's saying the worship isn't confined to those places. 678 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,800 What does he say? 679 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,200 You worship, you know not what. 680 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,360 We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. 681 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:33,640 By the way, worship and truth are connected. 682 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,960 So what he's saying is the Samaritans were wrong theologically. 683 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,720 And to worship, you got to be right theologically, right? 684 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:47,920 You can't worship God and ignore his son. 685 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,040 You can't get Jesus wrong and rightly worship God. 686 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,360 Do you get it? 687 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,080 Not all worship is equal worship. 688 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,720 But she says you worship, you know not what, you know what we worship for salvation is 689 00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:00,880 of the Jews. 690 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:08,880 But the hour comes and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit 691 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:14,040 and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 692 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,000 What was Jesus saying? 693 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:23,480 Because of Jesus Christ worship doesn't happen at any one particular place. 694 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:28,720 We don't call this room right here a sanctuary in the sense that this is a special dwelling 695 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:29,720 place. 696 00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:31,840 This is brick and mortar. 697 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,920 That's wood. 698 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:39,280 And if we left today and this place blew up, the church would still be here because the 699 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:45,480 church isn't a building. 700 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,440 It's us. 701 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:53,560 And you can't be the church on your own because the church means assembly. 702 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:58,880 You can't assemble by yourself. 703 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,880 So if all you're doing is watching online, I love you, glad you're watching. 704 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,720 Come back. 705 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:08,240 Assemble with the assembly. 706 00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:13,640 We are his house. 707 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,760 What can happen in spirit and in truth wherever someone is because the temple is not in the 708 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,920 place now we're the temple. 709 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,040 First Corinthians says this chapter 6 verse 19. 710 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:29,040 What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which you 711 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,880 have of God you're not your own. 712 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,200 You're bought with a price. 713 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,200 What was the price? 714 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,520 The precious blood of Jesus. 715 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,240 You're bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which 716 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:42,760 are God's. 717 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:43,760 This is incredible news. 718 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,120 This is exactly what Jesus promised. 719 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,440 When we get saved, when we accept Christ as Savior, the Holy Spirit comes and lives inside 720 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:52,440 of us. 721 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,760 This is exactly what Jesus told his disciples in John 14. 722 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:55,760 Get this. 723 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:56,760 Man get excited. 724 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:57,760 Can you get excited? 725 00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:58,760 Let's do it. 726 00:39:58,760 --> 00:39:59,760 Come on. 727 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:00,760 John 14.12. 728 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:06,600 Verily, verily I said unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. 729 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,320 And greater works in these shall he do because I go to the Father. 730 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,720 He's like, I'm going back and you're going to do greater works than I did. 731 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:16,720 What? 732 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:18,240 How is that possible? 733 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:20,480 What's there for you to ask in my name that will I do? 734 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,360 That the Father may be glorified in the Son. 735 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,160 If you shall ask anything in my name I'll do it. 736 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,360 If you love me, keep my commandments. 737 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:31,840 And I will pray the Father and he shall give you another capital C, Comforter. 738 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:36,200 The third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. 739 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:42,880 That he may abide with you forever, forever. 740 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,880 Once he gets in he doesn't get out. 741 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,200 That's why Paul says, don't grieve the Holy Spirit again. 742 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:49,200 Why is he grieved? 743 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:50,760 Because I keep messing up. 744 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:57,600 Sinning, going against his will and he's in me and he can't leave me. 745 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,920 Because it's, even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it sees them 746 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:03,480 not, neither knoweth him. 747 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,600 But ye know him for he, what is it? 748 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:06,600 For he, what? 749 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,880 Dwelleth in you and shall be in you. 750 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,480 This is exactly what's happened. 751 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:20,960 Jesus did send his Holy Spirit to live inside of those who know him. 752 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:28,000 This is why Jesus is incredible at transformation. 753 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,320 I couldn't get to him. 754 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,440 He had to get to me. 755 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,720 Finley Ohio couldn't get to him. 756 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,560 He had to get to Finley Ohio. 757 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:37,560 How did he do it? 758 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:42,520 He indwelt the people that he saved there in the disciples and he sent those people 759 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,280 out who told people, who told people, who were indwelt by the Holy Spirit, who told 760 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,720 people, who got indwelt by the Holy Spirit, who told people. 761 00:41:50,720 --> 00:42:00,360 Here we are in Finley Ohio with a trail of people that Jesus has changed and transformed. 762 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,280 And he's still doing it. 763 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,520 He's still doing it. 764 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,440 It's amazing. 765 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,640 So that means this, just a few points. 766 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:13,640 Put them in your bulletin. 767 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:14,640 Here they go. 768 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:20,080 If you're saved, he is in you. 769 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,680 It's a simple statement. 770 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,480 Not a lot of flowery words. 771 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:33,960 But if you're saved, you have the third person of the Trinity living inside of you. 772 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,080 Rome is eight, nine, but ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit. 773 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,360 If so, be that the spirit of God dwell in you. 774 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:44,200 Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 775 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,000 Are you with me? 776 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:52,320 I went to a concert one time at a charismatic church. 777 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:53,320 It was a Friday night. 778 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,280 I didn't have much to do. 779 00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:03,400 So this concert, I went there and they were upbeat. 780 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:07,960 Good music as it was biblical, some of it. 781 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:14,920 But then this guy got up and preached after the concert and he said, we need to be, we 782 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:20,200 need to put a target for the Holy Spirit to come get more of the Holy Spirit in us. 783 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,560 And he talked about the Holy Spirit, almost like it was a liquid. 784 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,760 Like you don't have enough of the spirit. 785 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,360 You need more of the spirit. 786 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:30,280 Are you with me? 787 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,040 That is the wrong way to think about the spirit. 788 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:34,040 Either have them or you don't. 789 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,040 It's like pregnancy. 790 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,280 You're either pregnant or you're not. 791 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,560 You can't be kind of pregnant. 792 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,800 That's how the Holy Spirit works. 793 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,800 If you have them, you're saved. 794 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,000 If you're saved, you have them. 795 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,400 If you're not saved, you don't have them. 796 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:58,400 If you don't have them, the only way, the only shot you got it, transformation is like, 797 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,400 ah! 798 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,160 Ah! 799 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,840 Human effort. 800 00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,280 Being more disciplined. 801 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,840 May work for a while, but it does not transform. 802 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,840 Who transforms us? 803 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:24,720 Jesus Christ is the Holy Spirit. 804 00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:26,280 He's in you. 805 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,800 And if he's in you, then he's with you. 806 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:31,800 He's with you. 807 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,720 Remember what Jesus said to the disciples? 808 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:40,480 All powers given to me in heaven and in earth go ye therefore. 809 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,280 Teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. 810 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,520 Teaching them to deserve all things, what's in our command of you. 811 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:53,440 And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. 812 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:58,280 He sends us and he goes with us. 813 00:44:58,280 --> 00:44:59,280 That's pretty cool. 814 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:05,640 You say, Pastor Ben, that sounds really like theological and spiritual and it preaches well, 815 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,800 but practically what does that mean? 816 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:15,240 That literally means that God wrote a book and you can hear what he has to say and he 817 00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:20,520 can bring through his spirit, he can bring the word of God to your heart and mind and 818 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,640 convict you and lead you and do all these other things. 819 00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,760 Who here makes decisions on a daily basis? 820 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:33,720 You just decided not to raise your hand. 821 00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:36,600 I win. 822 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,520 Everybody makes decisions. 823 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,800 And your decisions need to be informed by the word of God and convicted on your heart 824 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,920 by the spirit of God. 825 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,120 You need that every day. 826 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,240 And as God does that in your heart and mind every day, as you spend time with him as we're 827 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:57,920 going to see in a minute, he begins to change your choices and change your thinking. 828 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:02,200 You're renewed by the spirit. 829 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,640 A Romans 12, 1, and 2. 830 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,080 This is a bad time to try to quote a verse and I can't remember it. 831 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,800 I beseech you therefore, brother, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies of living 832 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,760 sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable of service. 833 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:16,760 Right? 834 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,600 Are you with me? 835 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,440 So that's what he does. 836 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:23,720 He's with you. 837 00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:24,880 He's in you. 838 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,360 Number three, he'll empower you. 839 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:31,080 He'll empower you. 840 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,240 Acts 1, 7, and 8 says, and he said unto them, it is not for you to know the times of the 841 00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:39,520 seasons which the Father has put in his own power, but ye shall receive power after that 842 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,920 the Holy Ghost has come upon you. 843 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:48,200 And ye'll be witnesses unto me and Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the most part of the earth. 844 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,760 Ephesians, I got time. 845 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,760 Ephesians chapter one. 846 00:46:52,760 --> 00:47:01,240 You want to talk about being empowered? 847 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:04,720 Wherefore I also, 115, wherefore I also after I heard of the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ 848 00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:08,040 and love unto all the saints, sayest not to give thanks for you, making mention of you 849 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,240 my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto 850 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:14,200 you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him. 851 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,800 I pray that you would know Jesus, that you would know what you have. 852 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,080 The eyes of your understanding be enlightening. 853 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:24,080 Enlighten that you may know what is the hope of his calling. 854 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,000 Who's excited about the hope of Jesus' calling? 855 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,400 We're going to heaven, right? 856 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,360 And what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the saints and what is the 857 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:39,040 exceeding greatness power to usward? 858 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:44,720 Who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when 859 00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:48,600 he raised him from the dead? 860 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:53,880 The power to overcome sin in your life is not yours. 861 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:54,880 It's Christ. 862 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,120 It's the Holy Spirit in you. 863 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,120 That will do it. 864 00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:59,120 That will do it. 865 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:00,880 He'll empower you. 866 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:05,360 And when he does, you'll bear fruit. 867 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:06,360 You'll bear fruit. 868 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,800 He'll bear fruit through you. 869 00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,960 Now here's where we get to the practical point. 870 00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,480 You're saying, Pastor Ben, this has been very, I see it. 871 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:15,480 I see it in the text. 872 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:16,480 I see what you're talking about. 873 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,120 Jesus transforms. 874 00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,120 He comes and he indwells. 875 00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,200 And when he indwells, he transforms. 876 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:23,200 How do I change? 877 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,760 I'm still struggling with sin. 878 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,480 I'm still struggling with thinking the right thing and doing the right. 879 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,000 Did you ever hear struggle? 880 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,160 I still struggle with doing the right thing and being the right person. 881 00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,080 How does it happen? 882 00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:38,760 How does it happen? 883 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,320 Jesus spoke to that. 884 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:41,400 This is amazing. 885 00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:48,200 If you will study this and apply this to your life, to me this is the secret of what's 886 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,040 God's going to do in our church. 887 00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:56,560 If God does anything in the next 20, 30 years and beyond with our churches because we claim 888 00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:01,240 the promises He gives us right here. 889 00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:07,360 Jesus said in John 15, one, I am the true vine and my father's the husband man. 890 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,600 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he takeeth away. 891 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:13,880 And every branch that beareth fruit, he purges it that it may not bring, that it may bring 892 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:14,880 forth more fruit. 893 00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,880 Now you are cleaned through with which I have spoken unto you. 894 00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:18,880 Here it is. 895 00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,240 Abide in me and I in you. 896 00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:26,600 Abide in me and I in you. 897 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:27,600 Know what abide means? 898 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:28,600 Remain. 899 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:29,600 Stay. 900 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,600 Spend time with. 901 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:33,760 Rest in. 902 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:35,400 Be with. 903 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:41,800 As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it be in the vine, no more can ye accept ye 904 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,560 abide in me. 905 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:51,280 There's two options to change. 906 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:58,520 For Jesus transforming you, you getting your nutrition from the vine. 907 00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:03,240 He wrote a book. 908 00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:08,680 The author of the book, he sent to live in us. 909 00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:13,720 We're the temple. 910 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:19,840 Not because we deserve it, but because of his grace. 911 00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:20,840 I'm the vine. 912 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:21,840 He is more than a branch. 913 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,680 He that abides in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. 914 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,520 For without me ye can do a little bit. 915 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,760 No, nothing. 916 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,800 If a man abideth not in me, he cast forth as a branch and his withered and men gathered 917 00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:36,880 them and cast them into fire and they were burned. 918 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:44,680 If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask what ye will and it shall be 919 00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:46,720 done unto you. 920 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:51,360 Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit. 921 00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:52,440 How do you want to glorify God? 922 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:53,440 Bear fruit. 923 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:54,440 How do you bear fruit? 924 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,960 Abide in the vine. 925 00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,360 That's how you be, what did you say? 926 00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:05,960 My disciples. 927 00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:12,040 There's an old Sunday school song. 928 00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:13,920 Read your Bible. 929 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:18,080 Pray every day. 930 00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,840 Pray every day. 931 00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:25,920 I chose the wrong key. 932 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:26,920 Read your Bible. 933 00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:36,400 Pray every day and you'll grow, grow, grow. 934 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:37,720 You stay with Jesus. 935 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:40,120 You're like, just read it? 936 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:41,720 No, not just read it. 937 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:44,480 Actually read it to understand it. 938 00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,640 Actually read it to obey it. 939 00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:53,160 Listen to God as he speaks to you through his word. 940 00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,720 And then talk to him. 941 00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:57,440 You know why you can talk to God? 942 00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,560 Because Jesus is right there on the right hand of the Father going to God on your behalf 943 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:05,960 because the Spirit of God is in you and he says the things you don't even know what to 944 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:06,960 say. 945 00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:10,960 He utters the words you don't even know what to utter on our behalf. 946 00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:15,680 And it's not just, I don't mean read your Bible. 947 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:19,080 Pray every day so you can academically grow in knowledge. 948 00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:20,080 Read your Bible. 949 00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:21,080 Pray every day. 950 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:30,680 Abide in Jesus so that he can supernaturally change you from the inside out. 951 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,320 Because he's in there. 952 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:35,320 He's in there. 953 00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,400 Stop fighting him. 954 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,680 Stop cooperating with him. 955 00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,560 Because his will for your life is to grow. 956 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:51,920 He wants to transform you from the inside out. 957 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:53,840 I've tried to change from the outside in. 958 00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,760 It does not work. 959 00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,760 It doesn't. 960 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:08,360 So this means if you're not saved, you have no shot at this kind of transformation. 961 00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,600 If you're not saved, you haven't put your faith and trust in Jesus and that means you're 962 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,400 not going to be in heaven. 963 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,160 God doesn't dwell in you. 964 00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:22,440 But the good news is you can be. 965 00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,160 He can come live inside of you. 966 00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,720 He can positionally sanctify you. 967 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:28,720 He can set you apart. 968 00:53:28,720 --> 00:53:30,400 He can make you one of his kids. 969 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:31,920 Jesus can be your big brother. 970 00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:36,560 You can have eternal life and be changed. 971 00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,040 He can do it. 972 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,320 He wants to do it. 973 00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,920 He wants to do it. 974 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:49,040 He who comes to me, he said, I will in no wise cast out. 975 00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:55,280 Jesus will change and transform your life when you cooperate with him to do it. 976 00:53:55,280 --> 00:54:00,200 He's got a greater identity than Moses, a greater ministry than Moses. 977 00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,320 He's building a better house than Moses. 978 00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,560 Who's this house? 979 00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:06,560 Where is his house? 980 00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:08,160 Would you bow your heads and close your eyes and be this morning?