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Please open your Bible to chapter 2.

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We're actually going to finish this chapter today.

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Hebrews chapter 2.

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We're going to go through 10 through 18 today.

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And I want to clarify some things in this message,

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and the importance of paying attention to the context of what's being said here.

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Because there are some things that are said in translation, I think, can have a tendency,

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and in many cases has had a tendency to draw us away from what God is trying to say here.

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This is part 2 of Christ the Better Adam. You'll see that in this message.

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And just the importance of allowing the scripture to interpret scripture, context upon context, precept upon precept,

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the importance of biblical hermeneutics, right?

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The interpretation of the word.

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So there are many things, especially in these days, where interpretation is taken way out of context.

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And as a result, really does do harm to the church.

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So that being said, I want to deal with one particular issue.

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I think if you guys have been on YouTube at all, or any of the news, Fox News or anything else,

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you've heard about this new quote unquote law that has been passed called 60-90.

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Okay, the 60-90 law is this law that's been passed concerning anti-Semitic statements.

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And that because of this law, it puts Christianity in a very bad situation,

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because what they're claiming is that in the scripture it says that the Jews had killed Jesus,

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and you're accusing them to be murderers, and as a result, it's anti-Semitic.

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So let me clarify some very important things.

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As long as the First Amendment of the Constitution exists, there's nothing they can do.

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So don't worry.

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It's a fear-mongering thing, so that we can keep the alt-right and the alt-left at odds with each other.

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And it really deviates people's attention from the reality and the importance of the gospel

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and the purpose of what we do as a church.

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So even if they were to use that to jail us or call us anti-Semitic,

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we as God's people will not succumb to the tyranny of evil government.

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We will preach the gospel in its full entirety, and we will commit to the sound truth of the word of God,

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because they can't take the word from us or out of us.

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So just stand firm, be confident in the word.

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If persecution comes, great, because then we're going to grow.

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The church is going to blow out the seams.

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So you want real true revival, real true growth? Persecution.

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So just understand that. Don't lose your bearing.

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Don't let that push, especially among some of the Christian nationalists from that perspective,

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really take you from what you've been called to do, and that is to the sound preaching and teaching of the gospel.

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So just hold to it. Don't worry about it. Not a big deal.

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Let them bring it. That being said, we're going to start off in chapter,

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we're going to read chapter two, verse five through nine, go right into verse 10,

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and then we're going to kick off our message from there.

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Father, I want to thank you so much for your word. Thank you that your word is faithful and true,

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and that it will accomplish exactly what you have set it out to do.

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What I pray is you show us and teach us your word, that the full counsel of your word is spoken,

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that we would understand the importance of the true and better Adam,

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that you are not only the founder of our salvation, of our faith, you are the author of our salvation,

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the redeemer of our salvation and the finisher.

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Lord, you will complete what you have started and we give you praise.

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Lord, help us to see clearly what chapter two says for your honor and glory.

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We ask these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Verse five, for it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

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It has been testified somewhere, what is man, that you are mindful of him, the son of man, that you care for him.

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You made him a little lower than the angels and you crowned him with glory and honor,

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putting everything in subjection under his feet.

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Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.

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At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him,

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but we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus,

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crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death,

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so that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.

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Now it's important, let's keep going.

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For it is fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist in bringing many sons to glory,

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should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

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So in order for us to really understand verse 10, we need to understand the whole context of what's being said here,

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because this starts to pull some things out that we need to be paying attention to.

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Principle number one, Christ's suffering completed and fulfilled the great salvation to bring many sons to glory.

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Christ's sufferings completed and fulfilled the great salvation to bring many sons to glory.

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Here is the supporting scripture, the context here.

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Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,

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let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely,

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and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

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looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,

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and for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,

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despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God, Hebrews 12, 1 and 2.

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So there it is, the supporting truth of the reality that he is the beginning and the perfecter,

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the finishing, the ending of our faith. He is our faith.

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Now, some very important words in chapter two, verse 10, for it was fitting.

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Prepo is the word here. So this word prepo literally means to stand out, to be imminent.

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It is fit or right. That's what this word prepo means.

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So this word fitting in translation is actually a good word.

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So it is fit or right. It is fit or right for him to stand out, for him to be imminent.

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It is fit or right that he is the founder, that he is the perfecter,

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that he is the one who is accomplishing this great salvation in us,

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and that everything that is associated with this amazing salvation, this great salvation,

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it is fitting for him. Why? Why is it fitting? Why should he stand out?

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Why should he be imminent? Why should it be right?

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Because that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, he is the reason why you exist.

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He is the creator. So it is fitting for him to have accomplished all of this. Why?

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Because he created it. All things exist because of him.

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And as a result of the creator who put on flesh and became like one of us,

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he then can bring many sons to glory. Isn't that amazing?

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Notice he doesn't say all sons, all of human life to glory. Only many. Only many.

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Now, why many? Why just this few?

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Because he, bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder, the beginning,

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the author, the completer, the finisher of our faith, of their salvation perfect.

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This word perfect is telieo.

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Telieo means to bring to an end, complete, finish, or fulfill.

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What did he bring? What did the founder of our faith, the author of our faith do?

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He, through telieo, brought an end or completed, finished, or fulfilled

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what was required for our salvation through suffering.

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So I don't know if I like this word perfect because it makes a lot more sense that he,

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who brought many sons to glory, should make the founder, the beginner of our salvation,

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the author of our salvation, he should bring an end and fulfill what's required

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for salvation through suffering. That's what this means.

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But that Christ, through the work, fulfilled it through suffering. That's what this means.

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When you read that, you're like, well, I don't see that there, but that's exactly what it means.

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The word study is clear.

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A lot of word study in this message.

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Christ, second principle, Christ has satisfied, justified, and made us acceptable to and for him.

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It is, if Christ is not ashamed of you, why should you be ashamed of him?

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Especially for all he has done for you.

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I can't help but think there are many Christians when it comes to the knit and grit

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of being a faithful example and a witness are really ashamed.

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They're just hesitant, don't want to talk about it.

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So they avoid talking about it.

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Why? Maybe don't know enough for, but the reality is if the Spirit of God lives in you,

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then you will know what to say.

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Hebrews 2, 11 through 13, clarify some very important things here.

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For he, Christ, who sanctifies, he's the sanctifier, and those who are sanctified,

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meaning us, all have one source.

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What's interesting in the actual language is this word source doesn't exist, it's implied.

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It literally says for he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one.

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That's it.

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All have one what? Founder of your salvation.

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All have one finisher of your salvation.

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All have one, right, author of your salvation.

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That through Christ, he who sanctifies, we all have one.

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One what? One faith, one hope in Christ.

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One ultimate purpose and goal and plan was accomplished.

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We are in the Father.

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If we are in Christ, then Christ is in the Father, then we are in the Father with Christ.

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That's what this means.

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Interesting.

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So in reality, the word source can be applied there in assumption.

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He is the source of all things for us concerning life and godliness.

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Why do I share that with you? Because what's coming next in the verse?

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That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers.

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For he who sanctifies Christ sanctified all and that we are one with him in the Father.

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And that is why he is not ashamed to call you a brother or a sister.

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Like think about that.

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It'd be kind of difficult if in reality he was ashamed of us.

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But we are one in him.

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Because of that, he can say with confidence that he is not ashamed to call us brothers.

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This word that is why is itea, not Ikea.

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Itea, this word itea means a cause or reason or one worthy of punishment.

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Think about that.

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He became the punishment for us.

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He took the punishment that we deserved.

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He is the cause and the reason of our great salvation.

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This cause and reason in reality which we deserved, he has taken upon himself

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and he has sanctified for himself a people.

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And if this is true, then you understand that if we are in him as one,

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then he is not ashamed to call us brothers.

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Because if he was, his salvation would be worthless.

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What's the point of dying and saving a people if you are ashamed of them?

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So now you understand a little bit why the writer writes in this way.

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Itea, it's a word there.

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So verse 12 starts to make a little bit more sense.

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If he is not ashamed to call us brothers, then in verse 12 when it says,

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saying, I will tell your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation,

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I will sing your praise.

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And again, I will put my trust in him and again, behold, I and the children God has given me.

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In other words, look at me and the children that God has given me.

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Behold.

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And so what we come to understand is if he is not ashamed of us and he has told,

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he has shared and told us about the name of the Lord God, Yahweh, to his brothers,

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and he sung praise among them in the congregation or praise of God in the congregation,

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then why should we be ashamed?

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Are you willing to tell of God's name to the brothers in the midst of the congregation

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to sing his praise?

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And are you willing to put your trust in him?

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Because behold, I and the children God has given me.

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All that the Father has given me, I will not lose.

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We are his forever.

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Nothing can pluck us out of his hand.

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That's what this means.

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I'm starting to make a lot more sense when you read this from this perspective.

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Don't worry.

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This ends up being a monkey wrench thrown in here and you go, well, where did that come from?

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I got it.

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Third principle.

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Through Christ's death and suffering, we are set free from lifelong slavery and penalty of sin,

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which is death.

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Here's the scriptural context.

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So if the son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

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John 8.36.

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Hebrews 2.14-15 says, since therefore, in other words, hey, since all of this is true,

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everything that I've just said to you, therefore, the children share in flesh and blood.

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Since therefore, we who are children or brothers of Christ share in flesh and blood,

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he himself likewise, portook of the same things that through death, he might destroy the one who has

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the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver all those through fear of death were subject to

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lifelong slavery.

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And you go, there it is.

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The devil did it.

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You guys ready for a little bit of, you're about to get totally confused right here.

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I'm confused.

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When I said devil, I was like, why is that there?

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Like, what's the point of the word devil?

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And we all assume it's the devil, and it's not.

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It's not Satan.

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You guys knew I was going to do that.

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So far, we've been dealing with the issue of sin, have we not?

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Have we not dealt with the reality of what sin has put upon our lives, that sin is the one that

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brings death?

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Here we go.

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Since therefore, the children share in flesh and blood.

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What's that mean?

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We're human.

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We have flesh and blood.

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We will die.

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And so, he himself, Christ, likewise, partook of the same things.

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He also became flesh and blood like us.

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Because he thought that through death, he might destroy the one who has the power of death.

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Now, think about that.

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Now, if we read this and keep reading it, it says the devil, you would assume the devil has the

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power of death.

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Am I right?

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Is that what the scriptures say?

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Let's think contextually about this.

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The wages of sin is?

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Say it.

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So, what has the power of death?

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Are you ready?

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Here we go.

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So, this thing that has the power of death, the word devil, it is the word Diablos, but it's

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lowercase d.

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And if you read and understand what Diablos means in the Greek, it does not ever, ever, ever

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associate as an individual.

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It says figuratively that it could, in figurative, point to a person who acts like this.

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Read the translation.

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But here's what it means.

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This is the actual translation for Diablos.

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It means accuser, slanderer, or culminator.

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That's what it means.

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No secret meaning.

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Now, let's use this from the translation and kind of grasp what he's saying here is that

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this very thing that he destroyed, the one who has, or the thing that has the power of

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death over you, which is the accuser, slanderer, and culminator that brings death to you, then

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when he delivers us, we are no longer slaves to it.

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And so what do I mean?

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Well, what I mean is I don't know about you, but there are many, many days I wake up and

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I am literally in a battle mentally and emotionally with this thing that I live with called sin.

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Just because I am born again and my spirit is alive and made perfect in Christ, I still

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live in this body which is at war with me and wants to kill me.

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And the fact is that one day if the Lord tarries, it will kill me.

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Death will come to every one of us.

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Because of sin.

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Every day you look in the mirror and you don't like the way you look, it slanders you.

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Every day you get up and it's a culminator against you, it's an enemy.

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And every day there are Christians who have been told in the pulpit that it's the devil,

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live lives defeated and wonder why they can never get beyond where they are today.

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Because they aren't really dealing with the real true enemy that they live with every day.

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They're dealing with an enemy that they've been told is their enemy.

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The devil is a small enemy compared to the reality of the enemy of sin.

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Sin is still destroying people today.

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It is a big enemy.

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So much so that this very enemy has the power of death over everything.

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That's the point of why Jesus came to deliver us from this power of death called sin.

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The very thing that sin holds over us.

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It makes a lot of sense when you read Romans and you read in context what's being said here.

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That the very thing that the first Adam could not do but brought death to us,

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as the scripture says, because one man sinned, all sinned, because all sinned, all will die.

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Christ came to deliver us from that enemy, not the devil, not the angelic being.

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It's not the right understanding here.

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It's the right translation.

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But as good scripture, good expository preaching should be showing you the reality

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that it's the accuser, the slanderer, the culminator you wake up with every day called sin.

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And that Christ has destroyed that for his people, though we will live with it for a little while.

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And so let's keep reading.

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This word deliverer, apolosso, means to remove, release, depart, set free, or deliver.

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He will apolosso or he did apolosso all those who through fear of death were subject.

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Anakos. Anakos means bound or under obligation or subject or liable.

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We were bound to sin. We were under the obligation of sin.

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We were subject to sin. We were liable to sin.

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And as a result, we were lifelong slaves.

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But he delivered us from slavery to sin.

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How do we know that?

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Because it says that we, if we have a sinful nature, were slaves to sin.

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But now that we've been set free from sin, we are now slaves to Christ.

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I love being able to look through the scripture and bring context and clarity to the truth of his word.

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It's so good.

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It's heartbreaking to see so many people abandoning the faith.

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I was looking at, I was watching a man who left Reformed theology to go to Orthodox theology.

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He said that the word of God that we have today is wrong, that the true faith is Orthodox Christianity.

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No, the truth faith is biblical Christianity.

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That's true faith. Get in line with that.

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Teach the full counsel of God's word. Understand what God's word says. You'll be okay.

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But people jump and ship fast.

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And so for us who at one time feared death and were subject to lifelong slavery, he has freed us.

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I'll say it in this way. This is my translation.

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I kind of wrote it so I can help clarify in a statement what all of that means to kind of help to relax the waters.

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And so here's my translation of verse 14 and 15.

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Since therefore we share in being human flesh and blood, Christ had become a partaker of the same things born in the likeness of man.

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He experienced the struggles and pains of being human, but he did not sin.

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He through death put an end and did away with that which possessed us, the power of death,

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that which accuses, slanders, and personally attacks us, the enemy called sin.

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He delivers all who fear death to which we were lifelong slaves.

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That's what this means. Makes a lot more sense now, doesn't it?

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Last principle. Christ the true and better Adam was for us what the first Adam could not be, our gracious and faithful high priest and king.

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Those who belong to the family of faith through Christ's work on the cross have what no other faith has.

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No faith on the planet can declare this statement.

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A God who understands his people in every way and is our ever present help. Why?

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Because he came as man. He had to come as man. He could not be an animal.

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I don't know about you. I don't look like a sheep. An animal, a lamb? Nah.

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We might act like sheep, but I don't look like a sheep.

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Sheep are not created in the image of its creator. We are.

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And so the only right sacrifice is the God who created us to give himself as a sacrifice.

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We were created in his image. We are the image bearers and as a result the only right and perfect sacrifice would be himself.

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If that was not true, God would have continued to allow animals to be sacrificed.

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But they're not appropriate sacrifices.

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What's amazing is that his sacrifice was once for all.

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Now, let's prove this out a little bit here.

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Hebrews chapter 2 verse 16 through 18, this is the last.

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For surely, in other words, this is an absolute fact, it is not angels that he helps.

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He didn't come to deliver angels. He didn't come to help angels get through their struggles every day.

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But he helps the offspring of Abraham. Who are the offspring of Abraham?

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Here's the answer, Galatians chapter 3 verse 6 through 7.

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You want to know who the offspring are? Here it is.

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Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness, know then it is those of faith who are sons of Abraham.

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It's not the world. God doesn't come to help the world.

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He come to help his people. The world doesn't want his help.

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If you have any questions about that, read John the Gospel chapter 11 on. Actually, you can go even further than that.

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He came to deliver them and he rejected them over and over and over again.

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He has come to help his offspring, his people.

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And his people are designated as the people or the offspring of Abraham.

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What was special about Abraham? He was a man of faith.

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So then those of faith are sons of Abraham.

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That puts a monkey wrench in a lot of theology.

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Verse 17 says, Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every way.

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He had to put on flesh like us. He had to be tempted and not sin like us.

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He had to feel pain and struggle like us. He had to suffer like us.

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Why? So that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God for us.

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He is the one who stands in our behalf.

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As the accusers accuse us, he declares us innocent.

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He is your advocate. And as your advocate, you'll see this word coming up,

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which we taught the kids in a little bit ago.

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As an advocate, he can, without any hesitation, make propitiation for the sins of his people.

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The sins of the people who? The people of faith.

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Why do I say that?

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Not many people teach the issue of propitiation or atonement,

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substitutionary atonement from this perspective, but I want to clarify it.

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Some would probably disagree. Not my problem. That's fine.

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The reality of God's atonement or propitiation, specifically his substitutionary atonement,

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his offer is to the world for God so loved the world that he gave.

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Here's the offer. The application of that atonement is only to the believer.

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God is not obligated to apply atonement to everyone.

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He is only obligated to apply atonement to his people.

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But because God is gracious and good and loving, he offers atonement.

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But what do they choose? Because of their nature.

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Because they are elect. They love their darkness. They don't want atonement.

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And so this makes a lot more sense so that he might become a merciful high priest in the service of God

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to make propitiation for the sins of the people who? The people of faith.

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What's wonderful about this word propitiation, helascomai,

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it means to appease or to overcome the hostility of, to win over, to atone for, or to make amends.

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Now think about that. Didn't Jesus do all that?

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He appeased the anger and the wrath of God by becoming our sacrifice.

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God poured his own wrath, the father, on his son.

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The scripture says that the father was pleased to destroy the son.

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That was an appeasement.

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Second, Jesus overcame the hostility of the wrath of God.

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Trust me, if you don't accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you go to hell,

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you're going to experience a whole lot of hostility.

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Not going to be fun.

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Next, he has won for us.

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He has won us over because of his sacrifice.

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He is also the atonement, the object that God has used to pour his wrath out.

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The blood sacrifice for us that has taken away our sin.

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He is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

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And he makes amends.

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He makes right what we could never make right.

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You see, what Adam failed to do, Jesus has accomplished.

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He is the true and better Adam.

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That's the point of this chapter.

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has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

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He understands our struggle.

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and has won without sin, perfectly obeyed God the Father in all things,

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he is absolutely able to help you when you are tempted.

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So what is this word tempted?

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Turn to James chapter 1, which makes a lot more sense now

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that we've clarified chapter 2 in Hebrews.

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That our enemy is sin and how you as a believer in God

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can live a life that is victorious.

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Not perfect, not without suffering, but victorious.

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What is temptation?

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How does he help us?

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Well, think about it this way.

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You guys ready?

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Many would say, the devil made me, at least if you read chapter 2

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and you would assume that the devil is the person and not sin,

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you'd be like, see, it's the devil's fault.

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He's messing with a lot of people.

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Pretty amazing how powerful that guy is.

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Look what it says.

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Trust me, I'm not denying the existence of the devil.

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But the scripture says he's before the throne accusing the saints night and day.

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I don't know about you, but night and day means a whole long time.

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So let's see.

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James 1 verse 13.

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What is temptation?

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Let no one say when he is tempted, I'm being tempted by God.

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For God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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You guys ready?

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This is going to hurt.

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But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

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There's your enemy.

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Sin right there.

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Look what it says.

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Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin,

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and sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death.

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Isn't that interesting?

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How come it doesn't say each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by the devil?

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We are lured and enticed by our own sinful desires.

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We are by nature sinful beings in our body.

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And this body is showing that every single day.

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One day he will make our bodies like his, incorruptible and immortal.

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But until then, we have got to walk with Christ, with intent and purpose.

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So when we read chapter two of Hebrews, I almost said Romans, of Hebrews,

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man, do you see the clarity of what's being said here?

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You want to live a victorious Christian life?

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Let Christ live.

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Stop blaming everyone and everything else.

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And look at the reality that he has freed you and has destroyed the power of death over your life called sin.

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We choose our sinful nature instead of choosing Christ, our spiritual nature.

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So, whom the Lord has set free is free indeed.

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Father, I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness.

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To you be honor and glory and might.

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Thank you so much that you are the founder, the finisher, the perfecter of our faith that you will complete what you have started.

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Help us to walk in real, true victory in the truth of your word.

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To stand firm for your glory in Jesus' name, Amen.