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All right, here we go.

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Hebrews 3, 1 through 6.

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Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle

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and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him, who appointed him, just as

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Moses also was faithful in all God's house.

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For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, as much more glory as the

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builder of the house has more honor than the house itself.

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For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

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Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant to testify to the things that

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were to be spoken later.

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But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son.

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And we are his house if we indeed hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

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Three basic principles I'm going to be sharing with you and some supporting statements that

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go along with that scripture and other things.

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So let's go.

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First principle number one, Christ the builder and faithful delegate to the family of God

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reminds us of our heavenly calling.

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Christ the builder and faithful delegate of the family of God reminds us of our heavenly

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calling.

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You guys remember that wonderful hymn?

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Turn your eyes upon Jesus.

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Look full into his wonderful face and the things of earth will go strangely dim in the

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light of his glory and grace.

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There's a verse in there that says this, his word shall not fail you, he promised.

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Believe him and all will be well.

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Then go to a world that is dying, his perfect salvation to tell.

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Helen H. Lemel, 1922.

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Now in Hebrews, when we're dealing with this issue of Christ the better prophet, there's

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some clarifications that are being said here I want you to pay attention to.

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It says therefore holy brothers, holy brothers.

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This means the brethren in Christ or those exalted to the same heavenly place.

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That's important because there's this term right afterwards that says you who share in

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a heavenly calling.

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Now what's interesting is A would imply that there would be many heavenly callings but

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there's only one.

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It's actually I think the right translation, the right word that should have been used

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there is if we as holy brothers, those who are exalted to the same heavenly place as Christ,

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we are with him in his heaven and that he sits at the right hand of God the Father,

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then we who share in that heavenly place have what we share is the heavenly calling, the

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heavenly calling.

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There is one heavenly calling.

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That heavenly calling is the calling to salvation.

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It's like I don't have a different calling than you.

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God doesn't have a purpose for my life and he has a purpose for yours.

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It's the same purpose.

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It's the same calling.

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Eternity with Christ, the eternal calling.

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It's important that we understand this because when he says consider Jesus, you'll understand

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that this word consider means to fix one's mind or eyes upon.

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So when you're running a race and you want to finish the race and you feel like you want

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to give up, the reason why you finish the race and you run hard is because you see the

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finish line.

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You know there is a goal and so you're striving so he is our prize as we have stated before.

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Fix one's mind or eyes upon Jesus.

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Consider Jesus.

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Do you think about Jesus?

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Are you looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith?

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Very important as we are considering him, as we are fixing our minds upon him.

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Why should we fix our minds upon him who is our heavenly calling?

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Well, because he is the apostle.

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He is the delegate and messenger.

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He is the first apostle.

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He is the better apostle.

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You can only be an apostle if you have, one, if you're Christ, two, if you've been taught

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directly by Christ, have seen Christ and have walked with Christ.

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No one else can claim that.

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There's no other apostles on the earth.

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So if there's a denomination that teaches you, hey, that's apostle such and such, run.

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There is no other apostle.

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The apostles that all of the Word of Faith movement and the Charismatic movement keep

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pushing apostleship.

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There aren't no apostles.

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There are no apostles.

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I know aren't no is a double negative.

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That's why I said it.

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That means no, no, no more.

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That's not good English, but as a preacher, I think we can get away with the aren't no

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or as they would say the ain't no.

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Now if Christ is the apostle and the high priest of our confession, then you understand

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why we should fix our eyes upon him.

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He's the message and he is the messenger.

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He is the high priest, the one who on our behalf goes before the father and cares for

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us, deals with our sin.

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He is the advocate for you.

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What is this confession?

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The word confession here also means the profession.

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What do we profess?

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Christ crucified.

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Paul says, I have known nothing before you except Christ and him crucified.

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The gospel is our confession and the gospel is what we profess.

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So if this is true, then we don't need anything else and I don't need.

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You like that?

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Good.

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He is our apostle and high priest.

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Now what's interesting is verse two, who was faithful to him who appointed him?

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In other words, God, the father has set before time, he who would be our propitiation.

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Do you remember we talked about that last week?

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That's why he is the one who was faithful to accomplish what the father has planned

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perfectly.

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This is not by surprise.

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This was by design.

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You're like what?

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God has designed salvation.

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He is the creator of it.

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He's the one who plans it.

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He's the one who established it.

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He's the one who sets it up and has fulfilled it.

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It's an amazing redemptive work of God.

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And if this never happened, if man never sinned, you would never experience the amazing character

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of God's redemption.

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It's necessary.

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So much bigger than our minds can ever imagine.

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So when he says, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house, meaning God's family,

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who's more faithful?

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So this word God's house is the family of God.

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It's not a building.

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You are that building.

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You are the living stones.

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You are the household of God, the family of God.

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Two, as believers.

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Principle number two, unless the Lord builds the house, those who build labor in vain,

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Psalm 127, one.

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Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain, Psalm 127, verse one.

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Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be a wise man who built

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his house on the rock.

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Matthew 7 24.

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That's what Jesus says.

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Jesus is the builder.

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He is the rock.

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Now in Hebrews three, three and four, it says this, for Jesus has been counted worthy.

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Really, really an amazing word.

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Axial.

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Axial means deserving, fit or right.

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In other words, he is the one who is deserving.

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He is the only one who is fit and he is the only one who is right of more glory than Moses.

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Now why would the writers say this?

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Because understand, apart from Moses, there is no greater prophet in the mind of a Jew.

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He is in their minds the pinnacle.

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Because many times you would see in the conversation that Jesus has, well you're greater than our

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father Abraham or you're better than Moses.

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Yes, he is.

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And that's the point.

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He is the only one who is deserving, fit or right of more glory than Moses.

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Moses is so unique that out of all the prophets, a prophet would receive a word from God by

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vision or dream.

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That's how he would hear from God.

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Moses, though, on the other hand, is the only prophet that God spoke face to face.

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That's how unique Moses is.

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And what the writer is saying, what the father is saying here is Jesus is the one who is

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more deserving, fit and right of more glory than that.

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Why?

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Because he is the one who spoke to Moses.

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Here check it out.

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He says, as much more glory as the builder has or of a house has more honor than the

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house itself.

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In other words, Christ is the builder and if Christ is the builder, the house doesn't

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get more glory.

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The builder gets the glory.

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I wonder if we really understand that.

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Because there's a lot of houses of worship, quote unquote, being built in the name of

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God, but it's not in the image of God.

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And so this word builder means to equip, prepare or make ready, to erect or construct.

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See he is the only one who is worthy, who is capable of equipping his people, preparing

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his people, making ready his people, building a temple of his people and constructing that

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temple.

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He is the one who carasculco a Zeus.

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And that house, the builder has more honor than the house itself.

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But what do we talk about when we talk about churches?

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Do we talk about Christ, the king of the church?

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Or we talk about man, you got to go to that church.

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It's amazing.

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That music is awesome.

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You ever notice that?

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Churches are recognized for the music they play, not for the Christ they reflect.

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Isn't that interesting?

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You know, I mean I have to go to Elevation Worship, that music is banging.

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But then you look at their life and go, your life is trash.

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But that's church.

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People want churches that fit their taste buds, but they don't want churches that are biblically

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sound.

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We are committed as a part of the body and the family of God to reflect Christ in everything

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we do.

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Everything.

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And sometimes that's going to make people uncomfortable.

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And that's okay.

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So if this is true, look what it says in verse 4.

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For every house is built by someone.

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There's a lot of people building houses, but the builder of all things is God.

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And what's interesting is, if God builds it, he can also take it down.

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What's amazing about the church, in the church that he's building is, not even the gates

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of hell can prevail over her.

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That building of people is firmly established.

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Because anyone who builds a house on the rock is wise.

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Wise.

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Third principle.

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Christ the true heir and rightful owner and deed holder of all that was promised.

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Christ is the heir of the promise.

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Christ is the rightful owner of the promises and he is the deed holder of the promise.

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I want you to get that.

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It's very important.

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Think about this.

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Christ comes, gives his life, pays the price, his world, his land, his city, and then we

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go, no, it doesn't belong to him.

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It actually belongs to, you guessed it, the Jews.

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And that's not biblical.

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If he's the one who fulfilled the rightful promises, if he's the one who accomplished,

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if he's the one who fulfilled the deed that's required for it, then he's the one who owns

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it.

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And that's clarified here.

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Here's the scripture.

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All things have been handed over to me by my father.

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All.

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What's all things?

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All things have been handed over to me.

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In other words, I am the owner.

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I am the heir and I am the deed holder.

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Mine.

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He has the right to that.

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He is the one who is fit and right to receive all of those things.

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He is the faithful.

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Now if all of this is true, it continues to say in Matthew 11, 27, and no one knows the

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son except the father and no one knows the father except the son and anyone to whom the

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son chooses to reveal him.

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Interesting.

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Many people claim rights to something they don't own.

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God owns it all.

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This is important because in verse five through six, we clarify this.

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Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant.

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Moses was faithful in all of God's family as a servant.

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What is a servant?

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He's a slave.

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His job is to serve.

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He is the one to serve.

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He's to serve the owner.

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Now what's interesting about this particular word in the Greek, this word is theropon.

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Theropon.

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Now theropon is, what I liked about this particularly is it speaks especially to Moses.

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It's like one word that's not, it can apply to many others, but specifically when you're

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talking about the servant Moses, this is his word.

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Out of all the words, this is the word that they would associate servant Moses, theropon.

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The word means an attendant or discharging the duties committed to him.

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Isn't that interesting?

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Out of everyone, Moses was the servant of God.

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Moses was the deliverer.

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Moses was the redeemer.

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Moses was the high priest.

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Moses was the what?

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The general leader.

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He was all these things to the people of Israel.

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But nonetheless, he was not the builder owner.

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He was the servant.

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He was the theropon.

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Now if Moses is the one who is the attendant or the discharging of the duties committed

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to him, specifically speaking of Moses, what was he discharged to do?

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Well that's a good question because it's right there in the verse.

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To testify of the things that were to be spoken later.

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What things?

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Jesus talks about this when he's on the road to Emmaus.

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Does he not?

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A couple guys come around and he says, have you not learned all that Moses and the prophets

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had spoken about me?

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These are the things that were to be spoken later.

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These are what Moses was pointing to.

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Moses the servant, the faithful witness, was pointing to someone greater than him.

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He was pointing to Jesus the better.

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That's the point.

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And so we read in verse 6, but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son.

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If Moses was faithful over God's house as a slave, as a servant, as a theropon, then

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Christ is faithful over God's house as the heir, the owner.

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No matter where you go, you can go to verse after verse after verse.

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If God has given him all things and he is the rightful heir of the inheritance of God,

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then why in the world would he exclude one particular thing?

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The land of Israel.

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Does that make sense?

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Oh no, it doesn't make sense.

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As a matter of fact, he clarifies this because you see what he is talking about.

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It's never been about the land.

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Look what it's about.

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The second part of verse 6, Christ is faithful over God's house as a son and we are his house.

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You are his inheritance.

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You.

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Everything he has is for himself to be with his people for eternity.

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That's the point.

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He is far better than Moses ever could be.

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And Moses knew this.

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I mean, can you imagine you go up to Mount Sinai and you stand there and you're watching

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a bush not burn and the one standing in the midst of the bush is one who was the son of

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man.

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Jesus is standing in the bush.

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Conversation.

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He goes, he comes back, he meets with them again on Mount Sinai and what's he do?

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Has a conversation.

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Let me see your glory.

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No, you'll die, buddy.

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Well just let me see the back.

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Okay.

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And then he meets with Jesus face to face and have a conversation.

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I mean, it's an amazing thought.

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You think Moses didn't know?

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Of course Moses knew.

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He knew exactly who he was talking to.

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And so Moses was always pointing to the one who he spoke to face to face.

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See Jesus.

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See Jesus the better tabernacle.

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See Jesus the better sacrifice.

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See Jesus the better prophet, the better messenger.

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See Jesus.

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See Jesus the one who was to be lifted up.

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Your salvation.

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It's always been pointing to him and Moses knew this.

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And so if Christ is faithful over God's house as a son and we are his house, what's the

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proof that we are his house and here it is.

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You ready?

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Last part.

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If indeed we hold fast and are boasting, right?

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With confidence and are boasting in our hope.

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So here it is.

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If we, if we indeed hold fast, this word hold fast means to keep secure or firm possession

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of.

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Let's the scripture say that in the last days will happen.

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Many will fall away from the faith.

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What is the faith?

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The gospel.

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What do you see all over the place?

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Anybody preaching the gospel?

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No.

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And so many have fallen away.

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They're not, they're not holding their confidence.

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So if we indeed hold fast, keep possession, firm possession of our confidence, parousia

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is the word here.

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Parousia, if you want to roll the Rs.

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Free and fearless confidence.

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Do we really live in a way where it is free and fearless confidence?

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How confident are you in Christ in his gospel?

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Right?

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So when we're looking at this reality of the fear, the free and fearless competence, do

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we really walk in that with that kind of, that kind of, uh, of, uh, boldness.

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And then he uses the word of our boasting.

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This boasting means that of which one glories.

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Do you glory in your hope?

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Do you have confidence in the hope?

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If you have confidence in the hope, fear, free and fearless confidence.

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If you glory in the hope, what is your hope?

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Now what's interesting about this word hope is this word hope means joyful and confident

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expectation of salvation or he who is its foundation.

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Oh, so he's the better builder.

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It's his house.

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And if he builds his house, he builds his house on him who is the cornerstone and the

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servant do thereupon points to the builder and says, he is the better.

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And we who are his building, who are his house, we who, who, who, who are his family, we need

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to make sure that we have established firmly our confidence and our boasting our glories

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in the one who is its foundation.

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Christ is the cornerstone.

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He is the beginning.

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Christ is the foundation, which the prophets and the apostles have left for us.

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He is the truth, the foundational.

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He is the sound doctrine that we walk in.

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Can there, can there be anything that will blow this house down?

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No.

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Why?

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Because if he has established her on the rock, then we will be strong and firm.

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The wise man who built his house on the rock, who's the wise man?

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Jesus is that wise man.

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So why is Christ the true and better prophet? because Moses can't even compare.

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He's a candlestick compared to the, the brightest glory you can imagine.

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So let's get ready for a little walk in the Old Testament next week to clarify this out

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more as we look at the servant Moses and his pointing to Jesus.

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So we can see the real, true and better prophet.

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

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Thank you that you, Lord Jesus, are the true and better.

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That you in your wisdom have built a house that is firmly established upon you and upon

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your doctrine, your truth, and that you are continually building her up and that we are

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your family, that you in your loving grace not only elect us and call us into your home,

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but that you sanctify us and purify us that we may be presentable, washed by the water

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of the word and be presentable to you for when you come.

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May you be honored and glorified in Jesus name.

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Amen.