1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,680 Alright, if you guys would, I'm going to read, this is not from the Westminster Confession, 2 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:25,180 this is just the issue of one of the solas. 3 00:00:25,180 --> 00:00:27,160 So we know there's five solas. 4 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,880 This is Sola Scriptura, and so I'm going to read that question and you're going to read 5 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:32,240 the answer. 6 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,520 What is the doctrine of Sola Scriptura? 7 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:43,520 Sola Scriptura means that the Bible is written about the Lord God, and that all church traditions 8 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:50,120 and interpretations are subject to correction by the scriptures, and the scriptures alone 9 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,960 may be final, perfect, and faithless. 10 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:54,960 Nice. 11 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,920 That's a great definition. 12 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,120 So, get to know these things. 13 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:07,560 These are some very important truths that we carry with us, and I can't help but think 14 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:17,800 as we continue to see things deteriorate, which has been deteriorating for a while now, 15 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:23,160 how many will fall away from that because they're not grounded in the mature faith of 16 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,160 Christ. 17 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,880 That's really what we're going to be dealing with here. 18 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:33,080 When we're stuck in the milk, you really can't deal with the meat, and so it's important 19 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:34,720 that we move from milk to meat. 20 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,760 So these are going to be some very, three very important principles that we'll deal 21 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:44,200 with, some truth statements that will go along with that, and you know we go verse by verse 22 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:49,920 and word for word, and I hope you grasp the importance of this chapter. 23 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,800 The letter to the Hebrews is a difficult letter. 24 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,400 It's not an easy letter. 25 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:04,160 It's something that I think we need to spend more time in in these difficult letters because 26 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,200 it really grows and challenges the faith. 27 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,560 So let's pray, and let's dig in. 28 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,160 Father, I want to thank you so much for your goodness and faithfulness. 29 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:20,600 You are holy, righteous, sovereign, and true, Lord, that there is nothing in all of creation 30 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:28,200 that your sovereignty and your providential hand is not in, and all things are done for 31 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:35,160 your glory and for your name to be proclaimed throughout all of creation that you are God 32 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:43,160 and God alone, and that you in the three persons of who you are, Father, Son, and Spirit, have 33 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:49,760 accomplished salvation for man, that we may be with you forever, and that you have for 34 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:59,360 all eternity have placed us in Christ, and that we are his and we will be with him as 35 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:05,480 he reigns as king forever over all the things that you have placed in his authority. 36 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,040 So Lord, guide us as we spend time in your word. 37 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,880 I pray that the full counsel of your word is spoken and that we learn some very important 38 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:21,400 truths of who you are as God and the importance of understanding our practice of maturity. 39 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,400 Lord, we praise you and we thank you in Jesus' name, amen. 40 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:30,320 So we want to read chapter 5 verse 11, and we're going to go right in to verse 6. 41 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,600 It says, about this, we have much to say. 42 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:35,600 About what? 43 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,600 Salvation. 44 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,320 We know that in verse 7 through 8. 45 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:44,760 He's talking about salvation, specifically in verse 9. 46 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,960 And he says, so about this salvation, we have much to say. 47 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:53,160 And it's hard to explain since you have become doll of hearing. 48 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,760 It's an interesting term he uses here, doll of hearing. 49 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:04,360 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic 50 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,480 principles of the oracles of God. 51 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,120 You need milk, not solid food. 52 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:18,480 For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness since he is a 53 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:26,880 child, but solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment 54 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:32,920 trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. 55 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,720 That's important. 56 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,840 So when we get into chapter 6, as we're going to get into next, I want you to understand 57 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:40,840 something. 58 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:48,680 You cannot discern real good from evil if you don't know the word. 59 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,120 You have to know it. 60 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,000 You've got to spend time in it. 61 00:04:52,000 --> 00:05:00,800 And so verse 1 says, therefore, because he said all this, therefore is therefore, therefore. 62 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,680 It sounds kind of funny. 63 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,320 That's why it's there, for. 64 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,400 Just trying to be more funny. 65 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,400 It's not working. 66 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,040 Let us, thank you, whoever laughed for me, appreciate it. 67 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:21,560 Let us therefore leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying 68 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:29,240 again a foundation of repentance from dead works or of faith toward God and of instruction 69 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:34,880 about washings, the laying on of the hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal 70 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:35,880 judgment. 71 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:40,520 So there is this list that he says are elementary truths. 72 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:46,880 In other words, what he's saying here is these things you should be absolutely convinced 73 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:47,880 of. 74 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,880 This should not be something you're going back to because you need to learn something 75 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,280 new. 76 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:56,160 These should be settled. 77 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,560 These are doctrines within the Christian faith that it's a done deal. 78 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,240 You move on and you grow in faith. 79 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,700 You grow in the full stature of Christ. 80 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:11,600 And so principle number one, basic truths of the Christian faith are to be known and 81 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:20,680 understood, not repeated over and over again for the believer as if it is needed to ensure 82 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:21,680 your faith. 83 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:28,760 In other words, I keep going back to it because I am not sure if I know. 84 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:34,500 If you're not sure that you know, you have to question if you really know. 85 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:37,800 These are things that we should not be sitting down questioning. 86 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:43,040 They're basic understandings of facts for the believer. 87 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,440 How do we know this? 88 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:49,520 Every believer must press or move to a deeper understanding of Christ. 89 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,600 I like the word press better than move. 90 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,800 We must press to a deeper understanding of Christ. 91 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,160 Here's the scriptural proof of that. 92 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,160 Here's the context with context and here's the precept for precept. 93 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:09,880 Ephesians 4.13, until we attain the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son 94 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:17,240 of God to mature manhood to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. 95 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:22,200 In other words, what God has for you is to be like his son. 96 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:23,200 That is it. 97 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:30,200 Not to be stuck crawling as spiritual infants, spiritual newborns. 98 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,160 Should be beyond this stuff. 99 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:38,280 And so, Paul clarifies and I believe this is Paul who wrote Hebrews, but some would 100 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:39,280 argue. 101 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,920 Therefore, let us leave. 102 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:47,360 Now this word leave is not meaning that we completely abandon. 103 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,720 It's not that kind of an abandonment. 104 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,080 It's not even like a departure. 105 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:58,880 It's like, you know when you grow up, you don't go back to crawling. 106 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,040 I could clarify this a little bit better in first service. 107 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,640 I don't want to crawl again. 108 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:09,120 One, I'm too old and my knees get bruised. 109 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,280 So we don't go back to crawling. 110 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,360 Once you learn to walk, you keep walking and eventually you run. 111 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,120 Now I know the older you get, you end up back in the same position. 112 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,120 I get it. 113 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:25,200 You're like, speak for yourself, Pastor Joe. 114 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:31,080 So he says, let us now go back to the elementary doctrine of Christ. 115 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,920 Elementary the simple. 116 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,240 These doctrines that are listed here. 117 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:41,640 And he gives a really good clarifying list of what these elementary doctrines are. 118 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:49,280 But he says, and we must leave, but go press on to maturity. 119 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,480 We must work it out. 120 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:56,080 We must drive ourselves to know him more. 121 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,340 And he gives this list at this point. 122 00:08:58,340 --> 00:09:05,640 Let us leave elementary doctrines, move to maturity, not laying again a foundation of 123 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:06,640 repentance. 124 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:11,160 This word foundation is the understanding of beginnings. 125 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:16,320 The beginnings of things, the first principles, the system of truth. 126 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:17,920 What is the system of truth? 127 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:23,380 We are sinners and you must repent and believe the gospel. 128 00:09:23,380 --> 00:09:26,200 That's what Jesus says, right? 129 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,660 Mark 1 15, pretty simple. 130 00:09:28,660 --> 00:09:30,000 That's what he's saying here. 131 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,720 So let's not go back to the first principles of repentance. 132 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,600 What are the first principles of repentance? 133 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,240 I'm a sinner. 134 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:45,680 You know, you keep going back to repent because you think you aren't saved. 135 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:51,840 You keep going back to thinking you've lost something that God can't keep. 136 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:57,640 There are many churches in our day today that keep pushing to this idea that you have to 137 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,080 repent to come to faith all the time. 138 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:07,960 Like as if the first time you truly repented and were truly changed wasn't strong enough. 139 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:13,480 So he deals with this issue of foundation, this system of truth, of repentance. 140 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:20,800 The word repentance here is matronia or matronia, the change of mind. 141 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,480 I want you to think about that. 142 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:31,880 Don't go back to the simple first principles of the changing of your mind. 143 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,240 From what? 144 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,840 Changing your mind from dead works. 145 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:43,840 This word dead works means a life lived destitute of power, inactive, inoperative and faithless. 146 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,720 What happens to dead people? 147 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,200 Their brains are what? 148 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:48,200 Inoperative. 149 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,800 They're dead. 150 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:50,800 They're fruitless. 151 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,480 They, they do nothing. 152 00:10:52,480 --> 00:11:00,240 Let's not go back to this foundation of repentance which was from a life that was destitute of 153 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,320 power. 154 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,680 And then he says end of faith toward God. 155 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:13,040 This word faith toward God means the conviction that God exists and is creator of all things, 156 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,320 the provider and bestower of eternal salvation. 157 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:23,520 I mean how many times do we have to be convinced that God is the creator of all things? 158 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,680 Do you want to know why we're struggling with this idea here? 159 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:29,880 I mean this idea has crept into the church. 160 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:38,360 If you guys ever listen to Ken Ham, Ken Ham fights against this ideology of creationism 161 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,480 slash evolutionary theory. 162 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:50,400 This understanding that God spoke and over time it evolved to be what it is today. 163 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,000 That's not the understanding here. 164 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,280 It's not, it's not even that God spoke and bang. 165 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,840 There it is. 166 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,860 I even fight against that idea. 167 00:12:02,860 --> 00:12:04,240 That God spoke and banged it. 168 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:05,240 There it is. 169 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,960 That's a simple very foolish way to think about it. 170 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:13,860 When God spoke every detail was intentional. 171 00:12:13,860 --> 00:12:16,080 Every detail has his signature on it. 172 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,840 Every detail has his fingerprint. 173 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,080 When he spoke he spoke for the glory of himself. 174 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:27,000 So the very atom that is created was intentionally created. 175 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,440 It wasn't like I'm going to create it. 176 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,600 Bang there it is. 177 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,840 He lovingly brought it into existence. 178 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,120 It's a lot more than that stuff. 179 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:43,240 We simplify God to a thing that we can mold. 180 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:48,840 But when you think about God and his intentionality and everything he does you can't help but 181 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:53,440 think he's much bigger and stronger than that. 182 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,920 This is an important truth because if he is the creator of all things and the provider 183 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:03,880 and bestower of eternal salvation and he gives it then he has to be the one to keep it. 184 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,960 And we deal with this issue. 185 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,280 And then he says after this verse two end of instruction about washings. 186 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:15,280 This word washings is the word baptismo and it means baptism. 187 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,440 Let us not go back to baptism. 188 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,580 In other words when you are baptized you're baptized out of an heart of obedience towards 189 00:13:23,580 --> 00:13:29,480 Christ and that your baptismism is a proclamation of what Christ had done on the cross and that 190 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:34,520 you yourself have been crucified with Christ yet I know that only you live but Christ lives 191 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,600 in me. 192 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:45,400 During Bible study today we actually went through this in Romans 6 and this clarifies 193 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,020 a little bit more. 194 00:13:48,020 --> 00:13:55,480 This truth of not returning back to the issue of baptisms like baptisms can make you right. 195 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:00,520 Can you imagine how many times you come to Christ you walk away from the faith because 196 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:06,160 of some really bad teaching because you sin. 197 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,640 Then you have to go back in repentance again. 198 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,680 You have to ask for forgiveness again. 199 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:14,840 Christ has to be crucified again. 200 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,080 Then you have to go to baptism again. 201 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,060 That's what the writer is saying here. 202 00:14:20,060 --> 00:14:25,280 Look what it says in chapter 6 verse 1. 203 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:26,280 What shall we say then? 204 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,160 Are we to continue in sin that grace may bound? 205 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,800 By no means. 206 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,180 How can we who died to sin still live in it? 207 00:14:36,180 --> 00:14:43,140 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into 208 00:14:43,140 --> 00:14:49,140 his death and we were buried with we were buried therefore with him by baptism into 209 00:14:49,140 --> 00:14:54,680 death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead we too may walk in newness of 210 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,760 life? 211 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,960 I mean think about that. 212 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,600 Is the work of Christ on the cross enough? 213 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:09,860 And if it is why do we continue in the elementary doctrines of Christ? 214 00:15:09,860 --> 00:15:13,880 We should be beyond this and that's what the writer is saying here. 215 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:20,040 And then he says the laying on of hands because you know the next step of every believer is 216 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,960 one they act in obedience get baptized. 217 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:29,360 They are associated with the crucifixion and death and resurrection of Christ through baptism. 218 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:33,440 It's a proclamation of the gospel and then they come they're part of the family. 219 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:39,460 And the family brings them and lays hands on them and asks God's blessing to be given 220 00:15:39,460 --> 00:15:41,560 to them in ceremony. 221 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,620 That's what the laying on of hands means. 222 00:15:43,620 --> 00:15:49,400 And for those who are called to position of leadership many times as ordination. 223 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:55,280 Either way do we go back to the laying on of hands? 224 00:15:55,280 --> 00:16:01,000 Because we think that it's not good enough that the work of Christ isn't good enough? 225 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,760 Do we go back to the resurrection of the dead? 226 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:11,120 Do we have to do we have to argue over the fact that Christ raised from the dead? 227 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,400 If he didn't raise from the dead we might as well just go home because it's a waste 228 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:15,400 of time. 229 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,600 Should we go back to the resurrection of the dead? 230 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,400 And should we go to eternal judgment? 231 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:29,180 Should we go back to the reality that God will judge everyone? 232 00:16:29,180 --> 00:16:36,720 And the writer says here and this we will do if God permits. 233 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,780 So elementary truths principle number two. 234 00:16:41,780 --> 00:16:48,500 The doctrines of renewal, renewal meaning renewing the mind continually and the doctrine 235 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:55,560 of regeneration meaning to make alive that which was dead are only done by the power 236 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,560 and the work of the spirit. 237 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,880 An impossibility for anything that the spirit does to be undone. 238 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,520 That's the idea here. 239 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:11,340 It is impossible to be made alive in Christ to be brought back to death and corruption 240 00:17:11,340 --> 00:17:17,000 and to have our minds changed and continually renewed in the truth to return to knowing 241 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,360 nothing of his goodness. 242 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:22,120 Now I want you to get that. 243 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:28,720 If we are radically changed, made completely brand new by the power of the Holy Spirit 244 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:37,520 and regenerated, made alive a new creature in order for us to have to go back to repentance 245 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:42,600 means we would have to become back what we were. 246 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,360 We have to become the old creature. 247 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,860 So is that what we're saying? 248 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:54,440 That the work of Christ isn't enough to keep us from being the old creature? 249 00:17:54,440 --> 00:18:01,280 My argument is there are denominations that teach that. 250 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,960 Eternal security is real. 251 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:08,360 I am secure eternally in Christ forever, his forever. 252 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:09,560 I am in him. 253 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,040 All that the father has given me I will not lose. 254 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:18,680 And he says if we are in him, he is in the father. 255 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,920 That's like a double lockdown. 256 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:27,680 You can't get any more lockdown than that. 257 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:35,600 And so what happens to many, to our charismatic friends is they miss out. 258 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,680 They miss out on the sureness of knowing Christ. 259 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:43,480 And so here it is. 260 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:44,480 Verse four through six. 261 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,280 For it is impossible. 262 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,920 What's impossible mean? 263 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:50,920 Not possible. 264 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:51,920 All right. 265 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:58,800 I'll say it in good old, you know, street language ain't gonna happen. 266 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:03,920 And ain't is a word because it's in the Webster's dictionary. 267 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:05,240 Okay. 268 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:11,440 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened. 269 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,960 Now who are those? 270 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,600 Us. 271 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,440 The believer. 272 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:25,520 So it's impossible concerning the believers who have once came to the saving knowledge. 273 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,440 That's what the word enlightenment here means. 274 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:35,920 The saving knowledge of Christ who us who have tasted experience the heavenly gift, 275 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,440 the heavenly gift, eternal life. 276 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:49,280 Us who have shared partook in the Holy Spirit and have experienced tasted the goodness of 277 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:59,240 the word of God and the powers of the age to come to and then having to fall away from 278 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:05,140 all that to be restored, to restore them again to repentance. 279 00:20:05,140 --> 00:20:07,040 It's an impossibility. 280 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,840 Here's what I mean. 281 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,740 When the Holy Spirit comes upon the heart and he starts the process of regeneration 282 00:20:15,740 --> 00:20:22,640 in their lives, which is instantaneous, his illumination of the truth of the gospel so 283 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,840 enters the mind in the heart of man that he's impactfully changed forever. 284 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,040 He is literally changed. 285 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:30,040 Okay. 286 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:34,460 He is waken from the dead, made alive in Christ. 287 00:20:34,460 --> 00:20:36,560 His mind is completely changed. 288 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,920 He recognizes the creator of all things, the one who bestows salvation. 289 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,200 He in response to that repents of his sin and say, Jesus is my Lord and savior. 290 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,780 I am not going to live this life anymore because of the work of God in his heart. 291 00:20:49,780 --> 00:20:54,560 He then after that in obedience to him comes to repentance. 292 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,040 Do you see the process? 293 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:02,760 In his repentance, he baptizes out of obedience to him is recognized to be like Christ in 294 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:09,160 crucifixion, being buried and resurrected into newness of life. 295 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:17,120 The Holy Spirit, if our sin was powerful enough to rip us from his hand, the Holy Spirit would 296 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:22,020 then have to reconvert us back to what we were and then we'd have to start the whole 297 00:21:22,020 --> 00:21:23,640 process over again. 298 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:30,320 Now I want you to think about that because if we have to go through all that process 299 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:36,360 in order for us to be deconverted, to be reconverted, there's one more part of the process that 300 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:40,960 has to happen in order to make it right. 301 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,920 Because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. 302 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,840 And then what they're going to say is, well, the Bible says Jesus's blood is once for all. 303 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:49,840 Oh really? 304 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,920 If it was once for all, then how come it's not strong enough to keep? 305 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,800 It's strong enough to once for all, but it's not strong enough to keep you. 306 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:58,800 So what does that mean? 307 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,360 He has to be crucified all over again and that's exactly what the writer says here. 308 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:07,200 If you have to deconvert the whole thing, if you have to change everything back to what 309 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,800 it was originally, then guess who has to come and die again? 310 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,680 And that's exactly what he says. 311 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:18,040 For it is impossible in the case of those who have been enlightened, who have come to 312 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:22,080 the saving knowledge of Christ, who have tasted and experienced the heavenly gift of eternal 313 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:27,160 life and have shared and partook in the Holy Spirit, to have tasted and experienced the 314 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:33,840 goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away 315 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:40,720 to restore them again to repentance since they are crucifying once again the Son of 316 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:48,020 God to their own open shame, to their own harm. 317 00:22:48,020 --> 00:22:51,560 And then you're holding him up to contempt. 318 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,720 Now I want you to understand that. 319 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,560 Every time you claim that Jesus isn't good enough to keep you, guess what you're doing? 320 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:03,880 Do you forget the shame that he experienced on your behalf? 321 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:10,640 Do you forget the reality of him being crucified without clothing, being beaten to the point 322 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,560 that he was unrecognizable? 323 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,800 Are you willing to put him through that again? 324 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,960 Of course you are, because your God's not big enough to keep you. 325 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,220 See, your salvation is based upon your dead works. 326 00:23:23,220 --> 00:23:26,240 That's what the writer's saying here. 327 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:32,400 So some very important things I think we need to mention here concerning the powers of the 328 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:33,680 age to come. 329 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,200 I did some deeper research on this particular statement. 330 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,400 It's like, what powers of the age to come? 331 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,880 What is he talking about? 332 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:46,720 Well specifically he's talking about what's to come for the believer. 333 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:47,760 What are we believing in? 334 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:52,720 The goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come. 335 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:57,400 We experience God's word and we also are going to experience what's to come. 336 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,360 What's to come for us? 337 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:02,120 Eternity with Jesus. 338 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:04,080 What else is to come? 339 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,980 The ultimate rain on the earth with him forever. 340 00:24:06,980 --> 00:24:11,080 He takes the earth, he refines it in fire and behold, out of the heavens come a new 341 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,040 heaven and a new earth. 342 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,040 Revelation 21. 343 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,080 Isn't that the point? 344 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,120 What's our hope? 345 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,380 Our hope is that we get to reign with him forever. 346 00:24:19,380 --> 00:24:20,520 We are his forever. 347 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:21,520 That's the point. 348 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:30,120 And so Revelation, this age to come, this age of hope, of eternal reigning with Christ 349 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:33,200 on the earth and enjoying him forever. 350 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,920 What else is there to come? 351 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,720 The judgment of all things. 352 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,760 Very important truth here. 353 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,360 Turn to Revelation 20. 354 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:50,080 So not only do we experience in Revelation 21 the amazing new heaven and new earth, and 355 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:55,960 we've got to remember Jesus says, behold, I make all things. 356 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:01,000 There's also a clear understanding here concerning the judgment seat of Christ. 357 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:16,440 That God does not let the evil go unpunished, nor does he take away our reward who is him. 358 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:24,560 So part two of this age to come is seeing the God who reigns. 359 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:25,560 Verse 11. 360 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,440 Then I saw a great right throne and him who was seated on it. 361 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:35,680 From his presence the earth and sky fled away and no place was found for them. 362 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:42,400 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. 363 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,400 And books were opened. 364 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,400 What books? 365 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:51,440 Books were opened. 366 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,440 How many books? 367 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,000 A whole mess of books. 368 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,840 I'm thinking all of them. 369 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,480 God be all of them. 370 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,360 Not just one book, it's all the books. 371 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:03,720 The books were opened. 372 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,880 Then another book was opened. 373 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,360 A. You get that? 374 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:10,360 There's a whole mess of books. 375 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:13,800 And then there's this one book. 376 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,720 Just the mess of books, wide road. 377 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,080 One book, skinny road. 378 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:23,320 I like the skinny book. 379 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,840 Then another book was opened which is the book of life. 380 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,080 And look, he opens both books. 381 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,080 Why? 382 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,640 Because the dead are raised. 383 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,400 The dead are now before the throne. 384 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,080 The wicked and the good. 385 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,960 Doesn't that make sense? 386 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,400 Wait a minute, Jesus said something about that, didn't he? 387 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,840 He says those who are on his right, well done my good and faithful servants. 388 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,720 Those on his left, depart from me I never knew you. 389 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,240 Oh, it's right here. 390 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:55,600 Here we go. 391 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:01,000 And then he says, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books according 392 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,200 to what they had done. 393 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,440 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it. 394 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,140 And death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them. 395 00:27:09,140 --> 00:27:14,920 And they were judged, each one of them according to what they had done. 396 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,960 And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. 397 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,600 This is the second death in the lake of fire. 398 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:26,060 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the 399 00:27:26,060 --> 00:27:29,880 lake of fire. 400 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,760 A judgment seat. 401 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,880 That's it. 402 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,520 Pretty amazing. 403 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:43,720 So this is the powers of the age to come, the thing we look forward to. 404 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,040 Our eventual reign with Christ forever. 405 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:57,320 And the reality is the day has come that that judgment of God for anything contrary to him 406 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,320 has been thrown into hell. 407 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:09,200 Verse six, we're back in the Hebrews chapter six, verse six, and then have him falling 408 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,200 away. 409 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:15,520 This word falling away means reject or willingly denounce what you once had. 410 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:25,320 This word restore means to renovate, to renovate them, to renew them again to repentance. 411 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:31,060 You notice he takes you back to where you first began. 412 00:28:31,060 --> 00:28:35,080 That's they are crucifying the son of God all over again to their own shame. 413 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:40,640 That's what it means to their own harm means put to open shame. 414 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,020 Now last principle and we're done for the day. 415 00:28:45,020 --> 00:28:50,640 The person whose heart receives the gift of salvation produces the fruits of faith in 416 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:51,680 their life. 417 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:57,480 But the person whose heart did not receive the gift of salvation continues to produce 418 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:58,680 bad fruit. 419 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:05,440 And I use this analogy because this is what Jesus says, a good tree produces good fruit, 420 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:11,160 but a bad tree produces bad fruit. 421 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:19,520 So here's a statement, Matthew 13 verse 23, says it this way, as for what was sown on 422 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:27,820 good soil, this is the one who hears the word, understands it, he indeed bears fruit in yields, 423 00:29:27,820 --> 00:29:33,640 in one case a hundred fold and another 60 and another 30. 424 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,400 Either way he produces fruit. 425 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,980 The writer in Hebrews verse seven through eight says it this way, the land, the ground, 426 00:29:41,980 --> 00:29:48,800 this word land is ground suitable for growing. 427 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:54,160 Is your heart suitable for growing? 428 00:29:54,160 --> 00:30:00,680 Has God cultivated the land of your heart? 429 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:07,120 Because the land that is suitable for growing that has drunk the rain that has that often 430 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:16,960 falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated receives 431 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,640 a blessing from God. 432 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,040 They produce fruit. 433 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,040 Here's what it means. 434 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,760 You ready? 435 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:31,880 God is the cultivator and when he cultivates the heart and he reigns upon the heart of 436 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:44,920 man the truth of his gospel, Paul plants Apollo's waters, he produces in that person a crop 437 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,440 that is useful because the heart has been cultivated. 438 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,100 The cultivating thing is the gospel. 439 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,360 The gospel cultivates the heart. 440 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,420 God uses it. 441 00:30:56,420 --> 00:31:02,840 Sometimes that rain and cultivation if you ever know, if you guys know when it rains 442 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:07,080 here does it rain on the farmland? 443 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,100 Does it rain also in the woods? 444 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:14,440 Anybody like to go out in the woods and plant some corn? 445 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,160 Why can't you plant corn out there? 446 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,160 Someone says sunlight? 447 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,200 Why else can you plant corn? 448 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,680 I know you guys are going to say it a little. 449 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:30,800 There's also rocks and thorns and there's also thistles and there's stuff that killed 450 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,440 the plant. 451 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:38,840 You know when you want to do farmland there's two ways to deal with the land of farmland. 452 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:43,760 One to deal with the issue of the farmland is what? 453 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,080 To rip it up. 454 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:52,400 And typically it takes about two years to rid the ground of all of the pestilence that's 455 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,280 on it. 456 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,960 Insects and vines and all this other junk. 457 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:02,840 Most times they'll go and they'll rip it up. 458 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,120 And then what do they do? 459 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,520 You ever get grubs in your grass? 460 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,840 What do you do to your grass? 461 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:15,440 You burn it. 462 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,920 Burning refines. 463 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,920 Okay? 464 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,720 Now this is what the writer says here. 465 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,740 See the rain falls on both the good and the bad. 466 00:32:26,740 --> 00:32:29,560 The wicked and the righteous. 467 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,080 But only the heart that's been cultivated will produce a crop. 468 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,920 But there are hearts that will not be cultivated. 469 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:43,120 Because they can't be cultivated, because they're not supposed to be cultivated. 470 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,720 That's what he says here. 471 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:51,120 But if it bears thorns and thistles after the rain falls on it, it's worthless and near 472 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,600 to being cursed. 473 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,520 Interesting term here. 474 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,600 It's near to being cursed. 475 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:04,520 And what is its end to be burned? 476 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,360 That's a hard statement. 477 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,560 In other words, there are hearts that will receive the rain and produce a crop. 478 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:17,940 Then there's hearts that get rain but it doesn't take the rain in. 479 00:33:17,940 --> 00:33:24,880 It just produces stuff like that way out there in the woods. 480 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:25,880 Useful is that? 481 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:26,880 What kind of use is that? 482 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,960 It's no use at all. 483 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,060 So here's my translation. 484 00:33:33,060 --> 00:33:39,880 The ground that drinks the rain that often falls on it and is tilled produces crops and 485 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:45,080 herbs and receives a blessing from God. 486 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:50,800 The ground that produces thorns and thistles, even though the rain has fallen on it, that 487 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,800 ground is worthless and cursed and its end is to be burned. 488 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,120 It's useless. 489 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:04,600 Well that's not fair. 490 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,640 I thought God says, my desire is that all men would come to repentance. 491 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,840 That's not fair. 492 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,800 You know what's not fair? 493 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:18,160 That he rains on the bad ground anyway. 494 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,400 That's not fair. 495 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:27,600 Why does he give rain to the ground that doesn't deserve it, doesn't want it, doesn't like 496 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,480 it, rejects it? 497 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,600 Now I'm sure you look at the trees and the thistles and stuff. 498 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,760 You're like, you know, I cultivated you and tilled you and you're still not producing 499 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:37,760 good stuff. 500 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:38,760 Like that's not fair. 501 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,160 Like why am I working so hard? 502 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:48,480 But people, we have a tendency not to look at things I think as God sees them. 503 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,600 He says, I give grace to everyone. 504 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,920 I put rain on everyone. 505 00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,560 It rains on the good and the bad. 506 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:07,880 But blessed are those who receive the blessing of God because God has tilled the land and 507 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:15,560 that land has received the water from the rain that has fallen on it. 508 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,280 How come we can't see that grace? 509 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:23,520 How come we always got to point out God must be a bad God if he doesn't save everybody? 510 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:31,400 The fact that he saves one is a grace that's beyond measure because the scripture says 511 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,760 for all have sinned, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 512 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,040 No one seeks God, no not one. 513 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,280 All have turned aside. 514 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:46,680 All have venom that come from their lips. 515 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,680 All of us are desperately wicked. 516 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,000 There's no one righteous. 517 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,240 The wages of sin is death. 518 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:58,720 We're all dead and are trespassers in sins. 519 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:03,360 The fact that God saves one is a grace beyond measure. 520 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,480 But God just didn't save one. 521 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,080 He saved many. 522 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,480 And that's what we're going to read in the next couple of verses starting next week in 523 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,360 verse 9. 524 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:20,320 So I want us to really understand that the grace of God is beyond measure and that this 525 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:28,880 amazing doctrine of renewal, regeneration, election, and doctrine of righteousness, doctrine 526 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:34,400 of justification is all saturated through this chapter. 527 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:40,360 Very important to understand God's grace is beyond what we can ever imagine. 528 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,200 We all deserve one thing. 529 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:47,200 It's interesting, and it's about to be the only political statement I'll say it this 530 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:48,200 way okay. 531 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:54,240 It's interesting after listening to Trump's speech at the RNC, you know, as you guys know 532 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:59,360 where I stand as a in my politics. 533 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,480 Everybody was claiming it was a miracle. 534 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,000 You know what Trump said? 535 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,320 I shouldn't be here. 536 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,960 I'm here only by the providential hand of God. 537 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:12,960 You know what? 538 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,160 He was absolutely right. 539 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:20,400 The only reason why he was there is because God providentially had set it in time for 540 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,280 him to be there. 541 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,880 And for that to happen the way it happened was not because God took his head and just 542 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,880 turned it just a little bit. 543 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,480 It's called providence. 544 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:38,960 A power you can't see that does not break nature, but it's so affected through time 545 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:46,880 that at that moment God knew and so it happens. 546 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,960 Providence is not a miracle. 547 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:55,480 Providence is a power unseen. 548 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,600 That's an amazing thought. 549 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:06,700 So let's thank God for opportunities to see him at work and for someone to finally say 550 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:09,160 God is providential. 551 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,160 So let's pray. 552 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,360 Father, I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness. 553 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,720 To you be honor and glory and power and might forever. 554 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:18,320 Lord, we praise you and thank you for your word. 555 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:24,940 We thank you that we need to move away from milk and move into solid food that we may 556 00:38:24,940 --> 00:38:27,680 grow in a full stash of maturity of Christ for your glory. 557 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:37,040 In Jesus' name.