1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,280 If you guys would please turn to Hebrews chapter 6. 2 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,920 We're going to go through verse 9 through 12 today. 3 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,720 I'm going to read verses 1 through 8 and then go right into the verse 9 through 12 so you 4 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,880 can hear it and then we'll dig in. 5 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,720 Father, I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness. 6 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,720 Thank you Lord for your word. 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,280 Lord I pray that the full counsel of your word is spoken Lord that your word is living 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,640 inactive sharper than the double-edged sword. 9 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:42,760 Lord, your word will accomplish exactly what you have set it out to do. 10 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,080 You are God who keeps his promises. 11 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:51,320 Your word is true and Lord there is nothing in this world that is outside of your control, 12 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,400 your sovereignty and your providence. 13 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,400 All things will come about as a result of your plan. 14 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,080 Amen Lord we thank you and praise you. 15 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,200 To you be honor and glory forever in Jesus name amen. 16 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,120 So some very important things I think we need to think about as we're dealing with this 17 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:14,720 particular chapter because it seems like there's this moment within the description of the 18 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:22,440 better high priest where the writer just goes on this conversation about our responsibility 19 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,120 to grow, be mature, those types of things. 20 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,800 Which really the writer is laying down some really important foundational stuff for us 21 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,480 especially as we get to this point of the promise. 22 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,000 Like what is the point of the promise? 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:40,640 And you're going to see that the promise which builds up in verses 9 through 12 really sets 24 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:47,320 us into understanding why the promise is so important as a high priest. 25 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:57,120 So the high priest on our behalf goes to the father and brings the promise, the reminder 26 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:58,120 of the promise. 27 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,320 And so we're going to see that as it builds up to this point of chapter 7. 28 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,480 I think it all just kind of fit together real nicely. 29 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,240 So let's start off in verse 1. 30 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:15,600 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity not laying 31 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:23,280 again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God and of instruction 32 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:29,320 about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, the eternal judgment. 33 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:36,040 And this we will do if God permits for it is impossible in the case of those who have 34 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:42,320 once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, have shared in the Holy Spirit, 35 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:51,120 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come and 36 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:58,400 have fallen away to restore them again to repentance since they are crucifying once 37 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:04,560 again the Son of God to their own harm and holding up, holding him up in contempt for 38 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:12,480 the land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it and produces a crop useful to 39 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,920 those for whose sake it is cultivated receives a blessing for God. 40 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:22,720 But if it abares thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed and it 41 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,160 ends to be burned. 42 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:31,160 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case beloved, we feel sure of better things, things 43 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,120 that belong to salvation. 44 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:39,120 For God is not unjust as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for 45 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:43,840 his name in serving the saints as you still do. 46 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:50,600 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance 47 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:58,560 of hope until the end so that you may not be sluggish but be imitators of those who 48 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,320 through faith and patience inherit the promises. 49 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,480 Wow, it's a lot being said there. 50 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,320 And it's important that we understand what verses 1 through 8 are saying so that when 51 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:17,920 we get into verse 9 when he says though we speak in this way concerning these believers 52 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:26,880 in reality for many of us today, that is not what is for us in our case. 53 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:35,000 So principle number one, Christ will accomplish what he has purposed and absolutely nothing 54 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,360 can stop it. 55 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:37,360 Nothing. 56 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,760 It will absolutely happen. 57 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,760 Here we go. 58 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,240 Here's a support to verse 9. 59 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,160 Philippians 1, 6, and I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring 60 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,560 it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. 61 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:58,960 Do we honestly think that everything in this world as chaotic as it is, is uncontrolled 62 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,920 chaos? 63 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,800 No. 64 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:08,920 Everything that is happening in this world today is God's sovereign providential hand 65 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,600 at work. 66 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:15,520 God will bring all things to a moment. 67 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:21,280 And that moment is every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ 68 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,720 is God, Jesus Christ is God to the glory of God the Father. 69 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,720 He is the King of kings. 70 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,720 He will accomplish what he says he will do. 71 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:37,120 And we see this and if he's able to sovereignly and divinely providentially control those 72 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,560 things, what makes you think that he can't do that for you? 73 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,160 And that's really what the writer says here. 74 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:53,400 Though we speak in this way concerning this childishness that many have lived, though 75 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,160 we speak in this way, it's not in your case. 76 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,160 It's not for you. 77 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:01,840 And he uses the word beloved here. 78 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:07,240 Now what's interesting about this word beloved is in the original Greek it's not present. 79 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,640 In original Greek it literally means loved one. 80 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,160 Agapetos is the word. 81 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,800 Agapetos is loved one. 82 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:23,960 Agape, love, dos, means the loved one, the dear one, the worthy one. 83 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,060 You are the loved one. 84 00:06:26,060 --> 00:06:30,600 So concerning you loved one, it's not in your case. 85 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:31,600 Concerning you. 86 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,760 And he uses this term, this phrase, we feel sure. 87 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:40,320 This word sure is persuaded or confident. 88 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:49,240 So though we speak in this way, loved one, we are confident of better things for you. 89 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:50,240 Interesting term. 90 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:56,240 Confident, persuaded, we know for a fact that this is different for you. 91 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:57,240 Why? 92 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,540 Because these better things is God has made you more useful. 93 00:07:02,540 --> 00:07:05,560 God has made you more serviceable. 94 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,360 God has made you more advantageous. 95 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,160 God has made you more excellent. 96 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:17,080 So concerning you, we are confident that you are more useful and serviceable and advantageous 97 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:18,580 and more excellent. 98 00:07:18,580 --> 00:07:20,260 That's the point here. 99 00:07:20,260 --> 00:07:28,800 What a confidence that we have in Christ because of the accomplishment of the cross. 100 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,380 And now he uses this word better things. 101 00:07:31,380 --> 00:07:34,000 He also says things that belong. 102 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,880 It's a different word than better things. 103 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:44,240 It's interesting they use the term things in both of these in the English because things 104 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:52,680 that belong are things that adhere to, cling to, things that are closely joined to. 105 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:53,680 To what? 106 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,720 To your salvation. 107 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,960 What is adhering to you? 108 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,600 What clings to you? 109 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,480 What is closely joined to you concerning salvation? 110 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:08,440 Your justification, your sanctification, your righteousness, all the things that you are 111 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,560 to inherit that's yours in Christ is yours permanently. 112 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,640 It's clinging to you. 113 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:23,520 So though we speak in this way, yet in your case, loved one, we are confident that you 114 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:28,000 are more useful and serviceable and advantageous and excellent. 115 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,440 That the things that adhere to you concerning salvation, the things that cling to you concerning 116 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,320 salvation are true. 117 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,280 That's kind of, that is the synopsis of what's being said in verse nine. 118 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,160 Can you imagine? 119 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:50,800 Now do you understand why the writer says concerning you, there's no worries. 120 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:58,760 Principle number two, Christ is faithful to remember and bless his people when we purposely 121 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:04,800 and intentionally care for one another even when we are mistreated. 122 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,020 Even when we are mistreated. 123 00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:11,800 This is important because when you're dealing with the reality of the lives that are around 124 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:19,560 you, the question is, are we gonna live the way we're supposed to when things are difficult? 125 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:23,280 This is what it says in Romans 12, nine through 10. 126 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:30,320 Let love be genuine, abhor what is evil, hold fast to what is good, love one another with 127 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:37,960 brotherly affection, outdo one another in showing honor. 128 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:45,720 Hebrews 6, 10, for God is not unjust so as to overlook. 129 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:51,200 Epi-lanthanumai, epi-lanthanumai is the word here. 130 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:56,800 He is not unjust as to neglect or no longer care for. 131 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:57,840 Care for what? 132 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,200 Your work and your love. 133 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:07,920 The work that you have done, the love that you have shown, these things, he doesn't neglect 134 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:08,920 them. 135 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,120 It's interesting. 136 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,280 The reason why he doesn't neglect them is because he is just. 137 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:20,120 A lot of people think that justice is the issue of dealing with the evil doer. 138 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:26,760 Justice is also keeping care of the ones who do right. 139 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:32,360 Why does God present authority to smite the evil doer? 140 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,780 For the people of the good. 141 00:10:34,780 --> 00:10:38,520 So that we could live in peaceful and right lives. 142 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,820 He is going to care for the things that you've done for him. 143 00:10:43,820 --> 00:10:45,240 That's what it means. 144 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,760 He's not unjust to forget, to neglect. 145 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,480 He's just. 146 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,780 So he doesn't overlook these things. 147 00:10:52,780 --> 00:10:59,680 And so what we end up learning is this word agape, which everybody says is the love of 148 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:00,680 God. 149 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:02,640 No, it's more than that. 150 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,440 It's the deepest love. 151 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,960 It's the love that comes from deep within. 152 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,440 Now before you came to Christ, you were dead. 153 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,680 A corpse spiritually. 154 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:15,340 Corpses don't love. 155 00:11:15,340 --> 00:11:16,340 No love there. 156 00:11:16,340 --> 00:11:18,480 Like this they do. 157 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,680 Still they have passions. 158 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:25,400 When you're dead in Christ, you have no idea what love is. 159 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,680 Love is far more deeper than that. 160 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:31,300 But when Christ awakens you, he makes you alive. 161 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:35,320 Now you have a love that lives in you, that dwells with you. 162 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,520 A love that is deep within you. 163 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,040 And that's the love he's talking about there. 164 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,520 It's this deep love within the person that has been awakened because of the power of 165 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,020 Christ. 166 00:11:46,020 --> 00:11:52,640 Now interesting word here he says that he does not overlook your work and love that 167 00:11:52,640 --> 00:12:00,120 you have shown, that you have proved, that you have displayed, that you have demonstrated 168 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,700 for his name. 169 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:05,720 Think about that. 170 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,320 Why do other religions do what they do? 171 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,320 Because of the name that they worship. 172 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,040 This is important. 173 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,800 My kids have my last name. 174 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,680 I hope and pray they carry that name on proudly. 175 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:26,640 You know, my daughters will eventually take on another name. 176 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,480 But my sons need to carry that name on. 177 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,040 Well that's the point here. 178 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,960 These people were grateful and excited. 179 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,320 They worked hard for the name of God. 180 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,560 They loved for the name of God. 181 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:43,880 They have proved and displayed and demonstrated that everything they have done is for his 182 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,200 name. 183 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,720 His name is written on your life. 184 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,840 Your child of the living God. 185 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:56,480 Do we do things understanding the importance of that? 186 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,800 Or do we do things just because we want rewards? 187 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,440 I don't want any rewards. 188 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,360 Jesus is enough for me. 189 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,920 I want to do it because I love his name. 190 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:15,680 Now here is what this word, this phrase for his name means. 191 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:20,760 This will help kind of corral this thought on understanding the name of God. 192 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:30,320 The thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering 193 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:31,600 the name. 194 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:38,280 What do you think about when you hear the name of Jesus? 195 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:43,520 You know what the vast majority of people think about when they hear the name of Jesus? 196 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:49,040 He's not God, he's the son of God. 197 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:55,120 He's the king of kings and the lord of lords, but only because God the father says so. 198 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,000 He's little less than the father. 199 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,520 If you have any questions about that, there are a whole bunch of several different types 200 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:09,960 of religions and denominations that look at Jesus in that perspective that call themselves 201 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,320 Christian. 202 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:18,400 Catholicism thinks he's just a little less. 203 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,480 Not really God, but just enough God to save me. 204 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:31,200 Mormons thinks he's actually the brother of Lucifer, but yet we continue to preach and 205 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,760 teach that they are Christian religions. 206 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:45,680 When you watch The Chosen, they are literally owned by a Mormon company. 207 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:50,320 Dallas Jenkins sold him out. 208 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,040 Just be honest, that's hard. 209 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:57,080 Remember the whole debacle that happened? 210 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,520 Because there's no reverence for the name. 211 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,280 They don't understand the importance of the name. 212 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,440 What drives you, what motivates you, what keeps you going? 213 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:13,900 The name of the living God, Yeshua, Jesus. 214 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:14,900 Think about this. 215 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:18,460 This name carries supreme authority. 216 00:15:18,460 --> 00:15:23,120 This name carries the interests of all of mankind. 217 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,320 This name should be the pleasure of your life. 218 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:33,840 God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, John Piper. 219 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,320 That's called Christian hedonism. 220 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:44,320 Third, this name commands the utmost respect. 221 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:49,640 Not only does it command the utmost respect, this name alone is upon the commands in which 222 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,280 he has given mankind, the standard. 223 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,080 This name is the excellencies of all names. 224 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:01,680 This name is on the deed of his land. 225 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,200 That's his land. 226 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:11,560 This name is the name of the greatest position in all of creation, the creator, king of kings 227 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,240 and lord of lords. 228 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,740 He is supreme master. 229 00:16:15,740 --> 00:16:19,480 That is the name what keeps you going. 230 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:25,960 What's interesting is that the very work and the love that they have shown for his name, 231 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:35,520 interesting enough, was proved, displayed and demonstrated in serving the saints. 232 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,680 How do you serve one another? 233 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,720 Are you willing to serve one another to the point of blood? 234 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,800 Are you willing to give everything you can for the family? 235 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,080 Are you just so prideful that you're going to stand on your own whim and say it's my 236 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,760 way or the highway? 237 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,840 No. 238 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:56,560 That's not what we do here. 239 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:58,680 You serve until you bleed. 240 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:00,680 You serve until you get a job done. 241 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,560 That's the point here. 242 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:07,200 They serve to the point that they lost everything. 243 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:13,040 When you read chapter 10 of Hebrews and you see that they considered it pure joy for the 244 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:19,720 plundering of their property, it was because of the name. 245 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,460 Why do you do what you do? 246 00:17:23,460 --> 00:17:24,920 Because you think you're important? 247 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,900 No, you do it because of the name you carry. 248 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:34,680 You do it for the name. 249 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:39,760 Judas, the writer here, says that you have proved and displayed and demonstrated for 250 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:47,600 his name how in serving the saints and how you love one another. 251 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,280 It's not how you give to the poor. 252 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,560 It's not how you go and you preach to the lost. 253 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,040 It's not how you give water to the thirsty. 254 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,720 It's how you love each other. 255 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,440 They will know you're my disciples if you have love for the stranger. 256 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:07,520 No, if you have love for the family. 257 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:14,840 As a matter of fact, Jesus says if you don't love the family, you're worse than a pagan. 258 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,440 You ever notice that? 259 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:23,320 Jesus took care of his disciples every single day. 260 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,440 Because he loved them first, he was able to continue to love the stranger. 261 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,880 That's the model. 262 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,280 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength and love your neighbor 263 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:33,280 as yourself. 264 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,080 Do you know what neighbor he's talking about? 265 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:41,320 Do you think when Jesus was talking to the Jews, he was talking about the Gentile, the 266 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:42,320 neighbor Gentile? 267 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:46,720 No, they're called strangers and foreigners in the land. 268 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:51,040 He was talking about the brother Jew. 269 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,460 That application still applies to you today. 270 00:18:55,460 --> 00:19:01,460 That doesn't change the principle of our responsibility to love the brotherhood. 271 00:19:01,460 --> 00:19:06,080 If we cannot love each other, you cannot love the stranger. 272 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:11,840 But we think if we go and feed the hungry, the stranger, give water to the thirsty, the 273 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:17,660 stranger, clothed and naked, the stranger, that Jesus is pleased with just that. 274 00:19:17,660 --> 00:19:19,440 And he's not. 275 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,060 We got to love the poor within our own family. 276 00:19:23,060 --> 00:19:27,200 Then we can love the poor without, out of the family. 277 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,040 Think about that. 278 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,040 Love each other. 279 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:35,160 If you have any questions about that, you can read that in Acts chapter two and chapter 280 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,160 four. 281 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,120 Scripture says that they had all things in common, sold their possessions and gave to 282 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:48,040 the disciples and they distributed the money as all who had need within the community. 283 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,800 You ever notice that? 284 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,360 They took care of the family. 285 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,440 And the scripture says that the people around them was wondering what is so different about 286 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,080 this community? 287 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:03,040 And it says that God had added to their number daily those who were being saved. 288 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:04,160 Why? 289 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,600 Because they saw how we cared for each other. 290 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,320 I want to be a part of that family. 291 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:15,040 I wonder why people don't want to be a part of our family anymore. 292 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,960 And so, next principle. 293 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,880 And the last one. 294 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:34,800 What Christ says he will do and it's an absolute guarantee. 295 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:35,800 Got her. 296 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,200 Got him. 297 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:38,200 Love it. 298 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,600 You got to love that. 299 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,800 You know, Jesus had to be doing that too. 300 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,640 Just preaching, all of a sudden a little one just do do do do do do do. 301 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,520 And everybody like, get him, don't let him near. 302 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,460 And Jesus says, don't hinder the little ones to come unto me. 303 00:20:52,460 --> 00:20:54,880 That's why we do what we do. 304 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:55,880 You know? 305 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,080 It's so good. 306 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,080 Lesson learned. 307 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:03,040 Oh, she's in trouble. 308 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,040 Big bro got her. 309 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,040 Let's go. 310 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,200 All right, here we go. 311 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,940 So what Christ says he will do is an absolute guarantee. 312 00:21:10,940 --> 00:21:19,120 God is not man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should change his mind as he 313 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:25,000 said and he will not, as he said, and he will not do it. 314 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:30,080 In other words, if God isn't like us and he says he's going to do something, will he not 315 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,360 do it? 316 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:36,400 Or as he has spoken, will he not fulfill it? 317 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,660 If God makes a promise, will he not fulfill the promise? 318 00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:42,960 That's what it says in Numbers 23 19. 319 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,880 God is not a man that we should, that he should lie or a son of man that he should change 320 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:48,480 his mind. 321 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:54,160 As he said, and he will not do it, or has he spoken and he will not fulfill it? 322 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,120 Of course he will. 323 00:21:56,120 --> 00:22:00,120 And so that's what you see in Hebrews 6 11 through 12. 324 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:07,000 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness. 325 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:15,360 This word, same earnestness, earnestness is, is the definition proved by striving to accomplish. 326 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:16,780 Accomplish what? 327 00:22:16,780 --> 00:22:19,280 The work. 328 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:20,720 Okay. 329 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:26,600 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness, to have the full assurance 330 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,240 of hope until the end. 331 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,640 What what should we, what should we be striving to accomplish? 332 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:40,440 Everything and anything with regard to the intended end or purpose of whatever God has. 333 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,520 In other words, we shouldn't be questioning. 334 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,280 We should just do it. 335 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,240 We should strive. 336 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:55,840 If we hold the name of God and we love it supremely and we are committed to his ways, 337 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:02,240 then each of us should show the same earnestness as he does concerning keeping you. 338 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:08,220 If he doesn't reject your work or your love in him because you have proven it and how 339 00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:16,760 you care for the saints, then you should also do the same type of earnest commitment concerning 340 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,160 him. 341 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,720 He will keep his promises. 342 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,880 And so he says this, the full assurance of hope until the end. 343 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,780 What is the full assurance of hope until the end? 344 00:23:29,780 --> 00:23:32,680 So that we will not be sluggish. 345 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,000 Why should we strive to continue to work for the name of God? 346 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,020 Why should we love as he has loved us? 347 00:23:39,020 --> 00:23:46,080 Why should we continue to push and strive to accomplish what's what's regarded to intended 348 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:51,660 end or purpose is because it is our full assurance. 349 00:23:51,660 --> 00:23:54,280 This is what we know will happen. 350 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:59,380 I was sharing this in in Bible study today. 351 00:23:59,380 --> 00:24:04,560 When you look at someone and they're at the end of their life, you ever notice they have 352 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,480 this crazy confidence and assurance. 353 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:16,760 If they're in Christ, they look at their life at the end and go, it means nothing. 354 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,800 It means nothing. 355 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,960 Everything is good. 356 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:28,760 We will make it to the end and they strive and work and run harder. 357 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,720 So why is this important? 358 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:38,980 Because if you don't live in this way, pushing to the very end, striving to finish to finish 359 00:24:38,980 --> 00:24:43,880 the race, then you will be sluggish. 360 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,360 Look what it says in verse 12. 361 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:53,200 The reason why we do this is so that you may not be sluggish, no thrash, dull or lazy. 362 00:24:53,200 --> 00:25:00,600 So you're not dull or lazy, but that your imitators, this word imitators is is mimitase 363 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:01,600 or memetase. 364 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:07,120 Memetase is the word mimics where we get the English word mimic. 365 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:14,680 So we imitate God, imitate Christ, but he also gives us examples of who we should imitate 366 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:20,880 that we should be imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 367 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:26,560 Now what's interesting is that the example he gives us right after this in verse 13 through 368 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:32,200 20 is Abraham. Isn't that interesting? 369 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,560 Why is that important? 370 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:41,640 Why is it important that we understand that through faith and patience, we follow Abraham 371 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:50,560 so that we like him are reminded of the promises that we will inherit? 372 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,960 Because he left us an example. 373 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,040 Think about Abraham, he leaves Ur. 374 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,560 God says, go here, I'm going to make you a father of many nations. 375 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,400 And he promises him he will do it. 376 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:09,440 Why else would Abraham leave the land he was in? 377 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,960 Because he believed the promise. 378 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,400 He didn't see it coming. 379 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,440 He trusted God that he will do it. 380 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,480 Being sure of what you hope for in the evidence of what you don't see. 381 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,640 That's what faith is. 382 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,560 Faith in the promise. 383 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:39,520 So in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 20 says this, for all the promises of God find their 384 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,920 yes in him. 385 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:51,320 That is why it is through him that we utter our amen to God for his glory. 386 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:57,400 The promises of God are absolute yes. 387 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,200 So be it, so be it. 388 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,040 Amen, amen. 389 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:07,760 We're going to pick up next week in verse 13 through 20, hopefully I can get through 390 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:16,360 all that, and really understand how the promise is seen in the life of Abraham. 391 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:20,760 The reason why these three verses or four verses are so important is because we start 392 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,960 to see the importance of the priest. 393 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:33,760 Not only the importance of the priest in the acts that he does on behalf of his people, 394 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:41,280 but he goes before God with the promises that were promised. 395 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:47,760 He is our ambassador, because that's what ambassador does. 396 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,080 So let's pray. 397 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,760 Excited about the rest of this letter. 398 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,800 And thank you guys so much today. 399 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,000 Father I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness. 400 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,880 Thank you for all that you're doing in the lives of your people. 401 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,600 Help us to see the importance of the promises you have given us. 402 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:12,600 That we live in a way that so honors your name. 403 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:17,800 And Lord I know that there are many things in our lives that take away our focus, but 404 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:26,360 if we keep our eye focused on the prize, we keep our eye focused on you, our finish line, 405 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:32,480 and we have hope and assurance of hope that you are faithful and good to keep what you 406 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,760 have said and to accomplish what you have purpose. 407 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,760 Lord we praise you and thank you in Jesus name. 408 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:56,760 Amen.