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Good morning, everybody. How are you? Good. You get here alright? No problem.
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Anybody slide into anything? I know there are a lot of folks that came over the past in the early service this morning. It's kinda and I see some folks from up north on the other side of the park. Everybody's here. Everybody's good.
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Well, welcome. Would you stand up and we're going to get started? I'm going to ask Scott if he'll come up and join. Glad to have you back. And Judy's going to play.
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How about leaning on the everlasting arms and then we'll do learning to lean. Starting off right now. Leaning on the everlasting arms. Hymn number five seventy five if you want your part. Amen.
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Leaning on the everlasting arms does not always come natural, right? Right. It doesn't come to us natural. It's supernatural but this next song says, we're learning to lean. I think that's a statement of humility.
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We might not immediately think. We gotta lean on God about this but we should so and we're learning to lean. We're going to sing this three times twice in the same key and then we're going do a key change. Don't let it surprise you, okay? Here it comes.
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I'm learning had somebody ask after the first service, what does it mean to surrender control? I have been in control since I was 14 years old of everything and feel like I kept all the plates spinning. What does it mean to surrender control? It says, learn and to lean on Jesus. So, y'all can have a seat.
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I have a few announcements right here. To begin with, we've got the Bible study that happens during the first service. Judy Wells has been leading that. That's going well, I hear. So, junior high and high school girls during the children's church time in the first service.
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Youth group is five to seven tonight. Mike is in his last of a series for the youth about identity. It's the last of the three part series he's been doing about who we are, identity. Awana happens in this room. It starts out in this room.
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Monday nights, 06:00, 05:45. Get here a little early and they register and come on in. They start out. There's a game circle right here on the floor and they spread out all over the church. They are memorizing scripture and doing games and having council time and it's a great way to reach the hearts by getting to em through their minds of little kids.
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You see that. Hey, cowboy. If you're not coming to one and you're missing out. It's it's a fun time and that goes from ages two which are called puggles for some reason and then, Cubbies is older than that Sparkies are older than that and then the older students are the truth in training. That's up through fifth grade.
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So, from age two to fifth grade and we have sixth and seventh graders that are helping out with the little ones too. So, that's a good program. It happens at the same time as Monday nights at first B. Carl's back there. Monday nights at first B, we are in on the last of a series of messages on the book of Jonah.
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It's a two parter. So, macro view of the book of Jonah and it's been fantastic. So, I'm looking forward to that. Tomorrow night, home sweet home, meal, music, and a message every Monday night at six. The Bible study, the slide is wrong.
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It's 12:45. 12:45 is the time but if you want to come by, Roseanne said they're looking for young folks, young folks, someone somewhere between 60 and 65, okay? They're looking for young people to come in to the Senior Center Bible Study, New Blood, right? It's been going on. This Bible study has been happening since 2003.
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Darton and Roseanne took it on when we were starting small groups at First B in 2003 and it's grown and it's ebbed and flowed over the years but it's steady. They don't take off for anything. It's always on Monday. So, holidays or whatever, they still go ahead and do it. 12:45.
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Hey, he fixed it. That's good. Senior center of Jackson Home, Mondays at 12:45 and if you want to have a meal, you can come in and eat your meal 11:45 or twelve. Get there for the meal, and if you're 60 or above, it's $4 and it's $8. It it ought to be twice as much if you're younger younger than that.
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It is the senior center. So if you wanna come, please do be a part of that. That's that's gonna be a good one. A precept study. Now precept study has been studying ACTS, but I've got a little advertisement.
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So that was about ACTS, and I think that they are through with that study. Two more weeks. Thank you. There you are. So, they are working towards.
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So, you could get the last two of the precept study of the book of Acts and or you could for the three weeks building up to Thanksgiving, if you've ever wanted to try a precept study, it's just a three part series on the book of Lamentations. So, what happens when a nation turns its back on God? That's what Lamentations is about. What lessons are there for us today as individuals in dealing with the aftermath of rebellion, of listening to false prophets. So, we can reconstruct the shambles of our life and make it worth living again because God is a god of compassion and that comes up and again in Lamentations.
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We just need to learn how to tap into his mercies. They're new every morning. So, where do people turn when there's nothing but misery all around them? Hence, the name Lamentations, right? In whom do you put your trust and hope?
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The only true hope we have is in the Lord. So, come study Lamentations with us and get a glimpse of God whose compassions never fail. So, it's three week study starts Thursday, November 7. It'll be on the fourteenth and the twenty first. Building up to Thanksgiving.
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I think that's a great place to start that season. We have Jackson Hole Men's Alliance formerly called Men's Fraternity. We'll be starting up 6AM in this room right here, Wednesday mornings. They will be studying together. We'll be studying together.
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Ephesians, it's a great, oh, great book. So, first B's building here, Wednesdays at 6AM. We've got guys from various churches coming in and that's why we're calling an alliance. It's Christian men in the community. 06:00 in the morning, please bring yourself and your Bible and I think that's it.
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There's no materials cost or anything else. You don't have to commit to be there the whole time but it it'll be so good. Hopefully, you won't want to miss. Tim and the Glory Boys. Carl, would you like to splain this?
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You want to grab a mic and explain this? So, it's a concert. I can say that. Monday week, right? Yeah, it's kind of Americana roots musics more or less.
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They have banjos and stand up bass and so it's a little bluegrass and little Americana music. Tim and the Glory Boys, they're calling this the Buffalo Roadshow. So it's a western tour that they're making out through here and it ought to be a lot of fun. So you're welcome to come join and we're going to swap places. Normally, I wanna meet in this room and Monday night meets down there.
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So, we've invited folks from other churches too and so next Monday, not tomorrow but next Monday, we're going to swap places and do that. Hopefully, we'll have standing room only. It ought to be a really good show. Operation Christmas Child, if you didn't see em on your way in there, red and green boxes back there on the table. There will be a wrapping party on November 20 and we'll send those things off after wrapping them but this boxes are here.
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If you wanna grab yours and start filling them with goodies to be sent all over the world by Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas Child has begun and it's back there for you. Nursery always needs volunteers. So there are some usual suspects that we always can go to and they always say yes, but it'd be nice to have a bigger pool of more volunteers to help out in the nursery. So if you're willing, would you talk to Bailey Morley? That would be good and connect hour.
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Also, I want to give you the opportunity. It's not that it needs volunteers, needs it like we're begging you to do it. It's a blessing for you to be able to do it and I want to give you the opportunity. If you'd like to fix, you know, the donuts and the coffee and all that stuff for a Sunday morning between services. It's open for y'all to do.
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Church pays for the food. You just need to sit it out and you can do whatever you like. We've had lots of different things. That connect hour does happen between services. So, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10:00 till about 11:00 and it seems like there was one more but I think the operation Christmas Child was it.
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Did I forget anything? Alright. I try to get through those as fast as I can. Would you all stand up and greet one another? Don't be shy.
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Just say hi. Greet one another. We'll bring you back together. With a song, with a wall. What if it were today?
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Will bring glory when we shall crown Jesus will come We've got another one. Freely, freely. Freely. Good. Y'all keep on standing.
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We'll have one more. That one was almost too high. Almost. Yeah. If I looked over with a pain face and he's looking back with a pain face, it's almost too high.
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Alright. God forgave my sin in Jesus name I've been born again in Jesus Y'all can have a seat. Invite the frontline team to come forward God, would you bless this morning? I I pray that you'd bless each of your servants that's here lord and the families they represent. May we spread your love in spirit and truth through the way that we use our words and through our actions.
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Lord, I pray that you would do your will and your way through this church, through these servants. Lord, I pray that you would give us the desires that coincide with your will and that you would grant us those desires that we'd be a part lord that freely, freely, we would know that we've received and that we freely, freely give it. I I thank the Lord that that's the that's the twelfth step. In an addiction recovery is recognizing that what we've received, we receive freely and and to freely give that away and be on call and ready for anyone who is struggling anywhere, at any time. Lord, would you show yourself, lord, to us so that we may reflect that light on the others.
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In Jesus name, we ask for blessing on this offering this morning that you would do with it as you will. And that we just be good stewards. In Jesus name, amen. Is no problem. Alright.
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Howdy. So, seven eleven through 28 is what we're up to. We're just been doing this chronological study and we're up to it and things build on one another, right? Not that theology changes. The truth is the truth but it helps I think to see it chronologically.
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Last week, we did seven one through 10 and it was about Melchizedek. I'm going to try not to repeat myself as much as I have been but Melchizedek and the paradigm shift that was involved. It'll come up a couple of time here but we're going to go through the end of chapter seven today. Here we here we go. Now, if that's a big if.
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Now, if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood or on the basis of it, the people received the law. Think about now who Hebrews is written to. It's written to the Hebrews. So, people who are from a Jewish background, they understood the Old Testament. They had all of the references that this writer of Hebrews is gonna reference.
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Almost all of them are Old Testament references that are pointing towards something. The Old Covenant itself, the Old Covenant itself was pointing towards the new covenant and the writer of Hebrews recognizes this and is speaking to that when it says, now, if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, then, on the basis of that, the people received the law. That was about fourteen hundred BC when the law was received on Sinai by Moses. Okay, during the Exodus about fourteen hundred forty something BC. We're at sixty seven AD when the writer is writing this, pointing back fourteen hundred and something years, almost fifteen hundred years.
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Now, if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, we're on the basis of the people received the law, then what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek. Now, Melchizedek was mentioned in chapter four briefly in chapter five during an excursus where he goes off to give a warning and encouragement chapter six and then, comes back at the beginning of chapter seven and it says, now, this Melchizedek, he's mentioned several times and during verses one through 10, the writer of Hebrews or writers of Hebrews mentioned this Melchizedek and say, everything based on something in the Old Testament. Okay? It's not just an invention. It's not that that chapter seven of Hebrews is made up and added to what we know about Melchizedek.
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It's making a biblical argument from the Old Testament for people who already know and believe the Old Testament. So, he received tithes and he gave a blessing. We know that from Genesis 14 and it points toward another one. He calls it a type that points toward any type of Christ. Here we go.
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What further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek and not be designated according to the order of era. Now, for us as Americans, I could see the confused look on your face We don't care nearly as much about what tribe people belong to as other. Maybe Democrat, Republican yeah. But we don't, it's not like it's birthed in us, right? The maybe sometimes it is but the Levites are the priestly tribe and everybody knows the Levites are the priestly tribe.
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They were given that function by God at Sinai. You know, the the this tribe is going to do this on this camp out. This tribe is going to do that on the camp out and the Levites, you're the ones to handle the priestly duties. You'll either be the priest who are making the sacrifices or you'll be carrying some of the stuff that goes in the tabernacle in the holy places. You're going to be the ones handling the priestly duties, Levites and everybody knew that and that's what this the order of Aaron, the order of Aaron.
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Aaron was a Levite. So was Moses. And so, the sons of Aaron and their sons, see, we're Americans, we don't usually think that way either. We like to think that everybody is equal and it doesn't matter who your dad was or who your mom was. It doesn't matter.
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Lineage is not all that important but the writer of Hebrews recognizes that it's very important to these folks. The recipients were Jewish background people who had been exposed to the way of Christ and that accepted that it's true but now they're being persecuted for being followers of Jesus and there was a temptation to go back to what they knew and they knew the Old Testament and they knew the sacrificial system involved in the Old Testament and it would be a temptation not to see that as something that led to this, Jesus but as something that, what's the difference really? There are two covenants. I'll just go back to this one. It's less pressure and my family wants me back and my friends want me back and I know how to do that.
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I can aim at that. The writer of Hebrews is arguing for not turning away from Jesus. Jesus is better than angels. He's better than Torah. He's better than Moses.
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Moses is a servant. He's also a Levi. Jesus is a son. This is a paradigm shift for them. What further need was there for another priest to arise?
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He's already said that another priest has arisen. That's Jesus along the order of Melchizedek. So, what further need was there to arise according to the order of Melchizedek not be designated according to the order of Aaron for when the priesthood is changed of necessity, there takes place a change of the law also and that law is going from the old covenant which was established by God and is good and there's no doubt about it but it was limited and its limitation is what pointed you to Christ. The new covenant is where that change took place. For the one or capitalized the O there, that's Jesus.
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For the one, concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no one has officiated at the altar. Now, the tribe of Judah was not responsible for the priestly duties and no person of the tribe of Judah had ever been a priest before because that wasn't their job. They're born into it. Now, I say again, as Americans, we think of the divine right of kings when we're studying in history class and it's like, oh, the first born male son of any king is the prince and he's going to eventually get to be the king, right? That's the way that goes and the lineage goes down from there.
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I don't think about that. I won't think everybody's equal. We know that all men are created equal. I want to think that way but there's something to this lineage thing. After the service last week actually, Rich Steeg, I love Rich.
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Rich is always encouraging and Rich said afterwards, he goes, I love this chapter. It talks about the judicial head of the family and the seminal line like this bloodline that actually matters. We all send an Adam before we chose to do it on our own and that's the way. He's our federal head that moves down through and I thought, man, you plow at a deeper depth than I do. The one concern in whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no one has officiated at the altar.
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For it's evident that our lord, that's Jesus. No doubt about it. Our lord was descended from Judah. He's the lion of Judah. And that tribe is a tribe with that with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priest, the Judah tribe didn't have anything to do with priestly duties.
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They had other duties but not priestly duties. So, he's conceding that. Yes, I know that your friends are saying to you, well, it's ridiculous for Jesus to be a priest. He's not a Levite. Duh.
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But he's saying, neither was Melchizedek. In fact, he's making a chronological argument. I said, we're going through this chronologically. Melchizedek and Abraham was eighteen hundred BC. That's four hundred years before the law was given and he's going to use that argument in just a minute.
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So, the tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priest and this is clear still if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek and this is what he's proposing or the writer of Hebrews is proposing. One who has become such a priest who has become such not on the basis of the law of physical requirement. I've mentioned several times and and actually verse 10, I thought was an odd place to stop last week but it said that so and so received tithes in a way in Abraham when because he was still in the loins of his father and I thought, what in the world does that mean? It's that line and so, the basis of physical requirement, you got to be a Levite and you got to even be a priest whether you deserved it or not. You're born into it.
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Does that sound like that makes any sense? Not really. Not not to me. It seems like it ought to be merit but wait a second, who merits being a priest? By that, who merits being a pastor?
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We'll point towards this for the rest of the text, I think, but he's saying that Jesus has become a priest along the order of Melchizedek, not on the basis of physical requirements. It's not like Melchizedek was his great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddaddy. But according to the power of an indestructible light, oh my. Jesus became a priest when he presented the priestly duty of sacrifice and he sacrificed his very own blood. It wasn't the bull or a goat or a lamb.
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It wasn't something that somebody brought him to sacrifice. He lived a perfect life, had no sin debt of his own, and then voluntarily gave his own life in priestly sacrifice. For anyone who would believe. He said, I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm the life. No one comes to the father except through me.
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So, all of that priestliness, any of those old testament folks that were looking forward to Messiah, they have to come through Jesus. We have to look back to him. There is no other way. It is an exclusive. Exclusive.
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Message. The message of the cross. And his indestructible life is what it all hinges on. The resurrection makes all the difference. If Christ said, I will go into the Earth for three days and rise again and then he did it.
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You have to listen to it. He becomes this priest according to the power of an indestructible life. For it is a tested of him, of Jesus. It's a tested of him at a thousand BC and this chronological, so Melchizedek is 1,800. It's somebody you didn't know anything about.
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It's a complete paradigm shift for you to even consider. There could have been a priest before 1400 when the priest were established. And then in a thousand, about a thousand or a 10 or so. David writes down and it's already been attested twice in Hebrews that this text was written by David and written by the Holy Spirit, the dual authorship of scriptures already tested and he says, at a thousand BC, you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. First time he uses the argument in this passage.
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For on the one hand, think about this, there is a setting aside of the former commandment, the old covenant because of its weakness and uselessness. That's strong words. It is weak though. Let's think about the law. Does the law make you righteous?
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Let's talk about the law of the land. How many of y'all have ever texted while you were driving? How many of you ever have driven distracted? I spilled something yesterday. It was a box of rivets and I was in the van, the church van.
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Oh my goodness. And when they started to go, I reached down to try to pick em up and keep em from spreading all over the floor of the church van and there was a policeman behind me. Sheriff and he pulled me over for distracted driving and he he did not give me a ticket but I deserved a ticket. I deserved it because I was guilty, right? So he gave me mercy.
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He handed me my license and registration and insurance back but said, calm down basically. But I was guilty. I was guilty, guilty. And if you're guilty, you're guilty. That's the way it is.
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So, on the one hand, there's a setting aside of the former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness and then it says this explicitly right here, for the law made nothing perfect. Just because we've got the law, does that mean we follow the law? To to propose a new law to control people into doing it is kind of foolish because people are still going to break that law, right? Now, yes, there but there can be punishments placed in but the law made nothing perfect. I have I have something So, a couple weeks ago, somebody said, I like your sermons but I wish you talk more about yourself.
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Really connects with me when when you talk about yourself and I think, I don't want to talk about myself. When I do it, it's because it I think it has bearing on this, right? I'll get to this in a minute. For for we know what that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law. Who is that?
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Well, the next sentence says who it is. So that every mouth, it's everyone. Everyone. That every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God. So, the law lets us know.
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Who's in charge? He, God, is in charge. God, we're accountable to God because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified. You can strive and strive and strive and strive and strive and know it all. Memorize it all and know it backwards and forwards.
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Strain the gnat as Jesus said. But that camel still going to get through. The works of the law, no flesh will be justified. That's not what its intent was. The intent, it says, in his sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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Now, about myself, I'm going, the law made nothing perfect. I think the next one says that. Hold on just a second, Blake and I'll explain. So, very quickly, there's a house here in Jackson that I worked on before its occupants moved into it. I know the house very well.
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The driveway is where I worked on a lot of painting this stuff, doing the trim, all this carpentry work. I did that outside in the driveway. I know the driveway really well. There's basketball goal out there that I know very well. I play basketball a lot in my life.
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I've played six hours a day for many years. I love it, and I know it very well. I know exactly where that is. I know that this particular house has a doorbell camera. I know that.
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And then let's play the video, Blake. Oh. I knew it was all there. I knew everything about that situation. Oh.
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And yet Thanks, Blake, for the sound. It didn't stop me. My knowledge of it didn't stop me from running into that pole. It caught me by complete surprise. I actually was looking over.
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Oh. You can stop now. Thank you. I was looking at the neighbor across there and I was like, oh, I don't recognize him. Bam.
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That might be a place for you worry about yourself video too. Right? Bam. I hit it and then I just waved and said, no, I'm okay. I don't think I'm gonna pass out.
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I was stopping to do a good deed, you know, helping helping them pick up the dog and I didn't have my keys and so I was looking for the keys, ruffling through the van and I walked away thinking I'm gonna have to crawl through the dog door. Bam. The law made nothing perfect. I knew all this stuff. Knowing it didn't make it any better is my point.
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And you know what? That happened a week and a half ago. So two days ago, I put in a new floor in our laundry room, you know, 60 by 10 feet, 15 feet, whatever laundry room and I put those in and I had just hung cabinets up and I'm six six and the cabinets are hanging at 48 inches tall and I was putting in the floor and I was monkeying around down here when I stood up. I hit the back of my head just as hard as I hit the front of my head right there. I knew they were there.
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I put em up. Knowing the law doesn't make you follow the law. It is it's you're accountable for it but you still going to bump your head, you know? Sin in the Bible is Old Testament is a little more explicit but sin, Hamartia, sin is three different things. It can be outright rebellion against God and there is some of that but in Hebrews, most of the sin that the writer of Hebrews is pointing towards either our natural bent that is away from God, not a rebellion, just the way we are naturally wired away from God and then or falling short of the mark and then the other one is that that falling short of the mark where you just can't get there.
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You can't be perfect. Anyway, the law made nothing perfect and on the other hand, there is a bringing in of a better hope. Amen for that better hope Through which we draw near to God rather than being seen as guilty before him. We are now seen with the righteousness of Christ. This is what the the writer of Hebrews is point towards.
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On the other hand, there's a a bringing in of a better hope through which we draw near to God and in as much as it was not without an oath, oh here we're going to go for that oath again and this is Psalm one hundred ten four, written at a thousand BC roughly. If you think about that, order of Melchizedek, Melchizedek's 1,800, the law was given fourteen hundred. That's four hundred years in between those two and then we got four hundred years before the Holy Spirit through David writes, Psalm one ten four, for they indeed became priest without an oath. It's saying, it's just their line. Their daddy was a priest and so they're a priest.
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That's the way it goes. It's not Catholic priest. These priests did marry. If that's confusing you from your childhood or whatever but in as much as it was not without an oath, for they indeed, that's the Levites, became priest without an oath, but he with an oath, Jesus became a priest with an oath through the one God who said to him, Jesus, the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever and the forever is the big deal here because we're going to go in.
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You are a priest forever. We're moving on from Melchizedek. Melchizedek was to point towards Jesus for people that got hung up on Levitical priesthood and how things are supposed to go. They're religious conventions and understanding. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.
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You are a priest forever. So much the more also, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. The righteousness of Christ is what's actually available. Now, trying to be right, trying to be right, trying to be right in a legalistic manner will not get you there. You can try and try and try and try and you still not go get there.
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You can know it all and still not get there. Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. He walked it out in submission to the spirit, in humility, and so much the more. Already, we've heard in Hebrews that he's so much the more better than the angels. He's so much the more better than Moses and so much the more he has become a guarantee of a better covenant.
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Now, how exactly is that better? The rest of the text will point out how the new covenant is better than the old covenant. Now, for you, you might sit here and go, well, obviously, but you're not a first century Hebrew, right? For them, the temptation was, I'm receiving a lot of heat right now and I could be killed for believing this but nobody will really care if I do this and it it all the same anyway. Old covenant, new covenant.
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How's it better? The former priests on the one hand existed in greater numbers because they're prevented by death from continuing. Well, we've got that. There are greater numbers of those priests. They're geographically spread out further and but wait a second, no, there's the locust of God's presence in the temple.
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There were a bunch of em. There are greater numbers. Why? Because they died. They died.
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They were temporary and that's it. Comparing the priest, the these former priests or this but Jesus on the other hand, but Jesus on the other hand, because he continues forever, he holds his priesthood permanently. There's no end. You are a priest forever. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.
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So, Jesus is absolutely unique. Actually, two places in the text that says, Jesus is another one of a different kind. He's a priest but of a different kind because his is absolutely unique. He lives forever. So, that trumps being dead.
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It's permanent in place of temporary which would you rather have? Permanent. So, going forward from there, it says, therefore, because of just those three things, therefore, he's able to save forever. Amen. Do you want temporary salvation?
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Do you want something that just handles things for a little while until that next day of atonement rolls around? And then that even depends on the priest and how he how cleansed he is before he's offering for yourself. Actually, that's the argument that goes on. Therefore, he's able to say forever those who draw near to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them. Amen.
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So, we go back to our list there. Jesus is looking pretty good here. He's absolutely absolutely, absolutely, uniquely unique. He lives forever. He's permanent.
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He's able to save forever. Think about this. As he lives forever, what does he live forever to do? He lives forever to make intercession. He intercedes.
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That's what priests do. The only mediator. There is one mediator between God and man. It is the man, Jesus Christ. He lives to make intercession.
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For it was fitting for us. I like this. It was fitting for us. We've heard it was fitting a couple times already too. For it was fitting for us.
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In Hebrews two ten, it was fitting for him. For whom are all things, that's Jesus, the radiance of God's glory. Beloved son, not a servant like Moses. It was fitting for him for whom are all things and through whom all are all things. He was a agent of creation and bringing many sons to glory.
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To perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. So, Christ has paid the price. It was fitting for him to walk and to suffer the fellowship of the sufferings of Christ. It was fitting for him. And we'll go back to but it was fitting for us to have such a high priest who's tempted in every way just as we're tempted.
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Yet, he was without sin. Next thing says, he's holy. He's innocent. He's undefiled, separated from sinners, meaning that he is not a sinner. He's separated and consecrated above all else and he's exalted above the heavens.
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Jesus name above all names, right? Our list, I had to shrink the type a little bit. Former priest, greater numbers and die, they were temporary but Jesus is absolutely unique. He lives forever. He's permanent, able to save forever, lives to make intercession.
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He's holy. He's innocent. He's undefiled, separated completely from sinners. He's above all. Who does not need daily?
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This is Jesus. Does not need daily like those high priest to offer up sacrifices first for his own sin then for the sins of the people because this he did once for all when he offered up himself. So, he does not need to offer up sacrifices. He did that perfectly. Once and for all, not for his sin.
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He had no sin debt but for anyone who would put their trust in him. This is a very evangelistic passage. He is mighty to save. He is able to save. He is the only one qualified to save.
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He offered himself. Now, the former priest, are they able to save forever? Nope. As we go on in Hebrews, we'll see that the blood of bulls and goats never was meant to do that. It was only to point us toward Christ.
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So, they're not able to save forever. In the first century, when there still were a priest. Now, three years later, the temple would be destroyed and the holy of holies would be destroyed, not a stone upon another. Jesus lives to make intercession and they don't. Jesus is holy.
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They were unholy and if you don't think that's true, if you think I like to think better of priests, can you think of a better priest than Isaiah? He's pretty good. As the Bible goes, he's pretty good priest, right? And what happened when he saw and the king, in the year the king Uzziah died, he saw the temple filled, right? And what did he do?
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He fell on his face and he said, woe is me, I am undone, right? I'm undone. I'm unholy. I'm a man of unclean lips and I dwell among the people of unclean lips. Yeah.
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They're unholy. Even our best examples are unholy and our bad examples are really bad. They're bad examples of priest in the Old Testament because they're born into it. It's just a heritage thing. It wasn't because of a holiness thing.
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So, they are unholy. Jesus is holy. Jesus is innocent and they are necessarily guilty. All of em. Jesus is undefiled but they were defiled.
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As much as they tried not to be, they were. In Adam, you're going back to the federal head and the land but then again, by their own choice too. Jesus does not need to offer up sacrifices for himself. They need to offer sacrifices for their own issues. Absolutely needed to.
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Now, they had a, there was a process in the old command, the old covenant had that process laid out, how they were supposed to go before God and try to make some sort of absolution for sins but they had to do that. Jesus didn't have that to do. He didn't have anything that needed cleaning up. Their own blood was not worthy and Christ was and he offered it voluntarily himself. I think of Paul in Corinthians where he says to them, if I could, if I could, I would give myself.
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I've been wrong. If I could, I would give myself so that others may know Jesus. If I could, I would give up my life so that more may know but Paul knew, he said, if I could because he couldn't. He didn't have a perfectly righteous life. Jesus did.
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So, their own blood was not worthy but Jesus is was and he offered himself. Last verse of the day, for the law appoints men as high priests who are weak. Why? Because there ain't no other kind. Jesus is the only perfect one.
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There is weakness and actually, I could say, among pastors, there's weakness, right? For the law appoints men as high priest who are weak but the word of the oath and this is going back to Psalm one hundred ten four, you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. They didn't know what to do with that until now and the Holy Spirit through David clarifies what he's talking about. You need a paradigm shift to get away from thinking just bloodline and look at what I've prepared for you. The word of the oath which came after the law, chronological argument again.
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The the word of the oath came in a thousand. The law came in 1400 and it was referencing something that was even before that 1800. If you go back, Jesus is the eternal son of God. So, all of the references of is to the truth of what really is The law appoints men as high priest who are weak but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a son. Absolutely unique.
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Absolutely holy. Absolutely worthy. Absolutely able to save. The points of son who's made perfect forever. His is an eternal priesthood and he can always, always, always absolve absolutely.
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He has propitiated the sins of everyone who puts their faith in him. So, this is what it looks like. That's the weak and perfect are the way that that ends up. Greater numbers, yeah, there were more of em but they were temporary. They had to be because they kept dying.
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They weren't able to save anyway. They don't live to make intercession. You know what? When you get to have a priest that you really really love and you feel like he gets me and he understands my weakness and he deals gently with me, the ignorant, and the misguided. And then that guy does.
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You gotta work into having another one or a pastor for the for that matter, you know. Oh, I trust that guy. He's so good and then he fall. Just takes the wind out of yourself. Unholy, guilty, defiled, need to offer sacrifice for their own issues.
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Their own blood was not worthy and they were there for a week but Jesus is absolutely unique, lives forever. He's permanent. He's able to save forever. You don't have to worry about losing that. He's able to save forever.
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He lives to make intercession for you. God, forgive them and God throws it as far as the East is from the West and remembers it no more. Holy, innocent, undefiled, does not need to offer up sacrifices. He did that perfectly once for all and offering himself and he is perfect. Oh, thanks.
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I am not. Just wave. Alright, enough of that. Jesus is perfect. Oh my goodness.
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God, would you help us? Would you help us get that? That if we are to deal gently with the ignorant and misguided and to perform any sort of a service to them, may it be that we direct them towards Jesus who is able to save forever. Amen. Would you all stand with me?
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I think we planned on singing in the doxology today. A lot of times, that's an audible. Yeah, if you play the piano, we'll sing it in the right key this time. Sometimes, I have the ladies singing like a bullfrog when I start out. Praise God from whom all blessings flow praise him all creatures here below praise him above you heavenly host praise father son and holy Amen.
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And so, I'm going to take the benediction today straight from that passage right in the middle of it. Seven twenty five. It says, therefore, he is able. If you ever doubt it, don't doubt it. Jesus is able.
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Therefore, he is able once and forever to save those who come to God through him. I'm the way. I'm the truth. I'm the life. No one comes to the father except by me as uncomfortable as that seems for our society that it would be an exclusive way.
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At least he made a way. We are all weak and because he is perfect, he could offer this. Therefore, he's able once and forever to save those who come to God through him. He lives forever to inter with God on their behalf. Jesus name, lord, would you show your light in this community and wherever we are from, where we're headed back to, lord.
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Would show your light through your humble servants who have accepted the goodness and grace and mercy offered at the cross. Amen.
