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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Hebrews: The Better Covenant (Part 1)

May 12, 2025 | S25:E2002

Lawson Perdue - Hebrews: The Better Covenant (Part 1)
Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Hebrews: The Better Covenant (Part 1) | May 12, 2025
  • (bright music)
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  • - praise the lord, friends,
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  • And welcome to "grace for today."
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  • We're gonna be sharing today from the book of hebrews
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  • Talking about the better covenant.
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  • Thank god we have a better covenant
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  • Established on better promises,
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  • And what makes it better is jesus.
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  • So you wanna stay tuned,
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  • We're gonna be sharing some great things
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  • About this better covenant
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  • Established in and through jesus christ.
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  • Stay tuned, you'll be blessed.
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  • (bright music continues)
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  • Friends, it's great to have you with us today.
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  • And we're beginning a brand new series
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  • On "hebrews: the better covenant."
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  • One of my favorite books is the book of hebrews.
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  • It compares the old covenant with the new covenant.
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  • And really the focus of it is jesus.
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  • We have a better covenant established on better promises,
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  • And what makes it better is jesus.
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  • - that's awesome.
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  • Yeah, and i love just going through hebrews too.
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  • The writer often uses scripture from the old testament
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  • And just shows how it points to jesus.
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  • You know, all the promises
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  • That you see throughout the old testament,
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  • God's heart of redemption, of restoration,
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  • We see that it all is fulfilled through jesus.
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  • So i love, you know, hebrews,
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  • It does such a great job of connecting the old testament
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  • With what we have in christ.
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  • And you know, all those promises, they're available to us
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  • As believers through jesus christ.
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  • Every promise it's yes,
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  • And it's amen through jesus.
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  • - amen.
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  • So the writer of hebrews begins in hebrews chapter one,
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  • And says this in verse one,
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  • "god, who in different times in different manners,
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  • Spoke in the time passed to the fathers by the prophets,
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  • Has in these last days spoken to us by his son,
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  • Whom he appointed heir of all things
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  • By whom he made the world."
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  • Now, there's a mouthful in that,
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  • But he says this one thing in verse two,
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  • God has in these last days spoken to us by his son.
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  • And this is a theme that goes through the book of hebrews.
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  • And it says, don't harden your hearts
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  • To the voice of the holy spirit,
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  • Don't harden your hearts to the voice of jesus.
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  • And if god spoke by moses through the prophets,
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  • Through these different ones,
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  • Then he's still speaking to us through jesus.
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  • So keep listening to jesus.
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  • Then he says, "whom he appointed heir of all things."
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  • So jesus is the son of god,
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  • And by whom he made the worlds.
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  • What he's saying is, jesus was in the beginning
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  • With the father creating all things,
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  • He's the creator of the world.
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  • So jesus is the son of god, son of man,
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  • He's god manifest in the flesh.
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  • - and that's a really important, you know,
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  • Belief for every christian to understand and to really,
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  • It needs to be foundational that jesus is god,
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  • The deity of jesus.
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  • That even through him also, he made the world.
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  • So jesus, you know, existed before creation.
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  • He was with the father, he's one with the father,
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  • And he is the creator of all things.
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  • - right.
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  • - you kind of see that antichrist spirit
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  • That's in the world today,
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  • It's also an anti-creator spirit, right?
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  • Because jesus was with the father when he created mankind,
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  • Made them male and female.
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  • So that antichrist spirit
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  • Really tries to destroy male and female, right?
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  • And you know, jesus actually did more for women
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  • Than any other person.
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  • Whatever christianity has flourished,
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  • Wherever the bible has flourished, women have flourished.
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  • Women have succeeded,
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  • They've, you know, excelled in their purpose
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  • That god's created them for to be mothers, to be wives,
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  • To be even business people.
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  • You know, in proverbs 3:1
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  • Talks about this woman who even buys and sells land,
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  • Who produces, who makes things.
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  • - talking about that, aaron,
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  • Women are really brought to a position of honor
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  • More through christianity and the christian nations
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  • Than any other nations of the world.
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  • And it's important that we realize that.
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  • - well, in transgenderism,
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  • This whole idea that that men can become women,
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  • It's completely antichrist.
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  • And that spirit behind it actually attacks women,
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  • It tries to place men in female spaces and female sports.
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  • And if people are against it,
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  • They say "well, you're a bigot" and try to attack them.
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  • And it's completely anti-woman,
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  • It's antichrist, it's horrific.
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  • And i believe that in these times,
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  • People are gonna wake up and see the truth-
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  • - amen. - and come to jesus,
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  • Who is the truth.
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  • - there's a grassroots change
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  • That's happening right now in america,
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  • And we're seeing people come back to god, and it's great.
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  • Now, he goes on talking about jesus.
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  • He is the son of god,
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  • He was in the beginning with the father,
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  • Creating all things.
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  • Verse three says, "who being the brightness of his glory
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  • And the express image of his person."
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  • If you wanna see who god is, look at jesus.
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  • "and upholding all things by the word of his power
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  • When he had by himself purged our sins."
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  • Not only is jesus the son of god,
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  • The creator of the universe,
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  • But jesus is the savior of the world.
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  • Jesus by himself purged our sins
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  • And sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.
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  • When jesus, after he was crucified and resurrected,
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  • Ascended into heaven, he sat down,
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  • In that the work is finished.
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  • Jesus is the head of all authority here on the earth.
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  • And so he goes on to say,
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  • "being made so much better than the angels,
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  • As he by inheritance has obtained
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  • A more excellent name than they."
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  • You know, when we pray, we pray in the name of jesus,
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  • Praise god, because we have been given authority
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  • Through the name of jesus.
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  • - i love too that it says "he's the express image
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  • Of the father."
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  • That terminology means he is the exact person.
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  • So if you see jesus, you've seen the father,
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  • And that's what jesus told his disciples too.
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  • They asked him, "well, show us the father,
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  • And it'll suffice us," that's what philip said in john 14.
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  • He said, "if you've seen me, you've seen the father."
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  • - [lawson] right.
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  • - and the writer here is saying, you know,
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  • "if you wanna know who the father is,
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  • If you wanna know who god is, you have to look at jesus."
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  • - right, well, john 1:18, the very first john says,
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  • "no man has seen god at any time, but the only begotten son,
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  • Who is from the bosom of a father."
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  • He has declared him, he has revealed him,
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  • He has openly made him known.
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  • So if you wanna know who god is,
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  • You don't have to look really any farther than matthew,
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  • Mark, luke, and john, and just look at jesus.
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  • Jesus is god manifest in the flesh.
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  • Now, when we go forward, he says this,
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  • "for to which of the angels," in verse five,
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  • "did he say at any time, 'you or my son,
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  • Today have i begotten thee.'
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  • And again, 'i will be to him a father,
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  • And he will be to me, his son.'"
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  • What he's saying here is,
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  • Jesus christ is better than the angels.
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  • - i love that.
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  • A lot of people, you know,
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  • A lot of believers sometimes get very,
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  • Just almost obsessed with angelic activity, you know?
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  • - [lawson] right.
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  • - just really one...
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  • You know, there are angels.
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  • Later here in scripture,
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  • We see that they're actually ministering spirits
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  • To administer to believers.
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  • - and they're servants to those who are heirs of salvation.
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  • - and there are promises too,
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  • Like psalm 91 has a promise that
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  • Angels will bury you up to protect you,
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  • So i pray that over my children.
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  • But i'm more focused on jesus
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  • Than i am on angelic activity.
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  • So i'm looking more to jesus, more to his word,
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  • Than i'm looking for feathers or for gold dust,
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  • Or for, you know,
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  • Touched by an angel kind of stuff going on.
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  • - [lawson] amen.
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  • - and that might be a fun, popular tv show,
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  • And i believe there are angels.
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  • You know, i think that maybe
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  • Sometimes you've maybe encountered one
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  • Without even realizing it.
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  • And scripture talks about that happening.
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  • But you know, we need to have our focus on jesus.
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  • - amen.
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  • He goes on and says this in verse six,
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  • "again, when he brings the first-begotten,"
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  • Jesus is the first begotten son into the world,
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  • "he says, 'let the angels of god worship him.'
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  • And of the angels, he says, 'who makes his angels spirits,
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  • And his ministers a flame of fire.'
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  • But to the son, he says," this is hebrews 1:8,
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  • "your throne, oh god,'"
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  • He calls jesus christ the son, god,
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  • "is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness,
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  • Is the scepter of your kingdom.
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  • You have loved righteousness and hated sin or rebellion.
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  • Therefore, god, even thy god, has anointed you
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  • With the oil of gladness above yourselves."
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  • Do you wanna be anointed with joy,
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  • Above other people in the world?
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  • Love righteousness and hate rebellion in your own life,
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  • Hate sin in your own life.
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  • He says, "you lord, in the beginning
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  • Have laid the foundation of the earth,
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  • The heavens of the work of your hands.
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  • They will perish."
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  • In other words, he says,
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  • "heaven and earth's gonna pass away,
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  • But the word of god will endure forever,"
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  • That's matthew 24:35.
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  • "as a vesture, you're gonna fold them up."
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  • 2 peter 3 says, one day god's gonna fold heaven and earth
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  • Like a cloak,
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  • And we're gonna go into a new heaven and a new earth
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  • Wherein dwells righteousness.
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  • He says, "they'll be changed, but you are the same.
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  • Your years shall not fail."
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  • Again, this is a recurring theme.
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  • He says this in the first chapter,
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  • Jesus christ is the same.
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  • He says that in the last chapter of hebrews,
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  • Hebrews 13:8, "jesus christ is the same
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  • Yesterday, today, and forever."
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  • Hallelujah, he is the same.
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  • And so he says, "to which to the angels he says,
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  • 'at any time, sit on my right hand
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  • Till i make your enemies your footstool.'
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  • Are they not all ministering spirits
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  • Sent to serve those, minister to those
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  • Who shall be heirs of salvation?"
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  • Thank god he gives his angels charge overs
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  • To keep us in all of our ways.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:10:50.358 --> 00:10:51.393
  • Angels are ministering spirits
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  • To serve those of us who are heirs of salvation.
  • 00:10:53.428 --> 00:10:56.398
  • But we don't worship angels, we worship god the father,
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  • We worship jesus christ, the son of god,
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  • The eternal son of god,
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  • The only begotten son of god.
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  • And that's what he said, jesus is god manifest.
  • 00:11:10.579 --> 00:11:13.148
  • - i love that verse nine here talking about,
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  • On that oil of gladness, that oil of joy.
  • 00:11:15.417 --> 00:11:19.121
  • That word oil means it's something
  • 00:11:19.121 --> 00:11:20.655
  • That comes from god's presence, from his holy spirit,
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  • An anointing oil.
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  • And to anoint someone means to just set them apart.
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  • Joy will set you apart.
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  • And there's a joy that only god can give,
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  • A joy that will set you apart, a joy that protects you,
  • 00:11:34.269 --> 00:11:37.139
  • A joy that heals you, a joy that restores you,
  • 00:11:37.139 --> 00:11:40.375
  • And jesus has that joy.
  • 00:11:40.375 --> 00:11:42.010
  • You know, god isn't just sitting up in heaven
  • 00:11:42.010 --> 00:11:44.012
  • With a scowl on his face all the time.
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  • - [lawson] amen.
  • 00:11:45.680 --> 00:11:46.515
  • - he also says that,
  • 00:11:46.515 --> 00:11:47.783
  • He who sits in the heavens will laugh.
  • 00:11:47.783 --> 00:11:49.117
  • You know, god's laughing about a lot of things.
  • 00:11:49.117 --> 00:11:51.987
  • - [lawson] yes.
  • 00:11:51.987 --> 00:11:53.021
  • - he has this joy,
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  • And he wants to give it to you.
  • 00:11:54.556 --> 00:11:55.590
  • And if god gives it to you,
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  • That means the world can't take it away.
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  • - amen.
  • 00:11:59.461 --> 00:12:00.529
  • - circumstances can't take it away,
  • 00:12:00.529 --> 00:12:01.763
  • People who try to, you know, shame you,
  • 00:12:01.763 --> 00:12:04.299
  • Try to harm you, try to, you know,
  • 00:12:04.299 --> 00:12:07.536
  • Just lie about you,
  • 00:12:08.003 --> 00:12:09.805
  • That can't take away that joy.
  • 00:12:09.805 --> 00:12:11.506
  • And that joy, there's power in it,
  • 00:12:11.506 --> 00:12:13.742
  • There is breakthrough in it,
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  • It causes you to go to a whole new level.
  • 00:12:16.611 --> 00:12:18.780
  • So don't lose your joy.
  • 00:12:18.780 --> 00:12:20.348
  • - amen, praise the lord.
  • 00:12:20.348 --> 00:12:22.751
  • Thank god for jesus, thank god for what he's done.
  • 00:12:22.751 --> 00:12:25.821
  • You know, when we begin to understand who christ is
  • 00:12:25.821 --> 00:12:29.658
  • In what he's done, it's gonna revolutionize the way
  • 00:12:29.658 --> 00:12:33.228
  • That we live our life.
  • 00:12:33.228 --> 00:12:34.863
  • We're gonna begin to walk in a brand new authority,
  • 00:12:34.863 --> 00:12:38.800
  • We're gonna walk in brand new joy,
  • 00:12:38.800 --> 00:12:41.369
  • And we're gonna walk in brand new victory.
  • 00:12:41.369 --> 00:12:43.071
  • Jesus already won the victory,
  • 00:12:43.071 --> 00:12:45.273
  • But we get a walk in it as we get to know him.
  • 00:12:45.273 --> 00:12:48.243
  • So we're gonna take a short break,
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  • Right after this break, we'll be back.
  • 00:12:49.945 --> 00:12:51.713
  • So stay tuned, blessings.
  • 00:12:51.713 --> 00:12:55.450
  • Friends, i want you to get my book
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  • On "hebrews: the better covenant."
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  • Do you know what makes the new covenant a better covenant?
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  • It's jesus.
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  • Jesus guarantees all of the promises
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  • Of the covenant are yours.
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  • He paid for it with his blood,
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  • And we have a better covenant
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  • Established on better promises.
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  • So go to our website and get this book,
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  • "hebrews: the better covenant."
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  • - past, present, and future tense sin
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  • Were paid for on the cross by the blood.
  • 00:13:32.354 --> 00:13:36.057
  • There is no other payment that needs to be paid
  • 00:13:36.057 --> 00:13:39.094
  • For your forgiveness.
  • 00:13:39.094 --> 00:13:40.528
  • As far as god is concerned,
  • 00:13:40.528 --> 00:13:42.664
  • He got over your sin at the cross and you need to let it go.
  • 00:13:42.664 --> 00:13:46.835
  • You need to get over it.
  • 00:13:46.835 --> 00:13:48.937
  • That is the gospel.
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  • (uplifting music)
  • 00:13:51.573 --> 00:13:56.144
  • - friend, i'm glad you stayed with us.
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  • We're gonna continue sharing from the book of hebrews.
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  • We're right here in hebrews chapter two.
  • 00:14:01.016 --> 00:14:04.419
  • Hebrews chapter one, we just shared
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  • In the first half of the broadcast
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  • How jesus is the creator of the universe.
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  • He's the son of god, he's the savior of the world,
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  • And he's better than angels.
  • 00:14:14.829 --> 00:14:16.698
  • Now what he tells us in hebrews chapter two is,
  • 00:14:16.698 --> 00:14:19.167
  • Don't move away from jesus.
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  • Hallelujah, you don't wanna move away from jesus.
  • 00:14:21.436 --> 00:14:24.039
  • And he says, "therefore," hebrews 2:1,
  • 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:26.908
  • "we ought to give more earnest heed
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  • To the things that we've heard,
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  • Lest at any time we should let them slip."
  • 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.815
  • Or one translation says "drift away."
  • 00:14:33.815 --> 00:14:36.818
  • We don't want to drift away,
  • 00:14:36.818 --> 00:14:38.019
  • We don't wanna move away from jesus.
  • 00:14:38.019 --> 00:14:40.455
  • He says, now he begins to talk about the old covenant.
  • 00:14:40.455 --> 00:14:43.024
  • Hebrews ties these covenants together.
  • 00:14:43.024 --> 00:14:45.026
  • "for if the word spoken by angels
  • 00:14:45.026 --> 00:14:47.329
  • Was steadfast in every transgression
  • 00:14:47.329 --> 00:14:50.131
  • And disobedience received a just repayment of reward,
  • 00:14:50.131 --> 00:14:53.668
  • How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?"
  • 00:14:53.668 --> 00:14:59.007
  • Don't neglect your salvation, don't move away from jesus.
  • 00:15:00.175 --> 00:15:03.111
  • Don't move away from the gospel.
  • 00:15:03.111 --> 00:15:04.946
  • He says, this gospel begin to, first,
  • 00:15:04.946 --> 00:15:07.849
  • Begin to be spoken by the lord and was confirmed to us
  • 00:15:07.849 --> 00:15:11.686
  • By those who heard him, by his disciples.
  • 00:15:11.686 --> 00:15:14.622
  • God bore them witness, both with signs,
  • 00:15:14.622 --> 00:15:17.325
  • Wonders, and different kinds of miracles
  • 00:15:17.325 --> 00:15:19.461
  • And gifts of the holy ghost, according to his own will.
  • 00:15:19.461 --> 00:15:23.965
  • Thank god, god bears witness to the word that we preach
  • 00:15:23.965 --> 00:15:28.103
  • With signs, wonders, miracles,
  • 00:15:28.103 --> 00:15:29.771
  • And gifts of the holy spirit, according to his will.
  • 00:15:29.771 --> 00:15:32.874
  • These gifts don't operate as we will,
  • 00:15:32.874 --> 00:15:34.843
  • But they operate as he will.
  • 00:15:34.843 --> 00:15:36.678
  • - and i love that god still bears witness today
  • 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:39.280
  • With signs, with wonders, with miracles,
  • 00:15:39.280 --> 00:15:42.384
  • With the gifts of the holy spirit.
  • 00:15:42.384 --> 00:15:43.852
  • You know, some people actually preach against that,
  • 00:15:43.852 --> 00:15:45.253
  • They say that these things don't happen anymore.
  • 00:15:45.253 --> 00:15:47.555
  • And it's because probably god's not really
  • 00:15:47.555 --> 00:15:49.024
  • Bearing witness to the message,
  • 00:15:49.024 --> 00:15:50.358
  • They're always preaching.
  • 00:15:50.358 --> 00:15:51.993
  • It might be a mixed bag, you know,
  • 00:15:52.761 --> 00:15:55.230
  • Not full gospel, but some mixed things
  • 00:15:55.230 --> 00:15:58.666
  • Going on in their doctrine and their teaching.
  • 00:15:58.666 --> 00:16:00.568
  • So, you know, we need to be just
  • 00:16:00.568 --> 00:16:04.539
  • Paying attention to what god's saying,
  • 00:16:05.373 --> 00:16:06.908
  • Pay attention to what he's done through jesus, you know?
  • 00:16:06.908 --> 00:16:10.178
  • Don't neglect the salvation, you know?
  • 00:16:10.178 --> 00:16:13.114
  • We need to focus on jesus, and god's gonna bear witness.
  • 00:16:13.114 --> 00:16:16.051
  • God will back up the gospel.
  • 00:16:16.051 --> 00:16:18.987
  • He's still backing up with his power.
  • 00:16:18.987 --> 00:16:20.588
  • There is power in the gospel,
  • 00:16:20.588 --> 00:16:21.990
  • Power in everyone who believes to the jew first,
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  • Also to the greek.
  • 00:16:24.392 --> 00:16:25.560
  • - amen.
  • 00:16:25.560 --> 00:16:26.394
  • - we need to believe,
  • 00:16:26.394 --> 00:16:28.129
  • And there is power when you believe the gospel.
  • 00:16:28.129 --> 00:16:30.298
  • - amen.
  • 00:16:30.298 --> 00:16:31.199
  • You know, paul says this,
  • 00:16:31.199 --> 00:16:32.700
  • You were just quoting romans chapter one,
  • 00:16:32.700 --> 00:16:34.869
  • But in galatians chapter one,
  • 00:16:34.869 --> 00:16:36.371
  • These really fit with the book of hebrews, verse six.
  • 00:16:36.371 --> 00:16:39.474
  • Paul says, "i'm marvel that you're so soon removed from him
  • 00:16:39.474 --> 00:16:43.411
  • Who called you into the grace of christ to another gospel,"
  • 00:16:43.411 --> 00:16:47.415
  • He says, "which is not another."
  • 00:16:47.415 --> 00:16:49.751
  • So don't move away from jesus.
  • 00:16:49.751 --> 00:16:51.519
  • Don't move away from the gospel, from the message of grace.
  • 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:55.590
  • And he says, why?
  • 00:16:55.590 --> 00:16:57.692
  • Because it's centered around jesus.
  • 00:16:57.692 --> 00:16:59.961
  • Now he goes on and begins to share here in verse five.
  • 00:16:59.961 --> 00:17:04.732
  • And you look back at chapter one where he says,
  • 00:17:04.732 --> 00:17:06.668
  • Christ is better than the angels,
  • 00:17:06.668 --> 00:17:08.403
  • "for unto the angels
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  • Has he not put in subjection the world to come,
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  • Where of we speak.
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  • But in one certain place, he testified,"
  • 00:17:13.908 --> 00:17:17.545
  • In verse six, saying, "what is man,"
  • 00:17:17.545 --> 00:17:19.447
  • Psalm 8:5-6 says this,
  • 00:17:19.447 --> 00:17:22.617
  • "that you are so mindful of them?
  • 00:17:22.617 --> 00:17:24.552
  • Why are you always thinking about man,
  • 00:17:24.552 --> 00:17:27.322
  • And the son of man that you visit him?
  • 00:17:27.322 --> 00:17:29.757
  • You made him a little lower than the angels."
  • 00:17:29.757 --> 00:17:33.161
  • Now, in psalm chapter eight where he says,
  • 00:17:33.161 --> 00:17:36.264
  • He made him a little lower than the angels,
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  • The word there is elohim.
  • 00:17:39.234 --> 00:17:41.503
  • When man was made in the original creation,
  • 00:17:41.503 --> 00:17:44.739
  • He was made just a little lower than god himself.
  • 00:17:44.739 --> 00:17:48.176
  • That word for elohim is the same word
  • 00:17:48.176 --> 00:17:50.645
  • That's used in genesis 1:1, when the scripture says,
  • 00:17:50.645 --> 00:17:54.249
  • In the beginning, god, elohim,
  • 00:17:54.249 --> 00:17:56.351
  • Created the heaven and earth.
  • 00:17:56.351 --> 00:17:57.886
  • But here when it says
  • 00:17:57.886 --> 00:17:59.187
  • He was made a little lower than the angels,
  • 00:17:59.187 --> 00:18:01.256
  • The greek word is angelos, and it means angels.
  • 00:18:01.256 --> 00:18:04.225
  • And what it's saying, if you begin to understand this,
  • 00:18:04.225 --> 00:18:07.095
  • Is that when jesus came to the earth,
  • 00:18:07.095 --> 00:18:09.797
  • Jesus came as a man.
  • 00:18:09.797 --> 00:18:12.800
  • And when jesus christ died on the cross,
  • 00:18:12.800 --> 00:18:15.503
  • He was made a little lower than the angels.
  • 00:18:15.503 --> 00:18:19.440
  • You know, in other words,
  • 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.209
  • He identified with mankind in his fallen state,
  • 00:18:21.209 --> 00:18:25.213
  • He became a sin offering for the whole world.
  • 00:18:25.213 --> 00:18:28.316
  • But he says, "you took him
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  • Who was made a little lord than the angels,
  • 00:18:29.651 --> 00:18:31.152
  • Crowned him with glory and honor
  • 00:18:31.152 --> 00:18:33.021
  • Set him over the works of your hands.
  • 00:18:33.021 --> 00:18:36.224
  • Now, you have put all things in subjection under his feet."
  • 00:18:36.224 --> 00:18:40.995
  • He's talking about in the beginning of creation,
  • 00:18:40.995 --> 00:18:43.631
  • Mankind was given authority, given dominion.
  • 00:18:43.631 --> 00:18:47.602
  • But as we look on down through this, he says,
  • 00:18:47.602 --> 00:18:51.005
  • "for he put in subjection all things under him,
  • 00:18:51.005 --> 00:18:54.108
  • He left nothing put under him.
  • 00:18:54.108 --> 00:18:56.110
  • But now we see not yet all things put under him."
  • 00:18:56.110 --> 00:18:58.813
  • In other words, when man fell,
  • 00:18:58.813 --> 00:19:01.282
  • Satan actually usurped that position of authority
  • 00:19:01.282 --> 00:19:04.519
  • And got dominion over mankind.
  • 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.488
  • And so now he begins to talk about jesus.
  • 00:19:07.488 --> 00:19:09.857
  • So he's talking about, in the original creation,
  • 00:19:09.857 --> 00:19:12.927
  • Man was made just a little lower than god himself
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  • And given dominion.
  • 00:19:16.064 --> 00:19:17.298
  • But when he fell, he went lower, right?
  • 00:19:17.298 --> 00:19:20.268
  • - so man lost authority.
  • 00:19:20.268 --> 00:19:21.669
  • So a man had to regain that authority.
  • 00:19:21.669 --> 00:19:23.805
  • - yeah, because god gave authority to a man,
  • 00:19:23.805 --> 00:19:26.207
  • He had to get back authority through a man.
  • 00:19:26.207 --> 00:19:29.143
  • So he says jesus came as the perfect man,
  • 00:19:29.143 --> 00:19:31.379
  • And that's what he's saying in verse nine.
  • 00:19:31.379 --> 00:19:33.314
  • "we see jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels,
  • 00:19:33.314 --> 00:19:37.885
  • For the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor,
  • 00:19:37.885 --> 00:19:40.555
  • That he, by the grace of god,
  • 00:19:40.555 --> 00:19:42.423
  • Should taste death for every man,
  • 00:19:42.423 --> 00:19:44.892
  • For it became of him, for whom are all things,"
  • 00:19:44.892 --> 00:19:48.730
  • All things were created for him and by him,
  • 00:19:48.730 --> 00:19:51.332
  • Who are all things,
  • 00:19:51.332 --> 00:19:52.500
  • "in bringing many sons to glory,
  • 00:19:52.500 --> 00:19:55.303
  • To make the captain of their salvation,
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  • Jesus, perfect, through his suffering."
  • 00:19:57.338 --> 00:19:59.073
  • He is talking about his death on the cross.
  • 00:19:59.073 --> 00:20:01.809
  • "for both he, jesus, who sanctifies
  • 00:20:01.809 --> 00:20:03.845
  • And they who are sanctified are all of one body."
  • 00:20:03.845 --> 00:20:07.882
  • He's saying jesus identified with man,
  • 00:20:07.882 --> 00:20:11.786
  • He didn't become just an angel,
  • 00:20:11.786 --> 00:20:13.788
  • But he took on the seed of abraham.
  • 00:20:13.788 --> 00:20:16.658
  • And he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying,
  • 00:20:16.658 --> 00:20:19.294
  • "i will declare your name to my brethren
  • 00:20:19.294 --> 00:20:22.397
  • In the midst of the church.
  • 00:20:22.397 --> 00:20:23.598
  • I will sing praise to you, to god.
  • 00:20:23.598 --> 00:20:25.667
  • And again, 'i will put my trust in him.'
  • 00:20:25.667 --> 00:20:27.835
  • And again, 'i and the children god has given me.'
  • 00:20:27.835 --> 00:20:31.339
  • Forasmuch then as children are partakers of flesh and blood,
  • 00:20:31.339 --> 00:20:34.676
  • He also likewise took part of the same,
  • 00:20:34.676 --> 00:20:37.545
  • That through death he might destroy him
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  • That had the power of death."
  • 00:20:41.115 --> 00:20:42.116
  • Jesus died, amen,
  • 00:20:42.116 --> 00:20:44.218
  • To destroy him, satan, who had the power of death,
  • 00:20:44.218 --> 00:20:46.954
  • "and deliver them, who through the fear of death
  • 00:20:46.954 --> 00:20:49.957
  • Were all their lifetime subject to bondage."
  • 00:20:49.957 --> 00:20:52.960
  • Jesus came to destroy him, satan, who had the power of death
  • 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:57.298
  • And deliver us who through fear of death
  • 00:20:57.298 --> 00:20:59.567
  • Were all of our lifetime subject to bondage.
  • 00:20:59.567 --> 00:21:01.803
  • We don't have to be afraid of death
  • 00:21:01.803 --> 00:21:03.905
  • Because we've got authority and dominion.
  • 00:21:03.905 --> 00:21:06.574
  • Praise god, and jesus paid the price for our sin.
  • 00:21:06.574 --> 00:21:09.277
  • - i love just going through hebrews
  • 00:21:09.277 --> 00:21:10.745
  • Because in the first chapter,
  • 00:21:10.745 --> 00:21:11.979
  • You see that jesus is the son of god.
  • 00:21:11.979 --> 00:21:14.515
  • - [lawson] right.
  • 00:21:14.515 --> 00:21:15.483
  • - here in the second chapter,
  • 00:21:15.483 --> 00:21:16.584
  • You see that he's the son of man,
  • 00:21:16.584 --> 00:21:17.618
  • You see that he was fully man
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  • Here on this earth, which is really important.
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  • You know, when you read through the various gospels,
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  • Matthew, mark, luke, john.
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  • You know, john, really,
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  • Each one of those gospels really highlight
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  • A different aspect of who jesus was.
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  • Like, john's gospel really shows that jesus was god.
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  • - [lawson] yes.
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  • - you know, other gospels show that he was the son of man,
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  • The son of god,
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  • They make it really apparent and really highlight that.
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  • So yes, he's god,
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  • He's also the only begotten son of god,
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  • And he's the son of man.
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  • And we see that he was the seed of abraham--
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  • - that's what he says right here.
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  • "he did not take the nature of angels,"
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  • In verse 16, hebrews 2:16,
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  • "but he took on him the seed of abraham."
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  • Now, if you understand the gospel
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  • In galatians chapter three,
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  • All those who are of faith
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  • Are the children of abraham by faith of jesus.
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  • So we come into this abrahamic covenant.
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  • Now, he says in verse 17 and 18,
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  • "wherefore in all things that behooved him
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  • To be made like his brethren,
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  • That he might be a merciful high priest
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  • And a faithful high priest in all things pertaining to god."
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  • The reason jesus can be merciful is he was tempted
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  • In all points like we were, yet without sin.
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  • The reason he's faithful is because he never sinned.
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  • "and things pertaining to god
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  • To make reconciliation for the sins of the people
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  • For in that he himself has suffered, being tempted,
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  • He is able to help them that are tempted."
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  • Man, when we're tempted, we're not to run from jesus,
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  • We're to run to jesus.
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  • And he understands
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  • Because he was tempted in all points like we are,
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  • Yet he was faithful, he never sinned, so he can help us.
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  • Now, in hebrews chapter three,
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  • He continues to talk about jesus.
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  • And he says this in verse one,
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  • "holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
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  • Consider the apostle and high priest of our profession."
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  • Consider the high priest
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  • Of our confession of faith, or profession,
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  • "christ jesus, who was faithful to him,
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  • Who appointed him as moses was faithful
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  • In all of his house."
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  • He's telling us here that jesus is better than moses.
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  • - and i love too.
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  • You know, i actually just recently read through exodus.
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  • - [lawson] right.
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  • - and you know, when moses is on the top of mount sinai
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  • And god is actually showing him
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  • What the priesthood is gonna look like,
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  • He's saying they're gonna wear these beautiful garments
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  • Just covered in gemstones
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  • And, you know, gold crowns,
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  • Just how incredibly beautiful the priesthood is gonna be.
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  • And he comes down and right from the bat, aaron, you know,
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  • Who's gonna be the high priest
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  • Is already just set up a false god, this golden calf,
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  • And you know, it drove moses crazy.
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  • Jesus is the greatest high priest.
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  • - amen, because he never sinned.
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  • - he never sinned, he didn't screw up.
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  • And in the old testament,
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  • The priesthood screwed up, day one.
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  • - and he talks about that later in hebrew 7,
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  • But he goes on.
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  • He says this in verse five,
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  • "moses was very faithful in all of his house as a servant,
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  • For a testimony,"
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  • Look at this in verse five, hebrews 3:5,
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  • "to those things spoken after."
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  • What he's talking about is jesus, right?
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  • The new covenant.
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  • "but christ as the son over his own house,
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  • Whose house we are."
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  • We're of the household of god,
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  • We're of the household of christ.
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  • "if we hold fast, our confidence,
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  • Our faith and rejoicing of hope firm to the end.
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  • Wherefore the holy spirit says,"
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  • Again, he's going back to hebrews 1:2
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  • Where he says, "god is speaking to us by his son,"
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  • The holy spirit says, "today if you will hear his voice,
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  • Do not harden your heart,"
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  • Don't harden your heart to jesus.
  • 00:25:00.942 --> 00:25:03.978
  • And he goes on and he says, "take heed," in verse 12,
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  • "brethren, unless there's any of you,
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  • An evil heart of unbelief,
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  • In departing from the living god."
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  • Don't move away from jesus.
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  • He says, "but exhort one another, while it's called today,
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  • If you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin,
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  • For we are made partakers of christ,
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  • If we hold the beginning of our competence,
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  • Steadfast to the end."
  • 00:25:27.668 --> 00:25:29.136
  • Again, he's saying, don't move away from the gospel,
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  • Don't move away from jesus, right?
  • 00:25:31.872 --> 00:25:34.108
  • Don't harden your heart to jesus, right?
  • 00:25:34.108 --> 00:25:36.577
  • And what causes you to harden your heart to jesus?
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  • Sin, unbelief, and legalism.
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  • So don't move away from jesus,
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  • He's still speaking to us from heaven.
  • 00:25:44.652 --> 00:25:47.154
  • And he goes on and says, he says this at the very end,
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  • "to whom he swear that they would not enter,"
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  • He is talking about those old covenant people
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  • Coming out of egypt,
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  • "they would not enter into rest
  • 00:25:57.331 --> 00:25:59.667
  • Because they did not believe.
  • 00:25:59.667 --> 00:26:01.702
  • So we see that they could not enter into rest
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  • Because of unbelief."
  • 00:26:05.473 --> 00:26:07.475
  • So what he's saying is, keep your faith in jesus,
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  • Keep your confidence in jesus, keep your hope in jesus.
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  • Jesus, god has spoken to us by jesus,
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  • Don't move away from jesus.
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  • He's the apostle of this faith,
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  • Keep trusting him.
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