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Lawson Perdue - Hebrews: The Better Covenant (Part 3)

May 14, 2025 | S25:E2004

Lawson Perdue - Hebrews: The Better Covenant (Part 3)
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 3) | May 14, 2025
  • (bright music)
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  • - praise the lord.
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  • Friends, today, we're talking about
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  • Hebrews: the better covenant,
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  • And we're gonna be in hebrews 7, 8
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  • And the beginning of chapter 9, where the writer
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  • Of hebrews says everything in this new covenant is better.
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  • We have a better priest, we have better promises,
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  • And we have a better sanctuary
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  • And a better sacrifice, the blood of jesus.
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  • And it's all better because of what jesus did.
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  • Blessings.
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  • (bright music)
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  • Friends, i'm so glad that you're with us.
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  • We've shared this week on hebrews 1-6,
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  • Talking about we have a better covenant.
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  • What makes it better is jesus.
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  • He's better than angels.
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  • Keep listening to jesus.
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  • He's our great high priest.
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  • Don't harden your heart to jesus.
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  • Rest in the work that he's done.
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  • Again, jesus shows us the grace of god
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  • And what that promotes his faith.
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  • Now we're moving into hebrews 7
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  • Where the author of hebrews talks about
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  • We have a better priest, jesus christ.
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  • So aaron, i've asked you to jump
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  • Into this first part of hebrews 7.
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  • - so it says, "for this melchizedek, king of salem,
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  • Priest of the most high god who met abraham,
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  • Returning from the slaughter of the kings
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  • And blessed him to whom also abraham gave 1/10th part
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  • Of all, first being translated king of righteousness,
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  • And then also king of salem, meaning king of peace
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  • Without father, without mother, without genealogy,
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  • Having neither beginning of days nor end of life,
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  • But made like the son of god remains a priest continually.
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  • Now consider how great this man was
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  • To whom even the patriarch abram gave 1/10th of the spoils.
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  • And indeed, those who are the sons of levi
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  • Who received the priesthood have a commandment
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  • To receive tithes from the people according to the law.
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  • That is from their brethren,
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  • Though they have come from the loins of abraham.
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  • But he whose genealogy is not derived from them,
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  • Received tithes from abraham,
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  • And blessed him who had the promises.
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  • Now, beyond all contradiction,
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  • The lesser is blessed by the better.
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  • Here, mortal men receive ties,
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  • But there, he receives them
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  • Of whom it is witness that he lives.
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  • Even levi who receives tithes, paid tithes through abraham,
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  • So to speak, for he was still in the loins
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  • Of his father when melchizedek met him.'
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  • So here he is saying, you know, abraham gave ties
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  • To melchizedek just like the children of israel
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  • Gave ties to the priesthood of levi.
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  • So there's something about the tithe that i believe in.
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  • The tithe, it's still today.
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  • You know, abraham actually existed before the law,
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  • He tithed.
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  • I know that jacob tithed.
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  • Jacob made a covenant with god and said,
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  • "i'm gonna give you 1/10th of all."
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  • So it's something that abraham taught.
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  • And abraham, when he gave till melchizedek,
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  • Is saying that really all of abraham's descendants
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  • Were also giving to melchizedek
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  • - right?
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  • What he's saying there, is that abraham's,
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  • If you look at this gift, right?
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  • Satisfied the debt of many generations.
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  • Because he said when abraham paid tithes,
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  • Levi was in his loins.
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  • So this is many generations after abraham.
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  • Now if you begin to understand the gospel, you realize
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  • That jesus' gift paid the debt for every generation.
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  • But he's saying here, you know,
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  • We had this levitical priesthood who received tithes.
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  • But since we got a new covenant, we need a new priest.
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  • And in the old testament,
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  • These levitical priests, they tithed.
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  • They gave tithes, but they tithed,
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  • But now when we give tithes,
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  • Jesus receives our tithe and he lives forever.
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  • So the number one reason that i'm still a tither.
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  • If you don't like tithing, that's okay.
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  • I love you, god loves you.
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  • But i'm gonna tell you, i'm still a tither
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  • And i give far beyond a tithe.
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  • Mom and i about triple tithe.
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  • Okay?
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  • So we give about 30% of our income,
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  • But at the same point in time, when you realize this,
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  • If abraham's gift,
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  • Because he gave it as a gift, not as a debt,
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  • Settled the debt of many generations,
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  • Then jesus' gift when he died, settled the debt
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  • Of every generation.
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  • So when i tithe, i don't tithe as a debt that i owe.
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  • You know, i believe in tithes offerings, alms, seed sow,
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  • And i believe in those four kinds of giving.
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  • There's probably more, okay?
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  • But tithe means give 1/10th, offerings above 1/10th.
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  • Alms is given to the poor and seed sowing, right?
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  • That's since genesis 8.
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  • That's really since genesis 1.
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  • As long as the earth remained seed,
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  • Time and harvest are gonna remain.
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  • That's what genesis 8 says.
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  • So i believe in that,
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  • But i like to give all my giving, do it all as seed.
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  • Even when i tithe, i like to do it as seed
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  • With the mentality of a seed.
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  • Because the only time that you can see in scripture
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  • That somebody paid tithe is right here when it says levi
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  • In verse nine, hebrews 7:9, "paid tithe in abraham."
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  • It's not talking about what levi did, it's talking about
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  • What abraham did.
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  • And so, and when abraham did it, he didn't pay tithe.
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  • Abraham gave attempt 1/10 to melchizedek.
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  • - and then genesis 14, it's really interesting
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  • When abraham at the time met melchizedek,
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  • Melchizedek actually blessed him first.
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  • Melchizedek, the priest, king of salem,
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  • Came out with bread and wine,
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  • You know, pictures of jesus, of communion.
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  • And he blessed abram first.
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  • - amen. - he said,
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  • "blessed be abram of god most high,
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  • The possessor of heaven and earth."
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  • - [lawson] amen, and marvel.
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  • - and then says, then abram gave him a tithe of all.
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  • So he gave a tithe because he believed in that blessing.
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  • He believed in that promise that melchizedek spoke over him.
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  • And right after that, another king came out,
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  • The king of sodom came out
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  • And tried to cut a deal with abraham
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  • And said, "well, you can keep some of the spoils,
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  • You can keep some of this and that."
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  • But abram said, "no, i don't wanna receive a blessing
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  • From you because people attribute
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  • The blessing of my life to you."
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  • When people see me, when they see the blessing of my life,
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  • I want it to point to god most high.
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  • - that's awesome. - not to the king of sodom.
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  • So i want my life to point to the blessing
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  • Of jesus on my life.
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  • You know?
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  • All the good things
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  • That are happening in my life, they can only be explained
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  • Because of what jesus has done.
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  • Not because of who my boss is
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  • Or where i went to school, what city i live in.
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  • Ultimately, when people look at my life,
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  • I want them to see jesus.
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  • Not to see other people's influence,
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  • Not to see my own talent, my own ability,
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  • But i want them to see jesus.
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  • That's what abraham was saying.
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  • He's saying, i want people to recognize
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  • This blessing comes from god.
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  • - amen.
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  • So he jumps into verse 11 and says,
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  • "if therefore perfection
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  • Or maturity whereby the levitical priesthood for under it,
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  • The people received the law, what further need was there
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  • For another priest that was after the order of melchizedek
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  • And not be after the order of aaron?"
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  • So what he's saying is it didn't come by him.
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  • So since we've got a new covenant,
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  • We also need a new priest.
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  • And he says in verse 12, "for the priesthood being changed,
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  • There's a necessity also to change the law.
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  • We've gotta move into the new covenant.
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  • For he of whom these things were spoken pertains
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  • To another tribe which had no attendance at the altar."
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  • So you know, there was the tribe of levi, right?
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  • Who attended the altar,
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  • But jesus came out of the tribe of judah.
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  • He says, "it's evident that our lord came out of judah,
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  • Of which the tribe moses spoke nothing
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  • Concerning the priesthood.
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  • And it's far more evident
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  • That after the solitude of melchizedek,
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  • There arises another priest who is this priest."
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  • This priest is jesus, he says, "who is not made
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  • After the law of a carnal or a fleshly commandment,
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  • But after the power of an endless life.
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  • You are priest there if he says forever
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  • After the order of melchizedek."
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  • And so he says in verse 18, "there's a disknowing
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  • Of the commandment of the law, of the mosaic law
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  • Going before because of the weakness and unprofitable."
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  • Why was the law weak and unprofitable?
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  • It was weak and unprofitable because of our flesh.
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  • But he says, "for the law made nothing perfect,
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  • But the bringing in of a better hope did the new covenant.
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  • This covenant of grace brought in a better hope
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  • By the which we draw near to god."
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  • Again, if you focus on the old testament,
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  • The old testament focuses on sin.
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  • Romans 3, i think it's verse 20, says,
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  • "by the law is the knowledge of sin."
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  • If you focus on sin, it'll drive you from god.
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  • But if you focus on jesus, it'll bring you to god.
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  • Amen.
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  • So he says, "in as much, not without an oath,
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  • Jesus was made priest.
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  • For those priests were made without an oath,
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  • But with this oath by him that said to the lord,
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  • Swear forever, you are a priest forever."
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  • We have an eternal priest.
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  • That eternal priest is jesus.
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  • After the order of melchizedek,
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  • By so much more was jesus made the surety.
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  • Jesus is the guarantee of a better covenant.
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  • Thank god.
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  • The promises of the new covenant,
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  • Whether they be forgiveness or healing or peace or physical
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  • And financial provision, those are guaranteed to us
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  • By christ's work.
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  • Amen.
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  • - i love that.
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  • It says in verse 19 that the law made nothing perfect.
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  • It didn't make a single thing perfect.
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  • Only jesus can perfect you.
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  • Only jesus can change.
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  • - so what he's saying is don't go back to the law.
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  • Kind of the same thing that paul says when he writes
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  • The book of galatians, don't go back to the law.
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  • The law couldn't fix you.
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  • The law couldn't.
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  • - this is actually something that jesus
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  • Taught about too on the sermon on the mount.
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  • In matthew 5, jesus gave six examples from the law
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  • That showed like even if you keep the law,
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  • It's not gonna perfect you.
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  • And a lot of people kind of misinterpret that chapter
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  • And they think that jesus is adding to the law.
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  • - no. - he's not adding to the law.
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  • He's just showing that even if you keep the law,
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  • It doesn't perfect you.
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  • Even if you don't commit adultery,
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  • That doesn't change your heart.
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  • - [lawson] your heart condition.
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  • - and at the end of that chapter, he says, "be perfect
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  • As your father in heaven is perfect."
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  • That's a huge command.
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  • And it's impossible to do on your own.
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  • It's impossible to do through your own works.
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  • It's impossible to do through the law.
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  • The only way you can be perfected to be made righteous
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  • Is by believing on jesus.
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  • He is.
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  • - amen. - a better hope.
  • 00:11:01.002 --> 00:11:02.304
  • - you know when you get a revelation of grace,
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  • This is how i got a revelation of grace.
  • 00:11:04.439 --> 00:11:06.274
  • When i was 30 years old,
  • 00:11:06.274 --> 00:11:07.809
  • Andrew wommack was teaching in our church in kit carson.
  • 00:11:07.809 --> 00:11:10.412
  • He was teaching from the book of romans,
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  • But he said, "it doesn't matter how much you break the law,"
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  • He's like, "it's like a plate glass window."
  • 00:11:16.084 --> 00:11:18.520
  • And he said, "if you got a plate glass window,
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  • It doesn't matter whether you shoot a bb through it
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  • Or whether you drive a mack truck through it.
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  • The only way that you can make it perfect is replace it."
  • 00:11:28.730 --> 00:11:33.535
  • And you know that's what james 2:10 is.
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  • If you fall short of the law in one point,
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  • You're guilty of it all.
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  • So we're all guilty.
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  • It doesn't matter whether we're guilty, a little bit
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  • Or guilty a lot, we're all guilty.
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  • And the only way that we can be saved, the only way
  • 00:11:44.946 --> 00:11:48.416
  • That we can really be right with god is totally trust jesus.
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  • And we gotta trusting jesus.
  • 00:11:52.554 --> 00:11:54.322
  • And that's what he's saying here.
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  • So he talks about how there were many priests
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  • In the old covenant and they didn't continue
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  • Because they died.
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  • But jesus is an unchangeable priest
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  • Because he lives forever.
  • 00:12:04.966 --> 00:12:06.268
  • And it says in verse 25, "he's able to save us
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  • To the uttermost spirit, soul, and body,
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  • And he ever lifts to make intercession.
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  • Jesus makes intercession for those of us
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  • Who come to god by him.
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  • And this is the high priest we have, speaking of jesus,
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  • Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners,
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  • Made higher than the heavens."
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  • He doesn't have to keep offering sacrifices for his own sins
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  • And then for the people, because you know what?
  • 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:34.963
  • That's what they did in the old covenant
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  • Because they had weakness.
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  • But now this new covenant makes jesus the son,
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  • The great high priest, and he is consecrated forever.
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  • He will never sin.
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  • Jesus is our eternal high priest.
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  • So we have hope.
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  • So thank god for what jesus has done.
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  • We're gonna be back and sharing more about jesus blessing.
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  • (bright music)
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  • Friend, 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 established
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  • 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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  • - before we came here, there was a disconnect between
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  • What god offers us and what we feel like we have to earn.
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  • This is a place that really teaches god's grace.
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  • And i've seen my dad, he transformed
  • 00:13:41.496 --> 00:13:44.833
  • - every morning,
  • 00:13:44.833 --> 00:13:46.468
  • I say, "jesus, thank you because of your word
  • 00:13:46.468 --> 00:13:50.305
  • And because of your blood.
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  • I'm more a man of faith today than i was yesterday."
  • 00:13:52.641 --> 00:13:56.544
  • (bright music)
  • 00:13:56.544 --> 00:13:59.447
  • - friends, we were just sharing from hebrews 7
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  • About how in this new covenant, we have a better priest.
  • 00:14:02.784 --> 00:14:08.056
  • And you know what?
  • 00:14:08.490 --> 00:14:09.991
  • Jesus is better because it says right here that he's holy,
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  • That he's harmless, that he's undefiled,
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  • That he's separate from sinners.
  • 00:14:14.963 --> 00:14:16.298
  • He's made higher than heavens
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  • And he's never gonna die.
  • 00:14:18.333 --> 00:14:20.769
  • Thank god.
  • 00:14:20.769 --> 00:14:22.304
  • So jesus ever lives to make intercession for those of us
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  • Who come to god by him.
  • 00:14:24.673 --> 00:14:26.374
  • But he not only says we have a better priest,
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  • He says in chapter eight, we have a better covenant
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  • Established on better promises.
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  • And what made it better is jesus, amen.
  • 00:14:34.182 --> 00:14:36.484
  • So we're not getting the promises because of what we do.
  • 00:14:36.484 --> 00:14:39.287
  • We get the promises because of what jesus has already done.
  • 00:14:39.287 --> 00:14:42.824
  • Go ahead, aaron.
  • 00:14:43.191 --> 00:14:44.259
  • - so here in hebrews 8 it says,
  • 00:14:44.259 --> 00:14:46.094
  • "now this is the main point of the things we are saying.
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  • We have such a high priest who is seated at the right hand
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  • Of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, a minister
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  • Of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle,
  • 00:14:54.869 --> 00:14:58.006
  • Which the lord erected and not man.
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  • For every high priest is appointed
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  • To offer both gifts and sacrifices.
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  • Therefore, it is necessary
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  • That this one also has something to offer."
  • 00:15:06.247 --> 00:15:10.318
  • - yeah.
  • 00:15:10.318 --> 00:15:11.319
  • - and he goes on and says,
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  • "for if he were on earth, he would not be a priest.
  • 00:15:12.787 --> 00:15:15.023
  • Since there are priests who offer the gifts
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  • According to the law, who served the copy
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  • And shadow of the heavenly things,
  • 00:15:19.260 --> 00:15:21.096
  • As moses was divinely instructed where he was about
  • 00:15:21.096 --> 00:15:24.699
  • To make the tabernacle for, he said,
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  • 'see that you make all things according
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  • To the pattern shown you on the mountain.'
  • 00:15:28.703 --> 00:15:32.707
  • But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry in as much
  • 00:15:32.707 --> 00:15:36.644
  • As he is also mediator of a better covenant,
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  • Which was established on better promises.
  • 00:15:39.881 --> 00:15:43.151
  • If that first covenant had been faultless,
  • 00:15:43.151 --> 00:15:45.987
  • Then no place would've been sought for a second
  • 00:15:45.987 --> 00:15:49.024
  • Because finding fault with them.
  • 00:15:49.024 --> 00:15:50.592
  • He says, 'behold the days are coming, says the lord,
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  • When i will make a new covenant with the house of israel
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  • And with the house of judah.'"
  • 00:15:55.964 --> 00:15:57.732
  • So, you know this even in the old testament,
  • 00:15:57.732 --> 00:15:59.801
  • Talks about a new covenant coming,
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  • - right.
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  • Jeremiah prophesied of this jeremiah 31.
  • 00:16:02.971 --> 00:16:05.273
  • I mean, all over this scripture talks about this.
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  • You know one thing, it talks about the law served
  • 00:16:07.842 --> 00:16:11.479
  • As an example and a shadow of heavenly things in verse five.
  • 00:16:11.479 --> 00:16:16.818
  • Well, when you're talking about an example,
  • 00:16:17.752 --> 00:16:19.487
  • If i'm, you know, gonna meet you, aaron,
  • 00:16:19.487 --> 00:16:22.123
  • I would lot rather meet you face-to-face
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  • Than just see your shadow.
  • 00:16:24.325 --> 00:16:25.960
  • So he said, "jesus came to show us god face-to-face."
  • 00:16:27.028 --> 00:16:30.165
  • And really when we read in the end of this,
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  • We'll find in this better covenant, in this new covenant,
  • 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.004
  • You know, we get to know god.
  • 00:16:36.638 --> 00:16:38.673
  • And what he talks about here
  • 00:16:38.673 --> 00:16:41.276
  • He says this old covenant in verse nine,
  • 00:16:41.276 --> 00:16:44.412
  • Where you left off in verse eight.
  • 00:16:44.412 --> 00:16:46.247
  • He says, "'not according in making this new covenant
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  • With israel and judah, not according to the covenant
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  • That i made with their fathers in the day when i took them
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  • By the hand to lead them out of egypt
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  • Because they did not continue in my covenant.
  • 00:16:56.724 --> 00:17:00.562
  • I regarded them not,' sayeth the lord."
  • 00:17:00.562 --> 00:17:04.432
  • So nobody ever kept the law.
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  • The only person that's ever fulfilled the law is jesus.
  • 00:17:07.502 --> 00:17:11.339
  • Nobody from you know adam in the beginning clear
  • 00:17:11.339 --> 00:17:15.243
  • Through armageddon in the end,
  • 00:17:15.243 --> 00:17:16.611
  • Has ever kept god's law perfectly,
  • 00:17:16.611 --> 00:17:19.080
  • Except jesus is the fulfillment of the law.
  • 00:17:19.080 --> 00:17:22.250
  • So god came and did it in the person of jesus.
  • 00:17:22.250 --> 00:17:24.819
  • But he said, "because they didn't keep my covenant,
  • 00:17:24.819 --> 00:17:27.255
  • I didn't regard them not."
  • 00:17:27.255 --> 00:17:29.257
  • You know, i blew them off.
  • 00:17:29.257 --> 00:17:31.526
  • In other words, they couldn't do it.
  • 00:17:31.526 --> 00:17:33.328
  • "'for this is the covenant that i will make with the house
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  • Of israel after those days,' said the lord."
  • 00:17:36.664 --> 00:17:38.299
  • In verse 10, "i will put my laws in their mind
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  • And write them in their hearts.
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  • I will be to them a god and they will be to me a people."
  • 00:17:44.038 --> 00:17:47.509
  • This is the heart of the gospel right here
  • 00:17:47.509 --> 00:17:50.512
  • In hebrews 8-10-11.
  • 00:17:50.512 --> 00:17:53.047
  • In verse 11, it says,
  • 00:17:53.047 --> 00:17:54.349
  • "they will not teach every man his neighbor
  • 00:17:54.349 --> 00:17:57.152
  • And every man his brothers saying, 'know the lord,
  • 00:17:57.152 --> 00:18:00.989
  • For they will all know me from the least to the greatest.'"
  • 00:18:00.989 --> 00:18:06.327
  • You know, this is the goal of the gospel
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  • That people would know god.
  • 00:18:08.229 --> 00:18:10.231
  • Paul said this in philippians 3
  • 00:18:10.231 --> 00:18:12.934
  • Where he is saying, man, earlier in philippians 3,
  • 00:18:12.934 --> 00:18:15.036
  • He said, "i was a pharisee of pharisees concerning the law.
  • 00:18:15.036 --> 00:18:19.240
  • I was blameless."
  • 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:20.975
  • He said, "i was of the tribe of benjamin,
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  • I was circumcised the eighth day,
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  • But all those things mean nothing to me.
  • 00:18:26.080 --> 00:18:29.150
  • I count them as dung, as rubbish, as trash."
  • 00:18:29.150 --> 00:18:32.954
  • He said, "because i want to know him
  • 00:18:32.954 --> 00:18:36.224
  • And the power of his resurrection, i wanna know him."
  • 00:18:36.224 --> 00:18:39.360
  • That's the goal of the gospel.
  • 00:18:39.360 --> 00:18:40.628
  • He said, "they're gonna all know me
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  • From the least to the greatest."
  • 00:18:42.363 --> 00:18:44.098
  • You know why people sin is they don't know god.
  • 00:18:44.098 --> 00:18:46.734
  • You know, they don't have a relationship with god.
  • 00:18:47.769 --> 00:18:50.038
  • The more you get to know god, the more you get to understand
  • 00:18:50.038 --> 00:18:52.740
  • Who he is, the more you walk outta sin.
  • 00:18:52.740 --> 00:18:55.243
  • I've got a scripture written here
  • 00:18:55.243 --> 00:18:56.444
  • And i wanna read it 1 john 3:6.
  • 00:18:56.444 --> 00:18:59.547
  • But in 1 john 3:6,
  • 00:18:59.547 --> 00:19:01.716
  • The scripture says right here, it says,
  • 00:19:01.716 --> 00:19:04.185
  • "whoever does abides in him does not sin."
  • 00:19:04.185 --> 00:19:08.089
  • You get to know god and abide in jesus.
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  • You walk outta sin, you walk into the light,
  • 00:19:09.991 --> 00:19:12.026
  • You walk out of the darkness.
  • 00:19:12.026 --> 00:19:13.728
  • "whoever sins has not seen him neither know him
  • 00:19:13.728 --> 00:19:17.632
  • If you're in a practice of sinning."
  • 00:19:17.632 --> 00:19:20.468
  • You know habitually, you're just struggling.
  • 00:19:20.468 --> 00:19:23.605
  • It's because you don't know god.
  • 00:19:23.605 --> 00:19:25.306
  • He says, "this is the goal.
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  • This is what i want.
  • 00:19:26.908 --> 00:19:27.809
  • I want people to know me.
  • 00:19:27.809 --> 00:19:29.377
  • They're all gonna know me from the least to the greatest."
  • 00:19:29.377 --> 00:19:32.180
  • And they're not gonna teach every, he says,
  • 00:19:32.180 --> 00:19:34.249
  • Look at verse 12, "i will be merciful
  • 00:19:34.249 --> 00:19:37.852
  • To their unrighteousness and their sin and their iniquity."
  • 00:19:37.852 --> 00:19:41.990
  • Well, i remember, no, i'm thanking god.
  • 00:19:41.990 --> 00:19:43.925
  • He's merciful to our unrighteousness.
  • 00:19:43.925 --> 00:19:46.227
  • He's not focusing on our sin.
  • 00:19:46.227 --> 00:19:48.096
  • He's not focusing on our unrighteousness, our rebellion.
  • 00:19:48.096 --> 00:19:53.334
  • Isn't that good?
  • 00:19:53.701 --> 00:19:54.669
  • Isn't that good?
  • 00:19:54.669 --> 00:19:55.937
  • He says in that he says, "a new covenant he made
  • 00:19:55.937 --> 00:19:59.841
  • And made the first old.
  • 00:19:59.841 --> 00:20:01.409
  • Now that which decays and waxes old
  • 00:20:01.409 --> 00:20:04.212
  • Is ready to vanish away."
  • 00:20:04.212 --> 00:20:06.214
  • Well, he said, don't go back to the old covenant.
  • 00:20:06.214 --> 00:20:08.583
  • That's not the goal.
  • 00:20:08.583 --> 00:20:10.151
  • It's not all these, you know, laws
  • 00:20:10.151 --> 00:20:13.888
  • About all these different things.
  • 00:20:13.888 --> 00:20:15.390
  • Not only the big 10 guys, it's 620 to go with them.
  • 00:20:15.390 --> 00:20:19.627
  • Nobody's ever kept them all.
  • 00:20:19.627 --> 00:20:21.529
  • What pleases god is your heart.
  • 00:20:21.529 --> 00:20:23.665
  • You gotta get your believe on jesus.
  • 00:20:23.665 --> 00:20:25.600
  • Faith pleases god.
  • 00:20:25.600 --> 00:20:26.701
  • He tells us that in hebrews 11:6,
  • 00:20:26.701 --> 00:20:29.637
  • "without faith, it's impossible to please him."
  • 00:20:29.637 --> 00:20:32.307
  • How did abraham please god?
  • 00:20:32.307 --> 00:20:33.808
  • By faith.
  • 00:20:33.808 --> 00:20:34.809
  • How did david please god?
  • 00:20:34.809 --> 00:20:36.210
  • By faith.
  • 00:20:36.210 --> 00:20:37.145
  • How did moses please god?
  • 00:20:37.145 --> 00:20:38.513
  • By faith.
  • 00:20:38.513 --> 00:20:39.747
  • How did, you know, joshua please god?
  • 00:20:39.747 --> 00:20:42.150
  • By faith.
  • 00:20:42.150 --> 00:20:43.451
  • All these old testament saints that please god,
  • 00:20:43.451 --> 00:20:45.019
  • It wasn't because they did everything right,
  • 00:20:45.019 --> 00:20:47.388
  • It's because they believed.
  • 00:20:47.388 --> 00:20:50.958
  • - i just love, in verse 10 it says,
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  • "i will be their god and they shall be my people."
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  • - [lawson] amen.
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  • - that's really god's heart.
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  • His goal is to have relationship with us
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  • And that we can have relationship with him through jesus.
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  • - amen.
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  • And that's what 1 john 3:6
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  • Was talking about that i just read.
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  • Now he says in hebrews 7,
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  • "we've got a new covenant, so we need a new priest.
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  • Jesus is the new priest.
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  • He's the great high priest, the new covenant."
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  • He says in hebrews 8,
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  • We have a better covenant on better promises.
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  • What makes it better is jesus.
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  • Right?
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  • Our performance didn't cut it, amen.
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  • So jesus came and performed for us.
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  • Now we can know god through jesus.
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  • Then he says in hebrews 9,
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  • 'we have a better sanctuary, the body of christ,
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  • And we have a better sacrifice, the blood of christ."
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  • Amen.
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  • So he says this,
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  • Aaron just jumped in hebrews 9, start reading.
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  • - it says, "then indeed,
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  • Even the first covenant had ordinances
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  • Of divine service in the earthly sanctuary
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  • For a tabernacle was prepared.
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  • The first part in which was the lampstand, the table
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  • And the show bread, which is called the sanctuary.
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  • And behind the second veil of the part of the tabernacle,
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  • Which is called the holiest of all,
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  • Which had the gold sensor
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  • And the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides
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  • With gold in which were the golden pot that had the manna,
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  • Aaron's rod that butted and the tablets of the covenant.
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  • And above it were the cherubim
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  • Of glory overshadowing the mercy seat.
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  • Of these things, we cannot now speak in detail.
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  • Now, when these things had been thus prepared,
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  • The priest always went into the first part
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  • Of the tabernacle performing the services.
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  • But into the second part,
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  • The high priest went alone once a year, not without blood,
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  • Which he offered for himself
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  • And for the people sins committed in ignorance.
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  • The holy spirit indicating this,
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  • That the way into the holiest of all
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  • Was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle
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  • Was still standing.
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  • It was symbolic for the present time in which in both gifts
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  • And sacrifices are offered, which cannot make him
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  • Who performed this service perfect
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  • In regard to the conscience.
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  • - so those old testament sacrifices
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  • Could never cure your conscience.
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  • And when people really struggle with sin, did you know what?
  • 00:23:08.362 --> 00:23:11.299
  • It's because they're so focused on sin.
  • 00:23:11.299 --> 00:23:14.101
  • You know, the challenge of like condemnation,
  • 00:23:14.101 --> 00:23:16.571
  • If you're being condemned, is it leads you back into sin.
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  • This is why we all need grace.
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  • The bible says in romans 8:1,
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  • "there's now no condemnation.
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  • There's no judgment against those who are in christ jesus
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  • For what the law could not do."
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  • He goes on in verse two,
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  • "in that it was weak through the flesh,
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  • God sending his son own son in a likeness of sinful flesh
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  • And for sin, condemn sin in the flesh.
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  • That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us
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  • Who walk not after the flesh."
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  • We're not trying to get it by our own own performance,
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  • But after the spirit for the law of the spirit
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  • Of life in christ, jesus has made me free
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  • From the law of sin and death.
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  • Thank god i've set free.
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  • I'm set free to serve jesus, amen.
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  • And i now have the spirit of christ in me,
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  • That leads me into the things of god.
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  • Leads me into freedom,
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  • Leads me into my divine authority in christ,
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  • Leads me into the finished work, into identifying with jesus
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  • And what he did and his death, bear and resurrection.
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  • That's in romans 8:14-17.
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • - you know, and i love that in chapter nine,
  • 00:24:20.134 --> 00:24:22.103
  • He's mentioning all these items that are in the tabernacle
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  • Because actually, they're patterns that,
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  • That relate to what we have in christ jesus right now.
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  • - [lawson] amen.
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  • - you know, we have a mercy seat
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  • And it's the blood of jesus.
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  • - [lawson] amen.
  • 00:24:36.217 --> 00:24:37.451
  • - and i love how he brings about that.
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  • The only once
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  • Or the high priest could go into the holy of holies
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  • Where the ark of the covenant was where,
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  • And he can only do it one time a year
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  • On the day of atonement.
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  • But jesus has entered the holy of holies.
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  • And now we can come boldly.
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  • You know, whenever you have need, you don't have
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  • To wait once a year to come to god for help.
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  • You can go whenever you want.
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  • You can go boldly.
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  • - run to jesus.
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  • Man, if you're sinning, if you're having a hard time,
  • 00:25:02.843 --> 00:25:05.146
  • Run to jesus, call on jesus.
  • 00:25:05.146 --> 00:25:08.416
  • Trust in jesus.
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  • Keep your hope in jesus.
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  • That's what the writer of hebrews is saying.
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  • Jesus is the answer period. amen.
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  • Jesus changes everything.
  • 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:20.061
  • So quit struggling.
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  • Let go of your sin.
  • 00:25:21.862 --> 00:25:23.030
  • Let go of your fault.
  • 00:25:23.030 --> 00:25:24.298
  • Let go of your failure and follow jesus.
  • 00:25:24.298 --> 00:25:27.468
  • - i notice also too that it said the high priest,
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  • He couldn't go without blood the same way
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  • You can't really approach god without the blood of jesus.
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  • - amen.
  • 00:25:36.077 --> 00:25:37.378
  • Yeah, hebrews 10 talks about now by his blood,
  • 00:25:37.378 --> 00:25:39.614
  • We enter the holy is we go into god's presence today,
  • 00:25:39.614 --> 00:25:43.050
  • 365, 24/7, we can run to jesus
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  • Because he finished the work on the cross.
  • 00:25:47.421 --> 00:25:50.625
  • So god got over your sin on the cross.
  • 00:25:50.625 --> 00:25:53.694
  • You need to get over it.
  • 00:25:53.694 --> 00:25:54.729
  • Some of you that are watching,
  • 00:25:54.729 --> 00:25:56.397
  • I sense that you've been struggling
  • 00:25:56.397 --> 00:25:57.932
  • And you've got these issues, well let them go
  • 00:25:57.932 --> 00:26:01.135
  • And focus on jesus.
  • 00:26:01.135 --> 00:26:03.270
  • Focus on the finished work.
  • 00:26:03.270 --> 00:26:05.106
  • Focus on who god is and what god's done
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  • And what god says about you.
  • 00:26:07.842 --> 00:26:09.310
  • And you know what?
  • 00:26:09.310 --> 00:26:10.745
  • When you do that, you're gonna walk out of the darkness
  • 00:26:10.745 --> 00:26:12.313
  • And walk into the light.
  • 00:26:12.313 --> 00:26:13.848
  • If you need prayer today to receive forgiveness of sin,
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  • Healing of your body, the baptism of the holy spirit,
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