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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Hebrews: The Better Covenant (Part 4)

May 15, 2025 | S25:E2005

Lawson Perdue - Hebrews: The Better Covenant (Part 4)
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 4) | May 15, 2025
  • (uplifting music)
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  • - praise the lord, friends,
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  • I'm so glad that you're connected with us today.
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  • We're gonna be sharing today
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  • From hebrews 9 and hebrews 10,
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  • Where we're talking about everything is better.
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  • You see, we're sharing from hebrews.
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  • We got a better covenant, established on better promises,
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  • We got a better priest,
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  • We got a better sacrifice, the blood of jesus,
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  • And we got a better life
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  • Because faith in jesus will change your life.
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  • Stay tuned and be blessed.
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  • Friends, i'm so glad that you're with us.
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  • We've been sharing on "hebrews: the better covenant."
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  • And you know, in this better covenant,
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  • Jesus makes everything better.
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  • In hebrews 7, we have a better priest.
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  • In hebrews 8, we have a better covenant
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  • Established on better promises.
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  • Hebrews 9, we have a better sanctuary
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  • And now a better sacrifice.
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  • The blood of jesus makes everything better.
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  • In hebrews 10, we have a better life.
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  • We got a brand new life in christ.
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  • - amen. - so we're gonna jump in here
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  • Right where we left off yesterday in hebrews 9:11-14.
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  • - so it says, "but christ came as high priest
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  • Of the good things to come,
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  • With a greater and more perfect tabernacle
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  • Not made with hands, that is not of this creation.
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  • Not with the blood of goats and calves,
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  • But with his own blood he entered the most holy place
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  • Once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
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  • For the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer,
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  • Sprinkling the unclean
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  • Sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh.
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  • How much more shall the blood of christ,
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  • Who through the eternal spirit offered himself
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  • Without spot to god, cleanse your conscience from dead works
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  • To serve the living god."
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  • - amen, so we have a better sacrifice
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  • And that is the blood of christ.
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  • And he says in verse 12, you know,
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  • Jesus didn't go into the holy place,
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  • You know, with the blood of bulls and cows and goats
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  • Like the old testament priests,
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  • But he went into the holy place in heaven,
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  • The tabernacle in heaven one time.
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  • There's one time.
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  • There's one sacrifice for all sin at all times.
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  • Everything in the old testament looks forward to it.
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  • Everything in the new testament looks back on it.
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  • It's when jesus shed his blood, died on the cross.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • And so it talks about that and it says,
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  • "for if," look at this in verse 13 really closely,
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  • "if the blood of bulls and goats,"
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  • These old testament sacrifices,
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  • "the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean,
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  • Sanctifies the purifying of the flesh."
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  • The old testament sacrifices dealt with the flesh.
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  • They dealt with the outer man.
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  • But he says, "how much more," in verse 14,
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  • "shall the blood of christ who through the eternal spirit."
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  • Jesus is an eternal spirit.
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  • "offered himself without spot to god.
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  • Purge your conscience from dead works."
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  • Purge your conscience from the dead works of religion,
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  • From the dead works of performance.
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  • He says, "to make you servants of the living god."
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  • You see, if you're gonna get a revelation of the gospel,
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  • You gotta move outta your own performance.
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  • You gotta move out of focusing on what you do,
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  • How much you pray, how much you go to church,
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  • How much you read your bible, how much you give,
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  • And get over into what jesus has done.
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  • And when you do it, man, it's liberating.
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  • And listen, i'm not against praying.
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  • I'm, listen, i'm not against going to church.
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  • I'm not against reading your bible.
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  • I read mine more than most.
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  • Praise god.
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  • I'm not against giving. i give more than most folks.
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  • You know, i give a higher percentage than most folks.
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  • But i'm not against any of those things.
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  • But it's not my performance that brings the blessing.
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  • What brings the blessing is the blood of jesus.
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  • I love something mark hankins preaches, "blood blessed."
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  • Glory to god, we're blessed because of the blood.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • We're forgiven because of the blood.
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  • We're sanctified because of the blood.
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  • We're healed because of the blood.
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  • Thank god for the blood!
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  • Changed everything. amen?
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  • - and it's such a better sacrifice.
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  • I remember in the news a couple years ago,
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  • A lot of people, prophetic people,
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  • Were really enthralled by something
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  • That was happening in the news.
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  • And there were like five pure red heifers
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  • That got shipped from texas to israel.
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  • And people were kind of talking about what that meant.
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  • And really it doesn't mean anything.
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  • - well, it might in the future.
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  • I don't know about all those prophetic things,
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  • But i'll tell you this, right now, what means everything.
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  • And what's gonna mean everything in eternity
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  • Is the blood of jesus.
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  • Amen. - [aaron] awesome.
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  • Right here in- - [lawson] see verse 15 to 18.
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  • - yeah, it says, "and for this reason he is the mediator
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  • Of the new covenant by means of death
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  • For the redemption of the transgressions
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  • Under the first covenant
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  • That those who are called may receive the promise
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  • Of the eternal inheritance.
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  • For where there is a testament,
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  • There must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
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  • For a testament is enforced after men are dead,
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  • Since it has no power at all while the testator lives.
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  • Therefore not even the first covenant
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  • Was dedicated without blood."
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  • - so, if you're gonna have a last will,
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  • Right, and testament enforced,
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  • The one who wrote it has to die.
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  • So for my will to come into effect, i have to die, right?
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  • So he says, "it's a force after men are dead."
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  • As long as they're alive, they can change it.
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  • I've had people take me out of their will.
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  • And as long as they're alive, they can change it, okay?
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  • But once they die, it's done. it's finished.
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  • However that will is when they die,
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  • That's how it's supposed to be, right?
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  • So jesus died to enforce, right, to enact
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  • This last will and testament, this new testament.
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  • But he also rose again so that he could carry it out.
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  • Amen. - yeah, so this is the only
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  • Instance in history where the testator,
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  • The person who made the will,
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  • Was also the executor of that will.
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  • You have to appoint someone to be the executor of the will.
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  • So the job of the executor
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  • Is to make sure that will is carried out.
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  • - carried out the right way,
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  • - that the people who are mentioned in it
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  • Get what, you know,
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  • Is rightfully theirs. - [lawson] rightfully theirs.
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  • - so jesus is both the author of that testament,
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  • Of that will, but he's also the executor of that.
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  • He rose again so he can make sure
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  • We receive our inheritance.
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  • And the bible actually says we're co-heirs with jesus.
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  • - amen.
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  • And it says right here,
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  • "we are redeemed from the transgressions,
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  • From overstepping the law
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  • That were under the first covenant
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  • That we might receive the promise
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  • Of an eternal inheritance."
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  • God is, again, not focused on our sin,
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  • Our fault, and our failure.
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  • He's focused on the blood.
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  • He's focused on what jesus did for us.
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  • So if god's focused on that,
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  • That's what we need to focus on.
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  • Now, it says in verse 19,
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  • "when moses had spoken every precept
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  • To all the people according to the law,
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  • He took the blood of calves and goats
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  • With water and scarlet wool, and hyssop,
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  • He sprinkled the book."
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  • So he took this blood, he sprinkled the book,
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  • Then he sprinkled the people.
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  • Now listen to what he said.
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  • He said, "this blood of the new testament,
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  • Which god has joined."
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  • Did you know what?
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  • God has enjoined the covenant to us
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  • By the blood of jesus.
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  • And the covenant is not about what we did,
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  • The covenant is about what god did.
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  • Hallelujah. isn't that good news?
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  • So he secured the promise by the blood.
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  • Moreover, in verse 21, "he sprinkled with blood
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  • Both the tabernacle and the vessels of ministry."
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  • So if you're gonna minister,
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  • I like something andrew wommack said years ago,
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  • "god's not ever had anybody qualified,
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  • Really, in a natural sense, in a physical sense
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  • Working for him yet.
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  • But what qualifies us is the blood."
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  • I like to say we're qualified for his best blessings
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  • By the blood of jesus.
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  • Colossians 1:12 talks about that.
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  • He made us sufficient to be partakers
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  • Of the inheritance of the saints in line.
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  • We're qualified for god's best blessing by the blood.
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  • So it's been covered by the sacrifice.
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  • He said, "and almost all things by the law
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  • Are purged with the blood
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  • And without the shedding of blood, there is no remission."
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  • Thank god our sins aren't only forgiven, they're remitted.
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  • There is no more remembrance of them.
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  • Praise god, jesus completely paid for them.
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  • Isn't that good news, aaron?
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  • Hallelujah. - well, we've been,
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  • You know, it's been remitted.
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  • It's also been pardoned.
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  • - [lawson] yeah.
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  • - you know, and all your sin, it's been pardoned,
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  • Past, present, future.
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  • - [lawson] like a recent president.
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  • - yeah, pardoned people's future transgressions,
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  • Which until this time has never been done before.
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  • But that's how we are in the realm of spirit.
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  • Our sins have been forgiven, pardoned,
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  • Past, present, and future.
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  • - hallelujah.
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  • So it says, "it was therefore necessary
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  • That the patterns of the things in heaven
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  • Should be purified with these.
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  • But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifice."
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  • So jesus' blood went into heaven.
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  • I believe he took his blood
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  • And he put it on the throne before god.
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  • And i believe jesus' blood cries out from the throne of god,
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  • "forgiven, redeemed, blessed, healed,
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  • Sanctified, righteous, holy."
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  • Thank god for the blood of jesus. amen?
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  • He says, "for christ did not enter the holy places
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  • Made with hands,
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  • Which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself,
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  • Now to appear in the presence of god."
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  • For us, jesus is appearing in the presence of god.
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  • "nor yet should he offer himself often."
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  • He doesn't have to keep going back and back and back again,
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  • "as the high priests entered once into the holy place
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  • Every year with the blood of others.
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  • For then he must often have suffered
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  • Since the foundation of the world.
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  • But now once in the end of the world
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  • Has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of."
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  • One sacrifice for all sin of all time.
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  • Everything in the old testament,
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  • All those old testament sacrifices,
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  • Look forward to that.
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  • And now we look back on the sacrifice
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  • That has already been made.
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  • In him we have redemption through his blood,
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  • Even the forgiveness of sin.
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  • Ephesians 1 says that.
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  • Colossians 1 says that.
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  • Glory, isn't that good?
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  • And so he says, "and it is appointed to men once to die."
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  • Listen, you're not gonna be reincarnated.
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  • You've got one shot at this life.
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  • And what you do in the realm of faith
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  • Is gonna determine where you spend eternity.
  • 00:11:13.582 --> 00:11:17.052
  • And he says, "after this, the judgment."
  • 00:11:17.052 --> 00:11:19.721
  • So he says, "christ was once offered
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  • To bear the sins of many and to them who look for him
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  • Shall he appear the second time without sin to salvation."
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  • Jesus is coming again for his church.
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  • What a marvelous hope we have in the gospel.
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  • - i love the book of hebrews.
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  • It's just so full of foundational doctrine.
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  • You know, that jesus is god.
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  • - [lawson] amen. - [aaron] that, you know,
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  • He is our high priest.
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  • That his word is a sure foundation.
  • 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:47.415
  • You know, the sanctity of scripture.
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  • But also that jesus is coming again.
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  • - amen. thank god jesus is coming again.
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  • And he's coming for a holy, he's coming for a church
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  • That's without spot, wrinkle, or blemish.
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  • Ephesians 5 says.
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  • Glory to god, i'm looking forward to his,
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  • You know, when you understand what jesus did for you,
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  • You can look forward to his coming with no condemnation.
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  • There is no judgment against those who are in christ jesus.
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  • Man, what marvelous, what a marvelous gospel.
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  • What a marvelous,
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  • - and this chapter is just - you know, work jesus did.
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  • - so full of the power of the blood.
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  • There is power in the blood.
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  • - amen. thank god for the blood of jesus.
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  • You know, if you're watching today and if you need prayer,
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  • We have trained prayer ministers
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  • Here that can minister to you.
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  • Also, we have this book, "hebrews: the better covenant."
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  • You know, recently i had a church call up
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  • And they bought 50 of one of my books
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  • And we just mailed them out.
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  • We gave the church a special discount
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  • Because they're a church, so on and so forth.
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  • We'd love to do that for your bible study, for your church.
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  • If you call in, if you need prayer give us a call.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • Friend, i want you to get my book on
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  • "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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  • - i came kicking and screaming
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  • Because i thought if i came to a word of faith church,
  • 00:13:30.051 --> 00:13:33.255
  • I'd find people huffed up with pride saying,
  • 00:13:33.255 --> 00:13:36.858
  • "look at me. i'm full of faith."
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  • And when i got here, i found humility,
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  • Real people that were going deeper.
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  • They knew the word, they loved jesus,
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  • And it was an amazing experience for me.
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  • I just feel like i'm in family.
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  • (bright music)
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  • - friends, i'm so glad that you've been watching.
  • 00:13:58.246 --> 00:13:59.981
  • We've been sharing from hebrews 9
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  • How 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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  • But what that leads to is a better life.
  • 00:14:09.925 --> 00:14:12.527
  • And that's what the writer of hebrews talks about
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  • In hebrews 10.
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  • He says, "the law, having a shadow."
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  • It was a shadow, again,
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  • I would rather see aaron in person
  • 00:14:20.168 --> 00:14:23.038
  • Than just to see his shadow.
  • 00:14:23.038 --> 00:14:24.673
  • - or have an original document.
  • 00:14:24.673 --> 00:14:26.207
  • You know, what's more valuable,
  • 00:14:26.207 --> 00:14:28.543
  • A copy of the declaration of independence or the original
  • 00:14:29.678 --> 00:14:31.680
  • Declaration of independence? - no question about that.
  • 00:14:31.680 --> 00:14:33.381
  • - and sometimes, you know, for some legal purposes
  • 00:14:33.381 --> 00:14:35.417
  • You have to have the original document.
  • 00:14:35.417 --> 00:14:36.952
  • You can't have a copy.
  • 00:14:36.952 --> 00:14:38.453
  • You know, maybe it's a marriage certificate
  • 00:14:38.453 --> 00:14:41.022
  • Or a death certificate.
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  • Sometimes you have to have an original,
  • 00:14:42.257 --> 00:14:44.592
  • Sealed, signed document.
  • 00:14:44.592 --> 00:14:47.595
  • Just a copy doesn't always cut it.
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  • - [lawson] amen. - and, you know,
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  • We have something better than copies.
  • 00:14:51.266 --> 00:14:53.535
  • We have the original,
  • 00:14:53.535 --> 00:14:54.703
  • We have the best thing, which is jesus.
  • 00:14:54.703 --> 00:14:56.638
  • - amen, so in hebrews 10, i'm gonna read
  • 00:14:56.638 --> 00:14:58.940
  • The first three verses.
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  • He says, "for the law,
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  • Having a shadow of good things to come.
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  • Not the very image of those things."
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  • So, the law didn't bring them.
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  • It wasn't the very image.
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  • "can never with those sacrifices,
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  • Those old covenant sacrifices
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  • Which they offered year after year,
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  • Continually make the comers thereto perfect.
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  • For then they would've ceased to be offered
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  • Because the worshipers, once purged,
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  • Would have no more conscience of sin.
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  • But in those sacrifice,
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  • There's a remembrance made of sin every year..
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  • This is the primary difference
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  • Between the old testament and the new testament.
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  • In the old testament, it is a focus on sin, sin, sin.
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  • On the new testament, there's a focus
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  • On righteousness, righteousness, righteousness.
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  • On what jesus has done by his blood.
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  • That you are forgiven, that you are righteous,
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  • That you're sanctified.
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  • - well, i've talked to several people
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  • Who read through the bible
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  • Just cover to cover for the first time
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  • And that they noticed that in the old testament
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  • There's a lot of blood.
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  • It's because there's a lot of sin
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  • And the blood doesn't always, it doesn't cover it.
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  • You have to keep doing it over and over.
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  • - [lawson] right. - [aaron] but if it worked,
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  • Then it would be done.
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  • But it was pointing to jesus.
  • 00:16:09.344 --> 00:16:11.579
  • - it was like an iou.
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  • So when that high priest went into that most holy place
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  • Once a year with blood for his sin and for the people's sin,
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  • It was like an iou till christ come.
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  • But when christ came, he took it all away.
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  • And so we used to sing this song,
  • 00:16:25.326 --> 00:16:26.895
  • Johnny cash used to sing it.
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  • ♪ another day older and what do i get ♪
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  • ♪ another day older and deeper in debt ♪
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  • I owe my soul to the company store.
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  • Well, you know, he's talking about coal mining, right?
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  • How people, that's how they live.
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  • But jesus came and paid the debt off. hallelujah.
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  • So we don't have this debt mentality,
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  • But we have this righteous mentality.
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  • That i'm righteous, i'm redeemed,
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  • I've been purchased by the blood.
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  • I'm qualified for god's best blessings.
  • 00:16:54.823 --> 00:16:57.559
  • So he says in verse four,
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  • I'll read on down through verse 10.
  • 00:17:00.228 --> 00:17:02.597
  • He says, "for it is not possible
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  • That the blood of bulls and goats would take away sin."
  • 00:17:05.733 --> 00:17:08.002
  • They couldn't take 'em away.
  • 00:17:08.002 --> 00:17:09.437
  • "'wherefore,' he said when he came into the world,
  • 00:17:09.437 --> 00:17:11.306
  • 'sacrifice an offering you would not,
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  • But a body you have prepared me.
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  • In burn offerings and sacrifices for sin,
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  • You have no pleasure.'"
  • 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:20.381
  • That didn't bring god pleasure.
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  • What pleases god is faith, hebrews 11:6.
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  • He says, "then i said,
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  • 'lo i come in the volume of the book,' jesus.
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  • 'it's written of me to do thy will, oh god.'
  • 00:17:29.190 --> 00:17:32.026
  • Again, when he said, "sacrifice and offering burn offerings
  • 00:17:32.026 --> 00:17:35.029
  • And offering for sin you would not,
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  • Neither had you pleasure in them
  • 00:17:36.831 --> 00:17:38.333
  • Which are offered by the law.'
  • 00:17:38.333 --> 00:17:40.101
  • Then he said, 'lo, i come to do thy will, oh god.'
  • 00:17:40.101 --> 00:17:44.272
  • And he took away the first that had that focus on sin
  • 00:17:44.272 --> 00:17:47.909
  • That he might establish the second."
  • 00:17:47.909 --> 00:17:49.744
  • And the second one has a focus on jesus
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  • And his finished work.
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  • He says, "by the new covenant
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  • By the which will were sanctified
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  • Through the offering of the body of jesus once for all."
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  • We've been sanctified, we've been purified,
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  • We've been cleansed,
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  • We've been made holy by the blood of jesus.
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  • My, that's good, isn't it, aaron?
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  • - i love that. i love that we've been sanctified.
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  • - hallelujah.
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  • - you know, some people kind of teach
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  • That you're made righteous,
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  • But you still need to work on your sanctification.
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  • We've been sanctified once and for all.
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  • We've been set apart. - [lawson] amen.
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  • - [aaron] made holy. - [lawson] amen.
  • 00:18:23.878 --> 00:18:25.980
  • So read verse 11 through 14.
  • 00:18:25.980 --> 00:18:28.149
  • - it says, "and every priest stands ministering daily
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  • And offering repeatedly the same sacrifices,
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  • Which can never take away sins.
  • 00:18:33.655 --> 00:18:35.790
  • But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice
  • 00:18:35.790 --> 00:18:38.660
  • For sins forever sat down at the right hand of god."
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  • That means he was done.
  • 00:18:41.930 --> 00:18:44.132
  • "from that time waiting till his enemies
  • 00:18:44.132 --> 00:18:46.434
  • Are made his footstool.
  • 00:18:46.434 --> 00:18:48.236
  • For by one offering he has perfected forever
  • 00:18:48.236 --> 00:18:51.239
  • Those who are being sanctified."
  • 00:18:51.239 --> 00:18:53.341
  • So we are being sanctified,
  • 00:18:53.341 --> 00:18:54.876
  • But we've been perfected and are being perfected forever.
  • 00:18:54.876 --> 00:18:58.079
  • - amen, so when you think about this,
  • 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:00.081
  • By this one offering he has perfected.
  • 00:19:00.081 --> 00:19:02.050
  • That word perfected in the greek
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  • Is the greek word teleios.
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  • And it means to make perfect, to finish, to fulfill,
  • 00:19:07.455 --> 00:19:13.394
  • To be perfect, to consecrate, to complete,
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  • To carry out, to accomplish, to bring to an end,
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  • To bring to a close by an act or event.
  • 00:19:21.970 --> 00:19:25.206
  • What event was that?
  • 00:19:25.206 --> 00:19:27.041
  • - [aaron] the cross. - [lawson] the cross.
  • 00:19:27.041 --> 00:19:28.509
  • "it is finished," he said.
  • 00:19:28.509 --> 00:19:30.511
  • That verse is one of those amazing grace verses.
  • 00:19:30.511 --> 00:19:33.681
  • Verse 14 of hebrews 10.
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  • He said, "wherefore the holy ghost is a witness to us.
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  • After he said before,
  • 00:19:39.487 --> 00:19:40.822
  • 'this is the covenant i will make with them
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  • After those days,' says the lord.
  • 00:19:42.490 --> 00:19:44.325
  • 'i'll put my law in their hearts
  • 00:19:44.325 --> 00:19:45.660
  • And in their minds i'll write them.
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  • And their sin and iniquity will i remember no more.'"
  • 00:19:47.395 --> 00:19:52.433
  • This is the gospel.
  • 00:19:52.900 --> 00:19:54.669
  • See, the old covenant said that the law said,
  • 00:19:54.669 --> 00:19:57.005
  • "if you do this, then i'll do this.
  • 00:19:57.005 --> 00:19:58.773
  • If you do this."
  • 00:19:58.773 --> 00:20:00.241
  • But the new covenant said, "i will, i will, i will."
  • 00:20:00.241 --> 00:20:02.577
  • And the new covenant is based on, "jesus did this,
  • 00:20:02.577 --> 00:20:06.281
  • Therefore i have done this or i will do this."
  • 00:20:06.281 --> 00:20:10.184
  • It's no longer our performance,
  • 00:20:10.818 --> 00:20:12.954
  • It's the performance of jesus.
  • 00:20:12.954 --> 00:20:14.989
  • And so he says this.
  • 00:20:14.989 --> 00:20:16.958
  • He says, "their sins and inequities i will remember no more.
  • 00:20:16.958 --> 00:20:20.328
  • Now where remission of these is,
  • 00:20:20.328 --> 00:20:22.797
  • There is no more offering for sin."
  • 00:20:22.797 --> 00:20:24.999
  • Jesus doesn't have to go to the cross again.
  • 00:20:24.999 --> 00:20:27.235
  • When we take communion,
  • 00:20:27.235 --> 00:20:28.503
  • We don't believe that jesus dies again.
  • 00:20:28.503 --> 00:20:31.005
  • We believe that's a finished work.
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  • We're remembering what he did.
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  • We're remembering his body that was broken for us.
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  • We're remembering his blood that was shed for us.
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  • Paul said, "as often as you do this,
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  • You remember the lord's work till he comes again."
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  • Now he says, "having boldness, brethren,
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  • To enter the holiest by the blood of jesus."
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  • How do we get in the presence of god?
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  • By the blood.
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  • The blood of jesus.
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  • "by new a living way which he has consecrated for us
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  • Through the veil, that is to say his flesh.
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  • And having a high priest over the house of god,
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  • Let's draw near, draw near to jesus
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  • With the pure heart, a true heart
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  • In full assurance of the faith,
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  • Having our hearts, our minds, our soul
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  • Sprinkled from an evil conscience."
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  • We're not focused on our lack of performance,
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  • But his performance.
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  • "and our bodies washed with the pure water of the word."
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  • He said, "let us hold fast to the profession
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  • Without wavering.
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  • Hold fast to your profession of faith in jesus."
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  • Why?
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  • Because even if you fail, jesus is not.
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  • He is faithful who promised.
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  • And then he says, "because of this work,
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  • Let us consider one another
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  • And provoke to love in good works."
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  • - when we consider this, he says,
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  • "not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together
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  • As the manner of some is,
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  • But encouraging one another and so much more
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  • As you see the day approaching."
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  • You know, 1 john 1:7 says,
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  • "if we walk in the light as he is in the light,
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  • We have fellowship with one another
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  • And the blood of jesus cleanses us from all sin."
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  • Amen.
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  • - yeah, i love this chapter here starting in verse 22.
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  • It says, "let us."
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  • - [lawson] amen. - there's several verses here
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  • That say, let us, you know,
  • 00:22:11.873 --> 00:22:12.974
  • Similar to a lot of paul's letters.
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  • Paul would often start talking about, you know,
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  • Just big principles, big revelation about faith,
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  • About grace, about righteousness,
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  • About what the gospel really is, similar here to hebrews.
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  • And then the end of the letter talks about how it applies.
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  • You know, what do you do now?
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  • "let us."
  • 00:22:30.258 --> 00:22:31.659
  • You know, you can draw near, so come near to god.
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  • Hold fast that confession of your faith without weaving.
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  • And it affects your relationship with other people as well.
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  • Stir up love. stir up good works.
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  • Don't forsake the assembly.
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  • You know- - [lawson] right.
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  • Well, there's 13 chapters in hebrews
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  • And there's 13 times that paul says, "let us."
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  • So he's talking about this is what jesus did.
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  • This is the grace of god.
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  • Because of the grace of god, let's walk in faith.
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  • Faith is our positive response to the gospel.
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  • Faith is our positive response.
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  • Now let's move forward.
  • 00:23:03.024 --> 00:23:03.958
  • He says this in verse 26 to 29.
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  • "if we sin willfully
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  • After we've received the knowledge of the truth,
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  • There remains no more sacrifice for sin,
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  • But a certain fearful look of judgment,
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  • Fire, indignation which shall devour our adversaries.
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  • He who despised moses law died without mercy
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  • Under two or three witnesses.
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  • Of how much sore punishment
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  • Suppose you he be thought worthy?
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  • Who has trodden underfoot the son of god,
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  • Has counted the blood of the covenant
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  • Where with he has sanctified an unholy thing
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  • And done despite to the spirit of grace."
  • 00:23:36.524 --> 00:23:39.227
  • So the willful sin that he's talking about
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  • Where there's no more, you know, sacrifice for sin
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  • In verse 26 has to be qualified by verse 29.
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  • That's not talking about cussing in verse 26
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  • Or committing adultery.
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  • What that's talking about,
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  • It's talking about rejecting jesus.
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  • If you reject jesus.
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  • Now, hebrew 6, you gotta put it back with hebrew 6.
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  • Again, you gotta be convicted by the holy spirit,
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  • You gotta be born of the spirit,
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  • You gotta be baptized in the holy spirit,
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  • You gotta operate in the gifts of the holy spirit,
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  • And you gotta taste the good word of god.
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  • If then you reject jesus,
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  • May be possible, not probable.
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  • Right?
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  • Because you gotta be a very close relationship with god
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  • To even do this.
  • 00:24:22.970 --> 00:24:23.938
  • Now he goes on and he tells us,
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  • "listen, call to remembrance.
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  • Remember what jesus did.
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  • Remember after you believed you had a fight of affliction."
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  • Some people think, because i believed
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  • I don't have any challenges.
  • 00:24:34.582 --> 00:24:36.417
  • But he says, "don't."
  • 00:24:36.417 --> 00:24:38.185
  • You know, there's gonna be challenges.
  • 00:24:38.185 --> 00:24:39.787
  • "when you believed, you endure a great fight of affliction."
  • 00:24:39.787 --> 00:24:42.557
  • Because the devil's trying to get you off your faith track,
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  • Trying to get you away from the word.
  • 00:24:45.426 --> 00:24:46.761
  • Because he knows if you keep believing the word,
  • 00:24:46.761 --> 00:24:48.462
  • Keep walking by faith, you're gonna do damage to his kingdom
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  • And you're gonna make a difference in the kingdom of god.
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  • So go ahead, aaron, and read verse 35 through verse 39
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  • And let's finish this up real quick.
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  • - says, "therefore do not cast away your confidence,
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  • Which has great reward,
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  • For you have need of endurance
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  • So that after you've done the will of god,
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  • You may receive the promise.
  • 00:25:06.781 --> 00:25:09.116
  • For, 'yet a little while
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  • And he who is coming will come and will not teary.
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  • Now the just shall live by faith.
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  • But if anyone draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him.'
  • 00:25:15.523 --> 00:25:18.926
  • But we are not of those who draw back to perdition,
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  • But of those who believe to the saving of the soul."
  • 00:25:21.662 --> 00:25:25.132
  • - amen.
  • 00:25:25.132 --> 00:25:26.634
  • So when he's talking about don't cast away your confidence,
  • 00:25:26.634 --> 00:25:29.804
  • And when he's saying this,
  • 00:25:29.804 --> 00:25:31.973
  • "you have need of patience."
  • 00:25:31.973 --> 00:25:33.541
  • That word patience actually is talking about,
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  • You know, continuing to believe on jesus, amen.
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  • And continuing to be consistent
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  • In your profession of faith.
  • 00:25:42.850 --> 00:25:45.019
  • And so he says, "hey, because of what jesus has done,
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  • What this produces in our life is consistency."
  • 00:25:47.822 --> 00:25:51.525
  • You know, i was telling a brother, very good brother,
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  • I love him, been in the ministry for years,
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  • Traveled, spoken for, you know, all kinds of people,
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  • Pastored two churches at one time,
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  • And, i mean, he's a great man of god.
  • 00:26:01.769 --> 00:26:03.871
  • And i said, "it's amazing with all the difficulties
  • 00:26:03.871 --> 00:26:06.073
  • And challenges that we faced in the church and the ministry,
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  • How well that we've done."
  • 00:26:08.643 --> 00:26:09.610
  • And he said, "you and barbara
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  • Are two of the most consistent people that i know."
  • 00:26:11.045 --> 00:26:13.180
  • And he told me, "this word right here in hebrews 10,
  • 00:26:13.180 --> 00:26:16.183
  • 'when it says you have need of patience,'
  • 00:26:16.183 --> 00:26:18.085
  • Is actually talking about being consistent."
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