1 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:03,900 Thank you for listening to the river. 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:06,700 Bend Church podcast Reverb in church exists. 3 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:10,100 Delete all people to know love and live New Life in Jesus 4 00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:12,300 Christ. We hope that you enjoy this 5 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:18,300 message. We're diving into a new teaching 6 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:19,800 series. It's going to be a five-week 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,100 journey and it's called anchor for my soul. 8 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:24,600 And what it's going to do is walk us through the book of 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,200 Hebrews in the Bible. And so God has given me some 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,800 words, I've read this book. Over and over just kind of 11 00:00:30,808 --> 00:00:34,900 meditating on it going God give me what you want me to hear as 12 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:38,700 we as I study this so that I'll know what to pour out. 13 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:42,300 And so here's my hope, I want to empty my cup of what God has 14 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:44,800 been poured into my heart over these next five weeks. 15 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,900 I want to empty out everything that I think God's put in me and 16 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:51,200 what he's been doing in me through this book of Hebrews. 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,500 And so I hope that you'll find Hope in this book as we read 18 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:58,400 through it. And so a couple of things were 19 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:02,800 we're going to do one is There's several pieces of this book. 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,300 There's thirteen chapters in this letter called Hebrews in 21 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:07,500 your Bible. We can't walk through all of 22 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:09,400 that in five weeks on Sunday morning. 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,300 There's no possible way to cover all of it. 24 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,000 What we're going to do is encourage you to read through 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,700 it, for yourself, in the lobby. Right now you can find Bibles as 26 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:20,300 the same version I read from. And so if you don't have one of 27 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:22,900 those, you know I'd really like to have one there. 28 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:25,800 They are available in the lobby. This morning on your way out. 29 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,700 You can pick up one. I strongly encourage you to get 30 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:32,500 in this word for your Yourself. So that you can see and you can 31 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:35,100 understand God will speak more to you than just what we're 32 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:37,500 going to talk about. But also during the week on 33 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:40,300 Tuesday and Thursday mornings at seven a.m., we're going to put 34 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:43,700 out devotionals online that you can jump on. 35 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:46,600 And it's going to connect the dots between the week so that we 36 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,600 can cover this entire book over a five-week span. 37 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,600 And so I want you to hear it for yourself as we go. 38 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,800 Now, as we talk about this book called Hebrews in your Bible, if 39 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,400 you want to get there, get there. 40 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,800 We can follow will have the notes. 41 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,700 Pierre, but who wrote This Book? Few interesting facts. 42 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:05,600 Did you know that it's one of the few books? 43 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,900 Maybe you could arguably the only book in the Bible, we're 44 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:12,200 not exactly sure who wrote it. And so most Scholars, say the 45 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,700 Apostle, Paul wrote the book If I had to just take a stab and 46 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:17,300 say, where do you stand after studying? 47 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:19,100 I'd say, I believe Apostle, Paul. 48 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,000 And here's the thing, most of the letters in scripture are 49 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,400 signed by someone. Now, here's the, here's what we 50 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,200 do know. We do know who it was written to 51 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,200 though. We know it was written by 52 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,700 someone who saw the life death. Death and burial of Jesus and 53 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:35,500 everything that he or she says we don't know man, or woman 54 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:38,300 wrote this book. Whoever it was they wrote this 55 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:41,400 book and it aligns completely with the rest of scripture. 56 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,100 Everything about the gospel is in alignment and so what we do 57 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:48,000 know is who it was written to, we don't know the location like 58 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 we do in some other books but we know racially who it was written 59 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,900 to. It was written to a specific 60 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:57,300 group, the Jews, the Jews and so the book of the the book is 61 00:02:57,300 --> 00:02:59,800 called Hebrews, which is the title we put on it at a later. 62 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,600 Tom Hebrews, because it was written to the Hebrew people, 63 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,200 the rest of the letters in the New Testament, in large part of 64 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,700 the written to the Gentile church, this is one written to 65 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:12,200 Jewish followers. So, the Jews were the ones who 66 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,200 crucified Jesus Jesus was a Jewish man. 67 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,700 When he lived on the earth, if you read the first half of your 68 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:21,000 Bible, the Old Testament, tells the story of mostly the Jews, 69 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,400 God's people. The rest of the New Testament in 70 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,400 a large part, is written to us Gentiles those that are non 71 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,700 Jews. If you're Jewish descendant, 72 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,000 then you may know that. At. 73 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,200 But you may be part of the Jewish kind of tribe or 74 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,700 bloodline but for the rest of us were Gentiles and so although 75 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:38,800 it's written to Jews. Here's what I found, as I read 76 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,900 through it, there are so many struggles and challenges that it 77 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:44,600 speaks to and this letter speaks to us today. 78 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,800 And so, why are we calling the series anchor for my soul? 79 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,600 Why do we have this massive anchor up here on the stage? 80 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,700 That's a good question. The center point of this book, 81 00:03:54,700 --> 00:03:58,600 lays out a key theme that we're going to see as we as we walk 82 00:03:58,600 --> 00:03:59,800 through over the next five weeks. 83 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,300 I can unpack all of it today but I want you to see it. 84 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:04,800 So if you turn to the dead center of this book in your 85 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:11,000 Bible around Hebrews 6:18 and 19, here's kind of the theme of 86 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,900 the book overall. And here's what he says, the 87 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:17,600 Practical thing, what do we do? It is impossible for God to lie 88 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,899 and it was a lot of back story to that we'll get to in a few 89 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:22,200 weeks. It is impossible for God to lie 90 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:27,200 there, for we who have fled to him for Refuge can have great 91 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,800 confidence as we hold to the hope that lies. 92 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:32,400 Lies before. So this is not for the whole 93 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,000 world. It's not for just the Jews, it's 94 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,400 not for just the Gentiles. It is for who those who have 95 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,300 fled to Jesus for Refuge. Those who have decided at some 96 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:45,200 point in time, in their life. God, I know enough about you to 97 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,700 put my faith in you through Jesus Christ. 98 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:49,900 I have fled to you. That's what it means to flee to 99 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:52,500 Jesus. It says then we have confidence 100 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,800 as we hold to hope. Now let's hope hope is promises 101 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,500 that haven't been fulfilled yet but we have a confidence in our 102 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:01,200 God's promises to us. We have this hope that lies 103 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,500 before us. What is the hope that's before 104 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:05,100 us? Well, as the fact that Jesus is 105 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:08,400 with us now, and not only is he with us now, but he will be with 106 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,600 us all the way through death into eternity forever. 107 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:17,100 But it says, this this hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor 108 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,200 for our souls. It leads us through the curtain. 109 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,400 Now, this is an analogy to the Old Testament way of worship. 110 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,500 There was a veil that covered the holiest, place the holy of 111 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,700 holies and whenever Jesus died on the cross this Veil. 112 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:32,500 L was ripped in two from top to bottom. 113 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:34,600 It's kind of one of those weird things you may not understand 114 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,100 but here's what it was saying, the presence of God is now open 115 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:40,800 to all people. That's simply what it signified. 116 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,700 The presence of God, it says that Jesus is the one though 117 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,400 that leads us through the curtain. 118 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,200 Into the inner Sanctuary. This hope that we have, it 119 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,900 ensures us into the very presence of God. 120 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:55,400 So this idea of permeates the book of Hebrews, this little 121 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,100 letter called Hebrews that we have this hope that is an anchor 122 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:00,200 for our soul. Pause. 123 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,700 And so as we begin the study, here's what we're going to do 124 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:04,600 today. We're going to walk all the way 125 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,900 through chapter one. And we're going to talk a little 126 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:09,800 bit about chapter 2 but the theme is the same as we walk 127 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,000 through. But for the entire book and this 128 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,500 entire study, I want to give you four truths that I put in your 129 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:17,800 notes today that will guide us through all five weeks. 130 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,400 We will unpack these as the week's go on and here's the 131 00:06:20,407 --> 00:06:25,600 first one, everyone anchors his or sold her soul to something. 132 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:30,200 Every single person has a soul anchor, every person. 133 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:35,500 And so I thought about it because I'm a visual person, 134 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:37,300 right? I got to have like weird picture 135 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:40,900 in my mind, you could see yourself like this, every person 136 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,200 has a soul line, something you're holding onto in your life 137 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,600 is connected to you. You can Envision it wrapped 138 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,100 around your heart, wrapped around, but you have a soul line 139 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:53,200 with a hook on it, you get to decide what you anchor yourself 140 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,500 to. And so this strong and 141 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:58,200 trustworthy. Anchor for our souls will call 142 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,200 this Jesus, right? The promises of God Jesus 143 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,600 himself. We have this ability to Anchor 144 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,400 ourselves to it, but here's what I've learned, people, anchor 145 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,200 themselves to all kind of things. 146 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,800 Let me ask you a question. What are you anchored to now as 147 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,400 cachet to help me this morning? So I want to pick on her a 148 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,400 little bit, so Shay. What are you anchored to now? 149 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,800 Here's, here's the thing. We anchor ourselves to so many 150 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,700 different things in life, right? But unless we get it anchored 151 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:28,500 down the something I had air and put this in. 152 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:31,500 And he used like a box of screws screw this thing to the floor. 153 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:33,300 So, it wouldn't fall over when we pull on it. 154 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,800 But here's the thing, whatever you ain't yourself to, that's 155 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,200 what determines the strength that you have in your life. 156 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,700 Sometimes we anchor ourselves to other people. 157 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:45,400 Now, show your pretty strong. I'm pretty strong right, anchor, 158 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,900 the other people. Now people can hold you pretty, 159 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:50,000 pretty steady at times, but do you know that people are 160 00:07:50,008 --> 00:07:52,800 wishy-washy? When you anchor yourself to 161 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,800 somebody else, they'll be your best friend one day. 162 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,600 And then what happens, it will turn On you in a heartbeat right 163 00:07:57,700 --> 00:07:58,900 now. I'm going to turn on you Shea. 164 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,300 But they will even good people. Here's the thing, even when they 165 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:05,300 don't mean to sometimes, people who you see is really strong, 166 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:07,500 they'll go through a valley. And if you've incurred yourself 167 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:10,800 to a person, then what happens when they get in the valley, 168 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,500 guess where you are, or when they start drifting, guess what 169 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:16,400 happens to you? We will anchor ourselves to 170 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,300 success in life. If I can just get successful, I 171 00:08:19,308 --> 00:08:22,200 just want this platform or this Authority and while anchor 172 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,300 ourselves to it, here's what you find is soon as that goes away. 173 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:27,000 Guess what you? Feel like you have no soul 174 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,800 anchor anymore. You're holding on to it, but the 175 00:08:28,808 --> 00:08:33,200 hooks is here, Is nothing there. As soon as life hits and storm 176 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,700 hits and Health crisis hits and all that what happens is as you 177 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:40,200 pull, there's nothing to hold. There's nothing to hold to. 178 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,100 And so, there's so many things that people anchor their lives 179 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:47,800 to, I found this people, anchor themselves to money, we never 180 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,300 say this out loud. But you know, do you know how, 181 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:53,400 you know, this is a wrestling for us, as Americans as North 182 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,000 Georgia. People, if I can just get a 183 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,700 little bit more, if I can just get my Nest Egg, a little bit 184 00:08:58,700 --> 00:09:00,100 bigger. If I can just get Get my 185 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:02,700 retirement, a little more set and what we feel, like we hook 186 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:04,100 it on. And then you realize one day, 187 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:05,700 you can't take any of that with you. 188 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:09,600 Anyway, all the what you work for wasn't an anchor, wasn't 189 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,300 anything worth anchor and I think God gets we did before the 190 00:09:12,308 --> 00:09:14,400 Lord one day after Believers. And he goes, hey man, you spent 191 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:19,300 your whole life, doing what? But also what you'll find is 192 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:20,800 money. Can't buy peace. 193 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:27,300 Money, can't give you. Comfort when the storms hit and 194 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:29,600 it can save you money. Nothing by stuff, like money. 195 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,500 I get it right. We need some money rise. 196 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:33,700 Like how you send the money my way. 197 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:35,500 Then if you don't want it, I'm not saying that. 198 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:38,200 What I'm saying is money is a tool God's given us. 199 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:39,800 It shouldn't be the anchor of Our Lives. 200 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:42,900 It can't be it. Can't hold us steady. 201 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:47,000 We sometimes anchor ourselves in our stuff, but here's the thing. 202 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,600 Everybody anchors our self to something. 203 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:52,600 Do you know what I hope? Thanks Shay. 204 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,200 I'll let you do that. Do you know what I hope? 205 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,300 By the end of this series, if you already know the Lord Jesus 206 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:00,800 Christ, I hope that you can honestly say I'm hooked on to 207 00:10:00,808 --> 00:10:03,000 him. God no matter what happens in 208 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 life. I'm hooked on no matter what 209 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,400 comes my way, what storm? What winds blow Lord. 210 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,100 I got a solid anchor. That's not going anywhere. 211 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:11,900 Now, here's the second piece of this. 212 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:14,200 Look at this. The second piece, is this the 213 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:19,100 strength of your anchor determines the strength of your 214 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:25,800 life? I thought this this about it 215 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,800 this week. There's a precious woman. 216 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,900 Many of you guys may not know or she came in and out of the 217 00:10:30,900 --> 00:10:34,000 church during the pandemic because her husband is a pastor 218 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,700 and was stuck in Colombia, but Patricia is her name, and some 219 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:38,900 of, you know, her and have prayed for. 220 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:41,200 And as a church, you may not even know this. 221 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,900 But we've tried to be a part of helping them, but she lost both 222 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:48,000 her legs of several weeks ago, and just a freak accident. 223 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,900 She was healthy woman. She all of a sudden lost both 224 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:53,100 legs. And we went to see her the other 225 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:55,300 night. I mean, Courtney, did we just 226 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:57,000 got burden? We're like she was she just Got 227 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,600 home from the hospital. We just, we went to see her and 228 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,600 I'm going to tell you what you talk about a woman who is 229 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,600 anchored, a woman, who is anchored in Jesus? 230 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,300 There's no, there's no anger towards the person who did it. 231 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:12,100 There was a piece in this woman so let me, she's just like 232 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:13,800 praising the Lord. I'm doing really good. 233 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:16,600 And I mean all of a sudden our whole life changed they're 234 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,900 having at are outdoors in her house to get her wheelchair 235 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:21,600 through. And I thought, you know what the 236 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,900 strength of your anchor, determines the strength of your 237 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:26,400 life. And for that, for that I was, I 238 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,200 was Humbled in her presence because here's a woman of God 239 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,200 who is anchored in Jesus so much that. 240 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,700 Even though she lost her legs and her house is being torn 241 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:36,600 apart and everything's up in the air. 242 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,100 It's like, but my God is good, the Lord. 243 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:41,200 So good to me, that's what she said and I'm going to read. 244 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,600 Are you kidding me? Sometimes, you just want to get 245 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,900 in your flesh and say, you've got to be kidding, you gotta 246 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:47,400 just be putting on a facade right now. 247 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,600 No, no. As you see the tears in her eyes 248 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,100 and the tears, Courtney, we tried to pray for and Courtney 249 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:54,300 just like, lost it, because we were both. 250 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:56,600 So humbled in her presence. But here's what it was. 251 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,100 Woman has an acre for her soul. I felt it. 252 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,900 I saw it. I experienced. 253 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:04,600 See, here's the thing. Your life will only be as 254 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,800 resilient and strong as whatever Your Soul Is Anchored to. 255 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,100 Now here's the third thing and you may not even agree with this 256 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:14,300 one yet and I'm okay with that because I want to walk you 257 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,800 through and I want to show you step by step in this word how 258 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,700 this holds true. But there's only one anchor 259 00:12:20,700 --> 00:12:23,500 holds said that a hold steadfast in life and death and that's 260 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:27,200 Jesus. There's only one anchor and you 261 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,200 say well you know what? Joe the reason I have a hard 262 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,900 time as Jesus is invisible, if I could just have been there when 263 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:35,000 he was on the earth then I make it attached myself to him and 264 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,500 got really believe in him. But I love this analogy of an 265 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:42,300 anchor because you know, an Acres only doing its job when 266 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:45,500 it's invisible. You drop it down to the bottom 267 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:49,600 of the pond or lake whatever you in a boat and it digs in. 268 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,200 And when the invisible, you know, the do you know how, you 269 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,500 know the anchor though? You know, the anchor by the fact 270 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:57,000 that the vessel was held sturdy on top of the water? 271 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:02,900 See, storms will come. You're either in a storm right 272 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:04,700 now. You may be right now going man. 273 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:06,700 You don't even know how I need this today. 274 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:09,000 I got a health store, my family storm. 275 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 I got whatever it maybe I'm dealing with all this right now. 276 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,700 You don't even know me and I need to And what it's like to 277 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:17,700 Anchor myself, but if you're not in one, guess what? 278 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,800 Just keep living long enough. Something hits you out of 279 00:13:21,808 --> 00:13:24,100 nowhere? Sometimes you're like why God 280 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:27,500 the questions where you go. Why why is it like this? 281 00:13:28,900 --> 00:13:31,400 Here's the for truth in this. Going to guide us through this. 282 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,000 What you worship, not what you believe, reveals your anchor. 283 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:39,200 You go, hang on now but I believe in Jesus. 284 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:44,900 Worship reveals your anchor and also storms Reveal. 285 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:48,300 Your anchor saying that I believe something is very 286 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:52,300 different than anchoring my soul through worship something, They 287 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:55,000 like Patricia. She is scribed word to the Lord, 288 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:58,400 even though she's been through a crazy storm in life. 289 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,700 God, I still will worship you because you hold me Steady 290 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 through all this. I trust that not only do you 291 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,400 hold me Steady in life. You will hold me steady all the 292 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,600 way through, even in death, even when my life is gone, there's 293 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,900 something that can hold me Steady and it's Jesus. 294 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:18,000 So my hope is a pastor is to give us a soul check. 295 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,100 As we walked through these next few weeks. 296 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,200 Going God is Jesus, really the anchor. 297 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,100 God are you the anchor of my soul? 298 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:30,100 So as we dive in today, we're going to look at just a couple 299 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:34,600 of pieces of this book or a couple of chapters of this book. 300 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,600 And before we read some of this, I want to give you the gist, 301 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,900 Hebrews chapters 1 and 2. It makes a shift here, we're 302 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:43,300 talking about the anchor in Hebrews 6 were backing up a 303 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:45,100 chapter one. Do you know what the gist of it 304 00:14:45,100 --> 00:14:47,700 is Jesus is greater than the angels. 305 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,400 If you study the Bible at all, you may realize that a lot of 306 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,300 people kind of go to Hebrews to talk about angels, because 307 00:14:56,300 --> 00:14:59,700 there's, maybe more in the New Testament specifically on what 308 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:03,400 Angels functions are. Then then you can find all the 309 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,300 way until you get to Revelation. You see more in the Book of 310 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:08,700 Revelation. The Hebrews is it tells us a lot 311 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:11,300 about that. But here's here's the reason 312 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:14,600 that the author addresses angels and wanting to make sure people 313 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,700 know Jesus is greater than Angels. 314 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:18,500 He's not saying angels are not powerful. 315 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,500 He's not saying angel. Not real in any way. 316 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:22,000 Actually the very opposite of that. 317 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,000 But what he's saying is Jesus, Not Angels should be the anchor 318 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,700 for your soul to Greater anchor is Christ. 319 00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:32,600 So he wants to prove his or her Point here in the opening 320 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,300 paragraph. Look what he says long ago. 321 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:38,600 God spoke many times. And in many ways to our 322 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,000 ancestors through the prophets, this is the first part of your 323 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,100 Bible. If you go back to the Old 324 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:47,000 Testament or old Covenant section of your Bible, what 325 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,900 you'll find is a lot of it was God speaking to us, His people, 326 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:55,000 the Jews through mouthpieces, prophets in scripture, you 327 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,600 actually have many of your books in the Bible in the Old 328 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,000 Testament named. After those profits, it was what 329 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,200 God said to them and then they spoken to people. 330 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,700 He said that used to be how God speaks. 331 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,100 He says, and now in these final days, now I always find this 332 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,000 interesting in scripture, we've been waiting for about 2,000 333 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,100 years for the return of Christ. Almost, you know, we're going on 334 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:17,900 it and our lifetimes will see two thousand years of waiting 335 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,800 before Jesus comes back. But even here, there was an 336 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,800 urgency in his heart or her heart, who wrote this to say, in 337 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,900 the final days Jesus is coming. Again, that's really in these 338 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:28,700 final days. How has God spoken? 339 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:33,300 He says he has spoken to us through his son, God promised 340 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:35,500 everything to the Sun, as it inheritance. 341 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:39,500 And that's Jesus, God, the son and through the son, he created 342 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:43,700 the universe, the sun, radiates God's glory, and expresses, the 343 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:47,700 character of God and he sustains everything by the mighty power 344 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:51,200 of His Commander by his word. Word, he sustains everything and 345 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,300 look at this. When it cleansed us from our 346 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:57,400 sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of 347 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,000 the Majestic, God of heaven, and we just looked at this in the 348 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,700 Jesus series. When Jesus ascended, he sat at 349 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:06,000 the right hand of God, the Father to wait until the day, 350 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:09,800 whenever it would be time to set all things, new and motioned for 351 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,599 him to come again. But it says this shows the Sun 352 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:16,000 is far greater than the angel. So all is first three verses 353 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:19,500 from this writer's perspective. Was I want to make sure that you 354 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:22,599 don't just trust in Spiritual Beings are higher power. 355 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,700 Course you should trust in Jesus, do you know today there's 356 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:28,700 a lot of people that believe in a higher power. 357 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Really, there's a God somewhere or they believe in Spiritual 358 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,800 Beings. The spiritual section is full in 359 00:17:33,808 --> 00:17:37,500 the bookstores, but here's the thing, Jesus made it very narrow 360 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:40,500 in John 14, when he said, I am the way, the truth and the life, 361 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:43,500 no one can come to the father but by me, so, no matter what we 362 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:46,100 know about other Spiritual Beings are what we believe, what 363 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:48,900 comes down to Christianity. What comes down to the basis of 364 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:51,100 Christianity. In our Salvation is, what do you 365 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:53,600 believe about Jesus Christ? Who Who is he to you? 366 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,800 Here's what he's saying, Riders. Say and he or she is saying 367 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,000 this, just as the name of God did Jesus. 368 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,700 The Sun is far greater than the Angels. 369 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:05,000 Just as the name, God gave him is greater than their names. 370 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,600 And so he's building this massive case about who Jesus is 371 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,300 and why he's better than the angels. 372 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:12,500 And so I want to walk back through this with you, for just 373 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:15,300 a moment and talk about it in this way. 374 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:17,700 Jesus, that anchor for our souls. 375 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:21,800 And here's the first thing, he is the final word, final word. 376 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,400 It Is it? God spoke to us in these final 377 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,700 days in this way? But you could really translate 378 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:32,500 that God has finally spoken through Christ. 379 00:18:33,100 --> 00:18:35,600 In other words, there's not another piece of Revelation that 380 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,600 we are waiting on, in order to know how to be born again, in 381 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,100 order to know how to be a follower of God to be restored 382 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:44,400 to him. There's not anything else we're 383 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,500 waiting on there are things. We don't know. 384 00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:49,400 They're sure they're Revelations that we don't understand, but 385 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,500 there's nothing else that we need to know from God in order 386 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:54,700 to to be his child. He's given us everything. 387 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:57,400 That's what it means. Jesus is the final word. 388 00:18:57,700 --> 00:18:59,700 He is the final word. There's nothing coming after 389 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:00,600 him. If you turn to the Book of 390 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,000 Revelation when John got that, Jesus, one of the last things, 391 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,500 Jesus told him is don't let anyone add anything to this word 392 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:11,200 or take anything away because this is it, this is all you need 393 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:16,800 to be a follower of mine to be my child but also not only is 394 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,700 Jesus the final word. It says that he is the owner of 395 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:24,400 everything, the father gave him everything as an It's so why is 396 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,000 Jesus the worthy anchor for our souls will? 397 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,300 He owns everything you think about versus like Matthew 398 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:34,200 chapter 6 33. It says seek first, the kingdom 399 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,300 of heaven and everything else. You need will be given to you. 400 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,600 That's one of those promises where you're going. 401 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,000 God, I'm going to go out on a limb through faith and say, it 402 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,700 doesn't make sense to seek somebody. 403 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:47,400 I can't see when I, when what I really need is food, but I can't 404 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,100 figure it out. What I really need is money, 405 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,100 what I really need is for my kid to get well and I'm doing going 406 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:55,200 to the We're doing what we can but believe in the promise comes 407 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,500 back to this and going. But God there's an element that 408 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,700 I can't do. Here are anchor myself to you. 409 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:02,300 I believe your promise, I hold on to that. 410 00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:05,000 Hope I do everything I can in my life at a hold on. 411 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,200 Why? Because he's creator of 412 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,100 everything. Also are also, he is creator of 413 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:11,400 everything. It says that the father gave 414 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,700 Jesus everything that he simply created to begin with. 415 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:17,500 And then I love this one. It says that he expresses the 416 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:21,700 glory and character of God, did you know that God was invisible 417 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:25,400 up until Jesus wrapped himself in flesh, you know, one for 418 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,100 thousands of years before it had been able to look on. 419 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:31,400 God, the scripture even teaches that if they had been able to 420 00:20:31,408 --> 00:20:34,700 look on him they would die. They would die. 421 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:37,800 So here's the way that I put this. 422 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,400 Jesus Is God visible. We can go back to this story and 423 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,200 you can, I would encourage you to dive into and check the 424 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,900 authenticity of the New Testament gospels to look into 425 00:20:48,900 --> 00:20:50,700 it. Dive as deep as you can to 426 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:52,700 learn. As much as you can about those 427 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:55,700 original Ray language in the question, is this, did this guy 428 00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:57,400 really live? Did he really do what he said he 429 00:20:57,408 --> 00:20:58,800 was going to do? That's the main question. 430 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:03,200 I'm concerned with in scripture, but he is God, visible house. 431 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,500 He visible to us today, but we have the story. let me tell you 432 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:11,100 if the enemy could have squash scripture by now, he would have 433 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:14,800 Do you know the greatest thing the enemy could have done over 434 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,700 two thousand years? Do you know how many books have 435 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:19,700 been lost in time forever and we never know about them. 436 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,000 There's only a handful of things from the first century that we 437 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,200 even have copies of. But with scripture there's over 438 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,200 25,000 pieces of manuscripts that allowed and then you 439 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,400 remember some of you guys remember if you study before you 440 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,900 heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls, when they were found, they align 441 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:38,200 completely and perfectly and gave us some older things to 442 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,700 align scripture to validate the authenticity. 443 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,400 But God is he is, Jesus, Is God visible. 444 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,500 We can look at his life in Matthew Mark, Luke and John and 445 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:50,400 see him. But also it says that he 446 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,400 sustains. Everything not only did he 447 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,000 create everything, not only the own, everything he is sustainer 448 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,700 of everything, he sustains our heartbeat. 449 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:01,800 How does he do that? Well, yes, through science. 450 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:05,000 Yes. Through biology God designed us. 451 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,000 But you could actually say if you really believe God created 452 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,800 heavens and earth that our hearts can't even beat without 453 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,500 him. Why is he a worthy anchor for 454 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:14,900 our soul? Because he's in control. 455 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:19,100 Also, it says that he cleansed us from our sin. 456 00:22:19,300 --> 00:22:22,300 Now later, we'll see that this refers to the guilt and shame 457 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:25,000 that Sim brought on us. And that separation from God, 458 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,700 that it costs. But Jesus restored, our soul. 459 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:31,300 That's why I put it. He is restorer of our souls. 460 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,700 Why should we anchor ourselves to him? 461 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:37,200 Well, he's the only one that promises you that there is a way 462 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,800 not by your works, but simply by Faith by faith, that aligns your 463 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,600 life around something that belief that changes the way you 464 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,500 live. That kind Of Faith, even 465 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:50,300 sometimes if it's small, he says, that's all you have to 466 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:53,100 have to step into restoration of your soul. 467 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:54,900 You don't have to write all your wrongs. 468 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:57,700 You don't have to get everything right in your life, you do have 469 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:00,600 to surrender yourself to him and then the last one, maybe the 470 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,600 most important it says that right now, he's Seated on the 471 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,200 throne in heaven. Right now, he's Seated on the 472 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,100 throne in heaven. So in the first three verses of 473 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:11,700 this chapter, we're getting understanding of why. 474 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:15,700 Jesus, Not Angels, not Spiritual Beings is the only one Worthy? 475 00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:20,200 To Anchor, our souls, to put our hope both now in this life and 476 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,000 then into eternity in. Because right now, he sits on 477 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,500 the right side of the Father in heaven. 478 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,900 Now, you notice this verse. It said that he, it led this 479 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:31,500 hope leads us through the curtain. 480 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,400 So right now there's a curtain, it's a veil. 481 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,500 We cannot see in the physical heaven right now, we can't see 482 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:39,800 into spiritual heaven. We have scripture that tells us 483 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,600 about it when we experience the move of the spirit of God, 484 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,700 there's just something that resonates in US. 485 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,700 There's an affirmation in us, but we can't see it. 486 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:51,100 But here's the cool thing about this, hope right now. 487 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:54,800 Jesus is not here on this Earth, but when we anchor ourselves to 488 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,500 him, we've actually anchored ourselves into eternity. 489 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:02,100 He sits right now at the right hand of the father, do you know 490 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:03,800 what he does? The bible teaches this, he 491 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,700 advocates for you. He says, hey, I know that was 492 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:10,000 not perfect. But remember what I did. 493 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Father, remember what I did for him for her. 494 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 That's my son, that's my daughter. 495 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,000 And so the cases built Jesus is the only worthy anchor for your 496 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,100 soul. Now obviously, the Hebrew 497 00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:24,200 Believers had become followers of Jesus, so he's not trying to 498 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,400 convince them to believe in Jesus, they already done that, 499 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,800 but they were wrestling with believing other things 500 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,200 somewhere. Along the way, agnosticism had 501 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,400 crept in and so, it's as old as history. 502 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,800 The word Chip of Angels, the worship of spirituality and 503 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,900 Spiritual Beings, it's as old as time. 504 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,700 But the writer here spends, a lot of time using the Old 505 00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:47,900 Testament in this next section. So first, he lays out, Jesus, 506 00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:51,500 who Jesus was now, the writer is going to go to the Old 507 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:54,900 Testament, which these Jewish people would have known, they 508 00:24:54,900 --> 00:24:57,900 would have known it by heart. And he says, now I want to use 509 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:01,700 the scripture that you already know to prove that Jesus is the 510 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:04,200 worthy anchor. Look, what he says God, never 511 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,800 said to any Angel, what he said to Jesus. 512 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:08,400 Jesus. You are my son today. 513 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,900 I have become your father so he said not one time. 514 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:14,600 Did God ever say that the angel was his son and he was the 515 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,300 father and that's a quote from Psalm 27, written by David and 516 00:25:19,308 --> 00:25:23,300 he said this, I will be his father and he will be my son, 517 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:26,300 second, Samuel 7:14. So he's using scripture when he 518 00:25:26,308 --> 00:25:27,800 brought his Supreme son into the world. 519 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:33,100 God said this, let all of God's angels worship him regarding the 520 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:35,400 Angels. He says, he sends his angels 521 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,500 like the Ensign servants like flames of fire. 522 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,600 Now, here's a little bit of a hint and who angels are? 523 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,900 He says that God sends them and so they obey his commands, he 524 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:49,000 sends them like the winds They think about the wind, you don't 525 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,700 see the wind, but what do you see the impact of the wind? 526 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,700 A lot of times, spiritual things are alluded to as the winner, 527 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:58,200 ER, in our minds. It's brought to life as the wind 528 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:00,800 is the wind blows. And so it says his angels, he 529 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,300 sends them like wins his servants, like, flames of fire. 530 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:07,600 So they are his servants and they're like, flames of fire. 531 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,000 Why are they like flames of fire? 532 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:12,300 Well, if you read the book of Revelation, where you get a 533 00:26:12,308 --> 00:26:15,000 picture of the Heavenly, Jesus, anything coming from his 534 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,100 presence is on fire. In the best of ways on fire, 535 00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:22,500 with Holiness, on fire, with compassion, on fire, with 536 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:25,200 righteousness. And so, they are like, flames of 537 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,100 fire sent to do battle for us. We'll see that in a moment, but 538 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,500 he says to the son, he said to the angels, your my servants. 539 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:35,200 But to the sun, he says this verse 8, your throne o God, now 540 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,700 check this. This is God speaking to Jesus, 541 00:26:37,900 --> 00:26:40,700 and so he's calling him. God, he says, Jesus your throne, 542 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:45,000 o God endures forever, you rule with a scepter of Justice, your 543 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000 loving, you love, Justice, and hate evil. 544 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,200 For oh God, your God has anointed you pouring out the oil 545 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,000 of Joy on you more than anyone else. 546 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,600 He also says to the son in the beginning. 547 00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:57,500 Lord, you laid, the foundation of the earth. 548 00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:58,900 You made the heavens with your hands. 549 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,400 They will perish but you remain forever. 550 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:03,600 They will wear out like old clothing. 551 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,900 You will fold them up like a cloak and discard them. 552 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:12,300 Why is Jesus so worthy? Because one day and I don't 553 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:14,300 think you have a hard time believing this anymore. 554 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,400 One day, this Earth will be no more. 555 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:19,600 We look around our world right now. 556 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,400 Can't you just see the destruction and the pain and the 557 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,700 things going on? I mean, listen, we are called To 558 00:27:25,708 --> 00:27:28,800 Build a Better Community, we are called to be Salt and Light. 559 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,400 We are called to say you matter were called to lead people to 560 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,600 Jesus but it's a limited time no matter what we do. 561 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,100 Right now, our job is to make Heaven as big as we can by 562 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:41,400 loving as many people to Jesus, as we can, that's our job right 563 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,800 now. But ultimately one day this week 564 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,300 in here that we feel the Rumblings of this Earth fading 565 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:50,400 away, don't People are divided for no reason. 566 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,300 People hate each other for no reason people. 567 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,700 Well a reason but not a good reason. 568 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:58,800 And here's the thing, we can see the Rumblings of discontent. 569 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,700 We hear all this stuff about the possibility of nuclear war. 570 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:04,100 Now here's the thing. God is in control, Jesus, 571 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:07,400 sustainer of everything, we're anchored to that fact, we here's 572 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,900 the thing. One day, it says he's going to 573 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:12,000 fold this place up and discard it like old clothing. 574 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:17,000 That's how big he is. It says you are always the same, 575 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,300 you will live forever, why should we anchor our soul to 576 00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:21,000 Jesus? Well because I think we 577 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,800 understand that our bodies are not going to live forever, but 578 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,700 it says he lives forever. God never said to any of the 579 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:31,100 Angels, sit in the place of honor at my right hand, until I 580 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:33,300 humble your enemies. Now, this is making them a 581 00:28:33,308 --> 00:28:35,600 footstool on her feet. This is an interesting verse 582 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,900 Because whenever Jesus came we celebrate the fact that on the 583 00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:43,500 cross he defeated sin and death right, but we haven't yet. 584 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,400 Seen everything put under his authority. 585 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,500 Have we? You ever wonder God, why do you 586 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:50,200 still allow? If you've already defeated sin 587 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,200 and death, why do you allow so much pain? 588 00:28:52,700 --> 00:28:55,600 Why do you allow death? Why do you allow loss? 589 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:57,800 Why do you love so much hurt in this world? 590 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,000 Why do my kids get sick? Why is there Cancer all? 591 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,600 Fair questions but here's one of the answers right now. 592 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,500 We're in this waiting period were even though Jesus has one 593 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:11,000 we were waiting for all enemies to be humbled underneath his 594 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,700 feet. So this last one right here 595 00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:18,600 says, therefore, Angels, who are they only servants Spirit sent 596 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,300 to care for people who will inherit salvation. 597 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:25,100 So, even though this book is Not About Angels, it's about the 598 00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:28,200 supremacy of Jesus and about the fact that he is the only 599 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,700 trustworthy anchor for our soul, the one we can put our hope in. 600 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,300 It does tell us a little bit about angels here. 601 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:36,400 So, who are angels their servants? 602 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:41,000 What's their job? They are spirits sent to care 603 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,400 for people who Inherit salvation. 604 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,100 So you know, that old idea of like Guardian Angel, some of 605 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:51,400 y'all work your guardian angels to death, by the way. 606 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:59,200 But actually biblically, you could say, God sends these 607 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:04,300 individual invisible, Spiritual Beings to fight on our behalf. 608 00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:07,000 I don't want to get all squirrelly again. 609 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,200 It's Not About Angels it's about Jesus but it's okay to 610 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,700 acknowledge that. Sometimes you may have an 611 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:15,500 experience in your life, where you go. 612 00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:18,100 I know God just intervened. Most of us. 613 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:20,400 Look back on our teenage years and Go the whole time. 614 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,700 Like, I had to have multiple Angels, or I wouldn't be here 615 00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:24,700 today. That's my story. 616 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:29,500 Anyway, I was in a crazy car wreck when I was in third grade, 617 00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:32,100 that should have taken my life as his big old scar on my head, 618 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:35,500 it should have taken my life. I really believe that God With 619 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:39,500 us that day and saved my life. I couldn't be here today if he 620 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:41,100 didn't. I really believe you probably 621 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:44,300 have those stories and listen Angels, never meant to get to 622 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:45,900 worship though. Do you know who they worship? 623 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:48,300 You know, the scripture said they worship Jesus. 624 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,300 So when you get to heaven, the Angels who have helped you 625 00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:54,500 behind the scenes and it will have have served you and God 626 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:57,100 said, hey, my son needs needs you right now. 627 00:30:57,100 --> 00:31:01,300 So go and they go because they obey his command my daughter 628 00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:02,900 down there. She needs you right now and so 629 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:07,300 they go. See, we can't get so spiritual 630 00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:10,300 that we forget, we about angels and other things we get our eyes 631 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:13,200 off Jesus, but you better believe that you have Advocates 632 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,300 fighting for you, led by the Lord, Jesus Christ himself, 633 00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,200 scripture teaches that he says that they are his servants. 634 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,700 And they are spirits sent to care for people who will inherit 635 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:26,300 salvation, that just simply means for those who call on the 636 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:29,900 name of Jesus. You have helpers you have people 637 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:35,800 around you. So as we wrap this up, this And 638 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,100 I want to move on to chapter 2 and read you one verse here. 639 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Because the rider was so hurt inside. 640 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,100 I think he saw people that used to be on fire for the Lord and 641 00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:50,500 now they had kind of started to drift and worship other things. 642 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:51,700 And here's what he says, look at this. 643 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:55,900 We must listen very carefully to the truth. 644 00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:59,400 We have heard what's the truth? Jesus Christ is the way the 645 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,200 truth and the life. There's no way to get to heaven 646 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,700 or to the father except through. Jesus Christ is the only 647 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:07,700 trustworthy anchor for your soul. 648 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,800 He's the only thing you can put your hope in that Will Never Let 649 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,400 You Down. Anything he is promise will 650 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,600 never fail you. He's the only one. 651 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,600 And said he got to listen to that truth. 652 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,700 Why? Because if you don't, you may 653 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:25,900 drift, we're at the beach. A couple of weeks ago. 654 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,800 I decided I wanted a paddleboard couple of years, we've rented 655 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,000 them and I said, you know what, I want to get me a paddleboard. 656 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,300 We're going to take it to the beach and so we get one of those 657 00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:40,300 that you have to like inflate with a little pump. 658 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,200 And by the way it takes a long time it is a crazy workout to 659 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,300 inflate that thing. We got it all inflated though 660 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:48,700 get it out to the beach and Couple of calm days. 661 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:51,400 You know, standing up out there in the boys were having fun on 662 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,000 it. And so one day I went out to I 663 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,700 think it was just Courtney was out there on the beach with me 664 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,300 and I went out to where I could see. 665 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:01,700 The water was clear a little bit out and you can see way down in 666 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:04,200 there but really it wasn't that deep was maybe six or seven 667 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,700 feet. Deep 8 feet deep and so I got 668 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:08,700 out there and I thought man there's nobody here. 669 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:12,000 I'm just going to lay down on this paddle board just rest for 670 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,200 a minute. And so what I did is I took the 671 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,000 paddle and I extended it and I stuck it in the sand and kind of 672 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:17,900 wiggled it. Down. 673 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,500 And then it's laid down on my stomach on this paddle board. 674 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,500 Well, I kind of dozed off, I didn't mean to, and I dozed off. 675 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000 And I said, you know, even if I doze off, it'll be fine because 676 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,300 the water was pretty smooth. And I had this paddle dug in, 677 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,600 but all of a sudden I start here at guy, strange guy talking, 678 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,500 like, right beside my head like, hey bud. 679 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,700 And I open my eyes, the find that I'm in the middle of a 680 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:41,300 family about 50 yards down the beach. 681 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,900 And I was like, I'm so sorry like this guy was like you're 682 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:49,900 really weird so I'm floating right up in his face, you know. 683 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,000 It's like I'm so sorry. So I almost fall off the paddle 684 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,100 board and I get up on my knees and I'm like getting away from 685 00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:58,000 him. But here's the thing I thought 686 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,100 that I was anchored really good. I thought that I was like, 687 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,900 there's no way I'm gonna drift the, the waters calm, but but 688 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:06,800 what happened battles? Just slide along the bottom. 689 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,400 I didn't realize it's like 50 yards up the beach and the Lord 690 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,000 just kind of spoke to me as I was thinking about that story. 691 00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:17,000 Do, you know the danger of having no anchor or not having 692 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,400 the right anchor? Either one, it's this drift. 693 00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:23,500 The danger of not having an acre, it's drift. 694 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:26,500 So many people, I know, even Believers in life. 695 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:28,900 Listen it's not that you haven't heard about Christ. 696 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:32,000 It's just at some point in time maybe you Beat up or maybe that 697 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,600 addiction came back for that sin of the night or maybe you just 698 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,800 got so hurt by all the bad things. 699 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,400 You just said Jesus, I do believe and I hope that turns 700 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,500 out true. But we begin to Anchor ourselves 701 00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:44,900 to other things again and then I'll watch as people like me on 702 00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:48,900 the paddleboard drift away, the community that they need to be 703 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:52,500 in which is the church, the community of people who are all 704 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:55,199 wrestling and struggling and broken but need each other, they 705 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:59,600 drift away from it. Get hurt by small things, don't 706 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,500 agree with little small. Things. 707 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:04,300 We focus on Jesus but so many things, pull us away and we 708 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:06,500 begin to drift in one day. You wake up. 709 00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:09,100 And you know what I've learned, people feel all alone once 710 00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:13,500 you've drifted away. Or maybe you've been hurt before 711 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:15,900 and you said, you know what, God, I've not only church hurt, 712 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:18,200 but Lord life for you didn't let things turn out the way that I 713 00:35:18,207 --> 00:35:21,300 thought they should. And you may even have a right? 714 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:24,100 You may even go got it. Yeah, you could have done, you 715 00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:26,400 could have done it so much better from our perspective. 716 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,300 So do you know what they call is? 717 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,700 Today? Jesus Christ is the greatest 718 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:33,600 thing. You can ever anchor your life to 719 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:37,100 your money, can't save you, your friends can't save you. 720 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,100 Now friends, a great influence is not that they're not 721 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:41,900 important. Need to put good people around 722 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:43,300 you. But here's the thing, if you've 723 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:46,600 only just believed in, you've never truly anchored your soul 724 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,100 and started saying God, I'm going to put my faith in your 725 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:51,600 word and I'm gonna hold on to it. 726 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,900 Lord, when everybody starts trying to push me this way and 727 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:58,600 now Lord I'm I'm holding on and sometimes you may feel like 728 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,200 you're far from God to guess what, The Anchor Holds. 729 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:03,600 There's an old song we used to sing when I was little comes to 730 00:36:03,607 --> 00:36:07,100 mind The Anchor Holds this, the guy that used to sing about 731 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:09,000 every other week at I can't help them mind. 732 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,200 Go back to my childhood thinking About it man. 733 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,100 The Anchor Holds because you know what? 734 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,800 As I've gone through stuff in my life in the seasons where I've 735 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,600 said, God I'm gonna believe your promises my Lord has never let 736 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,100 me down. Sometimes I've had to have 737 00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:26,300 people remind me of this because I'll be struggling and I'll be 738 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:28,200 walking up going. You know what, you know what 739 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,700 God, I'll be real with you. There's been some Monday 740 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:33,100 mornings with the devil of get on me. 741 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:34,800 So bad. I'll go. 742 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,400 I'll have my hand on the hook. Maybe Courtney, I'll send me an 743 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,700 encouraging text or somebody will go. 744 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:43,200 Hey, I'm praying for you or the Lord will just show up in a 745 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,800 special way and I'm going. What am I doing, man? 746 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,200 Jesus is the anchor for my soul. We struggle with this, but can I 747 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,500 look at you as a Believer? If you're a believer in Jesus 748 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:55,700 Christ and just say today, have you truly anchored, every single 749 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:58,500 person gets to decide what the anchor to, that's the freedom of 750 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,000 this world. You get to decide. 751 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,100 That's the freedom of love, you. Get to the side. 752 00:37:04,100 --> 00:37:07,100 Have I really believe the promises of God that he is who 753 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:10,000 he says he is. Is that it will do what he said. 754 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,400 He will do something is firm. It's a firm foundation that 755 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,300 won't shake away like everything else does in this Earth. 756 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:26,500 So maybe today is for The Drifter that you mean I feel I 757 00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:28,500 can kind of preaching to the choir cause you came to church 758 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:34,500 today, but sometimes you can sit in a seat but inside, you can 759 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,100 go. Yeah, man, that's me, I keep 760 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,700 drifting this way and that way, and this way, do you know how 761 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:42,700 you come back and make sure your anchor is firm? 762 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,800 You just reaffirm your commitment to the Lord and go 763 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,200 back to his word and say, God, I want to put it to practice in my 764 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,800 life. So, maybe God brought you here 765 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,100 this morning and you weren't expecting this, but right now 766 00:37:56,100 --> 00:37:58,400 he's kind of nailing. Your heart said, you know what, 767 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,300 big boy you don't even have an anchor for your soul, you're not 768 00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:04,900 anchored to anything. You're flying around and your 769 00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:07,300 pride is keeping you from just going Jesus. 770 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:10,700 I see you clear enough, I don't understand everything and I 771 00:38:10,707 --> 00:38:13,700 don't know all about your but I see clear enough that you're the 772 00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:16,800 only anchor for my soul. You're the only God the stepped 773 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,800 out of heaven for me. Lord, I want to come. 774 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,800 Do you know how you do this? You simply coming. 775 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,400 Faith and say Jesus, I Surrender my life. 776 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,300 I'm ready for you to be my Lord and then as you walk out of here 777 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:30,000 you go with a chain that will never break. 778 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,800 That will never fade away. Something is firm. 779 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,700 It's a foundation. You can lean on. 780 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,100 Will you bow with me all over the house today? 781 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:43,100 Listen, if that's you Let me ask you a question. 782 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,000 Is anybody here you'd be willing to admit because I want to pray 783 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,800 for you say, Joe. I struggle. 784 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,900 I'm not sure my Acres always in Jesus, just raise your hand 785 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:52,900 right? Where y'all going to pray for 786 00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:53,900 you. Thank you. 787 00:38:53,908 --> 00:38:56,200 Keep it up. Keep it up right now only if you 788 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,000 got your hand up. Look at me, there's several you 789 00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,000 all over this room. Look at me. 790 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,800 You can put your hands down. I want you to look at me. 791 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,500 Listen, I want to pray for you right now. 792 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,600 Just that fact, it that you're willing to raise your hand. 793 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,600 And look at me, it means that I'm ready to put my anchor. 794 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,300 Jesus release, I'm wrestling with it. 795 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,000 So, here's what I want, you Do all over the room. 796 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,200 I want you to pray with me, I'm gonna pray for you guys. 797 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,400 Lord, there are so many today that said I struggle with drift 798 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,300 struggle and other things. Be the anchor for my soul. 799 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:26,200 So God, I just want to speak your truth Overlord. 800 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:27,800 You're working all things together. 801 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,900 You brought them to your house. Today, to do a work or let your 802 00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:34,600 word be the center of their lives. 803 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,000 Again, I pray the Holy Spirit, would remind them that we have 804 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,600 an anchor goddess. It is about truth, but it's also 805 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,000 about experience because we have your spirit to help us 806 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,700 experience your truth and to experience you. 807 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:49,900 And so God, I pray that even now Lord there would be decisions 808 00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:52,900 made in the hearts. That would be solid Lord to say, 809 00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:54,600 I'm ready? To be yours. 810 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,800 I'm ready to Anchor myself to you for every person. 811 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,100 God, let him come back to you today, completely fully and 812 00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:05,600 surrender. Listen, if you've never 813 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,200 surrendered your life to Jesus Christ, whether you watching 814 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,800 online, whether you sitting in this room today, listen, you can 815 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,900 do that. You can anchor yourself to him, 816 00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:17,100 but spy offering a prayer from your heart to the heart of got a 817 00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:21,300 prayer of honesty to same Jesus. I need an anchor. 818 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,000 I'm ready to surrender my life to you today. 819 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:31,600 I'm asking you to forgive me and to be the Lord of my life. 820 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:34,500 Will you save me? Lord, here I am. 821 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,000 Listen in that moment. He becomes your anchor if that's 822 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,100 you today. So Lord, we celebrate, what 823 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:42,400 you're doing in hearts and lives. 824 00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:46,400 God, I don't want to push or press or force people, but Lord, 825 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,000 I'm asking you to help us be free in this moment. 826 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:51,700 So here's what I want to challenge you with today, if 827 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,000 you're online watching, let us know that you just made a 828 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000 decision to put your faith in Jesus. 829 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,800 We're going to open the altar up this morning, just this front 830 00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:01,300 and listen, when we get up, don't let the enemy steal that 831 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:04,300 if, you know, I need to go and pray today to just nail it down 832 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,500 to say, Jesus. Thank you for being my anchor. 833 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,200 Me and a couple of our pastors are going to be down here too. 834 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,500 If you want to come and pray today, will you stand with us as 835 00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:16,700 we worship? Thank you for listening to the 836 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:19,700 Riverbend Church podcast. Learn more about who we are as a 837 00:41:19,707 --> 00:41:22,600 church and how to connect you can head over to our website 838 00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:24,100 Reverb in church, that lie.