1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:03,400 Well, good morning. Everyone is a wonderful day to 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,800 be here. It's good to see you all today. 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,000 We're thankful to have the chance to come together to as we 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,400 said no multiple times to magnify God together and we'll 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,200 Circle back around to that idea today. 6 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:17,400 But that should be our goal. Whenever we come to worship that 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,000 everything else will get smaller in relation to An Almighty God, 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,700 that deserves the praise and focus that we make our goal to 9 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:28,300 do today to bring our Focus to him and we're going to do that 10 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:30,300 partially today by studying and Hebrews. 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,800 It's chapter 12. We should finish the chapter 12 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,300 today. So, this is kind of second half 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,100 of about last time I spoke was on the first half of Hebrews, 14 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:43,000 chapter 12, and we're gonna continue on their roughly in 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,400 verse 18. So, I had to stop in the middle 16 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,600 of a whole flow of thought because of the next section was 17 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,200 going to take a little bit. So we're right in the middle of 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,500 Hebrews chapter, 12 this morning and just to get a little 19 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 momentum back from where we left off. 20 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,800 He had been talking about the importance of them, 21 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:09,200 understanding, how God could Chasin, correct, and guide them 22 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:11,200 in their faith. Now, they might have 23 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,200 difficulties, they might have pains. 24 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,100 It seemed until this in verse 11, it tells me that they were 25 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:18,000 going to be trained and training. 26 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,100 Involves difficult hard things where you are corrected in 27 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:24,200 their, in their faith and Hebrew specifically, they were 28 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,400 drifting, they were forgetting the things he said. 29 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:31,900 Tells them they were starting to slip away and part of their 30 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:37,200 correction was that they needed to be very focused and centered 31 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,700 on the god that they serve. And what is plan now says and 32 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:43,100 that's going to be kind of a theme as we run into these next 33 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:47,800 verses but after telling them the importance of handling God's 34 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:52,400 correction in the right way, he says, therefore because you need 35 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,300 to handle God's correction like a true son. 36 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,200 A true. Son is discipline by Father, 37 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,600 therefore strengthen the hands which hang down and the feeble 38 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,500 knees, the people who are weak around you, the Brethren their 39 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,800 week around you, strengthen them down there, strengthen them up 40 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:11,400 and help make straight paths for your feet. 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,500 So that what is lame, may not be dislocated. 42 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:18,100 We don't need any members of the body dislocated, but we want 43 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:21,400 everyone to be healed, pursue peace with all people and 44 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,700 Holiness without, which no one will see the Lord. 45 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,300 Verse 15 looking carefully, lest anyone falls short of the grace 46 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:32,800 of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up cause 47 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,700 trouble? And by this many become defiled 48 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:39,700 lest there, be any fornicator or profane person remember profane 49 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,700 was something that is common East Side was a common man. 50 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,900 Why? Because he saw the promises of 51 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:48,200 God. And he for one morsel of food, 52 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:53,000 for one little bit of fleshly satisfaction sold his Birthright 53 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,600 for, you know, that afterward when he To inherit the blessing, 54 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,600 the blessing from his father Isaac. 55 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,900 He was rejected for, he found no place for repentance though. 56 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:05,400 He sought it diligently with tears. 57 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:09,800 And the point we made last week was that Esau gave up his 58 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,400 Birthright, and we need to be careful. 59 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,600 Not to give up our spiritual birth, right? 60 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:19,200 Our Hope Of Heaven. So leading into Hebrews chapter 61 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:25,400 12, verse 18, so we need to be careful of this for you have Not 62 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,200 come to the mountain. That may be touched and that 63 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,900 burned with fire and to Blackness and darkness and a 64 00:03:31,908 --> 00:03:34,100 tempest. So everything we've led up to 65 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:36,800 the fact that they need to leave, but they need to not 66 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,200 leave behind their faith in their hope. 67 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,000 And Jesus, the fact that they need to not leave behind 68 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,300 everything they've learned is because they want to serve the 69 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:50,000 god, that they have come to know and they want to go back to the 70 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,800 Old Testament. The Old Testament was worried 71 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,100 about this situation. When Moses went up, Mount Sinai 72 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,300 and word god, met them on the mountain. 73 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,400 It was a scary sight but he's telling them, it's not like it 74 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,400 used to be, that's not the god that you're coming too right 75 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,600 now, it's the same God but it's not the situation that we are 76 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,200 meeting him out for you have not come to this mountain that 77 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,800 burned with fire in a Blackness and darkness and a tempest and 78 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,000 the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,100 who heard it begged, that the word should not be spoken to 80 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:25,500 them anymore. He says this isn't This isn't 81 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:29,100 the situation you're coming to for, they could not endure. 82 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:32,400 What was commanded these people in the Old Testament and it was 83 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,300 told them was if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it 84 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:38,700 shall be stoned or shot with an arrow. 85 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:41,100 Okay. If you're jumping into this and 86 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:43,500 you've never read this then like this might sound a little weird 87 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:47,800 but stay with it. And so terrifying was the site. 88 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:52,100 This presence of God were God met the mountain and he just he 89 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:55,000 set a boundary says don't come here as his serious. 90 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:59,600 It was so terrifying that Moses said I'm exceedingly afraid and 91 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,900 trembling Moses was was, the was the go-between, he was the one 92 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:08,000 who was a, he was a faithful follower of God and even him, 93 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:13,200 even he said I'm terrified. So if you're not familiar with 94 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,800 this, let's take a little step back, just to show you Exodus 95 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,800 chapter 18 verse 10. It says, then the Lord said to 96 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,800 Moses, go to the people and consecrate them today and 97 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,600 tomorrow basically make them ready. 98 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,100 Prepare them set them apart. Part and let them wash their 99 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:30,500 clothes, the cleansing and let them be ready for the third day 100 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:33,600 for on the third day. The Lord will come down upon 101 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,900 Mount Sinai in the sight of all people, you shall set bounds for 102 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:40,400 the people. All around saying, take heed to 103 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,700 yourselves and watch out that. You do not go up to the mountain 104 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:47,000 or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain 105 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,500 shall be surely, put to death. Not a hand. 106 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:53,100 Shall touch him, so don't even go out there and get him. 107 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:55,100 Don't even go out there yourself and retrieve him. 108 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:57,700 Him. But he shall surely be stoned or 109 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:00,700 shot with an arrow, whether man or beast. 110 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,000 He shall not live. When the trumpet sounds long, 111 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,100 they shall come near the mountain. 112 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:10,000 So no just went down for the mountain, to the people, and 113 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,100 sanctify, the people, and they wash their clothes. 114 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,300 And he said to the people be ready for the third day, do not 115 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:18,600 come near your wives, then it came to pass on the third day in 116 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,000 the morning that there were Thunders and Lightnings and a 117 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,200 thick Cloud on the mountain and the sound of the trumpet was 118 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,300 very loud. So that all the people who are 119 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:30,800 in the camp trembled and Moses brought the people out of the 120 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,100 camp to meet with God and they stood at the foot of the 121 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:38,700 mountain. Put yourself in the shoes of 122 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:40,400 people seeing this happen right now. 123 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,800 Seeing it on Mighty God in the in the way that he chose to meet 124 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,000 them in this instance God has chosen many different ways to 125 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,100 express himself and in this situation it's with power and 126 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:58,600 with fear Now Mount Sinai was completely in Smoke because the 127 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,100 Lord descended upon it in fire, it's smoke ascended like the 128 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,200 smoke of a furnace and the whole Mountain quaked greatly. 129 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,800 I've never been on a, I've really never even felt an 130 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,900 earthquake, it's kind of crazy living in the state's been 131 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:13,900 through so many never felt them. I can't imagine being on a 132 00:07:13,907 --> 00:07:17,500 mountain that is shaking and when the blast of the trumpet, 133 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:21,800 sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke and God 134 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,000 answered him by voice, then the Lord came down. 135 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,100 On upon Mount Sinai on the top of the mountain and the Lord 136 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:33,100 Called Moses to the top of the mountain and Moses went up. 137 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,300 Now it goes on the same the next chapter. 138 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,600 In all the people witness this, they saw the thunderings, the 139 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,200 Lightning's the flashes, the sound of the trumpet and the 140 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,500 mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they 141 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:46,400 trembled. And they stood afar off, they 142 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,700 respected. The danger of it, then they said 143 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:53,300 to Moses you speak with us and we will hear, but let not God. 144 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:56,200 Speak with us less, we die and Hebrews. 145 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,200 The Hebrew writer is saying, these people could not handle 146 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,200 it. They were terrified. 147 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,100 They were, they were overwhelmed and Jesus said to the people do 148 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:08,700 not fear for God, has come to test you and that his fear maybe 149 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:13,900 before you so that you may not sin. so the people stood afar 150 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:18,400 off, but Moses Drew near the thick Darkness where God was The 151 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,300 point of what he's saying here. He says, you haven't come to 152 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:25,700 this. You didn't come to this kind of 153 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:28,900 mountain. The whole point of Hebrews is 154 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:32,799 we're taking a step forward. Don't take a step backward to 155 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:38,400 this mountain, the place that we are coming to is a verse 22, the 156 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,700 grand reveal but you have come to Mount Zion. 157 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,700 Not Mount Sinai did was burning and terrifying. 158 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,600 You've come to Mount, Zion Mount Zion is a symbol of God's 159 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,700 Victory and the place where his people will have. 160 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,500 A meeting with him nouns Island into the city of the Living. 161 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:02,900 God, the heavenly Jerusalem. They saw Jerusalem as their holy 162 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:04,400 place. They wanted to go back to 163 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,100 Jerusalem to Judaism. This is all a part is 164 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,000 contrasting, it with what? They want to go back to. 165 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:14,700 Don't go to Mount Sinai. Don't go to Jerusalem, go to the 166 00:09:14,700 --> 00:09:19,500 Heavenly Mountain, Zion go to the Heavenly Jerusalem, to an 167 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:23,600 innumerable company of angels, we think were weird, I think. 168 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,400 Supposed to think about what he's already talked about. 169 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,400 In Hebrews right here, we've talked about the powder of 170 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,800 angels. And how one Angel here, and 171 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,500 there did a great thing. He says, you haven't come to one 172 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,900 Angel, who delivered the word or maybe two, who brought a 173 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:40,700 message, you've come to an innumerable and innumerable 174 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:45,300 company of angels to the general assembly and the Church of the 175 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,000 firstborn who are registered and Heaven. 176 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:53,700 To God, the judge of all to the spirits of just men made 177 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:58,300 perfect. He said the angels that you guys 178 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:03,000 revered because of their power and even the just men made 179 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,100 perfect who were revered in your past, and your history of 180 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:08,700 Judaism. All of these people. 181 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:13,100 If they really walked in faith and they were just men, you're 182 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:17,100 all coming to the same place. You're not leaving. 183 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,100 The girls of the people before you to move on to the New 184 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:25,000 Testament, they are coming to melt xylem. 185 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,100 They just came through a physical Jerusalem, you are as 186 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:31,300 Christians, you're not necessarily going through 187 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:33,800 Jerusalem anymore. It's not Judaism, but you are 188 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:38,400 going to the same Mountain, the same place to meet God because 189 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:42,900 you like them are trying to be just men who God makes perfect 190 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:47,600 and whole and Jesus Is What Makes Us whole and he is what 191 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,800 saves the people. Evil from the past, as well. 192 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:55,100 He emphasizes life, he emphasizes that it is a city of 193 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:56,600 the Living. God, we've talked a lot about 194 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,100 sacrificing death in this letter, but this is a city of 195 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:03,500 the Living God who brings life to the people. 196 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:09,300 All of this is part of the same plan, verse 24, you have come to 197 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:13,800 Jesus, the mediator of the New Covenant, and the blood of 198 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:18,200 sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. 199 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:20,100 Okay? So there's a couple of things to 200 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:22,800 point out here. This, this is an interesting 201 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:27,500 phrase that I had to study quite a bit and we'll we'll dive into 202 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:32,500 this phrase. What is the blood of Abel speak? 203 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:35,400 And I think there's two different things we could take 204 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,500 out of this. Some people emphasize one aspect 205 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:41,500 of this statement and other people emphasize another. 206 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:43,800 I'm going to share them both with you because I think they 207 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,600 both fit. I think they're both true. 208 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,500 And so which one is emphasizing right here? 209 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:52,300 You decide they're both true points. 210 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:57,700 So, when he says that the blood of Jesus speaks better than 211 00:11:57,700 --> 00:11:59,900 things than that of Abel. I think the first thing Thing, 212 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:04,300 he could be referring to is the blood of Abel's sacrifice. 213 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:07,700 So we learn from the Old Testament, you have Adam, who is 214 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:10,300 the first man than he had two sons Cain and Abel. 215 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,200 Cain offered a sacrifice of the field, but Abel offered a 216 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:19,900 sacrifice in faith of an animal, he sacrificed that animals life. 217 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:24,200 And so that animal was by, in some ways, one of the first, or 218 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:31,500 maybe the first sacrifice made, So he was the first man Abel was 219 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:34,700 born. Into a fallen world where he had 220 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:36,900 to kill an animal to sacrifice to God. 221 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:42,400 He was born into this Fallen World, where Adam, his father 222 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,700 had made a mistake that got them kicked out of the garden, but 223 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:50,200 Abel was in a fallen world. He didn't necessarily have a 224 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,600 response. He wasn't responsible for it. 225 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:57,900 And it was his responsibility to respond by killing something 226 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:00,400 that they had previously in the garden. 227 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:03,600 Had a peaceful relationship with, they didn't have to kill 228 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,600 animals in the garden for sacrifice. 229 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:08,600 And so this was not the ideal system. 230 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,300 God did not want a place where animals had to die for people's 231 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:17,200 sins to connect with God. So it was not the ideal system 232 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,800 and it was also an insufficient sacrifice, even the animals that 233 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,700 were brought before God and killed with, with this 234 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:29,100 sprinkling of blood, they were not sufficient sacrifices. 235 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,500 So where the blood of Abel wasn't so many different ways. 236 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:37,000 Not the intention of God from the beginning. 237 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:42,500 Jesus is sacrifice and the blood of Jesus speaks so much greater 238 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:47,900 things because as Abel. Sacrificed to a world that was 239 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:51,100 Fallen full of death. Jesus speaks life into a fallen 240 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:53,800 world where death and sin, had its way. 241 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:59,300 Jesus brings the life Jesus is sacrificed is to repair a world 242 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:03,900 that was broken. In the very beginning when man 243 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:07,300 sinned and was kicked out of the garden, Jesus brought life. 244 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,800 He also fixed an imperfect system. 245 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:14,400 Jesus ended the need of sacrifice. 246 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,400 That was continuing every year. The fact that Jesus put a stop 247 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:23,300 to this continual death, is such a blessing and it's brings no, 248 00:14:23,300 --> 00:14:25,500 it speaks to the life that Jesus brought. 249 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:31,300 And Jesus provided the perfect sacrifice that all those Lambs. 250 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,400 All those Bulls were not perfect. 251 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:38,200 Jesus brought a perfect sacrifice to fix an imperfect 252 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,700 system. And brought life to a world that 253 00:14:41,708 --> 00:14:44,500 was fallen. So I think in this sense Abel's 254 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:48,900 sacrifice or Jesus acts of sacrifice is so much greater 255 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:51,900 than Abel's literal sacrifice that he offered. 256 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:57,400 Okay, so I think that's one way that this Blood of Abel could 257 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,000 have factored in. So, that fact is true. 258 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,700 Jesus sacrifice is so much greater, but many people 259 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,500 emphasize how Abel's blood himself. 260 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:12,300 The blood of Abel in, in the fact that his brother killed 261 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:16,200 him. It's speaks something Jesus 262 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,100 speaks greater than the blood of Abel. 263 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:21,500 So let's let's dive into that for a minute in Genesis chapter 264 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:24,700 4. When, when Cain kills Abel, God 265 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:28,900 says to Cain, what have you done the voice of your brother? 266 00:15:28,900 --> 00:15:32,600 Abel's, blood cries out to me from the ground. 267 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,900 So there's this concept of Abel's blood speaking, something 268 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:42,900 and crying out, something from the day, and we learn, That 269 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:45,100 that, that cries, a terrible cry. 270 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:52,800 And this this idea of people who have died for their faith, 271 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,300 people who have died in faith is carried on Revelation chapter 10 272 00:15:57,300 --> 00:15:59,600 verse 19. It says, when he opened the 273 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,400 fifth seal, this is a lot of symbolic imagery. 274 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:03,700 We're not going to unpack all this. 275 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:07,000 But here's what happened. I saw under the altar, The Souls 276 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,500 of those who had been slain for the word of God. 277 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:13,500 And for the testimony, which they held and they cried aloud 278 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:17,500 with the loud voice saying, how long O Lord, holy and true until 279 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:21,000 you judge and avenge Enjoy our blood on those who dwell on the 280 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,300 earth. There's this picture of people 281 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:28,500 who have died crying out to God, their blood, and their loss 282 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:31,600 crying out to God, even in heaven, in a white world was 283 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,900 given to each of them. And it was said to them that 284 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:37,200 they should rest a little while longer until both the number of 285 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,400 their fellow servants and their Brethren who would be killed as 286 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,200 they were was completed. There's going to be a day where 287 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,100 this tragic stuff stops happening. 288 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,600 Okay, but there's this picture of crying out and death. 289 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,300 So the question is okay, if we're talking about Abel's 290 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:01,100 blood, the Martyr Abel who died because of his brother. 291 00:17:01,700 --> 00:17:05,099 If that's the blood that's crying out, what might that 292 00:17:05,099 --> 00:17:08,500 blood be safe? Number one, I think it cries out 293 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:10,500 Vengeance and justice for the innocent. 294 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:13,700 As we talked about in Revelation, how long before this 295 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:16,800 Justice gets brought all these terrible things that are 296 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,099 happening. How long? 297 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,599 and Abel's blood and Genesis for was crying out from the ground, 298 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:28,200 and speaks to the wrong that was done and Vengeance needing to be 299 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,500 taken because Of the terrible actor. 300 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,800 So cried out for vengeance and Justice, I believe. 301 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,900 But I also believe it cries out something else, and Hebrews 302 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:41,900 chapter 4, verse 11 verse 4. We've talked about this already 303 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:45,900 by faith Abel brought to God, brought got a better offering 304 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:49,200 than Cain by faith. He was commended as 305 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,300 righteousness when God still, when God spoke well of his 306 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:57,200 offerings and by faith Abel still speaks. 307 00:17:57,500 --> 00:18:00,000 Even those he's dead. So there it is again. 308 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,300 Now, phrase of Abel's blood, Abel's death him. 309 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:08,500 Still speaking, I think the second thing Abel's blood Cries 310 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:13,400 Out is righteousness and faithfulness to God despite the 311 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:18,800 evil of Cain, okay? So if Abel's, blood cries out 312 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:23,400 for vengeance and cries out for justice against against the 313 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,600 people who have done wrong for the innocent and it cries out 314 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:29,700 even speaks of righteousness in faithfulness. 315 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:35,100 Against evil. How does what Jesus did speak 316 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:39,100 better things than all of this terrible mess. 317 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:44,400 I believe number one that Jesus blood, Cries Out, mercy and 318 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,100 forgiveness. Where Vengeance would normally 319 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:51,000 take place? Because really, we all deserve 320 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,500 Vengeance and we all deserve justice against us. 321 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,400 Now, would not work well for us of Justice were to happen 322 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:00,700 because Justice would convict us of wrong. 323 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:03,700 It would find us guilty. We learned that all have sinned 324 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:05,300 and fallen short of the glory of God. 325 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:07,700 Whether we realize it this morning, we're there. 326 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,800 We care that much about it. Whether you're sitting in your 327 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,200 seat today and you care about that fact or not. 328 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,700 It's true. You are guilty. 329 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:22,200 I am guilty. So we don't want Justice even 330 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,800 though it might take care of her things wrongs, we've seen done, 331 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,600 it would take care of us, just as bad. 332 00:19:29,300 --> 00:19:33,600 So Jesus is blood speaks so much greater things because it cries 333 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,800 out, mercy and forgiveness. Even in the situation of Abel, I 334 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,800 was talking to somebody this week, you know, can you be 335 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:45,200 forgiven for murder? while yes Vengeance know the 336 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,100 legal system needs to do, what it does, God can forgive that, 337 00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:53,300 God can forgive And we should be so thankful for that Jesus blood 338 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:56,800 speaks so much greater things than even the Vengeance though. 339 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:01,600 It might be sweet as necessary. So Jesus blood is Chris speaks, 340 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,700 Greek speaks better things, concerning righteousness and 341 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:08,500 faithfulness, because even though able was good, even 342 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:12,700 though he was faithful to God, That alone is not going to save 343 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:14,600 him. Jesus blood speaks greater 344 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,400 things because that cries out, salvation and righteousness. 345 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,800 In a way that enables goodness. Abel's. 346 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,600 Faithfulness, never could have brought for himself. 347 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,100 So this verse to Jesus, the mediator of a New Covenant and 348 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:34,600 to the blood of sprinkling, Jesus is blood of sprinkling 349 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,800 that speaks so much better things than that of Abel, no 350 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,600 matter at what angle you want to. 351 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,600 Look at this app. Jesus blood speaks so much 352 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,900 greater things than the sacrifices that have been made 353 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,600 or even the blood that cries out from the ground. 354 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:55,000 Okay, verse 25, see that you do not refuse him who speaks for if 355 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,900 they did not Escape, who spoke, if they did not reach me, 356 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,100 starting it. If they did not Escape, who 357 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:05,400 refused him, who spoke on Earth. Much more, shall we not Escape 358 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,700 if we turn away from him, who speaks from Heaven, and the Old 359 00:21:08,700 --> 00:21:10,900 Testament? They were spoken through 360 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,400 prophets, we learned in the earlier, in this book. 361 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,900 How God spoke to them in many ways from Earth, and from 362 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:19,100 profits. So with, they did not Escape. 363 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,200 Ape. Who refused him. 364 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,600 Who spoke on Earth? Thank Moses in the wilderness. 365 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,300 The people who rebelled against Moses, the ground opened up and 366 00:21:27,300 --> 00:21:30,200 swallowed them. They did not escape the sons of 367 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,400 Korah. So if they did not Escape, how 368 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,800 shall we escape Us in the New Testament age? 369 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,400 If we turn away from him, who speaks from Heaven, Jesus came 370 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,700 down to earth and spoke to us on Earth. 371 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:49,000 And now, his call continues from Heaven, if you and I do. 372 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:51,500 Do not accept that and follow that today. 373 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,700 Do we really think we're going to have a chance to get away in 374 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:58,900 the judgment? Now this is a dark picture but 375 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:00,900 it's only dark. If you stay here, the other side 376 00:22:00,900 --> 00:22:05,100 is beautiful, but this is truth. This is love to tell everyone to 377 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:09,900 tell ourselves we will not Escape judgment if we do not 378 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:13,400 cling to Jesus, and if we do not cling to the new law that saves 379 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:18,700 us, Because he's speaking from Heaven, whose voice, then shook 380 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:21,800 the Earth. But now he has promised saying, 381 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:27,100 yet once more, I shake not only the Earth, but also heaven So 382 00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:30,200 this is referring to again from chapter 19 at tallest the 383 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,900 mountain quaked greatly. So, if the mountain quaked, he 384 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:38,300 says His voice then shook the Earth. 385 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:43,000 But now he has promised saying, yet once more, I shake not only 386 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:48,000 the Earth, but Heaven also. Now this yet once more indicates 387 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,400 the removal of things that are being shaken, as of things that 388 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,500 are made that the things which cannot be shaken May remain. 389 00:22:57,100 --> 00:23:00,100 So, what is this? This is a question I had. 390 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:02,400 What does it mean? Heaven is going to be shaken. 391 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,300 Does that mean the place where God dwells is going to be 392 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:07,900 affected by this great shake-up of everything? 393 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,800 If you look in haggai, Chapter 2, Verse 6, this is kind of the 394 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,300 connection. This, this quote here is being 395 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:19,000 connected to haggai, chapter 2, verse 6, where it says for thus, 396 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,700 says, the Lord of hosts. Once more is a little while, I 397 00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:26,700 will shake heaven and earth the Sea, and the dry land. 398 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,000 And I will shake All Nations, and they shall come to the 399 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,700 desire of all Nations, and I will fill this temple with Glory 400 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:37,800 says, the Lord of hosts. So this passage for context are 401 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,600 for understanding. What the, what Hebrews is 402 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,600 talking about, this passage is saying Heaven and Earth, the Sea 403 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,400 and the dry land. There's different words for 404 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,200 heaven. This Heaven is talking about the 405 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,100 sky. It's basically saying all 406 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:51,300 creation is going to be shaken up. 407 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:54,400 Heaven year of the sea and all dry land. 408 00:23:54,400 --> 00:24:01,000 So, If everything is going to be shaking the ground that you 409 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000 stand on the ground that you walk on today in the sky, that 410 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,400 you look up to, if all that's going to be shaken, we should 411 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,700 hold on to things that cannot be shaken. 412 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:14,700 Hold on to Hope. Hold on to faith and promises 413 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,900 because verse 28, therefore, since we are receiving a 414 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:23,600 kingdom, which cannot be shaken. We are receiving a kingdom. 415 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:30,200 That cannot be shaken. And these people probably were 416 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,300 shaken in a lot of ways at this point. 417 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:42,000 Let us have Grace by which we may serve God acceptably with 418 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:48,800 reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire at this 419 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:53,100 point, these people who are hearing this letter are either 420 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:55,800 so dull that they're not hearing God's command in there. 421 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:00,100 Just inattentive, you know, hearing this letter, maybe there 422 00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:02,700 was being read from the audience and they're sleeping in their 423 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:05,700 seats. Or if they were taking it to 424 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:09,600 heart, they were shaken. Their faith was shaken. 425 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:14,700 By hearing these this wake-up call, maybe they were shaking 426 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:17,000 because of this great warning and realizing where they were 427 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000 out, or maybe their faith was shaken before the letter, 428 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,100 whatever the cases, these people were shaken up. 429 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,000 And they need to understand and refocus this whole part of this 430 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,200 section of the letter is refocusing them on a, on a great 431 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:35,900 God. And this is where I was wanting 432 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:39,900 to reference that verse in Psalm 34, Verse 3, where the psalmist 433 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:44,900 said, o magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name 434 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:47,200 together. So that we're magnifying, I 435 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,300 always read over it. And then in the songs I read 436 00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:52,600 over it. But magnifying something, if you 437 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,500 take a magnifying glass to it is to make that one thing bigger 438 00:25:55,500 --> 00:26:01,400 than everything else by choice. Relative to the things that are 439 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,800 rounded. So, if I take a magnifying glass 440 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:09,200 to a bug, I'm choosing to see the details to focus and make 441 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,900 this thing bigger. So I can zoom in on that and 442 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:15,400 make my field of view more consumed by that thing, as 443 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,000 Christians as humans. Who are living this Human 444 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,700 Experience. We have the choice. 445 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:25,500 What we're going to focus on. We can exalt God, we can focus 446 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,800 our attention on God and make him bigger, and zoom in to 447 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:33,100 examine his Lowering in the lift him up or we can choose to let 448 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:36,600 him slip into the mundane slip into the things that don't 449 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:41,300 matter in our life. Perspective is such a 450 00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:45,300 fascinating thing. There's a song with the with the 451 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:48,200 lyrics. It's a o meno, earthborn Cloud 452 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,200 arise to hide thee from thy servants eyes. 453 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:58,900 The song is saying, I don't want anything from Earth to get in 454 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:03,600 the way of me seeing you. God to me focusing on you, 455 00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:07,300 because I don't want those things, those Earthly clouds, 456 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:12,200 those Earthly, whatever can get in our way to hide God from our 457 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,500 own site. We don't want anything to get in 458 00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:18,300 the way of being able to see him because as this picture shows 459 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:21,700 really, you can put your thumb up to the sun and the Sun goes 460 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:24,500 away. You cannot see the sun behind 461 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:26,000 your thumb if you put it at the right angle. 462 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:28,400 Does that mean the sun is not big? 463 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:30,800 Does that mean the sun is not powerful? 464 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:33,700 Does that mean my thumb is bigger than the Sun or that I 465 00:27:33,700 --> 00:27:37,200 can really stop the sun. No it's perspective. 466 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:42,600 I can let things in my perspective, get in the way of 467 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,200 the greatness. That is there? 468 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:51,100 It is our job to magnify God and our week coming to church once a 469 00:27:51,108 --> 00:27:53,800 week is not enough to magnify the Lord in our hearts. 470 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:57,700 He will slip into the details into the mundane if we let it 471 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,700 myself included and this is something I want to work on this 472 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:03,900 week. Magnifying the Lord however I 473 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:09,600 can And this is what they needed to be reminded of to focus on 474 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,600 The God Who had this master plan from the beginning because they 475 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,600 were slipping into their view of what God was God was Old 476 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:21,600 Testament, God was this, God was sacrifices, but God wants to 477 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,400 point them. Back to him and to what he tells 478 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,400 them, their face should be grounded on. 479 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:33,700 He says let us have Grace because of this, let us have 480 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:35,900 Grace. Now some people say this means 481 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:39,400 let us be grateful. Let us show Grace in our hearts 482 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:42,100 and that's true. We should be grateful because of 483 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:46,500 that and that will help us serve God acceptably acceptably with 484 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:50,800 reverence and godly fear. But others emphasize that this. 485 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,900 Let us have Grace means more to let us have and hold on to 486 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,900 Grace, let us clean closely to it. 487 00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:04,700 That we can serve God acceptably with reverence and fear and I 488 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:13,100 think those are both true. Sometimes it feels like we 489 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:17,400 cannot serve God acceptably sometimes, you know, our own 490 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,800 insecurities, our own perspective, makes it feel like 491 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,200 we cannot serve God in an acceptable way. 492 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:28,000 But God tells us that we can serve him acceptably with 493 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:33,400 reverence and godly fear. So may we may we fight that 494 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,500 desire or that thing that stirs up in our hearts too. 495 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,100 To demean what we can do in the sight of God, we can serve God 496 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:45,400 acceptably in this life, part of that includes receiving the 497 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:51,800 kingdom, accepting it, accepting the grace of God, and with 498 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,800 reverence and godly fear serving him. 499 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:59,100 However, he asks We can serve God acceptably, and it's 500 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:01,300 important because he is a consuming fire. 501 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,600 He is still the great God of the Old Testament, but he's 502 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,800 revealing himself in this Grand way with Jesus and the Heavenly 503 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,100 Jerusalem and a better Covenant. I'll make one more point on 504 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:15,900 this. I want to caution us against a 505 00:30:15,908 --> 00:30:19,400 mistake, I have made and that I think sometimes we can fall into 506 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,900 easily in this. I've underlined let us have 507 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:29,300 Grace Let us hold on to Grace. It is true that we need to 508 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:34,000 always maintain a balance, understanding Grace's role in 509 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,700 our lives, and our responsibility. 510 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:42,600 As followers of God, we must both wholeheartedly serve God, 511 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,200 the whole heartedly understand that we cannot earn this. 512 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:50,300 We cannot deserve this, we cannot able SAG, we cannot do a 513 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:55,000 righteous Abel, Works enough to save ourselves and I've said in 514 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,100 the past, I've talked about over emphasizing Grace as a problem. 515 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:05,000 And that comes from a desire to counteract people who D 516 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,600 emphasize the importance of our own efforts in our life, our own 517 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,700 works, you know, because we cannot, we've only been learning 518 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:14,100 from this letter. We cannot see God without 519 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:18,700 Holiness, Holiness is following God and living out the fruits of 520 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:22,800 the spirit. So we cannot leave behind either 521 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,600 Grace or our own role in Walking in the spirit. 522 00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:31,200 And I think sometimes we can say, you know, they focus too 523 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,200 much on Grace or they maybe I should say different. 524 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,700 Sometimes we say they overemphasize Grace but I don't 525 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:38,900 think Grace can be over emphasized enough. 526 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:42,700 We just have to make sure there's a good balance. 527 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:47,000 We have to we can't D emphasize Grace in order to make the 528 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,100 balance, right? We have to emphasize Grace and 529 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:53,300 emphasize our responsibility as Christians may. 530 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:56,800 We be careful not to undermine or ever. 531 00:31:57,100 --> 00:31:59,600 Downplay the grace of God because we need it so 532 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:04,000 desperately and so completely and if we start doing that we 533 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,100 may unintentionally undermine God's grace. 534 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,200 In our own hearts, are in the hearts of others. 535 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,900 This concludes this chapter and I want to just read a section 536 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:19,700 from Romans chapter 8. This is Drew my attention to 537 00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:23,000 Romans chapter 8 in the beauties that are conveyed about the 538 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,700 gospel there in verse 8, it says there is therefore now no 539 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:30,600 condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk 540 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,300 according to the flesh. But according to the spirit for 541 00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:38,500 the law of the spirit of life in Christ, Jesus has made me free 542 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:42,700 from the law of sin and death for what the law could not do in 543 00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:43,500 that. It was weak. 544 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,000 The flesh God did by sending his own son in the likeness of 545 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,600 sinful Flesh on account of sin. He condemned sin in the flesh 546 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,800 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in 547 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,500 us, who do not walk, according to the flesh. 548 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:03,000 But, according to the spirit, For those who live, according to 549 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,300 the flesh, set their minds on things of the flesh. 550 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:09,500 But those who live, according to the spirit, the things of the 551 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:13,100 spirit for to be carnally, minded is death but to be 552 00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:15,000 spiritually. Minded is life and peace. 553 00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:16,800 I switched these slides on accident. 554 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,500 So this is I want back these are out of order because the carnal 555 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:24,700 mind is enmity against God for. It is not subject to the law of 556 00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:30,600 God nor indeed can be Go down to verse 23, we ourselves groan 557 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,900 within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the 558 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:37,300 Redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope 559 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:39,800 but hope that is seen is not hope for. 560 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,900 Why does one still hope for what he sees. 561 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:47,500 But if we hope for what we do, not see, we eagerly wait for it 562 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:52,100 with perseverance. Who verse 35, who shall separate 563 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:56,100 us from the love of Christ. We've come to this Mount, Zion, 564 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:59,300 we've come to this, great city of the Living God and God is 565 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:01,700 here for us. All and all of his great power. 566 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,800 Who shall separate us from this love, shall tribulation, shall 567 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,300 distress or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or Peril or 568 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,800 sword at his rating as it is written for your sake. 569 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,600 We are killed all day long. We are accounted as sheep for 570 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,300 the slaughter. That's kind of a, that's a 571 00:34:19,308 --> 00:34:21,000 unique connection to the able there. 572 00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:24,600 Yet in all these things, we are more than conquerors through 573 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,199 him. Who loved us for? 574 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:29,699 I am persuaded that neither death, nor life nor angels nor 575 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:33,100 persevere principalities nor powers nor things present. 576 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:36,100 Aunt, nor things to come nor height nor depth, nor any other 577 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,400 created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of 578 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:46,100 God, which is in Christ Jesus, our lord, our God is a consuming 579 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:49,600 fire. But he is also a God who 580 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,300 welcomes us into his presence. He was Schurz us of our 581 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:57,300 Salvation in him and we should be persuaded that, no matter 582 00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:59,900 what happens. We should put our trust in him 583 00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:04,100 and focus on him and our focus on Jesus because nothing can 584 00:35:04,100 --> 00:35:08,100 separate us from him except ourselves in our own decisions. 585 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:13,100 May we serve God acceptably this week with reverence and fear 586 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:17,100 that we devote ourselves to him in the way that he asks and will 587 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:19,500 close. Chapter at the end of chapter 588 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:21,400 12. Next time to continue on in 589 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,300 chapter 13. If you have started this walk, 590 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,800 or if you've never started this walk as a Christian part of that 591 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:33,100 acceptable Services, taking seriously his commands, it's 592 00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:37,700 taking seriously, what he asks of us and not D, emphasizing 593 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:40,600 their over emphasizing your where we might say anything. 594 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,500 Against one another, we're told we got here, the word we're 595 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:45,400 told. We have to believe that we have 596 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,700 to repent and change our lives so that we can live in the 597 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:52,000 spirit as we read in Romans. So we can live an acceptable 598 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000 life and ultimately Mately a life that's better for us as 599 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,400 well and we can be baptized for the remission of sin. 600 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,200 We can confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and be 601 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,000 baptized for the remission of our sins. 602 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,900 And once we've done that, if we mess up, if you're here today 603 00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:08,000 and you've been added to the church but you want to make 604 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,400 things, right? Our God tells us we are welcome 605 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,600 to ask for forgiveness and you can take care of that in your 606 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,100 seat, but if you would like some help with that this morning, if 607 00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:19,400 you would like to lift the burdens off of yourself and help 608 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,900 and give them to the congregation so that we can help 609 00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:24,300 in any way, please. Please come forward this morning 610 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:27,600 while we standings. We thank you for listening to 611 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:32,400 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 612 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,000 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 613 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,300 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 614 00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:44,700 correspondence, course by mail. 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