1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,200 Well, good morning everyone. It is a great day to be here 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,300 together. I've enjoyed this worship so 3 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:08,300 far, very much thank you to the song leaders and those who like 4 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:10,800 prayers for those participants in your seat. 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,200 I am thank you to Chris for leading that song. 6 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:17,500 I think it paints a beautiful picture of the whole crucifixion 7 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:20,800 scene, and it definitely has my mind in the right place this 8 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,600 morning. So thank you for being here. 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,200 It's great to see everyone. Today, we have a few visitors. 10 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,800 It's, it's great to be with you today to worship Our God 11 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,200 together. Today we're going to be studying 12 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:36,000 from Hebrews chapter 5 and in this chapter we're going to be 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,300 building on as everything has in this letter, the previous 14 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:43,200 chapters, the previous everything that's come before 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,900 this in the book of Hebrews. So we'll do a quick review but 16 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:49,500 we're going to try to plug through quite a few verses today 17 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:53,600 and let the context do the work. So if you want to get your 18 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,600 Bibles out with me, will be pretty much we spending most of 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,700 our time Hebrews and you Can follow along their, I'll be 20 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:05,400 using the new American Standard. So it's a just a little bit 21 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,600 different than the new King James, but it's should be pretty 22 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,500 easy to read easy to understand for us. 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,500 So, typically, I read the whole chapter, we're going to go 24 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:16,800 through, but in order to save time, I'm just going to go 25 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,700 through it, verse by verse to start. 26 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,300 So Hebrews chapter 5 leading up to this. 27 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:25,200 We just covered Hebrews chapter 4. 28 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,500 Last time I spoke and in the book of Hebrews, we've covered 29 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:32,800 these main ideas so far. The fact that number one and 30 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,100 chapter one. Jesus is divine. 31 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:38,500 Then we went on to talk about how Jesus is greater than those 32 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:42,600 great, and awesome Angels even those Destroying Angels Jesus is 33 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,600 greater than them. Jesus is now greater than the 34 00:01:45,607 --> 00:01:48,700 prophets. This is quite a large section of 35 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:51,600 the book of Hebrews talking about how he is greater than the 36 00:01:51,607 --> 00:01:54,100 prophets. He's the Fulfillment of the Old 37 00:01:54,100 --> 00:01:57,900 Testament, but yet he is soup. He supersedes even the Old 38 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:00,900 Testament, people and the actions there. 39 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:04,000 So, in the book of Hebrews, we've come this far. 40 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,600 And last time, that the immediate context is a couple of 41 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,800 verses, I'll read from chapter 4 verse It for of Joshua had given 42 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,800 them rest. He would not have spoken of 43 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,700 another day after that. So there remains a Sabbath rest 44 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:22,200 for the people of God, for anyone who enters God's rest 45 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,700 also rests from their works just as God did from his, let us 46 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:29,400 therefore make every effort to enter that rest. 47 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:34,800 So that no one will perish by by following their example of 48 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,900 Disobedience. Then he goes on to say, 49 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:41,100 therefore since we have a great high priest this Jesus Who has 50 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:44,400 passed through the heavens who has come down to us and who has 51 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,500 gone back to God. Jesus, the son of God, let us 52 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:52,300 hold fast our confession, hold on, tight, and grow for. 53 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:55,800 We do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our 54 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:01,100 weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are 55 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:04,500 yet without sin. So this is the immediately 56 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:07,700 preceding verses remember, the original writers didn't put 57 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:09,200 versus, so there's no break here. 58 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,600 This is a continuation of I thought. 59 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:16,700 And so, we move right on into Hebrews chapter 5, verse 1 for 60 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:21,000 every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf 61 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,200 of men and things pertaining to God. 62 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:29,400 So, before we jump in to the extensive, this study, this 63 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,500 topic of the priesthood keeps coming up. 64 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,100 And not everyone who reads this as familiar with it, with what a 65 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:37,200 priest was. Now everyone in here, has an 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,700 extensive knowledge of the Old Law. 67 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:42,900 And so just for a A quick background. 68 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:46,000 We learned last week when Shah hey taught us about, he gave us 69 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,100 a pretty big overview of the whole Bible. 70 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:52,100 And we talked about how Adam and Eve were kind of a type of 71 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:56,400 priests in the garden working. Before the Lord, then in the Old 72 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,800 Testament, the priests were those who were designated to 73 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,100 serve in God's house. They were the, the tribe of Levi 74 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:07,300 or Levis family his descendants. And then now in the New 75 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:10,300 Testament, we're told that we are a kingdom of priests. 76 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,100 One of us here, who is a member of gods. 77 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:17,700 Family is a kingdom of priests, but simply put the role of a 78 00:04:17,707 --> 00:04:23,300 priest is someone who goes to God on behalf of man, and 79 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:26,600 connects with man on behalf of on behalf of God. 80 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,000 That's a simple concept. It's a connection to the Divine. 81 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:34,900 Now, this isn't unique to Christianity though, and I think 82 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:37,600 it's something that God put inside of us to understand it's 83 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,900 a natural law or a natural desire to Have someone to help 84 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:46,000 us understand the Divine to connect to the Divine you. 85 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,200 It doesn't matter what religion, you go to or even really, what 86 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,500 spirituality because some people aren't don't consider themselves 87 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,400 religious, but maybe they're a spiritual person. 88 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,400 They're in tune with spiritual things. 89 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,700 They might say, they still go to maybe a yogi. 90 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,200 Maybe someone goes to a shaman, they go to another religions. 91 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:10,700 You have the, the Dalai Lama for Buddhism, you have the pcre. 92 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,500 You have different levels of people who act as a go-between 93 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:18,200 between God, and man, supposedly. 94 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:21,900 And so, the priest in the Old Testament is this is this 95 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:25,300 fulfillment someone who had helped man, understand God, and 96 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:30,000 his word, and would help man offer sacrifices in the Old 97 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Testament. And now connect to God today, 98 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,200 just like we do. So very simple concept. 99 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:38,300 Someone needs to go between, man and God. 100 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,700 So Jesus was not just a priest. He Was the high priest. 101 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:46,000 So he started out in verse 14, every high priest taken from 102 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,800 among men is appointed on behalf of men and things pertaining to 103 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,900 God. So Aaron was the first high 104 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:55,200 priest. He was appointed by God and 105 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,500 place of Moses, he was appointed by God for this role and so the 106 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:00,900 high priest. Don't choose this for 107 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:04,500 themselves. No, God appoints them in order 108 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:08,200 to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, that was 109 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,800 the role of the high priest in the Old Testament to off. 110 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:16,300 Gifts and sacrifices for sins. It was also though that he could 111 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:19,700 deal gently with the ignorant and misguided. 112 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:21,700 This is the way The New American Standard. 113 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:24,900 Words it the new King James and several others word it, the 114 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:28,000 ignorant and I think gone astray. 115 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:30,300 So we'll talk about that difference in just a minute. 116 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:34,500 He can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided since he 117 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:37,400 also himself has beset with weaknesses. 118 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:40,800 Now, this is a beautiful concept that I think has been tarnished. 119 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:44,000 Act a little bit when we think of religious leaders, a lot of 120 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,600 times, it's it's muddy with the idea that we've seen in the 121 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,700 world and especially people who don't have a religious 122 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:53,900 affiliation. They've got a really muddy 123 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:55,600 tainted idea. Of what a religious leader 124 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,400 should be. We hear so much of corruption 125 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:03,000 and, and relate and religious Elite or corruption with church 126 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,900 leaders. Where they were stealing money, 127 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:09,400 or maybe they were committing inappropriate acts, they were 128 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,400 getting that scan. Dalls this. 129 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,600 And that we, there's a lot of. What's the word? 130 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:20,400 There's a lot of shady Behavior. We've seen from church leaders, 131 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,500 who've taken advantage of their role, but that's not the role of 132 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:25,700 God designed, and it's really beautiful. 133 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:29,000 When you read it, even from the Old Testament, he was one who 134 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,700 went to God offering sacrifices, and he was designed to be 135 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:36,500 someone who wasn't just high and mighty about the people, but he 136 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:40,000 was with them enough to be gentle with them. 137 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,200 And I think it's important to understand God's design for this 138 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:49,800 role for a spiritual leader, because it's not the the nasty 139 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,800 role that we've seen it becoming in many circles. 140 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:56,400 God has designed a beautiful system even from the beginning 141 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,000 of time, even when maybe in the Old Law and the old days, we 142 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,000 would have considered that to be a hard time, an eye for an eye 143 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,300 time, where there's a lot of Wars there was a lot of things 144 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:11,300 going on that, that we look. Back and say man, we have it 145 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:14,100 easy now for survival in many things like that. 146 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,700 Even in a time like that God didn't Overlook the need for his 147 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:23,500 leaders to be gentle with his people. 148 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,100 And now he's and now he's taking this and he's showing us Jesus 149 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:31,700 and light of this concept since he himself is also beset with 150 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:33,900 weaknesses. That's why the high priest can 151 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:38,900 understand and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices 152 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:42,500 for sins. As for the people. 153 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:45,400 So also for himself. So, the high priest didn't just 154 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,500 go. All you poor guys down there 155 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:50,500 with your immorality and sin, know he was doing it for himself 156 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:53,800 to it was for him. But is different for Jesus, 157 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,600 because Jesus never sinned. Now, I underlined these words, 158 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:02,100 ignorant and misguided and this is kind of a side point. 159 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:04,400 So we'll kind of take a pause and talk about this for a 160 00:09:04,408 --> 00:09:07,000 minute. When I think about those who are 161 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,400 lost, sometimes I have a view of them. 162 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:15,500 I don't think I should have He points out here that people can 163 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:19,000 be ignorant and misguided. Now, this word ignorant, doesn't 164 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,700 mean you have a hard heart necessarily. 165 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,100 Ignorance just means you don't know something about it. 166 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:27,900 I think is Mark Twain that said we're all ignorant, just about 167 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:30,600 different things. We all have a lack of 168 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,400 understanding and we could all especially be misguided. 169 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,300 I like the way, the New American Standard, where did that the 170 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:40,800 other word is maybe gone astray, but it has a connotation either 171 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,000 way you look at the translation. Of being misled or being 172 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,600 misguided. And this is a concept that we 173 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,600 can see throughout the Bible and Romans chapter 10 verse 14. 174 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,900 It says how then will they call on him in whom they have not 175 00:09:55,900 --> 00:09:59,100 believed, how will they believe in him whom they have not heard? 176 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:01,200 And how will they hear without a preacher? 177 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,400 How will they preach, unless they are sent? 178 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,500 How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good, good news 179 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:12,500 of good things so people can be ignorant in the world. 180 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,500 Old, but I think we got to be careful. 181 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:16,500 Not to look at the world like it's just a bunch of people who 182 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:20,100 don't never want the gospel. We can be ignorant ourselves. 183 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:24,200 And so, especially if you're ignorant of this, that's the job 184 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,100 of God's people specifically, its mentioning of the high 185 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:31,300 priest minutes and gods people's job to help with ignorance and 186 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:35,300 those who are misguided and this one, especially I want to talk 187 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:38,200 about for Roman from Jeremiah chapter 23. 188 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:42,700 This idea of being misguided, really hit home for me when 189 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:46,100 Oakdale was doing the eldership study and we were talking a lot 190 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:49,100 about the role of a Shepherd. The Shepherd and the elders 191 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:51,600 described as one. Who should be a Shepherd helping 192 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,000 the people along. And in that process, I came 193 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,300 across this verse in the study of that. 194 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,900 And Jeremiah chapter 23, it says this. 195 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:06,900 God's people had gone all astray were committing sin, but in the 196 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:10,300 middle of all that, it says woe to the Shepherds who are 197 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:14,400 destroying and scattering the Sheep of my pasture, declares 198 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,700 the Lord. Therefore thus says, the Lord 199 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:19,200 God of Israel concerning the Shepherds who are attending my 200 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,200 people, you have scattered, my flock and driven them away and 201 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,400 have not attended to them behold. 202 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,600 I'm about to tend to you for the for you. 203 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:31,700 For the evil of your Deeds, declares the Lord in the midst 204 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:35,500 of a Nation who has Off. And who is sinning, God? 205 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:39,200 Went after the Shepherds who are misleading the people. 206 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:43,700 He says, I'm going to come down on them verse 3, then I myself 207 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:46,900 will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries 208 00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:49,900 where I have driven them and bring them back to their Pastor. 209 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:53,400 I believe this is a prophecy of Jesus to come New Testament and 210 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,500 they will be fruitful. And multiply I will also raise 211 00:11:56,500 --> 00:12:00,200 up Shepherds over them and they will tend them and they will not 212 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,700 be afraid longer nor be terrified. 213 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:06,500 Nor will any be missing declares the Lord God was going to come 214 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:09,300 back and get them and Shepherd them himself Jesus. 215 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:13,000 Did that? Jesus came down himself and saw 216 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,500 a bunch of leaders who had misled his people. 217 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,900 And he was frustrated angry with it, and he said, I'm going to 218 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:21,300 come down myself and I'm going to leave my people, and I'm 219 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:27,300 going to Shepherd my flock. And the point is until we have 220 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:32,400 compassion for the misguided, we will just be bitter against the 221 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,100 world. We're going to have an 222 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:36,700 us-versus-them mentality. We're going to throw mental 223 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:39,000 grenades out of this building at them. 224 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:43,400 But our job is to have compassion on the ignorant and 225 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,600 misguided to know that we ourselves could be in there. 226 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,100 Same shoes, what we want. God's will is for his people, 227 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:54,500 not to just know what to share with compassion. 228 00:12:55,500 --> 00:13:00,200 So the world can know, because if we are see the world as a 229 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,500 world full of people who don't want it, what kind of life is 230 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:07,200 that to live, is that really the gospel driver? 231 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:10,700 I was talking earlier, I heard Isaac say, you know, my friend 232 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:14,600 who was converted, he's spoken here before he was talking about 233 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,000 this idea of evangelism and this idea of people thinking, man, 234 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,700 nobody wants it. And he was like they were 235 00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:22,500 telling me that they were talking to me, someone who's 236 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:26,000 converted there was someone else in the situation was converted 237 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,400 telling us about how nobody wants it and he was like, what 238 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,800 does that make you feel? How do you think I feel about 239 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,300 that you're sitting here telling me nobody wants this? 240 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:36,000 I am a convert. He's now a preacher of the 241 00:13:36,008 --> 00:13:39,800 gospel and he's saying, no, but nobody people are telling him 242 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,600 nobody wants it. That's not true. 243 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:45,900 May we have compassion on the ignorance and misguided. 244 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:49,800 That is the role of God's leaders of all time. 245 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:57,500 Going on in verse 4, And no one takes the honor to himself, so 246 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:01,300 this honor of being set apart as a high priest, no one takes to 247 00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:04,400 honor to himself. But he receives it when he is 248 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,200 called by God, even as Aaron was so in the Old Testament, you 249 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,600 didn't just say, I'm going to step into this role. 250 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,400 God had to appoint. You Aaron was the first one, 251 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:16,700 versified. So also Christ did not glorify 252 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:19,700 himself. So as to become a high priest, 253 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,000 but he who said to him, you are my My son. 254 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:26,900 Today, I have begotten, you just, as he also says, in 255 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:30,400 another passage, you are a priest forever, according to the 256 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,400 order of Melchizedek. So this is tying in a lot of the 257 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:39,400 concepts of Jesus being the Eternal Son of God being Gods, 258 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,800 son. We talked about in chapter two 259 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:46,200 of the book of Hebrews and he's continuing to spiral that in and 260 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,400 to his into his teaching that Jesus didn't pick. 261 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,200 Didn't do this for himself, but God. 262 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:57,500 Chosen and God appointed him and it says, you are a priest 263 00:14:57,500 --> 00:14:58,900 forever. According to the order of 264 00:14:58,900 --> 00:15:02,000 Melchizedek, who in the world, is that funny name? 265 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,800 We'll talk about that more, probably another study, because 266 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,400 he doesn't spend a lot of time on here. 267 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:10,800 Verse 7 in the days of his flesh. 268 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,100 Speaking of Jesus off, he offered up both prayers and 269 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:18,300 supplications with loud, crying and tears to the one able to 270 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:21,300 save him from death. And he was heard because of his 271 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:24,400 piety. I highlighted this phrase the 272 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,800 days of his flesh because I just thought it's going to be 273 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,300 interesting. Is it's just crazy to think that 274 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:32,900 one day, we're going to be able to talk about our lives as the 275 00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:35,600 days of our flesh. There's going to be a day. 276 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,900 Once this life is over, we're going to maybe look back and 277 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:42,200 heaven and think man, you know, the days in my flat, when the 278 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,400 back in the days in my flesh, that's what this is referencing 279 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,400 of Jesus. The days when he was alive on 280 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:52,400 Earth, he offered up prayers and supplications with loud crying. 281 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:55,500 And tears to the one able to save him. 282 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,100 What time is when you, when we hear of a hero and literature 283 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:04,900 and movies or whatever it is, the hero is / shown as this 284 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,000 person who's never never wavered. 285 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:11,600 Never never slipping up. Never, never daunted. 286 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:15,200 But man, it paints such a real picture of Jesus. 287 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,900 And one that I'm glad God gave us the reality of that he was 288 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:24,400 and you had loud crying and tears. 289 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:31,400 He was driven to the point. Of coming on his knees to God 290 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,600 from his trials. That is something that we can 291 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:39,100 all relate to jibon. Jesus was driven to his knees by 292 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,400 life and he did wasn't driven to the point that he just overcame 293 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,600 everything on his own. Even he went to the one who was 294 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,000 able to save him from Death. We are driven to our knees 295 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,100 sometimes with nowhere to go. Even Jesus did that? 296 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,100 And he was heard because of his piety, you know, it's 297 00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:58,700 interesting you could have said anything like he was heard 298 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:01,600 because he was God's son, he was heard because he was God 299 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,000 himself. It says that he was heard 300 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,400 because of his piety or his reverence you that can be 301 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,700 translated. He wasn't just gives a reason. 302 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:15,099 It's very specific. Frank prayed today that without 303 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:17,599 an attitude of reverence, he started his prayer with he said, 304 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:22,599 and Jesus Was Heard because of his reverence, it's a hard 305 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:26,800 concept to grasp deity, being reverent to deity, but it is a 306 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:32,000 beautiful example for us. Verse 8, although he was a son. 307 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaking of Jesus, he learned obedience from the things which 308 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,600 he suffered Jesus had to learn obedience. 309 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,500 Jesus had to go through things like ordinary life and he had to 310 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:47,700 be obedient, he had to be obedient through this 311 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:51,700 spectacular challenges. Like, the crucifixion, he had to 312 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:53,500 be obedient. As a young man, he had to learn 313 00:17:53,500 --> 00:17:56,600 obedience as a child and he had to learn obedience to human 314 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,900 authority. And Luke 2:51, it says and he 315 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:04,800 went down with him. Speaking of when he was in 316 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,500 Nazareth, was his parents. He went down with them and came 317 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:09,900 to Nazareth and he continued, excuse me. 318 00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:14,000 This is a situation where Jesus had gone to Jerusalem with his 319 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,500 family and then he was left by himself, and his parents came 320 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,900 came back looking for him and they finally found him after 321 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:25,000 they found him and he said, didn't you know that I would be 322 00:18:25,008 --> 00:18:27,400 about my father's business? He was in the temple. 323 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,100 Talking and asking questions and speaking with them. 324 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:35,000 After that says, and you went down with them. 325 00:18:35,300 --> 00:18:38,300 So we went back with his parents and came to Nazareth and he 326 00:18:38,308 --> 00:18:42,600 continued in subjection to them and his mother treasured, all 327 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,300 these things in her heart, the things about Jesus potential in 328 00:18:46,308 --> 00:18:50,700 his in his goals, and his mindset, verse 52 and Jesus kept 329 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:54,800 increasing in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and Men, 330 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,600 it gives us four things here that Jesus increased in. 331 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,700 He grew in understanding his physique, grew. 332 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:05,100 He became a man, he grew. Spiritually his favor with God, 333 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,900 and he grew socially his favor, with men. 334 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:10,800 Jesus had to learn and to learn obedience. 335 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,600 He had to learn how to be a man, how to be a person. 336 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:18,700 Verse 9 of Hebrews chapter 5 goes on to say and having been 337 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:21,000 made perfect. So, there's that idea again. 338 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,700 He wasn't just, it wasn't just when he was born, he was 339 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:27,600 perfect, he had to become it. We know his people, there's a 340 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,300 certain level of becoming we've already talked about in Hebrews 341 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:34,200 where you have to sort of earn your stripes, he became, and he 342 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,100 was made perfect through the things that he endured and 343 00:19:38,100 --> 00:19:40,700 learned. He was made perfect and he 344 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:45,600 became to all those who obey him the source of Eternal salvation. 345 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,700 It is fascinating to think that there is a source of Eternal 346 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:53,500 salvation. You know, it's awesome. 347 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:57,500 If you're need water to find a source of water, we think of a 348 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:00,400 source of would, you know, if you're in a forest, that's a 349 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,700 source of wood, a source of something, you need, you can 350 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:07,200 find a source of gold in the mountains and is crazy. 351 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,100 What people will do to get to that goal, they will carve up 352 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:13,100 mountains. They will take away mountains, 353 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:19,200 it will excavate and filter and sift to no end to find gold. and 354 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:23,900 it's fascinating that we have a source of Eternal salvation and 355 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:28,900 it's in the person of Jesus Christ himself, we have a source 356 00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:36,400 of Eternal salvation Goes on to say verse 10 being designated by 357 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,700 God as a high priest, according to the order of Melchizedek 358 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:44,600 concerning him, we have much to say there's a lot to say about 359 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,100 Melchizedek and it is hard to explain. 360 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:51,500 Why is hard to explain because you have become dull of hearing. 361 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:55,500 They were to the point where their, their ears weren't 362 00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:58,200 necessarily bad. He's not saying it's their ears 363 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,600 that they couldn't hear, he's saying that their hearts, Yes, 364 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,300 often said he who has ears to hear. 365 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:07,600 Let Him hear everybody has ears, but he's talking about a 366 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,600 spiritual disposition. To listen. 367 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:13,800 We've already learned that the book of Hebrews told us that the 368 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,100 word of God is sharp is our hearing Sharp. 369 00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:21,600 Is our spiritual hearing sharp, or do we have Dole hearing? 370 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,000 May we have sharp spiritual ears. 371 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,200 There's people in here who are hard of hearing or have Dole 372 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:33,500 hearing physically, but are very sharp spiritual Minds that's 373 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:36,500 what matters in God's sight. There's people here with hearing 374 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:38,800 aids, who have sharp spiritual ears. 375 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:41,800 It doesn't matter how you here, it's a matter about how your 376 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:46,200 mind receives it may. We have sharp spiritual ears, 377 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,700 Verse 12 for though. By this time, you ought to be 378 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:53,900 teachers by this time, there they are. 379 00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:56,700 Hebrews, who have learned the word, their Hebrew Christians. 380 00:21:56,700 --> 00:21:58,200 By this time, these people have heard it. 381 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,700 Long enough, you should be teachers, but you have, but you 382 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:06,800 have need again for someone to teach you, the elementary 383 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:11,400 principles of the Oracles of God and you have come to need milk 384 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:15,500 and not solid food. So the issue one of the things 385 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:18,500 he's kind of finally built up. Do you understand this great? 386 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:20,700 Jesus. You understand how powerful and 387 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:24,700 mighty he is? And you're lacking, you should 388 00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:27,200 be a teacher of this. You should understand how great 389 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,200 this is to where you should be teaching other people. 390 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:31,700 But you still have to have people teach you. 391 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:36,200 I've heard this referred to as kind of mouth open Christianity. 392 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,800 Feed me. And it can be like that 393 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,100 sometimes for us at church. Do I come to church? 394 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:45,700 Do I approach my spiritual life with a feed me mentality. 395 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:49,500 Do you come to here, waiting for someone else to feed you? 396 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,200 What do you come here? Ready to participate in courage. 397 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:59,400 To try to strengthen others. Or are we the ones feeding off 398 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,500 of other people constantly and he, specifically, talking and 399 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:06,300 teaching. Now, with the teaching, he does 400 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:09,900 not extinct distinguish between man and woman, and he does not 401 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:12,300 distinguish between public or private. 402 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,400 That's the beauty of this passage to me. 403 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,200 If there's not anybody in this room. 404 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,700 Who is exempt. Any sentient person in this room 405 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:24,600 who can understand God's word can understand the beauties of 406 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,000 it. And I've known it for long 407 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,100 enough, we should be teaching, you might not be have to teach 408 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:34,800 up here, that's not the role he's talking about. 409 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,900 He's talking about any role where you can teach someone 410 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:42,200 else. God's word is designed to not be 411 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,300 kept herself. If you learn it and you truly 412 00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:47,500 understand it, you can't keep it to yourself. 413 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:52,000 That's why when Jesus says the man Willa God will come and make 414 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,500 his home with him. And the word of God will become 415 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:57,400 a Fountain of Living Water springing out of him. 416 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,700 You can't keep it in. Water goes in, it's got to come 417 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:05,000 out of a fountain and that's the idea with God's word is, it 418 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,400 cannot Not just be learned and kept, you don't have to teach up 419 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,600 here, if that's your role. Great, but for, for the women, 420 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:17,000 this is just as much. You, you have just as much of a 421 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,800 role in this that if you've been knowing God's word long enough, 422 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,600 if you have known it long enough, You should be ready to 423 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,300 teach now. Not everyone in this room is in 424 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:29,300 that position. There's people who are 425 00:24:29,300 --> 00:24:32,900 spiritually young, and that's fine and we'll talk about that 426 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:35,200 in the next slide. He says, for everyone who 427 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:40,800 partakes of only milk, only milk is not accustomed to the word of 428 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,800 righteousness. For he is an infant. 429 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,400 The word of righteousness, is something you have to get 430 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,800 accustomed to. You have to immerse yourself 431 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:53,800 that you have to Live it and study it for it, to become 432 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,100 something. You can handle more of because 433 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:58,500 if you don't do that, you're going to be stuck on milk. 434 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,900 You're going to be stuck with the baby food and God does not 435 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:04,700 want that. And, you know, as I teach this, 436 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:06,500 I want you to be clear. I forgot to say this at the 437 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:09,200 beginning. A lot of this is going to sound 438 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:12,500 like I'm preaching at you. This is just as much as me, but 439 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:14,400 I feel like it's a disservice if I don't teach you with the 440 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:19,500 urgency that the Riders saying, but if I don't move on from milk 441 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:22,000 and if I don't get accustomed, God's word. 442 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:29,000 I'm a spiritual infant, and that is supposed to be kind of funny, 443 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:33,500 but also not funny. It's cute for a while. 444 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:37,600 When a baby is eating baby food, they need to be taken care of. 445 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,000 They need to be nurtured. Someone else has to feed them, 446 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,600 but there's a point at which it's not cute anymore. 447 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:48,000 It's not cute to be a man being fed by somebody else or to be 448 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,100 man, drinking from a bottle of milk. 449 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,600 It's supposed to be funny because it's embarrassing to be 450 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,000 a baby still when you're old. But it's also not supposed to be 451 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,900 funny because it's like, seriously, that's bad. 452 00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:06,000 God's will does not just go away. 453 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,400 God's word is eternal. Jesus said Heaven and Earth will 454 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,900 pass away, but my word will never pass away. 455 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:12,600 This is going to be here for eternity. 456 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:14,800 Are we going to be spiritual babies for eternity? 457 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,400 Are we going to be spiritually immature for eternity? 458 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:21,200 So the question is, who's feeding you? 459 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,200 Because we went in this verse, you ought to be teachers, is 460 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,400 someone else exclusively teaching you, there's nothing 461 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,100 wrong. I'm talk to all the time. 462 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,700 I have a lot to learn to. I'm Todd from my seat as well 463 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,700 but it is that my exclusive diet is that my exclusive spiritual 464 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,000 diet. Is it all the spiritual 465 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,900 nourishment? You get when you come to church 466 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:46,600 Or are you able to feed yourself? 467 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,200 Because once you can feed yourself then you can work on 468 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,900 feeding others. That's the natural life. 469 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:58,100 Cycle of Christian. That's not supposed to be 470 00:26:58,100 --> 00:26:59,400 forever. It's cute. 471 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,800 Beautiful and natural for a baby to be a baby while it's a baby, 472 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,500 but not after that. Verse 14. 473 00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:10,000 But solid food is for the mature who because of practice, how do 474 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,900 you become mature practice repetition, who became who 475 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:19,100 because of practice have their senses trained to discern Good 476 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:21,700 and Evil. For a while, it can be 477 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:24,300 frustrating. Because even if you care about 478 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:26,700 spiritual things, you're going to be frustrated by the process 479 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:29,100 of practice. There's a lot of times where 480 00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:31,700 I've had questions and I could feel frustrated but just having 481 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:34,400 the questions and never the answers and and even when you 482 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,700 have the answers you don't feel like you fully understand it. 483 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:45,300 I have tons to learn. And and there many people in 484 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:51,000 here who were way more mature than I am, But are we practicing 485 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:56,600 spiritual things and our our, our senses being trained to 486 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,700 discern good and evil. You can't always explain the 487 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:03,000 process. You can't always hear it from a 488 00:28:03,008 --> 00:28:06,000 lesson and have somebody tell us in a lesson what to do, what 489 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:13,400 think we have to practice it ourselves to be discerning. when 490 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,600 I was going through my teacher training, we had this tool we 491 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,900 use called the depth of knowledge wheel And the wheel of 492 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:23,200 depth of knowledge, they called The dok Wheel. 493 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,200 There's level one, two, three and four. 494 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:30,500 And basically we our goal is to take students from level one to 495 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:33,400 where they can do level for type things and I know it's really 496 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,400 small but level 1 is basically recall. 497 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,700 So if you can recall a lesson that would be what would be 498 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:43,900 considered a level one depth of knowledge level 2 would be a 499 00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:46,300 skill or a concept that you can take away. 500 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,500 Level 3 is where we're at is as teachers they were really He has 501 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:55,000 to work on stay in the level 3 and 4 type of activities where 502 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,700 you can get your students. Assessing comparing 503 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:02,200 investigating differentiating drawing conclusions, citing 504 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,600 evidence critiquing, formulating developing a logical argument. 505 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:11,700 It's great. And I remember the first time 506 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:14,600 that I was really starting to memorize, or is it memorized 507 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,200 there's memorize up here? That first time when I was 508 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,200 starting to learn. My first verses, that was all I 509 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,700 could do. It was great. 510 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,400 Well, I've memorized my first couple verses that was great and 511 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,200 we need to continue to do all these things. 512 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:31,300 But just recall and just repeating and just stating or 513 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,300 even listening. Listening is not even on this 514 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:36,400 because that's that's just an act. 515 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,400 It's not even a skill necessarily Level 2 being able 516 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,200 to get more parameters for understanding it and a little 517 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,500 bit more ability to interact with the concept, but level 4 is 518 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:55,000 what we're encouraged to connect to synthesize to, to basically 519 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,400 apply. That is basically the whole idea 520 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,200 of level 44, students, if we want them to apply a concept, 521 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,600 that's why they want student projects that's life for 522 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,000 Christian. Once we can take something, put 523 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,600 it into application. I tore lives and even to explain 524 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,800 it to others. I think there's one on here 525 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:19,400 where you can explain to others, if my student can explain how to 526 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,500 do something to another, I know they've got that down. 527 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:24,900 That's a simple biblical concept all along. 528 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:31,500 So, this is Hebrews chapter 5, we're a little bit early, so I 529 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:33,900 didn't know if I was going to go into chapter 6, a little, but 530 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:36,000 you cannot stop the context here. 531 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:37,800 So I'm going to go a little bit further. 532 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,600 But so far and have chapter 5, we've learned these few things, 533 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,300 we need to have compassion on the ignorant, misguided that we 534 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:47,400 have Christ. As an example, he had to learn 535 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,600 obedience, the hard way, just like us. 536 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,900 And we have a source of Eternal salvation. 537 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:56,100 Don't be a man-child. Those are our lessons from 538 00:30:56,100 --> 00:31:00,000 Hebrews chapter 5 but the context does not stop there and 539 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,700 I don't want to leave us with that kind of harsh. 540 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:06,800 Ending Hebrews chapter 6, goes on to say therefore after all 541 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,400 those things we just said therefore leaving the elementary 542 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,800 teaching about the Christ. The basics, the very milk of the 543 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,500 word, let us press on to maturity, not laying again, the 544 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:20,100 foundation of repentance from dead works and of Faith toward 545 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:21,800 God. If you were going to build a 546 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,800 building, you just laid the foundation over and over the 547 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,800 house won't get anywhere. Says, don't keep laying this 548 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,400 out. The same Foundation from dead 549 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,900 works and of Faith toward God, of instruction, about Washings 550 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:36,000 and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and 551 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,400 eternal judgment. And these we will do if God 552 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,600 permits. It's not like we're not like 553 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,500 we're eliminating these but we need to move on to the next 554 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:48,500 thing and I think maybe we'll talk about this more later but I 555 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,700 want to get the points. He's Making. 556 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,000 Verse 44 in the case of those who have once been enlightened 557 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,900 and have tasted of the Heavenly gift. 558 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,100 And I've been made partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted 559 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:06,400 the good word of God and the powers of the age to come and 560 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:11,800 then have fallen away. It is impossible to renew them 561 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:16,200 again to repentance. Since they again, crucify to 562 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,500 themselves, the Son of God and put him to an open. 563 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:22,100 Shame. Not too long ago. 564 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:26,900 I heard the read that verse and I was like, is it saying that 565 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,200 there's people who it's impossible to save? 566 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Because it sounds like that at first read now, maybe we'll 567 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,300 spend more time on this next time but in short, I'm number 568 00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:42,700 one, I believe that a lot of this is talking about the powers 569 00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:45,700 of the age to come. Maybe being the church age where 570 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:48,600 the New Testament Church, they were given miracles to see the 571 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,200 powers of the age to come where they were proving that Christ 572 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,900 was the Messiah with Miracles and setting up his church with 573 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:57,700 Miracles. So I don't know if this is even 574 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:02,600 necessarily talking about All in this dispensation but either 575 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,100 way, I feel I think we can still get the point. 576 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:10,200 He says those people who have fallen away after seeing all 577 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,600 this after partaking of the Holy Spirit after tasting, the 578 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,400 Heavenly calling, it's impossible to renew them again 579 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:26,100 to repentance now. The point being, it's dangerous. 580 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,900 If you go through all the steps of knowing and then you just 581 00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:34,100 Don't progress. This is the danger of not 582 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:36,000 progressing that we started last chapter. 583 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:39,000 He said, it's dangerous to stay spiritual maybe because if you 584 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:44,300 just see all that and you move on, there is nothing that can be 585 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:47,600 done for them. Now, does that mean there's 586 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,100 anyone in this room is danger of in danger of never being able to 587 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:55,500 be saved? I believe what this is saying 588 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:59,300 is, it's impossible for anyone else to renew them. 589 00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:02,800 Because there's nothing that I can do. 590 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,900 For one of my friends who has left the church, it's up to 591 00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:09,600 them. I cannot renew them to 592 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,000 repentance. That is totally up to them and 593 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,400 there's nothing that I can do to change their hearts if they've 594 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,000 heard it already. It's up to them. 595 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:21,199 So I don't think this is saying that there's people in this room 596 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:25,000 who can never be saved or that there are friends who just 597 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,900 their, they're a lost cause I think it's just saying that we 598 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,199 cannot always control it, it's up to them. 599 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,100 Since they again, crucify to themselves, the Son of God, and 600 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,100 put him to open shame. Now after backing off that 601 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:40,800 point, the point is still the same. 602 00:34:41,300 --> 00:34:47,300 It's it's a bad thing. It's humiliating for Christ to 603 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:50,300 be, put to an open shame after already seeing everything 604 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:53,000 beautiful. He's done for them after already 605 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,000 being having seen the wonders of Christ. 606 00:34:56,699 --> 00:34:59,700 It's a shame to him. What if that was used sacrifice 607 00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:01,600 and saw somebody just walk away from you. 608 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:07,800 Now hurt that would be an open shame for the ground and drinks 609 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,200 in the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation 610 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,000 useful to those who seek. It is also tilled receives a 611 00:35:15,008 --> 00:35:17,200 blessing from God. So he's going to tell us two 612 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,000 types of ground, one ground takes that rain and it produces 613 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,700 vegetation, that's basically the good soil that accepts and lives 614 00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:28,000 and thrives and grows and God's word that receives a blessing 615 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,600 from God. But if it yields thorns and 616 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,000 thistles, it is Worthless and close to being cursed. 617 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,100 These are two types of people. One type of person who takes 618 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:40,400 God's word and lives it out, and grows in it. 619 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,400 Is blessed by God. But someone, if someone takes 620 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:51,000 God's word and just doesn't grow anything good from it, That's 621 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,100 that's close to being cursed. If you have a field that never 622 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:58,000 puts out any good crops they would curse that field and say 623 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,400 forget it we're moving on to a different part of the land. 624 00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:05,000 No, obviously God's got a mercy so that doesn't that whole 625 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,100 analogy doesn't completely apply, but that's oil, that will 626 00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:14,300 not ever repent. The end is to be burned and 627 00:36:14,308 --> 00:36:19,500 that's a really harsh reality, but it's the reality and we will 628 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:26,200 be wrong to not teach it. You have the choice. 629 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:28,100 Are you going to be a thorny ground? 630 00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:30,900 That doesn't respond? Or are you going to be good 631 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:33,500 ground? Good ground, doesn't always look 632 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:35,800 green and fertile though. Sometimes there's stages. 633 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,300 Were Ground takes a while it. Can, you can have the ground 634 00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:41,800 with all these plants and all the foliage? 635 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:46,200 It takes time sometimes But today, you can set a course. 636 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,300 Am I going to be good ground or am I going to be thorny ground 637 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:53,800 from God's word verse 9? This is where I couldn't end. 638 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,900 I couldn't end before because he goes on to say, but beloved 639 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,500 people, we love. We are convinced a better things 640 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:02,400 concerning you. We're convinced that you're not, 641 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,100 that you're not going to be stopping there, you're going to 642 00:37:04,107 --> 00:37:06,600 be better than that. You got this and things that 643 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,500 accompany salvation, though, we are speaking. 644 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,700 In this way, we're talking some harsh things but we're confident 645 00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:17,300 you can be better than this for God is Not unjust as to forget 646 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:20,700 your work and the love which you have shown toward his name. 647 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,700 This is deeply personal. Maybe there's people in this 648 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:27,000 audience who don't feel like they're at the spot where they 649 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000 may be used to be. Or maybe you your, we go through 650 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,300 phases, sometimes we're up. Sometimes we're down. 651 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:36,400 And maybe this is, if this is a down face for you. 652 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:41,100 God is Not unjust to forget your work and the love, which you 653 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:44,900 have shown toward his name, even if you are in a down spot, God 654 00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:47,900 doesn't forgive. That's incredibly encouraging. 655 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:52,800 I had there's a song called remember the Bad and the good 656 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,900 you just forget, that's not God. God remembers that love that 657 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:01,900 you've shown toward his name and having Minister door served and 658 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:05,300 instill ministering serving to the Saints. 659 00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:09,800 God doesn't forget that. That's a wonderfully, comforting 660 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:14,500 scripture, verse not verse 11. This is the last one will cover 661 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:17,300 and we desire. The each one of you show the 662 00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:20,700 same diligence. So as to realize the full 663 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:25,600 Assurance of Hope until the end so that you will not be sluggish 664 00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:29,700 but imitators of those who through faith and patience 665 00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:33,900 inherit the promises. He says he doesn't just say, I 666 00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:36,600 want you to be diligent. So you'll make the church 667 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,200 stronger which you could have said that. 668 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,000 But the diligence is also for the full assurance. 669 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,000 Of Hope of the individual. So you're not going to have the 670 00:38:47,008 --> 00:38:50,000 full Assurance of Hope. Unless you're a diligent person 671 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,800 in Christ, it is for the benefit of others, and for Christ, cause 672 00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:57,900 what you can, it seems your. You can only have the full 673 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,200 Assurance of Hope, when you're immersed in it, when you're 674 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,300 living it. And when you are all about it 675 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:08,100 until the end, God wants us to be assured in Our Hope. 676 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,100 God does not want us to be unconfident. 677 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:16,700 First John says that that I believe the first job says that 678 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:21,500 that he has written to them so that they wouldn't know and have 679 00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:25,500 Assurance of their salvation, that's God's plan, and we must 680 00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:27,400 be diligent to enjoy it that way. 681 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:35,400 And the cure for sluggishness. Is diligence imitators of those 682 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,700 who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 683 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:39,200 You know what? I don't want to work out the 684 00:39:39,207 --> 00:39:42,000 most, it's actually not even when I'm sore from another 685 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,200 workout. It's not when I'm just worked 686 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,800 out the day before. The time that I want to work 687 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,200 out, the least is when I've worked out in a month or two. 688 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,000 My body is in a I've no momentum. 689 00:39:56,100 --> 00:40:00,100 I feel sluggish. But when I get up and get going 690 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,300 and I work out today, the next day, I want two more in the next 691 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:04,500 day. I want to even more because my 692 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:08,100 body has momentum. It's like, it's a continual 693 00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:12,100 snowball of good things. That is our lesson for today. 694 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:15,800 I hope that we can myself starting with myself, take 695 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,300 something from this and learn from Hebrews, chapter 5 and half 696 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:24,900 of Hebrews chapter 6, so that we can become fruitful and multiply 697 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:27,900 in the service of our God together. 698 00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:31,200 If you've heard the word today and maybe you're not even, 699 00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:34,100 you're not even started on this process yet. 700 00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:37,200 Maybe you're not even a baby. Maybe you're just, maybe you're 701 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,100 waiting to be reborn at this point. 702 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,300 You can be reborn again. Today you can hear the word what 703 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:45,700 you've already done today. You can believe on Jesus Christ. 704 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,300 You can repent of your past life and change to go his way and 705 00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:53,200 confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and be baptized for 706 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,900 the remission of your sins and be born again at that point. 707 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,100 If you want to start by being a babe, it's beautiful. 708 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,900 Ooh, it is a beautiful process. We've seen it recently and man, 709 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:04,300 there's nothing better than. And then from there go on to 710 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,200 live a Christian Life. Like she hates all last week. 711 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,100 It's we're not we're not stopping there. 712 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,800 It is. A whole plan where we live it 713 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,900 out in our lives. 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