1 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:04,200 Good morning, everybody. It is great to be here today 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,200 with you when awesome day to come together to worship Our 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,000 God. This morning, I have the 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,900 privilege of studying with you from Hebrews chapter 1. 5 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:14,300 So we're going to start out my reading through the whole 6 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:16,800 chapter together. It's only 14 verses. 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,400 So if you like to get out your Bibles with me, I'm just going 8 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,900 to be reading from line, not up on the screen at this point. 9 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:30,400 Hebrews chapter 1, beginning in verse 1, says, God, who at 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,400 various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,800 father's, by the prophets has in these last days spoken to us by 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,600 his son, whom he has appointed, heir of all things through whom. 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,800 Also, he made the world's who being the brightness of his 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:53,200 glory and the express image of his person and upholding All 15 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,600 Things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged, 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,700 our sins Sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High, 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,400 having become so much better than the angels as he has by 18 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,500 inheritance obtained. A more excellent Name than they. 19 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,700 For to, which of the Angels did he ever say you are my son 20 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:13,800 today? I have begotten. 21 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,100 You and again, I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a 22 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:21,900 son, but when he again brings the first born into the world he 23 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:26,400 says let all the angels of God worship Him and of the angels He 24 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,500 says who makes his angels spirits and his ministers, a 25 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:37,600 flame of fire, but to the sun he says your throne o, God is for 26 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,700 ever and ever. A scepter of righteousness, is 27 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:44,000 the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and 28 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,900 hated lawlessness. Therefore God, your God has 29 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:50,900 anointed you with the oil of gladness, more than your 30 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:53,000 companions. And you Lord. 31 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,400 In the beginning, laid, the foundation of the earth and the 32 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,100 heavens are the work of your hands. 33 00:01:58,100 --> 00:02:01,100 They will perish but you will remain and they will all grow 34 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:05,000 old like a garment like a cloak. You will fold them up and they 35 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,199 will be changed, but you were the same and your years. 36 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:12,100 Not fail. But to, which of the angels He 37 00:02:12,108 --> 00:02:14,900 has he ever said, sit at my right hand, until I make your 38 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:20,100 enemies your footstool, are they not all ministering Spirits sent 39 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:24,500 forth to minister for those, who will inherit salvation. 40 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,100 So this is the first chapter of the book of Hebrews. 41 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,500 And the reason I started here with this study is, I was 42 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:34,100 wanting to cover some things later in the book of Hebrews. 43 00:02:34,300 --> 00:02:37,300 And as I tried to back up and getting context for those 44 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:39,800 comments, for those words, that Were written. 45 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:43,200 I kept backing up further and further to get better context 46 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,100 because it all builds so well. And so I said, why don't I just 47 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:48,500 start at the first chapter? And I'll start working through 48 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:51,600 the book of Hebrews, from this point, the next few times I 49 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,900 speak. So Hebrews chapter 1, a quick 50 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:58,800 little introduction to it, it was written to Christians who 51 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,000 are formally Jews, so Hebrews are Jews, that's the same thing, 52 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:05,500 one in the same. And so he's writing to 53 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,500 Christians who used to be Jews and these people are facing You 54 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:13,400 some difficulties maybe with the length of time that has gone 55 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,300 past after their conversion, maybe they're wanting to drift 56 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:19,300 back into Judaism. Because I mean, think about it, 57 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:23,000 that is their comfort zone. If you came from a system where 58 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,600 your whole culture, your whole nation is built around the 59 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,000 judaic system, then it was hard for them to leave. 60 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,300 And even once they're converted, it was easier to go back to 61 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:39,000 where they'd always know. And so the writer of Hebrews we 62 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:39,800 don't. Know who it is. 63 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:45,600 The first verse starts out by saying God and and so God is as 64 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:51,000 the is the spiders inspires these words, but we don't know 65 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,300 necessarily who wrote them, and that's not important because 66 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:59,800 this is God's word and he's instructing these Jews to keep 67 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,600 focusing on Jesus. And this first chapter is all 68 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,600 about that, as we read, it is lifting up Jesus. 69 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,600 It is magnifying Jesus so that they can see that. 70 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,300 Hey, when Walk away from Jesus. If you are feeling like you 71 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:15,200 you're just going to kind of go back to whatever you used to do 72 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,600 and serve God the way you were trying to serve God. 73 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,200 He's saying you can't just walk away from this man. 74 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,500 Jesus because he is so much more than a man and he's so much 75 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:27,200 greater than even an angel and we'll talk about that and more 76 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,200 in a little bit. So one of the overarching things 77 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,200 I want us to keep in mind as we go through the book of Hebrews 78 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,800 and teaching, we call these enduring understandings that we 79 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,600 want, you know, the audience to leave with is Is that we must 80 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,500 always be ready to change because God has called us to 81 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:46,900 change despite any discomfort we might face. 82 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,100 And that change is based on one God's will. 83 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,700 So number one, we follow God's Will and we do what will be best 84 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:58,700 for the growth of his people? Now that applies personally, and 85 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:02,300 implies, as it applies, as a church today that we must first 86 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:04,400 follow God's will. No matter if it makes us 87 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,100 uncomfortable and we must do. What's best for the congregation 88 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:09,200 within that? No matter. 89 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:12,400 How uncomfortable it may make us and going back to the things we 90 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,700 used to do and throughout the Book of Hebrews since these, 91 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:18,300 this is written to Jews, who knew the Old Testament, there's 92 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:20,900 going to be a lot of old testament old testament 93 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,400 references. So let's begin with verse 1. 94 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,200 We're going to walk through these verses and I'll spend more 95 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,000 time at the beginning, but will speed up as we work toward the 96 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,800 second half. So verse 1 says, God who at 97 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:39,400 various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the 98 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,400 father's by the prophets. So it's already established for 99 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,100 these people, they're on Common Ground. 100 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:47,400 They both know, they all believe in God, and they believe 101 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,800 together that God has spoken to their forefathers. 102 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,400 This is He established ground. He didn't need to recover this. 103 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,600 So it's important that whenever we teach we understand our 104 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,100 audience, as I've gone through the teaching, credential, that's 105 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:02,600 one of the most important things. 106 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,000 They teach us is know your audience know where they're at 107 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:07,700 and so since they already believe in God, they know that 108 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:10,600 God has spoken to them. He's alluding to this and he 109 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,200 mentions these various ways God in the Old Testament. 110 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,700 Spoke to his people and some very interesting and even 111 00:06:17,700 --> 00:06:21,900 strange ways and Exodus chapter 3, he spoke to Moses by a 112 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:24,500 Burning bush. It says now Moses was tending. 113 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:27,400 The flock of Jethro his father-in-law the priest of 114 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,100 Midian and he led the flock to the back of the desert and came 115 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:35,000 to Horeb the Mountain of God verse 2 and the angel of the 116 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a 117 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,400 bush. So let's keep that in mind as we 118 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,900 remember the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of 119 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:47,600 fire. So Moses was spoken to through 120 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,700 an Angel that's going to be important later. 121 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:52,700 So it's from the midst of a burning bush. 122 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:56,000 So he looked and behold the Bush was burning with fire, but the 123 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,600 Bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, I will now turn 124 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,100 the side and see this great sight why the bush does not 125 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:04,400 burn. I tried to find a real life 126 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:05,600 picture of someone burning a bush. 127 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,300 So it would be more. I don't know what we might see 128 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,900 but obviously I couldn't find a picture of a bush that was not 129 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:13,100 consumed when it was being burned. 130 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:15,200 So if you burn a bush, it's gonna have black smoke. 131 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,600 It's going to have the the the reaction that's created will 132 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,700 create things that. Our part of the burnt, the bush 133 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:24,000 being burned up. It must have had some foliage 134 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 honest till I don't know, but God has spoken in some strange 135 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,300 ways verse 4. So when the Lord saw that he 136 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:33,600 turned aside to look, God Called to him from the midst of the 137 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,800 Bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, here, I am then he 138 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,500 said do not draw near this place. 139 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,500 Take your sandals, off your feet for the place where you stand 140 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:47,700 is, Holy Ground. So God has spoken to to his 141 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:50,400 people through a burning bush. He spoke to Elijah. 142 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,200 Up by a still Small Voice in First Kings chapter 19. 143 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,500 It says, then he said this being God, go out and stand on the 144 00:07:58,508 --> 00:08:02,300 mountain before the Lord, and behold the Lord passed by. 145 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:05,800 So, and so Elijah standing on this mountain and behold the 146 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,900 Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the 147 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:14,300 mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord. 148 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:17,400 Can you imagine seeing that? But the Lord was not in the 149 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,300 Wind. It's interesting and after the 150 00:08:20,300 --> 00:08:23,300 wind, an earthquake. So, so then came this, the other 151 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:26,100 strong Windows ripping apart rocks, and you have an 152 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:30,100 earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake and after the 153 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:33,200 earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. 154 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:39,100 And after the fire a still Small Voice, he spoke to Elijah 155 00:08:39,100 --> 00:08:41,799 through. This still Small Voice verse 13 156 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:44,600 goes on to say, so it was when Elijah heard it. 157 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,400 Then he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood 158 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:49,800 in. The entrance of the cave, 159 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:54,000 suddenly a voice came to him. It to came to him and said, what 160 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,100 are you doing here? Elijah, so another fascinating 161 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:00,000 circumstance. They would have remembered 162 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,800 thinking back on the strange, and mysterious ways God, had 163 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,100 spoken to his people and a few more in Isaiah chapter 6. 164 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:09,400 He spoke to Isaiah by a heavenly vision. 165 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:14,100 We read that last week and our during the sermon, he spoke to 166 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:17,300 Hosea by his family crisis, that's really strange. 167 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:19,900 God has Hosea Marry a prostitute. 168 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:23,400 And then he creates a picture to show God's people. 169 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,800 This is what I see when you marry come to marry me as your 170 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,200 God and to follow me. And then you'd always turn back 171 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:30,600 and you go back to your prostitution. 172 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:35,000 That's a strange situation, but it's one of those various ways. 173 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:39,200 They could have remembered and he spoke to Amos by a basket of 174 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,200 fruit and Amos chapter 8, verse 1. 175 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:46,400 So when we get to Hebrews, there's various ways God has 176 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,200 spoken to his people. Route from the father's to the 177 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,000 father's, by the prophets. But in verse 2, he has in these 178 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,200 last days spoken to us by his son, God through a basket of 179 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,400 fruit through a burning bush through a whirlwind or through 180 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,600 the still Small Voice. All these things might have been 181 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,000 interesting mysterious and Reflections on God's power and 182 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:15,200 ability the greatest and power. The greatest in how personal 183 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,400 this communication is is the method of delivering his word by 184 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,100 his son. Now he was not Just the spoken 185 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:25,200 word, bringing the message, he was the word. 186 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,900 And so he lived that word and God spoke to us by Jesus is 187 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:34,900 actions and he spoke to us by Jesus's words themselves and 188 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:37,600 this isn't these last days. This isn't the time where we 189 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,700 are, this isn't the Messianic age and which Jesus has come, he 190 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:43,800 has died. He is risen again. 191 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,900 And now Jesus can come back to receive his own at any point. 192 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:52,800 It maybe a long age but this is the time these last days that we 193 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,800 are in now. And so he's going on next to 194 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,800 say, he's going to give a Sevenfold description 195 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,500 description of the sun. I don't know if 7 was intended 196 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:07,200 to be one of God's another place where he had his favorite as 197 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:09,700 special number seven for completeness. 198 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,200 But there are seven things here, it's going to describe Jesus. 199 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,700 As the heir of all things. It's going to scribe him as the 200 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:19,500 maker of the world's, it's going to describe him as the 201 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:23,700 brightness of his glory. The express image of his person, 202 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,300 the upholder of of all things, the purger of sins. 203 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:30,500 And the one who sits at the right hand of the Majesty on 204 00:11:30,500 --> 00:11:38,000 high, let's get into those So, in verse 2, it says, whom he has 205 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,400 appointed heir of all things being Jesus. 206 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:46,800 So, as he's starting to introduce Jesus, and to, lift up 207 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,200 Jesus to these Hebrews, this is a opening line of all opening 208 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,300 lines. He is the heir of everything. 209 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:56,600 So he's not just a common man that you can leave through whom 210 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,500 also, he made the world's. So this word, world's does not 211 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:04,700 just mean the physical Earth that we live on or the physical 212 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:07,000 planet. That are around us. 213 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:11,000 It actually comes from the Greek, a on or something. 214 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,400 I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's where we get our 215 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,000 word eons, he didn't just make the physical space. 216 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:21,200 He made the time, he made the ages, he made all the dimensions 217 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:26,400 that we live in and he's saying through who through this man. 218 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,800 Jesus through this Creator. Jesus, he made the ages. 219 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:35,300 Good. This is similar in John 1:1 that 220 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:37,300 we read. Where it says, in the beginning 221 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:39,800 was the word and the Word was with God. 222 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,400 And the Word was God. This is Jesus, he was in the 223 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,500 beginning with God. All things were made through him 224 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:48,700 and without him nothing was made. 225 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:54,800 That was made in him was life. And the life was the light of 226 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:56,800 men. So this is not unique to 227 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,700 Hebrews, but this Hebrew writers trying to show them the 228 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:04,300 magnitude of Dove Jesus. And to show them that he's not 229 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:09,600 just he's not a secondary figure, he's not someone that 230 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,800 can just walk past. He is this man that he is the 231 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,800 creative force that they have known from the beginning. 232 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,100 Verse 3, he goes on to say, who being the brightness of his 233 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:25,800 glory and the express image of his person. 234 00:13:26,500 --> 00:13:30,100 So when it says that Jesus is the the brightness of his glory 235 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:33,500 that comes from a word pal gasma, I believe that it is in 236 00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:37,000 Greek but it basically means it's the radiance that comes 237 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,200 from a light source. So if you have a light source 238 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,000 like a light bulb or even like our Solar Sun, you have the 239 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,700 light source itself and then you have the radiance that comes out 240 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:49,500 for me. You have the Rays of the sun, 241 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:54,400 you have the light coming from a flashlight and he's saying that 242 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,200 that the radiance coming from the light of God is Jesus 243 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,400 himself. And that's important to note 244 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:08,100 because your light source. Has no use if it's trapped 245 00:14:08,100 --> 00:14:10,500 within itself. If you have a flashlight with a 246 00:14:10,508 --> 00:14:14,000 covered end, that light does no good for anyone who's trying to 247 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,200 use it. Jesus is the radiance that comes 248 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,000 from the father and he reaches us and when reading this, I was 249 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,600 thinking about Isaiah where it talks about Jesus being the arm 250 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,600 of the Lord, it does no good for us to have a great God up in 251 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:37,500 heaven, to have a great God who created us If you stepped away 252 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:40,500 and did not have a way of reaching Us in Isaiah describes, 253 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:43,900 Jesus as the arm of the Lord, the arm that reaches down to 254 00:14:43,900 --> 00:14:49,500 Mankind and gives man access to God and his plan, that's the 255 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:51,900 radiance. It's the radiance that makes it 256 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:57,100 to us so that we can experience it and to know him Going on 257 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:01,800 verse 3 says, who being so finishes off by saying and 258 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,100 upholding All Things by the word of his power. 259 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:08,600 I missed the express image, the express image he's basically 260 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,500 saying he is an exact replica you might say so he's not just 261 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:16,600 like he's not like a knockoff version of the godhead. 262 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:20,500 Jesus is the express image. If you could took a stamp and 263 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:23,600 you stamped it you see the exact image that was on the stamp 264 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:27,800 Jesus is spiritually the exact. Image of God. 265 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,500 Okay. Then it says, upholding All 266 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:35,300 Things by the word of his power. So I don't know if the writer 267 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:38,100 was intending to bring in Greek mythology here, I don't have any 268 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:41,600 knowledge of that. But in Greek mythology, there 269 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,600 was, they had this, this Titan gardening, Atlas, And if you've 270 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,300 heard of the atlas, I think it's the weightlifting competitions, 271 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:54,000 that's where they get this idea of one who holds up the world, 272 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:59,000 atlas was tasked with holding up the Earth for forever and ever. 273 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:01,800 He was the one who had physically stand there and hold 274 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,000 the Earth above him, to keep it suspended, and the solar system. 275 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:09,600 It's almost, it's almost a mockery of these Greek gods. 276 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:12,900 That you have this, this mythical god. 277 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:17,200 Atlas, who supposedly would hold up the Earth, but when speaking 278 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,900 of Jesus, he upholds all things by just his word by just the 279 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:26,000 word that that spoke creation and doing into existence by the 280 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,900 word that gives us life. He upholds all that, he upholds 281 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:34,300 us. And in the solar system you 282 00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:37,000 might say, he is what's giving us gravity. 283 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,000 He is like Chris said, last week holding all things together, 284 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:44,800 making everything sustain and survive and actually that word 285 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,400 upholding is better. Probably translate. 286 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,300 Yeah. Translated as maintain or 287 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:53,700 sustain, he's not just physically holding us up. 288 00:16:54,700 --> 00:17:00,000 He is maintaining and sustaining all the time, his very creation. 289 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,700 Now this reminded me of Colossians 1:17. 290 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:08,500 Where it says, and he being Jesus is before all things. 291 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:13,900 And in him, all things consist Network consists. 292 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,599 If you look up in the definition in the concordance, one of the 293 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:21,900 secondary meanings that has is held together. 294 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,300 Now, the next slide I'm going to show you, I don't know if this 295 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:32,400 was something that God intended to be focused on and not 296 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,900 definition of consists being. Pain and sustained and held 297 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:40,700 together or if this is is just another way that creation points 298 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:44,300 to God. But this is, I'm going to show 299 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:48,200 you a picture under a microscope of a thing called laminate. 300 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:54,400 This here is a, is a protein that exists in our body and our 301 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,200 cells called laminate. And laminin is a cell adhesion 302 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,500 molecule. It's basically like rebar for 303 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:06,400 our body. So if you have concrete without 304 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,700 rebar, your concrete is going to crack and it's going to crumble 305 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:13,000 without the support, the the tensile strength of the rebar, 306 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,700 the iron going through the material and concrete would 307 00:18:16,700 --> 00:18:19,000 crumble and crack. And so, we make concrete with 308 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,900 rebar in it. In our bodies, laminin acts as a 309 00:18:22,908 --> 00:18:27,100 cell adhesion molecule holding all of our cells together. 310 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:30,900 And this is what it looks like under microscope. 311 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,700 That is an actual image of laminate and this is from some 312 00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:38,100 scientific website. You can go to the Chinese 313 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:42,000 entities websites. They have the same picture and 314 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:47,800 what you see. What I see is one long leg and 315 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:52,100 three short legs. That resembles across to me. 316 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:58,700 The beauty of this. Whether God intended this or not 317 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,800 is that our bodies are literally held together by A protein that 318 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:08,000 is in the shape of a cross. You take that for what it's 319 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,900 worth. I don't think that's an 320 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:11,700 accident. I don't believe their accidents 321 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:13,100 when it comes to things like this. 322 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:16,500 But without this, our bodies would literally be a puddle of 323 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:20,700 cells on the floor. And it goes from the smallest 324 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:24,100 things like this. If you look out into the biggest 325 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:28,000 in the furthest reaches of our universe, This is a sight you'll 326 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,900 see. This isn't the middle of a 327 00:19:29,908 --> 00:19:32,900 Whirlpool Galaxy seeing from the Hubble telescope. 328 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:36,200 This is from NASA's website. In the middle of a Whirlpool 329 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,200 galaxy far. Far away in the middle of a 330 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:44,700 black hole, they zoomed in far enough and they see a an image 331 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:52,600 that looks like a cross. In him, all things consist in 332 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,300 him, everything was created, that was created. 333 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:59,200 And whether we go down to the smallest, molecular level of our 334 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,700 bodies or into the greatest reaches of our universe. 335 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:07,200 I can see one long leg and three short legs. 336 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:12,500 It looks to me either like a man or like a cross glory and praise 337 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:18,800 to our God, into the Sun going on, in verse 3, upholding All 338 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:22,900 Things by the word of his power. When he had by himself purged, 339 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:27,000 our sins sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. 340 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:31,400 The word purge means to get rid of someone or something of an 341 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,400 unwanted quality condition or A feeling, we all have those 342 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:40,900 unwanted qualities in ourselves. We, we have things that we don't 343 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:44,900 like about ourselves and the greatest thing that we have that 344 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:48,800 we could want to get rid of, is our own sin, our own messed up 345 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:53,100 in this, and Jesus was the only way for us to get that out. 346 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,100 We've got that unwanted quality, those unwanted stains in our 347 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,100 life. And Jesus Purge that out. 348 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:05,900 He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high that right 349 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:08,200 hand is significant especially in those days. 350 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,300 Because the right hand was not just a place for him to stand as 351 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:14,700 a servant. Or right hand was was an equal. 352 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:18,500 He was right there with you. That's not where the servants 353 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:22,400 stood, that is where the one with authority and power, stood 354 00:21:22,900 --> 00:21:25,100 at the right hand of the Majesty on high. 355 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:31,700 Verse for having become so much better than the angels as he has 356 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:34,100 by inheritance obtained. A more. 357 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:37,400 Excellent Name than that. So, Jesus has been described as 358 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,200 the one who's had the power from the beginning. 359 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:42,500 John 1 verse 1, in the beginning was the word was the Word was 360 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:43,900 God. The word was with God. 361 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:46,400 Jesus has always been there and had that power. 362 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,800 He is eternal. But it also says that he has 363 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,000 become so much better than the Angels. 364 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,400 Jesus had to come to Earth and he proved himself. 365 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:03,800 So he is great in, in the innate qualities that he has, he has 366 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:08,000 great, which it says here, he's by inheritance obtained, a more, 367 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,900 excellent Name than they. So, inheritance from the father, 368 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,300 he has been given that by the father. 369 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,300 So not only is he does he have it in himself. 370 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:20,500 He is also validated by God. Father himself, which is what 371 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:22,000 these Jews would have needed, right? 372 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,400 This is this is God, we know. So, who is this man here? 373 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,800 He says, God himself has given him an inheritance and a more 374 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,300 excellent Name than that, and he's going to talk more about 375 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:36,600 God's blessing on Jesus and a little bit. 376 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:40,000 And he is also, you might say earned his stripes. 377 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,100 Both physically are both literally and metaphorically on 378 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:48,000 Earth and Hebrews 2:10. It says, for it was fitting for, 379 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,600 Him for whom are all things and by whom are all things. 380 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:56,100 And Britney bringing many sons to glory to make the captain of 381 00:22:56,100 --> 00:23:00,200 their salvation. Perfect through sufferings, he 382 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,400 is innately great. But he also became great he 383 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:10,900 proved himself And as have has obtained, that excellent name 384 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,600 and done exactly what we are doing here. 385 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,700 And he is still the all-mighty worthy God. 386 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:25,800 Now verse 4 says, he has become so much better than the angels 387 00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:28,300 as he has by inheritance obtained. 388 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:31,900 A more excellent Name than they. So, that Angels is an important 389 00:23:31,900 --> 00:23:34,700 details, including so why all of a sudden are we talking about 390 00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:39,300 angels in light of how great? Is so as I understand from 391 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:43,100 passages like Colossians 2 Verse 18 and Galatians 1. 392 00:23:43,100 --> 00:23:47,300 Verse 8, the early church had a little bit of trouble with this 393 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,100 idea of angels. They started to seems kind of 394 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:55,000 worship angels and maybe they were even thanking Jesus himself 395 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,400 as an angel. And this passage is one of many 396 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,500 that's trying to combat that idea. 397 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:05,500 He is saying that he has become so much better than the Angels, 398 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:08,600 okay? So let's talk a little bit about 399 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,600 angels when we and modern culture, think about angels, we 400 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,600 have this Hallmark mentality. A lot of times we have Hollywood 401 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,400 maybe in our heads of these cute little floating creatures but 402 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,400 that is it couldn't be farther from the truth of what angels 403 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,300 are in the Bible. So you might you might have seen 404 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:30,900 some statues like this, maybe you even have some supposed to 405 00:24:30,908 --> 00:24:37,400 be Cute little baby angels in your yard but are our God has 406 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:41,100 has helpers. Has ministering spirits that are 407 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:43,800 actually quite different from these pictures and First 408 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,900 Chronicles chapter 21 verse 15 and 16. 409 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,000 We here where these angels are involved. 410 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000 So, whatever picture you have in your head, create a blank slate 411 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,900 now, will clear the Clutter and let's create an image of an 412 00:24:56,900 --> 00:24:58,400 Angel based on what we read here. 413 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:02,600 It says. And God sent an angel, an angel 414 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:06,400 one, Angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. 415 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:11,900 Jerusalem was one of the great cities and it says, God sent one 416 00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:14,400 Angel to destroy the entire city. 417 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,800 But as he was about to destroy it, the and saw and was sorry, 418 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:24,000 over the Calamity and said to the destroying Angel, it is 419 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,900 enough now, relax your hand. So we note there that God is in 420 00:25:27,908 --> 00:25:31,200 control of these angels, they are under his power, and the 421 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,200 angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing, floor of 422 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,000 ornan, the jebusite, then David lifted up. 423 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,900 His eyes saw, the angel of the Lord, standing between Earth and 424 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:44,800 Heaven. With his drawn sword, in his 425 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,900 hand and stretched out over Jerusalem. 426 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:49,600 I can't imagine what that looked like. 427 00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:55,600 There's different times in the Bible where God, God, chooses to 428 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,800 let his people see physical forms of his power. 429 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,700 And this is one of those in the Old Testament. 430 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,700 We see where God had blinded their eyes, and then he opened 431 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:09,900 their eyes. Like when Balaam was riding the 432 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:13,100 donkey, the donkey stopped and he kept getting further and 433 00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:16,400 further away until God, finally showed Balaam what was in front 434 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,000 of him and it was Angel, ready to wag his head off. 435 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,800 God, every once in awhile showed physical manifestations of his 436 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,400 power even though they were not physical. 437 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:32,400 Beings angels are not these finely sculpted human forms. 438 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,000 God has given them physical forms of times and what it made 439 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,300 Jesus do or what it made David do. 440 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,200 So it says Ben David and the elders covered with sackcloth 441 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:49,300 fell on their faces. Angels are the Servants of God. 442 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:54,200 Who have at times. Had to be murderous destructive. 443 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,500 Scary forces for God. That is quite different than 444 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:02,000 this picture. Now, why is that important? 445 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:04,900 Well, let's talk a little bit more. 446 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:06,900 Let's build this picture, even more of an Angel. 447 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:09,700 So, Revelation 10 verse 1, through 4. 448 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:12,700 I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven. 449 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:15,600 So this is a strong one clothed with a cloud. 450 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:19,100 So he's close to the cloud and the rainbow was upon his head 451 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,100 and his face was like the sun and his feet, like pillars of 452 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:26,400 Fire. And he had in his hand a little 453 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,600 book, which is open. So you have this seemingly, 454 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,300 massive powerful, being with a little book in his hand. 455 00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:37,400 Open, he placed his right foot on the sea and his left on the 456 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,700 land and he cried out with a loud voice as when a lion roars 457 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,000 and when he had cried out, the seven peals of Thunder, uttered 458 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:51,400 their voices. That is an extraordinary scary. 459 00:27:51,900 --> 00:27:54,100 Awesome image many times. When the Bible describes 460 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:57,200 Spiritual Beings, it describes what they are like not what they 461 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,000 look like. So when we think spiritual being 462 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,200 is think what they are, like, not what they look like and he 463 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:10,200 was like, this incredible being that is much different than a 464 00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:14,400 fluffy little baby. So the reason of for doing this 465 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,200 is that these Jews knew that the Angels were great, They had they 466 00:28:18,208 --> 00:28:21,000 didn't have a Hollywood Hallmark version of an Angel. 467 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,700 They knew the destructive, the great, the ministering power of 468 00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:28,300 angels, and their ability to serve God and His judgments. 469 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:32,400 And angels will had a role in delivering God's word. 470 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:36,800 They revered the Old Law, they revealed the Old Testament and 471 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,600 all the words that were sent to the prophets. 472 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:43,300 And so, they really had a pretty decent view of Angels in that, 473 00:28:43,300 --> 00:28:44,400 man. They are great. 474 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:50,900 They were But he's talking about angels to show them that they 475 00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:53,800 are not even near the same level as Jesus. 476 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:58,400 Because he's going to say in a minute, these guys just flock 477 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,600 around and worship Jesus. You think angels are great verse 478 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,700 54 to which of the Angels did he ever say you are my son today? 479 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:09,300 I have begotten. You and again I will be to him a 480 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:11,500 father and he shall be to me a son. 481 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:14,500 He never said that to any angels, angels are described in 482 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:18,100 job as the sons of God. Lowercase s meaning that you 483 00:29:18,108 --> 00:29:19,600 know, they're, they're God's Offspring. 484 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,700 God created them. We can be sons of God, we can be 485 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:27,100 God's people, but I I will beat you a father and I'll beat you a 486 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:28,900 son. He hasn't said that sin Angels 487 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:32,700 or does Jesus. His only begotten son, verse 6, 488 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:36,400 but when he again brings the first born into the world being 489 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,200 Jesus. He says let all the angels of 490 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:46,900 God worship Him. And of the angels, He says, who 491 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:50,700 makes his angels spirits and his ministers, a flame of fire. 492 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:55,100 The angels Don't worship. Jesus doesn't worship among the 493 00:29:55,100 --> 00:30:00,100 angels as kind of one of these angels before God, Jesus is part 494 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:03,100 of the godhead that they come to worship. 495 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:06,100 Jesus is not God. The father Jesus is not God, the 496 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:07,400 spirit. He is God, the son. 497 00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:11,900 He is worthy of the praise of the angels and he's worthy of 498 00:30:11,908 --> 00:30:16,500 our praise. And Psalm 104 is where we get 499 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:17,700 this. These are Old Testament 500 00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:19,700 passages. He's quoting here when he's 501 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:23,200 talking about, let all the angels of God worship him when 502 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,800 you go to the references. If, when you're studying your 503 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,100 Bible, you're wondering where these italicized quotes are 504 00:30:30,108 --> 00:30:32,100 coming from. There's usually a key at the 505 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:35,500 bottom where it has the verse number and a letter next to it 506 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:38,800 and tells you where it's from, this one's from Psalm 104. 507 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:45,600 Psalm 104 says bless the Lord O My Soul, O Lord my God, you are 508 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,100 very great. You are clothed with honour and 509 00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:52,100 Majesty, who cover yourself with light as, with a garment who 510 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,000 stretched out the heavens, like a curtain. 511 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:57,200 He lays the beams of his upper chambers and the waters who 512 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,200 makes the clouds, his Chariot, who walks on the wings of the 513 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,600 wind who makes his angels Spirits, his ministers, a flame 514 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,100 of fire when I read the Old Testament, I don't think about 515 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:09,900 this as being Jesus. I'm just thinking, you know, 516 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:14,600 maybe God the father, but Hebrews tells us that was 517 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:20,800 talking about Jesus. It says, I'm the son, he says 518 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,000 all these things first for who make his angels Spirits, his 519 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,000 ministers, a flame of fire, you who laid the foundations of the 520 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,500 earth, so that it should not be moved forever. 521 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:37,100 Do we see Jesus in this light as this great Eternal creative 522 00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:41,700 Force? The Hebrews did not see him that 523 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:44,500 way. They thought he was someone 524 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:47,000 lower than they could leave and not worry about. 525 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,200 He is great. And if you want to read the rest 526 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,300 of the someone of for, I'm not going to do that now, but it 527 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:54,800 continues to compound the greatness of our God. 528 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,300 And we learned, that's about, Jesus Revelation. 5 tells us 529 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:01,700 this, then I should saw a strong angel. 530 00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:06,000 Proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the scroll 531 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,100 and to loose it seals and no one was in heaven or on Earth or 532 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:12,500 under the Earth able to open the scroll. 533 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:16,400 So there was salvation that could not be administered, could 534 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,600 not be open. God's gift to his people. 535 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,600 No one in heaven, or on Earth or under the Earth. 536 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:28,400 Or to look at it verse 4. So I wept this is John the 537 00:32:28,408 --> 00:32:32,100 Revelator writing this I wept because no one was found worthy 538 00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:34,300 to open and read the scroll or to look at it. 539 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,900 First five, but one of the elders said to me, you know, we 540 00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:43,900 Behold The Lion of the tribe of Judah. 541 00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:47,400 The root of David has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose, 542 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,800 the Seven Seals. There was this Bleak picture. 543 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:53,000 And then, then I looked later in the chapter and I heard the 544 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,500 voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures and 545 00:32:56,500 --> 00:32:58,500 the elders. And the number of them was Ten 546 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:01,600 Thousand Times, Ten Thousand and thousands of thousands. 547 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:04,900 So, that one angel, that was able to wipe out Jerusalem, he 548 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:06,800 was standing above. Of Jerusalem read and knock him 549 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,300 out. There was 10,000 times, 10,000 550 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,900 of angels surrounding saying with a loud voice. 551 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,500 Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and 552 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:24,900 wisdom and strength, and honor and glory and blessing to these 553 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:28,600 Hebrews, to us, as we see the greatness of a physically 554 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:34,500 manifested powerful angel, these bow down in the thousands and 555 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:40,700 thousands to worship Jesus. Great is his name going on and 556 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:44,700 Hebrews 1 verse 8. But to the sun he says, so he's 557 00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:47,000 not speaking angels. He speaking to the sun, your 558 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,300 throne, o, God is forever and ever, a scepter of 559 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:52,400 righteousness, is the scepter of your kingdom. 560 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,100 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. 561 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,400 Therefore God, your God has anointed you with the oil of 562 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,700 gladness more than your companions. 563 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,600 This is another Psalm reference to Psalm 97. 564 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,100 They weren't connecting these Psalms to Jesus and he was 565 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:15,400 helping them do that. Verse 10, only a couple more 566 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,900 verses and you Lord. In the beginning, laid, the 567 00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:20,800 foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of your 568 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,800 hands. They will perish but you remain 569 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,300 and they will all grow old like a garment like a cloak. 570 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,400 You will fold them up and they will be changed, but you were 571 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,699 the same. And your years will not fail. 572 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:36,800 And it's not like, you know, when Jesus set up his Covenant, 573 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,699 they were converted to him. It's not like he kind of 574 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,199 degraded and they had to, they had to depreciate him over time 575 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:44,900 because he started to get less and less. 576 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,300 It says no, you will fold them up. 577 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:51,300 You and they will be changed, but you are the same and your 578 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:53,500 years will not fail. You're not going to get weaker. 579 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:56,800 Just because we, and the early church have now, been around for 580 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,100 a few years. Maybe, 30 years, right, after 581 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:03,400 writing this, After 30 years, he hasn't come and so he's kind of 582 00:35:03,408 --> 00:35:05,200 getting weaker. We can't really know if we trust 583 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,400 him. Well, us here at plans Road two 584 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:13,500 thousand years later, he is the same He is being worshipped and 585 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:16,600 he is great. And he has the power we've read 586 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:22,400 about and he will not fail. He is still sitting in heaven 587 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:29,100 with the same power. He always had He's been merciful 588 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:34,300 to let us do our thing for a while to let us decide what 589 00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:38,900 we're going to do. He is there and he is here with 590 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:41,600 us today. Verse 13. 591 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,500 But to, which of the angels, has he ever said, sit at my right 592 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:49,000 hand, until I make your enemies your footstool, till I make, all 593 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000 these people who are fighting against you just something, you 594 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000 kick your feet up on. He never said that to any 595 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,600 angels, are they not? Are these angels, not all 596 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,800 ministering Spirits sent forth to minister for those, who will 597 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,500 inherit salvation. So, this brings our chapter of 598 00:36:05,508 --> 00:36:07,600 the clothes, I love this last line. 599 00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:11,100 He's talked about angels to give them a gauge for how great Jesus 600 00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:13,300 is. He's talked about the power or 601 00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:16,500 we've talked about the power. He has as God. 602 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,200 Now, all these things that are so much greater than you, all of 603 00:36:21,207 --> 00:36:22,700 these things that could wipe you out with. 604 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,100 The snap of the finger. Do you not see that? 605 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:30,100 All these are just sent to minister to you and towards 606 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:34,800 salvation? I can barely lift a couple 607 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,500 hundred pounds, there's not much I can do especially compared to 608 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:43,800 all these things. But all these great forces are 609 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,900 working towards giving me salvation and tour giving every 610 00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:51,900 one of you salvation. Do you feel important this 611 00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:54,900 morning? Do you feel valuable this 612 00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:57,200 morning? Should. 613 00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:03,900 All these great forces. Are working towards providing 614 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:06,600 help for those who will inherit salvation through administering, 615 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,800 the word that we're reading and our God be with us all the time. 616 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:14,300 I hope this morning that we see the greatness of Jesus and I 617 00:37:14,308 --> 00:37:19,000 hope we see today that we are valuable to him and that he is 618 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,100 the same God who is always been here and it was with us this 619 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:26,000 morning as we worship him. 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