Hebrews 10 - A Better Solution, Oct 11, 2026

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there. So glad to have everyone here. I
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want to go ahead uh and ask you if you
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have your Bibles to open them up to
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Hebrews. Uh we're going to be covering a
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lot of area. I got to speed up so I can
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slow down. I don't know how else to
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explain that to you other than that. Um
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let's talk really quick. How many So I
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went to a a Baptist pastor's conference
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yesterday. All right. And yes, we had
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Chick-fil-A.
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And no, we did not get to talk as long
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as we wanted to. You ever get Baptist
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pastors together? You ever seen Baptist
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pastors together? We we go and like
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we'll start talking and they'll go,
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"Well, the service is starting in five
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minutes." And we all go, "Good." And we
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turn around and we keep talking. Um I
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got to meet a couple pastors, got to be
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a church planter, those types of things.
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It was a great great time. But
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yesterday,
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um, I know for a lot of people, uh, and
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I don't want to use the word PTSD, but
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you know, you heard a hurricane was
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coming. You heard the rain, skies got
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dark, the wind started blowing, and
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there was a few of you that kind of kept
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going,
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hm, I wonder, I wonder what's going to
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happen. I wonder is, you know, will my
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roof leak? I wonder if the tree is going
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to fall. Now, hopefully you all were
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very safe. You decided not to go to
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Asheville at 7:30 in the morning, you
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know, uh when it was coming through like
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I did. Um but I hope everything turned
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out okay. But it made me start thinking,
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okay, uh not too not too many years ago
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here at Lighthouse, uh this is a if
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you've not noticed from the outside,
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this is a metal building.
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and a metal roof. You ever notice what
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happens uh for people that don't own
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buildings or not responsible for
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buildings, what happens to metal roofs
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most times? There'll be a leak. And
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unfortunately, where you see the leak in
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the inside
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is what
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does not correlate anywhere
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to where the leak originated from. And
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now I want to let you know uh it's in
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here. Uh there was there's a spot in
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here. There's a spot somewhere else. And
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every time it would rain,
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I'd walk through the building and, you
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know, I'd open the doors, my first
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thought was, "Please don't let it be
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bad. Please don't let it be bad." And I
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go and I start looking. Now, here's the
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problem. So, there's a leak and then
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what do you know? We had really great
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intention people that we hired to do
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what? To try to find it.
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So they go up on the roof and well, we
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think it's here. So they'll start
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sealing here. And then the next rain
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comes and you do what?
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The patch didn't work.
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Okay. So you send it back up and
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you wait for it to rain again. And the
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patch didn't work. Eventually, uh, we
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had to, uh, hire hire people to come and
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almost rework every screw that was in
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the roof. Okay? Like, they had to pull
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up every screw, put a new washer onto
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it, seal the top up, you know,
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eventually get to the right area
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because come in this morning. It rained
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yesterday. I came in this morning and I
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was like, I didn't even think about it
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because I know it worked.
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That idea is what I want to help you
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with scripture today. I'm going to be I
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want to say I'm running through
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scripture today. There is no way I'm
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going to be able to cover every verse
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today. But I want you to want you to see
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the the argument that is going to be
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made
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is not that the old was bad,
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but that the new is so much better that
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we don't worry anymore. Okay? Okay. And
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that's our principle for today and what
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I want you to help carry forward with
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you. All right. Now, if you have your
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Bible, again, like I said, uh Hebrews 9.
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Now, we were No, we weren't here two
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weeks ago or we weren't here last week.
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Last week, we were with Mr. Darren back
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there. Uh we had his ordination service
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and that was a wonderful time together.
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Um we're going to talk a little bit
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about that at the end because um I'm
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going to get to introduce Annie to you
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here in just a moment.
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Why do I tell you that is because I want
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you to know typically if you're with me
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I give you a review slide. Well, the
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great thing is the author of Hebrews
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gave you a review slide in Hebrews
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chapter 9. So that's what I'm going to
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do. I'm not even going to have to review
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chapter 8. I just get to go here's
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chapter nine.
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Um, and
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I'm not going again not going to read
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everything to you, but we're going to
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work our way through all of nine and to
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a little bit of 10. All right. Why is
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that? I want you to see the the chapter
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that we're all trying to get to is what?
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Hebrews 11. I got to give you all the
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structure so that we understand where
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we're going.
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Um, here we go in Hebrews chapter 9. Uh,
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two weeks ago, we started talking about
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how Jesus was better. It was a better
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covenant. It was even, uh, a better, and
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the word that we're going to use here is
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tabernacle. Now, if you did not know,
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did you know if you're a Lego person
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that it's not sold by Legos, it's sold
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by another company. you can go and
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purchase a uh a version of the tent that
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that Moses built
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and it's made out of Legos or ish, you
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know, it's it blocks and it allows it
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lets you sort of understand how things
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were put together and and all of this.
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Now, this is my plug.
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I'm going to explain that
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Wednesday night.
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No, because if you don't understand, you
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go, "Pastor Mark, I don't know what any
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of that meant." Come on Wednesday night
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and we'll we'll walk our way through all
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of it. We're going to walk our way
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through why is it that there were
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slaughter tables? And that's multiple.
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We're going to walk our way through why
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was the the court of the tabernacle, why
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was there an offering in the middle of
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it? Because again, the priest had to do
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that. We're going to walk our way all
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the way through. Why is there furniture?
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Did you know there's furniture in the
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tabernacle? If you didn't, you do now.
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Um, and you're going, "Pastor Mark, why
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does that even matter?" I I need to help
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increase your biblical literacy so that
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as you're reading Hebrews,
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it makes sense. See, Hebrews He uh I
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don't know how many you've ever been. I
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love uh I love big city. Look, I know
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some of you don't. I get it. I love
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riding through New York, okay?
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Especially the subways in New York. I I
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because I I love it because there's
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these all these maps, right? And you
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know good and well the maps are not in a
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straight line like they look on there
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because you felt the train go left and
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right and up and down and everything
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else. But what's interesting is you go,
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"Here's a map." And he goes, "There's
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that dot and that dot and that dot and
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that dot and you're flying by them and
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you go, I wonder what was at that
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place."
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Hebrews is doing the exact same thing.
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it is flying through the Old Testament
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and it's arriving saying you should you
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should already know this.
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I worry that some of us don't.
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So, we're going to study that that whole
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image as you can sort of see. We're
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going to study that on on Wednesday
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night and we're going to start figuring
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out, you know, why is Aaron's rod in
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there? Why is it Aaron's and not Moses?
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Why is there why is there the Ten
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Commandments in there? Why is there all
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these other things and you're going to
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go we're gonna we're going to sit and
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explain that just for a little bit. But
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let's get back to our verses because in
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chapter nine verses 1 through about 1
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through 10. I don't know how your
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Bible's broken down. I'm going to share
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with you how I would break this down. 1
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through 10 happens and you get this
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whole idea of wow if God really is
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better how do we how do we handle things
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such as the tabernacle? Now look at this
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really quickly. verse number nine which
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is the ending of verse number eight
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which is symbolic for the present age.
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Now what is symbolic for the present
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age? That temple
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again not necessary symbolic.
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According to the uh arrangements, gifts
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and sacrifices are offered that cannot
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perfect uh to perfect the conscience of
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the worshipper but dealt only with food
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and drink and various washings
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regulations of the for the body imposed
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until the time of reformation.
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You're going pastor Mark that doesn't
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seem like a very important verse. Why in
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the world would you stop and talk about
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those verses? Because you're looking for
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a you know I get it. You had a hard
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week. You're looking for a John 3:16
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verse that you can hold on to, right?
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You go, "Pastor Mark, can I got get one
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of those? I need an easy, it's been a
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hard week. Just hand me a John 3:16
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verse." No, no, no. I want you to see
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how beautiful God's word is. Look at
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this for you.
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It was a This was a This was a symbol.
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If I If I If I was looking for a symbol,
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what do I really need to do? I need to
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see what was it pointing to.
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Do you remember two weeks ago? Well, if
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you again, if you doodle in your Bible,
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you draw on your Bible. What did I ask
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you to do with chapter 8? I asked you to
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draw a giant
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forward.
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Chapter nine, doing the ex starts off
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doing the exact same thing. What is this
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all
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pointing to?
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If you've never read your Bible to go, I
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I don't I don't know.
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I want you to hear me. Jesus is better.
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I'm going to have you repeat that here
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in just a minute. Jesus is better.
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You're going to read all of this and
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you're going to go, I don't understand
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any of that. Great. Wonderful. Now,
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typically, Pastor Mark would tell you to
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go read Leviticus, which is probably
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what you need to go do anyway. But
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I want you to see that Jesus is better.
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And I don't want you to miss the
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argument that is here. All right. The
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argument of Hebrews is this. Jesus is
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the better solution.
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So all whenever you're reading Hebrews 1
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through9, you should continually go
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Jesus
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is better. I'm going to forward you just
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a little bit. I I I hope you can sort of
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tell from where you're sitting. If you
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go, Pastor Mark, there's some verses on
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there I can't see. Good.
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That's done by design. It's not that
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these are not important. It's just that
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if I stop and in and camp and and tell
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you each verse that's happening here.
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Look, we need to be here till like
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Thursday,
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which is fine, but I want you to hear
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the big argument. Big argument. What's
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the big argument? Jesus is
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better. Thank you. We're working on
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that. We're going to have some
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interaction here. Going to keep you
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awake. So, if you find someone asleep
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and they don't answer with you, just
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knock nudge them a little bit. Wake them
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up. All right. I made sure the heat's
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not on yet. You're okay.
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I want you to know the sanctuary will
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sleep about 120 people. So, let's look
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at some of the big points that Jesus is
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better. Verse number 11, and I have it
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grayed out just for a moment because I
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don't want to spend too much time on it,
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but you do need to understand. Here's
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the subject. The subject is Jesus. It's
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Christ.
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Christ is a better high priest. We spent
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two weeks ago teaching that. If you if
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you don't understand that point, you
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should write right here on right right
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around verse number 11. You should write
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chapter eight. Go back and study.
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You go, okay, we'll see if he's a better
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high priest. What else is he? I want you
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to see what he did for you. Now, this is
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New Testament stuff, right?
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Verse 12. He entered once for all into
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the holy places, not by mean not by
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means of blood of goats and of calves,
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but by means of his own blood, thus
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securing an eternal redemption. I want
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to highlight that for you. It is what?
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It is an eternal
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redemption.
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Um
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couple of weeks ago we started talking
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about how the high priest had to go and
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before he could even go into the holy of
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holies, he had to go back out and he had
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to sacrifice.
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He had to have make a sacrifice for
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himself
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and for his family before he ever walked
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into the Holy of Holies to ask for
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forgiveness of the whole nation.
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And you think through that and you go,
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"Wow, that's that's a lot of that's a
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lot of stress. That'd be a lot riding on
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him." That's correct.
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The writer now says, "Christ is
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better."
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How is he better? Number one, he's a
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better high priest.
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Number two, he has a better offering.
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What was his What was his offering?
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his. And again, I want you to know this
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might get us kicked off of Facebook.
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It's It's okay. We're going to talk a
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lot about blood today. It's all right.
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It was his shed blood.
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It's not It's not another animal. It's
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not another um another created thing.
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This was his own.
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Wow. Okay. So if it's his own,
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Christ secured our eternal redemption.
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Um I I want you to know I have brothers
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and sisters who I truly believe that are
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are um I'll see them in heaven, but we
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disagree
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on this this big term. Okay, big big
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term. We call it eternal security. All
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right, I believe in eternal security.
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You know what that means? Uh let me can
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I tell you the country version of that?
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The country version of that is once
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saved always saved. All right. You go oh
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I understand that. Okay big word eternal
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security. You need to learn big words
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because when you go search for them you
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can't you can search you can try to
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Google search once saved always saved.
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You'll get better results if you go
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Google search eternal security.
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Why is that?
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Thus securing
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eternal
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redemption. That's the reason why if you
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have trusted Christ as your savior, you
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have you have believed and you've
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confessed. Okay, those are that's what's
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actually required. And then option you
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know then what we do is we pray and we
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pray and we tell God we go God I believe
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in you. I confess you as my savior. The
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prayer doesn't save believing saves.
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Confessing saves.
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That's eternal. That's an eternal
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decision.
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I I kind of like it better to say that's
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an internal consequence.
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Why? Because consequences can be good.
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You ever talk to some teachers? I have a
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lot of teachers in in my life.
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Christiey's one of them. Um and we talk
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a lot about consequences. You need to un
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every every person needs to understand
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there's consequences.
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Good consequences,
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bad consequences.
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Okay. Personally, last night I I took my
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insulin pump off. I went to sleep. I
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slept great. Woke up this morning. My
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blood sugar was high.
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There was a consequence for sleeping
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really good.
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I was like, "Okay, I've been fighting it
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all morning and I'm now I'm dropping
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like a bad habit." And hang on, let me
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check real quick. Oh, yeah. I'm not
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going to tell you what that number is.
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It's still green. That's all you need to
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know. Um,
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but there's there's a consequence.
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Believing in Christ has a consequence
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and not in a bad way. Eternal security.
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Now keep going with me.
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Verse 13 goes back and understands blood
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blood of goats and those types of
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things. Verse 14. How much more will the
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blood of Christ if there was ever a
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sentence for you to for if you're one of
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those little philosopher people like you
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can sit and you can you can you can chew
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on something for a while. This is a
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great sentence. How much more will the
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blood of Christ who through the eternal
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spirit offered himself without blemish
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to God.
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Oh, the perfect
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sacrifice.
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Purify your conscience from dead works
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to serve the living God. I want to point
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out something right here. It's purify
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your conscience from dead works. All
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right.
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Why is it Why is this Why? Okay, Pastor
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Mark, why are you getting exciting
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excited about a chapter that I could
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read and it mean nothing to me?
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Beautiful. I get excited for this.
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Uh I forget who it is on Wednesday
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night. There's somebody that sits on
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Wednesday night and you all might know,
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my Wednesday night crew might know. I I
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make sure that I highlight things that
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are important to me because I I'm
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showing you how I read and study God's
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word.
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to purify your conscience. Do you happen
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to remember a guy named Paul who wrote
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in Romans? He wrote in Romans chapter
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12, he says, "I want to beseech you
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therefore by the mercies of God to do
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what? Presenting by his living
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sacrifice, holy acceptable to God and
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then renewing of your mind where each
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and every day
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the purifying your conscience.
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You you ask a little kid, you know, if
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they did something wrong, they'll lie to
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you straight to your face. They'll go,
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"No, no, I didn't.
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You being Christian,
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the moment
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that you do something wrong, there is a
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voice that inside of you that goes,
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"That was wrong."
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I'll go a step further.
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There are times whenever you may have
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said something to a friend
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and it bothered you later and you went
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I I don't think they took that the way I
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thought there I was hoping for them to
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take it.
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So what I'll go back and do what? Hey, I
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need to ask your forgiveness. And my
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friends go
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forgiveness of what? I think I think I
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said something and and it might might
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have said made made you upset. And
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they'll go, "Oh, I don't even remember
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it. That's great. I still have to do
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what?
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I still have to go and ask for
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forgiveness.
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So what Christ is saying is now look
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where are the restrictions at? Old
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testament ten commandments, you know,
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Moses saying let my people go, you know,
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Charles H, all that stuff.
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Good stuff. It was all from the outside
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working its way in.
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Jesus is going, "No, no, no. This is on
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the inside and it needs to work its way
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out."
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How are you handling friendships? How
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are you handling your salvation? How are
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you handling with how you study God's
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word?
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Because it's not on us anymore.
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It's not on you to make a a perfect
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sacrifice. That has already been done.
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So Jesus is better.
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When I point to you, that means better.
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Okay, try again. Jesus is
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>> Hey, we're going to get there. All
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right, let's move on a little bit
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further.
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Verse number 15.
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Therefore, he um so one of the things
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that I do whenever I'm studying God's
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word, there are times whenever the
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subject is, you know, like like for this
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example, it is Jesus. It's just that it
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it sometimes gets it gets lost in the
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study of it. I'm just bringing it forth.
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Okay. Therefore, he is the mediator of
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the new covenant. Oh, I like that. So,
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who's responsible?
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Not me.
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This this this I mean I want you to know
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this is the perfect sermon to preach in
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2026. No one wants to be responsible.
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Jesus said I'll be responsible.
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He is the mediator of the new covenant
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so that the those who are now called by
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may receive the promise of eternal
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inheritance since a death has occurred
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that redeems them from the
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transgressions committed under the first
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covenant.
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Big words.
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How does that translate?
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Jesus died for you.
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Christ died for you.
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Wow. I know. And and and if you've been
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a believer and if you've been a believer
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for more than a minute,
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Christ died for you.
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And to stop and to think about that to
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go
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that that there's a there's a weight
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there. There's a wow that's important.
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It is.
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verses 16- 22. All right. Um I I I give
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you this little plug. This is like I
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call this the high school boys club
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plug. Uh 16 through 22 talks a lot about
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death. Talks a lot about covenant,
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blood, and forgiveness.
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You're going, "Pastor Mark, those are
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the cool verses. I get it.
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But what do I need to what do I need to
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remember about all the you know the
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bloodshed and okay we don't have to
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worry about the bloodshed of goats and
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shed of bloodshed of sheep and you know
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the pigeons are no longer there.
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What do I need to remember? My whole
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argument is that Jesus is
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>> Thank you.
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But he's also the mediator of it. Jesus
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is better. Okay. Then what do I where do
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I pick back up at? You need to pick back
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up at verse number 22. Now, I want you
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to read this. So, if you're if you're
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highlighting verses as you go through
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it, verse number 22, here's the verse I
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want you to I want you to highlight
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because this is what it says.
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Indeed,
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under the law, almost everything is
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purified with
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blood.
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Pastor Mark, this doesn't sound like a
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really exciting sermon. I know it's
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important, though. We got to we have to
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we have to understand the the hard
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things
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so that we can celebrate a little bit
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more. But it was washed and again you
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know I always think about different
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things. I don't know how your brain
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ticks. That's how my brain ticks. I go
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could we not have found something else?
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That sounds I mean I want you to know I
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grew up I grew up with some gothic
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friends. They dressed in black. They
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were always talking about blood. And
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here I am in church
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talking about blood a lot.
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Indeed, under the law, almost everything
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is purified with blood. And without the
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shedding of blood, there is no
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forgiveness of sins. This should make
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you think of two places,
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really three, but we're going to focus
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on two. Number one, it should make you
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think of
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Genesis.
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Notice whenever whenever Adam and Eve
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sinned,
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the very first thing, okay, after God
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was like,
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you know, where are you Adam? Asking him
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a question he already knew the answer
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to, the first thing that the next thing
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happened was what? The shedding of
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blood. You should think instantly think
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of that. Where else should you think of
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when you think of of shedding of of
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blood? You're probably not going to get
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there as much as as I would have got
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there. I think of Exodus. And here's my
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reasoning for that. Whenever, okay, take
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a common story that you should know.
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When Moses and the children of Israel
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crossed the Red Sea, what was the first
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thing he did once everybody was across?
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He built an altar
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and he had made an offering to a holy
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God.
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Whenever you read that, that doesn't
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mean that they took up collection of
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money.
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It doesn't mean that they said, "Hey,
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look, we're going to sing a song to
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Jesus." No,
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it means they took an animal and him in
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front of everyone,
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he killed that animal
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and he put it there and he he they had a
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declaration to God.
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That is what you should think of. Now, I
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wrote a verse in here and I'm not going
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to touch on it today. Um, but this is
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the verse I want you to think about.
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This is Leviticus 17:1.
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For you that are are people you like to
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study and you like to go, "Hey, Pastor
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Mark, where did you know where did you
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where did the rabbit holes lead you this
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week?" Leviticus 17.
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I spent a lot of time in Leviticus
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because this is all about what? The shed
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of blood. This is all about the
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redemption. All of those things. So
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Christ is our mediator. Christ is a He
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offered a better a better sacrifice.
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You think think we're going to slow
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down? No, not really.
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Verse number 25 and 26.
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So you sort of keep going down. Um verse
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25,
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u I'm I'm just going to leave you a
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little bit of reference there to
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Leviticus 16:34.
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Go back and again go back and read
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Leviticus.
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You're going, "Pastor Mark, you seem to
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think like Leviticus is very important."
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I do.
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If you're having a hard time with
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Hebrews,
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Leviticus is the place to go study. Can
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I give you Can I give you one extra? I'm
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I'm going to step one more step into
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that. If you're having a hard time
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understanding Jesus,
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you really need to go read his favorite
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book, which is Deuteronomy.
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He quotes it more. He he goes
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Deuteronomy and Isaiah more than
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anywhere else.
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And you're going, "Really?" Yeah. Go
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back and read because you're going to be
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reading through there and you're going
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to go, "This sounds a whole lot like
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Jesus." It does.
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Verse 26. For then uh he would have had
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to suffer repeatedly. So the whole idea
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here is what
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Christ suffered once and for all.
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For then he would have because if if
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he's underneath the old way and if his
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sacrifice wasn't sufficient, then he
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would have had to suffer repeatedly
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since the foundation of the world. But
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as it is, this is a that's a that's a
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that's like a therefore that didn't get
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put in the right spot. But as it is, he
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appeared once and for all at the end of
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the ages to put away sin by the
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sacrifice of himself. Why was that so
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important? Why was the sacrifice so
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important? Why do we have four gospels
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talking about Jesus? Could we not just
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talk about Jesus being happy and being
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um you know him healing everybody? Could
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we not just talk about him feeding
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everybody? Why did he have to die?
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Because he was to put away sin by the
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sacrifice of himself.
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Um he did this once and for all.
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Keep reading verse number 27. Just as it
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is appointed for man to die once and
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after that comes the judgment. I want
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you to know out of all the verses that
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are in Hebrews, you quote me, you you'll
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quote me that way more than anywhere
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else and you have no clue of where it
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comes from.
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So Christ having been offered,
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how many times was he offered? Once to
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bear the sins of many, will appear a
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second time. Not to deal with sin, but
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to save those who eagerly uh are waiting
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for him.
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Now, okay, so this is for all of this is
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for all of my people. Uh, I'm I'm going
00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:10.870
to pick on you just a little bit. This
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:12.230
is for all my people who wish go,
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:13.430
"Pastor Mark, I wish you'd preach one of
00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.110
the sermons, you know, where you get hot
00:29:15.120 --> 00:29:16.789
and you spit everywhere else and yell at
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us for a little bit."
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All right.
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If you have one of those, it's coming
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from here.
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And I'm not going to do that because I
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want you to hear the the real truth
00:29:33.360 --> 00:29:36.870
that's being spoken to you.
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Jesus Christ offered himself once
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to bear the sins of many. And you go
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that. Okay, make it personal right here.
00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:49.830
He died once. And I want you to think
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through this with me. I'm going to say
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it. I'm going to say it in first person
00:29:52.399 --> 00:29:55.190
so you can say it in first person.
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Having been offered once
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to bear my sins.
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Make it even more personal. Put your own
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name there. I'm going to put mine there.
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:08.470
He offered once to bear the sins of
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Mark.
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He beared my sins.
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And while I don't understand all the
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things that he that that accomplishes,
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even though Hebrews is trying its best
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to explain it to me,
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it means I know he beared my sins.
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All right. So, if you bear my sins,
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okay, so did he just save me to put you
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on this earth? Go, okay, you're going to
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have some more trials. Uh, just do the
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best. Do the best you can. No, there's a
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:42.389
promise. Where's the promise at? It's
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right there. And again, the the writer
00:30:44.080 --> 00:30:46.070
of Hebrews didn't have to include this.
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I think he did because the reader needed
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to have encouragement. He will appear a
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second time.
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Now,
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um,
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this should instantly make you think of
00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:03.110
what? I don't know about you, I think of
00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:04.630
Paul.
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It says, "In a moment, in the twinkling
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of an eye, those which are deadened
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shall be called up and we shall gather
00:31:11.600 --> 00:31:13.830
together with him
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in the air."
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I look forward, you know, as you see the
00:31:19.679 --> 00:31:21.269
day approaching, keep encouraging one
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another, keep stirring one another up
00:31:23.600 --> 00:31:26.470
because our Jesus Christ is coming back.
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There's a there's a hope. And if you I
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:30.470
and I want you to hear me. If the only
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:32.230
thing you've ever quoted in your Bible
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:36.310
is Hebrews, you know, verse 27,
00:31:36.320 --> 00:31:39.909
you missed the best verse,
00:31:39.919 --> 00:31:42.789
he'll appear a [snorts] second time.
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But not to deal with sin. I love that.
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:46.950
He's like, "No, no, no. I'm not going to
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:48.870
deal with sin no more. This is setting
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:51.590
it up." Um, the word here, okay, so
00:31:51.600 --> 00:31:54.070
really quickly, this word save those who
00:31:54.080 --> 00:31:56.070
are eagerly awaiting him, that doesn't
00:31:56.080 --> 00:31:58.389
mean as in salvation. That means, okay,
00:31:58.399 --> 00:32:00.549
it's complete. We're done. We're moving
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:03.029
forward.
00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:04.710
Okay. And this is for all the for all of
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:07.190
you people that want to read Revelation.
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:11.029
It's moving forward to that.
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:13.430
And if you don't, and again, if you're
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.430
you want to go read Revelation, I want
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.950
you to know the prerequisite is the
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:20.470
other 65 books.
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:22.549
Don't start in Revelation
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:24.149
until you have a good understanding of
00:32:24.159 --> 00:32:26.389
the other 65.
00:32:26.399 --> 00:32:29.269
then you can start
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:31.430
save those who eagerly await him. I I
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:32.630
haven't even got to my favorite part
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:36.230
yet. I'm sorry. I'll hurry.
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:39.190
Chapter 10 starts on this unique little
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:40.870
aspect and I want to get you through
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:43.669
this.
00:32:43.679 --> 00:32:47.430
If I asked you which is better, this is
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:48.870
this is a rhetorical question. You don't
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:51.029
have to answer me on this one. Which is
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.750
better, the shadow or the real thing? I
00:32:53.760 --> 00:32:55.990
hope you would answer me the real thing.
00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.149
You could stand in the shadow of your
00:32:58.159 --> 00:32:59.750
house
00:32:59.760 --> 00:33:02.389
doesn't mean that you're living inside
00:33:02.399 --> 00:33:04.710
the house.
00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:06.870
Here's this idea of verse. So in chapter
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:09.590
10 uh verses 1-4,
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but since the law has but a shadow of
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:15.830
the good things to come, you instantly
00:33:15.840 --> 00:33:18.549
should be reading and go, okay, there
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:20.630
means there's there's better uh there's
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.789
better things. That's right. There's
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:26.389
better things to come instead.
00:33:26.399 --> 00:33:27.830
I don't know about you. I go, "Wow."
00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:29.190
Okay, that means I need to be looking
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:30.549
forward. Looking forward to who and
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:34.470
what? Jesus. Because Jesus is
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:36.870
>> better. Thank you.
00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:38.950
Otherwise, they would not have ceased to
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:41.269
be offered since the worshipper having
00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:43.830
been cleansed no longer has conscience
00:33:43.840 --> 00:33:47.269
of sin. Okay. What he's saying is Jesus
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:50.389
is better because we don't have to keep
00:33:50.399 --> 00:33:51.590
going back to him, going back to him,
00:33:51.600 --> 00:33:53.430
going back to him, going back to him.
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:57.029
No, now hear me. We are called to ask
00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:59.269
God for forgiveness of our sins, to
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repent of our sins, and to move forward.
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.190
I I preach at you a lot. Ephesians 4,
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.269
you really should go study that. To put
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off sin and put on righteousness. Now,
00:34:09.359 --> 00:34:12.230
we are called to do that. What this is
00:34:12.240 --> 00:34:14.149
saying is, guess what? I no longer have
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.149
to keep coming to Jesus. Will you save
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:18.710
my soul?
00:34:18.720 --> 00:34:21.829
I did. He already said once yes. And
00:34:21.839 --> 00:34:24.710
that yes was eternal.
00:34:24.720 --> 00:34:25.990
I don't have to worry about that
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:27.589
anymore.
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.510
Now, keep going forward. I'm going to
00:34:29.520 --> 00:34:31.349
skip. There's a little bit he quotes uh
00:34:31.359 --> 00:34:33.430
in the middle of this. I'm going to jump
00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:35.909
down to verse number nine.
00:34:35.919 --> 00:34:38.710
And then he behold I will have I will
00:34:38.720 --> 00:34:40.869
have come to you to do your will. So
00:34:40.879 --> 00:34:43.030
this is Jesus talking about God. He came
00:34:43.040 --> 00:34:46.230
to do God's will.
00:34:46.240 --> 00:34:48.710
The cult have come to do God's will. He
00:34:48.720 --> 00:34:50.230
does he does away with the first in
00:34:50.240 --> 00:34:52.470
order to establish the second. And by
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.190
that he uh we have been uh sacrificed
00:34:55.200 --> 00:34:56.389
through the offering of the body of
00:34:56.399 --> 00:34:59.270
Jesus for all. So I'm going to highlight
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:02.950
that part of it for you too.
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.230
All right. Why do I Why do I as a
00:35:06.240 --> 00:35:07.829
Christian not have to Why do I don't
00:35:07.839 --> 00:35:10.230
have to keep going back to Christ asking
00:35:10.240 --> 00:35:14.069
over and over, "God, will you save me?"
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:18.550
Because he did it once and for all. Now,
00:35:18.560 --> 00:35:22.470
do I think people backslide? Yes.
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.910
Do I think people lose their commitment?
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.390
Yes.
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:30.550
Do I think people have have have
00:35:30.560 --> 00:35:32.470
actually they've they've they might have
00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.630
walked forward. They may have they may
00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:36.150
have confessed it in front of friends
00:35:36.160 --> 00:35:41.829
and family and it wasn't real 1,000%.
00:35:41.839 --> 00:35:43.589
God's God's word even tells me that it's
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:47.589
the whole sewer of seeds.
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:50.390
However, whenever I read verses like
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:52.230
this and whenever I read that he goes
00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:56.150
what? offering the blood he did. Christ
00:35:56.160 --> 00:36:00.230
did it once for all.
00:36:00.240 --> 00:36:02.630
Man, that makes me excited. That makes
00:36:02.640 --> 00:36:04.870
me understand that whenever I go and and
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.990
share the gospel with someone else,
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.630
I can say with 1,000% confidence, Christ
00:36:10.640 --> 00:36:12.870
died for them.
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:14.630
Christ wants to forgive you of your
00:36:14.640 --> 00:36:16.710
sins.
00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:18.950
I'm going to quickly get through verse
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:20.470
11.
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:22.550
Um,
00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:24.550
there's an interesting aspect here that
00:36:24.560 --> 00:36:26.230
was a little bit more important whenever
00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:29.109
I studying it than than actually ended
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:32.470
up being in the lesson.
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:35.109
When you are reading God's word and it
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.109
simply says these people were standing
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up, but Christ got to sit down.
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Why would Christ get to sit down?
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Because he did it right the first time.
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I want you to read this. This is this is
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one of those little um terms where the
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the writer kind of wrote and and you you
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might miss it. And every priest, it
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actually says the priest stands daily.
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Okay, that that whole idea the priest is
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still, you know, in the Old Testament,
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he still has to stand. He still have to
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do it every day. We got to wake up. We
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got to sacrifice something so we can
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move on.
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But when Jesus had offered it all time,
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a single sacrifice for sins, what did
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what did Christ do?
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He sat down at the right hand of God.
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Oh, that makes me excited because that
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means he did it. It was whenever Christ
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on the cross said, "It was finished.
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It's finished."
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That's not a, "Well, I wonder if you'll
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have to come back and do it again."
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You know, they weren't standing around
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the cross going, I wonder if there's a
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season two.
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It's a what?
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It was done
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for by a single offering he perfected
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for all time. Man, I think through I I
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want you to think through that really
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quickly. He only had to do it once.
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15 um 15 161 17 18
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um I want to highlight just one of the
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little things of this
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and the Holy Spirit who also bears
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witness to us after saying this is the
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covenant that I will make with them
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after those days. I will put my laws on
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their hearts and I will write in their
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minds.
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He then adds I will remember their sins
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and lawless deeds no more.
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I'm want this is where I'm going to stop
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and I want to stop and leave you with
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this because again I've been trying to
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help you all all this whole sermon that
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Jesus is
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>> better.
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How is he better?
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I want you to read this. He says, "I
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will put my laws on their hearts."
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You go, "Pastor Mark, I'm not sure I'm
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not sure Christ's law has been on my
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heart as much as other things." Okay.
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What he's asking you to do is to dive
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into his word, to study it, and then act
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on it.
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I
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look if you come to if you come to my
00:39:15.839 --> 00:39:20.550
sermons and I want you to hear me. Um
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I I always tell people you can go find
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look I I got to listen to Chuck Lawless
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yesterday. He was phenomenal. Right?
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If all you do is you understand the the
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the terminology, you gain knowledge
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but never live it out. And I've said
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this already on Wednesday night.
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All you've become is a wiser
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sinner.
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I do this because I want to study God's
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word. I want to be in my heart because I
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want to try to live it out.
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It's write it in their minds. I want to
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be thinking about it. I want to have an
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emotional attachment to it. Does that
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mean I do it right?
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Absolutely no.
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But it gives me an opportunity to go
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back to Christ and keep going. Okay,
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God, I I I failed at that.
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And and in my prayer, I might pray,
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"God, will you forgive me?" And and and
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and again, he doesn't speak to me
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audibly, but I'm like I can just sort of
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see him going, I've already forgiven
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you.
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I've already forgot it.
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And that's important because you go,
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he is wanting you to live this out.
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Jesus is better than anything else
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that's offered in the world.
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Money can never solve money can't solve
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the problem. Having the the pleasures of
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life can't solve the problem
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because the problem is I got to put his
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I got to put his law in my heart and I
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got to think about it because I remember
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because this is where we need to live. I
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will remember their sins and their
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lawless deeds no more.
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Um now I use now in in 2026 we will
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often use the words like I forgot. I
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want you to know this is more
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intentional than just forgetting.
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This is God who is all knowing, who is
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all places, all times, all the big all
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the big omniwords.
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Him saying, I choose to want,
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I will remember their sins and their
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evil deeds no more. He's not even saying
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he's forgetting. He's choosing to go, I
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will choose not to remember it.
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The beauty of that is whenever you stand
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in front of God, you have this moment
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where you, you know, we all think about
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judgment and God looking at you as a
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safe as a saved child of his.
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And you're just sitting there going, I I
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know all of my sins.
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I know all of them.
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And Christ is looking at you going, "Oh,
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I know them. I just chose not to
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remember."
00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:24.950
you go, "Oh, oh, oh, okay."
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Why? Because Jesus is the better
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solution. Here's your takehome for the
00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:30.870
day. Told you we're going to get through
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a lot. I had a I kind of had to hurry
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up. Next week, we're going to sort of
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slow down.
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I only have two for you today. And
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they're all in first person. I want you
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to know I I try my best to do that so
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.510
that you can you're asking the question.
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You're not going that you don't because
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whenever you read hey when you fail
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because you're you instantly go pointing
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.829
a finger when you when you fail I want
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you to do this. What? When
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I fail
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when I fail God
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and I don't really have to convince you
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:07.270
of that part, do I?
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.349
When I fail God, am I tempted to try to
00:43:09.359 --> 00:43:14.630
reearn his forgiveness?
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What did Christ tell you that? What did
00:43:16.240 --> 00:43:18.150
what did God's word simply tell you that
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he did? He came and he died what? Once
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for all.
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Whenever he died, I want you to
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:29.589
understand me. He understood how much
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:33.030
you were going to sin.
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He understood all the things you were
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going to do.
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He knew all of that before creation
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anyway, but that's that's a different
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conversation.
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And he still chose to die for your sins.
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Am
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I tempted to try to reearn his
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:50.470
forgiveness? Now, this is a this is a um
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.589
I'm trying to change your behavior here.
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:54.950
I want to change the way that you think
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about it. Do I run to Christ?
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Absolutely.
00:43:59.680 --> 00:44:01.349
But I'm I'm running to Christ because I
00:44:01.359 --> 00:44:03.829
want to I need to tell him, hey, I we
00:44:03.839 --> 00:44:05.430
need to I I'm sorry. I need to ask for
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:08.390
forgiveness. Number two, and this only
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there's only two here. How should God's
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promise to remember our sins no more to
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change the way that I approach him?
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So, historically, there's a guys know I
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:22.470
read a lot of uh Martin Luther. One of
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:25.030
my favorite things about Luther
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um he wrote a poem once and he says, "I
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:28.630
don't understand how you can't remember
00:44:28.640 --> 00:44:33.430
my sins whenever I do."
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That's how I I prayed that prayer so
00:44:35.359 --> 00:44:36.790
many times because I keep it keeps
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:41.670
bothering me and it keeps bothering me.
00:44:41.680 --> 00:44:43.349
But Christ says, "I I chose not to
00:44:43.359 --> 00:44:46.309
remember."
00:44:46.319 --> 00:44:48.550
Maybe your prayer today is, "Lord, I
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know you have forgiven me. May I walk,
00:44:52.240 --> 00:44:57.109
may I live in that forgiveness today."
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I'm going to ask you to pray with me.
00:44:58.560 --> 00:45:00.790
I'm going to ask you to stay seated. Um,
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we have I got a lot of other things to
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:05.990
do after prayer. Uh, must camera to turn
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off social media.
00:45:08.640 --> 00:45:10.150
But I want you to walk with this. Take a
00:45:10.160 --> 00:45:11.750
moment. We're not We're not We're not in
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:13.910
a rush.
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Restaurants still have food.
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.230
When I fail God, am I tempted to try to
00:45:20.240 --> 00:45:23.109
reearn it? And if I am, how can I
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:26.309
correct my thinking?
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Number two, when God's promise is to
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remember our sins no more, how does that
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.870
change my approach?
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That changes the way I pray. That
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.109
changes the way I think. That changes my
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:39.349
approach. And that's what I'm hoping for
00:45:39.359 --> 00:45:42.560
you today. Let's pray together.