Pastor admits he was wrong!!!

Well I before I begin I need to correct an error that I made last week and a number of people mentioned this and We're gracious enough to point it out.

So I need to I need to set the record straight about something and the only way to do this is just to be blunt.

About it.

Dory was not a clownfish a Number of people pointed that out first and foremost

some of my own children over lunch.

So I called it Dory a clownfish and I blew that my apologies.

She's actually a blue tang or a royal blue tang or a Pacific blue tech.

Sorry blue tang fish.

Scientifically, I would refer to it as a paracanthropus hepatus.

I'd prefer that that name and You are wondering Jim how much of your week did you spend trying

to get the print the pronunciation of that, right?

So that's the scientific name and I would say it again.

But I stuck the landing on that first time through and I'm not gonna try it again.

The fish is also known as a surgeon fish.

Because I have no idea.

You wouldn't even think that it would be a good idea to have a fish with that kind of memory operating on anybody.

But it is called a surgeon fish.

So I apparently need to spend more time with Pixar movies in sermon prep.

That's the lesson we can all learn now.

We are back in verse 23 and we've spent two full weeks now looking at What it means to hold fast

the confession of our hope and how to do so without wavering and So we did that and we are reviewing this section

that has the three lettuce phrases the three lettuce exhortations.

Let us draw near let us hold fast and let us consider how we are to prompt one another.

To stimulate one another to love and to good deeds and we are to do this in light of the fact that we have this Confidence that we have

direct access to God.

We have to do this in light of the fact that we are Have a great high priest over the household of God this is to motivate us

to draw near to him to hold fast to the confession of our hope and then to encourage others to do that same thing and

Drawing nearers means to hold tight and we are to hold tight to the confession.

That's remember that objective body of truth that is outside of us the gospel truth what we all agree together and confess.

That results in our salvation.

That is what we are to hold fast to that is the grounding of our hope.

Which is not a wish it's not a Wishful thinking it's not wish casting.

It's actually a confident expectation that we have.

Our hope is something future primarily.

We have a future hope we have a present hope we have an anchor for our soul.

Which is our hope that we look forward to and we are we are anticipating in the future.

That is that is our hope and so it's not simply what we just wish for all of that Hope that we have is grounded

in the person and the work of Jesus Christ what he has done on our behalf.

That is our confident Expectation we are anticipating it it is certain and

Because it is certain you and I are called to hold fast to that without wavering and that word means

without wavering without Bending or without leaning or without being inclined towards the

fashions of the fickle or the whims of the world.

We are to stand strong and to hold fast and to not waver and to not bend and to not

compromise.

That's what we are called to do.