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Bro. Otis Fisher
Well, that's an idea.
We're in the fifth chapter of the book of Hebrews.
What did Abel, Enoch, and Noah have
in common?
And
it's in Abel you have the way of faith.
In Enoch you have the walk of faith.
In Noah you have the witness of faith.
Life is to be mastered by faith, not doubt.
First chapter, first verse.
Now, chapter 5.
For every high priest Taken from among men is ordained for men in things
pertaining to God.
That he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
David, this high priest that was taken from among men
Is stated that he can offer both gifts and sacrifices for men.
Now, how come the priest can do that?
That's right.
He was a picture of Jesus Christ.
Now he was appointed to his earthly office.
The priest must partake of the nature of the person or people for whom he
officiates.
The same with preachers, teachers, or anyone representing you.
I want to go to Genesis the fourth chapter.
Beginning with the first verse and want to read something preparing us.
For a point that's coming up.
Genesis 4, 1.
And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bear Cain and said I have gotten a
man from the Lord.
And she again bear his brother Abel and Abel was a keeper of sheep but Cain was a
tiller of the ground.
These boys were twins and In process of time it
came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground and offering unto the
Lord fourth verse.
And Abel he also brought of the firstling of his flock and of the
fat thereof and The Lord had respect on the Abel and to his offering.
He also brought the word also.
You do well to look it up.
It means he brought what Cain did but he also brought a blood offering.
Five.
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect and Cain was very wroth and
his countenance fell.
Now skipping to the 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews
the fourth verse.
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.
By which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of
his gifts plural and By it he being dead yet speaketh.
We wouldn't suspect much without a whole lot of digging.
If it were not for this verse in Hebrews he offered gifts
plural that reaches back to the beginning to the fourth chapter of Genesis
where Cain brought of the fruit of the ground.
Abel brought of the fruit of the ground plus a blood offering.
Cain brought from the fruit of his labor.
Believing that was enough Abel also brought fruit of his
labor and a blood offering.
We today do the same as Abel.
We bring a portion of Our fruit of our labor such as
money ties talents, but we also bring a blood sacrifice.
Greg I Haven't seen any blood.
How can that be?
That's it The blood of Jesus Christ.
We offer that.
This is why the world cannot please God.
All they can bring is the fruit of their labor.
This is also why a church has church as Representing God on
earth cannot and I stress that cannot Accept anything from
the unsaved person.
To do so is the same as saying they agree with Cain and the blood is not
important.
This causes no little anger with our Lord Jesus the Christ.
It accounts for nothing but damnation.
So we see that the high priest
on earth Was ordained of God.
The high priest on this side of the cross is Jesus the Christ
Who can have compassion.
Speaking of the high priest now who can have compassion on the ignorant and on
them that are out of the way backsliders.
For they he or that he himself also is Compassed with infirmity.
This is describing Aaron and By reason
hereof he ought as for the people so also for himself to offer
for sins.
There's two explanations for the origin of the universe.
What are they Dennis?
All right, I like to put it like this.
Speculation and revelation we accept the
revelation we believe That it by itself.
But even those that believe in some form of popular speculation
Have to have a whole lot of faith to believe it.
The Word of God is more powerful than an atom or a hydrogen bomb.
Someone has said there's three Stages of the atom bomb big
bigger and where did everybody go?
Evolution's not scientific.
If it was the scientists would all agree, but they don't.
Fourth verse.
And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God as
Was Aaron?
Now I'd like to read you a story Taken from the Bible's out of number
1624 story of a man that tried to take control.
Reading now from number 1624.
Speak unto the congregation saying get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah
Dathan and Abram and Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and
Abram and the elders of Israel followed him.
And he spake unto the congregation Saying Depart.
I pray you From the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest you be
consumed in all of their sins.
So they get up from the tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abram
on every side and Dathan and Abram came out and Stood in the door of their tents
and their wives and their sons and their little children.
Moses said Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me
to do all of these works for I have Not done them of my own mind.
If these men die the common death of all men.
Or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me
now Moses is standing Saying this
he does not know.
Well, he knows in his heart, but it's a possibility.
It's not going to work.
But he is speaking for God but if the Lord make a new thing
and the earth open her mouth and Swallow them up with all that appertaineth unto them
and they go down quick into the pit.
Then you shall know and understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
And he came to pass as he made an end of the speaking all These words that the ground
claimed asunder and was on That was under them and the earth
opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained unto
Korah and all of their goods.
They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit That
word alive and The earth closed upon them and they perished from
among the congregation and all Israel That were round about
them fled at the cry of them for they said lest the earth swallow us also and
there came out of fire from the Lord and Consumed the 250
men that offered incense.
Those that have the sin nature now listen to me those that still have the
sin nature operating in them Should not dare to function for God
Until called by him.
This is why I can tell you only what God's revealed to me.
I Would not dare Lead you someplace where he has not been.
Fifth verse.
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest.
But he that said unto him thou art my son today have I begotten thee.
Now keep this in mind.
Jesus Did not take on himself this office the
man.
Jesus Christ was also appointed by God to do this
most awful yet glorious office of Being the high priest of the
elect human race.
The Jewish high priest Represented this by the sacrifices of beasts
Which he offered.
The Christian high priest must also his offer his own life.
Jesus the Christ did so and rising from the dead he ascended to heaven and there
was.
Ever and there ever appears in the presence of God for us think about Jesus.
Just think about him.
He's our high priest.
He offered himself on the sacrifice.
He carried himself up to the altar and laid himself on the sacrifice.
And he saith also in another place.
Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
We know very very little about this man Melchizedek
if he's a priest forever.
Then there can be no succession of priests.
God used Melchizedek.
Whether he was well, we just don't know.
He appears a man.
But we're not giving given his history his lineage.
We're not told anything about him after he went back.
The Old Testament is
so constructed That the fullness of its meaning is seen only in the light of
the new.
Only in the new can you understand the old?
But don't start studying the new and not the old.
And both must be taken together in order to have the fullest understanding of the revealed will of God.
I think that goes without saying.
Seven who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and Tears unto him that was able to
save him from death and was heard in that he feared a
special act of Jesus the Christ priest.
Priesthood.
Was that he offered up.
He offered up himself.
He offered himself.
He must make atonement for sin by suffering.
And he can suffer.
Only as who?
Jesus only as man.
This points to his Human side.
Only as man can he suffer and die?
The cup was death that he prayed concerning.
If he prayed because he didn't want to die then he was not heard.
Was it.
What was he praying about just before he was arrested Greg?
All right, we need to study that.
We won't this morning.
But I want you to study with the idea that it was a battle that was going on.
It was a battle between He and the devil.
The devil was trying to kill him.
So he wouldn't go to cross.
He didn't mind him dying.
But he wanted him to die in the garden.
Not at the cross.
The cup was death.
His prayer was in regard to the fact that Satan was trying to kill him in The garden
to prevent his dying on the cross.
Eight.
Though he were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.
Did you ever think about Jesus having to learn obedience?
He says he did.
He learned obedience by personal speculation
but by real experience.
He learned obedience not by personal speculation but by real
experience and Experimentally understood what obeying
There are two ways of learning obedience.
We both practice them.
We both all teach them.
First You learn obedience by the comprehension of the mind.
Second by the experience of the event.
Christ as God Was perfect in knowledge.
Is that true?
Christ as God was perfect in knowledge.
Nothing could be added to him but when he became the man Jesus.
Then he came to understand and learn by sufferings.
Which was a new method and way of knowing.
And the obedience with Jesus learned was free and voluntary.
Universally and complete sincere and pure steady and
constant.
Jesus learned this lesson of obedience.
Not barely to know it but to do it.
To learn to obey Is to obey by the things which he
suffered.
He did perfectly learn and experimentally understand.
What obedience was?
Jesus had to learn obedience.
Christ knew it but he left that office and he came and was born of a
woman as a baby.
As A young boy we see one time.
We see his birth and then at the age of 12 or 13 we see him in the temple.
Then we don't see him again until he was 30 years old.
I've often wondered was he a typical teenager.
Wasn't anything typical about him?
Mine and being made perfect.
He became the author of eternal salvation and all of them
That obey the elect the
chosen we that are saved.
Being made perfect.
He became the author.
He became the author of eternal salvation.
We know it's eternal because we can't lose it.
If you can lose it, it wouldn't be eternal.
He became the author of salvation and it included
ten called of God and high priest after
the order of Melchizedek.
This man Melchizedek appeared on stage but a brief moment.
Roger where in in history did do we find him?
Yes.
Well, it was when when He did something to somebody.
Abraham had had gone in force after a
lot and Had brought them back and brought
the people that were conquered back.
Here comes Melchizedek out from Salem Jerusalem.
That's really all we know about him other than he was not of the line of priests.
He was not from the line of Aaron.
He was not according to the law.
Yet he was a high priest of God.
Strange.
Yes,
that's right.
It might might well be.
We can suppose a lot of things.
But Melchizedek was a type of Christ without father without mother
lived forever.
Not of the line of Aaron and Jesus was not in that line.
Jesus came from which line David.
Judah.
Now We have time.
The rest of this chapter and Going into six really all belong to six.
I say that because I want to divide right here
and we'll start six of whom we
Having many things to say and hard to be uttered.
Seeing you are dull of hearing.
What does dull of hearing mean joy?
You don't listen because you don't want to.
You don't because you do want to know you.
You do because you don't want to Know
they didn't listen.
They didn't know how to listen.
We have our churches full of people today.
You don't know how to study.
Absolutely.
Don't know how to study.
They think it reads like a novel.
It isn't these people To
which he's talking.
We're dull of hearing.
I'm dull of hearing once in a while.
We are once in a while.
Paul starts here to explain that these people are not progressing spiritually as they
should.
You must get this fixed in your mind because it explains chapter 6.
The opening of it that has caused so much so very much
contention.
But it's simple.
These people were dull of hearing.
Just put yourself in their place.
Not progressing spiritual as they should.
Because you have a low SQ.
What what is SQ.
We know what IQ is.
That's exactly right spiritual quotient.
Do you talk and understand?
Only Spiritual baby talk.
Too many preachers of today are getting by with murder in the pulpit.
They murder the Word of God.
The congregation wants to hear only what
they understand.
Now if the room was full of kindergarten children, I
Would be talking on their level.
So they could understand.
There's some things I can't explain to you yet.
But I'm talking on your level.
They're they're babes and they need pampering.
The Holy Spirit will only talk to you at a level that you know.
Not the level he knows but the level, you know.
For when.
For when for when for the time you ought to be teachers.
You have need that one teach you again.
Which be the first principles of oracles of God and are
become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.
To talk to these people with strong meat Would be like pouring water on a duck's back.
Principles what this principle mean.
Dennis
are at the foundation.
The things that that you build upon.
I heard someone a while back.
Say you passed me by the other day and didn't even wave.
That's baby stuff.
Someone else said why didn't Bill sing today?
I want to hear Bill sing.
Baby stuff filler.
Just words to say.
These are little babies wanting their bottle and their rattles.
Now a baby cannot eat meat.
Can it.
But an adult can drink milk, but he can't
live.
Grow up teaching should cause
you to stretch your mind forward.
I hope it does.
Stretch your mind forward.
Taking in more and more.
I don't care how active you are in the church.
You may be an officer.
You may be on all of the committees.
You may be a leading deacon or teacher.
If you're not studying the Holy Word You're not growing.
Just don't kid yourself.
It is a it is tragic that those longtime church members
Are still going around saying goo goo.
With nothing but baby talk waiting to be
Worked periodically
for every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of
Righteousness for he is a babe.
I didn't say it God did.
But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age.
Even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised
to discern both good and Evil.
I don't know how to get this over to you other than just by practice.
I sit here and I teach.
I Hope I'm teaching.
You sit there you listen you comment once in a while, but are you really learning?
What did you learn last week the week before.
Can you remember the first of Hebrews if you're not being
fed your pastor or your?
Teachers lacking in spiritual wisdom or our pastor is
not lacking is he Learn the
meat of the Bible the part That we can grow on.
Not the part That makes very little difference to you
now we can grow on.
Any of it?
All right.
Is there any?
Comments now.
Well my approach to that is I'll
teach the truth the pure truth and if there's something comes you don't
recognize it's evil.
Unless you can fit it into the Bible.
Not just a verse, but you have to keep running all the time in your head a
History That we've been teaching you
cannot take one scripture and use it.
You get in trouble if you do but strong meat
belongs to you.
You're so far above other churches in town that they can't hold a candle to you.
I Don't get the big head, but
I got what I was gonna say.
You are far ahead of others.
But don't think you've arrived.
Because is there not more to learn?
Every time I open the Bible every time I teach a book that I've gone over and over and over many many
times.
It's like a new book when I open it.
I see things I never saw before.
How many of you are learning Hebrews?
Let me see your hand.
All right learning from
Greg.
I like your method of study because it shows
all of you do.
Is there anything else?
We have ten minutes.
Well, if there's nothing else let's stand and be dismissed.
Dennis dismisses, please.