John, pt. 66 | John10:30-42

All right, if you will at this time take your copy of the scriptures. This will be our last message in John chapter 10. John chapter 10 verses 30 through 42 is what we'll consider and this is our 66th message in this glorious gospel.

Do y 'all know how many? Messages I've preached in John 10. Is it 7? I think so, something like that. John chapter 10. This will be the last one. Again we'll consider verses 10 through.

Verses.

30 through 42. Let me open us up in prayer. Gracious God Father Son and Holy Spirit. Lord, we've come to that portion of our service where we Beg you to speak to us Lord we gather because we long to hear from you.

Wouldn't I just pray God that this week as I Wrestled through the text Lord. I pray God that you have given me the correct Interpretation and that you will through your Holy Spirit allow me to articulate well What your word has to say?

Lord I do pray that you will Hide me Lord behind this book and that I only speak forth your truth. And I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right. So the text John chapter 10 verses 30 through 42.

We'll begin there. Jesus begins to speak he says I and the Father are one. The Jews pick up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them. I have shown you many good works from the father. For which of them are you going to stone me?

The Jews answered him. It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy blaspheme. Because you being a man make yourself God. Jesus answered them. Is it not written in your law?

I said you are God's. If he called them gods to whom the Word of God came the scripture Cannot be broken. Do you say of him whom the father? Consecrated and sent into the world you are blaspheming because I said I am the Son of God.

If I am not doing the works of my father then do not believe me. But if I do them even though you do not believe me believe the works that you may know and understand. That the father is in me and I am in the father.

Again, they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first and There he remained verse 41 and many came to him and they said John did no signs, but Everything that John said about this man was true and many believed in.

Our theme for this Lord's Day is knowing who God is. Knowing who God is and my proposition today is Knowing who God is and knowing who we are in relation to God is what makes? Christianity different from other religions.

You understand that? Not getting the two confused.

Knowing what the proper order is.

Is what I aim to prove here today. Again, what I aim to do if you give me your attention is to give you assurance in the Christian faith. That you may walk out of here today and know that all other Belief systems are false and that you can have assurance.

Being a Christian. There is no assurance outside of the Christian faith. There is one Lord. There is one baptism. There is one faith. There's one God and father of us all in our outline. We're going to see the sum of Jesus's ministry is who he is and what he has done.

Who he is and what he has done. And we're going to see who he is and what he has done in four scenes. Scene one Jesus makes a claim to be God. Scene two his own people do not receive him. Scene three.

Jesus claims to be the Son of God and seen for Jesus ends his public ministry. So point number one scene 1 .1 Jesus makes a claim to be God. He's been doing that all throughout this book. Amen. Point number two his own people did not receive him.

We've also been seeing this all throughout this book. Point number three. He claims to be the Son of God. Also, we've been seeing this throughout this book. What's new is a scene for Jesus ends his public ministry?

And as we transition, let me say that Adam and Eve were created in the image of God. However, they were not God. Having God's image does not make you God a God or close to being God. They were not Yahweh.

They were created by Yahweh. They were not Yahweh. The one and true God is not created. He is. He simply is. He is Yahweh. He is the great I am turn with me if you will to Isaiah chapter 43. Isaiah chapter 43 we're going to read verses 7 through 12 beginning in verse 7.

The Lord speaking through the prophet Isaiah everyone who is called by my name. Whom I created for my glory whom I formed and made. Bring out the peoples who are blind. Yet have eyes. You notice that from what we've been studying right bring out the people who are blind and yet have eyes.

Who are deaf? Yet have ears. All the nations gather together and the peoples Assemble. Who among them can declare this? And show us the former things. Who among these nations. Who among these people can tell me the former things is what he's asking.

Let them bring their witnesses. To prove them right and let them hear and say it is true. Yahweh is challenging the people who claim to know him. Who have blind eyes but see. Who have deaf ears but hear.

You think your gods then tell me what has happened in the past. This is what he is saying bring your witnesses and He's going to declare that they are supposed to be his witnesses. Look at verse 10. You are.

My.

Witnesses declares the Lord you see its capital L or D. That is Yahweh and My servant. Notice. There's a witness and there's a servant and my servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He.

He is who? The servant and whom he has chosen right here before me. No, God was formed. Were there any God's form before Yahweh?

No.

Nor shall there be any after me. I I am The Lord. I am Yahweh and besides me. There is no Savior. I declare and saved and proclaim. When there is no strange God among you and you are my witnesses declares the Lord Yahweh and I am God.

We have God calling the people who claim to follow him. And he tells them that they're supposed to be his witness that he is God. He is Yahweh. And he is sending a servant and he wants them to know that he is the servant that this servant is Yahweh.

Look back at 10 C before me. No, God was formed nor shall there be any after me. There is no such thing as a God outside of Yahweh. There's just no such thing. To say so is to contradict what the Bible says is to contradict what Yahweh has Spoken.

And everybody knows there's a God because creation declares to us the glory of God. You can look at creation and know you can have 100 certainty that there is a God because of creation. Creation does not declare my glory.

Creation does not declare your glory. It declares the glory of God. Someone had to put all this in place. Creation does not declare my glory. I as a creature something created Declares the glory of God.

You want to know if there's a God look at me. I As a creature declare the glory of God even an atheist as a creature. They're being here declares the glory of God, even though they don't live in a way that declares the glory of God.

They're being here declares the glory of God. And I know the atheist hates that. Building builder painting painter creation creator. Believing in God is the most logical thing you can do. You can have certainty that there is a God seen one.

Jesus makes a claim to be God. Look at our text in John chapter 10 verse 30. I and the Father are one. We touched on this last week if you remember we touched on it and because of where it is in this and In the context I felt it's going to be good for us to touch on it even harder, right?

We're gonna have to dive into this One portion of Scripture in order to understand what's going on with the rest of the text. Now if you have been coming here for a while, I am NOT going to be saying anything new concerning the subject.

The subject of Jesus being God, right the whole gospel of John has been about this witness of Jesus being the Son of God.

And.

Interpreting this verse we need to know How it is that Jesus and the Father are one and last week? I pointed out that they're one in purpose and they're one in being. One in purpose is speaking about What they aim to accomplish?

That being the salvation of a people. You've heard me say speak on this subject to many of times. The covenant of redemption. My dear friends the covenant of redemption is their purpose. If you're tired of hearing about the covenant of redemption.

I am so sorry for you.

Understanding the covenant of redemption is understanding how the Bible is scripted out. If you truly understand the covenant of redemption and covenant theology as you read through the Bible Genesis 1 1 and you go all the way to the last verse in Revelation.

You'll understand how what the Bible is teaching the covenant of redemption is the covenant that the Father Son and the Holy Spirit Made with one another they covenant with one another to save a people and in this the father Purpose to save a people it was the father's purpose.

To create a people and to save them and to bring them unto himself. That's the father's purpose. So if you if you're saved today if you're here today and you're saved you're walking in faith. You're walking in the light of Christ.

Thank God that he purposed to save you. The Son comes into time to accomplish this purpose because all of us are sinners. All of us have broken God's law. We deserve nothing but condemnation. So the Son God the Father purpose to save a people the Son comes into time to accomplish this purpose.

By living the life we could not live and taken the punishment that we deserve in his death was buried and on the third day He rose again. Where's the Holy Spirit fit into this the Holy Spirit applies the purpose?

When a someone like myself or like red or any one of us if we witness to someone and we tell them the truth of Jesus the truth of Christianity. We explain to them the gospel the Holy Spirit Applies the purpose when we speak about the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ if they are his sheep the Holy Spirit takes that purpose of God the Father Son and the Holy Spirit Covenant together to save a people and it applies that to that sheep.

They hear the voice of Jesus and they follow him. That's what John 10 has been teaching us. The Father the Son and the Holy Spirit they work together. They're not working against one another. Imagine if you will a football team approaches the line each player knowing the play and Playing their position the ball snaps and the play is executed.

If you are a football fan, and that was your team at that moment. There's nothing greater, right? Football fans in here your team scores now imagine a Football team approaches the line. No one knows no one on that team has a clue on the play and no one knows how to Play their position the ball snaps and that team gets executed.

And if that's your team, you're a Tennessee fan. Sorry, I just had to say that I'm a Tennessee fan today. So it is what it is. But you see how if the team's working together they can execute a play. The team is not working together.

They're working against each other. They're going to be executed. The play is not going to fall through. My dear friends God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit has the same purpose. They're on the same field playing on the same team God the Son God I mean, excuse me.

Yes.

God the Son died for those whom the Father chose and the Holy Spirit is going to apply the purpose to those whom the Son died for. Now the Father does not choose a certain people to say while God the Son dies for a different person or different people leaving the Holy Spirit not knowing who to apply the purpose to.

The Godhead is not fighting against one another. They have one purpose and They are also one being. The one being is speaking about who Jesus is. The Bible is clear that there's only one God we just read it Isaiah 43 10.

C. Before me Yahweh says no God was born. Was there a God before Yahweh?

No.

Before Yahweh no God was formed. This is why it's so important to witness to those who believe they can become gods such as the Mormons. Who said that God was a man just like any other man who obeyed Mormonism became God and was given his own planet Universe to raise up offsprings for himself.

That God was once a man. That God was worshiping other gods. Before me there was no God form nor shall there be any after me. Turn with me to. Isaiah chapter 46. You can see this in his sovereignty. Isaiah chapter 46 verses 8 through 10.

Isaiah 46. Verses 8 through 10. Again God speaking through the prophet. He says remember this and stand firm. Recall it to mind you. Transgressors remember the former things of both for I am God and there is no other.

I Am God and there is none like me. He's going to tell you how there's none like him in verse 10 declaring the end from the beginning. Did you get that declaring the end from the beginning. Declaring the end from the beginning.

That's sovereignty. That's telling you that he is in control that nothing happens outside of his hand. He is in control. Declaring the end from the beginning. From ancient times. Things not yet done. Saying my counsel Shall stand and I will accomplish all my purpose.

What's his purpose? To save a people. Calling a bird of prey from the east. The man of my counsel from a far country not speaking of the Israelites. I Have spoken and I will bring it to pass and I have purposed and I will do it.

The one true God knows all things because he has declared all Things from the beginning. A lot of people they ask questions like how does God have? Information. God is not human. God does not have to learn.

God is not reading a book and and being Frustrating and skipping to the end of the book to figure out what's going to happen like my wife normally does or God doesn't find out Information by page word for word and page for page my dear friends.

God wrote the book. God wrote the book. We are living in his story. Everything that's playing out is playing out by his hands. This is the cards we were dealt because this is what God has purposed for us.

He is Sovereign. He is in control and my dear friends. That is the greatest assurance that a Christian can have. It doesn't matter what happens to us in our life. It doesn't matter if someone captures me and catches me on fire.

I know that these flames are for the glory of God. That's what the the apostles believed. That's what the Ancestors in church history believed as they went to the stake as they were skinned alive as they were beaten the clubs as they were.

Stoned.

As they were sawed in two They believed that God had a purpose in their death and that their death brought glory to God. The best explanation to explain the doctrine of the Trinity is The one what. And the three who's.

And this is something that I've gotten from RC Sproul. If you don't know who RC Sproul is I would suggest looking into him. I Call him RC the Baptist now that he's passed away because he was a Presbyterian but In heaven, we're all Baptists.

And I don't know who RC Sproul got this from. The one what is the one being in God? There's only one being there's only one essence. One God, there's only one God and this one God is the being. Unlike us.

I am a human being and I'm also a person.

I'm.

One being one person not so with God. God is one being. Three persons and that's where you get the three. Whose is the three persons the father the son and the Holy Spirit all? Three persons are in fact the one being.

They do not share the one being. They are the one being. God the Father by Himself is God. God the Son by Himself is God and God the Holy Spirit by Himself is God. And yet there's one God, but there's three persons.

That's the historical understanding of this that's what the Bible teaches. One God. Three persons and here Jesus is telling them in our text who he is. He's not saying he's the father. Never does he say anything like a says I and the father are one one.

What being? One being he as the Son of God is the second person of this triunity seen to. Go to our text. Seen to his own people did not receive him. We're gonna see this from verses 31 to 33, but let's just begin with verse 31.

Let's read 30 with it. I Am the father or one verse 31 the Jews pick up stones again to stone him. Several times we saw that the Jews picked up stones to stone Jesus. They saw Jesus as a mere man and not the God-man talk about speaking clearly.

Notice, he doesn't say he is God. Which he is. He said I and the father are one. He says it like that because he's speaking about the father. He doesn't say I and the father are the same person. He said I and the father are one.

So when speaking about God the father he's not going to say I am the father right because he knows That he's divine he's the Son of God. He's not gonna lie. He's not gonna say he's something that he isn't.

I and the father are one and he speaks clearly so so if you look back at verse 24 a Complaint as arose by these Pharisees. So the Jews gathered around him around Jesus and said to him how long will you keep us in suspense if you are the Christ?

Tell us plainly they're complaining that Jesus is not speaking plainly to them. You're not speaking clearly Jesus if you're the Christ tell us. And down here in verse 30 He says I and the father are one.

I don't think you can get any clearer than that. And believe me when I say this they understood him perfectly. They understood him perfectly. The Jews Begin to turn the conversation. Oh, excuse me. Jesus turns the conversation from who he is to what he has done and they will turn back the Conversation to who he thinks he is.

Notice with me again. Let's look at verse 30 and 31 this speaking of who he is. Verse 30 I and the father are one. The Jews pick up stones to stone him. He is who? He is God the Son one with God in being.

With the same purpose as the Father Son and the Holy Spirit verse 32 has to do with what he has done. Jesus answered them. I have shown you many good works. From the father for which of them are you going to stone me?

Jesus is saying to them Which good work are you going to stone me for is it for healing the blind in the lane? Cleansing the leopards feeding thousands of people with a sack lunch casting out demons or raising the dead.

What miracle what good deed have I done that you're going to stone me for? And they bring it back to who he thinks he is who he is verse 33. The Jews answered him. It's not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blaspheme you.

Because you being a man. Make yourself God. You hear that people say that Jesus nowhere claims to be God. I and the Father are one. The Jews understood this they picked up stones to stone him for blaspheming.

They heard him perfectly. So when did Jesus blaspheme verse 30. I and the Father are one. They said you being a man make yourself equal with God. John chapter 1 verse 11 says this he came to his own. The he here is Jesus.

He Jesus came to his own the Jews and his own people did not receive him. They say how do you know they didn't receive him? They picked up stones to stone him. They picked up stones to stone him. After being accused of not speaking clearly he speaks clearly and they pick up stones to stone him.

Because they're deaf. Even though they have ears. They're blind, even though they have eyes. The religious Jews want him dead and we see this clearly when Jesus is being judged. Turn with me to Matthew chapter 27.

Matthew chapter 27 will consider we'll read verses 24 and 26. I'm actually making good timing for ones. Mm verse 24 so when Pilate Saw that he was gaining nothing. But rather that a riot was beginning.

He took water and washed his hands before the crowd saying I am innocent of this man's blood. Now remember this scene he said I'll give you Barabbas or Jesus and they voted for Barabbas. I Said what do you want me to do with this Jesus?

The crowd the Jews those that were gathered. They said crucify him. Give us Barabbas. Crucify Jesus. Pilate washes his hands saying that he's innocent of This man's blood. He says see to it yourselves and.

And all the people all those who were saying give us Barabbas crucify. Jesus answered his blood be upon us and.

Our.

Children then he released for them Barabbas and Having scourged Jesus Delivered him to be crucified. I said his blood be upon us and our children. When Jesus died He was put to death as a blasphemer. Because they did not see him as God in the flesh.

But only as a mere man. And my dear friends what we believe about Jesus today matters just as much as it did then. It matters just as much as it did and it's Jesus a blasphemer. He claimed to be God. He is either a liar a lunatic or he is Lord.

He cannot be Lord if he's lying and if he's is lying. We are the biggest fools ever. We are idiots and we're still in our sins. What we believe about Jesus matters if Jesus is a mere man. You know, excuse me is here's a question for you answer it yourselves.

Is Jesus a mere man or Is he like the Bible teaches God manifested in the flesh because my dear friends? Here's the thing both cannot be true. If Jesus is a liar, he's the world's greatest liar if Jesus knew he wasn't the Son of God as CS Lewis talks about and He's telling people he's the Son of God and he knows he isn't he's a liar nothing more, right?

But if he actually believed he was God and he isn't God he is a lunatic. But if he is the Son of God and he is he is Lord and what you believe about him matters. The Christian faith we say that Jesus is truly God and Truly man.

Everything that God is Jesus is Jesus lacks nothing of the being. But also everything that we are Jesus is in terms of being. You see as God there's one being three persons, but as Christ, it's one person's with two natures.

The divine nature. He's truly God in his divine nature and he's truly man in his human nature. If you took a knife and cut him he bled. If he ate you know what happens in right if he drinks the restroom right he eats drinks he uses the restroom.

He sweats he gets tired. He walks for 11 miles his feet hurt, right? He was a man, but yet he was God and if that's not true, my dear friends. We're still in our sins. Scene 3. Jesus claims to be the Son of God and we see this in verses 34 to 38, but let's just read verses 34 to 36.

To begin with Jesus answered them. Is it not written in the law in your law? I Said you are gods if he called them gods to whom the Word of God came. And scripture cannot be broken. Do you say of him whom the father?

Consecrated and set. Unto the sense into the world you are Blaspheming because I said I am the Son of God. Now this portion of Scripture I don't know if anyone ever read that and thought I wonder what that's talking about.

No, it's very ambiguous in our day being that we have Mormons and we have other people who believe that. You can become gods. The Mormon they use Mormons. They use this text to justify themselves for believing that they will one day become gods because Jesus.

Mentions.

This verse right here in verse 34. Is it not written in your law? I said Speaking of God you are gods. So, I don't know if anyone here has ever had an opportunity to witness to a Mormon. But this verse often comes up with them.

However.

Jesus is not promoting that we can become Yahweh or like Yahweh. After obeying Mormonism and receiving our own planet given many wives to raise up spiritual children to central planet to obey Mormonism.

This is not what Jesus is teaching. He is in fact lifting up Scripture to them and He does in the way that he lifts it up is for those who have an ear to hear. Remember how he spoke in parables if you have an ear to hear.

To discern what Jesus is talking about. This is the time to discern what Jesus is talking about. Turn with me to Psalm chapter 82. Jesus here is quoting from Psalm 82. If you pay attention when I read this Psalm You're going to be reminded of what God said to the people through Ezekiel in Ezekiel 34 1 through 10.

In Ezekiel 34 you have God as Shepherd versus the religious leaders as shepherds. You remember that and here in Psalm 82 we have God as judge versus the religious leaders as judges as.

As.

Shepherds they were supposed to lead feed and protect the sheep but instead of leading feeding and protecting the sheep they feasted on the sheep. And Here as judges as gods they were supposed to judge.

Righteously, but instead of judging righteously, they judged with partiality and they condemned the innocent. Read with me Psalm 82 God has taken his place in the divine counsel in the midst of the gods he holds.

Judgment.

So right here we have Yahweh. We have God taking his seat as a judge to judge. Who does he judge?

God's.

Lowercase g-o-d-s. God the Father God God Trent, let's say God in Trinity takes his seat in judgment to judge these judges these gods first to Listen to what he pronounces on them. How long will you judge?

Unjustly and show partiality to the wicked. Salah give justice to the weak and the fatherless maintain the right of the afflicted in the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

They have neither knowledge nor understanding. They they walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said you are gods. That's what he was quoting. I Said you are gods sons of the Most High.

Notice it didn't say that Sons of the Most High. All of you speaking about the religious leaders in Judea all of you nevertheless. Like men you shall die. What's the old covenant? The covenant of works do this and live.

They did not do what they were supposed to do and live. So God says you are going to die like men nevertheless like men you shall die and Fall like any prince arise. Oh God judge the earth. For you shall inherit the nations.

What did John the Baptist say to these these these gods who were who were not who were judging with Partiality who were not looking after the weak. What did he say? He says God can raise up children from Abraham from stones and even now the axe is at the root of the tree.

And any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. He says I baptize with water into repentance. But he who is coming after me is mightier than I whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry and he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire and the will and fork is in his hand.

This judge is God that sat on that throne that's coming the servant who is Yahweh. The will and fork is in his hand and he will gather his wheat think sheep into the barn. But the chaff the goats the sheep that are not his he's going to burn up with an unquenchable fire.

God's here. It's not speaking of the other of a divine being but rather a human judge. Human judges as seen in the book of Judges. We have to remember when we interpret Scripture What God says of himself again, Isaiah 43 10 CB for me.

There was no God for nor shall there be any after me. So he's not speaking when he says you are God's as if they are like him in any ways. They're not like him. They cannot tell you what has happened.

They cannot proclaim the end from the beginning. They're not Yahweh. They're not God. They're just a judge. We see this quite often and when it comes to prophecy right like Isaiah is Speaking as God to the people when you read the words of Isaiah.

We say in the Lord said God is speaking through a human vessel. God tells Moses that he's going to be like God to his to his brother Aaron. He's going to tell them what God has to say that Aaron is going to tell it to the people.

My dear friends you want to hear God speak it's in here. When I stand up here today and I read to you the Word of God my dear friends God is speaking. God is speaking if I am accurately Interpreting the text for you today.

God is speaking to you today through the interpretation of the text and Yet I am NOT God.

But as.

People who stand and speak for God We speak his word and you hear from God God himself. They seem to have no problem with the scripture saying.

Judges.

Saying that says that judges are as God's. But they do have a problem with the one who was set apart by the father to accomplish the purpose. What was the purpose? To save a people. To save a people. In verse 36 Jesus refers to himself as The Son of God.

Look with me at verse 36 The you say of him whom the father consecrated and sent into the world.

You are.

Blaspheming because I said I am the Son of God. My dear friends. Jesus cannot say he is the Son of God without Claiming deity if he says he's the Son of God guess what? He's claiming to be God. The Bible teaches there's only one God there can't.

Jesus cannot be a separate God as the Mormons teach. They teach that Jesus and the father is a God and Jesus himself is a separate God. Before me there was no God for nor shall there be any after me. And yet Jesus claims to be the Son of God that he is one with the father and yet the Bible says that there's only One God.

What do we do with this? Put it in its right perspective. There is one God one being three persons. Who is he one with the father in being not in person? What has he done? And who is he look at verses 37 and 38?

He says if I am doing if I am not doing the works of my father, then don't believe me. So again, he's pointing to himself being God right there. But then he points to the works. What he has done? Verse 38.

But if I do them speaking of the works. Even though you do not believe me. Believe the works that you may know and understand. Now he goes back to who he is. That the father is in me and I am in the father.

Basically Jesus is telling them at the very least believe the way that Nicodemus believed. If you go back to Nicodemus, he says we know we hear speaking of the Pharisees we know that you are from God for no one can do these signs that you're doing unless God is with him and Yet because of the deafening of their ears the hardening of the heart and the blinding of their eyes Jesus said he came to bring judgment.

Those who cannot see will be able to see and those who Can see will become blind. How does he do that with parables? He spoke to them in parables. So it would deafen their ears blind their eyes and harden their hearts.

And if you were his he took the time to explain those parables. So it wouldn't deafen your ears blind your eyes are hard in your hearts over time. They Stopped believing this and when Jesus would do something let's say on a Sabbath day.

They saw him breaking Moses and wanting to put him to death. But he's saying at least believe the way that Nicodemus believed look at the miracles and know for certain that I am from God. That I have fulfilled these prophecies.

The signs that Jesus did point it to him being the Son of God. One with the Father the Father in him and him in the Father speaking of the being seen for Jesus ends his public ministry. Look at verse 39 through 42.

And they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptized in at first.

And.

There he remained and many came to him and they said John did no signs but everything that John said about this man was true and Many believed in him there. Now there really isn't a lot here in these remaining verses.

But what it does show? Is that Jesus went back to where his ministry first began? The baptism of Jesus is where Jesus's ministry first began. The baptism of Jesus is when he fulfilled.

The law.

Remember what righteousness is. Righteousness is keeping the law. That's what that means John. He tells John the reason why that John should baptize him is to fulfill all. That was it was it was to fulfill all that was wrote about him that he would keep the law.

Jesus has kept the law. And he begins his earthly ministry in that baptism when I would have when they would appoint a Priest and you know this if you went over here as we walked through Hebrews. Then whenever they would consecrate a high priest three things happened.