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Welcome to the truth and love podcast. We are going to be back in Hebrews Hebrews chapter 3

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We're gonna have a Friday evening Bible study Bible conversation. Hope you'll stick with us

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Welcome back to the truth and love podcast of Friday evening live edition Dan.

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How are you doing? Fantastic. How are you doing? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I've got my coffee.

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So I'm doing even better Just wanted to do a few housekeeping things. I wanted to let everybody know that probably going all right now

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We didn't we didn't mean to overlap, but there were some circumstances that happened this week

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They called Dan and I are normally on Mondays can do it Monday. We're going to get trapped for Tuesday Circumstance happened unable to do it

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Tuesday. So we scheduled for Friday night, but we're overlapping a fellow member of the truth and love

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Network, so go check out Elias and the Bible the reformer

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Ian I think he started at 8 o 'clock tonight.

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Check out the reformer Ian He's on tonight Claude part of the truth and love

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Network. He is teaching a class on Thursday nights. Check out Claude Teaching that class.

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I think it's on prophesying preaching the word basically and so check out

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Claude Labors podcast is coming up next Thursday and it is going to be on baptismal regeneration

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So check out the labors podcast next Thursday next Wednesday. Dan and I are going to be doing a recording

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We will play it later. We're going to be doing a recording interviewing another pastor another church another denomination on their process of ordination

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What it looks like hope you'll be encouraged by that Monday J the reformer Ian He's going to have some fellows on from the truth and love

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Network. He's going to be doing a podcast on Monday any announcements that you have Dan No, no, we had a regular heat wave here today.

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It was like 40 degrees outside I've been hearing of some temperatures and like the is like the

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Midwest maybe that are in the negatives Yeah, yeah, that's that's heading this direction too.

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We are expecting next week to have highs like in Mid -teens and lows in the single digits.

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It's a which I mean to be honest with you We shouldn't be anywhere close to 40 this time of year. Normally we're no solid 20s 20s are about as much as we have

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So this has been unseasonably warm that El Nino pattern really helped us out.

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We're not next week, but it has overall It's been really wet here as well

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Our possible first lakes could be next Tuesday, but we'll see. I'm not hold my breath

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Honestly, we've had some snow. We haven't had that much. We've actually been a little drier than The normal well,

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I say that we've been drier than normal on the average, but we've had some Some larger rain events that we normally don't get

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We had over an inch of rain not too long ago and Rain to snowfall conversions like one inch of rain turns into like 10 inches of snow

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Normally we'd have 10 inches of snow. That's nothing nothing unheard of but the inch of rain in January is

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We don't get rain in January. It's just weird, right? Right. We've we've got a lot of rain and it's called a cause a good bit of flooding down here

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The mountains in Tennessee here in the in the fields and Piedmont. Yeah, it's been pretty rough

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Just a few other things while it's on my mind labor's conference coming up next April or yeah This this coming

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April this year 2024 last weekend of April Reformata Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee It's free, but we'd like for you to register so that we know that you're coming go to labor's conference comm

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You can see the conference speakers. You can see the topics you can register there and there's

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I've tried to put some hotel information up there some things to do in the area Good bit of stuff to look at there, but we'd love to see you.

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Yeah, I'm I finished the rough draft of my sermon Well, I say rough draft.

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It's like a second or third draft, but still I finished that this week And I'm sure

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I'll I'll end up running over it about 15 ,000 times before for the end of April and it'll probably look almost nothing like it does now, but I'm excited.

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It's it's delving into some stuff that I hadn't anticipated And it's been very beneficial to me

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So I hope to be able to share that with y 'all Well Tyler, no, we will be glad to hear that that you've been

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Putting together and working on your sermon He's been asking who who all's been digging in and getting ready and he'd be glad to know

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He'd be glad to hear that you oh, yeah, I've got the outline and everything I'm gonna run over it, you know, like I said 15 ,000 times before for April, but yeah already

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Well, we're gonna try to stick to Around 30 minutes instead of an hour.

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We're terrible at that. We're gonna try best we can And we've not been in Hebrews in a while So just for for sake of recap and by the way, the comment line is open

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Just looking at chapter 1 we nobody's for sure exactly who the author is but but whoever the author is

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He says God after Paul God after he spoke long ago to the father to the fathers and the prophets in In many portions in many ways in these last days

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To us in his son whom he appointed heir of all things to whom also he made the world so My question is what does he mean by these last days?

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Is it just a Wordplay on The time that they're in in these, you know these last few days

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Is that what I mean these last few days we got a couple inches of rain Is that what he means these last few days or is he talking about the the transition from the old covenant is the new covenant?

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Because it you know, we we have that transition You know, you can look back

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Historically, you can see there there was a transition There was a promise of an that End of an old covenant and Hebrews talked about the end of that old covenant

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Then you have this overlay in between the time The Jerusalem in the temple is destroyed and Continuing before that happened.

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They still had that practice of sacrifice and and kind of Usual goings -on there and they're in the temple, but then it was destroyed and then you have the new covenant period

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Yeah, I think he's really talking about about Both the the time leading up to the destruction of the temple and I think he's also talking about the time

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Leading up to Christ's second coming. I think what he's who he's trying to get at there What he's saying is is that we've been throughout the

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Old Testament spoken to by the apart by the prophets God's given us his law

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You know many ways dreams visions Incredible things miracles that you'd seen, you know, axe heads floating out of water and so on He's just God doing

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God's stuff Basis, but in these last days Thing things have changed.

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We're not hearing through those means anymore Where we've been hearing from it's from God himself come in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ so So the last days of the

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Old Covenant are being changed over because Christ has spoken and as the New Covenant begins and we await the final consummation of all things our word is not to shift back to Various ways and diverse manners, but you rest upon the words of Christ and him alone.

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So I think he's he's kind of Here's where we start and that this is where we're going right you see because the whole thing is about how

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Christ is better than What has come before him how everything was pointing to him and how he is superior to all things

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So it only makes sense that all the great stuff that God had done in speaking to mankind before Has been he upped the ante when

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Christ himself came to the earth truly God and truly man and walked among us and spoke

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That kind of you know, God outdid himself He You don't do very often

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But and that that verse speaks to Jesus being worthy of being listened to because he says in that last portion

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Through whom also he made the world Right Christ is giving credit for making the world.

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He is our creator. He's the maker of all this stuff He's worthy of lending our ear to and listening to him and him only mm -hmm.

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Yep So what about chapter 2 before we jump in the two three with a warning this is

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Don't neglect your salvation So he's saying you know if the God man has come what he has if the one has created the universe has entered into flesh

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Which he has then don't neglect your salvation or how can you? Escape the the the coming judgment if You neglect the salvation that comes from God who has?

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Entered into the world and and walked among us. No, he didn't he didn't phone it in He showed up himself and got to work

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And how are you going to escape his judgment if you neglect what he has done?

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to pay for sins and So he starts off there, and then it goes on and talks about Christ coming to the earth

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Why he came how he came how he came is made a little lower than the angels how he

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Was going to bring many sons to glory. He's gonna be the the founder of their salvation

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He's going to be made perfect through suffering. He that being

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Want to fill up everything that he came to do through suffering Completed his work through the suffering on the cross

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And and all that brings in Incredible I Don't know how many good

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Incarnation type sermons you heard during December, but If you didn't get like 12 of them you could go go find some because thinking of the

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Incarnation is is absolutely mind -boggling to think that that Christ would come and become man truly

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God truly man that he would enter into humanity in order to bring humanity alongside of himself as Adopted brothers and sisters where God is truly their father where we are truly the brother of Christ where he was tempted and suffered like we do only he was without sin and then because of those things it says a

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Verse 14 since therefore the children share in flesh and blood he himself likewise partook of the same thing so he became

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Man flesh and blood as well that through death he might destroy the one who has power of death that is the devil so he came to the earth to experience the

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Death of mankind so that way we wouldn't have to experience death fully and finally

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Through the judgment that comes upon us through sin through God's judgment it says to set free those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery

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All of these things are incredible for for several reasons One of which is that if we are truly his brothers and sisters if we're truly

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Children of God then we need to take seriously what said in second Peter One that that God has called us by his divine nature given us all things for life and godliness

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Through his promises through his great glory and that we have been made partakers of the divine nature now

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I don't have time to get into that But if you show up on to the conference,

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I will be speaking on that That's one of those things that I've just been so blessed in studying out

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Yeah, right That that's what's going on here is that mankind has been somehow

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Linked to God himself in a way that which says that we've partaken the divine nature now.

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I don't believe that that means that we actually become God Because we don't we were created beings.

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We're not going to be God though We can shine so brightly because of God's grace that people see

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God in us and It's it's that Greatness and glory that he tries to bring out a little bit in chapter 2 so that way in chapter 3

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He's gonna talk to these these Jewish people and say now you you've heard of this one Who was incredible Moses don't blaspheme

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Moses. Don't talk bad about him. It was in Jude An angel in the in the the devil were arguing over what happened to Moses his body because they were

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It was it was a big deal Moses is an incredible part of our faith

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So when he gets into chapter 3, he says in Moses As great as he was

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It's nothing compared to our Christ, right? Right, and you're you're talking about you mean you're just doing what

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Hebrews doesn't you're carrying on what on about the great ness of Christ and you know That's why Hebrews continues to do and it just made me think about a video that I saw today on social media

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And I'm not in no way giving any credibility to This video what was said and what was heard, but it does make you think

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I'm not done the research. I don't know If it's credible or not, so I'm I'm not gonna say either way

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But it was a video speaking of it was a gentleman who who claimed to have found the Ark of the

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Covenant There was and and I I'm assuming the the there's people that think that it was inside the rock the place of the skull and God got the and Blood dripped down from the cross went through the cracks and landed on the mercy seat

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And that's what they this guy found the the Ark of the Covenant. I think that's kind of the back story, right?

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There was some some tunnels involved Around the time of the the exile wrong and Yeah, I don't

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I don't know if you could prove that Yeah well his story was he found the the Ark of the Covenant there was blood on the the mercy seat and He he scraped some little blood had it tested.

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I'm not gonna go any further than that with with what he was saying, but What it did cause me to do was

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Jesus Existed in the the form of fashion that you just described therefore

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Not only is the spiritual aspect of all these things great creator of the world, but then also his just his incarnation

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His being fully God fully man that that DNA those chromosomes all those things are mind -blowing to think how

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God did what he did and How wonderful and wise and brilliant genius he is to form a man from the

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Spirit given, you know put it in the womb of Mary just brilliant and genius and and beautiful and When I have a glorified brain and can understand all those things.

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I can't wait to be Fascinated in glory and though in the work of God and all that he did

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Right because in in his incarnation he really created a new humanity one

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And that's it's weird to think about but it says that we who are in Christ are a new creation

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Yeah, it's it's incredible because He's called he's called the the second

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Adam Mm -hmm so that as I know Adam started, you know, it's covenant head of the world

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Falling into sin we all fell with him So that all are who are found in Christ are a part of that new humanity.

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That is linked so strongly with With the

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Godhead that it says that we partake in his divine nature which is It's just it's incredible um

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Yeah, I don't have time to get into that but we wish I could it's it's fun it's it's good stuff

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I Went dark on you. I think I have a Short in my light here.

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Can you see me? You'll see me pretty good. Yeah, I can see you pretty good. Okay, I like went out

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And so we're not gonna worry about it I had to look at mine I've only got one ball So It goes out of me completely dark down here.

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We'll go with what we got Anyway, all right. Let's let's jump into first one of chapter 3.

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I'll give some initial thoughts and you can jump in Let us know what you think therefore

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Holy Brethren partakers of the heavenly calling Consider Jesus the Apostle and high priest of our confession

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What I see in that is he he's addressing a specific people Um, holy brethren, you're dedicated set -apart brethren, you're not

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God has called you out. You're you're partakers in this You've been saved.

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You've been born again. You are his children. You are his his kingdom So he's making this thing.

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Basically. He's making a distinction mm -hmm, and then he says Partakers of the the heavenly calling and For me they're using that terminology goes back to when

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Jesus says My kingdom is not of this world That it comes from heaven, but it has earthly effects

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Yeah, and then I thought about this too and that last part consider Jesus and I was interested to hear your thoughts

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Consider Jesus The Apostle and high priest of our confession to me. It seems like the author and in your estimation you think it's

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Paul It seems like he is Kind of recapping before he jumps into you're telling us.

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He's gonna be talking about Moses to me It's almost like he's recapping. So You've got that.

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He says our high priest. Well in chapter 1 He talks about Jesus when he made purification of sin and he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high

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So, you know just like the priest would they would make purification of sins, but they never got to sit down They were they were continually making

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Intercession and purification for sin, but Jesus made purification for sin and sat down so there's your high priest and then he's also our apostle which is messenger sent one and He the the

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Paul the author or whoever the author is of Hebrews Just finished talk talking about angels.

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So he's greater than a high priest He's greater than the the angels And do you think that the author here is kind of recapping what he just talked about when he uses that terminology of fossils and high priests, yeah, absolutely

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What one of the East Eastern thinking Jewish thinking in the time

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It isn't necessarily like It's not necessarily like the way we think

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Here in America, you know Western type thinking where we kind of think here's your starting point and Then I'm gonna go through this step in this step in this step and then

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I'll end up at the finish line the the Eastern way of thinking is that you start somewhere and you

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Ruminate on it. You kind of touch back a little bit where you were And you kind of start over and you go over and over to where you're touching a lot of the same things over and over Again, but from slightly different angles as you go through the same idea again and again

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So as he's going through this he's picking back up the things that he said before in order to build his case

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There's kind of no working his way through and carrying it along almost in instead of a straight line

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It's almost like a bunch of spirals Linking together where he's he's pulling the information together.

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So you'll see him Know in chapter 1 talking about creation chapter 2 him becoming a man chapter 3.

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He'll bring in Some of Moses and then he'll start getting into Some of the the regulations from the

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Old Covenant and as he gets in the regulations of the Old Covenant He's gonna bring in the New Covenant and he's gonna continue to go on and on Throughout the book of Hebrews showing from creation to glory how

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Christ is better than than anything you could know as thinker Imagine verse 2.

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He was faithful to him who appointed him as Moses also Wasn't all his house

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Where he was where he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses Just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house

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Yeah, it says his house who do you think the his is in verse 2 this is

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Moses was also faithful in all his house in my version.

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It's capitalized In my version it says God's So they went ahead and interpreted it for you.

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There you go I'd agree because he's talking about Especially on down towards the end.

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It's actually says God's house and Christ's house. And so it's it's interesting The one who's appointed him was being

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God Just as Moses was faithful in all of God's house being

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God's House now, what is God's house? Now that's the question how do you identify it because I mean you can automatically

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I would think of the temple but I Don't know because especially down here at the end of verse 6 this is

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And we are his house. Mm -hmm if Indeed, we hold fast our confidence and our boasting and our hope

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So Christ was the head of the house of God being the people of God just as Moses was

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In charge or was the head or the faithful servant of God's house?

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No over the people while he was there and says and Jesus has been counted of more

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Counted worthy of more glory than Moses Now that's incredible because Moses actually

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Led the people physically Through the Red Sea out of Egypt through the wilderness met with God on the mountain gave them the law

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Sat and judged them, you know as a people for a long time during his life and he didn't quite pass over into the promised land, but he he was right there as a figurehead and leader for The people of Israel for God's house during that time

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Jesus didn't do that Kind of He didn't do that while he was on the earth.

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You didn't see Jesus You know gathering all of Israel to come and bring all their problems to him

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You didn't see Jesus lead people through the Red Sea. You didn't see Jesus perform what he did perform miracles

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But you didn't see him in that public Figurehead role and yet it's saying that he has more glory coming to him.

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He's worthy more glory than Moses Now, how could that be? If all you take into consideration is what he did

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Politically or as what we would consider being a leader but the fact of the matter is that he did so much more than Moses because what

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Moses set up as A type in a shadow Christ fulfilled and I think

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I'm jumping ahead of myself, but it's just incredible that he he's counted worthy of more glory than Moses because He has done

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Much more it says in the last half of verse three as much more glory as the builder of the house has than the house itself

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Mose I think I preached on this at one point. I think the title of my sermon was just another brick in the wall

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Moses was just another brick in the wall. He was just another part of the house of God And as he was just another part of the house of God Christ is higher and more and better than him worthy of more glory and honor because Christ isn't just another brick in the wall, even though he became man.

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He also was sent by God as God in the form of man to truly man to Build this house of God to bring many sons to glory as it says before It says that verse four for every house is built by someone with the builder of all things as God Absolutely God in the flesh

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Christ and God the Father speaking from heaven the Holy Spirit Hovering over the whole situation and making it making it

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Happen God Father Son and Spirit right there Great.

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I'll just make two quick observations here on what we just read building on what you were talking about the the verses here come out of building a house is

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Me it seems like that is a a key theme that is woven all throughout the the New Testament in the

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Gospels you have the Gospels talking about We are his workmanship And then you have

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The Gospels and in the New Testament talking about us being being stones being living stones

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Jesus is the chief cornerstone We are built one upon the other on the foundation of the the apostles

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You And then you have this this language of a new Jerusalem We are individually temples of the

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Holy Spirit and collectively. We are the temple of God City of Jerusalem This New heavens a new earth.

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This is the new temple That language that theme is is all over the

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New Testament I think as you and I have discussed multiple times

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In different podcasts about eschatology and post -millennial ism partial fraternism There's the connection there with What how we're being described and then this eschatological language and then the and the other observation that I made real quick is

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There's no way that you can Understand God to be a deistic kind of God even just looking at the first three chapters of Hebrews In Hebrews chapter 1 he we are we see that God is the creator

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Jesus God through Jesus created the world. Okay, so we have a creator. What kind of creator is he?

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What is he a deistic that you know, did you just wind up the clock and and let us go? He's also the the builder of his house so he is a creator who is invested and actively participating with his creation building a house

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Yep Yep, this is really really cool. Um, yeah verse 5 is is

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It says now Moses was faithful it was faithful in all God's house as a servant so it's faithful among God's people as a servant

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To testify to the things that were to be spoken later So what was Moses there for?

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He was there to speak about things that were going to be explained more fully later.

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Mm -hmm Moses didn't write the greatest song in the world. It was just a tribute type of type of thing.

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He This is this but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son now the son has ownership the son has it says he's heir of all things and God's house it says here in the next line or next sentences and we are his house

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But Christ is so go back but Christ is faithful over God's house us as a son one who has ownership one who's taken a vested interest in us one who has

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Is come alongside who has entered into humanity to bring humanity up?

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to Where God is that we may be able to see him face to face? So that we could partake in the divine nature in some form or fashion

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It is incredible, but here's the thing about it

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That it says that he was faithful Over God's house as a son.

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So Christ is faithful Over his people because he came He died

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He took the sins of men upon himself He buried them with him. He rose again on the third day.

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He sat at the right hand of the Father in heaven and Rules and reigns still from there until this very day

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This isn't we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and boasting in our hope

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So it calls out to us to remember it says up there consider Jesus the

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Apostle and high priest the one who was sent and the one who actually put the blood on the altar of Our confession the one know the one faith delivered to the

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Saints We're called here to listen to Christ to consider

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Jesus and what he's done and then to have a bold Confidence eat to work

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It's almost boasting that this is my God who has come and become man

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Like me so that I can leave The sin that I have behind and join him as he makes me perfect and sinless and It says that we're supposed to have a confidence and I hope so I would encourage everyone today to do just that to consider

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Christ to look to him to find in him

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The great high priest and Apostle who comes to take away the sins of men Who has been faithful with every person he has called to himself.

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He's never let one of his adopted brothers and sisters go by the wayside and To trust in him and find him to be your perfect Savior because that is what this this section of Hebrews is really all about Yeah, yeah

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They're so influenced by well, they have no choice but be influenced by their past and of course

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Hebrews is Explained to them Don't look back. Don't go back consider

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Jesus as better than this as better than he's your upper East. He's your Apostle He's he is your better Moses.

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He's the one that Moses was pointing to he's better than all that and He is the builder of this house

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Be faithful to him don't turn back don't go back and as Dan said we would encourage everyone that would that would listen to us even just for a brief moment to Come to Christ be in his house and and be

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Be safe be found safe there. That's the only Place of refuge there is in this world is to be in his house and we need to urge you to be there

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Any last words then? Nope Ended on a good note. We'll stay there

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Anyway ending with Jesus and talking about the gospel is always ending on a good note. So let me let me pray us out

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Father we thank you for allowing us to get together Thank you for your revelation to us that we may understand the things that you would have us to know about who you are about your son about Your creation your world your your building your your spiritual work your physical work and the the ability and the chance to be yours to be partakers in the heavenly calling to be holy brethren to be a part of this house and To in it enjoy your creation to have joy that is

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Nowhere to be found apart from you and so father we're grateful and we're blessed and We want to live for you and glorify you thank you for our time together and You pray all these things in Jesus name.

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Amen All right. Thank you, Dan. Thank you everybody for watching. We really appreciate you watching the truth and love podcast we

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Check out reform recon go back and watch the reformer in his podcast tonight

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Check out Claude and his teaching on Thursday nights the labors podcast coming up next week on baptismal regeneration

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I've got a lot of good stuff coming out through the love network. Go check out labors conference calm

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Conference coming up at the end of April. We just want you to remember as always that Jesus is

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King That's what we've been talking about. Go live in the victory of Christ Just speak with the authority of Christ and go share the gospel of Christ.