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Hee Haw all right?

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So we have begun the new year.

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Obviously, this is the third
Sunday of the new year,

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and yet it's the second Sunday
of our new topic.

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And for some of us,

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I mean,

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you know,

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as we look at this,

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this is a review.

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But this week,

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in the second week,

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as we look at the object
of our faith,

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really, the question.

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Question is,

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who do you worship?

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What do you worship?

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What is the focus of where you
invest your life in yourself?

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What is it that's the priority,

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the most important thing in your
everyday consideration?

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We live in a world that teaches
us to think about us.

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Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

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Look out for number one.

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It's all about me,

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right? I mean,

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that's what the world teaches us.

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That's what they're
trying to tell us.

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And yet we know as believers,

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as followers of Jesus,

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that we're not the center
of the universe.

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It's not all about us.

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And so where is it that we focus?

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And then the question
follows as to why.

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So, last week we looked at
Hebrews chapter one,

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verses one to four.

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And I had preached that
back in October.

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I preached the fact that God spoke.

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We already know God
spoke Hebrews one,

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one through four says,

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God spoke through the prophets in various
times and in various ways.

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But in these latter days,

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these last days,

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he has spoken to us through his son.

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Right?

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And then we looked at seven things
that make the son the priority.

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I mean,

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it's right there in just two
verses when he says,

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God has appointed him heir of all things
and made the universe through

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him. The sun is the radiance of God's
glory and the exact expression of

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his nature,

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sustaining all things by
his powerful word.

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After making purification for sin,

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he sat down at the right hand
of the majesty on high.

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See, that's the thing that just
draws our attention to Jesus.

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So the object of our worship,

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this is our artwork for the year.

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If you want a copy,

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they got them out at the
welcome desk out there.

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Obviously, the cross is this kind
of focal point in history,

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this pivot point of all creation.

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And then Christ is resurrection,

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and sitting down at the right
hand of majesty on high.

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And yet the writer of Hebrews.

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I used this language last week,

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and I'm going to explain it.

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But the writer of Hebrews
is making the case,

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because the author of Hebrews
has made the case,

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and the author of Hebrews is God.

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Verse five.

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Here we go.

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Four, two.

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Which of the angels did he ever say,

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you are my son.

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Today I have become your father.

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Or again,

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I will be his father,

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and he will be my son again when he brings
his first born into the world,

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he says,

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and let all God's angels
worship him.

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And about the angels,

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he says,

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he makes his angels winds and
his servants a fiery flame.

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But to the Son,

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this is what he says.

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Your throne.

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God is forever and ever,

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and the scepter of your kingdom
is a scepter of justice.

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You have loved righteousness
and hated lawlessness.

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This is why God,

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your God,

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has anointed you with the oil of
joy beyond your companions.

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And in the beginning,

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Lord, you established the earth and
the heavens are the works of your

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hands.

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They will perish,

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but you remain.

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They will wear out like clothing.

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You will roll them up like a cloak,

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and they will be changed
like clothing.

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But you are the same,

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and your years will never end.

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Now, to which of the angels
has he ever said,

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sit at my right hand till
I make your enemies,

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your footstool.

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Are they not all ministering spirits
sent out to serve those who are

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going to inherit salvation?

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All right,

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let's pray.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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And we thank you,

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God, that you have given
us evidence.

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And yet,

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God, it's because you've spoken that
we gather to understand who you are.

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How does Jesus pray to know you,

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God? We want to know you,

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God, because as we know you,

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you change us.

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The better we get acquainted,

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the more God you refine
us and you shape us.

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And, God,

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truthfully, you grow us up.

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So, God,

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help us to grow up a little.

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This morning,

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as we hear your word,

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we pray it in Jesus name.

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Amen. You know,

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no one ever had to convince me
that Jesus is important.

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Y'all know that.

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I mean,

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I don't ever remember having to be
convinced that Jesus is important.

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I grew up in a christian home.

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My mom and dad,

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who are probably watching right now,

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because before my sister goes to Calvary
Baptist Church in Williamston to

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teach Sunday school,

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she goes over to my parents'house and
turns on YouTube so they can watch

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us live.

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And so,

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mom and dad,

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good morning.

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Good to see you.

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No, good for you to see me like it.

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All right.

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Anyway. But I remember growing up
in a home where Jesus was a.

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Remember? You know,

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it's funny that this week I was telling
Bobby over here that I had to go

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to the DMV one time,

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and then I had to go to the Anderson
county tax office one time,

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and I'm carrying around this power
of attorney thing and all this.

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And quite honestly,

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the only difference in what it says
on the power of attorney is one

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letter because it says Robert Earl Owings
senior and Robert Earl Owings,

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Jr. So the only difference in
the two is the s and the so.

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So when I look at this
thing and it's like,

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you know what?

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I grew up in this home.

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And somebody in my week,

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this week said,

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I said something about
being a pastor.

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And he said,

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you know,

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my father in law has been the pastor
at Harris Baptist Church in

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Greenwood for 40 years.

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I was like,

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Harris, do you know what?

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About 56 years ago,

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I was a sunbeam in Harris
Baptist Church.

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Right? That's how I grew up.

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I grew up in a worship setting.

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Worship in,

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quote, church,

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but worship in home.

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I mean,

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nobody had to convince me that
Jesus was important,

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you see.

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But Jesus,

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as we're talking about it this year,

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is the object of our faith.

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We worship Jesus.

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And so when we start to consider
this and break this down,

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we know,

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and we're taught all along,

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we gather to worship God.

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God is God the father,

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God the Son,

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God the spirit.

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You see,

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we understand this teaching and what
we have in the word of God.

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And so it's Hebrews and particularly
these first four verses that says

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God has spoken through his son,

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and his son is the one who was at
creation is the sustainer of all

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creation. He is the first born.

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He is all these things,

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and he's the radiance of God's glory
and the exact expression of his

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nature. And he sustains everything
by his powerful word.

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Why is God having to
make a case here?

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Right? I mean,

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that's really a question to ask.

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Some have said that the book of Hebrews
sounds like a sermon somebody

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preached. I mean,

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honestly, one of the commentators
said that.

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And it may have been,

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I mean,

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this may have been something that God
inspired and inspired for it to be

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written down and somebody
got up and preached it.

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Because all of the epistles,

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the letters of the New Testament
were shared in open,

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congregational form.

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I mean,

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they would get up and say,

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hey, we've got a new
letter from Paul.

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Everybody sit down.

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And they'd read the
letter from Paul.

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So the book of Hebrews is like that.

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And yet in the book of Hebrews there
is this unfolding of priority.

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So we have the establishment
of the nature of the Son,

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and then we've got the second section
of chapter starts talking about the

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angels.

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One of the great themes of the book
of Hebrews is the superiority of

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Christ, the supremacy of Christ,

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the priority of Christ.

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And what we know is that because
the Old Testament,

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the old covenant,

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the first covenant,

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was communicated through prophets,

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but was also communicated through
angels in the Old Testament.

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When you go back and start
to look at that,

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and that's why,

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as God reveals this to us,

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he says,

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for to which of the angels
did he ever say?

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So what we've got here is this comparison
of what God has announced in

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the Old Testament and the New.

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Or like I told y'all all last week,

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the commentator that I've
been reading on this,

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the first Testament and the second,

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because God communicated a lot of
things to his people and he

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communicated through prophets and
he communicated through angels.

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But in any sense he said,

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for which is the angel?

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Did he ever say,

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you're my son?

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Because to the hebrew people,

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and you'll find it in
the Old Testament,

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sometimes angels are
called sons of God,

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but no specific angel is ever referred
to as the son of God.

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See? So he says this,

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he says,

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you're my son.

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Today I have become your father,

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or again,

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I will be his father and
he will be my son.

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He never has said that to
any specific angel,

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but he has said it to who?

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The Son.

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See, the father speaks of the Son.

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You know why son's always been son.

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Didn't just start one day.

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There are those who would
like to teach that,

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oh, well,

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Jesus was such a fine fella,

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God adopted him as a know well.

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No, the Son always was.

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The Son is the word that God spoke when
creation was formed and the word

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became flesh.

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Because that's what John one.

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One says.

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It says in the beginning.

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What beginning?

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In the beginning of anything
was the word.

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The word was with God.

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The word was God,

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and the word became flesh.

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There's Jesus,

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you see,

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that's all in John chapter one.

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Again, this is what God says when he
brings his first born into the

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world. He says,

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and let all the angels worship him.

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Do you know the Bible teaches
us never to worship angels.

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Y'all know?

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I know people who worship angels.

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Watch out.

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Some folks in some traditions,

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in our culture teach people
to worship angels.

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Bible says no,

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but God told the angels
to worship the sun.

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How about that?

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Right? And about the angels,

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this is what God says
about the angels.

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He makes his angels,

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winds and his servants
a fiery flame.

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So the messengers of God.

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Now this is all about the message.

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And the messengers,

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the messengers were prophets.

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The messenger is the Son,

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angels. The definition of the
word angel is messenger.

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So about the angels,

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he says,

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they're winds and fiery flames.

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So they are messengers that God speaks
to and sends out to communicate

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the message of God.

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And then in verse eight,

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here you go.

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But to the Son this
is what God says.

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Your throne God.

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So God refers to the Son as God.

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And yet there are those who would
say that Jesus isn't divine,

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that he was only adopted by God.

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Your throne God is forever and ever,

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and the scepter of your kingdom
is a scepter of justice.

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You have loved righteousness
and hated lawlessness.

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This is why God,

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your God,

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has anointed you with the
oil of joy beyond your.

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So what is God communicating to us
through the writer of Hebrews by

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inspiration of the spirit of God.

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Jesus is really important,

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y'all. He's not just an
add on to your life.

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He's not just a membership card
to carry in our pockets.

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He's just not membership in church
or some practice of,

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quote, religion.

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See, Jesus is the focus
of our being.

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He's our identity.

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When people look at you,

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do they see Jesus?

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Are you communicating Jesus
to the people around you?

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Are you living it out in public
in such a way that people go,

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man, when I'm around that person,

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that just feels like Jesus
is in the room.

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You see?

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And then verse ten,

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it goes on.

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It says,

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and in the beginning,

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lord, you establish the earth and the
heavens are the works of your

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hands. He never said that
about the angels,

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but he does say that about the son.

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They will perish,

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but you remain.

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They will wear out like clothing.

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You will roll them up like a cloak,

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and they will be changed
like clothing.

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But you are the same,

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and your years will never end.

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So what we've got is the father
speaking of the son,

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and now we've got the way God
has laid it out for us.

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And this is what the father
has said to the son.

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Now we know that all the way back
in creation that God had sort of

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pointed to redemption.

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God had pointed to,

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he says,

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and the seed of the woman would
crush the head of Satan.

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And so God,

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they call that the evangelion,

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or ev angelion,

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however you want to pronounce it.

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But anyway,

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it was all the way back in Genesis
three that God said,

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because of this sin and fall,

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there will be redemption.

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And then God spoke to who?

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God spoke to Abraham.

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He said,

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abraham, leave your family.

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Leave your father.

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Go to a land that you have no
idea where you're going.

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You'll stop when I tell you to stop,

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because out of you I will
make a great nation.

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And from you all the nations
will be blessed.

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See, that was the covenant promise,

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right? And then you got God's that
family from Abraham and Sarah and

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Isaac. And it grows into
the twelve tribes.

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And they go into famine,

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captivity in Egypt,

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and they grow into millions and
they come back out of Egypt.

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And as they come out of Egypt,

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God shapes them into a nation
by their worship.

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And I shared this last year that the
thing that made them different from

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all the nations around them
was their worship.

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Folks, what makes us different from
all the nations around us?

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And I don't mean nations,

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what makes us as God's people different
from all the other people in this

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world? It's our worship.

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Who do we worship?

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What do we worship?

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What is the object of our faith?

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Who is the object of our faith?

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Because, folks,

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if we live in a society,

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in a culture that teaches us to worship
ourselves and we give into that,

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we got issues.

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To put it in a more contemporary
vernacular.

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Right? See,

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because the world all around
us is worshipping itself.

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It's taught to,

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it's conditioned to,

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it leads us into self worship without
even letting us know that that's

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what's going on.

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You see,

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the father speaks of the Son,

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the father speaks to the Son,

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the father speaks to the angels,

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but he speaks to the Son differently.

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And that's what's being
broken down here.

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And then in verse 13,

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he goes on to say,

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now, to which of the angels
has he ever said,

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sit at my right hand till I make
your enemies your footstool?

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Now, all of these statements
we find in two Samuel,

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you find them in psalms,

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you find them throughout
the Old Testament.

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And so that's why the God,

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by inspiration,

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pulls these verses to
say to the audience,

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to the hearers of this word,

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what he's saying is,

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says, you've heard these things said
for hundreds of years and now with

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Jesus you understand what
was being said.

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You understand what.

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Now, it points a lot of it.

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A lot of these psalm references and
a lot of the Samuel references

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actually refer to the establishment
of the davidic kingdom.

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The fact that King David would be a king
and he would always for eternity

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have a descendant on the
throne of God's people.

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Well, one or two things had to
happen for that to happen.

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Ready?

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That meant God had to keep a descendant
of David successively in line to

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be the king over his people
or for eternity.

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Now, because that's what it says,

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his kingdom would be eternal.

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So he either had to keep a physical king
on the throne of Israel for all

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of eternity or he had to
have an eternal king.

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See, that's how Jesus becomes
the eternal king.

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That's the case that's
being made here.

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To which of the angels
has he ever said,

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okay, you did the work.

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Now sit down.

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Sit at my right hand until I make
all the enemies of creation.

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Your footstool man,

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verse 14 is just sort of like a.

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Are they not all ministering spirits
sent out to serve those who are

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going to inherit the earth?

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You see?

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What is he saying here?

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He's saying there are angel
messengers of God.

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We know thousands upon thousands
upon thousands.

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There are angel messengers of God.

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I mean,

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one of them showed up in a field with
a bunch of shepherds and went,

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hey, don't be afraid.

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Right? I mean,

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I always thought to myself,

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I thought,

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how come every time angel appears,

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they go,

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fear not.

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And I'm like,

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yes, sorry,

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I'm afraid.

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All right.

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Something bright,

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shiny, glowing,

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with a sword standing before me.

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Okay, I'm scared.

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Because then that way he said,

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if you're scared,

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say you're scared.

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I'm scared.

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But the angel says,

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fear not because I am telling
you of something incredible.

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I am here to bring you
a message from God.

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But those angels in the field with the
shepherds were not only giving a

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message of God,

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they were announcing the
messenger of God,

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the supreme messenger,

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the superior messenger.

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You will find him wrapped
in strips of cloth,

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swaddling clothes.

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Right? You see,

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I never had to be convinced of that.

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And likely growing up,

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even if you didn't grow up in a christian
home or you didn't grow up with

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the influence of Christianity
around you,

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right? Somehow in the west,

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and particularly in America,

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we have the opportunity
to hear about Jesus.

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We have that opportunity,

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and we likewise have the opportunity
to reject him.

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You know why?

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Because in our culture,

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we're taught not to need him.

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I don't need know.

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I heard it.

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Jesus is a crutch.

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You know what the implication of
calling Jesus a crutch is?

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Oh, you're so weak,

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you need a crutch.

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Right? No,

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see, the father has
spoken of the son.

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The father speaks to the son,

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and the father explains right
here in verse 13,

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the father speaks Jesus's dominion.

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Jesus is son,

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he is heir,

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he is creator,

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he is sustainer,

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he is the radiance of God's glory.

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You see,

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he is the exact expression of the
essence and nature of God.

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He is king,

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he is priest,

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he is God,

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and he rules.

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Right? We get to move on from
this after this week.

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But guess what?

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He continues.

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The writer continues to share with
us God's message of the warning.

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We're just going to keep unfolding
this thing in such a way as to

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understand that as we study
this particular book.

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Maybe you're like me.

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Maybe you grew up in
a christian home,

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mom sat you down and read the Bible
to you and shared the gospel,

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and you said,

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yes, I want Jesus.

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And so you accepted Jesus,

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right? Maybe you didn't.

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Maybe you grew up in a home
where it was like,

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all right,

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make up your own mind
for your own self.

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I know a lot of people like that,

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right? Maybe you were anti Jesus.

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Maybe it was like,

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no, I don't want anything
to do with him.

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And yet,

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like that song Scott and
morning glory sang,

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he sought you out,

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and he kept coming,

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and he kept coming,

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right?

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Everybody comes from
a different place.

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But the revelation of God
is the same for us all.

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You see,

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Jesus is the message.

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Jesus is the messenger.

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Jesus is the object,

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the focus priority,

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not just of our faith,

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but our worship.

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Remember, I've told you that the word
worship comes from the word worth.

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What is Jesus worth to you?

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Do you live your life expressing
his value to you?

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Is he the most important
thing to you?

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See, the world says no.

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Things like,

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and I love asking this question.

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I mean,

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I always ask it when I get into the
walking together conversations.

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It's the second question I ask.

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It's the most important
thing in your life.

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It's a set up.

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A lot of people will
say things like,

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well, my family,

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right? I go,

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watch who you bow down to.

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Right? And I'm not saying
family is not important.

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God gives them a place in
our priority structure,

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but they're not the most
important thing.

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My kids,

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my wife,

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some people waywardly will say,

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oh, well,

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my job.

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So what provides for me?

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And I go,

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whoops. Right?

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It's the most important thing to you.

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See, if it's not Jesus,

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we need to readjust.

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Okay? Jesus is the most important
thing to believers,

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to those who follow him.

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And that's the case of
the book of Hebrews.

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And for the writer of Hebrews to break
it down for the hebrew people,

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for those first century
christians to say,

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you know,

00:24:11.462 --> 00:24:14.800
God has communicated since creation.

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What prophet wrote the first
five books of the Bible?

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Anybody know?

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Moses, right?

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God communicated through Moses.

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See? So when we consider
these things,

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we stop and say,

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okay, well,

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what is it that Jesus said?

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What is it that Jesus has done?

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These are the things we need
to pay attention to.

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Okay? If you don't know
Jesus this morning,

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man, we want to tell you about him.

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We want to share the gospel with
you and share the good news,

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the life changing message
of the death,

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burial, resurrection,

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the victory that God's
given us in Jesus.

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Maybe you know him.

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Unfortunately, sometimes it's like
a membership card right.

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Maybe you know Jesus.

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Question is,

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is he the center of your being?

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See, that's what God's
calling us to.

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Maybe you want to be a
part of the gathering.

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I know a couple might.

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Yeah. So anyway,

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maybe God wants to do something
this morning.

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You want to be a part of what God's
doing here at the gathering?

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You come on down.

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It'll be fine.

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Just do what God's calling
you to do.

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All right,

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let's pray.

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Father, thank you for today.

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And thank you,

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God, that you loved us first.

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Thank you,

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God, that you've given us an identity
in you through the shed blood of

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Jesus Christ.

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God, you've proven it.

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You've shown it to us.

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And yet,

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God, for some of us,

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growing up this way,

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it didn't have to be proven.

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God.

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It was just that environment
that we grew up in.

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But for some,

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God, there had to be a case made.

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So, God,

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I thank you.

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I thank you,

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God, that you've revealed yourself
and you've spoken.

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And now,

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God, help us to hear and
help us to respond.

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And we give you thanks
for it as we sing,

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God, just hear our praise and
we pray it in Jesus name.

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Amen.