WEBVTT 00:00:04.250 --> 00:00:05.342 Overcoming man. 00:00:05.396 --> 00:00:09.102 That's actually part of the point of the message today, 00:00:09.156 --> 00:00:10.372 so I'm excited about that. 00:00:10.372 --> 00:00:13.466 We're still talking about the object of our faith. 00:00:13.498 --> 00:00:13.956 And so, 00:00:13.956 --> 00:00:15.978 all till we finish the book of Hebrews, 00:00:15.978 --> 00:00:16.388 guess what? 00:00:16.388 --> 00:00:17.802 We're talking about Jesus. 00:00:17.946 --> 00:00:20.314 We're talking about Jesus nonstop. 00:00:20.442 --> 00:00:22.010 And so it's kind of exciting, 00:00:22.010 --> 00:00:24.612 because the things we've learned in the first two chapters are pretty 00:00:24.612 --> 00:00:27.010 important. We learned that God has spoken. 00:00:27.090 --> 00:00:28.162 God speaks. 00:00:28.306 --> 00:00:30.262 We learn that Christ, 00:00:30.396 --> 00:00:31.292 the anointed one, 00:00:31.292 --> 00:00:32.390 the Messiah, 00:00:32.810 --> 00:00:36.306 is son and heir and creator and sustainer, 00:00:36.338 --> 00:00:40.630 and the radiance of God's glory and the exact expression of his essence. 00:00:40.710 --> 00:00:41.820 He is God. 00:00:42.350 --> 00:00:46.586 We've learned so much about this person of Christ. 00:00:46.688 --> 00:00:48.192 And then in chapter two, 00:00:48.192 --> 00:00:49.842 we see the name Jesus, 00:00:49.846 --> 00:00:54.606 which communicates the salvation of God and how we understand this to be 00:00:54.708 --> 00:01:03.626 this entire package and the expression of God's provision of salvation. 00:01:03.818 --> 00:01:06.260 And we finally made it to chapter three. 00:01:06.260 --> 00:01:07.250 How about that? 00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:10.616 It didn't take but two months for us to get there. 00:01:10.616 --> 00:01:12.392 And so now we begin chapter three. 00:01:12.392 --> 00:01:13.358 And this is how it reads. 00:01:13.358 --> 00:01:14.008 You ready? 00:01:14.008 --> 00:01:18.678 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters who share in a heavenly calling, 00:01:18.764 --> 00:01:19.906 consider Jesus, 00:01:20.018 --> 00:01:22.588 the apostle and high priest of our confession. 00:01:22.386 --> 00:01:25.414 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, 00:01:25.452 --> 00:01:28.114 just as Moses was in all God's household. 00:01:28.162 --> 00:01:31.558 For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, 00:01:31.734 --> 00:01:35.098 just as the builder has more honor than the house. 00:01:35.264 --> 00:01:37.488 Now, every house is built by someone, 00:01:37.488 --> 00:01:40.048 but the one who built everything is God. 00:01:40.048 --> 00:01:44.926 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's household as a testimony to 00:01:44.948 --> 00:01:47.028 what would be said in the future. 00:01:47.028 --> 00:01:52.010 But Christ was faithful as a son over his household, 00:01:52.170 --> 00:01:57.012 and we are that household if we hold on to our confidence in the hope in 00:01:57.012 --> 00:01:58.042 which we boast. 00:01:58.186 --> 00:01:58.794 All righty. 00:01:58.794 --> 00:01:59.784 Let's pray together. 00:01:59.832 --> 00:02:02.280 God, we give you thanks and praise this morning. 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:03.140 Just that, 00:02:03.830 --> 00:02:05.070 God. Indeed, 00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:06.550 as we come together, 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:08.470 we celebrate you. 00:02:08.620 --> 00:02:11.590 We sing songs that speak of who you are. 00:02:11.692 --> 00:02:15.030 God, we sing songs that speak of what you've done. 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:15.772 And, God, 00:02:15.772 --> 00:02:22.202 we sing songs that tell of our identity in Christ and the very fact of 00:02:22.256 --> 00:02:23.894 overcoming. Father, 00:02:23.942 --> 00:02:28.822 we thank you that you have made provision and a way for our victory. 00:02:28.966 --> 00:02:29.552 So, God, 00:02:29.552 --> 00:02:30.016 this morning, 00:02:30.016 --> 00:02:33.630 as we look a little deeper into our savior, 00:02:34.210 --> 00:02:35.578 into our Lord, 00:02:35.754 --> 00:02:37.404 as we seek better understanding, 00:02:37.418 --> 00:02:38.724 God, speak to our hearts. 00:02:38.602 --> 00:02:40.252 Let us hear your voice. 00:02:40.370 --> 00:02:41.866 Certainly not mine. 00:02:42.058 --> 00:02:42.612 But, God, 00:02:42.612 --> 00:02:44.792 let us hear what you would have to say to us this morning, 00:02:44.792 --> 00:02:46.616 and we pray it in Jesus name. 00:02:46.616 --> 00:02:49.650 Amen. All righty. 00:02:49.990 --> 00:02:50.974 Thoroughly enjoyed, 00:02:51.022 --> 00:02:51.576 like I said, 00:02:51.576 --> 00:02:53.608 studying this week and listening this week. 00:02:53.608 --> 00:02:57.122 And some people are asking me about the study. 00:02:57.176 --> 00:02:59.096 Dan and I were just talking this morning. 00:02:59.096 --> 00:03:01.708 There are certain things that I listen to each week and things that I 00:03:01.708 --> 00:03:05.668 read and commentaries and things that I try to pay attention to. 00:03:06.890 --> 00:03:11.730 What I really want happening is I want God to feed the outline. 00:03:11.810 --> 00:03:12.124 I mean, 00:03:12.124 --> 00:03:15.122 the outline's been in place for mean. 00:03:15.196 --> 00:03:17.392 I outlined this thing back before the end of the year, 00:03:17.392 --> 00:03:17.984 last year. 00:03:17.984 --> 00:03:19.286 So I look back at the outline. 00:03:19.286 --> 00:03:20.170 Okay, God, 00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:23.770 feed me what you want me to understand, 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:28.062 what you want me to be able to communicate on Sunday morning. 00:03:28.116 --> 00:03:31.108 And so there's some words here I want to point out to you. 00:03:30.612 --> 00:03:32.592 Ready? One is the word holy, 00:03:33.350 --> 00:03:34.820 right? That's in there. 00:03:35.430 --> 00:03:37.080 One is the word share. 00:03:37.830 --> 00:03:39.490 That's in the first verse. 00:03:39.830 --> 00:03:41.598 One's the word faithful. 00:03:41.774 --> 00:03:42.536 Look at that. 00:03:42.536 --> 00:03:43.432 Faithful. And I like, 00:03:43.432 --> 00:03:47.694 wow. And we see these words and we start to realize, 00:03:47.742 --> 00:03:48.348 all right, 00:03:48.348 --> 00:03:52.758 so God is communicating something to us about the person, 00:03:52.844 --> 00:03:53.500 the work, 00:03:53.500 --> 00:03:56.182 the provision that he's made in his son, 00:03:56.236 --> 00:03:56.950 Jesus Christ. 00:03:57.020 --> 00:03:59.136 And he wants us to understand it. 00:03:59.136 --> 00:04:02.300 He wants us to get a grasp of it. 00:04:02.830 --> 00:04:06.170 I remember hearing somebody on the radio one time said, 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:07.500 words mean something. 00:04:08.990 --> 00:04:10.138 Words mean things, 00:04:10.224 --> 00:04:12.490 right? If I say holy, 00:04:13.230 --> 00:04:14.618 everybody says holy. 00:04:14.794 --> 00:04:15.828 And I could ask you all, 00:04:15.828 --> 00:04:17.940 like, good Sunday school class that you are, 00:04:17.940 --> 00:04:18.516 I'd say, 00:04:18.516 --> 00:04:19.176 all right, 00:04:19.252 --> 00:04:20.602 let's define the word holy. 00:04:20.602 --> 00:04:22.190 And people go pure, 00:04:22.530 --> 00:04:24.394 people go set apart, 00:04:24.522 --> 00:04:25.946 people go righteous. 00:04:26.058 --> 00:04:28.088 We throw out all those big words that we know, 00:04:28.088 --> 00:04:29.582 okay? They mean holy, 00:04:29.726 --> 00:04:31.102 but in practice, 00:04:31.166 --> 00:04:32.056 what does it mean? 00:04:32.056 --> 00:04:35.742 That the writer of Hebrews is calling us and his hearers, 00:04:35.806 --> 00:04:36.574 all of his hearers, 00:04:36.574 --> 00:04:37.740 from then to now, 00:04:37.740 --> 00:04:40.310 holy brothers and sisters. 00:04:41.210 --> 00:04:42.120 All right, 00:04:42.970 --> 00:04:44.326 how about that? 00:04:44.508 --> 00:04:45.720 See, in Christ, 00:04:46.170 --> 00:04:48.878 you're a holy brother or sister. 00:04:49.074 --> 00:04:51.850 Congratulations. You've arrived. 00:04:52.590 --> 00:04:53.098 Right? 00:04:53.184 --> 00:04:54.342 Think about that a minute. 00:04:54.342 --> 00:04:55.100 I mean, 00:04:55.630 --> 00:04:59.152 this is the expression of what the writer is letting us know. 00:04:59.152 --> 00:05:01.014 But here's the understanding here. 00:05:01.072 --> 00:05:05.988 We need to understand that this is how God sees us in the shed blood of 00:05:05.988 --> 00:05:07.486 Christ, right? 00:05:07.668 --> 00:05:09.550 It's not because you're holy. 00:05:10.690 --> 00:05:15.050 Sorry. It's because God made you holy. 00:05:15.210 --> 00:05:20.302 It's because God accomplished something that we cannot accomplish. 00:05:20.446 --> 00:05:20.952 All right? 00:05:20.952 --> 00:05:21.992 So when we look at these words, 00:05:21.992 --> 00:05:23.312 we're starting to go. 00:05:23.350 --> 00:05:24.552 So I began to ask myself, 00:05:24.552 --> 00:05:24.888 all right, 00:05:24.888 --> 00:05:26.792 faithfulness. That faithfulness thing is a big word, 00:05:26.792 --> 00:05:28.660 right? What's faithfulness look like? 00:05:29.210 --> 00:05:32.082 I have a favorite illustration about faithfulness. 00:05:32.226 --> 00:05:33.546 I've shared it before. 00:05:33.356 --> 00:05:35.052 It's always fun because people kind of go, 00:05:35.052 --> 00:05:36.966 ooh. I mean, 00:05:36.988 --> 00:05:37.404 think about it. 00:05:37.404 --> 00:05:38.556 If you're married this morning, 00:05:38.556 --> 00:05:40.818 right? This is my favorite illustration about faith. 00:05:40.818 --> 00:05:41.564 But get ready, 00:05:41.564 --> 00:05:42.554 here it comes. 00:05:42.448 --> 00:05:43.952 If you're married this morning, 00:05:43.952 --> 00:05:46.752 let's suppose your spouse walked in at the end of the day and said, 00:05:46.752 --> 00:05:48.534 honey, you'll be pleased. 00:05:48.582 --> 00:05:50.620 I was 90% faithful today, 00:05:53.330 --> 00:05:55.646 right? I mean, 00:05:55.668 --> 00:05:56.612 we'd all go, 00:05:56.612 --> 00:05:59.390 yeah, right. 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:00.052 I mean, 00:06:00.052 --> 00:06:01.546 think about that a minute. 00:06:01.546 --> 00:06:03.526 When we start to consider faithfulness. 00:06:03.498 --> 00:06:06.334 And what it means to be faithful. 00:06:06.462 --> 00:06:09.762 And then we read this text of just six verses. 00:06:10.150 --> 00:06:11.800 And we are that household. 00:06:11.822 --> 00:06:13.320 I just slobbered on myself, 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:17.026 y'all. I'm going to get excited for this morning's out. 00:06:17.048 --> 00:06:17.288 All right, 00:06:17.288 --> 00:06:17.948 here you go. 00:06:17.948 --> 00:06:19.954 We are that household of faith. 00:06:20.002 --> 00:06:26.178 If we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast. 00:06:26.354 --> 00:06:32.566 Now, that almost sounds like there's something dependent on us to be that 00:06:32.588 --> 00:06:33.298 household of faith. 00:06:33.298 --> 00:06:35.720 Like, I've got to somehow hang on. 00:06:36.730 --> 00:06:38.380 I got to be holy. 00:06:38.810 --> 00:06:41.802 I've got to achieve faithfulness. 00:06:41.946 --> 00:06:43.978 In order to be that household of faith. 00:06:43.978 --> 00:06:46.970 But what we're going to find out is this passage, 00:06:46.970 --> 00:06:49.354 like all the other passages in Hebrews, 00:06:49.402 --> 00:06:51.700 is not about you or me or us. 00:06:51.700 --> 00:06:58.098 This passage is about Jesus and what Jesus has done for us. 00:06:58.264 --> 00:07:01.940 Okay? Because I got pretty excited about this this week. 00:07:03.190 --> 00:07:07.250 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters who share in the heavenly calling. 00:07:07.320 --> 00:07:10.620 Consider Jesus the apostle and high priest of our confession. 00:07:10.750 --> 00:07:12.124 So what is it that we're looking at? 00:07:12.028 --> 00:07:12.268 All right, 00:07:12.268 --> 00:07:14.934 so I grew up in a christian home. 00:07:14.972 --> 00:07:15.852 I've told y'all that before. 00:07:15.852 --> 00:07:17.298 Mom and dad were christians. 00:07:17.298 --> 00:07:20.186 My grandmother and grandfather on my dad's side. 00:07:20.288 --> 00:07:22.928 They'd been members of the same church forever, 00:07:23.230 --> 00:07:23.642 right? 00:07:23.696 --> 00:07:24.394 Moses left, 00:07:24.432 --> 00:07:27.402 and they joined the church right there in town. 00:07:28.030 --> 00:07:30.678 They were members of Cali Self Memorial Baptist church. 00:07:30.678 --> 00:07:32.954 My grandma and granddaddy sat in the choir. 00:07:32.954 --> 00:07:34.570 Granddaddy was a deacon. 00:07:34.730 --> 00:07:38.174 And grandma led ladies Sunday school classes and stuff. 00:07:38.212 --> 00:07:39.588 And so that's what I grew up in. 00:07:39.588 --> 00:07:42.800 That's the church I most remember growing up. 00:07:43.990 --> 00:07:45.640 And on my mama's side. 00:07:48.630 --> 00:07:52.152 My mom and dad's families lived in the same community for a while. 00:07:52.152 --> 00:07:54.232 And had attended the same church for a while. 00:07:54.232 --> 00:07:59.142 My granddaddy was an industrial engineer of some sort. 00:07:59.196 --> 00:08:01.176 He worked at the textile mill. 00:08:01.292 --> 00:08:03.282 He was like a supervisor. 00:08:03.346 --> 00:08:05.142 Superintendent in the textile mill. 00:08:05.196 --> 00:08:08.994 And then God called him to ministry. 00:08:09.042 --> 00:08:12.198 And so he went to southeastern seminary up here in Wake Forest. 00:08:12.198 --> 00:08:14.070 And got his bachelor's of divinity. 00:08:14.070 --> 00:08:17.040 And became a pastor up here on Albemarle sound. 00:08:16.880 --> 00:08:17.870 Somewhere up in. 00:08:17.968 --> 00:08:19.142 Near Little Washington. 00:08:19.206 --> 00:08:19.962 Columbia area. 00:08:20.016 --> 00:08:20.886 Up in there somewhere. 00:08:20.886 --> 00:08:21.648 Somewhere up there. 00:08:21.488 --> 00:08:22.454 He was a pastor. 00:08:22.454 --> 00:08:24.764 Pastor. Two churches at the same time. 00:08:25.410 --> 00:08:28.050 And things didn't go real well for mean. 00:08:28.068 --> 00:08:31.994 I remember from a very early age that my granddaddy and my grandma, 00:08:31.994 --> 00:08:34.826 they split ways and granddaddy went one direction, 00:08:34.858 --> 00:08:36.814 and grandma went the other direction, 00:08:36.814 --> 00:08:39.486 and yet they still were believers. 00:08:39.518 --> 00:08:40.508 They trusted Jesus. 00:08:40.526 --> 00:08:43.928 I remember doing my grandfather and first funeral I ever did was my own 00:08:43.928 --> 00:08:46.718 grandfather's funeral up in Danville, 00:08:46.734 --> 00:08:51.138 Virginia, at the little church where he taught seminary up till he died, 00:08:51.234 --> 00:08:54.806 right? I look at my family and I go, 00:08:54.908 --> 00:08:57.004 I grew up in a faithful family. 00:08:57.004 --> 00:08:57.676 Were they perfect? 00:08:57.676 --> 00:08:58.996 No, they weren't perfect, 00:08:59.610 --> 00:09:00.930 but they had faith. 00:09:00.886 --> 00:09:02.022 They lived their faith. 00:09:02.022 --> 00:09:03.638 They practiced their faith. 00:09:03.814 --> 00:09:06.102 They were faithful grandparents. 00:09:06.166 --> 00:09:09.462 My parents coming out of those families are faithful parents. 00:09:09.462 --> 00:09:11.530 They've loved me and taught me, 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:13.524 and they've shared Jesus with me. 00:09:13.428 --> 00:09:17.342 And I look at faithfulness going back historically in my family, 00:09:17.396 --> 00:09:18.926 and, you know, 00:09:19.108 --> 00:09:20.670 they got flaws, 00:09:21.330 --> 00:09:25.354 right? So when we read these statements right here that God is referring 00:09:25.354 --> 00:09:26.034 to us, 00:09:26.152 --> 00:09:28.062 the people who have trusted Jesus, 00:09:28.062 --> 00:09:30.990 who have received this salvation from Jesus as holy. 00:09:30.990 --> 00:09:32.014 Brothers and sisters, 00:09:32.062 --> 00:09:34.590 we've been set apart for holiness. 00:09:34.750 --> 00:09:35.410 Truth is, 00:09:35.432 --> 00:09:36.770 we're not holy, 00:09:38.330 --> 00:09:39.916 but through the shed blood of Christ, 00:09:39.916 --> 00:09:42.498 we've been set apart in holiness. 00:09:42.674 --> 00:09:45.858 God sees us through the sacrifice. 00:09:46.034 --> 00:09:49.664 That's what we've been reading about in chapters one and two, 00:09:49.790 --> 00:09:55.034 that God accomplished holiness in us through the holiness and 00:09:55.072 --> 00:09:56.780 righteousness of his son. 00:09:57.150 --> 00:09:58.272 And so when I read this, 00:09:58.272 --> 00:09:59.018 I'm like, 00:09:59.184 --> 00:10:03.722 wow. I remember at the little church Cali self, 00:10:03.776 --> 00:10:06.692 that my grandparents went to and we grew up in, 00:10:06.692 --> 00:10:09.002 and I was one of the little. 00:10:09.012 --> 00:10:10.350 Four choir boys. 00:10:10.770 --> 00:10:12.692 Boys didn't do choir when I was a kid, 00:10:12.692 --> 00:10:13.022 right? 00:10:12.868 --> 00:10:14.116 But the four of us did. 00:10:14.116 --> 00:10:17.438 And I thought it was really cool because it was four boys in the choir 00:10:17.438 --> 00:10:17.832 with, like, 00:10:17.832 --> 00:10:18.846 26 girls. 00:10:18.878 --> 00:10:19.288 I was like, 00:10:19.288 --> 00:10:19.890 yay. 00:10:22.070 --> 00:10:24.142 I'm not saying I had an ulterior motive, 00:10:24.142 --> 00:10:24.900 but anyway. 00:10:26.550 --> 00:10:27.838 But it's funny. 00:10:28.014 --> 00:10:30.242 There's one guy that just always got in trouble, 00:10:30.242 --> 00:10:31.036 one of my best friends. 00:10:31.036 --> 00:10:32.578 He was in our wedding. 00:10:32.578 --> 00:10:34.268 Anyway, he always got in trouble. 00:10:34.066 --> 00:10:37.074 He was just always getting in trouble. 00:10:37.202 --> 00:10:39.734 So much so that our youth director, 00:10:39.782 --> 00:10:41.340 choir director person, 00:10:41.790 --> 00:10:44.064 he started referring to him as St. 00:10:44.064 --> 00:10:46.394 Brad. Now, 00:10:46.432 --> 00:10:47.654 sometimes Brad watches. 00:10:47.702 --> 00:10:51.662 So he's out in Amarillo or somewhere out in Texas somewhere now. 00:10:51.536 --> 00:10:53.286 But sometimes he watches worship. 00:10:53.318 --> 00:10:54.692 And so if he watches this morning, 00:10:54.692 --> 00:10:58.196 it'd be fun if he hears himself referred to once again as St. 00:10:58.196 --> 00:11:00.132 Brad. But it was the thing. 00:11:00.132 --> 00:11:02.442 It was like to call him St. 00:11:03.002 --> 00:11:04.228 was Bradto call him, 00:11:04.228 --> 00:11:07.330 like, what is the opposite? 00:11:08.070 --> 00:11:09.688 Right? So I'm looking at this, 00:11:09.688 --> 00:11:10.088 and I'm going, 00:11:10.088 --> 00:11:10.408 all right, 00:11:10.408 --> 00:11:12.088 God, are you playing a joke on us? 00:11:12.088 --> 00:11:16.180 You're calling us holy knowing that we're not. 00:11:17.110 --> 00:11:21.894 And yet God calling us holy because he's the one that accomplishes our 00:11:21.932 --> 00:11:22.710 holiness. 00:11:23.130 --> 00:11:23.948 He did it. 00:11:23.948 --> 00:11:25.320 You didn't do it. 00:11:25.930 --> 00:11:29.168 See, that's going to be really important when we get down to this, 00:11:29.168 --> 00:11:32.010 if we hold on to our confidence, 00:11:33.550 --> 00:11:35.098 recognizing that, 00:11:35.264 --> 00:11:37.782 yes, we're supposed to live out our faith. 00:11:37.782 --> 00:11:42.718 We're supposed to live the response to what God has accomplished in us. 00:11:42.804 --> 00:11:49.470 But can I just go ahead and tell you we're not going to make holiness, 00:11:50.290 --> 00:11:51.040 okay? 00:11:52.370 --> 00:11:54.930 We can live out our faith. 00:11:55.750 --> 00:12:03.140 We can let the spirit of God convict and guide and refine us. 00:12:03.670 --> 00:12:04.872 But I promise you, 00:12:04.872 --> 00:12:05.862 you can be. 00:12:06.310 --> 00:12:07.064 Just think about it. 00:12:07.064 --> 00:12:07.598 All right? 00:12:07.368 --> 00:12:08.710 Let's say Monday morning. 00:12:08.860 --> 00:12:10.482 That's our first day of holiness. 00:12:10.482 --> 00:12:11.852 We're going to be holy all day long. 00:12:11.852 --> 00:12:12.760 Monday morning, 00:12:13.370 --> 00:12:14.380 can I tell you? 00:12:14.380 --> 00:12:16.030 Might make it five minutes. 00:12:17.530 --> 00:12:19.254 Chances are you're not. 00:12:19.452 --> 00:12:21.290 But it's not an excuse. 00:12:21.710 --> 00:12:26.064 It's not that God looks at us through the lens of the shed blood of 00:12:26.064 --> 00:12:27.392 Jesus, but then he says, 00:12:27.392 --> 00:12:31.678 we are sharers in a heavenly calling. 00:12:31.764 --> 00:12:34.430 Some translations say partners says, 00:12:34.500 --> 00:12:36.436 we share in a heavenly calling. 00:12:36.436 --> 00:12:38.086 And then he says this. 00:12:37.732 --> 00:12:42.762 Think about consider Jesus the apostle. 00:12:42.826 --> 00:12:44.580 Now, apostle means something specific. 00:12:45.190 --> 00:12:49.730 The apostle is the one who is sent by God with God's authority. 00:12:50.230 --> 00:12:56.114 So we see the references here that consider Jesus the apostle and high 00:12:56.152 --> 00:12:57.390 priest of our confession. 00:12:57.390 --> 00:13:03.954 So this is the thesis statement of this passage and the following verses 00:13:04.002 --> 00:13:04.822 after it. 00:13:04.956 --> 00:13:07.650 We're going to be focusing our attention on Jesus. 00:13:07.650 --> 00:13:11.270 However, let's just mention Moses a minute, 00:13:11.430 --> 00:13:12.208 because verse two, 00:13:12.208 --> 00:13:14.272 he says he was faithful to the one who appointed him, 00:13:14.272 --> 00:13:17.654 just as Moses was in all God's household. 00:13:17.702 --> 00:13:20.330 Right? So Moses was faithful. 00:13:21.330 --> 00:13:24.602 Moses was faithful. 00:13:24.666 --> 00:13:25.326 Thank you. 00:13:25.428 --> 00:13:28.202 Hey, we have audience participation. 00:13:28.266 --> 00:13:28.772 Very good. 00:13:28.772 --> 00:13:29.440 All right. 00:13:30.610 --> 00:13:32.074 Moses was faithful. 00:13:32.202 --> 00:13:35.602 He was looked upon as a prophet of God, 00:13:35.656 --> 00:13:40.846 one who was sent by God with God's authority to do what he received, 00:13:40.958 --> 00:13:42.136 the law of God. 00:13:42.136 --> 00:13:46.146 And he delivered the law of God to God's people. 00:13:46.248 --> 00:13:46.908 See that? 00:13:46.920 --> 00:13:50.340 He was faithful in what God had called him to. 00:13:50.790 --> 00:13:54.812 So this makes a statement that Jesus was faithful to the one who 00:13:54.812 --> 00:13:55.510 appointed him, 00:13:55.580 --> 00:13:58.370 just as Moses was in all God's household. 00:13:58.530 --> 00:13:59.548 So when we look at this, 00:13:59.548 --> 00:14:00.418 Moses was a prophet. 00:14:00.418 --> 00:14:01.088 He received the law, 00:14:01.088 --> 00:14:01.856 he gave the law, 00:14:01.856 --> 00:14:03.740 he lived the law. 00:14:04.350 --> 00:14:08.362 He was the one that modeled the communication with God. 00:14:08.496 --> 00:14:13.722 My favorite verse about Moses is in Exodus 33 when it says that the Lord 00:14:13.866 --> 00:14:21.950 met, Yahweh met with Moses face to face as a man meets or talks with his 00:14:22.020 --> 00:14:24.820 friend. Wow. 00:14:26.470 --> 00:14:28.130 Isn't that incredible? 00:14:30.470 --> 00:14:36.020 And we are encouraged to have that conversation with God. 00:14:36.470 --> 00:14:40.294 The intimacy of the fellowship God's offered us with him, 00:14:40.332 --> 00:14:45.906 and we sort of sit back and try to explain how somehow it just doesn't 00:14:45.938 --> 00:14:46.492 work for us. 00:14:46.492 --> 00:14:48.354 My prayers don't go through the ceiling, 00:14:48.354 --> 00:14:50.902 or I don't feel like my devotional life's alive. 00:14:50.902 --> 00:14:57.340 We make all the excuses in the world for why we don't spend the time, 00:14:58.110 --> 00:15:03.200 make the effort to meet in intimacy with God. 00:15:04.050 --> 00:15:05.194 Jesus was faithful. 00:15:05.242 --> 00:15:06.340 We know that Christ, 00:15:06.340 --> 00:15:07.200 the Son, 00:15:07.570 --> 00:15:08.554 an apostle, 00:15:08.602 --> 00:15:11.470 one sent by God with God's authority. 00:15:11.970 --> 00:15:12.922 So indeed, 00:15:12.986 --> 00:15:15.490 Jesus was an apostle. 00:15:16.790 --> 00:15:17.700 You see, 00:15:18.710 --> 00:15:20.792 he was faithful to the one who appointed him. 00:15:20.792 --> 00:15:25.310 And we know Jesus himself in the Garden of Gethsemane. 00:15:25.470 --> 00:15:28.230 Lord, Father, 00:15:28.650 --> 00:15:35.510 if there's any way that this weight, 00:15:35.930 --> 00:15:38.220 this burden can be taken from me, 00:15:38.220 --> 00:15:41.020 but not my will, 00:15:41.710 --> 00:15:42.534 but yours. 00:15:42.582 --> 00:15:44.848 God, let me ask you a question. 00:15:44.848 --> 00:15:46.426 In your everyday life, 00:15:46.608 --> 00:15:48.918 how often do you pray that prayer? 00:15:49.470 --> 00:15:51.078 God, I want this. 00:15:51.264 --> 00:15:52.580 God, let me have that. 00:15:52.580 --> 00:15:54.230 God, can I do this? 00:15:53.636 --> 00:15:55.502 But God, 00:15:55.556 --> 00:15:56.734 not my will, 00:15:56.932 --> 00:15:58.190 but yours. 00:16:00.690 --> 00:16:04.980 God, I see people in the world that have things that I want. 00:16:05.590 --> 00:16:07.736 There's things I want to accomplish in the world. 00:16:07.736 --> 00:16:09.730 God, can I do those things? 00:16:09.800 --> 00:16:16.014 God, give me those things yet not my will, 00:16:16.072 --> 00:16:18.310 God, but yours. 00:16:18.730 --> 00:16:19.720 You see, 00:16:20.410 --> 00:16:27.126 amazing that what God's showing us in Christ and Moses as a know, 00:16:27.148 --> 00:16:28.468 that's a theological word. 00:16:28.412 --> 00:16:33.226 The typology in scripture that we see in many individuals in the Old 00:16:33.248 --> 00:16:35.610 Testament, we see this type of Christ, 00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:38.592 that there are individuals in the Old Testament that actually their 00:16:38.592 --> 00:16:40.022 lives, their testimony, 00:16:40.086 --> 00:16:41.090 their faith, 00:16:41.270 --> 00:16:46.254 everything about them point to the messiah who is to come. 00:16:46.372 --> 00:16:49.040 And Moses is this typology of Christ. 00:16:50.530 --> 00:16:51.294 He says, 00:16:51.412 --> 00:16:55.374 for Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses. 00:16:55.422 --> 00:16:58.734 Do you know how controversial that is to say to a Hebrew, 00:16:58.734 --> 00:17:00.274 to a jewish person? 00:17:00.472 --> 00:17:07.730 Man, Moses was the most revered prophet in hebrew history and culture. 00:17:08.150 --> 00:17:09.906 And now this writer's going. 00:17:09.928 --> 00:17:10.690 Now listen, 00:17:10.840 --> 00:17:11.700 you know, 00:17:12.250 --> 00:17:13.570 Jesus was faithful. 00:17:13.650 --> 00:17:16.994 Moses was faithful in all God's household. 00:17:17.042 --> 00:17:17.948 Now that's important. 00:17:17.948 --> 00:17:21.290 It's another word that means something in God's household. 00:17:23.150 --> 00:17:26.854 Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, 00:17:26.982 --> 00:17:29.536 just as the builder has more honor than the house. 00:17:29.536 --> 00:17:33.808 Now, I remember when we were doing the recordings for gathering in the 00:17:33.808 --> 00:17:36.778 word a couple of weeks ago for this week, 00:17:37.010 --> 00:17:38.388 which, let me make a note on that. 00:17:38.388 --> 00:17:40.282 If you don't get the gathering in the word devotionals, 00:17:40.282 --> 00:17:41.086 go ahead. 00:17:41.268 --> 00:17:41.928 Guess what? 00:17:41.956 --> 00:17:43.550 My life has changed. 00:17:44.450 --> 00:17:48.370 I don't have to get up at four in the morning anymore. 00:17:48.370 --> 00:17:51.838 Used to I'd wake up at four and didn't make any sense to go back to sleep 00:17:51.838 --> 00:17:54.782 because I'd get up and fix the breakfast and Eli go to school and Angie 00:17:54.782 --> 00:17:55.656 go to work. 00:17:55.656 --> 00:17:57.022 And now Eli got married, 00:17:57.022 --> 00:17:57.448 moved out, 00:17:57.448 --> 00:17:59.698 and so I don't even have to wake him up anymore. 00:17:59.698 --> 00:18:00.870 That's Lillian's job. 00:18:00.940 --> 00:18:01.560 Now. 00:18:03.450 --> 00:18:05.494 Angie's not working right now, 00:18:05.532 --> 00:18:07.228 and so she doesn't really have to get up. 00:18:07.228 --> 00:18:07.852 So guess what? 00:18:07.852 --> 00:18:08.842 I don't either. 00:18:10.650 --> 00:18:11.810 So, Thursday, 00:18:11.890 --> 00:18:15.094 I sent out the gathering in the word Thursday evening, 00:18:15.094 --> 00:18:17.718 but the video is not available until midnight. 00:18:17.718 --> 00:18:19.488 So I called Kyle yesterday and I said, 00:18:19.488 --> 00:18:20.112 Kyle, I said, 00:18:20.112 --> 00:18:23.072 can we just go ahead and open the video about six? 00:18:22.832 --> 00:18:25.810 Because I'm not getting up at four if I don't have to. 00:18:25.810 --> 00:18:28.186 So just as soon as I said that yesterday, 00:18:28.186 --> 00:18:30.450 guess what time I woke up this morning? 00:18:30.450 --> 00:18:31.182 Not four, 00:18:31.236 --> 00:18:35.600 two. But I was ready for four when it got there. 00:18:36.130 --> 00:18:36.776 So, anyway, 00:18:36.776 --> 00:18:38.526 they're going to start going out in the evenings, 00:18:38.526 --> 00:18:42.260 and the videos will be available the evening before. 00:18:42.870 --> 00:18:44.376 But I remember doing this video, 00:18:44.376 --> 00:18:46.152 and I remember writing this thing. 00:18:46.152 --> 00:18:46.820 I said, 00:18:47.830 --> 00:18:49.096 this house they're building, 00:18:49.096 --> 00:18:52.844 just like on the other side of the youth house and stuff, 00:18:52.844 --> 00:18:54.140 we used to own that lot, 00:18:54.140 --> 00:18:54.812 some of you know, 00:18:54.812 --> 00:18:55.692 and we sold it, 00:18:55.692 --> 00:18:58.250 like, a year and a half ago or so. 00:18:58.250 --> 00:19:00.416 And I knew that the folks that bought it, 00:19:00.416 --> 00:19:01.850 it was a developer. 00:19:02.750 --> 00:19:04.560 And I know that when they bought it, 00:19:04.560 --> 00:19:07.530 they kind of went online and on their website, 00:19:07.584 --> 00:19:12.400 they put this picture of this incredible house and said, 00:19:13.250 --> 00:19:14.286 coming soon, 00:19:14.388 --> 00:19:15.378 kind of thing, 00:19:15.396 --> 00:19:16.868 and they put the price down there. 00:19:16.868 --> 00:19:17.940 And I was like, 00:19:17.940 --> 00:19:18.750 ooh. 00:19:19.330 --> 00:19:20.414 Oh, my. 00:19:20.612 --> 00:19:23.550 Right now it's still dirt, 00:19:24.290 --> 00:19:25.546 right? But, 00:19:25.588 --> 00:19:29.618 man, if you can make that house appear on that lot, 00:19:29.784 --> 00:19:31.650 that's going to be incredible, 00:19:32.070 --> 00:19:35.048 right? And so we all look at the house and go, 00:19:35.048 --> 00:19:36.450 what an incredible huose. 00:19:37.510 --> 00:19:38.500 No, no, no, 00:19:38.280 --> 00:19:41.250 Look no.at the guy that dreamed it up. 00:19:41.450 --> 00:19:43.618 The one who dug the hole, 00:19:43.794 --> 00:19:45.196 the one who began the building. 00:19:45.196 --> 00:19:46.348 See, that's what this is talking about. 00:19:46.348 --> 00:19:49.266 For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses. 00:19:49.266 --> 00:19:52.474 Just as the builder has more honor than house. 00:19:52.592 --> 00:19:54.442 Moses is in the house, 00:19:54.496 --> 00:19:55.824 he's a part of the house. 00:19:55.824 --> 00:19:59.340 But Jesus is the creator and sustainer of the house, 00:20:00.190 --> 00:20:01.178 you see? 00:20:01.344 --> 00:20:02.468 And so when we look at this, 00:20:02.468 --> 00:20:02.788 it's like, 00:20:02.788 --> 00:20:04.202 yeah, point to Moses. 00:20:04.346 --> 00:20:07.646 We would all hold Moses in some kind of regard. 00:20:08.690 --> 00:20:09.680 He was faithful. 00:20:09.642 --> 00:20:10.292 But you know what? 00:20:10.292 --> 00:20:11.360 He wasn't perfect. 00:20:13.090 --> 00:20:15.870 Moses's holiness was not his own. 00:20:15.940 --> 00:20:17.634 He was called by God, 00:20:17.832 --> 00:20:18.392 you see? 00:20:18.392 --> 00:20:19.768 And so when we start walking this out, 00:20:19.768 --> 00:20:20.232 we say, 00:20:20.232 --> 00:20:22.820 now, every house is built by someone, 00:20:23.430 --> 00:20:26.626 but the one who built everything is God. 00:20:26.808 --> 00:20:28.094 So it's really funny. 00:20:28.094 --> 00:20:29.342 I don't know if y'all know Larry. 00:20:29.342 --> 00:20:31.522 He's back there watching on the security camera. 00:20:31.522 --> 00:20:32.390 Hi, Larry. 00:20:33.530 --> 00:20:35.004 He built a house right over there. 00:20:34.908 --> 00:20:36.972 So I ride by and see what's new? 00:20:36.972 --> 00:20:38.374 As I ride by, 00:20:38.572 --> 00:20:39.892 coming to the Gathering, 00:20:39.906 --> 00:20:40.784 and I ride by, 00:20:40.784 --> 00:20:46.294 and yesterday he's putting down forms for concrete now for the driveway 00:20:46.342 --> 00:20:46.688 and stuff. 00:20:46.688 --> 00:20:47.088 And I go, 00:20:47.088 --> 00:20:48.300 oh, that's new. 00:20:48.830 --> 00:20:49.456 I go, 00:20:49.456 --> 00:20:52.074 wow. And it's a curved thing, 00:20:52.112 --> 00:20:52.442 man. 00:20:52.352 --> 00:20:54.090 They're going to have a curved driveway. 00:20:54.090 --> 00:20:54.868 And I thought, 00:20:54.868 --> 00:20:57.120 that's going to be cool looking. 00:20:57.810 --> 00:20:59.092 So what do we do? 00:20:59.092 --> 00:21:01.070 Do we praise the concrete, 00:21:01.890 --> 00:21:08.346 or do we praise the one who thought it and conceived of it and designed 00:21:08.378 --> 00:21:11.992 it and called in the right people at the right times to do the right 00:21:11.992 --> 00:21:14.792 things, to make the house be what the house is? 00:21:14.792 --> 00:21:16.456 See, that's what this is pointing to. 00:21:16.152 --> 00:21:20.136 Yeah. Moses was a great guy. We probably - we might have been friends 00:21:20.136 --> 00:21:20.632 with the guy, 00:21:20.632 --> 00:21:21.622 I don't know. 00:21:21.930 --> 00:21:23.868 But he was in the house. 00:21:23.612 --> 00:21:24.812 He wasn't over the house. 00:21:24.812 --> 00:21:26.140 See, that's the next thing it says. 00:21:26.140 --> 00:21:27.276 Every house is built by someone, 00:21:27.276 --> 00:21:28.796 but the one who built everything is God. 00:21:28.796 --> 00:21:33.914 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's household as a testimony to 00:21:33.952 --> 00:21:35.264 what would be said in the future. 00:21:35.264 --> 00:21:38.894 So you could be talking about Moses and pointing to Jesus. 00:21:39.070 --> 00:21:40.160 Now, this is important, 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:41.834 y'all. What I just. 00:21:41.952 --> 00:21:45.514 You can be talking about Moses and pointing to Jesus. 00:21:45.642 --> 00:21:49.924 Okay. Then he goes on to say this as a testimony to what be said in the 00:21:49.924 --> 00:21:50.254 future. 00:21:50.196 --> 00:21:56.846 But Christ was faithful as a son over his household. 00:21:57.038 --> 00:21:58.050 The heir, 00:21:58.870 --> 00:22:00.536 the one who received it all, 00:22:00.536 --> 00:22:01.502 the one who created, 00:22:01.502 --> 00:22:03.220 sustained, holds it all together. 00:22:03.830 --> 00:22:05.140 See, Christ. 00:22:05.590 --> 00:22:07.666 See, this whole little six verses, 00:22:07.698 --> 00:22:11.190 they just pay attention to Jesus. 00:22:12.330 --> 00:22:14.380 Pay attention to Christ in your life, 00:22:14.380 --> 00:22:15.110 folks. 00:22:16.650 --> 00:22:18.012 Because then he goes on to say, 00:22:18.012 --> 00:22:20.970 and we are that household. 00:22:21.870 --> 00:22:28.490 If we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast. 00:22:28.830 --> 00:22:30.726 See, Moses is in the household. 00:22:30.726 --> 00:22:32.102 Jesus is over the household. 00:22:32.102 --> 00:22:33.092 We are the, 00:22:36.030 --> 00:22:36.910 you know, 00:22:37.060 --> 00:22:40.148 that's one of those things we point out and like to point out all the 00:22:40.148 --> 00:22:40.800 what. 00:22:41.570 --> 00:22:42.228 You know, 00:22:42.228 --> 00:22:43.348 we look in the Bible and we say, 00:22:43.348 --> 00:22:44.696 oh, Moses was a great man. 00:22:44.696 --> 00:22:46.346 David was a great man, 00:22:46.424 --> 00:22:47.940 Samuel was a great. 00:22:48.870 --> 00:22:52.254 Know. We look at all these people in scripture, 00:22:52.302 --> 00:22:59.954 but they are no greater than you and I. See? Paul, 00:23:00.082 --> 00:23:03.350 Peter, apostles called by God, 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:04.680 sent by God, 00:23:05.690 --> 00:23:07.270 redeemed by God, 00:23:07.420 --> 00:23:09.820 made holy by God. 00:23:10.830 --> 00:23:11.658 You too? 00:23:11.744 --> 00:23:12.620 Me too, 00:23:13.470 --> 00:23:16.346 right? How many of you remember the. 00:23:16.528 --> 00:23:18.838 You gotta be old to remember this. 00:23:20.590 --> 00:23:23.008 There was a song that the Gaithers used to sing. 00:23:23.008 --> 00:23:24.000 It went like this. 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:28.290 He's still working on me to make me what I ought to be. 00:23:28.610 --> 00:23:32.186 Took him six days to make the moon and the stars, 00:23:32.186 --> 00:23:34.878 the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars. 00:23:34.878 --> 00:23:37.188 How loving and faithful he must be. 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:42.002 He's still working on me see that. 00:23:42.136 --> 00:23:44.776 I remember singing that song as a kid. 00:23:44.790 --> 00:23:46.664 It was always cute when a kid sang it. 00:23:46.664 --> 00:23:47.192 You know it. 00:23:47.192 --> 00:23:48.920 He's still working on me. 00:23:50.170 --> 00:23:51.484 I'm just a big kid. 00:23:51.484 --> 00:23:55.142 Sorry. We're the household that God's building. 00:23:55.196 --> 00:23:56.892 But here's the point of it right here. 00:23:56.892 --> 00:23:59.202 Here's the point of it right here. 00:24:01.150 --> 00:24:05.530 We live out our faith. 00:24:06.110 --> 00:24:07.702 We have trusted Jesus. 00:24:07.766 --> 00:24:09.690 We've received salvation in Christ. 00:24:09.760 --> 00:24:10.736 We didn't do the work. 00:24:10.736 --> 00:24:12.386 We can't do the work. 00:24:13.890 --> 00:24:14.954 It is faith, 00:24:15.002 --> 00:24:22.174 and it is trusting Jesus that produces work in us. 00:24:22.372 --> 00:24:24.960 Right? Work doesn't save us. 00:24:25.890 --> 00:24:29.300 Work's the result of what God has already done. 00:24:29.830 --> 00:24:32.136 So that when people point to us, 00:24:32.136 --> 00:24:33.032 just like we now, 00:24:33.032 --> 00:24:34.352 remember what I said? 00:24:34.280 --> 00:24:35.890 We point to Moses, 00:24:36.650 --> 00:24:37.762 talk about Moses, 00:24:37.826 --> 00:24:39.586 praise what Moses accomplished, 00:24:39.618 --> 00:24:41.268 but we point to Jesus. 00:24:41.530 --> 00:24:43.240 When people see you, 00:24:43.690 --> 00:24:45.350 does it point to Jesus? 00:24:47.130 --> 00:24:49.210 Does your life point to Jesus? 00:24:50.910 --> 00:24:51.900 Your family? 00:24:52.670 --> 00:24:54.682 Let's go ahead and admit all. 00:24:54.736 --> 00:24:57.046 We're not going to be here forever. 00:24:57.470 --> 00:24:58.912 The people that come after us, 00:24:58.912 --> 00:25:00.562 are they going to say, 00:25:01.410 --> 00:25:04.254 wow, his life, 00:25:04.372 --> 00:25:05.440 her life, 00:25:05.890 --> 00:25:14.820 was a testimony for Jesus for what God did in their life. 00:25:15.830 --> 00:25:16.530 See that? 00:25:16.600 --> 00:25:18.344 Wow. I look at this thing and I go, 00:25:18.344 --> 00:25:22.014 man, this last sentence, 00:25:22.062 --> 00:25:23.432 and we are that household. 00:25:23.182 --> 00:25:27.550 If we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast, 00:25:27.550 --> 00:25:28.578 this is not a reference, 00:25:28.578 --> 00:25:29.052 in fact, 00:25:29.052 --> 00:25:31.692 that you can not hold on to it. 00:25:31.692 --> 00:25:36.600 Right? I'm one of those folks that believes you can't undo what God does. 00:25:37.370 --> 00:25:39.094 If God saved you, 00:25:39.292 --> 00:25:40.918 you can't unsave you. 00:25:41.084 --> 00:25:41.910 All right, 00:25:42.060 --> 00:25:43.600 I'm just going to go ahead and tell you, 00:25:43.600 --> 00:25:45.472 because if you can undo what God does, 00:25:45.472 --> 00:25:47.248 that makes you stronger than God. 00:25:47.056 --> 00:25:48.706 And I don't think that, 00:25:49.710 --> 00:25:55.200 but this is a reference that those of faith will hold on. 00:25:56.770 --> 00:26:01.694 You will hold on to what God has done. 00:26:01.812 --> 00:26:03.370 See, Jesus is Lord. 00:26:03.450 --> 00:26:05.806 Jesus is our confidence. 00:26:05.838 --> 00:26:07.410 It's not my confidence, 00:26:07.910 --> 00:26:09.288 because I'll be honest with you. 00:26:09.112 --> 00:26:09.758 Some mornings, 00:26:09.758 --> 00:26:12.078 and then some mornings I'm late, 00:26:12.174 --> 00:26:13.032 I wake up going, 00:26:13.032 --> 00:26:14.352 I can't do it, 00:26:16.330 --> 00:26:17.910 God. This day's... Ahhh... 00:26:20.250 --> 00:26:22.560 I don't want to do today God. 00:26:23.050 --> 00:26:23.932 And God goes, 00:26:23.932 --> 00:26:24.760 but, yeah, 00:26:25.690 --> 00:26:26.840 I got you. 00:26:28.170 --> 00:26:30.150 I got you in this day. 00:26:30.252 --> 00:26:32.232 I'm holding you in this day. 00:26:33.950 --> 00:26:36.112 I'm the one that will get you through this day. 00:26:36.112 --> 00:26:38.422 I had to text that this morning. 00:26:38.590 --> 00:26:39.718 A brother of ours, 00:26:39.718 --> 00:26:41.368 a member of this gathering, 00:26:41.430 --> 00:26:44.052 going through a really bad time right now. 00:26:44.052 --> 00:26:44.852 And he said, 00:26:44.852 --> 00:26:46.400 I'm hanging on. 00:26:47.010 --> 00:26:47.508 I said, 00:26:47.508 --> 00:26:50.762 you know what's interesting is we really don't understand how we can hang 00:26:50.762 --> 00:26:55.382 on until we look back and see that it was God who was actually, 00:26:55.416 --> 00:26:57.396 the one hanging on to us. 00:27:01.030 --> 00:27:05.170 See, I read this and I'm encouraged, 00:27:06.970 --> 00:27:09.458 because this is not about Moses. 00:27:09.554 --> 00:27:11.204 It's not about a house. 00:27:11.930 --> 00:27:13.670 It's not about a builder. 00:27:14.010 --> 00:27:15.430 It's about Jesus. 00:27:15.770 --> 00:27:18.542 It's about what Jesus has accomplished. 00:27:18.706 --> 00:27:21.020 It's about what Jesus has done. 00:27:21.390 --> 00:27:27.674 It's about this plan and progress and this work that God accomplished in 00:27:27.712 --> 00:27:35.440 the Son to provide salvation to give us a confidence and hope. 00:27:37.490 --> 00:27:40.450 Do you all know this isn't encouraging you to boast? 00:27:40.450 --> 00:27:44.474 You all know that this is not encouraging you to be boastful. 00:27:44.522 --> 00:27:47.994 Oh, we were laughing about this yesterday or Friday, 00:27:48.042 --> 00:27:49.144 I forget what it was. 00:27:49.144 --> 00:27:53.528 We were sitting out here and we were talking about what it would look 00:27:53.528 --> 00:27:53.992 like to. 00:27:53.992 --> 00:27:54.664 It wasn't you. 00:27:54.568 --> 00:27:55.678 It was somebody else over Yonder. 00:27:55.678 --> 00:27:56.072 I'm sorry. 00:27:56.072 --> 00:27:57.722 Anyway, we were talking about, 00:27:57.864 --> 00:28:00.322 it's kind of like boasting about your humility. 00:28:00.322 --> 00:28:00.972 Boasting about, 00:28:00.972 --> 00:28:03.612 look how strong in the faith I am. 00:28:04.330 --> 00:28:05.276 It's kind of like, 00:28:05.276 --> 00:28:06.546 you want to learn some humility, 00:28:06.546 --> 00:28:08.200 go to my humility website. 00:28:09.550 --> 00:28:11.008 Right? This ain't about us, 00:28:11.008 --> 00:28:17.290 y'all. The book of Hebrews is not about us except in the fact that God 00:28:17.360 --> 00:28:23.358 loved us and redeemed us and paid the price for who we are. 00:28:23.524 --> 00:28:24.960 Man, I love this. 00:28:25.330 --> 00:28:27.230 We are that household. 00:28:27.650 --> 00:28:33.550 If we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast. 00:28:35.350 --> 00:28:38.370 Jesus is our highest priest. 00:28:39.350 --> 00:28:41.650 He is the superior priest. 00:28:42.070 --> 00:28:43.390 Priest, scripturally, 00:28:43.470 --> 00:28:47.206 is the one who represents us to God. 00:28:47.308 --> 00:28:50.326 The prophet represents God to the people. 00:28:50.428 --> 00:28:53.014 The priest represents us to God, 00:28:53.132 --> 00:28:55.650 and he is the highest priest. 00:28:55.810 --> 00:28:57.036 It's about what he did, 00:28:57.036 --> 00:28:59.676 not about what you did or I did. 00:28:59.708 --> 00:29:00.882 If you don't know Jesus, 00:29:00.882 --> 00:29:01.970 you need Jesus. 00:29:02.130 --> 00:29:03.120 Pray with me. 00:29:03.164 --> 00:29:06.288 Father, I thank you for this morning and the opportunity we have to 00:29:06.288 --> 00:29:07.494 gather in worship. 00:29:07.622 --> 00:29:08.192 And God, 00:29:08.192 --> 00:29:10.256 you've told us that you meet with us in this place. 00:29:10.256 --> 00:29:10.528 And so, 00:29:10.528 --> 00:29:13.172 God, I just praise you in that and know God, 00:29:13.172 --> 00:29:16.400 that you've done some extraordinary things. 00:29:17.490 --> 00:29:22.442 God, we just look at the life and testimony and ministry of Jesus, 00:29:22.506 --> 00:29:25.794 the work accomplished through his life and God, 00:29:25.832 --> 00:29:29.490 the crucifixion and burial and resurrection, 00:29:29.910 --> 00:29:35.662 and the spirit of God given and sent for us following that resurrection, 00:29:35.726 --> 00:29:36.716 and knowing God, 00:29:36.748 --> 00:29:43.062 that our confidence is not in what we do or accomplish or hang on to, 00:29:43.196 --> 00:29:46.840 but our confidence is in that you hold on to us. 00:29:48.170 --> 00:29:48.748 So God, 00:29:48.748 --> 00:29:52.430 if there's even one person here this morning that doesn't know you, 00:29:52.430 --> 00:29:53.930 never trusted you, 00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:59.926 is unsure about your love and the salvation that you provided. 00:29:59.958 --> 00:30:01.938 God, my prayer would be today? 00:30:01.828 --> 00:30:02.910 No, not today. 00:30:02.980 --> 00:30:03.840 Right now. 00:30:04.370 --> 00:30:07.668 God, that they would know you they'd bow before you. 00:30:07.668 --> 00:30:09.070 They'd ask forgiveness. 00:30:09.410 --> 00:30:12.574 They'd trust you for salvation and God. 00:30:12.612 --> 00:30:16.052 That our confession would be like Paul said in romans ten. 00:30:16.052 --> 00:30:19.710 Jesus is my lord. 00:30:21.090 --> 00:30:24.880 God, thank you that you loved us first. 00:30:25.330 --> 00:30:26.876 God, help us to love you back. 00:30:26.876 --> 00:30:28.268 And help us to act like it. 00:30:28.092 --> 00:30:29.900 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:30:29.900 --> 00:30:30.290 Amen.