WEBVTT 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:06.230 Well, it is Memorial Day weekend, 00:00:06.302 --> 00:00:14.054 and I've been riding by churches and places and seeing the encouragement 00:00:14.174 --> 00:00:16.034 to a happy Memorial day. 00:00:16.854 --> 00:00:17.926 And I have to be honest, 00:00:17.926 --> 00:00:19.574 I look at that and I go, 00:00:19.574 --> 00:00:22.750 that's troubling for us. 00:00:22.822 --> 00:00:28.202 We can be happy in our liberty and in our freedom and in our opportunity 00:00:28.258 --> 00:00:32.842 and privilege to worship and to gather and to celebrate all that God has 00:00:32.842 --> 00:00:35.554 provided for us as a nation, 00:00:35.674 --> 00:00:36.498 as a people, 00:00:36.498 --> 00:00:37.746 as a body of Christ. 00:00:37.746 --> 00:00:40.914 And yet for those families that have lost loved ones, 00:00:40.914 --> 00:00:44.614 that men and women who have given their lives, 00:00:46.714 --> 00:00:47.890 yes. For our country, 00:00:47.890 --> 00:00:48.880 for our nation. 00:00:48.754 --> 00:00:53.734 But I have had the privilege of pastoring outside two military bases. 00:00:54.074 --> 00:00:56.714 One was Aberdeen proving ground up in Maryland, 00:00:56.730 --> 00:00:59.850 and I was in Edgewood for about six years, 00:00:59.882 --> 00:01:00.762 and I loved it. 00:01:00.762 --> 00:01:01.010 I mean, 00:01:01.010 --> 00:01:01.670 it's a. 00:01:01.802 --> 00:01:05.002 Military communities are great to pastor in, 00:01:05.018 --> 00:01:05.634 to be honest. 00:01:05.634 --> 00:01:06.746 And then when we moved here, 00:01:06.746 --> 00:01:10.376 found the same kind of reception and opportunity and all that. 00:01:10.226 --> 00:01:14.846 And yet it becomes really personal for us when we get to Memorial Day 00:01:14.994 --> 00:01:18.254 because we can probably all name names. 00:01:18.714 --> 00:01:19.914 So I always say, 00:01:19.914 --> 00:01:20.904 you know what? 00:01:20.962 --> 00:01:26.776 We're gonna remember and celebrate not just that they died for our 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.404 country, but that they died for us. 00:01:29.864 --> 00:01:32.834 Right? Comes that personal for us in this community? 00:01:32.736 --> 00:01:33.416 All righty. 00:01:33.520 --> 00:01:34.608 I'm gonna ask you to pray with me. 00:01:34.608 --> 00:01:35.268 All right. 00:01:35.296 --> 00:01:36.480 Father, we do thank you. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:39.450 We thank you and praise you that you provide. 00:01:39.384 --> 00:01:40.704 You are our provider. 00:01:40.712 --> 00:01:41.936 You provide in all things. 00:01:41.936 --> 00:01:42.272 And so, 00:01:42.272 --> 00:01:43.768 God, we thank you, 00:01:43.856 --> 00:01:49.316 yes. For this community and the opportunity we have to worship with those 00:01:49.380 --> 00:01:50.636 who. Yeah, 00:01:50.820 --> 00:01:52.204 they sign their name, 00:01:52.324 --> 00:01:53.384 they enlist. 00:01:53.724 --> 00:01:56.932 They know that the danger's there, 00:01:56.988 --> 00:01:58.412 and yet they do it, 00:01:58.412 --> 00:02:00.268 and they do it for me, 00:02:00.268 --> 00:02:01.184 for us, 00:02:01.484 --> 00:02:02.300 for our country. 00:02:02.300 --> 00:02:02.620 And so, 00:02:02.620 --> 00:02:05.700 God, we thank you for the privilege we have. 00:02:05.732 --> 00:02:06.300 And, God, 00:02:06.300 --> 00:02:10.920 we just lift up those families that have lost loved ones for those whose 00:02:11.020 --> 00:02:13.824 fathers and mothers and sons and uncles, 00:02:14.904 --> 00:02:16.760 cousins and brothers and sisters. 00:02:16.792 --> 00:02:17.152 And, God, 00:02:17.152 --> 00:02:17.968 we just pray, 00:02:17.968 --> 00:02:20.440 God, that on this particular weekend, 00:02:20.632 --> 00:02:23.524 God, that we'd honor them by remembering. 00:02:23.904 --> 00:02:24.360 And so, 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:28.650 God, we thank you for the opportunity that we have to remember those. 00:02:28.736 --> 00:02:30.208 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:02:30.208 --> 00:02:33.464 Amen. Let's remember another thing. 00:02:33.584 --> 00:02:34.344 Bill and Ray, 00:02:34.344 --> 00:02:36.776 raise your hand back there today. 00:02:36.880 --> 00:02:39.044 They've been married 62 years. 00:02:45.334 --> 00:02:48.274 They've been married longer than Lenora's been alive, 00:02:48.974 --> 00:02:50.886 because today's Lenora's birthday. 00:02:50.950 --> 00:02:52.310 So we're gonna sing to her. 00:02:52.310 --> 00:02:54.194 Happy birthday to. 00:02:55.054 --> 00:02:59.398 Happy birthday to you happy birthday. 00:02:59.526 --> 00:03:01.274 God bless you. 00:03:01.574 --> 00:03:05.342 Happy birthday to you all right. 00:03:05.478 --> 00:03:06.234 Yay. 00:03:08.974 --> 00:03:11.238 Did he put a candle in your eggs this morning? 00:03:11.238 --> 00:03:11.794 I don't know. 00:03:11.794 --> 00:03:12.494 All right, 00:03:12.914 --> 00:03:13.778 awesome. Michael, 00:03:13.826 --> 00:03:14.770 make your way down here, 00:03:14.770 --> 00:03:16.254 please. Come here. 00:03:16.594 --> 00:03:18.490 See, David tried to clue you, 00:03:18.490 --> 00:03:19.338 but you didn't know, 00:03:19.338 --> 00:03:22.698 right? The only thing you need to be keeping up with at this moment is 00:03:22.698 --> 00:03:24.418 just the camera and my microphone. 00:03:24.418 --> 00:03:25.186 So, hey, 00:03:25.210 --> 00:03:27.174 we are celebrating baptism today, 00:03:28.074 --> 00:03:29.722 probably about 1245. 00:03:29.778 --> 00:03:34.282 We'll end up over at the ocean with at least four people who have 00:03:34.282 --> 00:03:36.514 professed Christ and want to be baptized. 00:03:36.514 --> 00:03:37.150 And. 00:03:37.322 --> 00:03:40.254 And so we're going to celebrate baptism this morning. 00:03:40.254 --> 00:03:42.118 Well, it'll be afternoon by that time. 00:03:42.118 --> 00:03:46.150 And so we invite you to come on back at 1245 and hang out with us, 00:03:46.150 --> 00:03:47.558 and we're going to. 00:03:47.646 --> 00:03:50.616 It's going to be much nicer than Easter Sunday. 00:03:50.974 --> 00:03:51.542 That day, 00:03:51.542 --> 00:03:52.638 we baptized 13, 00:03:52.726 --> 00:03:54.206 and I couldn't feel my legs. 00:03:53.942 --> 00:03:56.014 So y'all come on back for baptism. 00:03:56.014 --> 00:03:57.994 Y'all recognize Michael from the video. 00:03:58.062 --> 00:03:59.994 Y'all, Michael joined our staff. 00:04:00.454 --> 00:04:02.030 Was it three years ago? 00:04:02.030 --> 00:04:03.794 Something like close to it? 00:04:03.914 --> 00:04:05.450 21. 21, 00:04:05.482 --> 00:04:07.462 yeah. So almost three years ago, 00:04:07.754 --> 00:04:09.074 he joined our staff. 00:04:09.146 --> 00:04:13.330 And so he came in and led our choir and built it up and did all kind of 00:04:13.330 --> 00:04:13.990 fun stuff. 00:04:14.018 --> 00:04:19.134 And he took the handoff from previous people that had led it. 00:04:20.154 --> 00:04:22.042 But he's been sitting up there at that computer. 00:04:22.042 --> 00:04:23.530 And so you guys have. 00:04:23.530 --> 00:04:25.458 Y'all have heard me for the last several weeks. 00:04:25.458 --> 00:04:30.894 We need audio visual volunteers because today's Michael's last Sunday on 00:04:30.934 --> 00:04:31.954 staff, y'all. 00:04:33.494 --> 00:04:35.394 He thinks marriage is important, 00:04:38.174 --> 00:04:42.094 so he and Jenna are going to get married next Saturday, 00:04:42.214 --> 00:04:43.478 and we're going to do a nice, 00:04:43.478 --> 00:04:45.302 quiet little wedding. 00:04:45.358 --> 00:04:49.118 And he's going to come back on Sunday and play softball for his 00:04:49.118 --> 00:04:50.126 honeymoon. Right. 00:04:50.270 --> 00:04:53.870 And then he's going to come back on the 9th and play softball for the 00:04:53.870 --> 00:04:55.626 tournament. Tournament. 00:04:55.730 --> 00:05:00.850 Then he's going to come back on the 23rd and help lead him sing on Sunday 00:05:00.850 --> 00:05:02.066 night, the 23rd. 00:05:02.210 --> 00:05:04.538 And we're just going to have a reception for him that night. 00:05:04.538 --> 00:05:07.426 So I want to encourage you all to be a part of that because we're going 00:05:07.426 --> 00:05:08.416 to miss him, 00:05:08.570 --> 00:05:10.850 honestly. And we love him. 00:05:10.882 --> 00:05:12.618 And he's kind of like a kid, 00:05:12.618 --> 00:05:13.450 one of my kids, 00:05:13.450 --> 00:05:16.234 because he's like the youngest person on staff. 00:05:16.314 --> 00:05:17.194 And so it's like, 00:05:17.194 --> 00:05:19.002 yeah, I've had to beat him a few times. 00:05:18.778 --> 00:05:20.098 No, I'm just kidding. 00:05:20.734 --> 00:05:21.574 So let's pray. 00:05:21.574 --> 00:05:22.214 All right, 00:05:22.214 --> 00:05:22.774 God, again, 00:05:22.774 --> 00:05:24.278 we give you thanks for all that you do. 00:05:24.278 --> 00:05:25.214 And I thank you for Michael, 00:05:25.214 --> 00:05:27.350 and I thank you for God, 00:05:27.382 --> 00:05:28.126 his testimony, 00:05:28.190 --> 00:05:28.782 and his faith. 00:05:28.782 --> 00:05:31.958 And I thank you for what you've accomplished in his life and what lies 00:05:31.958 --> 00:05:32.318 ahead. 00:05:32.406 --> 00:05:33.830 God, just celebrate with him, 00:05:33.830 --> 00:05:35.206 God, that you're going to do great things. 00:05:35.206 --> 00:05:35.990 And, God, 00:05:36.022 --> 00:05:38.478 it's not like an end it's like a new beginning. 00:05:38.478 --> 00:05:40.702 And he gets to serve you all the days of his life. 00:05:40.702 --> 00:05:43.638 And we thank you for him and Jenna and their family, 00:05:43.638 --> 00:05:45.094 and we pray for them in Jesus name. 00:05:45.094 --> 00:05:45.746 Amen. 00:05:45.910 --> 00:05:47.106 You want to talk? 00:05:47.106 --> 00:05:48.334 No. No. 00:05:48.634 --> 00:05:51.604 Okay. Go get back up in the crow's nest, 00:05:51.618 --> 00:05:52.214 then. 00:05:58.834 --> 00:05:59.290 All right. 00:05:59.290 --> 00:06:00.482 Today's a learning day. 00:06:00.482 --> 00:06:04.090 Okay. Because it's interesting to me. 00:06:04.282 --> 00:06:09.266 Scott sang this song and led us in this song about telling about Jesus 00:06:09.330 --> 00:06:15.754 and how so much of what we get to do on Sunday mornings is talk about 00:06:15.794 --> 00:06:18.426 Jesus and talk about the Christ, 00:06:18.530 --> 00:06:19.490 the anointed one, 00:06:19.490 --> 00:06:20.306 the Messiah, 00:06:20.370 --> 00:06:24.826 and God's provision for our salvation and how we can look back through 00:06:24.890 --> 00:06:29.282 scripture all the way to the book of Genesis and see God's plan and 00:06:29.282 --> 00:06:32.322 provision for redemption for salvation. 00:06:32.378 --> 00:06:33.290 In the book of Hebrews, 00:06:33.290 --> 00:06:34.562 as I've been telling you, 00:06:34.562 --> 00:06:38.130 is that book that sort of just knits it all together for us. 00:06:38.130 --> 00:06:43.020 It points to so much of what is in the Old Testament by, 00:06:43.202 --> 00:06:46.144 and gives explanation for those things. 00:06:46.304 --> 00:06:49.632 And yet what we see in the book of Hebrews is God speaking. 00:06:49.632 --> 00:06:51.080 God speaking through his son, 00:06:51.080 --> 00:06:52.912 Jesus. Jesus is the Son. 00:06:52.968 --> 00:06:54.776 Jesus is the heir of all things. 00:06:54.776 --> 00:06:55.904 Jesus is creator, 00:06:55.944 --> 00:06:56.840 he is sustainer. 00:06:56.840 --> 00:06:58.592 He's the radiance of God's glory. 00:06:58.592 --> 00:07:01.904 He is the exact expression of the. 00:07:02.024 --> 00:07:03.712 Of the essence of God. 00:07:03.768 --> 00:07:04.428 He's God, 00:07:04.448 --> 00:07:05.328 God the son. 00:07:05.328 --> 00:07:07.724 And so he is the king, 00:07:08.184 --> 00:07:09.080 king of kings. 00:07:09.080 --> 00:07:10.392 He is the high priest, 00:07:10.392 --> 00:07:12.136 the highest priest, 00:07:12.280 --> 00:07:15.106 and he is the new covenant. 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:16.734 Covenant that we get to celebrate. 00:07:16.734 --> 00:07:20.014 And so today we're actually looking back and we're gonna look at the 00:07:20.014 --> 00:07:24.278 things that the writer of Hebrews shares with us that really, 00:07:24.326 --> 00:07:25.366 when you go back and look at it, 00:07:25.366 --> 00:07:25.662 you go, 00:07:25.662 --> 00:07:26.342 oh, wow, 00:07:26.478 --> 00:07:28.128 that was pointing to Jesus. 00:07:28.286 --> 00:07:28.946 Oh, wow. 00:07:29.014 --> 00:07:31.494 That represents something God's done. 00:07:31.574 --> 00:07:32.078 Oh, wow. 00:07:32.078 --> 00:07:35.526 That. And so when I think about Christmas in particular, 00:07:35.630 --> 00:07:38.398 and how the wise men looked into the stars, 00:07:38.398 --> 00:07:39.358 the magi, 00:07:39.526 --> 00:07:43.126 and could see the birth of Christ in the stars, 00:07:43.230 --> 00:07:45.942 so much so that they went to find him, 00:07:45.942 --> 00:07:51.312 which was probably a multi year journey from the persian empire to get to 00:07:51.328 --> 00:07:52.318 where it was. 00:07:52.392 --> 00:07:57.168 And so all of this kind of thing is that God led people to Jesus. 00:07:57.168 --> 00:07:59.472 God has led people to Jesus. 00:07:59.528 --> 00:08:01.568 God leads us to Jesus. 00:08:01.656 --> 00:08:02.848 And so each morning, 00:08:02.848 --> 00:08:04.192 we get to get up and we just get, 00:08:04.192 --> 00:08:04.928 in hindsight, 00:08:04.976 --> 00:08:05.520 we get to go, 00:08:05.520 --> 00:08:07.448 yes. Pay attention to Jesus. 00:08:07.616 --> 00:08:09.592 Yes. We need to focus on Jesus. 00:08:09.592 --> 00:08:11.224 Yes. Jesus is the point. 00:08:11.224 --> 00:08:18.020 He is the real essence of our identity as God's people. 00:08:18.172 --> 00:08:18.916 All right, 00:08:19.060 --> 00:08:21.204 so listen to these verses in chapter nine, 00:08:21.204 --> 00:08:22.236 verses one to ten. 00:08:22.236 --> 00:08:23.226 Here we go. 00:08:23.844 --> 00:08:28.196 Now, the first covenant also had regulations for ministry. 00:08:28.300 --> 00:08:32.012 And an earthly sanctuary for a tabernacle was set up. 00:08:32.068 --> 00:08:33.124 And in the first room, 00:08:33.124 --> 00:08:34.732 which is called the holy place, 00:08:34.732 --> 00:08:35.684 where the lamps stand, 00:08:35.684 --> 00:08:36.260 the table, 00:08:36.260 --> 00:08:38.004 the presentation loaves. 00:08:38.164 --> 00:08:42.628 Behind the second curtain was a tent called the most holy place. 00:08:42.716 --> 00:08:47.464 And. And it had the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, 00:08:47.464 --> 00:08:49.804 covered with gold on all sides, 00:08:50.224 --> 00:08:53.444 in which was a gold jar containing the manna, 00:08:54.504 --> 00:08:56.040 Aaron's staff that budded. 00:08:56.072 --> 00:08:59.872 And the tablets of the covenant and the cherubim of glory were above the 00:08:59.872 --> 00:09:01.824 ark, overshadowing the mercy seat. 00:09:01.864 --> 00:09:06.154 And it's not possible to speak about these things in detail right now. 00:09:07.184 --> 00:09:08.952 With these things prepared like this. 00:09:08.952 --> 00:09:12.912 The priests enter the first room repeatedly performing their ministry. 00:09:13.048 --> 00:09:15.528 But the high priest alone enters the second room, 00:09:15.528 --> 00:09:17.000 and he does that only once a year, 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:18.488 and never without blood, 00:09:18.536 --> 00:09:21.760 which he offers for himself and for the sins the people had committed. 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:23.004 In ignorance, 00:09:23.864 --> 00:09:27.368 the Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place 00:09:27.368 --> 00:09:29.432 had not yet been disclosed. 00:09:29.528 --> 00:09:31.496 While the first tabernacle was standing, 00:09:31.496 --> 00:09:32.592 was still standing. 00:09:32.728 --> 00:09:36.520 This is a symbol for the present time during which gifts and sacrifices 00:09:36.520 --> 00:09:40.514 are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper's conscience. 00:09:41.334 --> 00:09:44.934 They are physical regulations and only deal with food, 00:09:45.014 --> 00:09:50.034 drink and various washings imposed until the time of the new order. 00:09:51.014 --> 00:09:51.950 All right, 00:09:52.142 --> 00:09:54.262 this is talking about the old covenant, 00:09:54.262 --> 00:09:55.422 the past covenant, 00:09:55.478 --> 00:10:00.558 the covenant past and all that God established in the old covenant, 00:10:00.686 --> 00:10:02.874 the first covenant with the people, 00:10:03.174 --> 00:10:10.642 the what it represents and what he accomplished by giving them all these 00:10:10.738 --> 00:10:13.634 things. We just have to understand why. 00:10:13.794 --> 00:10:14.402 Okay? 00:10:14.498 --> 00:10:15.474 So let's pray. 00:10:15.474 --> 00:10:17.124 God, help us understand why. 00:10:17.794 --> 00:10:21.530 Help us to look at your word and understand that all along you were 00:10:21.530 --> 00:10:22.894 pointing us to Jesus. 00:10:24.034 --> 00:10:27.314 God, you've let us know that you had a plan. 00:10:27.314 --> 00:10:29.374 You had a purpose all along. 00:10:29.854 --> 00:10:34.134 God, help us to live your plan for our lives. 00:10:34.174 --> 00:10:35.710 And we pray it in Jesus name. 00:10:35.710 --> 00:10:38.582 Amen. So he points out, 00:10:38.598 --> 00:10:39.374 the writer of Hebrews, 00:10:39.374 --> 00:10:40.862 after we've been through all of that, 00:10:40.862 --> 00:10:42.582 that I summarized a minute ago, 00:10:42.582 --> 00:10:47.286 of the writer of Hebrews taking all of the HebRew people, 00:10:47.390 --> 00:10:53.582 Israel's history and bringing it all together at a point in Jesus Christ 00:10:53.638 --> 00:10:55.606 to point us to Jesus Christ, 00:10:55.606 --> 00:10:59.566 to point the hearers of the book of Hebrews to Jesus Christ. 00:10:59.590 --> 00:11:01.326 A lot of the hearers of this book, 00:11:01.326 --> 00:11:06.670 a lot of the people who received this message were Hebrew people, 00:11:06.742 --> 00:11:07.670 Jewish people, 00:11:07.822 --> 00:11:09.638 who had trusted Jesus, 00:11:09.686 --> 00:11:10.990 had recognized Jesus, 00:11:11.062 --> 00:11:14.366 messiah, and under the persecution of the first century, 00:11:14.430 --> 00:11:15.430 they were all like, 00:11:15.430 --> 00:11:17.278 let's just go back to the temple. 00:11:17.062 --> 00:11:19.446 Let's just go back to worship the old way. 00:11:19.446 --> 00:11:20.886 Let's just leave this behind. 00:11:20.886 --> 00:11:22.438 And the writer of Hebrews is going, 00:11:22.438 --> 00:11:23.222 wait a minute. 00:11:23.222 --> 00:11:26.250 All of this stuff pointed you to Jesus. 00:11:26.422 --> 00:11:31.372 Why would you turn back from what God wanted you to see to begin with? 00:11:31.794 --> 00:11:32.250 You see, 00:11:32.250 --> 00:11:34.890 there's going to be some parallels for us. 00:11:35.794 --> 00:11:40.854 Why would we turn back to the things of worship in the world around us? 00:11:41.914 --> 00:11:44.734 Why would we reject, 00:11:45.514 --> 00:11:46.282 why would we. 00:11:46.282 --> 00:11:50.034 Now, these are why the warnings are in the book of HeBRews. 00:11:50.034 --> 00:11:53.362 This is why the writer of Hebrews and God by inspiration says, 00:11:53.362 --> 00:11:54.254 don't drift. 00:11:55.714 --> 00:11:59.534 Right? Don't turn in unbelief. 00:12:00.194 --> 00:12:03.854 Don't reject what God has done. 00:12:04.154 --> 00:12:05.906 We're going to get to the final warning, 00:12:05.906 --> 00:12:07.018 which is just simply, 00:12:07.018 --> 00:12:09.174 do not reject God. 00:12:09.994 --> 00:12:10.654 You see? 00:12:10.682 --> 00:12:12.426 Do not reject him. 00:12:12.610 --> 00:12:13.974 Because God's people, 00:12:14.274 --> 00:12:18.594 having been led out of the land of Egypt and into the wilderness, 00:12:18.634 --> 00:12:20.002 they got to the edge and God said, 00:12:20.002 --> 00:12:20.538 go, take it. 00:12:20.538 --> 00:12:20.922 And they said, 00:12:20.922 --> 00:12:23.464 no, there's big people there. 00:12:24.284 --> 00:12:25.492 If I was scared of big people, 00:12:25.492 --> 00:12:27.472 I'd be scared all my life, 00:12:28.884 --> 00:12:29.660 right? I mean, 00:12:29.660 --> 00:12:30.650 think about it. 00:12:30.660 --> 00:12:34.276 So they wandered for 40 years because they basically said, 00:12:34.340 --> 00:12:37.904 God's not big enough to give us the land. 00:12:38.804 --> 00:12:41.444 And so they all died in the wilderness, 00:12:41.844 --> 00:12:42.784 you see? 00:12:43.564 --> 00:12:48.098 And it was in the wilderness that God sort of gave them this identity of 00:12:48.098 --> 00:12:52.066 worshipers, a people of worship of people, 00:12:52.210 --> 00:12:53.734 God's own people. 00:12:54.274 --> 00:12:55.810 I will be their God. 00:12:55.810 --> 00:12:57.450 They will be my people. 00:12:57.210 --> 00:12:58.410 That's what he said. 00:12:58.410 --> 00:13:00.402 The creator of the universe said, 00:13:00.538 --> 00:13:01.586 this is my people. 00:13:01.586 --> 00:13:04.426 And God gave them that identity in the wilderness. 00:13:04.426 --> 00:13:06.406 And they became known for that, 00:13:06.754 --> 00:13:08.026 their worship, 00:13:08.170 --> 00:13:09.034 their tabernacle. 00:13:09.074 --> 00:13:10.064 Now, guess what? 00:13:10.594 --> 00:13:12.894 Other nations had tabernacles. 00:13:13.374 --> 00:13:18.150 Other nations had great big old pyramids and stuff for worship, 00:13:18.262 --> 00:13:22.014 right? But this tabernacle represented something totally different. 00:13:22.054 --> 00:13:23.838 And that's why he breaks it all down for us. 00:13:23.838 --> 00:13:28.414 Now, the first covenant also had regulations for ministry in an earthly 00:13:28.454 --> 00:13:32.230 sanctuary, for a tabernacle was set up. 00:13:32.262 --> 00:13:33.774 And in the first room, 00:13:33.774 --> 00:13:35.054 which is called the holy place, 00:13:35.054 --> 00:13:38.110 so there was this curtain wall. 00:13:38.262 --> 00:13:40.244 Let's pretend ready? 00:13:40.904 --> 00:13:42.520 Please don't hear me saying this like, 00:13:42.520 --> 00:13:43.920 this is a holy of holies up here, 00:13:43.920 --> 00:13:46.304 so. Cause we don't want to misrepresent things, 00:13:46.304 --> 00:13:50.124 but there was a curtain that went around the tabernacle. 00:13:50.584 --> 00:13:52.544 And so you would enter into this, 00:13:52.544 --> 00:13:58.324 this larger sort of courtyard of the tabernacle. 00:13:58.864 --> 00:14:01.240 And all of them, 00:14:01.272 --> 00:14:03.582 all the jewish people could go there. 00:14:03.744 --> 00:14:05.848 But then there was the Tabernacle itself. 00:14:05.848 --> 00:14:09.048 And in the outer room of the tabernacle was a holy place. 00:14:09.048 --> 00:14:12.318 And only priests could go into the holy place. 00:14:12.366 --> 00:14:13.326 And in that holy place, 00:14:13.326 --> 00:14:14.222 there was a. 00:14:13.982 --> 00:14:16.118 There there was the altar of incense. 00:14:16.118 --> 00:14:16.510 Let's see. 00:14:16.510 --> 00:14:17.382 Go by order. 00:14:17.382 --> 00:14:17.870 Right here. 00:14:17.870 --> 00:14:19.358 There was a lampstand. 00:14:19.446 --> 00:14:20.622 Now, what's a lampstand? 00:14:20.622 --> 00:14:21.414 We've seen it, 00:14:21.414 --> 00:14:23.606 right. We try to sort of, 00:14:23.630 --> 00:14:26.862 as Christians in the New Testament and call us Protestants, 00:14:26.862 --> 00:14:27.710 whatever you want to call us. 00:14:27.710 --> 00:14:28.070 I don't know. 00:14:28.070 --> 00:14:28.662 You know, 00:14:28.662 --> 00:14:32.430 we'll bring out some of the stuff from the Old Testament and kind of do 00:14:32.430 --> 00:14:33.054 it some honor, 00:14:33.054 --> 00:14:35.364 like that menorah thing that's got the. 00:14:34.886 --> 00:14:37.150 The six little things going up like this. 00:14:37.150 --> 00:14:37.662 And it's, 00:14:37.662 --> 00:14:38.394 you know, 00:14:39.574 --> 00:14:40.638 and we've seen. 00:14:40.726 --> 00:14:43.998 We had one out here one time when we were doing the Hebrew, 00:14:43.998 --> 00:14:46.766 the jewish emphasis stuff at Passover one time. 00:14:46.790 --> 00:14:49.702 And so that lampstand was lit. 00:14:49.758 --> 00:14:50.030 I mean, 00:14:50.030 --> 00:14:51.134 they would see the light, 00:14:51.134 --> 00:14:55.206 and the light represented the seven days of God's creation. 00:14:55.270 --> 00:14:59.422 And it was the light of God's creative power that that was the reminder 00:14:59.422 --> 00:15:00.198 to God's people. 00:15:00.198 --> 00:15:01.326 And then there was the. 00:15:01.326 --> 00:15:05.174 The table on the other side of the room that had bread on it. 00:15:05.174 --> 00:15:06.674 And they weren't Baptists, 00:15:08.174 --> 00:15:12.646 but it was called the bread of the presence or the show bread. 00:15:12.710 --> 00:15:16.830 It was the representation of God's provision for his people. 00:15:17.022 --> 00:15:19.950 And so they were constantly reminded of the creator, 00:15:19.950 --> 00:15:20.954 God's power, 00:15:21.334 --> 00:15:22.486 and God's provision, 00:15:22.550 --> 00:15:23.934 particularly in the wilderness, 00:15:23.974 --> 00:15:26.334 through the manna and that sort of thing. 00:15:26.334 --> 00:15:29.806 And then there was the altar of incense in the holy place. 00:15:29.806 --> 00:15:31.422 But I skipped over the outside part, 00:15:31.422 --> 00:15:32.326 because outside, 00:15:32.430 --> 00:15:35.224 look, you walk in the tent area outside, 00:15:35.564 --> 00:15:37.904 there's the brazen altar. 00:15:39.644 --> 00:15:41.294 It's a big old thing. 00:15:41.404 --> 00:15:43.460 And that's where it was a slaughterhouse, 00:15:43.460 --> 00:15:44.064 y'all. 00:15:45.004 --> 00:15:46.864 That's where it was bloody. 00:15:47.564 --> 00:15:48.444 It was. 00:15:48.604 --> 00:15:50.904 This was not this. 00:15:51.324 --> 00:15:52.224 You know, 00:15:52.804 --> 00:15:56.204 I remember reflecting on this once upon a time when my mom used to say 00:15:56.204 --> 00:15:58.844 that I had to dress up for church, 00:15:58.864 --> 00:16:01.544 right? I thought, 00:16:01.584 --> 00:16:01.808 you know, 00:16:01.808 --> 00:16:03.424 when they walked in there, 00:16:03.424 --> 00:16:05.074 it was a bloody mess, 00:16:05.904 --> 00:16:06.688 okay? 00:16:06.816 --> 00:16:09.284 It wasn't clean and pristine. 00:16:10.104 --> 00:16:18.176 It stank because they were burning the flesh of bulls and sheep and goats 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:23.190 and doves and grains and oils and all that kind of stuff just on that 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:24.152 altar of sacrifice. 00:16:24.152 --> 00:16:26.504 And then between the altar of sacrifice, 00:16:26.544 --> 00:16:28.576 the brazen altar and the holy place, 00:16:28.576 --> 00:16:29.392 the first temple, 00:16:29.392 --> 00:16:33.662 the first room of the was this bowl for washing. 00:16:33.718 --> 00:16:34.926 They called it a laver. 00:16:34.926 --> 00:16:41.470 And so it was representative of the fact that you needed to be clean to 00:16:41.502 --> 00:16:43.234 approach the presence of God. 00:16:44.414 --> 00:16:45.686 So before you could enter, 00:16:45.686 --> 00:16:47.038 before the priests could enter, 00:16:47.038 --> 00:16:48.246 there was not only washing, 00:16:48.246 --> 00:16:52.470 but there was ceremonial washing before the priests could enter to do 00:16:52.502 --> 00:16:53.634 their ministries. 00:16:54.414 --> 00:16:56.470 And then there's the altar of incense, 00:16:56.470 --> 00:16:57.130 which was, 00:16:57.190 --> 00:16:57.646 after all, 00:16:57.646 --> 00:17:00.864 right, the lampstand on this side to show bread on that side. 00:17:00.864 --> 00:17:02.656 And if you're coming in from that way, 00:17:02.656 --> 00:17:03.504 lamp stands here, 00:17:03.504 --> 00:17:04.128 show bread there. 00:17:04.128 --> 00:17:06.944 And then right before the holy of holies, 00:17:06.984 --> 00:17:10.528 because this says the altar of incense was inside the holy of holies. 00:17:10.528 --> 00:17:12.400 Functionally, it was outdoors. 00:17:12.472 --> 00:17:17.484 It was this idea that the priests every day stocked the altar of incense. 00:17:18.144 --> 00:17:22.048 They would take coal from the brazen altar and they would bring it to the 00:17:22.048 --> 00:17:22.856 altar of incense. 00:17:22.856 --> 00:17:24.416 And the incense represented. 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:26.604 You ever walk past a candle shop? 00:17:26.604 --> 00:17:27.984 I hate those things. 00:17:30.204 --> 00:17:31.664 They stop me up. 00:17:32.204 --> 00:17:34.348 I walk into one of them yankee candle places, 00:17:34.348 --> 00:17:35.004 I'm like, 00:17:35.004 --> 00:17:36.828 I can't breathe right? 00:17:36.996 --> 00:17:39.980 But what they do is they put this in and the incense represents, 00:17:39.980 --> 00:17:41.900 if you go back and read revelation eight, 00:17:41.900 --> 00:17:44.444 you start to see this incense represents, 00:17:44.484 --> 00:17:46.236 it's not the prayers of the people, 00:17:46.236 --> 00:17:50.636 but it represents the prayers of the people going up to God in heaven. 00:17:50.636 --> 00:17:58.344 Okay? And then once a year the high priest would enter the most holy 00:17:58.384 --> 00:17:58.964 place. 00:17:59.584 --> 00:18:02.912 And in the most holy place is the ark of the covenant, 00:18:02.912 --> 00:18:07.488 covered with gold on all sides with a gold jar containing the manna. 00:18:07.536 --> 00:18:08.800 Remember that, 00:18:08.832 --> 00:18:14.096 in the wilderness to remind them of God's provision and Aaron's staff 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:19.916 that budded because the priests had all basically disobeyed God and 00:18:19.940 --> 00:18:20.828 rejected God. 00:18:20.876 --> 00:18:27.380 And yet the staff rebutted and made and made a representation of God's 00:18:27.412 --> 00:18:28.984 renewal and redemption. 00:18:30.084 --> 00:18:35.944 And then the tablets of the covenant that represented the law of God and 00:18:36.324 --> 00:18:40.384 gave the people from Mount Sinai God's law. 00:18:40.764 --> 00:18:41.596 All right? 00:18:41.740 --> 00:18:45.588 And so you enter into the most holy place and only once a year, 00:18:45.588 --> 00:18:46.284 and here you go. 00:18:46.284 --> 00:18:47.464 You had to, 00:18:48.854 --> 00:18:51.164 you had to do it just right. 00:18:53.334 --> 00:18:56.246 You had to do it in the right way. 00:18:56.246 --> 00:18:57.236 In the right, 00:18:57.350 --> 00:18:58.314 the right. 00:18:59.814 --> 00:19:02.784 You had to do things in the right order. 00:19:03.214 --> 00:19:04.206 And even then, 00:19:04.270 --> 00:19:06.374 if you did it in the right order, 00:19:06.374 --> 00:19:07.158 you had to. 00:19:07.158 --> 00:19:11.430 The high priest had to make sure that he dotted all his I's and crossed 00:19:11.430 --> 00:19:15.004 all his t's and he did everything that he was supposed to do in order to 00:19:15.004 --> 00:19:19.104 enter into the holy of holy places or else, 00:19:21.124 --> 00:19:21.676 you know, 00:19:21.676 --> 00:19:26.324 he'd be rejected and in a worst case scenario he'd be killed. 00:19:26.484 --> 00:19:32.860 That's why they tied a rope to him in case they died in the presence of 00:19:32.892 --> 00:19:37.804 God. And then it goes on to describe the cherubim of glory, 00:19:37.884 --> 00:19:43.516 the cherubs that stretch their wings out over the mercy seat on the ark 00:19:43.540 --> 00:19:44.632 of the covenant. 00:19:44.828 --> 00:19:48.360 And you get this image of God's presence there. 00:19:48.432 --> 00:19:52.880 And I've read and heard a lot of the commentators lately that are talking 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.560 about the fire of God's presence, 00:19:56.632 --> 00:20:02.124 the shekinah glory of God and Jesus being the radiance of that glory. 00:20:02.504 --> 00:20:05.456 And I've even seen it represented in some, 00:20:05.560 --> 00:20:07.216 like, movie context, 00:20:07.360 --> 00:20:09.340 where the fire on the altar, 00:20:09.432 --> 00:20:12.338 it wasn't just like a campfire sitting on the altar. 00:20:12.144 --> 00:20:15.714 It was fire that stretched all the way into the heavens. 00:20:15.714 --> 00:20:19.706 And that it was the same fire that guided the Israelites out of Egypt by 00:20:19.706 --> 00:20:23.210 night and created the cloud by day. 00:20:23.362 --> 00:20:24.938 And that this was the presence, 00:20:24.938 --> 00:20:28.454 the representation of God's presence among his people. 00:20:29.554 --> 00:20:33.434 And this is all part of the Covenant tabernacle pass. 00:20:33.514 --> 00:20:35.164 The hebrew writers are saying, 00:20:35.194 --> 00:20:36.854 this is what we had. 00:20:37.854 --> 00:20:40.486 This is what was important to us. 00:20:40.670 --> 00:20:42.742 This is what we were paying attention to. 00:20:42.742 --> 00:20:47.526 This is the way that we got close to God. 00:20:47.710 --> 00:20:48.350 You see? 00:20:48.350 --> 00:20:49.998 That's what he's saying right there. 00:20:49.822 --> 00:20:50.862 And then he says this. 00:20:50.862 --> 00:20:54.414 And I love this sentence in the middle of these ten verses. 00:20:54.414 --> 00:20:58.374 It's not possible to speak about these things in detail right now. 00:20:58.654 --> 00:21:01.086 Don't you just love that sentence right there? 00:21:01.086 --> 00:21:03.134 You know why he says that right there? 00:21:02.750 --> 00:21:06.414 Because everybody he's writing to knows it. 00:21:07.754 --> 00:21:11.866 They all understand all of this representation that I've just thrown at 00:21:11.890 --> 00:21:12.794 you like a. 00:21:12.794 --> 00:21:13.386 Like a. 00:21:13.386 --> 00:21:14.894 Some sort of casserole, 00:21:15.674 --> 00:21:18.354 right? That's the full dish, 00:21:18.394 --> 00:21:21.364 that covered dish that Michael was talking about earlier. 00:21:21.258 --> 00:21:22.194 He stole my joke, 00:21:22.194 --> 00:21:23.184 by the way. 00:21:24.594 --> 00:21:26.090 But then he says this in verse six. 00:21:26.090 --> 00:21:26.434 He says, 00:21:26.434 --> 00:21:28.802 with these things prepared like this, 00:21:28.858 --> 00:21:33.434 the priest enter the first room repeatedly performing their ministry. 00:21:34.454 --> 00:21:36.104 That's how they would worship. 00:21:36.174 --> 00:21:37.994 The priests would come in, 00:21:38.334 --> 00:21:38.894 you know, 00:21:38.894 --> 00:21:40.422 all the people out in the courtyard, 00:21:40.422 --> 00:21:43.470 and they're slaughtering animals and burning them and collecting all that 00:21:43.470 --> 00:21:43.800 stuff. 00:21:43.734 --> 00:21:44.750 And then they come and they wash, 00:21:44.750 --> 00:21:48.534 and the priests go in and they man the table of show bread, 00:21:48.534 --> 00:21:49.606 and they man the candles, 00:21:49.606 --> 00:21:53.590 and they the lampstand or the candlesticks, 00:21:53.782 --> 00:21:56.038 and they man the altar of incense, 00:21:56.038 --> 00:21:57.734 and they do all this stuff in the. 00:21:57.734 --> 00:21:59.394 In the outer holy place. 00:21:59.734 --> 00:22:01.474 And then once a year, 00:22:01.894 --> 00:22:04.646 the priest goes into the most holy place, 00:22:04.750 --> 00:22:05.438 you see? 00:22:05.566 --> 00:22:06.734 And this is their worship. 00:22:06.734 --> 00:22:08.486 This is the way they regularly, 00:22:08.486 --> 00:22:09.390 daily, the priests, 00:22:09.390 --> 00:22:10.380 the levitical priesthood, 00:22:10.406 --> 00:22:11.070 the Aaronic, 00:22:11.142 --> 00:22:12.054 the Levites. 00:22:12.134 --> 00:22:13.038 The Levites. 00:22:13.166 --> 00:22:16.434 They would perform this ministry every day. 00:22:17.414 --> 00:22:20.514 Okay, and so why. 00:22:21.734 --> 00:22:25.698 Okay, so here's where I want to make our first little application. 00:22:25.746 --> 00:22:27.066 Y'all ready for this? 00:22:26.706 --> 00:22:27.570 Okay. If you're not, 00:22:27.570 --> 00:22:29.220 you're gonna get it anyway. 00:22:30.274 --> 00:22:32.914 Why do we do the things we do, 00:22:33.874 --> 00:22:34.774 you know? 00:22:35.154 --> 00:22:37.666 Anybody want to know why we sing three songs, 00:22:37.666 --> 00:22:41.122 not ten time? 00:22:41.178 --> 00:22:41.974 Thank you. 00:22:42.954 --> 00:22:44.514 Anybody want to know why we. 00:22:44.514 --> 00:22:45.418 Why we. 00:22:45.586 --> 00:22:47.566 Why we have a pointed building? 00:22:47.834 --> 00:22:48.442 Guess what? 00:22:48.442 --> 00:22:49.886 They're not all pointed anymore. 00:22:49.738 --> 00:22:50.734 I remember when I was a kid, 00:22:50.734 --> 00:22:53.614 all churches were pointed and had steeples on top, 00:22:53.614 --> 00:22:55.702 right? I remember when I came here, 00:22:55.702 --> 00:22:56.758 there was a steeple up here. 00:22:56.758 --> 00:22:58.950 How many of y'all remember the steeple we had? 00:22:58.950 --> 00:23:00.930 Florence took it away for us. 00:23:00.982 --> 00:23:01.718 But anyway, 00:23:01.766 --> 00:23:03.926 I remember they mount. 00:23:03.990 --> 00:23:04.942 I'm on here's. 00:23:04.942 --> 00:23:05.262 All right, 00:23:05.262 --> 00:23:06.646 so just like the explanation here, 00:23:06.646 --> 00:23:08.214 I'm gonna tell y'all something. 00:23:08.214 --> 00:23:12.174 They mount that fiberglass steeple on top of this roof with shingles. 00:23:12.654 --> 00:23:13.550 It was a metal roof, 00:23:13.550 --> 00:23:15.530 but there were shingles under it. 00:23:15.914 --> 00:23:17.894 They mount it with these cables, 00:23:18.274 --> 00:23:20.584 and they drill holes in the roof, 00:23:20.594 --> 00:23:23.042 and they run those cables down from the steeple, 00:23:23.042 --> 00:23:23.702 and they. 00:23:23.506 --> 00:23:24.018 And they. 00:23:24.018 --> 00:23:27.934 And they bolt them to the trusses of the attic. 00:23:28.314 --> 00:23:34.734 And then the wind blows and saws holes in the roof. 00:23:35.794 --> 00:23:36.722 Just so y'all know. 00:23:36.722 --> 00:23:38.298 I'm just telling you why people won't know. 00:23:38.170 --> 00:23:39.154 Why didn't you put the root one, 00:23:39.154 --> 00:23:39.954 put the steeple back? 00:23:39.954 --> 00:23:42.434 Cause it makes it leak. 00:23:44.814 --> 00:23:45.918 You want to know why? 00:23:45.918 --> 00:23:46.954 There you go. 00:23:48.174 --> 00:23:49.078 It just can't. 00:23:49.078 --> 00:23:50.102 They caulk it, 00:23:50.118 --> 00:23:50.494 you know, 00:23:50.494 --> 00:23:52.502 and try to make it like it wasn't going to leak, 00:23:52.502 --> 00:23:53.158 but it still. 00:23:53.158 --> 00:23:55.468 It just saw holes in the roof, 00:23:55.534 --> 00:23:56.158 right? 00:23:56.286 --> 00:23:58.470 So. So we look at these things, 00:23:58.470 --> 00:24:00.438 and I looked around as a kid at church and go, 00:24:00.438 --> 00:24:01.270 well, why don't we do that? 00:24:01.270 --> 00:24:02.070 Well, why do we do that? 00:24:02.070 --> 00:24:03.694 Well, why do we do that? 00:24:03.694 --> 00:24:05.278 And I have to be honest with you. 00:24:05.150 --> 00:24:09.440 There were adults in my life back then that would just say because. 00:24:10.164 --> 00:24:12.324 But it all represents something. 00:24:12.444 --> 00:24:13.764 Why do we sing? 00:24:13.836 --> 00:24:15.492 We sing praises to God, 00:24:15.548 --> 00:24:19.304 because God inhabits the praises of his people. 00:24:19.844 --> 00:24:22.772 We come in and we sing about what God has done. 00:24:22.548 --> 00:24:24.220 We sing about God's promises. 00:24:24.332 --> 00:24:26.884 We sing about the things that God has accomplished, 00:24:26.884 --> 00:24:29.284 not simply in a gathering like this, 00:24:29.364 --> 00:24:31.674 but what God's accomplished in our lives. 00:24:32.724 --> 00:24:34.526 And it becomes personal. 00:24:34.710 --> 00:24:37.822 It becomes a relationship with our creator, 00:24:37.878 --> 00:24:39.670 God. And so, 00:24:39.702 --> 00:24:42.478 yes, we come in here and we remind each other, 00:24:42.478 --> 00:24:47.154 we remind ourselves that God is the focus of our worship, 00:24:48.574 --> 00:24:51.954 that our lives are all about God, 00:24:52.334 --> 00:24:54.222 that we don't turn aside from God, 00:24:54.222 --> 00:24:55.662 that we don't neglect God. 00:24:55.462 --> 00:24:57.442 We don't take God for granted, 00:24:57.614 --> 00:25:01.030 that we don't take the salvation that he's offered us and given us and 00:25:01.030 --> 00:25:02.744 provided for us in Jesus Christ. 00:25:02.744 --> 00:25:04.724 We don't take that for granted. 00:25:05.544 --> 00:25:10.494 It's not just an add on like a membership card we stick in our wallets. 00:25:10.944 --> 00:25:14.000 It becomes worship every single day. 00:25:14.032 --> 00:25:15.144 In covenant worship, 00:25:15.264 --> 00:25:17.244 the priest did it every day. 00:25:19.704 --> 00:25:20.832 And then it goes on to say, 00:25:20.832 --> 00:25:22.960 but the high priest alone enters the second room, 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:25.896 and he does that only once a year and never without blood, 00:25:25.896 --> 00:25:29.534 which he offers for himself and for the sins the people had committed in 00:25:29.534 --> 00:25:33.074 ignorance. That's a tough statement right there. 00:25:34.974 --> 00:25:38.594 That's the sin that they didn't realize they were committing. 00:25:40.134 --> 00:25:43.006 So what about the sin that they willingly committed? 00:25:43.006 --> 00:25:47.474 That's what Hebrews is warning us about over and over again, 00:25:49.174 --> 00:25:53.474 that we are to be careful in our relationship with God, 00:25:54.454 --> 00:25:55.814 not to take it lightly, 00:25:55.814 --> 00:25:58.036 not to take sin lightly. 00:25:58.220 --> 00:26:01.704 And we live in a world that is just corrupt. 00:26:03.524 --> 00:26:04.476 And there again, 00:26:04.476 --> 00:26:06.984 christians dance too close to corruption. 00:26:09.044 --> 00:26:12.524 The Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place 00:26:12.524 --> 00:26:16.944 had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was still standing. 00:26:17.324 --> 00:26:22.828 This is a symbol for the present time during which gifts and sacrifices 00:26:22.916 --> 00:26:27.948 are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper's conscience. 00:26:28.116 --> 00:26:31.444 See, we've already read where the Old Testament covenant, 00:26:31.484 --> 00:26:32.900 the Old Testament law, 00:26:33.012 --> 00:26:38.164 the Old Testament sacrificial system has become obsolete because of the 00:26:38.204 --> 00:26:40.624 work that Christ has accomplished. 00:26:41.484 --> 00:26:42.384 You see, 00:26:43.284 --> 00:26:45.700 that's what the book of Hebrews has already told us, 00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:48.224 what is old and passing away. 00:26:48.884 --> 00:26:52.804 And it doesn't perfectly the worshipers. 00:26:54.384 --> 00:27:00.496 It's only the sacrifice that Christ has made that can perfect the 00:27:00.520 --> 00:27:05.624 worshipers. He goes on in verse ten to say they are physical regulations 00:27:05.744 --> 00:27:11.424 and only deal with food and drink and various washings imposed until the 00:27:11.464 --> 00:27:14.160 time, this translation says, 00:27:14.192 --> 00:27:15.512 of the new order. 00:27:15.904 --> 00:27:17.176 Until the time. 00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:18.124 What time? 00:27:19.364 --> 00:27:20.868 The messiah's time, 00:27:21.036 --> 00:27:22.264 Christ's time. 00:27:24.284 --> 00:27:29.868 The fact that Jesus is the substitutionary atonement. 00:27:29.916 --> 00:27:34.584 Now, I love that a professor of mine once explained atonement. 00:27:36.324 --> 00:27:38.304 If you take the word apart, 00:27:38.484 --> 00:27:47.176 it would be at one mint that Jesus became our substitute. 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:49.044 He died for us, 00:27:49.664 --> 00:27:55.512 right? So that we could be one with him, 00:27:55.648 --> 00:27:56.644 with God, 00:27:57.104 --> 00:27:58.484 at one mint. 00:27:58.824 --> 00:28:02.360 Right? That's why John the Baptist, 00:28:02.512 --> 00:28:03.672 by proclamation, 00:28:03.728 --> 00:28:04.128 I mean, 00:28:04.128 --> 00:28:04.788 they're cousins. 00:28:04.816 --> 00:28:05.760 But he says, 00:28:05.760 --> 00:28:08.704 the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, 00:28:08.704 --> 00:28:11.764 let the people know who Jesus is. 00:28:13.024 --> 00:28:14.888 And it's not who Jesus was. 00:28:14.888 --> 00:28:15.976 It's who he is, 00:28:15.976 --> 00:28:16.684 y'all. 00:28:18.064 --> 00:28:19.984 He is messiah, 00:28:20.144 --> 00:28:22.004 he is savior, 00:28:22.384 --> 00:28:24.124 he better be Lord. 00:28:24.944 --> 00:28:30.144 Okay, so all this describes in verse nine, 00:28:30.184 --> 00:28:30.896 because now, 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:32.448 remember, at the beginning of verse eight, 00:28:32.448 --> 00:28:32.928 and I love it, 00:28:32.928 --> 00:28:34.080 that at the beginning of verse eight, 00:28:34.080 --> 00:28:34.456 he says, 00:28:34.456 --> 00:28:38.444 now, the main point of what is being said is this, 00:28:39.504 --> 00:28:45.444 Jesus, Jesus has inaugurated a new covenant, 00:28:46.384 --> 00:28:47.160 same law, 00:28:47.232 --> 00:28:48.112 love God, 00:28:48.248 --> 00:28:49.404 love your neighbor. 00:28:50.464 --> 00:28:51.924 But a new covenant, 00:28:52.424 --> 00:28:53.724 a new worship, 00:28:55.024 --> 00:29:00.404 right? It's still relationship with our creator God, 00:29:02.024 --> 00:29:03.584 right? See, 00:29:04.324 --> 00:29:04.972 all of this, 00:29:04.972 --> 00:29:06.180 God ties it together. 00:29:05.980 --> 00:29:08.012 When we get into the rest of chapter nine, 00:29:08.012 --> 00:29:13.024 we're going to see the new covenant ministry and the new covenant worship 00:29:13.964 --> 00:29:22.284 and the way the new covenant is a perfecting covenant that allows us to 00:29:22.324 --> 00:29:24.064 enter the presence of God. 00:29:25.004 --> 00:29:26.516 Okay, see, 00:29:26.540 --> 00:29:27.200 all right, 00:29:28.464 --> 00:29:30.424 I've shared with you and it's my fault, 00:29:30.424 --> 00:29:31.524 I apologize. 00:29:32.184 --> 00:29:35.814 But I've never preached through the book of Hebrews until now. 00:29:36.184 --> 00:29:40.088 And the more that I just start unwrapping these things and I'm going, 00:29:40.088 --> 00:29:43.184 wow, several years ago, 00:29:43.344 --> 00:29:44.392 and ladies in here, 00:29:44.392 --> 00:29:50.720 you'll probably know this like somewhere around mid 20 00 20 06 20 07 a 00:29:50.752 --> 00:29:52.004 study came out. 00:29:54.684 --> 00:29:56.156 I forgot the name of it now. 00:29:56.156 --> 00:29:57.644 But it was all about the tabernacle, 00:29:57.644 --> 00:29:58.824 Beth Moore's study, 00:30:00.524 --> 00:30:01.556 a woman's heart, 00:30:01.620 --> 00:30:03.184 God's dwelling place. 00:30:04.804 --> 00:30:10.372 And it went into the details of the Tabernacle and temple worship, 00:30:10.548 --> 00:30:18.316 describing every little part of what God intended for us to see in the 00:30:18.340 --> 00:30:19.464 Old Testament. 00:30:19.944 --> 00:30:21.440 And yet we in the New Testament, 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:21.680 we go, 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:23.330 ah, we don't need that. 00:30:23.344 --> 00:30:24.688 No, we do need that. 00:30:24.544 --> 00:30:30.604 We need to understand that God laid it out for us perfectly to understand 00:30:32.744 --> 00:30:38.120 that it wasn't that all of a sudden he had a new idea for our redemption. 00:30:38.272 --> 00:30:40.444 He planned it from the beginning, 00:30:41.344 --> 00:30:45.764 from the fall to bring us back to him. 00:30:47.514 --> 00:30:50.534 So it makes me ask the question, 00:30:51.074 --> 00:30:53.054 particularly on a day like today, 00:30:53.714 --> 00:30:54.370 you know, 00:30:54.370 --> 00:30:54.658 I mean, 00:30:54.658 --> 00:30:59.594 we've got some folks here that hadn't been here in a while and glad 00:30:59.634 --> 00:31:00.258 they're here. 00:31:00.258 --> 00:31:03.466 And I got to say hey to several of them already, 00:31:03.466 --> 00:31:06.746 some folks that are here because it's a holiday weekend, 00:31:06.746 --> 00:31:07.534 woo hoo. 00:31:08.674 --> 00:31:09.414 Right? 00:31:10.714 --> 00:31:11.954 I always talk to people, 00:31:11.954 --> 00:31:12.250 say, yeah, 00:31:12.250 --> 00:31:15.220 I don't go over to the island on holidays, 00:31:15.984 --> 00:31:16.688 but anyway, 00:31:16.736 --> 00:31:17.396 you know, 00:31:17.496 --> 00:31:19.088 so, so here's the challenge. 00:31:19.088 --> 00:31:21.056 Maybe this is the first, 00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.430 only time you're going to hear this. 00:31:24.864 --> 00:31:26.844 Are you paying attention to Jesus? 00:31:28.744 --> 00:31:29.200 I mean, 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:29.552 if you, 00:31:29.552 --> 00:31:31.004 if you claim Christ, 00:31:31.904 --> 00:31:33.480 if you claim salvation, 00:31:33.552 --> 00:31:38.136 if you've trusted Jesus and received the redemption that God has provided 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.550 through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, 00:31:40.568 --> 00:31:43.520 that Jesus paid it all, 00:31:43.672 --> 00:31:44.684 that's a him. 00:31:45.024 --> 00:31:45.736 It's a him. 00:31:45.736 --> 00:31:47.080 Jesus paid it all, 00:31:47.272 --> 00:31:48.004 right. 00:31:51.904 --> 00:31:53.884 Are you paying attention to him, 00:31:54.664 --> 00:31:57.520 listening, spending time with him, 00:31:57.672 --> 00:31:59.888 not just when we're here for an hour, 00:31:59.888 --> 00:32:01.208 but all the time, 00:32:02.104 --> 00:32:03.084 every day? 00:32:03.944 --> 00:32:05.264 Because we are priests. 00:32:05.320 --> 00:32:10.420 According to what we're told, 00:32:10.492 --> 00:32:11.884 we're a kingdom of priests. 00:32:11.884 --> 00:32:14.194 They were told that in this book. 00:32:14.524 --> 00:32:17.984 But we are priests before the throne of God. 00:32:18.764 --> 00:32:23.828 So don't neglect coming into his presence if you don't know Jesus. 00:32:23.876 --> 00:32:24.972 We want to introduce you. 00:32:24.972 --> 00:32:26.524 Okay, let's pray. 00:32:26.644 --> 00:32:27.668 God, thank you for today. 00:32:27.668 --> 00:32:29.780 And thank you that you loved us. 00:32:29.460 --> 00:32:30.508 You loved us first. 00:32:30.508 --> 00:32:31.828 You love us most. 00:32:32.484 --> 00:32:36.114 You've made a way for us to come into your presence, 00:32:36.128 --> 00:32:39.344 and so God help us to come into your presence. 00:32:39.344 --> 00:32:40.888 Not when we're in church. 00:32:40.888 --> 00:32:42.704 This is not a tabernacle. 00:32:42.744 --> 00:32:44.024 This is not a temple. 00:32:44.024 --> 00:32:45.344 We are a temple. 00:32:45.704 --> 00:32:49.064 We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 00:32:49.104 --> 00:32:50.884 We're told in corinthians. 00:32:51.784 --> 00:32:55.216 So, God help us to abide in your presence. 00:32:55.280 --> 00:32:59.884 Help us to draw near to you like they did through the curtains. 00:33:00.834 --> 00:33:03.144 Help us to come into your presence. 00:33:03.394 --> 00:33:05.002 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:33:05.002 --> 00:33:05.234 Amen.