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We are still talking about
the object of our faith.

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And obviously all the book of
Hebrews points us to Jesus.

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And I'm excited about today's message
because I love getting to the end

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of something.

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And now we're finally at the end of the
introduction because you get to

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the end of chapter seven and you finally
finished essentially the case

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that the writer of Hebrews is making
to tell us to pay attention to

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Jesus. All right.

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And the reason we know that,

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and I'm going to skip
ahead next week.

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You ready?

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The beginning of chapter eight.

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And I didn't give this to the booth,

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so they just have to endure.

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And I can't get the
page to turn right.

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It says this.

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Now, the main point of what
is being said is this.

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That's the first verse
of chapter eight.

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Don't you like that?

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That just kind of says,

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all right,

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so everything leading up to this,

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this is introduction,

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because the main point of what
we're talking about is this.

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And we'll get to that next week.

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But I really wanted to spend today
kind of summarizing in a sense,

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but really,

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I think for me,

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I do better when somebody gives me a
1234 step by step kind of process.

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I'm going to give you a flow
chart this morning.

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Alrighty. So let's pray together
before we read.

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It's a long passage,

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verses eleven through 28,

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but we'll read it.

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All right,

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but let's pray first.

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God, we praise you and thank you again
that we get to hang out together

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this morning.

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We walk and talk with you and hang
out with you all week long.

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And then,

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God, we get together on Sundays
to hang out with family,

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with the body.

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And, God,

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I give you praise for that.

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And, God,

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as we look into your word,

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we want to hear from you.

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God, it's your voice
we need to hear.

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And so,

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God, I just pray that you'd
speak to our hearts.

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God, give us clarity of mind.

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Let us understand what it
is that you have done.

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But, God,

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let us understand what you're doing.

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And God,

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help us to join you in that and stay so
close that we just don't miss it.

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And we pray it in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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So we're in Hebrews,

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chapter seven.

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I'm gonna start in verse eleven.

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And here we go.

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Now, if perfection came through
the levitical priesthood,

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for on the basis of it people
received the law,

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what further need was there for another
priest to appear said to be

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according to the order of Melchizedek
and not according to the order of

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Aaron? For when there is a
change of the priesthood.

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There must be a change
of the law as well.

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For the one these things are spoken about
belonged to a different tribe,

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and no one from it has ever
served at the altar.

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Now it's evident that our
Lord came from Judah,

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and Moses said nothing about that
tribe concerning priests.

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And this becomes clearer if another priest
like Melchizedek appears who

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did not become a priest based on illegal
regulation about physical

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dissent, but based on the power
of an indestructible life.

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For it has been testified,

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you are a priest forever according
to the order of Melchizedek.

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So the previous command is annulled because
it was weak and unprofitable.

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For the law perfected,

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nothing but a better hope is introduced
through which we draw near to

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God. None of this happened
without an oath,

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for others became priests
without an oath.

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But he became a priest with an oath
made by the one who said to him,

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the Lord has sworn and will
not change his mind,

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you are a priest forever.

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Because of this oath,

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Jesus has also become the guarantee
of a better covenant.

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Now, many have become levitical priests
since they are prevented by death

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from remaining in office,

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which, that's a very
blunt statement,

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y'all. But because he
remains forever,

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he holds his priesthood permanently.

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Therefore, he is able to save completely
those who come to God through

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him, since he always lives
to intercede for them.

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For this is the kind of
high priest we need,

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holy, innocent,

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undefiled, separated from sinners
and exalted above the heavens.

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He doesn't need to offer sacrifices
every day as high priests do,

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first for their own sins,

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then for those of the people.

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He did this once for all time
when he offered himself.

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For the law appoints as high
priests men who are weak.

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But the promise of the oath which came
after the law appoints a son who

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has been perfected forever.

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So the whole point of this passage,

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and indeed the first seven
chapters of Hebrews,

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is to point to Jesus as the once
and for all time high priest.

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Once and for all time high priest.

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And so what we've seen,

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the writer of Hebrews,

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and indeed the book of Hebrews doing
is going back all the way to the

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point of just the statement of God and
drawing us to this point of our

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high priest,

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which is Jesus,

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because he kind of lays it all out.

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So here's the flow chart.

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You ready?

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It starts with God,

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perfect, holy,

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righteous, creator of all things,

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right? He is the he God.

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That's what we see in the beginning,

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God, right?

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So when all of creation began,

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God is the originator.

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God is the catalyst of
all these things.

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Well, then he creates,

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right? Adam.

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And the Bible actually says,

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and I did some reading this week on the
case for the adamic priesthood.

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Now we're going,

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wait a minute.

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Adam was a priest?

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Well, listen to the,

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listen to the evidence,

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all right?

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And you can decide,

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I'm not going to sit here and
build a whole case on this.

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But Adam was created what perfect,

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holy, righteous met with
God in the garden.

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And it actually says God placed
him in the garden.

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And in this sort of line of thought,

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what they'll say is,

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is that this was the garden
of God's sanctuary.

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So Adam becomes this representative,

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right? Mankind meeting with God in the
sanctuary of God's creation right

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up to the fall,

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and then he gets kicked out,

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right?

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So you've got this picture
of humanity,

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a human being meeting with God.

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Now, what we know about the priest
is the priests represent mankind

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before God.

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And the high priest,

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as we've been looking
at through Hebrews,

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is they offer a sacrifice
for their own sin first,

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before they can bring the sacrifice for
the people's sins to meet in the,

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what, once a year the holy of holies in
that place behind the veil before

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the fiery presence of God,

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right? And then we read last
week that this was,

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this tabernacle,

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this holy of holies,

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was merely a shadow,

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you see?

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So when we start to look
at this thing,

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we say,

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all right,

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so this goes all the
way back to the,

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in the beginning,

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God and God's creation and God's creation
of mankind and the fall.

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And it was at the fall that
the need for a priest,

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you see,

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if Adam was a priest
in his own right,

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and I don't know any reason
to object to that,

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God began to establish priests
that would meet with him.

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Wherein lies Melchizedek before Aaron
and Moses and Levi and any of the

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lepidical priesthood or the law even
comes to existence because it says

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Melchizedek was a priest.

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And the order of Melchizedek is a priesthood
whereby God calls people to

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meet with him.

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See, so I'm looking at this thing,

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I'm like,

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wow. All right.

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Melchizedek was obviously appointed
by most high God because the

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description we dealt
with last week was,

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is that Melchizedek is,

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his name means king
of righteousness.

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He is the king of Salem,

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which also means king of peace.

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And he is a high priest.

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He is a priest of most high God,

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all right?

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And then what we do is,

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as we go through the whole,

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the whole hebrew,

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the people,

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the nation,

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the relationship God sought
to establish with them,

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right?

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And he brings them out of Egypt and
he takes them through the water.

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And I've heard preachers preach,

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that's baptism.

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You know,

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when they passed through
the Red Sea,

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he baptized the whole nation.

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I was like,

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ooh, okay.

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They didn't get wet,

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though, but they were underwater.

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Right. You see?

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And so you've got this nation image
whereby the first covenant is,

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I will make of you a people,

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a name and a land,

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right? But out of you,

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all the nations of the earth
will be blessed.

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And so you've got these,

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these twelve tribes.

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One of those tribes is identified
as the tribe of Levi,

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the Levites,

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which develops the levitical
priesthood,

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which lays out the 613 some odd
laws of the Old Testament.

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Law, right?

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So as we start reading through this,

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we start seeing,

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whoo, wait a minute.

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Now we're getting some,

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you know,

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we don't like,

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talk bad about other people,

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do we?

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But I want you to understand that.

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I mean,

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we're going to get to that place where
this is all described as the

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priesthood of the Old Testament is actually
referred to as an inferior

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priesthood. Did we just say that?

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Did we just point to what God had done
for hundreds and even thousands of

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years in his people under Abraham and
a chosen nation and the development

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and all of that of the
hebrew people,

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the jewish nation?

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Now, and this is what it says.

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Now, if perfection came through
the levitical priesthood,

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for on the basis of it,

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people received the law,

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what further need was there for another
priest to appear said to be

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according to the order of Melchizedek
and not according to the order of

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Aaron?

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You see?

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So what he's pointing to is
the aaronic priesthood,

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the levitical priesthood,

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the delivery of the law and
saying that the law never,

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and we saw this last week,

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the law never perfected anything.

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As a matter of fact,

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Paul even says,

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if it weren't for the law,

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I wouldn't know how bad I am.

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Right? So the law didn't
perfect anything.

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So there must be a perfecting point
through a new priesthood which

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actually says,

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for when there is a change
of the priesthood,

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there must be a change
of law as well.

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So God is establishing beyond
what was the Old Testament,

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the old covenant.

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He is establishing a priesthood
that not,

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didn't just come to be with Jesus,

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but it's after the order of what it meant
to meet with God in the garden

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of Eden.

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If I can point back to that.

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All right,

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and then you get this need for priests
to represent mankind before the

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throne of God in psalm 110,

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verse four is where it establishes that
you are a priest after the order

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of Melchizedek.

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And psalm 110 is this davidic,

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prophetic language that sets up ultimately
David's eternal kingdom,

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meaning that there would always be one
of the lineage of David on the

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throne of God's people,

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but also that you are,

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that king,

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is also priest.

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But we know from levitical law that man
cannot be both king and priest.

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It's against the law,

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all right?

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That's why Saul got the kingdom
ripped from him and he died,

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because he tried to be both,

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right? Samuel shows up and goes,

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what have you done?

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But after the order of Melchizedek,

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because Melchizedek was a king and
what priest of most high God.

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So the order there is is that
it's by God's decree,

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by God's oath.

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For the one these things are spoken about
belonged to a different tribe.

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No one from it has served
at the altar.

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Now it is evident that our
Lord came from Judah,

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and Moses said nothing about that
tribe concerning priests.

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So only Levites could be priests
after the aaronic priesthood,

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after that order.

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So now we've got one from the tribe
of Judah being proclaimed king and

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priest. That didn't happen
according to the law.

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And this becomes clearer if another
priest like Melchizedek appears.

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Now, understand?

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It says like Melchizedek.

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So people that want Melchizedek
to be Jesus.

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Okay, like I said,

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I'm gonna wait to get to heaven
to hear that one explained.

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And Melchizedek did not become a priest
based on a legal regulation about

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physical descent,

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but based on the power of
an indestructible life.

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So Melchizedek somehow was declared,

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decreed by oath to be a priest
before my most high God.

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But the one who comes after the order
of Melchizedek prophetically from

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psalm 110 says,

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for it has been testified,

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you are a priest forever according
to the order of Melchizedek.

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So the previous command is annulled.

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Listen to this.

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I didn't say this.

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Don't hear me saying this.

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Hear God saying this through
the writer of Hebrews.

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So the previous command is annulled because
it was weak and unprofitable,

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the Old Testament law,

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the levitical priesthood,

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you see,

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for the law perfected,

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nothing but a better hope is introduced
through which we draw near to

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God. So what was the role of the
priest all the way back?

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Was to give us entrance to the presence
of God so that we might draw near

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to God,

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not to be held apart from God.

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Priests are not there to say look,

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we're the only ones that
can draw near to God.

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No, the role of the priest was to
draw the people near to God,

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you see?

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And so we look at this.

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Well, okay.

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Wow. None of this happened
without an oath,

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for others became priests
without an oath.

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So in the levitical priesthood,

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you became high priests just because
you were the firstborn of the

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firstborn of the firstborn
of the firstborn.

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And some priests were great and
some priests were terrible.

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Matter of fact,

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I was listening to one
preacher this week.

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He said,

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yeah, there's a priest at the end of judges
that cut his wife into twelve

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pieces. I didn't actually,

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you know,

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I didn't go back and look that up,

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but I was like,

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oh, really?

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Oh my.

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See, there were some
horrible priests,

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horrible high priests.

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But this one right here,

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this oath that was made,

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listen to what it says.

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It says,

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none of this happened
without an oath,

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for others became priests
without an oath.

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But he became a priest with an oath
made by the one who said to him,

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the Lord has sworn and will
not change his mind,

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you are a priest forever.

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So this is all pointing to.

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Remember I said,

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this is what this is all about,

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y'all. This all points us to Jesus.

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Seven chapters of the book of
Hebrews points us to Jesus.

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Pay attention to Jesus.

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Don't look left or right from Jesus,

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always look to Jesus.

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Because Jesus is that king and
Jesus is that high priest.

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Because of this oath,

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Jesus has also become the guarantee
of a better covenant.

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Boy, that's offensive,

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isn't it?

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You mean that first covenant is weak?

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Mean that first covenant didn't
accomplish anything?

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Why? Because we looked at it.

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Because God's people disobeyed.

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They didn't keep the covenant.

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So the new covenant is not based.

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Remember I said this before and I said
this weeks ago and I had people

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object. It's fine.

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The new covenant,

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our salvation,

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our redemption,

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is not based on us.

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It's based on God.

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And it's based on God accomplishing
our perfection,

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not us accomplishing our perfection.

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Now, many have become levitical priests
since they are prevented from

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death, by death,

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from remaining.

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This just basically says,

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one priest follows another
one because one dies,

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priest dies,

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get a new high priest,

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that one dies,

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get a new high priest.

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That's all,

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that's, that's just a tough
sentence right there.

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Many, there have been many levitical
priests because guess what?

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They die.

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That's all it means.

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But because he,

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meaning Christ,

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remains forever,

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he holds his priesthood permanently.

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Therefore, and I love this sentence,

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therefore, he is able to save completely
completely those who come to God

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through him,

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since he always lives to
intercede for them.

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Now, let me walk back just
a minute and summarize.

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You ready?

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We learned in Hebrews so far that
God speaks in these last days.

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His superior communication is Jesus,

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okay? Jesus is son,

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son of God.

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I believe all of this little line in
Jesus identification is pointing to

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Jesus God the son,

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okay?

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His son.

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He is heir of all things,

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means everything that God created
throughout the universe.

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Jesus is the heir.

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It all belongs to him,

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okay? He is creator.

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Because Hebrews reemphasizes the fact
that Jesus was at creation,

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the word,

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right? And so Jesus is creator.

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He is the sustainer.

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Through him,

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by him,

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forth him,

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all things exist.

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So Jesus sustains it all.

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He is the radiance of God's glory.

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So in scripture,

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when you see this light,

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this bright shining light
of God's glory,

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Jesus is that radiance.

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Jesus is the exact expression
of the essence,

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the very nature of God.

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That's a statement of Jesus deity,

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God father,

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son, spirit.

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And see,

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I believe that when you go all the
way back to the creation account,

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you get this picture of this God
who is so much more than we can

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understand now.

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This is his word.

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So I believe that the Bible is
God revealing himself to us.

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So when we read about God and we
see him as God the father,

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and then we understand who Jesus
is in all of these descriptors,

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we've got God the son,

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and then we've got Jesus saying,

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I will send the spirit.

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And I love preaching that acts
passage where it said,

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the ruach hachodesh,

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the spirit of the holy one,

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right? So God has revealed himself
as this creator God,

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this present God,

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this all powerful,

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all knowing,

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all of those things,

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and he reveals himself to us.

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So we're to get to know God,

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and Jesus prays it.

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He said,

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this is eternal life,

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that they may know you,

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the one true God in Jesus Christ,

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whom you have sent.

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You see?

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So getting to know God is the key.

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And so when I walk out this
little flow chart,

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I'm like,

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all right,

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we've got God and we've got Adam,

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and we've got Melchizedek,

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and we've got David,

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a righteous king by God's own decree.

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And he wasn't righteous in his own.

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We know David.

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He tells us his sin,

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right? But God made him righteous and
made him king forever or in his

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lineage. Therefore,

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we have Jesus,

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king and priest.

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And it's interesting that one of the
little notes I read that even in

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jewish theology before Christianity,

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ever came into existence.

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The Jews pointed to Melchizedek as
the potential messiah who would

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return. I thought,

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wow. So then you see the
case being made.

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Jesus then is our king and our high
priest by God's own decree.

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Listen to this last part,

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for this is the kind of
high priest we need.

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Holy, innocent,

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undefiled, separated from sinners
and exalted above the heavens.

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Has to be.

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Those things can't be just somebody
that God picked out.

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Melchizedek wasn't perfect.

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Melchizedek was a man.

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I mean,

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if you,

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unless you believe it was Jesus,

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and I'm not going to argue
with you about that.

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The king and priest,

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the savior,

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the redeemer,

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had to be holy,

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innocent, undefiled,

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separated from sinners and exalted
above the heavens.

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He doesn't need to offer sacrifices
every day as high priests do,

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first for their own sins,

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then for those of the people.

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He did this once for all time when
he offered himself for the law,

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appoints as high priests
men who are weak.

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But the promise of the oath,

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the oath meaning God said it,

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and God does not and cannot lie.

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You are a priest after the
order of Melchizedek.

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That oath came after the law
and appoints the Son.

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See, David is the one who writes down
that prophetic message in psalm

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110, and it came after
the levitical law,

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but it appoints a son who has
been perfected forever.

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Thus you've got a John the Baptist possibly
standing up to his knees in

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the Jordan river and says,

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behold the lamb of God who takes
away the sin of the world.

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See, everything about these first
seven books points to the high

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priesthood of Jesus,

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the Christ,

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the anointed one of God who came.

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And remember,

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I said this when we went through Hebrews
toward the end of the year last

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year. I said,

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you know,

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Jesus is the high priest who
didn't just bring blood,

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he brought his blood
for the sacrifice.

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We just can't miss that.

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Y'all can't miss that.

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It's the work that God has
done on our behalf.

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High king,

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high priest,

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by God's own decree,

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it's all about Jesus.

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And then I just love it
because once you,

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once you pull all that down
to a point and it says,

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now the main point of what
is being said is this,

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and I'll finish at this time.

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We have this kind of high priest who
sat down at the right hand of the

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throne of the majesty
in the heavens,

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a minister of the sanctuary and the
true tabernacle that was set up by

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the Lord and not man.

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Boy.

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Seven chapters drawn down
into two verses.

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And it's all about Jesus,

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man. That should make Jesus
important to us,

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y'all. I'm gonna ask it
like I did last week.

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When you wake up in the morning,

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do you consider Jesus?

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Go to bed at night,

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do you consider Jesus every choice,

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action and attitude of your day,

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do you consider Jesus?

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Cause that's how important Jesus is.

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Pray with me.

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Father, thank you for today,

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for your love for us,

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for the way that you loved us,

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particularly in this message
that we see in Hebrews,

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God, that you planned it by your own
will and design to direct all of

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creation to the very point of
paying attention to Jesus.

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God, there might be somebody here
this morning doesn't know Jesus.

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Might be somebody here this morning that
gets caught up in distractions

00:25:24.314 --> 00:25:25.482
and sin,

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the world and Satan and all of the obstacles
to surrendering ourselves

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and devoting ourselves.

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And like romans twelve says,

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sacrificing ourselves.

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Father, if somebody needs to
know Jesus this morning,

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we want to introduce them.

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There are christians here this morning
struggling with paying attention

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to Jesus.

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We just want to spend
some time with you.

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God, if there are folks that want to
be a part of the membership of what

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you're doing here at the gathering,

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God, my prayer would be that they just
jump in the deep water and let's

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enjoy what you're doing.

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God, as we sing,

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move our hearts closer to you,

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let us draw near to you
like this text says,

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we pray it in Jesus name.

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Amen.