WEBVTT 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:05.222 Alrighty. Wow. 00:00:05.286 --> 00:00:12.822 I'm excited about this morning because there's so many things that we 00:00:12.846 --> 00:00:13.614 need to realize. 00:00:13.614 --> 00:00:14.330 I mean, 00:00:14.750 --> 00:00:15.982 it's September 1. 00:00:16.046 --> 00:00:17.518 It's Labor Day weekend. 00:00:17.654 --> 00:00:19.302 There's a pigpicking going on. 00:00:19.302 --> 00:00:23.014 And we begin the last chapter of the Book of Hebrews this morning. 00:00:23.014 --> 00:00:25.022 We've been in Hebrews since January. 00:00:25.206 --> 00:00:27.930 Actually, we've been in Hebrews since last October. 00:00:28.330 --> 00:00:30.258 We did a little survey of Hebrews, 00:00:30.258 --> 00:00:33.946 which made me realize that we needed to spend more time in Hebrews. 00:00:33.778 --> 00:00:38.578 So we jumped into Hebrews in January and have kind of taken it apart 00:00:38.634 --> 00:00:39.522 piece by piece. 00:00:39.522 --> 00:00:44.258 And chapter 13 is kind of the fun chapter because it's in chapter 13 that 00:00:44.354 --> 00:00:47.370 the writer of Hebrews and God by inspiration is saying, 00:00:47.370 --> 00:00:47.722 all right, 00:00:47.722 --> 00:00:51.110 now this is what it looks like. 00:00:51.450 --> 00:00:54.578 Okay, now when he says this is what it looks like, 00:00:54.578 --> 00:00:55.122 what he's saying, 00:00:55.122 --> 00:00:56.960 this is what you look like. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.712 Or at least this is what you're supposed to look like. 00:00:59.712 --> 00:01:00.240 All right, 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:04.296 so we're going to take three Sundays to deal with just chapter 13, 00:01:04.408 --> 00:01:06.328 because in summation, 00:01:06.424 --> 00:01:12.440 God is really pointing out to us sort of the goal of understanding 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:15.200 everything that is in the book of Hebrews. 00:01:15.056 --> 00:01:16.992 So I'm going to read verses one to 14. 00:01:16.992 --> 00:01:18.320 It's a long passage, 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:19.160 but pretty simple. 00:01:19.160 --> 00:01:20.904 So here we go. 00:01:20.952 --> 00:01:22.104 13 114. 00:01:22.232 --> 00:01:24.020 Let brotherly love continue. 00:01:24.490 --> 00:01:26.274 Don't neglect to show hospitality, 00:01:26.322 --> 00:01:27.330 for by doing this, 00:01:27.330 --> 00:01:30.466 some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it. 00:01:30.618 --> 00:01:34.906 Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, 00:01:35.058 --> 00:01:36.194 and the mistreated, 00:01:36.242 --> 00:01:39.030 as though you yourself were suffering bodily. 00:01:39.330 --> 00:01:44.074 Marriage is to be honored by all in the marriage bed kept undefiled 00:01:44.202 --> 00:01:48.106 because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. 00:01:48.258 --> 00:01:50.570 Keep your life free from the love of money. 00:01:50.570 --> 00:01:53.024 Be satisfied with what you have, 00:01:53.202 --> 00:01:54.732 for he himself has said, 00:01:54.732 --> 00:01:56.796 I'll never leave you or abandon you. 00:01:56.316 --> 00:01:58.404 Therefore, we may boldly say, 00:01:58.572 --> 00:01:59.860 the Lord is my helper. 00:01:59.860 --> 00:02:01.084 I will not be afraid. 00:02:01.084 --> 00:02:03.064 What can man do to me? 00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:07.388 Remember your leaders who have spoken God's word to you as you carefully 00:02:07.388 --> 00:02:09.368 observe the outcome of their lives, 00:02:09.444 --> 00:02:12.276 attempt and imitate their faith. 00:02:12.428 --> 00:02:14.408 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, 00:02:14.412 --> 00:02:15.402 today, and forever. 00:02:15.276 --> 00:02:19.396 Don't be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings, 00:02:19.468 --> 00:02:23.414 for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food 00:02:23.414 --> 00:02:27.102 regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited. 00:02:27.166 --> 00:02:30.598 We have an altar from which those who worship at the tabernacle do not 00:02:30.598 --> 00:02:31.990 have a right to eat. 00:02:31.990 --> 00:02:35.806 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the most holy 00:02:35.806 --> 00:02:39.542 place by the high priest as a sin offering are burned outside the camp. 00:02:39.542 --> 00:02:43.886 Therefore, Jesus also suffered outside the gate so that he might sanctify 00:02:43.958 --> 00:02:45.438 the people by his own blood. 00:02:45.438 --> 00:02:48.478 Let us then go to him outside the camp, 00:02:48.534 --> 00:02:49.534 bearing his disgrace. 00:02:49.582 --> 00:02:51.518 For we do not have an enduring, 00:02:51.518 --> 00:02:54.666 for we do not have an enduring city here. 00:02:54.858 --> 00:02:57.698 Instead, we seek the one to come. 00:02:57.794 --> 00:02:58.210 All right, 00:02:58.210 --> 00:02:58.870 let's pray. 00:02:58.978 --> 00:03:00.338 God, we thank you for your word. 00:03:00.338 --> 00:03:00.786 And thank you, 00:03:00.786 --> 00:03:02.194 God, that you have spoken. 00:03:01.954 --> 00:03:02.346 Thank you, 00:03:02.346 --> 00:03:06.230 God, that you teach us by your word, 00:03:06.530 --> 00:03:07.482 your written word, 00:03:07.482 --> 00:03:08.546 your living word. 00:03:08.698 --> 00:03:16.430 God, we thank you that you have given for us the priority of our lives. 00:03:17.140 --> 00:03:19.924 God, let us hear from you this morning, 00:03:20.012 --> 00:03:20.396 and then, 00:03:20.396 --> 00:03:22.532 God, let us surrender. 00:03:22.596 --> 00:03:23.420 Help us to obey, 00:03:23.420 --> 00:03:25.188 and we pray it in Jesus name. 00:03:25.188 --> 00:03:25.908 Amen. 00:03:26.044 --> 00:03:27.604 Last week in this hour, 00:03:27.604 --> 00:03:29.252 I didn't do it the next 3 hours, 00:03:29.252 --> 00:03:31.480 but in this hour last week, 00:03:31.860 --> 00:03:34.156 my brain went over that way, 00:03:34.228 --> 00:03:37.198 and I got lost in the story of Esau. 00:03:37.780 --> 00:03:38.940 If you were here last Sunday, 00:03:38.940 --> 00:03:40.948 you remember that Esau was the oldest, 00:03:40.948 --> 00:03:42.100 Jacob was the youngest, 00:03:42.100 --> 00:03:43.420 Esau was the hunter. 00:03:43.580 --> 00:03:48.484 Right? Esau was the one who went out and killed game and probably had a 00:03:48.484 --> 00:03:50.080 barbecue in his backyard. 00:03:51.140 --> 00:03:52.960 Jacob, on the other hand, 00:03:53.940 --> 00:03:55.220 hung out with mom, 00:03:55.220 --> 00:03:56.124 learned how to cook, 00:03:56.124 --> 00:03:57.132 had great recipes, 00:03:57.196 --> 00:03:59.924 like the red lentil soup or stew or. 00:03:59.972 --> 00:04:01.628 I called it beef stew last week, 00:04:01.628 --> 00:04:04.564 and Esau came in from the hunt and hadn't killed anything. 00:04:04.564 --> 00:04:08.160 So he begged Jacob for some of that stew. 00:04:08.460 --> 00:04:09.132 Jacob said, 00:04:09.156 --> 00:04:09.804 well, fine, 00:04:09.804 --> 00:04:10.716 here's some stew. 00:04:10.716 --> 00:04:12.508 But in exchange for the stew, 00:04:12.508 --> 00:04:13.890 I want your birthright. 00:04:14.060 --> 00:04:14.926 And Jacob, 00:04:14.998 --> 00:04:15.318 I mean, 00:04:15.318 --> 00:04:16.046 Esau was like, 00:04:16.046 --> 00:04:17.734 well, what good is a birthright? 00:04:17.598 --> 00:04:18.294 If I'm dead, 00:04:18.294 --> 00:04:20.326 I'm starving to death. 00:04:20.518 --> 00:04:22.294 Right? So he wanted to stew, 00:04:22.294 --> 00:04:23.622 and so they traded off. 00:04:23.622 --> 00:04:28.574 And so the whole message of that in the text from last week in chapter 00:04:28.622 --> 00:04:29.734 twelve was just simply, 00:04:29.734 --> 00:04:30.486 you know what? 00:04:30.486 --> 00:04:34.422 When we prioritize the things of this world over the things of God, 00:04:34.422 --> 00:04:36.094 because the blessing, 00:04:36.142 --> 00:04:41.986 the birthright that Isaac was going to offer to his sons was actually the 00:04:42.018 --> 00:04:45.498 blessing of the promise of God that goes all the way back to the covenant 00:04:45.498 --> 00:04:46.506 of Abraham. 00:04:46.698 --> 00:04:48.348 Well, that's what today's about. 00:04:48.466 --> 00:04:49.986 I just wanted to go back and cover that. 00:04:49.986 --> 00:04:50.274 Guess what? 00:04:50.274 --> 00:04:51.698 I don't have to do that the next 3 hours, 00:04:51.698 --> 00:04:53.738 because by the time I got to 925, 00:04:53.738 --> 00:04:56.048 I knew what I was talking about. 00:04:56.490 --> 00:04:57.150 But today, 00:04:57.234 --> 00:05:00.866 this is the story of sort of summation, 00:05:01.018 --> 00:05:04.034 and it's the reminder of everything that we've seen before. 00:05:03.882 --> 00:05:05.826 And I've been over it with you guys. 00:05:05.826 --> 00:05:06.826 Twelve chapters. 00:05:06.858 --> 00:05:08.498 Actually, ten and a half chapters. 00:05:08.498 --> 00:05:13.938 God points out everything he's done from creation to kingdom, 00:05:14.074 --> 00:05:14.794 all right? 00:05:14.922 --> 00:05:17.362 And he points it all out that he has spoken. 00:05:17.234 --> 00:05:20.530 He has spoken in the past through the prophets and through the angels, 00:05:20.530 --> 00:05:22.634 but now he has spoken through Jesus. 00:05:22.634 --> 00:05:23.970 And so in these last days, 00:05:23.970 --> 00:05:25.122 he speaks through Jesus. 00:05:25.122 --> 00:05:26.786 Jesus is the son, 00:05:26.938 --> 00:05:27.898 the son of God. 00:05:27.898 --> 00:05:30.208 He is the heir of all things. 00:05:30.450 --> 00:05:31.074 You see, 00:05:31.074 --> 00:05:34.374 he is the exact expression of the essence of God. 00:05:34.314 --> 00:05:36.554 He is the radiance of God's glory. 00:05:36.554 --> 00:05:37.680 He is the king of Kingsley. 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:39.454 He is the highest priests. 00:05:39.622 --> 00:05:40.118 You see, 00:05:40.118 --> 00:05:42.650 the old testament points all to Jesus. 00:05:42.950 --> 00:05:45.260 Jesus is the creator of all things. 00:05:45.086 --> 00:05:48.290 He is the sustainer of all God's creation. 00:05:48.590 --> 00:05:49.398 You see, 00:05:49.534 --> 00:05:51.926 he is the highest priest. 00:05:51.958 --> 00:05:54.390 And the whole Old Testament system points to Jesus. 00:05:54.390 --> 00:05:59.102 And so everything about ten and a half chapters of Hebrews point us to 00:05:59.126 --> 00:06:04.224 Jesus. And then the end of chapter ten and chapter eleven kind of focuses 00:06:04.312 --> 00:06:06.960 on those who have believed and have trusted, 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:08.650 and they're not great people. 00:06:08.664 --> 00:06:10.860 Some of them are tragedies, 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:13.848 but they had faith in God and they lived out their faith. 00:06:13.848 --> 00:06:17.712 And so we're told in verse in chapter twelve that ours is supposed to be 00:06:17.712 --> 00:06:19.400 a life of faith, 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:21.536 trusting what God has said, 00:06:21.608 --> 00:06:23.258 trusting what God has done, 00:06:23.304 --> 00:06:26.112 trusting the provision of God for our salvation. 00:06:26.176 --> 00:06:30.124 And so we get to chapter 13 with this great reminder, 00:06:30.272 --> 00:06:32.080 let brotherly love continue. 00:06:32.860 --> 00:06:33.880 And I'm like, 00:06:34.300 --> 00:06:37.004 okay, so here you go. 00:06:37.092 --> 00:06:40.716 We know the two great commands that are reiterated by Jesus from 00:06:40.716 --> 00:06:43.480 deuteronomy is that we're supposed to love God. 00:06:43.940 --> 00:06:45.292 Love God with all your heart, 00:06:45.292 --> 00:06:46.020 soul, mind, 00:06:46.100 --> 00:06:48.156 strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. 00:06:48.268 --> 00:06:49.780 I love asking people, 00:06:49.940 --> 00:06:51.356 this is one of my favorite questions. 00:06:51.356 --> 00:06:53.996 What's the most important thing in your life? 00:06:54.180 --> 00:06:54.796 Well, you know, 00:06:54.796 --> 00:06:55.796 we go through the list, 00:06:55.796 --> 00:06:56.338 right? 00:06:56.484 --> 00:06:58.030 Oh, you know, 00:06:58.190 --> 00:06:59.090 my family. 00:07:00.470 --> 00:07:02.478 And then I always want to ask, 00:07:02.478 --> 00:07:04.128 do you act like it? 00:07:04.670 --> 00:07:05.662 Right? Well, 00:07:05.686 --> 00:07:07.086 what's the most important thing in your life? 00:07:07.086 --> 00:07:08.142 Well, God is. 00:07:08.286 --> 00:07:10.266 Well, do you act like it? 00:07:10.950 --> 00:07:12.166 Are your choices? 00:07:12.238 --> 00:07:13.142 Is your behavior, 00:07:13.142 --> 00:07:17.334 is your attitude that God is the number one love of your life? 00:07:17.334 --> 00:07:19.318 Is it reflected in your life? 00:07:19.374 --> 00:07:19.686 I mean, 00:07:19.686 --> 00:07:22.272 do people see that in the. 00:07:22.326 --> 00:07:23.604 You see, 00:07:23.652 --> 00:07:24.564 that's the big question. 00:07:24.564 --> 00:07:27.084 I'm not talking about a legalistic, 00:07:27.172 --> 00:07:27.556 you know, 00:07:27.556 --> 00:07:28.320 kind of. 00:07:29.220 --> 00:07:32.588 But I tell you from this pulpit all the time, 00:07:32.684 --> 00:07:34.892 I don't like to give you lists, 00:07:34.892 --> 00:07:36.116 because if I give you lists, 00:07:36.116 --> 00:07:36.748 here's what happens. 00:07:36.748 --> 00:07:37.180 People say, 00:07:37.180 --> 00:07:38.108 well, Pastor Bobby said, 00:07:38.108 --> 00:07:40.916 if I did this and this and this and this, 00:07:40.916 --> 00:07:41.880 I'm good. 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:43.320 Guess what? 00:07:43.268 --> 00:07:44.364 I can't see your heart. 00:07:44.364 --> 00:07:47.994 I don't know the motivation behind why you do the what, 00:07:48.380 --> 00:07:49.700 but the truth is, 00:07:49.756 --> 00:07:55.252 if it's not about our love for God and our behavior being subsequent to 00:07:55.276 --> 00:07:56.596 that love for God, 00:07:56.716 --> 00:07:58.356 then we're wasting our time, 00:07:58.356 --> 00:08:00.480 folks, okay? 00:08:01.060 --> 00:08:05.948 Loving God and acting like it is the core of who we are. 00:08:06.004 --> 00:08:07.444 Let brotherly love continue. 00:08:07.532 --> 00:08:08.236 That's the love. 00:08:08.068 --> 00:08:08.728 Your neighbor. 00:08:08.788 --> 00:08:10.508 You know what the brotherly love thing is? 00:08:10.508 --> 00:08:12.172 That's love within the body. 00:08:12.356 --> 00:08:15.732 Why does God want us to love each other more than we love anybody else 00:08:15.732 --> 00:08:16.874 outside the body? 00:08:17.052 --> 00:08:19.614 Because Jesus said they will know. 00:08:19.662 --> 00:08:22.214 You are my disciples if you love each other. 00:08:22.214 --> 00:08:25.198 And the body of Christ is all in each other's face all the time. 00:08:25.198 --> 00:08:26.250 Y'all notice that? 00:08:28.310 --> 00:08:30.130 Let brotherly love continue. 00:08:30.790 --> 00:08:31.278 All right, 00:08:31.278 --> 00:08:32.630 so here's what's happening, 00:08:32.670 --> 00:08:35.370 y'all. We get a list today? 00:08:35.910 --> 00:08:36.686 I've told you, 00:08:36.686 --> 00:08:37.902 I'm not giving you a list. 00:08:37.902 --> 00:08:38.232 But. 00:08:38.310 --> 00:08:40.620 But if God gives us a list, 00:08:40.990 --> 00:08:42.695 we'll pay attention to it. 00:08:42.877 --> 00:08:44.799 Let brotherly love continue. 00:08:45.339 --> 00:08:49.559 Right? Don't neglect to show hospitality. 00:08:50.339 --> 00:08:53.639 You know what we call hospitality here at the gathering? 00:08:53.619 --> 00:08:55.319 Coffee and cheez its. 00:08:57.139 --> 00:09:00.427 The hospitality team right outside the door there, 00:09:00.603 --> 00:09:04.099 making sure you got goldfish on some Sundays. 00:09:04.139 --> 00:09:06.675 Right? But what is this talking about? 00:09:06.707 --> 00:09:08.531 This talks about being welcoming, 00:09:08.635 --> 00:09:11.627 letting others see your love. 00:09:11.803 --> 00:09:13.763 And what was it we were told in John? 00:09:13.763 --> 00:09:17.720 Is that how can we say we love God if we can't love our brothers? 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:19.512 And if we're not loving our brothers, 00:09:19.512 --> 00:09:23.300 then are we not not loving God? 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:25.248 You see what I mean? 00:09:25.248 --> 00:09:30.176 So the whole point of this thing is that our love for God is expressed in 00:09:30.176 --> 00:09:33.280 our love for each other and hospitality. 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:34.896 And then they throw this in. 00:09:34.896 --> 00:09:35.256 You know, 00:09:35.256 --> 00:09:37.000 I've heard this since I was a kid. 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:38.272 For by doing this, 00:09:38.272 --> 00:09:41.700 some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it, 00:09:42.180 --> 00:09:44.708 right? And then I go, 00:09:44.764 --> 00:09:46.444 I know everybody I talked to this week. 00:09:46.444 --> 00:09:48.424 It ain't none of them angels. 00:09:48.700 --> 00:09:50.588 I am sure of it. 00:09:50.724 --> 00:09:52.020 But you know what this is? 00:09:52.020 --> 00:09:55.836 This is a reference back to Abraham sitting in the door of his tent and 00:09:55.836 --> 00:09:59.996 the angels and Jesus showing up and him knowing he didn't know until 00:09:59.996 --> 00:10:02.560 later who they were. 00:10:03.100 --> 00:10:04.000 You see? 00:10:04.340 --> 00:10:09.564 And that's sort of the picture and kind of the idea here is that our 00:10:09.612 --> 00:10:13.138 behavior, our approach, 00:10:13.314 --> 00:10:16.850 is supposed to be one of God's love now, 00:10:16.890 --> 00:10:18.210 not like a checkbox. 00:10:18.146 --> 00:10:21.322 Like, this is the legalism or the phariseeism of. 00:10:21.386 --> 00:10:23.366 Okay, I've done all those things. 00:10:23.386 --> 00:10:26.458 What more can I do to inherit the kingdom of God? 00:10:26.458 --> 00:10:27.658 The rich man asked, 00:10:27.658 --> 00:10:30.346 right? And that's not what it is like, 00:10:30.378 --> 00:10:30.762 all right? 00:10:30.666 --> 00:10:33.866 I want to make sure that I'm being nice to strangers because one of them 00:10:33.866 --> 00:10:35.510 might have hidden wings, 00:10:36.060 --> 00:10:36.580 you know, 00:10:36.580 --> 00:10:38.600 like. Excuse me. 00:10:38.900 --> 00:10:42.356 No, it's just an expression of God's love that. 00:10:42.388 --> 00:10:45.588 Yeah, might there be angels in our midst? 00:10:45.644 --> 00:10:47.760 Yeah, that's quite possible, 00:10:49.540 --> 00:10:52.988 but I'm not looking for them because every time I see angels in the 00:10:52.988 --> 00:10:53.836 Bible, it says, 00:10:53.836 --> 00:10:56.400 fear not because they are fearsome creatures. 00:10:56.980 --> 00:11:02.604 Okay? Remember those in prison as though you were in prison. 00:11:02.652 --> 00:11:03.780 Now, what's the idea? 00:11:03.780 --> 00:11:04.036 You know, 00:11:04.036 --> 00:11:04.916 somebody gets locked up, 00:11:04.916 --> 00:11:05.960 you avoid them. 00:11:07.730 --> 00:11:08.630 You know, 00:11:09.290 --> 00:11:11.594 it's like Peter at the confession, 00:11:11.642 --> 00:11:12.138 right? 00:11:12.274 --> 00:11:14.270 Jesus is inside getting beat, 00:11:14.970 --> 00:11:16.306 and he doesn't want to. 00:11:16.306 --> 00:11:17.442 He doesn't want to get beat. 00:11:17.442 --> 00:11:18.882 So. So he says, 00:11:18.906 --> 00:11:20.556 no, I don't know him. 00:11:21.250 --> 00:11:21.802 You know, 00:11:21.802 --> 00:11:22.762 folks go into prison, 00:11:22.762 --> 00:11:23.106 we're like, 00:11:23.106 --> 00:11:26.076 ah, I don't have anything to do with them. 00:11:25.666 --> 00:11:27.066 Cause they did wrong, 00:11:27.138 --> 00:11:29.914 and I don't want to get included in their wrong kind of thing. 00:11:29.914 --> 00:11:30.786 What he's saying is, 00:11:30.786 --> 00:11:31.098 he says, 00:11:31.098 --> 00:11:33.794 look, you remember those folks that are in prison as if you were in 00:11:33.794 --> 00:11:34.830 prison yourself. 00:11:35.910 --> 00:11:37.526 Remember the mistreated. 00:11:37.638 --> 00:11:40.530 As though you yourselves were suffering bodily. 00:11:41.550 --> 00:11:42.150 So see, 00:11:42.150 --> 00:11:43.140 here's the list. 00:11:43.038 --> 00:11:44.170 Brotherly love, 00:11:44.710 --> 00:11:48.130 hospitality. Remember those in prison. 00:11:48.430 --> 00:11:49.998 Remember the mistreated. 00:11:50.054 --> 00:11:50.510 Here you go. 00:11:50.510 --> 00:11:51.170 Next one. 00:11:51.030 --> 00:11:54.490 Ready? Marriage is to be honored by all. 00:11:55.750 --> 00:11:57.400 Marriage is to be honored. 00:11:57.454 --> 00:12:02.878 Why God uses it over and over and over again throughout his word as the 00:12:02.934 --> 00:12:06.450 example of what it means to be married to goddess. 00:12:06.980 --> 00:12:09.760 This idea of the bride and the bridegroom, 00:12:10.340 --> 00:12:14.716 that picture of the fact that the picture of wholeness and oneness that 00:12:14.748 --> 00:12:16.764 we see when God says, 00:12:16.812 --> 00:12:17.148 you know, 00:12:17.148 --> 00:12:19.116 let the two shall become one, 00:12:19.116 --> 00:12:20.080 a whole. 00:12:20.860 --> 00:12:21.716 You see, 00:12:21.868 --> 00:12:23.600 marriage is to be honored. 00:12:24.220 --> 00:12:25.444 Man. Our culture, 00:12:25.492 --> 00:12:27.988 and particularly the american society, 00:12:28.124 --> 00:12:31.356 is trying to pitch it out the window like it doesn't matter. 00:12:31.356 --> 00:12:33.160 Let's call anything marriage. 00:12:34.210 --> 00:12:35.310 I'm sorry. 00:12:36.850 --> 00:12:38.650 That kind of poked you a little bit. 00:12:38.650 --> 00:12:39.506 Forgive me. 00:12:39.658 --> 00:12:41.968 Cause the Bible says you have to. 00:12:42.770 --> 00:12:45.266 The marriage bed kept undefiled. 00:12:45.298 --> 00:12:46.948 Now we're on number five. 00:12:46.970 --> 00:12:51.866 Marriage bed kept undefiled because God will judge the sexually immoral 00:12:51.898 --> 00:12:53.186 and adulterers. 00:12:53.338 --> 00:12:53.786 Now, see, 00:12:53.786 --> 00:12:55.066 I know we got kids in the room, 00:12:55.066 --> 00:12:56.626 so I'm gonna walk real carefully here. 00:12:56.626 --> 00:12:58.630 But look what it's saying there, 00:12:59.220 --> 00:13:00.080 all right? 00:13:00.820 --> 00:13:06.740 We live in a society that exalts everything ungodly when it comes to 00:13:06.780 --> 00:13:12.004 human relationship between men and women or anything else these days. 00:13:12.092 --> 00:13:13.476 And this says right here, 00:13:13.476 --> 00:13:15.280 God's going to judge it. 00:13:18.700 --> 00:13:20.036 Now, it's Bible. 00:13:20.108 --> 00:13:21.140 So I'm going to say this. 00:13:21.140 --> 00:13:23.348 I love having folks sit in my office and I say, 00:13:23.348 --> 00:13:24.338 you know what? 00:13:26.150 --> 00:13:27.342 Any kind of, 00:13:27.526 --> 00:13:28.142 let's say, 00:13:28.142 --> 00:13:33.318 intimate relationship between whatever, 00:13:33.494 --> 00:13:38.610 outside of marriage that honors God is one of two things. 00:13:39.110 --> 00:13:41.570 It's either fornication or adultery, 00:13:43.150 --> 00:13:44.662 sexual immorality. 00:13:44.726 --> 00:13:45.430 It's right there. 00:13:45.430 --> 00:13:46.550 I can't avoid it. 00:13:46.550 --> 00:13:51.980 Cause it's number six five in the list. 00:13:53.160 --> 00:13:57.032 God's giving us a list of behavior, 00:13:57.136 --> 00:14:03.500 choices, actions that identify us as kingdom people, 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:07.352 people who belong to God. 00:14:07.536 --> 00:14:08.576 Okay, now, 00:14:08.648 --> 00:14:09.864 this isn't a checklist. 00:14:09.728 --> 00:14:10.272 I'm not. 00:14:10.272 --> 00:14:11.544 Look, somebody left me a pen. 00:14:11.544 --> 00:14:12.460 Probably me. 00:14:13.640 --> 00:14:14.696 But it's not like we go, 00:14:14.696 --> 00:14:15.296 okay, I did that. 00:14:15.296 --> 00:14:15.904 I did that. 00:14:15.776 --> 00:14:16.248 I did that. 00:14:16.248 --> 00:14:16.800 I did that. 00:14:16.800 --> 00:14:17.840 Remember what I said a minute ago? 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:18.856 And then we go to Jesus and say, 00:14:18.856 --> 00:14:19.688 what more can I do? 00:14:19.688 --> 00:14:21.016 No, it's not like that. 00:14:20.792 --> 00:14:23.762 What it is is that if we love God, 00:14:24.300 --> 00:14:27.956 if we're truly in love with God, 00:14:28.028 --> 00:14:28.688 heart, soul, 00:14:28.732 --> 00:14:29.828 mind and strength, 00:14:29.924 --> 00:14:32.640 then this is what is produced. 00:14:33.620 --> 00:14:37.580 This is what shows up in our lives if we love God, 00:14:37.860 --> 00:14:40.508 okay? This is how we behave. 00:14:40.604 --> 00:14:41.924 If we love God. 00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:44.900 Therefore, you can take the negative side of that and say, 00:14:44.900 --> 00:14:47.456 if I'm not behaving this way, 00:14:47.588 --> 00:14:49.320 then the truth of the matter is, 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:50.980 I don't love God. 00:14:52.400 --> 00:14:53.700 Isn't that tough? 00:14:54.040 --> 00:14:55.420 Oh, that's harsh. 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:57.688 I'm glad we're at the end of Hebrews, 00:14:57.688 --> 00:14:58.420 aren't you? 00:15:01.160 --> 00:15:04.260 Keep your life free from the love of money. 00:15:04.760 --> 00:15:05.360 Doesn't say, 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:06.840 keep your life free from money. 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:08.488 I know some rich folks, 00:15:08.488 --> 00:15:10.288 right? But it does say, 00:15:10.344 --> 00:15:12.176 don't let money be the rule of your life. 00:15:12.176 --> 00:15:16.130 When couples sit down in front of my desk to talk about things, 00:15:16.130 --> 00:15:16.426 I go, 00:15:16.426 --> 00:15:22.110 you know what the two most common reported problems in marriage are? 00:15:24.130 --> 00:15:25.150 Those two. 00:15:25.690 --> 00:15:28.550 The relationship between husband and wife and money. 00:15:29.170 --> 00:15:31.786 Two most commonly reported problems. 00:15:31.938 --> 00:15:33.522 And you know what I tell them? 00:15:33.522 --> 00:15:37.670 Communication is the conduit that solves most of those problems. 00:15:38.090 --> 00:15:41.428 But what happens is we kind of stake our ground, 00:15:41.524 --> 00:15:43.600 build our castle and defend it. 00:15:44.100 --> 00:15:48.052 Careful. Keep your life free from the love of money. 00:15:48.116 --> 00:15:49.940 Be satisfied with what you have. 00:15:49.940 --> 00:15:51.308 For he himself has said, 00:15:51.308 --> 00:15:53.524 I will never leave you or abandon you. 00:15:53.308 --> 00:15:54.140 You know what that's saying? 00:15:54.140 --> 00:15:55.780 Be satisfied with Jesus. 00:15:55.900 --> 00:15:56.860 If you got Jesus, 00:15:56.860 --> 00:15:58.180 that's all you need. 00:15:58.268 --> 00:16:00.578 You don't need any more than that. 00:16:02.540 --> 00:16:04.700 So then he goes unsafe. 00:16:04.740 --> 00:16:05.988 Therefore, we may boldly say, 00:16:05.988 --> 00:16:06.908 the Lord is my helper. 00:16:06.908 --> 00:16:07.820 I will not be afraid. 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:09.800 What can man do to me? 00:16:09.860 --> 00:16:16.290 See, the idea is that God is the one who quote in proverbs three, 00:16:16.410 --> 00:16:18.050 directs our steps. 00:16:18.130 --> 00:16:20.770 Right. But I want you to know something. 00:16:21.130 --> 00:16:26.080 There's a word we use out there that it has created a great deal of 00:16:26.146 --> 00:16:29.354 theological, I'll just say discourse. 00:16:29.402 --> 00:16:30.298 It's really an argument, 00:16:30.298 --> 00:16:31.470 but it's discourse. 00:16:32.770 --> 00:16:34.810 That's the combination word. 00:16:34.850 --> 00:16:35.710 Free will. 00:16:36.730 --> 00:16:38.138 But let me ask you a question. 00:16:38.138 --> 00:16:42.630 Do we have a responsibility to God? 00:16:43.690 --> 00:16:44.498 A couple weeks ago, 00:16:44.498 --> 00:16:46.950 I preached on the father's expectation. 00:16:48.050 --> 00:16:52.390 What does the father have a right to expect from us? 00:16:54.250 --> 00:16:55.546 I think there's a list here. 00:16:55.546 --> 00:16:59.176 I got him numbered and circled in my text this morning. 00:16:59.810 --> 00:17:00.990 Brotherly love. 00:17:01.700 --> 00:17:03.436 God expect brotherly love from us? 00:17:03.436 --> 00:17:04.426 Sure he does. 00:17:04.292 --> 00:17:07.220 Does God expect us to show hospitality? 00:17:07.300 --> 00:17:08.012 Sure he does. 00:17:08.012 --> 00:17:10.164 Does God expect us to remember those in prison, 00:17:10.164 --> 00:17:11.796 to remember the mistreated, 00:17:11.948 --> 00:17:13.828 to keep marriage honored, 00:17:14.004 --> 00:17:16.560 to keep the marriage bed undefiled? 00:17:17.740 --> 00:17:22.724 Right. Does God expect us to be free from the love of money, 00:17:22.772 --> 00:17:25.564 to be satisfied with what we have in life? 00:17:25.380 --> 00:17:25.908 You see, 00:17:25.908 --> 00:17:29.820 what happens is we make gods of these other things. 00:17:29.980 --> 00:17:31.920 Instead of worshiping God. 00:17:33.190 --> 00:17:35.970 We make gods of the relationships. 00:17:36.350 --> 00:17:38.650 We make gods of the possessions. 00:17:39.150 --> 00:17:43.410 We make gods of the pursuit of those things. 00:17:48.670 --> 00:17:49.694 And then he says again, 00:17:49.694 --> 00:17:52.994 remember your leaders who have spoken God's word to you. 00:17:54.270 --> 00:17:55.566 When we get later in this, 00:17:55.566 --> 00:17:56.438 there's another one that says, 00:17:56.438 --> 00:17:57.530 obey your leaders. 00:17:57.930 --> 00:18:01.042 But I think this precedes it for a reason. 00:18:01.226 --> 00:18:02.698 What this is actually saying is, 00:18:02.698 --> 00:18:07.530 watch your leaders as you carefully observe the outcome of their lives. 00:18:07.650 --> 00:18:08.640 Imitate their faith. 00:18:08.610 --> 00:18:09.930 This kind of follows, 00:18:10.106 --> 00:18:13.698 and this is probably another one of those references that lead people to 00:18:13.698 --> 00:18:16.066 believe. Paul is actually the writer of the book of Hebrews. 00:18:16.066 --> 00:18:16.546 And if he is, 00:18:16.546 --> 00:18:19.674 fine. But what he's saying right here is like what Paul said. 00:18:19.674 --> 00:18:21.950 Imitate me as I imitate Jesus, 00:18:22.730 --> 00:18:23.470 right? 00:18:24.370 --> 00:18:25.930 So we remember the bracelets, 00:18:25.930 --> 00:18:28.130 right? The what would Jesus do? 00:18:28.170 --> 00:18:31.938 Bracelet. And I love that somebody said, 00:18:32.114 --> 00:18:33.750 what did Jesus do? 00:18:34.210 --> 00:18:34.738 Right? 00:18:34.834 --> 00:18:37.804 Look back at what he did and do that. 00:18:37.890 --> 00:18:40.110 That's what God wants of us. 00:18:41.050 --> 00:18:42.682 Jesus is the same yesterday, 00:18:42.682 --> 00:18:43.450 today, and forever. 00:18:43.450 --> 00:18:45.282 So those who have followed the Christ, 00:18:45.282 --> 00:18:46.570 the anointed one of God, 00:18:46.570 --> 00:18:47.906 the promises of the messiah, 00:18:47.906 --> 00:18:49.138 even in the Old Testament, 00:18:49.138 --> 00:18:51.778 the by face that we saw in chapter, 00:18:52.120 --> 00:18:52.576 you know, 00:18:52.576 --> 00:18:57.620 this idea of following Christ in our lives and living it out, 00:18:58.400 --> 00:18:59.792 wow, man, 00:18:59.816 --> 00:19:02.664 I looked at this thing for the last few weeks as I was trying to put it 00:19:02.664 --> 00:19:03.032 all together, 00:19:03.032 --> 00:19:03.512 and I'm like, 00:19:03.512 --> 00:19:06.460 man, I hate lists. 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:11.820 The expectation of perfection, 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:14.552 right? I mean, 00:19:14.576 --> 00:19:16.088 if we take this list seriously, 00:19:16.088 --> 00:19:17.760 then God expects us to be perfect. 00:19:17.760 --> 00:19:18.744 Well, he did say, 00:19:18.744 --> 00:19:20.990 be holy as I am holy. 00:19:21.110 --> 00:19:21.870 And then he said, 00:19:21.870 --> 00:19:23.130 because you can't. 00:19:23.750 --> 00:19:24.850 Here's grace. 00:19:25.870 --> 00:19:29.630 But he didn't mean for us to use it as an excuse, 00:19:29.630 --> 00:19:33.166 folks. Verse nine. 00:19:33.318 --> 00:19:34.330 Number eight. 00:19:35.110 --> 00:19:35.854 Verse nine. 00:19:35.902 --> 00:19:37.882 It's number eight in the list. 00:19:37.766 --> 00:19:42.086 Don't be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings, 00:19:42.238 --> 00:19:46.262 for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food. 00:19:46.262 --> 00:19:50.680 Regulations, for those who observe them have not benefited. 00:19:52.700 --> 00:19:54.012 Right now, 00:19:54.076 --> 00:19:56.996 this is where he's contrasting the message of the Hebrew, 00:19:56.996 --> 00:19:58.492 the letter to the Hebrews, 00:19:58.492 --> 00:20:03.676 to a hebrew audience who get all bound up by whether they eat bacon or 00:20:03.708 --> 00:20:05.780 not. You know, 00:20:05.820 --> 00:20:06.572 that's my joke. 00:20:06.572 --> 00:20:08.080 Somebody yesterday said, 00:20:08.780 --> 00:20:09.770 yesterday or Friday, 00:20:09.852 --> 00:20:10.860 somebody said something said, 00:20:10.860 --> 00:20:11.520 oh yeah, 00:20:11.548 --> 00:20:12.596 that's got bacon in it. 00:20:12.596 --> 00:20:13.800 You'll enjoy it. 00:20:14.280 --> 00:20:18.240 That tells me that I mentioned bacon too much from the pulpit. 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:21.744 But you see my point, 00:20:21.744 --> 00:20:28.856 point is you can get bound up in the little checkbox legalism of faith or 00:20:28.888 --> 00:20:30.376 call it religion really, 00:20:30.448 --> 00:20:31.264 because religion, 00:20:31.312 --> 00:20:35.260 remember, is man's attempt to get to God. 00:20:36.360 --> 00:20:41.628 Our faith in Christianity is that God came to us and provided a way for 00:20:41.644 --> 00:20:43.108 us to go to God. 00:20:43.108 --> 00:20:46.252 He takes us through the heavens into heaven, 00:20:46.356 --> 00:20:48.680 which is the dwelling place of God. 00:20:50.100 --> 00:20:53.852 So when I look at this thing and don't get caught up in all this checkbox 00:20:53.852 --> 00:20:54.724 kind of faith, 00:20:54.724 --> 00:20:56.704 because that's not faith at all. 00:20:56.980 --> 00:21:00.052 If you get into checkbox obedience, 00:21:00.196 --> 00:21:03.200 you're basing your faith on what you've done, 00:21:05.740 --> 00:21:07.240 not what God's done. 00:21:08.350 --> 00:21:13.270 And yet we have a responsibility to live out our faith. 00:21:13.430 --> 00:21:14.878 See, there's kind of, 00:21:15.054 --> 00:21:16.078 I like to tell folks, 00:21:16.078 --> 00:21:16.622 you see, 00:21:16.622 --> 00:21:17.918 it's just the same penny. 00:21:17.918 --> 00:21:19.798 There's a heads and a tails, 00:21:19.798 --> 00:21:24.250 okay? Because God has done so much, 00:21:26.070 --> 00:21:28.646 we owe him in a way, 00:21:28.758 --> 00:21:31.068 and that's a harsh word to use, 00:21:32.030 --> 00:21:38.830 but, but the way I've worded it in the past is Jesus gave his life for me. 00:21:41.850 --> 00:21:47.750 Now I can give my life to him and live it out. 00:21:48.170 --> 00:21:49.386 That's what I can do. 00:21:49.386 --> 00:21:50.706 I can do that. 00:21:50.810 --> 00:21:55.098 We have an altar from which those who worship at the tabernacle do not 00:21:55.098 --> 00:21:56.730 have a right to eat. 00:21:56.730 --> 00:22:01.020 Remember, this goes back to the whole picture of Christ on the altar. 00:22:00.698 --> 00:22:02.678 Christ, the highest of high priests, 00:22:02.762 --> 00:22:09.270 brought his own blood to the altar to bring about our salvation, 00:22:09.770 --> 00:22:11.018 to redeem us, 00:22:11.074 --> 00:22:14.110 to buy us back from death and sin. 00:22:15.490 --> 00:22:17.800 This is the altar we worship at. 00:22:17.818 --> 00:22:21.306 And then he reflects back to the bodies of those animals whose blood is 00:22:21.306 --> 00:22:24.938 brought into the most holy place by the high priest as a sin offering or 00:22:24.938 --> 00:22:26.510 burned outside the camp. 00:22:27.170 --> 00:22:28.098 So why? 00:22:28.154 --> 00:22:28.706 Why? 00:22:28.858 --> 00:22:29.226 All right, 00:22:29.226 --> 00:22:32.130 so one of the commentators I was listening to this week makes this 00:22:32.130 --> 00:22:37.288 distinction between the idea that the blood stayed in the tabernacle at 00:22:37.304 --> 00:22:40.604 the altar but the animal was taken outside and burned. 00:22:41.360 --> 00:22:44.660 Okay, so what are we supposed to be connected to? 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.312 There's a picture that I see oftentimes that has, 00:22:49.312 --> 00:22:49.728 you know, 00:22:49.728 --> 00:22:53.180 the cross and Jesus still on the cross. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:55.220 He's not there. 00:22:56.280 --> 00:22:58.260 He was buried and he rose. 00:22:59.370 --> 00:23:02.340 But the idea is that the city or outside, 00:23:02.394 --> 00:23:09.510 inside the gate represents a religiosity kind of thing. 00:23:10.650 --> 00:23:14.370 We go to Jesus because that's what it says next he says, 00:23:14.370 --> 00:23:18.266 therefore, Jesus also suffered outside the gate so that he might sanctify 00:23:18.266 --> 00:23:20.162 the people by his own blood. 00:23:20.162 --> 00:23:23.490 So we are to be more connected to the blood of Christ, 00:23:23.490 --> 00:23:27.520 which has accomplished our salvation and redemption and nothing, 00:23:27.930 --> 00:23:30.790 the sin that we leave behind. 00:23:31.290 --> 00:23:34.050 So you want to see the list of expectations? 00:23:34.050 --> 00:23:35.898 I'm going to go down in a minute, 00:23:35.898 --> 00:23:36.754 because 13, 00:23:36.882 --> 00:23:37.850 verse 13 says, 00:23:37.890 --> 00:23:41.338 let us then go to him outside the camp bearing his disgrace, 00:23:41.338 --> 00:23:44.308 for we do not have an enduring city here. 00:23:44.146 --> 00:23:46.074 Instead, we seek the one to come. 00:23:46.074 --> 00:23:53.560 So we have a responsibility to God. 00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:55.124 It's not works. 00:23:55.172 --> 00:23:56.492 Faith, it's not works. 00:23:56.492 --> 00:23:58.492 Religion, it's not works. 00:23:58.636 --> 00:23:59.748 Sort of checkbox. 00:23:59.804 --> 00:24:02.892 Okay? As long as I wear the right clothes, 00:24:02.956 --> 00:24:04.900 as long as I sit in the same place, 00:24:04.900 --> 00:24:06.828 as long as I walk down, 00:24:06.828 --> 00:24:11.820 as long as I get in that pool or as long as I check the boxes, 00:24:11.820 --> 00:24:12.840 I'm good. 00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:17.740 Remember, it's about a heart thing. 00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:19.960 Where is God looking at you, 00:24:20.350 --> 00:24:21.090 right? 00:24:21.830 --> 00:24:25.010 Well, what is it that God sees in me? 00:24:25.590 --> 00:24:27.970 Does he see that I love him? 00:24:29.230 --> 00:24:33.490 Does he see that I prioritize, 00:24:33.870 --> 00:24:38.662 honor, and respect the things that he prioritizes, 00:24:38.766 --> 00:24:40.530 honors, and respects? 00:24:41.590 --> 00:24:44.166 Right. I look at these things and I go, 00:24:44.166 --> 00:24:44.826 all right, 00:24:44.982 --> 00:24:48.020 these are kingdom characteristics. 00:24:49.760 --> 00:24:51.544 Do you look like kingdom? 00:24:51.712 --> 00:24:53.420 Do I look like kingdom? 00:24:54.120 --> 00:24:54.688 Here you go. 00:24:54.688 --> 00:24:55.696 I'm in trouble in here. 00:24:55.696 --> 00:24:56.160 Because it says, 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:59.176 remember your leaders who have spoken God's word to you as you carefully 00:24:59.176 --> 00:25:00.888 observe the outcome of their lives, 00:25:00.888 --> 00:25:02.096 imitate their faith. 00:25:02.208 --> 00:25:05.120 Folks, that's that double responsibility, 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:06.648 that as a pastor, 00:25:06.824 --> 00:25:09.020 I better do what I preach. 00:25:12.530 --> 00:25:15.866 But I think that's one of the reasons why across the body of Christ that 00:25:15.866 --> 00:25:18.602 a lot of people don't mention that they're Christ followers, 00:25:18.602 --> 00:25:21.138 that they love Jesus because they're afraid somebody's going to go, 00:25:21.138 --> 00:25:24.390 oh, I saw what you did. 00:25:26.050 --> 00:25:27.700 I heard what you said. 00:25:27.818 --> 00:25:30.128 And you claim to be a Christian, 00:25:31.050 --> 00:25:31.950 you know, 00:25:33.210 --> 00:25:34.906 but this is the challenge for us, 00:25:34.906 --> 00:25:36.746 is we're supposed to look like Christ. 00:25:36.746 --> 00:25:40.210 We're supposed to be imitating the faith of those who are. 00:25:40.210 --> 00:25:41.200 Are doing it. 00:25:41.052 --> 00:25:44.880 Well, I know I've got some godly mentors in my life, 00:25:45.340 --> 00:25:49.684 some godly fellas and women and mamas in church. 00:25:49.732 --> 00:25:51.324 Okay? Can I call it that? 00:25:51.324 --> 00:25:56.640 Mamas in the church that have mamaed me ever since I left home, 00:25:57.460 --> 00:25:59.036 man, every place I've ever been, 00:25:59.036 --> 00:26:00.200 I got mamas, 00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:02.400 you know, 00:26:03.820 --> 00:26:05.068 but I look at that and I go, 00:26:05.068 --> 00:26:06.388 okay, God help me. 00:26:06.396 --> 00:26:09.780 Love the way they loved me. 00:26:11.320 --> 00:26:12.184 God help me. 00:26:12.184 --> 00:26:15.660 Love those around me the way that you've loved me. 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:18.808 And then finally, 00:26:18.808 --> 00:26:19.798 this is the. 00:26:20.760 --> 00:26:22.064 I'm gonna go back through the list, 00:26:22.064 --> 00:26:24.980 but this is the last of the text. 00:26:26.080 --> 00:26:27.380 Go to Jesus. 00:26:29.360 --> 00:26:30.380 So it says, 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:34.536 let us then go to him outside the camp, 00:26:34.536 --> 00:26:36.020 bearing his disgrace. 00:26:37.390 --> 00:26:42.930 Folks, we follow Jesus, 00:26:44.670 --> 00:26:50.970 who was convicted and executed. 00:26:53.910 --> 00:26:57.210 And I laugh when I remember the preacher who said, 00:26:58.510 --> 00:27:03.134 why do we expect life to be perfect in Christ when the one we followed 00:27:03.134 --> 00:27:04.170 was murdered? 00:27:06.830 --> 00:27:13.130 Right? We face a society that hates us. 00:27:15.670 --> 00:27:23.110 We face a culture that doesn't want to hear from us and certainly doesn't 00:27:23.150 --> 00:27:24.570 want to see us. 00:27:25.510 --> 00:27:29.774 See, Jesus went through the heavens, 00:27:29.822 --> 00:27:31.928 the veil into heaven, 00:27:31.984 --> 00:27:33.392 the presence of God, 00:27:33.536 --> 00:27:36.180 and he did it to take us there. 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:38.856 And it's not the pie in the sky, 00:27:38.856 --> 00:27:40.836 in the sweet by and by, 00:27:41.360 --> 00:27:44.152 it's that we get to be in the presence of God. 00:27:44.152 --> 00:27:47.860 Now, don't miss the opportunity. 00:27:48.800 --> 00:27:50.032 If you don't know Jesus, 00:27:50.032 --> 00:27:51.180 you need Jesus, 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:54.688 because that's the point of Hebrews, 00:27:54.784 --> 00:27:57.700 and he is the object of our faith. 00:28:00.180 --> 00:28:01.388 Brotherly love, 00:28:01.564 --> 00:28:04.404 hospitality. Remember those in prison. 00:28:04.572 --> 00:28:05.940 Remember those suffering, 00:28:06.020 --> 00:28:07.360 the mistreated. 00:28:07.780 --> 00:28:11.120 Marriage. Marriage bed. 00:28:12.020 --> 00:28:13.320 Don't love money. 00:28:13.780 --> 00:28:15.100 Remember your leaders. 00:28:15.260 --> 00:28:17.640 Don't be led astray by weird teachings. 00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:19.516 Right, let's see, 00:28:19.516 --> 00:28:20.932 that's eight and nine. 00:28:20.996 --> 00:28:22.120 Go to Jesus. 00:28:22.780 --> 00:28:24.000 Run to Jesus. 00:28:24.690 --> 00:28:26.018 There's God's list. 00:28:26.154 --> 00:28:27.346 Hebrews, chapter 13. 00:28:27.418 --> 00:28:29.202 And we're not even finished yet. 00:28:29.202 --> 00:28:32.322 Okay, but it all starts with Jesus. 00:28:32.506 --> 00:28:33.146 Pray with me. 00:28:33.146 --> 00:28:34.322 Father, thank you for today, 00:28:34.322 --> 00:28:36.866 and thank you for all that you intend to do. 00:28:36.866 --> 00:28:37.426 Pray, God, 00:28:37.426 --> 00:28:39.306 that you'd watch over us and care for us. 00:28:39.306 --> 00:28:39.698 But God, 00:28:39.698 --> 00:28:41.348 help us to pay attention. 00:28:41.930 --> 00:28:44.240 Help us to pay attention to you. 00:28:44.690 --> 00:28:47.986 God, help us to pay attention to those that you put in our lives that are 00:28:47.986 --> 00:28:49.430 paying attention to you. 00:28:50.340 --> 00:28:53.764 God, help us to live the faith, 00:28:53.852 --> 00:29:00.356 God, that you have given to us and given for us to have. 00:29:00.428 --> 00:29:01.796 And God, 00:29:01.828 --> 00:29:05.458 let our lives be a reflection of our love for you. 00:29:05.620 --> 00:29:10.044 God, let people see our love for you as we love them, 00:29:10.212 --> 00:29:12.760 particularly within the body of Christ. 00:29:13.180 --> 00:29:13.756 Thank you, 00:29:13.756 --> 00:29:19.210 God, that your love is what started it all. 00:29:20.030 --> 00:29:21.174 So we thank you for it. 00:29:21.174 --> 00:29:22.164 In Jesus name, 00:29:22.222 --> 00:29:22.470 amen.