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I want to share with you
a couple things,

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because there's some cool
things happening.

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And, you know,

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I look back,

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I get to look back now,

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you know,

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being where I am and with a lot of young
guys on staff and all that sort

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of thing.

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I'm a little loud,

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Chris, because it's going
to get worse,

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just so you know.

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He didn't hear me.

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I'm a little loud,

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just so you know.

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And it'll get worse,

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I promise.

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But anyway,

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two of my mentors have retired
in the last couple of years.

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Don Wilton,

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who was the pastor at first
Baptist Spartanburg,

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was my preaching professor
in seminary,

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and he was my evangelism
professor in seminary.

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And so if I can remember when I preached
in class to an examination,

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this was like our test for
our preaching class,

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right? And I did this several
times during the message.

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And so when he did my evaluation,

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he said to me,

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you ready?

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He said,

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don't do spider fingers.

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That's like,

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a long time ago.

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And I remember that.

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Right.

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And then another of my mentors is the
first pastor I served with at a

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seminary, Doctor Tommy Green.

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He's been the executive director in Florida
for the last several years.

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I mean,

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long time now,

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since 90.

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I know.

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I can't remember how long he's been.

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Anyway, he retires this year and got
an invitation to his retirement

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party. So I just mentioned that because
it's interesting to get things

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like that in the mail and consider kind
of what has given shape to our

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lives. Right?

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Because we're in the
book of Hebrews,

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and we're still talking about,

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my drawing disappeared.

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It's up here somewhere.

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But we're still talking about
the object of our faith.

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We're talking about Jesus.

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I mean,

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the Book of Hebrews is
all about Jesus.

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It points out in scripture,

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in the Old Testament,

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what the old covenant,

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the first covenant,

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points to in the messiah
and in Christ.

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And then it takes the work of Jesus,

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the person and work of Jesus throughout
the New Testament and kind of

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gives us the shape of
what God planned,

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what he intended,

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what he provided for throughout
scripture.

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So when I look at the
book of Hebrews,

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and as we've taken it apart over the
last five and a half months now,

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we start to realize that the book
of Hebrews kind of knits it all

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together for us in a way
that gives us the,

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you know,

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I like that phrase in that song,

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a sure foundation.

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We start to look at this and go,

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wow. Well,

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that makes sense.

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And so we're in Hebrews,

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chapter nine,

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because here's what's happening,

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y'all? The book of Hebrews just keeps
repeating itself in establishing

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who we are in Christ,

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in establishing our identity in Christ
and telling us what God has

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accomplished and what he
has provided for us.

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All right,

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so Hebrews,

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chapter nine,

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verses eleven through 22.

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It's a long passage,

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so you're going to just have
to endure me reading it.

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But here we go.

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But Christ.

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See, that is the start of it.

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But Christ has appeared as a high priest
of the good thing that have come

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in the greater and more
perfect tabernacle.

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Not made with hands,

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that is,

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not of this creation.

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He entered the most holy place
once for all time,

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not by the blood of
goats and calves,

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but by his own blood,

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having obtained eternal redemption.

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For if the blood of goats and bulls
and the ashes of a young cow

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sprinkling those who are defiled sanctify
for the purification of the

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flesh, how much more with
the blood of Christ,

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who through the eternal spirit,

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offered himself without
blemish to God,

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cleanse our consciences from dead works
so that we can serve the living

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God. Verse 15.

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Therefore, he is the mediator
of a new covenant,

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so that those who are called might receive
the promise of the eternal

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inheritance. Because a death has taken
place for redemption from the

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transgressions committed under
the first covenant,

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where a will exists,

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or that can be translated covenant,

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testament, a number of things.

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But where a will exists,

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the death of the one who made
it must be established.

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For a will is valid only
when people die,

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so it is never in effect while the
one who made it is living.

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That's why even the first covenant
was inaugurated with blood.

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For when every command had been proclaimed
by Moses to all the people

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according to the law,

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he took the blood of
calves and goats,

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along with scarlet wool and hyssop,

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and sprinkled the scroll itself
and all the people saying,

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this is the blood of the covenant
that God has ordained for you.

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In the same way he sprinkled the tabernacle
and all the articles of

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worship with blood.

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According to the law,

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almost everything is purified
with blood.

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And without the shedding of blood,

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there is no forgiveness.

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All right.

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Long passage.

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Let's kind of consider it.

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Pray with me.

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Father, thank you for your word,

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God. I just thank you that you've
explained it all to us.

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I thank you,

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God, that you revealed yourself.

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Genesis to revelation.

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You have shown us yourself.

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You've shown us what you planned,

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desired, what you have accomplished.

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And God,

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even in this,

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that little word,

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those who are called God,

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thank you for calling our names.

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Thank you for adopting us
and making us yours.

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God. Now,

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by your spirit,

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by your strength,

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by your power,

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help us to live that calling,

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that identity.

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And we pray it in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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It's interesting when you
consider scripture,

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that there are a lot of different
schools of thought in scripture.

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A lot of people think a lot of different
things about what the Bible

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says. And one of the things schools of
thought is a reference to covenant

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or covenant theology and the various
covenants that are established

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throughout scripture.

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And, you know,

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I've always said,

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you know,

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when I start to put God's word
and God in a system,

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then I'm the one that's establishing
the understanding,

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and I am finite and God is infinite.

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So there,

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I'm going to tell you what essentially
are six covenants that are

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identified in scripture.

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Some of them are between
God and an individual,

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but have an impact on
a broader community.

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Two of them specifically are what
the book of Hebrews talks about.

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So here you go.

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You got the,

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what is referred to as
the adamic covenant,

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where in the curse,

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God said to Adam,

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you know,

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because of your sin,

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you're gonna have to work.

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You're gonna have to work all the rest
of your days just to provide for

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yourself.

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Then you got the Noah covenant,

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which God said to Noah,

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guess what?

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From here on out,

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no more floods.

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I will not destroy the word
by the world by flood.

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And here's my bow in the heavens,

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which I,

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years ago,

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wanted to get me a bumper
sticker even before the.

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The more current craziness
that's going on now.

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But back in the nineties,

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I wanted to have a bumper sticker
made that just said,

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redeem the rainbow.

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Right? Because it seems like
every little group,

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and it's got a different idea,

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wants to take the rainbow
away from God.

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Well, you can't.

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It's his.

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The abrahamic covenant,

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which is the promise God made to Abraham
and his descendants for a

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nation, a name,

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and a land.

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Those three things are promised
in Genesis twelve.

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And then you got the
mosaic covenant,

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which is the reference to the law,

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the obedience to the law,

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and God's blessing based on
obedience to the law.

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You see also the outworking
of that in Hebrews.

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When God says about the covenant
I made with them,

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when I brought them out of the land
of Egypt and they broke it,

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God says that.

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Then you got the davidic covenant,

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which is the promise
God made to David,

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that he would have a descendant on
the throne for all eternity.

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Right? And then the new covenant,

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which is the messianic covenant that
God has established in Christ.

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So when you see all those things,

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you're like,

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okay, wow.

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There are a lot of agreements
between God and people,

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humanity.

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But we look in Hebrews and we keep
seeing this reference to first

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covenant, new covenant.

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We read in Hebrews chapter eight
the passage from Jeremiah,

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chapter 31,

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verses 31 to 34,

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where he says,

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see, the days are coming,

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says the Lord,

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when I will make a new covenant.

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And then we see how God sort of breaks
that out to establish the

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messianic covenant which
God has included us in.

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And so when we talk about
the new covenant,

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what we're referring to is
the present covenant,

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which, which we enjoy our
salvation as part of.

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So what I've been looking at
in the book of hebrews,

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I'm trying to understand.

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I'll just be honest.

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I've already preached this.

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I've preached it about three times
already in the book of hebrews.

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And so I started figuring out,

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now, what is he doing?

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So remember that the writer of
Hebrews is writing to what is

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predominantly a Jewish population
who has recognized Christ as the

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messiah and trusted in Christ,

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the Messiah,

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and the new covenant that Christ
established in his death,

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burial and resurrection,

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and that he inaugurated
in the upper room.

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All right,

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so you've got this JEwish population
acknowledging Christ,

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and then all the pressure that was
put on them for acknowledging the

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mesSiah. And some of
them were going,

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you know what?

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We might as well just
go back to the Lord.

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And the writer of Hebrews is going,

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why in the world would you go
back to an old covenant,

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an incomplete covenant?

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He even calls it an
obsolete covenant,

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when what we've got is
the new covenant,

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the perfected covenant.

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You see,

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that's what this is all about.

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So we've got the present covenant,

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which God has completed.

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And so I started looking
at this thing like a,

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like a spring.

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Y'all know.

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Do you know what a spring is if it's
not wound up like that wire?

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Y'all know that it just
a piece of wire.

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I got one right here in this pen.

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I think I was going to take it out,

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but then I wouldn't get
it back together.

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But what he does is he
makes the argument,

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or he makes the case for the messiah
and he establishes that,

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and he comes back and he makes it
again in the book of Hebrews.

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And he comes around and
he makes it again.

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And so what we're seeing
is this doubling up,

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this stacking of the argument
for Jesus Christ,

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Jesus the Christ,

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the anointed,

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the messiah,

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as God's provision in and
for the new covenant.

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And I'm just like,

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wow. All right,

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so let's read it.

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But Christ has appeared as a high priest
of the good things that have

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come in the greater and more
perfect tabernacle,

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not made with hands,

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that is not of this creation.

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So what we see there is,

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is he's just repeating the fact that
Christ went through the veil,

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the heavens,

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into heaven,

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the presence of God,

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to present the sacrifice once for
all for the sins of the world.

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So that's what he's establishing
there.

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And then in verse twelve,

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he says he entered the most holy
place once for all time.

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That's just repeating
what I've just said.

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We've already seen that not by the
blood of goats and calves,

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because we saw in a chapter past that
the blood of goats and calves can't

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make anybody perfect,

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you see?

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And so he's just establishing
this covenant,

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this sacrifice that Jesus made,

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but by his own blood having obtained
eternal redemption.

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He was perfected in that.

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Now people say,

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oh, well,

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that just means Jesus
wasn't perfect.

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No, he,

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that word perfected,

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that we translate that way,

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means he completed the work that
God set before him to do.

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You see,

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Jesus knew why he was here.

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I came to do.

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What did he say?

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Even as a kid,

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I came to do the work of my father.

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He wasn't talking about
Joseph and carpentry,

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you see?

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And so Jesus came to accomplish
what God had established,

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I believe,

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all the way back in creation,

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at the fall in Genesis three,

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when he said that,

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son, Satan's head would be crushed,

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God was foretelling,

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or he was telling us that Satan
would ultimately be defeated,

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you see?

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So he's just stacking it,

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man.

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He just keeps stacking
this thing up.

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So the covenant sacrifice that we get
to enjoy is the sacrifice that

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Jesus made for if the blood of goats
and bulls and the ashes of a young

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cow sprinkling those
who are defiled,

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sanctify for the purification
of the flesh.

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Here you go.

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Here's the good question.

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I like it.

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How much more will the
blood of Christ,

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who through the eternal spirit,

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offered himself without
blemish to God?

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Christ's blood.

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Not some old cow blood or goat blood or
lamb's blood or even dove's blood

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and all kind of sacrifices.

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They were offering not just some
animal out of your yard,

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but the Son of God,

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which in the early chapters
of Hebrews,

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the creator,

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the sustainer of the universe,

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the heir of all things.

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You see,

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the writer of Hebrews,

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by God's inspiration,

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is establishing the
only begottenness.

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Is that a word?

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The uniqueness the once for all time
work of Jesus Christ for us,

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you see,

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so that we.

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How much more will the
blood of Christ,

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who, through the eternal spirit,

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offered himself without
blemish to God,

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cleanse our consciences
from dead works?

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Now, what is that?

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Talking about the dead works is not.

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And we talked about this before.

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It's not the works of the law.

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Dead works is thinking
you can earn it.

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Dead works is thinking
you deserve it.

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Dead works is me believing.

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And this is the way
I like to put it.

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You know what?

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I was a little guy in school.

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I was really short.

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Still short,

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but I was a little guy,

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right?

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And what's funny about that is,

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is that I didn't typically get picked
first on the playground.

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Y'all know?

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I was that one at the back.

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And then finally they go,

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okay, Bobby,

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you come on our team,

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but stay out of the way.

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All right?

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But I've always put it this way.

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I always thought,

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you know what?

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We talked to God.

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We say,

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God, you did a good job getting
me on your team.

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Like we're something special,

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but we're not.

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God sees us in our sin
and loves us anyway,

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and redeems us,

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buys us back.

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By what?

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By the shed blood of his own son.

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So that.

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And this is the last phrase
of chapter of verse 14,

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so that we can serve the living God.

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Therefore, he is the mediator
of a new covenant.

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Talking about Jesus.

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Jesus is the mediator
of the new covenant,

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so that those who are called might receive
the promise of the eternal

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inheritance because a death has taken
place for the redemption from the

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transgressions committed under
the first covenant.

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Now, you get into that word called,

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and you.

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You know what?

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I went to Bible college and
I went to seminary,

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and I sat around tables and sat in the
common room in the dormitory and

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all that sort of thing.

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Folks love to talk about words.

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Y'all know that people really like
to break things down and give you

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their understanding of it.

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And it's always funny to me that
I never claimed to be smart.

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And so I would sit there
with people,

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and they would just.

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They deliver their understanding of
the word of God in the Bible.

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And they'd like,

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you know,

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I'm right and nobody else is.

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And da da.

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And I remember one guy
in my dormitory.

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I was sitting across from him,

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and I said,

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dude, you take yourself
way too seriously,

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right? Do you know what?

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If you're a believer this
morning in this place,

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then God called you.

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Okay?

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I believe that God calls us.

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He calls us by name.

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I believe he wants for us to come
after him in salvation.

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But I do believe there is at least an
element of human responsibility

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whereby people have to receive
the gift that God's offered.

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There has to be a response.

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Okay, that's not work.

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That's just.

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Thank you.

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Okay. But,

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boy, people like to
debate this stuff.

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So we've got the covenant sacrifice
that we live under in the present,

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and we've got the covenant cleansing
by the shed blood of Jesus Christ,

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which is this present cleansing
that we enjoy.

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And we're working in the
direction of what he's,

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what he's provided for us,

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that we might receive the promise of
the eternal inheritance because a

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death has taken place for redemption
from the transgressions committed

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under the first covenant.

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Then he breaks into this
little explanation,

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because where a will exists,

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the death of the one who made
it must be established.

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For a will is valid only
when people die,

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since it is never in effect while
the one who made it is living.

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This is why even the first covenant
was inaugurated with blood.

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So what we're seeing here is that
when God made this agreement,

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it was as if a testament,

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covenant, will,

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whatever you want to call it,

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God in the flesh,

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God the Son died on the cross,

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and he rose the third day.

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You see?

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Then he gets into this little story.

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And I thought this was interesting
because we just finished chapter

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eight, which quotes for us Jeremiah 31
31 to 34 that talks about the day

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is coming when I will make a new
covenant with my people.

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And then in the book of Hebrews,

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he's explaining then we,

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by adoption,

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are God's people.

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You see,

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we become a part of that family through
the shed blood of Christ and by

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adoption of God's own word.

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And so when we look at this,

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and then he starts talking about
Moses and all the people,

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according to the law,

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he took the blood of calves and
goats along with water,

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scarlet wool and hyssop.

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This says he sprinkled the scroll
itself and all the people.

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So they're at the base of Sinai.

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God's delivered the law.

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Moses has written it down.

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Moses takes blood of sacrifice.

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And what would y'all do if I stepped
up here and started slinging blood

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at you?

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Right? But that's the picture that's
painted all the way back there.

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In Exodus chapter 24,

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Moses steps up and he sprinkles
the people with blood,

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and he sprinkles the law with blood,

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and he sprinkles all the
articles of the,

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of the covenant with blood.

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He sprinkles the articles of
the tabernacle with blood.

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He sprinkles it all with blood.

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According to the law,

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almost everything is purified
with blood.

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And then something that I've always mentioned
as part of God's salvation

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and redemption economy is that without
the shedding of blood,

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there is no forgiveness.

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You see,

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because there's sin.

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Something has to die
because of our sin.

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We're supposed to die for the
wages of sin is death,

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but the gift of God is eternal life
through Christ Jesus our Lord.

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See, Christ died my death.

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Christ died your death.

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That substitution,

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you see?

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And it's in that substitution
that my sins are forgiven.

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Bible even says,

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into the sea of forgetfulness,

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you know who brings your
sin up to you?

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Satan. You know who likes to remind
you that you're worthless?

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Satan. You know what God tells
you you are valuable,

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precious. I'll go ahead
and say it special.

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You see?

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See, that's what I like about this book
of Hebrews and the case that God

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is making through this author to
keep layering this on for us to

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understand that this new covenant that
we looked at in Hebrews chapter

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eight, that was promised in
the book of Jeremiah,

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that those days are coming when
I will make a new covenant,

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it says,

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I will be their God.

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They will be my people.

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And you're not going to have to tell
each other about it because I'll

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write it on their hearts.

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So when somebody in this room say,

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you're getting together
with somebody,

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yesterday, it was real fun
that we were friends.

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Breakfast, men.

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If you missed it,

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well, sorry we ate all the bacon,

00:22:05.844 --> 00:22:08.436
but there is some over there this morning
because it's pancake breakfast

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morning, y'all.

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Camp fundraiser pancake
breakfast morning.

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Okay, so when you leave here,

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go eat pancakes and put
money in the bucket.

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But anyway,

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there's bacon,

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too.

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I'm just telling you.

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But it's funny that yesterday Tom Burns
got up and shared his testimony

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yesterday. It's very cool.

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Tom. Tom.

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I always tell folks,

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Tom got up,

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said what he wanted to say,

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and then sat down.

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Right? He just said it and sat down.

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And then people started
asking questions.

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But point was,

00:22:37.392 --> 00:22:41.776
when he shared the fact that he had a
conversation with God and God saved

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him, every christian in the room understood
what he was talking about.

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We didn't have to say,

00:22:47.168 --> 00:22:48.818
well, what do you mean?

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What do you mean God saved you?

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You know,

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the only people you have to explain
salvation to is the unsaved,

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the people that don't know.

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Because if you're a believer,

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if you've trusted Jesus for salvation
and received that gift of

00:23:03.386 --> 00:23:05.642
salvation, when we talk
to each other.

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We understand what we're
talking about.

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See, and that's what he's referring
to right there.

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This covenant that God's
made with us,

00:23:15.362 --> 00:23:16.498
this new covenant,

00:23:16.546 --> 00:23:18.774
this messianic covenant,

00:23:19.234 --> 00:23:22.454
it is the present covenant
of salvation.

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And God paid the price
for that covenant.

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We celebrate it.

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The book of Hebrews.

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It just goes over and over and over.

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And next week we're going
to finish chapter nine.

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And guess what?

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It goes back into the explanation of
the sacrifice that God's made,

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that Christ accomplished
on the cross.

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And then we get to chapter ten.

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And you know what my bible says?

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The title of chapter ten is?

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The perfect sacrifice.

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So guess what?

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You can count on the next two weeks
being the same message because God

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wants to anchor it in our
hearts and minds,

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in our very identity,

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in our being.

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You can't walk out into this world
questioning who you are in Christ

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because the world will attack you.

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Satan wants to defeat you.

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Do you know who you are?

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You're God's kid.

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Adopted through the shed
blood of Jesus Christ.

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Don't miss that.

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Enjoy that.

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

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guess what?

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We'll introduce you to him.

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We want you to know Jesus before
you leave here this morning.

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We want you to understand that
God loved you that much,

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all right?

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And that Christ died on the cross.

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And my mom told me.

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I remember when.

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When I prayed to receive Christ
at eight years old.

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I remember my mom.

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If you'd been the only person alive,

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Bobby, Jesus would have
died for you.

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That's how much God loved us.

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All right,

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let's pray.

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God, thank you for the morning
and the opportunity,

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God, that you give us to
gather in worship.

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God, I thank you that you
have explained it,

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God, you've explained it and you've explained
it and you've explained it

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again. And yet,

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God, sometimes we live our lives
as if we don't understand.

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And so,

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God, my prayer this morning was that all
of us who have been called to be

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your kids,

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God, that we'd understand
who we are,

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that we belong to you.

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And that,

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God, we'd go out into the world
living that identity,

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that people would see Jesus in us.

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God, that's my prayer.

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And if there's one here this morning
that doesn't know Jesus,

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God, we want him to know Jesus,

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I'd love to be able to sit down right
here on the front row and just

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share the truth of the gospel,

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the good news that Jesus
died for them.

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So, God,

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help us to share that all the time.

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God, as we sing,

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we want to praise you for
what you've done.

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In Jesus name,

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amen.