WEBVTT 00:00:04.152 --> 00:00:06.730 Today we're only covering three verses. 00:00:07.310 --> 00:00:08.970 We're in Hebrews. 00:00:09.270 --> 00:00:12.262 We are talking about the object of our faith, 00:00:12.326 --> 00:00:14.638 which is Jesus. 00:00:14.694 --> 00:00:15.966 It's all about Jesus. 00:00:15.966 --> 00:00:17.438 It's always about Jesus. 00:00:17.494 --> 00:00:19.006 It's only about Jesus. 00:00:19.118 --> 00:00:21.998 So we've been working our way through Hebrew and Hebrews, 00:00:21.998 --> 00:00:22.918 the book of Hebrews. 00:00:22.918 --> 00:00:24.518 And as God has revealed, 00:00:24.518 --> 00:00:25.878 see, I want to point this out. 00:00:25.878 --> 00:00:27.740 God, by inspiration, 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:33.040 has given this word for us to get a glimpse of him. 00:00:33.080 --> 00:00:35.784 He's revealing himself to us through his word, 00:00:35.832 --> 00:00:36.952 Genesis to revelation. 00:00:37.016 --> 00:00:38.680 God is revealing himself. 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:41.552 Yeah, the book of revelation is revelation. 00:00:41.656 --> 00:00:44.400 And it says in the beginning it's the revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:47.936 But all the word of God reveals to us the word of God. 00:00:47.936 --> 00:00:50.752 And so by inspiration to the writer of Hebrews, 00:00:50.752 --> 00:00:55.054 we get this accounting of what God has done from the beginning. 00:00:55.182 --> 00:00:59.926 And now we get up to chapter twelve to where he starts to sort of draw it 00:00:59.926 --> 00:01:00.734 all to the point. 00:01:00.734 --> 00:01:02.310 And I'm excited about it. 00:01:02.310 --> 00:01:06.214 And so a lot of outlines will only do verses one and two. 00:01:06.214 --> 00:01:07.414 As a point in the outline, 00:01:07.414 --> 00:01:10.750 I wanted to go ahead and include verse three for a reason. 00:01:10.750 --> 00:01:15.370 And Scott's last song right here with the morning glory is perfect for it. 00:01:14.734 --> 00:01:16.974 Okay, so as I read, 00:01:17.022 --> 00:01:20.318 I want you to consider everything that we've looked at. 00:01:20.318 --> 00:01:24.062 Remember that the book of Hebrews reveals that Jesus is the son and the 00:01:24.062 --> 00:01:27.686 heir. Jesus is the creator and sustainer. 00:01:27.838 --> 00:01:30.094 Jesus is the radiance of God's glory. 00:01:30.094 --> 00:01:34.174 Jesus is the exact expression of the essence of God. 00:01:34.262 --> 00:01:35.050 You see, 00:01:35.390 --> 00:01:37.078 Jesus is the, 00:01:37.254 --> 00:01:38.878 is the king of kings. 00:01:38.878 --> 00:01:41.278 Jesus is the highest priest. 00:01:41.414 --> 00:01:42.334 The covenant, 00:01:42.422 --> 00:01:43.734 the sacrificial system, 00:01:43.782 --> 00:01:46.550 the Old Testament law all point us to Jesus. 00:01:46.550 --> 00:01:48.342 So we've taken eleven chapter, 00:01:48.366 --> 00:01:51.006 well, ten and a half chapters that point. 00:01:51.080 --> 00:01:52.168 Then in chapter ten, 00:01:52.168 --> 00:01:55.704 we start to see God making his point through the books. 00:01:55.576 --> 00:01:56.928 And then we get chapter eleven, 00:01:56.928 --> 00:01:59.238 which it shows us in chapter eleven. 00:01:59.256 --> 00:02:02.208 All of the Old Testament faith, 00:02:02.264 --> 00:02:04.360 people who lived their lives by faith, 00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:07.984 people who got up in the morning and did faith things. 00:02:07.984 --> 00:02:08.568 All right, 00:02:08.568 --> 00:02:14.264 they did things that required their faith in what God has done and said. 00:02:14.392 --> 00:02:16.136 And so they stepped out in faith. 00:02:16.136 --> 00:02:20.314 I made a big point of Moses getting up one morning and deciding not to 00:02:20.314 --> 00:02:22.250 use his eyebrow pencil or eyeliner, 00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:23.240 whatever it was. 00:02:23.338 --> 00:02:27.218 Anyway, the idea that he was no longer going to live as Pharaoh's 00:02:27.218 --> 00:02:31.586 grandson or the son of Pharaoh's daughter and enjoy the wealth of Egypt 00:02:31.618 --> 00:02:34.018 and enjoy the privilege of Egypt and all that sort of thing. 00:02:34.018 --> 00:02:35.754 And he decided on that morning, 00:02:35.754 --> 00:02:36.706 whatever morning it was. 00:02:36.706 --> 00:02:37.226 I don't know, 00:02:37.226 --> 00:02:38.876 maybe it was a Tuesday, 00:02:39.250 --> 00:02:41.230 right? Moses got up and went, 00:02:41.234 --> 00:02:42.630 okay, not today. 00:02:42.930 --> 00:02:45.260 I'm going to to be a slave. 00:02:46.440 --> 00:02:51.448 He made a decision one day not to identify as Pharaoh's grandkid. 00:02:51.624 --> 00:02:55.264 Right? So my question lies in the fact that based on our faith, 00:02:55.264 --> 00:02:56.368 based on your faith, 00:02:56.368 --> 00:02:57.488 based on my faith. 00:02:57.488 --> 00:02:59.072 When we get up in the morning, 00:02:59.072 --> 00:03:00.728 what steps do we say? 00:03:00.824 --> 00:03:03.180 Because I belong to Jesus. 00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:05.856 Because. Because Jesus is. 00:03:05.888 --> 00:03:07.768 And as I was asked back there by Bill, 00:03:07.768 --> 00:03:10.838 because Jesus is lord of Lordse, 00:03:11.004 --> 00:03:13.470 he is master of my life. 00:03:14.090 --> 00:03:16.786 How will I conduct myself today? 00:03:16.858 --> 00:03:18.508 What choices will I make? 00:03:18.442 --> 00:03:20.098 What attitudes will I hold? 00:03:20.194 --> 00:03:24.430 How will my actions point to my faith in Christ, 00:03:24.930 --> 00:03:27.270 my faith in what God has done? 00:03:27.850 --> 00:03:29.500 So I titled today's message, 00:03:29.514 --> 00:03:30.870 Jesus did it. 00:03:31.250 --> 00:03:31.706 I mean, 00:03:31.706 --> 00:03:32.842 I didn't do it. 00:03:32.842 --> 00:03:34.378 I can't save myself, 00:03:34.554 --> 00:03:35.704 can't earn it, 00:03:35.842 --> 00:03:37.162 can't make it happen, 00:03:37.172 --> 00:03:38.356 don't deserve it. 00:03:38.468 --> 00:03:39.876 Some people get offended by that. 00:03:39.876 --> 00:03:40.580 Then I say, 00:03:40.580 --> 00:03:42.280 you don't deserve salvation. 00:03:42.700 --> 00:03:45.010 Cause we think pretty highly of ourselves. 00:03:46.820 --> 00:03:47.444 We think, 00:03:47.444 --> 00:03:47.884 you know, 00:03:47.884 --> 00:03:49.092 I love telling the joke. 00:03:49.092 --> 00:03:50.844 I was a short kid in school, 00:03:50.844 --> 00:03:51.174 y'all. 00:03:51.108 --> 00:03:51.420 I mean, 00:03:51.420 --> 00:03:56.160 peek. I'd been in a booster seat today until I was in 8th grade. 00:03:58.420 --> 00:03:59.740 So on a playground, 00:03:59.788 --> 00:04:02.840 picking, right when they're picking teams, 00:04:03.230 --> 00:04:04.290 not me. 00:04:05.150 --> 00:04:06.638 I was the little guy at the end. 00:04:06.638 --> 00:04:07.366 Go. Okay, 00:04:07.398 --> 00:04:09.170 Bobby, come on over here. 00:04:10.390 --> 00:04:13.910 I don't know that it warped me because once I got on the field, 00:04:13.910 --> 00:04:15.294 I messed with people. 00:04:15.462 --> 00:04:20.502 People don't see you coming when you're short on the basketball court. 00:04:20.566 --> 00:04:22.638 You can get under the basket and just do this. 00:04:22.638 --> 00:04:25.278 And people going up for layups fall down. 00:04:26.190 --> 00:04:29.820 It's not legal and you will get called for a foul, 00:04:30.050 --> 00:04:31.350 but it works. 00:04:33.690 --> 00:04:38.098 So we think of ourselves as the one that God did a good job picking me 00:04:38.098 --> 00:04:39.150 for his team. 00:04:40.610 --> 00:04:42.260 We think that God was. 00:04:42.282 --> 00:04:46.470 That we somehow warranted God's selection. 00:04:47.930 --> 00:04:48.962 Jesus did it. 00:04:48.986 --> 00:04:50.026 And so the question is, 00:04:50.026 --> 00:04:51.676 why did he do it? 00:04:51.970 --> 00:04:53.498 Why did he do it? 00:04:53.498 --> 00:04:54.218 Right? I mean, 00:04:54.218 --> 00:04:56.270 your Scott went out to. 00:04:57.530 --> 00:04:58.698 So he's not hearing this, 00:04:58.698 --> 00:04:59.590 but anyway. 00:05:00.130 --> 00:05:01.450 Hebrews twelve one three. 00:05:01.442 --> 00:05:02.290 This is how it reads. 00:05:02.290 --> 00:05:09.034 Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding 00:05:09.082 --> 00:05:13.730 us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares 00:05:13.770 --> 00:05:17.514 us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us. 00:05:17.514 --> 00:05:19.394 Keeping our eyes on Jesus, 00:05:19.522 --> 00:05:21.754 the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. 00:05:21.754 --> 00:05:23.404 Author and finisher is the. 00:05:23.458 --> 00:05:27.650 Is the traditional translation there for the joy that lay before him. 00:05:27.690 --> 00:05:28.714 He endured the cross, 00:05:28.714 --> 00:05:29.730 despising the shame, 00:05:29.770 --> 00:05:32.970 and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 00:05:32.970 --> 00:05:39.578 For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself 00:05:39.634 --> 00:05:43.386 so that you won't grow weary and give up. 00:05:43.458 --> 00:05:44.386 Let's pray. 00:05:44.578 --> 00:05:46.888 God, I thank you for this day. 00:05:46.770 --> 00:05:47.370 Day, God, 00:05:47.370 --> 00:05:50.348 that you have given for us to gather a. 00:05:50.474 --> 00:05:51.184 To worship, 00:05:51.232 --> 00:05:52.420 to celebrate, 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:54.760 to acknowledge God. 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:56.016 What you have accomplished, 00:05:56.016 --> 00:05:58.592 what you have done done on our behalf, 00:05:58.592 --> 00:05:59.160 for us, 00:05:59.160 --> 00:05:59.984 in us. 00:06:00.152 --> 00:06:00.656 And God, 00:06:00.656 --> 00:06:02.840 the things you want to do through us. 00:06:02.840 --> 00:06:03.296 And so, 00:06:03.296 --> 00:06:05.168 God, as this passage draws us, 00:06:05.168 --> 00:06:08.312 these three little verses draw us down to two words. 00:06:07.944 --> 00:06:08.900 Give up. 00:06:09.760 --> 00:06:13.976 God, help us not to give up. 00:06:14.088 --> 00:06:16.406 Help us not to grow weary. 00:06:16.568 --> 00:06:17.994 Help us to press on. 00:06:17.994 --> 00:06:18.984 To press on. 00:06:18.802 --> 00:06:19.870 To press on. 00:06:20.490 --> 00:06:22.978 Father, I thank you that you have a purpose, 00:06:22.978 --> 00:06:23.434 a plan, 00:06:23.434 --> 00:06:26.418 a design for your creation. 00:06:26.474 --> 00:06:26.898 But, God, 00:06:26.898 --> 00:06:29.208 you've got a design for my life. 00:06:30.330 --> 00:06:32.354 God, help me to stay so attentive, 00:06:32.354 --> 00:06:33.354 to stay so close, 00:06:33.354 --> 00:06:35.410 to draw so near with boldness, 00:06:35.530 --> 00:06:39.550 that I don't miss what you set before me. 00:06:40.130 --> 00:06:40.634 Thank you, 00:06:40.634 --> 00:06:41.954 God, for your love. 00:06:42.300 --> 00:06:46.080 Thank you that you love us most and best. 00:06:46.740 --> 00:06:48.228 Help us to love you back. 00:06:48.228 --> 00:06:49.820 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:06:49.820 --> 00:06:52.760 Amen. So why did he do it? 00:06:53.300 --> 00:06:55.156 There are several in these three verses. 00:06:55.156 --> 00:06:57.148 This is why I only did three verses this morning. 00:06:57.148 --> 00:07:02.084 There is a ton in these three verses that we need to pay attention to. 00:07:02.084 --> 00:07:06.660 There's no way I could have done 13 verses and then dealt with it in 20 00:07:06.660 --> 00:07:07.536 to 30 minutes. 00:07:07.628 --> 00:07:09.912 Okay, so I want you to notice something. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.368 For the joy that lay before him, 00:07:12.544 --> 00:07:14.792 he endured the cross. 00:07:14.896 --> 00:07:16.360 This is in verse two. 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:18.336 For the joy that lay before him, 00:07:18.336 --> 00:07:19.448 he endured the cross, 00:07:19.448 --> 00:07:20.440 despising the shame, 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:23.880 and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 00:07:23.880 --> 00:07:26.344 So I always say this, 00:07:26.392 --> 00:07:28.096 and some people get aggravated by it, 00:07:28.096 --> 00:07:28.408 you know, 00:07:28.408 --> 00:07:29.072 God the father, 00:07:29.072 --> 00:07:29.648 God the Son, 00:07:29.648 --> 00:07:30.968 God the Holy Spirit. 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:34.300 That's my best explanation of what it is. 00:07:34.950 --> 00:07:37.382 I have other people who want to say that's not. 00:07:37.382 --> 00:07:39.046 I want to argue about it and that sort of thing. 00:07:39.046 --> 00:07:39.630 And they want. 00:07:39.630 --> 00:07:41.610 Well, they've got it figured out. 00:07:41.622 --> 00:07:42.612 Some of them. 00:07:43.790 --> 00:07:46.006 Some of them have got God figured out. 00:07:46.006 --> 00:07:46.996 And I go, 00:07:48.270 --> 00:07:49.646 if you got him figured out, 00:07:49.646 --> 00:07:50.690 he ain't God. 00:07:52.390 --> 00:07:52.878 I mean, 00:07:52.878 --> 00:07:54.130 God is infinite. 00:07:54.750 --> 00:07:56.130 I am finite. 00:07:56.790 --> 00:07:57.850 And therefore, 00:07:58.270 --> 00:08:03.810 for me to have a full understanding of God is an impossibility. 00:08:05.370 --> 00:08:11.390 And yet I can see what God has revealed, 00:08:12.410 --> 00:08:14.630 what he's shown me of himself, 00:08:15.610 --> 00:08:21.794 and how I can have an understanding of that God of the universe who spoke 00:08:21.842 --> 00:08:23.230 the whole jungle. 00:08:23.690 --> 00:08:24.186 Well, no, 00:08:24.186 --> 00:08:25.176 that was Trudy. 00:08:25.186 --> 00:08:26.110 But anyway, 00:08:26.770 --> 00:08:30.070 who spoke the whole jungle into existence, 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:41.220 reached down through time and loved Bobby and called him and named him 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:43.740 and saved him. 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:47.820 And God died for him. 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:50.056 Man. 00:08:50.248 --> 00:08:53.548 Did y'all happen to notice Scott got a little emotional. 00:08:54.160 --> 00:08:55.500 When he was singing. 00:08:57.410 --> 00:08:59.060 It's in the empty tomb. 00:08:59.074 --> 00:09:01.550 It's on the rugged cross. 00:09:02.010 --> 00:09:03.660 Why did he do it? 00:09:03.802 --> 00:09:06.950 For the joy that lay before him. 00:09:09.050 --> 00:09:14.002 That God could look down through the ages and see my face and your face, 00:09:14.106 --> 00:09:17.190 our faces and say, 00:09:18.730 --> 00:09:20.230 I can save them. 00:09:22.860 --> 00:09:24.680 I can save him. 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:32.188 I can save her for the joy set before him the salvation that Christ came 00:09:32.244 --> 00:09:32.904 to offer. 00:09:33.020 --> 00:09:34.440 I can save him. 00:09:35.620 --> 00:09:37.292 So why did he do it? 00:09:37.292 --> 00:09:38.282 Was it just. 00:09:38.980 --> 00:09:40.960 He had to follow God's plan? 00:09:41.420 --> 00:09:42.444 He just had to. 00:09:42.444 --> 00:09:47.372 If you go back to the garden when you know poor Malchus's ear gets cut 00:09:47.372 --> 00:09:49.186 off, Jesus said, 00:09:49.218 --> 00:09:50.242 don't you guys know? 00:09:50.242 --> 00:09:55.950 I could call down twelve legions of angels right now to protect us. 00:09:58.090 --> 00:10:03.070 But for the joy that my father has set before me, 00:10:03.770 --> 00:10:05.420 I'm going to the cross, 00:10:06.490 --> 00:10:08.978 man. And I look at that. 00:10:09.074 --> 00:10:10.538 So here's what I want to ask you. 00:10:10.538 --> 00:10:14.190 Ready? Why do we live by faith? 00:10:15.110 --> 00:10:17.370 Why do you do it right? 00:10:17.670 --> 00:10:19.170 Ever had to sacrifice? 00:10:19.590 --> 00:10:21.174 Ever been persecuted? 00:10:21.302 --> 00:10:22.446 Ever been through trials, 00:10:22.446 --> 00:10:24.326 folks, we've been rocked around here this week, 00:10:24.326 --> 00:10:25.646 just so you know. 00:10:26.150 --> 00:10:29.090 We've had some mortars lobbed into our foxhole, 00:10:29.710 --> 00:10:31.050 just so you know. 00:10:32.510 --> 00:10:34.134 And so I look around and I go, 00:10:34.134 --> 00:10:34.630 okay, God, 00:10:34.630 --> 00:10:37.014 why? And God goes, 00:10:37.142 --> 00:10:38.450 can't tell you. 00:10:39.800 --> 00:10:44.304 Cause a lot of times we can't understand what it is that God is at work 00:10:44.304 --> 00:10:51.712 on. Sometimes we can't understand how God is moving the pieces for our 00:10:51.816 --> 00:10:54.088 good, for his kingdom's good. 00:10:54.144 --> 00:10:54.808 You see, 00:10:54.944 --> 00:10:55.928 we can look at our lives, 00:10:55.928 --> 00:10:57.248 say, that's not good. 00:10:57.560 --> 00:10:58.216 And God says, 00:10:58.216 --> 00:10:59.320 yeah, but you don't see the good. 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:05.752 I see the conversation that I had this week about God using our trials 00:11:05.776 --> 00:11:08.630 and sufferings to refine us, 00:11:11.410 --> 00:11:16.298 to do what ultimately is to transform us into the image of his son. 00:11:16.434 --> 00:11:18.744 If you're going through trials and suffering, 00:11:18.850 --> 00:11:22.870 yay. Isn't that sarcastic of me? 00:11:24.130 --> 00:11:25.120 The point's there, 00:11:25.162 --> 00:11:26.110 though, folks. 00:11:26.890 --> 00:11:32.274 God is transforming us into the image of his son from one degree of glory 00:11:32.322 --> 00:11:33.312 to the next. 00:11:33.870 --> 00:11:39.330 And sometimes it hurts for the joy that lay before him. 00:11:39.630 --> 00:11:41.010 He endured the cross, 00:11:41.350 --> 00:11:45.050 most brutal form of execution, 00:11:47.430 --> 00:11:48.502 probably forever, 00:11:48.566 --> 00:11:49.556 I don't know, 00:11:49.870 --> 00:11:51.646 despising the shame. 00:11:51.798 --> 00:11:52.510 Here he is, 00:11:52.510 --> 00:11:53.414 the Lord, 00:11:53.502 --> 00:11:54.382 the creator, 00:11:54.446 --> 00:11:55.086 the Son, 00:11:55.086 --> 00:11:55.654 the heir, 00:11:55.654 --> 00:11:56.358 all of those things. 00:11:56.358 --> 00:11:57.734 I said it a minute ago, 00:11:57.734 --> 00:11:59.750 and he is subjected to the shame, 00:11:59.750 --> 00:12:09.842 shame of the Roman Empire and the religious leaders of his day sat down. 00:12:10.026 --> 00:12:11.610 So then let's back up. 00:12:11.610 --> 00:12:15.362 Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses. 00:12:15.386 --> 00:12:19.906 Now, I've heard this preached that the folks of heaven are all watching 00:12:19.938 --> 00:12:21.588 to see how we do. 00:12:23.690 --> 00:12:25.378 I don't think that's the case. 00:12:25.378 --> 00:12:25.916 All right. 00:12:25.916 --> 00:12:27.236 Just so y'all know, 00:12:27.268 --> 00:12:29.578 what it's referring to is chapter eleven. 00:12:29.660 --> 00:12:31.492 Moses, by making a choice, 00:12:31.556 --> 00:12:35.268 is a witness to us of what it means to live by faith. 00:12:35.268 --> 00:12:36.308 Moses wasn't a great guy, 00:12:36.308 --> 00:12:36.920 y'all. 00:12:37.340 --> 00:12:39.650 Moses tried to get out of it. 00:12:39.660 --> 00:12:43.760 Moses made every excuse not to be a leader among God's people. 00:12:44.540 --> 00:12:45.476 I stutter. 00:12:45.588 --> 00:12:46.836 I can't go talk to Pharaoh. 00:12:46.836 --> 00:12:48.486 I just left his house. 00:12:48.396 --> 00:12:50.950 He'll kill me because I killed that guy. 00:12:50.950 --> 00:12:52.158 He tried to get out of it. 00:12:52.158 --> 00:12:52.518 God said, 00:12:52.518 --> 00:12:52.878 all right, 00:12:52.878 --> 00:12:54.528 I'll send you a brother, 00:12:55.150 --> 00:12:57.130 but you gotta go with him. 00:12:57.230 --> 00:12:59.974 Right. Think about Abraham. 00:13:00.102 --> 00:13:00.774 By faith. 00:13:00.822 --> 00:13:01.430 By faith. 00:13:01.430 --> 00:13:01.918 By faith. 00:13:01.918 --> 00:13:04.350 We spent all of chapter eleven talking about by faith, 00:13:04.350 --> 00:13:04.870 by faith, 00:13:04.870 --> 00:13:05.390 by faith, 00:13:05.390 --> 00:13:05.942 by faith. 00:13:05.942 --> 00:13:06.530 Right? 00:13:07.230 --> 00:13:10.878 All of those by faith statements are not because those were great men. 00:13:10.878 --> 00:13:14.838 It's because they lived out their faith in what God had done, 00:13:14.918 --> 00:13:16.342 what God had accomplished. 00:13:16.406 --> 00:13:18.486 And we're called to do the same thing. 00:13:18.486 --> 00:13:19.516 By their witness, 00:13:19.588 --> 00:13:23.268 they have witnessed to us what a life of faith looks like. 00:13:23.268 --> 00:13:25.248 And now we gotta do it. 00:13:25.420 --> 00:13:28.012 Okay. We walk by faith. 00:13:28.196 --> 00:13:29.932 We live by faith, 00:13:30.116 --> 00:13:31.280 not by sight. 00:13:32.140 --> 00:13:32.980 Right? You see, 00:13:32.980 --> 00:13:35.290 that's what the New Testament tells us. 00:13:36.340 --> 00:13:38.620 Let us lay aside every hindrance. 00:13:38.740 --> 00:13:40.060 What are the hindrances? 00:13:40.164 --> 00:13:40.920 Sin. 00:13:42.980 --> 00:13:43.900 This is not like. 00:13:43.900 --> 00:13:45.908 Okay, this is a hindrance and this is a sin. 00:13:45.908 --> 00:13:48.326 No hindrances to living by faith. 00:13:48.428 --> 00:13:49.430 Our sin. 00:13:50.610 --> 00:13:51.510 Okay. 00:13:52.370 --> 00:13:54.470 Set aside the sin. 00:13:55.050 --> 00:13:57.150 Don't make excuses for sin. 00:13:58.250 --> 00:14:03.390 Okay? Set it aside because it does easily ensnare us. 00:14:04.010 --> 00:14:05.000 You know why? 00:14:04.658 --> 00:14:07.922 Because we're that kid standing, 00:14:08.026 --> 00:14:09.922 standing in the middle of the living room going, 00:14:09.922 --> 00:14:11.070 I want it. 00:14:13.250 --> 00:14:16.220 I want what I want when I want it. 00:14:20.860 --> 00:14:23.036 Keeping our eyes on Jesus. 00:14:23.148 --> 00:14:25.204 Fix your eyes on Jesus, 00:14:25.252 --> 00:14:28.564 the author and finisher of your faith. 00:14:28.692 --> 00:14:31.400 Keeping our eyes on Jesus, 00:14:31.740 --> 00:14:33.060 the pioneer and perfect. 00:14:33.084 --> 00:14:35.394 So what is it that Jesus did? 00:14:36.660 --> 00:14:38.680 Jesus suffered. 00:14:39.500 --> 00:14:44.120 And what the word says is he suffered in every way that we suffer. 00:14:44.550 --> 00:14:47.370 Right? He endured. 00:14:49.310 --> 00:14:53.210 He endured the opposition of Satan himself. 00:14:54.830 --> 00:14:55.570 Right? 00:14:56.430 --> 00:15:02.246 He endured all of those things and the beating and the cross and all of 00:15:02.278 --> 00:15:02.850 that. 00:15:05.190 --> 00:15:08.160 Why? For the joy that was set before him. 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:11.384 We fix our eyes on Jesus because he pioneered. 00:15:11.384 --> 00:15:11.960 And this. 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:15.696 The CSB translation uses the word pioneer and perfecter. 00:15:15.728 --> 00:15:17.460 Because he did it. 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:19.820 Jesus did it. 00:15:20.800 --> 00:15:23.168 He made his way through sinlessly. 00:15:23.344 --> 00:15:24.616 He suffered and died. 00:15:24.616 --> 00:15:25.660 He was buried. 00:15:26.160 --> 00:15:27.360 He rose again. 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.260 He's alive right now. 00:15:29.640 --> 00:15:31.950 At the right hand of the father. 00:15:32.400 --> 00:15:35.144 See? Right hand of the throne of Goddesse. 00:15:35.342 --> 00:15:37.284 He is the pioneer. 00:15:37.412 --> 00:15:40.692 He went into the presence of God. 00:15:40.716 --> 00:15:42.428 Remember I described a couple weeks ago, 00:15:42.428 --> 00:15:44.560 passing through the heavens into heaven. 00:15:46.380 --> 00:15:47.708 That translations, 00:15:47.804 --> 00:15:49.454 because it's an art form, 00:15:49.508 --> 00:15:50.596 not a science, 00:15:50.788 --> 00:15:52.236 that when he passed through the heavens, 00:15:52.236 --> 00:15:54.546 that can also be translated the veil. 00:15:54.860 --> 00:15:57.170 He passed through the heavens into heaven, 00:15:57.228 --> 00:16:00.880 because heaven is always defined as where God is. 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:03.120 See, I know as a kid, 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:05.296 I just look up at the clouds and, 00:16:05.296 --> 00:16:05.624 you know, 00:16:05.624 --> 00:16:09.254 I'm taught to imagine angels sitting on clouds with a heart. 00:16:09.520 --> 00:16:11.280 And I remember being taught that, 00:16:11.280 --> 00:16:12.728 okay, one day you'll be an angel. 00:16:12.728 --> 00:16:14.708 And the Bible never says that. 00:16:15.400 --> 00:16:17.710 You're not gonna be angels one day. 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.170 No, you're gonna be above the angels one day. 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:25.060 You see the promise of God. 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:29.220 And Jesus went there so that he could bring us there. 00:16:30.770 --> 00:16:32.818 He looked down through history and said, 00:16:32.818 --> 00:16:35.030 I can save him. 00:16:35.570 --> 00:16:38.310 I will save them, 00:16:38.810 --> 00:16:44.346 man, for the joy that lay before him. 00:16:44.378 --> 00:16:45.070 You see, 00:16:45.370 --> 00:16:48.670 the object of our faith is Jesus. 00:16:49.770 --> 00:16:54.314 Jesus. Fix your eyes on Jesus. 00:16:54.402 --> 00:16:57.010 Keeping your eyes on Jesus. 00:16:57.130 --> 00:16:58.450 I said it before, 00:16:58.800 --> 00:17:00.944 and this is where the word comes from. 00:17:00.944 --> 00:17:02.504 Remember the Sunday that I said? 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:03.304 When you get up in the morning, 00:17:03.304 --> 00:17:04.460 consider Jesus. 00:17:05.360 --> 00:17:06.600 When you stop for lunch, 00:17:06.600 --> 00:17:07.820 consider Jesus. 00:17:08.560 --> 00:17:09.912 When you go to bed at night, 00:17:09.912 --> 00:17:11.180 consider Jesus. 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:17.688 Right in between getting up lunch and going to bed, 00:17:17.824 --> 00:17:19.140 consider Jesus. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:29.830 For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself 00:17:30.210 --> 00:17:34.350 so that you won't grow weary and give up. 00:17:34.930 --> 00:17:36.580 Can I just tell you, 00:17:36.650 --> 00:17:39.620 Scott, have you been sitting there the whole time? 00:17:39.730 --> 00:17:40.394 Okay, good. 00:17:40.442 --> 00:17:41.162 Thank you. 00:17:41.306 --> 00:17:42.242 Man, I thought I, 00:17:42.242 --> 00:17:42.618 you know, 00:17:42.618 --> 00:17:44.290 you and I are in the same age category, 00:17:44.290 --> 00:17:47.260 so I thought I was starting to lose it. 00:17:50.540 --> 00:17:51.600 Here's the point. 00:17:53.340 --> 00:17:54.292 I know people. 00:17:54.292 --> 00:17:57.540 I know Christians who, 00:17:57.580 --> 00:17:58.372 after a struggle, 00:17:58.372 --> 00:17:59.228 throw up their hands and say, 00:17:59.228 --> 00:18:02.640 well, I prayed God didn't do anything. 00:18:04.380 --> 00:18:08.010 Why did God let this happen to me and my family? 00:18:09.420 --> 00:18:10.860 Right? Well, 00:18:10.940 --> 00:18:15.580 what for? 00:18:15.620 --> 00:18:20.200 Consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself. 00:18:21.500 --> 00:18:22.820 What did he do? 00:18:23.020 --> 00:18:25.680 What did Jesus do to deserve such hostility? 00:18:27.220 --> 00:18:30.740 Right? What did he do to deserve execution? 00:18:30.780 --> 00:18:32.360 Deserve execution, 00:18:33.780 --> 00:18:36.860 right? Here's the point. 00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:38.828 And I think it's the point. 00:18:38.580 --> 00:18:41.220 I'm going to share it as the point. 00:18:41.830 --> 00:18:45.170 He chose it for us. 00:18:47.870 --> 00:18:51.530 I will suffer for you. 00:18:51.950 --> 00:18:54.410 I will suffer in your place. 00:18:54.910 --> 00:18:59.210 I will die the death so that you don't have to, 00:19:01.030 --> 00:19:05.502 man. And yet we are so. 00:19:05.686 --> 00:19:08.082 Ooh, I'm included. 00:19:08.106 --> 00:19:08.762 I'm saying we, 00:19:08.762 --> 00:19:10.412 y'all. I'm not saying you. 00:19:10.458 --> 00:19:12.130 Y'all will notice when I preach, 00:19:12.130 --> 00:19:13.154 and most of the time, 00:19:13.154 --> 00:19:16.390 I use an inclusive pronoun in we. 00:19:19.170 --> 00:19:22.790 We can be so weak in our faith. 00:19:27.130 --> 00:19:32.910 Why? And I see people all the time I prayed. 00:19:36.180 --> 00:19:37.680 Y'all know my answer. 00:19:38.380 --> 00:19:41.556 When somebody throws their hands up and says something like that, 00:19:41.556 --> 00:19:42.280 I go, 00:19:42.780 --> 00:19:46.280 yay, right? 00:19:47.220 --> 00:19:49.628 Because I'm going to lean in. 00:19:49.644 --> 00:19:52.436 I didn't give it for this because I want you to go open your bible, 00:19:52.436 --> 00:19:53.172 open your app, 00:19:53.172 --> 00:19:54.162 open your whatever, 00:19:54.196 --> 00:19:59.228 and read this verse in the next week because this is where we start next 00:19:59.284 --> 00:20:02.442 week. In struggling against sin, 00:20:02.506 --> 00:20:07.430 you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 00:20:09.770 --> 00:20:11.510 Wow. Isn't that encouraging? 00:20:13.010 --> 00:20:14.670 All except one word, 00:20:15.730 --> 00:20:27.280 yet you have not yet suffered to the point of shedding your blood. 00:20:29.100 --> 00:20:32.172 I wonder about the folks in the middle of the struggle that go, 00:20:32.172 --> 00:20:33.400 I give up. 00:20:35.700 --> 00:20:37.500 Right, folks, 00:20:37.540 --> 00:20:38.652 we press on. 00:20:38.836 --> 00:20:40.252 Somebody asked me this week, 00:20:40.252 --> 00:20:40.556 you know, 00:20:40.556 --> 00:20:44.186 everybody, thank y'all all for always asking about mom and dad. 00:20:44.420 --> 00:20:44.908 I say, 00:20:44.908 --> 00:20:45.276 guess what? 00:20:45.276 --> 00:20:46.266 We press on. 00:20:46.980 --> 00:20:48.300 We just press on. 00:20:48.020 --> 00:20:50.400 Paul said we press on, 00:20:51.470 --> 00:20:52.478 so we press on, 00:20:52.478 --> 00:20:55.010 y'all. Alrighty. 00:20:55.910 --> 00:20:59.490 Alrighty. Jesus is the author, 00:20:59.830 --> 00:21:01.142 the finisher, 00:21:01.326 --> 00:21:02.622 the pioneer, 00:21:02.766 --> 00:21:04.054 the completion. 00:21:04.222 --> 00:21:06.450 He's the one that did it. 00:21:07.550 --> 00:21:13.010 And our victory is that in doing what, 00:21:13.390 --> 00:21:16.010 he prevented us from suffering. 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:23.740 He took us with him into the presence of our creator. 00:21:24.840 --> 00:21:27.540 We've got a relationship with him now. 00:21:28.360 --> 00:21:29.168 In the mornings, 00:21:29.168 --> 00:21:31.540 I wake up and feel defeated. 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:33.096 Oh, God, 00:21:33.168 --> 00:21:36.260 forgive me for feeling defeated. 00:21:37.320 --> 00:21:37.980 Oh, God, 00:21:37.992 --> 00:21:42.056 forgive me for doubting your love, 00:21:42.128 --> 00:21:43.016 our relationship. 00:21:43.048 --> 00:21:43.448 Oh, God, 00:21:43.448 --> 00:21:49.600 please forgive me for what I said or what I did or what I thought. 00:21:50.340 --> 00:21:50.940 Oh, God, 00:21:50.940 --> 00:21:52.200 please forgive me. 00:21:54.220 --> 00:21:57.190 See, my encouragement to you is to stay close, 00:21:59.260 --> 00:22:02.800 draw near with boldness. 00:22:03.100 --> 00:22:05.740 That's what we were told in chapter ten. 00:22:05.940 --> 00:22:06.948 Draw near. 00:22:07.084 --> 00:22:08.240 Don't miss it. 00:22:11.030 --> 00:22:11.702 All right. 00:22:11.806 --> 00:22:12.830 If you don't know Jesus, 00:22:12.830 --> 00:22:13.850 you need Jesus. 00:22:14.630 --> 00:22:16.622 He is the object of our faith. 00:22:16.622 --> 00:22:20.318 He is the point of why we gather. 00:22:20.494 --> 00:22:21.670 If you don't know Jesus, 00:22:21.670 --> 00:22:23.980 we want to introduce you to Jesus. 00:22:23.030 --> 00:22:25.370 Okay. All right, 00:22:26.470 --> 00:22:29.582 let's pray then. 00:22:29.606 --> 00:22:30.406 We're going to sing. 00:22:30.406 --> 00:22:31.534 Father, thank you for today. 00:22:31.534 --> 00:22:34.398 And thank you that you have loved us first, 00:22:34.398 --> 00:22:35.634 most, best, 00:22:35.822 --> 00:22:38.030 God, you've done things in our. 00:22:39.370 --> 00:22:40.778 In our existence, 00:22:40.874 --> 00:22:41.866 in our lives, 00:22:41.978 --> 00:22:42.638 for us, 00:22:42.650 --> 00:22:45.026 God, that we can't do ourselves. 00:22:45.098 --> 00:22:45.426 And so, 00:22:45.426 --> 00:22:46.306 God, my prayer is, 00:22:46.306 --> 00:22:49.226 is that we would draw near God. 00:22:49.258 --> 00:22:51.290 If there's even one person here who doesn't know Jesus, 00:22:51.290 --> 00:22:53.210 we want them to know Jesus. 00:22:53.210 --> 00:22:54.860 We want to introduce them. 00:22:55.450 --> 00:23:06.000 God, I thank you that you loved us enough that for the joy of saving me, 00:23:07.380 --> 00:23:08.680 Jesus, you died. 00:23:10.020 --> 00:23:11.000 Thank you. 00:23:11.340 --> 00:23:12.660 Thank you for that. 00:23:13.780 --> 00:23:16.532 God, help us to draw near as we sing this song. 00:23:16.532 --> 00:23:18.012 If there are those that need Jesus, 00:23:18.012 --> 00:23:19.260 let them really draw near. 00:23:19.260 --> 00:23:20.724 And I pray it in Jesus name. 00:23:20.772 --> 00:23:20.980 Amen.