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We're still in Hebrews,

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y'all, the object of our faith,

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which is Jesus.

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Hebrews is all about Jesus.

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Hebrews points out from the Old Testament
where we see Jesus through the,

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through the promises of God,

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the covenant of God,

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through the people of God,

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through the nation of God,

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through the priests of God,

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through the tabernacle,

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through the sacrificial
system of God,

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and how all of that points
us to Jesus,

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that we can focus our hearts and our
minds and our identity on who Jesus

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is. That's the Old Testament
in a nutshell.

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Okay, we get to the New Testament.

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We see the gospels,

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where it tells us about the birth
of Jesus and the life of Jesus,

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and the ministry of Jesus,

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and how Jesus has served and
accomplished God's purpose,

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plan and progress toward redemption,

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for redemption,

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our redemption,

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so that we are bought back
from sin and death.

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And so we celebrate that as we've
been working through Hebrews.

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Here's what I realized,

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and this is the way I've
been describing it.

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Hebrews is the book that provides
the binding for the Old and New

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Testament. It tells us the Old Testament
and how it all leads up to Jesus.

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And then New Testament tells
us all about Jesus,

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and the New Testament congregation
of Jesus,

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and the book of Hebrews just kind of
puts it all together like that.

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And I'm excited that as we finish
chapter nine today,

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we're starting to work
toward the end of it.

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Not that I'm glad we're
finishing it,

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but I like that it comes to its sort
of conclusion and culmination.

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All right,

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Hebrews, chapter nine,

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verses 23 to 28.

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Ready?

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Go. All right.

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Therefore, it was necessary for the copies
of the things in the heavens

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to be purified with
these sacrifices,

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but the heavenly things themselves,

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themselves to be purified with
better sacrifices than these.

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For Christ did not enter a sanctuary
made with hands only a model of the

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true one,

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but into heaven itself,

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so that he might now appear in
the presence of God for us.

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He did not do this to offer himself many
times as the high priest enters

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the sanctuary yearly with
the blood of another.

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Otherwise he would have had to suffer
many times since the foundation of

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the world.

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But now he has appeared one time
at the end of the ages,

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for the removal of sin by the
sacrifice of himself.

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And just as it is appointed
for people to die once,

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and after this judgment,

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so also Christ,

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having been offered once to
bear the sins of many,

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will appear a second time,

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not to bear sin,

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but to bring salvation to those
who are waiting for him.

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Now, I love the summary of
the book of Hebrews.

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Okay.

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I love how the book just presents
this very organized,

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almost meticulous explanation
of God's plan of salvation.

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Because what we get in the book of
Hebrews from chapter one and just

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continuing through,

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God has spoken.

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He says that in these last days,

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he has spoken through his son Jesus.

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Because in the past,

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he spoke through angels,

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and he spoke through prophets
and all that sort of thing.

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But now he has spoken
through his son.

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His son,

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who is the heir of all things.

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It means Christ inherits everything
that God has done.

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Godfather to God,

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the Son.

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Right? He is the creator,

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because through him,

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all things were created
and all things exists.

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He is the creator of all things.

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Jesus is the sustainer
of all things.

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And then it goes on to say that he
is the radiance of God's glory.

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So if you think of the glory of
God as a shining presence,

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as this fire from heaven,

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as the pillar of fire that led the
people of Israel out of Egypt,

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did you think of fire on the altar in
the tabernacle or abiding on the

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mercy seat?

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This is Jesus.

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This is the radiance of
the glory of God.

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And then it says,

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he is the exact expression
of the essence of God.

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And so by the understanding
of the finite,

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to try to have a conception or a
perception of the infinite God,

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you see,

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God has explained himself and who
Christ is as God the son.

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And then we start working our way into
Hebrews as to what Jesus has

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accomplished. The superiority of
Jesus as the Son to angels,

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to prophets.

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Jesus is the superior apostle,

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the one who brought the superior
message of God.

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Jesus is the superior high priest,

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the highest of high priests.

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Jesus is the king of kings.

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And so you get this sort of
the writer of Hebrews,

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by inspiration of God,

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has laid it out for us that we should
pay attention to Jesus.

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I mean,

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every day,

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all day,

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we should focus our hearts,

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our minds,

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our lives on Jesus.

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Jesus is not just that person and personage
of our faith that we put on a

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membership card and stick
in our wallet.

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We should be thinking about
the presence of Christ,

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the Holy Spirit,

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in our lives all day long,

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every day.

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For instance,

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think about the words you use.

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I work construction.

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It's funny today that I'll get
around folks you know,

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and folks that,

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you know,

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they abide in the world,

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and they'll use the kind of
vocabulary of the world,

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and then they'll realize that.

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Here you go.

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You ready?

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This is my other name.

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My name's Bobby,

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y'all, if you didn't know.

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But my other name is Preacher.

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Cause that's what everybody
calls me.

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But anyway,

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so then they'll realize the preacher's
standing there and they'll go,

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oh, sorry,

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preacher. Excuse me,

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preacher. My thought is always,

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you know what?

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I worked construction
for about six years.

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You ain't said anything
I hadn't heard before.

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But offending me is not the issue,

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right? Offending me
is not the issue.

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But you see,

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the whole point of this thing is,

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is that I need to consider Christ
in the words I use,

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in my behavior,

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in my actions,

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everything that I am,

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because I am.

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What does Paul say?

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Paul says,

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we are ambassadors for Christ.

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That is our identity.

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You know,

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there was a song that came
out years ago that said,

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what if you're the only
Jesus some people see?

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What's that Jesus look like?

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I've shared with you the story.

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Had the opportunity to visit with
Randy and Cindy a few weeks ago.

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Sarah Johnson,

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who used to lead the band here,

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she once said to me in a meeting,

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she says,

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bobby, I just don't feel
very jesusy right now.

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I love that comment.

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Because the truth is,

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we know we go through times where
we don't feel very Jesus y,

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but the truth is,

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we're supposed to be Jesus
y all the time.

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That's what Hebrews is all about.

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That's why there are four very significant
warnings in Hebrews,

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and we're going to get to the fourth
one in chapter ten in just a few,

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in next couple of weeks.

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So what is this sort of transition summation
that we have right here at

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the end of chapter nine?

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It's that Jesus Christ,

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the son,

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the air,

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all of these things,

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is the superior sacrifice of God.

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You see,

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he rises above all of those other
sacrifices that we've seen,

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all the things that he
talks about in here,

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the blood of bulls and goats
and all that sort of thing,

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so that when we get into verse 23,

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it says,

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therefore, see,

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he's talked about all this.

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The blood of bulls and ghosts,

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the shadow tabernacle,

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the real tabernacle,

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the high priest,

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all of the stuff from
the Old Testament.

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He said it was necessary for the copies
of the things in the heavens.

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Remember, we talk about the shadows tabernacle
versus the real tabernacle

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of God,

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because God told Moses,

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build it like what you have seen.

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So God showed Moses the tabernacle,

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and it says,

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the copy that Moses made had to be purified
with the sacrifices of blood

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and blood and goats and
bulls and whatever,

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but the heavenly things themselves to
be purified with better sacrifices

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than these.

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So that almost paints a picture that
somehow Jesus went and purified the

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heavenly tabernacle.

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No, the heavenly tabernacle is pure.

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The heavenly tabernacle is perfect.

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The heavenly tabernacle is a holy
place of God's dominion,

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dwelling and abiding presence.

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So what holy things is being purified
when Jesus gets there?

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For Christ did not enter a sanctuary
made with hands,

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which is only a model
of the true one.

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But Christ entered heaven itself so
that he might now appear in the

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presence of God for us.

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See, we are heavenly things.

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We are eternal.

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Now, there's some folks like to preach
out there that when you die,

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you just get snuffed out.

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Somehow you don't exist anymore.

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That's not what the Bible teaches us.

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See, we are eternal
in our existence,

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not physically,

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but spiritually speaking.

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And so Christ appeared in
the presence of God to.

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To purify people,

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to make us whole,

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to make us perfect,

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to make us in that place and position
and state whereby we can enter

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God's presence.

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The veil is torn.

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We get to walk into the
holy of holies,

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into the presence of our
heavenly Father,

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the presence of God.

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And I look at this,

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I go,

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wow, this is what we've been.

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Sorry, we've been nine chapters leading
up to what it's going to be like,

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y'all, when we walk into the heaven,

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into the presence of heaven,

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our Father.

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What's it going to be like to be.

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To be at the throne,

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to know the perfection,

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to know what it's what?

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Yeah, it's unexplainable.

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I listened this morning to a song that
talked about the unexplainable.

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See, I can't stand up here and tell
you what it's going to be like to

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enter the presence of God.

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I can only tell you that it's.

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I can't explain it to you.

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Told you a few weeks ago,

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that song,

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I can only imagine is just a lie.

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Cause you can't even imagine
what it's gonna be like.

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I can't only imagine.

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I can't even imagine what.

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When imperfection,

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apart from all of my flaws,

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apart from this physical body
breaking down in my sixties,

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apart from all of those things,

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I'm gonna walk into the
presence of God.

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And it's not gonna be that
all of a sudden go,

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oh, my knee's fixed.

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No, that's not gonna be it.

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It's going to be,

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I walk into the presence of God and
go and fall on my face before the

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purity and the holiness,

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the perfection,

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the overwhelming grace
and mercy and love.

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And folks,

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I think it's going to be tangible,

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like we could touch it
to be in his presence.

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You see,

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that's the heavenly tabernacle,

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and Christ is the heavenly sacrifice
that makes it possible.

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Verse 25,

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it says,

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he did not do this to offer himself
many times as a high priest enters

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the sanctuary yearly with
the blood of another.

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Otherwise he would have had to suffer
many times since the foundation of

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the world.

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But now,

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now he has appeared one time at the
end of the ages for the removal of

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sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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The end of the ages for
the removal of sin.

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At the culmination of time,

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God appears,

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Christ appears to offer the
sacrifice for all sin.

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You see?

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So when I look at this,

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I'm like,

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wow. Remember I've told you there are
being a pastor all these years and

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meeting with folks whose lives are.

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I don't know how to
word this nicely,

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but meeting with folks
whose lives are,

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let's say,

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more. Done.

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Coming to closer to completion,

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right? Is that a good way to put it?

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Okay, thank you.

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I'm trying to be nice.

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And I say,

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I ask them,

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I love asking them,

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because there is an anxiety,

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an angst about the fact
that as we get older,

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we know we've got less time on this side
of the hill than the other side

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of the hill,

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right? And once you cross the hill,

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I always tell folks,

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guess what?

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It's faster down the other side,

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man, it speeds up.

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You know,

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I talk about vacations.

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The greatest vacation you ever took.

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What was it?

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Y'all remember me doing this illustration
a few weeks ago?

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The greatest vacation you ever took.

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What did you do?

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Did you plan it?

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Well, of course.

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Knew where you were going.

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Did you plan the kind of activities you
wanted to do when you got there?

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Well, of course,

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because you,

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nowadays, you just go to what,

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trip advisor or something
crazy like that.

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But you plan it.

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I'm gonna do this,

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and on this day,

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I'm gonna do this,

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and on that day,

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I'm gonna do that.

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And you plan the trip.

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I tell folks,

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why don't we take God's trip advisor
and google heaven and then work

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through God's word and just envision
all the promises of God that deal

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with heaven and plan the greatest vacation
that there could ever possibly

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be, right?

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It's like,

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wow, God,

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I get to do that.

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I mean,

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Isaiah saw this vision of the throne
and God on his throne and the train

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of his robe filling the temple and the
angels around the throne singing,

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holy, holy,

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holy.

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And I get to sing with angels one
day without some director going,

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hey, you're not on key.

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Right. You see,

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I get to be there in the
presence of God.

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I get to.

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What we do here is a
shadow of worship,

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y'all. Can I go ahead
and tell you that?

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I mean,

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I think we do pretty good,

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but it's just a shadow,

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right? It's not being in the throne
room of God and singing his praise

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now. Yes.

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Spiritually speaking,

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yes. You know what he is.

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There was a song years ago called
the audience of one.

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Theologically, I think it's
an audience of three.

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But anyway,

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audience of one.

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God is our audience when we sing,

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y'all, you know,

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but I see some of your faces sometime
when the guy singing next to you is

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off key,

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and you go,

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well, you're not the audience.

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God's the audience.

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He's not listening to the key.

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He's listening to the heart.

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So when you sing in this room,

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are you singing with the motivation
of your heart to praise God,

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to exalt him,

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to elevate him,

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to bring him glory?

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That's what our shadow
worship is all about,

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is that we lift high
the name of Jesus,

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that we worship him.

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Because these few verses right here,

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this transitional statement,

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as we get ready for chapter ten,

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as God brings the story of his redemptive
process to a conclusion.

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In the book of Hebrews,

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what we see is heavenly completion.

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And just as it is important
for people to die once,

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and after this judgment,

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so also Christ,

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having been offered once to
bear the sins of many,

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will appear a second time.

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Look out.

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I'm going to tell y'all something.

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People love to ask preachers
questions like this,

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don't they,

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Scott?

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You think we're in the end times?

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I've been saying yes for
about 40 years now.

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Cause anybody,

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when they ask that question,

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they want to know,

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is it tomorrow?

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Here's what I always say,

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two things I always say.

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I say,

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well, if it.

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We're closer today than
we were yesterday.

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That's my favorite answer.

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Okay. But then I also say,

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if it were to happen in
the next 30 seconds,

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okay, not this time.

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But I wouldn't be surprised now,

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because I think God has brought it
all to a point of his exaltation.

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Okay, now,

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do I believe that there are going to
be people who think they're going

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that aren't?

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Sure I do.

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I think the Bible teaches us that.

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So what is the warning of Hebrews?

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The first warning of
Hebrews is beware.

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Beware of drifting.

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And I think it's really a drifting
from the zeal of our faith,

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says, beware of unbelief as in
the days of the rebellion.

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This is all in Hebrews.

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This is the second warning.

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Beware of unbelief,

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as in the days of the rebellion when the
people of God didn't believe God

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was God and he could do what
he said he was going to do.

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Then the third one is,

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beware the rejection of belief,

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of faith.

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We're going to get to chapter
ten where it says,

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beware of rejecting God.

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Just turning your back on God.

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You see,

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that's the warning.

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We've got them this morning.

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So I see in this,

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the one time Christ,

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Christ was offered to pay for sin.

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The second time he comes back is to
bring the blessing of salvation,

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you see,

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to announce the.

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And then I've heard the songs.

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How many of y'all remember a group?

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Now this is going to age me
a little bit in the faith.

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You ready?

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How many of you remember a group called
Milan Lefebvre and Broken Heart?

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Right back in the eighties,

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I think,

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wasn't it?

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They used to sing a song called come
on and crack the sky for me.

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And it was a cool song because it was
this picture of being able to

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recognize and realize that when Christ
comes in the eastern sky,

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I mean,

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the Bible talks about it,

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that a trumpet will sound that
all of creation hears.

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And I'm thinking,

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man, I remember a time in my life I
was walking around listening for

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trumpets.

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This is the promise of the covenant
that God has completed.

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Christ is the superior sacrifice that
establishes the heavenly completion

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of God's covenant.

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This is his promise to us.

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This is the will,

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the will,

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will and testament of our savior
and Lord Jesus Christ.

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God has made the promise.

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Do you know Jesus?

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See, if you don't know Jesus,

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you need Jesus.

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We want to introduce you to Jesus.

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Okay? I love this transition
at the end of nine.

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Cause next week we get to get to another
one of those statements where it

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says, so here's what we got.

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Well, I'm just telling you,

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here's what we got.

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And if you don't have Jesus,

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you need Jesus.

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We get to sing one more song.

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Now, if you know Jesus,

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and you're just worshiping in his presence
from your heart and just

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devoting and surrendering
yourself to him,

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then in this song,

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you just sing to him.

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Don't even worry if you're off key.

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But if you don't know Jesus,

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find somebody to introduce
you to Jesus.

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If it's me,

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I'll be standing right there.

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But I promise you,

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there are folks in this room that
can introduce you to Jesus.

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Okay?

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Pray with me.

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Father, thank you for today.

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Thank you that the promises of
your word are just that.

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They are covenant promises.

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And so,

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God, we can praise you this morning.

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And, God,

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we can be grateful and thank
you this morning,

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and we can exalt you this morning.

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And, God,

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we can,

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for our lives,

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mean your glory.

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And so,

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God, let us be glorifying God.

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Let our lives point to you.

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Let people in the world that use that
kind of language see us and go,

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oh, excuse me,

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not preacher,

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but excuse me,

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Jesus follower.

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Excuse me,

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because I know you follow Jesus.

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God, help us to represent you well.

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Help us to be that ambassador
for Christ in our lives.

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Thank you this morning for worship,

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and thank you for the opportunity we
have to celebrate fatherhood and

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fathers. And God,

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just lift up every father
in the room and pray,

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God, that you would just continue to
give wisdom and grace and strength,

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that we might be men who
represent you well.

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God, we thank you for loving us,

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and we pray it in Jesus name.

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Amen.