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 Would you take your copy of the Word of God and turn with me to Luke chapter 22?

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 Luke chapter 22, we're going to look at verse 14.

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 In just a few minutes, we are going to take communion together, or otherwise known as

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 the Lord's Supper, the Lord's Table.

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 How many of you grew up in church taking communion or the Lord's Supper?

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 Would you slip your hand up?

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 Good.

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 For many of you, this will be very familiar.

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 It'll feel normal.

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 The bread, the cup, the quiet reflection.

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 It's part of what we do in church.

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 For some of you, if you didn't grow up that way, it might feel very strange what we're

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 about to do.

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 And if we stop and think about it, it is kind of a strange practice.

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 But we're going to look at what Jesus teaches about it and say, why do we do this?

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 Why do we pass out a tiny little cracker and a tiny little cup of grape juice?

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 And why do we read in scripture that Jesus says, when you do this, this is my body and

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 this is my blood?

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 Sounds weird, doesn't it?

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 If you think about it.

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 If you didn't grow up with it and you're not used to it, then it might feel strange.

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 But it's also easy for those of us who did grow up with it to forget how truly radical

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 this is, how truly life-changing this practice is supposed to be.

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 So let's look at Luke chapter 22.

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 We'll look at verse 19 first.

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 And he took the bread, gave thanks and broke it.

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 And he gave it to them.

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 Of course, this is Jesus doing this.

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 And he said, this is my body given for you.

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 Do this in remembrance of me.

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 In the same way, after the supper, he took the cup saying, this cup is the new covenant

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 in my blood, which is poured out for you.

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 That's what this moment is all about.

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 Jesus for us.

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 You can actually summarize and reduce the gospel message or the good news story of Jesus down

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 to those three words.

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 Jesus for us.

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 He took our place.

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 And what he was doing with this practice, which he then said, do it in remembrance of me as

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 often as you'll do it.

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 Some churches do it every single Sunday, every time they meet.

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 Some churches do it once a month.

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 This church does it four times a year quarterly.

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 We'll gather together and we'll remember what Jesus did for us.

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 But it's not just a ritual.

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 So much more than a ritual.

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 And it's not just a reenactment.

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 We're not just putting the famous picture of the Lord's Supper and Jesus and his disciples

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 up on the screen and trying to reenact what Jesus did.

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 It's so much more than that.

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 It's a declaration that the entire story of God and his dealings with man, thousands of

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 years long, written across generations and covenants and kings, has reached its climax

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 with sacrifice.

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 And that's what we're going to talk about today.

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 Sacrifice.

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 Covenants.

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 The promise and the price.

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 A promise made long before you or I was born.

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 And a price that was paid when you and I could not pay anything back.

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 So let's look at number one, the price.

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 What sacrifice really is.

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 What sacrifice really is.

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 We read it just a moment ago.

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 Jesus took the bread.

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 He gave it.

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 He broke it.

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 And he said, this is my body given for you.

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 This was the sacrifice.

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 He said, this cup is my blood poured out for you.

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 There was a real cost, a real price to be paid in this situation.

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 Why was that?

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 Jesus said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood.

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 Let's stop there for a moment and figure out what he's teaching us.

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 No rabbi, Jewish rabbi.

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 Remember, it's easy.

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 We had our starting point course this morning.

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 Just kick off upstairs, room 203.

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 If you're not in Sunday school, come jump in and join us in room 203 with our starting point class.

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 But we stopped and we had to say, look, it's easy to just look at the Christian faith as we see it today and forget its roots.

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 Forget its origins.

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 You realize that Jesus was seen as a Jewish rabbi.

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 And so people expected him to be like the other Jewish rabbis or teachers.

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 But he wasn't.

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 He was saying different things.

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 He was teaching radically different things than anyone else was teaching.

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 And ultimately, he came to say that I am God.

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 I am the Messiah.

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 I am the one that you've been waiting for.

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 I'm not here just to teach you about God.

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 I'm here to reveal God to you.

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 It's me.

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 My father has sent me.

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 So we have to go back to the beginnings and remember that this is the faith that we're holding on to.

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 It's this radical spinoff of that Jewish faith that turns it on its head and says, now it's all about Jesus.

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 It's not about the law anymore.

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 It's not about the Ten Commandments anymore.

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 It's not about impressing God.

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 It's about the person of Jesus choosing him and following him.

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 And so no rabbi had ever said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood.

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 The old covenants were treasured by the Jewish people.

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 They were lifted up.

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 They were held onto as precious gifts from God.

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 And Jesus is here to introduce a new covenant.

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 No teacher had ever dared to make himself the sacrifice.

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 But that's exactly what Jesus was.

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 He wasn't just teaching us about forgiveness.

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 He was literally purchasing forgiveness with his blood.

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 The language we read in the New Testament about what Jesus did on the cross for us is transactional.

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 He bought us back.

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 The word is redeemed.

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 He purchased us with his blood.

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 Why?

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 Why was that necessary?

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 Because you and I had sinned.

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 You and I still sin, don't we?

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 We still break God's laws.

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 We still go astray.

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 Every one of us has gone into our own ways.

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 And God has poured out on his son, Jesus, the iniquity or the sin, the wrongdoing of all of us.

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 He took the punishment.

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 He was the sacrifice.

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 But we cheapen the word sacrifice.

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 We'll use the word sacrifice in our day-to-day life.

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 You say, I sacrificed my Saturday morning to go help somebody move.

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 Maybe that was a sacrifice in your mind, but it pales in comparison to the real sacrifice that Jesus was, right?

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 Say, I sacrificed my dessert for my diet.

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 Sometimes that feels like a sacrifice, all right?

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 Let's be real.

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 They just gave me a bunch of candy.

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 And I'm trying to think, how much of that can I actually eat?

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 How much of that do I have to sacrifice and give away to you people?

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 But the sacrifices we make are not real sacrifices.

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 Jesus was a sacrifice.

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 He gave everything.

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 He paid the ultimate price.

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 In the Bible, sacrifice isn't about inconvenience.

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 It's about substitution.

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 Placing yourself in someone else's place to receive wrath, to receive penalty, to receive suffering.

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 Something or someone dies so that someone else can live.

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 The Jewish people would have understood that.

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 Because animal sacrifices had been dating back to their earliest origins.

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 The very beginning, God had commanded them to take their very best of their flocks and go sacrifice it as a penalty, as a payment for their sins, their wrongdoing.

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 And all this, it was never about the animals.

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 It was all pointing forward to Jesus, who would be the ultimate final sacrifice.

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 So we don't go out and do animal sacrifices because Jesus was the final one.

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 So they would have understood that term.

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 And they would have understood the strength that came behind it when Jesus painted himself as the sacrifice.

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 And that's what he was saying.

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 This bread that you tear apart means that I'm about to be torn apart.

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 This bread that you break is like my body, which is about to be broken.

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 This cup shows you that I'm about to bleed.

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 It's not a theory.

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 It's not something for us to argue about.

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 This is the cost.

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 This is the price for forgiveness.

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 This is the price for forgiveness.

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 Communion reminds us that grace is free, but it's never cheap.

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 Grace is free, but it's never cheap.

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 It came at a great cost.

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 Jesus' own life.

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 Jesus' own blood.

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 We thank God that in power he raised him back up from the dead.

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 But that does not minimize the suffering, the real pain and anguish and torment and death that Jesus experienced on that cross.

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 So when we pause in our annual calendar and we stop everything else we're doing and we stop to remember what Jesus did,

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 let us remember the words that we read in John chapter 10 and verse 18.

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 No one takes my life from me, Jesus said.

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 I lay it down of my own accord.

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 I lay it down willingly.

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 Not only was he a sacrifice, he was a willing sacrifice.

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 And so then when we read in Romans chapter 12 and verses 1 and 2 and he says,

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 now you go and be a willing sacrifice for me,

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 it's a whole lot easier for someone to tell you that when they've been a willing sacrifice for you.

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 You say, what have you ever done for me?

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 Why would you ask all of this?

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 Why would you ask me to dedicate my life to you when you've never done anything for me?

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 But Jesus can look at us and say, I did everything for you.

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 I gave everything for you.

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 I held nothing back.

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 Now with that picture of generosity, we've just spent the last six weeks studying how generous God was toward us

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 and how he wants us to be generous in return.

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 He can say, this is generosity displayed.

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 Me on the cross as the sacrifice, the willing sacrifice for you.

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 Those people might have thought they took my life for me,

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 but that was always the plan from the very beginning.

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 You can look back at the prophets and see their prediction of this son of God

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 who would willingly lay down his life and suffer just as he did on that cross.

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 So God's grace is given freely to us now today, but it was not cheap.

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 It cost Jesus everything.

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 And that's the second part.

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 Jesus didn't lose his life.

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 He gave it.

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 He offered it up willingly.

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 He wasn't the victim here.

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 He was the author of this story.

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 He wasn't the victim of sacrifice.

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 He was the author of it.

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 This was according to God's plan.

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 Out of his great love, he offered up his greatest treasure,

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 his greatest possession.

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 John 3, 16 calls it his only begotten son.

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 The greatest he had.

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 And he said, I give it to you.

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 From the very beginning, God's people knew that sin carried a price.

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 In the Garden of Eden, when God created everything, Adam and Eve sinned,

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 and an animal had to die to clothe their shame.

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 In Exodus, a lamb's blood marked the doors so that the death angel would pass over.

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 At the temple, sacrifice after sacrifice was offered as a substitute for sin.

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 And all of it was pointing to this when Jesus would give his life on a hill called Calvary,

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 a cross where the Lamb of God, the final sacrifice, would take away the sin of the world.

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 And here's the part that just staggers you, staggers me.

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 No one forced him.

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 If I knew that what Jesus endured was waiting around the corner,

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 I would have walked away.

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 Jesus even knelt in the garden the night before and said,

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 God, let this cup pass from me.

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 In his humanity, knowing what he was about to endure,

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 it almost seems as though he prayed,

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 is there any other way?

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 But then he came back to,

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 not my will, but yours be done.

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 This is the love that Jesus has for us.

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 This is the love that the Father has for us.

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 He would endure any amount of suffering.

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 He would endure any amount of pain.

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 So you and I could have a path to forgiveness.

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 So you and I could have a fresh start with Jesus.

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 So you and I could have eternal security for all time as the children of God.

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 But that was impossible.

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 The relationship was broken.

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 There was no way we could undo what we as humans had done and continue to do.

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 So there had to be a willing sacrifice.

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 And there was.

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 And that was the price that had to be paid.

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 But thank God there's also a promise there.

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 And that's number two.

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 The promise is what his blood really means.

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 In just a few minutes, we're going to take the cup and we're going to drink it.

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 And Jesus says, this symbolizes my blood.

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 This represents my blood that was poured out on the cross.

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 Back in Luke 22, look at the phrase that Jesus uses with the cup.

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 This cup is the new covenant in my blood.

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 We're going to talk about what that covenant means.

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 If you've been in church a while, you've heard that line probably a thousand times.

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 But to a Jewish listener, those words would explode like fireworks.

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 The covenants were important to them.

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 They knew exactly what a covenant was.

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 It was a part of their everyday life.

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 It was a part of their existence, their identity.

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 A covenant was more than a contract.

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 It was more than a handshake.

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 It was a binding, blood-sealed promise.

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 They lived by covenants.

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 The kind that could not be broken without blood being shed.

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 So from the very beginning, God has been a covenant-making God.

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 I wrote down some of the covenants.

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 And these are by no means all.

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 But some of the covenants in Genesis 12,

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 God promised Abraham, through your offspring,

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 all nations on the earth will be blessed.

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 In Exodus chapter 24,

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 God made a covenant with Israel on Mount Sinai.

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 And Moses sprinkled the blood of bulls on the altar and the people,

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 sealing this covenant that God made.

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 In 2 Samuel chapter 7,

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 God promised David that one of his descendants would reign forever.

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 Remember, in Jeremiah 31,

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 centuries before Jesus,

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 God promised a new covenant would come.

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 One that would forgive sin once and for all.

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 And one that would write God's law on our hearts,

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 not on tablets of stone.

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 Every covenant was God saying,

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 I will be faithful to my people.

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 But every covenant was sealed with blood.

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 Have you ever heard the saying,

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 blood is thicker than water?

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 Anybody ever heard that?

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 Blood is thicker than water.

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 Just real quick, what do you think it means?

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 Somebody yell it out.

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 Deep insight, Wade.

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 What are they trying to say?

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 Blood is thicker than water.

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 The bond of blood is stronger than the bond of water.

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 Okay.

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 What's the context they usually use it in?

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 Family.

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 Family.

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 There it is.

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 Family, right?

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 Well, blood is thicker than water.

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 All right.

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 Let's actually figure out what that meant.

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 Back in the 1100s,

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 a German poet named,

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 here we go.

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 We got some people with German roots in this.

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 Are y'all going to correct me so badly?

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 Heinrich der Glitcheser.

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 I don't know how to read that face.

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 I got the Shoffners over here looking at me like,

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 I don't know about that.

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 Gabe, that was the best I could do.

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 All right.

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 Heinrich der Glitcheser wrote that

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 the blood of the covenant

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 is thicker than the water of the womb.

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 Think about that.

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 The blood of the covenant

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 is thicker than the water of the womb.

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 That's where that saying came from.

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 The idea

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 was not that family

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 is thicker than any other bond.

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 The idea was that the bonds

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 of covenant friendship

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 or kinship,

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 the kind made by choice,

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 are stronger

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 than those naturally existing

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 because of family relationships.

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 You ever heard somebody say

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 you can't choose your family?

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 And look,

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 I'm not ragging on families here,

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 but I'm saying it's interesting

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 because we have actually taken this saying

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 to express the opposite

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 of what the author of this saying actually meant.

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 He was writing about brothers in arms

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 going out to fight

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 and he said,

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 the bond,

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 the blood

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 of kinship,

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 the blood of the covenant

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 made between soldiers

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 or those who have become like brothers

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 is actually stronger

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 than that bond that exists

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 just from being related.

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 Covenants

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 have always been seen

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 as the ultimate bond

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 and blood

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 is usually the price

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 of these promises.

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 On the night before Jesus died,

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 Jesus took the cup

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 and he said,

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 this is it.

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 This is the covenant

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 that Jeremiah was talking about.

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 This is the promise

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 to Abraham fulfilled.

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 This is the plan

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 from the Garden of Eden

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 now come to pass

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 in me.

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 Go to Hebrews chapter 8,

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 would you?

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 Hebrews chapter 8.

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 We're going to be there

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 for just a few more minutes

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 before we stop

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 to take the elements

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 of the Lord's Supper.

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 We're going to be in Hebrews chapter 8.

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 and then going into chapter 9.

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 You can follow along

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 in your Bible as I read.

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 Hebrews 8,

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 beginning in verse 6.

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 But now Jesus,

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 our high priest,

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 has been given a ministry

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 that is far superior

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 to the old priesthood.

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 The priests were the ones

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 who had to go

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 and make the sacrifices.

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 They had to be the representatives

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 of the people

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 before God

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 to say,

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 we're killing this animal

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 to make up for the sin

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 that we've done.

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 It could never

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 take away the sin.

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 It was just a placeholder

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 for the one

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 who would come

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 to actually pay

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 and atone

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 for the sin.

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 So he said,

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 Jesus

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 is far superior

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 to the old priests.

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 He is the one

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 who mediates for us

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 a far better covenant

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 with God

00:22:06.879 --> 00:22:09.700
 based on better promises.

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 All those covenants

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 from God,

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 the Israelite people

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 would hold on to those

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 like a lifeline.

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 Say,

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 this is what we have

00:22:19.059 --> 00:22:19.559
 from God.

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 This is the promise.

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 And Jesus is saying,

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 I'm coming

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 with better promises.

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 I'm coming

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 with a new

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 and better covenant.

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 And it's not just

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 for the Israelite people.

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 It's for anyone

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 who will come

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 to God

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 based on better promises.

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 Back in Hebrews 8,

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 if the first covenant

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 had been faultless,

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 there would have been

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 no need

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 for a second covenant

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 to replace it.

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 But it wasn't faultless,

00:22:47.819 --> 00:22:48.160
 was it?

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 It had faults.

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 When God speaks

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 of a new covenant,

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 it means he has made

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 the first one obsolete.

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 It is now out of date

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 and will soon disappear.

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 Kind of like technology.

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 Soon as you buy

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 a new phone,

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 it feels like

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 it's out of date,

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 obsolete,

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 and will soon disappear

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 and be replaced

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 by the newest,

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 latest,

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 and greatest version.

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 I'm going to have

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 to probably buy

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 a phone this year

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 because my old one

00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:18.800
 is starting to feel

00:23:18.800 --> 00:23:19.620
 very obsolete

00:23:19.620 --> 00:23:20.519
 and out of date.

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 It's what they do to you.

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 I've held on

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 as long as I can.

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 So God is replacing

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 the old covenant.

00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:31.120
 He said,

00:23:31.380 --> 00:23:32.920
 this is now out of date.

00:23:33.180 --> 00:23:34.140
 It's obsolete.

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 I'm going to do away

00:23:36.500 --> 00:23:36.800
 with it.

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 I'm going to give you

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 a new one

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 that's far better,

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 but I'm not going

00:23:40.780 --> 00:23:41.259
 to charge you

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 hundreds of dollars

00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:42.380
 for it.

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 You're not going

00:23:44.080 --> 00:23:44.540
 to have to get

00:23:44.540 --> 00:23:45.460
 a subscription plan.

00:23:46.100 --> 00:23:47.680
 It is a once for all.

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 It's a free gift.

00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:50.600
 Then get into chapter 9,

00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:51.900
 Hebrews chapter 9,

00:23:52.020 --> 00:23:52.680
 verse 1.

00:23:53.060 --> 00:23:53.920
 That first covenant

00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:54.800
 between God

00:23:54.800 --> 00:23:55.380
 and Israel

00:23:55.380 --> 00:23:56.660
 had regulations

00:23:56.660 --> 00:23:57.780
 for worship

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 and a place of worship

00:24:00.060 --> 00:24:00.860
 here on earth.

00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:03.219
 This is an illustration,

00:24:03.539 --> 00:24:04.019
 skipped out,

00:24:04.439 --> 00:24:06.279
 pointing to the present time,

00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:06.839
 verse 9.

00:24:08.379 --> 00:24:09.039
 For the gifts

00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:10.059
 and sacrifices

00:24:10.059 --> 00:24:11.299
 that the priests offer

00:24:11.299 --> 00:24:12.500
 are not able

00:24:12.500 --> 00:24:13.119
 to cleanse

00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:13.919
 the consciences

00:24:13.919 --> 00:24:14.919
 of the people

00:24:14.919 --> 00:24:15.759
 who bring them.

00:24:16.019 --> 00:24:17.359
 They couldn't do you

00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:18.599
 any real good.

00:24:20.199 --> 00:24:21.639
 The old system,

00:24:22.699 --> 00:24:23.179
 sinning,

00:24:23.479 --> 00:24:24.199
 having the priests

00:24:24.199 --> 00:24:25.179
 go and confess

00:24:25.179 --> 00:24:25.740
 your sin

00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:27.459
 and kill an animal

00:24:27.459 --> 00:24:28.479
 as a sacrifice,

00:24:28.899 --> 00:24:29.679
 none of that

00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:30.620
 could really do

00:24:30.620 --> 00:24:31.440
 anything good

00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:32.220
 for you.

00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:34.000
 It was just a symbol

00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:35.060
 of what Jesus

00:24:35.060 --> 00:24:35.799
 was going to do.

00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:37.840
 That old system

00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:38.759
 deals with only

00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:39.600
 food and drink

00:24:39.600 --> 00:24:40.360
 and various

00:24:40.360 --> 00:24:41.460
 cleansing ceremonies,

00:24:41.840 --> 00:24:42.799
 physical regulations

00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:43.660
 that were in effect

00:24:43.660 --> 00:24:45.360
 only until a better

00:24:45.360 --> 00:24:46.779
 system could be

00:24:46.779 --> 00:24:47.440
 established.

00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:49.640
 So Christ

00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:50.940
 has now

00:24:50.940 --> 00:24:52.720
 become the high priest

00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:54.840
 over all good things

00:24:54.840 --> 00:24:55.560
 that have come.

00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:56.980
 He has entered

00:24:56.980 --> 00:24:57.799
 that greater,

00:24:57.799 --> 00:24:59.119
 more perfect

00:24:59.119 --> 00:24:59.799
 tabernacle

00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:00.619
 in heaven

00:25:00.619 --> 00:25:02.740
 which was not

00:25:02.740 --> 00:25:04.079
 made by human hands

00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:05.079
 because anything

00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:06.159
 made by human hands

00:25:06.159 --> 00:25:07.200
 is not perfect.

00:25:07.819 --> 00:25:08.759
 Y'all know that,

00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:09.359
 right?

00:25:09.899 --> 00:25:11.000
 Anything you've made,

00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:11.960
 you might be very proud

00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:12.319
 of it,

00:25:12.539 --> 00:25:13.700
 but it's not perfect.

00:25:13.960 --> 00:25:14.720
 It could always be

00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:15.099
 improved.

00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:17.220
 But in heaven,

00:25:17.419 --> 00:25:19.039
 it truly is perfect.

00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.139
 It's not part

00:25:22.139 --> 00:25:23.379
 of this created world.

00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:25.559
 With his own blood,

00:25:25.659 --> 00:25:26.419
 what did Jesus do?

00:25:26.420 --> 00:25:27.860
 Not the blood of goats

00:25:27.860 --> 00:25:28.480
 and calves.

00:25:28.800 --> 00:25:29.720
 His own blood.

00:25:30.060 --> 00:25:30.519
 He entered

00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:32.259
 the most holy place.

00:25:32.600 --> 00:25:33.259
 And without taking

00:25:33.259 --> 00:25:33.900
 a lot of time

00:25:33.900 --> 00:25:34.480
 to get into

00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:35.019
 all the rules

00:25:35.019 --> 00:25:35.640
 and regulations

00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:36.560
 of the temple

00:25:36.560 --> 00:25:37.019
 back then,

00:25:37.180 --> 00:25:38.039
 when that priest

00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:38.720
 would go in

00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:39.640
 to atone

00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:40.400
 for the sin

00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.200
 of his people,

00:25:41.539 --> 00:25:42.600
 only he could

00:25:42.600 --> 00:25:43.320
 enter into

00:25:43.320 --> 00:25:45.120
 this most holy place.

00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:45.640
 They called it

00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:47.600
 the holy of holies.

00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:49.660
 Behind all these curtains

00:25:49.660 --> 00:25:50.259
 and there was this

00:25:50.259 --> 00:25:51.279
 one big thick curtain

00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:51.900
 that was sewn

00:25:51.900 --> 00:25:52.640
 so thick

00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:54.180
 no one could even

00:25:54.180 --> 00:25:54.640
 cut it.

00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:56.520
 It was so long

00:25:56.520 --> 00:25:57.240
 and so thick

00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:57.940
 and so heavy.

00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:00.000
 And when Jesus died,

00:26:00.600 --> 00:26:01.660
 when he gave up

00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:02.160
 the ghost,

00:26:02.300 --> 00:26:03.480
 his spirit left him

00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:04.920
 on the cross.

00:26:05.060 --> 00:26:05.759
 That temple,

00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:07.700
 God tore it

00:26:07.700 --> 00:26:08.660
 from top to bottom.

00:26:09.180 --> 00:26:11.100
 That covering.

00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:12.259
 What am I trying

00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:12.600
 to say?

00:26:12.780 --> 00:26:13.320
 That curtain.

00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:14.020
 There we go.

00:26:14.120 --> 00:26:14.460
 Thank you.

00:26:14.980 --> 00:26:15.700
 That curtain,

00:26:16.060 --> 00:26:16.880
 God tore it

00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:17.880
 from top to bottom

00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:22.040
 because the holy

00:26:22.040 --> 00:26:22.960
 of holies,

00:26:23.260 --> 00:26:25.140
 that most holy place

00:26:25.140 --> 00:26:27.760
 was now obsolete.

00:26:29.340 --> 00:26:30.860
 It held no special

00:26:30.860 --> 00:26:32.260
 significance anymore

00:26:32.260 --> 00:26:33.920
 because that system

00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:35.240
 was now gone.

00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:37.260
 No more sacrifices.

00:26:38.020 --> 00:26:39.180
 No more priests

00:26:39.180 --> 00:26:40.420
 going in on our behalf.

00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:41.960
 That's why you don't

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:42.600
 need to come

00:26:42.600 --> 00:26:43.820
 and sit in a confessional

00:26:43.820 --> 00:26:44.940
 booth and tell me

00:26:44.940 --> 00:26:45.600
 the wrong things

00:26:45.600 --> 00:26:46.060
 you've done.

00:26:46.059 --> 00:26:47.980
 I don't want to hear it.

00:26:48.299 --> 00:26:48.839
 Trust me.

00:26:49.679 --> 00:26:50.440
 And I don't want

00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:51.099
 to tell you mine.

00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:54.299
 We tell it to Jesus.

00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:56.759
 You ever heard that song?

00:26:57.399 --> 00:26:58.339
 Tell it to Jesus.

00:26:58.899 --> 00:26:59.759
 Tell it to Jesus.

00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:01.259
 There's no other

00:27:01.259 --> 00:27:01.980
 such a friend

00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:02.500
 or brother.

00:27:03.019 --> 00:27:04.039
 Tell it to Jesus

00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:04.720
 alone

00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.399
 because God made

00:27:07.399 --> 00:27:08.259
 the old way

00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:09.220
 obsolete.

00:27:09.899 --> 00:27:10.039
 Now,

00:27:10.139 --> 00:27:11.299
 man-made religions

00:27:11.299 --> 00:27:12.079
 will still try

00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:12.659
 to hold on

00:27:12.659 --> 00:27:13.220
 to things.

00:27:13.220 --> 00:27:14.039
 And they'll try

00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:14.620
 to hold on

00:27:14.620 --> 00:27:15.420
 to certain traditions

00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:15.720
 and say,

00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:15.920
 no,

00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:16.720
 this is how

00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:17.400
 we got to do it

00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:18.100
 because look back,

00:27:18.140 --> 00:27:18.720
 it's been done

00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:19.700
 for thousands of years.

00:27:20.100 --> 00:27:20.579
 Yeah,

00:27:20.620 --> 00:27:21.740
 until Jesus came.

00:27:22.259 --> 00:27:23.160
 And now Jesus

00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:24.299
 gave us a new way.

00:27:25.779 --> 00:27:26.440
 The temple

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:27.319
 made with hands

00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:28.819
 no longer

00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:29.880
 has any significance.

00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:31.319
 Now,

00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:32.200
 it's the temple

00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:33.660
 made in heaven

00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:35.339
 waiting for you

00:27:35.339 --> 00:27:35.640
 and I

00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:36.319
 to get there.

00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:38.419
 and the

00:27:38.419 --> 00:27:39.579
 New Testament

00:27:39.579 --> 00:27:40.779
 actually teaches us

00:27:40.779 --> 00:27:42.000
 that our bodies

00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.220
 are now

00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:44.039
 like the temple

00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:44.859
 of God.

00:27:46.379 --> 00:27:47.519
 Kind of gives us

00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:48.039
 some pause

00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:48.500
 when we

00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:50.519
 go eat Tex-Mex

00:27:50.519 --> 00:27:51.159
 or whatever.

00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:52.339
 How well

00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:52.819
 are we treating

00:27:52.819 --> 00:27:53.319
 this temple

00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:53.839
 right now,

00:27:53.879 --> 00:27:54.119
 right?

00:27:55.099 --> 00:27:56.200
 But individually,

00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:57.819
 we are the temples

00:27:57.819 --> 00:27:58.339
 of God

00:27:58.339 --> 00:27:59.099
 walking around

00:27:59.099 --> 00:28:00.559
 because we are now

00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:01.599
 the holy place.

00:28:01.679 --> 00:28:02.679
 He has made us

00:28:02.679 --> 00:28:03.460
 holy.

00:28:03.460 --> 00:28:05.740
 We didn't make

00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:06.620
 ourselves holy.

00:28:07.340 --> 00:28:08.299
 When we repent

00:28:08.299 --> 00:28:08.940
 of our sins

00:28:08.940 --> 00:28:09.900
 and turn to Jesus,

00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:11.500
 He has made us

00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:12.140
 holy.

00:28:12.579 --> 00:28:13.680
 So let's get back

00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:14.539
 into Hebrews 9.

00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:16.840
 He has entered

00:28:16.840 --> 00:28:17.519
 that greater,

00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:18.519
 more perfect

00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:19.539
 tabernacle in heaven

00:28:19.539 --> 00:28:20.500
 which was not

00:28:20.500 --> 00:28:21.460
 made by human hands.

00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:22.100
 It's not part

00:28:22.100 --> 00:28:22.960
 of this created world.

00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:24.120
 With His blood,

00:28:24.460 --> 00:28:24.840
 He entered

00:28:24.840 --> 00:28:25.920
 the most holy place

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.299
 once for all time

00:28:27.299 --> 00:28:28.380
 and secured

00:28:28.380 --> 00:28:29.440
 our redemption.

00:28:29.819 --> 00:28:30.900
 There's that word again,

00:28:31.180 --> 00:28:32.279
 that transactional word

00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:33.279
 that means buy back.

00:28:33.460 --> 00:28:34.460
 He secured

00:28:34.460 --> 00:28:35.319
 our redemption

00:28:35.319 --> 00:28:36.140
 forever.

00:28:37.140 --> 00:28:38.140
 Under the old system,

00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:39.360
 the blood of goats

00:28:39.360 --> 00:28:39.860
 and bulls

00:28:39.860 --> 00:28:40.380
 and the ashes

00:28:40.380 --> 00:28:40.920
 of a heifer

00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:41.579
 could cleanse

00:28:41.579 --> 00:28:42.480
 people's bodies

00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:44.620
 from ceremonial impurity.

00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:46.180
 It was never real.

00:28:46.860 --> 00:28:48.180
 It was always ceremonial.

00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:49.319
 It did nothing

00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:49.940
 with the heart.

00:28:50.220 --> 00:28:51.460
 It was just the bodies.

00:28:52.299 --> 00:28:52.860
 Just think

00:28:52.860 --> 00:28:53.880
 how much more.

00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:56.019
 The writer of Hebrews

00:28:56.019 --> 00:28:56.539
 says,

00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:58.340
 the blood of Christ

00:28:58.340 --> 00:28:59.600
 will purify

00:28:59.600 --> 00:29:00.500
 our conscience

00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:02.380
 from sinful deeds

00:29:02.380 --> 00:29:03.980
 so that we can

00:29:03.980 --> 00:29:04.460
 worship

00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:06.280
 the living God.

00:29:06.600 --> 00:29:08.140
 God can make you

00:29:08.140 --> 00:29:08.580
 clean

00:29:08.580 --> 00:29:10.100
 on the

00:29:10.100 --> 00:29:11.220
 inside.

00:29:13.060 --> 00:29:14.320
 Those sacrifices

00:29:14.320 --> 00:29:15.140
 could never do that.

00:29:16.020 --> 00:29:16.920
 And nothing

00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:17.780
 you can do

00:29:17.780 --> 00:29:19.360
 can clean

00:29:19.360 --> 00:29:20.180
 your inside.

00:29:21.620 --> 00:29:22.700
 You can take

00:29:22.700 --> 00:29:23.360
 all the showers.

00:29:23.840 --> 00:29:24.360
 You can use

00:29:24.360 --> 00:29:25.100
 all the products.

00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:27.359
 you can try

00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:28.179
 to get your mind

00:29:28.179 --> 00:29:28.899
 into a better

00:29:28.899 --> 00:29:30.219
 state.

00:29:30.779 --> 00:29:31.740
 Try to forget

00:29:31.740 --> 00:29:32.619
 the wrongs you've done.

00:29:32.699 --> 00:29:33.459
 Try to move on.

00:29:33.539 --> 00:29:34.480
 Try to leave the past

00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:35.019
 in the past.

00:29:35.199 --> 00:29:36.459
 You can do all that

00:29:36.459 --> 00:29:37.259
 but you cannot

00:29:37.259 --> 00:29:38.619
 make your

00:29:38.619 --> 00:29:39.619
 inner self

00:29:39.619 --> 00:29:40.159
 clean.

00:29:40.959 --> 00:29:41.500
 You can't

00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:42.279
 clean your heart.

00:29:42.719 --> 00:29:43.240
 You can't

00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:44.099
 clean your soul.

00:29:45.099 --> 00:29:45.579
 You can't

00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:46.480
 clean your memory.

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.799
 only God

00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:49.819
 can really

00:29:49.819 --> 00:29:50.779
 cleanse

00:29:50.779 --> 00:29:51.380
 the real

00:29:51.380 --> 00:29:51.900
 you.

00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:53.380
 You can

00:29:53.380 --> 00:29:53.860
 clean your

00:29:53.860 --> 00:29:54.160
 shell

00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:55.839
 but not

00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:56.120
 you.

00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:58.519
 Just think

00:29:58.519 --> 00:29:59.140
 how much

00:29:59.140 --> 00:29:59.620
 more

00:29:59.620 --> 00:30:00.700
 the blood

00:30:00.700 --> 00:30:01.440
 of Christ

00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:02.660
 can and

00:30:02.660 --> 00:30:02.940
 will

00:30:02.940 --> 00:30:03.660
 purify

00:30:03.660 --> 00:30:04.099
 our

00:30:04.099 --> 00:30:04.779
 consciences

00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:05.819
 from sinful

00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:06.220
 deeds

00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:06.839
 so then we

00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:07.319
 can really

00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:07.980
 worship.

00:30:08.420 --> 00:30:08.759
 For by the

00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:09.259
 power of the

00:30:09.259 --> 00:30:10.079
 eternal spirit

00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:10.640
 Christ

00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:11.400
 offered himself

00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:11.900
 to God

00:30:11.900 --> 00:30:12.700
 as a perfect

00:30:12.700 --> 00:30:13.380
 sacrifice

00:30:13.380 --> 00:30:14.599
 for our sins.

00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:15.779
 That is why

00:30:15.779 --> 00:30:17.159
 he is the one

00:30:17.159 --> 00:30:18.000
 who mediates

00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:18.919
 a new covenant

00:30:18.919 --> 00:30:20.500
 between God

00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:21.019
 and people

00:30:21.019 --> 00:30:22.039
 so that all

00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:22.759
 who are called

00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:23.500
 can receive

00:30:23.500 --> 00:30:24.399
 the eternal

00:30:24.399 --> 00:30:24.939
 inheritance

00:30:24.939 --> 00:30:25.759
 that God

00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:26.539
 has promised

00:30:26.539 --> 00:30:26.959
 us.

00:30:27.139 --> 00:30:27.699
 Told you there

00:30:27.699 --> 00:30:28.099
 was better

00:30:28.099 --> 00:30:28.939
 promises coming.

00:30:30.059 --> 00:30:30.659
 The eternal

00:30:30.659 --> 00:30:31.159
 inheritance

00:30:31.159 --> 00:30:31.839
 that will last

00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:32.439
 forever

00:30:32.439 --> 00:30:34.179
 because of

00:30:34.179 --> 00:30:34.699
 Jesus and

00:30:34.699 --> 00:30:35.259
 what he did.

00:30:35.619 --> 00:30:36.039
 For Christ

00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:36.859
 died to set

00:30:36.859 --> 00:30:37.519
 them free

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:38.379
 from the penalty

00:30:38.379 --> 00:30:38.959
 of the sins

00:30:38.959 --> 00:30:39.740
 they had committed

00:30:39.740 --> 00:30:40.500
 under that

00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:41.299
 first covenant.

00:30:41.459 --> 00:30:41.939
 So let's look

00:30:41.939 --> 00:30:42.500
 at these old

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:43.240
 and new covenants.

00:30:43.699 --> 00:30:44.119
 The old

00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:44.439
 covenant

00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:45.019
 the first

00:30:45.019 --> 00:30:45.360
 covenant

00:30:45.360 --> 00:30:46.180
 was the

00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:46.500
 righteousness

00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:47.340
 of the law

00:30:47.340 --> 00:30:47.960
 and do you

00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:48.220
 know what

00:30:48.220 --> 00:30:48.900
 it accomplished?

00:30:49.539 --> 00:30:50.059
 Condemnation.

00:30:50.500 --> 00:30:51.039
 It condemned

00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:52.220
 you over

00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:52.559
 and over

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:53.279
 again and

00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:53.940
 if you still

00:30:53.940 --> 00:30:54.680
 live by the

00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:55.660
 law open

00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:55.940
 up the

00:30:55.940 --> 00:30:56.440
 old testament

00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:57.259
 read the

00:30:57.259 --> 00:30:57.960
 law you

00:30:57.960 --> 00:30:58.240
 and I

00:30:58.240 --> 00:30:58.720
 break it

00:30:58.720 --> 00:30:59.100
 all the

00:30:59.100 --> 00:30:59.400
 time.

00:31:00.460 --> 00:31:01.340
 We break

00:31:01.340 --> 00:31:01.740
 the law

00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:02.460
 continually.

00:31:03.340 --> 00:31:03.620
 So the

00:31:03.620 --> 00:31:04.299
 old covenant

00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:04.980
 was there

00:31:04.980 --> 00:31:05.840
 to show us

00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:06.720
 just how

00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:07.140
 bad we

00:31:07.140 --> 00:31:07.700
 really are.

00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:09.000
 Here's

00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:09.380
 God's

00:31:09.380 --> 00:31:10.259
 standard you

00:31:10.259 --> 00:31:10.799
 can't reach

00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:11.019
 it.

00:31:11.660 --> 00:31:12.080
 You can't

00:31:12.080 --> 00:31:12.480
 meet it.

00:31:13.380 --> 00:31:13.840
 You might

00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:14.679
 feel good

00:31:14.679 --> 00:31:15.299
 about yourself

00:31:15.299 --> 00:31:15.779
 because you

00:31:15.779 --> 00:31:16.119
 feel like

00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:16.500
 you're meeting

00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:16.939
 it better

00:31:16.939 --> 00:31:17.339
 than that

00:31:17.339 --> 00:31:17.859
 guy is

00:31:17.859 --> 00:31:20.959
 or better

00:31:20.959 --> 00:31:21.339
 than that

00:31:21.339 --> 00:31:21.879
 girl is

00:31:21.879 --> 00:31:23.839
 but the

00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:24.379
 truth is

00:31:24.379 --> 00:31:25.399
 none of us

00:31:25.399 --> 00:31:25.879
 are meeting

00:31:25.879 --> 00:31:26.299
 God's

00:31:26.299 --> 00:31:26.579
 standard.

00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:28.079
 We continually

00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:28.839
 break the

00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:29.039
 law.

00:31:29.419 --> 00:31:29.659
 So the

00:31:29.659 --> 00:31:30.159
 new covenant

00:31:30.159 --> 00:31:30.500
 came.

00:31:30.959 --> 00:31:31.539
 Jesus brought

00:31:31.539 --> 00:31:32.039
 the second

00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:32.379
 covenant

00:31:32.379 --> 00:31:33.199
 which is the

00:31:33.199 --> 00:31:33.539
 righteousness

00:31:33.539 --> 00:31:34.379
 of Christ

00:31:34.379 --> 00:31:35.159
 and that

00:31:35.159 --> 00:31:35.799
 brings us

00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:36.759
 reconciliation.

00:31:37.459 --> 00:31:37.859
 We can be

00:31:37.859 --> 00:31:38.759
 reconciled.

00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:39.599
 things made

00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:41.119
 right only

00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:42.420
 by Jesus.

00:31:43.539 --> 00:31:44.559
 The old

00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:44.859
 covenant

00:31:44.859 --> 00:31:45.440
 showed us

00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:46.079
 how far

00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:47.059
 apart God

00:31:47.059 --> 00:31:47.859
 and us

00:31:47.859 --> 00:31:48.640
 are.

00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:50.400
 The new

00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:50.700
 covenant

00:31:50.700 --> 00:31:51.640
 shows us

00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:52.379
 how that

00:31:52.379 --> 00:31:52.920
 distance

00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:54.200
 can be

00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:54.819
 overcome,

00:31:55.379 --> 00:31:55.759
 can be

00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.019
 brought

00:31:56.019 --> 00:31:56.480
 together

00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:57.319
 because of

00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:57.839
 what Jesus

00:31:57.839 --> 00:31:58.599
 did.

00:31:59.299 --> 00:32:00.319
 So the

00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:00.799
 old covenant

00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:01.799
 was concerned

00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:02.400
 with a clean

00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:03.039
 outside,

00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:04.140
 clean hands,

00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:05.059
 clean rituals,

00:32:05.259 --> 00:32:06.039
 clean appearances,

00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:08.180
 clean habits.

00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:09.839
 The new

00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:11.140
 covenant is

00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:11.700
 the righteousness

00:32:11.700 --> 00:32:12.519
 of Christ

00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:13.220
 concerned with

00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:14.019
 a clean

00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:14.480
 inside,

00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:15.319
 a forgiven

00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:15.660
 heart,

00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:16.539
 a transformed

00:32:16.539 --> 00:32:16.980
 spirit,

00:32:17.299 --> 00:32:18.059
 a life made

00:32:18.059 --> 00:32:19.339
 new from

00:32:19.339 --> 00:32:19.940
 the inside

00:32:19.940 --> 00:32:20.279
 out.

00:32:20.940 --> 00:32:21.579
 The cross

00:32:21.579 --> 00:32:22.220
 was not

00:32:22.220 --> 00:32:23.460
 God changing

00:32:23.460 --> 00:32:24.240
 his plan,

00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:25.700
 it was God

00:32:25.700 --> 00:32:26.640
 completing

00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:27.460
 his plan.

00:32:28.879 --> 00:32:29.619
 This was

00:32:29.619 --> 00:32:30.259
 always the

00:32:30.259 --> 00:32:30.559
 plan.

00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:32.900
 He didn't

00:32:32.900 --> 00:32:33.799
 see how

00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:34.660
 badly we were

00:32:34.660 --> 00:32:35.140
 keeping the

00:32:35.140 --> 00:32:35.740
 law and say

00:32:35.740 --> 00:32:36.359
 okay I gotta

00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:37.119
 pivot and I gotta

00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:37.660
 figure something

00:32:37.660 --> 00:32:38.259
 else out here.

00:32:38.259 --> 00:32:39.220
 Jesus why don't

00:32:39.220 --> 00:32:39.759
 you go and

00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:40.259
 make all this

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:40.500
 right?

00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:41.700
 It was the

00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:42.400
 plan from the

00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:44.059
 beginning to

00:32:44.059 --> 00:32:45.099
 show us how

00:32:45.099 --> 00:32:45.759
 we needed

00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:46.200
 him.

00:32:48.859 --> 00:32:49.879
 You can't get

00:32:49.879 --> 00:32:50.940
 somebody saved

00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:52.099
 until they

00:32:52.099 --> 00:32:53.220
 realize they're

00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:53.619
 lost.

00:32:54.879 --> 00:32:55.799
 You and I

00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:56.579
 could not turn

00:32:56.579 --> 00:32:58.660
 to Jesus until

00:32:58.660 --> 00:32:59.500
 we realized we

00:32:59.500 --> 00:33:00.099
 needed to be

00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:00.420
 forgiven.

00:33:01.180 --> 00:33:01.879
 Until we

00:33:01.879 --> 00:33:02.539
 realized we're

00:33:02.539 --> 00:33:03.259
 not good enough,

00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.559
 we're not strong

00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.000
 enough, we need

00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.220
 him.

00:33:06.220 --> 00:33:08.059
 the blood of

00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:08.799
 bulls and

00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:09.299
 goats could

00:33:09.299 --> 00:33:10.120
 only cover

00:33:10.120 --> 00:33:11.600
 sin but the

00:33:11.600 --> 00:33:12.019
 blood of

00:33:12.019 --> 00:33:13.660
 Jesus can

00:33:13.660 --> 00:33:14.380
 cancel it.

00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:17.000
 And it

00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:17.299
 has.

00:33:18.059 --> 00:33:18.940
 He's canceled

00:33:18.940 --> 00:33:19.240
 mine.

00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:21.900
 He's canceled

00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:22.380
 many of

00:33:22.380 --> 00:33:22.660
 yours.

00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:24.319
 And if you're

00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:26.279
 here today and

00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:26.700
 you don't have

00:33:26.700 --> 00:33:27.120
 that kind of

00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:27.779
 relationship with

00:33:27.779 --> 00:33:29.079
 Jesus, please

00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:29.660
 don't walk out of

00:33:29.660 --> 00:33:30.240
 here today without

00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:30.860
 starting it.

00:33:30.859 --> 00:33:32.439
 God, this is

00:33:32.439 --> 00:33:33.039
 the moment, this

00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:33.599
 is the day of

00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:34.319
 salvation for

00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:34.559
 you.

00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:35.959
 Now is the

00:33:35.959 --> 00:33:37.500
 time for you to

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:38.419
 turn from sin and

00:33:38.419 --> 00:33:39.639
 say, I turn to

00:33:39.639 --> 00:33:39.959
 Jesus.

00:33:40.899 --> 00:33:41.659
 God help me.

00:33:42.299 --> 00:33:43.179
 I can't do it on

00:33:43.179 --> 00:33:43.579
 my own.

00:33:44.740 --> 00:33:45.679
 Colossians chapter

00:33:45.679 --> 00:33:46.319
 two and verse

00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:48.019
 13 talks about

00:33:48.019 --> 00:33:48.279
 that.

00:33:48.439 --> 00:33:48.759
 When you were

00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:49.639
 dead in your

00:33:49.639 --> 00:33:50.859
 sins and the

00:33:50.859 --> 00:33:51.899
 uncircumcision of

00:33:51.899 --> 00:33:52.679
 your flesh, God

00:33:52.679 --> 00:33:54.240
 made you alive with

00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:54.659
 Christ.

00:33:54.899 --> 00:33:55.500
 We're not going to

00:33:55.500 --> 00:33:56.019
 get into the whole

00:33:56.019 --> 00:33:56.839
 circumcision part.

00:33:56.919 --> 00:33:57.519
 That was part of the

00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:58.699
 rituals to make you

00:33:58.699 --> 00:33:59.000
 clean.

00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:00.099
 But it was a

00:34:00.099 --> 00:34:00.819
 practice that of

00:34:00.819 --> 00:34:01.519
 course now is

00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:02.740
 practiced today with

00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:03.880
 babies born in the

00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:04.240
 hospital.

00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:05.460
 But when you were

00:34:05.460 --> 00:34:06.420
 dead in your sin and

00:34:06.420 --> 00:34:07.880
 all these rituals that

00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:09.019
 you couldn't keep up

00:34:09.019 --> 00:34:11.019
 with, God made you

00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:12.059
 alive with Christ.

00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:13.280
 He forgave us all of

00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:14.000
 our sins having

00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:15.760
 canceled the charge of

00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:17.500
 our legal indebtedness

00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:18.960
 which stood against

00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:19.400
 us.

00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:20.719
 It condemned us.

00:34:21.219 --> 00:34:22.139
 The law always

00:34:22.139 --> 00:34:22.960
 condemns you.

00:34:23.300 --> 00:34:24.280
 But then he's taken

00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:25.539
 it away and he nailed

00:34:25.539 --> 00:34:26.800
 it to his cross.

00:34:26.980 --> 00:34:27.780
 What an awesome

00:34:27.780 --> 00:34:28.980
 picture of

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:30.240
 how Jesus treated

00:34:30.240 --> 00:34:30.699
 this.

00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:32.260
 How he bought us

00:34:32.260 --> 00:34:33.179
 our salvation.

00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:35.000
 What he has to do

00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:35.840
 with the law now.

00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:37.119
 He said I take it and

00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:38.099
 I mail it to the

00:34:38.099 --> 00:34:38.519
 cross.

00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:40.400
 This is now where it

00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:40.840
 hangs.

00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:44.019
 It has no rule over

00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:44.599
 you anymore.

00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:47.380
 Now I'm to be the

00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:48.659
 sole ruler over you

00:34:48.659 --> 00:34:49.920
 and I want that to be

00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:50.719
 a relationship.

00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.039
 That's the difference

00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:54.480
 the cross makes.

00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:56.420
 every drop of blood

00:34:56.420 --> 00:34:59.559
 that fell at the cross

00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:01.539
 of Jesus is God

00:35:01.539 --> 00:35:03.559
 saying I keep my

00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:05.639
 promises even to the

00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:05.880
 death.

00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:09.380
 Every drop of blood

00:35:09.380 --> 00:35:12.320
 is God's promise to

00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:12.519
 you.

00:35:13.900 --> 00:35:15.699
 I paid for your sin.

00:35:15.699 --> 00:35:19.799
 So in conclusion

00:35:19.799 --> 00:35:22.460
 that's what this

00:35:22.460 --> 00:35:23.099
 moment is about.

00:35:23.819 --> 00:35:24.879
 It's a price that

00:35:24.879 --> 00:35:25.339
 was paid

00:35:25.339 --> 00:35:27.659
 and it's a promise

00:35:27.659 --> 00:35:28.279
 that was kept.

00:35:30.139 --> 00:35:31.399
 So when we hold

00:35:31.399 --> 00:35:33.019
 the bread this morning

00:35:33.019 --> 00:35:34.679
 and we hold the cup

00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:36.859
 don't let it become

00:35:36.859 --> 00:35:37.559
 a routine.

00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:39.299
 Or if it has become

00:35:39.299 --> 00:35:40.199
 a routine for you

00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:40.919
 repent of that

00:35:40.919 --> 00:35:42.079
 and say no

00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:43.860
 I'm going to think

00:35:43.860 --> 00:35:44.500
 about this

00:35:44.500 --> 00:35:46.019
 how God wants me

00:35:46.019 --> 00:35:46.719
 to think about it.

00:35:46.900 --> 00:35:47.900
 We're doing it for

00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:48.159
 him.

00:35:49.059 --> 00:35:49.880
 And so it's a

00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:50.219
 reminder.

00:35:50.860 --> 00:35:51.539
 This is what it

00:35:51.539 --> 00:35:51.880
 costs.

00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:53.380
 It's a testimony.

00:35:54.219 --> 00:35:54.960
 This is what he

00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:55.400
 promised.

00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:57.119
 And it's an anchor.

00:35:58.019 --> 00:35:59.000
 This is how much

00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:00.719
 we are loved.

00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:02.500
 I'm going to ask

00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:03.059
 the men to come

00:36:03.059 --> 00:36:03.440
 forward.

00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:07.860
 We have some of

00:36:07.860 --> 00:36:08.480
 our deacons

00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:10.340
 to serve us

00:36:10.340 --> 00:36:12.440
 with the Lord's

00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:13.079
 supper this morning.

00:36:14.019 --> 00:36:14.860
 As they come

00:36:14.860 --> 00:36:15.280
 forward

00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:18.460
 I want to remind

00:36:18.460 --> 00:36:18.980
 you that this

00:36:18.980 --> 00:36:20.539
 moment is not

00:36:20.539 --> 00:36:21.260
 about what we

00:36:21.260 --> 00:36:22.180
 bring to God.

00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:23.880
 It's about what

00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:25.260
 he brought to

00:36:25.260 --> 00:36:25.620
 us.

00:36:25.700 --> 00:36:26.640
 A promise kept.

00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:27.960
 A price paid.

00:36:28.640 --> 00:36:29.360
 So would you

00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:30.120
 keep that in your

00:36:30.120 --> 00:36:32.000
 mind as we bow

00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:32.900
 together in just a

00:36:32.900 --> 00:36:34.140
 moment and we

00:36:34.140 --> 00:36:34.760
 receive these

00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:35.079
 elements.

00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:35.860
 And let me give

00:36:35.860 --> 00:36:36.360
 a little bit of

00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:37.100
 instruction here.

00:36:39.120 --> 00:36:40.320
 For those of you

00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:42.200
 who are guests

00:36:42.200 --> 00:36:42.700
 with us this

00:36:42.700 --> 00:36:42.980
 morning.

00:36:44.200 --> 00:36:45.100
 If you know in

00:36:45.100 --> 00:36:45.660
 your heart that

00:36:45.660 --> 00:36:46.360
 you're a child of

00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:46.880
 God and there's

00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:47.559
 been a moment of

00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:48.539
 salvation for you

00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:49.700
 when you turn to

00:36:49.700 --> 00:36:51.220
 Jesus said please

00:36:51.220 --> 00:36:52.019
 forgive me of my

00:36:52.019 --> 00:36:52.320
 sin.

00:36:53.420 --> 00:36:54.160
 Make me your

00:36:54.160 --> 00:36:54.539
 child.

00:36:55.080 --> 00:36:56.160
 Then we invite you

00:36:56.160 --> 00:36:57.960
 to join us with

00:36:57.960 --> 00:36:58.559
 this time of

00:36:58.559 --> 00:36:59.380
 communion Lord's

00:36:59.380 --> 00:36:59.580
 supper.

00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:02.220
 You'll receive the

00:37:02.220 --> 00:37:03.059
 elements together.

00:37:03.600 --> 00:37:04.539
 Would you wait and

00:37:04.539 --> 00:37:05.539
 hold on to those and

00:37:05.539 --> 00:37:06.620
 be in an attitude of

00:37:06.620 --> 00:37:08.000
 prayer until the

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.059
 time comes for us to

00:37:09.059 --> 00:37:09.699
 all take them

00:37:09.699 --> 00:37:10.119
 together.

00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:11.440
 We'll do that

00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:11.880
 twice.

00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:13.599
 We'll have a prayer

00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:14.519
 before each one.

00:37:16.779 --> 00:37:17.779
 But what this is

00:37:17.779 --> 00:37:20.360
 about is a

00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:21.059
 reminder of the

00:37:21.059 --> 00:37:21.759
 price that was

00:37:21.759 --> 00:37:22.099
 paid.

00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:23.539
 So we look at

00:37:23.539 --> 00:37:25.159
 that bread and we

00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:25.779
 think of Jesus'

00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:27.039
 body and the

00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:27.719
 suffering that he

00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:28.820
 endured as our

00:37:28.820 --> 00:37:29.239
 sacrifice.

00:37:29.659 --> 00:37:30.579
 We look at that

00:37:30.579 --> 00:37:32.179
 cup and we think

00:37:32.179 --> 00:37:33.480
 of the blood that

00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:34.400
 is the new covenant

00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:35.659
 that we get to be a

00:37:35.659 --> 00:37:36.099
 part of.

00:37:36.099 --> 00:37:37.500
 not just with the

00:37:37.500 --> 00:37:38.219
 people of Israel

00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:40.839
 with all of us who

00:37:40.839 --> 00:37:41.779
 will accept the

00:37:41.779 --> 00:37:42.719
 invitation that God

00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:43.259
 extends.

00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:45.400
 So let's keep our

00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:46.839
 minds locked in there

00:37:46.839 --> 00:37:47.739
 when we have that

00:37:47.739 --> 00:37:48.480
 bread and we have

00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.400
 that juice.

00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:50.980
 What do these

00:37:50.980 --> 00:37:51.519
 represent?

00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:53.019
 Would you bow with

00:37:53.019 --> 00:37:53.480
 me in prayer?

00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:55.339
 God at this moment

00:37:55.339 --> 00:37:56.839
 we ask for our

00:37:56.839 --> 00:37:57.819
 hearts to be quieted

00:37:57.819 --> 00:37:59.539
 our minds to be

00:37:59.539 --> 00:38:00.739
 cleared of all the

00:38:00.739 --> 00:38:01.239
 distractions.

00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:01.399
 sins.

00:38:02.839 --> 00:38:03.739
 That every man,

00:38:03.839 --> 00:38:04.559
 woman, and child in

00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.759
 this room would know

00:38:07.759 --> 00:38:08.799
 you as their savior,

00:38:09.279 --> 00:38:10.039
 know you as their

00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:11.399
 friend, know you as

00:38:11.399 --> 00:38:12.479
 their father, know you

00:38:12.479 --> 00:38:13.439
 as the forgiver of

00:38:13.439 --> 00:38:15.199
 their sins, the

00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:16.179
 sacrifice for their

00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:16.519
 sins.

00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:19.119
 God you didn't just

00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:21.239
 come to give us a

00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:22.139
 better life on this

00:38:22.139 --> 00:38:22.399
 earth.

00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:25.379
 You came as a very

00:38:25.379 --> 00:38:27.639
 real, very needed

00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:28.179
 sacrifice.

00:38:28.179 --> 00:38:29.019
 sacrifice.

00:38:30.919 --> 00:38:31.940
 Let us not forget

00:38:31.940 --> 00:38:32.239
 that.

00:38:32.899 --> 00:38:33.639
 Let us in the next

00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:35.219
 few moments consider

00:38:35.219 --> 00:38:35.539
 that.

00:38:36.399 --> 00:38:37.279
 Speak to us.

00:38:37.779 --> 00:38:38.539
 Speak to our hearts.

00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:39.919
 Change us from the

00:38:39.919 --> 00:38:40.440
 inside out.

00:38:40.579 --> 00:38:41.239
 It's in Jesus' name

00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:41.579
 we pray.

00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:42.419
 Amen.

00:38:43.539 --> 00:38:44.519
 All right, the deacons

00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:46.379
 are going to distribute

00:38:46.379 --> 00:38:47.059
 the elements.

00:38:47.279 --> 00:38:48.119
 Music's going to play

00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:48.699
 in the background.

00:38:49.339 --> 00:38:50.179
 And as you receive

00:38:50.179 --> 00:38:51.859
 them, just sit quietly

00:38:51.859 --> 00:38:53.460
 in prayer and then

00:38:53.460 --> 00:38:54.139
 I'll read a scripture

00:38:54.139 --> 00:38:55.319
 and we'll pray and

00:38:55.319 --> 00:38:55.779
 we'll take the

00:38:55.779 --> 00:38:56.419
 elements together.

00:38:58.179 --> 00:39:04.139
 And as youiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseiseise