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 Well, please have a seat.

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 Please grab your Bibles or turn them on and scroll to Hebrews chapter 2.

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 Just before we dig in, why don't I pray for us and then we'll get to work.

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 Let's pray.

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 Father God, thank you that so much of our service has been on the truth that you came.

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 And Father, our prayer now is that you would come and meet us in your word.

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 Father, you would come and speak to us.

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 Father, that we would leave here loving your son more, cherishing him deeper.

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 And Father, being more conformed to his likeness as we've already been praying.

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 So Father, help us concentrate.

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 Fathers, help us discern your voice in the midst of the great cacophony of noises that crowded on our lives.

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 Father, do your work to your glory, we pray.

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 In the name of your son.

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 Amen.

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 Well, this is the second installment in our series in Hebrews, Out of the Shadows.

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 This morning we're in Hebrews 2, looking at Jesus, our unashamed brother.

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 And the book of Hebrews is written to Jewish Christians.

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 And the writer writes the book because these believers are tempted to turn away from Jesus and to crawl back to the safety and security and familiarity of Judaism.

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 And the book is a letter-ish, but it's more of a sermon.

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 And in the sermon he is telling them, stick in with Jesus.

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 He's saying, stick in with Jesus and don't turn back to the shadowlands of the now defunct Old Testament Jewish faith.

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 And in chapter 1 last week, Graham was telling us that Jesus was fully God.

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 He is 100% God.

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 He is the one as superior to the angels as the name that he's been given is superior to theirs.

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 He's written explicitly that Jesus the Son is God's full and final word to humanity.

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 He's written that Jesus is God's final fulfilled and finished work for us.

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 That Jesus is God's glory revealed and his character disclosed.

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 He is God's agent of creation and the sustainer of creation.

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 He is the one infinitely superior to angels and given the name superior to every name.

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 In chapter 1 he is laying out unequivocally his case that Jesus is 100% God.

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 In the rest of chapter 1 he gives us seven Old Testament quotes to highlight all that God has said to, through, in and about his Son.

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 Which brings us to Hebrews chapter 2.

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 If Hebrews chapter 1 is all about Jesus being 100% God, then Hebrews chapter 2 is all about Jesus being 100% man.

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 100% man.

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 I don't know about you, but as I get older, I'm amazed how small things are becoming other than myself.

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 I seem to be swelling as time goes by.

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 But if you think of the first mobile phone and how enormous that was, and now you get a phone that's just one and a half inches big.

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 Or you think of the computer.

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 I don't know how many of you were at school when computers came in, but they took up almost whole wings of the school.

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 There was a room.

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 Computers, tough.

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 Huge things.

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 And now you can get this little thing that plugs into your HD television and turns it into a fully functioning PC.

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 Way more, infinitely more powerful than the one that used to take up a room.

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 Or the television.

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 Used to be huge.

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 There used to be three of you to carry it, and you still wanted more.

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 And now you get something that's so wafer thin and small that's curved and in 4K.

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 If Santa was good to you.

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 Or the car.

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 That now is shrunk down to that kind of size.

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 Or the library that now fits on that.

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 It's amazing how you can shrink massive things to become tiny things.

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 And that's true.

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 The miraculous miniaturization that took place 2,000 years ago is unbelievable.

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 That when a young peasant girl a long way from home amidst the squalor and stench of a stable,

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 grasping the hand of her betrothed gives birth to God.

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 That is miraculous miniaturization.

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 The big message of Hebrews concerns this mind-bending doctrine that God would shrink himself and take on human flesh.

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 That is the video at the beginning said that the God of all would come as a baby.

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 Just look at our passage.

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 Look at verse 9 in Hebrews chapter 2.

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 But we do see Jesus who was made lower than the angels for a little while.

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 Lower than the angels he became man.

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 Look at verse 11.

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 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family.

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 That is, they are human.

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 That Jesus became human.

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 Look at verse 14.

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 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too, that is, Jesus, shared in their humanity.

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 Verse 17.

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 For this reason, he, Jesus, had to be made like them, fully human in every way.

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 The unfathomable truth that Hebrews 2 is looking at is the incarnation,

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 where the infinite becomes finite, creator becomes creature,

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 the sustainer of all things is sustained by others.

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 The all-powerful becomes weak.

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 The sovereign God becomes dependent on others.

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 The one without being is born.

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 Spirit becomes matter.

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 Boundlessness takes on flesh.

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 The indescribable becomes 65% oxygen, 19% carbon, 9% nitrogen, 9% hydrogen, 3% nitrogen, 2% calcium, 1% phosphorus,

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 with a sprinkling of potassium, 2% sodium, 2% sodium, 2% sodium, 2% magnesium, thrown in for seasoning.

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 Hebrews 2, the big thing, Jesus becomes man.

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 Jesus becomes man.

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 It's a potentially embarrassing truth, isn't it?

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 That when you take your friends to the nativity service and you say,

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 well, that inanimate object, that doll in the manger, that's God.

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 That's what I believed to be God when God came.

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 To focus on Jesus and his teaching and his humanitarian work,

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 rather than the fact that he's God is a little bit more comfortable.

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 To say that Jesus is a good man, a great teacher, a revolutionary leader, a proper prophet,

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 is all very fine in our world, but to say he's God,

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 that God entered human history, that's potentially embarrassing.

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 And it seemed to be potentially embarrassing for the first readers of Hebrews.

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 They've given up all the pomp and circumstance of the temple

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 and now they worship God who became man,

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 who died on a blood-spluttered cross.

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 It's potentially embarrassing, isn't it, to say that God came,

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 that all of God was contained in this person, Jesus Christ.

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 So easy to think this is a pipe dream, a fairy tale you want to file alongside the tooth fairy,

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 the Easter bunny and the Scottish qualification for a major football championships.

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 Yet the writer to the Hebrews lovingly, pastorally and compellingly shows the readers and us

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 that the incarnation is beautiful,

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 that it is necessary, it is miraculous,

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 and it is unescapably central to everything we believe.

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 Far from ridiculous, it is glorious.

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 The writer to the Hebrews, as we read Hebrews 2,

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 it sounds complicated, but I want to give you four simple things,

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 hopefully, that it means.

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 You can tell me at the door afterwards if I've managed.

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 Why did Jesus became man?

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 Here's the first thing.

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 Jesus became man to announce salvation.

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 Read with me, one to four.

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 We must pay the most careful attention,

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 therefore, to what we have heard so that we do not drift away.

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 For since the message spoken through angels was binding,

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 and every violation and disobedience received is just punishment,

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 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation?

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 This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord,

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 was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

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 God also testified to it by signs, wonders, and various miracles,

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 and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

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 Did you read it?

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 First announced by the Lord.

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 This message of salvation first announced by the Lord.

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 After 400 years of salvation,

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 Jesus says salvation has come.

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 The King has come.

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 The kingdom is here.

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 And the message that Jesus announces,

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 the message of salvation,

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 is being contrasted with the message communicated by angels,

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 which is almost certainly to say the Old Covenant,

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 the Old Testament law.

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 The message that came through angels to Moses,

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 Old Testament covenants,

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 is being compared with all that now comes in and through,

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 spoken and delivered by Jesus.

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 So in Deuteronomy 33 verse 2,

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 the Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seah upon us.

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 He shone forth from Mount Parah.

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 He came from the 10,000s of holy ones,

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 angels with flaming fire at his right hand.

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 Or in Acts 7,

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 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites,

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 God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.

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 This is the one who was,

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 this is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness

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 with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai.

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 And with our fathers,

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 he received living oracles to give us.

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 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?

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 And they killed those who announced beforehand

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 the coming of the righteous one,

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 whom you have now betrayed and murdered.

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 You who received the law as delivered by angels

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 and did not keep it.

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 Paul writes something very similar in Galatians 3.

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 Do you see that he's saying,

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 you got this message from angels,

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 this Old Testament law.

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 This Old Testament delivered to you,

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 announced to you by God through angels.

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 And he's saying,

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 if you didn't obey that message,

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 you were in real trouble.

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 There was punishment for every violation and disobedience.

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 If you disobeyed that,

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 how will you escape if you turn away from this message?

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 This message that Jesus comes as a fulfillment of all of that message.

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 This message announced by Jesus,

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 confirmed by eyewitnesses,

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 testified by God through signs and wonders,

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 affirmed by gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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 Why would you go back to that message,

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 which was just the national anthem before the kickoff

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 that's now been announced by Jesus?

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 If you leave this message,

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 you leave everything.

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 Because that was simply pointing forward to Jesus Christ.

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 If you were punished for ignoring the old message,

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 then it's not going to go well

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 if you ignore this new message given by Jesus.

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 And so there's this explicit warning.

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 How shall we escape

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 if we neglect such a great salvation?

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 And the answer is we won't.

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 We absolutely won't.

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 And so what does he say to them in verse 1?

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 Don't drift away.

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 We must pay the most careful attention,

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 therefore, to what we have heard

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 so that we do not drift away.

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 So we don't get lost.

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 If we start ignoring this,

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 if we start minimizing what Jesus has said to us,

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 we drift away into nothingness and lostness.

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 The writer is worried that his readers

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 are not tied up tightly to Jesus Christ

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 and they're going to drift away.

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 They're going to drift back to Judaism

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 and they're going to lose everything.

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 He's saying don't drift away.

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 Tie up tightly to the message of salvation.

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 Pay the most careful attention

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 to what God has told you

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 in his son, Jesus Christ,

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 or you'll suffer eternal loss.

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 The most careful attention.

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 Unless you keep the main thing,

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 the main thing,

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 you'll just drift away

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 into nonsense and nothingness.

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 The writer to the Hebrews

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 is worried that some of his readers

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 are in the haven of the church

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 but they're not more to Jesus Christ.

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 So when the storm comes

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 and it's coming,

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 they'll just float away.

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 Maybe that's true of some people

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 here this morning.

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 We love church.

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 We've got some friends here.

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 The coffee's reasonable.

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 The tray bakes are awesome.

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 We quite enjoy the singing.

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 But the Jesus stuff,

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 we could take or leave.

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 And the writer to the Hebrews says,

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 if you leave the message of Jesus,

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 you leave it all.

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 That is the very center of everything

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 that this place is here for.

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 Saying this message is of eternal worth.

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 And paying close attention to that

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 is the only way

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 not to drift away into lostness

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 and nothingness.

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 Jesus became a man

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 to announce salvation

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 and it's implicit

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 that we listen to him.

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 It's the most important thing

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 that we hear and respond to

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 and keep responding to

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 unless we drift away.

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 No, Jesus.

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 Only punishment, he's saying.

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 Second thing he says,

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 and the rest of the chapter

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 is really just fleshing out

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 that truth

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 that Jesus became man

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 to bring us to glory.

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 Verse 5.

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 It is not to angels

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 that he has subjected the world to come

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 about which we are speaking.

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 But there is a place

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 where someone has testified,

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 what is mankind

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 that you are mindful of them,

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 a son of man

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 that you came for him.

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 You made them

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 a little lower than the angels.

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 You crowned them

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 with glory and honor

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 and put everything

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 under their feet.

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 In putting everything under them,

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 God left nothing

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 that is not subject to them.

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 Yet at present,

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 we do not see everything

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 subject to them,

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 but we do see Jesus.

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 He was made lower

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 than the angels

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 for a little while,

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 who now crowned

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 with glory and honor

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 because he suffered death

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 so that by the grace of God

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 he might taste death

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 for everyone.

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 In bringing many sons

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 and daughters to glory,

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 it was fitting that God,

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 for whom and through whom

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 everything exists,

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 should make the pioneer

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 of their salvation perfect

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 through what he suffered.

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 He now quotes Psalm 8

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 and in Psalm 8,

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 God looks at the magnificence

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 of creation.

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 He's humbled by it

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 and he says,

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 well, why do you care

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 about human beings?

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 If you've done all this stuff,

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 why am I significant?

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 Why am I important?

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 Why would God be so gracious

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 and promise humanity

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 glory and honor

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 when he's obviously

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 so powerful

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 and so magnificent?

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 And so in Psalm 8,

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 there's this promise

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 that mankind will be crowned

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 with glory and honor

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 and everything

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 will be under mankind's authority.

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 That's a great promise,

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 but it seems that something

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 has gone severely wrong.

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 That it doesn't feel like

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 we have authority

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 over really anything

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 in our world.

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 We have natural disasters,

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 we have wars,

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 we have terrorism,

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 corruption,

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 domestic abuse,

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 child poverty.

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 Despite all the efforts,

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 it doesn't seem we can

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 find a total cure to cancer

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 across the board.

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 That this glory and honor

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 and this authority

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 that we're promised

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 doesn't seem to play out

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 in real life.

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 So what's happened?

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 Well, we've happened.

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 Our sinfulness

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 has spoiled the plan.

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 That we are all created

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 for God's glory,

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 to enjoy God's glory.

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 That is the trajectory

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 we're on.

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 But we turned away

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 and we prefer to

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 worship ourselves.

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 We wanted glory

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 for ourselves.

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 We turned inward

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 on ourselves.

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 We forsook

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 God's glory

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 and sinned against him.

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 So now we don't see

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 everything subject

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 to mankind.

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 We see a world

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 that's in real trouble

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 and seemingly spiraling

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 out of control.

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 But the beautiful thing

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 it says here,

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 yet at present

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 we do not see

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 everything subject

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 to them,

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 but we do see Jesus.

00:18:06.360 --> 00:18:07.140
 Jesus came

00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:08.320
 to bring us

00:18:08.320 --> 00:18:08.880
 to glory.

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 We now can't

00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:11.820
 get there ourselves,

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 so Jesus comes

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 to bring us

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 and restore us

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 to the glory

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 for which we were

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 created for.

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 we lost

00:18:21.339 --> 00:18:22.119
 paradise,

00:18:22.299 --> 00:18:22.939
 but Jesus

00:18:22.939 --> 00:18:23.879
 regained it

00:18:23.879 --> 00:18:25.259
 for us.

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 That he

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 was made

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 a little lower

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 than the angels

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 for a little while.

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 That he

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 maintained the

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 trajectory

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 towards God's

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 glory.

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 And therefore

00:18:37.379 --> 00:18:38.519
 hope is restored.

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 Hope is restored.

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 He suffered

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 our death

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 for forsaking

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 God's glory.

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 glory.

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 So we can

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 have the life

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 that he won

00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:48.660
 for us.

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 Hope is restored.

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 Glory once again

00:18:50.420 --> 00:18:51.240
 can be ours

00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:52.339
 in Jesus.

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 He brings us

00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:54.299
 to glory,

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 verse 10.

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 In bringing

00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:57.119
 many sons and

00:18:57.119 --> 00:18:57.819
 daughters to glory,

00:18:57.940 --> 00:18:58.440
 people who will

00:18:58.440 --> 00:18:59.119
 trust him,

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 that he's

00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:01.240
 accomplished

00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:01.839
 what we

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 have failed

00:19:03.180 --> 00:19:03.680
 to do.

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 It was fitting

00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:06.200
 that God,

00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:07.500
 for whom

00:19:07.500 --> 00:19:08.220
 and through whom

00:19:08.220 --> 00:19:09.160
 everything existed,

00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:10.160
 should make

00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:10.779
 the pioneer

00:19:10.779 --> 00:19:11.819
 of their salvation,

00:19:11.819 --> 00:19:12.779
 the one who

00:19:12.779 --> 00:19:14.059
 wins for us

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 perfect through

00:19:14.819 --> 00:19:15.500
 what he suffered.

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 He becomes

00:19:16.819 --> 00:19:17.439
 perfectly

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 qualified

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 to be our

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 saviour because

00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:21.359
 he suffered

00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:22.759
 for us.

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 He took

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 what we

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 deserved.

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 One who

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 has absolute

00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:31.339
 authority over

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 everything,

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 even now.

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 And in the

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 future it will

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 be utterly

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 revealed,

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 as so to

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 everyone.

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 And so the

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 writer to the

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 Hebrews is saying,

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 give up on

00:19:41.980 --> 00:19:42.319
 Jesus,

00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:42.960
 you give up

00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:43.440
 on any

00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:43.899
 hope of

00:19:43.899 --> 00:19:44.279
 glory.

00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:45.440
 Jesus is

00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:45.879
 the one who

00:19:45.879 --> 00:19:46.879
 brings you

00:19:46.879 --> 00:19:47.500
 to glory,

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 and if you

00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:48.700
 turn your

00:19:48.700 --> 00:19:49.059
 back from

00:19:49.059 --> 00:19:49.240
 him,

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 no,

00:19:49.539 --> 00:19:49.859
 you won't

00:19:49.859 --> 00:19:50.240
 be bought

00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:50.559
 because you

00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:50.940
 can't get

00:19:50.940 --> 00:19:51.659
 there yourselves.

00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:54.139
 Jesus became

00:19:54.139 --> 00:19:55.000
 man to bring

00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:55.240
 you,

00:19:55.339 --> 00:19:55.940
 to bring me

00:19:55.940 --> 00:19:56.460
 to glory

00:19:56.460 --> 00:19:57.019
 through faith

00:19:57.019 --> 00:19:57.440
 in him.

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 The one who

00:19:58.680 --> 00:19:59.259
 got there

00:19:59.259 --> 00:20:00.420
 when we

00:20:00.420 --> 00:20:01.480
 couldn't.

00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:03.279
 So hope

00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:03.899
 is restored.

00:20:04.059 --> 00:20:04.759
 Jesus became

00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:06.139
 man to

00:20:06.139 --> 00:20:06.740
 bring us

00:20:06.740 --> 00:20:07.259
 to glory.

00:20:07.379 --> 00:20:07.899
 Number three,

00:20:08.019 --> 00:20:08.940
 verses 11 to

00:20:08.940 --> 00:20:09.420
 16.

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 both the

00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:11.700
 one who

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 makes people

00:20:12.380 --> 00:20:12.920
 holy and

00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:13.259
 those who

00:20:13.259 --> 00:20:13.700
 are made

00:20:13.700 --> 00:20:14.300
 holy are

00:20:14.300 --> 00:20:14.620
 of the

00:20:14.620 --> 00:20:15.360
 same family.

00:20:15.800 --> 00:20:16.279
 So Jesus

00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:17.039
 is not ashamed

00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:17.680
 to call them

00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:18.240
 brothers and

00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:18.620
 sisters.

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 He says,

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 I will declare

00:20:20.420 --> 00:20:21.080
 your name to

00:20:21.080 --> 00:20:21.500
 my brothers

00:20:21.500 --> 00:20:22.080
 and sisters.

00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:22.740
 In the

00:20:22.740 --> 00:20:23.380
 assembly I

00:20:23.380 --> 00:20:23.759
 will sing

00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:24.460
 your praises.

00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:25.920
 And again,

00:20:26.019 --> 00:20:26.480
 I will put

00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:27.320
 my trust in

00:20:27.320 --> 00:20:27.580
 him.

00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:28.640
 And again,

00:20:29.500 --> 00:20:30.120
 he says,

00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:30.900
 here am I

00:20:30.900 --> 00:20:31.720
 and the

00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:32.279
 children God

00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:32.700
 has given

00:20:32.700 --> 00:20:33.000
 me.

00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:33.720
 Since the

00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:34.300
 children have

00:20:34.300 --> 00:20:34.759
 flesh and

00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:34.960
 blood,

00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:35.460
 he too

00:20:35.460 --> 00:20:35.920
 shed in

00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:36.660
 their humanity

00:20:36.660 --> 00:20:37.640
 so that

00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:38.100
 by his

00:20:38.100 --> 00:20:38.600
 death he

00:20:38.600 --> 00:20:39.000
 might break

00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:39.440
 the power

00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:39.720
 of him

00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:40.120
 who holds

00:20:40.120 --> 00:20:40.600
 the power

00:20:40.600 --> 00:20:41.120
 of death,

00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:42.040
 that is the

00:20:42.040 --> 00:20:42.400
 devil,

00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:43.660
 and free

00:20:43.660 --> 00:20:44.220
 those who

00:20:44.220 --> 00:20:44.720
 all their

00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:45.560
 lives was

00:20:45.560 --> 00:20:46.140
 held in

00:20:46.140 --> 00:20:46.940
 slavery by

00:20:46.940 --> 00:20:47.380
 their fear

00:20:47.380 --> 00:20:47.900
 of death.

00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:48.700
 For surely

00:20:48.700 --> 00:20:49.120
 it is not

00:20:49.120 --> 00:20:49.759
 angels he

00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:50.220
 helps,

00:20:50.560 --> 00:20:51.800
 but Abraham's

00:20:51.800 --> 00:20:52.640
 descendants.

00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:54.240
 Point three,

00:20:54.340 --> 00:20:55.019
 Jesus became

00:20:55.019 --> 00:20:56.140
 man to

00:20:56.140 --> 00:20:57.019
 free us

00:20:57.019 --> 00:20:57.360
 from the

00:20:57.360 --> 00:20:58.000
 power of

00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:58.500
 the devil

00:20:58.500 --> 00:20:59.720
 and our

00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:01.200
 fear of

00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:01.680
 death.

00:21:02.360 --> 00:21:03.100
 Death is the

00:21:03.100 --> 00:21:04.080
 great taboo

00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:05.019
 in our

00:21:05.019 --> 00:21:05.359
 world.

00:21:05.439 --> 00:21:05.779
 We'll talk

00:21:05.779 --> 00:21:06.379
 about anything

00:21:06.379 --> 00:21:07.079
 but no one

00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:07.419
 wants to

00:21:07.419 --> 00:21:07.859
 talk about

00:21:07.859 --> 00:21:08.339
 death.

00:21:09.439 --> 00:21:10.500
 80% of

00:21:10.500 --> 00:21:11.139
 all American

00:21:11.139 --> 00:21:12.039
 health insurance

00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:13.159
 is paid out

00:21:13.159 --> 00:21:13.720
 to people in

00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:14.399
 the last year

00:21:14.399 --> 00:21:14.740
 of their

00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:15.399
 lives.

00:21:16.059 --> 00:21:16.519
 That it

00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:16.939
 seems that

00:21:16.939 --> 00:21:17.419
 when death

00:21:17.419 --> 00:21:17.899
 comes we'll

00:21:17.899 --> 00:21:18.359
 pull out all

00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:18.759
 the stops

00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:19.139
 and throw

00:21:19.139 --> 00:21:19.559
 all the

00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:21.139
 money we

00:21:21.139 --> 00:21:21.779
 can at it

00:21:21.779 --> 00:21:22.240
 because we

00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:22.579
 don't want

00:21:22.579 --> 00:21:23.059
 to die.

00:21:24.379 --> 00:21:25.139
 As Woody Allen

00:21:25.139 --> 00:21:25.960
 famously said,

00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:26.619
 I'm not afraid

00:21:26.619 --> 00:21:27.139
 to die, I

00:21:27.139 --> 00:21:27.720
 just don't want

00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:28.259
 to be there

00:21:28.259 --> 00:21:28.559
 when it

00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:28.939
 happens.

00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:30.919
 That's true

00:21:30.919 --> 00:21:31.379
 for all of

00:21:31.379 --> 00:21:31.699
 us, I

00:21:31.699 --> 00:21:32.139
 dare say.

00:21:32.299 --> 00:21:33.639
 Death is the

00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:34.240
 great taboo

00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:34.620
 of our

00:21:34.620 --> 00:21:35.220
 world.

00:21:36.280 --> 00:21:36.759
 Death is

00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:37.660
 one each

00:21:37.660 --> 00:21:38.800
 and yet

00:21:38.800 --> 00:21:39.340
 the fear

00:21:39.340 --> 00:21:39.980
 of death,

00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:41.300
 the fear

00:21:41.300 --> 00:21:41.740
 of our

00:21:41.740 --> 00:21:42.400
 day coming

00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:43.620
 terrifies us.

00:21:44.660 --> 00:21:45.200
 The world

00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:46.259
 is terrified

00:21:46.259 --> 00:21:47.040
 of death.

00:21:48.540 --> 00:21:48.840
 And then

00:21:48.840 --> 00:21:50.300
 these verses

00:21:50.300 --> 00:21:51.000
 give us the

00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:52.140
 perfect antidote

00:21:52.140 --> 00:21:52.980
 to the

00:21:52.980 --> 00:21:53.520
 power of

00:21:53.520 --> 00:21:53.940
 death and

00:21:53.940 --> 00:21:54.380
 the fear

00:21:54.380 --> 00:21:54.940
 of death.

00:21:58.920 --> 00:21:59.480
 Jesus,

00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:00.100
 who's not

00:22:00.100 --> 00:22:00.620
 ashamed to

00:22:00.620 --> 00:22:00.920
 call us

00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:02.220
 his brothers

00:22:02.220 --> 00:22:02.860
 because he

00:22:02.860 --> 00:22:04.480
 loves us.

00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:07.440
 Then

00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:08.039
 quotes Psalm

00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:08.720
 22 in

00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:09.740
 Isaiah 8

00:22:09.740 --> 00:22:10.079
 to make

00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:10.400
 the point

00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:10.660
 that he

00:22:10.660 --> 00:22:12.000
 became like

00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:12.620
 us.

00:22:13.019 --> 00:22:13.480
 Before

00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:15.519
 verse 14

00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:16.160
 applying the

00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:16.799
 significance,

00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:18.559
 he became

00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.079
 human so

00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:21.799
 that by his

00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:22.860
 death he

00:22:22.860 --> 00:22:23.620
 might destroy

00:22:23.620 --> 00:22:25.700
 death and

00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:26.360
 the power of

00:22:26.360 --> 00:22:26.900
 the devil who

00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:27.319
 holds the

00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:27.740
 power of

00:22:27.740 --> 00:22:28.120
 death.

00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:29.860
 He breaks

00:22:29.859 --> 00:22:30.619
 us out.

00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:32.439
 He frees

00:22:32.439 --> 00:22:32.859
 us.

00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:35.699
 Jesus died

00:22:35.699 --> 00:22:36.339
 our death

00:22:36.339 --> 00:22:36.959
 for us,

00:22:37.019 --> 00:22:37.439
 meaning that

00:22:37.439 --> 00:22:37.819
 we through

00:22:37.819 --> 00:22:38.339
 faith in

00:22:38.339 --> 00:22:39.119
 him need

00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:39.679
 not fear

00:22:39.679 --> 00:22:40.219
 death and

00:22:40.219 --> 00:22:40.639
 need not

00:22:40.639 --> 00:22:41.119
 eternally

00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:41.439
 die.

00:22:41.779 --> 00:22:42.219
 No one

00:22:42.219 --> 00:22:42.559
 else has

00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:42.839
 got an

00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:43.419
 antidote to

00:22:43.419 --> 00:22:44.240
 death except

00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:45.179
 Jesus.

00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:47.059
 Jesus

00:22:47.059 --> 00:22:47.659
 shared our

00:22:47.659 --> 00:22:48.139
 flesh and

00:22:48.139 --> 00:22:48.579
 blood so

00:22:48.579 --> 00:22:49.199
 that by his

00:22:49.199 --> 00:22:49.759
 death, death

00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:50.359
 might forever

00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:51.039
 be defeated

00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:52.859
 and death's

00:22:52.859 --> 00:22:53.559
 puppet master

00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:54.339
 the devil might

00:22:54.339 --> 00:22:55.079
 be ultimately

00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:56.379
 disarmed.

00:22:56.380 --> 00:22:56.640
 death.

00:22:58.180 --> 00:22:59.020
 He declares

00:22:59.020 --> 00:22:59.440
 by his

00:22:59.440 --> 00:22:59.860
 death that

00:22:59.860 --> 00:23:00.260
 death is

00:23:00.260 --> 00:23:01.700
 dead and

00:23:01.700 --> 00:23:02.180
 the power of

00:23:02.180 --> 00:23:02.760
 the devil is

00:23:02.760 --> 00:23:03.240
 destroyed.

00:23:05.320 --> 00:23:05.940
 Picture it

00:23:05.940 --> 00:23:06.620
 like this.

00:23:09.420 --> 00:23:10.120
 You're in the

00:23:10.120 --> 00:23:10.700
 school playground

00:23:10.700 --> 00:23:11.840
 and every day

00:23:11.840 --> 00:23:12.640
 of your life

00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:13.780
 two bullies

00:23:13.780 --> 00:23:14.340
 make your life

00:23:14.340 --> 00:23:14.840
 an absolute

00:23:14.840 --> 00:23:15.220
 nightmare.

00:23:16.060 --> 00:23:16.660
 One's called

00:23:16.660 --> 00:23:18.000
 the devil and

00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:18.320
 the other's

00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:18.980
 called death.

00:23:19.740 --> 00:23:20.560
 Every day you

00:23:20.560 --> 00:23:22.680
 go and they

00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:23.640
 ruin your life

00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:24.520
 and they leave

00:23:24.520 --> 00:23:25.480
 you cowering in

00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:25.820
 fear.

00:23:26.380 --> 00:23:27.440
 You go home

00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:28.000
 in tears

00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:29.000
 every day but

00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:29.980
 the bullying

00:23:29.980 --> 00:23:31.300
 never stops.

00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:33.540
 And one

00:23:33.540 --> 00:23:35.780
 day the

00:23:35.780 --> 00:23:36.680
 terror campaign

00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:37.360
 ends and how

00:23:37.360 --> 00:23:37.880
 does the terror

00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:38.800
 campaign end?

00:23:39.020 --> 00:23:39.720
 Because our

00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:40.180
 big brother

00:23:40.180 --> 00:23:40.900
 Jesus comes

00:23:40.900 --> 00:23:41.320
 into the

00:23:41.320 --> 00:23:42.040
 playground for

00:23:42.040 --> 00:23:42.920
 us and

00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:43.540
 gives death

00:23:43.540 --> 00:23:44.120
 and the devil

00:23:44.120 --> 00:23:45.000
 such a beating

00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:46.420
 that they

00:23:46.420 --> 00:23:47.140
 cannot touch

00:23:47.140 --> 00:23:47.900
 us anymore

00:23:47.900 --> 00:23:49.640
 because now

00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:50.420
 our death

00:23:50.420 --> 00:23:51.120
 has been

00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:51.860
 died for

00:23:51.860 --> 00:23:53.360
 us and

00:23:53.360 --> 00:23:53.880
 the one who

00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:54.360
 holds the

00:23:54.360 --> 00:23:55.040
 power of the

00:23:55.040 --> 00:23:55.900
 fear of death

00:23:55.900 --> 00:23:57.040
 has been

00:23:57.040 --> 00:23:57.540
 destroyed

00:23:57.540 --> 00:23:58.040
 forever.

00:23:59.660 --> 00:24:00.860
 We sold

00:24:00.860 --> 00:24:01.380
 ourselves

00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:02.220
 we subjected

00:24:02.220 --> 00:24:02.900
 ourselves to

00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:03.500
 this bullying

00:24:03.500 --> 00:24:04.080
 through our

00:24:04.080 --> 00:24:05.660
 sin and yet

00:24:05.660 --> 00:24:06.759
 Jesus comes

00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:07.880
 and he

00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:08.600
 destroys the

00:24:08.600 --> 00:24:09.160
 power of

00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:09.580
 death

00:24:09.580 --> 00:24:11.280
 the fear

00:24:11.280 --> 00:24:11.920
 of death

00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:13.380
 and the devil

00:24:13.380 --> 00:24:14.060
 who stands

00:24:14.060 --> 00:24:15.019
 orchestrating it

00:24:15.019 --> 00:24:15.380
 all.

00:24:17.080 --> 00:24:17.680
 Jesus became

00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:18.400
 man to die

00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:18.960
 so that by

00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:19.460
 his death

00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:20.200
 death might be

00:24:20.200 --> 00:24:20.680
 destroyed.

00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:21.620
 No one else

00:24:21.620 --> 00:24:22.180
 has got that.

00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:22.320
 death.

00:24:23.320 --> 00:24:23.680
 So the

00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:24.080
 writer to

00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:24.480
 the Hebrews

00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:24.940
 is saying

00:24:24.940 --> 00:24:25.500
 you forsake

00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:26.180
 Jesus you

00:24:26.180 --> 00:24:27.640
 subject yourselves

00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:28.120
 again to

00:24:28.120 --> 00:24:29.840
 death and

00:24:29.840 --> 00:24:30.460
 you return to

00:24:30.460 --> 00:24:32.039
 the fear that

00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:32.640
 you need and

00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:33.320
 have through

00:24:33.320 --> 00:24:34.400
 Jesus.

00:24:34.560 --> 00:24:35.500
 Only hope of

00:24:35.500 --> 00:24:36.440
 escaping death

00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:38.080
 is trusting that

00:24:38.080 --> 00:24:39.600
 Jesus died for

00:24:39.600 --> 00:24:39.799
 us.

00:24:39.860 --> 00:24:40.380
 No Jesus

00:24:40.380 --> 00:24:41.960
 only death.

00:24:43.900 --> 00:24:44.420
 Lastly

00:24:44.420 --> 00:24:45.220
 Jesus became

00:24:45.220 --> 00:24:46.060
 man to atone

00:24:46.060 --> 00:24:46.680
 for sin and

00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:47.420
 help us to be

00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:47.700
 holy.

00:24:47.820 --> 00:24:48.080
 Look at

00:24:48.080 --> 00:24:48.860
 verse 17.

00:24:48.859 --> 00:24:50.539
 For this

00:24:50.539 --> 00:24:51.159
 reason he

00:24:51.159 --> 00:24:51.699
 had to be

00:24:51.699 --> 00:24:52.219
 made like

00:24:52.219 --> 00:24:52.979
 them fully

00:24:52.979 --> 00:24:53.559
 human in

00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:54.359
 every way in

00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:54.919
 order that he

00:24:54.919 --> 00:24:55.619
 might become a

00:24:55.619 --> 00:24:56.319
 merciful and

00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:57.299
 faithful high

00:24:57.299 --> 00:24:57.839
 priest in the

00:24:57.839 --> 00:24:58.319
 service of

00:24:58.319 --> 00:24:59.459
 God and that

00:24:59.459 --> 00:25:00.039
 he might make

00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:01.599
 atonement for

00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:02.099
 the sins of

00:25:02.099 --> 00:25:02.619
 the people.

00:25:03.439 --> 00:25:04.099
 Because he

00:25:04.099 --> 00:25:05.019
 himself suffered

00:25:05.019 --> 00:25:05.619
 when he was

00:25:05.619 --> 00:25:06.319
 tempted he is

00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:06.979
 able to help

00:25:06.979 --> 00:25:07.959
 those who

00:25:07.959 --> 00:25:08.399
 are tempted.

00:25:08.639 --> 00:25:09.279
 Jesus became

00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:10.939
 man to atone

00:25:10.939 --> 00:25:11.679
 for sin and

00:25:11.679 --> 00:25:13.279
 help us be

00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:13.639
 holy.

00:25:14.459 --> 00:25:15.539
 The significance

00:25:15.539 --> 00:25:16.079
 of the high

00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:16.719
 priest is that

00:25:16.719 --> 00:25:17.279
 he is the one

00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:18.759
 who stands for

00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:19.279
 the people

00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:20.240
 before God.

00:25:21.059 --> 00:25:22.079
 He is the

00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:23.299
 intermediary.

00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:23.779
 He is the

00:25:23.779 --> 00:25:24.420
 go-between.

00:25:27.420 --> 00:25:28.079
 There's going

00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:28.579
 to be way

00:25:28.579 --> 00:25:29.200
 more detail

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:30.079
 about this in

00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:31.180
 this letter.

00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:33.059
 But in the

00:25:33.059 --> 00:25:33.599
 Old Testament

00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:34.079
 it's always

00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:35.059
 unsatisfactory

00:25:35.059 --> 00:25:35.660
 because the

00:25:35.660 --> 00:25:36.619
 place of the

00:25:36.619 --> 00:25:37.259
 high priest is

00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:37.960
 a human.

00:25:38.619 --> 00:25:39.660
 And a human

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:40.619
 standing before

00:25:40.619 --> 00:25:42.119
 God on behalf

00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:42.900
 of humans will

00:25:42.900 --> 00:25:43.480
 always be

00:25:43.480 --> 00:25:44.640
 unsatisfactory to

00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:45.099
 bring the two

00:25:45.099 --> 00:25:45.680
 together because

00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:46.640
 he's so biased

00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:48.240
 and fallen on

00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:48.779
 the side of

00:25:48.779 --> 00:25:49.319
 humanity.

00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:51.279
 But then we

00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:52.319
 get Jesus who

00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:53.140
 is a better

00:25:53.140 --> 00:25:53.740
 go-between.

00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:54.140
 Why?

00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:54.839
 Because he is

00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:56.660
 fully God and

00:25:56.660 --> 00:25:57.400
 fully human.

00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:58.339
 So he is the

00:25:58.339 --> 00:26:00.880
 perfect bridge in

00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:01.539
 that gap.

00:26:02.220 --> 00:26:02.620
 And therefore

00:26:02.620 --> 00:26:03.400
 he's able to

00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:04.599
 make atonement.

00:26:04.859 --> 00:26:05.380
 That word

00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:06.359
 atonement is

00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:07.240
 literally at

00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.120
 onement.

00:26:08.420 --> 00:26:09.180
 He is able to

00:26:09.180 --> 00:26:10.019
 bring two things

00:26:10.019 --> 00:26:11.160
 separated by sin

00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:12.579
 back together as

00:26:12.579 --> 00:26:13.099
 one.

00:26:14.140 --> 00:26:16.019
 By removing sin,

00:26:16.019 --> 00:26:16.980
 by paying the

00:26:16.980 --> 00:26:18.000
 ultimate sacrifice

00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:19.019
 for sin,

00:26:19.099 --> 00:26:20.220
 by crawling onto

00:26:20.220 --> 00:26:20.660
 the altar

00:26:20.660 --> 00:26:21.279
 himself.

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:22.740
 Therefore,

00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:24.160
 he's able to

00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:25.119
 be merciful to

00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:27.139
 sinners whilst

00:26:27.139 --> 00:26:27.900
 also being

00:26:27.900 --> 00:26:28.619
 faithful to

00:26:28.619 --> 00:26:29.079
 God.

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:31.059
 He is the

00:26:31.059 --> 00:26:32.400
 perfect high

00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:32.759
 priest.

00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:34.059
 So in Jesus

00:26:34.059 --> 00:26:35.039
 and only in

00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:35.339
 Jesus,

00:26:35.740 --> 00:26:36.680
 God and you

00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:37.259
 can be brought

00:26:37.259 --> 00:26:37.859
 back together.

00:26:39.220 --> 00:26:39.879
 You can be at

00:26:39.879 --> 00:26:40.660
 one where your

00:26:40.660 --> 00:26:42.019
 sin has utterly

00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:43.400
 formed a

00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:44.139
 barrier.

00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:46.100
 He deals

00:26:46.100 --> 00:26:46.500
 with our

00:26:46.500 --> 00:26:46.720
 sin,

00:26:46.800 --> 00:26:47.340
 but see that

00:26:47.340 --> 00:26:47.960
 it's not just

00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:48.480
 something that

00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:49.280
 he's done for

00:26:49.280 --> 00:26:49.820
 us.

00:26:50.360 --> 00:26:51.060
 It's something

00:26:51.060 --> 00:26:51.420
 that he

00:26:51.420 --> 00:26:52.480
 continually does

00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:53.140
 for us.

00:26:53.280 --> 00:26:54.520
 Verse 18,

00:26:54.580 --> 00:26:55.040
 because he

00:26:55.040 --> 00:26:55.920
 himself suffered

00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:56.520
 when he was

00:26:56.520 --> 00:26:56.900
 tempted,

00:26:57.820 --> 00:26:58.580
 he is able to

00:26:58.580 --> 00:26:59.200
 help those who

00:26:59.200 --> 00:26:59.540
 were being

00:26:59.540 --> 00:26:59.900
 tempted.

00:27:00.520 --> 00:27:01.500
 Because Jesus

00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:02.360
 became human,

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:03.100
 he knows all

00:27:03.100 --> 00:27:03.900
 about temptation.

00:27:04.940 --> 00:27:05.560
 He knows more

00:27:05.560 --> 00:27:06.120
 about it than

00:27:06.120 --> 00:27:06.680
 any of us

00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:07.280
 because he was

00:27:07.280 --> 00:27:08.200
 the one who

00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:09.020
 never gave

00:27:09.020 --> 00:27:09.780
 into it.

00:27:11.300 --> 00:27:12.140
 And therefore

00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:13.040
 he's able to

00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:14.259
 help us,

00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:15.319
 he's able to

00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:16.000
 strengthen us,

00:27:16.059 --> 00:27:16.599
 he's able to

00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:17.839
 give grace to

00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:18.019
 us,

00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:18.940
 he's able to

00:27:18.940 --> 00:27:20.299
 teach us how

00:27:20.299 --> 00:27:21.359
 to resist when

00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:22.319
 we're so readily

00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:23.619
 and often

00:27:23.619 --> 00:27:24.079
 tempted.

00:27:25.940 --> 00:27:26.619
 And so I

00:27:26.619 --> 00:27:27.099
 don't know what

00:27:27.099 --> 00:27:27.819
 your New Year's

00:27:27.819 --> 00:27:28.859
 resolutions were,

00:27:29.059 --> 00:27:29.619
 dare say they're

00:27:29.619 --> 00:27:30.059
 in the bin

00:27:30.059 --> 00:27:30.480
 already.

00:27:31.579 --> 00:27:32.159
 But there are

00:27:32.159 --> 00:27:32.779
 some sins,

00:27:32.899 --> 00:27:33.139
 aren't there,

00:27:33.139 --> 00:27:33.599
 that we just

00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:34.619
 commit habitually.

00:27:35.539 --> 00:27:36.159
 We're going to

00:27:36.159 --> 00:27:37.059
 stop gossiping,

00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:37.359
 we're going to

00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:37.980
 stop using our

00:27:37.980 --> 00:27:39.319
 internet badly,

00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:40.299
 we're going to

00:27:40.299 --> 00:27:41.099
 stop being so

00:27:41.099 --> 00:27:42.180
 aggressive when we

00:27:42.180 --> 00:27:42.579
 drive.

00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:45.099
 we're going to

00:27:45.099 --> 00:27:46.099
 stop worshipping

00:27:46.099 --> 00:27:46.579
 money,

00:27:46.700 --> 00:27:47.019
 we're going to

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:49.480
 stop twisting

00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:49.940
 and being

00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:50.759
 economical with

00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:51.019
 the truth.

00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:51.359
 I don't know

00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:52.099
 what it was.

00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:53.920
 But the truth

00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:54.920
 here is,

00:27:56.019 --> 00:27:56.680
 Jesus is able

00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:57.899
 to help us.

00:27:59.019 --> 00:27:59.799
 We're conscious

00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:00.460
 of these sins

00:28:00.460 --> 00:28:01.259
 year after year

00:28:01.259 --> 00:28:01.819
 after year and

00:28:01.819 --> 00:28:02.539
 we're never able

00:28:02.539 --> 00:28:03.279
 to break them.

00:28:03.779 --> 00:28:04.420
 But this says

00:28:04.420 --> 00:28:05.460
 Jesus is ready

00:28:05.460 --> 00:28:06.579
 and willing

00:28:06.579 --> 00:28:07.619
 and able to

00:28:07.619 --> 00:28:08.460
 help us.

00:28:09.259 --> 00:28:09.960
 So next time

00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:10.500
 you're going into

00:28:10.500 --> 00:28:11.399
 a situation where

00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:12.120
 you're tempted

00:28:12.120 --> 00:28:13.519
 to speak badly

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:14.259
 of others in

00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:14.800
 order to make

00:28:14.800 --> 00:28:15.560
 yourself feel

00:28:15.560 --> 00:28:16.420
 better.

00:28:17.560 --> 00:28:18.080
 When you're

00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:18.740
 tempted to

00:28:18.740 --> 00:28:19.800
 gossip and

00:28:19.800 --> 00:28:22.040
 just relay

00:28:22.040 --> 00:28:23.519
 truth from the

00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:24.200
 grapevine

00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:25.720
 to diminish

00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:26.300
 others.

00:28:26.420 --> 00:28:26.880
 What about

00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:27.320
 praying?

00:28:28.140 --> 00:28:28.780
 Jesus, thank

00:28:28.780 --> 00:28:29.360
 you that you

00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:30.259
 always use your

00:28:30.259 --> 00:28:30.860
 words well.

00:28:31.860 --> 00:28:32.580
 Thank you that

00:28:32.580 --> 00:28:33.480
 you only told

00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:34.580
 the truth to

00:28:34.580 --> 00:28:35.480
 people, about

00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:36.200
 people, for

00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:36.940
 people, that you

00:28:36.940 --> 00:28:37.700
 only ever built

00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:38.280
 people up.

00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:40.160
 thank you that

00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:40.579
 now you're

00:28:40.579 --> 00:28:41.019
 using your

00:28:41.019 --> 00:28:41.599
 words really

00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:42.339
 well to pray

00:28:42.339 --> 00:28:43.240
 for me before

00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:44.339
 the Father.

00:28:44.399 --> 00:28:44.779
 And I'm going

00:28:44.779 --> 00:28:45.200
 into this

00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:45.980
 situation today

00:28:45.980 --> 00:28:46.299
 where I'm

00:28:46.299 --> 00:28:46.680
 tempted.

00:28:47.740 --> 00:28:48.099
 Where I'm

00:28:48.099 --> 00:28:48.399
 going to be

00:28:48.399 --> 00:28:48.940
 tempted to

00:28:48.940 --> 00:28:49.559
 speak badly

00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:49.940
 and just

00:28:49.940 --> 00:28:50.799
 join in

00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:51.960
 with everyone

00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:52.700
 else in the

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:53.200
 banter.

00:28:54.519 --> 00:28:55.079
 Jesus, would

00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:55.579
 you give me

00:28:55.579 --> 00:28:57.019
 grace and

00:28:57.019 --> 00:28:57.579
 help so that

00:28:57.579 --> 00:28:57.899
 when I'm

00:28:57.899 --> 00:28:58.500
 tempted to do

00:28:58.500 --> 00:28:59.079
 that I might

00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:00.000
 be able to

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:01.259
 withstand it as

00:29:01.259 --> 00:29:01.859
 you were able

00:29:01.859 --> 00:29:02.700
 to withstand it?

00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:04.619
 What if we

00:29:04.619 --> 00:29:05.379
 actually believe

00:29:05.379 --> 00:29:06.240
 that Jesus was

00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:07.700
 there to help

00:29:07.700 --> 00:29:08.259
 us?

00:29:09.840 --> 00:29:10.720
 As one who

00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:11.600
 knows what it

00:29:11.600 --> 00:29:11.980
 is to be

00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:12.319
 tempted,

00:29:12.580 --> 00:29:13.120
 withstood it

00:29:13.120 --> 00:29:14.440
 all, and

00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:15.019
 now stands

00:29:15.019 --> 00:29:15.720
 there ready to

00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.259
 help us when

00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:18.840
 we're tempted

00:29:18.840 --> 00:29:19.960
 to turn away.

00:29:21.140 --> 00:29:21.640
 You know, it's

00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:22.400
 a great truth

00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:22.900
 that Jesus

00:29:22.900 --> 00:29:23.860
 became man for

00:29:23.860 --> 00:29:24.240
 us.

00:29:24.940 --> 00:29:25.440
 No other

00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:26.720
 religion, no

00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:27.400
 other God has

00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:27.900
 got something

00:29:27.900 --> 00:29:28.620
 like this going

00:29:28.620 --> 00:29:29.019
 on.

00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:30.539
 A God who

00:29:30.539 --> 00:29:30.980
 is so

00:29:30.980 --> 00:29:32.680
 magnificent and

00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:33.220
 majestic.

00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:35.220
 He made

00:29:35.220 --> 00:29:36.120
 himself small,

00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:36.819
 crumpled

00:29:36.819 --> 00:29:37.360
 himself,

00:29:37.700 --> 00:29:38.920
 into human

00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:40.000
 history so

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:40.279
 that we

00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:40.860
 might have

00:29:40.860 --> 00:29:41.680
 hope.

00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:44.819
 Jesus

00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:45.779
 becomes man

00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:47.340
 to give us

00:29:47.340 --> 00:29:48.100
 the absolute

00:29:48.100 --> 00:29:49.039
 essential and

00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:49.880
 only message of

00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:50.500
 salvation that

00:29:50.500 --> 00:29:51.340
 we must hear

00:29:51.340 --> 00:29:52.680
 and not drift

00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:53.299
 away from.

00:29:54.660 --> 00:29:55.380
 Jesus became

00:29:55.380 --> 00:29:56.259
 man to bring us

00:29:56.259 --> 00:29:57.019
 to glory because

00:29:57.019 --> 00:29:57.580
 we've fallen

00:29:57.580 --> 00:29:58.440
 short and are

00:29:58.440 --> 00:29:59.299
 utterly lost,

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.519
 and yet he

00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:01.759
 brings us

00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:02.319
 through faith

00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:02.759
 in him.

00:30:03.660 --> 00:30:04.400
 Jesus became

00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:05.259
 man to free us

00:30:05.259 --> 00:30:06.059
 from death

00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:07.480
 and the power

00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:07.900
 of the devil.

00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:08.539
 No one else

00:30:08.539 --> 00:30:09.039
 is promising

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:09.539
 that.

00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:11.379
 Jesus became

00:30:11.379 --> 00:30:12.279
 man to atone

00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:13.180
 for our sins

00:30:13.180 --> 00:30:14.500
 and be our

00:30:14.500 --> 00:30:15.279
 constant helper

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:15.980
 in our pursuit

00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:17.279
 of holiness.

00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:17.559
 holiness.

00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:19.180
 And so he

00:30:19.180 --> 00:30:19.460
 writes,

00:30:19.579 --> 00:30:20.279
 love Jesus,

00:30:20.619 --> 00:30:21.379
 tie up tightly

00:30:21.379 --> 00:30:22.000
 to Jesus,

00:30:23.099 --> 00:30:23.660
 or else you'll

00:30:23.660 --> 00:30:24.660
 suffer loss

00:30:24.660 --> 00:30:26.099
 for everything.

00:30:27.579 --> 00:30:28.579
 Give up Jesus,

00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:29.379
 you give up

00:30:29.379 --> 00:30:30.680
 every hope,

00:30:31.500 --> 00:30:32.579
 every joy,

00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:33.180
 and every

00:30:33.180 --> 00:30:33.740
 comfort.

00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:34.420
 It's a wonderful

00:30:34.420 --> 00:30:34.879
 chapter,

00:30:35.879 --> 00:30:37.500
 one that exalts

00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:38.539
 Jesus to us,

00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:39.240
 one that's been a

00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:40.119
 joy to study this

00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:40.879
 week and highlighting

00:30:40.879 --> 00:30:42.099
 my absolute need

00:30:42.099 --> 00:30:43.579
 to stick in

00:30:43.579 --> 00:30:45.259
 and keep on

00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:46.579
 with Jesus

00:30:46.579 --> 00:30:46.839
 Christ.

00:30:46.919 --> 00:30:47.719
 Let me pray

00:30:47.719 --> 00:30:49.039
 and then we're

00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:49.639
 done.

00:30:55.459 --> 00:30:56.139
 Father God,

00:30:56.199 --> 00:30:56.719
 thank you that

00:30:56.719 --> 00:30:57.740
 Jesus became

00:30:57.740 --> 00:30:58.099
 man.

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:00.759
 Thank you that

00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:01.639
 he gave up the

00:31:01.639 --> 00:31:02.699
 boundless glory of

00:31:02.699 --> 00:31:03.619
 heaven for us.

00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:05.759
 That he won

00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.619
 where we failed.

00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:08.779
 That he succeeded

00:31:08.779 --> 00:31:09.859
 where we gave up.

00:31:10.980 --> 00:31:11.419
 That he

00:31:11.420 --> 00:31:12.360
 persevered when

00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:13.340
 we tapped out.

00:31:15.980 --> 00:31:16.420
 Father,

00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:16.940
 thank you that

00:31:16.940 --> 00:31:17.400
 he is so

00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:18.500
 gracious to us.

00:31:19.180 --> 00:31:19.779
 He's so

00:31:19.779 --> 00:31:20.820
 understanding of

00:31:20.820 --> 00:31:21.259
 us.

00:31:22.340 --> 00:31:23.300
 He is the one

00:31:23.300 --> 00:31:24.060
 able to save

00:31:24.060 --> 00:31:24.920
 completely those

00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:25.400
 who come to

00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:26.080
 him in faith.

00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:28.920
 So Lord,

00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:29.660
 I pray for those

00:31:29.660 --> 00:31:30.300
 that do not

00:31:30.300 --> 00:31:30.940
 know Jesus.

00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:31.380
 Father,

00:31:31.460 --> 00:31:32.100
 may they trust

00:31:32.100 --> 00:31:32.580
 him as one

00:31:32.580 --> 00:31:33.080
 who knows

00:31:33.080 --> 00:31:33.820
 everything about

00:31:33.820 --> 00:31:34.460
 them and wants

00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:36.019
 to help and

00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:36.960
 to love forever.

00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:38.880
 Father,

00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:39.600
 I pray for those

00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:40.100
 who are tempted

00:31:40.100 --> 00:31:41.060
 to drift away.

00:31:42.420 --> 00:31:42.860
 Father,

00:31:42.940 --> 00:31:43.400
 I pray that

00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:44.039
 we might tie

00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:44.580
 up tightly

00:31:44.580 --> 00:31:45.220
 to Jesus

00:31:45.220 --> 00:31:47.320
 Christ and

00:31:47.320 --> 00:31:47.620
 know his

00:31:47.620 --> 00:31:48.060
 help and

00:31:48.060 --> 00:31:48.840
 comfort forever.

00:31:51.360 --> 00:31:51.980
 And Father,

00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:52.460
 I want to pray

00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:53.100
 for those that

00:31:53.100 --> 00:31:53.800
 are sticking in

00:31:53.800 --> 00:31:54.279
 with Jesus.

00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:54.620
 Father,

00:31:54.700 --> 00:31:55.259
 may we love

00:31:55.259 --> 00:31:55.759
 him more,

00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:57.460
 serve him

00:31:57.460 --> 00:31:58.100
 better and be

00:31:58.100 --> 00:31:58.640
 conformed to

00:31:58.640 --> 00:31:59.440
 his likeness.

00:31:59.560 --> 00:31:59.980
 More and more

00:31:59.980 --> 00:32:00.500
 we pray.

00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:02.240
 Father,

00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:02.860
 thank you so

00:32:02.860 --> 00:32:03.480
 much for Jesus

00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:04.200
 in whose name

00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:04.680
 we pray.

00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:05.759
 Amen.

00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:06.779
 that

00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:09.680
 and

00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:11.240
 we savior

00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:11.839
 so

00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:11.859
 as

00:32:11.859 --> 00:32:12.900
 we

00:32:12.900 --> 00:32:14.960
 do

00:32:14.980 --> 00:32:19.400
 have