WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.339 Turn your copy of God's Word to Hebrews chapter 10. 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.640 I'm really thankful that I get to preach following music like that. 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:14.560 ! 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:36.179 We've been talking about the vision of Christ's family church. 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:45.179 And our official vision statement is that Christ's family church exists to experience, proclaim, and display the supremacy of Jesus Christ in all things. 00:00:45.179 --> 00:00:51.120 I hope that's a phrase that's beginning to build itself both into your consciousness and your subconsciousness. 00:00:51.620 --> 00:00:55.280 But we've been talking more specifically about how it is that that works itself out. 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:01.219 And we've been working our way through the last two weeks we spent in verse 22. 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.439 And today we're going to begin in verse 23. 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:12.000 But I think it's first always important that we talk about verse 19, 20, and 21. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:18.079 Because in them we find great privileges granted to us by Christ. 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.859 Two, to be certain, here in this text. 00:01:21.859 --> 00:01:26.959 And they are, number one, unlimited accessibility to God. 00:01:27.459 --> 00:01:29.659 We see that in verse 19 and 20. 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:34.980 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 00:01:35.539 --> 00:01:39.960 by the new and living way that he has opened for us through the curtain that is through his flesh. 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:46.760 So we have been granted full access to God through Christ's death on our behalf. 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.820 And number two, a great advocacy with God. 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:53.640 The second privilege, a great advocacy with God. 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:58.500 We see in verse 21 that we have a great priest over the house of God. 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:04.540 So even now, Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for us, 00:02:04.820 --> 00:02:07.020 meaning that he is praying for us. 00:02:07.580 --> 00:02:16.200 He stands between us and God, cloaking us in his righteousness so that we can, in fact, approach God. 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:21.899 So we have unlimited accessibility and great advocacy as a result. 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:27.659 And in light of that truth, the writer of Hebrews gives us three exhortations. 00:02:28.359 --> 00:02:29.439 Three exhortations. 00:02:29.899 --> 00:02:34.079 And these things are to be practiced by God's church. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:43.040 The Puritans called them, called it improving upon our privileges, which isn't to say that the privileges aren't themselves enough, 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:47.760 but that they're not being used if they're not being practiced. 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:53.580 So they said we would improve upon these privileges granted to us by Christ. 00:02:53.660 --> 00:02:54.520 And we see three of those. 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:59.420 And the first way that we improve upon these privileges is to draw near to God together. 00:02:59.420 --> 00:03:04.700 And we spoke over the last two weeks about Christian worship and what that ought to look like. 00:03:04.760 --> 00:03:10.900 Our gatherings together, not just music, but our study of the word of God and our prayers together. 00:03:11.460 --> 00:03:15.820 And I drew out for you six truths from verse 22. 00:03:16.100 --> 00:03:18.180 And I want to quickly go over those with you. 00:03:18.180 --> 00:03:22.379 Number one, Christian worship is corporate in emphasis. 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.000 Number two, frequent in occurrence. 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.780 Number three, entirely preoccupied with God. 00:03:32.260 --> 00:03:37.240 Number four, includes all of who we are, meaning head and heart. 00:03:38.200 --> 00:03:39.760 Number five, it is confident. 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:43.580 And number six, it is preceded by purification. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.540 You must be a Christian to participate in Christian worship. 00:03:47.539 --> 00:03:55.819 And so we come today in verse 23 to the second way we improve upon these privileges bought for us by Christ. 00:03:55.959 --> 00:03:58.159 And that's the focus of this morning's sermon is verse 23. 00:03:58.819 --> 00:04:02.120 The sermon should be, I think, short in length. 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:04.759 I'm going to surprise myself sometimes. 00:04:05.399 --> 00:04:09.199 And it will be, I hope, simply profound. 00:04:09.819 --> 00:04:11.560 Let's read verse 23 together. 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:17.819 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. 00:04:18.280 --> 00:04:21.040 For he who promised is faithful. 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:25.639 And I want to give to you three points to help us break down verse 23. 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.459 And in order to do so, I've rewarded it. 00:04:29.579 --> 00:04:34.560 I've taken some liberty and made my own translation of verse 23 to say, 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:43.540 We have a confession that we should not be moved from because we have a promise from one who cannot lie. 00:04:44.540 --> 00:04:45.860 Let me repeat that for you. 00:04:46.379 --> 00:04:55.120 We have a confession that we should not be moved from because we have a promise from one who cannot lie. 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:58.300 So number one, we have a confession. 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:05.579 That ought to be, ought to be an amazing phrase to us. 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.139 As Christians, we have a confession. 00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:10.939 And you see that in this phrase, the confession of our hope. 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:14.759 We should hold fast the confession of our hope. 00:05:15.459 --> 00:05:16.879 It ought to be shocking to us. 00:05:16.899 --> 00:05:22.699 It ought to be precious because we live in a world with the most radical expression of free thought. 00:05:23.699 --> 00:05:24.620 Post-modernism. 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.800 If you're not aware, the age we live in is called the post-modern age. 00:05:30.579 --> 00:05:35.040 Modernism being what most of your parents would be, would be modernist. 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:40.459 And that they measure the success of something by the visible things they can measure. 00:05:41.100 --> 00:05:44.379 The scientific method is a modernistic way of thinking. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.120 Not wrong in any measure. 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:52.800 Now, most of us, though, in this room are what we would call post-moderns. 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:58.560 And what that means is that there is no truth except the truth we decide is ours. 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:00.100 The truth we decide to own. 00:06:00.220 --> 00:06:03.240 Our own perception of what truth is. 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:09.540 And a great example of this is always if we all walked out in the parking lot together and suddenly there was a car accident. 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:12.160 Somebody was going to the parking lot quickly and somebody backed out. 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:14.800 We would all have a different perception of what happened. 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.200 If the police showed up and interviewed each of us individually, we would tell a slightly different story. 00:06:19.900 --> 00:06:20.060 Right? 00:06:20.220 --> 00:06:21.680 Maybe I was looking at the ground. 00:06:22.060 --> 00:06:23.540 And so I heard what happened. 00:06:23.980 --> 00:06:26.860 And maybe I smelled the screech of the tires. 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:28.760 But I didn't actually see the collision. 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.800 So I would tell a much different story from someone who was looking at it. 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:36.420 And the post-modernist says, well, that truth is your truth. 00:06:38.219 --> 00:06:39.860 And that truth is your truth. 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.139 And therefore, you define truth for yourself. 00:06:42.219 --> 00:06:45.399 But the fact remains that there is still something that happened. 00:06:45.860 --> 00:06:46.019 Right? 00:06:46.339 --> 00:06:51.680 An object truth of something that happened, whether we experienced it to be true or not. 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:57.800 And we find now in our culture that we've gone a step further, the most radical expression of free thought. 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:05.860 We've gone a step further to say, not only do I define truth for myself, but I wouldn't be so audacious to say that it's true. 00:07:07.500 --> 00:07:11.579 So I experience something, say, in our example, the car accident. 00:07:11.699 --> 00:07:13.819 I hear what happens in the collision. 00:07:14.280 --> 00:07:19.540 And I say, well, I heard it, but I can't say for sure what I heard was right. 00:07:19.540 --> 00:07:22.060 And that's the world that we live in. 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:27.120 So for us to have a confession is a pretty major deal. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.100 I love this little quote G.K. Chesterton wrote in his book, Orthodoxy. 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:34.420 Do not go about as a demagogue. 00:07:34.580 --> 00:07:42.720 A demagogue is a person who rises to power by not appealing to people's rationality, but appealing to their emotions, their prejudices. 00:07:43.460 --> 00:07:45.220 A good example of a demagogue would be Hitler. 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:46.040 Okay? 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:54.000 Do not go about as a demagogue and encouraging triangles to break out of the prison of their three sides. 00:07:54.700 --> 00:07:59.580 If a triangle breaks out of its three sides, its life comes to a lamentable end. 00:08:00.640 --> 00:08:04.580 And you was trying to say there are absolutes in our world. 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:07.500 There are object truths that exist in our world. 00:08:07.580 --> 00:08:11.439 Don't go around trying to tell a triangle to quit being a triangle because that's so confining to it. 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:18.000 Because as soon as it decides not to be a triangle, it ceases to be a triangle when it comes to a lamentable end. 00:08:18.699 --> 00:08:21.500 So we have a confession. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:27.079 A confession, the word simply means what one professes to be true. 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:38.440 But the original language, the Greek, carries a little more meaning with it and can actually be rendered whom we profess to be true or whom we profess to be ours. 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:44.920 So you could say the one we profess who is our hope. 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:46.420 Isn't that neat? 00:08:46.820 --> 00:08:49.280 The one we profess who is our hope. 00:08:49.380 --> 00:08:56.060 And of course, when we talk here about hope, we're not talking about the kind of hope that we've kind of adapted in our English language. 00:08:56.220 --> 00:08:57.460 The cross your fingers. 00:08:57.680 --> 00:09:00.060 I hope I get a bicycle for Christmas. 00:09:00.580 --> 00:09:01.600 That kind of hope. 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:06.800 It's an eager expectation of the good things that have been promised to us. 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:10.420 To hold fast the confession of our hope. 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:14.340 The one whom we profess who is our hope. 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.820 So I'd like for you to turn with me to Titus chapter 3. 00:09:18.820 --> 00:09:26.220 This is one of my favorite expressions of our hope. 00:09:26.420 --> 00:09:29.320 This common confession that we hold as Christians. 00:09:30.040 --> 00:09:37.620 I find this to be such a beautiful gospel presentation by Paul as he writes a pastoral letter to Titus. 00:09:37.780 --> 00:09:39.640 So Titus chapter 3. 00:09:41.640 --> 00:09:43.560 We'll read verses 3 through 7 together. 00:09:43.559 --> 00:10:13.539 Paul wrote, 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:43.559 00:10:43.559 --> 00:11:12.019 What a blessing that is. 00:11:12.019 --> 00:11:12.699 Nothing. 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:14.559 Nothing. 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:14.559 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:14.559 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:15.559 Nothing. 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:21.579 God is entirely sovereign in our salvation and deserves all the honor and glory and praise for it. 00:11:23.119 --> 00:11:26.259 If you don't share with us this confession this morning. 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.279 If you don't recognize that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.039 And he is the only way. 00:11:33.139 --> 00:11:33.979 Not a way. 00:11:34.099 --> 00:11:35.359 But the way. 00:11:35.739 --> 00:11:36.299 The truth. 00:11:36.719 --> 00:11:37.339 And the life. 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:38.599 You have no hope. 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.720 That's what the scriptures are teaching us here. 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:43.120 You have no hope at all. 00:11:43.680 --> 00:11:46.259 Your soul is in a desperate state. 00:11:46.259 --> 00:11:50.919 And you can fix that now. 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:51.919 repent and believe in Christ. 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.740 Repent and believe in Christ. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:05.159 And go to many gatherings of God's people and you would feel that you would have to wait until the end of the service for that to be a possibility for you. 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:09.240 That I must give some holy calling to the altar. 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.240 I'm not your intermediary. 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:12.960 I'm not your intermediary. 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:14.379 Who is? 00:12:14.680 --> 00:12:15.639 We just talked about it. 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:16.779 Jesus Christ. 00:12:17.940 --> 00:12:20.799 He's the one that stands between you and God. 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:21.860 Run to him. 00:12:21.860 --> 00:12:22.700 And even now. 00:12:23.899 --> 00:12:25.080 That you might be saved. 00:12:26.800 --> 00:12:28.019 So we have a confession. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:31.659 That we should not be moved from. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:32.560 Point two. 00:12:33.340 --> 00:12:34.279 We have a confession. 00:12:34.980 --> 00:12:36.159 That we should not. 00:12:37.419 --> 00:12:38.300 Be moved from. 00:12:39.980 --> 00:12:40.379 Beginning. 00:12:40.980 --> 00:12:42.180 Verse 23 says. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:43.820 Let us hold fast. 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:44.060 And. 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.000 Very much like the beginning of verse 22. 00:12:47.620 --> 00:12:48.259 Let us. 00:12:48.620 --> 00:12:49.180 Draw near. 00:12:49.340 --> 00:12:50.940 This is one Greek verb. 00:12:50.940 --> 00:12:53.820 Rather fascinating in its form. 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:55.260 It is. 00:12:56.900 --> 00:12:58.140 An active. 00:12:58.700 --> 00:12:59.420 Volative. 00:12:59.680 --> 00:13:00.220 Subjunctive. 00:13:00.420 --> 00:13:00.680 Verb. 00:13:01.820 --> 00:13:02.900 Very fancy. 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:03.700 Active. 00:13:03.860 --> 00:13:04.140 Volative. 00:13:04.460 --> 00:13:04.900 Subjunctive. 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:06.580 Which means simply this. 00:13:07.620 --> 00:13:08.900 Because it's in the active form. 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:11.340 We are to continually hold fast. 00:13:11.800 --> 00:13:12.180 He's saying. 00:13:12.520 --> 00:13:13.620 Hold fast now. 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:14.360 And. 00:13:14.620 --> 00:13:14.940 On. 00:13:15.140 --> 00:13:15.600 And on. 00:13:15.740 --> 00:13:16.160 And on. 00:13:16.340 --> 00:13:17.400 Continue to hold. 00:13:18.100 --> 00:13:18.580 Fast. 00:13:18.580 --> 00:13:18.940 It's. 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:20.900 In the volative form. 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:23.300 Which expresses the speaker's will. 00:13:24.700 --> 00:13:25.260 Specifically. 00:13:25.560 --> 00:13:25.760 As a. 00:13:26.300 --> 00:13:27.000 First person. 00:13:27.260 --> 00:13:27.540 Plural. 00:13:27.700 --> 00:13:28.120 Command. 00:13:28.400 --> 00:13:29.900 To join him in something. 00:13:30.700 --> 00:13:32.500 That he's already committed to doing himself. 00:13:33.580 --> 00:13:33.720 Right. 00:13:34.400 --> 00:13:35.100 First person. 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:35.620 Plural command. 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:35.920 Let. 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:36.880 Us. 00:13:37.160 --> 00:13:38.560 He even includes himself. 00:13:38.820 --> 00:13:39.260 In the command. 00:13:39.380 --> 00:13:39.520 Let. 00:13:40.180 --> 00:13:40.580 Us. 00:13:40.900 --> 00:13:41.560 As those. 00:13:41.780 --> 00:13:42.980 Who have been called out by God. 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:44.100 To worship him. 00:13:44.420 --> 00:13:44.860 Hold. 00:13:45.420 --> 00:13:45.860 Fast. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:47.000 To the confession. 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:48.340 Of our hope. 00:13:48.340 --> 00:13:50.120 And. 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:50.420 It's. 00:13:50.740 --> 00:13:51.180 Subjunctive. 00:13:51.300 --> 00:13:51.860 Which indicates. 00:13:52.580 --> 00:13:53.480 An idea. 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:54.259 Or. 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:55.040 An abstraction. 00:13:55.899 --> 00:13:56.120 It's. 00:13:56.560 --> 00:13:57.000 Something. 00:13:57.160 --> 00:13:57.379 Without. 00:13:57.600 --> 00:13:57.860 Certain. 00:13:58.019 --> 00:13:58.420 Reality. 00:14:00.160 --> 00:14:00.639 One. 00:14:00.700 --> 00:14:01.100 Greek scholar. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:01.680 Explained. 00:14:01.780 --> 00:14:02.100 The verb. 00:14:02.160 --> 00:14:02.560 This way. 00:14:02.899 --> 00:14:03.300 I've said. 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:03.759 Most of this. 00:14:03.800 --> 00:14:04.200 But he said. 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:05.040 The active. 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:05.280 Auto. 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:05.820 Subjunctive. 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:06.180 Verb. 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:06.840 Is meant. 00:14:06.940 --> 00:14:07.080 To. 00:14:07.580 --> 00:14:07.899 Urge. 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:08.240 Someone. 00:14:08.379 --> 00:14:08.980 To unite. 00:14:09.100 --> 00:14:09.620 With the speaker. 00:14:09.780 --> 00:14:10.259 In a course. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:10.800 Of action. 00:14:11.220 --> 00:14:11.460 Upon. 00:14:11.540 --> 00:14:11.700 Which. 00:14:11.780 --> 00:14:11.940 He. 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:12.160 Has. 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:12.540 Already. 00:14:12.539 --> 00:14:13.500 Decided. 00:14:13.899 --> 00:14:14.659 Let us. 00:14:15.019 --> 00:14:15.299 Hold. 00:14:15.899 --> 00:14:16.339 Fast. 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:18.259 Without. 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:18.759 Wavering. 00:14:19.980 --> 00:14:20.699 John Calvin. 00:14:20.779 --> 00:14:21.139 Once wrote. 00:14:21.259 --> 00:14:22.099 A perfect faith. 00:14:22.439 --> 00:14:23.000 Is nowhere. 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:24.199 To be found. 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:25.099 So it follows. 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:25.899 That all of us. 00:14:25.899 --> 00:14:26.599 Are partly. 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:27.719 Unbelievers. 00:14:28.939 --> 00:14:30.199 A perfect faith. 00:14:30.620 --> 00:14:31.139 Is nowhere. 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:32.079 To be found. 00:14:32.179 --> 00:14:32.579 So it follows. 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:33.419 That all of us. 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:34.139 Are partly. 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:35.719 Unbelievers. 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:38.360 It's. 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:39.159 Subjunctive. 00:14:39.259 --> 00:14:39.679 It's not. 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:40.620 Sure. 00:14:41.659 --> 00:14:42.039 Is it. 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:42.419 That we'll. 00:14:42.860 --> 00:14:43.579 Hold fast. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:44.959 The confession. 00:14:45.959 --> 00:14:46.620 Of our hope. 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:48.519 Is it. 00:14:48.939 --> 00:14:49.120 We. 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:49.319 We. 00:14:49.319 --> 00:14:49.360 We. 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:49.980 Waver a lot. 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:50.379 Don't we. 00:14:50.379 --> 00:14:50.980 Without. 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:52.039 Wavering. 00:14:52.980 --> 00:14:53.860 I feel like. 00:14:53.980 --> 00:14:54.500 We often. 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:55.240 Drift. 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:56.279 To and fro. 00:14:56.379 --> 00:14:56.539 We're. 00:14:56.899 --> 00:14:57.299 Blown. 00:14:57.379 --> 00:14:57.639 As the future. 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:57.980 For say. 00:14:58.059 --> 00:14:58.799 Back and forth. 00:14:58.919 --> 00:14:59.899 By every wind. 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:00.819 Of doctrine. 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:01.399 By every. 00:15:01.779 --> 00:15:02.299 Form of. 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:03.480 Free thought. 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:05.259 Many of you. 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:05.699 Are students. 00:15:05.779 --> 00:15:06.360 At North Georgia. 00:15:06.500 --> 00:15:06.679 And. 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:07.740 You experience. 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:08.059 An. 00:15:08.719 --> 00:15:09.159 Onslaught. 00:15:10.179 --> 00:15:10.939 Of poor. 00:15:11.059 --> 00:15:11.419 Philosophy. 00:15:11.419 --> 00:15:12.059 You. 00:15:12.860 --> 00:15:13.259 You. 00:15:13.259 --> 00:15:13.860 You wrestle. 00:15:14.199 --> 00:15:14.719 With things. 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:15.439 And I don't know. 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:16.319 That we always come out. 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:17.240 The other side of that. 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:18.179 Healthier for it. 00:15:18.860 --> 00:15:19.959 I pray that you do. 00:15:23.299 --> 00:15:23.699 Without. 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:24.279 Wavering. 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:25.139 Is a negative. 00:15:25.620 --> 00:15:26.000 Participle. 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:27.259 It means. 00:15:27.479 --> 00:15:27.860 Not. 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:29.039 Inclining. 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:29.500 Or not. 00:15:30.019 --> 00:15:30.459 Deviating. 00:15:30.959 --> 00:15:31.319 From. 00:15:31.439 --> 00:15:31.819 It means. 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:32.819 Firm. 00:15:32.820 --> 00:15:34.480 Unmoved. 00:15:35.379 --> 00:15:35.700 Let us. 00:15:36.020 --> 00:15:36.340 Hold. 00:15:36.660 --> 00:15:36.960 Fast. 00:15:37.040 --> 00:15:37.440 The confession. 00:15:37.520 --> 00:15:37.920 Of our hope. 00:15:38.140 --> 00:15:38.720 Without wavering. 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:39.140 Plant. 00:15:39.220 --> 00:15:39.520 Ourselves. 00:15:40.160 --> 00:15:40.680 Firmly. 00:15:41.280 --> 00:15:41.600 In. 00:15:41.900 --> 00:15:42.300 Christ. 00:15:42.780 --> 00:15:43.020 Whom. 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:43.820 Is our hope. 00:15:45.580 --> 00:15:46.460 With these two. 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:47.240 Phrases. 00:15:47.520 --> 00:15:48.060 The writer of Hebrews. 00:15:48.160 --> 00:15:48.740 Brings together. 00:15:48.940 --> 00:15:49.600 In verse 23. 00:15:50.220 --> 00:15:50.960 Of chapter 10. 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:51.760 Language. 00:15:51.920 --> 00:15:52.780 Used in chapter 3. 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:53.140 Of Hebrews. 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:53.960 I'm going to ask you to flip. 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:55.540 Back a couple of pages for me. 00:15:55.780 --> 00:15:56.700 To chapter 3 of Hebrews. 00:15:57.100 --> 00:15:58.080 I want to show you two verses. 00:15:59.140 --> 00:15:59.920 That he's now. 00:16:00.260 --> 00:16:01.540 Tying together for us. 00:16:01.539 --> 00:16:02.599 In chapter 10. 00:16:07.299 --> 00:16:08.099 I want to note. 00:16:08.179 --> 00:16:08.919 As you're doing that. 00:16:09.500 --> 00:16:10.500 That I just pointed out. 00:16:10.579 --> 00:16:11.620 That the verb is subjunctive. 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:12.620 It's not sure. 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:13.699 Okay. 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:15.559 Hebrews chapter 3. 00:16:15.599 --> 00:16:16.179 Verse 6. 00:16:16.339 --> 00:16:16.699 Reads. 00:16:17.139 --> 00:16:17.539 Christ. 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:18.279 Is faithful. 00:16:18.419 --> 00:16:19.299 Over God's house. 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:19.860 As a son. 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:21.319 And we are his house. 00:16:21.379 --> 00:16:22.039 If indeed. 00:16:22.319 --> 00:16:23.179 We hold fast. 00:16:23.299 --> 00:16:24.019 Our confidence. 00:16:24.179 --> 00:16:24.779 And our boasting. 00:16:24.959 --> 00:16:25.419 And our hope. 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:26.339 Right. 00:16:26.599 --> 00:16:28.219 We are part of God's house. 00:16:28.579 --> 00:16:28.939 If. 00:16:29.259 --> 00:16:30.199 We hold fast. 00:16:30.199 --> 00:16:31.120 And that phrase. 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:31.919 Hold fast. 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:32.740 Same Greek word. 00:16:32.980 --> 00:16:33.500 Hold fast. 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:34.480 Our confidence. 00:16:34.940 --> 00:16:35.600 And our boasting. 00:16:35.700 --> 00:16:36.100 And our hope. 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:36.860 And in Hebrews. 00:16:37.139 --> 00:16:37.519 3. 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:38.159 14. 00:16:39.419 --> 00:16:40.500 For we have come to. 00:16:40.860 --> 00:16:41.659 Share in Christ. 00:16:42.220 --> 00:16:43.320 We have come to share in Christ. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:44.220 If indeed. 00:16:44.560 --> 00:16:45.340 We hold. 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:46.980 Our original confidence. 00:16:47.179 --> 00:16:47.580 Firm. 00:16:48.560 --> 00:16:49.320 To the end. 00:16:50.659 --> 00:16:51.360 If indeed. 00:16:51.560 --> 00:16:52.200 We hold. 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:53.820 Our original confidence. 00:16:54.019 --> 00:16:54.360 Firm. 00:16:54.980 --> 00:16:55.519 To the end. 00:16:55.620 --> 00:16:56.279 So what seems to be. 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:57.539 Expressed to me here. 00:16:57.539 --> 00:16:57.860 Is that. 00:16:57.860 --> 00:16:58.519 If we. 00:16:58.519 --> 00:16:58.539 If we. 00:16:58.939 --> 00:16:59.259 Don't. 00:16:59.899 --> 00:17:00.299 Hold. 00:17:00.839 --> 00:17:01.319 To the confession. 00:17:01.419 --> 00:17:01.839 Of our hope. 00:17:01.980 --> 00:17:02.620 If we don't. 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:03.319 Remain. 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:04.460 On that course. 00:17:05.460 --> 00:17:06.559 Then we're not in Christ. 00:17:06.700 --> 00:17:07.420 We're not part. 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:08.759 Of the house of God. 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:08.960 So. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.059 Can we lose our salvation? 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:14.899 Feels that way. 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:15.259 A little bit. 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:15.720 Doesn't it? 00:17:16.139 --> 00:17:16.700 What part. 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:17.180 Exactly. 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:17.960 Do we play. 00:17:19.180 --> 00:17:19.920 In this. 00:17:21.019 --> 00:17:21.379 Go back. 00:17:21.420 --> 00:17:21.659 To Hebrews. 00:17:21.740 --> 00:17:22.240 Chapter 10. 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:29.079 How extensive. 00:17:29.259 --> 00:17:29.559 Exactly. 00:17:29.660 --> 00:17:30.259 Is our role. 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:31.140 In our sanctification. 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:34.500 Read with me. 00:17:34.539 --> 00:17:34.980 Verse 11. 00:17:35.059 --> 00:17:35.480 Through 14. 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:39.620 Every priest. 00:17:40.180 --> 00:17:41.140 Stands daily. 00:17:41.140 --> 00:17:42.039 At his service. 00:17:42.660 --> 00:17:43.000 Offering. 00:17:43.099 --> 00:17:43.620 Repeatedly. 00:17:43.620 --> 00:17:44.220 The same. 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:45.000 Sacrifices. 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:45.880 Which can never. 00:17:45.980 --> 00:17:46.460 Take away. 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:47.160 Sins. 00:17:47.859 --> 00:17:48.259 Recall. 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:48.940 The writer of Hebrews. 00:17:49.059 --> 00:17:50.259 Is writing to a Jewish audience. 00:17:50.380 --> 00:17:51.140 They understood. 00:17:51.740 --> 00:17:52.099 Sacrificial. 00:17:52.099 --> 00:17:52.500 System. 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:53.579 If you don't. 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:54.559 The temple. 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:55.519 Or the tabernacle. 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:57.240 When God established that. 00:17:57.439 --> 00:17:58.159 Was a place. 00:17:58.419 --> 00:17:59.259 Of activity. 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:01.000 Constant. 00:18:01.139 --> 00:18:01.639 Sacrifice. 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:02.299 Being made. 00:18:02.740 --> 00:18:03.139 Over. 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:03.799 And over. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:04.439 And over. 00:18:04.639 --> 00:18:05.299 And over again. 00:18:05.659 --> 00:18:06.659 They were busy men. 00:18:06.859 --> 00:18:07.319 The priests. 00:18:07.719 --> 00:18:08.159 In fact. 00:18:08.159 --> 00:18:08.799 In the. 00:18:09.339 --> 00:18:09.740 Carefully. 00:18:09.980 --> 00:18:10.579 Laid out. 00:18:10.740 --> 00:18:11.139 Plan. 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:12.279 For the tabernacle. 00:18:12.379 --> 00:18:12.779 And the temple. 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:13.419 There. 00:18:13.819 --> 00:18:14.879 Were no seats. 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:16.819 There was no need. 00:18:16.879 --> 00:18:17.199 For them. 00:18:18.059 --> 00:18:18.779 God gave them. 00:18:18.859 --> 00:18:19.899 Every piece of furniture. 00:18:20.459 --> 00:18:21.399 To arrange in there. 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:22.280 There was nowhere. 00:18:22.280 --> 00:18:22.800 To sit down. 00:18:22.800 --> 00:18:23.200 Because. 00:18:23.820 --> 00:18:24.740 They never had time. 00:18:25.580 --> 00:18:26.120 They constantly. 00:18:26.220 --> 00:18:27.200 Made the same sacrifices. 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:28.240 Which can never. 00:18:28.360 --> 00:18:28.860 Take away sins. 00:18:28.940 --> 00:18:29.340 Verse 12. 00:18:29.800 --> 00:18:30.680 But when Christ. 00:18:30.800 --> 00:18:31.420 Had offered. 00:18:31.860 --> 00:18:32.780 For all time. 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:34.000 A single sacrifice. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:34.519 For sins. 00:18:34.580 --> 00:18:35.019 Himself. 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:36.360 He sat down. 00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:37.360 At the right hand. 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:38.200 Of God. 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:39.140 Sat down. 00:18:39.300 --> 00:18:39.640 This would have been. 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:40.360 Very significant. 00:18:40.360 --> 00:18:41.000 In their minds. 00:18:41.500 --> 00:18:42.500 A priest who sits. 00:18:43.180 --> 00:18:43.940 That's crazy. 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:44.900 It is. 00:18:45.360 --> 00:18:45.720 Finished. 00:18:46.620 --> 00:18:47.140 Verse 13. 00:18:47.500 --> 00:18:48.780 Waiting from that time. 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:49.660 Until his enemy. 00:18:49.800 --> 00:18:50.500 Should made a footstool. 00:18:50.580 --> 00:18:51.120 For his feet. 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:52.920 For by a single offering. 00:18:53.040 --> 00:18:53.880 He has perfected. 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:54.660 For all. 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:55.420 Time. 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:56.640 Those. 00:18:57.040 --> 00:18:58.080 Who are being. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:18:59.480 Sanctified. 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:00.480 Sanctified. 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:02.440 Kind of interesting. 00:19:02.579 --> 00:19:03.360 Turn of phrase there. 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:05.599 For by a single offering. 00:19:06.539 --> 00:19:07.480 He has perfected. 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:10.339 Present tense. 00:19:10.779 --> 00:19:11.799 For all time. 00:19:11.900 --> 00:19:12.900 Those who are being. 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:14.460 Sanctified. 00:19:14.660 --> 00:19:14.900 Or. 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:16.480 Perfected. 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:18.000 Fascinating. 00:19:19.140 --> 00:19:19.460 So. 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:20.579 What part do we play. 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:21.259 In this. 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:22.680 In this activity. 00:19:22.819 --> 00:19:22.960 What. 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:25.980 How does this play out for us. 00:19:26.380 --> 00:19:27.360 Paul says in Philippians 1. 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:27.620 6. 00:19:27.660 --> 00:19:28.519 And I am sure of this. 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:29.639 Or confident of this. 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:31.019 That he who began. 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:32.039 A good work in you. 00:19:32.379 --> 00:19:33.440 Will bring it to completion. 00:19:33.779 --> 00:19:34.339 At the day. 00:19:34.740 --> 00:19:35.539 Of Jesus Christ. 00:19:35.879 --> 00:19:36.420 The end. 00:19:36.619 --> 00:19:37.160 Which is what we. 00:19:37.619 --> 00:19:38.099 Saw here. 00:19:39.019 --> 00:19:40.180 In this last verse. 00:19:41.460 --> 00:19:42.299 But he also said. 00:19:42.299 --> 00:19:43.139 In 2 Corinthians 11. 00:19:43.220 --> 00:19:43.559 28. 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:45.599 That there is daily pressure on me. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:46.299 Of anxiety. 00:19:47.539 --> 00:19:48.460 For all of the churches. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:52.519 Does this. 00:19:52.779 --> 00:19:53.420 Confuse you. 00:19:53.619 --> 00:19:53.900 At all. 00:19:54.019 --> 00:19:54.119 This. 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:54.960 This reality. 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:55.240 That. 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.319 That the two exist. 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:57.220 At the same time. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:58.000 That God is fully. 00:19:58.000 --> 00:19:58.759 Sovereign. 00:19:58.920 --> 00:19:59.599 Has in fact. 00:19:59.700 --> 00:20:00.240 Accomplished. 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:01.039 Our perfection. 00:20:02.180 --> 00:20:02.579 Has. 00:20:02.940 --> 00:20:03.740 In Christ. 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:04.799 Sealed. 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:05.519 What will happen. 00:20:05.619 --> 00:20:06.359 To his church. 00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:07.980 That she will be presented. 00:20:08.619 --> 00:20:08.980 Holy. 00:20:09.140 --> 00:20:09.740 And blameless. 00:20:10.619 --> 00:20:11.359 Before God. 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:12.359 But. 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:12.779 Yet. 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:13.960 That we play a part in that. 00:20:14.019 --> 00:20:14.980 That we have responsibility. 00:20:14.980 --> 00:20:15.660 In that. 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:16.660 To hold. 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:17.319 Fast. 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:18.579 The confession of our faith. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:19.420 To pursue. 00:20:19.740 --> 00:20:20.140 Holiness. 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:21.059 With all. 00:20:21.339 --> 00:20:21.960 That we are. 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:25.119 Does it confuse you? 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:26.519 Because it should. 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:28.000 It's okay. 00:20:29.059 --> 00:20:30.240 Take a big deep breath. 00:20:30.619 --> 00:20:31.240 It's alright. 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:32.240 The two truths. 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:33.200 Coexist. 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:34.759 All throughout the scriptures. 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:37.220 Work out your salvation. 00:20:37.220 --> 00:20:37.980 With fear and trembling. 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:38.759 For it is God. 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:39.460 Who works. 00:20:39.819 --> 00:20:40.559 In you. 00:20:40.779 --> 00:20:41.960 To accomplish his good pleasure. 00:20:43.639 --> 00:20:44.920 We are called. 00:20:45.619 --> 00:20:46.500 To strain. 00:20:46.980 --> 00:20:47.639 To labor. 00:20:48.339 --> 00:20:48.920 For holiness. 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:50.600 This activity. 00:20:50.600 --> 00:20:50.620 This activity. 00:20:50.620 --> 00:20:52.500 Of holding fast. 00:20:52.600 --> 00:20:53.660 Without wavering. 00:20:53.940 --> 00:20:55.019 Takes effort. 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:55.920 On our part. 00:20:57.180 --> 00:20:58.120 We don't just. 00:20:58.519 --> 00:20:58.680 Pray. 00:20:58.800 --> 00:20:59.180 God. 00:20:59.840 --> 00:21:00.779 Give me the ability. 00:21:00.779 --> 00:21:01.660 To hold fast. 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:02.360 And then wait. 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:05.800 Watching TV. 00:21:05.800 --> 00:21:07.220 And reading philosophy books. 00:21:08.220 --> 00:21:08.980 We go. 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:10.080 After him. 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:10.880 In his word. 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:12.920 And the amazing thing. 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:13.440 About that. 00:21:13.500 --> 00:21:14.360 Although it doesn't always. 00:21:14.580 --> 00:21:15.220 Play itself out. 00:21:15.300 --> 00:21:16.220 In our experience. 00:21:16.220 --> 00:21:17.480 And what we feel. 00:21:18.539 --> 00:21:20.160 Is that God answers our prayers. 00:21:20.819 --> 00:21:22.120 In our activity. 00:21:23.620 --> 00:21:24.200 Hey God. 00:21:24.579 --> 00:21:25.860 I want to love my wife more. 00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:27.960 And I open my eyes. 00:21:27.980 --> 00:21:28.519 And I wait. 00:21:28.900 --> 00:21:29.680 I wait. 00:21:30.220 --> 00:21:31.120 For him to equip me. 00:21:31.140 --> 00:21:31.500 To love her. 00:21:31.579 --> 00:21:31.779 No. 00:21:31.860 --> 00:21:33.019 I go love my wife. 00:21:34.339 --> 00:21:35.680 And I have been equipped. 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:36.559 To do it. 00:21:37.100 --> 00:21:37.460 Father. 00:21:37.539 --> 00:21:38.440 I want to weep. 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.740 For the lost. 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:40.319 I want. 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:42.240 To have my desires. 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:43.120 Change. 00:21:43.180 --> 00:21:43.920 I want to love. 00:21:44.140 --> 00:21:44.380 You. 00:21:44.980 --> 00:21:45.240 More. 00:21:45.360 --> 00:21:46.039 And love the things. 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:46.680 Of this world. 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:47.519 Less. 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:48.339 Do you realize. 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:48.680 The fact. 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:49.519 That you even pray. 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:50.079 Such things. 00:21:50.139 --> 00:21:50.599 As God work. 00:21:50.659 --> 00:21:51.119 In your life. 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:53.139 You don't naturally. 00:21:53.139 --> 00:21:54.039 Incline yourself. 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:55.220 To the things of God. 00:21:56.019 --> 00:21:57.159 When you even desire. 00:21:57.559 --> 00:21:58.359 Things like that. 00:21:59.339 --> 00:22:00.619 That's God at work. 00:22:01.500 --> 00:22:02.200 In your life. 00:22:03.379 --> 00:22:04.500 Too many of us. 00:22:04.659 --> 00:22:05.399 Sit around. 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:06.480 And wait. 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:07.460 We sit around. 00:22:07.539 --> 00:22:07.759 And we. 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:08.359 And we. 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:09.079 Hope. 00:22:09.220 --> 00:22:09.859 That someday. 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:11.659 We'll be a little holier. 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:12.920 Than we are now. 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:15.560 We whine. 00:22:15.560 --> 00:22:16.100 About the fact. 00:22:16.180 --> 00:22:16.740 That we're not. 00:22:18.080 --> 00:22:19.080 Get to work. 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:19.759 Beloved. 00:22:20.539 --> 00:22:21.539 Get to work. 00:22:21.700 --> 00:22:22.660 Holding fast. 00:22:23.100 --> 00:22:23.560 The confession. 00:22:23.560 --> 00:22:24.200 Of your hope. 00:22:24.940 --> 00:22:25.900 And I promise. 00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:27.240 That you won't be disappointed. 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:29.019 Little encouragement. 00:22:29.120 --> 00:22:29.400 To you. 00:22:30.320 --> 00:22:31.120 As this. 00:22:31.600 --> 00:22:32.480 These two truths. 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:33.600 Seem to collide. 00:22:35.080 --> 00:22:35.700 Paul wrote. 00:22:35.779 --> 00:22:36.640 In 1 Timothy 3.16. 00:22:36.840 --> 00:22:37.660 Great is the mystery. 00:22:38.060 --> 00:22:38.620 Of godliness. 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:40.279 Great is the mystery. 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:41.759 Of godliness. 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:44.379 So we have a confession. 00:22:44.539 --> 00:22:45.019 That we should. 00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:46.119 Not be moved from. 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:47.599 Number three. 00:22:48.579 --> 00:22:49.759 Because we have a promise. 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:50.299 From one. 00:22:50.619 --> 00:22:51.240 Who cannot. 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:52.160 Lie. 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:54.180 We have a confession. 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:55.440 That we should not be moved from. 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:56.720 Because we have a promise. 00:22:57.079 --> 00:22:57.720 From one. 00:22:58.079 --> 00:22:58.720 Who cannot. 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:00.480 Lie. 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:01.420 The very end of the. 00:23:01.619 --> 00:23:02.319 Verse 23 there. 00:23:02.420 --> 00:23:03.339 For he who promised. 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:04.240 Is faithful. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:04.799 We ought to. 00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:05.619 Hold fast. 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:06.799 The confession of our hope. 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:07.779 Without wavering. 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:08.519 Because. 00:23:09.059 --> 00:23:09.279 For. 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:10.640 He who promised. 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:11.920 Is faithful. 00:23:12.320 --> 00:23:12.620 God. 00:23:12.740 --> 00:23:13.180 Will. 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:13.580 Do. 00:23:13.820 --> 00:23:14.140 Has. 00:23:14.320 --> 00:23:14.580 Done. 00:23:15.060 --> 00:23:15.420 Exactly. 00:23:16.060 --> 00:23:17.140 What he said he would do. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:19.600 And that is something we can place. 00:23:20.080 --> 00:23:21.060 Our confidence in. 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:22.720 God would. 00:23:22.940 --> 00:23:23.280 In fact. 00:23:23.360 --> 00:23:24.120 Cease to be God. 00:23:24.180 --> 00:23:24.759 If he were even. 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:26.000 Capable of lying. 00:23:27.420 --> 00:23:27.740 Excuse me. 00:23:27.800 --> 00:23:28.580 Titus 1.2. 00:23:29.620 --> 00:23:31.280 Paul claims that God never lies. 00:23:32.540 --> 00:23:33.820 I take that for fact. 00:23:33.819 --> 00:23:37.779 So what is the promise to which the writer of Hebrews is referring. 00:23:38.740 --> 00:23:39.659 He who promised. 00:23:39.819 --> 00:23:40.919 What is it that he has promised. 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:43.419 God certainly has promised us many things. 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:46.779 But I believe that the writer of Hebrews is referencing particularly. 00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:48.339 A promise. 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:49.779 In chapter 10. 00:23:49.859 --> 00:23:50.960 Verse 15 through 18. 00:23:51.139 --> 00:23:51.419 So look. 00:23:51.500 --> 00:23:52.740 Look up the page a little bit with me. 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:53.679 Where. 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:56.799 He quotes Jeremiah. 00:23:58.700 --> 00:24:01.700 Lest you think that I'm not sure who wrote Hebrews. 00:24:01.700 --> 00:24:02.819 No one knows who wrote Hebrews. 00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:04.259 I know I keep saying the writer of Hebrews. 00:24:04.620 --> 00:24:06.059 We're not positive who wrote Hebrews. 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:07.080 And that's why I keep saying that. 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:09.039 But verse 15. 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.920 And the Holy Spirit also bear witness to us. 00:24:13.380 --> 00:24:14.340 For after saying. 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:16.980 This is the covenant that I will make with them. 00:24:17.620 --> 00:24:19.180 After those days declares the Lord. 00:24:19.259 --> 00:24:21.220 I will put my laws on their hearts. 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:22.900 And write them on their minds. 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:24.340 Then he adds. 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:24.960 This is the. 00:24:25.080 --> 00:24:26.840 This is the Holy Spirit bearing witness. 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:28.460 Then he adds. 00:24:28.460 --> 00:24:30.440 I will remember their sins. 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:31.960 And their lawless deeds. 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:33.039 No more. 00:24:33.740 --> 00:24:35.580 Where there is forgiveness of these. 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:37.440 There is no longer any offering. 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:38.480 For sin. 00:24:39.180 --> 00:24:40.900 That completes that idea for us. 00:24:41.580 --> 00:24:43.680 I will remember their sins. 00:24:44.140 --> 00:24:45.240 And their lawless needs. 00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:46.600 No more. 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:49.880 God can not lie. 00:24:50.360 --> 00:24:51.580 If you have placed your faith. 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:52.620 In Christ. 00:24:53.140 --> 00:24:54.000 If you believe. 00:24:54.180 --> 00:24:55.559 He is the Son of God. 00:24:55.620 --> 00:24:56.779 And the only way. 00:24:57.259 --> 00:24:58.440 To have your relationship with him reconciled. 00:24:58.440 --> 00:24:59.039 Reconciled. 00:24:59.320 --> 00:25:00.759 He has made a promise. 00:25:01.340 --> 00:25:02.340 That your lawless deeds. 00:25:02.840 --> 00:25:03.720 Will be remembered. 00:25:04.259 --> 00:25:04.779 No more. 00:25:06.700 --> 00:25:08.140 We can have confidence. 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:08.720 In that. 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:09.680 We can hold. 00:25:10.120 --> 00:25:10.480 Fast. 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:11.519 To that. 00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:12.860 But let me. 00:25:13.420 --> 00:25:14.299 Speak to you in. 00:25:14.980 --> 00:25:16.180 Simple practicality. 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:17.820 Up to this point. 00:25:17.860 --> 00:25:18.220 You might say. 00:25:18.259 --> 00:25:18.720 That's great. 00:25:19.420 --> 00:25:20.259 I'm with you Nathan. 00:25:20.299 --> 00:25:21.080 I totally agree. 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:22.100 That is what verse. 00:25:22.539 --> 00:25:23.299 23 means. 00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:24.519 But how then does that. 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:26.879 Play out. 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:27.839 In our daily living. 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:30.899 If we're going to hold fast. 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:31.839 If we're going to do so. 00:25:31.879 --> 00:25:32.559 Without wavering. 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:33.339 We should. 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:35.039 Know the one. 00:25:35.139 --> 00:25:35.779 Who is promised. 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:37.139 Who is faithful. 00:25:38.019 --> 00:25:38.940 We should know him. 00:25:40.139 --> 00:25:40.579 Right. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:41.379 You don't just. 00:25:41.619 --> 00:25:42.079 Really nearly. 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:43.559 Place your trust in people. 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:44.700 But if we. 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:46.039 Know the God. 00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:47.480 We see. 00:25:47.619 --> 00:25:48.059 The fulfillment. 00:25:48.139 --> 00:25:48.680 Of his promises. 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:49.279 In scripture. 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:50.240 We. 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:50.279 We. 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:51.660 Experience that. 00:25:52.139 --> 00:25:52.619 Together. 00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:55.319 To affirm. 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:55.799 Our. 00:25:56.259 --> 00:25:56.660 Faith. 00:25:57.920 --> 00:25:58.240 Beloved. 00:25:58.299 --> 00:25:59.279 You need the church. 00:25:59.980 --> 00:26:01.240 Whether you think you do or not. 00:26:02.740 --> 00:26:03.740 I read that. 00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:05.319 Rather long passage. 00:26:05.500 --> 00:26:06.119 To you this morning. 00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:07.899 To emphasize that. 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:09.639 We need one another. 00:26:10.099 --> 00:26:11.079 If we're going to. 00:26:12.059 --> 00:26:12.899 Stand firm. 00:26:12.980 --> 00:26:14.480 If we're going to hold fast. 00:26:14.879 --> 00:26:15.819 We need. 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:17.180 One another. 00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:19.360 It's not enough. 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:20.420 To come and hear preaching. 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:21.680 Preaching is important. 00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:22.920 I would never. 00:26:23.299 --> 00:26:23.920 Discard it. 00:26:24.259 --> 00:26:24.880 From our services. 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:25.460 There are. 00:26:25.539 --> 00:26:26.180 Churches who are. 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:28.000 Replacing preaching now. 00:26:28.100 --> 00:26:28.799 With more music. 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:29.200 Or. 00:26:30.360 --> 00:26:30.759 Skits. 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:31.140 Or. 00:26:31.700 --> 00:26:32.060 Multimedia. 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:32.880 Presentations. 00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:34.759 Preaching of the word of God. 00:26:34.860 --> 00:26:35.480 Is powerful. 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:36.279 And important. 00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:38.539 But it's not all you need. 00:26:40.500 --> 00:26:41.420 We labor. 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:42.380 To preach well. 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:44.200 And I know that Chris and I. 00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:45.440 Are not the best communicators. 00:26:45.600 --> 00:26:46.460 We're working on it. 00:26:46.460 --> 00:26:48.940 We really want to be the best possible communicators. 00:26:48.940 --> 00:26:49.559 Of God's truth. 00:26:49.600 --> 00:26:50.140 That we can be. 00:26:51.259 --> 00:26:52.960 We've already resigned ourselves. 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:53.680 Not to be. 00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:55.000 John Piper. 00:26:55.299 --> 00:26:55.480 Or. 00:26:55.940 --> 00:26:56.559 D.A. Carson. 00:26:56.900 --> 00:26:57.160 Or. 00:26:57.940 --> 00:26:58.420 My guy. 00:26:58.539 --> 00:26:58.740 Art. 00:26:58.819 --> 00:26:58.980 Art. 00:26:59.120 --> 00:26:59.779 We just. 00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:00.860 We're not going to be those men. 00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:02.120 But we're going to do the best we can. 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:04.840 I've said on a number of occasions. 00:27:05.420 --> 00:27:05.740 Cautiously. 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:06.880 I'd rather be. 00:27:07.360 --> 00:27:07.720 True. 00:27:07.980 --> 00:27:08.579 Than consistent. 00:27:10.100 --> 00:27:10.460 Ideally. 00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:10.960 I'm both. 00:27:11.059 --> 00:27:12.220 I'd like to be consistently true. 00:27:13.380 --> 00:27:14.980 But if I ever teach you something. 00:27:14.980 --> 00:27:16.700 And it can be shown to me. 00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:17.339 That I have erred. 00:27:17.460 --> 00:27:18.500 I will fix it. 00:27:19.339 --> 00:27:20.299 Because the truth. 00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:21.400 Is important. 00:27:22.120 --> 00:27:23.940 The facts about the one. 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:25.720 Who has promised. 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:27.480 And cannot lie. 00:27:27.900 --> 00:27:28.259 Matter. 00:27:28.740 --> 00:27:29.180 Deeply. 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:30.279 To us. 00:27:32.180 --> 00:27:33.579 But good sermons aren't enough. 00:27:35.660 --> 00:27:37.799 You need to be getting together with people. 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:38.940 And working through. 00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:40.039 The word of God to people. 00:27:40.420 --> 00:27:42.400 You certainly need to be studying it on your own. 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:44.340 We do a lot of things together here. 00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:46.360 If you only come on Sunday morning. 00:27:47.140 --> 00:27:48.240 This is all you do. 00:27:48.460 --> 00:27:49.040 This is your. 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:51.000 Your spiritual fill up for the week. 00:27:52.019 --> 00:27:53.420 I know you're running on empty. 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:54.180 By next Sunday. 00:27:55.980 --> 00:27:56.920 I know it for a fact. 00:27:56.980 --> 00:27:57.780 Come debate it with me. 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:00.259 I know for a fact. 00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:00.920 You're running on empty. 00:28:01.080 --> 00:28:01.580 Next week. 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:04.640 We ought to meet together frequently. 00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:07.080 We learned from verse 22. 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:08.700 In the previous weeks. 00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:10.780 And study the word of God together. 00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:12.720 On Sunday evenings. 00:28:13.299 --> 00:28:14.899 The men and the women meet separately. 00:28:16.099 --> 00:28:17.180 And I love it. 00:28:17.339 --> 00:28:18.859 We're studying through 1 Timothy right now. 00:28:19.879 --> 00:28:21.639 My goal is always to get to the. 00:28:21.700 --> 00:28:23.539 The ultimate meaning of the text together. 00:28:23.539 --> 00:28:24.240 But also to. 00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:25.339 Kind of show the guys. 00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:26.480 How to arrive. 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:27.779 At the meaning of the text. 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:29.720 Secrets out of the bag fellas. 00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:31.119 I'm always kind of. 00:28:31.379 --> 00:28:32.180 Spurring you to. 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:33.539 Think through things. 00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:34.940 And kind of push you in that way. 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:36.839 I learned so much though. 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:37.779 I'm supposed to be prepared. 00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:38.660 I'm supposed to know it all. 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:39.720 Already when I get there. 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:41.259 I learned so much. 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:42.480 Sitting with those guys. 00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:43.200 And having them. 00:28:43.500 --> 00:28:43.700 Them. 00:28:44.299 --> 00:28:45.000 Question things. 00:28:45.059 --> 00:28:47.140 And filter things through other biblical texts. 00:28:47.339 --> 00:28:47.420 And. 00:28:47.539 --> 00:28:50.059 And wrestle together with original language. 00:28:50.620 --> 00:28:52.539 It is a real joy. 00:28:52.860 --> 00:28:53.279 To me. 00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:55.799 I learned things from the guys. 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:56.339 In their. 00:28:56.900 --> 00:28:57.660 Shared experience. 00:28:57.660 --> 00:28:58.039 And. 00:28:58.420 --> 00:28:59.460 The affirmation. 00:28:59.460 --> 00:28:59.940 Of what. 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:00.920 The Bible teaches. 00:29:02.500 --> 00:29:03.539 Sid is here this morning. 00:29:03.660 --> 00:29:03.740 And. 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:05.180 Forgive me if I get your age wrong. 00:29:05.259 --> 00:29:05.440 Sid. 00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:06.299 I believe 83. 00:29:06.299 --> 00:29:08.639 When Sid says. 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:09.440 Sitting at the table. 00:29:10.180 --> 00:29:11.220 God is faithful. 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:12.839 To provide for me. 00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:14.359 He always has been. 00:29:16.980 --> 00:29:17.980 Myself at 31. 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:20.619 That lifts my heart. 00:29:22.619 --> 00:29:24.799 The testimony of a man who says. 00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:25.819 My whole life. 00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:27.059 God has cared for me. 00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:28.440 He is faithful. 00:29:28.579 --> 00:29:29.740 You can believe him. 00:29:30.899 --> 00:29:32.299 It's an encouragement to me. 00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:33.919 It's an incredible encouragement to me. 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:36.300 We need to meet together. 00:29:36.300 --> 00:29:37.300 In that way. 00:29:38.500 --> 00:29:39.460 If we are to be. 00:29:39.560 --> 00:29:40.580 Disciple making disciples. 00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:41.000 Which. 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:42.340 Is ultimately. 00:29:42.560 --> 00:29:43.900 The thrust of the great commission. 00:29:45.300 --> 00:29:45.779 That's. 00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:46.560 Who we are. 00:29:46.600 --> 00:29:47.440 What defines us. 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:48.360 As followers of Christ. 00:29:48.460 --> 00:29:49.259 Disciple making. 00:29:49.660 --> 00:29:50.039 Disciples. 00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:51.259 Those who are pursuing Christ. 00:29:51.660 --> 00:29:51.759 And. 00:29:52.259 --> 00:29:53.279 Bringing others along. 00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:54.019 With us. 00:29:54.140 --> 00:29:54.740 In that journey. 00:29:56.080 --> 00:29:56.980 Gospel ministry. 00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:57.980 Must be. 00:29:58.600 --> 00:29:59.160 On our lips. 00:29:59.300 --> 00:29:59.620 All. 00:29:59.900 --> 00:30:00.320 The time. 00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:02.100 Preach the gospel. 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:02.720 To one another. 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:04.360 There is no greater way. 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:05.299 For you to encourage me. 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:06.200 Than to tell me. 00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:07.140 What God is accomplishing. 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:07.640 In your life. 00:30:07.740 --> 00:30:08.819 Because it is an expression. 00:30:09.420 --> 00:30:10.160 Of the gospel. 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:12.339 I love coming together. 00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:13.519 And meeting with you guys. 00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:14.860 Because you are. 00:30:15.059 --> 00:30:15.740 An expression. 00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:16.940 Of the gospel. 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:19.000 People who have been redeemed. 00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:20.120 Who were formerly. 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:21.480 Foolish. 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:22.640 Enslaved. 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:23.259 To their passions. 00:30:23.360 --> 00:30:23.839 And their lust. 00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:25.000 Hating one another. 00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:27.079 Now. 00:30:27.299 --> 00:30:28.059 Loving each other. 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:31.640 What we do together here. 00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:33.000 Would be really bizarre. 00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:33.920 If we weren't Christians. 00:30:35.060 --> 00:30:35.759 Boring even. 00:30:35.860 --> 00:30:36.460 I'd be. 00:30:36.460 --> 00:30:37.640 Rock climbing this morning. 00:30:37.800 --> 00:30:38.160 Instead. 00:30:38.940 --> 00:30:40.540 But I love this. 00:30:41.060 --> 00:30:42.080 Because I love Christ. 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:44.720 We need. 00:30:45.620 --> 00:30:46.380 One another. 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:49.000 Next week. 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:49.580 Is. 00:30:50.320 --> 00:30:50.780 Halloween. 00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:51.780 A week from tomorrow. 00:30:53.380 --> 00:30:54.340 October 31st. 00:30:54.340 --> 00:30:54.780 Which was. 00:30:55.020 --> 00:30:55.900 Also the day that. 00:30:56.380 --> 00:30:57.060 Martin Luther. 00:30:57.600 --> 00:30:58.680 Hammered the 95 theses. 00:30:58.680 --> 00:30:59.360 On the door of the. 00:30:59.360 --> 00:30:59.980 Church at. 00:31:00.340 --> 00:31:00.700 Wittenberg. 00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:02.900 He picked that day. 00:31:03.100 --> 00:31:03.580 Intentionally. 00:31:04.220 --> 00:31:05.080 I always thought. 00:31:05.140 --> 00:31:05.680 It was kind of just. 00:31:06.120 --> 00:31:06.539 Happenstance. 00:31:06.620 --> 00:31:07.680 It just happened to be the day. 00:31:08.100 --> 00:31:08.960 That he went and did that. 00:31:09.019 --> 00:31:09.299 But he. 00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:10.539 He particularly did so. 00:31:10.600 --> 00:31:11.360 Because it was. 00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:12.779 All Hallows Eve. 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:13.900 It was supposed to be this. 00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:15.000 Holiday. 00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:16.240 When the veil. 00:31:16.320 --> 00:31:17.460 Between the physical world. 00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:18.060 And the spiritual world. 00:31:18.120 --> 00:31:19.140 Was particularly thin. 00:31:19.820 --> 00:31:20.420 According to. 00:31:21.100 --> 00:31:21.500 Paganism. 00:31:21.500 --> 00:31:23.019 And he saw. 00:31:23.140 --> 00:31:23.819 What was happening. 00:31:23.819 --> 00:31:25.119 In the church. 00:31:25.859 --> 00:31:26.759 In the Catholic church. 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:27.400 As so. 00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:28.200 Evil. 00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:30.299 He was making a statement. 00:31:30.299 --> 00:31:31.279 That the word of God. 00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:32.140 Prevails. 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:33.460 Against that. 00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:34.640 While he went. 00:31:34.740 --> 00:31:35.339 To the door. 00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:36.480 Church building. 00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:37.160 And hammered it. 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:37.740 On to the door. 00:31:37.980 --> 00:31:38.819 At the word of God. 00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:40.500 95 reasons. 00:31:40.859 --> 00:31:41.500 Why the selling. 00:31:41.579 --> 00:31:42.579 Of indulgences. 00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:44.599 Was wrong. 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:45.619 Totally. 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:46.200 Unbiblical. 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:47.519 And you know. 00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:48.160 How he arrived. 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:48.559 At that. 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:50.559 He was kind of a. 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:51.980 Unrested soul. 00:31:52.419 --> 00:31:53.359 He entered into. 00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:55.099 Monastic life. 00:31:55.399 --> 00:31:56.079 And just couldn't. 00:31:56.259 --> 00:31:57.119 Find peace. 00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:57.679 With God. 00:31:58.799 --> 00:31:59.440 He was of the. 00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:00.440 Augustinian order. 00:32:01.139 --> 00:32:02.220 Which is a tad ironic. 00:32:02.879 --> 00:32:03.879 And they put him. 00:32:04.099 --> 00:32:04.879 To the work. 00:32:05.159 --> 00:32:06.039 Of translating. 00:32:06.460 --> 00:32:07.079 The New Testament. 00:32:07.859 --> 00:32:08.059 Into. 00:32:08.679 --> 00:32:08.919 German. 00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:11.139 They said. 00:32:11.460 --> 00:32:12.740 There's unrest in your soul. 00:32:13.059 --> 00:32:13.940 Go work on the scriptures. 00:32:15.099 --> 00:32:15.740 And God. 00:32:15.919 --> 00:32:17.099 Used that labor. 00:32:17.639 --> 00:32:18.200 For him. 00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:18.799 To realize. 00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:19.420 That salvation. 00:32:19.420 --> 00:32:20.519 Does not come. 00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:21.960 Through a priest. 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:23.460 Salvation. 00:32:23.460 --> 00:32:24.019 Doesn't come. 00:32:24.120 --> 00:32:24.880 Through the purchasing. 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:26.400 Of an indulgence. 00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:27.019 Or by. 00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:27.759 Visiting. 00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:28.700 Holy relics. 00:32:29.900 --> 00:32:30.360 Salvation. 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:31.059 Comes. 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:32.580 Through Christ. 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:33.019 Alone. 00:32:33.840 --> 00:32:34.299 By grace. 00:32:34.360 --> 00:32:34.620 Alone. 00:32:34.840 --> 00:32:35.240 Through faith. 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:35.519 Alone. 00:32:37.660 --> 00:32:38.220 Radical. 00:32:38.580 --> 00:32:39.200 For his time. 00:32:40.360 --> 00:32:40.759 Absolutely. 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:41.220 Radical. 00:32:41.420 --> 00:32:41.960 So he nailed. 00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:42.840 The 95 theses. 00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:43.140 Up. 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:44.380 On that day. 00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:45.720 What was happening. 00:32:46.080 --> 00:32:46.819 To the church. 00:32:46.980 --> 00:32:47.759 Was the people. 00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:49.220 Were lacking. 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:49.720 Access. 00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:50.539 To the word of God. 00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:51.339 It was in Latin. 00:32:53.339 --> 00:32:53.839 So the guy. 00:32:53.940 --> 00:32:54.359 Who got up. 00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:55.099 To preach. 00:32:55.940 --> 00:32:56.579 Held all. 00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:57.180 The knowledge. 00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:59.319 Could say. 00:32:59.379 --> 00:33:00.180 Whatever he wanted. 00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:00.519 To say. 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:00.980 And the people. 00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:02.059 Believed. 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:02.960 When he said. 00:33:03.019 --> 00:33:03.879 They had given them. 00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:04.920 That trust. 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:07.359 After. 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:08.619 The reformation. 00:33:08.779 --> 00:33:09.119 Began. 00:33:09.900 --> 00:33:10.220 You know. 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:11.200 I hope you know. 00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:12.279 The Bible. 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:12.539 Began. 00:33:12.539 --> 00:33:12.539 00:33:12.539 --> 00:33:12.960 Be printed. 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:13.480 In German. 00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:14.480 And the word of God. 00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:15.740 Was put into people's hands. 00:33:16.259 --> 00:33:16.720 And we have. 00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:17.840 Protestantism. 00:33:18.120 --> 00:33:18.799 We exist. 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:19.400 As a church. 00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:20.600 As a result. 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:21.920 Of that action. 00:33:23.380 --> 00:33:23.860 And Martin Luther. 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:24.680 Pinned in a hymn. 00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:26.960 And though this world. 00:33:27.080 --> 00:33:28.019 With devils filled. 00:33:28.259 --> 00:33:28.880 Should threaten. 00:33:29.299 --> 00:33:29.980 To undo us. 00:33:30.380 --> 00:33:31.279 We will not fear. 00:33:31.360 --> 00:33:32.480 For God has willed. 00:33:32.500 --> 00:33:33.160 His truth. 00:33:33.380 --> 00:33:33.900 To triumph. 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:35.019 Through us. 00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:36.559 The prince of darkness. 00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:37.000 Grim. 00:33:37.080 --> 00:33:37.660 We tremble. 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:38.380 Not for him. 00:33:38.700 --> 00:33:39.500 His rage. 00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:40.180 We can't endure. 00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:40.880 For lo. 00:33:41.059 --> 00:33:41.740 His doom. 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:42.660 Is sure. 00:33:43.299 --> 00:33:44.339 One little word. 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:45.859 Shall fell him. 00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:47.160 I believe he meant. 00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:47.799 Jesus. 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:50.500 So beloved. 00:33:50.579 --> 00:33:51.539 Be encouraged this morning. 00:33:51.539 --> 00:33:51.960 Because. 00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:53.279 We have a confession. 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:54.039 That we should. 00:33:54.339 --> 00:33:55.240 Not be moved from. 00:33:56.180 --> 00:33:57.319 Because we have a promise. 00:33:57.420 --> 00:33:57.779 From one. 00:33:58.460 --> 00:33:58.980 Who cannot. 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:00.000 Lie.