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Welcome back to our study of the book of Hebrews, today we'll continue with Hebrews 10:26-39. But let's quickly recall what we discussed in our last study. We looked verses 19-25 in which the writer gave his readers three exhortations ( Drawing near to GOD, Holding fast to the confession of Hope that they professed and not Giving up the assembly of the Church). Those exhortations were preceded by his proof via Scriptures that Jesus Christ's sacrifice needed not to be repeated for God was pleased with His sacrificial death on the cross. After giving these exhortations, the writer proceeds to warn his readers about persisting on holding to that which cannot save them. So the rest of chapter 10 is devoted to warning his readers and us ultimately about the dangers and consequences of ignoring this great salvation God wrought through Jesus.
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hello and uh welcome back to our study of the book of uh hebrews we're gonna continue with chapter 10
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today actually finished chapter 10 we're going to look at verses 26 2 39 but before i do that i just want to
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wish you a happy new year now a lot of times when the new year comes or people want to
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make good resolutions they want different things they want to look better they want to go to the gym they want to have better finances
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and all those good things like there's nothing wrong with aspiring and looking forward to a better
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year as far as like uh our bodies our finances and our emotional uh stability and all that this
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is that's not wrong with it but we need to remember as believers and i'm addressing only
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believers that god tells us through jesus christ what did he say in this world you will have trouble but take
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heart i have overcome the world for for us as believers what we are looking forward to is being
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more like christ because the scripture tells us be transformed by the renewing of your mind
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right and and then the scripture also tells us romans chapter eight that for all things work together for good for those who
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love god when i've been called according to his purpose for those who found we are so predestined so that we might be what we
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will be conformed to the likeness of christ so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers so we are not told
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that we will have a smooth sailing because in our lives there's going to be
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tribulations okay jesus himself on the scripture says of him in isaiah that he
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was a man of sorrows a man acquainted with soros a man from whom people used to hide their faces so and jesus tells
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us that in this world you will have tribulation so my uh exhortation for you
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for year 2022 is be strong in the grace of the lord 2021 was hard
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2019 was hard as my pastor said so 2022 will have his shares of what ups and
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downs but we have to be grounded in the truth of god because through these he's
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seeking to make us more like jesus because scripture tells us against in the book of james that consider pure joy
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whenever you face trials of many kinds because the testing of your faith
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produces what perseverance and less perseverance running score so that you may be mature and complete lacking in
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nothing for the last uh 16 years i've been struggling with one thing and i'm still struggling with it and we
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are in 2022 this is the second day and i've been asking the lord how long
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oh lord god is not finished yet so he's continuing to change me so until that
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happens this trial will still stand here it's been more than 16 years it is hard it is painful but i still
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trust in the lord not because of anything that i've done because you cannot manufacture faith but because the
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scripture tells us that it is god himself who works in us both to will and act according to his good purpose
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so my new uh my exhortation to you for 2022 is keep on leaning on the lord and
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his word for his word is powerful okay he sanctifies us by his word so i will
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exhort you to continue to look to the lord because he's the author and perfecter of our faith okay
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who for the joy that was set before him and endure the cross and then he despises shame so we have to look to him
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all right so last week in chapter 10 we looked at verses 19 to 25 and we talked about
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three exhortations okay the writer gave his readers three exaltations remember
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he's been telling them since the beginning of his letter that jesus christ is the guarantor and the pioneer
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of a new covenant so in those exaltation he told them listen come now to the throne of grace because jesus has paid
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the penalty for your sins and once he died on the cross his blood
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completely expiated and and appreciated for our sins so now we have access into the holy of holies because jesus said it
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is finished and the veil was turned from what from top to bottom so he's telling them because of what i've told you come
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now okay come with a sincere heart so that you may receive what you may receive
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grace in times of need now last week we talked about not going into the presence of god with a cavalier
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attitude just because we are told to come to the throne of grace doesn't mean that we're going there with this
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irreverent attitude now we learned from uh um saint john in in in this epistle in
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first john that if we confess our sin god is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us for or fall
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unrighteousness so that we may have unbroken fellowship with him so fellowship with god requires us to
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confess our sins now jesus christ paid a penalty for it so but we must still do what we must still
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have this there's a relationship ongoing relationship with god so when we sin against him we break that fellowship and
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we must ask for forgiveness we must ask him to search us so that's that was the first exaltation and the second
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exaltation was he was telling them to hold on to the profession of faith that they the professor he was telling them
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because these guys were going through persecution and the tendency was to give up so he's telling them no this thing
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that i'm telling you about is sure it is true so hold on to it with all your
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heart because the words that he spoke to them and the covenant that jesus inaugurated it is true so he's saying
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don't give up keep holding on and the third exhortation was don't give
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up meeting one another don't give up going to church because guess what he was telling them a lot of them had
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stopped coming to church because first of all they did not want to get persecuted so they didn't want to be associated with the church folks and
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guess what happens when you're isolated that's the playground of the enemy that's when doubts that's when you begin
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to drift that's when you begin to just fall into what just sin and you fall away so he's
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telling them stop giving up meeting one another because you need to meet together and there's nothing better than
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meeting with are born again holy spirit failed believers because they have a way of strengthening one another because
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iron sharpens iron so he was telling them don't give up meeting with a brethren and i and i submitted that to
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you last week so we talked about all of that now he's going to talk about something more serious okay and we're
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going to look at verses 26 to 39 and the title is christ or judgment again this
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is a very very very difficult passage and i don't claim to know it so i'm leaning totally on the holy spirit to
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enlighten me on this one so i will encourage you to also go back and search the scriptures yourself
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because god promises to open the scripture to anyone who is diligent and then if you need some teachers that you
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want to listen to maybe check us out on ligonier ministries or john mccarthy or
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there's many other good teachers out there all right you can see what they are saying about this this chapter here
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it's a very very difficult one so let's read it and then we're going to unpack this so let me go to the scripture so
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the scripture tells us in verses 26 2 39 4
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if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the
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truth there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins but a fearful
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expectation of judgment and the fury of fire that will consume the adversaries
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anyone who has set aside the law of moses dies without mercy on the evidence of
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two or three witnesses how much worse punishment do you think will be deserved
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by the one who has trampled underfoot the son of god and has profaned the
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blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified and has outraged the spirit
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of grace for we know him who said vengeance is mine i will repay and again the lord
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will judge his people it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god
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but recall the former days when after you were enlightened you endured a hard
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struggle with sufferings sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction and sometimes being partners
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with those so treated for you had compassion on those in prison and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your
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property since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and and an abiding one therefore do not
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throw away your confidence which has a great reward for you had need of endurance so that when you have done the
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will of god you may receive what is promised for yet a little while when the
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coming one will come and will not delay but my righteous one shall leave by faith and if it shrinks back my soul has
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no pleasure in him but we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed but of those who have faith and preserve
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their souls this is heavy stuff so i'm just gonna try to do my best with
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the help of the holy spirit and i will encourage you again to go back and double check these scriptures and ask
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and then seek and then still do your research on it okay so now let's go and try and unpractice
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so again the first verses 26 and 27 read for if we go on
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sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins but a
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fearful expectation of judgment and the fury of fire that will consume the
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adversaries so what is the writer trying to say here again several things come to mind because as you read this very
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sobering word from the writer but to correctly interpret these verses we need to stay within the context of
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the passage okay because he had just finished giving his readers three
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positive exhortations which i told you in the beginning drawing near the guard and holding fast to the confession of uh
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of hope that they professed and not giving up the assembly of the church we talked about all of that so now and he
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follows these exaltations with verses 26 and 27. so the people that he was talking to were going through
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persecution and the temptation was they wanted to go back to the old practices
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of judaism they wanted to go back to the rituals in the temples and sacrificing the lamb and all these other things all
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the practices so and ever since he began his letter the writer has been
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warning his readers about the danger of doing what falling away if you and i want to recall some key
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moments if you go to hebrews 2 verses 1 through 4 he warns them against drifting
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from the world and neglecting such a great salvation that was brought by jesus christ so in chapter 2 he talks
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about the warnings against drifting from the word and neglecting the salvation and in
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chapter 3 in verse 12 to 13 he warns them against falling away because of
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what unbelief okay and in chapter 5 verses 11 to 14 he warns him against
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apostasy and spiritual immaturity so all those chapters from two to like five
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they were filled with warnings against like drifting away from the world against unbelief against disobedience
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and the heart and heart and against spiritual immaturity and against apostasy so we talked deeply about those
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in the previous uh presentation so now there could be several things that the writer was trying to address here
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but one thing he made clear is this you say if you go on sinning deliberately
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after receiving the knowledge of the truth then there is no more atonement for your sins there no longer remain any
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sacrifice for your sins so we need to know what truth is he referring to okay
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so since the beginning of his letter right he has been proving by the old testament scriptures that
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jesus was what the pioneer and the inaugurator of a new covenant that god promised to bring about in jeremiah 31
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verses 31-34 let's go to jeremiah real quick listen to what the scripture says here behold the days are coming declares
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the lord when i will make a new covenant with the house of israel and the house of judah
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not like the covenant that i made with their fathers on the day when i took them by the hand to bring them out of
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the land of egypt my covenant that they broke though i was their husband declares the lord
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for this is the covenant that i will make with the house of israel after those dead days declares the lord
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i will put my law within them and i will write them on their hearts and i will be
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their god and they shall be my people and no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother saying
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know the lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest declares of the lord for i will forgive
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their iniquity and i will remember their sins no more again this is so clear that jesus christ came and fulfilled that
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covenant okay when he died on the cross and he said it is finished that was when he was inaugurated and now we have the
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holy spirit that lives in us and he enables us to do what to love the law of god and to do the will of god that was
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impossible before because people didn't have the capacity to obey the law because they
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can do it because the flesh hates the law of god the scripture tells us that the natural man does not love
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the things of god okay the man without the spirit of god does not love the law of god but the mainly spirit of god
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loves the law of god and the new covenant under the new covenant we talked about the spirit of god coming
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and taking residence in our heart so those were the benefit of the new covenant
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so um this meant that the old covenant and his rights were no longer what valid once
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jesus died on the cross and said it is finished and the veil was torn from top
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to bottom that meant a new covenant had began had begun so jesus death and
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resurrection meant that the old covenant was now what obsolete so
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the writer says if you deliberately insist on pursuing the old covenant practices after being made aware of the
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truth about christ is synonymous to what defying god let me
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repeat that again deliberately insisting on pursuing the old covenant practices
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after being made aware of the truth about jesus christ is synonymous to define god and the end result according
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to the writer is a fearful what expectation of the wrath of god because
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you are saying to god what jesus did means absolutely
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nothing to me i'm going to continue to do what i want to do i'm going to continue to go to the temple and jesus
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christ sacrifice on the cross means absolutely zero to me so now this is basically saying to god i don't care and
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you are defying god so the scripture says all you can expect is a fearful expectation of the wrath of
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god because you have trembled under foot the son of god okay so he's he's going
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to elaborate more on these in verses to come i just want to say if you deliberately insist on
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walking that way that's what you are making yourself an enemy of god so now i wanted to add some more comments to this
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i don't think those were the writers initial thoughts but they are worth like mentioning so when people hear that
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their past present and future sins have been paid for they can develop like what
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an irreverent attitude towards the sacrificial work of christ okay basically showing contempt to what he
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went through to purchase the freedom that we have today to rescue us out of darkness and from sins so people have
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the tendency to say oh i'm we are now under grace so i'm covered i guess i can do whatever i want
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because my past present and future sins have i've been paid for so therefore let me just do whatever
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but the apostle john's gives us a warning he says in his epistle we write these things to you so that you may not
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sin but if you do sin we have an advocate before the father well he is telling his readers we write
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these things to you so that you may not sin and the writer of the book of hebrews might be echoing the same
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sentiment maybe he also means this that jesus christ paid a penalty for your sins
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not so that you indulge in a sinful lifestyle and receive what is commonly
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known as what sheep grace this an attitude that finds its roots in easy believism okay
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is the attitude of a person who claim that jesus is their savior but not their lord
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okay you hear you heard about people like that well jesus is my savior but i've not made him my lord yet like i'm
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still i'm still fighting like you're not a christian make no mistakes about it
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because he can't be your savior not your lord he doesn't work like that jesus is your lord and savior
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okay and and so those people they continue to live in a sinful lifestyle and they claim that well they are under
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grace now that god understands nah that's not true okay so i just
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wanted to make sure i pointed out okay so god never made any provision for
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willful disobedience or high-handed saints we talked about that before so so those that insist on living in sin are
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making themselves what enemies of god and the only thing that awaits them is the wrath of god so i don't necessarily
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think that this is what the writer was also mentioning but i think it's worth talk to you know that i talk about it
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because people may you look at this and then just develop an attitude of your reference saying that hey my past
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present future sins have been paid for so i don't care i'll do what i want and jesus owes this to me now this is still
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trampling the son of god on the foot when you do that so i just wanted to mention that now let's go to our verse verses 28 to 29
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and it and i've labeled that the severity of the matter which i already mentioned
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a few things about it but i want to be more specific here so in verses 28 to 29
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he says the following anyone who has set aside the law of moses
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dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses
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how much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the son of god excuse
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me and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified
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and has outraged the spirit of grace this is important guys again
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the writer here is quoting deuteronomy 2 17 verse 2 to 6 and i'm gonna read it to
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you before we elaborate on the verse see the scripture says if that is found among
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you within any of your towns that the lord your god is giving you a man or woman who does what is evil in
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the sight of the lord your god in transgressing his covenant and has gone and served
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other gods and worship them or the son or the moon or any of the host of heaven which are forbidden
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and it is told you and you hear of it then you shall inquire diligently and if it is true and certain that such
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an abomination has been done in israel then you shall bring out your gates that man or woman who has done this evil
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thing and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones
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on the evidence of two witnesses or three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death a person shall not
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be put to death on the evidence of just one witness
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i i don't know how that makes you feel but this is serious stuff okay again
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this is just referring to believers okay he says in the house of israel in the verses so basically anyone found to have
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violated the law of moses was put to death on the account of at least two witnesses okay so the writer is calling
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his readers to put their thinking caps on he's saying basically this is what he's saying if this is how those who
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violated the law of moses were treated how much more do you think
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those who violate the covenant of jesus will be treated basically saying
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we've proved earlier that jesus far exceeded moses in glory
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right because he's the son of god and we saw what he did on the cross we talked about in chapter i think two or three
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that jesus is greater than moses in every way right so he's saying how worse will be the
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punishment and faith of those who have trampled the son of god okay under foot once again we see here
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that the deliberate sin that the writer is mentioning is synonymous to showing other contempt to jesus by considering
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as worthless his blood spilled on the cross that is supposed to sanctify the
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worshiper you see that so the writer is saying i don't think
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in my opinion i don't think anyone would display such an attitude is a believer if you have no regard
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for the blood of christ that was shed on the cross and you trample the son of god under food you have absolutely no regard
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for that then you are not a believer and we talked about the rocky ground in the parable of the sword i will quickly
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mention it he says he asked for what was sown on rocky ground this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives
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it with joy yet he has no root in himself but endures for a while and when tribulation
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or persecution arises on account of the word immediately he falls away
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so in my opinion i'm sure not everyone in the church that the writer was addressing
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was saved they might have made a profession of faith that was just lip service but under persecution and trials
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they've quickly folded and then they proved by that that they were not true believers and that they
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were just leap worshiping god and jesus okay so the writer is saying
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i'm sending a serious warning to to to all of you examine yourselves
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moreover by deliberately like rejecting the new covenant and treating jesus blood as
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common they were also doing what out raging the spirit of grace
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blaspheming and insulting the holy spirit because the holy spirit is the one who
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applies the grace of god to the believer so by trampling the son of god underfoot you
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are basically doing what insulting and outraging the spirit of grace
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and at that moment you are making yourself what an enemy of god because
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you are basically saying i don't care about what jesus has done
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i will continue to do what i want to do and we talked about the infinite worth
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of the blood of christ in the earlier chapters so when you reject christ's offer of salvation
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is not a small matter in god's eyes is not small it's serious it's life or death
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because what you're doing is you're calling the wrath of god on yourself it is blaspheming the holy spirit
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and the penalty is what eternal damnation you're gonna receive the
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eternal wrath of god so the writer was right in mentioning this and i think it's imperative that i
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do that as well you know we can't be playing games and tampering with the word of god this is what the scripture
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is telling us here how much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has
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trampled underfoot the son of god many churches today are filled with
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people who trample underfoot the son of god they have no regard for for jesus and his sacrifice they have no regard
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for the spirit of grace they do what they want and you have people that create their own religion i heard about
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stevie harvey creating a religion called chrislam you have they have absolutely zero
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regard for jesus because the worth of the blood of christ we've been talking about that
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that jesus christ died once and god accepted his sacrifice and that that completely obliterated the
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old system in his ritual thousands of years of animal blood sacrifice were completely
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became obsolete after jesus died on the cross you see the infinite worth of the blood of christ and you have the
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audacity to trample underfoot the son of god i don't even want to know how god will
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treat such people it's fearful for me so this is the warning in verses 28 to
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29 and let's jump on to 30 to 31. listen to what he says for we know him
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who said vengeance is mine i will repay again the lord will judge his people it
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is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god see
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he issued a strong warning and he's going to finish this section with some encouraging words because
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listen he's going he's talking to people that are being persecuted and they don't know who's going to come to their rescue
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they are struggling they are being persecuted they are being they are under severe trials
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so to interpret this correctly we need to look at the context of the passage and i just told you that like they are
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under golden persecution and they're on the verge of like giving up because they
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can't fight against their persecutors they're on the side of the victims so they are not strong enough to fight them
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so the writer reminds them that god is the one who does what who avenges his people he quotes on
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deuteronomy 32 verse 35 to 36 the scripture says vengeance is mine and recompense for the
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time when their foot shall sleep for the day of their calamity is at hand and their doom comes swiftly for the lord
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will do what will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when
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he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining bond or free so
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the scriptures say again the lord will judge people the judging there is vindicating these people he will vindicate those that are going through
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persecution he will be our strength scripture tells us that he wiped away every tear from our eyes
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when we know when we go through persecution so we look to jesus we look to god because we know that he is the
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judge that judges righteously and he will avenge the blood of his saint so he's saying to them don't worry
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be strong and courageous keep pushing forward don't give up because the lord says vengeance is mine and he will
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vindicate his people and those that are persecuting oh my goodness verse 31 is for you it is
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a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god
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let's go into next verses verses 32-45 he tells them again we'll
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recall the former days when after you were enlightened you endured a hard struggle with sufferings sometimes being
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publicly exposed to reproach and affliction and sometimes in being partners with those who are so treated
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for you had compassion excuse me and those in prison
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and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property since you knew that you yourself had a
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better possession and than abiding one therefore do not throw away your confidence
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which has a great reward for you have need of endurance so that when you have done the will of god
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you may receive what is promised see he's reassuring his readers after
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issuing like some strong warning he's telling them i'm i'm convinced that many of those
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like he was addressing were german believers i am convinced because he knew so maybe when they heard this word they
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were kind of like oh my gosh are we really saved and he knows that they're going to be probably questioning their
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salvation so he didn't want them to wallow into despair so he reminds them of the
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steadfastness they are displayed when they initially were converted many of them
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according to scripture had experienced what persecution in their earlier days and even those who didn't experience
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persecution gladly identified with those who were going and we were being
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afflicted to show solidarity and to show compassion to show unity right so some
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of them lost their property as a result of their faith some were thrown in jail and they all gladly accepted their fate
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since they were confident that their true possession was secure in christ and scripture tells us in matthew 6 19
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to 20 do not layer for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust
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are destroy and we're thieves breaking in still but layer for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust
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destroys and where thieves do not break in and still so he's reminding his readers not to throw away their
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confidence he said please don't give up okay because he has great reward and he'll be
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mentioning the reward like shortly he's telling them why they are struggling like he's saying you have need of
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endurance which james says in james chapter 1 consider pure joy whenever you face trials of mankind for the testing
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of your faith produces perseverance okay so they have need for endurance in order to
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to to uh for the will of god to be fulfilled and that they may receive what is
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promised the reward eternal life so they were very wary and even though they had displayed like great endurance
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in the beginning after years of constant struggle they were on the verge of giving up so he wanted to remind him of
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the long suffering of the christian is one of the fruits of the spirit in galatians chapter five he's saying i
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know how long you've been going through this and it's i told you in the beginning i've been going through something for 16 years
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it's easy to say man i don't i'm giving up i've i've gotten there where i've just felt like
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what's the point of doing this man i'm done but god always reminds me
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don't you fall back don't you shrink
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okay so we all need to hear these words today sometimes in the middle of our afflictions
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we might be tempted to do what to completely turn away from god seeds of doubt can begin to germinate
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and it's important that we fully rely on the holy spirit and other believers to stay the course
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that's why he said look to christ the author and perfecter of our faith so that in your struggling against sins you
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do not give up okay when he's it's good to rely on the holy spirit because we cannot do it on
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our own peter tried and he said to jesus i will not deny you but three times he denied him the same night
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so we cannot do this on our own jesus tells us remain in me and i remain in you if you remain in me and my words
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remain in you you will bear much more fruit for apart from me you can do nothing so we have to fully rely on the
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holy spirit and it's also good to have other believers on our side to strengthen us in the process
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okay so he's telling he's giving them like some encouraging work and he finishes
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with verses 35-39 for he says for yet a little while and the coming one will
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come and will not delay but my righteous one shall live by faith and if it shrinks back my soul has no
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pleasure in him but we are not of those who shrink back and not destroy but of those who have faith and preserve their
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souls see james the brother of christ shares the same sentiment the writer of the hebrews
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is sharing these verses in in james 5 verse 7 to 11. um i want to read that to
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you let me see what james says james 5
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verse 7 to 11. i want to read that to you listen to what james says be patient there for our brothers
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brothers until the coming of the lord see how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth being
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patient about it until it receives the early and the late rains you also be
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patient establish your heart for the coming of the lord is at hand do not grumble against one another brother so
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that you may not be judged behold the judge is standing at the door as an example of suffering and patience
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brothers take the prophet who spoke in the name of the lord behold we consider those blessed who remained steadfast you
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have heard of the steadfastness of job and you have seen the purpose of the lord how the lord is compassionate and
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merciful it is good to be reminded of those words that the lord is compassionate and merciful when you read
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the story of job which i've avoided many times you see how much he went
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through see i don't know for certain if both authors were referring to the second coming of christ i'm not sure if that's
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what they're referring to or the comfort of god in the midst of trials okay because
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if you look at uh what james says about job he said you have heard of the steadfastness of job and you have seen
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the purpose of the lord how the lord is compassionate and merciful see god eventually showed up and strengthened
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job after his long suffering so it wasn't without a purpose when we
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go through something is not that god is just doing it for the sake of just making us miserable now job grew strong
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in the process and god showed up so i don't know if the coming that he's referring to here is not just a second
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coming he might be saying hey god will show up eventually or
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when god comes when jesus comes back you will be rescued now some will die and
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they've they've died they've died probably in hope but remember in chapter 11 he's going to talk about faith
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because he's going to say all these people abraham and isaac and jacob they didn't receive um on earth what they
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were expecting what they were promised but they were looking forward to the city of god so he may be saying the same
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thing to the writers to his readers here so and in this portion he introduces the
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concept of living by faith okay and he will talk deeply about living by
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faith in chapter 11 which we will talk about next week so he says that to avoid shrinking back and turning away from the
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lord the righteous one must live by faith so and he reminds his readers that they
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are the called ones those who persevere unto salvation i don't know who you are i mean are you going through some type
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of persecution right now are you being uh have you been um
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stretched are you being stretched by the lord i don't know i don't know what you're going through but know this
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for certain it is christ like i say on the board or judgment okay if you don't have christ
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and you don't have peace with god so in this life on this side of eternity we
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will go through hard times it's going to be extremely difficult but jesus tells us take heart i have
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overcome the world okay so i will my only examination to
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you is i don't know what you're going through i don't know how much you've suffered
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and i can't identify with your suffering because i may not know you but what i'll say jesus christ the
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scripture tells us that he was tempted in every way so he understands so we do not have a high priest who is unable to
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sympathize with our weakness the scripture tells us but one who has tempted in every way yet without sin so
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we are told to come to the throne of grace so whatever you're going through in hebrews chapter 4 verse 14 to 16 god
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calls us to come to him don't give up and those who who will live in sin and
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and think that your saved jesus can be your savior and we're not your lord you are deceiving yourself you are not a
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christian don't call yourself a christian you are a fraud you are deceived and you are deceiving
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other people because the scripture tells us in in the book of
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jeremiah that he said that he would cause his spirit to live in us so that we can live righteously before him
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so i don't know where and what how people have gotten into their head that they can just live or however they want
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and still claim the blood of christ now you are trampling the son of god underfoot
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so this is a reminder for us to examine ourselves to see are you truly saved
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so i'll encourage you to do that and i look forward to seeing you next uh week have a wonderful day thank you
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