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Hebrews 5: 3, 9 -10 Jesus Christ Offered A Superior Sacrifice
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Feb 19, 2025
Welcome back to our study of the book of Hebrews, today we’ll look at Hebrews 5:3, 9-10. And the title of this section is- Jesus offered a superior sacrifice. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve been looking at the function of the high priest. The writer has been comparing the former priests ( the levites) to Jesus. And in every category highlighted so far, ordination and compassion, we’ve established that Jesus Christ completely obliterated the levitical priesthood. We briefly introduced Melchizedek and saw that Jesus’ priesthood was established after the order of this mysterious figure of the Old Testament. Today the writer is going to zero in on the fact that Jesus offered a superior sacrifice to that of the levites.
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hello good morning and happy monday
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and then welcome back to our study of
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the book of hebrews
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we are now in chapter five
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and in the last couple of weeks we've
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seen uh and talked about some pretty
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interesting on topics and concepts in
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that chapter now
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yesterday when i was at church
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one of the elders asked me
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who do i think wrote
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the book of hebrews
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and without a doubt i said i think it's
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paul because when you listen and you see
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the writing it seems as if paul was the
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author now nobody knows who wrote the
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book of hebrews but
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there are strong evidences that it is
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probably paul the apostle
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okay so basically um we looked at
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several things and i want to mention
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them uh one at a time before we get into
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the last thing that we
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we are we're gonna talk about today and
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this is uh basically in chapter five
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from verse one through ten
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and the writer is giving us and he's
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contrasting on the levitical priesthood
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to that of jesus because jesus as we saw
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in chapter four is the great high priest
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and that he has passed through the
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heavens and he's seated at the right
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hand of god because he may after he made
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purification for sins
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god gave him the name that is above
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every name that are the name of christ
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every knee shall bow and everything
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confesses that he is lord to the glory
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of god the father so he is seated at the
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right hand of god and he ministers not
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in the earthly tabernacle as we saw
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but he ministers
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in the heavenly realm this is where he
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is and he has created an access for us
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so as a result of christ and his
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sacrifices his work on the cross we have
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access to the throne of grace in chapter
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4
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verse 14 to 16 those verses are said to
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you a couple of weeks ago that they
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stuck with me because the scripture says
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that because of what jesus has done
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because he has passed through the
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heavens and because of his humanity and
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because he understands the human
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experience we have a great high priest
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who is not unable to sympathize with our
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weaknesses so before i get into that i
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just kind of want to give you a recap of
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what we looked at okay
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so let's do that right now i'm gonna try
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and get my board ready here so you guys
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can see okay so the first thing we
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talked about is in hebrews chapter five
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verse one and verse four through six we
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saw that jesus ordination was superior
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to that of aaron the lyrical priesthood
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and then we also saw
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that uh in in two last week in hebrews
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chapter 5 verse 2 and verse 73 we linked
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those and we saw that jesus revealed a
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greater sympathy than the levi
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the levites priest we saw that and then
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today we're going to talk about we're
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going to look at verse 3 and link it to
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verse 9 and 10 and we're going to see
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that jesus offered
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a greater and superior sacrifice to
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aaron so that's what we're going to be
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focusing on today so what i'm going to
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do is i'm going to read this scripture
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and then we're going to get into it
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we're going to zero in on chapter 5
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verse 3 and verse 9 through 10 because
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in these three different aspects we see
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that jesus completely obliterates and
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this
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it is more he's more superior to the
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levites in every category that we've
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seen we saw the ordination we saw the
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sympathy and today we're going to look
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at the sacrifice so that's what we're
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going to be doing today okay so without
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further ado what i'm going to do is i'm
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going to read the passage and then we're
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going to get into that so i'm going to
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read
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hebrew chapter 5 verse 1 through 10 as a
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way to kind of refresh your memory and
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my memory and then we're gonna get into
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understanding verse three and verse nine
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through ten so let me read on the
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scripture
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now the scripture says
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for every high priest chosen from among
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men
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is appointed
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to act on behalf of man
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in relation to god to offer
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gifts and sacrifices for sins
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now he can deal gently with the ignorant
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and wayward since he himself is beset
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with weakness
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because of this he is obligated
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to offer sacrifice for his own sins
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just as he does for those of the people
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and no one takes this honor for himself
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but only when called
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by god just as aaron was
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so also christ did not exalt himself
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to be made a high priest but was
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appointed by him who said to him you are
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my son today i have begotten you
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as he also says in another place
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you are a priest forever
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after the order of melchizedek
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in the days of his flesh
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jesus offered her prayers and
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supplications
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with loud cries and tears to him who was
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able to save him from death
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and he was heard because of his
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reverence
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although he was a son he learned
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obedience through what he suffered and
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being made perfect he became the source
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of eternal salvation to all who obey him
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being designated by god
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a high priest after
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the order of melchizedek
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and this is the word of god please
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receive it as so
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so now we're going to try to dissect
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each one of these verses so we're going
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to look at verse 3
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okay this the scripture tells us in
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verse 3
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because of this he is obligated to offer
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sacrifice for sins
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just as he does for those of the people
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and what we've been looking at is the
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function of the high priest
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and then last week uh we saw that the
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one attribute that he had to have was
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compassion the high priest had to be
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compassionate and the reason why is
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because the high priest um could
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sympathize with people because he
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himself was a human so he could be
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sympathetic and had compassion for his
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fellow humans
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and and and that's because
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he himself experienced the same
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weaknesses they experienced and we
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talked about how jesus christ on the day
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in the day of his flesh he
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he uh also went through the same thing
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that we went through without sinning so
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that's what makes him different from the
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the hype the priest the levite priest so
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now because
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of the weaknesses because of the
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fallibility of the high priest and and
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the people uh he led the high priest had
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to sacrifice and had to offer sacrifices
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for his sins
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and that and that of the people so he he
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didn't just offer sacrifices for the
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people since because he himself was also
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beset with sin so therefore he had to
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offer sacrifices for his own sins
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and we talked about
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the duty of the priest so he had to he
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ministered in the holy place and when
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people brought their sacrifices he he
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was the one that i would take care of uh
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then put it in in the altar of offering
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and that's what the priest did but once
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a year only the high priest went into
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the holy of holies and before he went
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into the holy of holies he first had to
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offer sacrifices for his own sins and
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that's because he went there uh to offer
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and to atone for the sins of the people
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that's what he did once a year i think
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the day of atonement was called yonko
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paul so we talked about that briefly
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we're going to get into that into detail
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in the later chapters but today what
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we're only saying is that
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because the high priest himself is beset
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with sin and beset with weakness
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he had to offer sacrifices for his own
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sins and then for the sins of the people
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say
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so god as we see instituted the
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sacrificial system to show his grace
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even before the advent of christ god was
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shown his grace okay even before christ
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came and before the subsequent glories
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on the cross when he went on the cross
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and died for the sins of the world
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before that god even made provisions for
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the people saying listen this is a
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shadow of the things to come but again
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god shows his grace even in the old
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testament and we'll see in later
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chapters that the sacrificial system
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could not expect since it couldn't take
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away since all he did was served as an
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as a covering so that people's people
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could be ceremonially claimed that's all
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he did he could not really take away
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sins this is why the high priest had to
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go back every year and at home for the
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same other people every year on
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yonkapoor he had to do that because
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the blood of lames and goats could not
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take away since all he did was serve as
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a covering
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in the meantime until jesus himself
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comes okay so that's what we're gonna
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see later on so people were externally
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claimed as a result of the
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sacrificial system but the guilt of sin
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still remained because the blood of good
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and the blood of bulls could not take
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away sins and i gotta say we're gonna
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look more closely into that but as of
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now all we see is that the high priest
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in those days had to offer sacrifices
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for himself and for the sins or the
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people and all he shows us is that the
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sacrificial system was weak and the
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reason for it is is because
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it can take away sins and this is why
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the writer is making that observation
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okay the people were being tempted to go
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back to the sacrificial system and we
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talked about why he wrote he wrote like
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hebrews chapter five see the people who
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have been persecuted and the temptation
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was to go back to the sacrificial system
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because that's all they knew so it was
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more comfortable for them to do that and
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so the writer is showing them here
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you're saying to them listen don't go
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back to the old system because that
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system
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could not
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take away since it was weak in the sense
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that all he did was served as a covering
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and he did nothing for you but he showed
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us we saw in the last couple of weeks
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that jesus
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not only had a superior ordination
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because he was a
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high priest in the order of melchizedek
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we also saw that he was more sympathetic
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so he's telling them why do you go back
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to one system that was so weak and that
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could not really do anything for you
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stick with what i've told you so he's
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really encouraging and exhausting the
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people to not go back to that system
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because
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the blood of lames and the blood of good
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could not take away sins okay and he had
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to prove to them that this system was
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over with and therefore he compares it
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to the perfect sacrifice of jesus on the
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cross and that's going to lead us to
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verses 9 and 10. so in verses 9 and 10
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we read on the following and being made
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perfect
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he became the source of eternal
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salvation to all who obey him being
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designated by god a high priest after
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the order of melchizedek now here's the
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thing
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jesus didn't have to offer sacrifices
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for himself
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because he is
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without sin let me say that again
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jesus unlike the other high priest did
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not have to offer
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sacrifices for himself because he is
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without sin so he entered into the holy
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of holies by his own blood because he is
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worthy he is worthy he can do that
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because he is sinless
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the perfect son of god
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so
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and we we established that
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after that after making purification for
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sins he sat down at the writing of god
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we saw that in chapter one that after he
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made purification for sins because his
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blood is that worthy
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he sat down at the vein at the right
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hand of god and the reason why god sat
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in there is because
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he was able to make purification for
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sins so he sat down and god gave him the
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name son he said today i've begotten you
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okay you are my son
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i'll be to him like a father he should
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be to me a son and and then we saw that
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in acts 13 and paul talks about it he
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attributes those verses to jesus we're
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going to see that in a little bit so we
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also saw that god given the name son
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which i just mentioned at the
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resurrection god glorified the humanity
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of jesus by bestowing upon it the name
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that is above every name and by sitting
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him at his right hand
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and we saw that jesus had passed through
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the heavens so we also established that
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so he didn't have to offer
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any sacrifices for himself because he is
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sinless not like the other high priest
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they were beset with sins the succumb to
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sins we saw how aaron fell he led the
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people into sin he made a golden calf
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and then led them to sin
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okay and we sought out how eli was
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pretty much uh sometimes indifferent to
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the to the sufferings of the people
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because he was so callous and we saw
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that jesus because he's sinless he he is
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more affected by the effects of sin in
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the sense that affected know that sin
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bothers him in the point where sin is
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going to do something to him no but sins
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lead him to come to be compassionate and
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to understand the human experience
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because he understand as a sinless human
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he is more affected by the colors things
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that he sees in the world and that leads
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him to want to do
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everything that his father has called
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him to do because he said i came to do
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the will of my father my food is to do
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the will of him who sent me so he came
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to be the propitiation and the expiation
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for our sins because the sacrificial
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system was weak so in verse 9 so the
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writer informs us that jesus has become
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the source
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of eternal salvation to all who obey the
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truth meaning to all who put their trust
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in jesus because he has been made
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perfect
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now people may hear them go
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how can we be made perfect if he's
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already perfect okay so we need to
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understand what
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uh me being made perfect means
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see in hebrews chapter 2 verse 10 we
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read something similar it says for it
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was feeling that he
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for whom and by whom all things exist in
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bringing many sons to glory
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should make the founder of that
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salvation perfect through suffering so
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basically what this means is this to
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reconcile us to god
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okay in bringing ministers to glory to
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reconcile us to god it was necessary
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that jesus died he was feeling that he
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became sin for us so that we might
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become the righteousness of god see
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jesus was made perfect in the sense that
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he was made complete
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in that way he was made the complete
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sacrifice he had to be this way there
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was no other way because if he didn't
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die
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we would not be saved because the blood
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of gods and the blood of flames could
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not
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take away sins
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only the blood of jesus the lamb of god
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can do that
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so jesus had to die remember
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we read in matthew that he said father
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if it is possible for you all things are
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possible yet know my will that will be
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done and there was no other way so he
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had to
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drink the cup of the wrath of god
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because without it we would not be saved
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today
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so the work of salvation was made
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complete meaning perfect was made
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perfect was made complete when jesus
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breathed his last on the cross and said
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it is finished okay we read in john 19
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30. the scripture said when jesus had
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received the sour wine he said
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it is finished and he bowed his head and
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gave up his spirit
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god accepted his suffrage his sacrifice
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on the cross and he became this only
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source of salvation eternal salvation to
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those god has called
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those will be the truth those who put
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their trust completely in jesus and on
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his work on the cross see the former
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high priest could not do that
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because first of all we saw that they
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were cut off because of death they died
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okay they were weakened by their own
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sinful nature and couldn't offer but
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only a covering for sins that's all they
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could do
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well when jesus dies once and for all
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and he accomplished an eternal salvation
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to those who obey him and verse 10
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pretty much gives us like a reminder of
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who he is he is he's a high priest in
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the order of melchizedek and we talked
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about melchizedek a couple of weeks ago
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and we're going to talk more deeply
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about melchizedek in in chapters to come
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but as we see here
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jesus sacrifice
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was pleasing
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complete and perfect in the father's
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eyes because the scripture also says
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somewhere in isaiah that he pleased the
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father to
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to to pierce him he pleased him because
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he was he pleased the father in all the
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sense that god took pleasure in like oh
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evil pleasure no no you satisfied the
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wrath of god god said i am pleased with
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him remember god always said about jesus
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this is my beloved son
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with whom i'm well pleased listen to him
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so when he took upon himself the sins of
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the whole world when he died and shed
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his blood
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that satisfied the wrath of god so this
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is why
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jesus blood and his sacrifice far exceed
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that of the levitical priesthood and the
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sacrificial system that was not enough
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he only covered since he never took away
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sin he never experienced they expected
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sins see when he when jesus spread his
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hand
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like this on a cross you mean god took
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away our sins as far as the east is from
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the west
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god took that away and the sacrificial
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system was symbolic he was supposed to
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show what god was going to do through
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jesus
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because i told you on the day of
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atonement there were two goods that were
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presented
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one to satisfy the wrath of god and the
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other one to take away the guilt and you
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pressed your hand on the one
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on the one lame that took away the guilt
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and it's they took him out and sent it
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and sent it away into perdition so
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that's what god does
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god took away our sins
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because of the blood of jesus he
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satisfied the wrath of god the
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propitiation and he also took away the
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guilt because his blood is that worthy
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okay this is
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the precious blood of the lamb of god
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this is why
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the writer is telling his readers listen
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you go back to the old system
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that is
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weak and that's gonna not gonna do
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anything for you
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because that system is weak because it
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was weakened by the the high priest and
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by the insufficiency insufficiency of
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the blood of lamb and god he could not
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take away sins it cannot take away sins
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it only served as a covering so that
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people could be ceremonially clean and
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could be externally clean that's all he
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did he never took away the guilt
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of sin he never took that away he
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couldn't only the blood of jesus can do
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that so this is why his blood is worthy
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and and because he is the only way the
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scripture says i am the way the truth
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and the life and no one comes to the
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father except through me and this is
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jesus speaking
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so that's what his blood has
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accomplished on our behalf to satisfy
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the wrath of god and to take away sins
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only in jesus there is forgiveness of
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sins
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that's it there is no other way he is
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the only way and he's the only one that
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can offer eternal salvation
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for all those god has called and those
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who obey the truth
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and i kind of want to go
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into on some passages here i want to go
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to acts 13 verse 33 to 40 to kind of
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solidify what we are talking about this
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morning so let me read that first
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the scripture says
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this he has fulfilled to us referring to
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god
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their children by raising jesus
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as also it is written in the second song
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you are my son today i have begotten you
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and as as for the fact that he raised
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him from the dead no more to return to
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corruption he has spoken in this way
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i'll give you the holy and sure
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blessings of david
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therefore he also says in another song
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you will not let your holy one seek
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corruption for david after he had served
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the purpose of god in his own generation
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fell asleep and was laid with his
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fathers and a son saw corruption or
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decay but he whom god raised up did not
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see corruption let it be known to you
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therefore brothers that through this man
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forgiveness of sins he pro is proclaimed
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to you and by him everyone who believes
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is freed from the from everything from
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which you could not be freed by the law
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of moses
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beware therefore lest what is said in
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the prophet should come about
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so what is paul saying here
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so basically um
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i just want to make some comments in
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passing okay in verses 34 and 35 we are
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told about the fact that jesus rose to
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die
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no more which agrees with what we just
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read in the book of hebrews
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he died once and for he was raised he
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will never die again because he's a high
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priest in the order of melchizedek so
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his life
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cannot be interrupted anymore he only
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died once and for all to satisfy the
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wrath of god and to expedite our sins
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and after that this is it now he
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ministers in the heavenly realm so this
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is why
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the sacrificial system is over with we
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have a better covenant now in jesus
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because he has passed through the
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heavens and he his life is not going to
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be interrupted
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just like the high priest the high
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priest were dying but he won't die
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anymore he died once and for all for a
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specific purpose
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to satisfy the wrath of god and to take
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away the guilt of sins i know i keep
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repeating myself but i want you to get
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it so he died once for sins and he rose
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and has been now
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glorified and his kingdom has been
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established
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for
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ever and we we're gonna see that in
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first chronicles 17. see
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paul
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brings the example of david see david
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died and saw corruption meaning when
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david died his body decayed he was
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decomposed
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that happened to david so he was buried
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and he was decomposed when jesus died he
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didn't see decay he didn't see the
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decomposition he didn't have because god
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did not allow that because god raised
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him on the third day according to the
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scripture and glorified his humanity and
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made him a high priest after the order
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of melchizedek one whose ministry is
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endless it would never end again and i
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want us to go to first chronicles 17
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verse 1 to 15 to see the promise god
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gave david concerning his offspring
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meaning jesus according to the flesh so
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let's go there
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listen
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so the scripture says now when david
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lived in his house
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david said to nathan the prophet behold
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i dwell in the house of cedar but the
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ark of the covenant of the lord is under
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a tent
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and nathan said to david do all that is
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in your heart for god is with you but
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that same night the word of the lord
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came to nathan
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go and tell my servant david
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thus says the lord it is not you who
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will build me a house to dwell in
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for i have not lived in a house since
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the day i brought up israel
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to this day
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but i've gone from 10th to 10th and from
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dwelling to dwelling in all places where
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i've moved with all israel did i speak a
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word with any of the judges of israel
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whom i commanded to shepherd my people
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saying
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why have you not built me a house of
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cedar
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now therefore thus you shall say to my
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servant david thus says the lord of
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hosts
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i took you from the pasture from
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following the sheep to be prince of ma
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of my people israel and i have been with
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you wherever you have gone
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and i've cut off all your enemies from
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before you and i'll make for you a name
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like the name of the great ones of the
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earth and i'll point and i will appoint
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a place for my people israel
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and will plant them that they may dwell
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in their own place and be disturbed no
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more and violent men shall waste them no
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more as formally from the time that our
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opponent judges over my people israel
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and i'll subdue all your enemies
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moreover i declare to you that the lord
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will build you a house now listen
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carefully to the next word
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when your days are fulfilled to work
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with your fathers
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i
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will raise up your offspring after you
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one of your own sons
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and i will establish his kingdom
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now this applies
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uh
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directly in to
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uh solomon but also ultimately to jesus
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because listen to the next words
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he shall build a house for me which
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solomon did
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but then listen to the next one and i
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will establish his throne
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for
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foreign this applies to jesus ultimately
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this is what the scripture says he has
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been established forever
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not temporary
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it's not a temporal kingdom that jesus
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has he has a forever eternal kingdom
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everlasting
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and listen i will be to him a father and
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he shall be to be a son i will not take
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my steadfast lord from him as i took it
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from him who was before you but i will
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confirm him in my house and in my
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kingdom again
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for
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ever
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and his throne shall be established for
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ever in accordance with all his words in
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accordance with all his vision nathan
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spoke to david so you can see that from
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all the way even all the way to the old
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testament the scripture
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always ascribed to jesus
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a ministry that is forever because he is
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after the order of melchizedek so his
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ministry is endless because he has
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passed through the heavens and his blood
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is worthy and we saw that so what should
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i say in conclusion
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we can see that the former high priest
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were weakened by their own sinful nature
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i couldn't offer but only a covering for
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sins
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jesus
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died once and for all and accomplished
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an eternal salvation to those who obey
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him
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and that that's all i can say here
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because the former high priest they
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could not establish what jesus did they
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could not because jesus has passed
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through the heavens because of his own
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blood because he entered the holy of
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holies and when he died the scripture
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says the veil was torn from top to
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bottom to show that god himself is the
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one that tore it and said this is it now
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we have access into the throne of grace
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so because jesus offered a greater
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sacrifice
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these things that we are speaking of
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this morning are not just for our
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intellectual knowledge
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but
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it has to transform the way we live our
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lives
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if it doesn't do that for you or for me
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then all you're doing is just talking
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and we we know the information
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cognitively
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but if it doesn't
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translate into how we live
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then just use less information
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and my prayer
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for myself and for you is that
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as you get into the word of god and as
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you read this thing it will lead you to
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your knees
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because we really truly have a high
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priest who has passed through the
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heavens
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and he is established in the heavens
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and the scripture says for us to come to
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the throne of grace to receive mercy and
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grace to help in time of need
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because we are called to come because
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jesus understands the human experience
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he has
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authentic uh compassion for people like
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you and i who are weakened by our sinful
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nature
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and he has passed through the heavens
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for us so that we can have access so
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that we can ask for help
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don't be proud
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i will say when you need help go to god
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and be willing to listen
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now when we ask god for guidance
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we expect things to come to us maybe in
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a dream or something
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we have his word
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so i say start with his word
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start with by obeying the truth the word
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of god is there for our sake he says the
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scripture is good for what for teaching
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so that the man of god may through may
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be totally equipped for every good work
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so when you are struggling with a
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certain question
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sometimes it's not as clear
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as the law for guidance and he will
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surely guide you because he the
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scripture tells us to
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if anyone lacks wisdom
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ask god who gives wisdom to all
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generously without finding fault and he
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will give but when we ask we should not
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doubt the scripture says he would doubt
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it's like the waves of the sea
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and dimension i think he will receive
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anything from the lord because he's um
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double-minded we can't have our own mind
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we can't have our own plan and just we
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want god to bless the plan we have to
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submit
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to his plan we have to submit to his
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leadership we have to come under his
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authority because jesus is the high
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priest and when jesus says go this way
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that means we need to go that way
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because he died he paid the penalty for
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my sins and your sins so how dare we
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be irreverent we have to learn to obey
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the word of god and it's a daily thing
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because we still live in this body
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we still live in the in this corrupted
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body so
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we are bothering every day
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for the christian life becomes hard
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because
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when we weren't saved it was easy for us
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to sin because we just did it it was
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just our nature
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but now that uh the spirit of god lives
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in us there is a battle between the holy
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spirit and the fleshly nature
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but the holy spirit always wins because
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he's greater but there is that tug of
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war there's always like this this this
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uh this there are daily decisions
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constantly we have to constantly go to
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the lord and say lord is this pleasing
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to you if i do this
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so jesus has established that for us so
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the only thing we can do as a result is
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to live in total submission to his
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leadership
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all right so have a wonderful day and
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i'll see you next week thank you