Three Angels
Broadcasting Network
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is pleased to bring
you something better,
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a faith inspiring
picture of a loving God
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from the Book of Hebrews.
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Welcome to 3ABN's
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Virtual Homecoming Camp Meeting.
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Hello, friends, welcome back
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to 3ABN Fall Camp Meeting, 2021.
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As you have found out,
we are here, you are there,
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we are having a virtual event,
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but we've discovered
that the Lord can work
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through any kind of connection.
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Because as Greg Morikone,
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our president talked
about in the first hour,
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nothing can separate
us from the love of God
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which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
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That's why you need to
stay tuned for the second hour
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because Pastor James Rafferty
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is our main speaker
for this Fall Camp Meeting,
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and he's going to be
talking about relationships,
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something better.
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And his message for this
hour is about love languages.
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What is your love language?
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Well, you'll find out
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how significant it is
to have a love language.
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But we thank you for tuning in.
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Also, it's not
too late to invite
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your friends to tune in,
give them a call either through
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internet or radio or television.
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We have a lot more
coming up for our Fall
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Camp Meeting, 2021.
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But before we invite
Pastor James Rafferty,
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who's going to come and speak
and he's also going to begin
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and pray before he speaks,
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I want to invite
Ryan Day and Tim Parton,
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and we're going to
begin this hour with a song
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entitled Daystar.
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You know what's so
significant about that song is,
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everything we do, if you
notice there's a theme we sing
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Shine on Us, now we're
going to sing about Daystar.
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When we allow the Daystar
to shine through our lives,
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only then can the love
languages become a blessing.
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Listen to the song.
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Lily of the valley
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Let your sweet aroma fill
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My life
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Rose of Sharon show me
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How to grow in
beauty in God's sight
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Fairest of ten thousand
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Make me a reflection
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Of your light
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Of your light
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Daystar shine down on me
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Let your love shine
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Through me in the night
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Lead me Lord I'll follow
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Anywhere you open up
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The door
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Let your word speak to me
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Show me what I've
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Never seen before
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'Cause Lord I
want to be your witness
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You can take what's
wrong and make it right
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Daystar shine down on me
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Let your love shine
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Through me in the night
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Lord I want to see you witness
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Wounded by the master
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Of deceit
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Groping in the darkness
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Haunted by the years of past
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Defeat
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Oh, but when I see
you standing near me
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Lord Shining with
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Compassion in your eyes
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Jesus shine down on me
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Oh, let your love shine
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Through me in the night
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Lead me Lord I'll follow
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Anywhere you open up
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The door
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Let your word
speak to me Show me
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What I've never seen before
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Oh, Lord I want
to be your witness
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You can take what's wrong
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And make it right
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Daystar shine down on me
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Let your love shine through me
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In the night
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Daystar shine down on me
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Let your love shine through me
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In the night
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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That was beautiful, powerful.
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I love that.
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Well, good evening and welcome
to Three Angels Broadcasting
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Fall Camp Meeting.
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What a blessing it
is to be in the Word
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of God in the
spring and in the fall.
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And we here at 3ABN are so
thankful that you've joined us.
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We were thinking about
a theme for camp meeting,
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and, you know, the last two
years have been very difficult,
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very difficult years,
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you know, for our
country, for our world.
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And, you know, 3ABN here,
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we all felt really
impressed that something better
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would be a great theme.
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And that theme is
found in the Book of Hebrews.
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So that's going to be the focus
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of our camp meeting
because of all that we've been
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going through in
the last year or so.
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You know, for the next few days,
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we're just going to really
hone in on something better,
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something
different than all of the...
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I guess trials and difficulties
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that we've been
facing in our world today.
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We need a fresh boost of
hope, and faith and love.
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And that's what
we're going to find here
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in the Book of Hebrews.
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You know, we believe that God
is leading His people to study
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the Book of
Hebrews in this present
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time in history.
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In fact, this book
is going to be the focus
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of our Sabbath School
quarter, for the first quarter,
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the first three months of 2022.
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So it's kind of providential
there, and just a little plug
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here for Salvation
in Symbols and Signs.
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We also had decided
a few months ago to let
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this book be our next study
on the Salvation in Symbols
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and Signs series.
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So we're really
excited because this book
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has for us something better.
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The theme is all
through the book,
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and we're going to
see that as we jump in
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and study it this evening.
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But before we
do that, let's pray
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and ask for a special
anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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Father in heaven, I
just want to thank You again,
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that You are the one
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who has every human
being in Your hands,
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that You know the
end from the beginning
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and You long to
deliver us from the struggles,
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from the trials,
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from the
difficulties that we face.
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Father, this world is turned
upside down just in the last
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couple of years, we
see a completely different
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picture than what we've
experienced before this,
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prior to this, and we
need Your Holy Spirit,
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we need the special
blessing of the Holy Spirit,
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not just to anoint us tonight
and to speak to us tonight,
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but to move through
the hearts and the minds
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of people in this
nation and all over the world.
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We're giving You
that time right now,
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that opportunity to
speak to us through Your Word.
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And we're especially focusing,
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as our camp meeting
theme on the Book of Hebrews
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and the theme of
something better,
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something nobler,
something stronger
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than what this
world has to offer.
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So we're just giving
you this time right now,
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we ask that you would fill us,
guide us that You would speak
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through me tonight,
that I would be laid aside
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and Your Spirit
would talk and communicate
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of Your great love
to us on this theme,
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something better on
this subject tonight
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of Love Languages, do
this we pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Well, the languages of love
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is so powerful in relationship
to how we communicate.
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Now, I believe
that this is a theme
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through the Book of Hebrews
that is based on the idea
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of something better.
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When we look at something
better in the Book of Hebrews,
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which by the way, the word
means something that is nobler,
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something that is stronger.
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We find that the Book
of Hebrews uses this word
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better 13 times.
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Now there are 13
chapters in the Book of Hebrews.
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So I think that's
really interesting that 13
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times that word is
used in the 13 chapters.
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It's not used in every chapter,
but it is used throughout
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the Book of Hebrews.
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Something better,
better, better, better,
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better, better, better.
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In fact, in Hebrews 1:4,
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we're told that our
God is a better God.
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In Hebrews 6:9,
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we have better salvation.
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In Hebrews 7:7, we
have a better priesthood.
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Verse 19 of
Chapter 7, a better hope.
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And verse 22 of
Chapter 7, a better covenant.
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In Hebrews 8:6, we have again,
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the emphasis on
a better covenant,
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which is really significant,
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and that they are
based on better promises,
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or that covenant is
based on better promises.
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And then in Hebrews 9:23,
we have a better sacrifice.
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In Hebrews 11, excuse me, 10:34,
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we have a better substance.
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In Hebrews 11:16, we
have a better country.
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In verse 35, we have
a better resurrection.
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And in verse 40, we
have a better experience.
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And then in Hebrews
12:24, we have better things,
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just better things.
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The Book of Hebrews is
just about better things.
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It's about something better.
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A better God, better
salvation, a better priesthood,
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a better hope, better
covenant, better promises,
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better sacrifice, substance,
country, resurrection,
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experience, just better things.
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Hallelujah and amen.
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God wants to get
us on to a completely
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different way of
navigating through this world.
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He wants to get us
focused on something better.
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So let's apply this principle
that we find in Hebrews,
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this better theme of
salvation and resurrection,
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hope and experience in covenant.
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Let's apply this to
each one of the chapters.
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I just like us to
break down the chapters,
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chapter by chapter,
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and go through the
13 to connect this theme
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with the focus of the chapter.
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Chapter 1 of
Hebrews is a focus on God.
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God who takes the
nature of humanity
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upon Himself in order to legally
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and righteously take personal
responsibility for the sins
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of humanity.
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A God who does not
sacrifice a third party,
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but gives Himself for us.
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Hebrews Chapter 1
describes a better God.
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Hebrews Chapter 2
describes this God
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manifest in the flesh in
the person of Jesus Christ.
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So we have Hebrews Chapter
1, describing a better God,
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Hebrews Chapter 2,
describing a better man, Jesus.
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Hebrews Chapter 2,
excuse me, Hebrews Chapter 3,
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we find God here has
built us a better home,
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a better family,
a better community.
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The emphasis here is
that it is community,
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a house, a home that is free
from condemnation and guilt.
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So Hebrews Chapter 3
focuses on a better house,
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a better God, a
better man, a better house.
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Hebrews 4, Hebrews 4, you know,
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we are led to this
home that's free of guilt.
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And in being led
there, we find ourselves
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coming into or
stepping into a better rest.
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So Hebrews Chapter
3, excuse me, Chapter 4,
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describes a better rest.
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A salvation rest in
Jesus Christ, if you will.
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Hebrews Chapter 5,
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we find here Hebrews Chapter 5
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provides us with
a better obedience.
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Jesus Christ comes as a human
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and He obeys God as
no other human ever has.
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So Christ becomes the
author of our salvation,
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a better obedience.
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Hebrews Chapter 6,
we find better promises,
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promises that are made by
God and fulfilled by God in us,
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in spite of us.
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Hebrews Chapter 7,
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our attention there is
directed to a better priest,
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and that is the
priesthood of Jesus Christ
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who works
incessantly on our behalf,
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who is filled with the ability
to completely save us from sin.
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Hebrews Chapter 8,
well, we naturally flow into,
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from better promises
to a better covenant.
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Hebrews Chapter 8 is all
about this better covenant
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based on God's power
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rather than
man's faulty promises.
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Hebrews Chapter 9 directs
us to a better sanctuary,
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a heavenly sanctuary,
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where Christ stands in
the presence of God for us.
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Hebrews Chapter
10, better sacrifice,
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not the sacrifices of animals,
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not the sacrifices of bulls
and goats, but the sacrifice
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of God Himself in the
person of Jesus Christ.
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And that gives away in Hebrews
Chapter 11, to a better faith.
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That's what we
call the faith chapter,
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or the hall of faith chapter.
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Hebrews Chapter 11
focuses on a people
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whose failures and
imperfections have been
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completely blotted out by
their faith in Jesus Christ.
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And it reveals in
there a better experience.
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You know, when we
are relieved of the guilt
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and the shame of our sin,
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we live in the
light of God's love.
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We live in obedience to God.
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We have a
completely different experience
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when we're, when that guilt
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and that weight of
sin is lifted off us.
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And then, of
course, Hebrews Chapter 12
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takes us to a faith
picture that points us to Jesus
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as the author and the
finisher of our faith.
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You know, sometimes we think,
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"Well, Jesus does the beginning,
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and we need to do the rest."
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No, the Bible
says, He's the author,
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He's the finisher,
and that's the better way.
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That's the better way of
Hebrews to let Jesus finish
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what Jesus began.
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And then finally, we
close in Hebrews Chapter 13.
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It's pretty
powerful. It's pretty simple.
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It's pretty basic.
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But it's something that's kind
of changed my devotional life.
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Hebrews 13, specifically,
verse 15, tells us that
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out of all of
these better things
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that God has provided for us,
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it's going to lead
us to a better praise.
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We're going to give
praise and thanksgiving to God.
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When I wake up in the morning,
I go to the Word of God,
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I read a Bible verse,
and I just start praising
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God for everything
that's in that Bible verse.
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I just start
thanking Him for every little
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bit that He has
put in that Word,
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in that verse for me.
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And sometimes I
praise Him for everyone.
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I just include the whole
world in the things that God
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has done, because
God so loved the world,
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that He gave His
only begotten Son.
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Amen?
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Now, COVID-19, you know,
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has brought upon this
world a huge increase,
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you know, of sorrow, of loss,
of conflict, I mean, depression
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is soaring, suicide has shot up.
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And so we need something better.
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We need something
better to focus on.
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You know, than
this present world
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has to offer.
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We need a huge
dose of God's love
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to get through all this.
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And at the same time,
we need to remember that,
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that what's
happening in this world
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reminds us that this
world is not our home.
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It never has
been. It never will be.
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God has some better
thing for us than all of this,
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as we see it now.
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He always has
had something better.
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When we look at the creation
that God started within this,
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in this world, we know
that when He created this earth,
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He created it without
pain and sin and sorrow.
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And we know that when
God created this world,
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in Genesis 1 and
Genesis 2, He said it was good,
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even very good.
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And then all of a
sudden, we saw, well,
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we saw a pause, we saw an
interruption in God's plan.
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And that's when sin came in.
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Sin is what brought the pain
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and the sorrow
and the evil, not God.
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And we know that God's working
to restore us to the original
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plan, so that by
the time we get through
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the Old Testament
and the New Testament,
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we get to the
Book of Revelation,
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Chapters 21 and 22.
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Guess what happens?
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There's no more
death, there's no more pain,
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there's no more sorrow.
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And that picture
is what keeps us.
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That's what makes me a believer,
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because between those
bookends of Genesis 1 and 2,
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and in Revelation
Chapter 21 and 22,
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there's a whole bunch of
evil and a whole bunch of pain.
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And sometimes
you want to say is,
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"God, why are You
letting all this stuff happen?"
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And what God is
saying back to us is,
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"It was never My
will from the beginning,
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and is not going to
be My plan in the end."
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So keep your focus on the author
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and keep your
focus on the finisher,
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all of this stuff in between,
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we're just going to
have to navigate it,
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but God's going to help us.
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God is going to help us
to navigate all of this,
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because God loves us,
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and He wants
something better for us
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yet it's not always easy
for us to understand God's love.
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In fact, we
misunderstand God's love
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more than we understand it.
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And many of us
don't actually think
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God loves us at all.
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You know, when my
wife and I were married,
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now we just celebrated
our 32nd wedding anniversary.
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So 32 years ago,
September 3, we were married.
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And we experienced
a lot of insecurity.
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You know, both of us came
from dysfunctional families.
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Both of us came from
dysfunctional backgrounds.
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I was raised in a
single parent home,
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Rise was raised in
a single parent home.
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So it wasn't easy for us.
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We did everything
right as far as we knew.
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We followed the
biblical principles
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and we figured
that we were going,
00:19:08.44\00:19:09.88
we were stepping into
something it was going to be far
00:19:09.91\00:19:11.88
better than what
a lot of people did.
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But it was within one
year that we were in marriage
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counseling, which was very
hard for me because you know,
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I'm a pastor, like,
I'm a preacher, like,
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a year into my marriage,
I need marriage counseling?
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No, I don't think so.
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I'm not going there.
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But I had to admit that
I myself was exasperated
00:19:28.53\00:19:32.07
with our situation.
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You see, when I married
Rise and when Rise married me,
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I determined that
I was going to make
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her know that she was loved.
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I was going to provide
her like a husband should,
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I was going to work,
I was going to bring,
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you know, bring home the money,
00:19:44.65\00:19:46.78
take care of all the
bills, take care of her,
00:19:46.82\00:19:48.65
give her
security, and not only that,
00:19:48.68\00:19:50.62
but I was going to
help her in the home.
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I decided that I was going
to help with the housework.
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I said, "Listen,
honey, I'm going to vacuum.
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I'm going to
clean the bathroom."
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It was kind of
easy back then 'cause
00:19:58.93\00:20:00.26
we lived in a daylight basement
and it had a living room,
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kitchen, bathroom, bedroom.
00:20:01.90\00:20:03.87
So I thought I'm
going to vacuum, you know,
00:20:03.90\00:20:05.23
I'm going to clean the bathroom,
00:20:05.27\00:20:06.60
you know, we got a
couple bathrooms now,
00:20:06.63\00:20:08.10
and there's three
bedrooms, and well anyway,
00:20:08.14\00:20:10.61
I won't tell you the rest
of that story, maybe Rise can.
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So the deal was that I was
going to be working 40 hours
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a week plus, you
know how it is pastors,
00:20:16.98\00:20:19.05
and that I was going
to be helping in the home,
00:20:19.08\00:20:21.45
and I even volunteered
to cook a meal once a week.
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Not going to tell
you how that turned out.
00:20:25.15\00:20:27.26
But in within one year,
00:20:27.29\00:20:31.19
my wife was insecure.
00:20:31.23\00:20:32.56
Now, for me, I was
loving her to my utmost.
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I was communicating love to her,
00:20:35.96\00:20:37.53
I was really letting
her know that I loved her.
00:20:37.57\00:20:40.24
But she was insecure.
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She didn't feel loved at all.
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And one of the things that made
a huge difference in our lives
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was a little book
called The Five Love Languages.
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And we started
counseling with a pastor,
00:20:55.42\00:20:57.69
and he shared with us this
book and some of the principles,
00:20:57.72\00:21:01.02
and it literally
changed the whole direction
00:21:01.06\00:21:03.76
of our marriage.
00:21:03.79\00:21:05.13
I cannot tell you
how much that helped me.
00:21:05.16\00:21:07.36
And you know, here I am, pastor,
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doesn't want to
go to counseling,
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because you know, I don't, yeah.
00:21:10.13\00:21:11.47
No, every single one of us
needs the counsel of others,
00:21:11.50\00:21:14.74
we need the help of one another.
00:21:14.77\00:21:16.37
We need to
encourage one another.
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Hebrews says we
shouldn't forsake the assembling
00:21:18.21\00:21:20.04
of ourselves together as
is the manner of such as,
00:21:20.08\00:21:21.68
especially as we
see the day approaching.
00:21:21.71\00:21:23.68
And that's not just
talking about church fellowship,
00:21:23.71\00:21:25.85
that's talking
about the fellowship
00:21:25.88\00:21:27.58
of fellow brothers and
sisters that can help us
00:21:27.62\00:21:29.62
with their experience
and their wisdom, etc.
00:21:29.65\00:21:31.49
And I feel like God has
given Rise and I some wisdom,
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and we'd like to share it
with you tonight in the context
00:21:33.89\00:21:36.69
of the Book of Hebrews.
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And here it is.
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I was loving Rise
with everything I had.
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I was communicating love
to her as loud as possible,
00:21:43.37\00:21:47.54
and she couldn't
hear a single word.
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You know why?
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Because I was loving
her with acts of service.
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That's how I was loving
her. That's a love language.
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There are five love languages,
gifts, physical touch,
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quality time, acts of service,
and words of affirmation.
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These are the
five love languages.
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And by the way,
00:22:07.56\00:22:09.56
I decided because these were
in a book written by a doctor
00:22:09.59\00:22:12.66
that I wanted to
find them in the Bible.
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And I turned to
the Book of Hebrews,
00:22:14.70\00:22:16.03
because Hebrews
is a relational book.
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And as I went to
the Book of Hebrews,
00:22:18.10\00:22:19.63
to discover these love languages
00:22:19.67\00:22:21.27
which are here and
we're going to find out
00:22:21.30\00:22:22.67
about that as we
move through it tonight,
00:22:22.70\00:22:24.24
I discovered two more.
00:22:24.27\00:22:25.94
You know, God works in
sevens, not fives, right?
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God works in sevens.
00:22:29.08\00:22:30.41
So there's two more love
languages that are clearly
00:22:30.45\00:22:31.91
outlined in the Book of Hebrews.
00:22:31.95\00:22:33.55
And we're going
to look at those two.
00:22:33.58\00:22:34.92
So let's just go
back to the five for now.
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I was loving her with
everything that I had.
00:22:37.15\00:22:39.32
I was communicating
to her that I loved her,
00:22:39.35\00:22:42.42
but I was using the
language of acts of service.
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Well guess what?
00:22:44.99\00:22:46.33
That wasn't
Rise's love language.
00:22:46.36\00:22:48.63
Rise's love
language was quality time.
00:22:48.66\00:22:52.43
Now most people
have a one and a two
00:22:52.47\00:22:54.70
and then the next three,
00:22:54.74\00:22:56.30
and I'm going to say
four and five, or maybe lower.
00:22:56.34\00:22:58.27
So we have
certain love languages
00:22:58.31\00:23:00.04
that communicate to us
more strongly than the others.
00:23:00.08\00:23:02.74
Rise and I had these love
00:23:02.78\00:23:05.01
languages that communicate
to us more than others,
00:23:05.05\00:23:07.52
simply because
of our background.
00:23:07.55\00:23:08.98
I was raised in a
single parent home,
00:23:09.02\00:23:10.49
I was raised in London, England.
00:23:10.52\00:23:11.89
And when I was a
boy, we didn't have any
00:23:11.92\00:23:13.42
of the modern conveniences,
you know, we didn't have a car,
00:23:13.46\00:23:16.56
we didn't really need one.
00:23:16.59\00:23:17.93
Because in England, in London,
you just take buses and trains,
00:23:17.96\00:23:19.69
but we didn't have a car,
we didn't have a refrigerator,
00:23:19.73\00:23:23.80
we didn't have a vacuum cleaner,
00:23:23.83\00:23:25.57
we didn't have a telephone,
00:23:25.60\00:23:27.30
we didn't have a
washer and dryer,
00:23:27.34\00:23:29.60
I would brush the carpets,
00:23:29.64\00:23:31.14
you know, with a hand brush,
00:23:31.17\00:23:32.74
and we would go to the
store almost every day to get
00:23:32.77\00:23:35.41
food because it had to be fresh.
00:23:35.44\00:23:37.18
And we had milkman back
there that would deliver milk,
00:23:37.21\00:23:39.25
you know, in the mornings,
and you put it in water
00:23:39.28\00:23:41.52
and tried to keep it
cold and we would use
00:23:41.55\00:23:44.19
the bathtub to wash clothes,
00:23:44.22\00:23:46.39
and then we hang
them up on the line.
00:23:46.42\00:23:48.42
Sometimes we go
down to the laundromat,
00:23:48.46\00:23:49.79
you know if we
had time or whatever.
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And what else?
00:23:51.19\00:23:52.53
You know,
telephones, well, you know,
00:23:52.56\00:23:54.23
we could yell pretty loud,
00:23:54.26\00:23:55.93
most of the
neighbors could hear us,
00:23:55.96\00:23:57.30
we had four flats in our home
00:23:57.33\00:23:59.27
and there were 13 kids
in all in the entire place.
00:23:59.30\00:24:01.90
So we didn't need to,
you know, get on Twitter
00:24:01.94\00:24:04.14
or text message or anything.
00:24:04.17\00:24:05.64
We just, "Hey, time
to go out and play now."
00:24:05.67\00:24:07.64
Away we go.
00:24:07.68\00:24:09.08
Even though I didn't have
all those modern conveniences,
00:24:09.11\00:24:11.41
I had a pretty happy
childhood in England.
00:24:11.45\00:24:14.62
Things didn't
change much in that way
00:24:14.65\00:24:17.85
until I moved to America.
00:24:17.89\00:24:19.22
And that's a
whole different story.
00:24:19.25\00:24:20.59
But the thing is I
want to communicate to you
00:24:20.62\00:24:22.22
was my mom worked.
00:24:22.26\00:24:23.73
She was a teacher and
she worked pretty hard
00:24:23.76\00:24:25.96
and she needed
help in the house.
00:24:25.99\00:24:27.33
You can imagine all the
things that need to be done.
00:24:27.36\00:24:28.70
We don't have a refrigerator,
don't have the washer,
00:24:28.73\00:24:30.07
you don't have
a phone, you know,
00:24:30.10\00:24:31.43
so I did a lot of the
stuff, that acts of service,
00:24:31.47\00:24:34.34
I did a lot of that growing up.
00:24:34.37\00:24:36.20
I just had to as a
young man, seven, eight, nine,
00:24:36.24\00:24:39.11
10 years old, I was, you know,
doing a lot of those things.
00:24:39.14\00:24:41.81
And so that was
an area where I grew,
00:24:41.84\00:24:44.38
I was strong in that area
00:24:44.41\00:24:46.85
and that to me
was my natural go to.
00:24:46.88\00:24:49.88
My mom really appreciated
that I helped her, you know.
00:24:49.92\00:24:52.02
She really felt that, you know,
00:24:52.05\00:24:53.39
here's a kid that loves his mom.
00:24:53.42\00:24:54.76
You know, he's
helping her loves.
00:24:54.79\00:24:56.96
Yeah, so that was a
strong love language for me.
00:24:56.99\00:25:00.40
Before I even knew
what love languages were,
00:25:00.43\00:25:01.96
I'm saying, "I'm going to make
sure my wife is loved the way
00:25:02.00\00:25:04.53
my mom was loved."
00:25:04.57\00:25:05.90
If you know what I'm saying,
that was my natural go too.
00:25:05.93\00:25:08.10
Rise was raised in a
home with a single parent mom,
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and you know, her
mom loved her and etc.
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But her dad was gone.
00:25:12.51\00:25:13.84
Her dad wasn't around.
00:25:13.88\00:25:15.21
You know, I had
issues that were more like,
00:25:15.24\00:25:20.42
you know, neglect.
00:25:20.45\00:25:21.78
My mom just wasn't there
to take care of the things,
00:25:21.82\00:25:23.52
whatever, Rise
had all those things,
00:25:23.55\00:25:24.89
but she felt more
issues of abandonment,
00:25:24.92\00:25:26.99
like her dad
wasn't there for her.
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And so her love language,
00:25:29.66\00:25:31.79
I don't know if you
could figure it out,
00:25:31.83\00:25:33.16
but her love
language was quality time.
00:25:33.19\00:25:36.90
She wanted me to
spend time with her
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and we were talking
about this with the pastor,
00:25:38.60\00:25:40.04
I'm thinking, "Oh,
my, this is amazing."
00:25:40.07\00:25:42.30
You know, I am so busy
working 40 hours a week
00:25:42.34\00:25:45.34
and doing the extra
stuff that pastors have to do.
00:25:45.37\00:25:47.38
And I'm so busy, you
know, cleaning the house
00:25:47.41\00:25:49.38
and cleaning the bathroom
and doing the things that,
00:25:49.41\00:25:51.41
you know, I know my wife
is going to make her feel
00:25:51.45\00:25:53.75
secure and make her
know that she loves me
00:25:53.78\00:25:56.05
that I don't have time
to sit down and just talk
00:25:56.08\00:25:58.59
I don't, I don't have
time to just quality time.
00:25:58.62\00:26:00.76
That seems like a waste of time.
00:26:00.79\00:26:02.12
What do you mean?
00:26:02.16\00:26:03.49
Just sit around
and just connect?
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That's what you're
saying I need to do.
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It was such an
eye-opener for me.
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It just and it was phenomenal
how it changed our lives,
00:26:09.33\00:26:12.63
our marriage.
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So I started
focusing on that quality time.
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Because what I found out was,
00:26:16.54\00:26:17.94
because I was communicating
in my love language,
00:26:17.97\00:26:20.38
I was really
manifesting love for me.
00:26:20.41\00:26:23.98
I wasn't
manifesting love for my wife.
00:26:24.01\00:26:25.48
And I was
exasperated, so I thought
00:26:25.51\00:26:26.88
how can my wife be insecure,
00:26:26.92\00:26:28.25
and I'm doing all
these things for her.
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But I wasn't
speaking her love language.
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I'm going to give you a
challenge tonight, okay?
00:26:31.52\00:26:34.36
Find out what the love
language is of your spouse,
00:26:34.39\00:26:37.13
of your husband, of
your kids, family members,
00:26:37.16\00:26:40.10
people in your community,
see if you can find out
00:26:40.13\00:26:42.43
what their love
language is and learn
00:26:42.46\00:26:44.13
how to speak to people
in their love language.
00:26:44.17\00:26:48.37
Because, sometimes when
we communicate with people,
00:26:48.40\00:26:51.17
we communicate in such a
way that it doesn't really
00:26:51.21\00:26:54.51
help them or encourage
them, because it's not,
00:26:54.54\00:26:57.45
they're not hearing us.
00:26:57.48\00:26:58.81
It's like we're speaking French,
00:26:58.85\00:27:00.72
and they're
understanding only English.
00:27:00.75\00:27:02.98
And we want to get on
the wavelength of others
00:27:03.02\00:27:05.55
when we communicate to
them this language of love.
00:27:05.59\00:27:10.03
So, again, I was
really eager to understand,
00:27:10.06\00:27:13.96
it was such a
game changer for us.
00:27:14.00\00:27:15.86
And by the way, Rise
and I share the same second
00:27:15.90\00:27:18.80
love language,
which is physical touch.
00:27:18.83\00:27:20.64
So it was really nice.
00:27:20.67\00:27:22.00
It's nice when a
husband and wife share at least
00:27:22.04\00:27:23.77
one love language.
00:27:23.81\00:27:25.14
I've met couples
that don't share any.
00:27:25.17\00:27:26.51
I've met other couples,
00:27:26.54\00:27:27.88
'cause we do a lot
of marriage counseling,
00:27:27.91\00:27:29.24
they'll share one
but not the other.
00:27:29.28\00:27:30.61
And I see really,
it's nice when you have
00:27:30.65\00:27:32.55
one that's compatible,
even though the other
00:27:32.58\00:27:34.65
one might be different.
00:27:34.68\00:27:36.02
And it's hard for
me because I'm a acts,
00:27:36.05\00:27:38.02
I'm a doer guy,
and so to slow down
00:27:38.05\00:27:40.22
and just sit with my
wife at 32 years now,
00:27:40.26\00:27:42.56
I've really gotten into it.
00:27:42.59\00:27:43.93
So sometimes I'll
say to her, "Hey honey,
00:27:43.96\00:27:45.29
you want to spend
some time together?
00:27:45.33\00:27:46.66
Hey, honey, you
know, you're busy,
00:27:46.70\00:27:48.03
you want to do
some things together?
00:27:48.06\00:27:49.40
You want to, you know, have
some pillow talk or whatever?
00:27:49.43\00:27:50.77
And she'll, "Thinks have kind
00:27:50.80\00:27:52.13
of switched here, haven't they?
00:27:52.17\00:27:53.50
""Yes."
00:27:53.54\00:27:54.87
So, the reason we have maybe
stronger love languages than,
00:27:54.90\00:28:00.18
you know other do,
maybe because of our past.
00:28:00.21\00:28:02.74
So we need to consider our past.
00:28:02.78\00:28:04.15
Why is it that we feel
insecure in certain areas?
00:28:04.18\00:28:06.68
Why do we need maybe, you
know, some father called us
00:28:06.72\00:28:10.49
a dummy all our lives.
00:28:10.52\00:28:11.85
You dummy, dummy, dummy,
00:28:11.89\00:28:13.22
you'll never get anywhere,
you'll never have anything,
00:28:13.25\00:28:14.59
you'll never
going to be any good.
00:28:14.62\00:28:15.96
Well, that person would be,
00:28:15.99\00:28:17.56
one of their love languages
might be words of affirmation,
00:28:17.59\00:28:20.23
because they've always
been criticized and put down.
00:28:20.26\00:28:22.43
They need to be spoken
into. They need to be affirmed.
00:28:22.46\00:28:25.13
And by the way, that's
my weakest love language.
00:28:25.17\00:28:26.77
Can I confess that publicly?
00:28:26.80\00:28:28.40
My weakest love language
is words of affirmation,
00:28:28.44\00:28:30.24
I'm kind of a
perfectionist, I'll come home
00:28:30.27\00:28:31.74
and the whole house is clean.
00:28:31.77\00:28:33.24
But there's one thing not done.
00:28:33.27\00:28:34.61
I'm like, "How come
that didn't get done?"
00:28:34.64\00:28:37.68
You know, words of affirmation.
00:28:37.71\00:28:39.25
So we're going to
have strong love languages,
00:28:39.28\00:28:41.05
we're going to have
weaker love languages,
00:28:41.08\00:28:43.18
love languages that
we need to focus on or we
00:28:43.22\00:28:45.79
need to build up, strengthen.
00:28:45.82\00:28:48.82
Well, guess what?
00:28:48.86\00:28:50.19
There are no dysfunctional
languages with God.
00:28:50.23\00:28:55.66
God has no
dysfunctional history.
00:28:55.70\00:28:58.03
So He speaks to us in
all of the love languages.
00:28:58.07\00:29:01.57
And that's what we're going
to see in the Book of Hebrews.
00:29:01.60\00:29:03.00
The Book of Hebrews is not just
a theological book, in fact,
00:29:03.04\00:29:05.84
it's less of a theological
book than it is a book
00:29:05.87\00:29:09.31
about relationship.
00:29:09.34\00:29:12.05
I believe Paul is the author
00:29:12.08\00:29:13.42
of this and got
some controversy.
00:29:13.45\00:29:14.78
That's not major.
00:29:14.82\00:29:16.15
You know, some
theologians believe he is,
00:29:16.18\00:29:17.52
some believe he isn't.
00:29:17.55\00:29:18.89
There's a lot of
parallels with Hebrews
00:29:18.92\00:29:20.26
and other epistles
that Paul wrote that tell us
00:29:20.29\00:29:22.26
that he's the author.
00:29:22.29\00:29:23.63
So I believe he's the author.
00:29:23.66\00:29:25.53
And he is, I think,
00:29:25.56\00:29:27.30
communicating to
the Hebrews, to Israel,
00:29:27.33\00:29:29.63
to people who
have really been almost
00:29:29.66\00:29:32.23
dogmatically legalistic about
their relationship with God.
00:29:32.27\00:29:34.94
You know, got to do
this, you got to do that,
00:29:34.97\00:29:36.30
you got to do
this, you got to do that,
00:29:36.34\00:29:37.67
you got to make sure
all your T's are crossed
00:29:37.71\00:29:39.04
and all your I's are dotted.
00:29:39.07\00:29:40.41
And Paul is
moving away from that,
00:29:40.44\00:29:42.64
and he's transitioning
them into a relationship
00:29:42.68\00:29:45.58
experience with God.
00:29:45.61\00:29:46.95
That's his primary
goal in the Book of Hebrews.
00:29:46.98\00:29:49.42
And I believe that we
need that today more than ever.
00:29:49.45\00:29:51.52
You know, legalism isn't
just in religious circles.
00:29:51.55\00:29:54.59
Legalism is in,
you can be an agnostic,
00:29:54.62\00:29:56.39
you can be a
legalist, you can be an atheist,
00:29:56.42\00:29:57.76
you can be a legalist.
00:29:57.79\00:29:59.13
It's when you're
really draconian really spiky,
00:29:59.16\00:30:03.26
really focused on
rules and regulations
00:30:03.30\00:30:05.57
and you can't
give any wiggle room,
00:30:05.60\00:30:07.17
no mercy to other
people around you.
00:30:07.20\00:30:09.50
And I see that happening
more and more in our society.
00:30:09.54\00:30:11.41
If you don't
match up, if you don't,
00:30:11.44\00:30:13.58
you know, if your
words aren't in harmony with,
00:30:13.61\00:30:16.08
if your actions
aren't in harmony with,
00:30:16.11\00:30:17.51
if you're not supporting
what everyone else is doing,
00:30:17.55\00:30:20.22
then we're going to cancel you.
00:30:20.25\00:30:21.78
And the Book of Hebrews
is moving us away from that.
00:30:21.82\00:30:23.99
It's moving us into
this relationship with God
00:30:24.02\00:30:26.55
where we don't see Him just
00:30:26.59\00:30:27.92
relating to us in
this draconian way,
00:30:27.96\00:30:30.23
this legalistic
way where we see Him
00:30:30.26\00:30:32.83
entering into
relationship with us
00:30:32.86\00:30:34.50
and having an experience
with us and walking with us.
00:30:34.53\00:30:37.10
And we see this right from
the get go in Hebrews Chapter 1.
00:30:37.13\00:30:40.64
Let's just read
these first verses
00:30:40.67\00:30:42.10
here in Hebrews Chapter 1.
00:30:42.14\00:30:43.87
We'll read Hebrews Chapter
1, beginning with verse 1.
00:30:43.91\00:30:47.31
It says, "God,
who at sundry times
00:30:47.34\00:30:50.45
and in divers manners..."
00:30:50.48\00:30:51.98
I'm speaking,
communicating from the KJV here,
00:30:52.01\00:30:53.92
I love the KJV, sundry
times and divers manners,
00:30:53.95\00:30:56.75
what does that mean?
00:30:56.79\00:30:58.12
I don't know. But
it's really beautiful.
00:30:58.15\00:30:59.49
It's really poetic.
00:30:59.52\00:31:00.86
It actually means,
you know, different
00:31:00.89\00:31:02.22
times in various manners.
00:31:02.26\00:31:03.83
"Spoke in time past,
00:31:03.86\00:31:06.49
unto the
fathers, by the prophets.
00:31:06.53\00:31:10.00
And has in these
last days, verse 2,
00:31:10.03\00:31:12.07
spoken unto us by His Son,
00:31:12.10\00:31:14.44
whom He has
appointed heir of all things,
00:31:14.47\00:31:17.27
by whom also He
made the worlds."
00:31:17.31\00:31:20.11
Now verse 3,
00:31:20.14\00:31:22.14
"Who being the
brightness of His glory
00:31:22.18\00:31:23.81
and the express
image of His person,
00:31:23.85\00:31:25.41
and upholding all things
by the word of His power,
00:31:25.45\00:31:28.52
when He had by
Himself purged our sins,
00:31:28.55\00:31:31.59
sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty on high."
00:31:31.62\00:31:35.52
This is relational
language through and through.
00:31:35.56\00:31:40.70
Do you see it in here?
00:31:40.73\00:31:42.36
God spake, God communicated.
00:31:42.40\00:31:44.70
When Adam and Eve
sinned, they were hiding,
00:31:44.73\00:31:46.67
they had broken
relationship with God,
00:31:46.70\00:31:48.37
they were feeling guilty,
they were feeling ashamed,
00:31:48.40\00:31:50.14
they went away from
God, they were hiding,
00:31:50.17\00:31:51.94
they didn't want to talk to God,
00:31:51.97\00:31:53.31
they didn't want to
come in contact with Him,
00:31:53.34\00:31:54.68
and God comes looking for them,
"Adam, Eve, where are you?"
00:31:54.71\00:31:57.18
See, that's communication
that invokes relation, right?
00:31:57.21\00:32:01.18
"Where are you? Where are you?
00:32:01.22\00:32:02.55
I want to talk to
you, I want to see you,
00:32:02.58\00:32:03.92
I want to
connect with you?" Right?
00:32:03.95\00:32:05.39
That's what God has been
doing from the beginning.
00:32:05.42\00:32:08.26
And all the way now
to the very end of time
00:32:08.29\00:32:10.26
He's been reaching out to us.
00:32:10.29\00:32:11.63
That's what Hebrews 1 says.
00:32:11.66\00:32:12.99
He's been speaking to
us through the prophets.
00:32:13.03\00:32:14.86
And then
eventually, He sent His own Son.
00:32:14.90\00:32:17.93
He Himself came in the
person of Jesus Christ,
00:32:17.97\00:32:19.77
to communicate to us
because communication is love.
00:32:19.80\00:32:25.27
You know, when
my wife and I have,
00:32:25.31\00:32:27.44
you know, a
disagreement, we don't fight,
00:32:27.48\00:32:29.18
we just have intense
moments of fellowship, right?
00:32:29.21\00:32:32.65
When we have this disagreement,
we have a king sized bed,
00:32:32.68\00:32:35.35
and we can go to sleep
because I don't want to talk.
00:32:35.38\00:32:37.49
I'm just, the guys
want to stuff it right?
00:32:37.52\00:32:39.22
Well, this is back
now. This isn't after 32.
00:32:39.25\00:32:41.12
This is 20 years back,
in 20 years of marriage,
00:32:41.16\00:32:45.19
not 32 years, 32 years
now, I'm willing to talk.
00:32:45.23\00:32:48.16
But back in the day,
00:32:48.20\00:32:49.86
we had enough room
between us at night for both
00:32:49.90\00:32:51.77
of our kids to move
into the bed with us.
00:32:51.80\00:32:53.57
You know, I'm on one
side, she's on the other side,
00:32:53.60\00:32:55.30
and no one's talking.
00:32:55.34\00:32:56.67
I'm laying there in quiet.
00:32:56.71\00:32:58.04
She's laying there in quiet.
00:32:58.07\00:32:59.41
I can't sleep, she can't sleep,
and eventually say something
00:32:59.44\00:33:01.24
like she'll say,
"James, are you awake?"
00:33:01.28\00:33:05.55
And I won't say anything,
you know, because I'm asleep.
00:33:05.58\00:33:08.62
And she'll say,
few minutes later,
00:33:08.65\00:33:11.89
"James, I know you're awake."
00:33:11.92\00:33:14.09
I'll say, "No, I'm
not, I'm sleeping."
00:33:14.12\00:33:16.69
And we'll begin to communicate.
00:33:16.73\00:33:18.53
You see, that is what love does.
00:33:18.56\00:33:22.46
That's what relationship
does. It communicates.
00:33:22.50\00:33:24.63
And so right from the
get go in Hebrews 1:1-3,
00:33:24.67\00:33:28.50
God is communicating to us,
00:33:28.54\00:33:30.14
and that communication
that He has with us
00:33:30.17\00:33:32.04
is an indication of His love.
00:33:32.07\00:33:34.44
Love speaks in
different ways, in a variety
00:33:34.48\00:33:37.55
of ways at different times,
00:33:37.58\00:33:39.51
and it does it
according to the need.
00:33:39.55\00:33:41.95
That's why it's different.
00:33:41.98\00:33:43.32
That's why it's
in a variety of ways,
00:33:43.35\00:33:44.69
and it comes in different
forms and shapes because God
00:33:44.72\00:33:46.55
speaks to us
according to the need.
00:33:46.59\00:33:48.52
In Revelation 14:6,
the everlasting gospel,
00:33:48.56\00:33:52.13
which is very,
basically a distillation
00:33:52.16\00:33:55.26
of the languages of love.
00:33:55.30\00:33:56.93
God is communicating
to every nation, kindred,
00:33:56.97\00:33:59.97
tongue, and people.
00:34:00.00\00:34:01.34
What does that mean?
He's an inclusive God.
00:34:01.37\00:34:02.80
He's not leaving anyone out.
00:34:02.84\00:34:04.27
See, that's the
kind of God we serve.
00:34:04.31\00:34:06.17
He's
communicating to every nation,
00:34:06.21\00:34:07.58
kindred, tongue and people.
00:34:07.61\00:34:09.34
The everlasting
gospel of His love.
00:34:09.38\00:34:10.95
In Revelation 18,
00:34:10.98\00:34:12.31
love communicates a
call to come out of Babylon,
00:34:12.35\00:34:17.09
come out of confusion,
00:34:17.12\00:34:18.45
come out of this
dependence on the world,
00:34:18.49\00:34:20.46
and its economy, that
system because it's coming down
00:34:20.49\00:34:23.79
and depend on God in
Revelation 18, Revelation 14.
00:34:23.83\00:34:28.53
Then in Matthew Chapter 24,
00:34:28.56\00:34:29.96
we have another
communication from God
00:34:30.00\00:34:32.13
of the everlasting gospel,
00:34:32.17\00:34:33.50
the gospel that's
going to go to all the world
00:34:33.54\00:34:35.74
and we're told
there that love endures,
00:34:35.77\00:34:37.94
it perseveres, it keeps
communicating, through war,
00:34:37.97\00:34:41.38
through pestilence, through
famine, through earthquakes,
00:34:41.41\00:34:43.61
through natural disasters,
through all of the afflictions
00:34:43.65\00:34:46.21
taking place on planet earth.
00:34:46.25\00:34:47.58
Love does not
stop communicating.
00:34:47.62\00:34:49.45
It keeps on communicating,
endures to the worst of times.
00:34:49.48\00:34:52.89
And by the way,
all of those aspects
00:34:52.92\00:34:56.26
of God's love in
Revelation 14, in Matthew 24,
00:34:56.29\00:34:59.69
in Revelation 18,
that is the love that God
00:34:59.73\00:35:02.26
wants to put into us.
00:35:02.30\00:35:03.63
He wants to infuse us with
that same love that He has.
00:35:03.67\00:35:06.07
He's the one doing this,
but He wants us to be part
00:35:06.10\00:35:09.90
of doing this.
00:35:09.94\00:35:11.27
And that's what
3ABN is all about.
00:35:11.31\00:35:12.64
That's what Three Angels
Broadcasting is all about.
00:35:12.67\00:35:14.51
That's what we're
all about here at 3ABN
00:35:14.54\00:35:16.01
because we want
to team up with God,
00:35:16.04\00:35:18.58
to communicate
love to the world.
00:35:18.61\00:35:21.98
So love is a verb.
00:35:22.02\00:35:24.45
Love is action.
00:35:24.49\00:35:26.15
Love is not just an emotional
feeling that's here today
00:35:26.19\00:35:30.29
and gone tomorrow.
00:35:30.33\00:35:32.39
As we read Matthew Chapter
24, we see that love endures.
00:35:32.43\00:35:36.13
That's what it says in verse 13.
00:35:36.16\00:35:38.27
It says He that
endures to the end,
00:35:38.30\00:35:39.77
but He has to do with love,
00:35:39.80\00:35:42.14
a love that's
waxing cold in others
00:35:42.17\00:35:43.84
that continues to
endure in God's people.
00:35:43.87\00:35:46.37
And this is I think why
love has languages, love speaks,
00:35:46.41\00:35:49.84
love communicates
in practical ways.
00:35:49.88\00:35:54.48
So that's why it
was so important for me
00:35:54.52\00:35:56.69
to understand why
my wife was insecure,
00:35:56.72\00:35:59.69
because I wasn't
speaking love to her.
00:35:59.72\00:36:02.22
I was speaking in
French, and she's Hispanic,
00:36:02.26\00:36:05.79
she's Puerto Rican, Mexican.
00:36:05.83\00:36:07.60
Well, she doesn't speak Spanish,
00:36:07.63\00:36:09.33
but that's beside the point.
00:36:09.36\00:36:10.70
You get the illustration.
00:36:10.73\00:36:12.07
She was not hearing my love
00:36:12.10\00:36:14.07
coming to her because
everything I was saying,
00:36:14.10\00:36:16.17
I was saying to
myself, because I was
00:36:16.20\00:36:17.54
speaking in my love language.
00:36:17.57\00:36:18.91
So it was like I
was talking to myself
00:36:18.94\00:36:20.28
and not talking to my wife.
00:36:20.31\00:36:22.44
So are we speaking
the biblical language
00:36:22.48\00:36:27.65
of love when we
tell people that God
00:36:27.68\00:36:30.49
is going to burn them in
hell forever, for all eternity?
00:36:30.52\00:36:35.06
Are we speaking the
biblical language of love
00:36:35.09\00:36:37.39
when we tell people
that God has favorites,
00:36:37.43\00:36:39.66
who is predestined
to be saved and others
00:36:39.69\00:36:42.43
who He's chosen to be lost?
00:36:42.46\00:36:44.40
Are we speaking the
biblical language of love
00:36:44.43\00:36:47.37
when we communicate
that God has tossed out
00:36:47.40\00:36:49.60
His law at Calvary?
00:36:49.64\00:36:51.44
So it doesn't
matter how you live,
00:36:51.47\00:36:52.91
you can continue to lie
00:36:52.94\00:36:54.28
and cheat and
steal, commit adultery.
00:36:54.31\00:36:56.34
It doesn't matter
how you treat people
00:36:56.38\00:36:57.85
because you're saved by grace.
00:36:57.88\00:36:59.71
I don't think so.
00:36:59.75\00:37:01.08
You know, too often,
the language we speak
00:37:01.12\00:37:02.45
about God as Christians,
00:37:02.48\00:37:04.79
doesn't really communicate love.
00:37:04.82\00:37:06.69
It doesn't
communicate God's love.
00:37:06.72\00:37:08.59
Too often, religious people
claim to follow a God of love,
00:37:08.62\00:37:12.23
but communicate a
loveless, lawless exclusive God.
00:37:12.26\00:37:16.97
That's why we here at
3ABN, what you will understand
00:37:17.00\00:37:20.30
what the Bible says
about hell and salvation
00:37:20.34\00:37:23.37
and God's Ten Commandment law.
00:37:23.41\00:37:24.74
And that's why we have
these books Focus on Truth.
00:37:24.77\00:37:27.18
And you know, Greg and Jill
shared this with you earlier,
00:37:27.21\00:37:30.38
so I don't have to
say a lot about them.
00:37:30.41\00:37:31.75
But I, you know, God is love.
00:37:31.78\00:37:34.18
And so a God of love does
not torture people in a burning
00:37:34.22\00:37:37.79
hell for all eternity.
00:37:37.82\00:37:39.25
Love does not exclude
people from the opportunity
00:37:39.29\00:37:42.22
of salvation.
00:37:42.26\00:37:43.66
Love does not toss
out the moral standard
00:37:43.69\00:37:47.40
of His Ten Commandments
that impact how we treat people
00:37:47.43\00:37:50.83
and how we
relate to our Creator.
00:37:50.87\00:37:53.00
So I want to
encourage you again,
00:37:53.03\00:37:54.70
get these books
because they really,
00:37:54.74\00:37:56.77
it's not just about
doctrine, it's not just about
00:37:56.81\00:37:58.61
what the Bible
teaches about hell,
00:37:58.64\00:37:59.97
what the Bible teaches
about the commandments,
00:38:00.01\00:38:01.74
what the Bible teaches about
salvation, this is about God.
00:38:01.78\00:38:05.11
It's about His character.
00:38:05.15\00:38:06.48
It's about what kind of
God He is, and if indeed,
00:38:06.51\00:38:09.05
He is a God of love.
00:38:09.08\00:38:12.15
All right, Hebrews Chapter 1,
00:38:12.19\00:38:13.52
here's where
we're going to look.
00:38:13.56\00:38:14.89
Now remember, I told you,
I wanted to see if these love
00:38:14.92\00:38:16.83
languages were biblical, I
wanted them from the Bible.
00:38:16.86\00:38:19.56
I didn't want
them just to be in some
00:38:19.59\00:38:21.23
book that someone wrote,
even if they were a Christian,
00:38:21.26\00:38:23.57
I want to be biblically based.
00:38:23.60\00:38:25.50
And so I was looking
for the languages of love.
00:38:25.53\00:38:27.70
And I found the first
one in Hebrews Chapter 1.
00:38:27.74\00:38:31.14
Hebrews Chapter 1 is
all about God giving Himself
00:38:31.17\00:38:34.64
as a gift of salvation.
00:38:34.68\00:38:36.75
God takes care of the
salvation we need Himself.
00:38:36.78\00:38:40.42
He's the one that
gives us this gift,
00:38:40.45\00:38:42.18
you know, and sometimes
when we think about Jesus
00:38:42.22\00:38:44.92
dying for us on
Calvary, we think about Jesus
00:38:44.95\00:38:47.82
as a third party because
of the use of the word Son.
00:38:47.86\00:38:50.73
You know, God so
loved the world that He gave
00:38:50.76\00:38:52.13
His only begotten Son.
00:38:52.16\00:38:53.66
But that word son communicates
relational closeness,
00:38:53.70\00:38:57.77
not physical origin.
00:38:57.80\00:38:59.67
The Father did not birth Jesus.
00:38:59.70\00:39:02.14
The use of this title,
the Son of God indicates
00:39:02.17\00:39:04.74
a close personal connection,
00:39:04.77\00:39:07.28
such as experience
between a healthy relationship
00:39:07.31\00:39:10.35
of a father and a son.
00:39:10.38\00:39:11.78
And that's what God
is trying to tell us,
00:39:11.81\00:39:13.75
that God the
Father, God the Son,
00:39:13.78\00:39:15.92
God the Holy
Spirit, they are one.
00:39:15.95\00:39:18.59
They are one in character.
00:39:18.62\00:39:21.92
They are one in principle,
they are one in purpose.
00:39:21.96\00:39:25.69
Their wills are one but they're
three separate individuals,
00:39:25.73\00:39:28.73
but they're one and this
is not anything like paganism,
00:39:28.76\00:39:32.63
or some kind of,
you know, polytheism.
00:39:32.67\00:39:36.40
This is the oneness
that the Bible teaches.
00:39:36.44\00:39:39.21
Of course, we did a whole
00:39:39.24\00:39:40.78
meeting on that at
our last camp meeting.
00:39:40.81\00:39:43.08
If you'd like to
look at that you can.
00:39:43.11\00:39:44.85
But Hebrews Chapter 1
emphasizes this again,
00:39:44.88\00:39:48.45
and again and again.
00:39:48.48\00:39:49.82
I mean, Jesus is God.
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.19
That's the whole
point of Hebrews Chapter 1.
00:39:51.22\00:39:52.65
Jesus is God, Jesus is God.
00:39:52.69\00:39:54.32
Just in case you're
thinking that this is some kind
00:39:54.36\00:39:56.93
of pagan deity
that takes His Son
00:39:56.96\00:39:59.63
and makes Him pay a penalty for,
00:39:59.66\00:40:01.46
you know, for us,
00:40:01.50\00:40:02.96
this is a third party
interaction, it's not.
00:40:03.00\00:40:05.33
It's God in us.
00:40:05.37\00:40:06.97
And God looks at us and He says,
00:40:07.00\00:40:08.34
"Okay, you've sinned.
00:40:08.37\00:40:09.70
Wages of sin is
death, so you deserve to die.
00:40:09.74\00:40:12.31
And the only way
that you can get out
00:40:12.34\00:40:15.04
of that is if I take
the consequence of your sin,
00:40:15.08\00:40:18.15
if I actually experienced that,
and so I'm going to do that.
00:40:18.18\00:40:20.98
I've got a plan,
I'm going to do that.
00:40:21.02\00:40:23.02
And so God takes upon us.
00:40:23.05\00:40:24.39
He doesn't give
to somebody else.
00:40:24.42\00:40:25.75
He takes it upon
Himself, Jesus is God.
00:40:25.79\00:40:27.12
This is Paul's
argument right here.
00:40:27.16\00:40:28.56
And he says it in almost
every single verse of Hebrews 1.
00:40:28.59\00:40:31.66
I'm just going to highlight,
let's just look verses 8
00:40:31.69\00:40:35.36
through 10 in Hebrews Chapter 1.
00:40:35.40\00:40:37.50
Just to highlight this point,
it's found all over the Bible,
00:40:37.53\00:40:40.27
Philippians 2 are
some of my favorite verses,
00:40:40.30\00:40:42.24
verses 5 through 8.
00:40:42.27\00:40:43.61
But let's just look
here in Hebrews 1:8-10.
00:40:43.64\00:40:46.37
Here's what Paul
says, "But unto the Son,
00:40:46.41\00:40:49.38
talking about
Jesus, He the father says,
00:40:49.41\00:40:51.61
'Thy throne, O God,
is forever and ever.
00:40:51.65\00:40:56.08
A scepter of righteousness
is the scepter of thy kingdom."
00:40:56.12\00:40:58.92
Verse 9, "Thou, the
Father talking about the Son,
00:40:58.95\00:41:02.16
has loved righteousness
and hated iniquity,
00:41:02.19\00:41:04.56
therefore, God,
even thy God, the Father,
00:41:04.59\00:41:08.10
had anointed thee with all
of gladness above thy fellows.
00:41:08.13\00:41:12.17
And thou Lord,
speaking of the son,
00:41:12.20\00:41:14.74
thou Lord, in the beginning
has laid the foundations
00:41:14.77\00:41:18.57
of the earth and the heavens
are the works of thy hands."
00:41:18.61\00:41:22.34
Over and over
again, Hebrews Chapter 1
00:41:22.38\00:41:24.98
tells us that Jesus
is better than the angels
00:41:25.01\00:41:28.88
that He is to be
worshipped by the angels.
00:41:28.92\00:41:31.22
No one gets
worshiped by the angels.
00:41:31.25\00:41:32.62
You know, Lucifer, wanting
to be worshiped by the angels.
00:41:32.65\00:41:34.59
No one gets worshiped by
the angels, unless it's God.
00:41:34.62\00:41:38.53
And so this focus is powerful,
because this is the language
00:41:38.56\00:41:43.87
of gifts.
00:41:43.90\00:41:45.30
God has given a
gift to us, He loves us.
00:41:45.33\00:41:48.30
And many times people are mostly
00:41:48.34\00:41:52.87
mainly impacted
in the communication
00:41:52.91\00:41:56.38
of love through gifts.
00:41:56.41\00:41:57.75
They love to
receive gifts, some people,
00:41:57.78\00:41:59.11
that's their
number one language.
00:41:59.15\00:42:00.48
Like, if my daughter,
that's big, a big thing for her,
00:42:00.52\00:42:03.62
if you know, words of
affirmation and gifts.
00:42:03.65\00:42:05.89
And so God is
communicating to us here
00:42:05.92\00:42:09.96
through the love
language of gifts.
00:42:09.99\00:42:11.59
He's given us a gift,
what kind of gift is it?
00:42:11.63\00:42:14.40
It's the greatest
gift that was ever given.
00:42:14.43\00:42:17.00
It's the gift of Himself.
00:42:17.03\00:42:18.63
He's given, He's poured
out all of heaven in this gift.
00:42:18.67\00:42:21.34
Why? Because He loves us.
00:42:21.37\00:42:23.17
That's why.
00:42:23.20\00:42:24.54
He absolutely and
completely loves us.
00:42:24.57\00:42:26.71
So God is in the
person of Jesus Christ,
00:42:26.74\00:42:28.68
He gives Himself
for us and Jesus is God,
00:42:28.71\00:42:31.31
He's one with a Father,
so this is the gift of love.
00:42:31.35\00:42:33.98
God gives Himself to us in
Jesus Christ is the greatest
00:42:34.02\00:42:36.85
of all gifts.
00:42:36.89\00:42:38.45
And God's love is
revealed in this gift,
00:42:38.49\00:42:41.02
just like it's going
to reveal in every one
00:42:41.06\00:42:42.99
of the other languages of love,
00:42:43.02\00:42:44.69
just like it's going to
reveal in every one of the other
00:42:44.73\00:42:46.96
gifts that God is communicating.
00:42:47.00\00:42:48.66
By the way, I just
want to remind you,
00:42:48.70\00:42:51.50
it's going to be a fun
experience for you to try
00:42:51.53\00:42:54.37
to figure out the love languages
00:42:54.40\00:42:56.24
of people that you're close to.
00:42:56.27\00:42:57.61
If you haven't
figured it out already,
00:42:57.64\00:42:58.97
it's a great exercise
because it really makes
00:42:59.01\00:43:01.01
a huge
difference in relationships.
00:43:01.04\00:43:04.25
All right, what about
the next chapter of Hebrews?
00:43:04.28\00:43:07.68
Hebrews Chapter 2?
00:43:07.72\00:43:09.05
Now Hebrews Chapter 2 is really
powerful because it connects
00:43:09.08\00:43:12.19
with Hebrews Chapter 1.
00:43:12.22\00:43:13.66
It tells us how
salvation was worked out
00:43:13.69\00:43:17.53
with the Father and the Son.
00:43:17.56\00:43:19.16
It tells us what had to happen
in order for God to justly
00:43:19.19\00:43:24.77
and righteously
receive the consequences
00:43:24.80\00:43:29.54
of our sins because
you know, we sin, not God.
00:43:29.57\00:43:32.71
So how can He take our sins?
00:43:32.74\00:43:34.91
That doesn't seem right or fair.
00:43:34.94\00:43:36.88
And so Hebrews Chapter 2
00:43:36.91\00:43:39.51
describes basically
goes back to Genesis,
00:43:39.55\00:43:42.08
if you want to look here
with me in Hebrews Chapter 2,
00:43:42.12\00:43:43.75
beginning with verse
9, let's just look there.
00:43:43.79\00:43:45.75
Hebrews Chapter 2, and
beginning with verse 9,
00:43:45.79\00:43:48.19
or if you excuse me, verse
3, we'll read through verse 9.
00:43:48.22\00:43:50.16
Hebrews 2:6-9, goes
back to the creation,
00:43:50.19\00:43:53.83
but one in a certain
place testifies saying,
00:43:53.86\00:43:55.93
what is man that
thou art mindful of him?
00:43:55.96\00:43:58.27
Or the son of man
that thou visits him?
00:43:58.30\00:44:01.30
Thou madest Him a
little lower than the angels,
00:44:01.34\00:44:04.11
this is creation, thou
crownedst Him with glory
00:44:04.14\00:44:08.11
and honor, You set Him
over the works of your hands."
00:44:08.14\00:44:11.18
"You put," verse 8,
00:44:11.21\00:44:12.55
"all things in subjection
unto Him," that means,
00:44:12.58\00:44:14.88
the whole world was given to us,
00:44:14.92\00:44:16.25
all things in
subjection unto Him,
00:44:16.28\00:44:17.75
"for in that He put
all in subjection unto Him,
00:44:17.79\00:44:20.66
He left nothing that
is not put unto Him."
00:44:20.69\00:44:25.13
But, before we get to the but,
00:44:25.16\00:44:28.16
let's just think
about this, God created us
00:44:28.20\00:44:30.50
and gave us dominion over
all the earth and He said,
00:44:30.53\00:44:32.57
"This is good, this is
very good, be fruitful,
00:44:32.60\00:44:34.60
and multiply and fill the earth.
00:44:34.64\00:44:36.07
Just have a great time.
00:44:36.10\00:44:38.01
And I'll connect
with you every evening
00:44:38.04\00:44:39.77
and we'll spend a special
day together on Sabbath," right?
00:44:39.81\00:44:42.88
But, this is verse
9 again or verse 8,
00:44:42.91\00:44:46.75
"Now we see not yet
all things unto Him."
00:44:46.78\00:44:50.12
What happened?
00:44:50.15\00:44:51.49
Genesis Chapter 3, the fall.
00:44:51.52\00:44:53.36
Satan came in, to kill,
to steal and to destroy.
00:44:53.39\00:44:57.49
That's what we're
told in John 10:10.
00:44:57.53\00:45:00.33
So Satan came in, he
deceived Eve at the tree,
00:45:00.36\00:45:04.13
and through Eve, he
won Adam's disobedience,
00:45:04.17\00:45:09.30
both of them now,
have in essence handed all
00:45:09.34\00:45:12.77
of the dominion
over the earth to Satan.
00:45:12.81\00:45:14.18
That's why Jesus
Christ called him the prince
00:45:14.21\00:45:15.64
of this world. But
remember, God, the Creator
00:45:15.68\00:45:19.78
is still the
ultimate owner of planet earth
00:45:19.81\00:45:22.18
and of each one of us.
00:45:22.22\00:45:23.65
And He has redeemed us.
He's put a plan in place.
00:45:23.69\00:45:26.62
So we don't, but we
don't see all things
00:45:26.65\00:45:28.39
under Him that notice
the next but in verse 9,
00:45:28.42\00:45:30.69
"But we see Jesus..."
00:45:30.73\00:45:32.73
Praise God. Amen.
00:45:32.76\00:45:34.63
"But we see Jesus who was made
00:45:34.66\00:45:36.00
a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death,
00:45:36.03\00:45:39.17
crowned with glory and honor,
that He by the grace of God
00:45:39.20\00:45:42.60
should taste
death for every man."
00:45:42.64\00:45:45.51
That's just a mini three verses
00:45:45.54\00:45:47.71
whole plan of
salvation right there.
00:45:47.74\00:45:49.94
You know, we
were given dominion,
00:45:49.98\00:45:51.91
we were created to
have this earth as ours,
00:45:51.95\00:45:54.32
it was good, it was a blessing,
00:45:54.35\00:45:55.88
it was very good,
Satan came in, deceived us,
00:45:55.92\00:45:59.19
led us to disobedience,
00:45:59.22\00:46:00.96
he became the
prince of this world,
00:46:00.99\00:46:02.32
but Jesus came
in, Jesus came in,
00:46:02.36\00:46:04.83
and He redeemed us.
00:46:04.86\00:46:06.19
He tasted death for every man.
00:46:06.23\00:46:08.10
So the
consequence of sin is death.
00:46:08.13\00:46:09.70
And that eternal separation
from God is what we deserved.
00:46:09.73\00:46:15.00
That consequence carried out
is a manifestation of justice.
00:46:15.04\00:46:19.87
Now, when we're
talking about God's love,
00:46:19.91\00:46:21.38
we have to
recognize that justice
00:46:21.41\00:46:23.35
is not contrary to love.
00:46:23.38\00:46:24.71
Justice is part of
love. God is merciful.
00:46:24.75\00:46:27.32
He's gracious, and He's
just, He's righteous, He's fair.
00:46:27.35\00:46:31.25
And those two components
make up the foundation
00:46:31.29\00:46:33.96
of God's character.
00:46:33.99\00:46:35.32
They are equally a
demonstration revelation
00:46:35.36\00:46:38.36
of God's love.
00:46:38.39\00:46:40.06
So another word for justice,
we could say is righteousness,
00:46:40.10\00:46:42.86
doing what's right, doing
what's just, doing what's fair.
00:46:42.90\00:46:45.57
You know, my kids were younger.
00:46:45.60\00:46:47.34
My daughter
always, "That's not fair.
00:46:47.37\00:46:48.84
That's not fair."
00:46:48.87\00:46:50.21
How come he gets, my
son was five years old,
00:46:50.24\00:46:51.81
"How come he gets to do that?"
00:46:51.84\00:46:53.17
Well, he's five years older.
That's why he can drive a car.
00:46:53.21\00:46:54.98
You're, you know,
you're 11, he's 16, right?
00:46:55.01\00:46:58.01
That's not fair.
00:46:58.05\00:46:59.41
But God always does what's fair.
00:46:59.45\00:47:01.28
Now, as parents, we
don't always navigate
00:47:01.32\00:47:02.88
as well as we should,
but God always navigates
00:47:02.92\00:47:05.55
and does what's right,
what's just, and what is fair.
00:47:05.59\00:47:09.26
So what's right, what's just
00:47:09.29\00:47:11.99
and what is fair
means that Adam and Eve
00:47:12.03\00:47:15.13
should have died
in the Garden of Eden.
00:47:15.16\00:47:17.50
That would have
been the end of that.
00:47:17.53\00:47:19.97
And it would have been
just and right and fair,
00:47:20.00\00:47:21.57
no one could have
faulted God for doing that,
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.61
for allowing that to happen.
00:47:23.64\00:47:24.97
However, the Bible tells
us that God had a plan B.
00:47:25.01\00:47:27.28
Amen.
00:47:27.31\00:47:28.64
God had a plan B
for the human race.
00:47:28.68\00:47:31.25
He had a backup
plan, Revelation 13:8,
00:47:31.28\00:47:33.52
this is Shelley
Quinn's favorite verse,
00:47:33.55\00:47:34.95
I can't help
but mention that one
00:47:34.98\00:47:36.58
of her favorite verses,
it says, that Jesus Christ
00:47:36.62\00:47:38.79
is the Lamb slain
from the foundation
00:47:38.82\00:47:41.19
of the world right there
in Revelation's final crisis.
00:47:41.22\00:47:44.33
You know, the mark of the beast,
00:47:44.36\00:47:45.69
can't buy or sell,
you're going to die,
00:47:45.73\00:47:47.26
we have the
cross, we have Calvary
00:47:47.30\00:47:48.76
right there to
help us, to guide us
00:47:48.80\00:47:50.93
so that we don't
follow the world.
00:47:50.97\00:47:52.97
And this points
us to God's plan B,
00:47:53.00\00:47:54.77
you know, Jesus
Christ is the Lamb
00:47:54.80\00:47:56.17
slain from earth's foundation.
00:47:56.20\00:47:58.34
So, you know, we've just
shown that Jesus Christ is God,
00:47:58.37\00:48:02.28
that mankind sinned,
that mankind only should
00:48:02.31\00:48:06.05
receive the
consequences for that sin,
00:48:06.08\00:48:07.78
because that's what's right,
that's what's just, right?
00:48:07.82\00:48:11.12
So in order for Jesus,
to justly and righteously
00:48:11.15\00:48:14.72
take our consequences,
He must become mankind.
00:48:14.76\00:48:20.30
Not just
temporarily, but permanently,
00:48:20.33\00:48:25.20
not just for 33
years, but for all eternity.
00:48:25.23\00:48:28.60
Jesus must become a human.
00:48:28.64\00:48:30.31
He must become the human race,
to receive the consequences
00:48:30.34\00:48:34.31
that belong to the human race.
00:48:34.34\00:48:36.08
And that's exactly what He did.
00:48:36.11\00:48:38.15
Jesus Christ
became a human being.
00:48:38.18\00:48:40.88
And as a human being,
Jesus Christ became for us sin.
00:48:40.92\00:48:45.29
2 Corinthians 5:21 tells
us that Jesus became sin.
00:48:45.32\00:48:48.56
The human race had
sinned, Adam and Eve had sinned,
00:48:48.59\00:48:51.29
but Jesus took
sin's consequence,
00:48:51.33\00:48:53.73
legally, ethically by
becoming the new Adam,
00:48:53.76\00:48:57.93
the new head of the human race,
00:48:57.97\00:49:00.10
the second
Adam, the second Adam.
00:49:00.14\00:49:02.54
Now you can
read about this in 2,
00:49:02.57\00:49:04.54
or 1 Corinthians 15:45-47.
00:49:04.57\00:49:08.24
He is the second
Adam, the Bible tells us.
00:49:08.28\00:49:11.05
So in these verses, in
1 Corinthians 15:45-47,
00:49:11.08\00:49:14.58
we're running out of time,
so I'm just going to give you
00:49:14.62\00:49:16.35
the references,
otherwise, I'd read them.
00:49:16.38\00:49:18.35
These verses identify
Jesus as the second Adam,
00:49:18.39\00:49:21.59
and show us that He started
the whole human race again,
00:49:21.62\00:49:25.79
all over again in Himself.
00:49:25.83\00:49:27.73
As humans, we're
born with a choice between
00:49:27.76\00:49:31.23
the destiny of the first Adam
00:49:31.27\00:49:32.83
and the legacy
of the first Adam,
00:49:32.87\00:49:34.70
and the destiny
of the second Adam
00:49:34.74\00:49:36.24
and the legacy
of the second Adam.
00:49:36.27\00:49:37.77
And when we become Christians,
when we accept Jesus Christ,
00:49:37.81\00:49:40.41
we say, I'm not going to receive
00:49:40.44\00:49:42.08
the legacy and the destiny
00:49:42.11\00:49:43.45
of this first Adam
that I'm born into,
00:49:43.48\00:49:44.81
I'm going to receive,
I wanna choose the legacy
00:49:44.85\00:49:47.02
and the destiny
of the second Adam.
00:49:47.05\00:49:48.82
And the second Adam has paid
the consequences for our sin.
00:49:48.85\00:49:52.62
The first Adam hasn't.
00:49:52.65\00:49:54.06
The consequence is still coming.
00:49:54.09\00:49:55.42
If you stay in the first
Adam, you're going to receive
00:49:55.46\00:49:57.16
the consequences for your sins,
00:49:57.19\00:49:58.73
and that's going
to be eternal death.
00:49:58.76\00:50:00.40
But if you step into
the second Adam consequences
00:50:00.43\00:50:02.86
is taken care of.
00:50:02.90\00:50:04.23
And that's what the plan of
salvation is really all about.
00:50:04.27\00:50:07.20
It's about
stepping in to Jesus Christ.
00:50:07.24\00:50:09.97
It's about
stepping into the person
00:50:10.01\00:50:11.34
who's received our consequences.
00:50:11.37\00:50:13.24
In Christ,
justice was satisfied,
00:50:13.27\00:50:15.44
in Christ, believing in Christ,
00:50:15.48\00:50:17.98
we are safe from the
death that sin brings.
00:50:18.01\00:50:20.42
And that's why the Bible
says, "If we confess our sins,
00:50:20.45\00:50:24.62
He is faithful and
merciful to forgive our sins."
00:50:24.65\00:50:29.62
Are you listening
out there this evening?
00:50:29.66\00:50:31.59
What does it say?
00:50:31.63\00:50:33.06
He's faithful and just.
00:50:33.09\00:50:34.53
It's only just, it's only fair,
00:50:34.56\00:50:36.16
it's only righteous
for God to forgive our sins
00:50:36.20\00:50:38.90
if we step into Jesus,
because Jesus already paid
00:50:38.93\00:50:41.44
the consequences for our sins.
00:50:41.47\00:50:43.24
It wouldn't be fair,
it wouldn't be righteous,
00:50:43.27\00:50:44.61
it wouldn't be just for us
to receive those consequences
00:50:44.64\00:50:46.68
when we step into Jesus.
00:50:46.71\00:50:48.04
That's double jeopardy.
It doesn't work that way.
00:50:48.08\00:50:50.78
We only receive the consequences
00:50:50.81\00:50:52.31
if we're outside of Jesus.
00:50:52.35\00:50:54.05
But we step into Jesus,
He's faithful, and He's just.
00:50:54.08\00:50:58.32
Look at these
verses, though, and see here
00:50:58.35\00:51:00.16
what it took for Jesus
to step into the human race.
00:51:00.19\00:51:03.59
This is back in Hebrews 2:14-17.
00:51:03.63\00:51:07.20
I'm watching the clock
there, so I'm making sure
00:51:07.23\00:51:08.70
we have time.
00:51:08.73\00:51:10.07
It says here, "For as much
as the children are partakers
00:51:10.10\00:51:13.17
of flesh and blood,"
He's talking about us, right?
00:51:13.20\00:51:16.00
"He, Jesus also Himself likewise
00:51:16.04\00:51:19.34
took part of the same."
00:51:19.37\00:51:21.78
Any doubt about that?
He was going to annihilate.
00:51:21.81\00:51:24.41
Jesus Christ became
one with human race.
00:51:24.45\00:51:27.15
He took part of the
same flesh and blood.
00:51:27.18\00:51:29.75
Then it goes on to
say that, "Through death,
00:51:29.78\00:51:33.15
He might destroy him
that had the power of death,"
00:51:33.19\00:51:35.79
that is the devil,
00:51:35.82\00:51:37.16
"and deliver them,"
that salvation right here
00:51:37.19\00:51:39.19
we're talking about,
"who through fear of death
00:51:39.23\00:51:41.20
were all their
lifetime subject to bondage."
00:51:41.23\00:51:43.33
Isn't that a
powerful Bible verse that God
00:51:43.37\00:51:46.23
has given us here?
00:51:46.27\00:51:48.14
"For verily He took on not
on Him the nature of angels,
00:51:48.17\00:51:51.34
but He took them on
Him the seed of Abraham.
00:51:51.37\00:51:53.68
Wherefore in all things,"
00:51:53.71\00:51:55.04
verse 17, "it
behooves Him to be made like
00:51:55.08\00:51:59.48
unto his brethren,
that He might be a merciful
00:51:59.51\00:52:02.38
and faithful
high priest, in things
00:52:02.42\00:52:04.79
pertaining to God to make
00:52:04.82\00:52:06.15
reconciliation for
the sins of the people."
00:52:06.19\00:52:09.22
I love this. Jesus
is the second Adam.
00:52:09.26\00:52:11.53
Yes, but He didn't start with
00:52:11.56\00:52:13.06
a second Adam started in
a perfect, sinless garden.
00:52:13.09\00:52:16.56
That was gone when
Jesus came to this earth.
00:52:16.60\00:52:18.70
He came to our fallen
sin parched world 4,000 years
00:52:18.73\00:52:22.34
after sin, right?
00:52:22.37\00:52:23.91
So Jesus became part
of the fallen human race.
00:52:23.94\00:52:26.57
He took our weaknesses.
00:52:26.61\00:52:28.41
He came in the
likeness of sinful flesh.
00:52:28.44\00:52:31.88
That's what it
says in Romans 8:3.
00:52:31.91\00:52:34.62
Matthew Chapter 26, says
that Jesus had to surrender
00:52:34.65\00:52:38.09
His human will to God,
00:52:38.12\00:52:39.65
and it took Him
three times to do it.
00:52:39.69\00:52:41.89
Have you ever struggled
with straining your will to God?
00:52:41.92\00:52:43.69
Well, Jesus wrestled with
it in the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:52:43.73\00:52:47.66
He had to say it once, not
my will, but Thine be done.
00:52:47.70\00:52:50.27
God, I really
don't want to do this,
00:52:50.30\00:52:51.77
but not My will
but Thine be done.
00:52:51.80\00:52:53.13
God, I really don't want
to do this, but not My will,
00:52:53.17\00:52:55.07
but Thine be done.
00:52:55.10\00:52:56.47
I don't want to move there,
00:52:56.50\00:52:57.84
I don't want to go to
as a missionary there,
00:52:57.87\00:52:59.27
I don't want to go
witness to that person,
00:52:59.31\00:53:00.91
I don't want to, you
know, do that Bible study,
00:53:00.94\00:53:03.21
whatever it is in
our lives that God
00:53:03.24\00:53:05.48
is calling us to
do for His glory,
00:53:05.51\00:53:07.88
our natural human will
sometimes shrink from them.
00:53:07.92\00:53:10.99
Jesus fought that battle.
00:53:11.02\00:53:12.35
He became one with us
on the level of the will,
00:53:12.39\00:53:15.82
and He always, always
surrendered that will to God.
00:53:15.86\00:53:19.69
Jesus never failed like Adam
00:53:19.73\00:53:21.20
and Eve failed in
the Garden of Eden
00:53:21.23\00:53:23.30
with the surrender of the will.
00:53:23.33\00:53:24.80
He was holy, He was harmless.
He was separate from sinners.
00:53:24.83\00:53:28.50
He was that holy thing.
00:53:28.54\00:53:30.64
Amen?
00:53:30.67\00:53:32.01
I mean, from His very
inception to His death,
00:53:32.04\00:53:34.21
He consecrated Himself to God,
00:53:34.24\00:53:37.05
not My will but Thine be done
was the battle cry of Jesus.
00:53:37.08\00:53:41.05
He never failed
to do God's will,
00:53:41.08\00:53:42.42
and that's why
we have salvation.
00:53:42.45\00:53:43.95
Our salvation is not
only in the death of Jesus,
00:53:43.99\00:53:46.22
our salvation is
in the life of Jesus,
00:53:46.25\00:53:48.72
because His life tells
us that we too can surrender
00:53:48.76\00:53:51.09
our wills to God.
00:53:51.13\00:53:52.46
His life tells us that we
too can live a victorious life.
00:53:52.49\00:53:55.33
And when we fail, and
if we fail, if we sin,
00:53:55.36\00:53:57.83
we have an
advocate with the Father,
00:53:57.87\00:53:59.60
Jesus Christ, the righteous.
00:53:59.63\00:54:00.97
He is a
propitiation for our sins,
00:54:01.00\00:54:02.34
1 John 2:1 says.
00:54:02.37\00:54:04.37
So we have a perfect
righteousness that backs us up.
00:54:04.41\00:54:09.54
But again, we
don't want to just toss
00:54:09.58\00:54:10.91
the law of God and
say, "Well, doesn't matter.
00:54:10.95\00:54:12.28
We're saved by grace."
00:54:12.31\00:54:13.65
No, we want to live for a God
who loves us, like He loves us.
00:54:13.68\00:54:16.38
We want to live for God,
who's given everything for us.
00:54:16.42\00:54:20.79
So this is how He
became our Savior.
00:54:20.82\00:54:22.26
He worked out a
perfect character,
00:54:22.29\00:54:23.99
and as a human being He,
00:54:24.03\00:54:25.46
as a new head of the human race,
00:54:25.49\00:54:28.26
He started
humanity all over again
00:54:28.30\00:54:30.40
where Adam and Eve failed.
00:54:30.43\00:54:31.97
And this is how the God
had loves us in the area
00:54:32.00\00:54:34.20
of physical touch.
00:54:34.24\00:54:35.97
You see, Jesus has become part
of our human race permanently.
00:54:36.00\00:54:40.08
He's connected with us
physically, for all eternity.
00:54:40.11\00:54:43.48
After His resurrection,
00:54:43.51\00:54:44.85
remember Jesus
comes to the disciples
00:54:44.88\00:54:46.21
after His
resurrection in a human body.
00:54:46.25\00:54:47.78
Thomas is really upset
because Jesus has revealed
00:54:47.82\00:54:50.55
Himself to the other
disciples, but not to Thomas.
00:54:50.59\00:54:53.09
Thomas is like, "Why couldn't
you wait till I was with Him?"
00:54:53.12\00:54:55.42
Well, maybe Jesus
just couldn't wait to show
00:54:55.46\00:54:57.69
Himself to the disciples.
00:54:57.73\00:54:59.06
Maybe Thomas, you
should have been with them,
00:54:59.09\00:55:00.43
you know, you shouldn't
miss prayer meeting, right?
00:55:00.46\00:55:02.13
You should have been
in church that Sabbath.
00:55:02.16\00:55:03.53
You should have been there
with the guys, but you weren't.
00:55:03.57\00:55:05.90
But He'll get to you,
He's not going to leave
00:55:05.93\00:55:07.67
anyone out that wants to
see Him that wants to know Him.
00:55:07.70\00:55:09.44
And when He comes to Thomas,
00:55:09.47\00:55:10.81
He says, "Touch me,
00:55:10.84\00:55:12.17
put your hand into My
side and feel My wounds.
00:55:12.21\00:55:13.54
Put your hands and
your fingers into My hands
00:55:13.58\00:55:16.08
and feel those
wounds and believe."
00:55:16.11\00:55:18.91
He is in flesh and blood.
00:55:18.95\00:55:21.25
We know that
because decades later,
00:55:21.28\00:55:24.55
He appears to John
on the Isle of Patmos,
00:55:24.59\00:55:27.82
in human form,
as the Son of God.
00:55:27.86\00:55:31.56
So the sacrifice of Jesus
Christ is an eternal sacrifice,
00:55:31.59\00:55:35.86
an omnipresent God
00:55:35.90\00:55:37.37
becoming present in
humanity for all eternity.
00:55:37.40\00:55:41.34
We can't even
understand that sacrifice.
00:55:41.37\00:55:44.71
Can you imagine if
you were omnipresent,
00:55:44.74\00:55:48.01
and someone said, hey, you know,
00:55:48.04\00:55:49.38
would you be willing
to kind of give that up,
00:55:49.41\00:55:50.75
you know, Joe's in some trouble,
00:55:50.78\00:55:52.25
and in order
for you to help him,
00:55:52.28\00:55:54.52
you know, if you
could just give that up?
00:55:54.55\00:55:56.55
Because, you know,
Jesus would have died for one.
00:55:56.58\00:55:57.95
He would have
given that up for one.
00:55:57.99\00:56:00.46
He has physically touched
us, He's become one with us,
00:56:00.49\00:56:03.53
and this is an amazing love.
00:56:03.56\00:56:05.09
You know, God loves us.
00:56:05.13\00:56:07.23
He loves us through gifts,
00:56:07.26\00:56:08.63
He loves us
through physical touch,
00:56:08.66\00:56:10.47
and His love is tangible.
00:56:10.50\00:56:12.40
God loves us practically.
00:56:12.43\00:56:14.04
God speaks to us
in love languages,
00:56:14.07\00:56:17.17
in the language of love.
00:56:17.21\00:56:18.54
Never doubt that.
00:56:18.57\00:56:19.91
God has given Himself for us
in the person of Jesus Christ.
00:56:19.94\00:56:24.11
God does not
require sacrifice for sin,
00:56:24.15\00:56:26.41
He provides the
sacrifice for sin.
00:56:26.45\00:56:28.98
He is the sacrifice for sin.
00:56:29.02\00:56:30.59
That was always God's
plan B, the gift of love.
00:56:30.62\00:56:34.02
God became one with
the human race forever,
00:56:34.06\00:56:35.99
God did not become a
man for 33 years and say,
00:56:36.02\00:56:38.43
"I'm going to go back to heaven.
00:56:38.46\00:56:39.79
And you know, all things
will continue as they were."
00:56:39.83\00:56:41.50
No.
00:56:41.53\00:56:42.86
God, in Jesus Christ,
became permanently part
00:56:42.90\00:56:47.90
of the human race.
00:56:47.94\00:56:49.80
And this is love.
00:56:49.84\00:56:51.17
And these are the
languages of love.
00:56:51.21\00:56:52.97
And they're powerful.
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And God wants us to hear them,
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and then He wants
us to communicate them.
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And tonight, as we
kick off our camp meeting,
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we're going to be continuing
to move through this theme
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of something
better, a better God,
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and a better man,
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and the plan of salvation
that God has laid out for us.
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And I'm praying that God
will speak to each one of us
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and help us to get our
eyes on Him, on heaven,
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and all the things of
this world that have been
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so discouraging.
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Let's pray together.
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Father in heaven, thank
You this evening for Your love.
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Thank You for Your grace.
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Thank You for the gift
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that You've given
us in Jesus Christ.
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Thank You for being
a God that speaks to us
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and communicates to us even
to the very end that endures,
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whose love endures,
whose love calls us,
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whose love isn't
exclusive, but is inclusive.
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Guide each one who
is hearing this message,
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touch their hearts with
this everlasting gospel,
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we pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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