Participants: Bill Santos
Series Code: IIWC
Program Code: IIWC200903
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00:01 >>Bill: TODAY ON THE IT IS WRITTEN PROGRAM, EXPLORING
00:02 THE BOOK OF HEBREWS WITH DR. GEORGE KNIGHT. I HOPE 00:05 YOU WILL STAY WITH US. IT IS WRITTEN BEGINS RIGHT 00:09 NOW. 00:21 >>Announcer: IT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME . . . 00:24 GOD'S BOOK, THE BIBLE. 00:28 STILL RELEVANT IN TODAY'S COMPLEX WORLD 00:32 IT IS WRITTEN, SPREADING MESSAGES OF 00:33 HOPE AROUND THE WORLD. 00:51 I WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF THE IT 00:52 IS WRITTEN PROGRAM AND I WANT TO WELCOME OUR 00:54 SPECIAL GUEST, DR. GEORGE KNIGHT. DR. KNIGHT, 00:58 WELCOME BACK. >>Dr. 00:59 Knight: THANKS. GOOD TO BE HERE AGAIN, BILL. >>Bill: 01:01 IT'S A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU. ON LAST WEEKS 01:02 PROGRAM, JUST AS WE CAME TO THE END YOU CRAFTED A 01:05 VERY GOOD CLIFFHANGER AS YOU INTRODUCED US TO BOOK 01:13 OF HEBREWS, AND, TODAY AND THE NEXT COUPLE OF 01:14 PROGRAMS WE REALLY WANT TO SPEND OUR TIME IN THIS, 01:18 IN THIS MOST INTERESTING BOOK. AND, THANK YOU FOR 01:24 BEING WITH US AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE OUR VIEWERS TO 01:25 GET THEIR BIBLES OUT AND MAYBE WANT TO MAKE 01:29 SOME NOTES AS WE GO ALONG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE GOT 01:31 A LOT OF INTERESTING INFORMATION TO GIVE US. 01:32 SO THANK YOU. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS, YOU GAVE US A 01:35 LITTLE OVERVIEW LAST WEEK, BUT WHY DON'T WE GET INTO, 01:42 WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE FOR THE BOOK OF HEBREWS? WHY 01:43 WAS IT WRITTEN? >>Dr. 01:49 Knight: WELL, IT WAS WRITTEN BECAUSE THERE WERE 01:50 SOME PRETTY DISCOURAGED CHRISTIANS OUT THERE. 01:54 AND LET'S FACE IT, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY WAS A 02:00 SMALL COMMUNITY AND SOME OF THESE PEOPLE, PROBABLY 02:02 WRITTEN TO JEWISH CHRISTIANS. THAT'S HOW 02:06 COME IT IS THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS. SO THESE ARE 02:12 PEOPLE WHO HAD SOME FAMILIARITY WITH THE 02:13 JERUSALEM TEMPLE WHICH IS TRULY ONE OF THE GREAT, 02:16 WAS ONE OF THE GREAT SIGHTS OF THE WORLD. IF 02:21 YOU STAND OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES YOU LOOK DOWN ON 02:22 THE BROOK ? AND YOU CAN STILL THE FOUNDATION OF 02:25 WHAT USED TO BE THE TEMPLE AREA. AND JOSEEFA?, THE 02:32 FIRST TRUE HISTORIAN TELLS US IT WAS COVERED IN WHITE 02:33 MARBLE AND OF COURSE THEY HAD A LOT OF GOLD IN IT 02:36 AND IN THE SUNSET THIS THING WAS JUST RADIANT. 02:42 >>Bill: SPECTACULAR. 02:43 >>Dr. Knight: BUT NOT ONLY THAT, THE MAJESTY OF THE 02:45 SERVICES, IT WAS REALLY ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE 02:46 ANCIENT WORLD. AND, OF COURSE, SOME OF OUR 02:50 VIEWERS MAY WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO IT. WELL, THE 02:52 JEWISH PEOPLE REBELLED AGAINST CHRIST AND, EXCUSE 02:53 ME, REBELLED AGAINST ROME AND, ROME IN AD. 70 03:00 DESTROYED IT. NOW JESUS HAD PROPHESIED THE 03:07 DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. 03:08 HE SAID NOT ONE STONE WOULD BE LEFT UPON ANOTHER 03:10 AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T SEE THAT MUCH THERE 03:11 TODAY. JUST THE BOTTOM WALL OF THE FOUNDATION, 03:15 THAT'S IT. AND SO IT WAS A MAGNIFICENT THING AND 03:20 THESE EARLY JEWISH CHRISTIANS, IN MOST 03:21 COMMUNITIES THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A CHURCH 03:28 BUILDING. CHURCH BUILDINGS DON'T COME AROUND, YOU 03:33 KNOW, HERE'S A LITTLE LESSON IN HISTORY, MOST 03:34 OF US WE HEAR THE WORD "CHURCH", WE THINK OF A 03:38 BUILDING DOWN THE STREET IT MIGHT BE BAPTIST OR 03:42 ROMAN CATHOLIC OR ADVENTIST OR PRESBYTERIAN 03:43 WE THINK OF A BUILDING. 03:47 THEY DID NOT THINK OF A BUILDING, THEY THOUGHT 03:48 OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE. IN FACT, THAT'S WHAT THE 03:52 GREEK WORD FOR A CHURCH MEANS "ECCLESIA". WHERE WE 03:55 GET THE WORD ECCLESIASTICAL. THAT MEANS 03:56 THOSE WHO ARE CALLED OUT. 04:03 AND WHETHER OUT OF PAGANISM, OR OUT OF 04:04 JUDISIM, IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. THE 04:08 CHURCH IS THE COMMUNITY OF THE SAINTS THAT HAS BEEN 04:10 CALLED OUT. BUT, IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE A CHURCH, 04:11 WHERE DID THEY MEET? THEY MET IN VARIOUS PEOPLES 04:17 HOMES. SO WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL THE HOME CHURCH. AND 04:23 SO HERE THEY ARE, YOU KNOW, IT'S DIFFICULT 04:24 ENOUGH IN GOOD TIMES. 04:27 YOU'VE GOT THIS BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE AND WITH 04:29 ALL ITS PAGENTRY AND THE PRIESTLY GUARD, 04:34 THE FORMALITY. >>Bill ABSOLUTELY. >>Dr. Knight: 04:39 AND WHERE DO YOU GO TO CHURCH? >>Bill: IN 04:40 SOMEBODY'S BASEMENT. >>Dr. 04:42 Knight: WE GO OVER HERE BUT WE KIND OF HIDE 04:43 BECAUSE WE ARE IN TROUBLE. 04:45 YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST NOT MUCH THERE. AND THE 04:46 EARLIEST CHRISTIANS, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO THE 04:50 BOOK OF ACTS, SOME OF THEM WORSHIPPED IN THE TEMPLE 04:57 AND THEY WORSHIPPED CHRIST. >>Bill: I SEE. 04:58 >> Dr. Knight: BUT AS CHRISTIANITY WENT THROUGH 05:02 HISTORY, GRADUALLY IT DISENGAGED FROM JUDISM 05:07 BECAUSE PEOPLE REALIZED THAT THAT STUFF DOESN'T 05:08 MEAN WHAT IT USED TO MEAN. 05:12 >>Bill: RIGHT. >>Dr. 05:13 Knight: THAT HAPPENS IN THE TEMPLE. MEANWHILE, 05:14 YOU'VE GOT THIS VERY MAJESTIC, MAJESTIC VISUAL 05:15 SYMBOL OF RELIGION. NOW, IT'S DIFFICULT ENOUGH IN 05:23 GOOD TIMES BUT WHEN THE CHURCH BEGAN TO GO UNDER 05:29 PERSECUTION, AND WHEN PEOPLE'S PROPERTIES WERE 05:30 TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE 05:35 "CHRISTIANS", THEN IT'S ONLY NATURAL THAT SOME 05:42 MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO DOUBT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T SEE 05:43 WHAT'S HAPPENING. WHERE'S JESUS? I MEAN, THAT'S 05:50 ALWAYS THE QUESTION. WHERE IS JESUS? WHAT'S HE DOING? 05:56 AND SO, IT'S DIFFICULT ENOUGH JUST BY COMPARISON 05:57 TO WHAT THEY HAD GIVEN UP TO WHAT THEY NOW HAVE. 06:05 BUT NOW WHEN PERSECUTION COMES, SOME PEOPLE ARE 06:11 SAYING MAYBE WHAT WE HAD BEFORE WAS BETTER. MAYBE 06:12 WE BETTER GO BACK TO THE TEMPLE. THAT'S THE, KIND 06:20 OF, THE BACKGROUND IN WHICH WE FIND THE BOOK OF 06:26 HEBREWS. >>Bill: SO THESE EARLY CHRISTIANS, THESE 06:27 EARLY JEWISH CHRISTIANS, MAY HAVE BEEN GOING 06:32 THROUGH SOME, I GUESS THEY CALL IT IN SALES AND 06:35 MARKETING, POST PURCHASE DISSEDENCE, OR BUYER'S 06:36 REMORSE. >>Dr. Knight: OH, DEFINITELY, AND SOME 06:38 WERE SAYING I'M NOT SURE WE WANT TO BELIEVE THAT 06:42 ANYMORE. AND APPARENTLY, ACCORDING TO CHAPTER 10, 06:43 VERSE 25, SOME OF THEM WERE STOPPING GOING TO THE 06:47 FELLOWSHIP AND SOME WERE ACTUALLY TURNING THEIR 06:52 BACK ON CHRIST. AND THIS ALL COMES OUT IN THE BOOK 06:53 THAT THERE ARE SOME VERY DISCOURAGED PEOPLE OUT 06:58 THERE. AND, YOU KNOW BILL, WHAT ELSE IS NEW, HUH? 07:04 >>Bill: YEAH. >>Dr. 07:05 Knight: I MEAN YOU'VE BEEN A PASTOR, I'VE BEEN A 07:07 PASTOR AND WE KNOW THAT THE CHURCH AT EVERY AGE 07:08 FACES CHALLENGES. AND IT'S ALL TOO EASY TO SAY YOU 07:14 KNOW THERE'S NOT REALLY MUCH TO THIS. WE CAN'T SEE 07:20 IT. YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THAT GREAT BIG CHURCH DOWN 07:21 THE STREET, LOOK AT ALL THE MAJESTY AND THE 07:25 PAGENTRY, AND MY LITTLE CHURCH IS JUST A GROUP OF 07:28 PEOPLE. AND MOST OF THEM ARE POOR. THAT DOESN'T 07:29 HELP. >>Bill: YES. YES. 07:35 >>Dr. Knight: SO I MEAN THIS IS A VERY RELIVANT 07:36 BOOK BECAUSE YOU SHOW ME A CHURCH THAT DOESN'T HAVE 07:39 ANY DISCOURAGED PEOPLE AND I'LL SHOW YOU A CHURCH 07:43 THAT'S IN HEAVEN, NOT ON EARTH. >>Bill: I GUESS 07:45 CHRISTIANITY IN GENERAL TODAY, I MEAN, IT'S 07:48 COMMONPLACE AT LEAST IN CANADA AND I'M ASSUMING IN 07:53 THE UNITED STATES, WHICH YOU SEE SOMETIMES HERE 07:54 IN THE MEDIA, YOU KNOW TO RIDICULE CHRISTIANS 07:57 BECAUSE OF OUR BELIEF AND I GUESS IT HAS CAUSED OR 08:02 IS CAUSING MANY, SOME CHRISTIANS, TO BEGIN 08:03 TO SECOND GUESS THEIR DECISION TO FOLLOW JESUS. 08:06 TO MAKE THAT COMMITMENT TO HIM. >>Dr. Knight: IT 08:11 BRINGS ME BACK TO MY OWN EARLY JOURNEY IN 08:12 CHRISTIANITY AND I FOCUSED ON ONE WORD. IT'S ONE 08:14 FOUND IN ROMANS 1:16, 17 "FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF 08:20 THE GOSPEL. I AM NOT ASHAMED." AND WHAT REALLY 08:21 HIT ME EARLY ON WAS WHAT JESUS SAID OVER IN MATTHEW 08:26 10, "THOSE WERE ASHAMED OF ME." YOU KNOW, AND WHAT IS 08:31 IT, DO WE REALLY HAVE SOMETHING OR IS THIS SOME 08:32 KIND OF A FICTION? >>Bill: SO YOU'VE GOT THIS, THIS 08:38 GROUP OF BELIEVERS, THEY BEGIN TO QUESTION THIS 08:44 DECISION THAT THEY'VE MADE OF FOLLOW JESUS. HE WAS 08:46 THE MESSIAH, HE DIED ON THE CROSS, HE WAS THE 08:50 SAVIOUR, HE'S ASCENDED TO HEAVEN. IN THE MEANTIME, 08:52 HE SAID HE WAS COMING QUICKLY, NOTHING HAS 08:53 HAPPENED YET, AND HERE WE ARE, WE'RE A LITTLE 08:58 RAG-TAG GROUP, WE DON'T SEEM TO HAVE ANY KIND OF 09:01 REAL POWER OR INFLUENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY THEY BEGIN 09:02 TO SECOND GUESS THIS. AND HOW DOES, HOW DOES THE 09:07 BOOK OF HEBREWS GO ABOUT ADDRESSING THIS? BECAUSE 09:10 THERE'S AN INTERESTING KIND OF STRUCTURE TO 09:11 IT >>Dr. Knight: VERY DEFINITE STRUC BEGINS, IF T 09:13 TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLE TO CHAPTER 1 AND VERSE 1, " 09:14 IN MANY AND OKEN TO US BY A, WHOM HE APPOINTED TO BE 09:15 HEIR OF ALL THINGS." IT THAT HE IS THE HEIR OF ALL 09:16 THINGS THROUGH WHOM ALSO," IT SAYS IN VERSE 2, "HE 09:35 CHAPTER 1 AND VERSE 1, " IN MANY AND VARIOUS WAYS 09:36 GOD SPOKE OF OLD TORA FATHERS BY THE PROPHET 09:38 BUT IN THESE LAST DAYS HE HAS SPOKEN TO US BY A SON, 09:40 WHOM HE APPOINTED TO BE HEIR OF ALL THINGS." IT 09:41 TELLS A LOT RIGHT HERE. 09:46 THAT JESUS IS GOD AND TO SAY IT RIGHT DOWN IN VERSE 09:47 8, "THAT JESUS IS GOD AND THAT HE IS THE HEIR OF ALL 09:52 THINGS THROUGH WHOM ALSO," IT SAYS IN VERSE 2, "HE 09:59 CREATED THE WORLD, HE REFLECTS THE GLORY OF GOD 10:00 AND ? THE VERY STAMP OF HIS NATURE. UPHOLDING THE 10:05 UNIVERSE BY HIS WORD OF POWER." WOW. THIS TALKS 10:11 ABOUT A JESUS THAT HAS GALACTIC POWER. IT'S NOT 10:12 THAT LOWLY CARPENTER, YOU KNOW. IT SAYS HERE 10:19 IN VERSE 4 THAT, " WHEN JESUS DIED WHEN HE MADE 10:22 PURIFICATION FOR SINS, HE SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND 10:23 OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH." 10:30 NOW, SO THE BOOK BEGINS BY ONE OF THE REALLY GREAT 10:31 PICTURES OF JESUS. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT 10:38 WHO GOD IS, JESUS IS THE EXPRESSED IMAGE OF THE 10:42 FATHER. >>Bill: HE MAY HAVE LOOKED LIKE A VICTIM 10:43 HANGING ON THE CROSS BUT THIS IS THE CREATOR OF THE 10:46 UNIVERSE. >>Dr. Knight: YES AND THERE'S A REASON 10:51 FOR THE CROSS AND HEBREWS IS GOING TO DEAL WITH THAT 10:52 LATER ON. I MEAN, JESUS JUST DIDN'T DIE AS SOME 10:55 KIND OF AN EXERCISE SO PEOPLE COULD WEAR A 10:58 CRUCIFIX AROUND THEIR NECK. THE CROSS IS 10:59 ABSOLUTELY CENTRAL TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND IT IS 11:05 CERTAINLY CENTRAL TO THE BOOK OF HEBREWS. BUT YOU 11:11 KNOW SOMETHING, I DON'T THINK THE BOOK OF HEBREWS 11:12 HAS THE WORD "CROSS" IN IT ONE TIME. BUT IT HAS THE 11:16 EXPERIENCE OF JESUS ON THE CROSS. >>Bill: NOW WHY WAS 11:21 IT IMPORTANT TO SAY THAT HE IS GREATER THAN THE 11:22 ANGELS? WOULDN'T FOLKS HAVE ASSUMED THAT? HE WAS 11:26 JESUS. >>Dr. Knight: WELL, IN THE JUDISM IN THE 2 11:33 CENTURIES BEFORE CHRIST, THERE BECAME QUITE A 11:34 THEORY OF ANGELOLOGY. THAT IS, THAT THERE IS 11:41 HIERARCHIES OF ANGELS AND THEY GOT INVOLVED IN A LOT 11:46 OF THESE THINGS. 11:47 AND PEOPLE WERE DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS AND 11:50 SO IN THIS APPROACH THE FIRST THING THAT THE 11:51 AUTHOR OF HEBREWS DOES, IS TO SAY THAT JESUS IS 11:58 GREATER THAN THE ANGELS AND IN SAYING THAT HE 12:03 DEMONSTRATES OVER AND OVER WITH OLD TESTAMENT 12:04 QUOTATIONS, THIS IS CHAPTER 1, THAT JESUS 12:09 IS FULLY GOD. NOW THAT BECOMES IMPORTANT BECAUSE 12:16 IF JESUS IS OUR SAVIOUR HE CAN'T JUST BE ANOTHER 12:17 PERSON. >>Bill: RIGHT. 12:20 >>Dr. Knight: AND SO THE FIRST THING THAT NEEDS TO 12:21 BE DONE IS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT JESUS IS GOD. 12:26 THEREFORE, HE IS BETTER THAN THE ANGELS, IN FACT, 12:31 BETTER THAN IS THE THEME, A THEME IN THE BOOK OF 12:32 HEBREWS AS WE'LL SEE LATER ON IN OUR DISCUSSION. SO 12:40 THE FIRST CHAPTER, TALKS ABOUT HOW JESUS, AFTER THE 12:44 INTRODUCTION, HOW JESUS IS BETTER THAN THE ANGELS, 12:45 THAT HE IS GOD. AND THEN THE SECOND CHAPTER GOES 12:51 ON TO ANOTHER ASPECT OF HOW HE'S BETTER THAN THE 12:57 ANGELS, AND THAT IS HE CAN IDENTIFY WITH US. HE'S 12:58 INCARN.., HE BECAME ONE OF US AND IT SAYS SEVERAL 13:03 PLACES HERE THAT HE BECAME A HUMAN BEING, HE BECAME A 13:12 LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, VERSE 9, "BUT WE 13:13 SEE JESUS WAS FOR A LITTLE WHILE WAS MADE LOWER THAN 13:20 THE ANGELS", THAT'S THE THIRTY YEARS HE LIVED ON 13:24 EARTH, "BUT NOW HE'S CROWNED WITH GLORY AND 13:25 HONOUR BECAUSE OF HIS SUFFERING AND DEATH SO 13:30 THAT BY THE GRACE OF GOD HE MIGHT TASTE DEATH FOR 13:34 EVERYONE." SO HERE WE HAVE THE GOSPEL BEING SOUNDED 13:35 LOUD AND CLEAR. JESUS IS BETTER THAN THE ANGELS, 13:40 HE'S GOD, THEREFORE HE HAS THIS AUTHORITY BUT BECAUSE 13:45 HE'S ALSO A HUMAN BEING, WE COME HERE TO THE END 13:46 OF CHAPTER 2 VERSE 17, "THEREFORE HE HAD TO BE 13:52 MADE LIKE HIS BRETHREN IN EVERY RESPECT SO THAT HE 14:00 MIGHT BECOME A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST 14:01 IN THE SERVICE OF GOD TO MAKE EXPIATION FOR THE 14:08 SINS OF THE PEOPLE. FOR BECAUSE HE HIMSELF HAS 14:10 SUFFERED AND BEEN TEMPTED AND IS ABLE TO HELP THOSE 14:11 WHO WERE TEMPTED. HEY. 14:14 THIS IS THE GOOD NEWS. 14:15 JESUS IS NOT JUST OUT THERE, CHAPTER ONE. HE'S 14:21 JUST NOT BETTER THAN CELESTIAL BEINGS. NO, HE'S 14:22 GOD AND HE BECAME ONE OF US. THEREFORE BILL, HE 14:28 CAN UNDERSTAND YOU IN YOUR MOMENTS WHEN YOU'RE DOWN. 14:34 NOW JESUS, YOU KNOW, THE GOSPELS TELL US THAT JESUS 14:35 WASN'T ALWAYS UP. THAT HE ALSO HAD TO GO AND PRAY, 14:39 SOMETIMES ALL NIGHT. JESUS WAS ONE OF US, HE WAS 14:47 TEMPTED. THE DEVIL, YOU KNOW, HE SAID COME ON 14:48 MY WAY, THIS FEELS GOOD, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS. AND HE 14:53 HAD TO SAY NO JUST LIKE YOU AND I. HE UNDERSTANDS 14:57 YOU, HE UNDERSTANDS ME WHEN WE'RE IN TROUBLE 14:58 NOW, JESUS IS BETTER THAN THE ANGELS BECAUSE HE'S 15:04 GOD AND IS ALSO HUMAN. 15:05 >>Bill: WAS THAT FOREIGN THINKING TO THE MINDSET 15:10 THAT GOD WOULD BECOME MAN THAT HE WOULD HAVE THIS 15:15 KIND OF CONNECTION? 15:16 >>Dr. Knight: OH, YEAH. 15:17 ACTUALLY, JEWISH BELIEF HAD IT THAT HE WOULD 15:22 BECOME A CONQUERING SON OF DAVID. THE MESSIAH WAS NOT 15:27 THOUGHT OF, NECESSARILY A, A DIVINE BEING. AND THE 15:28 FACT THAT HE CAME, AND NOT JUST CAME AS A CONQUERER, 15:36 BUT CAME TO LIVE THE KIND OF LIFE THAT WE HAVE TO 15:43 LIVE. HE WAS A CARPENTER. 15:44 HE DIDN'T COME AS A KING. 15:45 AND SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT, WELL HE CAN'T BE THE 15:49 MESSIAH. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF YOU COME OUT A PLACE 15:53 LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOME, YOU KNOW, NORTHERN ONTARIO. I 15:54 MEAN, CAN ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF THERE? 16:01 AND SUDDENLY THE SAVIOUR COMES OUT OF NOWHERE, WHY? 16:04 BECAUSE HE IS LIKE US. THEREFORE, HE CAN 16:05 UNDERSTAND US. >>Bill: OK. 16:09 SO GREATER THAN THE ANGELS, THEN HE'S ONE OF 16:10 US, WHAT IS THE TRANSITION TO FROM.>>Dr. Knight: 16:16 WELL, NEVER FORGET, WHEN YOU'RE READING THE BIBLE 16:19 YOU MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER WHO THE AUTHOR IS TALKING 16:21 TO. AND IF HE'S TALKING TO A BUNCH OF JEWISH PEOPLE 16:27 THE GREATEST PERSON IN THEIR HISTORY WAS MOSES. 16:33 GOD GAVE THE LAW TO MOSES AND MOSES WAS TO LEAD THE 16:34 PEOPLE INTO THE PROMISED LAND. AND WHERE MOSES, 16:39 AFTER HE DIED, JOSHUA TOOK OVER. SO IN THE NEXT 16:50 SECTION, CHAPTERS THREE AND FOUR, THE MAJOR THEME 16:51 IS THAT JESUS IS GREATER THAN MOSES. NOW THAT IS NO 16:57 SIMPLE STATEMENT. >>Bill MAYBE YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR. 17:06 GREATER THAN THE ANGELS, MAYBE ..>>Dr. Knight: HE'S 17:07 GREATER THAN THE GUY THAT GAVE THE LAW. >>Bill: WOW. 17:09 >>Dr. Knight: YEAH AND WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT HERE? 17:13 WELL, GOD HAD PROMISED THEM REST. NOW, REST WAS 17:14 ALMOST A HEAVENLY REST HERE, IT'S GOING 17:22 INTO CAANAN. THE LAND THAT FLOWS WITH MILK AND HONEY. 17:28 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER CROSSED THE CYANIDE 17:29 DESERT. I TOOK A BUS TRIP ACROSS IT A COUPLE OF 17:32 YEARS AGO AND I SAID TO MYSELF, NO WONDER THESE 17:34 GUYS WERE COMPLAINING. 17:35 IT MAKES THE MOJAVE LOOK LIKE A PRETTY GOOD PLACE. 17:41 >>Bill: WOW. >>Dr. Knight: YOU KNOW, THEY WANTED THE 17:42 LEEKS AND THE ONIONS AND ALL THOSE GOOD THINGS 17:45 BACK THERE AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF. THE CUCUMBERS. 17:47 ANYWAY, MOSES WAS TO LEAD THE PEOPLE INTO THE 17:48 PROMISED LAND, BUT MOSES DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT 17:56 HIMSELF AS YOU RECALL. AND SO JOSHUA WAS ASSIGNED THE 18:00 TASK TO LEAD THE PEOPLE INTO THEIR REST. WELL, THE 18:01 BOOK OF HEBREWS TELLS US THAT EVENTHOUGH JOSHUA 18:06 FINALLY GOT THEM INTO THE PROMISED LAND, IT WASN'T 18:13 REALLY THE REST GOD HAD IN MIND. GOD HAS IN MIND 18:14 A HEAVENLY REST AND THAT IT'S JESUS WHO CAN LEAD 18:22 US INTO THE HEAVENLY REST AND THERE'S AN INTERESTING 18:27 ILLUSION HERE TO THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH IS AN 18:28 ILLUSTRATION OF HEAVEN. 18:34 VERSE 8 OF CHAPTER FOUR, "FOR IF JOSHUA HAD GIVEN 18:35 THEM REST, GOD WOULD NOT LATER SPEAK OF ANOTHER 18:41 DAY." IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S A REST THAT'S MORE 18:45 FULL OF COME, NOT JUST DID THEY GET TO THE PROMISED 18:46 LAND BUT DID THEY GET TO THE HEAVENLY REST. VERSE 18:53 9, "SO THEN THERE REMAINS A SABBATH REST FOR THE 18:59 PEOPLE OF GOD." AND THE GREEK WORD THERE IS 19:00 "SABBATISMOS" WHICH IS NOT USED ELSEWHERE FOR REST IN 19:05 THIS BOOK. THE SABBATH, AS GOD SET IT FORTH, WITH ALL 19:12 OF ITS BEAUTY, IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT 19:13 HEAVEN IS ALL ABOUT. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE 19:18 FASCINATING THINGS ABOUT THIS PASSAGE. THAT GOD 19:21 WANTS TO LEAD US INTO HIS KINGDOM, AND BY THE WAY, 19:22 YOU DON'T GET THERE BY STRUGGLING, JESUS LEADS US 19:28 INTO THE REST OF SALVATION "MY YOKE IS EASY AND MY 19:34 BURDEN IS LIGHT". AND THE WHOLE SABBATH REST IS A 19:35 CELEBRATION OF SALVATION IN JESUS. WE REST IN HIM, 19:42 SAVED BY GRACE, AND IF WE KEPT SABBATH CORRECTLY IT 19:50 WOULD BE AN ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT HEAVEN IS ALL 19:51 ABOUT. ANYWAY, THE MAJOR THEME OF THOSE TWO 19:57 CHAPTERS, CHAPTERS THREE AND FOUR, IS THAT JESUS IS 20:02 BETTER THAN MOSES AND JOSHUA. NOW, FOR ME SAYING 20:03 THAT TO YOU AS ANOTHER CHRISTIAN, SO WHAT? BIG 20:11 DEAL. NO, NO. TO THESE PEOPLE THIS IS CRUCIAL. 20:20 >>Bill: YES. >>Dr. Knight: WE HAVE SOMETHING HERE 20:21 THAT'S BETTER THAN JESUS, THAN MOSES. EXCUSE ME. 20:24 >>Bill: YES. INCREDIBLE. 20:25 THEN IT BEGINS TO MAKE REFERENCES TO THE, JESUS 20:29 AS THE HIGH PRIEST. DOES THAT COME UP NEXT NOW? IS 20:33 THAT.>>Dr. Knight: WELL, THAT'S THE NEXT ONE. JESUS 20:34 IS BETTER THAN AARON. 20:39 WELL, NOW, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME EXPLANATION. 20:40 WHO IN THE WORLD IS AARON? 20:44 AARON IS MOSES' BROTHER AND HE WAS THE HIGH 20:45 PRIEST. THIS IS, HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE JEWISH 20:50 SACRIFICIAL AND RELIGIOUS SYSTEM. MOSES, YOU MIGHT 20:55 SAY, WAS THE POLITICAL LEADER. AARON WAS THE 20:56 RELIGIOUS LEADER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. HE WAS 21:01 GOD'S HIGH PRIEST. HE'S THE ONE THAT TOOK THE 21:09 LAMB, SACRIFICED IT, SO THAT PEOPLE'S SINS COULD 21:10 BE FORGIVEN. DAY AFTER DAY THESE SACRIFICES WENT ON 21:17 BUT JESUS IS EVEN BETTER THAN AARON. BUT THE AUTHOR 21:26 HAS A LITTLE PROBLEM HERE. >>Bill: ISN'T THERE 21:27 A GENEALOGICAL. >>Dr. 21:30 Knight: OH, THERE'S A BIG PROBLEM. >>Bill: BARRIER, 21:32 HERE? >>Dr. Knight: THERE'S A BIG PROBLEM 21:34 AND THAT IS THAT JESUS BELONGED TO THE TRIBE OF 21:38 JUDA. ALL PRIESTS WERE TO COME OUT OF THE TRIBE 21:39 OF LEVI. AND THAT'S WHERE THIS ARGUMENT 21:46 OF ALLKEESDECK COMES IN JESUS IS A PRIEST AFTER 21:49 THE ORDER OF MALKESADEC. 21:50 WAIT A MINUTE, WHO IS MALKESDEC? WELL, WE DON'T 21:55 REALLY KNOW, BUT HE'S NOT A LEVITE AND YET, ABRAHAM, 21:56 THE FATHER OF ALL THE LEVITES, INCLUDING AARON, 22:00 PAID TITHE TO MALKESEDEC THEREFORE. >>Bill: 22:06 ACKNOWLEDGING. HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE. 22:07 >>Dr. Knight: THAT'S RIGHT. THEREFORE, THERE 22:10 ARE PRIESTS OUTSIDE OF THE ORDER OF AARON AND THAT 22:13 AREN'T SUPERIOR TO HIM. 22:14 IT'S AN ARGUMENT THAT'S MAYBE NOT THAT IMPORTANT 22:21 IN THE 21ST CENTURY TO MOST OF US. BUT TO THESE 22:22 PEOPLE IT WAS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL. YOU KNOW, AS YOU 22:25 GO BACK TO THE FIRST WORDS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHAT 22:30 ARE THEY? GENEOLOGY. 22:31 >>Bill: YES. ABSOLUTELY. 22:32 >>Dr. Knight: JESUS, THE SON. >>Bill: YES, YES. 22:35 ABSOLUTELY. >>Dr. Knight: WOULD YOU START A BOOK 22:37 THAT WAY? >>Bill: NO. 22:38 >>Dr. Knight: NOW, IF WERE TO START A BOOK THAT WAY 22:39 IN THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW HOW MANY READERS 22:40 I WOULD GET? >>Bill: YOU WOULDN'T GET THEM PAST THE 22:42 FIRST PAGE. >>Dr. Knight: THAT'S RIGHT. I WOULD GET 22:44 ZERO READERS AND I WOULD NOT MAKE THE NEW YORK 22:45 TIMES BEST SELLERS LIST. 22:48 IN FACT, I MIGHT MAKE THE OTHER EXTREME, WORST 22:49 SELLER LIST. SO, HE IS BETTER THAN AARON BUT 22:54 REALLY THAT'S JUST LEADING INTO THE NEXT SECTION AND 22:59 THAT IS THAT JESUS HAS A BETTER PRIESTHOOD. NOW, 23:00 WE'RE GETTING INTO THE REAL ISSUES. THAT WE HAVE 23:09 A HIGH PRIEST IN HEAVEN THAT UNDERSTANDS US 23:19 BECAUSE HE BECAME ONE OF US AND I'M GONNA READ 23:20 ONE OR TWO PASSAGES HERE. 23:26 >>Bill: ABSOLUTELY. >>Dr. 23:27 Knight: OUT OF CHAPTER SEVEN. >>Bill: YEAH, WE'VE 23:28 GOT ABOUT 2 ½ MINUTES LEFT. >>Dr. Knight: THAT'S 23:29 ALL WE'VE GOT LEFT. I'M ONLY PART WAY THROUGH THE 23:32 BOOK. LET'S GO TO VERSE 23 OF CHAPTER 7, "THE FORMER 23:39 PRIESTS WERE MANY IN NUMBER BECAUSE THEY WERE 23:40 PREVENTED BY DEATH BY CONTINUING IN OFFICE 23:45 BUT JESUS, HE HOLDS HIS PRIESTHOOD PERMANENTLY." 23:50 HE'S GOD, HE DOESN'T DIE. 23:51 "BECAUSE HE CONTINUES FOREVER, CONSEQUENTLY, HE 23:55 IS ABLE FOR ALL TIME TO SAVE THOSE WHO DRAW NEARER 23:56 TO GOD THROUGH HIM SINCE HE ALWAYS LIVES TO MAKE 24:02 INTERCESSION FOR THEM" >>Bill: WOW. >>Dr. Knight: 24:07 YOU KNOW, WE MAY WANT TO COME BACK TO SOME OF THESE 24:08 WORDS. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR JESUS TO 24:10 MAKE INTERCESSION FOR US WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE? 24:13 BUT JESUS HAS A PRIESTHOOD THAT'S PERMANENT 24:15 EVERYDAY, BILL. WHEN YOU AND I GET UP IN THE 24:21 MORNING, WHAT DO WE DO >>Bill: WE PRAY. >>Dr. 24:23 Knight: WE PRAY TO GOD, IN THE NAME OF CHRIST 24:25 >>Bill: YES. >>Dr. Knight: AND WE SAY, GOD, THANK 24:27 YOU FOR LIFE, THANK YOU LORD THAT YOU'VE GIVEN ME 24:33 STRENGTH AND POWER AND LORD, I NEED YOUR 24:35 HELP TODAY. THAT'S INTERCESSION. I NEED YOUR 24:39 FORGIVENESS. AND CHRIST IS THERE, IN HEAVEN, FOREVER. 24:44 YOU PEOPLE, YOU WORRIED ABOUT THE EARTHLY TEMPLE 24:45 LOOK IT, WE HAVE GOT SOMETHING BETTER. >>Bill: 24:51 BETTER THAN THAT. >>Dr. 24:52 Knight: WE'VE GOT BETTER PRIESTHOOD AND THAT'S JUST 24:54 THE BEGINNING OF WHERE HE'S GOING. AND THAT'S 24:58 THIS GREAT SECTION. 24:59 >>Bill: YOU KNOW, THIS IDEA OF JESUS PLEADING HIS 25:04 BLOOD ON BEHALF OF SINNERS LIKE YOU AND I, DAILY, IS 25:05 A, I THINK TO ME, IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IMAGE I 25:11 HAVE OF JESUS CHRIST, AND UH.>>Dr. Knight: JESUS IS 25:16 OUR FRIEND IN HEAVEN. 25:17 >>Bill: YES. WHAT A WONDERFUL CONCEPT. YOU 25:21 KNOW, TIME JUST ZIPS RIGHT THROUGH WHICH MEANS THAT 25:22 YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME BACK AGAIN NEXT WEEK TO 25:27 CARRY ON. IS THAT GOING TO BE OKAY? >>Dr. Knight: 25:30 SOUNDS GOOD TO ME, BILL. 25:31 >>Bill: WONDERFUL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THIS. 25:33 THIS HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE. 25:34 LET'S HAVE PRAYER. FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO 25:36 MUCH FOR JESUS AND THANK YOU SO, FOR WHAT WE HAVE 25:37 LEARNED HERE TODAY IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS. MAY 25:42 THOSE THAT HAVE HEARD THIS MESSAGE, THOSE THAT HAVE 25:46 NOT YET MADE A COMMITMENT TO JESUS, MAY THEY 25:48 SURRENDER THEIR LIVES RIGHT NOW. TO 25:51 OUR COMPASSIONATE, ALL POWERFUL, LOVING, HIGH 25:55 PRIEST WHO INTERCEEDS ON OUR BEHALF, DAILY. MAY 25:56 THAT BE A REALITY FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE HEARING OUR 26:02 VOICE. AND THOSE THAT KNOW HIM, MAY THEY REAFFIRM 26:05 THEIR COMMITMENT TO JESUS AT THIS TIME. WE PRAY 26:06 IN HIS NAME, AMEN. >>Dr. 26:10 Knight: AMEN. 26:13 (MUSIC) 26:22 >>Bill: WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER FOR OUR VIEWERS 26:23 TODAY. IT IS CALLED "THE BIBLE PROMISE BOOK: 1000 26:26 PROMISES FROM GOD'S WORD" IT IS OUR GIFT TO YOU. 26:31 HERE'S THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO GET YOUR COPY. 27:04 >>Bill: HALF AN HOUR SURE ZIPS BY, DOESN'T IT? >>Dr. 27:05 Knight: I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW QUICK IT WENT. >>Bill: 27:07 WHAT'S IN STORE FOR OUR VIEWERS NEXT WEEK? >>Dr. 27:09 Knight: NEXT WEEK WE BEGIN THE LAST HALF. WE JUST GOT 27:10 TO THE GOOD STUFF. WE'VE GOT TO GET TO JESUS AS THE 27:14 ONCE FOR ALL SACRIFICE, WE HAVE TO GET TO THE NEW 27:17 COVENANT, WE HAVE TO GET TO THE TABERNACLE, AND 27:18 WE HAVE TO GET TO THE NEW LIFE THAT CHRISTIANS 27:22 HAVE IN JESUS. >>Bill: I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. I 27:25 HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US. VISIT OUR WEBSITE, 27:26 ITISWRITTENCANADA.CA, THERE YOU WILL SEE A LINK 27:32 WHERE YOU CAN AQUIRE DR. 27:33 KNIGHT'S BOOK, "EXPLORING HEBREWS" OR ANY ONE OF THE 27:37 OTHER FIVE COMMENTARIES THAT ARE THERE. I HOPE 27:42 YOU'LL BE BACK NEXT WEEK. 27:43 WE PROMISE TO BE, THE GOOD LORD WILLING. UNTIL THEN, 27:47 REMEMBER, IT IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY 27:49 BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS 27:55 FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. 28:01 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
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