Ep 435 | Hebrews 5 - Wade Branch 12-5-21

Well, good morning everyone. It is a great day to be here

together. I've enjoyed this worship so

far, very much thank you to the song leaders and those who like

prayers for those participants in your seat.

I am thank you to Chris for leading that song.

I think it paints a beautiful picture of the whole crucifixion

scene, and it definitely has my mind in the right place this

morning. So thank you for being here.

It's great to see everyone. Today, we have a few visitors.

It's, it's great to be with you today to worship Our God

together. Today we're going to be studying

from Hebrews chapter 5 and in this chapter we're going to be

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building on as everything has in this letter, the previous

chapters, the previous everything that's come before

this in the book of Hebrews. So we'll do a quick review but

we're going to try to plug through quite a few verses today

and let the context do the work. So if you want to get your

Bibles out with me, will be pretty much we spending most of

our time Hebrews and you Can follow along their, I'll be

using the new American Standard. So it's a just a little bit

different than the new King James, but it's should be pretty

easy to read easy to understand for us.

So, typically, I read the whole chapter, we're going to go

through, but in order to save time, I'm just going to go

through it, verse by verse to start.

So Hebrews chapter 5 leading up to this.

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We just covered Hebrews chapter 4.

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Last time I spoke and in the book of Hebrews, we've covered

these main ideas so far. The fact that number one and

chapter one. Jesus is divine.

Then we went on to talk about how Jesus is greater than those

great, and awesome Angels even those Destroying Angels Jesus is

greater than them. Jesus is now greater than the

prophets. This is quite a large section of

the book of Hebrews talking about how he is greater than the

prophets. He's the Fulfillment of the Old

Testament, but yet he is soup. He supersedes even the Old

Testament, people and the actions there.

So, in the book of Hebrews, we've come this far.

And last time, that the immediate context is a couple of

verses, I'll read from chapter 4 verse It for of Joshua had given

them rest. He would not have spoken of

another day after that. So there remains a Sabbath rest

for the people of God, for anyone who enters God's rest

also rests from their works just as God did from his, let us

therefore make every effort to enter that rest.

So that no one will perish by by following their example of

Disobedience. Then he goes on to say,

therefore since we have a great high priest this Jesus Who has

passed through the heavens who has come down to us and who has

gone back to God. Jesus, the son of God, let us

hold fast our confession, hold on, tight, and grow for.

We do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our

weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are

yet without sin. So this is the immediately

preceding verses remember, the original writers didn't put

versus, so there's no break here.

This is a continuation of I thought.

And so, we move right on into Hebrews chapter 5, verse 1 for

Hebrews 5:1

every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf

of men and things pertaining to God.

So, before we jump in to the extensive, this study, this

topic of the priesthood keeps coming up.

And not everyone who reads this as familiar with it, with what a

priest was. Now everyone in here, has an

extensive knowledge of the Old Law.

And so just for a A quick background.

We learned last week when Shah hey taught us about, he gave us

a pretty big overview of the whole Bible.

And we talked about how Adam and Eve were kind of a type of

priests in the garden working. Before the Lord, then in the Old

Testament, the priests were those who were designated to

serve in God's house. They were the, the tribe of Levi

or Levis family his descendants. And then now in the New

Testament, we're told that we are a kingdom of priests.

One of us here, who is a member of gods.

Family is a kingdom of priests, but simply put the role of a

priest is someone who goes to God on behalf of man, and

connects with man on behalf of on behalf of God.

That's a simple concept. It's a connection to the Divine.

Now, this isn't unique to Christianity though, and I think

it's something that God put inside of us to understand it's

a natural law or a natural desire to Have someone to help

us understand the Divine to connect to the Divine you.

It doesn't matter what religion, you go to or even really, what

spirituality because some people aren't don't consider themselves

religious, but maybe they're a spiritual person.

They're in tune with spiritual things.

They might say, they still go to maybe a yogi.

Maybe someone goes to a shaman, they go to another religions.

You have the, the Dalai Lama for Buddhism, you have the pcre.

You have different levels of people who act as a go-between

between God, and man, supposedly.

And so, the priest in the Old Testament is this is this

fulfillment someone who had helped man, understand God, and

his word, and would help man offer sacrifices in the Old

Testament. And now connect to God today,

just like we do. So very simple concept.

Someone needs to go between, man and God.

So Jesus was not just a priest. He Was the high priest.

So he started out in verse 14, every high priest taken from

among men is appointed on behalf of men and things pertaining to

God. So Aaron was the first high

priest. He was appointed by God and

place of Moses, he was appointed by God for this role and so the

high priest. Don't choose this for

themselves. No, God appoints them in order

to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, that was

the role of the high priest in the Old Testament to off.

Gifts and sacrifices for sins. It was also though that he could

deal gently with the ignorant and misguided.

This is the way The New American Standard.

Words it the new King James and several others word it, the

ignorant and I think gone astray.

So we'll talk about that difference in just a minute.

He can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided since he

also himself has beset with weaknesses.

Now, this is a beautiful concept that I think has been tarnished.

Act a little bit when we think of religious leaders, a lot of

times, it's it's muddy with the idea that we've seen in the

world and especially people who don't have a religious

affiliation. They've got a really muddy

tainted idea. Of what a religious leader

should be. We hear so much of corruption

and, and relate and religious Elite or corruption with church

leaders. Where they were stealing money,

or maybe they were committing inappropriate acts, they were

getting that scan. Dalls this.

And that we, there's a lot of. What's the word?

There's a lot of shady Behavior. We've seen from church leaders,

who've taken advantage of their role, but that's not the role of

God designed, and it's really beautiful.

When you read it, even from the Old Testament, he was one who

went to God offering sacrifices, and he was designed to be

someone who wasn't just high and mighty about the people, but he

was with them enough to be gentle with them.

And I think it's important to understand God's design for this

role for a spiritual leader, because it's not the the nasty

role that we've seen it becoming in many circles.

God has designed a beautiful system even from the beginning

of time, even when maybe in the Old Law and the old days, we

would have considered that to be a hard time, an eye for an eye

time, where there's a lot of Wars there was a lot of things

going on that, that we look. Back and say man, we have it

easy now for survival in many things like that.

Even in a time like that God didn't Overlook the need for his

leaders to be gentle with his people.

And now he's and now he's taking this and he's showing us Jesus

and light of this concept since he himself is also beset with

weaknesses. That's why the high priest can

understand and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices

for sins. As for the people.

So also for himself. So, the high priest didn't just

go. All you poor guys down there

with your immorality and sin, know he was doing it for himself

to it was for him. But is different for Jesus,

because Jesus never sinned. Now, I underlined these words,

ignorant and misguided and this is kind of a side point.

So we'll kind of take a pause and talk about this for a

minute. When I think about those who are

lost, sometimes I have a view of them.

I don't think I should have He points out here that people can

be ignorant and misguided. Now, this word ignorant, doesn't

mean you have a hard heart necessarily.

Ignorance just means you don't know something about it.

I think is Mark Twain that said we're all ignorant, just about

different things. We all have a lack of

understanding and we could all especially be misguided.

I like the way, the New American Standard, where did that the

other word is maybe gone astray, but it has a connotation either

way you look at the translation. Of being misled or being

misguided. And this is a concept that we

can see throughout the Bible and Romans chapter 10 verse 14.

Romans 10:14

It says how then will they call on him in whom they have not

believed, how will they believe in him whom they have not heard?

And how will they hear without a preacher?

How will they preach, unless they are sent?

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good, good news

of good things so people can be ignorant in the world.

Old, but I think we got to be careful.

Not to look at the world like it's just a bunch of people who

don't never want the gospel. We can be ignorant ourselves.

And so, especially if you're ignorant of this, that's the job

of God's people specifically, its mentioning of the high

priest minutes and gods people's job to help with ignorance and

those who are misguided and this one, especially I want to talk

about for Roman from Jeremiah chapter 23.

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This idea of being misguided, really hit home for me when

Oakdale was doing the eldership study and we were talking a lot

about the role of a Shepherd. The Shepherd and the elders

described as one. Who should be a Shepherd helping

the people along. And in that process, I came

across this verse in the study of that.

And Jeremiah chapter 23, it says this.

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God's people had gone all astray were committing sin, but in the

middle of all that, it says woe to the Shepherds who are

destroying and scattering the Sheep of my pasture, declares

the Lord. Therefore thus says, the Lord

God of Israel concerning the Shepherds who are attending my

people, you have scattered, my flock and driven them away and

have not attended to them behold.

I'm about to tend to you for the for you.

For the evil of your Deeds, declares the Lord in the midst

of a Nation who has Off. And who is sinning, God?

Went after the Shepherds who are misleading the people.

He says, I'm going to come down on them verse 3, then I myself

will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries

where I have driven them and bring them back to their Pastor.

I believe this is a prophecy of Jesus to come New Testament and

they will be fruitful. And multiply I will also raise

up Shepherds over them and they will tend them and they will not

be afraid longer nor be terrified.

Nor will any be missing declares the Lord God was going to come

back and get them and Shepherd them himself Jesus.

Did that? Jesus came down himself and saw

a bunch of leaders who had misled his people.

And he was frustrated angry with it, and he said, I'm going to

come down myself and I'm going to leave my people, and I'm

going to Shepherd my flock. And the point is until we have

compassion for the misguided, we will just be bitter against the

world. We're going to have an

us-versus-them mentality. We're going to throw mental

grenades out of this building at them.

But our job is to have compassion on the ignorant and

misguided to know that we ourselves could be in there.

Same shoes, what we want. God's will is for his people,

not to just know what to share with compassion.

So the world can know, because if we are see the world as a

world full of people who don't want it, what kind of life is

that to live, is that really the gospel driver?

I was talking earlier, I heard Isaac say, you know, my friend

who was converted, he's spoken here before he was talking about

this idea of evangelism and this idea of people thinking, man,

nobody wants it. And he was like they were

telling me that they were talking to me, someone who's

converted there was someone else in the situation was converted

telling us about how nobody wants it and he was like, what

does that make you feel? How do you think I feel about

that you're sitting here telling me nobody wants this?

I am a convert. He's now a preacher of the

gospel and he's saying, no, but nobody people are telling him

nobody wants it. That's not true.

May we have compassion on the ignorance and misguided.

That is the role of God's leaders of all time.

Going on in verse 4, And no one takes the honor to himself, so

this honor of being set apart as a high priest, no one takes to

honor to himself. But he receives it when he is

called by God, even as Aaron was so in the Old Testament, you

didn't just say, I'm going to step into this role.

God had to appoint. You Aaron was the first one,

versified. So also Christ did not glorify

himself. So as to become a high priest,

but he who said to him, you are my My son.

Today, I have begotten, you just, as he also says, in

another passage, you are a priest forever, according to the

order of Melchizedek. So this is tying in a lot of the

concepts of Jesus being the Eternal Son of God being Gods,

son. We talked about in chapter two

of the book of Hebrews and he's continuing to spiral that in and

to his into his teaching that Jesus didn't pick.

Didn't do this for himself, but God.

Chosen and God appointed him and it says, you are a priest

forever. According to the order of

Melchizedek, who in the world, is that funny name?

We'll talk about that more, probably another study, because

he doesn't spend a lot of time on here.

Verse 7 in the days of his flesh.

Speaking of Jesus off, he offered up both prayers and

supplications with loud, crying and tears to the one able to

save him from death. And he was heard because of his

piety. I highlighted this phrase the

days of his flesh because I just thought it's going to be

interesting. Is it's just crazy to think that

one day, we're going to be able to talk about our lives as the

days of our flesh. There's going to be a day.

Once this life is over, we're going to maybe look back and

heaven and think man, you know, the days in my flat, when the

back in the days in my flesh, that's what this is referencing

of Jesus. The days when he was alive on

Earth, he offered up prayers and supplications with loud crying.

And tears to the one able to save him.

What time is when you, when we hear of a hero and literature

and movies or whatever it is, the hero is / shown as this

person who's never never wavered.

Never never slipping up. Never, never daunted.

But man, it paints such a real picture of Jesus.

And one that I'm glad God gave us the reality of that he was

and you had loud crying and tears.

He was driven to the point. Of coming on his knees to God

from his trials. That is something that we can

all relate to jibon. Jesus was driven to his knees by

life and he did wasn't driven to the point that he just overcame

everything on his own. Even he went to the one who was

able to save him from Death. We are driven to our knees

sometimes with nowhere to go. Even Jesus did that?

And he was heard because of his piety, you know, it's

interesting you could have said anything like he was heard

because he was God's son, he was heard because he was God

himself. It says that he was heard

because of his piety or his reverence you that can be

translated. He wasn't just gives a reason.

It's very specific. Frank prayed today that without

an attitude of reverence, he started his prayer with he said,

and Jesus Was Heard because of his reverence, it's a hard

concept to grasp deity, being reverent to deity, but it is a

beautiful example for us. Verse 8, although he was a son.

Speaking of Jesus, he learned obedience from the things which

he suffered Jesus had to learn obedience.

Jesus had to go through things like ordinary life and he had to

be obedient, he had to be obedient through this

spectacular challenges. Like, the crucifixion, he had to

be obedient. As a young man, he had to learn

obedience as a child and he had to learn obedience to human

authority. And Luke 2:51, it says and he

Luke 2:51

went down with him. Speaking of when he was in

Nazareth, was his parents. He went down with them and came

to Nazareth and he continued, excuse me.

This is a situation where Jesus had gone to Jerusalem with his

family and then he was left by himself, and his parents came

came back looking for him and they finally found him after

they found him and he said, didn't you know that I would be

about my father's business? He was in the temple.

Talking and asking questions and speaking with them.

After that says, and you went down with them.

So we went back with his parents and came to Nazareth and he

continued in subjection to them and his mother treasured, all

these things in her heart, the things about Jesus potential in

his in his goals, and his mindset, verse 52 and Jesus kept

increasing in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and Men,

it gives us four things here that Jesus increased in.

He grew in understanding his physique, grew.

He became a man, he grew. Spiritually his favor with God,

and he grew socially his favor, with men.

Jesus had to learn and to learn obedience.

He had to learn how to be a man, how to be a person.

Verse 9 of Hebrews chapter 5 goes on to say and having been

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made perfect. So, there's that idea again.

He wasn't just, it wasn't just when he was born, he was

perfect, he had to become it. We know his people, there's a

certain level of becoming we've already talked about in Hebrews

where you have to sort of earn your stripes, he became, and he

was made perfect through the things that he endured and

learned. He was made perfect and he

became to all those who obey him the source of Eternal salvation.

It is fascinating to think that there is a source of Eternal

salvation. You know, it's awesome.

If you're need water to find a source of water, we think of a

source of would, you know, if you're in a forest, that's a

source of wood, a source of something, you need, you can

find a source of gold in the mountains and is crazy.

What people will do to get to that goal, they will carve up

mountains. They will take away mountains,

it will excavate and filter and sift to no end to find gold. and

it's fascinating that we have a source of Eternal salvation and

it's in the person of Jesus Christ himself, we have a source

of Eternal salvation Goes on to say verse 10 being designated by

God as a high priest, according to the order of Melchizedek

concerning him, we have much to say there's a lot to say about

Melchizedek and it is hard to explain.

Why is hard to explain because you have become dull of hearing.

They were to the point where their, their ears weren't

necessarily bad. He's not saying it's their ears

that they couldn't hear, he's saying that their hearts, Yes,

often said he who has ears to hear.

Let Him hear everybody has ears, but he's talking about a

spiritual disposition. To listen.

We've already learned that the book of Hebrews told us that the

word of God is sharp is our hearing Sharp.

Is our spiritual hearing sharp, or do we have Dole hearing?

May we have sharp spiritual ears.

There's people in here who are hard of hearing or have Dole

hearing physically, but are very sharp spiritual Minds that's

what matters in God's sight. There's people here with hearing

aids, who have sharp spiritual ears.

It doesn't matter how you here, it's a matter about how your

mind receives it may. We have sharp spiritual ears,

Verse 12 for though. By this time, you ought to be

teachers by this time, there they are.

Hebrews, who have learned the word, their Hebrew Christians.

By this time, these people have heard it.

Long enough, you should be teachers, but you have, but you

have need again for someone to teach you, the elementary

principles of the Oracles of God and you have come to need milk

and not solid food. So the issue one of the things

he's kind of finally built up. Do you understand this great?

Jesus. You understand how powerful and

mighty he is? And you're lacking, you should

be a teacher of this. You should understand how great

this is to where you should be teaching other people.

But you still have to have people teach you.

I've heard this referred to as kind of mouth open Christianity.

Feed me. And it can be like that

sometimes for us at church. Do I come to church?

Do I approach my spiritual life with a feed me mentality.

Do you come to here, waiting for someone else to feed you?

What do you come here? Ready to participate in courage.

To try to strengthen others. Or are we the ones feeding off

of other people constantly and he, specifically, talking and

teaching. Now, with the teaching, he does

not extinct distinguish between man and woman, and he does not

distinguish between public or private.

That's the beauty of this passage to me.

If there's not anybody in this room.

Who is exempt. Any sentient person in this room

who can understand God's word can understand the beauties of

it. And I've known it for long

enough, we should be teaching, you might not be have to teach

up here, that's not the role he's talking about.

He's talking about any role where you can teach someone

else. God's word is designed to not be

kept herself. If you learn it and you truly

understand it, you can't keep it to yourself.

That's why when Jesus says the man Willa God will come and make

his home with him. And the word of God will become

a Fountain of Living Water springing out of him.

You can't keep it in. Water goes in, it's got to come

out of a fountain and that's the idea with God's word is, it

cannot Not just be learned and kept, you don't have to teach up

here, if that's your role. Great, but for, for the women,

this is just as much. You, you have just as much of a

role in this that if you've been knowing God's word long enough,

if you have known it long enough, You should be ready to

teach now. Not everyone in this room is in

that position. There's people who are

spiritually young, and that's fine and we'll talk about that

in the next slide. He says, for everyone who

partakes of only milk, only milk is not accustomed to the word of

righteousness. For he is an infant.

The word of righteousness, is something you have to get

accustomed to. You have to immerse yourself

that you have to Live it and study it for it, to become

something. You can handle more of because

if you don't do that, you're going to be stuck on milk.

You're going to be stuck with the baby food and God does not

want that. And, you know, as I teach this,

I want you to be clear. I forgot to say this at the

beginning. A lot of this is going to sound

like I'm preaching at you. This is just as much as me, but

I feel like it's a disservice if I don't teach you with the

urgency that the Riders saying, but if I don't move on from milk

and if I don't get accustomed, God's word.

I'm a spiritual infant, and that is supposed to be kind of funny,

but also not funny. It's cute for a while.

When a baby is eating baby food, they need to be taken care of.

They need to be nurtured. Someone else has to feed them,

but there's a point at which it's not cute anymore.

It's not cute to be a man being fed by somebody else or to be

man, drinking from a bottle of milk.

It's supposed to be funny because it's embarrassing to be

a baby still when you're old. But it's also not supposed to be

funny because it's like, seriously, that's bad.

God's will does not just go away.

God's word is eternal. Jesus said Heaven and Earth will

pass away, but my word will never pass away.

This is going to be here for eternity.

Are we going to be spiritual babies for eternity?

Are we going to be spiritually immature for eternity?

So the question is, who's feeding you?

Because we went in this verse, you ought to be teachers, is

someone else exclusively teaching you, there's nothing

wrong. I'm talk to all the time.

I have a lot to learn to. I'm Todd from my seat as well

but it is that my exclusive diet is that my exclusive spiritual

diet. Is it all the spiritual

nourishment? You get when you come to church

Or are you able to feed yourself?

Because once you can feed yourself then you can work on

feeding others. That's the natural life.

Cycle of Christian. That's not supposed to be

forever. It's cute.

Beautiful and natural for a baby to be a baby while it's a baby,

but not after that. Verse 14.

But solid food is for the mature who because of practice, how do

you become mature practice repetition, who became who

because of practice have their senses trained to discern Good

and Evil. For a while, it can be

frustrating. Because even if you care about

spiritual things, you're going to be frustrated by the process

of practice. There's a lot of times where

I've had questions and I could feel frustrated but just having

the questions and never the answers and and even when you

have the answers you don't feel like you fully understand it.

I have tons to learn. And and there many people in

here who were way more mature than I am, But are we practicing

spiritual things and our our, our senses being trained to

discern good and evil. You can't always explain the

process. You can't always hear it from a

lesson and have somebody tell us in a lesson what to do, what

think we have to practice it ourselves to be discerning. when

I was going through my teacher training, we had this tool we

use called the depth of knowledge wheel And the wheel of

depth of knowledge, they called The dok Wheel.

There's level one, two, three and four.

And basically we our goal is to take students from level one to

where they can do level for type things and I know it's really

small but level 1 is basically recall.

So if you can recall a lesson that would be what would be

considered a level one depth of knowledge level 2 would be a

skill or a concept that you can take away.

Level 3 is where we're at is as teachers they were really He has

to work on stay in the level 3 and 4 type of activities where

you can get your students. Assessing comparing

investigating differentiating drawing conclusions, citing

evidence critiquing, formulating developing a logical argument.

It's great. And I remember the first time

that I was really starting to memorize, or is it memorized

there's memorize up here? That first time when I was

starting to learn. My first verses, that was all I

could do. It was great.

Well, I've memorized my first couple verses that was great and

we need to continue to do all these things.

But just recall and just repeating and just stating or

even listening. Listening is not even on this

because that's that's just an act.

It's not even a skill necessarily Level 2 being able

to get more parameters for understanding it and a little

bit more ability to interact with the concept, but level 4 is

what we're encouraged to connect to synthesize to, to basically

apply. That is basically the whole idea

of level 44, students, if we want them to apply a concept,

that's why they want student projects that's life for

Christian. Once we can take something, put

it into application. I tore lives and even to explain

it to others. I think there's one on here

where you can explain to others, if my student can explain how to

do something to another, I know they've got that down.

That's a simple biblical concept all along.

So, this is Hebrews chapter 5, we're a little bit early, so I

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didn't know if I was going to go into chapter 6, a little, but

you cannot stop the context here.

So I'm going to go a little bit further.

But so far and have chapter 5, we've learned these few things,

we need to have compassion on the ignorant, misguided that we

have Christ. As an example, he had to learn

obedience, the hard way, just like us.

And we have a source of Eternal salvation.

Don't be a man-child. Those are our lessons from

Hebrews chapter 5 but the context does not stop there and

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I don't want to leave us with that kind of harsh.

Ending Hebrews chapter 6, goes on to say therefore after all

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those things we just said therefore leaving the elementary

teaching about the Christ. The basics, the very milk of the

word, let us press on to maturity, not laying again, the

foundation of repentance from dead works and of Faith toward

God. If you were going to build a

building, you just laid the foundation over and over the

house won't get anywhere. Says, don't keep laying this

out. The same Foundation from dead

works and of Faith toward God, of instruction, about Washings

and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and

eternal judgment. And these we will do if God

permits. It's not like we're not like

we're eliminating these but we need to move on to the next

thing and I think maybe we'll talk about this more later but I

want to get the points. He's Making.

Verse 44 in the case of those who have once been enlightened

and have tasted of the Heavenly gift.

And I've been made partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted

the good word of God and the powers of the age to come and

then have fallen away. It is impossible to renew them

again to repentance. Since they again, crucify to

themselves, the Son of God and put him to an open.

Shame. Not too long ago.

I heard the read that verse and I was like, is it saying that

there's people who it's impossible to save?

Because it sounds like that at first read now, maybe we'll

spend more time on this next time but in short, I'm number

one, I believe that a lot of this is talking about the powers

of the age to come. Maybe being the church age where

the New Testament Church, they were given miracles to see the

powers of the age to come where they were proving that Christ

was the Messiah with Miracles and setting up his church with

Miracles. So I don't know if this is even

necessarily talking about All in this dispensation but either

way, I feel I think we can still get the point.

He says those people who have fallen away after seeing all

this after partaking of the Holy Spirit after tasting, the

Heavenly calling, it's impossible to renew them again

to repentance now. The point being, it's dangerous.

If you go through all the steps of knowing and then you just

Don't progress. This is the danger of not

progressing that we started last chapter.

He said, it's dangerous to stay spiritual maybe because if you

just see all that and you move on, there is nothing that can be

done for them. Now, does that mean there's

anyone in this room is danger of in danger of never being able to

be saved? I believe what this is saying

is, it's impossible for anyone else to renew them.

Because there's nothing that I can do.

For one of my friends who has left the church, it's up to

them. I cannot renew them to

repentance. That is totally up to them and

there's nothing that I can do to change their hearts if they've

heard it already. It's up to them.

So I don't think this is saying that there's people in this room

who can never be saved or that there are friends who just

their, they're a lost cause I think it's just saying that we

cannot always control it, it's up to them.

Since they again, crucify to themselves, the Son of God, and

put him to open shame. Now after backing off that

point, the point is still the same.

It's it's a bad thing. It's humiliating for Christ to

be, put to an open shame after already seeing everything

beautiful. He's done for them after already

being having seen the wonders of Christ.

It's a shame to him. What if that was used sacrifice

and saw somebody just walk away from you.

Now hurt that would be an open shame for the ground and drinks

in the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation

useful to those who seek. It is also tilled receives a

blessing from God. So he's going to tell us two

types of ground, one ground takes that rain and it produces

vegetation, that's basically the good soil that accepts and lives

and thrives and grows and God's word that receives a blessing

from God. But if it yields thorns and

thistles, it is Worthless and close to being cursed.

These are two types of people. One type of person who takes

God's word and lives it out, and grows in it.

Is blessed by God. But someone, if someone takes

God's word and just doesn't grow anything good from it, That's

that's close to being cursed. If you have a field that never

puts out any good crops they would curse that field and say

forget it we're moving on to a different part of the land.

No, obviously God's got a mercy so that doesn't that whole

analogy doesn't completely apply, but that's oil, that will

not ever repent. The end is to be burned and

that's a really harsh reality, but it's the reality and we will

be wrong to not teach it. You have the choice.

Are you going to be a thorny ground?

That doesn't respond? Or are you going to be good

ground? Good ground, doesn't always look

green and fertile though. Sometimes there's stages.

Were Ground takes a while it. Can, you can have the ground

with all these plants and all the foliage?

It takes time sometimes But today, you can set a course.

Am I going to be good ground or am I going to be thorny ground

from God's word verse 9? This is where I couldn't end.

I couldn't end before because he goes on to say, but beloved

people, we love. We are convinced a better things

concerning you. We're convinced that you're not,

that you're not going to be stopping there, you're going to

be better than that. You got this and things that

accompany salvation, though, we are speaking.

In this way, we're talking some harsh things but we're confident

you can be better than this for God is Not unjust as to forget

your work and the love which you have shown toward his name.

This is deeply personal. Maybe there's people in this

audience who don't feel like they're at the spot where they

may be used to be. Or maybe you your, we go through

phases, sometimes we're up. Sometimes we're down.

And maybe this is, if this is a down face for you.

God is Not unjust to forget your work and the love, which you

have shown toward his name, even if you are in a down spot, God

doesn't forgive. That's incredibly encouraging.

I had there's a song called remember the Bad and the good

you just forget, that's not God. God remembers that love that

you've shown toward his name and having Minister door served and

instill ministering serving to the Saints.

God doesn't forget that. That's a wonderfully, comforting

scripture, verse not verse 11. This is the last one will cover

and we desire. The each one of you show the

same diligence. So as to realize the full

Assurance of Hope until the end so that you will not be sluggish

but imitators of those who through faith and patience

inherit the promises. He says he doesn't just say, I

want you to be diligent. So you'll make the church

stronger which you could have said that.

But the diligence is also for the full assurance.

Of Hope of the individual. So you're not going to have the

full Assurance of Hope. Unless you're a diligent person

in Christ, it is for the benefit of others, and for Christ, cause

what you can, it seems your. You can only have the full

Assurance of Hope, when you're immersed in it, when you're

living it. And when you are all about it

until the end, God wants us to be assured in Our Hope.

God does not want us to be unconfident.

First John says that that I believe the first job says that

that he has written to them so that they wouldn't know and have

Assurance of their salvation, that's God's plan, and we must

be diligent to enjoy it that way.

And the cure for sluggishness. Is diligence imitators of those

who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

You know what? I don't want to work out the

most, it's actually not even when I'm sore from another

workout. It's not when I'm just worked

out the day before. The time that I want to work

out, the least is when I've worked out in a month or two.

My body is in a I've no momentum.

I feel sluggish. But when I get up and get going

and I work out today, the next day, I want two more in the next

day. I want to even more because my

body has momentum. It's like, it's a continual

snowball of good things. That is our lesson for today.

I hope that we can myself starting with myself, take

something from this and learn from Hebrews, chapter 5 and half

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of Hebrews chapter 6, so that we can become fruitful and multiply

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in the service of our God together.

If you've heard the word today and maybe you're not even,

you're not even started on this process yet.

Maybe you're not even a baby. Maybe you're just, maybe you're

waiting to be reborn at this point.

You can be reborn again. Today you can hear the word what

you've already done today. You can believe on Jesus Christ.

You can repent of your past life and change to go his way and

confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and be baptized for

the remission of your sins and be born again at that point.

If you want to start by being a babe, it's beautiful.

Ooh, it is a beautiful process. We've seen it recently and man,

there's nothing better than. And then from there go on to

live a Christian Life. Like she hates all last week.

It's we're not we're not stopping there.

It is. A whole plan where we live it

out in our lives. And if you either want to start

today, or if you want to get something right, we'd be happy

to help you this morning while we stand while we see.

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