Exploring Hebrews: Understanding Salvation and Staying Faithful with Pastor Bo

It's not your activity or your works that saved you.

It's free gift from Jesus.

So it's not your works or activity that can unsafe you.

And this is typically where people then go, oh great, so I can do whatever I want and

I'm still saved.

And you think that's such an original thought.

But because you have been set free and because he loves you no matter what anyway, he's

with Jesus that he who is forgiven much also loves much.

Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth

that he has for us.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already

working in our hearts and minds.

As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you

are surrounded by his grace, and that he has a real hope and a future for you.

Welcome to everybody, a special welcome to our online viewers.

Thank you, Jesus, if you're a guest, I also want to welcome you.

My name is Pastor Boyan Jansik and it's my pleasure to minister to you this morning.

We're in the Book of Hebrews.

We've just gotten started, typically and frankly what's more fun for me is topical preaching

where we can hit different topics.

I seek the Lord on a topic, on a subject that will really matter to you in your life.

What I like to do from time to time is expository preaching where we go through the entire Bible,

well not the whole Bible, but a book in the Bible, but the whole book in the Bible, line

by line, precept upon precept, verse by verse, so that you can fall in love with studying

the Word and so that you can see how the Word of God is to be read, how it's to be studied,

how it's to be interpreted, because there is a plague of biblical illiteracy in the church

today.

There is a plague of people who, I mean they get their daily dose of the Word of God

from like scrolling Instagram or TikTok and seeing a slide of a scripture.

That's not, it's just not going to cut it, that's not going to do it for you.

The Word of God produces fruit, the Word of God produces results when you ingest the

Word of God, it's going, it cannot but produce fruit in your life.

It is impossible.

In fact, those of you who've given your lives to Jesus, your life is transformed, you're

the result of the Word of God bearing fruit in your life.

More Word, more fruit.

So we want the Word to be our standard, the Word is above all, not our feelings.

We know we have a culture that it's, well I don't feel, well I feel, and really the divine

response is, I don't care, how you feel, how, I mean he cares how you feel, but he doesn't

care how you feel about his word, because there's no debating it.

There's no arguing with it.

It's not subject to a private interpretation, it is what it is, and it's life, and to submit

your life to the Word of God will produce life inside of you, hallelujah.

So let's begin in Hebrews chapter 1, just something to keep in mind is that Hebrews was

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written to discouraged Christians.

Hebrews was written to Christians who were on the verge of quitting.

They were Hebrew Christians and they had really taken a beating.

They were ostracized, they were pushed out, socially ostracized, financially out, they

weren't even allowed to barter or trade in the market, and so I mean they had it a lot

worse than any Christians in America today, and we like to complain, but we have, it's

still wonderful compared to them.

And so this was a group of Christians that were on the verge of forsaking the Lord.

And so this would be the word of the Lord to you in a time of discouragement, in a time

of hopelessness, or at a time, what a graphic, that's just weird for me to see.

I'm looking down, I'm like, am I wearing a different jacket?

Hope I'm wearing a different jacket.

Let's begin Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 1.

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Therefore now we're in chapter 2, chapter 1 was all about the supremacy and total sufficiency

of Jesus and how He is God.

He's the son of God.

He's also God.

How does that work?

You'll find out when you meet Him.

It does.

Because whenever you see a therefor in the Scriptures, just go back a little bit to find

out what it's therefor.

What He's saying is because of the total supremacy of Jesus, because Jesus is God Almighty, therefore

because of that, we must give the more earnest heed, and that's important in the church.

Just heed, you know what that means?

That means you're not just a hearer of the word, but a doer also.

The word isn't going to benefit you unless when you hear it, you let it enter your heart

and then you quit kicking against it, and quit rationalizing your way out of the word

of God, but embrace it and allow it to change you and then become a doer of the word.

Thereforium was give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, and then there's

a warning.

If we don't do that, you're going to drift away.

Now this sends shock waves through my body.

That's just that phrase, drift away.

And this is one of the painful parts about being a pastor.

You get to see, this isn't a painful part, this is a good part.

You get to see a lot of people living in victory.

You get to see lives transform, that's the great part.

The painful part is seeing some people drift away, and that just tears me up inside.

And one thing I found about drifting away is it doesn't happen overnight.

It's a slow drifting.

It reminds me when I first really taught myself how to fish, I was eight, nine, we had a friend

in the family, we had a farm out in Virginia, we would go out to the farm and there was a lake,

there was a little paddle boat, and I'd get in the boat, I'd try to find a little place where

there was some brush, they would cast some shade, I knew that's where the fish were, in

the middle of the day hiding out in the shade, and I'd cast my line, and then after about

10 minutes I was just looking at the line, I looked around, I realized I'm in a totally

different place in the lake after about 10 minutes.

What happened?

I slowly drifted away.

What did I have to do to drift away?

Nothing.

Nothing in a way just happens.

The Philippian jailer asked the Apostle Paul, what must I do to be saved?

I don't even remember what the answer was.

This is a good verse to have memorized, because there's people in your life, they may not

be asking it that way, but they're looking at you, like little puppy dogs going, what

must I do to be saved?

And the Apostle Paul, he busted out 16 very big books and he said, read through all of

these, we're going to go through a 12-week class, no, he said, believe in the Lord Jesus

Christ, and you will be saved, you and your whole house, simple gospel message.

But just reverse that question, what must I do to be lost?

And the answer is nothing.

You can just drift away, slowly, you get caught up with the world.

You got saved because the world did you dirty.

Nobody got saved because the world was so good to them.

You got saved because you went in the world, you got your butt kicked, you tasted of the

world and left you all hollow and empty inside because sin never satisfies.

You skip going to church, you skip going to life group, you neglect your prayer time.

The devil comes in with some lies, you know one of his top lies is that you're missing

out on something.

That's actually his original lie to Eve, you're missing out.

Oh, you get all this garden except that God is holding out on you, he's never holding

out on you, there's nothing out there.

I didn't do this in the first service, let me just go here, it's important for us to

know.

When it comes to salvation, it's a free gift and I prize salvation, salvation is everything

because you're an eternal being, you will live forever and there is a heaven that's wonderful

and a hell that's real and Jesus offers up forgiveness of sins to whosoever will when

you place your faith in him and in his substitutionary he became your substitute, he was punished

so you wouldn't have to be, you place your faith in his substitutionary death on the cross.

A big question comes up is can I lose my salvation, you know new people come to the Lord and

they got, sometimes it's old people too.

You got the old ways still that are part of you, you know I remember when I first got

saved at 16 then I went to this party, you know a teenage high school party, I didn't

even do anything crazy at that party but the whole time I just felt so dirty, you know

and I was just like, oh no, oh Lord, I didn't do anything crazy but you got a little looser

than I should have, don't try to picture that, it's not a pretty sight and I remember

thinking like, you know and I ran back to church, the people that, you know what I'm

talking about, am I still saved and do I have to get resaved and do I have to get

born again again, no, no you're saved and should you fall, you fall saved and the Bible

says the righteous man falls down seven times but each time gets back up again.

If your life is a mess right now, I know this that if you would just keep your eyes on

Jesus, do not allow yourself to get condemned because the blood of Jesus declares there is

no condemnation, holiness will be worked out in your life and those things that plague

you with dictions or whatever chain Satan has put on you, they will break.

So it's not your activity or your works that saved you, it's free gift from Jesus.

So it's not your works or activity that can unsave you and this is typically where

people then go, oh great, so I can do whatever I want and I'm still saved and you think

that's such an original thought, that was what they said back in the first century, that's

what Paul in Romans 6 is writing about, he's saying God forbid but because you have been

set free and because he loves you no matter what anyway, he, his was Jesus said he who

is forgiven much also loves much.

So within you is awakened this love for the Lord and it breaks the power of sin off of

your life but nevertheless there is a warning in the Scriptures while your activity cannot

unsave you.

By the way, if you're living a totally reprobate life and you called yourself a Christian

and you go and sin and don't even feel anything, I question your faith because you cannot

have a living faith in the Lord if you're consistently living wrong and don't even care.

Then that's evidence of a faith that's withered up and died.

The evidence of an active faith is a passion for the Lord and the things of the Lord but

typically here's how the enemy comes in.

He seeks to discourage you, that's like his number one weapon and if the devil were

to come in with a bag full of different tools, his number one tool would be discouragement

to chip away at the heart of the people of God so that they slowly drift the way and

tell them, so I'll just miss a few times, so I'll just pull away a little bit to work

on myself.

What?

Have you ever in all your years seen that work out?

I mean I became a Christian because I couldn't do and handle myself, I'm going to pull away

a little bit.

But if you pull away and pull away to a place where your faith dies or God forbid you pull

away so much that you renounce Jesus and that's where the book of Hebrews will address

in just a couple of chapters and move away from having a living faith if you don't have

a living faith in Jesus, an act of energized working faith, what happens to your salvation?

Salvation is received every day, you're saved once but every day you're in fellowship

with him.

Every day I trust you're grateful that all of your sins are forgiven you.

You're grateful that he loves you.

So he's warning them and I would echo that warning.

I behold to the Word of God.

There's nothing worse than drift in a way.

But if you're here and you have drifted away, if you're here and you drifted away and

anything I said sparks life in you, know this, you have drifted away too far.

And you say, oh, what's the process like coming back home?

It's not painful, it's not arduous.

Just look at the prodigal son.

In fact, when the prodigal son came back home the father was looking for him.

That's why it says when he was still a great way off.

Back up the father saw him when he was still a great way off because every day he was looking.

When is my son coming back home?

Hallelujah.

Verse two.

So come back home.

For if the words spoken through angels proved steadfast, he's talking about the giving

of the law.

By the way, you got to stick with me here, right?

If I do topical preaching, I got different stories, different examples.

This requires some spiritual stamina.

Yeah, it requires you like pulling on the word of God.

It requires a heart that's saying I want to be enriched by the word of God.

Hallelujah.

For if the word of God, if the word spoken through angels, that's the giving of the law because

the Bible says the law, including the Ten Commandments, we're given to Moses by angels.

If that proves steadfast, then every transgression and disobedience received a just reward.

I mean, if the law was true and the law was, it was such a stickler and it was so steadfast

and punishment came quickly, thank God we're not under the law, but under grace.

But nevertheless, verse three, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

That word neglect is the same word that Jesus used in a parable in Matthew when he was

talking about how there was a supper.

He was talking about a man and he wanted to throw a great feast.

You remember this?

And he invited all the other wealthy people to come to the feast and they neglected it

or they made light of it and they never showed up because they made light of it.

And then the master of the feast said, go to the highways and the byways and find the

destitute and the homeless and compel them to come in.

Here's what the scripture is saying, don't make light of your salvation, church.

And this is who city light is.

This is who we are.

We found the pearl of great price.

We're not going to treat that thing lightly, I don't treat that thing lightly.

Are you aware you really believe you're going to live forever?

You are an eternal being.

And let me just rephrase that, if you've given your life to Jesus, you're going to live

forever.

If you have neglected salvation, if you've turned your back on Jesus, if you've refused

his free gift of salvation, I say this with love in my heart, but it's what the scripture

says, you will die forever.

Okay, I'm going to choose live forever.

Amen.

And I'm going to treat it like the...

I'm not going to play games with my salvation.

And as a father and a husband, I'm not going to play games with my wife or with my children.

I'm going to cross the finish line.

He's going to make sure of it, because I thank him for saving power and his keeping power,

and for my wife, and for my kids, and for my church, and for every single one of you.

Salvation is so...

You say, how precious is salvation?

God became man and shed his own blood to purchase it for you.

So I won't neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken.

By the way, that word, so, is in the same context as John 316, for God so loved the world.

How much?

It's so is a bad word to use it, but it's a lot a lot.

In the Greek, it means a lot, a lot, a lot, kidding, but so great a salvation, which at the

first began to be spoken by the Lord who preached the Gospel first, Jesus, of course it was

preached through the prophets, but he's talking about this timeline, and was confirmed

to us by those who heard him, those who heard, and namely the disciples, and some people

just referenced this to say that it wasn't Paul who wrote Hebrews, because we don't

know who wrote it, and I really don't know, and I really don't care that much, but just

throwing it out there.

I know one thing, it's a good book, it's anointed, but you know, because Paul got the Gospel

directly, he said, I got it by revelation, but here, the writer, here, he says, the word

was first spoken by the Lord and confirmed to us by others, so he wasn't a first-generation

Christian, he was a second-generation Christian, Paul was a first-generation Christian, because

what I'm saying, so how, you believe Paul wrote it, don't you?

She's giving me a polite smile, you do, don't you?

That's what this is all about, I say, okay, God, by the way, all my pastor friends would

agree with you, this is where I argue with him about this, no, it's true, God also bearing

witness, both with signs and wonders, what has God bearing witness to?

The preaching of the word, he said, we just heard the word preached to us and confirmed

by those who knew him, God also bearing witness, both with signs and wonders and various miracles

and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will, there is a huge truth contained

in this, I could preach five messages off of this verse, here's the meat of the verse,

because that God is loyal to his word, God is faithful to his word, God will, every time

confirm his word, he's not obligated to confirm my word, but the scripture says he will watch

over his word to perform it, so if God said it, that settles it, and his Holy Spirit will

cause his word to come to pass, this is why in Mark 16, the final chapter of Mark, as

the disciples went out, it says they went preaching the word everywhere, and the Holy Spirit

working with them, confirming the word with the accompanying signs, so whatever you want,

God to confirm in your life, you have to give him the word to, this is how creation happens,

go back to Genesis 1, the Holy Spirit was hovering over the waters, doing what?

Hovering, what was he waiting for? The word, then God spoke, let there be, and the moment

he spoke, the Holy Spirit said, here's the word that I get to partner with, and when the

Holy Spirit meets the word, creation happens, and that's how it is in your life, that's

how it is in this service, if that was a funny, dirty, depressed preacher, if I believed in poverty,

if I believed in God teaching you valuable life lessons by smiting you with sickness and disease,

do you know what I would get? Exactly, what I preached, and then that would be all through this place.

That's why there's people who come here, they don't even like me, they don't like my politics,

they don't, but they're like, I don't want to go to one of those other churches because at least he

preaches the word and I'm changed when I come. They're kind of like, it's a reason for that

way. So that just means whenever you want to see results, get the word concerning your particular

need in your life because the Holy Spirit will confirm it. The day of Pentecost, we see people get

baptized in the Holy Spirit year round, but in the day of Pentecost where I dedicate a whole service to

just the baptism in the Holy Spirit, we see all sorts of people come to the front, some of them,

I mean, totally deer and headlights, I don't even know if they've been baptized, I don't know if they've

been saved five minutes, maybe they just got saved on the way up to the front, and we see over 90%

of the people get filled with the Holy Spirit. Look, can I just say this to go from zero to speaking in

tongues and I'll just add this part, in New York City, just because it's such a secular, humanistic

stronghold, you know, to come up to the front, that's miraculous. How did that happen? Because the

word went out first, then the Holy Spirit confirms the word with signs, wonders, various miracles and

gifts of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. So whatever you need from the Lord, whether it's provision or

direction or healing or more of him, get that word, the word that speaks to those things.

Hallelujah. If you need healing, there's no sense in like burying yourself in the book of Leviticus.

You know, if you need financial prosperity, no sense in like burying yourself in like Ecclesiastes,

those are great books, they have a purpose and a place, but you want to find the word that speaks

to your particular need, because then the Holy Spirit will come upon that word in your life. Hallelujah.

Verse five. For he has not put the world to come, he's doing a switcheroo here.

This is why I think, I know, at least for me, because I've read the book of Hebrews hundreds of times

and I didn't even get it the first hundred times at all. And you know, you cannot get, I mean,

I got you, we all get little bits of it and your spirit can still grow when it's like eating a delicious

meal, but a lot of times I'm reading and I'm going, what mean if this? Like he's just talking,

he's talking about confirming the word with the Holy Spirit and miracles and all of a sudden he,

for he has not put the world to come of which we speak in subjection to angels, all right?

Let's track with him a little bit. It's a change in pace, your change in thought.

But one testified in a certain place saying, what is man that you are mindful of him?

Or the son of man that you take care of him? So the writer of Hebrews is quoting Psalms 8,

which says that God made man a little lower than the angels, but that God has given man

dominion over the earth. And you need to know that, that God gave mankind dominion over the world.

Man, at the garden, neglected that dominion, treated it lightly and gave it away to Satan through man's

rebellion of eating the fruits. They gave their rightful authority, their rightful power over the world,

handed it over to Satan, Satan's been running amuck, but it belongs to man. Let me, let me,

I got to go even further. It doesn't belong to God. He's given it to man. That's why God couldn't

come to rescue us as God, but he came as the God man, fully God and fully human.

And so when it comes to our Christology or understanding of Christ,

we have these misconceptions like, well, okay, God, because it doesn't, I mean, it doesn't

mathematically add up. That's like your little league coach going, I want you to go out there and give

it a hundred and ten percent. All right, that doesn't, that way. And so Jesus is a hundred percent God

and a hundred percent man. It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense, but he is. He wasn't God on

the outside or, and man on the inside or man on the outside and God on the inside. He's fully God,

fully man. He had to be made man because man messed this up. So it's saying Jesus, just like man,

came as a member. Hebrews chapter one, he keeps saying Jesus is higher than all the angels,

but now he's saying also he's been made lower than the angels. This will blow your mind.

There is no, there is no religion, no ideology, no faith on planet earth. That is as beautiful

and mysterious and even as complex as Christianity. You can gather the greatest writers, a hundred of

them, the greatest writers on planet earth, put them in a room, they can't come up with something as

glorious as the gospel. You look at any other, because God became man and sometimes we think that

when he finished his job on earth, he threw his manhood off, he threw his humanity away. I'll tell you

something for a while, I thought that. It seemed like, okay, great, you came from heaven to earth,

to show the way. And then, I mean, it must have been rough leaving heaven coming earth becoming

human, but then you couldn't wait to get that whole thing over with, come back up to heaven,

come back into the Father. I was like, woo, dirty job, but somebody had to do it. No, he's still human.

Come on. After his resurrection, he said, touch me now. See to time and see that I'm flesh and

bone. And Jesus, who is God, is in heaven in a glorified body. What does that mean? This,

it means that there is humanity in the Godhead. And it also means that before Jesus came to earth,

God was one way and now he's forever different. After Jesus's incarnation, I mean,

he was made flesh and then his resurrection and ascension back into heaven, the Godhead is

forever different. There is humanity, Jesus, the God-man. It was necessary for our salvation,

because man messed it up, a perfect man had to un-mess it up. And now he knows. And now he understands,

and now there's this mystery, you know, you can get close to Jesus and pray to him. And both of

these statements are true. One statement is, Lord, your ways are higher than my ways. You're

totally different than me. That's also, that's true. You know what's also true? God, you became man.

And so you understand me on a very personal level. Hallelujah.

By the way, that's the message of Hebrews 2. I want to sum up Hebrews 2. Can I just say,

my I love my wife. She just said, hold on. She's already looking at her. She just came,

because I asked her anything I can do different. She said, well, there's so much information,

if you could just sum up Hebrews 2. It's like, that's good. That's good. So I'm going to sum up

Hebrews 2. It's that he relates. And he's writing to a suffering people, to dejective people,

of people who are in the verge of quitting. And he's encouraging them that God understands,

and God knows, because God became human. And then he quotes Old Testament scriptures to back up

what he said. But one testified in a certain place, what is man that you are mindful of him,

or the Son of man that you take care of him. You have made him a little lower than the angels.

You have crowned him with glory and honor. Man has been crowned with glory and honor,

and set him over the works of your hands. Man was given dominion over the earth,

over the works of God's hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.

In other words, Jesus, to have total dominion now of the earth, had to be made man,

because God gave man dominion and put all things in subjection under him. He left nothing that is

not put under him. But now we don't yet see all things put under him. Because there is this

tension also. You're saved, aren't you? You believe in Jesus, you're saved. Oh man, you got

like ten heads nodding at me. We need revival. If your sins are forgiven and you know it,

clap your hands. All right, you're saved. But you're also in the process of being saved,

like you're totally saved, but it's by faith. But the culmination of your salvation will be on that day.

Yeah. And the devil has been defeated and destroyed. But that's also happening.

That's why we know the devil is defeated, but also in Romans, Paul writes, and God will soon

crush Satan underneath your feet. And so now we know the devil is defeated, but we don't

fully see everything lined up. We will on that day. It's according to our faith, but there's

a tension. So what do we see? This is, I find this is an answer to whenever I'm going through a

difficult time. Verse 9. But we see Jesus. It's not we saw Jesus. It's not we're going to see

Jesus. It's the perfect present. It's we see Jesus. We see Jesus. That's why later in Hebrews,

it says, fixing your eyes on Jesus. When I don't know what to do, when there's confusion that hits,

when I don't film a prayer is getting answered as quickly as I'd like you to, what do I see?

What do I do? Well, I can let my head go in a thousand different directions. I can speak a lot

of nonsense out of my mouth, or I can study my spirit. And what do I see? Jesus high and lifted up.

I see Jesus at the right hand of the father. I see him victorious knowing that that victory will

soon be made manifest in my life. Hallelujah. We see Jesus who was made a little lower than the

angels. That means he became human. I can read it this way, but we see Jesus who was made man

for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God might

taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for him. It means it was appropriate to God. It was

the right thing to do. Give me one second, please. For it was fitting for him for whom are all things

and by whom are all things. In bringing many sons to glory, you have been glorified. Now that's

true too, but also it's in the process of happening and the full manifestation of your glory will be

on that day, and you're going to look fine. What does a glorified body look like? More glories than

this. That's for sure. It was fitting for God. For whom are all things and by whom are all things

in bringing many sons to glory to make the captain of their... Jesus is the captain of my salvation.

I mean, I know that my boat is going to reach its destination. To make captain... The captain

of their salvation now uses this word perfect through sufferings. It doesn't mean that God was

imperfect. It doesn't mean that he was lacking anything or morally lacking anything, but there

is one thing that God didn't know, that you know, that he didn't know, and that's something that's

come into all of us and that thing is suffering. Something that we all have in common is... There's a

suffering. Let me tell you something. In my life right now, I don't lack for anything. There's

nothing that I lack. Yet still, there's a suffering. There's a quiet ache to shed this thing.

Like the only reason I'm here is for my family and for you. I just want to... There's just

always a cry of... This isn't my home. I'm a pilgrim. I'm passing through. I don't fit in here. This

isn't... Like Lord, I love you and I love life, but this isn't it. There's an ache for you, Lord.

There's just... Even when everything is right in your life, you think, I know, then... Will I finally be

happy? Well, maybe. I'd rather be contented. You can be contented in the Lord, but this time

I haven't. Did I just depress somebody? I heard like three cats me out and I'm like,

what happened? It's all good. I'm just saying they'll always be a cry. There's a suffering.

And now God knows it because this is what the Scripture is saying here. He was made man and he

knew suffering. Real suffering. And now he can relate to you. So it was fitting for God to make the

captain of your salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he who sanctifies and those who are

being sanctified, who's he who sanctifies? What's his name? He's the one who does the sanctifying

and those who are being sanctified. Who's that? Yeah, you've been made one with him.

How have you been made one with him in this in this sense? Not in the sense of like we're seated

together with him in heavenly places. This isn't that you're human and he's human.

You're one for which and those who are for which reason he is not ashamed to call them,

call you, call that brethren. So God is your father and Jesus is your brother. Hallelujah.

Amen. When you really get that, all right, what does that mean? Well for one, that means that when

you come up to the Father to pray, one thing that afflicts every single one of you is when you go to

pray, the devil comes and your own thinking, thinking come. And the first thing, especially when

you're a new Christian, is the barrage of thoughts that you're not worthy, that you're condemned,

that you did things wrong and how dare you approach a holy God. But when you understand that

Jesus is your brother, that means you have the same spiritual status as Jesus Christ. That means

the same righteousness, right standing with God, that Jesus has you have as his family, as his brother.

Now you're getting some spiritual muscles and now when you go into pray, you know,

God, I'm so sorry. I'm kind of up to you like an old worm to the throne. I haven't mercyed

on me again. No, you can come in boldly to the throne of grace. Hallelujah.

He's not ashamed to call your brother. Why are you ashamed? Verse 12,

saying, I will declare your name to my brethren. In the midst, now he's quoting scripture now.

Psalm 22, 22. In the midst of the assembly, I will sing praise to you. These are all the

scriptures he's quoting are messianic prophecies. They're all the prophecies in the Old Testament

that were prophesying about the Messiah. One of the prophecies is that he was going to sing.

Can you remember a time when Jesus sang? Did Jesus sing? It's in the scriptures, actually,

after the last supper, after the last supper, what a bunch of fellows. They finished the meal

and it says, they all sang a hymn. Can you imagine that? Jesus on the bros.

No drummer, no electric guitar. Just just the group of them. Accapella, Jesus, knowing what's

ahead of him in just a few hours, just letting it rip. His voice cracking with emotion,

his hands lifted up, singing a praise to the Father, offering a real halal. Hallelujah.

And again, verse 13, I will put my trust in him and again, he's quoting these scriptures.

These messianic prophecies here. Am I? This is Jesus talking about you. Here am I in the children,

whom God has given me. Hallelujah. Verse 14, in as much then as the children have partaken of

flesh and blood, because we're all flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared in the saying,

Jesus became man, that through death, he might destroy him who had the power of death.

That is the devil. You asked, Pastor, how much attention do you give the devil? Well, I know he was

real. I know he's a real threat, but I also don't give him too much attention or too much power,

because the scripture says, for the one who is saved, he's as good as destroyed. He's running

a muck to those who are ignorant of the word of God, to those whose lives are uncovered by the blood of

Jesus. But he's destroyed for you. He's destroyed for me. That through death, he might destroy him

who had the power of death. That is the devil. And what's the result of that? And release those

who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Now pay attention.

Those of you suffering with anxiety, those of you who are stuck because of fear, you're

unable to move forward. You have all these fears. Every fear when you trace it down far enough has

the same roots. It is a fear of death. It is the fear of something dying. Even if it's the fear of

your business dying, your relationship that there's a fear and fear is not of God. Fear is the

opposite of faith. Fear is what will keep you according to the scriptures in bondage. God has

not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. When God created the heavens

and the earth and put man on it, there wasn't even such a thing as fear. They didn't know fear.

The first time fear is mentioned is after Adam sins and he hides in the bushes and he says,

when God says, where are you Adam? He says I was afraid and hid myself. So fear is a direct result

of a sin consciousness. What's that? What's that one quote? Oh,

was that old time healing revivalist, he said, fear makes cowards out of men.

Excuse me, sin makes fear, obviously, sin makes cowards out of men.

So Jesus came as a man to undo man's wrong, defeat the devil, to release those who through

all their lives were in bondage through fear of death. Let's just say this out loud. I'm not afraid.

I'm not afraid of things dying. I'm not afraid of death. I serve the God of all life.

His life courses through me. Abundant life is my portion. Whatever I put my hand forth to do will

prosper. I am blessed in Jesus name. Amen. Verse 16, worship team, you can come up.

For indeed he does not give aid to angels, but he does give aid to the seed of Abraham.

Who's the seed of Abraham? You are. Jesus was also.

Therefore in all things he had to be made like his brethren. So really the whole theme,

the overarching theme of Hebrews chapter 2 is that Jesus is man.

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Now Hebrews 1 was Jesus's God. Embrace him as both.

Therefore in all things he had to be made like his brethren, like us.

He had to be made human, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest.

See a high priest was a human and even in heaven the high priest has to have humanity in it because

he serves as a mediator between God and man. What a perfect mediator.

Because he understands God and he understands man. Because he's both God and man.

I mean back in the Old Testament that was a credit high priest. He understood man

get to wear all the jewelry and all the stuff. You know it's a kind of

represent God but he didn't get it. Jesus gets it.

That he might be a merciful and faithful high priest and things pertaining to God to make

propitiation. Now I'm going to, it's one more verse left but I need you to get this.

Get familiar with ever word, propitiation. It's a great word. Like gets, gets nuggly with it.

Just say it, say it, say propitiation.

Propitiation.

Can you say it? I want you to say it. First of all because it's a funny word because

you know when I was first saying I said propitiation. You got this.

Propitiation. Yeah. Come on one more. Just say it. Propitiation.

Propitiation. Yes sir. It's a good word to know. Become friends with that word. You know why?

Because it means the appeasement of divine wrath.

There was a wrath of God that's, that was on us.

While he loves you, if you are in sin, if you haven't come to Jesus, if you haven't been born

again, there is an abiding wrath on you. When I was a teenager before I gave my life to Jesus

at 16, I looked pretty good, pretty sweet, pretty innocent. The wrath of God was on me. I was an

enemy of God. Everything about me was opposed to God. And he had mercy on me. It opened my eyes and

causing me to receive Jesus. And when I received Jesus, I had advantage of his propitiation, which

means that divine wrath has been satisfied because all of God's good wrath. You know, sometimes when

I say wrath, people think it's like a bad alcoholic father flying off the handle. Wow, what are you

doing down there, kids? No, this is a just wrath, a holy wrath. When there's sin which is completely

opposed to the very nature of God, the wages of sin is death. There's a wrath, but you're still

great news. Jesus, the God man took that wrath on himself as your substitute in your place.

So divine wrath has been satisfied. Hallelujah. And that's what propitiation means. Get a tattoo of

that word on your forearm this week. Never forget that word. Because look, when the going gets tough,

when you feel distant from God, I know what it is. Always there is, there's condemnation there.

And what the devil is telling you is God's tired of you. God's fed up with you. God's mad at you.

God's angry at you. You can't even come back to God. That's what he uses to fuel you to what

drift away even further. And to encourage him to not drift away, he's reminding them

that there's been propitiation. That's why I do have a tattoo of an empty chalice on my forearm here.

Because usually in the Bible, the symbolism for God's wrath is cups, cups of wine,

of God's wrath. But this is an empty cup. There's no more wrath left for me. No more wrath left for

you. Been thoroughly poured out on Jesus. And that's why we love him so. Verse 18.

For in that he himself has suffered. Being tempted, he is able to aid those who are tempted.

Finally, he's just saying Jesus knows. Jesus understands because he's the God man. He was tempted

in all points as we are. He suffered in all ways like us. He said, wow, did he ever suffer sickness

and disease? He suffered every sickness and disease on the way to the cross.

He suffered every kind of heinous sin was placed upon him. Every sickness, every disease was placed

upon him. He knows suffering. And he knows you. And he's with you. And he's going to see you.

His job as the captain of your salvation is to see you through. Just close your eyes right now

and say this out loud. Lord Jesus, you're the captain of my salvation. You are God. You are man.

You're my brother. You're my everything. I put my eyes on you. I trust you to fulfill your

promises in my life. I declare victory for the clothes of 2024 and into 2025. I believe you're

just going to outdo yourself in my life. In Jesus name, amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. I want to encourage you this week. It's been time with him. It's not about

length. It's connect with him all day throughout the day. I encourage you to read Hebrews 3. Have a blast

in your life groups. Read Hebrews 3 for next week. Read it every day, one chapter,

pop a gospel every day. Hebrews 13. If you want ministry, we have a ministry team that'll lay

hands on you. Pray for you for any need that you have. They'll link their faith to yours. We see

good stuff. I wouldn't do this just because it's cute. I have a high confidence in our ministry team.

The regular people just like me. It's not amazing. The God calls regular people just for the edifying

of itself, the body of Christ and love. If you want prayer, go to my left. You're right. There's a

ministry team. They're waiting for you. They'll lay hands on you and pray with you and for you.

Otherwise, be blessed. We're going to sing one more song to the Lord and have a great week.

Is it just me or do you send something? I feel like a new day is dawning. It's just like a buzz

in my spirit of expectancy. I can't wait to hear the best testimonies I've ever heard coming from

you guys of victory in your lives. It's upon us. Listen, this is the last days and he's not coming

back for a beat up bride. He's coming back. In other words, here's the picture that's painted in

the scriptures. Like in the Old Testament, he had his people Israel, where Israel now. It was always

to lift up his people so high. Actually, it says this multiple times to provoke unbelievers to

jealousy that they would look at you and go, huh? Your life is so blessed. You live in peace.

New words, so I want to tell me, what is your secret? It's no secret. It's Jesus. Let me tell you

all about him. Hallelujah. So that in other words, he wants to lift you up as a trophy of his grace.

So the others will look. Hallelujah and come to him. This is the City Light Church podcast.

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