Sermon
The Supremacy of Jesus as found in Hebrews Chapter One
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He didn't send another character, he saw the earth under a curse, under the curse of sin,
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he saw the earth and the mess that was in, and he said, I am coming down to redeem them,
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because what's necessary for the forgiveness of all sins is perfect blood. Divine blood has to be
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shed, sinless blood, not the blood of a goat or a bull or a heifer, or anyone else's blood,
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my blood. Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's
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Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light
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Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his
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team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.
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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are
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surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.
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I'm beginning this morning with Hebrews chapter 1 and we're going to be going through the book of
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Hebrews. Great name for a Christian coffee shop, by the way, if you're going to open one up.
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Normally, most of the time, I preach what are known as topical sermons. Those are pretty fun
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for me. I get to switch topics every Sunday, share personal stories, and there's a freedom
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there because I can switch every week, depending on what's happening in the world, what the Lord
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is putting in my spirit, but often I also like to do expository preaching. That's when we go
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through the whole Bible or a whole book of the Bible. The whole chapter, go through every verse,
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there's a reason for that. One, I want people who call citylight their home to be biblically
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literate and biblical literacy is something that's been under attack. Why? Because the word of God
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is powerful. The word of God is so powerful, the Bible actually says concerning itself,
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that the word will energize you. It will like a dynamo, not like give you a pep in your step
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energize you, but it will fuel you because innate in the word of God is the power to fulfill itself.
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So the more word you have in you, the more kingdom will be manifested around you, the less
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word you have in you, the less kingdom will be manifested around you. So you want to be full
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of the word of God. And something funny happened, you got a good size Bible too. Would you just show
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wave that Bible in the air? Look at that. That's even bigger than the one from first service.
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This, I mean, you could stop a subway train with this Bible. You can use this Bible as a self-defense
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weapon. This, this is how back in my day, people used to come into church. I'm just wondering how many
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versions are in this one Bible? I thought it was like six different, this is big.
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People used to come in with a whole big Bible and then Erica's still old school. Just wave that
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up. See, he's to come in. And no, no, but wave up what you have inside. The important part,
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the notebook, the notebook. And everybody would come into church with a Bible you could choke a
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mousse with and a notebook. Because church was a place of learning and you'd get full of the word
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of God and you'd learn the word of God. But somehow I will say that kind of shifted when
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we in churches started putting up the scriptures, right? And you got Bibles on your phones people
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don't bring in their Bibles. All right, that's fine. That's cool. But then because we live in a
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time where there's so much information, you used to be hungry for information. So you come to
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church and get the word of God. You write down revelations, you write down points.
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And now it's just like, I'll remember that or I'll watch it later on YouTube or I'll check out
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the podcast. But you want to be full of the word of God. And part of when we go on this journey,
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what you'll be learning is how to read the word of God. How to interpret the word of God.
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We use plenty of scriptures here, every service, but in a topical message you may get 15, 20
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scriptures. But now we're going through every single one of them. So be on this journey. Guess what
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we're doing next week? Hebrews 2. So this week you could be reading Hebrews 2. Studying Hebrews 2.
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And then when I miss something, you can call out and go, but what about that pastor?
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Let's begin in Hebrews chapter 1, a little background on the book of Hebrews that will help you
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understand it. This was written to a group of persecuted Jewish Christians. The timing of this book
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is in the 60s, probably in the late 60s. Not 70 AD because most likely the destruction of the
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temple would have been mentioned in a book to the Hebrews. But most scholars put it at around 67,
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68 AD. But this is the most important part. That it was written to a group of really down and
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now discouraged believers. They were Jewish Christians. They were ostracized. They were cast
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away. They were ostracized socially. They were ostracized financially. They weren't even allowed
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to trade at the markets and years and years of that had taken their toll and they were on the
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verge of quitting. The main theme of the book of Hebrews is, don't quit. Do not forsake your faith.
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Do not bail out. Keep hanging on. Keep believing. And I like to read it often and remind myself of
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that often because no matter how bad things are going for me in that particular moment, it's never
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as bad as it was for first century Jewish Christians who are ostracized in every way. Amen.
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So if the writer of Hebrews who we don't know who it is can write such a strongly worded letter
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to them, what would he tell me then? Get up off the floor, you cry, baby.
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Chin up, chest out, eyes towards Jesus. You're going to win. Hallelujah.
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And we don't know who wrote Hebrews. And there's no point in debating about it.
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Some people say, Paul, cool, I'm going to correct you because you're wrong, but it just doesn't read
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like Paul to me. It's to me, but to some other people say, it's Paul all over it. Okay. I don't
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know. I know it's divinely inspired. Verse one, God begins unapologetically just by naming God.
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I'm not trying to convince you that exists, that he exists because the scripture already says
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that even in nature, even in creation, that the wondrous works of God are declared and that the
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fool has said in his heart, there is no God. God who at various times and in various ways, he's
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now referencing the Old Testament. He had various times and in various ways spoke in times past to
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the fathers by the prophets. He's simply saying there was a diversity, a variety of ways that
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God the father spoke to the prophets in the Old Testament. And then there was a variety and diversity
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of ways those prophets then conveyed God's message. It seems to also just indicate as you read
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on the Jesus is like a glorious prism that all these different bands of light pointing to Jesus
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and the Messiah and the Old Testament when they come through the prism of Jesus, it comes as one
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being. He unites it all. Hallelujah. And by the way, God is a God of variety.
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Just even in the New Testament, he's just saying all the different ways God spoke. If you just
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look at the New Testament, there's over 25 different ways that God will speak to his people.
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Hallelujah. Verse two, the number one way, by the way, is the still small voice, the inward witness.
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Has in these last days, have you ever wondered how long the last days have been going on?
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A mighty long time. The last days is actually a designation of a particular
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Ian, a particular season, the church age or the messianic age. It's the age we live in now. Do you
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know when this age started in Acts chapter two when the church was birthed? That's when it became
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the last days. That's why in Acts chapter two, when Peter is preaching and he's referencing
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Joel and Joel says, in the last days, I will pour out my spirit, says the Lord, it's talking about
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this period right now, the church age, which now has been going on for 2,000 years. By the way,
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do you know how long most of these ages, actually every single one of them, how long they've lasted?
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About 2,000 years. That's another sermon, but I can't do that. I can take you through all the ages
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and show you that they're always last 2,000 years. So if we're in the last days, it's been about
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2,000 years, that shows me that we're in the last, there's no other church age. There's no other
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age that the Bible even speaks of. This is the last age. So the clock is ticking, which also explains
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why I'm so excited this morning. Hallelujah. The only thing we can do is to take with us to heaven
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and souls. He's in these last days spoken to us by his son. You see in the Old Testament that were
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angels and angels came and delivered the Lord of Moses and there were prophets, but when it came
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time to present the glorious gospel, God didn't just send a messenger. He himself was the message.
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He came in person and he spoke to us by his son, who is God, whom he has appointed air of all
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things. Now there's several titles that are given to Jesus in the book of Hebrews that don't really
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make sense when you just look at it in the natural, like air of all things. What is an air of all
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things? If my son was here, I would say here's the air of all things. You would understand,
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oh, you're talking about how when you die, you're going to leave everything to your son. But God,
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the Father isn't dying. So what does air of all things mean? There's another title put a pin in
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that. There's another title given to Jesus, first born. Several times it references him and calls him
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first born, first born from the dead. What does that mean? Who's the second born, third born? There's
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no second born or third born or fourth born. First century Hebrews will understand that air of all
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things or first born is just a title that means preeminent, supreme. You're the one to you
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belongs all the stuff. Amen. Has in these last days spoken to us by his son, whom he has appointed
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air of all things through whom also he made the worlds in the Greek eons where we get eon. It's
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not just talking about the creation of the world itself, but Jesus is the one who may these different
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epochs and seasons and eons of which we find ourselves right now in the last and final season and
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eon and epoch. Hallelujah. Verse three, who being the brightness of his glory, yes, here's the word
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in the Greek for brightness. It's apalgazma which means radiance. Jesus is the radiance, is the
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outshining of God the Father. He's the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person.
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That's a call back to a stamp or a signet ring that when you put the image in hot wax what you get
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is the exact same image. Here's what the writers are really saying that Jesus Christ is God and that
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if you want to know what the Father is like, take a look at Jesus. You know, some people they're like,
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you know, the Holy Spirit's great. Jesus, he seems pretty cool. I read his stuff in the red and the
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gospels, but the Father, I don't know about him. What's the Father like? I don't know. Also, I'm a
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little messed up because I had a very bad father when I was a kid so now every time the pastor says
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father, I go like this. That's a real thing. That's why the enemy attacks fathers and attacks families
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and when we talk about Father God, people immediately like, is this one the shoe gets thrown at me?
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No, shoe throwing is a mother thing. Sorry, is this one a belt?
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If you want to know what the Father is like, take a look at Jesus. If you want to know what the
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Father would say, listen to what Jesus said. If you want to know what the Father's personalities
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like, take a look at Jesus. He is the express image of the Father, the express image of his person
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and the outshiding and the radiance of his glory and he is upholding and even better word for
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upholding would be maintaining. He is maintaining Jesus right now is maintaining all things by the
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word of his power. That seat that you're sitting on, the molecules, the atoms that make up that seat
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are being held together right now by Jesus and by the word of his power. This when you actually
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meditate on this and get this in your spirit, you will become infinitely strong from the inside
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out. You will know that just like God, you are immovable, you're unshakable, you will succeed.
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The victory is yours because he's sustaining you and maintaining you by the word of his power.
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That same word that keeps the sun in its place, the same word that keeps the planets on their orbit
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that's sustaining you. He's maintaining you and upholding you by the word of his power. When
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he had, we're only three verses in and the preeminence and the magnificence of Jesus is just
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on full display, like in Times Square, full neon flashing lights. If that wasn't enough,
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when he had by himself purged our sins. This is why we make such a big deal about Jesus.
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The rest of Hebrews chapter one is going to go into establishing over and over and over again,
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something very important that Jesus is God. I've got to tell you, so many people kind of know that
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in church, but don't really know that. There's people who are confused by it,
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especially I say this with respect, but I've got to name names or else I'm just going to be
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believing in confusion. How many of you used to be Catholic raised your hands?
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No, okay, it's not a shameful thing. It's not AA meeting and I'm asking.
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That's it? It was like 70% last time I did an impromptu survey. Maybe some people don't feel safe,
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and I like it. I witness because I used to be orthodox, very similar to Catholicism.
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I myself was confused. When I witnessed the Catholics, I'll even find that confusion.
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The Son of God, Jesus is the Son of God, and they have that drilled into their head,
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but to a degree where you lose sight that Jesus is God also. It almost presents Jesus as like this
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secondary figure, like God the Father sent a fall guy in his place. He looked at earth and
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he said, they're in the huge mess down there and it's ugly down there. Full of sin, it keeps.
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Hey, son, get out of your room. I'm sending you down there. Well, what am I going to do, Dad?
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Well, you're going to die. They're going to beat you. But don't worry about it. After that,
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I'll raise you from the dead. Really? That's not what happened. Jesus is God, and God came to earth
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in the person of Jesus. This is important. He didn't send another character. He saw the earth
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under a curse, under the curse of sin. He saw the earth and the mess that was in, and he said,
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I am coming down to redeem them. Because what's necessary for the forgiveness of all sins is perfect
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blood. Divine blood has to be shed. Sinless blood, not the blood of a goat or a bull or a
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heifer or anyone else's blood, my blood. So I'm going to come down to earth in the person of
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Jesus and I'm going to give my life as a ransom for everybody. And the holy, just wrath of God
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will come upon me and not them. That's how much he loves you. You didn't want any wrath to come
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upon you. He came down and satisfied divine justice that he had originated and he had implemented
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and he took it on in your place as your substitute. That's the power of that. He himself perched our
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sins. And then he sat down at the right hand. You know when you sit down? You only sit down
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when the job is done. Amen. And that's an important point also because in church people,
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they will never say this but they act like he did a 95% job and the rest is on them.
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He did a 98% job but they got to do their part and help us save your out. Just contribute
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to the almost finished work of the cross but it is finished. Then he cried out, paid and full.
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It is finished and then he sat down. So what's left for me to do? Believe and receive.
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And then he healed. Amen. There's nothing left for us to contribute to the already finished work
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of the cross. He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Verse four.
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Having become so much better than the angels and the reason and for the rest of Hebrews chapter one
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he starts comparing Jesus and Jesus' supremacy to angels because worshipping of angels
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was problematic in the first century church and you see that brought up all his own Galatians
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and in Colossians and it's a human problem because when we don't understand the fullness of the
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gospel we want other characters in the cast like angels, saints, Mary, wonderful woman,
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Bible says most blessed of all women but she has not heard one prayer that has gone up to her
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ever. You know why she's too busy enjoying the presence of the Lord worshipping. The saints
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have not heard one prayer. Some of them aren't even up there.
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I feel like I'm on Mantel or something. Here with some institution call somebody
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the saints of God are defined in the Bible. I'm looking at a sea of them right now. You are the
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saints of God. Don't look at some three century old painting, some guy and go oh he's a saint. No
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you're a saint. I don't know about him. I don't know where his faith was. I don't know who called
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him a saint but you you believe in Jesus. You've given your life to him. You're now sin-free. You've
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been born again. You're new creation. You're a saint. That's why every letter in the New Testament
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addresses you as a saint. Some of you are looking at me right now like you're an ape but I'm telling you
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you're a saint. Hallelujah.
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Heaven becomes so much better than the angels as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name.
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Now in the Bible the name it's not just what we think of as a name. It means your actual position,
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your title, your character, your very person. He's saying Jesus is far superior than any angel.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Some of you have good people, good friends in your lives. They want God but
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they're afraid to approach him. So what do they do to pray to other people?
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Pray to statues, pray to other characters from the Bible. You can come around and let them know.
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They actually cried out for you to tell them. You don't have to beat around the bush.
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My kids go to Catholic school. This is how it's packaged to them. It's packaged like you know
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when you really need some help around the house you know and your dad he's kind of grumpy sometimes
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right. Who do you go to? You go to mom right and mom and if you do something bad mom will calm dad
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down and you know less than the blow. So that's how some of you know you've been taught it this way.
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You can't go straight to God the Father go to his mother and she'll calm him because he's angry
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up there. He's raging. He's mad at the world and it's in but his mom will calm him down.
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God is not raging. He's chill. He's been satisfied. The blood of Jesus satisfied him
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and when you put your faith in Jesus he's satisfied with you and there's no more wrath left for you.
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Yeah it's been fully exhausted on the person of Jesus. So there's none left for you if you believe
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if you put your faith in him. If you don't believe then you're under condemnation.
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So get to believe him. Hallelujah. And when you really believe you'll give your whole life to him
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and you'll see even more transformation take place. Hallelujah. Verse 5
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for the witch of the angels that he ever say he's now just saying hey how can you even compare
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Jesus to an angel and he starts quoting from the Old Testament. Every time you see these
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quotes there's a direct verses from the Old Testament to which of the angels did he ever say
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you are my son today I have begotten you and again I will be to him a father and he shall be
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to me a son. You see that word begotten right there today I have begotten you.
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Let me read this to you. God the Father also spoke to God the Son and described him as begotten.
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It's very important in our walk to know that Jesus is God.
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Do you think I'm erroneous when I say that most people don't quite get this?
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You know most and I have to mean most people outside the church of course they don't get it
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but in the church all you have to do is listen to how Christians pray and they begin every prayer.
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Father, daddy, God in Jesus name and to the Holy Spirit I pray that the Spirit of Jesus
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and Father and they just like start naming all three over and over again just in case one feels
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left out one and not really understanding the Trinity the three and one the one and three and
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it's important to get that. See that word begotten throws people off because Jesus is called begotten
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but when you just do a cursory look at that people immediately think of it in actual terms as
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though God the Father had a child in heaven and Jesus was begotten that's of course not what
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the scripture is saying again that term begotten and the first century Hebrews would have
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understood it right away begotten speaks of the equality of substance and essential nature
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between the Father and Son it means that the Father and the Son share the same being
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in the Greek Asusia the same essence they're the same substance and you'll be set free when you
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see Jesus not as the secondary figure but as the one the holy one the Son of God. But you just
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said he's got to yes he came forth from the Father and he said I will return to the Father
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but they share the same essence they share the same substance and Yahweh God of the Old Testament
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is Jesus Christ of the New Testament by the way this is why they killed Jesus it's because he said
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God was his Father let's just go to that in John chapter five he wasn't saying you know my
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Father created me Jesus is not a created being he was from the beginning before Abraham was he
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said I am the first century folks understood it that's why they immediately wanted to kill him for
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this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him because he had done these things on
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the Sabbath verse 17 but Jesus answered them my Father has been working until now and I have been
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working and look at the response therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him because he
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not only broke the Sabbath but also said that God was his Father making himself equal with God
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today when we say begotten we think oh he gave birth to
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but it means the same and when Jesus said I'm God son and pointed a God as his Father he was saying
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I am the Father on one hallelujah hallelujah thank you Lord verse six
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but when he again brings the first born again first born is a title it means preeminent
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because back in that day when you were first born you're the one who got all the stuff you were
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the preeminent one the first in line but when he again brings the first born into the world he says
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let all the angels of God worship him in other words Jesus is God he's so much higher than the
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angels that's why in the Old Testament in the Torah he says let all the angels of God worship him
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if he was just an angel he wouldn't receive worship from angels verse seven and of the angels he says
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who makes his angels spirits and his ministers aflame a fire but to the sun he says so the angels
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are ministers they're servants but to the sun he says your throne oh God so you have this conversation
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within the Godhead if you're if you're if you're going you're kind of losing me now I will lose you
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because the Trinity is something glorious and mysterious and something that our carnal minds
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have a very hard time wrapping around I used to be able to explain the Trinity really really well
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and really really confidently like 25 years ago when I just memorized the definitions and then
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you dive into the scriptures and then the best thing is you meet God and he's so deep and so great
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and blows your mind away that you're then even more cautious with your words
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one in three three in one
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and they have a conversation with one another and they each call each other God
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your throne this is the father speaking to the sun your throne oh God is forever and ever a
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scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom hallelujah but to the sun he says by
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the way just catch that I'm not making it up verse nine you have loved righteousness and hated
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lawlessness therefore God your God has anointed you with the oil of gladness so the father calls the
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sun God and then it says your God so to the sun the father is God has anointed you with the oil
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of gladness more than your companions I feel like I'm losing some of you but what's the point the
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point is that God is one amen and and do not allow this thing to come up in your mind where it
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seems like the father is the main guy and Jesus is in second place and the Holy Spirit almost gets
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no attention in the churches today he's kind of like at the bronze medal he's in third place he
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comes in sometimes sometimes we're like where is he we don't know and they're all God hallelujah
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and it says therefore God your God has anointed you talking to Jesus with the oil of gladness the oil
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of joy more than your companions that's a powerful verse what is the oil of joy or the oil of
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gladness is it like God has a shelf and different oils around the shelf the oil of strength the oil
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of seriousness the oil of joy no there's just one oil one anointing that word anointing means the
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manifest presence of God the anointing is the holy ghost himself it's the substance of God the
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virtue of God and here it's called the oil of gladness or the oil of joy why because that's what he
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brings when he touches you with his anointing the anointing is the oil of joy and if you were to
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look look what it says Jesus was anointed with the oil of joy more than any of his companions that
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means whenever you saw Jesus in a group of people he was the most joyful in the bunch hallelujah
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when you have joy that's when good things happen when you have joy that's when the kingdom of
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God can work out through your life that's why in the bible we're commanded to rejoice now when
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I don't feel like rejoicing I hate those verses there is nothing it's like it's like when someone's
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upset and you tell them to calm down doesn't go over well right it goes over I think even worse when
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someone's sad and you say you know what I know you need to rejoice really where do you push that
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button but there actually is a button on the inside and you can rejoice by choice and this is why
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I can't hang out with morose preachers I don't even trust serious preachers I've been around
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now long enough whenever there's a constant serious he's looking at things through the lens of
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defeat and he's glum and there's no joy something awry something is up
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Jesus wasn't that way past the Paul when he was eating gruel off of a Roman cell
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he told the Philippians rejoice I say and again I say rejoice people think Paul was like this mean
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casually just religious guy I guarantee you it was fun and Jesus you know it says when the 70
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came back he sent out 70 they came back with a good report the evangelism went well it says in
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that hour Jesus rejoiced and we just read past that like oh cool Jesus rejoiced maybe we see it
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with a religious mind like Jesus rejoiced we picture him clapping but not with the whole hand with
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three fingers just and that word rejoiced in the Greek is allegria similar in Spanish he allegreos
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which means to leap twirl about dance and shout what did that look they never show him that way in
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the paintings in the paintings he always looks like he's depressed in the movies he always looks
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like he doesn't even care he's all like a loof like really like the father sent him on a mission
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he didn't want to do and he's like oh how much more will I bear with them his little faith
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like we read it with that tone but he didn't even when he said that he was awesome about it how much more
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will I bear with you you have a little faith look what I'm doing in your mind hey come here see that
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lapra watch what I'm gonna do right now maybe this will juice your faith up hallelujah
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may the oil of joy come upon you one of the greatest rebellions you can have to the plan of Satan
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in your life is to hit that button on the inside of you and actually rejoice by choice
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and and and actively shut down in your life those things that will steal your joy hallelujah
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I've never had great things happen to me when I've had seasons of seriousness
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there's a new term right now monk mode have you heard it no that's when you get really
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serious about life disappear for six months work on yourself go lose that weight read those books
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start that business and emerge six months later I've done that stuff I always emerge more miserable
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than how I started I got so serious and I'm gonna do all I come out is a worse report on myself
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like man I really am a failure terrible but whenever I've enjoyed him and put my eyes on him
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and then most important thing is let your wife experience joy and your children joy and fill the
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house with joy and focus on the joy of the Lord quick things start popping right away the kingdom
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of heaven operates on the principle of joy it's almost like that should be in the Bible like the
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kingdom of God is righteousness peace what's that there what joy in the Holy Ghost joy in the Holy
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Ghost verse 10 hallelujah you Lord this is the father's talking to the son you Lord calling him Lord
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that word there is Yahweh the father calls Jesus Yahweh because Yahweh created the heavens and
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there did he not who who created in Genesis one who created the heavens and there God the father
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of God the son or God the Holy Spirit that's the answer he said yes God the father spoke the word
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came forth that's Jesus where was the Holy Spirit it says the Spirit of God was hovering over
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the waters all three involved right a creation you Lord in the beginning lay the foundation of the
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earth and the heavens are the work of your hands they will perish but you remain and they will all
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grow old like a garment like a cloak you will fold them up and they will be changed but you
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are the same and your years will not fail worship team you can come up he's just this whole this
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whole time in Hebrews chapter one he's hitting over and over again the majesty of Jesus the greatness
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of Jesus the preeminence of Jesus and the supremacy of Jesus and the more you put your eyes on
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Jesus looking unto him who is the author in the finish of our faith the more of his kingdom will flow
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out of you hallelujah hallelujah like a cloak your years will not fail and then he finally ends with
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just one more point if you ever think about me and say he really does like kick the points over
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and over again I'm in good company they did that in the epistles all the time Paul even was so
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repetitive he said for me it's not grievous or burdensome to be repetitive but for you it's
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necessary verse 13 but to which of the angels has he ever said sit at my right hand till I make
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your enemies your footstool which of the angels does he ever said that to none because Jesus is
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so much higher than any created being are they not all ministering spirits they're ministering
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spirits they're working they're active in heaven you look in revelations they're busy busy busy busy
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but Jesus he sat down at the right hand are they not all ministering spirits and forth to
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minister for those who will inherit salvation I want you just to lift your hands close your eyes
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say this Lord Jesus you created the heavens on the earth and you created me you died on the cross
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you took my sins upon yourself my sins were punished in your body I believe in you Jesus
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I believe you're working my life the Holy Spirit is at work in my life God the Father is at work in
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my life 2025 is going to be my greatest year ever it's going to be a bright future I believe it in
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Jesus name amen hallelujah if God before you who what can possibly be against you hallelujah
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hallelujah I want you to sing these songs with all your heart
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Sean you pick these songs so beautifully and it's healthy and it's good and it's right you can
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learn a lot about a lot of things in Christianity but the foundations and basis are essential and to
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meditate on the magnificence of Jesus he's not a secondary character he's the one
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when John in Revelation went to heaven he said I saw the one capital I saw the one sitting on the
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throne I saw the one say where was the Holy Spirit he saw the one where's Jesus he saw the one
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come on where's the Father he saw the one even even the way we baptize you know you've all
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been baptized in the name of Jesus did you know that if you were baptized in city like you were
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baptized in the name of Jesus why because half a dozen times in the book of Acts when you see
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them baptized they baptized in the name of Jesus or in the name of the Lord or in the name of the Lord
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Jesus Christ so someone might say what about a Matthew 28 Jesus said go baptizing in the name of
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the Father son and Holy Spirit in the white in the name that names come on in the name
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you're telling me that the name of the Father son and Holy Spirit is you're almost there
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I saw the one sitting on the throne when Paul was knocked off his beast he said who are you
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Lord I am Jesus who are you Yahweh who are you Lord I am Jesus without persecution it's hard
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for you to kick against the goats Hallelujah sing this with your whole heart and just say Christ
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is Lord this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message
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