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Let's read he Brews chapter ten. Okay, we'll read the

entire chapter, but I'm going to break it into two parts.

So the first part is this Christ sacrifice once for all. Okay,

I'm reading from the New Living Translation. It says this

the old system under the law of Moses was only

a shadow, a deem preview of the good things to come,

not the good things themselves. The sacrificers under that system

were repeated again and again year after year, but they

were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who

came to worship. If they could have provided perfect cleansing,

the sacrificers would have stopped, for the worshippers would have

been purified once for all time, and their feelings of

guilt would have disappeared. But instead, those sacrificers actually reminded

them of their since year after year. For it is

not possible for the blood of bulls and gods to

take away. Since that is why when Christ came into

the world, he said to God, you did not want

animal sacrifices or sin offerings, but you have given me

a body to offer. You were not pleased with burnt

offerings or other offerings for sin. Then I said, look,

I have come to do your will, Oh God, as

is written about me in the scriptures. First Christ said,

you did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings, or

burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor will you

please with them, though they were required by the law

of Moses.

Then he said, look, I have come to do your will.

He cancels the first covenant in order to put the

second into effect. For God's will was for us to

be made why by the sacrifice of the body of

Jesus Christ, once for all time. Under the old covenant,

the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day,

offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never

take away sins. But our high Priest offered himself to

God as a single sacrifice for sins good for all time.

Then he sat down in the place of honor at

God's right hand. There he waits until his enemies are

humbled and made a footstool under his feet, for by

that one offering he forever made perfect. Those who are

being made holy is deeper. It's deep, so read it

slowly verse fifteen. And the Holy Spirit also testifies that

this is so, for he says, this is a new

covenant I will make with my people. On that day,

says the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts,

and I will write them on their minds. Then he says,

I will never again remember their sins and lawless dates.

And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need

to offer any more sacrifices.

Okay.

So again that's the background the letter written to the believers,

specifically the Jewish believers, telling them don't go back words, okay.

And chapter ten is actually a message about the tabernacle.

You'll realize that, you know what the tabernacle is. For

the tabernacle is actually a place where they used to

bring all the sacrifices, okay, all the animals. So year

after year, the high priests or the priests, okay, the

priest will go and will sacrifice animals okay, unblemish something,

unblemish lamb or unblamished bull or you know, bring.

The animal sacrifice.

Firstly to cleanse himself because he's presenting the sacrifice, and

also to cleanse the people. Okay, but it has to

be done year after year after every year.

Okay.

So Chapter ten actually reminds us, look, you know, the

tabernacle really is God saying you cannot come to me

unless you bring blood. Okay, unless you bring a sacrifice

of an innocent life and animal to cover up your sins. Today,

in the New Testament, we are not completely done with

blood offerings. Sometimes we think, oh, no longer any blood,

or actually you think about it, it is still relevant,

but it's not what it was before. It has already transformed,

because the scriptures actually tell us that Jesus came to

not abolish the laws, not abolish the whole system of

bringing offerings and tabernacles, but he has come to fulfill Okay.

So the blood is actually in both the Old Testament

and the New Testament, something that we must remember, must

take in mind. And so when you're studying he Rules

chapter ten, where you're looking and he Brews chapter ten.

I broke it up into two parts as well. I'm

reading the first part and then there's the second part.

So again I say this over and over again. The

first part is actually establishing the principle. Remember there's always

if you read God's word, there's always principles. You've got

to draw the principles out, and then the second part

is where he's telling you how to practice those principles,

which is what I'm going to go into after I

established the principle first.

Okay, So again, the.

First part is what we believe in the second part

is how we behave There's always a principle to know

and learn, and then there's always a practice in which

we must do something cannot not do anything.

One Okay, So.

We're going to see that Jesus' single sacrifice as the

underlying principle that we as believers can have certainty and

assurance when we practice this principle. Okay, Jesus' single sacrifice

is the principle that we need to know and understand.

What is it saying?

And so the scripture actually says this, do you know

in the past what the sacrifices in the Old Testament

remind you of? And actually sacrifice us in the Old

Testament from the scripture and you know this, it's actually

a reminder that you are a sinner, is the truth,

because when you bring the animals to go and sacrifice

is like because oh please turne for my sin. I

have done something wrong, and every time we offer sacrifice,

it's actually a reminder of how sinful we are as people.

But if you compare this to the New Testament, and

okay today New Testament, like I said last time, no,

thank God, we don't have to bring animals, and you

know we'll be chopping animals here every week and we

are not doing that.

We are not doing that.

But you know there is something that we do, an

ordinance in church that we do that actually reflects that practice.

And it's actually called holy communion. Okay, communion. When we

partake of communion, Essentially, what you're remembering, you're remembering the

sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. And what does communion

remind you of? Does it just merely remind you of

your sin? Because for me the reality is yes, not

before I partic communion, I'm always like Lord, or give

me for a fallen shot of your glory. But the

essence of communion is it's actually a reminder of your salvation,

not just merely a reminder of how sinful you are,

but the reminder of thank you Jesus, because you have

done it once and for all, and that's why we

have to be obedient to partake of holy communion, the

ordinance that God has given us. Okay, So then the

question comes he actually, God, what you want? You want

sacrifice or you want obedience?

Okay.

In the Old Testament, there is a portion of scripture

in first seven, chapter fifteen. We're all very aware of it.

If you're not, it's there. It says that obedience is

better than sacrifice. But you think about it. If if

you think about it, both obedience and sacrifice are needed.

Obedience is definitely better when you compare it to a

ritualistic sacrifice that means a secrit which you just do

it out of routine. You know, there's no meaning to it.

I'm just going to slaughter animals, do it, okay, it's

the year after year, year after year, it's going to

be the same thing. But when obedience and sacrifice come together,

that's powerful. Because the main problem was that God could

never get a blurred sacrifice that represented an obedient life.

In the Old Testament, no animal could really represent an

obedient life. It could be unblemish, it could be a

nice cute little lamb, but still it is not an

obedient life, and what actually took place in the Old

Testament was a repeated.

Action year after year.

But when Jesus arrived, for the first time blurred or

shed not only of some animal falls onto the altar,

but for a first time, a person who lived a

perfectly obedient life was offered up as sacrifice.

That is the difference.

Therefore, actually, for the first time, sacrifice and obedience blended,

it came together. That made all the difference, because the

best part of it is this. You realize that the

blood of Jesus doesn't just cover a multitude of sin.

That is what the blood of those lambs and bull

actually does. It says that it covers your sin. That's

why God can pass over. That's actually the understanding. No,

it just covers. So what God says is okay, covered

for now. But the blurd of Jesus does not just

cover sins. It actually says that the blood of Jesus

removes sin. That's why in John chapter one, verse twenty nine,

it says, blessed is the lamb of God who takes

away the sin of the world.

Amen.

So here is where we I need to teach a

little bit on this. God is both justice and mercy.

He's both just and merciful. I know sometimes we scratch

our head how does this work? Because it's it's quite

hard to be just and merciful at the same time,

because they're almost contradicting each other. And you know, if

you are just means you do what is right, you

get reward. You do what is wrong, you get punishment.

If you are merciful means whatever you do, carry on,

carry on to a certain extent.

How do you balance that?

Well, it's actually really hard to be both just and

merciful except under one circumstance, and that is where an

innocent person is prepared to suffer justice on behalf of

the guilty. You think about it, there is no other

scenario where a person can exercise both justice and mercy,

and it is only at that point that sin can

be punished and pardoned at the same time. That is

why the cross is necessary. That is how we have

to know and understand the cross as such. The cross

is where both punishment and pardon took place. Because you see,

at the cross we see God's perfect justice. The death

penalty for sin was carried out, but we also see

God's perfect mercy. Basically, what was his mercy that we

go free. The guilty actually went free. That is mercy

because the innocent had paid the price, that is Jesus Christ.

And so if God forgave us without the cross, then

he would be merciful, not just. If God just says

and everyone forgiven, then he is a merciful God.

But then he's not just.

And if God refused to forgive sin that means cannot

forgive all sin, must be punished, then he is just,

but not merciful. But God says, even if you give

me your eldest son, no, like how Isaac was presented,

it's still not enough, because it's still not satisfactory. He

will only be satisfied with his own son. That means

when he gives his only son. And so why should

the sacrifice of the life of Jesus be more acceptable

than all the animals. Some people ask, okay, why he

was working fine cows and bulls and lambs.

No, why why?

Well, because again it is the first sacrifice that had

lived in the way God wanted this sacrifice to live.

In Micah chapter six, verse eight, it says, you must

always be just, you must love mercy, and you must

walk humbly with God. And Jesus Christ is the only

person and the only living person who has done that all.

Throughout his life.

He did justly, he loved mercy, and he walked humbly

with God. And so Jesus offered God the Father what

was wanted, what was essentially needed, and God accepted that

sacrifice and can therefore forgive sin. And that is how

the whole problem with mankind was resolved. Actually, if you

think about it, it's powerful. It's powerful. That is the gospel,

and that is what is man. In verse fourteen, when

he says this fall by that one offering, he forever

made perfect those who are being made holy, you read

it slowly because sometimes it's quite I'm boggling. You see,

we are actually now called to take possession of that knowledge.

This is because we are still being made holy. Sometimes

it's I know, we are all work in progress our lives.

But the principle is clear that Jesus' sacrifice, once and

for all has already made us perfect. We just need

to put it into practice now, even though you feel

like I don't feel very perfect at this point, where

that's why they say practice makes perfect makes sense. Amen,

for Christ is to become my substitute. Not only in

his death. He doesn't want to be just the substitute

in his death. He also wants to be the substitute

in our lives. That means the life in which we

are living. He is not only to die in my place,

he is also to live in my place. Don't just

look at Jesus has done and doest died past. No,

he doesn't just want to die in your place. He

wants to live in your place as well. Question is,

are we allowing Christ to live in us instead of

us living our own lives for ourselves. It's the question

that we have to ask. And this is why discipleship

is needed in church, because it's not so much understanding

a principle and a concept that Jesus died for us. Hallelujah,

Praise to God. We are safe now. We don't have

to do anything. We just sit back and relax. This

journey of life. Remember, I actually say journey to the end.

To the end means that Christ has already made perfect.

What is being made holy? Who do you think is

being made holy? Bove you and I amen. That is

why we have to read the second part of the scripture,

and the second part of the scripture, Versus nineteen onwards,

starts off in the NLT with this title called a

call to persevere. Oh, we see that as a We're like, hah,

need to need to persevere, need to tahn. Yes, that

is the call right now, And this is what he says.

I'm going to read nineteen all the way to thirty nine,

and I'm going to break it down for us. Okay,

so far, everyone's still okay. And so he says this,

and so dear brothers and sisters. And now it starts

to get a bit more serious. He's going into this

conversation telling them, dear brothers and sisters. And usually when

the author addresses it like that, he's actually talking to

believe us, dear brethren, brothers and sisus.

That means you believe in Jesus.

You understand that the sacrifice that He has made for

you once and for all. And now I'm going to

tell you what you need to do, dear brothers and sisters.

We can boldly enter Heaven's most holy place because of the.

Blood of Jesus.

By his death, Jesus opened a new and life giving

way through the curtain into.

The most holy place.

And since we have a great high priests who rule

rule over God's house, let us go right into the

presence of God with sincere hearts, fully trusting him.

For our guilt.

Consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean,

and our bodies have been washed.

With pure water. Hallelujah.

Let us hold tightly without wavering, to the hope. We

are firmed, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

Let us think of ways to motivate one another to

acts of love and good works. And let us not

neglect our meeting together as some people do, but encourage

one another, especially now that the day of his return

is drawing near Verse twenty six. Okay, it takes a

bit of a turn, dear friends, if we deliberately continue

sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth.

There is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins.

There is only the terrible expectation of God's judgment and

the raging fire that will consume his enemies. For anyone

who refused to obey the law of Moses was put

to their without mercy. On the testimony of two or

three witnesses. Just think how much worse the punishment will

be for those who have trampled on the son of

God and have treated the blood of the Covenant, which

made us holy, as if it were common and unholy,

and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit, who brings

God's mercy to us. For we know the one who

said I will take revenge, I will pay them back.

He also said the Lord will judge his own people.

It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands

of the living God stronger. Think back on those early

days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you

remain faithful even though it man terrible suffering. Sometimes you

were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, And sometimes

you help others who were suffering the same things. And

this is where I got the worse from. You suffered

along with those who were thrown into jail. And when

all you own was taken from you, you accepted it

with John. You knew there were better things waiting for

you that will last forever Verse thirty five. So do

not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember

the great reward it brings you. Patience and endurance is

what you need now, so that you will continue to

do God's will. Then you will receive all that He

has promised for in just a little while. The coming

one will come and not delay, and my righteous ones

will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure

in anyone who turns away. But we are not like

those who turn away from God to their own destruction.

We are the faithful ones whose souls will be safe. Amen,

the Lord bless the reading of his words. Okay, he

talked dog death, principle, death, practice, death.

All sorts of strong warning.

And at the end of it, I love it, he says,

But I know you're not like that one in a way.

That's why you're saying. I know we are not like

those who turn away from God. So he's his hopeful. Okay,

whoever this author is, don't turn away from God. I

know we are not like that, because I know you're

faithful ones. And that's how I'm talking to you all

as well right now. But we need to go through

the scriptures and we need to understand. So what is

this portion talking about again? Take note, it's talking to believers.

Now he starts to get a little bit more serious

and in this section, and this portion you.

Actually see threet things.

You can actually break it down to three things, and

then got a lot of some things that I will

break it down as well.

Okay, but the three things is this.

You will see an encouragement, but you will also see

a severe warning, and you will also see a very

practical appeal. There were three things, Okay, they basically what

was the author doing. He was trying to encourage people

to do something again practicema. So the encouragement is you

got to do something. Then he gives them a severe

warning of what happens if you don't do it.

Okay, thank God for God's word. Right. And then finally

there is appeal.

He's appealing to them strongly because of he's saying, please

try to ton persevere because there will be a reward

that comes to those who hangs in there. Okay, so

there's the three big teams. Let's break it down. Let's

break it down even more.

So.

What is it saying here is this Christ has done

once and for all that needs to be done. But

if we are going to enjoy the results of what

Jesus has done, then there is a continuous thing that

we need to do. He's encouraging us. There is a

continuous thing we need to do, you see her. A

lot of times our human mind works like this because

we always say, Jesus, you have to continuously do something

for me, because I trusted in you ones right, A

lot of times we are well. I became a believer

back in I don't know, nineteen eighty five, Okay, I

get my life or Terrence is like that sounds about

my time.

Or way much earlier.

Terrence is much okay, Terrence is part of yeah history, history, okay,

but some of us. I once gave my life to you.

Now you continuously work in me. That's how we often

look at it. But the reality is Jesus is the

one that has done everything once and for all. It

is we who must have a continuous attitude, a right attitude,

towards him.

And that is why No.

I've reminded us time and time again that when you

read and study the Gospels and the scriptures, when they're

telling you to do something, no, for God so loved

the world and whoever who believes. Again, that word believe

is not just believe one time. It's actually a continuous tense,

which means that whoever who believes and carry on believing.

That means you cannot stop. We are to continuously believe.

We cannot say I believe in you when I was fifteen.

Now when I'm fifty one, I'm having more doubts. No,

you know, when we read the scriptures, it Matthew seven,

ask sick. No, it doesn't just say ask one time.

It doesn't say sick one time or not one time.

It's actually ask and carry on asking until you receive

an answer. Seek and carry on seeking until you find

your answer. Knock and carry on knocking until the door

is open. A lot of times we like to do

things one time and expect God to continuously do something.

Is the other way around. God has done it all

once and for all, capish done. Now we we need

to continuously leave it out. That is why the encouragement

keeps on saying, let us, let us, let us.

Let us keep doing it. And actually, what must we do?

You can break it down further, is actually asking you

to practice faith, hope and love essentially out I'll explain

because the first one says this, let us draw near

to God with full assurance of faith. What is our

faith rooted in is routed in the fact that Jesus

Christ died for us. So our faith is actually rooted

in the past. Act you think about it. When we

read the Bible. It is a historical book that told

us what happened many many years ago, and we believe it.

So we believe that Jesus has taken away the sins

of the world. And it is true faith that Jesus

is making you whole because He has ready made you

complete by his grace. And this is the tension of

the Christian life, because we will always ask ourselves, am

I therefore sinless?

The moment I believe straight.

Away done the day, call tim one safe, always say

forever and ever save. But you see, we know we

have everything in Christ, but we are still to keep

on taking possession of that belief because you still have

to make decisions every day.

Right.

I don't feel yes, I'm assured that Jesus has made

me whole, cleanse me, but I know daily I still

need to make choices for him. I know daily sometimes

I still make mistakes, I still fall, I still stumble.

That is why I still need to confess my sins.

Because He is just and faithful too forgive our sins.

So it's very important that we know that Christ, yes,

he has taken it all once and for all, we

are to continuously take possession of it. And then the

scripture goes on and say, well you start by being

water baptized.

Is there?

I'm not making this up Verse twenty two to twenty three.

It says that through the washing.

It always starts with that, because when we as believers

start off our believing life with an obedient egg, it's powerful.

That's why it says be water baptize, because there is

power in obeying God's word.

Amen.

It shows that someone is full of faith and assured

of his faith, because a person who is.

Going to be what a baptist is not going to be.

I'm not too sure about this, Jesus guy, But I'm

just doing because some joker told me and I have

to get a shower. It cannot be there because I

have always reminded us what the baptism is saying goodbye

to our old lives.

It's our funeral service.

Hastella vista, bye bye old life, welcome new life. And

you can't do it unless you are convinced that Jesus

that you have put.

Your hope and your trust and your faith in Christ Jesus. Amen.

And so it starts that way. So everything has been

done by Christ. We now what we have is the

privilege of excess. We have direct access to God. It

is true faith in the past works of all the

Jesus has done for us that now we step into

a life where God will continuously lead us forward so

that we can trust Him daily.

Amen.

Faith is the first part. The second part is this,

let's hold fast, hold fast to one hope of God's

promises in the future. So hope is always linked to

the future. What is it that every Christian has been

believing in and looking forward to since the beginning? If

you read the apostle's creed, is there every apostle will

say that I believe one day in the return of

Jesus Christ. Even two thousand years ago, they are really

expecting him to return. What more today, which I think

we are much closer than they ever were. But we

need to allow our confidence to have an anchor. And

our confidence is anchored to not something that is below

or under the ocean, is actually anchored to Heaven, and

He's anchored to the future, is anchored towards the one

day return of Jesus Christ, because one day God is

going to come back, and one day God's holiness is

going to catch up with each and every one of us.

That's when we are perfected in his plan and his

purpose and his timing. So hope really is not something

that's easy because again, faith is built on the past,

very important, but the past has a really happened, so

we can grab hold of it much easier. Hope is

built on the future, not something that we see. And

so sometimes faith, hope and love. You ask me, the

weakest of them all is hope. But we need to

be hopeful as Christians because our hope is based on

something that we are certain will come to pass and

something that we know will happen.

And then the third thing.

Is this, now, let's motivate now, Now, let's motivate each other.

Two love.

And when do you think love is neither in the past,

need in the future. No is needed now. Now, faith, hope,

and love can actually also be seen in the context

of past, present, and future. So I hope you see

this because the scripture now is saying, let's provoke each

other to love strong words. No, that word actually means

let's irritate each other to love, almost like let's nag

each other to love. I know, I joke with the

other plans. Now I'm forty five this year, my mother

still negts me. I'm forty four. Okay, forty four Okay,

my wife corrected me. Okay, I'm younger a little bit,

but my mother still next me. I don't think she

neagts me out of hatred, no, because really, some days

I'm just I can be a bum, but she next me.

Until today I believe she neagts me out of love,

because really, really love is needed in the present. Love

cannot be developed private. There's no way in wish you

can love yourself. And that's why love is always something

that is seen and experienced in the fellowship. So your

concern is not just the wellbeing of yourself, am I

being loved? No, is actually the wellbeing of the fellowship.

That is why the scripture says, don't neglect meeting at church.

That's what the scripture means. Sometimes we love this scripture,

but actually where is it coming from wealth, It's coming

from this. It says, don't forsake assembling together, because if

you're going to help others to be holy. You have

got to be there, present in each other's life and

constantly nagging and.

Provoking each other to love.

You don't like it right when your leaders like, hey,

come for this, help this person, give this person. Amen,

it's like provocation. But that's that is the reality. I'm

not making this up. These are the words that I use.

Amen.

And so because Jesus has done everything he needs to do,

we must therefore be confident when we draw here with faith,

when we hold fast to hope, and when we stir

each other to love. Makes sense. That's what the scriptures

are telling us. That's the first part, the encouragement. The

second part is this, we now need to persevere because

here comes the warning.

And the warning is this, if.

You treat the sacrifice of Christ the same way as

if it was the sacrifice of the Old Testament, then

you're putting yourself in danger. Again, I'm not making this up,

but that is the reality of it. Because a lot

of times we just want things covered. We don't really

want things removed, and that's how we continue to live

our lives. Everything just's just cover it. But God doesn't

just want to stop at covering things up.

He wants to remove it, remove it.

The truth is, when Jesus was sacrificed on across it

was not just to cover our sins temporarily, is to

remove our sins when we sincerely repented.

You'll believe that. Amen.

In other words, it says, if you go on willfully

sinning after you found out about the sacrifice Jesus offered.

For you, you.

Are putting yourself in a very dangerous place because you

are actually insulting the Son of God. That's what I'm

not making this up. The scripture says this. It says

you're disrespecting the heavenly Father. It says you are offending

the Holy Spirit. That's what it means by disdaining the

Holy Spirit. And those are very strong verbs that I use,

because you're putting yourself beyond rich, because that sacrifice is

once and for all, which actually just means.

There's nothing after that.

Sometimes we live like as though the one they didn't

quite work, We try again next year, this one didn't

quite well, We'll try again. No, that is once and

for all, and so we cannot keep putting what Jesus

has done once and for all and render it almost

useless and worthless.

That is what the scripture is telling us.

That is why the warning here states that it is

a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the

living God.

We need to have that conscience. Again, I'm not just

wanting to scare people. Why do I want to do that.

We now have the freedom to choose to do what

is right in our lives. Amen.

So this stern warning, we are reminded for the need

of perseverance to allow the sacrifice that Christ made for

us once and for all to work and do its job. Ultimately. Amen,

we are coming to an end. I'm drawing to a

close because finally he says this that it is a

plea to endure. We must both persevere through the tough

times and endure through the very and the writer now

is reminding us again, Hey, you all remember how it

was such a tough time, especially for you early Jewish Christians.

You all went through so many difficult moments just to

believe no. A lot of you were thrown into prison,

that's the context of the scripture. A lot of you

had your property taken from you, a lot of you

went through so much hardship. Do you remember what it

took for you to believe back then into where you

are today. But you still can withstand the loss of

everything because you knew you had something better. You had

something better, and as believers, we all have something better.

Our possessions, our life, all these things are temporary because really,

one day it will all be taken. There's nothing. You

can be a millionaire, you can think. None of your

millions with you into heaven. That's the reality of it.

You will not take any of your possessions and your belongings,

not even your wife or your husband, because marriage actually

ends here on earth. It says still death to us,

and there is no marriage in heaven. That's the reality

of it. I'm not making this up because we are

eventually called to be one with God. And there's nothing

of this earth in which we can take with us.

But there is something where mouth and rust cannot destroy

and thieves cannot break in and cannot steal. That is

the treasures that we store up in heaven. Amen, and believers,

we are therefore to store things in heaven. And so

that's what the author is not telling them. Guys, you

go to time all the way to the very hand.

You have to persevere and and deal all the way

to the very end, because that is how you are

assured that all the treasures that you are stored up

in heaven you will see and you will come to pass.

And so the words here is this, you really know.

So this is the appeal. There is a reward that

is waiting for you, just hanging there, hanging there a

little while longer. Don't lose this reward at the late stage.

And again another reminder, because he's saying that the voyage

is almost over. Actually the author starts to talk a

little bit on using sailing terms. Your voyage is almost

coming to the end, and the jazz shall live by

faith the rescuers on the way, and he will never

be late. So don't drift, don't drift away, complete the

voyage and en deal right to the end.

Amen. That is what the scripture here in Hebrews stand

is saying.

I know, after reading it and understanding it, suddenly they're

going to prison, but not so scary anymore. Right, But

we still need to hang on because how do we

embark on the geney. I'm going to invite the band up.

I'm almost done. That's one last part for us to

think about. How do we on the journey John chapter fourteen,

verse one to seven. And it's the favorite scripture of

many of us preachers, especially during funerals, because he says this,

don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust

also in me. There is more than enough room in

the Father's home. If this were not so, would I

have told you that I'm going to prepare a place

for you. When everything is ready, I will come and

get you so that you will always be with me

where I am. And you know the way to where

I'm going. And of course Thomas and his big mouth says,

I don't know where you're going.

I have no idea. And then Jesus says.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No

one can come to the Father except through me. If

you had really known me, you would know who my

father is. From now on. You do know him and

have seen him. You see the first name. And I

mentioned this just now earlier as well. And the best

name for Christianity has always been Followers of the Way.

The Way because it is a road that we need

to travel, and the road actually begins with repentance and

it ends in heaven. It is a road it's a

journey to the end. The response to him, Aaron, that

we are going to respond to is the communion him.

Let's respond to that, because I want us to take

that all in. You see, the problem is.

Not those.

Who die before they have traveled very far, but those

who live and don't travel. Because a lot of times

I heard I hear scriptures or people explaining about the

thief who was hanging on the cross with Jesus. Remember

I shed this before thief hanging on across with Jesus

and right there, and then he says, no, God, remember me.

And then Jesus says, today you're with me in paradise.

And a lot of people tell me that because of

how Jesus spoke to this thief, It's okay. All we

need to do is just believe and everything is sorted out.

You don't have to get water baptize.

No.

Nowhere does it say, see the thief never got water baptized. Right,

still go to heaven. But I'm not worried about someone

who God's timing for that person is shot before he

has to travel. Do I believe the thief is in

paradise with Jesus.

I do I do.

But I'm more concerned of those who are alive but

not traveling on the road. I think that should be

our concern, not so much. Let's find what's the minimum,

and let's stick to that minimum. No, God is saying, yeah,

this teeth, his time is up from faith to the

grave almost quite immediately. They didn't have a long life

to live. But the rest of us are still here

walking this earth. We still have a journey, and so

we need to travel. Don't think that the meaning I

come to faith, I have arrived a lot of times.

That's how we think I get my life to Jesus, Halliujah,

Praise God. All heaven't rejoiced I've arrived. No, you have

just begun your journey. Yes you have arrived. If sally

the Lord takes you homeler and perfection has really caught

up with you.

But the truth is we.

All are still on this journey, and that's why to

be salvage from sins in this life, we need everything

that God has offered to us. And this includes water baptism,

it includes spirit baptism. I teach this, I believe in it.

Why do we need to be obedient to His word?

Because that is exactly what he says. Obey my word,

Obey my teachings. Don't walk through earth thinking that you're

on your own. That's why we need the Holy Spirit

in us. We need the infeeling of the Holy Spirit.

If we don't receive the Holy Holy Spirit, we are

in a very vulnerable, vulnerable and dangerous state because God's

power and God's purity is needed for us to walk

this journey both power and purity. Purity is what the

Spirit of God does is continuously. That's what the word

sanctification means. God is making us holy day by day. God,

I need your purity. It is your purity that will

make me hold one day. That's why the Holy the

Spirit of God is the only one that has that

holy title.

You realize that Holy Spirit is a given Holy Spirit.

We need God's spirit because not just his purity, but

his power. We need God to equip us to walk

this Earth is not going to be easy. There's going

to be so many challenges that comes your way. Faith, hope,

and love is not easyly practice. And you see most religions,

the followers have to perfect themselves before being accepted at

the end. That's why a lot of times religions other faiths. No,

they're always constantly trying to do good, do good, do good,

do good. Hopefully all the doing good on my account,

sheep the good outweighs the bad. But the difference is

Christianity is the only religion where God accepts us as

we are in order to help us become who we

ought to be. Does that make sense? Because he says

you are justified by faith, you are made right by faith.

The minute you believe I see you through the lens

of my son, I forgive your sins. Now live out

the life that I have purpose and plan for you.

And we can't live this life by ourselves.

We have to live it, not just with Christ who

has died for us, but with Christ who now.

Lives in me. Let's stand, Father.

We thank you for your word, and I pray, Lord God,

your word will continue to strengthen us. Your word, Lord God,

is shepherd and any tool and instrument we can think of.

But Lord, your word is there not to condemn us.

But your word is there to tell us, Lord God,

that we have a hope and a future because of Lord.

When we hang on to You and journey with you,

both your purity and Your power will enable us to

live in accordance to your plan and your purpose, because

we are assured that what will wash away our sins is.

The blood of Jesus in our lives.

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