WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560 It's not your activity or your works that saved you. 2 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:06.720 It's free gift from Jesus. 3 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:09.920 So it's not your works or activity that can unsafe you. 4 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:13.760 And this is typically where people then go, oh great, so I can do whatever I want and 5 00:00:13.760 --> 00:00:15.040 I'm still saved. 6 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:17.000 And you think that's such an original thought. 7 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:22.600 But because you have been set free and because he loves you no matter what anyway, he's 8 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:26.440 with Jesus that he who is forgiven much also loves much. 9 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.680 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 10 00:00:28.680 --> 00:00:34.040 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth 11 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:35.800 that he has for us. 12 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:41.640 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com. 13 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.880 That's citylightnyc.com. 14 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:50.120 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already 15 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:52.720 working in our hearts and minds. 16 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:57.720 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you 17 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:06.840 are surrounded by his grace, and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 18 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:17.800 Welcome to everybody, a special welcome to our online viewers. 19 00:01:17.800 --> 00:01:21.040 Thank you, Jesus, if you're a guest, I also want to welcome you. 20 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:26.160 My name is Pastor Boyan Jansik and it's my pleasure to minister to you this morning. 21 00:01:26.160 --> 00:01:27.200 We're in the Book of Hebrews. 22 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:38.200 We've just gotten started, typically and frankly what's more fun for me is topical preaching 23 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.040 where we can hit different topics. 24 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:45.920 I seek the Lord on a topic, on a subject that will really matter to you in your life. 25 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:52.800 What I like to do from time to time is expository preaching where we go through the entire Bible, 26 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:57.120 well not the whole Bible, but a book in the Bible, but the whole book in the Bible, line 27 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:02.560 by line, precept upon precept, verse by verse, so that you can fall in love with studying 28 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:07.160 the Word and so that you can see how the Word of God is to be read, how it's to be studied, 29 00:02:07.160 --> 00:02:11.280 how it's to be interpreted, because there is a plague of biblical illiteracy in the church 30 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:12.280 today. 31 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:16.040 There is a plague of people who, I mean they get their daily dose of the Word of God 32 00:02:16.040 --> 00:02:20.600 from like scrolling Instagram or TikTok and seeing a slide of a scripture. 33 00:02:20.600 --> 00:02:26.800 That's not, it's just not going to cut it, that's not going to do it for you. 34 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:31.840 The Word of God produces fruit, the Word of God produces results when you ingest the 35 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:35.840 Word of God, it's going, it cannot but produce fruit in your life. 36 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:36.840 It is impossible. 37 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.720 In fact, those of you who've given your lives to Jesus, your life is transformed, you're 38 00:02:40.720 --> 00:02:45.040 the result of the Word of God bearing fruit in your life. 39 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:48.440 More Word, more fruit. 40 00:02:48.440 --> 00:02:52.920 So we want the Word to be our standard, the Word is above all, not our feelings. 41 00:02:52.920 --> 00:02:59.160 We know we have a culture that it's, well I don't feel, well I feel, and really the divine 42 00:02:59.160 --> 00:03:06.760 response is, I don't care, how you feel, how, I mean he cares how you feel, but he doesn't 43 00:03:06.760 --> 00:03:10.000 care how you feel about his word, because there's no debating it. 44 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:11.320 There's no arguing with it. 45 00:03:11.320 --> 00:03:17.080 It's not subject to a private interpretation, it is what it is, and it's life, and to submit 46 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:25.080 your life to the Word of God will produce life inside of you, hallelujah. 47 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:31.120 So let's begin in Hebrews chapter 1, just something to keep in mind is that Hebrews was 48 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:35.120 written to discouraged Christians. 49 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:41.680 Hebrews was written to Christians who were on the verge of quitting. 50 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.280 They were Hebrew Christians and they had really taken a beating. 51 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:51.000 They were ostracized, they were pushed out, socially ostracized, financially out, they 52 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:57.240 weren't even allowed to barter or trade in the market, and so I mean they had it a lot 53 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:02.360 worse than any Christians in America today, and we like to complain, but we have, it's 54 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.400 still wonderful compared to them. 55 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:09.360 And so this was a group of Christians that were on the verge of forsaking the Lord. 56 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:15.000 And so this would be the word of the Lord to you in a time of discouragement, in a time 57 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:25.480 of hopelessness, or at a time, what a graphic, that's just weird for me to see. 58 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.760 I'm looking down, I'm like, am I wearing a different jacket? 59 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:31.880 Hope I'm wearing a different jacket. 60 00:04:31.880 --> 00:04:41.120 Let's begin Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 1. 61 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:47.480 Therefore now we're in chapter 2, chapter 1 was all about the supremacy and total sufficiency 62 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:53.120 of Jesus and how He is God. 63 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:54.920 He's the son of God. 64 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:55.920 He's also God. 65 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:57.360 How does that work? 66 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.240 You'll find out when you meet Him. 67 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.240 It does. 68 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.400 Because whenever you see a therefor in the Scriptures, just go back a little bit to find 69 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:07.640 out what it's therefor. 70 00:05:07.640 --> 00:05:13.560 What He's saying is because of the total supremacy of Jesus, because Jesus is God Almighty, therefore 71 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:20.320 because of that, we must give the more earnest heed, and that's important in the church. 72 00:05:20.320 --> 00:05:22.560 Just heed, you know what that means? 73 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:28.520 That means you're not just a hearer of the word, but a doer also. 74 00:05:28.520 --> 00:05:34.280 The word isn't going to benefit you unless when you hear it, you let it enter your heart 75 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:39.840 and then you quit kicking against it, and quit rationalizing your way out of the word 76 00:05:39.840 --> 00:05:47.240 of God, but embrace it and allow it to change you and then become a doer of the word. 77 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.680 Thereforium was give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, and then there's 78 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:52.160 a warning. 79 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:55.680 If we don't do that, you're going to drift away. 80 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:59.360 Now this sends shock waves through my body. 81 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.760 That's just that phrase, drift away. 82 00:06:02.760 --> 00:06:05.640 And this is one of the painful parts about being a pastor. 83 00:06:05.640 --> 00:06:07.840 You get to see, this isn't a painful part, this is a good part. 84 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:10.280 You get to see a lot of people living in victory. 85 00:06:10.280 --> 00:06:13.040 You get to see lives transform, that's the great part. 86 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:18.000 The painful part is seeing some people drift away, and that just tears me up inside. 87 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:23.240 And one thing I found about drifting away is it doesn't happen overnight. 88 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.240 It's a slow drifting. 89 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:33.400 It reminds me when I first really taught myself how to fish, I was eight, nine, we had a friend 90 00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:39.320 in the family, we had a farm out in Virginia, we would go out to the farm and there was a lake, 91 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:45.360 there was a little paddle boat, and I'd get in the boat, I'd try to find a little place where 92 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.600 there was some brush, they would cast some shade, I knew that's where the fish were, in 93 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:52.640 the middle of the day hiding out in the shade, and I'd cast my line, and then after about 94 00:06:52.640 --> 00:06:57.680 10 minutes I was just looking at the line, I looked around, I realized I'm in a totally 95 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.680 different place in the lake after about 10 minutes. 96 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:00.680 What happened? 97 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.600 I slowly drifted away. 98 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:06.880 What did I have to do to drift away? 99 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:08.360 Nothing. 100 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:10.680 Nothing in a way just happens. 101 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.560 The Philippian jailer asked the Apostle Paul, what must I do to be saved? 102 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:18.200 I don't even remember what the answer was. 103 00:07:18.200 --> 00:07:21.680 This is a good verse to have memorized, because there's people in your life, they may not 104 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.720 be asking it that way, but they're looking at you, like little puppy dogs going, what 105 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.880 must I do to be saved? 106 00:07:28.880 --> 00:07:32.880 And the Apostle Paul, he busted out 16 very big books and he said, read through all of 107 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:38.840 these, we're going to go through a 12-week class, no, he said, believe in the Lord Jesus 108 00:07:38.840 --> 00:07:46.200 Christ, and you will be saved, you and your whole house, simple gospel message. 109 00:07:46.200 --> 00:07:51.080 But just reverse that question, what must I do to be lost? 110 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:56.280 And the answer is nothing. 111 00:07:56.280 --> 00:08:03.020 You can just drift away, slowly, you get caught up with the world. 112 00:08:03.020 --> 00:08:06.360 You got saved because the world did you dirty. 113 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.960 Nobody got saved because the world was so good to them. 114 00:08:09.960 --> 00:08:15.160 You got saved because you went in the world, you got your butt kicked, you tasted of the 115 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:22.360 world and left you all hollow and empty inside because sin never satisfies. 116 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.240 You skip going to church, you skip going to life group, you neglect your prayer time. 117 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.400 The devil comes in with some lies, you know one of his top lies is that you're missing 118 00:08:30.400 --> 00:08:32.080 out on something. 119 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:36.640 That's actually his original lie to Eve, you're missing out. 120 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:42.720 Oh, you get all this garden except that God is holding out on you, he's never holding 121 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:50.920 out on you, there's nothing out there. 122 00:08:50.920 --> 00:08:55.160 I didn't do this in the first service, let me just go here, it's important for us to 123 00:08:55.160 --> 00:08:57.120 know. 124 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:04.760 When it comes to salvation, it's a free gift and I prize salvation, salvation is everything 125 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:10.800 because you're an eternal being, you will live forever and there is a heaven that's wonderful 126 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:16.560 and a hell that's real and Jesus offers up forgiveness of sins to whosoever will when 127 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:20.960 you place your faith in him and in his substitutionary he became your substitute, he was punished 128 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:26.240 so you wouldn't have to be, you place your faith in his substitutionary death on the cross. 129 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:31.800 A big question comes up is can I lose my salvation, you know new people come to the Lord and 130 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:34.800 they got, sometimes it's old people too. 131 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:39.640 You got the old ways still that are part of you, you know I remember when I first got 132 00:09:39.640 --> 00:09:43.840 saved at 16 then I went to this party, you know a teenage high school party, I didn't 133 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:48.160 even do anything crazy at that party but the whole time I just felt so dirty, you know 134 00:09:48.160 --> 00:09:53.520 and I was just like, oh no, oh Lord, I didn't do anything crazy but you got a little looser 135 00:09:53.520 --> 00:09:58.640 than I should have, don't try to picture that, it's not a pretty sight and I remember 136 00:09:58.640 --> 00:10:03.640 thinking like, you know and I ran back to church, the people that, you know what I'm 137 00:10:03.640 --> 00:10:08.360 talking about, am I still saved and do I have to get resaved and do I have to get 138 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:16.880 born again again, no, no you're saved and should you fall, you fall saved and the Bible 139 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:23.200 says the righteous man falls down seven times but each time gets back up again. 140 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:28.320 If your life is a mess right now, I know this that if you would just keep your eyes on 141 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:33.240 Jesus, do not allow yourself to get condemned because the blood of Jesus declares there is 142 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.560 no condemnation, holiness will be worked out in your life and those things that plague 143 00:10:37.560 --> 00:10:43.040 you with dictions or whatever chain Satan has put on you, they will break. 144 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:50.240 So it's not your activity or your works that saved you, it's free gift from Jesus. 145 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.760 So it's not your works or activity that can unsave you and this is typically where 146 00:10:54.760 --> 00:10:59.440 people then go, oh great, so I can do whatever I want and I'm still saved and you think 147 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.800 that's such an original thought, that was what they said back in the first century, that's 148 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:08.080 what Paul in Romans 6 is writing about, he's saying God forbid but because you have been 149 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:16.440 set free and because he loves you no matter what anyway, he, his was Jesus said he who 150 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.720 is forgiven much also loves much. 151 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:26.240 So within you is awakened this love for the Lord and it breaks the power of sin off of 152 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:33.520 your life but nevertheless there is a warning in the Scriptures while your activity cannot 153 00:11:33.520 --> 00:11:34.520 unsave you. 154 00:11:34.520 --> 00:11:38.640 By the way, if you're living a totally reprobate life and you called yourself a Christian 155 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:45.400 and you go and sin and don't even feel anything, I question your faith because you cannot 156 00:11:45.400 --> 00:11:51.240 have a living faith in the Lord if you're consistently living wrong and don't even care. 157 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:57.840 Then that's evidence of a faith that's withered up and died. 158 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:04.600 The evidence of an active faith is a passion for the Lord and the things of the Lord but 159 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:08.280 typically here's how the enemy comes in. 160 00:12:08.280 --> 00:12:14.520 He seeks to discourage you, that's like his number one weapon and if the devil were 161 00:12:14.520 --> 00:12:19.840 to come in with a bag full of different tools, his number one tool would be discouragement 162 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:26.760 to chip away at the heart of the people of God so that they slowly drift the way and 163 00:12:26.760 --> 00:12:33.320 tell them, so I'll just miss a few times, so I'll just pull away a little bit to work 164 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:34.320 on myself. 165 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:35.320 What? 166 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:38.680 Have you ever in all your years seen that work out? 167 00:12:38.680 --> 00:12:44.000 I mean I became a Christian because I couldn't do and handle myself, I'm going to pull away 168 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:50.160 a little bit. 169 00:12:50.160 --> 00:12:59.120 But if you pull away and pull away to a place where your faith dies or God forbid you pull 170 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:04.680 away so much that you renounce Jesus and that's where the book of Hebrews will address 171 00:13:04.680 --> 00:13:10.520 in just a couple of chapters and move away from having a living faith if you don't have 172 00:13:10.520 --> 00:13:16.680 a living faith in Jesus, an act of energized working faith, what happens to your salvation? 173 00:13:16.680 --> 00:13:22.080 Salvation is received every day, you're saved once but every day you're in fellowship 174 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:23.080 with him. 175 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:27.080 Every day I trust you're grateful that all of your sins are forgiven you. 176 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.880 You're grateful that he loves you. 177 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:36.760 So he's warning them and I would echo that warning. 178 00:13:36.760 --> 00:13:39.240 I behold to the Word of God. 179 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:41.400 There's nothing worse than drift in a way. 180 00:13:41.400 --> 00:13:46.640 But if you're here and you have drifted away, if you're here and you drifted away and 181 00:13:46.640 --> 00:13:50.680 anything I said sparks life in you, know this, you have drifted away too far. 182 00:13:50.680 --> 00:13:55.320 And you say, oh, what's the process like coming back home? 183 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.000 It's not painful, it's not arduous. 184 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:58.160 Just look at the prodigal son. 185 00:13:58.160 --> 00:14:02.440 In fact, when the prodigal son came back home the father was looking for him. 186 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.280 That's why it says when he was still a great way off. 187 00:14:05.280 --> 00:14:08.880 Back up the father saw him when he was still a great way off because every day he was looking. 188 00:14:08.880 --> 00:14:11.680 When is my son coming back home? 189 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:13.920 Hallelujah. 190 00:14:13.920 --> 00:14:14.920 Verse two. 191 00:14:14.920 --> 00:14:17.840 So come back home. 192 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:22.840 For if the words spoken through angels proved steadfast, he's talking about the giving 193 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:24.340 of the law. 194 00:14:24.340 --> 00:14:27.160 By the way, you got to stick with me here, right? 195 00:14:27.160 --> 00:14:33.040 If I do topical preaching, I got different stories, different examples. 196 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:35.760 This requires some spiritual stamina. 197 00:14:35.760 --> 00:14:39.680 Yeah, it requires you like pulling on the word of God. 198 00:14:39.680 --> 00:14:43.920 It requires a heart that's saying I want to be enriched by the word of God. 199 00:14:43.920 --> 00:14:46.760 Hallelujah. 200 00:14:46.760 --> 00:14:50.440 For if the word of God, if the word spoken through angels, that's the giving of the law because 201 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:56.200 the Bible says the law, including the Ten Commandments, we're given to Moses by angels. 202 00:14:56.200 --> 00:15:02.680 If that proves steadfast, then every transgression and disobedience received a just reward. 203 00:15:02.680 --> 00:15:12.080 I mean, if the law was true and the law was, it was such a stickler and it was so steadfast 204 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:17.320 and punishment came quickly, thank God we're not under the law, but under grace. 205 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:28.000 But nevertheless, verse three, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? 206 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:33.960 That word neglect is the same word that Jesus used in a parable in Matthew when he was 207 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.600 talking about how there was a supper. 208 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.520 He was talking about a man and he wanted to throw a great feast. 209 00:15:38.520 --> 00:15:39.520 You remember this? 210 00:15:39.520 --> 00:15:44.240 And he invited all the other wealthy people to come to the feast and they neglected it 211 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:51.680 or they made light of it and they never showed up because they made light of it. 212 00:15:51.680 --> 00:15:55.600 And then the master of the feast said, go to the highways and the byways and find the 213 00:15:55.600 --> 00:16:00.240 destitute and the homeless and compel them to come in. 214 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:06.640 Here's what the scripture is saying, don't make light of your salvation, church. 215 00:16:06.640 --> 00:16:08.720 And this is who city light is. 216 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.160 This is who we are. 217 00:16:10.160 --> 00:16:13.040 We found the pearl of great price. 218 00:16:13.040 --> 00:16:17.200 We're not going to treat that thing lightly, I don't treat that thing lightly. 219 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:21.240 Are you aware you really believe you're going to live forever? 220 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.040 You are an eternal being. 221 00:16:23.040 --> 00:16:27.280 And let me just rephrase that, if you've given your life to Jesus, you're going to live 222 00:16:27.280 --> 00:16:28.280 forever. 223 00:16:28.280 --> 00:16:33.280 If you have neglected salvation, if you've turned your back on Jesus, if you've refused 224 00:16:33.280 --> 00:16:38.200 his free gift of salvation, I say this with love in my heart, but it's what the scripture 225 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:40.360 says, you will die forever. 226 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:43.120 Okay, I'm going to choose live forever. 227 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:44.120 Amen. 228 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:45.840 And I'm going to treat it like the... 229 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:49.360 I'm not going to play games with my salvation. 230 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:54.920 And as a father and a husband, I'm not going to play games with my wife or with my children. 231 00:16:54.920 --> 00:16:57.080 I'm going to cross the finish line. 232 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:02.160 He's going to make sure of it, because I thank him for saving power and his keeping power, 233 00:17:02.160 --> 00:17:08.560 and for my wife, and for my kids, and for my church, and for every single one of you. 234 00:17:08.560 --> 00:17:09.560 Salvation is so... 235 00:17:09.560 --> 00:17:11.400 You say, how precious is salvation? 236 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:16.760 God became man and shed his own blood to purchase it for you. 237 00:17:16.760 --> 00:17:23.560 So I won't neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken. 238 00:17:23.560 --> 00:17:30.280 By the way, that word, so, is in the same context as John 316, for God so loved the world. 239 00:17:30.280 --> 00:17:31.280 How much? 240 00:17:31.280 --> 00:17:36.160 It's so is a bad word to use it, but it's a lot a lot. 241 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:42.720 In the Greek, it means a lot, a lot, a lot, kidding, but so great a salvation, which at the 242 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:48.160 first began to be spoken by the Lord who preached the Gospel first, Jesus, of course it was 243 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:53.040 preached through the prophets, but he's talking about this timeline, and was confirmed 244 00:17:53.040 --> 00:18:02.480 to us by those who heard him, those who heard, and namely the disciples, and some people 245 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:07.520 just referenced this to say that it wasn't Paul who wrote Hebrews, because we don't 246 00:18:07.520 --> 00:18:11.280 know who wrote it, and I really don't know, and I really don't care that much, but just 247 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:14.120 throwing it out there. 248 00:18:14.120 --> 00:18:18.280 I know one thing, it's a good book, it's anointed, but you know, because Paul got the Gospel 249 00:18:18.280 --> 00:18:22.640 directly, he said, I got it by revelation, but here, the writer, here, he says, the word 250 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:27.440 was first spoken by the Lord and confirmed to us by others, so he wasn't a first-generation 251 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:33.600 Christian, he was a second-generation Christian, Paul was a first-generation Christian, because 252 00:18:33.600 --> 00:18:41.760 what I'm saying, so how, you believe Paul wrote it, don't you? 253 00:18:41.760 --> 00:18:46.120 She's giving me a polite smile, you do, don't you? 254 00:18:46.120 --> 00:18:54.640 That's what this is all about, I say, okay, God, by the way, all my pastor friends would 255 00:18:54.640 --> 00:19:01.440 agree with you, this is where I argue with him about this, no, it's true, God also bearing 256 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:08.520 witness, both with signs and wonders, what has God bearing witness to? 257 00:19:08.520 --> 00:19:12.680 The preaching of the word, he said, we just heard the word preached to us and confirmed 258 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:19.480 by those who knew him, God also bearing witness, both with signs and wonders and various miracles 259 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:24.880 and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will, there is a huge truth contained 260 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:30.720 in this, I could preach five messages off of this verse, here's the meat of the verse, 261 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:37.760 because that God is loyal to his word, God is faithful to his word, God will, every time 262 00:19:37.760 --> 00:19:44.560 confirm his word, he's not obligated to confirm my word, but the scripture says he will watch 263 00:19:44.560 --> 00:19:50.320 over his word to perform it, so if God said it, that settles it, and his Holy Spirit will 264 00:19:50.320 --> 00:19:56.960 cause his word to come to pass, this is why in Mark 16, the final chapter of Mark, as 265 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:02.040 the disciples went out, it says they went preaching the word everywhere, and the Holy Spirit 266 00:20:02.040 --> 00:20:10.360 working with them, confirming the word with the accompanying signs, so whatever you want, 267 00:20:10.360 --> 00:20:17.040 God to confirm in your life, you have to give him the word to, this is how creation happens, 268 00:20:17.040 --> 00:20:24.040 go back to Genesis 1, the Holy Spirit was hovering over the waters, doing what? 269 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:34.320 Hovering, what was he waiting for? The word, then God spoke, let there be, and the moment 270 00:20:34.320 --> 00:20:40.000 he spoke, the Holy Spirit said, here's the word that I get to partner with, and when the 271 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:45.680 Holy Spirit meets the word, creation happens, and that's how it is in your life, that's 272 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:51.520 how it is in this service, if that was a funny, dirty, depressed preacher, if I believed in poverty, 273 00:20:51.520 --> 00:20:57.800 if I believed in God teaching you valuable life lessons by smiting you with sickness and disease, 274 00:20:57.800 --> 00:21:03.400 do you know what I would get? Exactly, what I preached, and then that would be all through this place. 275 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:12.600 That's why there's people who come here, they don't even like me, they don't like my politics, 276 00:21:12.600 --> 00:21:16.600 they don't, but they're like, I don't want to go to one of those other churches because at least he 277 00:21:16.600 --> 00:21:26.560 preaches the word and I'm changed when I come. They're kind of like, it's a reason for that 278 00:21:26.560 --> 00:21:36.520 way. So that just means whenever you want to see results, get the word concerning your particular 279 00:21:36.520 --> 00:21:41.600 need in your life because the Holy Spirit will confirm it. The day of Pentecost, we see people get 280 00:21:41.600 --> 00:21:46.200 baptized in the Holy Spirit year round, but in the day of Pentecost where I dedicate a whole service to 281 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:50.920 just the baptism in the Holy Spirit, we see all sorts of people come to the front, some of them, 282 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:54.800 I mean, totally deer and headlights, I don't even know if they've been baptized, I don't know if they've 283 00:21:54.800 --> 00:21:59.600 been saved five minutes, maybe they just got saved on the way up to the front, and we see over 90% 284 00:21:59.600 --> 00:22:05.880 of the people get filled with the Holy Spirit. Look, can I just say this to go from zero to speaking in 285 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:12.840 tongues and I'll just add this part, in New York City, just because it's such a secular, humanistic 286 00:22:13.800 --> 00:22:19.880 stronghold, you know, to come up to the front, that's miraculous. How did that happen? Because the 287 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:27.480 word went out first, then the Holy Spirit confirms the word with signs, wonders, various miracles and 288 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:34.760 gifts of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. So whatever you need from the Lord, whether it's provision or 289 00:22:34.760 --> 00:22:41.320 direction or healing or more of him, get that word, the word that speaks to those things. 290 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:50.440 Hallelujah. If you need healing, there's no sense in like burying yourself in the book of Leviticus. 291 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:56.840 You know, if you need financial prosperity, no sense in like burying yourself in like Ecclesiastes, 292 00:22:56.840 --> 00:23:01.560 those are great books, they have a purpose and a place, but you want to find the word that speaks 293 00:23:01.560 --> 00:23:06.120 to your particular need, because then the Holy Spirit will come upon that word in your life. Hallelujah. 294 00:23:06.520 --> 00:23:14.520 Verse five. For he has not put the world to come, he's doing a switcheroo here. 295 00:23:16.280 --> 00:23:21.880 This is why I think, I know, at least for me, because I've read the book of Hebrews hundreds of times 296 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:26.440 and I didn't even get it the first hundred times at all. And you know, you cannot get, I mean, 297 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:31.960 I got you, we all get little bits of it and your spirit can still grow when it's like eating a delicious 298 00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:38.520 meal, but a lot of times I'm reading and I'm going, what mean if this? Like he's just talking, 299 00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:43.400 he's talking about confirming the word with the Holy Spirit and miracles and all of a sudden he, 300 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:48.920 for he has not put the world to come of which we speak in subjection to angels, all right? 301 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:51.720 Let's track with him a little bit. It's a change in pace, your change in thought. 302 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:59.720 But one testified in a certain place saying, what is man that you are mindful of him? 303 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:07.560 Or the son of man that you take care of him? So the writer of Hebrews is quoting Psalms 8, 304 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:15.960 which says that God made man a little lower than the angels, but that God has given man 305 00:24:17.080 --> 00:24:29.240 dominion over the earth. And you need to know that, that God gave mankind dominion over the world. 306 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:39.800 Man, at the garden, neglected that dominion, treated it lightly and gave it away to Satan through man's 307 00:24:39.800 --> 00:24:46.440 rebellion of eating the fruits. They gave their rightful authority, their rightful power over the world, 308 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:52.440 handed it over to Satan, Satan's been running amuck, but it belongs to man. Let me, let me, 309 00:24:53.240 --> 00:25:02.600 I got to go even further. It doesn't belong to God. He's given it to man. That's why God couldn't 310 00:25:02.600 --> 00:25:10.040 come to rescue us as God, but he came as the God man, fully God and fully human. 311 00:25:12.600 --> 00:25:16.360 And so when it comes to our Christology or understanding of Christ, 312 00:25:16.760 --> 00:25:23.400 we have these misconceptions like, well, okay, God, because it doesn't, I mean, it doesn't 313 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:27.320 mathematically add up. That's like your little league coach going, I want you to go out there and give 314 00:25:27.320 --> 00:25:33.800 it a hundred and ten percent. All right, that doesn't, that way. And so Jesus is a hundred percent God 315 00:25:33.800 --> 00:25:39.720 and a hundred percent man. It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense, but he is. He wasn't God on 316 00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:45.640 the outside or, and man on the inside or man on the outside and God on the inside. He's fully God, 317 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:53.000 fully man. He had to be made man because man messed this up. So it's saying Jesus, just like man, 318 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:57.560 came as a member. Hebrews chapter one, he keeps saying Jesus is higher than all the angels, 319 00:25:57.560 --> 00:26:02.360 but now he's saying also he's been made lower than the angels. This will blow your mind. 320 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:10.440 There is no, there is no religion, no ideology, no faith on planet earth. That is as beautiful 321 00:26:10.520 --> 00:26:15.640 and mysterious and even as complex as Christianity. You can gather the greatest writers, a hundred of 322 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:20.280 them, the greatest writers on planet earth, put them in a room, they can't come up with something as 323 00:26:20.280 --> 00:26:28.520 glorious as the gospel. You look at any other, because God became man and sometimes we think that 324 00:26:28.520 --> 00:26:35.720 when he finished his job on earth, he threw his manhood off, he threw his humanity away. I'll tell you 325 00:26:35.800 --> 00:26:43.240 something for a while, I thought that. It seemed like, okay, great, you came from heaven to earth, 326 00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:48.920 to show the way. And then, I mean, it must have been rough leaving heaven coming earth becoming 327 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:54.120 human, but then you couldn't wait to get that whole thing over with, come back up to heaven, 328 00:26:54.120 --> 00:27:00.920 come back into the Father. I was like, woo, dirty job, but somebody had to do it. No, he's still human. 329 00:27:01.320 --> 00:27:07.720 Come on. After his resurrection, he said, touch me now. See to time and see that I'm flesh and 330 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:14.680 bone. And Jesus, who is God, is in heaven in a glorified body. What does that mean? This, 331 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:24.760 it means that there is humanity in the Godhead. And it also means that before Jesus came to earth, 332 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:31.800 God was one way and now he's forever different. After Jesus's incarnation, I mean, 333 00:27:31.800 --> 00:27:37.560 he was made flesh and then his resurrection and ascension back into heaven, the Godhead is 334 00:27:37.560 --> 00:27:44.920 forever different. There is humanity, Jesus, the God-man. It was necessary for our salvation, 335 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:54.520 because man messed it up, a perfect man had to un-mess it up. And now he knows. And now he understands, 336 00:27:54.520 --> 00:28:03.400 and now there's this mystery, you know, you can get close to Jesus and pray to him. And both of 337 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:08.200 these statements are true. One statement is, Lord, your ways are higher than my ways. You're 338 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:15.480 totally different than me. That's also, that's true. You know what's also true? God, you became man. 339 00:28:16.520 --> 00:28:20.600 And so you understand me on a very personal level. Hallelujah. 340 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:31.240 By the way, that's the message of Hebrews 2. I want to sum up Hebrews 2. Can I just say, 341 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:40.440 my I love my wife. She just said, hold on. She's already looking at her. She just came, 342 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.880 because I asked her anything I can do different. She said, well, there's so much information, 343 00:28:43.880 --> 00:28:48.760 if you could just sum up Hebrews 2. It's like, that's good. That's good. So I'm going to sum up 344 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:55.960 Hebrews 2. It's that he relates. And he's writing to a suffering people, to dejective people, 345 00:28:55.960 --> 00:29:01.000 of people who are in the verge of quitting. And he's encouraging them that God understands, 346 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:10.600 and God knows, because God became human. And then he quotes Old Testament scriptures to back up 347 00:29:10.600 --> 00:29:17.720 what he said. But one testified in a certain place, what is man that you are mindful of him, 348 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:23.960 or the Son of man that you take care of him. You have made him a little lower than the angels. 349 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:29.800 You have crowned him with glory and honor. Man has been crowned with glory and honor, 350 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:36.120 and set him over the works of your hands. Man was given dominion over the earth, 351 00:29:36.120 --> 00:29:43.000 over the works of God's hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet. 352 00:29:48.600 --> 00:29:53.400 In other words, Jesus, to have total dominion now of the earth, had to be made man, 353 00:29:53.400 --> 00:30:01.560 because God gave man dominion and put all things in subjection under him. He left nothing that is 354 00:30:01.560 --> 00:30:12.360 not put under him. But now we don't yet see all things put under him. Because there is this 355 00:30:12.360 --> 00:30:17.560 tension also. You're saved, aren't you? You believe in Jesus, you're saved. Oh man, you got 356 00:30:17.560 --> 00:30:25.640 like ten heads nodding at me. We need revival. If your sins are forgiven and you know it, 357 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:34.920 clap your hands. All right, you're saved. But you're also in the process of being saved, 358 00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:40.920 like you're totally saved, but it's by faith. But the culmination of your salvation will be on that day. 359 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:47.880 Yeah. And the devil has been defeated and destroyed. But that's also happening. 360 00:30:49.080 --> 00:30:54.520 That's why we know the devil is defeated, but also in Romans, Paul writes, and God will soon 361 00:30:54.520 --> 00:31:01.160 crush Satan underneath your feet. And so now we know the devil is defeated, but we don't 362 00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:06.200 fully see everything lined up. We will on that day. It's according to our faith, but there's 363 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:12.040 a tension. So what do we see? This is, I find this is an answer to whenever I'm going through a 364 00:31:12.040 --> 00:31:23.160 difficult time. Verse 9. But we see Jesus. It's not we saw Jesus. It's not we're going to see 365 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:31.640 Jesus. It's the perfect present. It's we see Jesus. We see Jesus. That's why later in Hebrews, 366 00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:38.040 it says, fixing your eyes on Jesus. When I don't know what to do, when there's confusion that hits, 367 00:31:38.040 --> 00:31:42.600 when I don't film a prayer is getting answered as quickly as I'd like you to, what do I see? 368 00:31:42.600 --> 00:31:46.360 What do I do? Well, I can let my head go in a thousand different directions. I can speak a lot 369 00:31:46.360 --> 00:31:52.680 of nonsense out of my mouth, or I can study my spirit. And what do I see? Jesus high and lifted up. 370 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:59.080 I see Jesus at the right hand of the father. I see him victorious knowing that that victory will 371 00:31:59.080 --> 00:32:09.080 soon be made manifest in my life. Hallelujah. We see Jesus who was made a little lower than the 372 00:32:09.080 --> 00:32:13.720 angels. That means he became human. I can read it this way, but we see Jesus who was made man 373 00:32:14.840 --> 00:32:22.920 for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God might 374 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:33.000 taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for him. It means it was appropriate to God. It was 375 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:42.600 the right thing to do. Give me one second, please. For it was fitting for him for whom are all things 376 00:32:43.560 --> 00:32:50.040 and by whom are all things. In bringing many sons to glory, you have been glorified. Now that's 377 00:32:50.040 --> 00:32:57.320 true too, but also it's in the process of happening and the full manifestation of your glory will be 378 00:32:57.320 --> 00:33:03.880 on that day, and you're going to look fine. What does a glorified body look like? More glories than 379 00:33:03.880 --> 00:33:14.680 this. That's for sure. It was fitting for God. For whom are all things and by whom are all things 380 00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:20.440 in bringing many sons to glory to make the captain of their... Jesus is the captain of my salvation. 381 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:27.240 I mean, I know that my boat is going to reach its destination. To make captain... The captain 382 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:36.040 of their salvation now uses this word perfect through sufferings. It doesn't mean that God was 383 00:33:36.040 --> 00:33:42.680 imperfect. It doesn't mean that he was lacking anything or morally lacking anything, but there 384 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:49.720 is one thing that God didn't know, that you know, that he didn't know, and that's something that's 385 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:59.320 come into all of us and that thing is suffering. Something that we all have in common is... There's a 386 00:33:59.320 --> 00:34:05.880 suffering. Let me tell you something. In my life right now, I don't lack for anything. There's 387 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:14.200 nothing that I lack. Yet still, there's a suffering. There's a quiet ache to shed this thing. 388 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:21.880 Like the only reason I'm here is for my family and for you. I just want to... There's just 389 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:27.720 always a cry of... This isn't my home. I'm a pilgrim. I'm passing through. I don't fit in here. This 390 00:34:28.680 --> 00:34:35.320 isn't... Like Lord, I love you and I love life, but this isn't it. There's an ache for you, Lord. 391 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:39.560 There's just... Even when everything is right in your life, you think, I know, then... Will I finally be 392 00:34:39.560 --> 00:34:46.280 happy? Well, maybe. I'd rather be contented. You can be contented in the Lord, but this time 393 00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:51.320 I haven't. Did I just depress somebody? I heard like three cats me out and I'm like, 394 00:34:52.120 --> 00:34:59.880 what happened? It's all good. I'm just saying they'll always be a cry. There's a suffering. 395 00:35:01.080 --> 00:35:07.720 And now God knows it because this is what the Scripture is saying here. He was made man and he 396 00:35:07.720 --> 00:35:16.840 knew suffering. Real suffering. And now he can relate to you. So it was fitting for God to make the 397 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:23.880 captain of your salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he who sanctifies and those who are 398 00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:30.840 being sanctified, who's he who sanctifies? What's his name? He's the one who does the sanctifying 399 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:35.560 and those who are being sanctified. Who's that? Yeah, you've been made one with him. 400 00:35:37.640 --> 00:35:41.880 How have you been made one with him in this in this sense? Not in the sense of like we're seated 401 00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:46.200 together with him in heavenly places. This isn't that you're human and he's human. 402 00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:58.280 You're one for which and those who are for which reason he is not ashamed to call them, 403 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:06.680 call you, call that brethren. So God is your father and Jesus is your brother. Hallelujah. 404 00:36:07.160 --> 00:36:15.720 Amen. When you really get that, all right, what does that mean? Well for one, that means that when 405 00:36:15.720 --> 00:36:21.400 you come up to the Father to pray, one thing that afflicts every single one of you is when you go to 406 00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:29.080 pray, the devil comes and your own thinking, thinking come. And the first thing, especially when 407 00:36:29.080 --> 00:36:33.640 you're a new Christian, is the barrage of thoughts that you're not worthy, that you're condemned, 408 00:36:33.640 --> 00:36:38.280 that you did things wrong and how dare you approach a holy God. But when you understand that 409 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:45.000 Jesus is your brother, that means you have the same spiritual status as Jesus Christ. That means 410 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:53.160 the same righteousness, right standing with God, that Jesus has you have as his family, as his brother. 411 00:36:55.160 --> 00:36:59.160 Now you're getting some spiritual muscles and now when you go into pray, you know, 412 00:36:59.720 --> 00:37:05.480 God, I'm so sorry. I'm kind of up to you like an old worm to the throne. I haven't mercyed 413 00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:12.440 on me again. No, you can come in boldly to the throne of grace. Hallelujah. 414 00:37:14.520 --> 00:37:20.360 He's not ashamed to call your brother. Why are you ashamed? Verse 12, 415 00:37:22.120 --> 00:37:29.000 saying, I will declare your name to my brethren. In the midst, now he's quoting scripture now. 416 00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:38.040 Psalm 22, 22. In the midst of the assembly, I will sing praise to you. These are all the 417 00:37:38.040 --> 00:37:43.000 scriptures he's quoting are messianic prophecies. They're all the prophecies in the Old Testament 418 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:47.960 that were prophesying about the Messiah. One of the prophecies is that he was going to sing. 419 00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:53.400 Can you remember a time when Jesus sang? Did Jesus sing? It's in the scriptures, actually, 420 00:37:54.120 --> 00:37:59.400 after the last supper, after the last supper, what a bunch of fellows. They finished the meal 421 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:04.600 and it says, they all sang a hymn. Can you imagine that? Jesus on the bros. 422 00:38:06.520 --> 00:38:17.480 No drummer, no electric guitar. Just just the group of them. Accapella, Jesus, knowing what's 423 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:24.680 ahead of him in just a few hours, just letting it rip. His voice cracking with emotion, 424 00:38:24.680 --> 00:38:31.720 his hands lifted up, singing a praise to the Father, offering a real halal. Hallelujah. 425 00:38:35.560 --> 00:38:40.680 And again, verse 13, I will put my trust in him and again, he's quoting these scriptures. 426 00:38:40.680 --> 00:38:46.840 These messianic prophecies here. Am I? This is Jesus talking about you. Here am I in the children, 427 00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:57.240 whom God has given me. Hallelujah. Verse 14, in as much then as the children have partaken of 428 00:38:57.240 --> 00:39:03.000 flesh and blood, because we're all flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared in the saying, 429 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:10.680 Jesus became man, that through death, he might destroy him who had the power of death. 430 00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:16.280 That is the devil. You asked, Pastor, how much attention do you give the devil? Well, I know he was 431 00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:22.040 real. I know he's a real threat, but I also don't give him too much attention or too much power, 432 00:39:22.040 --> 00:39:27.560 because the scripture says, for the one who is saved, he's as good as destroyed. He's running 433 00:39:27.560 --> 00:39:31.400 a muck to those who are ignorant of the word of God, to those whose lives are uncovered by the blood of 434 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:42.600 Jesus. But he's destroyed for you. He's destroyed for me. That through death, he might destroy him 435 00:39:42.680 --> 00:39:50.040 who had the power of death. That is the devil. And what's the result of that? And release those 436 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:57.960 who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Now pay attention. 437 00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:03.640 Those of you suffering with anxiety, those of you who are stuck because of fear, you're 438 00:40:03.640 --> 00:40:12.520 unable to move forward. You have all these fears. Every fear when you trace it down far enough has 439 00:40:12.520 --> 00:40:19.400 the same roots. It is a fear of death. It is the fear of something dying. Even if it's the fear of 440 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:24.760 your business dying, your relationship that there's a fear and fear is not of God. Fear is the 441 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:31.400 opposite of faith. Fear is what will keep you according to the scriptures in bondage. God has 442 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:36.920 not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. When God created the heavens 443 00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:43.960 and the earth and put man on it, there wasn't even such a thing as fear. They didn't know fear. 444 00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:50.120 The first time fear is mentioned is after Adam sins and he hides in the bushes and he says, 445 00:40:50.120 --> 00:40:55.720 when God says, where are you Adam? He says I was afraid and hid myself. So fear is a direct result 446 00:40:55.720 --> 00:41:07.400 of a sin consciousness. What's that? What's that one quote? Oh, 447 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:13.720 was that old time healing revivalist, he said, fear makes cowards out of men. 448 00:41:13.720 --> 00:41:19.400 Excuse me, sin makes fear, obviously, sin makes cowards out of men. 449 00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:32.760 So Jesus came as a man to undo man's wrong, defeat the devil, to release those who through 450 00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:38.680 all their lives were in bondage through fear of death. Let's just say this out loud. I'm not afraid. 451 00:41:39.640 --> 00:41:45.800 I'm not afraid of things dying. I'm not afraid of death. I serve the God of all life. 452 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:54.040 His life courses through me. Abundant life is my portion. Whatever I put my hand forth to do will 453 00:41:54.040 --> 00:42:04.920 prosper. I am blessed in Jesus name. Amen. Verse 16, worship team, you can come up. 454 00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:14.520 For indeed he does not give aid to angels, but he does give aid to the seed of Abraham. 455 00:42:15.720 --> 00:42:19.640 Who's the seed of Abraham? You are. Jesus was also. 456 00:42:22.200 --> 00:42:27.960 Therefore in all things he had to be made like his brethren. So really the whole theme, 457 00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:33.240 the overarching theme of Hebrews chapter 2 is that Jesus is man. 458 00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:40.440 Now Hebrews 1 was Jesus's God. Embrace him as both. 459 00:42:41.560 --> 00:42:46.680 Therefore in all things he had to be made like his brethren, like us. 460 00:42:46.680 --> 00:42:50.760 He had to be made human, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest. 461 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:56.440 See a high priest was a human and even in heaven the high priest has to have humanity in it because 462 00:42:56.440 --> 00:43:00.440 he serves as a mediator between God and man. What a perfect mediator. 463 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:05.480 Because he understands God and he understands man. Because he's both God and man. 464 00:43:10.680 --> 00:43:14.760 I mean back in the Old Testament that was a credit high priest. He understood man 465 00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:18.120 get to wear all the jewelry and all the stuff. You know it's a kind of 466 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:23.000 represent God but he didn't get it. Jesus gets it. 467 00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:29.640 That he might be a merciful and faithful high priest and things pertaining to God to make 468 00:43:29.640 --> 00:43:34.680 propitiation. Now I'm going to, it's one more verse left but I need you to get this. 469 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:43.400 Get familiar with ever word, propitiation. It's a great word. Like gets, gets nuggly with it. 470 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:47.560 Just say it, say it, say propitiation. 471 00:43:47.640 --> 00:43:49.560 Propitiation. 472 00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:54.360 Can you say it? I want you to say it. First of all because it's a funny word because 473 00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:59.480 you know when I was first saying I said propitiation. You got this. 474 00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:03.720 Propitiation. Yeah. Come on one more. Just say it. Propitiation. 475 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:11.160 Propitiation. Yes sir. It's a good word to know. Become friends with that word. You know why? 476 00:44:11.160 --> 00:44:15.320 Because it means the appeasement of divine wrath. 477 00:44:17.240 --> 00:44:20.840 There was a wrath of God that's, that was on us. 478 00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:30.760 While he loves you, if you are in sin, if you haven't come to Jesus, if you haven't been born 479 00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:37.160 again, there is an abiding wrath on you. When I was a teenager before I gave my life to Jesus 480 00:44:37.160 --> 00:44:43.240 at 16, I looked pretty good, pretty sweet, pretty innocent. The wrath of God was on me. I was an 481 00:44:43.240 --> 00:44:50.280 enemy of God. Everything about me was opposed to God. And he had mercy on me. It opened my eyes and 482 00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:57.000 causing me to receive Jesus. And when I received Jesus, I had advantage of his propitiation, which 483 00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:02.840 means that divine wrath has been satisfied because all of God's good wrath. You know, sometimes when 484 00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:07.560 I say wrath, people think it's like a bad alcoholic father flying off the handle. Wow, what are you 485 00:45:07.560 --> 00:45:14.440 doing down there, kids? No, this is a just wrath, a holy wrath. When there's sin which is completely 486 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:20.440 opposed to the very nature of God, the wages of sin is death. There's a wrath, but you're still 487 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:27.880 great news. Jesus, the God man took that wrath on himself as your substitute in your place. 488 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:34.840 So divine wrath has been satisfied. Hallelujah. And that's what propitiation means. Get a tattoo of 489 00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:40.920 that word on your forearm this week. Never forget that word. Because look, when the going gets tough, 490 00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:45.560 when you feel distant from God, I know what it is. Always there is, there's condemnation there. 491 00:45:46.120 --> 00:45:50.760 And what the devil is telling you is God's tired of you. God's fed up with you. God's mad at you. 492 00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:55.480 God's angry at you. You can't even come back to God. That's what he uses to fuel you to what 493 00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:00.760 drift away even further. And to encourage him to not drift away, he's reminding them 494 00:46:01.640 --> 00:46:07.480 that there's been propitiation. That's why I do have a tattoo of an empty chalice on my forearm here. 495 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:12.040 Because usually in the Bible, the symbolism for God's wrath is cups, cups of wine, 496 00:46:13.560 --> 00:46:19.640 of God's wrath. But this is an empty cup. There's no more wrath left for me. No more wrath left for 497 00:46:19.640 --> 00:46:25.240 you. Been thoroughly poured out on Jesus. And that's why we love him so. Verse 18. 498 00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:36.280 For in that he himself has suffered. Being tempted, he is able to aid those who are tempted. 499 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:42.680 Finally, he's just saying Jesus knows. Jesus understands because he's the God man. He was tempted 500 00:46:42.680 --> 00:46:48.360 in all points as we are. He suffered in all ways like us. He said, wow, did he ever suffer sickness 501 00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:53.480 and disease? He suffered every sickness and disease on the way to the cross. 502 00:46:55.240 --> 00:47:01.160 He suffered every kind of heinous sin was placed upon him. Every sickness, every disease was placed 503 00:47:01.160 --> 00:47:09.000 upon him. He knows suffering. And he knows you. And he's with you. And he's going to see you. 504 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:14.680 His job as the captain of your salvation is to see you through. Just close your eyes right now 505 00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:23.640 and say this out loud. Lord Jesus, you're the captain of my salvation. You are God. You are man. 506 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:32.680 You're my brother. You're my everything. I put my eyes on you. I trust you to fulfill your 507 00:47:32.680 --> 00:47:43.560 promises in my life. I declare victory for the clothes of 2024 and into 2025. I believe you're 508 00:47:43.560 --> 00:47:55.720 just going to outdo yourself in my life. In Jesus name, amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 509 00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:05.960 Hallelujah. I want to encourage you this week. It's been time with him. It's not about 510 00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:16.360 length. It's connect with him all day throughout the day. I encourage you to read Hebrews 3. Have a blast 511 00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:23.160 in your life groups. Read Hebrews 3 for next week. Read it every day, one chapter, 512 00:48:23.160 --> 00:48:33.000 pop a gospel every day. Hebrews 13. If you want ministry, we have a ministry team that'll lay 513 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:38.120 hands on you. Pray for you for any need that you have. They'll link their faith to yours. We see 514 00:48:38.120 --> 00:48:44.600 good stuff. I wouldn't do this just because it's cute. I have a high confidence in our ministry team. 515 00:48:44.600 --> 00:48:51.000 The regular people just like me. It's not amazing. The God calls regular people just for the edifying 516 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:55.400 of itself, the body of Christ and love. If you want prayer, go to my left. You're right. There's a 517 00:48:55.400 --> 00:49:00.200 ministry team. They're waiting for you. They'll lay hands on you and pray with you and for you. 518 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:08.600 Otherwise, be blessed. We're going to sing one more song to the Lord and have a great week. 519 00:49:08.600 --> 00:49:16.200 Is it just me or do you send something? I feel like a new day is dawning. It's just like a buzz 520 00:49:16.200 --> 00:49:24.200 in my spirit of expectancy. I can't wait to hear the best testimonies I've ever heard coming from 521 00:49:24.200 --> 00:49:30.840 you guys of victory in your lives. It's upon us. Listen, this is the last days and he's not coming 522 00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:35.720 back for a beat up bride. He's coming back. In other words, here's the picture that's painted in 523 00:49:35.720 --> 00:49:40.120 the scriptures. Like in the Old Testament, he had his people Israel, where Israel now. It was always 524 00:49:40.120 --> 00:49:46.200 to lift up his people so high. Actually, it says this multiple times to provoke unbelievers to 525 00:49:46.200 --> 00:49:55.720 jealousy that they would look at you and go, huh? Your life is so blessed. You live in peace. 526 00:49:56.600 --> 00:50:01.000 New words, so I want to tell me, what is your secret? It's no secret. It's Jesus. Let me tell you 527 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:08.600 all about him. Hallelujah. So that in other words, he wants to lift you up as a trophy of his grace. 528 00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:15.640 So the others will look. Hallelujah and come to him. This is the City Light Church podcast. 529 00:50:15.640 --> 00:50:19.800 If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about 530 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:28.440 Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com. 531 00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:33.640 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. We would love to connect with you. 532 00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:39.960 We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you, 533 00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:45.560 and that you are surrounded by grace. 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