It's being written to people who know something about the Old Testament.
That's why throughout the book of Hebrews, there's a constant quoting of the Old Testament
or a tying in of Old Testament concepts where, you know, and I believe it's clearly written
by the Apostle Paul, he talks about Timothy at the end and, you know, other people that
Paul ran with and it's Paul's style and so forth.
But he's talking to the Hebrews and he's explaining to them how the Old Testament ties in with
the New Testament and sort of getting them to transition from what they believed about
the Old Testament into New Testament doctrine and sort of correcting some misconceptions
that they might have.
And I think that that's the reason why the book of Hebrews is one of the books that really
strongly declares the deity of Jesus Christ almost more than any other book.
And I believe that the reason for that is that God wanted to make sure that the Hebrews
didn't think that Jesus was just another prophet along the lines of Abraham or Moses or, you
know, Isaiah, Jeremiah, that Jesus is just sort of the next prophet.
Or that Jesus is the Messiah in the sense that he's the son of David but maybe not realizing
that he's the son of God, maybe not realizing that he is the Lord and that he's more than
a prophet.
He's, you know, the creator of this whole world.
And so the book of Hebrews is a really good book just to establish Jesus Christ as being
God in the flesh, as being the creator and so forth.
Let's start out in verse number one of Hebrews 1.
The Bible reads, God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son whom he
hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds.
And so the first thing I want to focus in on there is where it says that the world was
basically made by Jesus Christ.
It says by whom, by the son, God made the worlds.
Now if you would flip over to Colossians chapter number 1, Colossians chapter 1.
So right away in the book of Hebrews, Jesus is being established as the creator.
While you're turning to Colossians 1, I'm going to read you some other verses that use
similar language.
Ephesians 3, 9 says this, and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery
which from the beginning of the world hath been hidden God, watch this, who created all
things by Jesus Christ.
So the Bible says that God created all things by Jesus Christ.
Hebrews chapter 11 verse 3 says, through faith we understand that the worlds were framed
by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
2 Peter 3, 5 says, for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God the
heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.
So we have a couple of verses that say that God created the world by Jesus Christ.
And then we have a couple of other verses that say that God created the world by his
word.
Well we know that Jesus is the word.
The Bible says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was
God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him.
Made by whom?
The word.
And without him was not anything made that was made.
According to the Bible there is nothing that was created without Jesus.
Nothing that was made was created.
He created the world through Jesus Christ.
Now what does the Bible say in Colossians 1, 13?
Look down at your Bible.
Who have delivered us from the power of darkness and have translated us into the kingdom of
his dear son in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, who
is the image of the invisible God.
According to the Bible, Jesus Christ, the son, is the image of the invisible God.
Meaning that you can't see God the father, but you can see Jesus Christ, the image of
the invisible God.
The firstborn of every creature.
What does that mean to be the firstborn of every creature?
Now a lot of people have taken this phrase, the firstborn of every creature, and they've
misunderstood it.
And in fact, modern Bible versions and false corruptions of the Bible will change this
Instead of saying the firstborn of every creature, they'll change it to saying, oh, he's the
first creation of God, turning Jesus into a created being.
Jesus is not a created being.
The Bible says that Jesus was already in the beginning with God and that Jesus was God.
So Jesus is not a creation of God.
It explains what that phrase means in the next verse.
So when the Bible says the firstborn of every creature, let's not just figure out what that
means on our own.
Let's just read the next phrase where he tells us what that means.
What's the first word of verse 16?
And what does four mean?
Okay, so why is he the firstborn of every creature?
Because by him were all things created.
That's what that actually means.
When it says that he's the beginning of the creation of God in Revelation chapter one,
that's not saying that he's the first thing God created.
No when the Bible says he's the beginning of the creation of God, it's saying that the
creation of God comes from him.
He's where it all started.
He is the beginning.
And so the Bible says here, for by him were all things created.
Now that couldn't be any clearer that Jesus Christ is the creator of this world.
Jesus Christ created the heaven and the earth.
Jesus Christ created the sun, moon, and stars.
Jesus Christ created the animals and the plants of this world.
They were created.
You say, well, they're created by God.
Yes, but specifically they were created by Jesus because here we're talking about the
sun.
For by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
All things were created by him and for him.
And so Jesus Christ is the creator of all things physical and spiritual that exist.
It says he is before all things.
And by him all things consist.
And showing that he's not a created being, but that he goes back eternally into the past
with God, that he has always existed.
Before him are all things.
By him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church.
And again, many scriptures tell us that Christ is the head of the church.
Just to emphasize that we're talking about the sun here.
He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he, Jesus, might have the preeminence, for it pleased the Father
that in him should all fullness dwell.
So according to the Bible here, all fullness dwells in Jesus Christ.
He should have the preeminence in all things.
In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, the Bible says.
So don't try to downgrade Jesus and say, well, Jesus is the son of God, but he's not
God.
Or, well, he's the son of God, but he's a created being.
Or he's Michael the Archangel.
As Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons or Seventh-day Adventists would come at you with, no, no,
Jesus Christ is the creator of this world.
And he is just as much God as the Father is God.
The Bible says there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Ghost, and these three are one.
And the book of Hebrews is careful to point that out.
Go if you would to Hebrews chapter 3.
The title of the sermon is Jesus and the Book of Hebrews.
The book of Hebrews emphasizes the deity of Jesus Christ, the fact that Jesus Christ is
God, because he wanted to make sure that this sort of messianic Judaism wouldn't come in
that would try to still be practicing Judaism, still believing in the things that the Pharisees
and the Sadducees had wrongly taught them, and just sort of adding Jesus.
Like, well, we're Jews, but we're just going to add Jesus.
No, the book of Hebrews is careful to tell them, no, no, no, you have a new high priest.
That physical high priest at Jerusalem, no, he's not, Jesus is the high priest.
There's been a replacement of the Levitical priesthood with the priesthood after the order
of Melchizedek.
We're not just tagging Jesus on, and you're still Jewish plus Jesus, no, no, no, it's
a replacement that's going on.
And that's why the Bible really exalts Jesus in the book of Hebrews, just to make sure
that the Hebrews knew who they're dealing with here in Jesus Christ, that he's the creator.
Look at Hebrews chapter 3 verse 1, wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.
What does that mean to consider him?
Sit back and think about how great he is.
Consider Jesus, look at verse number 2, who was faithful to him that appointed him as
also Moses was faithful in all his house.
So he compares Jesus to Moses, but look at verse 3, for this man, Jesus Christ, was counted
worthy of more glory than Moses, and as much as he who hath builded the house hath more
honor than the house.
So he's trying to explain to them how much better Jesus is than Moses.
He said Jesus is better than Moses in the same way a builder is better than the house
that he built.
You know, if you looked at a house and said, whoa, that's an amazing house, the builder
is greater than the house.
The builder is the one who made the house.
Look at verse 4.
This is where it just clearly tells us that Jesus is God.
For every house is builded by some man, but he that built all things is God.
Now why would that be relevant if Jesus weren't God?
See the Bible says in verse 3, for this man, Jesus, was counted worthy of more glory than
Moses, and as much as he who hath builded the house hath more honor than the house,
because every house is builded by some man, but he that built all things is God.
Well that's Jesus that built all things.
Jesus is the one who created all things, and he that built all things is who?
Is God.
So this proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus Christ is God.
Go back to chapter 1.
So point number 1 on Jesus in the book of Hebrews is that Jesus is the creator, number
1.
Number 2 is that Jesus is God.
The Bible spells out in chapter 1 that Jesus is God.
Let's pick up where we left off in verse number 3.
Who being the brightness of his glory, meaning the brightness of God's glory, and the express
image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high, being made so much
better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Now let me stop right there and say this.
The Bible teaches that man is a little lower than the angels, right?
That human beings, mortal man, in an unregenerate state are a little bit lower than the angels,
but the Bible says that Jesus is so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they, for unto which of the angels said he at any
time, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
The Bible is saying, look, God never said to any angel at any time, you're my son, or
this day have I begotten thee, but he did say that to Jesus.
Then again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son.
God never said to angels at any time, I'll be to him a father, and he'll be my son.
This is why it's so dumb when people try to take Old Testament scriptures about the sons
of God and say that it's angels.
They'll say, oh, the sons of God, that's angels.
Well the Bible says right here that he never said to any angel at any time that he would
be to them a father, or that they would be to him a son.
That never happened, but Jesus did receive that honor.
Now we as Christians are the sons of God.
Any man, woman, boy, or girl who believes on Jesus Christ is a child of God.
But the reason that we're a child of God is through Jesus.
Because we're in Christ, we become a child of God only through the faith of Christ.
The Bible says as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name.
So it's through believing on Jesus that we are saved and we have that spirit of adoption
as the sons of God through Jesus.
Look at verse 6, and again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith,
and let all the angels of God worship him.
And of course the Bible says that thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt
thou serve.
Yet the Bible tells us and the angels and everything that has breath to worship Jesus.
Why?
Because he is deity, he is God.
Now let me point out something about your Bible that you may have not noticed, and that
is that the Bible never uses quotation marks.
Have you noticed that?
When you read the Bible, there are never any quotation marks.
But instead of quotation marks, what the Bible does is, it capitalizes the first word of
a quotation.
So that's how you know when a quote starts is by looking for that capital letter.
People have asked me, for example, about different verses, like, why is this word capitalized?
And I tell you, it's the beginning of a quotation, like in Luke chapter 11, where the guy goes
to his friend and says, friend, lend me three loaves, and the F in friend is capitalized.
Why?
Because it's the beginning of a quotation.
He said, friend, lend me three loaves.
So when you're reading Hebrews chapter 1, you can see where these quotations begin because
of the fact that they'll have a capital letter, like in verse 6 where it says, and again when
he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, look at the capital A there,
because he's starting a quote from the Old Testament, and let all the angels of God worship
him.
And of the angels he saith, who maketh his angels spirits, notice the capital W, and
his ministers a flame of fire.
Now look at verse 8.
But unto the sun he saith, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed
thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Now keep your finger in Hebrews 1 and let's go back to Psalm 45 which is the source of
that quotation.
Psalm 45 is where that quote comes from.
Now when you preach to people about the deity of Jesus Christ or when you talk about the
Trinity that there's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost and that these three are
one, people will often scoff at it just because they don't understand it or can't wrap their
mind around it.
And so they'll begin to mock the Bible or mock the truth of the Trinity and say, you
know, what are you trying to say, that Jesus was praying to himself?
Jesus is his own Father?
You know, and you know what, these fools can laugh it up all the way to hell, but that's
what the Bible teaches.
Just because your pea brain scoffs at biblical doctrine doesn't make it not so.
I mean, look, if the Bible says that these three are one, then these three are one.
Case closed.
Through faith we understand.
You can't just sit there and say, well, I don't understand that so I'm just not going
to believe it.
It's really not even that hard to understand because if you think about us as human beings,
we have three elements to us too, the body, the soul, and the spirit, and all of them
are one person.
I mean, you wouldn't say that it's three different people.
Now some people will use the word the three persons of the Godhead, which is an extra
biblical term, and then people who don't believe in the Trinity kind of freak out about that
term.
So I'll just skip that term.
I don't use that term because it's not biblical and it just confuses people and makes people
panic.
I don't want to panic anybody, but the thing is there are three in the Godhead.
If you don't like the three persons analogy, then just call it the three and one.
These three are one.
Just call it the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
But if you think about us, we are a body, a soul, and a spirit.
Now when we die, there's a separation that takes place.
The Bible says as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
So if the body is dead, that means the spirit has departed from the body.
That's why when people die in the Old Testament or the New Testament, it says they gave up
the ghost.
The spirit departs from their body.
So if I were to die physically today and my dead body were to be lying here and someone
walked up and said, I'm going to identify this body for the police, this is Steven Anderson,
that would be accurate, wouldn't it?
I mean they wouldn't be lying if it was me that had physically died and they pulled back
the sheet and looked at it and said, yup, that's Steven Anderson, that would be accurate.
But my soul would be in heaven and if someone were to approach me in heaven and say, you
are Steven Anderson, that would also be accurate.
So both the soul in heaven and the body on this earth are both Steven Anderson.
It's not two different people, it's the same person, right?
But yet they're in two different places because the soul is here and the body is here.
Well that's the same way with God in a sense because the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost, it's all God.
It's one God.
And then the Muslims will come at us with, oh, you believe in three gods.
No, no, no, there's only one God that is manifested in three different ways.
He's manifested as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
There is a possibility of a separation.
Just as my body can be separated from my soul or my spirit, Jesus, when he was on the cross,
experienced a separation from the Father where he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me?
But if someone sits there and says, well, I just don't understand how, you know, the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost can all be one.
I just don't understand that and they mock and scoff at that.
My question for them would be, how can God say to the Son, thy throne, oh God, is forever
and ever?
Which is what that verse clearly said.
Because the Bible said in Hebrews 1a, but unto the Son he saith, thy throne, oh God,
is forever and ever, a scepter of righteousness, a scepter of thy kingdom, thou is love righteous
and hate iniquity, therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness
above thy fellows.
Look down at Psalm 45, because some people will say, well, you know, Hebrews 1 is just
translated wrong.
You know, if we get the Jehovah's Witness Bible, they'll fix it for us, or the NIV will
fix it for us.
But here's the thing, it can't be that Hebrews 1 is translated wrong, because we can go back
to Psalm 45 and it says the exact same thing, which is not even from Greek.
It's from a totally different language, Hebrew, and yet it says the exact same thing.
So they can't all be wrong, folks.
This is what it says.
Deal with it.
Look at Psalm 45, verse 6.
Thy throne, oh God, is forever and ever.
The scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter.
Thou is love righteousness and hate iniquity, watch this, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed
thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
So in verse 6, he's calling him God, but then in verse 7, he says thy God.
Who's God?
God's God.
What does that mean?
Because we're talking about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Because the Son is God, the Father is God, the Holy Ghost is God, these three are one.
But when Jesus Christ was on this earth and he's hanging on the cross, what did he say?
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And he's talking to the Father in heaven.
You say, well I don't understand that, that doesn't make sense to me.
Well that just means that you're not that smart.
It doesn't mean that the Bible's wrong.
It doesn't mean that the Trinity's wrong.
It doesn't mean that Jesus Christ is going to be downgraded to a created being.
It doesn't mean we're going to downgrade him to Michael the Archangel, that we're just
going to downgrade him to another Jewish prophet or downgrade him to the level of Abraham or
Moses.
No, he created all things.
He's God.
I don't get it.
Well, I'm sorry.
Sorry, you can't grasp this.
Maybe you need to get saved, and the Holy Spirit will explain it to you, but this is
the truth.
It's what the Bible says.
Go back if you went to Hebrews chapter 1, but keep your finger in Psalms because we're
going to look at Psalm 102.
We looked at Psalm 45.
And why did we turn to Psalm 45?
Just to confirm that it said the identical thing that Hebrews 1 said, and that even if
you just didn't even look at Hebrews 1, and you just looked at Psalm 45, you'd see that
he's saying to God about, therefore God, even thy God.
It's sort of like where the Bible says, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right
hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool, and we're going to look at that in a moment.
But we're going to look at Hebrews 1.
Keep your finger in Psalm 102, Hebrews 1 verse 10.
Now watch this.
Remember what I brought up about the capital letters a little bit earlier?
Look at verse 10.
It says, and.
Now there are a lot of ands in Hebrews chapter 1 because he's listing a bunch of quotes.
Sort of like when he said, unto which of the angels said he at any time, thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten thee, and again, and then he gives another quote, and again,
and then he gives another quote.
Well in Hebrews 1 verse 10, he gives us another quote.
So not only does he say unto the Son, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, verse
10, and, and then notice the capital T. Why?
Because we're starting another quote.
That's why.
And, because the Bible does not capitalize thee and thou and thy about God unless it's
the beginning of a sentence or the beginning of a quote.
In the King James version that is.
So it says, and thou Lord, in the beginning, hast laid the foundation of the earth, and
the heavens are the works of thine hands.
They shall perish, but thou remainest, and they all shall wax old as doth a garment,
and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed, but thou art the
same, and thy years shall not fail.
Now here's what you need to understand about this, and look real carefully at this.
In verse 8 it says, but unto the Son he saith, and then it gives a quote that said to the
Son, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
But then we get to verse 10, it says, and.
What does that mean?
And this is what else he saith to the Son.
Does everybody understand?
He says this to the Son in verse 8, and in verse 10 we're still talking to Jesus, and
what are we saying to Jesus?
Thou Lord, in the beginning, hast laid the foundation of the earth.
And that doesn't surprise us because we already saw numerous scriptures that Jesus is the
creator of this world.
Now let's go back to the source of this quote.
Go back to Psalm 102.
Psalm 102, because it says to Jesus in Hebrews 1-10, thou Lord, in the beginning, hast laid
the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands, and on and on.
Go back to the source of the quote, Psalm 102 verse 24, I said, O my God, so who's he
talking to?
God.
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, thy years are throughout
all generations.
Of old thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, sound familiar?
And the heavens are the works of thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure.
Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment.
As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
So again, Jesus, the Bible says, is the one who laid the foundation of the earth, the
heavens are the works of his hands, and according to verse 24, he's referred to as David's God.
O my God, you laid the foundation of the earth, and then this is attributed to Jesus in Hebrews
chapter 1.
It's pretty clear what the author of Hebrews is getting across here, just in verse after
verse after verse in chapter 1, just really driving in the fact that Jesus Christ is greater
than the angels, he's greater than Abraham, he's greater than Moses, he's the creator
of the world, and he is God made flesh and dwelt among us.
That's what he's hammering over and over again in that passage.
Flip over if you would back to Hebrews chapter 1, and then we're going to be in Psalm 110,
so if you want to get between Hebrews 1 and Psalm 110.
You know, it's interesting, I was thinking about this week, because everybody talks so
much about the global warming, and the climate change, and you know, all this stuff that
they make a big deal about, we need to save the earth and save the planet.
You know, I don't care about saving the earth and saving the planet, I'm trying to save
souls.
Amen.
Why?
Because the Bible said that this earth will wax old as doth the garment.
And the Bible says the vesture, it'll be folded up, and it says it shall be changed.
Climate change.
So what?
It's going to be changed.
The climate's going to change, who cares?
Get over it.
And people basically get all obsessed with worshipping the creature more than the creator,
who is blessed forever, amen.
You know, and they're just like, oh, it's so terrible, these people who live right next
to the ocean got flooded with it.
Well, that's what you get for building your house so close to the ocean.
Back off a little bit from the ocean, and then that's not going to happen.
But to sit there and just obsess over, why do they obsess over it?
Because they think this world's going to be here forever, it's that simple.
They think we're going to be here forever.
So they think this is like a spaceship that we're on, hurtling through space, and we're
going to run out of supplies, we're going to run out of resources.
This world's not our home.
And the Bible promises that until the end of time, there will be spring, summer, winter,
fall.
He said there will be harvest and reaping, and there will be planting and sowing and
winter.
And that means that God is in control of the seasons, and he will keep this world on track
in that way.
Now, I'm not saying that we should just pollute and corrupt the environment, okay?
I hate littering, and you know, anybody who's around me and litters, it disgusts me, and
I make sure that if I go hiking, everybody who's in my group, you know, if they pack
it in, they pack it out, and I don't like littering, and obviously I don't like pollution
and things because I don't want to breathe contaminated air or drink contaminated water
or anything like that.
But you have to understand that this environmental movement is a fraud.
It's a complete fraud, and here's why it's a fraud.
Because the government is the biggest polluter on the planet by a mile.
Your little car or your big SUV is like a drop of water on a hot stove on this environment.
It's doing nothing to the environment.
When you know, they're sitting there and setting off hundreds and hundreds of nuclear bombs
in Nevada all throughout the 50s, just setting off nuclear bombs and all this fallout is
blowing up into Montana and Wyoming and everything.
I mean, they're setting off nukes.
They're dumping all kinds of toxic waste into the oceans and everything.
They're running all this military industrial complex that just dumps all this waste and
junk and fallout into the environment, and then they're worried about the fact that you're
driving a big, you know, Hummer instead of driving a Prius.
It's meaningless, folks.
So because the government is the biggest polluter, no one can dispute that, that the military
and the government have polluted more than anyone.
So let's put them in charge of taking care of the environment.
Let's have the wolf guard the henhouse is basically what they're saying.
So basically their plan is, okay, here's how we're going to fix the environment.
Let's put the government in charge.
We'll all pay more taxes to the government and then it'll all be fixed.
No, no, this is just a scam to take your money is all it is.
And Al Gore flies around in his private jet telling you about the environment.
Why doesn't he hike across America?
Why doesn't he get on a bicycle?
I want to see him walk from coast to coast and show us how it's done.
No, no, no.
He flies around and I guarantee you that he's eating all the foods that supposedly are so
damaging to the environment.
I'm sure he eats a T-bone steak.
I'm sure he's eating filet mignon on his private jet as he pontificates and preaches to us
about the environment.
It's a bunch of hypocritical lies and garbage and it's anti-Christ is what it is.
See, they don't want to honor God.
They don't want to honor Jesus Christ.
They just want to worship the creation, worship the creature, worship plants, worship animals,
Mother Nature, Gaia, and they have this evolutionary view like we got to make this last for a hundred
million years.
No, friend.
This earth's only been here for about 63, 64 hundred years and you know what?
We're in the latter days.
Hello.
It's not going to be here for another million years, friend.
It's not going to be here for hundreds of thousands of years.
We're already in the latter days and we're only 6,300 years into this thing.
So don't get brainwashed by this environmental movement, oh, the climate change.
The climate has always changed.
I mean there are places in Africa that used to be lush, fertile places that are now desert
and vice versa.
I mean things change.
The world change.
God said in Hebrews Chapter 1 that God's going to change it.
It's going to change.
Get over it.
And don't buy into this liberal mentality that says, oh, we need a global government
to address the environment.
All that is is just an excuse to bring in the anti-Christ one world government.
Because they're going to say, well, we have to have a one world government because if
China pollutes, that's going to affect us and if we pollute, it's going to affect them.
So we need a one world government to police everybody's carbon credits.
It's just a way to tax you more, just to raise taxes.
Give us more money.
And then what are they going to do with the money?
Are they going to clean up the environment with it?
No, no, no.
They'll go buy more weapons and pollute the environment more with military spending as
they conquer the whole world.
That's what's really going on, friend.
Say, oh, you're crazy.
You're conspiracy.
Well, you know what?
Just go ahead and follow along with the liberal agenda then and just keep giving them more
money and keep listening to their empty campaign promises, how they're going to clean up everything.
They don't care about the environment.
If they cared about the environment, then you'd see them making personal sacrifices
or spending some of their tens of millions of dollars to clean it up.
Why don't they pull out all their tens of millions of dollars and have some big clean
up project?
Clean up some part.
No, no.
They want to take your money and clean it up except that most of it's not going to go
to cleaning it up.
Most of it's going to go in their pocket and then a little bit will go to cleaning it up.
The whole thing is a fraud.
And you know what?
If you're going to spend your life on the environmental movement, you're wasting your
life because you're basically just working on saving a planet that's going to be burned
up.
This whole planet is going to be burned with fire.
So you can't save it.
But you can save souls.
You know, let's work for something that matters and not get caught up in the world's environmental
agenda.
But Jesus Christ, the Bible says, created the earth not to last forever, but Jesus Christ
created it with a lifespan.
Just as we are born and we live and then as we get older we deteriorate and then we die,
that's what the earth is going through.
The earth is going to go through a process like that.
And then in the millennium, Jesus Christ is going to renew everything and he'll reboot
it all.
You know?
And the sad thing is that Al Gore is going to be in hell.
So he's not going to get to see all the endangered species come back.
You know, I believe in the millennium, the California condor is coming back.
The spotted owls are coming back.
He's going to make all things, he's going to renew all these things, but Al Gore, the
only animal life he's going to see is worms.
His worms shall not die.
His fire shall not be quenched.
He's going to miss out because he's not saved, because he hates the Lord Jesus Christ.
But the Bible says in Hebrew chapter, I just want to point that out since it was right
there in the scripture about the earth waxing old as a garment.
But the Bible says in Hebrews 1.13, but to which of the angels said he at any time, sit
on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Now notice the capital S. Why?
Because it's another quote.
Let's go back to Psalm 110 and let's get this quote.
Because in Hebrews 1.13 it says, but to which of the angels said he at any time, sit on
my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
That was said unto Jesus, though, right?
Okay, look at Psalm 110 verse 1.
The Bible says, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
Now go to Mark chapter 12, Mark chapter 12.
We're almost done.
This is the final point.
Number one that we get from Hebrews on Jesus is that number one, Jesus is the creator.
There's no question about it, tons of scripture, a lot in Hebrews on that.
Number one, Jesus is the creator.
Number two, Jesus is God.
And number three, Jesus is Lord.
I mean this is the threefold message that God is giving us.
In chapter one of Hebrews, he carries it throughout the rest of Hebrews because he wanted to make
sure that the Jews realize that Jesus Christ is supreme.
Jesus Christ is the high priest.
Jesus Christ is God in the flesh.
Jesus Christ is greater than Moses.
Jesus Christ is the creator of Moses.
It's like Jesus said to them when he was on this earth, before Abraham was, I am.
And that's the message of Hebrews.
But look if you would at Mark chapter 12 verse 35, and Jesus answered and said while he taught
in the temple, how say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?
Now Christ means Messiah.
It means anointed.
How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?
For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, the Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right
hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
David therefore himself calleth him Lord.
And whence is he then his son?
And the common people heard him gladly.
See the scribes had had a lot of false doctrine ingrained in them that they couldn't get over.
So they just have it just ingrained that the Messiah, that the son of David, that the Christ
is basically just this earthly king that's going to come to the loins of David.
He's going to live.
He's going to bring freedom to their nation and then he's going to die like any other
man.
When you talk to the Jews today, that's what they believe.
When we went around interviewing the rabbis for marching to Zion, they taught that the
Messiah that they're looking for is a man who's going to be a world leader, he's going
to bring everybody together, he's going to give all the power to Israel, and then he's
going to die.
He's just a human being.
He's just a man.
He's just the son of David.
But Jesus says no, you guys are wrong.
You don't understand who the Messiah is.
You don't realize that the Messiah is not just the son of David.
He's greater than David.
He's David's Lord.
He's the Lord of David.
He's the Lord of all.
He's the Lord of everyone.
And he's not just going to die a normal death.
No, he lives forever.
Jesus said that he died, he was dead, but that he is alive forevermore.
Amen.
And has the keys of hell and of death.
Go back if you would to Hebrews chapter 1, we'll just quickly finish.
Hebrews chapter 1.
But to which of the angels said he at any time, verse 13, sit on my right hand until
I make thine enemies thy footstool, which is a quote of what was said unto David's Lord.
The Lord said unto my Lord, sit on my right hand.
He says in verse 14, are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who
shall be heirs of salvation.
So the theme of chapter 1 is how Jesus is greater than the angels.
Jesus is not just a messenger of God.
You know, like, for example, Islam would teach that Jesus is just a messenger of God.
Just a prophet of God.
And that later, Mohammed would come along and supersede Jesus.
No, no, no.
The Jesus of the Bible.
The Jesus of the Bible is the creator.
He's God.
He's greater than the angels.
He's greater than any human being who has ever existed.
In all things, he must have the preeminence.
And this is emphasized most clearly in the book of Hebrews.
And many Old Testament quotes are pulled out just to make sure that the Hebrew roots crowd
and that the messianic Judaism crowd doesn't somehow try to downgrade Jesus saying things
like, oh, Jesus was a rabbi.
Don't ever say to me Jesus was a rabbi.
No, no, no.
Jesus is the rabbi.
The only rabbi.
That's why he said, be not you called rabbi.
Said one is your master, Christ.
Jesus wasn't a rabbi.
He's the rabbi.
The only master that there is.
He's the Lord.
He's God.
He's the creator.
Or the Jews will sometimes say things like, well, Jesus was a Jew.
Jesus was Jewish.
He was...
No.
That's ridiculous.
How can you put Jesus in a box of he's a Jew or Jesus black, right, like the Hebrew Israelites
or whatever?
Jesus was black or Jesus white or Jesus was a Jew.
I mean, how stupid and foolish to talk about that when Jesus Christ is the creator of all
nations.
I mean, Jesus existed before this world even existed.
But you're going to say like, oh, his greatness is the fact that he descended from Abraham
so he's Jewish.
As if that matters, he created Abraham.
Before Abraham was, he said, I am.
So to sit there and say Jesus is a Jew, Jesus is a rabbi, like he's just lucky to be in
your stupid little Zionist club?
No way.
Jesus was not a Jew, a rabbi.
Sure.
Physically, he was born in a Jewish family, humanly speaking.
Well, you know what?
Humanly speaking, he was the son of David too.
Humanly speaking, he was the son of Mary.
But what does he say here?
He says, hey, how am I the son of David if David calls me Lord?
So how is Mary the mother of God when I created Mary?
How is Jesus a Jew when I'm the one who even created Judah or created Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob?
I've noticed that people who get mixed up in that movement of a Hebrew roots or Zionist
or Messianic Judaism type movement, they're always downgrading Jesus Christ and speaking
of him in a way that is not befitting.
Instead of just exalting him as a picture of the Lord of the universe, the God of all
flesh, they basically have downgraded him to a Jewish rabbi with a prayer shawl or something.
Like he's one of us.
He's one of us.
No, no, no.
He's not one.
You know what it reminds me of?
It reminds me of when Joshua comes face to face with Jesus Christ in the Old Testament.
When Jesus, a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ, and Joshua says to him, are
you for us or are you for our enemies?
And he just says, no.
And it wasn't a yes or no question.
I'm serious.
Look it up.
I believe it's what?
Joshua chapter 5?
Joshua doesn't know who he is.
He approaches Jesus and says, are you for us or are you for our enemies?
And he says, no.
I'm the captain.
I'm the boss.
He said, I'm not with you.
You're with me.
I'm not following you.
You're following me.
I'm not your ally.
You're my ally.
And these bunch of Jews that want to go around saying, well we're Jewish and Jesus is Jewish
He's just like, no.
You need to become Christian.
Instead of trying to make Jesus be Jewish, why don't you become a Christian?
And why don't you take his name and why don't you rally behind his name?
Why don't we exalt the name of Jesus and exalt Christ and exalt the Lord of Lords and the
King of Kings instead of exalting a nationality?
And saying, oh well Jesus is Jewish, Jesus is black.
Just trying to exalt your nationality.
Your nationality is worthless.
I don't care if you're white, black, Jewish, it's meaningless.
Look, let him that glorieth glory in Christ.
And that's why there's something wrong when people don't want to call themselves a Christian.
You know, they want to say, oh I'm a messianic Jew.
What a messed up Jew.
Why are you trying to glory in the flesh?
It makes no sense.
And so I think that's why God chose the book of Hebrews to just give us this really strong
statement even in chapter one about who Christ is.
And help us never forget that Jesus Christ is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords
and that he is supreme.
He made everything in heaven and in earth.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father we thank you so much Lord for the book of Hebrews and especially Lord for our
Savior Jesus.
And we pray that we would preach his name until our dying breath Lord and that we would
tell as many people about Jesus as we can and always exalt Jesus and lift up Jesus and
not be caught up in these kind of cultic movements that want to de-emphasize Jesus and lift up
Moses or de-emphasize Jesus and lift up being black or de-emphasize Jesus and lift up being
Jewish or some other nonsense Lord.
Help us to keep our eye on the author and finisher of our faith.
The creator of this world, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it's in Jesus' name that we pray this morning, amen.
Song number 246, Redeemed.
Sing it out for the first time.