The next segment is called,
What is the best way to get a good story?
We're going to talk about the best way to get a good story.
And what is the best way to get a good story?
How do you get a good story?
So what is the best way to get a good story?
Well, I think the best way is to get good stories.
So, for example, if you're going to do a movie,
Good evening and welcome to our services tonight. It's good to see you all here
this evening. Please take your seats and take your
hymnals and turn them to hymn number 23.
Hymn number 23, there is power in the blood, number 23.
And your hymnals is going to begin number 23. Would you be free from your
burden of sin? Number 23, sing it out on this verse.
Would you be free from your burden of sin?
There's power in the blood, power in the blood.
Would you be free from your burden of sin?
There's wonderful power in the blood. There is power, power, wonder, working
power, in the blood of the Lamb.
There is power, power, wonder, working power,
in the precious blood of the Lamb. Would you be free from your passion
and pride? There's power in the blood, power in the
blood. Come forward, lightens into power inside.
There's wonderful power in the blood. There is power, power, wonder, working
power, in the blood of the Lamb. There is power, power, wonder, working
power, in the precious blood of the Lamb.
Would you be wider, much wider than stone?
There's power in the blood, power in the blood.
Since things are lost in its life-giving form,
there's wonderful power in the blood. There is power, power, wonder, working
power, in the blood of the Lamb. There is power, power, wonder, working
power, in the precious blood of the Lamb.
Would you be service for Jesus your King?
There's power in the blood, power in the blood.
Would you live daily as praises you sing?
There's wonderful power in the blood. There is power, power, wonder, working
power, in the blood of the Lamb.
There is power, power, wonder, working power,
in the precious blood of the Lamb.
Lord, thank you for this opportunity to be here tonight and I pray that you'd
fill Pastor Anderson with your Holy Spirit.
Say in Christ's name I pray, amen.
Right across the page, number 22. Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb,
number 22?
Number 22, have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power, number 22?
Sing it out in this first verse together with me.
Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in his graces?
How are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you washed in the blood, in the soil cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless hardly white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you walking daily by the Savior's side?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
He rests each moment in the crucified.
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you washed in the blood, in the soil cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless hardly white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
When the bridegroom cometh, will your robes be white?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Will your soul be ready for the mansions bright?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you washed in the blood, in the soil cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless hardly white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Lay aside the garments that are safe and safe,
and be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
There's a fountain flowing for the soul unclean,
will be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
Are you washed in the blood, in the soil cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless hardly white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
All right, this time we'll go through our announcements.
If you don't have a bulletin, slip up your hand nice and high.
We'll get to you with one.
On the inside, we have our service time.
Sunday mornings at 1030 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at 6.
Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study.
This week will be in Judges chapter 8.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below,
as well as salvations and baptisms.
Keep praying for Pastor Bruce Mejia and his family and the church out there.
They're doing great, but obviously they're under a lot of attack right now,
so we want to be praying for them.
And then below that also, just make sure that you're careful about washing your hands.
Stay home if you're sick.
If you come into contact with people that you know for sure have coronavirus,
then be sure to stay away for a little bit and do fist bumps instead of handshakes, etc.
And then don't forget about the weekly singing classes that started up again
tonight at five o'clock on the back.
If you need a giving statement, email the church.
Below that, pray for the ladies that are pregnant,
that they'll have a safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery.
The homeschool field trip to Meijia's farm was canceled,
but there is another field trip that's still ago for February 18th
at the Out of Africa Wildlife Park.
And the Spanish night is also happening on February the 11th.
It's always the second Thursday of every month,
and that is about it for announcements.
Let's go ahead and count up the soul winning for the past few days.
So going back to Thursday, anything to report from Thursday?
Okay, gotcha.
Anything else from Thursday?
How about Friday?
Anything from Friday?
Okay, any other groups from Friday?
How about Saturday?
Okay, gotcha.
Okay, anything else?
Is that a four?
All right, and then what about today?
Sunday, anything from today?
Brother Scott?
Two for the main group with Brother Scott.
We got one with Brother Madison.
Is that six with Brother Tilsons?
Anything else from today?
All right, very good.
Keep up the great work on soul winning.
And with that, let's sing our next song.
Come lead us.
All right, we're going to sing Psalm 128.
If you don't have a sheet, please raise your hand,
and one of the men will get to you with one.
We'll get to one.
Psalm 128.
But the Lord shall bless me,
out of Zion thou shalt see.
By the dawn of Jerusalem,
all the days of my life,
Yea, the King of your next children,
and peace upon his heart.
If you would please turn to hymn number 258.
Hymn number 258, Christ receiveth sinful men.
Number 258, sinners Jesus will receive.
Hymn number 258 on the first.
Hymn number 168, Christ receiveth sinful men.
Come, the King will give you rest.
Trust him for his word is plain.
He will take the sinful less.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Sing it o'er and o'er again.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Make my message clear and plain.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Now my heart can help me not,
pure before the lost dead.
He who cleansed him of his heart,
satisfied in his name.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Sing it o'er and o'er again.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Make my message clear and plain.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Sing it o'er and o'er again.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Make my message clear and plain.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Sing it o'er and o'er again.
Christ receiveth sinful men.
Sing it o'er and o'er again.
All right, this time we'll pass our offering plates around.
As the plates go around, let's turn our Bibles to Hebrews chapter 1.
Hebrews chapter number 1.
As we always do, we'll read the entire chapter, beginning in verse number 1.
Follow along with Brother Daniel as he reads Hebrews chapter 1, starting in verse number 1.
Hebrews chapter 1.
God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in the 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,
who being the brightness of his 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.
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son.
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 the angels he saith, who maketh his angels as spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
But unto the sun he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.
A scepter of righteousness is a 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.
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 shall all 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.
But to which of the angels said he, At any time, sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Dear Lord, we just want to thank you for your salvation and for the gift of your only Son, Jesus Christ, Lord.
And we just ask that you bless the sermon and fill Pastor Anderson with your spirit as he preaches your word, Lord.
We pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
Man, the title of my sermon this evening is Jesus is God. Jesus is God.
The book of Hebrews is one of the most powerful books on explaining the nature of Jesus Christ.
Obviously, in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, we get the story of Christ's life and his death, burial, and resurrection.
And that tells us a lot about Jesus. We hear him preaching. We see his works.
But as far as just kind of sitting back and understanding who Jesus is and really going into detail on the deity of Christ,
the book of Hebrews is a great book for that.
And it makes sense because if it's being written to the Hebrews,
I believe that the apostle Paul doesn't want them to just think that they can just sort of add Jesus onto their Judaism
or sort of just put Jesus in a succession of prophets like the Muslims would do or something where they say,
oh, yeah, you know, we believe in all these prophets and Abraham and Moses and Jesus and Mohammed.
I really believe that he wants to emphasize to them that Jesus is not just another prophet.
This isn't just another messenger from God, but that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Jesus Christ is God himself.
He's the creator.
So the book of Hebrews really glorifies Jesus Christ.
And it also ties in what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross with Old Testament prophecy
and explains how it ties in with the animal sacrifices and the tabernacle and all of those things under the Old Covenant.
So let's start out in verse number one of chapter one.
It says, 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.
So God, various prophets, different times, different methods, different ways.
But in the last days, it says he spoke to us by his son.
So obviously that does put Jesus in a succession of prophets,
but then the Bible is going to explain how he's so much greater than other messengers, angels, prophets of the past.
It says that he 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,
who being the brightness of his 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.
So the first thing I want you to see here is that God the Father created all things by Jesus Christ.
The Bible tells the same thing in Colossians chapter one.
So God is the creator, but he created all things through Jesus.
You know, Jesus is the one who actually created this world.
On behalf of God the Father.
And the same thing, as I said, is taught in Colossians chapter one.
So this already puts him in another class.
He's the son of God.
He's also the creator of the world.
And it says that he is the express image of God's person.
Now here's why this is so important, because no one has seen God the Father at any time.
You know, the Bible tells us in John chapter one,
no man has seen God at any time.
The only begotten son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he had declared him.
And God told Moses back in Exodus, no man shall see my face and live.
And so Jesus Christ is the express image of his person,
meaning that Jesus could say when he was on this earth in John chapter 14,
if you've seen me, you've seen the Father,
because of the fact that he is the express image of his person,
meaning that he looks just like him.
Nobody can see God the Father, but you can see Jesus,
and Jesus is the image of God the Father.
And it says that he upholds all things by the word of his power,
and that when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.
And so Jesus is not only the high priest, but he's also the sacrifice himself.
So that's what it means when it says that he purged our sins by himself.
You know, he did both jobs.
Basically, in the Old Testament, you've got the actual animal that would be sacrificed,
the lamb, and then you have the high priest that does the sacrificing,
and that would take the blood and sprinkle it and so forth.
But Jesus Christ actually did both.
Jesus Christ is both the sacrifice, and he's also the high priest.
And he offered himself as a sacrifice, and he purged our sins by himself.
And then he sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.
And look at verse 4, it says,
Being made so much better than the angels,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
So now the Bible is going to proceed to tell us how is Jesus better than the angels.
It says in verse number 5,
For unto which of the angels said he at any time,
Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son.
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 the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits,
and his ministers a flame of fire.
But unto the son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
And so we see here that there's just this string of Old Testament quotes here,
because again, we're writing to the Hebrews,
so he's going to hit them with their own scriptures that they're familiar with.
And so he hits them with all these scriptures,
Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
Let all the angels of God worship him.
All these Old Testament texts that would be pointing to Jesus.
And the coup de grace is in verse number 8,
When unto the son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
Now go back, if you would, to Psalm 45.
So he quotes verses from the Old Testament about Jesus.
He quotes Old Testament verses about the angels.
And he's showing how Jesus is greater and superior to the angels.
And then he pulls out this wonderful text to prove that Jesus is God.
Now, some bozo online commented on one of my videos the other day,
and he said, oh, that's not what that means, you know.
In Hebrews chapter 1, 8, where he says,
To the son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
I mean, that's pretty clear.
That's super clear.
He's talking to the son, and he calls him God.
That's pretty simple.
Oh, you don't know what you're talking about.
He's quoting Isaiah there.
Well, it's not a quote from Isaiah.
It's a quote from Psalm 45.
And here's what you have to understand about this quote from Psalm 45.
This is a quote that makes no sense if Jesus is not God.
Even if you're just reading the Old Testament alone,
and you haven't even gotten to the New Testament,
you're going to get to the quote in Psalm 45.
And if you don't understand the idea of the Trinity,
you don't understand the deity of Jesus Christ,
you don't understand that the Messiah is going to be God,
then this verse is not going to make sense,
because look what the Bible says in Psalm 45, verse 6.
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
The scepter of Thy kingdom is a right scepter.
Thou lovest righteousness and hatest iniquity.
Therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.
So notice he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
Therefore God, even Thy God.
It's like, what?
How could God have God?
But when you understand that the Lord Jesus Christ is God,
it makes perfect sense.
And so the Apostle Paul pulls this out in Hebrews chapter 1 saying,
hey, explain this.
Explain that.
You know, when the Jehovah's Witnesses have come at me and said,
well, you know, if Jesus and the Father are both God,
you know, how can God pray to God?
Or, you know, how can Jesus pray to himself?
Or some stupid argument like that.
And I always just say to them, oh, okay, well why don't you explain this?
Why don't you explain how I can say unto God, he says,
Thy throne, O God, and then he turns around and says,
Therefore God, even Thy God.
Explain that.
Folks, you have to believe it by faith.
And it makes sense once you read the rest of the Bible
and figure out the Trinity that, no, Jesus is not praying to himself
as they accuse him of doing.
Jesus is praying to the Father.
It's God praying to God, but it's the Son praying to the Father
because it's three persons, one God.
And Jesus is the express image of his person,
the person of God the Father.
It's the person of Jesus, the person of God the Father,
and the person of the Holy Spirit.
And so that scripture in Psalm 45 is one of the many foreshadowings
in the Old Testament of the revelation of Jesus Christ
as the Son of God, the Savior of the world, deity incarnate.
It all goes all the way back to Genesis 1, when he says,
Let us make man in our image after our likeness.
And so God made man in his image.
So you have these plural words being used about God.
And even in Genesis chapter 3, you have the same thing.
You have the same thing again in Genesis chapter number 11.
You know, over and over again, you have these foreshadowings.
And so these are being pulled out in Hebrews chapter 1
to emphasize to the Hebrews, Look, Jesus is the Son of God.
Jesus is greater than the angels.
Jesus is the creator of the world.
Jesus upholds all things by the word of his power.
And Jesus is even God himself.
Jesus is deity himself.
Thy throne, O God.
But unto the Son, he saith in verse 8,
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
Scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
Thou has loved righteousness and hated iniquity.
Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
So not only is the New Testament version of this
powerfully proving the deity of Christ,
but you can look it up back in Psalm 45,
and it is still powerfully proving the deity of Christ.
And would make no logical sense
if you didn't understand Christ.
And a lot of things in the Old Testament,
you know, they saw through a glass darkly.
And they're clarified and made easy in the New Testament.
Look at verse number 10.
And, now the and there is telling us
we're about to get another Old Testament quote.
Okay.
And here's something about the way
your King James Bible is laid out,
is that there are no quotation marks in the King James Bible.
You've probably noticed that when people speak,
it doesn't pull what they say in quotes.
But what it does do is it capitalizes
the first word of the quotation.
Sometimes that's helpful, and sometimes it's a word
that was going to be capitalized anyway,
so you don't notice.
But that's why some of these words like this get capitalized.
And, and he's going to begin a new quotation,
so the T in now becomes capitalized.
Thou, Lord, in the beginning,
has laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
Look, don't miss this.
Don't miss this.
Don't miss this, folks.
This is still comparing the difference
between Jesus and the angels.
Get the context.
In verse 8, because he said,
well, he said this to the angels,
he said this about the angels,
this was about the angels,
but unto the Son he says,
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
And.
What's the and connecting?
Here's another thing he says about the Son.
Thou, Lord, in the beginning,
has laid the foundation of the earth.
So this is another scripture that's,
that's pointing to Jesus Christ as the Creator,
because otherwise this would make no sense.
Here, let me just quote a creation verse
apropos of nothing.
No, what's the context?
The context is, here's why Jesus is greater than the angels.
Jesus is God.
Jesus is also the Creator of the world.
So even though it said early in the chapter,
you know, that God made the worlds by Jesus,
you can say, well, that's not really a super clear statement
on him being the Creator.
You know, it's just that he was involved in creation,
or that he was created by Jesus.
But here it just explicitly gives us,
Thou, Lord, in the beginning,
has laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
This is about Jesus,
or it would make no sense being plugged in here in this context.
They shall perish, but thou remainest,
and they also wax old as though the 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.
But to which the angels said it at any time,
Sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Are they not all ministering spirits,
sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
And so we see again here that we're going back and forth
in chapter one about how Jesus is so much better than the angels.
Okay, then when we get into chapter two,
he again compares Jesus to the angels.
And it says in verse number five,
if you jump down to verse five of chapter two,
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come,
whereof we speak.
But he has put it in subjection unto who?
It's under subjection to Christ,
but not to the angels.
Verse six, But one in a certain place testified,
saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him,
or the son of man that thou visitest him?
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels,
thou crownest him with glory and honor,
and didst set him over the works of thy hands.
Now this is a quotation of a scripture that's talking about mankind in general.
So mankind in general, human beings in general,
the son of man in general, is a little lower than the angels.
Does everybody see that?
It says that God made man a little lower than the angels.
He crowned man with glory and set him over the works of his hands.
Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
Let's keep going.
This gets easy to understand in a moment.
For in that he put all in subjection under him,
he left nothing that is not put under him.
But now we see not yet all things put under him,
but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor
that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man.
So what the Bible's teaching here is that Jesus Christ
is so much better than the angels.
It's said in chapter 1, right?
Jesus is so much better than the angels.
He has obtained a more excellent name.
He's the creator.
He upholds all things by the word of his power.
Yea, he is God himself, okay?
And he is the express image of God the Father.
So he's so far beyond the angels, it's not even funny.
But then in chapter 2, he pulls out this idea
that human beings in general are a little lower than the angels
and that Jesus Christ basically came down from his exalted position
of being in heaven.
He thought it not robbery to be equal with God.
But what did he do?
He made himself of no reputation.
He took upon himself the form of a servant
and was found in fashion as a man.
And here's the thing.
Here in Hebrews chapter 2, it's talking about the fact
that Jesus was made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death.
So he basically came down from his high and lofty
exalted position far above the angels,
far greater than the angels.
He humbled himself and took on the form of a human being
which actually made him a little lower than the angels
because that's the human experience,
is being a little bit lower than the angels.
And what was the purpose of Jesus being made a little lower than the angels?
It says, for the suffering of death.
You know, so that he basically came down to this earth
and was robed in human flesh and lived as man on this earth
so that he could die for us.
So that he could die on the cross for us.
And that was the main purpose of his coming.
Obviously he did a lot of things while he was here
but the main thing is that he came to save us.
And he gave his life on the cross
and he was buried and rose again.
And the Bible says that he, by the grace of God,
should taste death for every man.
And it's so funny to try to listen to the Calvinists
try to do all these weird mental acrobatics
to try to make this verse say something other than what it plainly says.
You know, the Bible says here that Jesus Christ tasted death for every man.
And this verse is not alone.
There are lots of verses that tell us that Jesus Christ died
not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
And he tasted death for every man.
And there are lots of verses that talk about the fact
that Jesus Christ died for everybody.
And that's why, you know, when it comes to Calvinist doctrine
I'll tell you that their weakest point, the Achilles heel of Tulip
is the one right in the middle, the L, limited atonement.
Because you cannot get that from reading the Bible.
You're not just going to read the Bible and say,
well Jesus didn't die for everybody.
When the Bible's crystal clear in so many scriptures that he did.
But typically when Calvinists will explain to you
they just have some logical argument or some where,
well I mean, you know, if he already died for their sins
then how could they die for their own sins?
But you know, but you know what, you can't just sit there
and just come up with all these mathematical proofs and logics
for you to deny scripture.
You know, you got to just take the Bible for what it says.
The Bible says that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
So who did he love and for whom did he give his only begotten son?
That's the whole world.
God so loved the world.
Notice what it doesn't say.
God so loved whosoever believeth.
For God so loved whosoever believeth that he gave his only begotten son.
Is that what it says?
It doesn't say God so loved whosoever believeth that he gave his only begotten son.
It says God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth
should not perish but have everlasting life.
Notice whosoever believeth is a different group than the world, isn't it?
Are these the same group?
Whosoever believeth, the world.
These are not the same two groups here because the world is the whole world.
That's everybody.
So Jesus loved and died for the whole world so that a subset of that whosoever believeth
would not perish but have eternal life.
And so I could go on all night, I don't want to get off on a rabbit trail on debunking
limited atonement because it's like taking candy from a baby, okay, to debunk limited
atonement.
You could probably, you know, people who've barely read the Bible could do it because
there's just so many verses.
But they've got all kinds of wonderful, rational, logical leaps and explanations to explain
to us why Jesus didn't really die for everybody.
And then they create this weird straw man when you say, I, you know, I reject limited
atonement.
And then it's like, oh, so you're saying everybody's going to heaven?
It's like, what?
Oh, so you're universalist, everybody's saved?
Uh, no.
Oh, so you're saying Jesus tried to save people and failed to save some of them?
It's like, hello, why don't we just read the Bible and just take it for what it says?
The Bible just says that Jesus loved the world and he died for the world and whoever believes
on him can be saved.
And Jesus rebuked people for not believing in him and he said, you will not come to me
that you might have life.
Will means want to.
He said, whosoever will may come.
Whoever will let him take the water of life for you, whoever wants to, let him come.
Just kidding.
It's only people that I pick and I didn't even die for you anyway.
That's not what the Bible says.
It's a goofed up theology and it's just, it's just wrong on so many levels.
Here it says that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man.
Jesus Christ tasted death for us and that's why he said, if a man keep my saying, he shall
not see death.
You know, he died for us so that we don't have to die.
You know, keep your finger there and flip back to John chapter 8 just to get that verse
I just quoted.
I believe it's in John 8.
Go back to John chapter 8.
The Bible says in John 8 verse 51, verily, verily I say unto you, if a man keep my saying,
he shall never see death.
Folks, if you are saved, you will never see death.
Think about that.
That's what he's, I mean, that's what Jesus is promising.
That's what it means to have eternal life.
I'm never going to die.
I will never see death.
I will never experience death.
I'm never going to know what that's like to be dead.
What's it like to die?
I don't know and I'll never know because Jesus said, if a man keep my saying, he shall never
see death.
Verse 52, then said the Jews unto him, now we know that thou hast a devil.
Abraham's dead in the prophets and thou sayest, if a man keep my saying, he shall never taste
of death.
And of course Jesus goes on to explain that Abraham's not dead.
He says in verse 56, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and was glad.
So he's explaining here that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob aren't dead.
God's not the God of the dead but of the living.
So the death of the physical body is not death.
That's why typically the Bible talks about Christians as being asleep in Jesus.
They're asleep.
That's why we often talk about people passing away and we use the term that they died and
it's accurate to say that they died because of the fact that their body died.
But the physical death of the body, if you go back to Hebrews chapter 2, the physical
death of the body is not truly death at all.
It's really just a departure.
When Paul said for me to live is Christ and to die is gain, he said I have a desire to
depart and to be with Christ.
He said the time of my departure is at hand in 2 Timothy 4 when he was foreshadowing his
physical death.
Death is a departure.
Death is just when we will shed this physical body, this shell will be left behind and we
will go to be with the Lord in heaven.
Our soul will go straight to heaven and we will never experience death.
We will never be in a state of being called death.
If someone said Steven Anderson is dead, it wouldn't be true.
Now the body is dead but is that really me?
Is that, you know, this husk that's left behind?
No truly Steven Anderson will still be alive even after this body is dead.
I will still be alive.
That's what the Bible teaches, okay.
Now Jesus tasted death for every man.
Now some people will try to downplay this like well that's just his spirit leaving his
body.
Here's the problem with that.
The problem with that is this.
If my spirit leaving my body isn't truly death, then if Jesus spirit just left his body, that
wouldn't truly be death either, would it?
It would only be just a physical death.
But that's not even really death.
But here's what Jesus said.
Jesus said, I'm he that liveth and was dead.
And behold I'm alive forevermore and have the keys of hell and of death.
You know it says Jesus descended into the lower parts of the earth.
It says that Jesus Christ was three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
If you know anything about the basics of how our earth is made up, you know that it's
a sphere and that the heart of that would not be six feet under on the surface.
That's not the heart.
The heart would be the center.
You know think of an artichoke heart.
It's not one of those little leaves that people dip in mayonnaise.
It's the part on the inside.
So when it talks about him being in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights,
this is the same as Jesus descending into the lower parts of the earth in Ephesians
chapter four.
And this is the same as when he said, thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt
thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.
See, hell is a place of death.
The people that are there are dead.
People that are in heaven are alive.
Now when I say they're dead, don't misunderstand me.
I'm not saying that they're unconscious.
I'm not saying that they have ceased to exist.
Okay, they are considered dead though.
Okay, they're conscious.
You know, think of it however you want.
But I'm just going to believe the Bible.
See, and a lot of people, it's like they try to debunk the Bible or something.
Just like they try to debunk Jesus dying for everybody.
It's like, why don't you just go with it?
Jesus died for everybody.
It's what it says.
Just believe it.
Well, here's what the Bible says.
The Bible says that someday the dead are going to come out of hell and stand before God.
I saw the dead small and great stand before God.
Well, how could dead people stand up?
Well, they just do.
I don't understand how dead people can talk.
Well, I don't care what you understand.
People in hell are considered dead.
They're in conscious torment.
They're in conscious eternal torment throughout eternity, burning in hell.
But they're still, that's considered a place of death.
It's not considered life or being alive.
It's a state of death.
It's eternal damnation and it's death, okay?
So to have this, and one of these lying phony preachers, you remember all these lying phony
preachers that like attach themselves to me like some kind of a fungus or a parasite and
just used me and then discarded me when they were done?
And now they routinely lie and teach all kinds of weird garbage?
One of these bozos claimed recently that we believe that Jesus ceased to exist for three
days and three nights.
Really?
That's insane.
Of course Jesus Christ did not cease to exist, but all we're saying is that Jesus was actually
dead for three days and three nights and that Jesus actually tasted death for every man.
Now riddle me this, if Jesus Christ was not dead for three days and three nights or if
Jesus Christ only died physically, you know, it was just a physical, that's just his soul
leaving his body, he wasn't actually spiritually dead for three days and three nights, like
actually in the place of the dead in hell for three days and three nights, then riddle
me this, how can Jesus Christ taste of death for every man and then turn around and say
that if we are saved we won't taste of death?
So just stop and think about this.
Sometimes you just get flabbergasted with this.
The Bible says that we're not going to taste of death, does everybody understand that?
Does that mean we're not going to die physically when it says we're not going to taste of death
or is it saying we're not going to experience the state of being dead like being in the
place of death, being in hell and being in a dead condition?
Because for us death is just, it's just a departure and you don't even taste it.
You don't even see it, you don't even taste it, it's just like, oh I'm gone.
So what was it like to be dead?
I don't know, it was just a departure for me.
So does everybody see the difference there?
So if that's what it means when Jesus says you'll not taste of death, for you death is
just a departure.
Oh death, where is thy sting?
Oh grave, where is thy victory?
But then when Jesus tasted death, it's like, oh that's just a physical death.
Would that mean me and Jesus are doing the same stuff?
Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
Because I'm going to give up the ghost and my ghost is going to be doing great.
If Jesus gave up the ghost and his ghost was doing great, then we both did the same thing
and that means either he didn't taste death or I tasted it too.
But what does the Bible say?
It says he did it so I don't have to.
So whatever Jesus did, it's something I don't have to do and it's something bad that I don't
have to do.
It's something I don't want to do, it's something I don't want to taste, it's something I don't
want to see.
Thank God he did it for me.
See the difference between that kind of logic and their logic is that my logic is actually
looking at the text of scripture and saying, this is what it says, I believe it, I believe
it, I believe both, makes sense, done.
That's the right kind of logic, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Comparing John 8 with Hebrews 2, not just philosophizing, well what could a dead man
do?
If I had a nickel for every Calvinist who said to me, what could a dead man do?
But I can list a lot of things that a dead man can do.
A dead man can stand before God and be judged.
A dead man can burn in hell.
A dead man can talk to Abraham.
And you know, all of us, before we were saved, were spiritually dead in our trespasses and
sins.
What could a dead man do?
I don't know, eat, sleep, marry, give in marriage, I mean, you name it.
So we got to go by what the Bible says, folks.
That was a little bit of a rabbit trail but I have no regrets about it.
Verse number 10, for it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things
and bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through
suffering.
So we find out that Jesus again, by him are all things, for him are all things, and that
he's the captain of our salvation.
Because remember the context here is showing the greatness of Jesus, how he's superior
to other angels, prophets, other beings besides God the Father, of course, he is superior
to these others that he's being compared to.
Let's go ahead and jump over to chapter 3.
It says in verse number, there's so, I mean, we could read the whole book of Hebrews tonight
but we don't have time, right?
So I'm just trying to hit some key highlights to help us understand who Jesus is and specifically
the fact that Jesus is God.
He's not just a prophet or a teacher, and you know, I can't even count how many people,
you know, I just, just talking to a Roman Catholic and they just said, well, you know,
Jesus is a, you know, he's a great teacher, he's a great prophet, but did not believe
that he's God, didn't believe, you know, even though the Catholic Church would say that
they believe that.
You know, individual Catholics, their beliefs are like all over the place, right?
It's kind of just like choose your own beliefs.
You like candles and stained glass and, and incense, well, believe whatever you want and
come on down, you know.
Just have something juicy ready for the priest in the confessional booth and you'll be alright.
But it says in Hebrews chapter 3 verse 1, I'm just saying, look, a lot of people believe
Jesus is a good teacher, that's not going to get you to heaven.
Oh, I love and respect Jesus and his teachings, you know, and Buddha.
But that's not salvation.
We've got to believe Jesus is the son of God.
You've got to believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.
You've got to confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus.
So the Bible says in chapter 3 verse 1, wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.
So you've heard of the 12 apostles, but Jesus is the apostle, right?
Then he's the high priest of our profession, Jesus Christ, who was faithful to him that
appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
So we see Moses was obedient to God, he was faithful to God.
The Bible, that's a quote from the Old Testament when it says that Moses was faithful in all
his house.
I believe that's what God said to Aaron and Miriam, but he said that to somebody about
Moses in the Old Testament, that he was faithful in all his house.
And the Bible is saying, you know, so was Jesus.
I mean, Jesus was obedient as well to the Father.
The Bible is clear that he was obedient even unto death, even the death of the cross.
And that Jesus Christ always did those things which pleased him, and Jesus was submitted
to the Father.
But, but here's what we need to understand.
Here's the difference between Jesus and Moses.
Verse 3, for this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who
hath builded the house hath more honor than the house.
So if we're going to compare Jesus and Moses, here's how they compare.
House and guy who built the house.
So Moses is the house.
So you could say, wow, what a beautiful house.
What an amazing house.
But what about the guy who built the house?
Who's greater, the house or the guy who built the house?
The guy who built the house can always build another one.
And in fact, you know, he could even build another one that's even better if he wanted
to because he got more experience, right?
But he can, obviously the human who builds the house is far superior than a physical
building.
So Moses is signified by the house.
Jesus is signified by the guy who built the house, which means that Jesus is what?
The creator of Moses.
And he explicitly says that because it says, for this man, verse 3, was counted worthy
of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honor than
the house.
For every house is builded by some man, but he that built all things is God.
So it's like, Jesus created all things.
Jesus created all things.
Jesus is the creator.
And then we get here and it says, he that built all things is God.
That's why Jesus is greater than Moses, like the guy who built the house is greater than
the house itself.
Folks, how could you read this and not believe that Jesus is God?
How could you read this and walk away saying, well, I don't think Jesus is God.
I think he's a creative being, or I think he's a god, or a lesser god, or he's, folks,
it's so clear, the deity of Christ in Hebrews, you can't miss it.
It's hammered over and over again.
He that built all things is God.
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant.
But look at verse 6, but Christ as a son over his own.
Jesus is the servant of God, Moses is a friend of God, Jesus is the son of God.
Christ as a son over his own house, and he's over his own house.
So God's kingdom is Christ's kingdom.
The kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, Christ is over that.
Whose house are we?
If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope, firm unto the end, wherefore
as the Holy Ghost saith, and on and on we go.
But if you would flip over to chapter 4 to stay on the subject of the person and nature
of Jesus Christ and his work.
The Bible says in verse number 12 of chapter 4, for the word of God is quick and powerful
and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit
of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart,
neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight.
Now isn't it interesting that we're talking about the word of God and you're thinking
in the Bible.
And that's accurate.
I mean the Bible is the word of God.
Then I use a personal pronoun about the word of God.
Because then it says, neither is there any creature that is not manifested in his sight.
Whose sight?
The word of God's sight.
People say, well no, it's just God's sight.
But remember what did John chapter 1 say?
In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God.
So you could interpret it that way, but either way, the word is God.
And Jesus is the word, because the Bible says in 1 John 5, 7, for there are three that bear
record in heaven, the Father and the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one.
So the word is another reference also to Jesus.
Jesus is the word made flesh and dwelt among us.
All things are naked and open under the eyes of him with whom we have to do, verse 13,
be there.
And then look at verse 14, seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed
into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession, for we have not
an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in
all points tempted, like as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly under the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need.
So Jesus Christ is greater than humans.
He's greater than the angels.
He's also greater than all humans because we could pick one of the greatest humans that
there is, Moses, greater than Moses, by a factor of man being greater than the house
that man built.
So we see that he's greater than us because he was tempted in all points, like as we are,
yet without sin.
Moses sinned, I sin, you sin, we all sin.
There's not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not.
We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
But Jesus Christ was tempted in all points, like as we are, yet without sin.
So Jesus Christ came to this earth and had the opportunity to sin and he had temptations
presented to him that would have given him an opportunity to sin and yet he was without
sin.
Unlike us, who are constantly giving in to sin and committing sin, coming short, we are
not perfect.
Jesus is the only one who's perfect.
Even though he was tempted in all points, like as we are, yet without sin.
You don't want to misunderstand the word tempt there.
When it says he was tempted, it doesn't mean that he thought to himself like, hmm, maybe
I should do this.
That's not what that means because that's a different meaning of the word tempt, okay.
Because we would sometimes say like, you know, I was kind of tempted to have a second ice
cream and we constantly give in, amen, you know.
Can I get a witness?
So you know, that's how we would use the word tempted.
Like I was tempted means like I thought about it, I wanted to do it.
Obviously Jesus did not have wicked thoughts or envious thoughts or he wouldn't be without
sin.
If Jesus was kind of like, you know, then that, that's a sin in and of itself when you're
kind of just thinking about doing stuff and, and you know, hey look, if you lust after
an ice cream in your heart, you've committed gluttony already in your heart.
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm joking.
But anyway, the, the, the point, I'm not trying to create some new doctrine with that, okay.
It was a joke.
I want some ice cream right now actually.
Who's going for ice cream afterward?
No, I'm just kidding.
So when it says he's tempted in all points, the word tempt in the Bible often means to
test or to try and it's, it's from the same root word as our English word attempt.
You know, if we're going to make an attempt, it means we're going to try something.
So this is sort of like when the Bible says that God tempted Abraham, it means that God
tested him.
You know, he put a situation in front of him where he's being tested.
What is he going to do?
That was God tempting Abraham.
But then the Bible tells us elsewhere that God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth
he any man.
So when the Bible says that God does not tempt any man, it means God doesn't try to entrap
man like, hey, are you sure you don't want to do this?
Because that's another meaning of tempt, right?
Like when Satan is trying to tempt Jesus like, hey, why don't you do something stupid?
And Jesus tells him, get thee hence Satan, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
You know, and basically what we see is that tempt can either mean, you know, to dangle
something in front of somebody and if I'm tempted it means I'm thinking about doing
it.
That's not what we're talking about here with Jesus.
Tempt in this case is being put in a situation where the wrong thing is right in front of
you and you have the opportunity to do wrong and you say, no, I'm not going to do wrong,
I'm going to do right.
That's what the Bible is saying.
And the way that Jesus was tempted is that he was put in positions where he's hungry,
he's thirsty, he's tired, he went through the entire human experience.
And so there are all kinds of opportunities to sin.
There are all kinds of people that would put sin in front of you.
I mean, do you really think that Jesus went through his whole life without seeing something
that was wrong?
It's impossible to walk through this world without seeing wrong things.
I mean, if Jesus Christ were alive today in Phoenix, Arizona, you know, he's going
to see things that aren't right.
He's going to see maybe an inappropriate billboard or he's going to see a magazine cover.
He's going to see these things because they're just in front of us.
And there's nothing new under the sun.
I'm sure that he saw things that were wrong and saw temptations or opportunities to sin
or things that, you know, the flesh would want to do that are against God.
But Jesus Christ didn't take the second look.
Jesus Christ didn't covet those things or look with lust on those things or, uh, think
about, hey, maybe I will just steal this thing that doesn't belong to me or something.
Although I guarantee you there were situations, we've all been in situations where something
was available to steal.
You know, where somebody just leaves something somewhere and there it is, some expensive
item or cash or whatever, and it's just right there and it's like, hey, I could steal this
and get away with it, right?
That's a temptation.
It doesn't mean that you're thinking about doing it because I could be in a situation
where there's money sitting there and I have an opportunity to take it and no one's ever
going to know.
But that doesn't mean that for one second the thought crosses my mind of actually taking
it.
But there's an opportunity there.
Now if you stop and sit and think, oh, you know, that's our, you're already sinning at
that point because it's lust and covetousness and whatever.
You know, Jesus didn't have those kinds of thoughts, but I guarantee you Jesus was in
situations where, you know, somebody left some coins laying there or whatever and, you
know, maybe, you know, you could use your imagination.
Obviously this is just completely made up fiction fantasy, but you could use your imagination
of a situation where, you know, somebody overpays Joseph doing carpentry or whatever and he
could have just skimmed off the top and put some money in.
But then instead he says, hey, sir, here's your change or whatever instead of just keeping
it.
So that's a totally made up story.
But the, but you get the idea.
We all have stuff like that in our life where we're tested.
What am I going to do?
Am I going to do the right thing or am I going to do the wrong thing?
Jesus was tested like that, but he was totally without sin.
So he did not flinch.
He did not do any of those things.
Now obviously it's because Jesus is of a superior nature.
It's not that Jesus just tried really hard, you know, and I'm, I guarantee you that he
struggled and went through difficult things and hard things, but it's not like I could
just try super hard and never sin.
And there are people out there trying to do that.
Every time they have a bad thought, they're flogging themselves and just doing all these
meditations and doing all these austerities and trying to kind of beat their will into
submission, but we are incorrigible.
The old man can't be fixed.
That's why every day we got to put off the old man, put on the new man.
But that's a daily thing.
We've got to die daily.
We've got to crucify the flesh daily.
We got to walk in the spirit daily.
So it's not that Jesus is just a guy, and this is what some people teach, you know,
people, especially, you know, unbelieving bozos in academia or whatever, you know, that
Jesus kind of just achieved this God status or that he achieved the Christ level, you
know, achievement unlocked Christ or something, you know what I mean?
And the Buddha did the same thing, and so did Mohammed, and so did, you know what I
mean?
No.
That's not what it is.
Jesus Christ going into things was of a superior nature.
Jesus, going in is divine.
Going in, he's deity.
Going in, he's greater than the angels.
He's the son of God.
He's the creator.
And he goes into this thing, and he's tested over and over again, and he doesn't sin.
Because it's not in his nature to sin.
It's in our nature to sin.
It was not in the nature of Christ to sin.
His nature is righteousness.
He loved righteousness.
He hated iniquity.
And it's in his nature to do right, and he was tempted in all points like as we are.
He was put to the test, and yet he was without sin.
And then of course in chapter 5, it talks about all of the human high priests, how they
have to offer sacrifices for their own sins, because they're sinners too.
But not Christ.
I mean, Jesus Christ had no sin, number one.
And then, you know, the high priest also, you know, they were only a high priest temporarily
because they lived and they died.
Jesus Christ, on the other hand, is greater than any high priest because he's the eternal
high priest.
He's always the high priest, 100 years from now, 300 years from now.
He remains the high priest.
He's of the order of Melchizedek, which is superior to the order of Levi.
And you can go down through the book of Hebrews and just see all the different comparisons.
You know, there's a comparison made with Abraham.
Jump into chapter 7.
Verse 4 of chapter 7, it says, Now consider how great this man was, and we're talking
about Jesus, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
And then if we jump down to verse 6, But his descent is not counted from them, received
tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
And without all contradiction, the less is blessed of the better.
And here men that die receive tithes, but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed
that he liveth.
So Jesus Christ is better than Levi, who receives the tithes from the children of Israel, and
Jesus Christ is greater than Abraham, because Abraham receives a blessing from Melchizedek,
who's either an Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ or pictures Jesus Christ.
Either way, you get the same idea, that Jesus Christ is superior to Abraham.
Jesus Christ is superior to the Levitical priesthood, superior to the high priest, superior
to the angels.
You name the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, none of these guys are as great as Jesus.
Jesus Christ is God, and he is co-equal with the Father.
They're both equally God.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are all three equally God.
And Jesus Christ came to this earth, took upon himself the form of man, lived the perfect
sinless life that none of us could live, tasted death for every man, died and was buried
and rose again, and ascended up to heaven to sit on the right hand of God.
And it says in chapter 7 verse 25, wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him.
What did Jesus say?
Man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And he's able to save to the uttermost those that come to God by him, seeing that he ever
liveth to make intercession for them.
And here's the great thing about Jesus, is that Jesus Christ doesn't save us temporarily.
He saves us unto the uttermost.
And what does that mean, to be saved to the uttermost?
You know, I've heard this slogan where they say, he saves from the guttermost to the uttermost.
What does that mean when it says that he's able to save them to the uttermost?
Okay, well, the word uttermost comes from outermost, right?
It's basically just, it lost its o after a while.
The word outermost becomes uttermost.
So what we're talking about is like the extreme, the furthest point.
You know, you go out as far as you want to go.
You know, you think about the universe, right?
And how it literally goes on forever.
It literally has no end.
Even a scientist who doesn't believe in God will tell you, the universe has no end.
If you tried to get to the end of the universe, the end would move before you got there.
It's all leaving us and it's just endless.
So think about how you can just keep going out and you'd never get to the end.
So think about that when you think about this word uttermost.
It's like an extreme and it's like infinity is what it is.
Because we're not talking about the uttermost part of the earth or the uttermost, because
what would the utter, what does it mean the uttermost part of the earth?
It means like you're traveling on the earth and you go as far as you can go and you can't
go any further.
That's the uttermost part of the earth, right?
So like let's say we were talking about this continent that we're on right now and let's
say we just start heading south, right?
And we're just going south and going south.
You know, eventually we're going to get to a point where we reach the end, right?
We get down to the tip of South America and it's like, okay, that's the uttermost part
of the earth.
Okay.
Or, you know, if we were in different places, that would be different.
You know, maybe we get to that edge of Alaska and we say, okay, I'm at the uttermost part
of the earth here because I've gone as far as I can go.
I'm at the edge.
The earth stops because the earth in the Bible is typically the dry land, okay?
So the uttermost is the furthest, the extreme edge.
It could even be considered infinity when you think about the scope of the universe.
So when the Bible says that he's able to save them to the uttermost, what does he mean by
that?
Well, it's explained in the next words because it says, seeing that he ever liveth to make
intercession for them.
So how is he able to save us to the uttermost?
Well, because he ever lives to make intercession for us.
Here's what the Bible is actually saying is that he saves us to the uttermost, meaning
he saves us time-wise to the uttermost, like forever never ending to infinity because he's
always alive to make intercession for us.
So you know, think about this.
What if, here's just kind of an illustration that I'm just kind of coming up with on the
fly so hopefully this doesn't crash and burn on me, okay.
But think about this.
What if someone, let's say, promised me a piece of land and they said, listen, you know,
this piece of land, I'm giving it to you and it's yours forever.
Here let me sign this over to you and this belongs to you, right.
So I've got this piece of land.
And then let's say the person who did that, the person who gave that to me and signed
it over to me and granted me that and, you know, whoever down at the recording office
that recorded that and said, hey, this is your property, right, they all died.
And then 30 years later some guy claims, hey, that's my land.
This belongs to me.
And I'm like, well no, this guy, well who's that?
Well I mean, you know, you have this document, I don't know what this, what is this?
Who's this guy?
You know, you don't think people have owned things that later somebody else said, no,
you don't actually own that?
And somebody else, no, I actually own it because I've got this other document, you know.
So here's the thing about Jesus Christ is that Jesus Christ, he grants us eternal life.
He promises us this possession of salvation, eternal life, home in heaven, mansion in glory.
And then here's a, he is always there to guarantee it for us.
So if the devil were to come along and say, hey, you know, how could Steven Anderson be
going to heaven?
Look what he did here.
Jesus is right there to say, no, sorry, it's already been paid for.
Here's the receipt in my blood here.
I paid for this.
So Jesus Christ, not only does he guarantee us something, but he sticks around to basically
be able to guarantee that it, you know, he saves us to the uttermost, meaning that there's
no end.
It keeps going.
He saves us unto the end, unto the extreme, unto infinity because he ever lives to make
intercession for us.
So we're never going to get to a point where it's like, well that guy promised me this,
I was like, well, we don't know who that is.
Where is he?
He's, I don't hear, I didn't hear that from him.
Jesus is always there to guarantee our salvation because he ever lives to make intercession
for us.
He's always there to say, whoa, whoa, hey, Steven Anderson's with me, you know, and that's
my ticket into heaven.
The only way I'm getting into heaven is because I'm with him, not because I'm, you know, welcome
up because I'm so elite I can get in.
It's like, no, no, no, I'm, it's, it's a, it's a plus one.
I'm the plus one.
Jesus is plus one, right?
Because Jesus is invited to the party, I'm his plus one, okay?
And the only way I get to go is because I'm his guest and he ever lives to make intercession
for me.
For such a high priest became us who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners
and made higher than the heavens, who needed not daily as those high priests to offer up
sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the people's.
For this he did once when he offered up himself for the law maketh men high priests which
have infirmity, verse 28 of chapter 7, but the word of the oath which was since the law
maketh the son who is consecrated for evermore.
He's forever the high priest.
He ever liveth to make intercession for us.
All power is given unto him in heaven and in earth.
The house is his house, his rules, his house.
He's the creator.
By him all things consist.
By him and for him and to him are all things.
He built everything.
He's the creator.
Anyone that you name in the Bible, he is superior to them and in fact he's God.
That's what the book of Hebrews is teaching us about Jesus.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, thank you so much for this great book to really hammer these truths in, Lord, that
Jesus is superior to all and that we would never get sucked into any kind of a doctrine
that would tend to downplay Jesus or downgrade or demote him to just being an ordinary man
or a great teacher or some kind of a rabbi of the time period that just got really popular.
Lord, we know that Jesus Christ is our creator, our savior, the author and finisher of our
faith, Lord.
We thank you that we have access to you through him and it's in his name we pray.
Amen.
Let's take our hymnals please and turn to hymn number 384.
Number 384 in the service of the king, number 384.
I am happy in the service of the king, I am happy, oh, so happy, I have peace and joy
and nothing else can bring, in the service of the king, in the service of the king, every
talent I will bring, my peace and joy and blessing, in the service of the king, I am
happy in the service of the king, I am happy, oh, so happy, through the sunshine and the
shadow I can see, in the service of the king, in the service of the king, I have peace and
joy and blessing, in the service of the king, I am happy in the service of the king, I am
happy, oh, so happy, all that I possess to him I love to bring, in the service of the
king, in the service of the king, every talent I will bring, I have peace and joy and blessing,
in the service of the king.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.