1 00:00:04,766 --> 00:00:08,833 We say thank you to our music ministers, a great job they do. 2 00:00:10,166 --> 00:00:14,466 Have your Bibles open with me to Hebrews chapter one. 3 00:00:18,533 --> 00:00:21,800 We started last week with an introduction to 4 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,066 the book of Hebrews. 5 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:26,933 We took a look at Verse number one. 6 00:00:28,166 --> 00:00:31,266 The 1st point we looked at was the preparation 7 00:00:31,266 --> 00:00:34,333 for Christ from the Old Testament 8 00:00:34,333 --> 00:00:37,566 writers, if you weren't here or didn't hear that message, 9 00:00:37,566 --> 00:00:41,033 it would be good for you to go back online and 10 00:00:41,033 --> 00:00:42,600 watch it or listen to it. 11 00:00:44,433 --> 00:00:48,966 And then the 2nd point we had was the presentation 12 00:00:48,966 --> 00:00:51,966 of Christ, in part of verse number 13 00:00:51,966 --> 00:00:55,399 two, you remember, that 14 00:00:55,399 --> 00:00:59,000 the real, overall, general 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,166 theme for this whole epistle 16 00:01:02,166 --> 00:01:03,299 of Hebrews. 17 00:01:04,633 --> 00:01:08,233 Is the person of Jesus Christ in 18 00:01:08,233 --> 00:01:11,366 his absolute, as I said earlier, 19 00:01:11,366 --> 00:01:15,066 supremacy and preeminence over 20 00:01:15,066 --> 00:01:18,599 everybody and everything that exists. 21 00:01:20,066 --> 00:01:24,566 In all of creation, and existence, 22 00:01:24,566 --> 00:01:27,733 an eternity past, an eternity 23 00:01:27,733 --> 00:01:31,333 future, there is no one 24 00:01:31,333 --> 00:01:32,599 like Jesus. 25 00:01:33,666 --> 00:01:34,433 No one. 26 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:36,233 No one comes close. 27 00:01:37,933 --> 00:01:40,166 Someone wrote the following words. 28 00:01:42,066 --> 00:01:45,233 He became the son of man that we might become the sons of God. 29 00:01:47,266 --> 00:01:50,466 He was born contrary to the laws 30 00:01:50,466 --> 00:01:54,366 of nature, lived in poverty, 31 00:01:54,366 --> 00:01:57,666 was reared in obscurity, and 32 00:01:57,666 --> 00:02:01,700 only once crossed the boundary of that land in 33 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:04,466 which he was born, and that in his childhood. 34 00:02:05,966 --> 00:02:10,099 He had no wealth, or influence, and 35 00:02:10,099 --> 00:02:13,500 had neither training, nor education in 36 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:14,633 the world schools. 37 00:02:15,666 --> 00:02:18,733 His relatives were inconspicuous and 38 00:02:18,733 --> 00:02:22,400 uninfluential, in infancy, 39 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,166 he startled a king, in boyhood, 40 00:02:26,166 --> 00:02:27,966 he puzzled the learned doctors. 41 00:02:29,266 --> 00:02:32,599 In manhood, he ruled the course of nature. 42 00:02:33,166 --> 00:02:36,533 He walked upon the billows and hushed 43 00:02:36,533 --> 00:02:37,966 the seas asleep. 44 00:02:39,433 --> 00:02:42,966 He healed the multitudes without medicine, and 45 00:02:42,966 --> 00:02:45,366 made no charge for his services. 46 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:47,300 He never wrote a book. 47 00:02:48,033 --> 00:02:51,133 Yet all the libraries of the country could 48 00:02:51,133 --> 00:02:53,699 not hold all of the books about him. 49 00:02:55,366 --> 00:02:56,900 He never wrote a song. 50 00:02:57,833 --> 00:03:00,966 Yet he has furnished the theme for more 51 00:03:00,966 --> 00:03:03,666 songs than all of the songwriters together. 52 00:03:04,933 --> 00:03:06,500 He never founded a college. 53 00:03:06,533 --> 00:03:09,666 Get all the schools together, cannot 54 00:03:09,666 --> 00:03:13,333 boast of as many students as he has had. 55 00:03:14,433 --> 00:03:17,833 He never practiced medicine, yet healed 56 00:03:17,833 --> 00:03:21,566 more broken hearts than the doctors have healed broken bodies. 57 00:03:23,333 --> 00:03:27,033 This Jesus Christ is the star of astronomy. 58 00:03:27,733 --> 00:03:31,033 The rock of geology, the lion 59 00:03:31,033 --> 00:03:34,500 and the lamb of zoology, the harmonizer 60 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:37,366 of all discords and the healer of all diseases. 61 00:03:38,666 --> 00:03:39,599 throughout history. 62 00:03:41,066 --> 00:03:43,033 Great men have come and gone. 63 00:03:43,933 --> 00:03:46,166 Yet he lives on. 64 00:03:47,366 --> 00:03:48,666 Herod could not kill him. 65 00:03:49,433 --> 00:03:51,133 Satan could not seduce him. 66 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:54,366 Death could not destroy him, 67 00:03:54,366 --> 00:03:56,699 and the grave could not hold him. 68 00:03:56,766 --> 00:03:59,833 This and much more is Jesus. 69 00:04:02,933 --> 00:04:03,766 There are not many things. 70 00:04:05,766 --> 00:04:08,833 that I would be confident in debating, but the 71 00:04:08,833 --> 00:04:11,833 absolute fact, that no 72 00:04:11,833 --> 00:04:16,266 human being, in recorded history, 73 00:04:16,266 --> 00:04:20,233 comes anywhere close to affecting the world, with 74 00:04:20,233 --> 00:04:23,399 their one life, the way that Jesus has is one 75 00:04:23,399 --> 00:04:25,866 of the things I will be willing to debate any man. 76 00:04:27,833 --> 00:04:31,000 He is the preeminent one. 77 00:04:32,566 --> 00:04:35,600 And he is the primary theme, again, 78 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,066 of this epistle of Hebrews. 79 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:40,500 Now quickly, before we move to verse two. 80 00:04:40,566 --> 00:04:43,733 Just remember, Hebrews is 81 00:04:43,733 --> 00:04:47,766 a letter written from an unknown Christian author to a congregation 82 00:04:47,766 --> 00:04:51,233 of Jews existing somewhere outside of Israel, 83 00:04:52,033 --> 00:04:53,366 one to Christ. 84 00:04:53,933 --> 00:04:56,899 By, don't forget, apostolic missionaries. 85 00:04:58,233 --> 00:05:01,399 And also, even though the emphasis of the epistle 86 00:05:01,399 --> 00:05:04,866 is to genuine Jewish believers in 87 00:05:04,866 --> 00:05:08,333 this community, in this congregation, spread throughout 88 00:05:08,333 --> 00:05:11,633 the book, there are 5 warnings 89 00:05:11,633 --> 00:05:14,699 in different places that we're going to encounter in this 90 00:05:14,699 --> 00:05:18,000 epistle to unbelievers, of 91 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,266 which there are 2 types of unbelievers here. 92 00:05:20,333 --> 00:05:22,666 There are those who know the truth. 93 00:05:23,533 --> 00:05:27,100 And they have what we refer to as intellectual 94 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:30,733 faith, as like the devils believe, and they tremble, 95 00:05:30,733 --> 00:05:34,333 but they have not yet exercised true Bible 96 00:05:34,333 --> 00:05:35,766 repentance and saving faith. 97 00:05:36,366 --> 00:05:39,500 They profess Christ with their 98 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:42,500 lips, but have not yet surrendered to 99 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:46,266 possessing true genuine saving faith. 100 00:05:46,333 --> 00:05:47,966 And then, lastly, the 3rd group. 101 00:05:49,133 --> 00:05:51,433 Are those who have not believed in Christ at all. 102 00:05:53,066 --> 00:05:56,300 And the writer is going to speak very 103 00:05:56,300 --> 00:06:00,000 directly to this group to make his point about 104 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,266 who Christ is. 105 00:06:01,333 --> 00:06:04,466 And so, as I said, in our introductory message, it's 106 00:06:04,466 --> 00:06:07,600 going to be very important to know, because you don't get a heading, 107 00:06:07,633 --> 00:06:09,133 hey, now he's talking to these people. 108 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:10,533 He just does it. 109 00:06:10,566 --> 00:06:12,833 And so I'll be helping you with that as we go. 110 00:06:12,899 --> 00:06:16,366 But no matter what group the writer is speaking to in any of the passages. 111 00:06:17,733 --> 00:06:21,300 He is constantly announcing the 112 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:23,166 superiority of Christ. 113 00:06:25,166 --> 00:06:28,266 So I told you last time, the genuine 114 00:06:28,266 --> 00:06:31,433 Jewish believers who are in this congregation were 115 00:06:31,433 --> 00:06:35,300 in danger, and understandably so, 116 00:06:35,333 --> 00:06:38,366 of staying tangled up with the old 117 00:06:38,366 --> 00:06:41,633 covenant, and having like a mixture of the old covenant, 118 00:06:41,633 --> 00:06:44,699 and belief in Jesus kind of forming into that 119 00:06:44,699 --> 00:06:47,766 type of Christianity, and the 120 00:06:47,766 --> 00:06:51,733 writer here of Hebrews wants them to understand. 121 00:06:52,399 --> 00:06:56,033 that they did not need the old covenant 122 00:06:56,033 --> 00:06:59,100 in any aspect, shape matter or form 123 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:00,233 at all anymore. 124 00:07:01,566 --> 00:07:04,699 That Christ is all sufficient 125 00:07:04,699 --> 00:07:08,399 alone for everything in 126 00:07:08,399 --> 00:07:11,399 being right with God, and in 127 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:12,766 staying right with God. 128 00:07:13,533 --> 00:07:17,466 Remember verse one, God, after he spoke long 129 00:07:17,466 --> 00:07:20,533 ago to the fathers, in the prophets, 130 00:07:20,533 --> 00:07:23,100 in many portions, and in many ways. 131 00:07:23,166 --> 00:07:27,199 That, as we saw, was the preparation for 132 00:07:27,199 --> 00:07:30,199 Christ, the many portions, or the books of the 133 00:07:30,199 --> 00:07:33,266 Old Testament, the many ways, or all 134 00:07:33,266 --> 00:07:36,399 the ways that God used, and the means that he used 135 00:07:36,433 --> 00:07:39,533 during the time of the Old Testament, to 136 00:07:39,533 --> 00:07:41,166 speak through his prophets. 137 00:07:41,233 --> 00:07:44,233 And there were many dreams, visions, parables, directly, 138 00:07:44,233 --> 00:07:45,866 indirectly, through the minds of men. 139 00:07:46,866 --> 00:07:50,233 Whatever the means God used in the Old Testament, 140 00:07:50,233 --> 00:07:53,766 though, don't forget, it was always God who was speaking. 141 00:07:54,433 --> 00:07:56,533 Through the means of men. 142 00:07:58,033 --> 00:08:01,100 And God's message, primary message in the Old 143 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:04,100 Testament, was to announce to men 144 00:08:05,533 --> 00:08:06,866 the coming of his son. 145 00:08:08,633 --> 00:08:12,133 And that's what we saw secondly last time, the presentation 146 00:08:12,133 --> 00:08:13,633 of his son. 147 00:08:13,699 --> 00:08:17,300 Look at verse 2, in these last days, he 148 00:08:17,300 --> 00:08:21,033 has spoken to us in his son. 149 00:08:21,066 --> 00:08:24,600 So the preparation for Christ was 150 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:25,866 the Old Testament. 151 00:08:25,933 --> 00:08:29,966 Now here, the presentation of 152 00:08:29,966 --> 00:08:33,733 Christ is not only when he was here, but 153 00:08:33,733 --> 00:08:35,700 also in the New Testament. 154 00:08:37,033 --> 00:08:37,466 Now. 155 00:08:38,466 --> 00:08:41,600 In the New Testament, God speaks. 156 00:08:42,166 --> 00:08:45,433 through his son, and all the writers of the New Testament 157 00:08:45,433 --> 00:08:48,500 are either commentators 158 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:51,600 on our historians of 159 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,033 his son. 160 00:08:53,166 --> 00:08:55,266 That's what the New Testament is about. 161 00:08:56,633 --> 00:09:00,033 These last days, remember, we've been over this a 162 00:09:00,033 --> 00:09:03,966 couple of times started with the ministry of Jesus, and we're still in them right now. 163 00:09:05,266 --> 00:09:08,466 It's not the last of the last days that we're talking about with 164 00:09:08,466 --> 00:09:09,666 that particular phrase. 165 00:09:11,066 --> 00:09:11,700 And think about it. 166 00:09:13,133 --> 00:09:14,066 We are blessed. 167 00:09:14,933 --> 00:09:19,266 To live in an age in which we hold The 168 00:09:19,266 --> 00:09:22,733 complete canon of scripture in our hands, the 169 00:09:22,733 --> 00:09:23,866 old and the New Testament. 170 00:09:25,233 --> 00:09:28,899 There is nothing more to add 171 00:09:28,899 --> 00:09:32,933 to God speaking in his son, nothing more. 172 00:09:34,533 --> 00:09:35,500 We have it all. 173 00:09:36,933 --> 00:09:40,000 As I tell you all the time, when you hear somebody say, God told 174 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,133 me, turn around and go the other direction, unless 175 00:09:43,133 --> 00:09:44,866 they give you a chapter or a verse. 176 00:09:46,866 --> 00:09:50,033 Everything that God wanted to reveal to us about 177 00:09:50,033 --> 00:09:53,500 his son, for all of the rest of time is 178 00:09:53,533 --> 00:09:55,100 right here in the book alone. 179 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:56,866 Sola scriptura. 180 00:09:58,066 --> 00:10:01,266 So, The Old Testament 181 00:10:01,266 --> 00:10:04,266 is, remember I taught you last week, Progressive 182 00:10:04,266 --> 00:10:07,500 Revelation, begins 183 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:10,666 in promise, Preparation, 184 00:10:11,466 --> 00:10:14,166 The New Testament ends in fulfillment. 185 00:10:15,333 --> 00:10:18,533 As God speaks, For all 186 00:10:18,533 --> 00:10:21,366 the rest of human history in his son. 187 00:10:22,566 --> 00:10:26,399 If you want to hear what God has to say, then listen to Jesus and nobody else. 188 00:10:27,933 --> 00:10:31,700 Or people are commenting about Jesus and it's in line with scripture. 189 00:10:33,333 --> 00:10:36,433 There are no other religions that give to us 190 00:10:36,433 --> 00:10:39,266 the word of God, none. 191 00:10:40,566 --> 00:10:44,399 Jesus and all that is said about him, is 192 00:10:44,399 --> 00:10:46,866 God's final word. 193 00:10:46,933 --> 00:10:50,000 Anything outside of scripture claiming to 194 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,633 be from God, is a lie. 195 00:10:56,233 --> 00:10:56,899 Period. 196 00:10:58,366 --> 00:11:01,399 Again, if you want to go back to more detail, 197 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:04,433 all that I just said, go back and watch last 198 00:11:04,433 --> 00:11:06,899 week's message, because now we got to move forward. 199 00:11:08,733 --> 00:11:11,500 Now we're moving forward to the next part of verse number two. 200 00:11:13,433 --> 00:11:15,633 And this brings us to point number three. 201 00:11:16,666 --> 00:11:20,299 The pre-eminent of Christ. 202 00:11:23,333 --> 00:11:27,166 As I said earlier, the the words 203 00:11:27,166 --> 00:11:31,933 in verse 2 and 3 here are some of the most Important 204 00:11:32,666 --> 00:11:35,633 and loftiest words in the whole Bible. 205 00:11:37,333 --> 00:11:41,766 In these verses, the Holy Spirit, exalts 206 00:11:41,766 --> 00:11:44,933 Christ as the full and 207 00:11:44,933 --> 00:11:50,100 final revealed expression of God. 208 00:11:51,166 --> 00:11:53,399 He is more exalted. 209 00:11:54,366 --> 00:11:56,633 And more excellent. 210 00:11:58,333 --> 00:12:03,133 Superior to every person, angel, 211 00:12:03,133 --> 00:12:06,200 and every aspect of both the seen 212 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,433 and unseen realms. 213 00:12:08,533 --> 00:12:11,233 That covers everything and everybody. 214 00:12:13,633 --> 00:12:16,333 We've all heard many ridiculous efforts. 215 00:12:18,333 --> 00:12:19,766 to define Jesus. 216 00:12:21,266 --> 00:12:23,533 From the secular realm and the cults. 217 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,166 Great religious leader, religious, 218 00:12:27,166 --> 00:12:30,366 revolutionary, spirit brother of Lucifer, 219 00:12:30,733 --> 00:12:32,799 Michael, the archangel. 220 00:12:32,833 --> 00:12:36,233 The list goes on and on with the stupidity, but 221 00:12:36,233 --> 00:12:39,000 today, we are going to hear. 222 00:12:40,866 --> 00:12:43,100 What God says. 223 00:12:44,333 --> 00:12:46,700 about who Jesus is. 224 00:12:48,066 --> 00:12:51,299 As my old buddy David Miller used to say, are you interested? 225 00:12:52,133 --> 00:12:55,466 You want to hear what God says about who Jesus is? 226 00:12:56,966 --> 00:13:01,433 And here God gives his definition in 227 00:13:01,433 --> 00:13:04,866 a sevenfold presentation. 228 00:13:06,133 --> 00:13:09,433 Of Christ in just half of verse 229 00:13:09,433 --> 00:13:12,066 2 and all of verse 3. 230 00:13:13,566 --> 00:13:17,466 The 1st excellency in God's definition of who Jesus is. 231 00:13:18,733 --> 00:13:20,200 It's his airship. 232 00:13:20,233 --> 00:13:21,899 Look again at verse two. 233 00:13:22,033 --> 00:13:25,033 In these last days, has spoken to 234 00:13:25,033 --> 00:13:28,166 us in his son, whom he 235 00:13:28,333 --> 00:13:30,933 appointed heir. 236 00:13:31,933 --> 00:13:33,100 Of all things. 237 00:13:33,133 --> 00:13:34,033 Now stop right there. 238 00:13:36,466 --> 00:13:37,566 There's a lot to this. 239 00:13:38,533 --> 00:13:41,899 So, I'm going to have to roll this out piece by 240 00:13:41,899 --> 00:13:45,233 piece, and you're not going to get the full import of 241 00:13:45,233 --> 00:13:47,500 this right here until I get to the end. 242 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,833 So hang in there with me, okay? 243 00:13:51,266 --> 00:13:55,100 And let's start, how about with this idea of Christ, who 244 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:57,266 has been appointed Arab all things? 245 00:13:57,533 --> 00:13:59,233 From Colossians 116? 246 00:13:59,299 --> 00:14:00,500 speaking of Jesus. 247 00:14:02,066 --> 00:14:04,200 Just pay close attention to these words. 248 00:14:04,266 --> 00:14:07,333 For buy, buy him, 249 00:14:08,333 --> 00:14:09,700 All things were created. 250 00:14:09,733 --> 00:14:11,299 Well, what are all things? 251 00:14:11,333 --> 00:14:14,399 Well, both in the heavens and on the earth, visible 252 00:14:14,399 --> 00:14:17,566 and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, 253 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,733 or rulers, or authorities, saw the angels, as we learned 254 00:14:20,733 --> 00:14:24,133 in Ephesians, all 255 00:14:24,133 --> 00:14:25,500 things have been created. 256 00:14:25,566 --> 00:14:26,700 Watch this now. 257 00:14:27,766 --> 00:14:29,899 through him, and that's not all. 258 00:14:30,733 --> 00:14:33,200 And for him, okay? 259 00:14:34,333 --> 00:14:37,100 So with that in your mind, understand. 260 00:14:38,833 --> 00:14:42,366 If Jesus is the Son of God, 261 00:14:42,366 --> 00:14:45,600 with that title, then he is the 262 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,733 heir of all things that 263 00:14:48,733 --> 00:14:51,000 God possesses. 264 00:14:51,633 --> 00:14:54,866 And also understand the magnitude of this. 265 00:14:57,899 --> 00:15:01,733 Everything that exists will 266 00:15:01,733 --> 00:15:06,466 find its true meaning only 267 00:15:06,500 --> 00:15:10,200 when it comes under the full and 268 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,200 final control of Jesus Christ at 269 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:14,700 the consummation of all things. 270 00:15:15,766 --> 00:15:19,266 That's when everything exists, will recognize 271 00:15:19,266 --> 00:15:23,399 and understand its full true meaning for eternity. 272 00:15:25,366 --> 00:15:29,033 Now, one of the many things that is so incredible about the Bible. 273 00:15:30,633 --> 00:15:32,600 is that way back in the Psalms. 274 00:15:33,533 --> 00:15:37,366 Centuries before Jesus came to this earth, it's predicted 275 00:15:37,366 --> 00:15:40,566 that Jesus would one day be the heir 276 00:15:41,766 --> 00:15:44,466 to all that God possesses. 277 00:15:44,466 --> 00:15:47,833 And I read this whole psalm Friday 278 00:15:47,833 --> 00:15:50,833 night at our men's meeting, but I just want to show you a portion of it here. 279 00:15:50,899 --> 00:15:53,299 It's a messianic Psalm, Psalm 2. 280 00:15:54,233 --> 00:15:55,100 6 to 9. 281 00:15:57,233 --> 00:15:58,766 God is speaking. 282 00:16:01,433 --> 00:16:06,100 But as for me, I have installed my king upon Zion. 283 00:16:07,566 --> 00:16:08,533 My holy mountain. 284 00:16:09,733 --> 00:16:12,399 I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord. 285 00:16:12,433 --> 00:16:15,666 He said to me, You are my son! 286 00:16:16,366 --> 00:16:16,866 You see that? 287 00:16:18,733 --> 00:16:19,933 Today I have begotten you. 288 00:16:21,366 --> 00:16:24,733 Ask of me, and I will surely give you the nations, 289 00:16:24,733 --> 00:16:27,833 as your inheritance, in the very ends of the earth, 290 00:16:27,833 --> 00:16:30,833 as your possession, you shall break 291 00:16:30,833 --> 00:16:34,366 them with a rod of iron, you shall shatter 292 00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:36,633 them like earthenware. 293 00:16:37,733 --> 00:16:38,966 So the psalmist. 294 00:16:40,166 --> 00:16:43,733 Way back in Old Testament times is indicating that God would have a son. 295 00:16:46,066 --> 00:16:47,399 Who would become the heir? 296 00:16:48,433 --> 00:16:50,500 To all that God possesses. 297 00:16:52,166 --> 00:16:55,333 And Hebrews one too is clearly telling us that that 298 00:16:55,333 --> 00:16:56,466 heir is Jesus. 299 00:16:57,833 --> 00:17:00,200 In Psalm 89, verse 27. 300 00:17:01,566 --> 00:17:06,299 It says, I shall make him my firstborn. 301 00:17:08,033 --> 00:17:12,266 The highest of the kings of the earth. 302 00:17:12,366 --> 00:17:16,333 Now, that word, firstborn 303 00:17:16,333 --> 00:17:19,333 does not mean that Christ did not exist before he 304 00:17:19,333 --> 00:17:20,766 was born in Bethlehem. 305 00:17:22,233 --> 00:17:25,400 The use of the word firstborn here 306 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,933 is in other places, referring to Christ, not primarily 307 00:17:28,933 --> 00:17:32,299 a chronological term at all. 308 00:17:32,333 --> 00:17:36,099 The sense here is the legal right 309 00:17:36,133 --> 00:17:38,166 to the firstborn of the inheritance. 310 00:17:38,933 --> 00:17:40,033 That's what we're talking about. 311 00:17:40,933 --> 00:17:42,633 That was a big deal back in those days, right? 312 00:17:42,666 --> 00:17:44,166 We know that from other scriptures. 313 00:17:45,466 --> 00:17:48,000 Just like the term God's son. 314 00:17:49,466 --> 00:17:50,400 is a title. 315 00:17:51,633 --> 00:17:54,666 It doesn't mean Jesus is God's son in a human 316 00:17:54,666 --> 00:17:57,000 sense, like a son who has a mom and a dad. 317 00:17:59,166 --> 00:18:03,000 Jesus is not the 1st born son to a 318 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,066 mom and a dad. 319 00:18:04,133 --> 00:18:06,666 It is in Mormonism, but not in reality. 320 00:18:08,066 --> 00:18:11,400 Again, first born is speaking of 321 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,133 the authority and the legal right to an inheritance. 322 00:18:16,433 --> 00:18:19,733 Jesus is the firstborn in the sense that 323 00:18:19,733 --> 00:18:22,733 he is the heir to literally everything. 324 00:18:24,633 --> 00:18:27,400 Look, again, at the end of Colossians 116, 325 00:18:28,266 --> 00:18:31,799 All things have been created through him, 326 00:18:31,799 --> 00:18:35,166 not only that, and what, for him. 327 00:18:36,866 --> 00:18:40,099 When the kingdom is finally and 328 00:18:40,099 --> 00:18:43,200 fully consummated, he, as the 329 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,266 first born, guess what, inherits it all. 330 00:18:47,433 --> 00:18:50,633 Romans 11:36, for from 331 00:18:50,633 --> 00:18:53,466 him, and through him, and what? 332 00:18:54,366 --> 00:18:57,433 To him are all things to 333 00:18:57,433 --> 00:19:00,133 him be the glory forever, amen. 334 00:19:02,333 --> 00:19:03,266 So everything. 335 00:19:04,633 --> 00:19:09,433 that exist for Christ. 336 00:19:12,033 --> 00:19:16,200 If this does not demonstrate, equality 337 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,266 with God for you, I just can't help you. 338 00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:23,433 I don't understand how your brain works when you read sentences. 339 00:19:23,533 --> 00:19:24,299 out of the Bible. 340 00:19:26,333 --> 00:19:30,966 Just consider this 341 00:19:30,966 --> 00:19:35,299 same Jesus that we're talking about, who created all things, and 342 00:19:35,299 --> 00:19:36,933 who is going to inherit all things. 343 00:19:38,666 --> 00:19:41,599 lowered himself to become a fetus in his mother's womb. 344 00:19:43,633 --> 00:19:44,799 Would you just think about that? 345 00:19:46,533 --> 00:19:49,566 And then died a horrible criminal's death 346 00:19:49,566 --> 00:19:50,633 on a Roman cross. 347 00:19:53,266 --> 00:19:56,333 That person, who hung 348 00:19:56,333 --> 00:19:59,400 there naked and bleeding and suffering on 349 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,700 Golgotha's Hill over 2000 years ago, 350 00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:05,866 at the end of time as we know it, is going to inherit all 351 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:07,333 things, all things. 352 00:20:08,766 --> 00:20:12,066 In the book of Revelation, there's a whole section about Christ 353 00:20:12,066 --> 00:20:15,133 being the only rightful heir to the title 354 00:20:15,133 --> 00:20:16,333 deed of the earth. 355 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,133 Remember, they are looking, who's got it? 356 00:20:18,733 --> 00:20:20,533 The lamb steps forward, right? 357 00:20:20,599 --> 00:20:24,200 My favorite verse there is found in Revelation 11.15. 358 00:20:24,433 --> 00:20:25,200 Look at it with me. 359 00:20:27,133 --> 00:20:29,133 Then the 7th angel sounded. 360 00:20:30,033 --> 00:20:32,599 And there were loud voices in heaven saying, 361 00:20:33,733 --> 00:20:37,099 The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom 362 00:20:37,099 --> 00:20:40,500 of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign 363 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:41,633 forever and ever. 364 00:20:42,133 --> 00:20:42,733 There it is. 365 00:20:44,266 --> 00:20:47,599 At the end, It's all finally 366 00:20:47,599 --> 00:20:50,766 and fully and completely inherited 367 00:20:50,766 --> 00:20:53,900 by King Jesus, and then a new 368 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:56,000 heaven, and a new earth begins. 369 00:20:56,099 --> 00:20:59,099 However you want to get there through scripture and your understanding 370 00:20:59,099 --> 00:21:00,166 of eschatology. 371 00:21:00,233 --> 00:21:01,966 That's where it all winds up. 372 00:21:03,366 --> 00:21:06,900 with, dare I say it. 373 00:21:09,233 --> 00:21:14,233 As he inherits all things with joint heirs. 374 00:21:15,933 --> 00:21:17,966 He has joint heirs with him. 375 00:21:21,466 --> 00:21:23,000 It's all just too much. 376 00:21:24,333 --> 00:21:26,233 For us to fully comprehend, folks. 377 00:21:28,366 --> 00:21:31,433 Consider the contrast in his 378 00:21:31,433 --> 00:21:34,133 incarnation in 2 Corinthians 8, 9. 379 00:21:34,266 --> 00:21:37,400 It says, For you know the grace of our Lord 380 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,566 Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet 381 00:21:40,566 --> 00:21:43,866 for your sake, he became poor so 382 00:21:43,866 --> 00:21:46,266 that you, through his poverty, might become rich. 383 00:21:47,433 --> 00:21:50,066 Oh, do you hold how rich you're going to be saints? 384 00:21:51,033 --> 00:21:51,566 One day. 385 00:21:52,833 --> 00:21:55,766 When he was here the 1st time, he was dirt poor. 386 00:21:58,266 --> 00:22:01,500 He was, if brother Charlie was here, I'd say he's Mississippi 387 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:02,566 Delta dirt poor. 388 00:22:04,033 --> 00:22:05,366 Nowhere to lay his head. 389 00:22:07,533 --> 00:22:09,933 He was buried in a grave that belonged to somebody else. 390 00:22:12,966 --> 00:22:13,700 But when he comes again. 391 00:22:16,366 --> 00:22:19,433 He will inherit all things, as Hebrews 12 392 00:22:19,433 --> 00:22:22,599 says, again, Romans 393 00:22:22,633 --> 00:22:24,500 8, 17. 394 00:22:26,566 --> 00:22:27,366 Look what's ahead. 395 00:22:27,933 --> 00:22:32,900 for you, Christian, and if children, heirs also. 396 00:22:34,133 --> 00:22:37,133 Heirs of God, and 397 00:22:37,133 --> 00:22:38,500 fellow heirs. 398 00:22:39,433 --> 00:22:40,166 With Christ. 399 00:22:42,133 --> 00:22:45,200 If indeed we suffer with him so that we 400 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,633 may also be glorified. 401 00:22:50,066 --> 00:22:50,633 With him. 402 00:22:51,933 --> 00:22:55,000 That blows my mind. 403 00:22:59,333 --> 00:23:02,533 The second definition of 404 00:23:02,866 --> 00:23:05,299 Christ in this passage is his creatorship. 405 00:23:07,033 --> 00:23:09,733 Look next at how verse 2 ends. 406 00:23:10,966 --> 00:23:16,033 Through whom also he made the world. 407 00:23:17,866 --> 00:23:19,266 The theologians say it this way. 408 00:23:20,366 --> 00:23:24,200 Christ is the agent through whom God created the world. 409 00:23:24,933 --> 00:23:26,299 The means, you understand? 410 00:23:27,633 --> 00:23:29,133 Remember the bomb? 411 00:23:29,966 --> 00:23:33,366 That John drops right out of the gates in John 13 412 00:23:33,366 --> 00:23:35,533 speaking of Jesus in verse 3. 413 00:23:35,833 --> 00:23:39,866 He says, all things came into being. 414 00:23:40,733 --> 00:23:42,400 Through him. 415 00:23:44,233 --> 00:23:46,400 Just in case you didn't get what he just said. 416 00:23:47,533 --> 00:23:50,666 He says, and apart from him, nothing came 417 00:23:50,666 --> 00:23:53,799 into being that has come into being. 418 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:56,466 That is an astonishing statement. 419 00:23:59,833 --> 00:24:02,900 Jesus created every single thing that has come into being. 420 00:24:05,633 --> 00:24:08,833 How in the world, how in the world could 421 00:24:08,833 --> 00:24:11,900 you come away from just that one verse not 422 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:13,633 understanding that Jesus is God? 423 00:24:15,966 --> 00:24:17,900 Only God is the creator. 424 00:24:17,933 --> 00:24:21,666 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 425 00:24:23,633 --> 00:24:27,933 John says, didn't anything come into being, apart from Jesus. 426 00:24:31,433 --> 00:24:34,833 Except for his holiness, there is probably nothing that 427 00:24:34,833 --> 00:24:38,566 more sets us apart from Jesus than his creatorship. 428 00:24:39,866 --> 00:24:43,033 None of us has the ability to bring 429 00:24:43,033 --> 00:24:44,366 anything into being. 430 00:24:45,966 --> 00:24:46,700 Go ahead. 431 00:24:46,733 --> 00:24:47,266 Let me see. 432 00:24:49,833 --> 00:24:53,200 And John says, all things came into being through Christ. 433 00:24:55,033 --> 00:24:57,333 He created everything material? 434 00:24:57,366 --> 00:24:59,333 He created everything spiritual. 435 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,799 He created everything, seen. 436 00:25:01,866 --> 00:25:03,799 He created everything unseen. 437 00:25:03,833 --> 00:25:06,833 Now, Here's something 438 00:25:06,833 --> 00:25:07,966 important to understand. 439 00:25:08,099 --> 00:25:09,733 In verse two. 440 00:25:10,833 --> 00:25:13,900 The very common Greek word that's used 441 00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:17,033 in the New Testament for world is 442 00:25:17,033 --> 00:25:18,099 cosmos. 443 00:25:18,733 --> 00:25:22,766 It's the physical earth, but that's not the word used here. 444 00:25:23,866 --> 00:25:27,000 The word here is aonas. 445 00:25:28,433 --> 00:25:31,933 That doesn't mean the material world alone, 446 00:25:31,933 --> 00:25:35,233 it means literally, it means ages, okay? 447 00:25:35,299 --> 00:25:36,500 Ages. 448 00:25:36,533 --> 00:25:37,266 Let me break this down. 449 00:25:38,633 --> 00:25:41,066 I want you to really grasp what this means in totality. 450 00:25:44,166 --> 00:25:47,166 When Jesus created, We're not just talking 451 00:25:47,166 --> 00:25:49,566 here about the physical earth that he did create. 452 00:25:51,233 --> 00:25:52,766 Ages is a broad term. 453 00:25:55,033 --> 00:25:59,400 It means he is also responsible for 454 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,066 creating the very concepts of time, 455 00:26:03,066 --> 00:26:06,366 space, force, action, and matter. 456 00:26:08,733 --> 00:26:09,733 This is broader. 457 00:26:11,733 --> 00:26:14,900 Jesus created the whole universe 458 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:18,433 and everything that makes it function. 459 00:26:19,133 --> 00:26:19,933 That's what this means. 460 00:26:21,333 --> 00:26:24,966 The writer doesn't just use the word cosmos restricting 461 00:26:24,966 --> 00:26:28,266 it to the earth, he makes Jesus the creator 462 00:26:28,266 --> 00:26:31,333 of every aspect and concept of the 463 00:26:31,333 --> 00:26:34,166 bounds of all existence in the universe. 464 00:26:37,566 --> 00:26:41,233 Sir John Eccles, was 465 00:26:41,233 --> 00:26:45,266 a Nobel laureate in neuro physiology. 466 00:26:46,833 --> 00:26:51,466 And he once said this, that the odds were against, 467 00:26:51,466 --> 00:26:54,533 the right combination of circumstances 468 00:26:54,533 --> 00:26:58,066 occurring to involve intelligent 469 00:26:58,099 --> 00:26:59,233 life on the earth. 470 00:27:00,566 --> 00:27:04,566 He said, the odds are about 400,000, 471 00:27:04,566 --> 00:27:07,133 trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion to one. 472 00:27:08,333 --> 00:27:12,400 He said it was fantastically improbable. 473 00:27:12,933 --> 00:27:16,900 And then incredibly, he said, but he did believe that such did occur. 474 00:27:19,433 --> 00:27:22,433 But could never occur again, he said, on any 475 00:27:22,433 --> 00:27:24,666 planet are any solar system. 476 00:27:27,766 --> 00:27:31,033 Now, there's only one word that I can come up with for a brilliant silent. 477 00:27:31,099 --> 00:27:32,133 scientist like that. 478 00:27:34,066 --> 00:27:35,233 One phrase. 479 00:27:36,233 --> 00:27:37,900 Willfully ignorant. 480 00:27:41,833 --> 00:27:45,433 If you don't have God, creating 481 00:27:45,433 --> 00:27:48,566 all this, then all you really have 482 00:27:48,566 --> 00:27:52,500 is stupidity for whatever else you come up with. 483 00:27:52,566 --> 00:27:53,900 I don't care what it is. 484 00:27:55,533 --> 00:27:56,200 A point. 485 00:27:57,633 --> 00:27:58,633 Of singularity? 486 00:28:01,066 --> 00:28:02,099 Where did it come from? 487 00:28:05,233 --> 00:28:06,666 It exploded, brother Philip. 488 00:28:08,833 --> 00:28:10,400 Where was it when it exploded? 489 00:28:12,866 --> 00:28:16,133 But when it did, over 1000000000s of years, it turned 490 00:28:16,133 --> 00:28:19,133 into massive stars and perfectly 491 00:28:19,133 --> 00:28:22,299 orbiting planets, following these 492 00:28:22,333 --> 00:28:25,266 clear laws that we can observe. 493 00:28:26,933 --> 00:28:31,000 And then here, somehow, out of the slime. 494 00:28:32,466 --> 00:28:33,799 Where did the song come from? 495 00:28:35,866 --> 00:28:37,433 An amoeba somehow. 496 00:28:38,733 --> 00:28:39,500 Forms. 497 00:28:40,933 --> 00:28:44,066 And 1000000s of years go by, and it goes to 498 00:28:44,066 --> 00:28:47,200 being a tadpole to a fish, to growing 499 00:28:47,233 --> 00:28:50,766 legs, some kind of way, and going up on the land, 500 00:28:50,766 --> 00:28:53,933 and slowly through a couple of other animals, 501 00:28:53,933 --> 00:28:57,299 it gets to be a monkey, and then eventually 502 00:28:57,299 --> 00:28:59,466 it gets to be us. 503 00:29:02,733 --> 00:29:06,400 Very brilliant people believe that. 504 00:29:09,433 --> 00:29:12,299 People way smarter than you and all of us put together. 505 00:29:13,333 --> 00:29:16,733 And institutions of the highest learning in 506 00:29:16,733 --> 00:29:18,833 America believe that. 507 00:29:20,866 --> 00:29:21,533 Just for a second. 508 00:29:23,433 --> 00:29:25,299 I just want you to consider the human heart 509 00:29:26,666 --> 00:29:28,566 And how amazing it is and how it works. 510 00:29:28,633 --> 00:29:32,033 Did you know that our heart beats 800 511 00:29:32,033 --> 00:29:34,799 million times in an average lifetime? 512 00:29:36,333 --> 00:29:40,700 And that mechanism, as it does, beat, pumps 513 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:44,833 over a average lifetime enough blood to 514 00:29:44,833 --> 00:29:47,933 fill a string of tank 515 00:29:47,933 --> 00:29:51,000 cars on a railroad that would stretch 516 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,866 from Boston, Massachusetts to New York City. 517 00:29:57,133 --> 00:30:00,200 And you going to tell me that somehow that 518 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,933 organ just came about? 519 00:30:05,666 --> 00:30:07,866 Don't get me started with the human eye. 520 00:30:10,133 --> 00:30:13,233 Look, we had a professor from LSU come here 521 00:30:13,233 --> 00:30:16,433 for our men's meeting a while back, and he did a whole 522 00:30:16,433 --> 00:30:20,266 thing up on their screen about how the eye works. 523 00:30:20,333 --> 00:30:21,900 We got it on our YouTube channel. 524 00:30:21,966 --> 00:30:23,766 I commend it for you to go watch that. 525 00:30:23,833 --> 00:30:26,366 It is breathtaking. 526 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:27,433 Just the eye. 527 00:30:28,533 --> 00:30:29,833 If you can really, 528 00:30:30,933 --> 00:30:33,966 Watch how the eye works and come up with 529 00:30:33,966 --> 00:30:36,733 evolution, you just have a hole in your brain. 530 00:30:40,133 --> 00:30:43,299 And I'm here to tell you, folks, there's no way. 531 00:30:43,733 --> 00:30:46,733 There is no way that we can grasp the 532 00:30:46,733 --> 00:30:49,000 vastness of the universe. 533 00:30:50,966 --> 00:30:54,900 You know that the sun that's cooking us right now? 534 00:30:56,966 --> 00:30:59,000 If you could put a hole in the sun. 535 00:30:59,033 --> 00:31:01,599 Let's just pretend for a second you could put a hole in the sun. 536 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:03,133 Let me tell you about the size of the sun. 537 00:31:03,766 --> 00:31:05,466 If you could bore a hole in the sun. 538 00:31:06,133 --> 00:31:09,666 You could put one.2 539 00:31:09,666 --> 00:31:12,666 million earths inside the 540 00:31:12,666 --> 00:31:17,233 sun, and you would still have room for 430000000 541 00:31:17,233 --> 00:31:19,400 moons just inside our sun. 542 00:31:21,066 --> 00:31:21,500 Okay? 543 00:31:23,033 --> 00:31:26,366 Do you know that the sun is 93000000 miles away from us? 544 00:31:27,966 --> 00:31:32,266 And then the next nearest star 545 00:31:32,266 --> 00:31:35,766 to us is Alpha Centauri. 546 00:31:36,766 --> 00:31:40,933 It is 5 times bigger than our son. 547 00:31:41,833 --> 00:31:46,400 And it is out there, 4.25 548 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,400 light years away, one light 549 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,366 year is estimated at 5.88 trillion miles. 550 00:31:55,066 --> 00:31:56,700 That's the next nearest star. 551 00:31:58,933 --> 00:31:59,666 Andromeda. 552 00:32:01,233 --> 00:32:03,633 Closest full spiral galaxy to us. 553 00:32:03,733 --> 00:32:07,866 So if the next nearest star is 4.25 554 00:32:07,866 --> 00:32:11,299 light years away, the next nearest galaxy, guess what? 555 00:32:11,333 --> 00:32:15,166 It's 2500000 light years away. 556 00:32:16,066 --> 00:32:17,900 Next nearest galaxy. 557 00:32:17,933 --> 00:32:21,000 So, if you could get in a spaceship like the 558 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,500 millennial falcon, Roger Dale, and you could travel. 559 00:32:26,433 --> 00:32:28,533 The speed of light, like Han Solo. 560 00:32:29,466 --> 00:32:32,833 You would be moving at 186,000 561 00:32:32,833 --> 00:32:34,033 miles per second. 562 00:32:34,566 --> 00:32:34,933 Right? 563 00:32:35,833 --> 00:32:39,299 So, if we got in that ship, and 564 00:32:39,299 --> 00:32:42,366 we wanted to go to Andromeda and we were moving the speed 565 00:32:42,366 --> 00:32:45,433 of light, you know how long it would take us to get to Andromeda, 566 00:32:45,433 --> 00:32:47,700 moving that fast, 2500000 years. 567 00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:50,166 You think you'd make the trip? 568 00:32:52,266 --> 00:32:52,933 And guess what? 569 00:32:55,133 --> 00:32:56,599 I checked it on grok. 570 00:32:58,733 --> 00:33:01,933 The latest galaxy count from the scientist. 571 00:33:04,466 --> 00:33:06,366 In the observable universe. 572 00:33:06,433 --> 00:33:09,433 You remember how it was, it keeps going up, because what happens? 573 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:12,500 The Hubble telescopes, she keeps seeing further 574 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:13,533 and further. 575 00:33:13,566 --> 00:33:17,466 So it was a 100000000000 galaxies, 200000000000 gallons. 576 00:33:17,533 --> 00:33:18,266 Have you been watching that? 577 00:33:18,299 --> 00:33:19,200 Guess where we're at now. 578 00:33:20,666 --> 00:33:22,733 2 trillion galaxies. 579 00:33:23,866 --> 00:33:27,200 In the observable universe by the scientist, 580 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,200 and the closest one is 581 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,733 2.5 million light years away. 582 00:33:36,133 --> 00:33:40,099 Do you know that there is a star, that 583 00:33:40,099 --> 00:33:43,266 is 880 quadrillion miles 584 00:33:43,266 --> 00:33:46,733 from here, that's called Beetlejuice? 585 00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:48,533 And yes, I checked the pronunciation. 586 00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:49,799 It's not spelled that way. 587 00:33:49,866 --> 00:33:53,633 It's B-E-T-E-L-G-U-E-S-E. 588 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:55,566 Listen to this about Beetlejuice. 589 00:33:56,533 --> 00:33:59,433 Beetlejuice has a diameter. 590 00:34:02,033 --> 00:34:05,233 of 2500000 miles. 591 00:34:06,233 --> 00:34:07,400 Listen to what that is. 592 00:34:07,433 --> 00:34:10,433 That means that the diameter of that 593 00:34:10,433 --> 00:34:13,733 star is greater than the Earth's 594 00:34:13,733 --> 00:34:15,000 orbit around the sun. 595 00:34:16,033 --> 00:34:17,500 That's how big that star is. 596 00:34:19,633 --> 00:34:20,966 Where did all this come from? 597 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,333 It cannot be an accident, right? 598 00:34:28,266 --> 00:34:30,833 Somebody had to make all this. 599 00:34:32,166 --> 00:34:35,033 And this Bible tells me who did it. 600 00:34:35,099 --> 00:34:38,266 Hebrews one, two, through whom 601 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:41,433 Jesus, also, he made 602 00:34:41,433 --> 00:34:44,933 the world, the ages, the whole entirety 603 00:34:44,933 --> 00:34:47,500 of the universe and the unseen realm. 604 00:34:50,733 --> 00:34:51,400 Thirdly. 605 00:34:52,966 --> 00:34:56,000 We need to consider in God's definition of who 606 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,766 Jesus is, his radiance. 607 00:34:59,266 --> 00:35:02,333 Look at verse 3, and he, Jesus, 608 00:35:02,333 --> 00:35:04,966 is the radiance of his glory. 609 00:35:05,099 --> 00:35:08,466 Some translations say brightness of his glory. 610 00:35:08,533 --> 00:35:09,733 That's God's glory. 611 00:35:11,166 --> 00:35:14,466 The Greek word for radiance means to send forth 612 00:35:14,466 --> 00:35:17,599 light, the radiance of God's 613 00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:20,766 glory represents Jesus as the 614 00:35:20,766 --> 00:35:23,633 manifestation of God to us. 615 00:35:23,699 --> 00:35:26,400 He expresses God to us. 616 00:35:26,466 --> 00:35:28,199 Nobody can see God. 617 00:35:31,266 --> 00:35:34,400 The catechism that we teach to our grandchildren says, God 618 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,933 is a spirit and has not a body like men, right? 619 00:35:38,266 --> 00:35:41,766 So the only radiance of God's glory that 620 00:35:41,766 --> 00:35:45,000 reaches us from God is mediated 621 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,699 to us through Jesus Christ. 622 00:35:47,766 --> 00:35:49,633 It's just like the rays of the sun. 623 00:35:50,733 --> 00:35:53,766 that give us light and give us warmth on the earth, the 624 00:35:53,766 --> 00:35:56,766 rays express the radiance of 625 00:35:56,766 --> 00:36:00,133 the sun, Jesus expresses the radiance 626 00:36:00,133 --> 00:36:03,800 of the glory of God to us, just like the sun can't 627 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,266 be separated from its brightness. 628 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:10,033 God was never without and cannot be separated 629 00:36:10,033 --> 00:36:12,966 from the glory of Christ ever. 630 00:36:14,833 --> 00:36:16,533 Christ is the brightness. 631 00:36:16,566 --> 00:36:18,833 The radiance of God's glory. 632 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:22,433 What did Jesus say in John 81 at John 812. 633 00:36:23,866 --> 00:36:24,833 I am the what? 634 00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:25,666 Light. 635 00:36:26,833 --> 00:36:27,500 Of the world. 636 00:36:28,766 --> 00:36:31,866 He who follows me will not walk in darkness, 637 00:36:31,866 --> 00:36:34,633 but will have the light of life. 638 00:36:35,733 --> 00:36:39,133 Jesus being the radiance of God's glory. 639 00:36:39,199 --> 00:36:39,633 Guess what? 640 00:36:39,666 --> 00:36:43,199 sends his light into the lives and 641 00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:45,599 the hearts of all people who believe. 642 00:36:47,733 --> 00:36:49,233 And this is a dark world. 643 00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:51,133 We're living in. 644 00:36:51,966 --> 00:36:54,300 And it's getting darker all the time. 645 00:36:56,066 --> 00:36:59,400 There is all manner of darkness in our world, the darkness 646 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,066 of injustice, and disease, and corruption, and death, the 647 00:37:03,066 --> 00:37:06,199 moral darkness in this nation 648 00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:09,366 alone is greater than we've ever had in our history right now, 649 00:37:09,366 --> 00:37:12,599 as people are naturally blinded by their sin 650 00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:15,000 nature, and doubly blinded. 651 00:37:15,966 --> 00:37:19,199 By the little G god of this world, 2nd Corinthians 652 00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:22,366 44, Little G, God, has blinded 653 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,033 the minds of the unbelieving so 654 00:37:25,099 --> 00:37:26,900 so that they might not see the light. 655 00:37:28,166 --> 00:37:31,333 Of the gospel of the glory 656 00:37:31,333 --> 00:37:33,433 of Christ, who is what? 657 00:37:33,433 --> 00:37:36,500 The image of God, the radiance, the 658 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:38,433 brilliance, the brightness of God. 659 00:37:39,566 --> 00:37:41,166 Jesus is the brightness. 660 00:37:41,233 --> 00:37:42,566 He's the light. 661 00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:45,900 He's the radiance of God's glory, cutting through 662 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:49,033 the darkness of this evil world, shining into 663 00:37:49,033 --> 00:37:51,733 the lives of all people who believe in him saving. 664 00:37:53,466 --> 00:37:55,400 Oh, look at 2nd Corinthians 4.6. 665 00:37:55,566 --> 00:37:56,099 You ready for this one? 666 00:37:57,266 --> 00:38:00,833 For God, who said, light shall 667 00:38:00,833 --> 00:38:04,199 shine out of darkness is the one who 668 00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:07,333 has shone into our hearts to 669 00:38:07,333 --> 00:38:10,333 give the light of the knowledge of the glory 670 00:38:10,333 --> 00:38:13,033 of God in the face of Christ. 671 00:38:13,099 --> 00:38:15,866 I can't explain it any better than that right there. 672 00:38:17,333 --> 00:38:18,500 That needs no explanation. 673 00:38:20,866 --> 00:38:22,866 That's what happens when you repent and believe. 674 00:38:22,933 --> 00:38:24,733 On Jesus terms. 675 00:38:25,566 --> 00:38:26,699 God lights you up. 676 00:38:28,133 --> 00:38:28,900 Literally. 677 00:38:29,433 --> 00:38:32,533 And you then begin to see, and you begin to understand 678 00:38:32,533 --> 00:38:35,666 God's glory, and then you begin to have a 679 00:38:35,666 --> 00:38:39,366 desire for something you never had before, to live for God's glory. 680 00:38:42,966 --> 00:38:43,633 Thirdly. 681 00:38:45,433 --> 00:38:49,166 The next definition that God gives 682 00:38:49,166 --> 00:38:52,733 for Jesus is phenomenally precise. 683 00:38:53,733 --> 00:38:55,933 Look next in verse three. 684 00:38:57,766 --> 00:38:58,933 Speaking to Jesus. 685 00:39:01,366 --> 00:39:06,366 And the exact representation 686 00:39:07,333 --> 00:39:08,366 of his nature. 687 00:39:09,233 --> 00:39:10,000 Whose nature? 688 00:39:10,466 --> 00:39:11,166 God's nature. 689 00:39:13,266 --> 00:39:14,766 Can it be any more plain than that? 690 00:39:16,333 --> 00:39:19,400 Not only is Christ the radiance of God's 691 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,000 glory, he is the exact representation 692 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,533 of God's nature of his person. 693 00:39:26,599 --> 00:39:29,699 Not only was Jesus God manifest when 694 00:39:29,699 --> 00:39:32,699 he was here as a person on his own. 695 00:39:32,766 --> 00:39:35,766 He was also God in substance to 696 00:39:35,766 --> 00:39:37,266 use theological language. 697 00:39:37,266 --> 00:39:41,033 The Greek term for exact representation is 698 00:39:41,033 --> 00:39:44,766 used for an impression made by a die, 699 00:39:44,766 --> 00:39:47,900 on a stamp, or a seal in those days, 700 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:51,533 and the design on the die is reproduced 701 00:39:51,533 --> 00:39:52,733 in the wax. 702 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,966 In that sense, Jesus is the reproduction 703 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,033 of God. 704 00:39:58,066 --> 00:39:59,400 Just like Colossians. 705 00:39:59,466 --> 00:40:00,733 115. 706 00:40:01,766 --> 00:40:05,166 He is the image of 707 00:40:05,166 --> 00:40:07,099 the invisible God. 708 00:40:07,133 --> 00:40:09,166 You know what that word for image means right there? 709 00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:10,566 A precise copy. 710 00:40:11,733 --> 00:40:14,066 An exact reproduction. 711 00:40:14,099 --> 00:40:17,533 Look at Colossians 2.9, for in him, Christ, 712 00:40:17,533 --> 00:40:21,000 all the fullness dwells in bodily 713 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,266 form, and there it is right there. 714 00:40:23,333 --> 00:40:23,800 There it is. 715 00:40:25,633 --> 00:40:30,366 So Jesus was not only God manifests in his incarnation, 716 00:40:30,366 --> 00:40:33,066 he was God, in essence. 717 00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:36,366 We just can't fully understand this. 718 00:40:39,033 --> 00:40:42,433 All I can attempt to do, like a little grub worm 719 00:40:42,433 --> 00:40:45,300 in the dirt is just try to tell you what this book is saying. 720 00:40:45,366 --> 00:40:46,400 is all I can do. 721 00:40:49,433 --> 00:40:53,466 Jesus is God, and yet, 2nd 722 00:40:53,466 --> 00:40:56,833 member of the Trinity, and yet, distinct in 723 00:40:56,833 --> 00:40:59,300 his own person as God manifests. 724 00:41:00,566 --> 00:41:02,099 As the only way I can say it. 725 00:41:03,966 --> 00:41:07,033 Now, next, we have the fifth definition 726 00:41:07,033 --> 00:41:10,099 of Christ given to us by God in verse 3. 727 00:41:12,233 --> 00:41:14,533 And it just gives you a mind explosion. 728 00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:15,633 Here we go. 729 00:41:15,666 --> 00:41:17,833 You ready for your mind to just explode? 730 00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:19,833 Look next in verse three. 731 00:41:19,866 --> 00:41:21,500 And uphold. 732 00:41:22,833 --> 00:41:24,099 All things. 733 00:41:25,133 --> 00:41:28,433 By the word, of his power. 734 00:41:29,466 --> 00:41:33,333 So Jesus not only made all things, 735 00:41:33,333 --> 00:41:36,633 and will someday inherit all things. 736 00:41:38,066 --> 00:41:41,766 He also holds all things together right 737 00:41:41,766 --> 00:41:42,833 now. 738 00:41:43,833 --> 00:41:47,666 The word for upholding means supporting maintaining. 739 00:41:47,699 --> 00:41:50,400 It's a present, tense, continuous action. 740 00:41:50,466 --> 00:41:53,599 This means everything in the universe, 741 00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:55,633 planet, stars, galaxy, 742 00:41:56,033 --> 00:41:58,300 All of them are being held together. 743 00:41:58,333 --> 00:42:00,000 by King Jesus. 744 00:42:01,066 --> 00:42:03,500 Again, Colossians 117. 745 00:42:03,733 --> 00:42:06,900 He is before all things, 746 00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:11,933 and in him all things are held together, literally. 747 00:42:14,666 --> 00:42:15,599 The physical universe. 748 00:42:17,833 --> 00:42:20,833 If, He just 749 00:42:20,833 --> 00:42:24,066 stopped upholding one thing, the 750 00:42:24,066 --> 00:42:28,033 law of gravity, which is his law, everything 751 00:42:28,833 --> 00:42:29,833 would come apart. 752 00:42:30,466 --> 00:42:33,533 And we would all be toast in ways that we can't even imagine. 753 00:42:33,666 --> 00:42:34,699 what that would look like. 754 00:42:36,566 --> 00:42:40,500 Scientists, think, that 755 00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:44,099 they are out there making all these tremendous scientific discoveries 756 00:42:44,099 --> 00:42:47,466 now, and all back through history, when really, 757 00:42:47,466 --> 00:42:51,000 all they're doing is observing and discovering the 758 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,133 sustaining laws that Jesus created and 759 00:42:54,133 --> 00:42:56,066 is now using to uphold all things. 760 00:42:56,166 --> 00:42:57,733 They're just observing those things. 761 00:43:00,133 --> 00:43:01,000 And look at this. 762 00:43:03,033 --> 00:43:03,566 He does it. 763 00:43:04,366 --> 00:43:05,300 without effort. 764 00:43:06,433 --> 00:43:07,099 Verse three. 765 00:43:08,233 --> 00:43:11,699 and upholds all things by the word 766 00:43:11,699 --> 00:43:13,500 of his power. 767 00:43:17,466 --> 00:43:18,233 Without effort. 768 00:43:19,866 --> 00:43:22,866 What do we find as the prime action of God in Genesis 769 00:43:22,866 --> 00:43:25,933 in creation, and God said, 770 00:43:26,966 --> 00:43:30,500 Over and over and over, God said, and it happened. 771 00:43:31,166 --> 00:43:31,566 Right? 772 00:43:33,866 --> 00:43:38,400 I want you to listen to just a few realities of how Jesus is 773 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,333 upholding all things compiled by John MacArthur. 774 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,566 If Earth's rotation slowed down just a 775 00:43:44,599 --> 00:43:46,933 little, we would have instant destruction on this planet. 776 00:43:47,966 --> 00:43:51,066 The sun has a temperature, a surface temperature of 777 00:43:51,066 --> 00:43:54,666 12,000 degrees, if we were any closer to it, we would burn up. 778 00:43:54,733 --> 00:43:57,066 If we were any further away, we would freeze. 779 00:43:57,133 --> 00:44:00,199 This globe exists on a tilted axis of 780 00:44:00,199 --> 00:44:02,433 23 degrees given us the 4 seasons. 781 00:44:02,466 --> 00:44:05,900 If it were not tilted exactly this way, 782 00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:08,933 vapors from the ocean would move north and south and develop 783 00:44:08,933 --> 00:44:11,466 into massive continents of ice. 784 00:44:11,533 --> 00:44:14,766 If the moon did not consistently retain its 785 00:44:14,766 --> 00:44:17,900 exact distance from the earth, ocean tides 786 00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:22,233 would totally inundate all land completely twice a day. 787 00:44:22,266 --> 00:44:24,599 And after that first one, what would matter for us? 788 00:44:25,099 --> 00:44:25,400 absolutely. 789 00:44:25,433 --> 00:44:26,566 Nothing because we'd all be dead. 790 00:44:27,833 --> 00:44:31,033 If the atmosphere that we breathe did 791 00:44:31,033 --> 00:44:34,400 not remain, it is exact present density, but 792 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,433 it thinned out just a little bit, many meteors 793 00:44:37,433 --> 00:44:40,433 that right now burn up when they come into our atmosphere, 794 00:44:40,433 --> 00:44:43,433 would constantly bombard the earth, then we'd all have to 795 00:44:43,433 --> 00:44:44,633 live underground to stay alive. 796 00:44:45,666 --> 00:44:46,333 That's just a few. 797 00:44:47,933 --> 00:44:52,266 Very few of the many examples of how Jesus is 798 00:44:52,266 --> 00:44:54,199 upholding perfectly all things. 799 00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:57,366 How do you think all of this works together and it never comes apart? 800 00:44:58,633 --> 00:45:00,800 How do you think the orbit never goes out of orbit? 801 00:45:02,333 --> 00:45:05,466 He sustains all the movements of all the 802 00:45:05,466 --> 00:45:07,333 planet, stars and galaxies. 803 00:45:08,166 --> 00:45:11,166 And don't get me started with all the complexities of the 804 00:45:11,166 --> 00:45:12,500 ecosystem of the earth. 805 00:45:13,866 --> 00:45:16,866 And all that it takes for all the different animals and plants 806 00:45:16,866 --> 00:45:18,000 in marine life to live. 807 00:45:19,266 --> 00:45:20,466 He's sustaining it all. 808 00:45:21,433 --> 00:45:26,533 He is the pre-eminent power maintaining everything. 809 00:45:26,599 --> 00:45:29,933 And as Dr. Sproll says, I'm sure it rankles almighty 810 00:45:29,933 --> 00:45:33,233 God to ever hear the name of Jesus in 811 00:45:33,233 --> 00:45:35,166 any way compared with Muhammad. 812 00:45:36,433 --> 00:45:37,033 They're Buddha. 813 00:45:37,133 --> 00:45:37,666 They're dead. 814 00:45:38,633 --> 00:45:39,866 Their bones are in the earth. 815 00:45:40,733 --> 00:45:42,933 Christ is king and he is very much alive. 816 00:45:44,266 --> 00:45:47,300 And upholding all things by the word of his power. 817 00:45:49,066 --> 00:45:52,266 And Christian, just as a side note, when you think about his power 818 00:45:52,266 --> 00:45:55,333 to uphold, why don't you think with me about Philippians 819 00:45:55,333 --> 00:45:58,333 116, for I am confident of this very thing, 820 00:45:58,333 --> 00:46:01,333 that he who began a good work and you will 821 00:46:01,333 --> 00:46:03,733 perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. 822 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,866 When Jesus starts to work in us, he upholds it all 823 00:46:06,866 --> 00:46:10,133 the way to the end to glory, just like he's upholding 824 00:46:10,133 --> 00:46:11,466 all things by the word of his power. 825 00:46:13,233 --> 00:46:15,033 And that's why Jude ends this way. 826 00:46:15,066 --> 00:46:16,866 Look at it with me, Jude 24 and 25. 827 00:46:17,099 --> 00:46:17,833 Now to him. 828 00:46:19,266 --> 00:46:20,300 Who is a? 829 00:46:20,666 --> 00:46:24,233 To keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in 830 00:46:24,233 --> 00:46:28,000 the presence of his glory, blameless with great joy, 831 00:46:28,033 --> 00:46:31,099 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ, 832 00:46:31,099 --> 00:46:34,400 our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority 833 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,800 before all time and now and forever. 834 00:46:36,833 --> 00:46:37,199 Amen. 835 00:46:37,266 --> 00:46:38,633 Jude's excited here, don't you think? 836 00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:41,766 Me too. 837 00:46:42,466 --> 00:46:43,133 Number six. 838 00:46:48,566 --> 00:46:50,333 A lot of this, I could just make one sermon. 839 00:46:50,466 --> 00:46:52,099 But I wanted to put all this together. 840 00:46:52,199 --> 00:46:53,699 But especially right here. 841 00:46:55,833 --> 00:46:56,900 Look next in verse three. 842 00:47:00,133 --> 00:47:02,800 When he had made purification of sins. 843 00:47:04,366 --> 00:47:06,800 The Bible says the wages of sin is death. 844 00:47:06,833 --> 00:47:09,833 Jesus went to the cross, died the death 845 00:47:09,833 --> 00:47:12,833 that we deserve, and took the penalty for our 846 00:47:12,833 --> 00:47:15,833 sin upon himself, and if we surrender to 847 00:47:15,833 --> 00:47:19,500 him in saving faith, believing in who he is, and that he did that for us, 848 00:47:19,566 --> 00:47:23,166 He frees us from the penalty of sin that we owe. 849 00:47:23,233 --> 00:47:26,066 And he purifies us from the stain of sin. 850 00:47:26,099 --> 00:47:27,233 Now listen to me. 851 00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:30,599 It was an amazing work when he created the world, right? 852 00:47:31,333 --> 00:47:34,633 It is a wondrous reality that right now he 853 00:47:34,633 --> 00:47:38,099 is upholding all things in the universe by the word of his power, 854 00:47:38,099 --> 00:47:41,099 but greater than both of those is his 855 00:47:41,099 --> 00:47:45,233 work of purging the sins of men, especially mine. 856 00:47:47,233 --> 00:47:49,533 Now, I'm not going to spend a lot of time here because guess what? 857 00:47:50,233 --> 00:47:51,699 That subject matter right there. 858 00:47:51,733 --> 00:47:52,266 You're going to be getting 859 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,933 fire hose blast of that all throughout the book of 860 00:47:55,933 --> 00:47:58,400 Hebrews, just like Hebrews 727. 861 00:47:58,633 --> 00:48:01,699 It's Jesus who does not need daily, like 862 00:48:01,699 --> 00:48:04,800 those high priests to offer up sacrifices 1st for 863 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,800 his own sins and then for the sins of the people because this 864 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,966 he did once for all when he offered up himself. 865 00:48:11,099 --> 00:48:14,099 Just like Hebrews 9.12 and not through the 866 00:48:14,099 --> 00:48:17,233 blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, 867 00:48:17,233 --> 00:48:20,599 he entered the holy place once for all, having obtained 868 00:48:20,599 --> 00:48:24,066 eternal redemption, just like the middle of Hebrews 869 00:48:24,066 --> 00:48:27,133 9.26, but now once at the consummation of the 870 00:48:27,133 --> 00:48:30,366 ages, he has been manifested to put away sin 871 00:48:30,366 --> 00:48:32,166 by the sacrifice of himself. 872 00:48:32,233 --> 00:48:33,433 That's where we're heading. 873 00:48:34,233 --> 00:48:35,800 That's where you're going to learn about this. 874 00:48:35,833 --> 00:48:39,500 Jesus dealt with our sin problem perfectly. 875 00:48:41,566 --> 00:48:44,833 We couldn't in any way communicate with God, or enter into 876 00:48:44,833 --> 00:48:46,266 fellowship with God. 877 00:48:47,266 --> 00:48:49,400 Unless our sin was dealt with first. 878 00:48:51,333 --> 00:48:55,099 Now, as I said, much more is going to be said about 879 00:48:55,099 --> 00:48:56,466 this, but I got to get to the last point. 880 00:48:56,533 --> 00:48:57,866 Number seven. 881 00:48:59,566 --> 00:49:03,300 But side note, just remember, uh, The 882 00:49:03,300 --> 00:49:06,300 cross was a stumbling block to these Jews in 883 00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:07,500 this little community here. 884 00:49:07,566 --> 00:49:10,733 And that's why the 6th point that I just gave you is 885 00:49:10,733 --> 00:49:13,866 made so clear, all throughout the book of Hebrews, they 886 00:49:13,866 --> 00:49:14,900 needed to understand this. 887 00:49:16,033 --> 00:49:19,099 Simply put, we're all sinners, and either we are going to pay for our 888 00:49:19,099 --> 00:49:22,333 own sin, or through saving faith alone, Jesus pays 889 00:49:22,333 --> 00:49:24,199 for our sins, and there's no middle ground. 890 00:49:24,199 --> 00:49:25,633 It's one or the other. 891 00:49:27,133 --> 00:49:30,266 So again, much more to say, but I got to move on. 892 00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:31,266 Last point. 893 00:49:34,566 --> 00:49:37,433 Think about what we've just seen in verses 2 and 3 so far. 894 00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:41,266 So far, I've given you 6 pronouncements by 895 00:49:41,300 --> 00:49:44,466 God concerning the preeminence 896 00:49:44,466 --> 00:49:47,633 of Jesus, his airship, his creatorship, 897 00:49:47,633 --> 00:49:50,766 his radiance, his being, his administration, and his 898 00:49:50,766 --> 00:49:52,433 sacrifice, and now lastly. 899 00:49:55,566 --> 00:49:56,400 His exaltation. 900 00:49:57,933 --> 00:50:02,000 And again, mind explosion for us. 901 00:50:02,633 --> 00:50:04,099 Next and last in verse 3. 902 00:50:05,166 --> 00:50:08,599 When he had made purification of sin, he 903 00:50:08,599 --> 00:50:10,933 sat down. 904 00:50:12,066 --> 00:50:13,033 At the right hand. 905 00:50:14,033 --> 00:50:16,599 Of the majesty on high. 906 00:50:19,699 --> 00:50:21,033 The majesty on high is God. 907 00:50:23,066 --> 00:50:25,099 The right hand is the power side. 908 00:50:27,033 --> 00:50:28,099 And of course, this is... 909 00:50:28,933 --> 00:50:32,066 This is not a literal expression in the way we understand 910 00:50:32,066 --> 00:50:36,400 somebody sitting in a chair over here, right next to my literal right hand. 911 00:50:36,500 --> 00:50:38,533 Oh my, please, come on. 912 00:50:38,599 --> 00:50:39,733 It's much more than that. 913 00:50:41,266 --> 00:50:43,099 Jesus took his place. 914 00:50:44,366 --> 00:50:48,666 At the right hand of God, the place of power, 915 00:50:48,666 --> 00:50:53,033 and this perfect high priest for us, sat down. 916 00:50:53,166 --> 00:50:56,400 And what that means is a complete contradiction 917 00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,933 of every single thing that the Old Testament 918 00:50:59,933 --> 00:51:01,599 priesthood stood for. 919 00:51:01,699 --> 00:51:03,433 Because let me explain this to you. 920 00:51:03,533 --> 00:51:07,266 Listen to me and understand, there were no seats in the temple. 921 00:51:08,266 --> 00:51:09,500 In the holy of holies. 922 00:51:09,533 --> 00:51:13,366 There were no seats in the tabernacle, in the holy of holies. 923 00:51:13,433 --> 00:51:14,033 Why? 924 00:51:14,099 --> 00:51:17,533 Because in the old covenant, the priest work was never finished. 925 00:51:17,633 --> 00:51:19,866 So he never sat down. 926 00:51:21,466 --> 00:51:24,066 God didn't design anywhere to sit in there. 927 00:51:25,433 --> 00:51:28,466 Because there was never any time to sit because there were 928 00:51:28,466 --> 00:51:31,500 continual, daily, monthly, yearly over and over 929 00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:33,733 and over and over, sacrifices being made. 930 00:51:35,733 --> 00:51:36,800 But our Jesus. 931 00:51:38,233 --> 00:51:38,833 He went in. 932 00:51:39,333 --> 00:51:40,533 and offered one. 933 00:51:41,766 --> 00:51:42,433 Perfect. 934 00:51:43,133 --> 00:51:44,233 Sacrifice. 935 00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:46,833 And he said, is finished. 936 00:51:48,333 --> 00:51:49,533 And then he went to the father. 937 00:51:49,866 --> 00:51:51,833 And he said to him. 938 00:51:54,266 --> 00:51:58,266 What could not be accomplished fully and completely all 939 00:51:58,266 --> 00:52:00,133 those Old Testament sacrifice. 940 00:52:01,933 --> 00:52:05,000 was accomplished once, by Jesus. 941 00:52:06,066 --> 00:52:06,966 for all time. 942 00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:10,866 What he sat down simply means as he was 943 00:52:10,866 --> 00:52:13,866 exalted to the right hand of power on high. 944 00:52:14,833 --> 00:52:16,633 His rightful place. 945 00:52:16,699 --> 00:52:20,333 Now, let me give you, as 946 00:52:20,333 --> 00:52:22,000 we close and I promise, we are closing. 947 00:52:23,133 --> 00:52:26,966 Okay, this is going to be rapid fire, I promise, real quick. 948 00:52:27,833 --> 00:52:29,666 I'm not gonna give you any detail here. 949 00:52:29,699 --> 00:52:30,833 Okay? 950 00:52:30,900 --> 00:52:34,133 This is just gonna be self explanatory, all right? 951 00:52:35,366 --> 00:52:38,400 Number one, he sat down as 952 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,566 a sign of honor that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ 953 00:52:41,599 --> 00:52:44,599 is Lord to the glory of God, the Father, number two, 954 00:52:44,599 --> 00:52:47,433 he sat down as a sign of rule and authority. 955 00:52:47,466 --> 00:52:50,599 Look at 1st Peter 3:22, who is at the right hand of 956 00:52:50,599 --> 00:52:54,000 God, having gone into heaven after angels and authorities 957 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,966 and powers have been subjected to him. 958 00:52:56,566 --> 00:52:58,199 Number 3 he sat down to rest. 959 00:52:59,433 --> 00:53:00,266 His work was done. 960 00:53:00,366 --> 00:53:03,500 Hebrews 10, 12 through 13, but he having 961 00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:06,666 offered one sacrifice for sins, for all time, 962 00:53:06,666 --> 00:53:09,900 sat down at the right hand of God, waiting 963 00:53:09,900 --> 00:53:13,133 from that time onward until his enemies be made a 964 00:53:13,133 --> 00:53:14,400 footstool for his feet. 965 00:53:14,466 --> 00:53:17,900 number four, he sat down to intercede for us. 966 00:53:17,933 --> 00:53:19,066 Romans 8.34. 967 00:53:19,266 --> 00:53:23,599 Who is the one who condemns Christ Jesus is he who died? 968 00:53:23,633 --> 00:53:26,633 Yes, brother, who was raised, who is at the right 969 00:53:26,633 --> 00:53:30,699 hand of God, and also intercedes for us. 970 00:53:31,833 --> 00:53:33,733 And there we have God's definition. 971 00:53:34,766 --> 00:53:36,133 of the Lord Jesus Christ. 972 00:53:37,266 --> 00:53:38,300 Pre-eminent. 973 00:53:39,066 --> 00:53:40,566 In all of his offices. 974 00:53:40,633 --> 00:53:44,233 We have seen him as prophet, the final spokesman for God. 975 00:53:44,300 --> 00:53:47,833 We have seen him as priest, perfecting, 976 00:53:47,833 --> 00:53:49,566 atoning, interceding. 977 00:53:49,633 --> 00:53:53,400 We have seen him as king, ruling, controlling, 978 00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,533 sustaining all things in the universe, and seeding 979 00:53:56,533 --> 00:54:00,500 at the right hand of power on his throne, and any body. 980 00:54:02,066 --> 00:54:06,066 Who says, that he is less, 981 00:54:06,066 --> 00:54:09,066 than any of that, is a fool, 982 00:54:10,366 --> 00:54:12,233 and is calling God a liar. 983 00:54:13,266 --> 00:54:13,866 when they do. 984 00:54:14,866 --> 00:54:18,900 God says in his word that his son is preeminent. 985 00:54:19,633 --> 00:54:20,599 In all things. 986 00:54:22,066 --> 00:54:24,199 What you do with Jesus is everything. 987 00:54:25,866 --> 00:54:29,533 This is the most important reality in every single 988 00:54:29,533 --> 00:54:31,933 human life. 989 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,333 To reject him is to be condemned to an eternity spent in 990 00:54:35,333 --> 00:54:38,166 the outer darkness of the judgment of hell itself. 991 00:54:39,933 --> 00:54:41,366 But to come to saving faith. 992 00:54:42,866 --> 00:54:45,133 is to enter into all that he is, 993 00:54:46,466 --> 00:54:49,566 And all that he has, which is all 994 00:54:49,566 --> 00:54:52,333 things, as a joint heir. 995 00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:56,166 Choose this day. 996 00:54:57,066 --> 00:54:58,133 And we will, sir. 997 00:54:58,666 --> 00:54:59,300 Let's pray. 998 00:55:00,366 --> 00:55:05,400 Father, we thank you for words 999 00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,466 that are just really 1000 00:55:08,466 --> 00:55:12,666 not possible to be conveyed. 1001 00:55:13,866 --> 00:55:18,800 With the power and magnitude, of what they are. 1002 00:55:21,833 --> 00:55:23,933 That's why we have to have unction when we preach. 1003 00:55:25,433 --> 00:55:26,966 That's why we have to have ears to hear. 1004 00:55:28,933 --> 00:55:32,800 And I pray these ears have heard this day. 1005 00:55:33,733 --> 00:55:38,000 The depth, and the profundity, of 1006 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,433 the preeminence, of King Jesus, 1007 00:55:41,433 --> 00:55:44,966 and that in it all, you have received glory. 1008 00:55:45,833 --> 00:55:47,199 In Jesus' name we pray. 1009 00:55:47,633 --> 00:55:48,133 Amen.