1 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:02,466 Bibles. 2 00:00:04,033 --> 00:00:07,033 Open with me to Hebrews chapter 2, 3 00:00:09,333 --> 00:00:11,699 and verse number 5. 4 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,066 You can look in your Bibles, or you can watch upon the screen. 5 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:19,233 We will have all the verses there as well. 6 00:00:20,666 --> 00:00:24,000 And we come today to another text in 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,066 Hebrews that is 8 00:00:27,066 --> 00:00:30,600 really going to demand your bullet 9 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,000 attention, every word. 10 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:37,100 You're going to have to concentrate today. 11 00:00:38,133 --> 00:00:41,700 You're going to have to lock in, because 12 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:45,133 this is really some big picture 13 00:00:45,133 --> 00:00:48,266 subject matter that we're 14 00:00:48,266 --> 00:00:53,166 dealing with today, but if you do, and 15 00:00:53,166 --> 00:00:56,299 you understand what I am delivering to you today. 16 00:00:58,333 --> 00:01:00,433 You will be very blessed. 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:02,799 by what you hear. 18 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:08,766 Now, let me start by reminding you, that 19 00:01:08,766 --> 00:01:11,766 the primary reality, that 20 00:01:11,766 --> 00:01:15,233 the whole book of Hebrews is dedicated to, 21 00:01:15,266 --> 00:01:18,799 is the absolute superiority 22 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:23,799 and preeminence 23 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:28,099 of Jesus over everything, 24 00:01:28,933 --> 00:01:29,533 and everybody. 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,200 That's every molecule own up. 26 00:01:35,099 --> 00:01:37,033 You have to keep that in focus. 27 00:01:39,366 --> 00:01:42,433 All the way through our study of 28 00:01:42,433 --> 00:01:46,166 Hebrews, or you're 29 00:01:46,166 --> 00:01:48,933 going to lose the right perspective about this book as a whole. 30 00:01:51,366 --> 00:01:55,466 And under the umbrella of that 31 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:58,700 overall big picture theme of Jesus being 32 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:02,466 superior to everybody and everything is the 33 00:02:02,466 --> 00:02:06,233 writer, remember, originally 34 00:02:06,266 --> 00:02:10,833 writing to this small Jewish congregation, 35 00:02:11,633 --> 00:02:14,466 also showing them this. 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,400 that Jesus is superior to everything 37 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,400 connected to the Old Testament 38 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,900 and the Old Covenant. 39 00:02:24,633 --> 00:02:25,266 That as well. 40 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:32,000 In fact, also to show that Jesus does 41 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,533 not replace the Old Covenant, 42 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:37,833 he fulfills it. 43 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:42,900 The writer here, under the inspiration 44 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:47,466 of the Holy Spirit, presents Jesus 45 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:51,566 as the epicinner of the universe. 46 00:02:51,566 --> 00:02:55,033 Of humanity, 47 00:02:55,033 --> 00:02:58,633 authority, grace, service, 48 00:02:58,633 --> 00:03:02,066 worship, literally, everything that 49 00:03:02,066 --> 00:03:05,099 matters most, Jesus is the 50 00:03:05,099 --> 00:03:06,166 epicinner of. 51 00:03:07,466 --> 00:03:10,699 He is the key to every 52 00:03:10,699 --> 00:03:14,533 page in every chapter of this book. 53 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,933 Now, the Jewish people as a whole, as 54 00:03:19,933 --> 00:03:23,599 you know, back in the first century, 55 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:26,599 in the majority report, not every single one, but in the 56 00:03:26,599 --> 00:03:29,833 majority report, rejected their Messiah. 57 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:35,766 They made the critical mistake of 58 00:03:35,766 --> 00:03:39,233 accepting all of the pictures, 59 00:03:39,266 --> 00:03:43,000 and the types, and the shadows, and the symbols, and then the rituals 60 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 of the Old Testament, and then they rejected 61 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,833 the reality of all that when he came. 62 00:03:52,099 --> 00:03:56,666 And so here in the book of Hebrews, the writer is 63 00:03:56,666 --> 00:04:01,033 trying to show how foolish and 64 00:04:01,033 --> 00:04:04,199 what an error it is to reject 65 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:07,266 the reality, while still 66 00:04:07,266 --> 00:04:10,400 at the same time, still holding on and accepting and 67 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,500 performing all of the old rituals. 68 00:04:14,233 --> 00:04:15,433 When the reality has come. 69 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:21,199 Ultimately, the Holy 70 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:23,899 Spirit is warning to make the point. 71 00:04:26,066 --> 00:04:29,066 To all people who ever read the Bible, and the 72 00:04:29,066 --> 00:04:32,500 Book of Hebrews, for all of human history that 73 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:36,000 the entire Old Testament points 74 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,066 to Jesus Christ. 75 00:04:39,133 --> 00:04:39,600 Every page. 76 00:04:42,066 --> 00:04:45,433 And he does this, this writer, again, I'm 77 00:04:45,433 --> 00:04:49,899 going to keep reminding you of this, in a brilliant way, 78 00:04:49,899 --> 00:04:53,233 by using many quotes from the Old Testament 79 00:04:53,233 --> 00:04:56,366 to prove this to this original Jewish 80 00:04:56,366 --> 00:04:59,733 group of people who all, 81 00:04:59,733 --> 00:05:03,566 all definitely believe that the Old Testament is the Word of God. 82 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:04,966 So the writer says, all right, watch this. 83 00:05:06,233 --> 00:05:08,233 I'm going to use the Old Testament to prove this to you. 84 00:05:10,933 --> 00:05:14,366 And he also does this step by step, first, 85 00:05:14,366 --> 00:05:17,466 starting in chapter 1, and continuing 86 00:05:17,466 --> 00:05:20,466 into chapter 2, here, to 87 00:05:20,466 --> 00:05:23,833 show first how Jesus is 88 00:05:23,833 --> 00:05:26,666 superior to angels. 89 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:32,533 And remember, a couple times, we went over the high regard the Jews had for angels. 90 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,199 I'm not going to go back over all that again, go back and watch previous sermon, if you missed that. 91 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,766 But remember this, God used angels in some way 92 00:05:40,766 --> 00:05:43,333 to deliver the old covenant. 93 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:44,833 They were there at Sinai. 94 00:05:44,899 --> 00:05:45,966 We talked about all of that. 95 00:05:46,566 --> 00:05:49,633 And if Jesus is the final and fullest meaning 96 00:05:49,633 --> 00:05:52,633 of the Old Covenant, it's just logic. 97 00:05:52,766 --> 00:05:56,133 He must be superior to angels. 98 00:05:56,666 --> 00:05:59,666 And so the writer uses the Old Testament to 99 00:05:59,666 --> 00:06:02,899 show that Jesus is, in fact, 100 00:06:03,433 --> 00:06:05,666 superior to every angel. 101 00:06:05,833 --> 00:06:08,899 And we saw that, we studied that in chapter 1, 102 00:06:08,899 --> 00:06:11,966 and then, as we rolled into chapter 2, last 103 00:06:11,966 --> 00:06:13,766 time, and there in verses 1 to 4. 104 00:06:14,533 --> 00:06:15,433 Remember what happened. 105 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:16,533 It's like a bracket. 106 00:06:18,033 --> 00:06:19,266 The writer can't help himself. 107 00:06:21,133 --> 00:06:24,199 He takes a pause to basically 108 00:06:24,199 --> 00:06:27,366 make the point that if Jesus is superior 109 00:06:27,366 --> 00:06:30,500 to the angels in the way that I just told you in chapter 110 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:32,600 1, then you ought to do something about it. 111 00:06:35,699 --> 00:06:38,766 You ought to respond to him the way God wants you to. 112 00:06:40,333 --> 00:06:43,633 And he starts out chapter 2 of the little exhortation, 113 00:06:43,633 --> 00:06:47,699 and then he gives a warning, and then an invitation. 114 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:48,933 Remember? 115 00:06:49,766 --> 00:06:52,800 And he's basically saying, I have just 116 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,066 shown you that Jesus is God. 117 00:06:57,566 --> 00:07:00,399 I have just shown you that he's better than angels. 118 00:07:02,466 --> 00:07:05,633 And now, you need to act on that information. 119 00:07:07,566 --> 00:07:10,866 Or verse three, look at it. 120 00:07:11,366 --> 00:07:14,466 How will we escape, if 121 00:07:14,466 --> 00:07:17,300 we neglect so great, a salvation. 122 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,766 And then, what we're going to look at today, starting in 123 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,866 verse 5, now he's out of the bracket, and 124 00:07:24,866 --> 00:07:27,866 he's going to return to demonstrating the superiority 125 00:07:27,866 --> 00:07:29,666 of Jesus over angels. 126 00:07:29,833 --> 00:07:33,300 He's not finished, but boy, is he going to do it in a big way. 127 00:07:33,366 --> 00:07:33,833 Look at verse 5. 128 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:39,866 For he did not subject to angels, 129 00:07:39,866 --> 00:07:43,699 the world to come concerning 130 00:07:43,699 --> 00:07:44,966 which we are speaking. 131 00:07:46,266 --> 00:07:47,533 And the point there. 132 00:07:48,133 --> 00:07:49,333 The point there is very simple. 133 00:07:50,466 --> 00:07:53,933 God did not give control or 134 00:07:53,966 --> 00:07:57,333 subjection of the world to come to angels. 135 00:07:57,666 --> 00:07:59,166 That's easy to understand, right? 136 00:07:59,966 --> 00:08:03,833 Now, if you're premillennial, 137 00:08:03,833 --> 00:08:07,033 in your eschatology, this could be talking about 138 00:08:07,033 --> 00:08:10,100 that phrase, the world to come, to the 139 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:13,199 literal 1,000 year reign of 140 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:15,533 Jesus Christ in the millennial kingdom. 141 00:08:15,566 --> 00:08:18,633 That is, a restored, renovated earth that 142 00:08:18,633 --> 00:08:22,066 Jesus will rule from Jerusalem 143 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:25,399 for 1,000 years, and then at the end of that 1,000 144 00:08:25,399 --> 00:08:26,600 years, in that 145 00:08:27,366 --> 00:08:31,133 premillennial dispensational view, God will destroy the 146 00:08:31,166 --> 00:08:34,766 present, heavens, and earth, and will create a new 147 00:08:34,766 --> 00:08:37,333 heavens and earth, and there will be an eternal state. 148 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:42,433 If, however, you hold to the a 149 00:08:42,433 --> 00:08:46,333 millennial view, you just go straight to eternal state, 150 00:08:46,333 --> 00:08:49,333 God judges, and you go straight to the 151 00:08:49,333 --> 00:08:51,000 eternal state, New heavens, and New Earth. 152 00:08:51,066 --> 00:08:53,399 You skip all that literal 1,000 year stuff. 153 00:08:54,266 --> 00:08:57,266 Both, the post millennial and 154 00:08:57,266 --> 00:09:00,299 historic pre millennial view, which is 155 00:09:00,299 --> 00:09:03,299 different from the dispensational 156 00:09:03,299 --> 00:09:06,433 pre millennial view, have their versions of the kingdom 157 00:09:06,433 --> 00:09:09,500 existing on this present earth. 158 00:09:09,733 --> 00:09:13,500 And then, at the end of both, God creates a 159 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:16,366 new heaven and a new earth and an eternal state. 160 00:09:17,433 --> 00:09:18,366 that doesn't ever change. 161 00:09:19,466 --> 00:09:22,466 And here is the very simple way that 162 00:09:22,466 --> 00:09:25,700 I look at this, and that you can join me, if you like. 163 00:09:28,533 --> 00:09:29,100 Any way you go. 164 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,466 Any route you take, in the end, everybody 165 00:09:35,466 --> 00:09:39,500 winds up in the new heaven and the new earth and the eternal state. 166 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,899 No matter which road you go down, eschatologically. 167 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:47,299 And further, all of the truths that 168 00:09:47,299 --> 00:09:50,433 we are fixing to study are going 169 00:09:50,433 --> 00:09:54,066 to be true about all of those situations, whether 170 00:09:54,066 --> 00:09:57,666 you're in the thousand years, whether you're straight to the eternal state or not. 171 00:09:57,966 --> 00:10:00,966 So this phrase that we see 172 00:10:00,966 --> 00:10:03,966 here in verse five, the world to come, 173 00:10:03,966 --> 00:10:07,133 depends on your es catalogical preference, 174 00:10:07,166 --> 00:10:10,833 and no matter what, we all end up at the same place. 175 00:10:11,466 --> 00:10:13,033 New heavens, New Earth, eternal state. 176 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:13,700 You understand that? 177 00:10:14,533 --> 00:10:14,899 Okay. 178 00:10:15,633 --> 00:10:18,733 For example, we can take the phrase the world to come in any of those 179 00:10:18,733 --> 00:10:21,633 situations that I described. 180 00:10:23,166 --> 00:10:25,033 And we can agree with verse five. 181 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:29,066 in any of those situations that God did not give subjection 182 00:10:29,066 --> 00:10:32,133 and rule to the angels in any of those situations. 183 00:10:33,666 --> 00:10:34,399 See my point here? 184 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,066 In all of them, the supreme sovereign over 185 00:10:39,066 --> 00:10:43,399 the world to come is not angels, but is Jesus. 186 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:45,666 And that's the point. 187 00:10:47,366 --> 00:10:50,500 And with an extra added point that 188 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:53,700 I'm fixing to show you, but I'm not going to show you right at this juncture. 189 00:10:53,899 --> 00:10:55,266 There's an added point to that. 190 00:10:55,399 --> 00:10:56,299 Keep that in mind. 191 00:10:57,500 --> 00:11:00,733 So again, the writer is proving 192 00:11:00,733 --> 00:11:05,533 that Jesus is superior to angels, and furthermore, if angels 193 00:11:05,533 --> 00:11:08,966 are next to God in the created order, and 194 00:11:08,966 --> 00:11:14,600 Jesus is superior to angels, then Jesus is God. 195 00:11:16,133 --> 00:11:16,799 That's the bigger point. 196 00:11:17,433 --> 00:11:20,533 So, moving forward, I'm not going to 197 00:11:20,533 --> 00:11:22,466 explain all that to you again for time's sake. 198 00:11:24,066 --> 00:11:28,266 The issues of the world to come apply to all the situations. 199 00:11:29,299 --> 00:11:29,899 You with me? 200 00:11:30,933 --> 00:11:31,866 I want to make sure you are. 201 00:11:31,933 --> 00:11:33,200 Now next, next. 202 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:35,966 Next, we are going to get very nuanced. 203 00:11:36,066 --> 00:11:36,799 You ready for this? 204 00:11:38,833 --> 00:11:41,833 The Jews, I think back to 205 00:11:41,833 --> 00:11:44,100 the first century Judaism, okay? 206 00:11:45,299 --> 00:11:47,833 Jesus was this guy from Nazareth, okay? 207 00:11:48,299 --> 00:11:51,466 And they knew all the stories, and they had been preached 208 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:54,566 to by the apostles, but he still was a man, right? 209 00:11:54,866 --> 00:11:56,366 An actual historical man. 210 00:11:58,033 --> 00:12:00,866 They could have the objection, some of them in their minds. 211 00:12:00,899 --> 00:12:04,633 Well, if Jesus was only a man, how in the world could he be superior 212 00:12:04,633 --> 00:12:05,966 to angels? 213 00:12:06,799 --> 00:12:08,600 And that is fixing to get dealt with. 214 00:12:09,733 --> 00:12:11,100 Here in verses 6 to 8. 215 00:12:12,433 --> 00:12:15,899 And not only will this, again, prove Jesus to be superior 216 00:12:15,899 --> 00:12:19,200 to angels, but also at the same time, these verses 217 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,000 are going to reveal something else. 218 00:12:22,866 --> 00:12:26,166 The only hope for 219 00:12:26,166 --> 00:12:27,799 man's recovery. 220 00:12:28,933 --> 00:12:30,866 of his lost destiny. 221 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,433 And that's what I was talking about a minute ago about that added thing that I want you to remember. 222 00:12:35,466 --> 00:12:36,233 Now get ready for this. 223 00:12:37,633 --> 00:12:40,500 Man today is a lost man in his natural condition, right? 224 00:12:42,299 --> 00:12:44,566 He has lost the meaning of his existence. 225 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:50,299 And this passage is going to teach us how 226 00:12:50,299 --> 00:12:53,833 it is that man can recover his 227 00:12:53,833 --> 00:12:57,266 destiny, and in fact, what 228 00:12:57,266 --> 00:13:01,033 his destiny is, if, 229 00:13:01,033 --> 00:13:06,066 he is a redeemed man, a redeemed man. 230 00:13:07,799 --> 00:13:11,366 And for this, we will follow just three 231 00:13:11,366 --> 00:13:12,799 simple points. 232 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:13,833 OK? 233 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:15,166 Three simple points. 234 00:13:15,266 --> 00:13:15,733 Number one. 235 00:13:16,766 --> 00:13:18,933 Man's destiny revealed. 236 00:13:18,966 --> 00:13:19,633 That'll be first. 237 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:21,299 By God. 238 00:13:22,466 --> 00:13:23,899 Man's destiny revealed by God. 239 00:13:23,966 --> 00:13:27,666 Secondly, man's destiny restricted 240 00:13:27,666 --> 00:13:30,666 by sin, and then number 241 00:13:30,666 --> 00:13:34,700 three, man's destiny recovered by Christ. 242 00:13:35,299 --> 00:13:39,200 That's our three point outline we're going to follow in these verses. 243 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,233 So let's first consider man's destiny revealed by God. 244 00:13:43,866 --> 00:13:46,866 We already learn in verse 5 that the angels 245 00:13:46,866 --> 00:13:48,733 will not rule in the world to come. 246 00:13:49,399 --> 00:13:50,133 We got that down. 247 00:13:51,299 --> 00:13:53,200 In fact, you go back to Hebrews 1:14. 248 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:57,433 You see this about angels, are they not all ministering 249 00:13:57,433 --> 00:14:00,799 spirits sent out to render service for 250 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:03,433 the sake of those who will inherit salvation? 251 00:14:03,899 --> 00:14:05,233 That's the holy angels. 252 00:14:05,299 --> 00:14:05,733 Guess what? 253 00:14:07,266 --> 00:14:09,066 That will also be true in the world to come. 254 00:14:10,399 --> 00:14:14,066 Angels will be ministers to, not 255 00:14:14,066 --> 00:14:17,733 rulers over all who inherit salvation. 256 00:14:17,966 --> 00:14:21,033 And we'll get to that in a minute, a little more deeply, but just hang on to that thought. 257 00:14:21,899 --> 00:14:24,433 And I want you to look in verse 5 at the word for subject. 258 00:14:26,933 --> 00:14:28,100 That's a military word. 259 00:14:29,666 --> 00:14:32,666 And it speaks of a system of administration, 260 00:14:32,666 --> 00:14:35,766 like arranging your soldiers in order under 261 00:14:35,766 --> 00:14:37,933 the command of a general in an army. 262 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:43,700 God has not turned over the system of administration of 263 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:45,366 the world to come to angels. 264 00:14:47,666 --> 00:14:51,266 God ordains all the powers and all the administrations, 265 00:14:51,266 --> 00:14:54,966 even in the political realm, right now, 266 00:14:54,966 --> 00:14:57,966 which we learn in Romans 13, right? 267 00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:00,466 May not look like it. 268 00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:04,633 But John Calvin said when God judges a nation, he gives it wicked rulers. 269 00:15:07,033 --> 00:15:08,166 We're living in that right now. 270 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:13,399 But this verse indicates a truth that we know from other passages, 271 00:15:13,399 --> 00:15:17,200 which is, right now, at this moment, 272 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,266 angels do have a 273 00:15:20,266 --> 00:15:24,133 certain kind of rulership over this world. 274 00:15:24,299 --> 00:15:27,299 And we're going to get to that in just a minute, but we're also going to learn 275 00:15:27,299 --> 00:15:30,433 that this angel rule right 276 00:15:30,433 --> 00:15:34,766 now is only temporary. 277 00:15:36,333 --> 00:15:39,500 But before we get to that, let's discuss this sense in which angels 278 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:42,266 have rulership over this present world. 279 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:44,133 I want you to look at John 1430. 280 00:15:46,266 --> 00:15:49,799 And I want you to look at how Jesus himself 281 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,200 refers to Satan. 282 00:15:54,966 --> 00:15:58,399 He says, I will not speak much more with you, for 283 00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:01,399 the ruler of the world. 284 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,033 That's Satan. 285 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:07,633 The ruler of the world is coming, and 286 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:09,666 he has nothing in me. 287 00:16:10,033 --> 00:16:13,766 King James uses the phrase the prince of this world. 288 00:16:14,666 --> 00:16:15,933 And that's Jesus speaking. 289 00:16:17,533 --> 00:16:21,700 God allows, 290 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:24,733 Satan and his fallen angels, a certain 291 00:16:24,733 --> 00:16:27,733 sense of rulership over 292 00:16:27,733 --> 00:16:30,899 this present world system. 293 00:16:30,966 --> 00:16:35,299 All you got to do is take a look at our culture and say, yeah, that's right. 294 00:16:36,533 --> 00:16:39,733 But not only that, we see, 295 00:16:39,733 --> 00:16:41,166 for example, in the Book of Daniel. 296 00:16:42,966 --> 00:16:47,233 that holy angels, the good angels 297 00:16:47,233 --> 00:16:51,299 have a certain sense of sovereignty over this present world. 298 00:16:51,733 --> 00:16:54,500 Look at with me at Daniel 10:13. 299 00:16:56,366 --> 00:17:00,066 And here we have an angel, unnamed, 300 00:17:00,066 --> 00:17:03,533 most commentators think this is Gabriel, we 301 00:17:03,566 --> 00:17:06,099 can't be dogmatic, but most commentators think that. 302 00:17:06,433 --> 00:17:08,066 And this angel is talking to Daniel. 303 00:17:09,266 --> 00:17:11,066 And he says in verse 13, 304 00:17:11,766 --> 00:17:14,900 But the prince of the kingdom of 305 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:18,599 Persia, that's an angel, prince 306 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:21,733 of the earth, is how Jesus referred to Satan and King James. 307 00:17:22,266 --> 00:17:25,433 The prince of the kingdom of Persia was standing me 308 00:17:25,466 --> 00:17:28,599 for 21 days, then, behold, 309 00:17:28,599 --> 00:17:32,333 Michael, one of the chief princes, 310 00:17:32,366 --> 00:17:35,533 the chief angels, came to help me, for 311 00:17:35,533 --> 00:17:39,133 I have been left there with the kings of Persia, 312 00:17:39,133 --> 00:17:40,333 fascinating. 313 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:42,766 Fascinating. 314 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,466 Gabriel, the angel, if, indeed, this is Gabriel, was held 315 00:17:46,466 --> 00:17:49,933 up for three weeks by 316 00:17:49,933 --> 00:17:53,066 a fallen angel that is described as the 317 00:17:53,066 --> 00:17:56,133 prince of Persia, and then Michael, the 318 00:17:56,133 --> 00:17:59,266 archangel, the big dog, had to step in and 319 00:17:59,299 --> 00:18:00,500 help out this lower angel. 320 00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:01,833 That's what this is saying. 321 00:18:03,966 --> 00:18:04,633 R.C. 322 00:18:04,633 --> 00:18:06,299 Sproul says, Here is a glimpse. 323 00:18:07,799 --> 00:18:10,933 of spiritual battles being waged 324 00:18:10,933 --> 00:18:14,233 in heavenly places and affecting 325 00:18:14,233 --> 00:18:15,599 events on the Earth. 326 00:18:17,533 --> 00:18:20,666 John MacArthur says, this tells us that Satan 327 00:18:20,666 --> 00:18:23,833 engages in heavenly warfare to 328 00:18:23,833 --> 00:18:27,599 influence, generations, and nations, 329 00:18:27,599 --> 00:18:30,833 against God and his people, see Nigeria 330 00:18:30,866 --> 00:18:34,599 right now, where Christians are being slaughtered by the Muslims. 331 00:18:35,299 --> 00:18:38,599 Behind that is the power of Satan and fallen 332 00:18:38,599 --> 00:18:42,033 angels, slaughtering Christians in Africa, right at this moment. 333 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:44,900 As I've told you before. 334 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,233 There is a whole lot going on in 335 00:18:50,233 --> 00:18:53,966 this world right at this moment that our eyes cannot see. 336 00:18:55,166 --> 00:18:57,033 And here's a biblical example of that. 337 00:18:57,599 --> 00:19:00,733 Look further down in Daniel 10, in verse 20. 338 00:19:02,099 --> 00:19:04,799 The angel says this. 339 00:19:05,799 --> 00:19:07,533 Do you understand why I came to you? 340 00:19:08,966 --> 00:19:12,266 But I shall now return to 341 00:19:12,266 --> 00:19:15,733 fight against the prince of 342 00:19:15,733 --> 00:19:18,299 Persia, a fallen angel. 343 00:19:19,099 --> 00:19:23,299 So, I am going forth, and behold, the prince of Greece, 344 00:19:23,299 --> 00:19:26,599 a fallen angel, is about to come. 345 00:19:27,133 --> 00:19:30,566 This is describing the reality that some of these fallen angels have 346 00:19:30,566 --> 00:19:31,766 their own territories. 347 00:19:33,599 --> 00:19:37,733 And they fight with the holy angels. 348 00:19:38,833 --> 00:19:39,666 Let me tell you something. 349 00:19:39,799 --> 00:19:42,966 Marvel Studios could not come up with anything 350 00:19:42,966 --> 00:19:46,099 as compelling as what's happening in 351 00:19:46,099 --> 00:19:48,366 the unseen realm right now. 352 00:19:49,833 --> 00:19:50,299 Couldn't do it. 353 00:19:51,733 --> 00:19:53,066 Look at how Daniel 12. 354 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,866 And verse number 1 starts out. 355 00:19:57,133 --> 00:20:00,200 Now, at that time, Michael, the great 356 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,266 prince, the great angel, he's 357 00:20:03,266 --> 00:20:06,333 the archangel, who stands guard over the 358 00:20:06,333 --> 00:20:09,766 sons of your people, will arrive. 359 00:20:10,099 --> 00:20:13,233 So there's an archangel, Michael, assign 360 00:20:13,233 --> 00:20:16,666 a certain sense of sovereignty over at least the 361 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:20,000 redeemed people of the Earth, stands 362 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,566 guard over the sons of your people. 363 00:20:21,866 --> 00:20:22,633 That's Michael. 364 00:20:24,966 --> 00:20:28,099 So the point I'm making is that right now, there is 365 00:20:28,099 --> 00:20:31,233 a sense in which the earth is 366 00:20:31,233 --> 00:20:34,633 subject to angels in a certain sense. 367 00:20:35,099 --> 00:20:37,066 Christ rules over all in all of that. 368 00:20:37,766 --> 00:20:41,133 But for God's purposes in redemptive history, 369 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:44,700 He is allowing all of this to happen with the angels 370 00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:47,333 in the unseen realm. 371 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:50,133 But back to our text in verse 5. 372 00:20:51,866 --> 00:20:55,599 In the world to come, that's not going to be the case. 373 00:20:56,799 --> 00:20:57,400 You with me? 374 00:20:58,533 --> 00:21:00,866 OK. Now, let's go, you want to go a little deeper? 375 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:01,633 Let's do that. 376 00:21:03,366 --> 00:21:06,433 The only reason the Earth now 377 00:21:06,433 --> 00:21:09,866 is subject to angels is 378 00:21:09,866 --> 00:21:13,099 because man lost the sovereignty 379 00:21:13,099 --> 00:21:16,166 that God originally ordained for him to 380 00:21:16,166 --> 00:21:18,400 have over the Earth in the beginning. 381 00:21:20,366 --> 00:21:21,866 But in the world to come. 382 00:21:23,766 --> 00:21:27,000 That sovereignty is going to be restored 383 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,500 to redeemed man. 384 00:21:31,766 --> 00:21:35,000 And as I explain this, you're going to see at the same time that 385 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,099 the argument that says, well, Jesus is a man, 386 00:21:38,099 --> 00:21:39,133 how can he be better than angels? 387 00:21:39,733 --> 00:21:42,433 This is going to get answered yet again, okay? 388 00:21:44,099 --> 00:21:45,133 Follow me with this. 389 00:21:46,933 --> 00:21:49,933 God originally made this world subject 390 00:21:49,933 --> 00:21:52,400 to men and not to angels. 391 00:21:53,166 --> 00:21:55,400 Angels right now, they're just filling in the gap. 392 00:21:55,766 --> 00:21:56,233 OK? 393 00:21:57,433 --> 00:22:01,333 Satan stole the subjection from men. 394 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:05,133 In fact, he's known as the usurper, which means he 395 00:22:05,133 --> 00:22:08,833 moved in, and he took what wasn't his. 396 00:22:09,966 --> 00:22:13,099 So the argument that Jesus can't be better than angels, 397 00:22:13,099 --> 00:22:17,066 because he is a man, can be hit back at from this angle as well. 398 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,133 Because man was originally created to rule, 399 00:22:22,133 --> 00:22:25,166 to be the king of the earth, and God's final 400 00:22:25,166 --> 00:22:29,400 destiny for redeemed man, he 401 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,066 is going to be the sovereign in the world to come that 402 00:22:33,066 --> 00:22:36,599 God originally designed him to be in the fullest sense. 403 00:22:38,766 --> 00:22:40,566 Now I know this is a lot. 404 00:22:41,599 --> 00:22:44,266 It was a lot for me to study this and put this all down for you. 405 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:46,466 But hang in here with me, okay? 406 00:22:47,233 --> 00:22:50,599 As we walk through these verses and 407 00:22:50,599 --> 00:22:53,733 just take all this great truth in about 408 00:22:53,733 --> 00:22:57,666 who we are in Christ, because that's what we're getting at here. 409 00:22:59,366 --> 00:23:02,666 While we see that right now, the earth 410 00:23:02,666 --> 00:23:05,666 is, in a sense, under the sovereignty of 411 00:23:05,666 --> 00:23:08,799 angels, as I explain, both holy and 412 00:23:08,799 --> 00:23:12,599 falling, battling it out, the 413 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:16,566 earth to come, will be under the control of 414 00:23:16,566 --> 00:23:19,566 men, and again, in brilliant fashion, 415 00:23:19,566 --> 00:23:20,933 brilliant fashion. 416 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:24,933 The writer is going to use the 417 00:23:24,933 --> 00:23:28,133 Old Testament and direct quotes 418 00:23:28,166 --> 00:23:31,000 from Psalm 8 to make his point. 419 00:23:32,166 --> 00:23:34,200 Look at how verse 6 starts out. 420 00:23:36,266 --> 00:23:41,066 But one has testified somewhere saying, And 421 00:23:41,066 --> 00:23:43,700 then he goes on to quote directly from Psalm 8. 422 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:45,799 And he's talking about David. 423 00:23:48,033 --> 00:23:51,799 Now, why does he say it, like 424 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:54,933 that, but one, has testified somewhere saying, 425 00:23:55,633 --> 00:23:58,400 is his memory of the Old Testament failing at this point? 426 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,266 Well, if you notice, throughout the book 427 00:24:03,266 --> 00:24:06,633 of Hebrews, he never names any Old Testament author, does he? 428 00:24:07,633 --> 00:24:08,166 Never does. 429 00:24:08,233 --> 00:24:08,833 Read it for yourself. 430 00:24:09,599 --> 00:24:13,033 He just eliminates the human instrument, and 431 00:24:13,033 --> 00:24:16,266 he's continually making it clear that this is all the voice 432 00:24:16,266 --> 00:24:18,533 of God from the Old Testament. 433 00:24:19,533 --> 00:24:22,566 He wants these Hebrew readers to understand who 434 00:24:22,566 --> 00:24:25,733 really wrote the Old Testament just using 435 00:24:25,766 --> 00:24:29,166 human authors to get it done, even passes 436 00:24:29,166 --> 00:24:32,166 over the great King David, saying, One 437 00:24:32,166 --> 00:24:33,366 has testified somewhere. 438 00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:37,000 And of course, they all knew the passage. 439 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,166 They were Jews, and, of course, they all knew that David said this. 440 00:24:41,366 --> 00:24:44,766 Look next in verse 6, and we go see what David testified 441 00:24:44,766 --> 00:24:46,433 in Psalm 8. 442 00:24:46,566 --> 00:24:47,333 What is man? 443 00:24:48,833 --> 00:24:49,766 But you remember him. 444 00:24:50,966 --> 00:24:55,000 Or the Son of Man, that you are concerned about him. 445 00:24:56,466 --> 00:24:59,700 David is talking to God, and he's asking God, 446 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:00,766 What is man? 447 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,966 That you should be so good to him. 448 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,933 that you would give him so much blessing, 449 00:25:08,966 --> 00:25:12,333 and then next, in verse 7, still quoting 450 00:25:12,333 --> 00:25:15,966 directly from Psalm 8, You have made him man 451 00:25:15,966 --> 00:25:19,433 for a little while, lower than the angels, you 452 00:25:19,466 --> 00:25:22,633 have crowned him with glory and honor, and have appointed him over 453 00:25:22,633 --> 00:25:25,633 the works of your hands, verse 8, you have put all things 454 00:25:25,633 --> 00:25:27,966 in subjection under his feet. 455 00:25:28,266 --> 00:25:31,333 Now, let me give you the summary point here before we get into details, 456 00:25:31,333 --> 00:25:32,766 because you need to know the details of this. 457 00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:38,700 In spite of the superiority of angels over mankind, 458 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:41,766 now, God, as I said, had originally 459 00:25:41,766 --> 00:25:44,900 placed the administration of the Earth into 460 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:48,566 the hands of mankind, see Genesis 1, OK? 461 00:25:50,066 --> 00:25:53,799 Due to the fall, in Genesis 3, 462 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:57,099 man right now is incapable of 463 00:25:57,099 --> 00:26:00,500 fulfilling that divinely ordained position 464 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:03,666 from the first, God made man 465 00:26:03,666 --> 00:26:07,433 originally large and in charge of the earth. 466 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:10,766 Look at Genesis 1:26, then God 467 00:26:10,766 --> 00:26:13,766 said, Let us, Trinity, make 468 00:26:13,766 --> 00:26:17,133 man in our Trinity, image, according 469 00:26:17,133 --> 00:26:21,000 to our Trinity, likeness, and let them what? 470 00:26:21,966 --> 00:26:22,466 Rule! 471 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,566 King James says, Let them have dominion 472 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:29,966 over, and then it goes down that great list 473 00:26:29,966 --> 00:26:32,500 of fish, and birds, and cattle, and creeping things and everything. 474 00:26:34,866 --> 00:26:38,400 Man was originally made a king with 475 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,933 dominion over the earth. 476 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,933 And you can go back to Genesis 1 and read all those details. 477 00:26:43,466 --> 00:26:44,900 Now go back to Hebrews 26. 478 00:26:48,066 --> 00:26:51,066 in this, what does, man, 479 00:26:51,066 --> 00:26:54,066 you remember him, concerned after him, David could also be 480 00:26:54,066 --> 00:26:57,133 saying, what is, man, that you should crown him with dominion. 481 00:26:57,700 --> 00:26:58,599 What is, man? 482 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:03,133 And then he also tells us in verse 7, You 483 00:27:03,133 --> 00:27:06,299 have made him for a little while lower than the angels. 484 00:27:06,666 --> 00:27:08,599 So there we see the chain of command, right? 485 00:27:08,833 --> 00:27:10,933 God, angels, man, earth. 486 00:27:12,833 --> 00:27:16,166 And by the way, just as an aside in verse six in this context. 487 00:27:16,766 --> 00:27:19,766 Son of Man is a Hebrew term that's written. 488 00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:21,066 referring to mankind. 489 00:27:21,366 --> 00:27:24,366 Ezekiel is called Son of Man, 490 00:27:24,366 --> 00:27:26,233 just meaning mankind, you're born. 491 00:27:26,233 --> 00:27:29,366 Some lesser commentators like to say this is all about Jesus, 492 00:27:29,366 --> 00:27:32,366 but man, when I got Matthew, Henry, Arsby, Sproll, 493 00:27:32,366 --> 00:27:36,400 and John MacArthur, all agreeing that this is all about man, I'm with those guys, okay? 494 00:27:37,333 --> 00:27:38,166 So it's clear. 495 00:27:39,566 --> 00:27:42,933 man must be real important to God. 496 00:27:44,466 --> 00:27:46,400 Made in his image. 497 00:27:47,466 --> 00:27:52,133 to originally be king of the earth. 498 00:27:52,333 --> 00:27:53,533 Notice again, verse 7. 499 00:27:53,666 --> 00:27:56,733 You have made him for a little while lower than the angels, 500 00:27:56,733 --> 00:28:00,466 and understand, not in the sense of love, God 501 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:04,099 loved man, with the same infinite capacity that 502 00:28:04,099 --> 00:28:07,333 he loves angels with, and not in the sense that he was lower 503 00:28:07,333 --> 00:28:10,500 in importance to God, not in that sense, 504 00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:13,666 the only sense that 505 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:17,000 man was lower than the angels was in the sense that 506 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 man was created as a physical being, 507 00:28:21,066 --> 00:28:25,133 and angels were created as spiritual beings. 508 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:26,166 Man is earthly. 509 00:28:26,366 --> 00:28:29,966 man is earth bound, angels are heavenly beings. 510 00:28:30,433 --> 00:28:31,500 Notice in seven again. 511 00:28:32,233 --> 00:28:35,366 You have made him for a little while. 512 00:28:36,866 --> 00:28:39,866 lower than the angels, and that's a clue 513 00:28:39,866 --> 00:28:43,900 to the incredible eternity that lies ahead for all believers. 514 00:28:44,900 --> 00:28:47,966 Because God, in the very beginning, knew in his infinite 515 00:28:47,966 --> 00:28:51,033 mind that the ultimate, final destiny 516 00:28:51,033 --> 00:28:54,133 as glorified man in 517 00:28:54,133 --> 00:28:57,133 the eternal state would not be something 518 00:28:57,133 --> 00:28:59,833 lower than the angels in that future glory. 519 00:29:01,433 --> 00:29:05,099 This is a temporary situation that we are in right now in 520 00:29:05,099 --> 00:29:06,833 being a little lower than the angels. 521 00:29:07,466 --> 00:29:10,700 And as we are, let me give you some more things to 522 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:11,900 contrast and think about. 523 00:29:14,233 --> 00:29:15,900 We are confined to physical bodies. 524 00:29:17,599 --> 00:29:20,599 I can't go outside in the parking lot and fly up to 525 00:29:20,599 --> 00:29:22,033 Canada on my own, can I? 526 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:25,966 Now, Elon just made a 527 00:29:25,966 --> 00:29:29,766 card that might fly me there, but I can't do it in my physical body. 528 00:29:31,933 --> 00:29:35,400 But angels are able to move freely all around the 529 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,599 universe as spirits. 530 00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:39,400 As I said, we're earth bound. 531 00:29:39,566 --> 00:29:42,933 We cannot ascend to the supernatural realm. 532 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,799 Angels can move around in both. 533 00:29:46,466 --> 00:29:47,799 Angers are supernatural. 534 00:29:48,266 --> 00:29:51,500 Man, even before the fall, was still natural. 535 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,900 Angels were created as spirit beings, man 536 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:57,366 was made out of what, the dust of the earth. 537 00:29:58,866 --> 00:30:00,433 After Satan's rebellion, 538 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:03,500 Now, the holy angels were secured in 539 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:07,466 their holiness, forever, never to be changed, man was not. 540 00:30:09,533 --> 00:30:13,033 Now, man was innocent originally, but 541 00:30:13,033 --> 00:30:16,700 he had the choice to sin or not to sin. 542 00:30:17,833 --> 00:30:21,133 So, holy angels were perfect, and man in his original state 543 00:30:21,133 --> 00:30:24,266 was only innocent, and 544 00:30:24,266 --> 00:30:26,200 also in that sense, he was lower than angels. 545 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,299 Holy angels never had any possibility of dying. 546 00:30:31,099 --> 00:30:34,233 But man, you eat that fruit? 547 00:30:35,599 --> 00:30:37,099 You shall surely die. 548 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:42,333 And he did, and now we all do too, right? 549 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000 But God has designed a destiny for redeemed 550 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,133 man that will change this temporary 551 00:30:50,133 --> 00:30:53,333 existence as being lower than the angels, 552 00:30:53,366 --> 00:30:56,599 when all of God's elect are called in, and 553 00:30:56,599 --> 00:30:59,666 the kingdom is fully consummated, man will 554 00:30:59,666 --> 00:31:01,599 no longer be lower than the angels. 555 00:31:03,066 --> 00:31:06,799 Look at Daniel 7, 18, 556 00:31:06,799 --> 00:31:10,333 but the saints, of 557 00:31:10,333 --> 00:31:13,333 the highest one will receive the kingdom 558 00:31:13,333 --> 00:31:17,233 and possess the kingdom forever for all angels to come. 559 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:19,366 That's every redeemed human being right there. 560 00:31:20,366 --> 00:31:22,400 This is a breathtaking reality. 561 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,166 Who is going to rule in the kingdom alongside the king of kings, 562 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,966 not angels, redeeemed man? 563 00:31:30,133 --> 00:31:33,299 Look at Daniel 7, verse 27, then the 564 00:31:33,299 --> 00:31:36,599 sovereignty, the dominion, and the greatness 565 00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:40,033 of all the kingdoms on their whole heaven will 566 00:31:40,033 --> 00:31:43,333 be given to the people of the saints of 567 00:31:43,333 --> 00:31:44,833 the highest one. 568 00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:48,433 His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the 569 00:31:48,433 --> 00:31:51,299 dominions will serve and obey him. 570 00:31:51,566 --> 00:31:52,933 It's a staggering thought. 571 00:31:55,266 --> 00:31:58,333 David was perfectly right to wonder, 572 00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:00,299 what is man that you remember him? 573 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:04,799 What is man, the son of man, that you are concerned about him? 574 00:32:07,566 --> 00:32:10,733 I have to tell you, it's 575 00:32:10,766 --> 00:32:14,833 hard for me to grasp Christ ruling 576 00:32:14,833 --> 00:32:17,833 and reigning in eternity, 577 00:32:17,833 --> 00:32:21,733 future, and what he says, for example, look 578 00:32:21,733 --> 00:32:24,866 at Romans 3:21. 579 00:32:25,033 --> 00:32:25,799 Look at what he says. 580 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:28,966 I can't grasp this. 581 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,366 He who overcomes, I will grant 582 00:32:33,366 --> 00:32:36,833 to him to sit down with me 583 00:32:36,866 --> 00:32:39,433 on my throne. 584 00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:44,466 That's every believer, as I also overcame 585 00:32:44,466 --> 00:32:47,633 and sat down with my father on 586 00:32:47,666 --> 00:32:49,233 his throne. 587 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,433 Speaking of Christ's rule in Ephesians 121, it says, 588 00:32:56,433 --> 00:33:00,933 This, look at it, far above, 589 00:33:00,933 --> 00:33:04,466 all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, 590 00:33:04,466 --> 00:33:07,633 that is named not only in this age, 591 00:33:07,633 --> 00:33:10,266 but also in the world to come, 592 00:33:10,566 --> 00:33:13,799 as we learned in Ephesians, those words, rule 593 00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:16,966 authority, power, and dominion, are referring 594 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,566 to the ranks of angels. 595 00:33:19,033 --> 00:33:22,099 And if Christ rules and reigns over the 596 00:33:22,099 --> 00:33:25,566 angels in the kingdom, and we sit on 597 00:33:25,566 --> 00:33:28,733 the throne with Christ, guess who 598 00:33:28,766 --> 00:33:32,733 else rules over the angels on Christ's throne. 599 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:34,666 Us. 600 00:33:37,033 --> 00:33:38,000 That's just beyond me. 601 00:33:39,433 --> 00:33:42,366 I mean, that is just beyond my thinking. 602 00:33:43,933 --> 00:33:48,799 Now, hopefully, all of that will help you understand how we're lower than angels for a little. 603 00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:49,200 Wow. 604 00:33:50,033 --> 00:33:50,466 OK? 605 00:33:51,433 --> 00:33:53,099 Next, verse 7. 606 00:33:55,166 --> 00:33:57,433 You have crowned him with glory and honor. 607 00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:01,033 And again, that speaking of man in his original state, when 608 00:34:01,033 --> 00:34:04,099 God made Adam pure and innocent, he gave him honor, and 609 00:34:04,099 --> 00:34:07,033 he gave him glory, and gave him a crown of rank. 610 00:34:07,099 --> 00:34:08,533 He was crowned as king of the earth. 611 00:34:08,833 --> 00:34:11,900 Next, it says, and have appointed him over the works of 612 00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:13,333 your hands. 613 00:34:13,466 --> 00:34:17,433 He gave him dominion, as we saw, in Genesis verse 8. 614 00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:20,900 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. 615 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,233 Now, remember, we're still quoting from Psalm 616 00:34:24,266 --> 00:34:27,400 8 in all of this directly from Psalm 8. 617 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:31,099 There wasn't anything that was not subject to man in 618 00:34:31,099 --> 00:34:34,333 the original creation, even though he was lower than angels 619 00:34:34,333 --> 00:34:36,866 in the way that I explained earlier, in his innocence. 620 00:34:38,599 --> 00:34:41,433 Man was king over the undefiled world. 621 00:34:42,133 --> 00:34:45,900 The earth served men go back and read, and it fed him. 622 00:34:46,699 --> 00:34:47,866 It provided everything he needed. 623 00:34:49,633 --> 00:34:50,366 But then what happened? 624 00:34:51,533 --> 00:34:52,166 Tragedy. 625 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:53,333 struck. 626 00:34:54,333 --> 00:34:55,500 And that's points two. 627 00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:00,066 Man's destiny was restricted 628 00:35:00,066 --> 00:35:01,333 by sin. 629 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,533 As you know, Adam's sin brought about the 630 00:35:04,533 --> 00:35:07,666 great curse, and you know all the 631 00:35:07,699 --> 00:35:11,066 sad realities that came with the curse, pain 632 00:35:11,066 --> 00:35:14,833 and childbirth for women, thorns and thistles, 633 00:35:14,833 --> 00:35:17,366 working by the sweat of our brow. 634 00:35:17,966 --> 00:35:20,966 All that stuff, still in place today, were still 635 00:35:20,966 --> 00:35:22,166 under that curse. 636 00:35:22,866 --> 00:35:26,533 Adam lost his crown when he fell. 637 00:35:27,866 --> 00:35:30,033 Satan usurped the crown. 638 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:35,233 And everything on this world changed dramatically. 639 00:35:36,699 --> 00:35:37,766 We don't rule this world. 640 00:35:39,066 --> 00:35:41,633 This world rules us. 641 00:35:43,433 --> 00:35:44,300 Let me give you an example. 642 00:35:45,633 --> 00:35:48,500 Go stand out on a beach in a cat five hurricane. 643 00:35:50,466 --> 00:35:53,099 Find out who rules, you or the Earth. 644 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:58,266 We fight constantly against the Earth for 645 00:35:58,266 --> 00:36:00,666 our existence in this fallen world. 646 00:36:00,966 --> 00:36:04,266 Adam's sin, death appeared on the scene, and 647 00:36:04,266 --> 00:36:08,233 not too long after that, there was a murder in Adam's family, right? 648 00:36:09,666 --> 00:36:11,900 And everything just kept going downhill from there. 649 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:15,900 We only just get a few more chapters ahead into Genesis 650 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:19,199 6, and it gets so bad, God has to destroy the whole world, 651 00:36:19,199 --> 00:36:21,300 except Noah and his family. 652 00:36:21,566 --> 00:36:24,966 And now, there is constant conflict, 653 00:36:24,966 --> 00:36:28,033 not only between men against one another in 654 00:36:28,033 --> 00:36:31,099 war and murder, but also, as we saw in 655 00:36:31,099 --> 00:36:34,099 the unseen realm, there's conflict between holy 656 00:36:34,099 --> 00:36:36,266 angels and fallen angels going on all the time. 657 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:40,033 And the prince of this earth for now is 658 00:36:40,033 --> 00:36:43,466 the ruler of this fallen world system. 659 00:36:44,066 --> 00:36:46,533 Look at how 2 Corinthians 44 refers to him. 660 00:36:48,199 --> 00:36:51,199 In whose case, look at 661 00:36:51,199 --> 00:36:54,033 this phrase, the god of this world. 662 00:36:54,033 --> 00:36:57,233 Little G, that's Satan. 663 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,466 The god of this world has blinded the 664 00:37:01,466 --> 00:37:04,466 minds of the unbelieving, so that they might not 665 00:37:04,466 --> 00:37:07,466 see the light of the gospel of the glory 666 00:37:07,466 --> 00:37:11,233 of Christ, who is the image of God. 667 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:14,466 What a mess we are in right now at 668 00:37:14,466 --> 00:37:15,533 this time period, right? 669 00:37:18,266 --> 00:37:21,500 When man lost his crown, he was no longer master of himself. 670 00:37:23,033 --> 00:37:24,900 He became a slave to sin. 671 00:37:26,833 --> 00:37:30,433 And as Jesus said, a child of 672 00:37:30,433 --> 00:37:33,599 his father, the devil, in 673 00:37:33,599 --> 00:37:36,733 his natural condition, we live in a fallen 674 00:37:36,733 --> 00:37:40,500 world of murder, war, crime, and death. 675 00:37:41,366 --> 00:37:44,433 Did you know that every day, 24 hours a 676 00:37:44,433 --> 00:37:48,300 day, 365 days a year, between 150 677 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:51,533 and 170,000 people die on planet Earth every day? 678 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,366 Due to math, that's 6,000 people, every 679 00:37:57,366 --> 00:38:00,833 hour of every day and night, go out of existence. 680 00:38:01,933 --> 00:38:03,300 That's two depths every second. 681 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:06,966 Nonstop, 365. 682 00:38:07,699 --> 00:38:08,966 Every two people died. 683 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:10,199 Two people just died. 684 00:38:10,466 --> 00:38:11,300 Two people just died. 685 00:38:11,599 --> 00:38:12,666 Two people just died. 686 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,066 Just keep doing that every second. 687 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:16,966 That's happening right now. 688 00:38:18,266 --> 00:38:21,433 And the little k, king, over all 689 00:38:21,433 --> 00:38:24,666 this, for now, is the usurper 690 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:26,800 who stole man's crown. 691 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,566 Satan himself. 692 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,099 Look at 1 John 519, is about this condition. 693 00:38:33,966 --> 00:38:35,766 We know that we are of God. 694 00:38:35,833 --> 00:38:36,666 Hallelujah. 695 00:38:37,633 --> 00:38:38,300 Christian. 696 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,900 We know that we are of God, and that the 697 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:46,166 whole world lies in the power of Hoot, the evil one. 698 00:38:46,566 --> 00:38:47,466 That's right now. 699 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:49,966 But he's on a leash. 700 00:38:51,533 --> 00:38:52,699 His own god's leash. 701 00:38:53,699 --> 00:38:56,599 He can't go any further than God allows him on that leash, right? 702 00:38:58,033 --> 00:39:01,199 So, man's destiny, clearly, has been restricted by 703 00:39:01,199 --> 00:39:04,500 sin, the earth in this fallen world system is 704 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:07,733 ruled by Satan and his fallen angels, who fight with 705 00:39:07,766 --> 00:39:11,066 the holy angels, who are also, at the same time, 706 00:39:11,066 --> 00:39:14,099 there fighting with the fallen angels, are ministering to us 707 00:39:14,099 --> 00:39:15,300 as ministering spirits. 708 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:16,766 And guess what? 709 00:39:17,366 --> 00:39:19,033 Even the earth itself is cursed. 710 00:39:21,266 --> 00:39:24,400 The Earth itself and God's cold creation knows it. 711 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:25,699 You know how I know that? 712 00:39:25,766 --> 00:39:27,199 Well, look at Romans 8:22. 713 00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:31,133 But we know that the whole creation groans and 714 00:39:31,166 --> 00:39:34,333 suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 715 00:39:34,766 --> 00:39:37,933 Romans 8, 19, for the anxious longing of 716 00:39:37,933 --> 00:39:41,099 the creation waits eagerly, for the revealing 717 00:39:41,099 --> 00:39:42,133 of the sons of God. 718 00:39:42,566 --> 00:39:45,633 The whole creation is waiting for the consummation of 719 00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:48,833 the kingdom, and the glorified saints of God to 720 00:39:48,866 --> 00:39:52,033 appear after the second coming, because once it starts, 721 00:39:52,033 --> 00:39:55,099 not only are we liberated from the curse, the 722 00:39:55,099 --> 00:39:57,433 whole creation is going to be liberated as well. 723 00:39:57,666 --> 00:40:00,800 Look at Romans 8:21, that the creation itself 724 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,033 also will be set free from its 725 00:40:04,033 --> 00:40:07,033 slavery to corruption and to the freedom of the glory 726 00:40:07,033 --> 00:40:12,133 of the children of God, that's coming, guaranteed that's coming. 727 00:40:12,966 --> 00:40:16,433 No more war, no 728 00:40:16,466 --> 00:40:19,400 more hospitals, no more humidity. 729 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:23,733 Amen. 730 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:25,433 No more politics. 731 00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:26,266 Hallelujah. 732 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:34,133 And lastly, in verse 8, it finishes off, explaining, now, 733 00:40:34,133 --> 00:40:38,599 or in subjecting all things to him, 734 00:40:39,199 --> 00:40:42,500 He left nothing that is not subject to him. 735 00:40:42,566 --> 00:40:45,566 Now that's originally, right, and 736 00:40:45,566 --> 00:40:49,233 will be, even in a greater way, in a future, but then looks next in the verse. 737 00:40:50,599 --> 00:40:51,500 But now! 738 00:40:52,933 --> 00:40:53,900 You talking about right now? 739 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,866 But now we do not yet see all things 740 00:40:58,533 --> 00:40:59,966 subjected to him. 741 00:40:59,966 --> 00:41:02,733 Again, a great tragedy struck when Adam fell. 742 00:41:03,066 --> 00:41:06,066 Man's destiny was restricted by Adam and Eve's sin. 743 00:41:06,133 --> 00:41:09,866 The earth was corrupted, as I said, and he immediately lost his crown. 744 00:41:10,266 --> 00:41:14,233 Right now, we do not see all things subjected to man, right? 745 00:41:15,866 --> 00:41:17,300 But look at verse 9. 746 00:41:19,166 --> 00:41:22,533 But we do see him. 747 00:41:24,366 --> 00:41:27,366 who was made a little while lower than angels, namely 748 00:41:27,366 --> 00:41:28,733 Jesus. 749 00:41:29,366 --> 00:41:32,433 We see him, and that brings us to our last 750 00:41:32,433 --> 00:41:36,833 point for today, man's destiny, recovered by Christ. 751 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,166 The ultimate curse of man's lost destiny is death. 752 00:41:44,233 --> 00:41:47,233 God said to Adam, In the day you eat from it, you shall 753 00:41:47,233 --> 00:41:48,866 surely die. 754 00:41:49,633 --> 00:41:54,266 But the cross conquered the curse for all who believe. 755 00:41:55,466 --> 00:41:58,800 The kingdom will be restored, and 756 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,666 man will be given the crown again. 757 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:03,166 But how? 758 00:42:04,133 --> 00:42:05,099 I'm so glad you asked. 759 00:42:06,933 --> 00:42:08,366 Let's read all of verse 9. 760 00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:12,433 But we do see him who was made for 761 00:42:12,433 --> 00:42:15,666 a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, 762 00:42:15,666 --> 00:42:19,133 and lower than the angels there, for him, means in his incarnation, 763 00:42:19,166 --> 00:42:22,300 also known as his humiliation, during 764 00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:25,400 his earthly ministry, but keep going, because of 765 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,533 the suffering of death, crowned with 766 00:42:28,533 --> 00:42:31,733 glory and honor, so that by the grace of 767 00:42:31,766 --> 00:42:34,933 God, the unmerited favor of God, he 768 00:42:34,933 --> 00:42:37,633 might taste death for everyone. 769 00:42:37,699 --> 00:42:39,033 So, if we are all sinners. 770 00:42:40,866 --> 00:42:44,599 And the wages of sin is death, how 771 00:42:44,599 --> 00:42:48,433 can we become sinless, which is the 772 00:42:48,433 --> 00:42:49,500 requirement for the crown? 773 00:42:51,099 --> 00:42:54,400 Well, the only way, man, can ever be 774 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,033 king, again, to have the 775 00:42:58,033 --> 00:43:00,266 curse removed? 776 00:43:00,266 --> 00:43:01,533 It's the only way. 777 00:43:02,433 --> 00:43:05,900 And the only way for the curse to 778 00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:09,300 be removed is for the penalty for 779 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:10,933 sin to be paid. 780 00:43:12,366 --> 00:43:13,400 Well, how does this happen? 781 00:43:14,699 --> 00:43:17,699 Well, we know for sure, even without God's revelation in 782 00:43:17,699 --> 00:43:20,633 this Bible, that we could not do this ourselves, right? 783 00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:23,266 Unless you go to hell forever. 784 00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:24,733 And then you never pay it off. 785 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:25,933 It's an infinite penalty. 786 00:43:26,599 --> 00:43:29,166 But this is what I want to do here, to answer this question. 787 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,966 I just want to answer this question straight from scripture, because 788 00:43:33,966 --> 00:43:36,133 it's such a great answer to this particular question. 789 00:43:36,500 --> 00:43:38,166 In Romans 6, 5 to 11. 790 00:43:38,366 --> 00:43:40,766 Let's just let scripture speak to this answer. 791 00:43:41,366 --> 00:43:45,433 For if we have become united with him, in 792 00:43:45,433 --> 00:43:48,800 the likeness of his death, certainly, 793 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,733 we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. 794 00:43:53,133 --> 00:43:56,233 knowing this, that our old self 795 00:43:56,233 --> 00:43:58,400 was crucified with him. 796 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:02,366 In order that our body of sin might be 797 00:44:02,366 --> 00:44:05,433 done away with so that we would no longer be slaves 798 00:44:05,433 --> 00:44:08,566 to sin, for he who has died is 799 00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:09,933 free from sin. 800 00:44:09,966 --> 00:44:13,099 For if we have died with Christ, we believe that 801 00:44:13,099 --> 00:44:16,333 we shall also live with him, knowing 802 00:44:16,333 --> 00:44:19,699 that Christ, having been raised from the dead is 803 00:44:19,699 --> 00:44:23,233 never to die again, death no longer has 804 00:44:23,233 --> 00:44:26,466 master over him, for the death that he died, 805 00:44:26,466 --> 00:44:29,766 he died to sin once for all, but 806 00:44:29,766 --> 00:44:32,933 the life that he lives, he lives to God, 807 00:44:32,966 --> 00:44:36,099 even so consider yourselves, to be dead, 808 00:44:36,099 --> 00:44:39,733 to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 809 00:44:40,266 --> 00:44:42,300 Now, real quick, go back to Hebrews 2.9. 810 00:44:43,166 --> 00:44:46,333 Second part of the verse speaking of Jesus, because of the suffering 811 00:44:46,333 --> 00:44:49,333 of death, crowned with glory and honor, 812 00:44:49,333 --> 00:44:52,466 so that by the grace of God, he might taste death 813 00:44:52,466 --> 00:44:53,500 for everyone. 814 00:44:53,766 --> 00:44:55,699 And that is everyone who was united with him. 815 00:44:56,766 --> 00:44:58,333 Everyone who was in union with him. 816 00:44:59,099 --> 00:45:02,099 By grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, 817 00:45:02,099 --> 00:45:06,000 if man is ever to be restored to reign 818 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,766 as king, he has to die and be resurrected as a new man. 819 00:45:11,199 --> 00:45:11,900 It's the only way. 820 00:45:13,433 --> 00:45:14,000 And guess what? 821 00:45:16,300 --> 00:45:20,233 Speaking from this context, in 822 00:45:20,233 --> 00:45:21,599 1997 I died. 823 00:45:22,099 --> 00:45:22,900 Did you know that? 824 00:45:23,466 --> 00:45:23,933 I died. 825 00:45:24,366 --> 00:45:25,266 How do I know that? 826 00:45:25,466 --> 00:45:26,733 Galatians 220, 827 00:45:26,766 --> 00:45:27,000 Look at it. 828 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,566 I have been crucified with Christ, 829 00:45:31,566 --> 00:45:34,866 and it is no longer, I who live, 830 00:45:34,866 --> 00:45:38,233 but Christ lives in me, and the life which 831 00:45:38,233 --> 00:45:41,300 I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the 832 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:44,433 Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me. 833 00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:50,000 And let me just read again, in case you didn't catch it. 834 00:45:50,766 --> 00:45:52,699 Part of what we just read in Romans 6, 5. 835 00:45:52,933 --> 00:45:56,099 For if we have become united with him in 836 00:45:56,099 --> 00:46:00,000 the likeness of his death, certainly 837 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,033 we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. 838 00:46:05,466 --> 00:46:06,366 That's a promise. 839 00:46:08,099 --> 00:46:11,533 This is how the destiny of the redeemed man will 840 00:46:11,533 --> 00:46:12,666 be restored. 841 00:46:12,733 --> 00:46:15,966 And even though we have died and been crucified 842 00:46:15,966 --> 00:46:19,033 with Christ, and we do right now walk in new 843 00:46:19,033 --> 00:46:22,099 of life because of what Christ did 844 00:46:22,099 --> 00:46:26,066 for us on the tree, we're not all the way there yet. 845 00:46:27,500 --> 00:46:30,800 But we will, one day, guaranteed 846 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,066 be there. 847 00:46:32,966 --> 00:46:34,633 Look at 1 John 3, 2. 848 00:46:35,466 --> 00:46:38,333 Beloved, now we are children of God. 849 00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:43,400 And it has not yet appeared as yet what 850 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:47,366 we will be, we know that when he appears. 851 00:46:48,133 --> 00:46:48,900 We will be what? 852 00:46:49,466 --> 00:46:50,800 We will be like him. 853 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:54,933 because we will see him, just as he is. 854 00:46:55,099 --> 00:46:58,400 Romans 8, 17, about 855 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,866 all people in history who believe in Jesus Christ savingly. 856 00:47:01,933 --> 00:47:04,266 And if children, errs also. 857 00:47:05,533 --> 00:47:08,599 Heirs of God and fellow heirs 858 00:47:08,599 --> 00:47:11,666 with Christ, if indeed we suffer 859 00:47:11,666 --> 00:47:16,333 with him, so that we also may be glorified with him. 860 00:47:17,733 --> 00:47:18,566 Join heirs. 861 00:47:19,933 --> 00:47:23,166 If Jesus rules over everything, you're 862 00:47:23,166 --> 00:47:25,199 a joiner with him ruling over everything. 863 00:47:25,933 --> 00:47:27,666 and mind boggling. 864 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:32,233 It's going to be even better than the pre fall existence of the Garden of Eden. 865 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:33,599 You understand what I'm saying? 866 00:47:34,099 --> 00:47:36,266 I was talking to the preacher this week when we were talking about this. 867 00:47:37,633 --> 00:47:38,233 Think about this. 868 00:47:40,199 --> 00:47:45,233 Whatever your mind can imagine 869 00:47:45,233 --> 00:47:48,500 about the best that heavenly 870 00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:51,566 glory is going to be, that you can imagine in 871 00:47:51,566 --> 00:47:54,699 your mind, whatever the best you can imagine it'll be, 872 00:47:55,900 --> 00:47:58,300 that right there will be worse than the actual reality. 873 00:48:00,566 --> 00:48:03,633 Because your puny brain can't imagine, and can't 874 00:48:03,633 --> 00:48:06,733 comprehend, the glory that 875 00:48:06,733 --> 00:48:07,866 awaits you. 876 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,466 Let me tell you, I could keep going here for a while. 877 00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:15,500 Okay. 878 00:48:16,033 --> 00:48:19,099 I left all kinds of stuff out, but we got to land a plane, 879 00:48:19,099 --> 00:48:22,400 because I just want you to get the major points with these Hebrew sermons, right? 880 00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:27,366 Jesus, tasted death, 881 00:48:27,366 --> 00:48:31,333 as Hebrews 2, 9 says, for you, 882 00:48:31,333 --> 00:48:35,766 for me, and for all who believe, to 883 00:48:35,766 --> 00:48:37,433 recover our lost destiny. 884 00:48:38,900 --> 00:48:42,733 that was lost in the garden through sin, to 885 00:48:42,733 --> 00:48:44,966 get our crown back, and you know what? 886 00:48:46,166 --> 00:48:49,500 I can't wait, as soon as that crown touches my hand, I 887 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:51,000 can't wait to throw it back at his feet. 888 00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:52,366 I can't wait to do that. 889 00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,533 That's just going to be the greatest moment ever. 890 00:48:56,199 --> 00:48:57,933 Get the crown, throw it back at him. 891 00:48:59,466 --> 00:49:02,699 As Christians, we no longer have to wonder and search, 892 00:49:02,699 --> 00:49:05,933 or even think about why we exist as so many people sitting 893 00:49:05,966 --> 00:49:09,099 there, searching for meaning, and climbing the hill to 894 00:49:09,099 --> 00:49:12,233 go look at the little guru with the beard and the bald head to 895 00:49:12,266 --> 00:49:13,400 find out what's life is about. 896 00:49:13,633 --> 00:49:14,833 Christian, you don't have to do that. 897 00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,566 If you didn't know before today, I hope you know now, why 898 00:49:20,599 --> 00:49:24,566 you exist, we are no longer slaves, 899 00:49:25,733 --> 00:49:28,500 because Christ suffered and died for us. 900 00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:33,933 We are joint heirs, with King Jesus, forever. 901 00:49:34,733 --> 00:49:35,233 Let's pray. 902 00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:38,833 Oh, Father, what a text. 903 00:49:40,533 --> 00:49:41,233 What a text. 904 00:49:41,466 --> 00:49:45,833 We need a much better preacher to get this stuff across, but this is one you got for here. 905 00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:51,133 What information we have been given from your words, 906 00:49:51,133 --> 00:49:54,433 and I would remind us all that this is your word. 907 00:49:55,166 --> 00:49:58,800 This is what you wanted your church to know for all time, and 908 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,800 how we thank you for how good you have been to 909 00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,333 us to reveal all this tremendous truth for us. 910 00:50:07,166 --> 00:50:10,400 I pray that everyone will walk out of here today with a deeper 911 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,566 understanding of who Christ is, what Christ has done, 912 00:50:13,566 --> 00:50:16,866 and how you operate in the world of men, and 913 00:50:16,866 --> 00:50:20,000 that it would invigorate us, to witness to a 914 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,233 loss and dying world, the good news of 915 00:50:23,233 --> 00:50:24,866 the gospel of Jesus Christ. 916 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:26,766 In Jesus' name, we pray. 917 00:50:26,766 --> 00:50:27,366 Amen. 918 00:50:27,866 --> 00:50:28,400 Amen.