1 00:00:00,730 --> 00:00:02,950 Shall we open our Bibles, please, to the 2 00:00:02,950 --> 00:00:04,870 first chapter of Hebrews? 3 00:00:08,050 --> 00:00:10,710 I've been enjoying the book of Hebrews of 4 00:00:10,710 --> 00:00:12,850 late, and I've been speaking from it considerably. 5 00:00:14,090 --> 00:00:18,190 Each series that I use, this blessed portion 6 00:00:18,190 --> 00:00:22,190 of Scripture, the Lord seems to give a 7 00:00:22,190 --> 00:00:24,490 little bit more upon us, and I trust 8 00:00:24,490 --> 00:00:28,650 that this week will be no exception, that 9 00:00:28,650 --> 00:00:30,410 our hearts will be made glad. 10 00:00:32,870 --> 00:00:37,210 The book of Hebrews was written to those 11 00:00:37,210 --> 00:00:40,830 Jewish Christians and for the admonition of those 12 00:00:40,830 --> 00:00:43,270 who did not know Christ, that is, those 13 00:00:43,270 --> 00:00:48,470 who had embraced Christianity as a religion, but 14 00:00:48,470 --> 00:00:51,430 had somehow missed the person of Christ. 15 00:00:53,190 --> 00:00:59,570 The epistle is written for their specific benefit. 16 00:00:59,850 --> 00:01:01,870 We'll not talk about the authorship of this 17 00:01:01,870 --> 00:01:06,540 book tonight, but as to why the book 18 00:01:06,540 --> 00:01:11,440 was written, and something of the truth, the 19 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,120 precious truth, and the application of those truths 20 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,800 to your heart and to mine. 21 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:22,120 The book of Hebrews was written to give 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,340 substance to the shadows that the Old Testament 23 00:01:25,340 --> 00:01:26,420 saints had. 24 00:01:28,180 --> 00:01:32,820 The Jewish religion was a very striking religion. 25 00:01:34,380 --> 00:01:37,380 It was a beautiful, of a beautiful ritual. 26 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,520 The temple, even the temple of our Lord's 27 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,840 Day was a grand, grand edifice. 28 00:01:47,220 --> 00:01:50,340 It was so grand that the disciples on 29 00:01:50,340 --> 00:01:53,340 one occasion said to the Lord, as they 30 00:01:53,340 --> 00:01:56,920 looked at that temple, Behold, what manner of 31 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:58,480 buildings you see here. 32 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,140 And the Lord said at that time, He 33 00:02:02,140 --> 00:02:04,480 said, The time will come when there will 34 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,220 not be one stone left upon another stone. 35 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:12,240 That which the disciples thought of as being 36 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,140 so grand, and every Jew was proud of 37 00:02:16,140 --> 00:02:18,620 that temple of that day, it was forty 38 00:02:18,620 --> 00:02:21,360 -six years under construction. 39 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,940 And the disciples thought of it as being 40 00:02:24,940 --> 00:02:26,460 a grand edifice. 41 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,980 But the Lord said, It's all going to 42 00:02:29,980 --> 00:02:31,040 be torn down. 43 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:38,700 The Jews, by their national background, had been 44 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:41,320 led to see tangible things. 45 00:02:41,380 --> 00:02:42,900 As a matter of fact, we read in 46 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:46,420 the scriptures that the Jews require a sign. 47 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,660 The Greeks speak after wisdom. 48 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,420 They required something miraculous, something remarkable. 49 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,600 Their very beginning in history, in the land 50 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,880 of Egypt, their beginning under redemption, the night 51 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,900 of the Passover was a remarkable series of 52 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:12,420 miraculous dealings of God with Pharaoh that the 53 00:03:12,420 --> 00:03:15,480 children of Israel might be delivered out of 54 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,900 the slavery, the bondage of Egypt. 55 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:22,840 Now that's how their national history began, was 56 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,240 by miracle, wonderful miracles. 57 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,260 And all down through their history, God delivered 58 00:03:30,260 --> 00:03:34,640 Israel in wonderful ways, in miraculous ways, through 59 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:38,640 angelic intervention in some instances. 60 00:03:40,780 --> 00:03:44,120 And even up to our Lord's time, the 61 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,040 Jews still required a sign. 62 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,000 They asked the Lord for a sign. 63 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,660 Lord, show us a sign. 64 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:51,520 We want something visible. 65 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,340 We want something grand. 66 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,100 Now, for a person of that background, to 67 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:01,840 just have simple, trusting faith in Christ alone 68 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,300 was a tremendous step for them to take. 69 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,560 And the book of Hebrews shows those Old 70 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,620 Testament saints that all they had was just 71 00:04:14,620 --> 00:04:17,640 a shadow of the reality of what we 72 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,220 have in Christ. 73 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,540 Now, we want, with the help of the 74 00:04:21,540 --> 00:04:25,880 Lord this week, to make Christ very real 75 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,720 to our hearts. 76 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,020 Very, very real. 77 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:30,820 Not a shadow. 78 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,900 The language of the Apostle in this portion 79 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:40,740 of Scripture, I think, is contained in a 80 00:04:40,740 --> 00:04:44,460 verse that we read in the 8th chapter, 81 00:04:44,620 --> 00:04:46,920 in verse 5, in regard to what the 82 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:47,640 Jews had. 83 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:02,040 Chapter 8 of Hebrews, verse 4. 84 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:04,520 We'll read for the sake of connection. 85 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:06,420 For if we were on earth, that is, 86 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,420 Christ, he should not be a priest, seeing 87 00:05:09,420 --> 00:05:11,600 that there are priests that offer gifts according 88 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:16,560 to the law, who serve unto the example 89 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:23,780 and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was 90 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:25,880 admonished of God when he was about to 91 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:26,760 make the tabernacle. 92 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:30,600 For see, saith he, that thou makest all 93 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:36,680 things according to the pattern shown to thee 94 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,660 in the mount. 95 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:44,080 Now, we have several things mentioned here. 96 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,160 We have the example. 97 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,280 The Jew had only the example of the 98 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:52,840 reality. 99 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,120 He had only the shadow of the substance. 100 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:04,210 He had only the pattern of the real 101 00:06:04,210 --> 00:06:04,570 thing. 102 00:06:05,450 --> 00:06:06,390 Now, that's all he had. 103 00:06:07,330 --> 00:06:10,010 Now, that should speak to our hearts, because 104 00:06:10,010 --> 00:06:13,230 there are those in the world today, and 105 00:06:13,230 --> 00:06:16,070 oh yes, in the book of Hebrews, we 106 00:06:16,070 --> 00:06:17,290 have the figure. 107 00:06:18,350 --> 00:06:21,850 The word figure used, as to what the 108 00:06:21,850 --> 00:06:22,450 Jew had. 109 00:06:22,450 --> 00:06:24,370 Now, there are four words, if you please. 110 00:06:26,130 --> 00:06:30,750 Figures, patterns, shadows, examples. 111 00:06:31,070 --> 00:06:32,090 But that's all they had. 112 00:06:33,670 --> 00:06:36,550 Now, a shadow is a faint indication of 113 00:06:36,550 --> 00:06:39,510 something that makes that shadow. 114 00:06:39,970 --> 00:06:42,270 We can gain certain knowledge from a shadow. 115 00:06:43,870 --> 00:06:46,310 I recall that on one occasion I was 116 00:06:46,310 --> 00:06:50,850 hiking up in Rocky Mountain National Park in 117 00:06:50,850 --> 00:06:54,470 Colorado, and I was the lead man on 118 00:06:54,470 --> 00:06:54,870 the trail. 119 00:06:55,050 --> 00:06:57,710 We were way up high, way back in, 120 00:06:59,170 --> 00:07:01,050 where automobiles didn't travel. 121 00:07:02,210 --> 00:07:03,850 And I had my head down as I 122 00:07:03,850 --> 00:07:06,410 was going up the trail, and it was 123 00:07:06,410 --> 00:07:07,500 a bright, sunny afternoon. 124 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:11,360 Two others were, or were, I was with 125 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,060 two others on this occasion, and we were 126 00:07:13,060 --> 00:07:14,960 hiking up around the tree line. 127 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,520 And as I was on the trail, a 128 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,940 tremendously big black shadow just come across the 129 00:07:22,940 --> 00:07:23,780 trail like this. 130 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,220 Well, I jumped, because I knew instinctively something 131 00:07:29,220 --> 00:07:30,720 makes a shadow. 132 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,300 I looked up just in time to see 133 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:37,720 a huge eagle sweep up just a few 134 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,840 feet away and land in a tree. 135 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,580 He had been sitting in a tree beside 136 00:07:41,580 --> 00:07:42,100 the trail. 137 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,120 And he was so big that he had 138 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,640 to dive to get flying speed. 139 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:52,620 And the dive took him right within just 140 00:07:52,620 --> 00:07:54,660 a few feet of my head, and then 141 00:07:54,660 --> 00:07:56,600 he swooped up into this tree. 142 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,440 And while that majestic bird was folding his 143 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,500 wings in, I was getting my camera ready. 144 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,560 But he took off for parts unknown before 145 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,800 I had proof of the experience. 146 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:11,980 But I know that some of you trust 147 00:08:11,980 --> 00:08:12,280 me. 148 00:08:13,140 --> 00:08:15,700 The point I'm telling the story about is 149 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:16,100 this. 150 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:20,840 I was frightened, because I knew something made 151 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:21,680 that shadow. 152 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:25,200 Now, the shadow gave some indication of what 153 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:25,700 it was. 154 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:29,180 It wasn't a land creature, because it came 155 00:08:29,180 --> 00:08:31,419 between me and the sun. 156 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:36,460 We gain certain things by shadows, but oh, 157 00:08:36,580 --> 00:08:38,919 we gain such little knowledge by shadows. 158 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,140 We want the reality. 159 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,960 We want the substance, don't we? 160 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,940 Now, all that you had was a shadow 161 00:08:45,940 --> 00:08:48,600 of the good things today. 162 00:08:49,450 --> 00:08:51,840 And I think that, you know, I think 163 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,480 that this truth is applicable to this day 164 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,640 and age, because I think that all some 165 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,260 people have in the world today is a 166 00:09:01,260 --> 00:09:02,160 shadow. 167 00:09:03,540 --> 00:09:05,460 They have a ritual. 168 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,920 They have, perhaps, a religion. 169 00:09:10,180 --> 00:09:14,000 They have an outward form of worship as 170 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:14,800 the Jew had. 171 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:19,180 But there is no reality. 172 00:09:20,940 --> 00:09:24,580 There is a kind of an idealism. 173 00:09:25,860 --> 00:09:29,920 Christ is more or less an ideal, instead 174 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:35,300 of a living, warm person, a friend, a 175 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:36,240 living reality. 176 00:09:37,620 --> 00:09:39,640 Sometimes we ask in regard to whether or 177 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,660 not a person is safe, do they know 178 00:09:41,660 --> 00:09:42,820 the Lord? 179 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,560 I might ask that question here tonight. 180 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,440 Do you know the Lord? 181 00:09:49,620 --> 00:09:51,860 Now, the question is not, do you know 182 00:09:51,860 --> 00:09:53,060 about the Lord? 183 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:55,360 No, that's not the question. 184 00:09:56,180 --> 00:09:59,180 You may well know all about the Lord, 185 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:01,680 and still not be saved. 186 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:07,660 The demons knew all about the Lord, and 187 00:10:07,660 --> 00:10:08,520 they were saved. 188 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,660 Do you know the Lord? 189 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,360 Is he a living reality? 190 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:20,800 Is he a person, warm, real, friendly? 191 00:10:21,580 --> 00:10:23,640 Do you talk with him? 192 00:10:24,860 --> 00:10:26,840 Do you feel that perhaps though you have 193 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:32,440 been alone all day, humanly speaking, yet you 194 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:33,500 haven't been alone? 195 00:10:34,820 --> 00:10:36,400 You have felt his presence. 196 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,080 You have talked with him. 197 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,300 Now that was something that was hard for 198 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:41,980 the Jew to do. 199 00:10:42,460 --> 00:10:43,800 To leave it tangible. 200 00:10:45,060 --> 00:10:48,600 To leave that ritual that he had, and 201 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,440 depend entirely upon faith. 202 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:55,160 And there are many religions in the world 203 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,200 today that exploit the shoy. 204 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:05,700 They have buildings that aren't quite worth looking 205 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:06,060 at. 206 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:08,760 And I do look at them. 207 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,800 I always, if I'm out on a walk 208 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,120 in a strange city, and see a church 209 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,360 edifice, I'll go out of my way to 210 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:20,900 look it over. 211 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,120 But believe me, it's not our pride in 212 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:26,600 an edifice. 213 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:33,100 It's not our desire to be linked with 214 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:35,520 something that is reputable. 215 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,020 No, that doesn't satisfy. 216 00:11:39,020 --> 00:11:42,640 The Jews had the only religion that God 217 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,720 ever opened the heavens to give. 218 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,340 They had something to be proud of nationally. 219 00:11:49,340 --> 00:11:53,200 And there are those today that are proud 220 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,340 of the history of the church that they're 221 00:11:57,340 --> 00:11:57,680 in. 222 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,140 But that does not necessarily mean that they're 223 00:12:01,140 --> 00:12:02,980 saved or that they know Christ. 224 00:12:03,580 --> 00:12:05,900 There is a very real difference. 225 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,360 Now the book of Hebrews was written to 226 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,860 give substance to the shadow that the Jews 227 00:12:13,860 --> 00:12:14,120 had. 228 00:12:14,180 --> 00:12:17,280 But all they had was the shadow. 229 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,400 Those things that they had were simply types 230 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,780 of the great anti-type, the Lord Jesus 231 00:12:23,780 --> 00:12:27,760 Christ, who is a real person. 232 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,140 Do we know the Lord? 233 00:12:32,180 --> 00:12:36,780 Is he very real and very personal to 234 00:12:36,780 --> 00:12:37,200 us? 235 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,140 Now it's notable that in the book of 236 00:12:40,140 --> 00:12:43,700 Hebrews, our Lord Jesus Christ is compared with 237 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:49,460 four groups of, well I can't say persons 238 00:12:49,460 --> 00:12:57,100 because one of the groups is the angelic 239 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:57,540 host. 240 00:12:59,660 --> 00:13:01,960 And they are personages rather than persons as 241 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:02,560 we know them. 242 00:13:05,340 --> 00:13:07,620 But he is compared with the prophets. 243 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,100 In the first three verses of the book 244 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:14,200 of Hebrews, our Lord Jesus Christ is compared 245 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:14,900 with the prophets. 246 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,380 Then he is compared with the angels. 247 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,120 Then he is compared with the apostles, two 248 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,660 that are spoken of as apostles, I believe. 249 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,240 And then he is compared with priests. 250 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,320 Now those are all people. 251 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,220 They're all personages. 252 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:36,700 They have personalities. 253 00:13:38,220 --> 00:13:40,780 Later on in the book of Hebrews, our 254 00:13:40,780 --> 00:13:43,980 Lord Jesus Christ, there are comparisons made between 255 00:13:43,980 --> 00:13:46,840 that which surrounds him and that which the 256 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,040 Old Testament saint had. 257 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,540 But he is not compared with saints, except 258 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:53,880 perhaps as sacrifice. 259 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,720 Now, but they are always related to the 260 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:00,320 high priest. 261 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,720 We have him presented as high priest first. 262 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:06,900 And then because he is the high priest, 263 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:08,820 there was a change made in the law. 264 00:14:09,540 --> 00:14:11,700 There was a change made in the covenant 265 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:16,900 because of the fact of this great person, 266 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:19,460 our Lord Jesus Christ. 267 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,840 Now he is compared, first of all, with 268 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:23,360 the prophets. 269 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:27,120 And I'm just going to teach, or touch, 270 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,880 rather, on that very briefly because I want 271 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,680 to borrow from some of the nights ahead 272 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,520 and think of our Lord Jesus Christ as 273 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,460 an apostle and as a high priest tonight. 274 00:14:41,580 --> 00:14:43,460 But shall we read in Hebrews chapter 1? 275 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:46,880 God, who at sundry times and in divers 276 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,640 manners spake in time past unto the fathers 277 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,860 by the prophets, hath in these last days 278 00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:58,140 spoken unto us by his Son, whom he 279 00:14:58,140 --> 00:15:00,880 hath appointed heir of all things, by whom 280 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,100 also he made the world, who being the 281 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:07,100 brightness of his glory, and the express image 282 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:10,920 of his person, and upholding all things by 283 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,260 the word of his power, when he had 284 00:15:14,260 --> 00:15:18,760 by himself purged our sin, sat down on 285 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:23,120 the right hand of the majesty on high. 286 00:15:23,860 --> 00:15:26,660 Now, it just seems that the Holy Spirit 287 00:15:26,660 --> 00:15:29,720 of God throws everything at us at once 288 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,100 in these first three verses. 289 00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:37,260 There's no gradual introduction into the subject. 290 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:40,380 We are brought face to face with the 291 00:15:40,380 --> 00:15:43,900 glory of our Lord Jesus Christ as compared 292 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:46,560 with the Old Testament prophets. 293 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,400 For their message to the people of God 294 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:57,820 was intermittent, sundry times, and fragmentary in divers 295 00:15:57,820 --> 00:15:58,380 manners. 296 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,420 He spake in time past unto the fathers 297 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:03,320 by the prophets. 298 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,700 Fragmentary, intermittent. 299 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,740 But God in these last days has spoken 300 00:16:11,740 --> 00:16:14,140 to us in the full blaze of glory 301 00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:17,420 that surrounds our Lord Jesus Christ. 302 00:16:17,580 --> 00:16:19,960 I got a great list out of Ardell's 303 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,980 song tonight, How Great Thou Art. 304 00:16:23,730 --> 00:16:25,860 And I'd like to show you something of 305 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:28,040 the greatness of God that is presented to 306 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,020 our Lord Jesus, that is presented in verses 307 00:16:31,020 --> 00:16:35,900 2 and 3 of this first chapter. 308 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,180 I don't know how the Schofield Bible ever 309 00:16:40,180 --> 00:16:40,920 missed this one. 310 00:16:41,540 --> 00:16:47,220 There are so many seven-fold in the 311 00:16:47,220 --> 00:16:49,740 Schofield Bible that I don't know how they 312 00:16:49,740 --> 00:16:51,600 ever missed this one. 313 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:56,080 But there is apparently one seven-fold in 314 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:57,740 verses 2 and 3 that they missed. 315 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:03,160 They are the seven-fold personal glory of 316 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:04,599 our Lord Jesus Christ. 317 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:07,280 Count them as we read. 318 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,520 First of all, He is the Son. 319 00:17:12,950 --> 00:17:15,890 Then He is the Heir. 320 00:17:18,630 --> 00:17:20,869 Then He is the Creator. 321 00:17:23,430 --> 00:17:25,770 Then He is the Redealer. 322 00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:31,600 Then He is the Sustainer. 323 00:17:33,820 --> 00:17:35,880 Then He is the Redeemer. 324 00:17:38,270 --> 00:17:40,870 Then He is the High Priest. 325 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,800 How could you have anything more concentrated than 326 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:47,060 that? 327 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,920 Now that's in contrast to the prophets. 328 00:17:51,140 --> 00:17:54,480 And God just seemingly, the Spirit of God 329 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,740 just brings the full glory of Christ before 330 00:17:57,740 --> 00:17:58,060 us. 331 00:18:00,270 --> 00:18:02,690 You know, that was the way the Apostle 332 00:18:02,690 --> 00:18:06,750 Paul was reached when he was on the 333 00:18:06,750 --> 00:18:10,670 road to Damascus to apprehend the Christians and 334 00:18:10,670 --> 00:18:13,990 bring them into captivity because he considered them 335 00:18:14,690 --> 00:18:18,570 a sect, because he considered Christ an imposter. 336 00:18:19,690 --> 00:18:22,070 The Lord Jesus Christ met him that day 337 00:18:22,070 --> 00:18:24,830 in a blaze of glory. 338 00:18:25,730 --> 00:18:31,330 And he arrested him on his path away 339 00:18:31,330 --> 00:18:32,110 from the Lord. 340 00:18:34,910 --> 00:18:36,770 You know, I think sometimes that God meets 341 00:18:36,770 --> 00:18:39,110 us sometimes with a full blaze of glory. 342 00:18:39,890 --> 00:18:43,170 We've heard about the Lord Jesus Christ all 343 00:18:43,170 --> 00:18:43,810 our lives. 344 00:18:45,010 --> 00:18:47,330 And then the Spirit of God, in His 345 00:18:47,330 --> 00:18:50,130 own way and in His own power, brings 346 00:18:50,130 --> 00:18:56,170 us face to face with Christ and with 347 00:18:56,170 --> 00:18:58,630 the glory of His person. 348 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,180 We think of it as being a religion. 349 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,500 We think of it as being ideal. 350 00:19:12,590 --> 00:19:15,390 And then suddenly, like the Apostle Paul, for 351 00:19:15,390 --> 00:19:20,170 salvation is a revelation, suddenly we're brought face 352 00:19:20,170 --> 00:19:22,090 to face with the Christ. 353 00:19:22,810 --> 00:19:24,510 And we know that He's dealing with us 354 00:19:24,510 --> 00:19:25,090 personally. 355 00:19:25,850 --> 00:19:27,850 And we know that He's speaking to our 356 00:19:27,850 --> 00:19:29,710 hearts personally. 357 00:19:29,710 --> 00:19:32,770 And it shakes us up. 358 00:19:33,630 --> 00:19:35,870 Believe me, it shook the Apostle Paul up 359 00:19:35,870 --> 00:19:37,850 on the road to Damascus. 360 00:19:38,870 --> 00:19:42,150 I wonder, have we ever had a meeting 361 00:19:42,150 --> 00:19:43,510 with Christ? 362 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,740 Have we ever been brought face to face 363 00:19:47,740 --> 00:19:49,380 with the fact that He is dealing with 364 00:19:49,380 --> 00:19:49,620 us? 365 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:51,780 That He's speaking to our hearts? 366 00:19:54,340 --> 00:19:58,160 And have we ever been truthful enough to 367 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,540 say, like the Apostle Paul, Who are thou, 368 00:20:00,860 --> 00:20:01,000 Lord? 369 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:02,000 I don't know you. 370 00:20:02,780 --> 00:20:03,540 Who are you? 371 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,580 The Apostle Paul didn't know the Lord at 372 00:20:06,580 --> 00:20:06,800 all. 373 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:09,780 He had to ask who He was. 374 00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:12,960 But that is the way that God speaks 375 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,200 to us in the book of Hebrews. 376 00:20:14,940 --> 00:20:17,500 He brings us face to face with the 377 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:21,460 glory of this person through whom God speaks. 378 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,620 And the book of Hebrews is written with 379 00:20:24,620 --> 00:20:27,160 a specific purpose of showing the glories of 380 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,960 Christ and making Him real to your hearts 381 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,940 and to mine. 382 00:20:33,940 --> 00:20:36,400 The word better is frequently used. 383 00:20:37,580 --> 00:20:39,180 Some call it the key word of the 384 00:20:39,180 --> 00:20:39,540 epistle. 385 00:20:40,660 --> 00:20:44,700 The better things that we have in Christ. 386 00:20:45,540 --> 00:20:46,940 It's a book of contrast. 387 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:48,840 It's a book of comparison. 388 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:53,560 And I'll tell you that knowing Christ, and 389 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,660 I speak from experience. 390 00:20:55,660 --> 00:20:57,080 I know whereof I speak. 391 00:20:57,900 --> 00:21:02,320 Knowing Christ is just as different from a 392 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,920 religion which we may have as the difference 393 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,800 between Judaism and Christianity. 394 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,540 The difference is just that great. 395 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,600 For after we know the Lord Jesus Christ, 396 00:21:16,660 --> 00:21:20,300 in our lives personally, things take on a 397 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:22,700 different perspective altogether. 398 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:25,280 It's a living reality. 399 00:21:26,180 --> 00:21:27,880 I think it's the most real thing in 400 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,620 this life to know the Lord Jesus Christ 401 00:21:31,620 --> 00:21:34,780 as one's own personal Savior. 402 00:21:35,220 --> 00:21:38,580 Oh yes, we can talk about Him perhaps 403 00:21:38,580 --> 00:21:40,540 even more or less intelligently. 404 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:43,100 But do we talk to Him? 405 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:45,220 Is He a friend? 406 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:46,700 Is He a Savior? 407 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,400 Now, in the last two of these seven 408 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,880 personal glories of the Lord Jesus, we have 409 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:59,620 Him as Redeemer and High Priest. 410 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:04,500 Now, you might say, in what sense is 411 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:07,380 He a High Priest because He sat down 412 00:22:07,380 --> 00:22:09,260 on the right hand of the Majesty on 413 00:22:09,260 --> 00:22:09,640 high? 414 00:22:10,340 --> 00:22:12,640 Well, the book of Hebrews refers to that 415 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,180 several times. 416 00:22:14,180 --> 00:22:16,120 I'm not going into it now because I 417 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,800 want to develop the truth a little bit 418 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:23,300 about His apostleship, why He came into this 419 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:23,960 world. 420 00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:29,260 But we see Him as our Redeemer, as 421 00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:29,800 an apostle. 422 00:22:30,620 --> 00:22:35,300 We see Him as the High Priest, the 423 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:38,440 one who takes us back to God. 424 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,860 Now, we are asked to consider, in the 425 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:45,440 third chapter of the book of Hebrews, and 426 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,880 you'll turn to it with me if you 427 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,400 please, Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly 428 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,200 calling, consider the apostle and High Priest of 429 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,040 our profession Christ Jesus. 430 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:01,740 Now, the word wherefore is put there by 431 00:23:01,740 --> 00:23:02,560 the Holy Spirit. 432 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,580 It's a conjunction that links us with what 433 00:23:06,580 --> 00:23:08,640 has been gone before. 434 00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:11,780 Wherefore, because of what I have just said, 435 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,000 or what I have said before, consider Christ, 436 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:19,780 consider the apostle and High Priest of our 437 00:23:19,780 --> 00:23:22,320 profession Christ Jesus. 438 00:23:23,380 --> 00:23:26,200 Now, the word apostle is an interesting word. 439 00:23:26,580 --> 00:23:28,480 It means a sense one. 440 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,520 And our Lord Jesus Christ was a sense 441 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:32,920 one. 442 00:23:33,300 --> 00:23:35,960 He came into this world. 443 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,740 He was sent by His Father. 444 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:44,780 Now, there are two men with whom our 445 00:23:44,780 --> 00:23:49,200 Lord Jesus Christ is compared as an apostle. 446 00:23:49,340 --> 00:23:51,840 They were apostles of a sort because they 447 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:52,400 were sent. 448 00:23:53,060 --> 00:23:56,400 One of them was Moses, and one of 449 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,100 them was Joshua, because they were sent of 450 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:02,880 the Lord for the deliverance of His people. 451 00:24:02,980 --> 00:24:04,700 Now, they were not apostles in the sense 452 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,340 of New Testament apostles, because the definition of 453 00:24:08,340 --> 00:24:11,420 a New Testament apostle was one who had 454 00:24:11,420 --> 00:24:12,220 seen the Lord. 455 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,950 And I don't know about what they would 456 00:24:18,950 --> 00:24:21,210 qualify on that score, too. 457 00:24:22,750 --> 00:24:24,730 They had seen the Lord, certainly. 458 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,600 And no doubt they had seen the one 459 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,440 that Paul had seen, because the theophanies of 460 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,580 the Old Testament are really a presentation of 461 00:24:35,580 --> 00:24:36,900 our Lord Jesus Christ. 462 00:24:37,060 --> 00:24:39,600 He is the Jehovah of the Old Testament. 463 00:24:39,740 --> 00:24:41,700 The Jehovah of the Old Testament is the 464 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:42,640 Jesus of the New. 465 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,600 So they had seen Him in that respect, 466 00:24:46,380 --> 00:24:50,620 and they were apostles sent for the deliverance 467 00:24:50,620 --> 00:24:53,200 of the people of God. 468 00:24:54,540 --> 00:24:58,920 Now, Moses, you know the Jews thought so 469 00:24:58,920 --> 00:24:59,880 much of Moses. 470 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,900 Now, here we are considering Moses before we 471 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:06,600 have compared our Lord with the prophets and 472 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:07,240 with the angels. 473 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:08,380 Be patient with me. 474 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,320 Because of this being in a special way 475 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,920 a gospel meeting tonight, we want to consider 476 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,520 why the Lord Jesus Christ came into this 477 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,260 world, why He was sent into this world. 478 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,860 Shall we let the scriptures themselves decide for 479 00:25:23,860 --> 00:25:26,740 us the question of why our Lord Jesus 480 00:25:26,740 --> 00:25:29,300 Christ was sent into the world? 481 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,560 Now, turn with me, please, to the fourth 482 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,700 chapter of 1 John. 483 00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:48,750 1 John chapter 4, verse 484 00:25:48,750 --> 00:25:49,150 9. 485 00:25:49,150 --> 00:25:54,570 Now, in this was manifested the love of 486 00:25:54,570 --> 00:25:57,850 God toward us, because that God sent His 487 00:25:57,850 --> 00:26:00,110 only begotten Son into the world that we 488 00:26:00,110 --> 00:26:01,710 might live through Him. 489 00:26:03,710 --> 00:26:08,430 God sent His only begotten Son into the 490 00:26:08,430 --> 00:26:13,010 world that we might live through Him. 491 00:26:14,090 --> 00:26:17,910 Herein is love, not that we love God, 492 00:26:18,810 --> 00:26:23,310 but that He loved us and sent His 493 00:26:23,310 --> 00:26:28,570 Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 494 00:26:29,190 --> 00:26:32,470 Our Lord Jesus was sent into this world 495 00:26:32,470 --> 00:26:39,890 to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins. 496 00:26:39,890 --> 00:26:43,350 Now, shall we notice the gospel of John, 497 00:26:43,430 --> 00:26:43,950 if you please? 498 00:26:45,610 --> 00:26:47,870 We see why Christ was sent into the 499 00:26:47,870 --> 00:26:48,050 world. 500 00:26:48,150 --> 00:26:51,730 He was an apostle, because He was sent 501 00:26:51,730 --> 00:26:55,270 from God with a deliverance. 502 00:26:59,190 --> 00:27:01,370 The third chapter of John's gospel, if you 503 00:27:01,370 --> 00:27:01,790 please. 504 00:27:08,610 --> 00:27:09,490 Verse 16. 505 00:27:09,490 --> 00:27:12,490 For God so loved the world that He 506 00:27:12,490 --> 00:27:16,910 gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 507 00:27:16,910 --> 00:27:20,910 in Him should not perish, but have everlasting 508 00:27:20,910 --> 00:27:21,470 life. 509 00:27:21,610 --> 00:27:24,190 For God sent not His Son into the 510 00:27:24,190 --> 00:27:27,510 world to condemn the world, but that the 511 00:27:27,510 --> 00:27:31,050 world through Him might be saved. 512 00:27:32,610 --> 00:27:35,010 Now, the fifth chapter of John's gospel. 513 00:27:39,710 --> 00:27:41,190 Verse 24. 514 00:27:41,890 --> 00:27:45,150 The Lord Jesus says, Verily, verily, I say 515 00:27:45,150 --> 00:27:48,870 unto you, He that heareth my word, and 516 00:27:48,870 --> 00:27:53,990 believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting 517 00:27:53,990 --> 00:27:58,310 life, and shall not come into condemnation, but 518 00:27:58,310 --> 00:28:02,370 is passed from death unto life. 519 00:28:03,370 --> 00:28:07,110 Now, our Lord Jesus Christ says plainly, God 520 00:28:07,110 --> 00:28:08,690 sent me into this world. 521 00:28:08,850 --> 00:28:10,290 He sent Him into this world for a 522 00:28:10,290 --> 00:28:10,650 purpose. 523 00:28:11,730 --> 00:28:13,690 He sent Him into this world to die 524 00:28:13,690 --> 00:28:16,650 as a sacrifice for you and for me. 525 00:28:17,010 --> 00:28:20,110 He died for our sins on the cross 526 00:28:20,110 --> 00:28:20,810 of Calvary. 527 00:28:21,590 --> 00:28:25,890 So our Lord Jesus Christ was an apostle. 528 00:28:27,210 --> 00:28:30,790 He came into this world having been sent 529 00:28:30,790 --> 00:28:31,590 of the Father. 530 00:28:31,590 --> 00:28:36,720 Now, let's go back, if you please, to 531 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,620 Exodus chapter 3. 532 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,380 This is quite a study, but I have 533 00:28:41,380 --> 00:28:44,000 a point to make, and I intend making 534 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:49,210 it before this hour has passed. 535 00:28:54,690 --> 00:28:58,950 Exodus chapter 3 is, first of all, compared 536 00:28:58,950 --> 00:29:03,890 with Moses, our Lord, because Moses was an 537 00:29:03,890 --> 00:29:06,170 apostle in this sense. 538 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,680 Verse 10 of the third chapter of Exodus. 539 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,820 Come now, therefore, the Lord says, and I 540 00:29:14,820 --> 00:29:16,220 will send thee unto Pharaoh. 541 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:23,340 I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou 542 00:29:23,340 --> 00:29:25,460 mayest bring forth my people, the children of 543 00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:26,400 Israel, out of Egypt. 544 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,380 And Moses said unto God, Who am I 545 00:29:29,380 --> 00:29:31,920 that I should go unto Pharaoh, that I 546 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,860 should bring forth the children of Israel out 547 00:29:33,860 --> 00:29:34,240 of Egypt? 548 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,820 And He said, Certainly I will be with 549 00:29:37,820 --> 00:29:40,980 thee, and this shall be a token unto 550 00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:44,480 thee that I have sent thee. 551 00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:49,620 When thou hast brought forth the people out 552 00:29:49,620 --> 00:29:52,600 of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this 553 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:53,000 mountain. 554 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,720 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I 555 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,460 come unto the children of Israel, and shall 556 00:30:00,460 --> 00:30:02,460 say unto them, The God of your fathers 557 00:30:02,460 --> 00:30:06,180 hath sent me unto you, and they shall 558 00:30:06,180 --> 00:30:07,980 say, What is his name, and what shall 559 00:30:07,980 --> 00:30:10,020 I say unto them? 560 00:30:10,980 --> 00:30:14,560 And God said unto Moses, I am that 561 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:15,340 I am. 562 00:30:16,660 --> 00:30:18,960 And He said, Thus shalt thou say unto 563 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,760 the children of Israel, I am hath sent 564 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,280 me unto you. 565 00:30:25,380 --> 00:30:28,180 Now, four times in this passage, Moses has 566 00:30:28,180 --> 00:30:30,960 spoken out as having been sent. 567 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,900 He was an apostle in a very real 568 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:38,520 way, and he had seen God. 569 00:30:39,460 --> 00:30:41,100 He was sent with a deliverance. 570 00:30:41,740 --> 00:30:43,320 He was sent to deliver the children of 571 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:48,040 Israel from bondage, from slavery in the land 572 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:48,500 of Egypt. 573 00:30:49,580 --> 00:30:52,480 Egypt is a type of this world, and 574 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,880 our Lord Jesus was sent to deliver the 575 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,160 people of God, the people that became the 576 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,260 people of God, out of the land of 577 00:31:04,260 --> 00:31:04,780 Egypt. 578 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,200 Pharaoh is a type of Satan, and they 579 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,520 were delivered from Pharaoh. 580 00:31:12,220 --> 00:31:15,900 Now, our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to 581 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:20,640 deliver us from slavery, the slavery of sin, 582 00:31:22,220 --> 00:31:24,720 a slavery far greater than the slavery of 583 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:25,140 Egypt. 584 00:31:26,140 --> 00:31:28,360 He was sent to deliver us from the 585 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:35,180 devil, a far harder taskmaster than the Pharaoh 586 00:31:35,180 --> 00:31:36,900 of Egypt. 587 00:31:38,020 --> 00:31:42,380 Our Lord Jesus Christ was sent with a 588 00:31:42,380 --> 00:31:46,880 greater deliverance than was Moses. 589 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,220 But now, just to prove who this person 590 00:31:51,220 --> 00:31:55,020 was, Moses asked him, he said, Now, who 591 00:31:55,020 --> 00:31:56,180 shall I tell them sent me? 592 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:57,260 What's your name? 593 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,520 And God said, Tell them I Am hath 594 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,140 sent me unto you. 595 00:32:05,260 --> 00:32:08,100 Well, now, you say that's not grammatically correct 596 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:08,660 at all. 597 00:32:09,780 --> 00:32:12,160 Well, when you consider that I Am is 598 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,500 a title of our Lord Jesus Christ, it 599 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:19,720 is perfectly correct, grammatically speaking. 600 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,720 I Am is a title. 601 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,120 I Am hath sent me unto you. 602 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:27,860 Who is the I Am? 603 00:32:28,540 --> 00:32:32,380 Our Lord Jesus Christ, in his earthly ministry, 604 00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:35,760 especially in the Gospel of John, which presents 605 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,380 our Lord Jesus as the Son of God, 606 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,260 he uses that term, I Am, he uses 607 00:32:43,260 --> 00:32:47,360 it seven times in a very wonderful way 608 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,640 in the Gospel of John. 609 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,800 Our Lord Jesus Christ said, I Am the 610 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,580 bread of life. 611 00:32:53,380 --> 00:32:55,560 I Am the joy. 612 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,260 I Am the good shepherd. 613 00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:04,040 I Am the resurrection and the life. 614 00:33:05,020 --> 00:33:07,760 I Am the light of the world. 615 00:33:08,780 --> 00:33:11,380 I Am the we, the truth and the 616 00:33:11,380 --> 00:33:11,720 life. 617 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,020 I Am the true life. 618 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,120 Our Lord Jesus shows himself to be God 619 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:26,620 in that seven-fold presentation of himself as 620 00:33:26,620 --> 00:33:27,360 the I Am. 621 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,420 Now, you remember in the Gospel of John, 622 00:33:31,780 --> 00:33:34,340 and it's interesting that it's only in the 623 00:33:34,340 --> 00:33:37,140 Gospel of John that this is recorded, the 624 00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:40,780 soldiers came to the Garden of Gethsemane to 625 00:33:40,780 --> 00:33:42,400 apprehend the Lord Jesus Christ. 626 00:33:43,660 --> 00:33:47,640 And they asked for Jesus of Nazareth, and 627 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,500 the Lord Jesus says, I Am he. 628 00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,740 Now, if you'll notice in your authorized versions, 629 00:33:53,940 --> 00:33:55,320 the word he is italic. 630 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,560 The Lord Jesus Christ just simply said, I 631 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:01,060 Am. 632 00:34:02,660 --> 00:34:04,760 Do you remember what happened on that occasion? 633 00:34:05,860 --> 00:34:09,760 It says that they went backward and fell 634 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:10,340 to the ground. 635 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,820 I often wonder what those soldiers felt like. 636 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,620 I wonder what explanation they had for that. 637 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,159 In the Garden of Gethsemane, when our Lord 638 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:23,340 Jesus Christ seemed to be a helpless victim 639 00:34:24,580 --> 00:34:28,639 completely at the mercy of circumstances, he said, 640 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:29,520 I Am. 641 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:31,699 And they just fell over backwards. 642 00:34:32,179 --> 00:34:34,639 Much as a row of dominoes set up 643 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:38,080 by children is touched, and they all fall 644 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:38,400 over. 645 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,239 Our Lord Jesus simply used his name. 646 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,760 Now that was the person that talked with 647 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:46,179 Moses. 648 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,980 Now, in the third chapter of Hebrews again, 649 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,900 our Lord Jesus is compared with Moses. 650 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,040 Because that was vital to the Jew, Moses 651 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,960 was a hero in their sight, but ah, 652 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,700 here was a greater one than Moses. 653 00:35:02,340 --> 00:35:03,400 With a greater deliverance. 654 00:35:05,180 --> 00:35:06,660 And he was able to do something for 655 00:35:06,660 --> 00:35:10,060 the children of Israel that Moses never did 656 00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:10,600 for them. 657 00:35:11,540 --> 00:35:13,740 And I hope that our Lord Jesus Christ 658 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,500 will do that same thing for you tonight. 659 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,800 Let's talk about it. 660 00:35:20,580 --> 00:35:24,820 Hebrews chapter 3, Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of 661 00:35:24,820 --> 00:35:27,900 the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high 662 00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:32,220 priest of our profession Christ Jesus, who was 663 00:35:32,220 --> 00:35:35,160 faithful to him that appointed him, as also 664 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,020 Moses was faithful in all his house. 665 00:35:38,620 --> 00:35:40,880 For this man was counted worthy of more 666 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,760 glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath 667 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,760 built the house hath more honor than the 668 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:47,060 house. 669 00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:50,500 For every house is built by some man, 670 00:35:50,580 --> 00:35:52,560 but he that built all things is God. 671 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,440 And Moses verily was faithful in all his 672 00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:01,240 house as a servant, for a testimony to 673 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:04,300 those things which were to be spoken after. 674 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,260 But Christ has a son over his own 675 00:36:08,260 --> 00:36:11,300 house, whose house are we if we hold 676 00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:13,940 fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the 677 00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:16,540 hope firm unto the end. 678 00:36:17,260 --> 00:36:18,700 Now Christ was the son. 679 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:21,780 I'm not going to develop the sonship of 680 00:36:21,780 --> 00:36:25,120 Christ tonight as the reason for his authority, 681 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,660 but I'll say this. 682 00:36:26,860 --> 00:36:28,320 Moses was only a servant. 683 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:34,760 And who gave Moses his orders at the 684 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:35,460 burning bush? 685 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:43,680 It was Christ himself, the great I Am. 686 00:36:44,980 --> 00:36:48,700 Now Moses did not leave the people, the 687 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:50,600 children of Israel, into rest. 688 00:36:51,860 --> 00:36:54,360 The Lord Jesus Christ in this portion of 689 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:59,430 Scripture is compared with another person, and that 690 00:36:59,430 --> 00:37:00,090 is Joshua. 691 00:37:00,710 --> 00:37:02,250 Let's read about that rest. 692 00:37:02,790 --> 00:37:04,790 In verse 7, Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost 693 00:37:04,790 --> 00:37:07,510 saith today, If ye will hear his voice, 694 00:37:07,750 --> 00:37:10,850 pardon not your hearts, as in the provocation 695 00:37:10,850 --> 00:37:13,690 in the day of temptation in the wilderness, 696 00:37:14,430 --> 00:37:16,730 when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and 697 00:37:16,730 --> 00:37:18,590 saw my works forty years. 698 00:37:19,450 --> 00:37:21,990 Wherefore, I was grieved with that generation, and 699 00:37:21,990 --> 00:37:24,690 said, They do always err in their hearts, 700 00:37:25,210 --> 00:37:26,930 and they have not known my ways. 701 00:37:27,010 --> 00:37:30,430 So I swear in my wrath, they shall 702 00:37:30,430 --> 00:37:33,650 not enter into my rest. 703 00:37:35,070 --> 00:37:37,730 Now Moses did not leave the children of 704 00:37:37,730 --> 00:37:39,870 Israel into rest. 705 00:37:42,570 --> 00:37:46,050 At the waters of Kadesh Barnea, the children 706 00:37:46,050 --> 00:37:48,130 of Israel paused in unbelief. 707 00:37:49,150 --> 00:37:51,810 They wanted to send spies into the land 708 00:37:51,810 --> 00:37:55,670 of Canaan to see how they should go 709 00:37:55,670 --> 00:37:55,990 up. 710 00:37:56,610 --> 00:37:59,550 When those spies came back, ten of them 711 00:37:59,550 --> 00:38:01,350 brought a very evil report. 712 00:38:01,730 --> 00:38:03,310 They said, Yes, the land is all that 713 00:38:03,310 --> 00:38:04,350 God said it is. 714 00:38:05,390 --> 00:38:07,870 The land is beautiful, but there are giants 715 00:38:07,870 --> 00:38:11,930 there, and the cities are walled up to 716 00:38:11,930 --> 00:38:12,190 heaven. 717 00:38:13,670 --> 00:38:14,810 They didn't want to go in. 718 00:38:14,870 --> 00:38:16,130 They faltered in unbelief. 719 00:38:17,030 --> 00:38:19,990 You know, it's odd how we can make 720 00:38:19,990 --> 00:38:21,730 excuses when we don't want to do a 721 00:38:21,730 --> 00:38:22,010 thing. 722 00:38:23,450 --> 00:38:27,370 They said that the cities have walls that 723 00:38:27,370 --> 00:38:29,890 are high up to heaven. 724 00:38:31,090 --> 00:38:35,050 Well, now, I doubt if they were that 725 00:38:35,050 --> 00:38:35,270 high. 726 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,220 But that's the way they put it. 727 00:38:39,940 --> 00:38:41,600 And they said, Well, there are giants, and 728 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:46,400 in their sights it were grasshoppers. 729 00:38:47,780 --> 00:38:51,600 I hardly think that was a fair comparison. 730 00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:52,580 Do you? 731 00:38:53,540 --> 00:38:54,720 They didn't want to go in. 732 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,720 My, you and I are that way. 733 00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,700 When we don't want to do a thing, 734 00:39:00,180 --> 00:39:02,540 especially some night when it's storming a little 735 00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:03,740 bit and we don't want to go to 736 00:39:03,740 --> 00:39:03,980 meeting. 737 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,420 My, that wind must be blowing at least 738 00:39:08,420 --> 00:39:09,640 70 miles an hour. 739 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,000 And my, the temperature must be at least 740 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,140 40 below. 741 00:39:15,380 --> 00:39:17,820 And when we don't want to do a 742 00:39:17,820 --> 00:39:21,200 thing, oh, I'll tell you we can find 743 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:21,700 excuses. 744 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,080 They didn't want to go in. 745 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:28,660 With Joshua and with Caleb, they said they'll 746 00:39:28,660 --> 00:39:29,840 be red for us. 747 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:31,540 We'll team up. 748 00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:36,840 Now, that's the difference between faith and unbelief. 749 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,360 But you know, Joshua didn't give the children 750 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,240 of Israel rest. 751 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,080 He gave them war. 752 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,740 Joshua and Moses failed as apostles. 753 00:39:50,060 --> 00:39:51,920 They didn't deliver the children of Israel. 754 00:39:52,420 --> 00:39:53,580 They didn't give them rest. 755 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,700 David in the 95th Psalm speaks of a 756 00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:58,920 rest that yet remains for the people of 757 00:39:58,920 --> 00:39:59,260 God. 758 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,360 Let's notice that rest a little bit. 759 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:10,590 In the fourth chapter of Hebrews, verse 6, 760 00:40:10,710 --> 00:40:12,510 for sake of time, for our time is 761 00:40:12,510 --> 00:40:13,950 getting away from us so quickly. 762 00:40:14,610 --> 00:40:17,110 Seeing, therefore, it remaineth that some must enter 763 00:40:17,110 --> 00:40:19,110 therein, and they to whom it was first 764 00:40:19,110 --> 00:40:23,950 preached entered in, not in because of unbelief. 765 00:40:24,830 --> 00:40:27,270 Again he limiteth a certain day, saying unto 766 00:40:27,270 --> 00:40:30,670 David, Today, after so long a time, as 767 00:40:30,670 --> 00:40:32,490 it is said today, if you will hear 768 00:40:32,490 --> 00:40:33,870 his voice, heard not your heart. 769 00:40:34,470 --> 00:40:36,830 For if Jesus, and it should be Joshua, 770 00:40:37,590 --> 00:40:40,990 for if Joshua had given them rest, then 771 00:40:40,990 --> 00:40:43,830 would he not afterward have spoken of another 772 00:40:43,830 --> 00:40:44,250 day. 773 00:40:45,250 --> 00:40:48,670 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people 774 00:40:48,670 --> 00:40:49,170 of God. 775 00:40:49,990 --> 00:40:52,610 For he that is entered into his rest, 776 00:40:53,210 --> 00:40:55,990 he also hath ceased from his own works, 777 00:40:56,770 --> 00:40:58,730 as God did from his. 778 00:40:58,730 --> 00:41:03,650 Let us labor, let us strive, therefore, to 779 00:41:03,650 --> 00:41:08,450 enter into that rest, lest any man fall 780 00:41:08,450 --> 00:41:12,090 after the same example of unbelief. 781 00:41:12,550 --> 00:41:14,710 Now when the children of Israel sinned in 782 00:41:14,710 --> 00:41:18,030 unbelief against the Lord in the wilderness, God 783 00:41:18,030 --> 00:41:19,830 says, You will not go into the land 784 00:41:19,830 --> 00:41:20,330 of Canaan. 785 00:41:21,090 --> 00:41:23,750 And he caused them to wander in that 786 00:41:23,750 --> 00:41:27,310 wilderness forty years, till the men of that 787 00:41:27,310 --> 00:41:29,350 generation died off. 788 00:41:30,110 --> 00:41:31,790 No, they didn't enter into rest. 789 00:41:32,450 --> 00:41:35,230 But David said in the ninety-fifth psalm, 790 00:41:35,670 --> 00:41:38,430 Today, if you will hear his voice, heard 791 00:41:38,430 --> 00:41:41,550 not your heart, as in the provocation. 792 00:41:42,590 --> 00:41:45,570 Yes, there does remain a rest for the 793 00:41:45,570 --> 00:41:46,330 people of God. 794 00:41:46,450 --> 00:41:52,290 But our apostle, does he lead us out 795 00:41:52,290 --> 00:41:55,610 of Egypt, out of the place of condemnation, 796 00:41:56,170 --> 00:41:59,170 out from underneath the bondage and the slavery 797 00:41:59,170 --> 00:42:02,450 of Pharaoh, into rest? 798 00:42:03,690 --> 00:42:04,710 Yes, he does. 799 00:42:06,210 --> 00:42:08,810 Because he says, Come unto me, all ye 800 00:42:08,810 --> 00:42:13,930 that labor, and are heavy laden, and I 801 00:42:13,930 --> 00:42:16,510 will give you rest. 802 00:42:17,430 --> 00:42:19,170 Now I would like to show you just 803 00:42:19,170 --> 00:42:23,210 one verse, the twelfth verse, and show you 804 00:42:23,210 --> 00:42:25,350 its connection with this subject. 805 00:42:26,130 --> 00:42:29,370 For the word of God is quick and 806 00:42:29,370 --> 00:42:32,790 powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, 807 00:42:33,830 --> 00:42:36,450 piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul 808 00:42:36,450 --> 00:42:39,330 and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, 809 00:42:39,630 --> 00:42:42,470 and is a discerner of the thoughts and 810 00:42:42,470 --> 00:42:43,450 intents of the heart. 811 00:42:44,490 --> 00:42:47,790 Neither is there any creature that is not 812 00:42:47,790 --> 00:42:49,730 manifest in his sight, but all things are 813 00:42:49,730 --> 00:42:52,750 naked and open unto the eyes of him 814 00:42:52,750 --> 00:42:54,090 with whom we have to do. 815 00:42:55,390 --> 00:42:58,430 Now the children of Israel, as they failed 816 00:42:58,430 --> 00:43:05,850 at Tadespharnia, their failure was so apparent, they 817 00:43:05,850 --> 00:43:08,710 even spoke of stoning Moses and making him 818 00:43:08,710 --> 00:43:10,590 a captain and going back into the land 819 00:43:10,590 --> 00:43:11,210 of Egypt. 820 00:43:12,250 --> 00:43:17,770 Oh yes, their failure was a visible one. 821 00:43:18,590 --> 00:43:23,030 Now, the apostle says, the failure among you 822 00:43:23,030 --> 00:43:27,130 people to enter into God's rest may not 823 00:43:27,130 --> 00:43:31,810 be so apparent, but he says there is 824 00:43:31,810 --> 00:43:34,870 a way to check on you, and the 825 00:43:34,870 --> 00:43:35,790 way is this. 826 00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:38,030 This is the connection of this verse. 827 00:43:38,730 --> 00:43:42,430 For the word of God is quick and 828 00:43:42,430 --> 00:43:47,330 powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, 829 00:43:49,290 --> 00:43:51,510 piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul 830 00:43:51,510 --> 00:43:53,290 and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, 831 00:43:53,470 --> 00:43:55,930 and is a discerner of the thoughts and 832 00:43:55,930 --> 00:43:57,890 intents of the heart. 833 00:43:58,490 --> 00:44:02,530 You know, as we're here tonight, we're here 834 00:44:02,530 --> 00:44:05,430 because of the fact that we have an 835 00:44:05,430 --> 00:44:08,330 interest in these matters, and as you and 836 00:44:08,330 --> 00:44:11,510 I look at each other, it's hard to 837 00:44:11,510 --> 00:44:13,750 tell whether or not we have entered into 838 00:44:13,750 --> 00:44:17,990 rest, but there is an agency that pierces 839 00:44:17,990 --> 00:44:22,650 into the innermost regions of the heart, and 840 00:44:22,650 --> 00:44:25,170 it will make it evident to us whether 841 00:44:25,170 --> 00:44:28,110 or not we have entered into the rest 842 00:44:28,110 --> 00:44:35,030 of our apostle, and he came that we 843 00:44:35,030 --> 00:44:36,970 might have rest. 844 00:44:38,210 --> 00:44:39,950 Rest of soul. 845 00:44:40,770 --> 00:44:42,750 Sweet, happy rest. 846 00:44:43,510 --> 00:44:44,190 Have you got it? 847 00:44:45,250 --> 00:44:48,770 You know, the scripture says that he that 848 00:44:48,770 --> 00:44:51,090 has entered into his rest hath also ceased 849 00:44:51,090 --> 00:44:53,310 from his own works, as God did from 850 00:44:53,310 --> 00:44:53,610 his. 851 00:44:54,670 --> 00:44:56,690 There are many people in the world today, 852 00:44:56,970 --> 00:45:00,310 they're working to make themselves acceptable with God. 853 00:45:00,610 --> 00:45:01,930 What does it prove? 854 00:45:02,410 --> 00:45:05,750 It proves they have not entered into rest. 855 00:45:06,850 --> 00:45:11,210 It proves to them, and the word of 856 00:45:11,210 --> 00:45:14,050 God will do it, I don't have rest 857 00:45:14,050 --> 00:45:14,850 of soul. 858 00:45:15,490 --> 00:45:17,970 This apostle has not led me into rest 859 00:45:17,970 --> 00:45:19,830 yet, but it's not our fault. 860 00:45:20,190 --> 00:45:22,190 He can and will lead us into rest, 861 00:45:22,270 --> 00:45:25,030 and the apostle warned, don't let us falter. 862 00:45:25,990 --> 00:45:28,710 Let us labor, let us strive, therefore, to 863 00:45:28,710 --> 00:45:31,910 enter into that rest, lest any man fall 864 00:45:31,910 --> 00:45:34,930 after the same example of unbelief. 865 00:45:34,930 --> 00:45:39,990 Let me ask tonight, simply, have we got 866 00:45:39,990 --> 00:45:40,810 rest of soul? 867 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,020 Are we working for our salvation? 868 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,200 Do we think that we have got to 869 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,240 make ourselves acceptable with God? 870 00:45:51,340 --> 00:45:54,120 Do we think that through our own efforts, 871 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:59,360 our goodness, our hopes, our high resolve, that 872 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,360 we're going to make ourselves somehow acceptable to 873 00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:02,700 God? 874 00:46:03,660 --> 00:46:07,380 If you, in your heart, are feeling that 875 00:46:07,380 --> 00:46:10,040 there's anything that you've got to do, you 876 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,180 have not entered into God's rest. 877 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:19,320 Because if we have not ceased from our 878 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:24,850 own works, we do not have rest in 879 00:46:24,850 --> 00:46:25,050 us. 880 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,400 Are we depending on Christ tonight? 881 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,400 Are we depending on the fact that Christ 882 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,840 has died on the cross and completely satisfied 883 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,580 all the claims of God against my soul, 884 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,560 so that there's nothing against me? 885 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,580 Is that the way I feel about the 886 00:46:45,580 --> 00:46:47,340 work of this great apostle? 887 00:46:48,500 --> 00:46:51,680 That's why he was sent, that I might 888 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:52,800 have rest. 889 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,340 That you might have rest. 890 00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:01,160 Are you resting in Christ tonight? 891 00:47:02,090 --> 00:47:04,080 Is your soul at peace and you say, 892 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:05,920 Yes, thank God. 893 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,740 I know my sins have been paid for. 894 00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:11,780 My Savior died upon the tree that I 895 00:47:11,780 --> 00:47:14,240 might have this sweet, happy rest. 896 00:47:15,420 --> 00:47:19,500 Or have you faltered in unbelief and have 897 00:47:19,500 --> 00:47:22,960 faltered at the greatness of God's redemption through 898 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,730 simple trusting faith in Christ, that I receive 899 00:47:27,730 --> 00:47:30,250 salvation from His gracious hand? 900 00:47:30,250 --> 00:47:31,770 How about you? 901 00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:34,310 Have you entered into rest? 902 00:47:35,210 --> 00:47:37,670 Ah, the word of God is quick and 903 00:47:37,670 --> 00:47:40,590 powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. 904 00:47:40,910 --> 00:47:41,850 And it will cut. 905 00:47:42,670 --> 00:47:44,790 And it will show us and make apparent 906 00:47:44,790 --> 00:47:47,690 to you and to me, though no one 907 00:47:47,690 --> 00:47:50,790 knows what we're thinking, God knows what we're 908 00:47:50,790 --> 00:47:51,150 thinking. 909 00:47:51,730 --> 00:47:53,790 And He can bring the word of God 910 00:47:53,790 --> 00:47:55,810 to apply on our souls in such a 911 00:47:55,810 --> 00:47:58,670 way, we shall have to say, No, I 912 00:47:58,670 --> 00:47:59,630 don't have rest. 913 00:48:00,270 --> 00:48:02,530 I'm still working to be saved. 914 00:48:03,290 --> 00:48:05,710 And Christ has not brought me into the 915 00:48:05,710 --> 00:48:10,070 rest of dependence upon Him through faith. 916 00:48:11,370 --> 00:48:13,790 Now that's the rest that our Apostle can 917 00:48:13,790 --> 00:48:14,130 give. 918 00:48:15,130 --> 00:48:15,850 Have we got it? 919 00:48:17,290 --> 00:48:21,010 You know, I love this comparison between our 920 00:48:21,010 --> 00:48:23,330 Lord Jesus Christ and that of Moses and 921 00:48:23,330 --> 00:48:25,510 Joshua who never gave the people of God 922 00:48:25,510 --> 00:48:25,850 rest. 923 00:48:25,850 --> 00:48:28,930 There remains a rest for you and me. 924 00:48:29,930 --> 00:48:30,770 Have you got it? 925 00:48:31,330 --> 00:48:32,230 I've got it. 926 00:48:32,890 --> 00:48:34,730 Thank God tonight it's settled. 927 00:48:35,530 --> 00:48:36,950 I know I'm saved. 928 00:48:37,150 --> 00:48:38,370 Is it settled with you? 929 00:48:41,490 --> 00:48:43,270 Christ came for that a purpose. 930 00:48:44,270 --> 00:48:45,470 He was an Apostle.