God, who at sundry times in diverse manners,
vacant times past, had done to the fathers
by the prophets, hath in these last days
spoken unto us by his Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds, who, being in
the brightness of his glory, the express image
of his person, and upholding all things by
the word of his power, when he had
by himself purged our sins, he sat down
at the right hand of the Majesty on
high.
Going through the book of Hebrews together, I
hope that as we do it you'll come
to realize what a wonderful book it is.
But the writer is unknown, presumed by most
to be Paul sometime, maybe I'll look at
that more later on.
It is written to a congregation essentially of
Jewish believers, to the Jewish community of which
the church was born in.
Born in a Hebrew society, born in a
Hebrew world, and the book of Hebrews is
one that is tremendously written to the Hebrew
mind.
You may think, well, what does that have
to do with me?
Well, it has an awfully lot to do
as we'll see as we get into it.
It contains some five warnings in the book
of unbelief and of the terrible consequences that
happen to people that don't believe.
The ramification of our understanding of ultimately believing
and the eternal aspects of faith towards God,
and we'll look at that.
But here this morning, I'm just going to
jump into it, and essentially there was the
issue, one of the most astounding things here,
that to me when you do look at
this, sometimes we're so used to picking up
a Bible and reading things out of it,
and having something like this, God who at
Sunday times diverse manners, bacon to us by
his prophets, you know, and things, and to
us we just kind of read that.
And we don't realize that this is an
unbelievable statement in a sense, that when you
would look at the Bible, what makes it
so different from all other literature, all other
religious literature, philosophic literature, is the fact that
it is from one end to the other,
it is God speaking about himself, God revealing
himself.
When it says here, God spoke to us,
Sunday times, diverse manners, spoken unto us by
his prophets, now hath in these last days
spoken unto us by his son.
But here when we realize, when we pick
up this book, it is something there that
when you look at Christianity, when you look
at the Bible, you're looking at a book,
it is God speaking, God breathed, there's no
other book in the world that even suggests
that it is such a book like this.
When you would look at the religions of
the world, of which billions of people for
thousands of years, you know, in some cases,
you know, have been living in, like Buddhism,
somewhere around 500 B.C., Buddha, who has
a name originally was Siddhara Gautama, but here
is he, young boy growing up, wealthy family,
finds himself there out, you know, walking around,
one time being taken out by the servants
into public, and as he looks around, and
he sees there an old man who was
crippled, he sees a diseased man, he sees
somebody there, a decaying body, and he sees
the ascetic, and he looks at these people,
and he is so troubled by them, and
never supposedly, according to him, you know, got
away from him, these sights that he had
never seen growing up in such privilege, and
now being taken out and exposed to things,
and he looked there, and he realized that
there were four terrible things that happened in
life, age, and disease, and death, and pain,
and there, Buddha, there trying to deal with
these things, of age, disease, death, and pain,
found himself kind of going into a very
contemplative state, literally when he is 30 years
old, he goes, he disavows his great wealth
that he supposedly had, went out, sat out
under a tree, began just to contemplate, trying
to find the meaning of life, struggling through
things, trying to get enlightened, trying to become,
the word Buddha means awakened, wanting to be
awakened, and as he just kind of contemplates,
and contemplates, and contemplates over these things, he
came up with some four laws, and one
of the laws, and the rules of it
were simply that all worldly life is unsatisfactory,
it is disjointed, there is suffering in it,
that there is a cause for suffering, and
that is because of the attachment to desire,
in other words, the degree that I find
myself attached to certain desires is the degree
my life is exposed to suffering, and the
whole thing is if I could just remove
myself from all thought, all desire, and just
find, ultimately, nirvana, as he looked at it,
in a sense there, this high state of
being free of all things around me, and
all of the thought, and that there was
a way out of the suffering, and it
was ultimately to eliminate my attachment to these
desires, and that he had an eightfold path
on how you kind of go through these
contemplative things, and finally thereafter, some four years
sitting out there the great amounts of times
under a tree, contemplating, he became enlightened, and
so he changed his name to Buddha, the
awakened, and out of that there, with all
of these things just trying to contemplate, working
to nirvana, this is something there, it's just
man, just there, man speaking, man contemplating, man
imagining, and yet billions of people have looked
there and said, I believe that, they're willing
to risk their whole identity, their life, their
eternal life, their entire existence on this fella
who is very troubled, even all the way
through his life, trying to find greater heights
of awakening, and enlightenment, never knew if he
did it, of course, but becoming this kind
of a person there that is fully escaped,
you know, the interesting thing to me, you
look at this Buddha, and if you've ever
seen these Buddhas, I mean, there's a little
fat guy sitting there, you know, and the
thing there, and he did not escape a
lot of worldly desires to become that fat,
I can tell you, but when you look
at this, and here's what the man ended
up, but this is the thing that we
realize, billions of people, this is how they
live, this is what they actually think about,
what they desire, you look at Hinduism, started,
of course, approximately, they say, going back 6
,000, is what they want to attribute it
to, B.C., but no way that that
is there, but predominantly, of course, it was
born in and grew in India, and it
is kind of the, again, the contemplated, the
escaping the world around us, all of this
stuff out there is wicked, it's bad, it's
no good, stay away, you know, from this
worldly life, worldly desire, worldly physical world, of
which there are definitely trues to some of
these thinkings, but at the same time, when
you just simply, it doesn't exist, I've got
to get out of it, I'm going again
to Nirvana, as they, you know, believe much
the same thing, only unlike Buddhism, it's, I
suppose, Hinduism's a little more convenient, because you
get a lot of shots at kind of
achieving Nirvana, because you keep with reincarnation, it
adds that, and so you keep on working
your way up, and that's why you want
to be nice to dogs and flies and
cows, you know, and stuff, because it just
might be you someday, or it might be
your mother or your grandma, or who knows
who's on their way up or down, and
they don't even know what is the higher
or lower life forms anyway, but they're all,
we're all coming back, and again, working our
way to Nirvana, and yet, you look at
the billions of people, this is their religion,
and it's all man-dreamed, and not even
supposed to say God said, God spoke, has
no authority to it, no foundation or basis
that the mind can grab on to this
and say, that has got to be true,
it just seems, then on the other hand,
you go like to Islam, that again, billions
of people, over since around 500 AD, 600
AD, you know, when Muhammad comes along, and
here's somebody there that essentially invented his own
religion, proclaimed himself to be the messenger and
the spokesman of God, he's the ultimate one,
he is the central one, in all other
definition, though others may have been around, whatever
they said is true, insofar as it agrees
with him, but if it doesn't agree, he's
the great and the ultimate prophet of God,
and therefore, that's it, and so now he
simply speaks for God, and yet billions of
people, there as he was born in Mecca,
and so there he conveniently set up Mecca,
now Saudi Arabia, there is where it's all
born, and where it all happened, and Muhammad
spoke, you know, Buddha spoke, you know, and
all of these just people, inventing something to
find their hopefully a way out of the
world as it was, and one of them,
whether we're gonna get out of the world
or Islam, we will take over the world,
we'll fix the whole world, by its power
or whatever else, and when you look at
Christianity, it is absolutely unique, in the sense
that all of the other religions, they're man
contemplating, reaching out, trying to figure out, and
they're essentially inventing God, but when you pick
up your Bible, you're picking up a book
that God spoke, this unbelievably wonderful book there,
when it just says, God, in the beginning,
God, created, the heavens, and the earth, when
we pick up this Bible, we're so used
to just talking about, the son of man
came, to seek, and to save, those which
were lost, here it is, the writer of
Hebrews, again, God was Sunday times, diverse manners,
he spake unto us, he says, by his
prophets, unto the fathers, by his prophets, and
here is, he looks there, and he says,
in sundry times, in diverse manners, he's looking
there, and he says, over something, when you
pick up this book, you're looking at a
book, with some 66 books, written by 40
plus writers, over 1500 years, no single authority
for it, no single voice for it, other
than the voice of God himself, that is
merely just picking up, and sustaining, and having
all of these, to me, it's almost, I
look at the Bible, so much, almost like
a bicycle tire, in the sense that, you've
got all the, you know, 1500 years, you've
got 40 spokes, you know, sort of a
thing, all coming down to one truth, outside
of all of them themselves, they're just one
truth, one prophecy, one thing is that, all
ultimately finds its fulfillment, in Christ, but it
makes itself, absolutely unique, because at sundry times,
in diverse manners, it means essentially, they're in
different times, when you pick up the Old
Testament, it's made up of what we call
law, history, prophecy, and poetry, all these wonderful
statements, about the coming of a Messiah, of
a Savior, the God who had created the
world, and is now going to visit it,
and to recreate it, in his mercy, and
in his love, and in his power, as
it's laid out, and prophesied, over and over,
in sundry times, in diverse manners, sometimes he
spoke, there with visions, or with parables, in
different manners, or types, and symbols, in many
different ways, of which, but it was all
God speaking, all God communicating, there, as Peter
tells us, in 2 Peter 1 21, he
says, for prophecy came, neither by the will
of men, but by holy men of God,
who spoke, as they were moved, by the
Holy Spirit, and here, when you have all
of these, different characters, out of different times,
in different places, in history, all of which
are given, one little piece to a puzzle,
you begin to realize, that there is a
genius, there is a mind, behind this book,
of which only, you know, little pieces are
given, here and there, which prove, that the
puzzle, is being put together, by something, way
outside of itself, it is nobody inventing anything,
it is merely, the inventor himself, revealing himself,
in a way, that defies human invention, that
says, it could not have been done, by
any other way than it, and as Paul
told Timothy, he says, all scripture is given,
by inspiration of God, it is God speaking,
to man, that's the essential, that puts this
book, in a different category, than any other
book, it not only says, God spoke, but
it proves it, in such a way, as
it is undeniable, when somebody, would begin to
look, at the prophecies, that were even given,
prophecies at the time, that didn't even make
sense, to the very ones, that gave them,
as they only had, a piece of the
puzzle, when somebody said, oh you understand it,
they said no, I don't, I got an
idea, I got my own impressions of it,
but I don't know, how it fits, that's
why 1st Peter 1.10, Peter writes, he
says, of this salvation, the prophets, have inquired,
and carefully, searched, who prophesied, of the grace,
that would come to you, he says, even
the ones themselves, as they gave these truths,
as they gave their message, what God gave
them, they searched, trying to figure out, how
does this work, how does this fit, it's
almost, as if there is, you know, somebody
in a, you know, making this project, of
which each person, just has here, you design
this, you build this, you build this, and
they're all given, the specs for this, and
they're all saying, they know they're making, something
huge, but they have no idea, because there's
a genius behind, that says, I'm making it,
and I'm going to let all of you,
have a part in it, and when we
put it together, you'll all sit back, and
realize, the fact of the genius there, that
put it all together, beyond any individual, that's
why it was, that the woman at the
well, when there she spoke to Jesus, she
said to him, I know that the Messiah,
is coming, who is called the Christ, for
when he comes, he will tell us all
things, the mind there, of anybody picking up,
this Old Testament, and reading it, was realizing,
that a Messiah, is going to come, that
has been laid out, talked about, prophesied, the
all of the, the prophets of old, they
were, as they were putting this together, they're
all waiting, when is this Messiah, going to
come, because when he does, he will tell
us all things, and then there, you know,
was something that, though at the time, Noah,
you know, he prophesied, he let's us know,
the quarter of the world, from which the
Messiah, was come, that was his part, Abraham
tells us, that the nation, of the Messiah,
Jacob tells us, the tribe, that the Messiah,
will come from, David and Isaiah, tell us
the family, that the Messiah, will come from,
Micah tells us, the town, that he will
come from, Daniel the time, of his birth,
Malachi tells us, of his forerunner, that will
come, Jonah typifies, the resurrection, of the Messiah,
as all of them are given, these little
bits and pieces, that when finally, Christ comes,
who, you know, what prophet, could ever determine,
I'm going to be born, at this time,
to this family, in this city, in this
place, in Bethlehem, all of this, this is
something, that could only, have been orchestrated, outside,
the creation, something there, that then when it
happened, you had to stand back, and say,
whoever put, this project together, is God speaking,
this separates, Christianity, from all other, there is
no religion, that ever imagined, to do such
a project, but this is how, God has
his great authority, that when he then speaks,
that's why even, in the old testament, God
instructed, the children of Israel, if any man
ever comes, and supposes, to speak a prophecy,
from me, and it does not, could come
true, we have a very simple solution, kill
him, because he, he says, you'll kill him,
you'll stone him, because of the fact, that
he lied, and he deceived people, because I'll
never lie to you, everything I say, to
happen, will happen, and it did, and all
of the old testament, all these types, all
these symbols, God speaking, sundry times, and diverse
manners there, all bits and pieces, ultimately fulfilled
in Christ, that's why Jesus, told the Pharisees
one time, he says, you know, you search
the scriptures, for in them you think, you
have eternal life, but they are they, that
speak of me, I am the fulfillment, of
all of these things, that have been said
about me, before I came, so when I
came, it was undebatable, who I am, it's
greater, in all ways, all greater, of course,
than all of the prophets, greater in the
sense, that they all just had, bits and
pieces, he is the complete picture, of which
they dreamed of, and they inquired of, it's
greater by instrument, in the sense, that in
the old testament, just sinful people, talking about
one, who would deal with sin, ultimately when
he came, but when he came, we have
the son, the perfect son, himself speaking, he's
greater in time, here as he says, God
to his sundry times, and diverse manners, spoken
to us in times past, but he says,
now hath in these last days, spoken unto
us, by his son, and here it is,
there where God, is revealing, and speaking, and
saying, this is from me, and this is
how you'll know, it is me, and then
the writer, here of Hebrews, then goes on,
to tell us, who the messiah is, who
Jesus Christ is, who the son is, because
of course, the many people, he's a teacher,
or he's a fanatic, or he's a phony,
or he's a fraud, or he's a criminal,
or he's some sort, of a radical, revolutionary,
or he's somebody there, that just you know,
had a great spark, within him, like we
all have, of good, and he just fanned
his, really intently, and really harder, than most,
and was very good, but here the Bible,
God says, I want to tell you, exactly,
who it all, that was prophesied, all the
way through, these old testament, all these sundry
times, and diverse manners, here is who he
is, that came into the world, so there's
no debate, about it as far as, the
Bible is concerned, and he gives us, a
list here, he says for, he's last day,
spoken unto us, by a son, whom he
has appointed, heir of all things, by whom
also, he made the worlds, here as he
looks at him, the very first thing, that
he says about, Jesus Christ, in his introduction,
is God says, number one, he is heir,
of all things, heir, of it, and it's,
Colossians 1 15, tells us about Jesus, that
he is the image, of the invisible God,
the firstborn, of the preeminent one, of all
of creation, all that there is, that is
within creation, he is above it, and when
we use, the word firstborn, we think of,
order of birth, but the word firstborn, it's
a word protocost, it has to do, with
the preeminence, it doesn't have to do, with
being born, it's the preeminent one, that Jesus
Christ, is the preeminent one, in all of
existence, all of creation, he is above, and
beyond it, in Psalm 89 27 says, I
will make him, my firstborn, or the preeminent,
the highest of the kings, of the earth,
that when the Messiah, would come, that which
was prophesied, about him in the Old Testament,
is revealed in the New Testament, this is
who he is, and there's something there, that
of course, the Bible tells us, in the
beginning, was the word, the word was with
God, and here we have, the fact that
Jesus is God, and he has the rights,
and the privileges, of all of his nature,
his deity, there's something there, that when man
fell, of course the creation, was ripped out
of God's hands, because God had put it,
in man's essentially, and the world of course,
has gone its way, into all of its
sin, but by the time, you get to
Revelation chapter 5, you find dear John, as
he's even looking at creation, and he's looking,
and he sees this picture of heaven, and
he sees there an angel, there in heaven,
and that there's a title deed, literally of
the earth, and it is wrapped in seven
seals, it's rolled up, and everything with these
seals, and it's held, and here's the redemption,
the hope, the future of everything, who owns
creation, as John looks, who owns all of
existence, who has the right to it, and
there as they look there, and they cried
out, an angel said, who is worthy to
open the book, and break the seals, and
to look there on, who is the heir,
was the great eternal question, in heaven that
is happening, in the book of Revelation, and
then John it says, he wept profusely, for
no man was found worthy, to open the
book, and to look there on, and he
finds himself, just weeping, and he's travailing, what
do you mean, who owns it, we don't
know, and they're struggling, and then there's a
tap, on the shoulder, and one of the
four, and twenty elders come to him, and
he says, weep not John, for the lion
of the tribe, of Judah the root, and
the offspring of David, hath been found worthy,
to open the book, and to look there
on, and he says, and I looked, and
I beheld it low, in the midst of
the throne, was a lamb, who had been
slain, and then from then on, there's seven
trumpets, that blow from chapter five, to chapter
eleven, in Revelation, that we'll see on Wednesday
nights, and there's the seven seals, are broken,
and then by the time, you get to
Revelation, chapter eleven, the seventh angel, is sounded,
the seventh trumpet, is blown, the seventh seal
is broken, and then when the whole, title
deed of the earth, is finally revealed, and
is known, then the next thing, you know,
is all of heaven, begins to shout, and
they begin to worship, and they begin to
praise, for Revelation eleven, fifteen, says that he
has, the kingdoms of this world, have become
the kingdoms, of our Lord, and of his
Christ, that ultimately there, the book of Revelation,
seals and proves, the fact that he, who
created it, is heir of it, he owns
it all, everything that was, spoken into existence,
it's his, it belongs to him, all life,
all creation, everything in it, he is heir
here, when the Bible, wants to introduce us,
to Jesus Christ, he says, I want you
number one, to know you are looking, at
the one who is heir, to all things,
he is the one, to whom you have
to do, he just isn't a nice guy,
somebody there, who was a criminal, or a
teacher, or a philosopher, or did some really
nice stuff, and preach some great sermons, you
know, and really help people, really move along
through life, and spark the, you know, fan
the spark in them, and do a little
better, no you are looking, at the one
who owns all, heir of all things, he
then goes on, and he tells us as
well, in verse two he says, by whom
also he created, the worlds, he not only
he looks there, and he says that he
is heir, of all things, very simply because
of the fact, he is also the creator,
of all things, he'll have it all at
the end, back in his possession, because of
the fact, it was from his hand, that
it was all created, in the first place,
in Genesis one, when it says in the
beginning, God created the heavens, and the earth,
that the word in Hebrew there, for God
is Elohim, there is El, which is God
in the singular, Ella, which is God in
Hebrew, in the dual, and there is Elohim,
God in the plural, and here in the
beginning, God said, let us create man, after
our own image, and when God, Elohim, there
the mind, of the father, and the son,
and the spirit, is together, they were looking
there, full agreement, we are going to create,
but here as they decided, let's create, and
it's not discerned, for us clearly in Genesis,
who did the creating, in the membership, you
know among the three, but there John tells
us, in his gospel, in the beginning was
the word, the word was with God, the
word was God, the same was in the
beginning, with God, and by him, were all
things made, and without him, was not anything
made, that was made, Jesus Christ, was the
creative force, in the deity, you know in
the Trinity, that created all things, he is
heir of it, very simply, because of the
fact, that he created all things, and here
when he created, says by whom also, he
created the worlds, that word worlds, we were
most familiar, with worlds in the physical sense,
cosmos, it's not just simply saying, Jesus created
the cosmos, the physical world, the word there
in the Greek, is a word, aonios, and
aonios means, ages of ages, it's not just
simply, the physical world, although it involves the
cosmos, but it is all of time, within
creation, when God said, let there be, and
God created there, here the timeless, eternal, ever
present, unchanging God himself, who actually, is outside
of time, he now created, time, space, force,
and matter, that's what aonios is, when God
created the worlds, he created time, Bible tells
us, we need all of these things, we
can't exist, without time, space, force, and matter,
can't do it, when our time, is merely
regulated, by creation as we know it, only
working here, in our own little galaxy, only
on this planet, time is a 24 hour
day, determined by what, the earth spinning, you
know, we have 24 hours here, why, because
of the fact that, each time it spins
around, and that's a day, and it doesn't
work, in other, in any other place, time
is different, functions different, but here, in a
sense there, when for our world, we have
to have time, space, force, and matter, but
here, when God created it all, it's amazing,
one day the Bible says, time should be
no more, you know, we think, you know,
I mean, we can't, what do you mean,
time should be no more, well, time is
a part of creation, God, when he takes
us, to be with him, we can't, what
will I do, you know, how do you
do anything, without time, we don't know yet,
all we know is, it must be great,
because it's God, and it's all of his
nature, and his being, but here, the Bible
tells us, that when I am looking, at
Jesus Christ, I'm looking at the heir, of
all things, I am looking at the creator,
of all, of life, of all the world,
when you stop, to think of it, whether
you just want, to look at your own
being, you look at your body, you look
at God, creating and forming, you know, you,
and putting this, little teeny heart, that started
beating in you, as a little teeny child,
some beat, some maybe 70, 72 times a
minute, when you sit down, you do a
little figuring, yesterday I got bored, so I
did some thinking, but the, when you look
at this thing, that beats 72 times a
minute, and you take that, you know, by
the hour, you know, times 10, times 60,
and then you multiply it, times 24, and
then you multiply it, times 365, and then
you multiply that, times, let's say, the average
age span, it used to be a three
score, and 10, 70, you know, during that
time, that little thing, that starts beating, will
beat over 2,600,000 times, before it's
done, and during that length, of time, that
as it beats, and as it pumps, this
blood, through your body, it will fill, enough
tank cars, from the birth, that you, until
death, it will take you, from Boston, to
New York, of just, a pump at a
time, of blood, going through, life, now some
of you, you're over 70, and so you
already, passed up New York, and you're, you're
filling boxcars, and other places, and things, but
when you stop, to think here, on what,
I mean, God's capacity, of this unbelievable thing,
we call life, a little tiny, cubic inch,
or quarter, or half, cubic inch, of gray
matter, stores a lifetime, of memories, smells, thoughts,
words, behavior, scenes, a whole existence, of in
a sense, of so much, of where you've
been, and what you've done, and what happened,
how to think, and how to function, in
a capacity, there when God created, and in
you, and he reached down, into the dust
of the earth, and he says, let's make
man, in our likeness, in our image, and
then here, they're just putting, a touch, of
something, whether internally, there as he created, you
and I, or then when you want, to
look outside, the sense of ourself, and you
look up, and you see the sun, you
know, out there, you know, something there, this
is so, the 300, some 385,000 miles,
in diameter, 93 million miles away, something so
huge, that you could put, a 1,200
,000 earths, within it, and then you still
got, an extra room, for some 4,300
,000 moons, that just inside of it, something
there, with our moon here, there's some 211,
212,463 miles, in the average, away from
us, if you were to walk to it,
the average pace, would take you 30 years,
just to get the moon, if you could
travel, the speed of light, 186,000 miles
a second, you'd get there, in a little
less, than one and a half seconds, from
earth, to moon, traveling, when you look, you
want to look, at the expanse, of what
it is, that God has created, if you
want to go to the sun, it'll take
you, eight minutes and 20 seconds, at the
rate of, 186,000 miles per second, you
want to go to Mercury, it'll take you,
about four and a half minutes, because it's
50 million, miles away, you want to go
to Venus, it'll take you two minutes, 18
seconds, because it's, I'm a little travel agent,
this morning, some 26 million, miles away, Mars,
it'll take you four minutes, 21 seconds, because
it's 34 million, miles away, Jupiter will take
you, 35 minutes, because it's 367 million, miles
away, Saturn, one hour and 11 minutes, it's
790 million, or if you want to go,
say to Neptune, that's four hours, and 48
minutes, because it's approximately, three billion, miles away,
and now you're still though, in that again,
traveling, there, you know, for almost five hours,
at the rate of, of 186,000 miles
a second, you are traveling, and it takes
you, about five hours, and you're still, within
our tiny, little teeny, solar system, the nearest
star, outside of our solar system, is some
10 times, the boundaries, of our entire solar
system, itself, 20 billion, or 30 light years,
away, to get to the nearest star, outside,
you want to, you're looking at something, there
again, 30 years, traveling at 186,000, miles
a second, the north star, some 400 billion,
miles away, would take you 25 days, you
want to, to get there, or another one,
begalia, some 880 quadrillion, miles away, from us,
a star, that is in some, that itself,
is some 200 million, miles in diameter, greater,
than the entire, you know, the earth's axis,
around the sun, I mean, you look here,
the earth, the sun, some 93 million, miles
away, there's huge, stars, here we are, 93
million, miles away, traveling around, here is this
one star, out there, that is in, that
you could put the sun, and us, traveling
around it, inside of it, and here is,
if some people, just want to say, and
all this just happened, you know, sort of
a thing, when you think of it, but
revelation 120, Romans 120, says, for the invisible
things, from him, from the creation of the
world, are clearly seen, being understood, by the
things, that are made, even his eternal power,
and God had, so they are without excuse,
here the Bible, tells us there, when somebody,
just looks, at creation, it makes this, unbelievable
statement, God is, and God speaks, God communicates,
God is, communicating, and speaking, all the time,
that's why, the Psalmist, David, in Psalm 19,
the heavens, declare the glory of God, and
the firmament, showeth his handiwork, day and a
day, utter his speech, night and a night,
showeth knowledge, there is no speech, nor tongue,
where their voice, is not heard, and in
them, hath he set a tabernacle, for the
sun, here God, looks there, at all creation,
he says, there's this little tabernacle, the sun's
in it, but all of creation, outside, David
says, it's God speaking, telling, the world, he
is, as God sustains, and cares, and watches
over us, so unbelievably, and the wonderful thing
here, I mean, here the Bible, when you're
looking, at Jesus Christ, the Bible says, he
is heir, of all of this, simply because,
he is the creator, of it all, he
is one, when you look, at the expanse,
you know, of all of this, and you're
looking, at Jesus Christ, you're looking, at the
one, who simply created, and then it goes
on, the brightness of his glory, and the
express image, of his person, that not only,
is Jesus heir of all things, and creator
of all things, he is also the revealer,
of all things, the brightness, of the glory
of God, the express image, of his person,
when Jesus came, and he says, I am
the light of the world, when he said,
he who has seen the father, has seen
me, I am the father, we are one,
you're seeing the physical, visible image, of the
invisible God, you're looking, at the very, you
know, Christ was all, of the fullness, of
the Godhead bodily, Colossians 2, 9, and 10
tell us, when somebody's looking, at Jesus Christ,
you're looking, at the revealer, you're looking, at
the heir of all things, the creator of
all things, the revealer, of all life, somebody
there, there's all, wrapped up, in him, no
wonder he said, I am the way, and
the truth, and the life, and no man,
comes to the father, but by me, we're
one, I created in the beginning, I am
going, to have it all back, when time
shall be no more, and in the midst
of it, I am here, to reveal to
you, who God is, you know, of his
love, and of his power, he also goes
on, he says, not only the brightness, of
his glory, and the express image, of his
person, but then it goes on there, and
it tells us, and upholding all things, by
the word of his power, here he's heir
of all things, he is creator of all
things, he's the revealer of all things, because
he is always, the sustainer of all things,
he is the one, who this very moment,
holds you and I, in this world together,
he upholds all things, by his own power,
you know, scientists for years, are trying to
figure out, the atom, as you get this
little nucleus, and neutrons, and protons, and that,
I mean these things, flying around each other,
at unbelievable speeds, and how every single atom,
has its own gravitational pull, every single one
of them, everything flying, unbelievable breakneck speeds, and
yet, they all stay right next, within their
own self, and they could never, figure it
out, they can't figure it out, they have
this wonderful, terminology for it, it's called atomic
glue, I mean they're trying to find, why
doesn't the universe explode, why doesn't it just,
simply release, why is it, what is it
that holds, everything together, every atom, everything that,
as far as science is concerned, it ought
to just, vaporize, it's the way that, when
they look and study, an atom, and yet
the very basis, of all of existence, all
the world around us, and they're wondering, what
is it, well I'll tell you what it
is, Bible makes it very, very simple, God
said, he holds all things together, by the
word of his power, he said, let it
be, and God created, and he puts it
together, and when you look at this, where
God is holding it all, you know, and
not just, simply the littlest atom, of the
universe, when you look at our own sun,
and the moon, and stars around it, and
you watch on how God, as he holds
it, all together, you look at the sun,
that burns at some 12,000, pardon me,
degrees Fahrenheit, if it was, if the earth
was just a little bit, closer to it,
it would, as it revolved, it would freeze,
burn, freeze, burn, freeze, burn, you know, as
it would just go, but it's at the
perfect distance, to where it allows, life to
exist, upon it, we have, on the earth's
axis, at this 23 degrees, that it sits
upon, it allows four seasons, to happen within,
our own planet, with the moon, that goes
around, it allows the waters, to flow, in
the sense of the, tides coming in, and
out, and life is being, somehow, refreshed, and
sustained, in the water, there around us, and
the way, that the, the vapors are picked
up, you know, out of the, the seas,
out of the oceans, brought over, dropped into,
the rest of the world, water and replenish
it, and refresh it, constantly there, when you
look there, and you realize, we have this
atmosphere, around this world, unknown to the rest,
of the world, that when you look, at
all the planets, that we've ever been able,
to study, they're all pelted, with meteorites, they've
been, they're just, you know, like these, well
you've, look at a picture, of our moon,
and, and yet here, we have an atmosphere,
that basically, all the meteorites, that would have
done, long ago, to us, would have happened,
to the rest of the universe, but yet,
there is a, atmosphere around this, that burns
up, basically, all the meteorites, coming into it,
constantly, and you'd look, at these awesome things,
where occasionally, in history, when a meteorite has
come, and hit this earth, and realize, they're
what it is, capable of doing, and yet
God, has put something around us, to watch
us, and to protect us, no wonder as
Jude, tells us, now unto him, that is
able to keep you, from falling, here it
is something there, that God, he sustains, he
holds things, and he holds you together, and
it tells us later on, in this chapter,
that one day God, will fold up creation,
as a vesture, he has it all, he's
created it all, he holds it all together,
and one day he'll be, okay I'm done,
and poof, vaporize, and it's in science, will
do it's logical thing, that they can't figure
out, why it hasn't done, but right now
the reason, it all holds together, is he
does it, by the word of his power,
he is heir of all things, he is
the creator, of all things, he is the
revealer, of all things, he is the sustainer,
of all of life, in the whole process,
in which allows him, to do the work,
for which he came here for, where it
says, that when he was by himself, purged
for our sins, he was there, so he's
the heir of all things, creator of all
things, revealer of all things, sustainer of all
things, that he might be, the redeemer of
all, but that requires, man's agreement, here's something
now, they're worthy, though the bible tells us,
all have sinned, and fallen short, of the
glory of God, and the wages of sin,
is death, here we have, when you're looking,
at Jesus Christ, heir of all things, creator
of all things, sustainer of all things, revealer
of all things, now as he comes in,
of the world, he came in, to forgive,
the sins of the world, he came in,
that all those, that have ever taken, their
life away from him, as their creator, that
have refused, to acknowledge him, as their daily
sustainer, is he, if they have not walked,
in the revelation, of who he is, and
they say, I'll reveal my own truth, I'll
run my own life, I'll be the master,
of my own destiny, I created myself, I'll
take care of myself, for the rest of
eternity, when one day, they realize, the utter
foolishness, of such a thought, well let's see,
if I'm not going to believe that, then
I'll pinch my fingers, and just, hmm, start
maybe, finding nirvana, and hoping that, there's a
dead fly, that needs a new soul in
it, when I die, you know or something,
and I'm going to come back, I mean
that's the absurdity, of human thinking, when you
would basically take, all other religions, nobody else
even suggest, for a moment to say, here's
who created it, here's who owned it, here's
who watches it, every moment of every day,
and holds it together, even while it is
in rebellion, to him, here's the one that
feeds you, and clothes you, here's the one
that provides, here's the one that keeps the
sun, and the moon, and the stars, around
your life every day, here's the one that
allows, you to have fresh water, and eat
and sleep, and drink and function, and carry
on, even in his patience, he does all
of these things, that he might become the
redeemer, for when he had by himself, purged
himself of our sins, he who knew no
sin, the bible says, became sin for us,
the wonderful thing, that when he came for
us, Hebrews later on, it's going to tell
us, in chapter 7 verse 27, about Jesus,
well who need it not daily, as those
high priests, in the old testament, all the
old high priests, they had to offer up
sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then
for the peoples, but for this he did
once, when he offered up himself, neither by
the blood of goats, and calves, but by
his own blood, hath he entered into, once
into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption,
for us, Hebrews 7 verse 26 says, for
then must he have suffered, since the foundation
of the world, but now once to the
end of the world, he hath appeared to
put away sin, by the sacrifice of himself,
the bible tells us, essentially when you and
I, and the world, and history, looks at
Jesus Christ, the heir, creator, sustainer, revealer, the
redeemer, he does all of this to say,
I created it all, I own it all,
I sustain it all, I reveal it all,
because I want to redeem, I want you
to look at the facts, as if to
say, where do you think it came from,
who do you think owns it, who do
you think one day, with whom you'll have
to do, where any other answers, in all
of existence, where he says, I love you,
and I myself, prove who I am, and
the greatest of it, because I, the one
who have left heaven, come down here, into
the very creation, I spoke into existence, and
I've offered myself for you, for your sins,
to say I love you, and I forgive
you, and it redeems us, as Peter says,
for as much as you know, that you
were not redeemed, by corruptible things, as silver
and gold, and from your vain manner of
life, received by the traditions, of your father,
you weren't redeemed, by human effort, or any
physical thing, you were redeemed, by the blood
of Jesus Christ, who died for you, the
savior of the world, and then lastly, we'll
hold it here, then it tells us, the
last thing is, he is the ruler of
all things, heir of all things, creator of
all things, sustainer of all things, revealer of
all things, redeemer of all things, because he
is also, it says, that when he had
by himself, purged our sins, he sat down
at the right hand, of the majesty on
high, the old testament, all of the priests,
there were no even, there weren't even any
seats, in the temple, there wasn't any place,
before the priest, because his work, was never
finished, but when Jesus Christ, went to the
cross, and he offered up himself, for us,
he says, it is finished, and then when
it was finished, he sat down, at the
right hand, of the throne of God, of
the majesty on high, he now sits in
heaven, he now sits there, upon his throne,
after say, after being creator, revealer, sustainer, heir,
of all things, and now he, and redeemer,
he now looks, finished work, and he says,
I am ruler of it all, I own
it, unashamedly, and the wonderful thing is, when
you and I, this is who we worship,
when you begin, I mean, you want to
take, pick any, you know, I could go
through world religions, I just picked a few,
that have taken billions, of people into them,
and then you set this, these three verses,
of this book, you know, here next to
any one of them, and you've got some
guy, I mean, he sits there, and he's
troubled, and he contemplates, and he sits there
for four years, under a thing, and then
he stands up, and he says, I've observed
some things, there's pain in the world, people
get old, and people get die, and they
disease, we got to do something about it,
and then he goes back, and he sits
for years, and he says, I'm not Buddha,
I've been enlightened, we have to say, doesn't
exist, we're just going to, move out of
it mentally, we've got to find nirvana, lifted
above it, well I'll tell you, that's as
absurd, as anything else, there is out there,
and some of the, any other religion, this
is one where, Jesus Christ comes into the
world, out of heaven, the only one, there
is no other religion, in the world, that
suggests for a moment, that God did it
all, every other one, depends upon man, pinching
his fingers, doing something, snapping his fingers, paid
off something, buying it with gold and silver,
but here is the precious blood of Christ,
and as you and I, as we look
into this wonderful book, that we're going to
be looking at, the writer of Hebrews, he
looks over and over, at Jesus Christ, and
each time, begin to realize, when so often,
some of you maybe go to work, and
people say, well how do you know Christianity,
I mean, aren't they all, just sincerity, we
live in a world, where sincerity is a
religion, all by itself, if you're just sincere,
you ought to go to heaven, just believe
anything, sincerely, just believe I'm going to be
a fly, I'll go to fly heaven, I
guess, if I sincerely believe this, or else
I look there, and realize, no, there is,
just as real, as there is this creation,
there is a genius that made it, and
who owns it, and is going to deal
with it, and has dealt with it, in
his way, and a Christian is somebody who
says, I understand it, the amazing thing is
to me, is I can't believe he loves
me so much, that's the biggest question, I
have no problem with understanding, all this about
God, the only thing I don't understand, is
why he would do all this for me,
and I guess that's what we'll get, the
rest of eternity to figure out, and then
we'll be looking and saying, okay, after I
figured out why he loved me, then I'll
be wondering, okay, now how about you, you
know, or something, so we'll have a lot
to do, for a long time, but perhaps
today you're here, and you haven't come to
Christ yourself, perhaps you're one of those sincere
people, try hard, do good, find me any
other verse in the world, that takes what
these three verses do, and says, this is
so, this is so, God, spoke, and created,
and owns, and loves, and has redeemed, you,
it's his grace, by which you even sit
here today, or do anything, amen, Father, we
thank you for your word, and thank you
for your love, your unbelievable love for us,
thank Jesus, you, the one that we talk
to, that we do have this wonderful companionship
with, and this friendship with, that sometimes we
take for granted, but Lord to sit back,
and look at your word, and realize this
is who you are, and while the world
uses your name, and profanes it, and blasphemes
it, Lord to us, we want to thank
you for it, and Lord this morning, I
just pray that if there's any here, that
have never received you, that realize Jesus, you
did say, I am, Savior of the world,
I'm the light of the world, and I've
given myself for you, that maybe today, they
just want to open their heart, and say
Jesus, would you come in, and would you
be all these things to me, I want
to be, something that you are heir to,
I want to give you my life to
you, you have created me, you've sustained me,
all the way through life, even as I
sit here now, all that because your love,
has redeemed me, and you're waiting for the
moment, that finally it all adds up, and
figures in my head, and I open my
heart, and give my life to you, Lord
Jesus may we do that today, and I
just pray, that perhaps if there's even just
one today, that would say Don, I want
Jesus Christ to come into my life, even
while we're praying, I'd like to pray with
you, I'd like you to lift your hand,
I just want to pray for you, pray
with you, if you're here today, say I
want to give my life to Christ, I
believe this, and I want him to come
into my life, to be my Savior, to
be my Redeemer, I believe he died for
me, there any, wherever you are, I'd like
you to just lift your hand, put it
down, I want to pray for you, the
Lord may just do a wonderful work, within
your life, as you surrender to him, there
any others, today, Jesus, I want to give
you my life, Father, I thank you for
your love, and for your goodness, and Lord,
I just pray that today, that each one
of us, whether it would be a day,
that we would open our heart initially, or
we have loved you for years, that Lord,
even your word today, would just increase our
love, we would find ourself in utter amazement,
to realize it fresh, who you are, what
you mean to us, and your right to
rule and reign, not just simply to sustain
our life, but to rule over it, to
lead it and guide it, and Lord, we
just all of us, we want to offer
ourselves afresh to you now, Jesus, in your
wonderful name we pray, Amen.