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And Jesus richly meet not to our eyes is light so dear, no earthly tie so sweet #159.
Chapter 2, verse 11.
For both he that sanctifieth, and they that are sanctified are all of one, for which 'cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
And again I will put my trust in him, and again behold I and the children which God hath given me.
For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same that through that he might destroy him that had the power of death. That is the devil.
And deliver them who through fear of death, where all their lifetime subject to *******.
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels.
But he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God.
To make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
Trained and it's like.
One in kind.
Like as we have been like the first man Adam, we shall be like Christ.
We can say Eric Smith used to say this to us, every believer.
Can know and say I am in Christ.
Those departed Saints were gone there with Christ.
And we, when we arrive there, are going to be like Christ in Christ.
With Christ the departed Saints, and then in that glory scene like him.
It is absolutely beyond our comprehension to realize.
That the Lord Jesus Christ.
Took our place in death in order that he might give us his place in life.
And that life into which He has brought us is His life in resurrection.
So that is the basis of his being able of the apostle being able to say here that he that sanctifies that is the Lord Jesus Christ, who by his death and resurrection has brought us to God. And we who are in the benefit of all the work that he accomplished, are all of one kind, as has been said, our dear sisters who are somewhat more familiar with the.
Clothing business. And some of us would recognize what we talk about a die lot. You go to the clothing store to buy material and you have to pay attention to the dialogue. Well, we are all in the same dialogue with this Blessed One who has sanctified us and brought us before God that has set us apart to Himself. He sanctified himself in the glory in order that He might bring us. Therefore He is, but we're all in one.
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Company and one kind.
As what brought before us here in this verse 11.
In the last part of this verse.
I know that we all probably know this, but you want to keep your conversation, right? And it says for which course he is not ashamed to call them Brethren, we don't want to turn that around and call him by that name, do we?
He's far above us.
I wonder if the ninth verse of the previous chapter would be a commentary on that. I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
I don't know of any places in the Bible where it uses an adjective with God or with Christ. You don't find dear Lord, it's not needed.
Pull in Reverend as his name.
And he is to be held in reverence in the assembly of the Saints.
And all of them that are about him.
But he calls us Brethren.
Oh, how wonderful that is.
We can rejoice in that.
Then the Lord takes up.
3 quotations from preceding scriptures.
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren.
In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
That's the first one.
And this is one of the two mentions of the Church in Hebrews. The other one was in the 12Th chapter Church of the First Born, which are written in heaven.
Church is not the main subject of this book. It's the Lord.
Focus upon him.
How good that last meeting put our focus upon him and much of the time this meeting.
So doesn't he change one word here, in the midst of the church will I sing? Praise unto thee, How is that in the sums, the 22nd song?
What does it say then?
Congregation midst of the congregation. Now he uses the word church.
Comes right down to the Church of the first born, those who are written in heaven.
Then he says in verse 13 again.
I will put my trust in him.
We will find the answer to this in the 17th of John.
In the Lord's Prayer to the Father, he entrusts.
The church to his father's care.
In.
Verse 11.
He says now I am no more in this world, but these are in the world. He looks at himself as going up to heaven then, and I come to thee now. He He puts his trust in the Father for our keeping. While he's there, he never leaves us comfortless.
He says Holy Father keep through thine own name. We know God is our Father.
Those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are.
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While I was with him in the world, I kept him. Isn't that nice to see that in prayer?
In the 17th of John.
The Blessed Lord entrusts his own to the keeping of the Father.
And again, I will put my trust in him.
Now the next one, the third quotation from Scripture.
And again, behold, I and the children which God hath given me.
We'd like to think of this.
As him bringing us into the Father's house.
I'm sure it fits.
Just think of it, beloved.
Many sons to glory, Bring him. He's going to get us there.
And we like to think of that as the sun.
Bringing us in and.
Stretching out his arms toward the church and saying.
Here they are.
Introduced into the Father's house.
Nothing can be more blessed than that.
We're going to get into the father's house and be introduced their children, children of God.
In John chapter one John chapter 2.
When the apostle writes to his little children.
Those dear to his heart.
And that affectionate expression little children, because their sins are forgiven them, and because they know the father.
It is essential to Christianity, according as it has been revealed.
In the New Testament, and as we've had brought before us in these meetings that we enter into and enjoy God as our Father.
He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
In resurrection.
He said to dear Mary, out of whom he had cast 7 demons.
Go unto my brethren, and say, they might send unto my Father, and your Father, and my God, and your God.
So that we are brought into the same blessed relationship in the family of God that he himself enjoys.
So complete is that relationship sealed by our introduction into the Father's house by that blessed One, as has just been brought before us that twice in the Epistles, once in the Epistle to the Romans, and again in the Epistle to to Galatians, the Holy Spirit enables us to use the same intimate term of endearment that the Lord Jesus Christ used when He prayed in the Garden.
ABBA father, how important it is beloved that we enter into and enjoy the intimacy of relationship as God has fought.
What, You were referring to Yule in his?
Speech to Mary in resurrection and what he said.
It was the first time it was possible to make that statement where the work was all done whereby we could be brought into the family of God and whereby we can know God is our Father.
My father and your father.
My God and your God.
The Old Testament Saints knew God, but they didn't address him knowing his father, did they?
That's family relationship based upon the work all done.
And the Spirit of God uniting us to Christ.
There is a very practical result from the enjoyment of this intimacy to which we referred.
And it's contrasted with what the disciples were taught to pray.
And the prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ in chapter 17 of John.
That we've had mentioned already.
Teach us to pray and the expression is our Father who art in heaven.
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The very address of God in that prayer denotes a distance between the disciples and the Father that is in heaven.
But we have been brought to the father's house, we have brought in, we have been brought into that relationship.
That God is our Father, and so when the Lord Jesus Christ begins that prayer, it's very conversationally, said Father.
And this is the way that we address our God, not as someone who as at a distance from us, but those who have been brought right into the intimate circle of the family fellowship, and that is in heaven. We are raised up together and seated together in the heavenlies in Christ.
That's where we are. That's our position before God, and that's what we need to realize.
And that's the reason we don't address him in that distant relationship. God is our Father in heaven. No, you're in heaven and he is there, and we address him as Father.
And other things you notice referring back to John 17.
He starts the prayer.
Father.
Forget which verse that was.
Without any.
Thing before it.
Oh, Father verse 5.
But when he talks?
About us.
He adds in verse 11, Holy Father.
I state that because we had been.
Unholy.
To get into his presence, we have to.
Might, say, be partakers of His Holiness. It's his work so perfect that he can refer to it that way. But He would just have us remember when we talked about God as Father. Always He is holy, so should we be.
Just as a passing comment in relation to how the Lord Jesus Christ addresses the Father in respect to us when he addresses the Father in respect to the world, it's old righteous Father. So there is an element, dear Saints of God, in which we should address our Father with intelligence relative to those for whom we are praying.
In this epistle.
I want to go back to the ninth verse of Hebrews 1.
Brother Ernie pointed it out.
Even thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. And then in Zechariah 13 and verse 7.
It says a waco's sword against my shepherd, against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts. He is Jehovah's fellow because he is God, He is.
Of the same substance, same kind, the same essence as the Father. And we are his fellows because he became a true man, didn't he? He took.
Of human nature, seen a part, of course, but it's still human nature. And so we are. We are his fellows and I think.
That's the thought there in verse eleven of our chapter. Both he that sanctifieth, that's the Lord.
And they who are sanctified are all of one of one substance. So. So we're called his fellows, for which 'cause he's not ashamed to call them brethren.
It's not so much the relationship of our relationship to God is our Father in Hebrews, but it's more to God. The High Priest is to God, and the Advocate is to the Father.
And it's our approach to God that's before us in Hebrews, and it's he who was the Son of God, whom God sent, and who is now declared by him. And so we are we have a nature that is of the same kind as the sun.
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And so we're he sanctifies us. He's the sanctifier and we are the sanctified ones. He's not ashamed to call us brethren. Because of that, we've been brought so near. It's more the nearness of nature, I think, that we have here rather than relationship, which you have more in John's gospel. But they're very close, I know. But.
They're all of one of one kind.
It was said of 1 lump of 1 substance.
Wonderful expression. Some of these expressions are very deep and profound. It's always not ashamed to call us brethren, saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the church, where I sing praise unto thee, And I put my trust in him. And again behold, I and the children which God has given me.
That that 14th verse is very, very precious. For as much then as the children, I've just spoken of us as the children in verse 13, Behold, I am the children which God hath given me. He'll present us before God the Father, and he'll say that. And what a will will be the trophy of his grace, the trophies of his grace, for as much then as the children.
Are partakers of flesh and blood.
He also himself likewise took part of the same That's how he can call us his fellows.
We are his fellows because he came to where we were and he became one of us true men. His humanity was not a special, unique, separately created humanity that was absolutely holy. Some have taught that trying to preserve the holiness of the Lords humanity so that he didn't contract any of the evil of his mother's sin nature. Well, the Holy Spirit prevented that the power of the highest overshadowed here.
And that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. The Spirit of God preserved Christ's humanity as being holy. But it was true humanity. It wasn't a separate created humanity. Then he wouldn't be. He wouldn't be of the same kind as we are. But we're of one kind, and so we have.
A humanity. And when Adam fell, he was just as much a man after he fell as he was before he fell.
But the state of his humanity changed from innocence to sinfulness.
But the state of Christ, humanity was holy. Neither innocent nor sinful, but holy. But it's true humanity. He became a true man, and so he calls us brethren. And we're of the same kind as he is in, in that sense of having the same human nature.
He's just as much a man with respect to us as he is Jehovah's fellow with respect to Jehovah. He is of the same essence of God himself, because he's God. It's a tremendous thought to think of these things.
A body hast thou prepared me?
That was married.
But in type, it was Israel. Let's go to the Romans 9. I think it's so nice to see the loveliness of the way that's spoken of in Romans 9.
He's a real man, as you're saying.
Born of a woman.
What does it say in Romans 9 beginning with?
Verse 4.
Might read verse 3 to get the statement of Paul and to his.
Brethren, his kinsmen and then go on to verse verse three. I could wish myself were a curse from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the place. I cannot understand that love, but I believe it. That's Paul for his fellow Jews and he says who are Israelites?
To whom pertain at the adoption and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law and the service of God, and the promises of this verse, whose are the fathers?
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And all of whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came to his overall God blessed earth that verse whose are the fathers. We had that in the first chapter in the first verse.
Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is overall God, He came of Israel, born of Israel.
He sat on the cross looking at his mother.
Woman, Behold thy son.
God has a special love for Israel.
He still has a special love for Israel.
Because his son came of Israel.
He is called Jews and we're reading the book of Hebrews. There are human and natural relationships that God set up and it's just nice to see them.
It doesn't change the eternal aspect of the holiness. He always was the Son of God, but he became a man, and the body was prepared, conceived of the Holy Ghost, but born of Mary, born of Israel. Whichever way you want to look at it, that fifth verse in Romans 9, whose are the Fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh, that's his humanity, isn't it?
Christ came and now we have His deity whose overall God bless it forever. Amen again the mystery of this person. It's all true, isn't it all through the scriptures?
And like you were saying, this 14th verse is very, very comprehensive.
You just revel when you think of this verse, for as much as the children are partakers of flesh and blood.
That's God. That's the Lord looking at you, and I of the atom race at only that life, flesh and blood.
He also himself likewise took part of the same that through death.
That's the only way he could die and bear the sentence that we had earned the wages of sin is death.
He took that form so that he could pay that debt. What a marvelous plan is God's for salvation.
And what for that through death he might destroy?
Him that had the power of death, that is the devil.
And delivered them, whose, through fear of death, were all their lifetimes subject to *******.
Well, he was going to destroy the devil.
He hath abolished sin and brought life an incorruptibility to light through the Gospel.
So he he dies that through death he takes, he takes away the.
Judgment of sin, which is death, which was introduced.
By Satan, who tempted Adam, Adam and Eve the pair.
Say God does know that he shall be come as God, knowing good and evil. I may not be quoting that right, but that was the substance of it.
And after it was done.
God comes and looks back there.
This is all in Genesis and he says now the Trinity talking.
Behold the man.
Let's go back and read those verses. Behold the man. It's so wonderful to see how that.
Was treated there when sin came in and when we got a conscience.
So.
Behold.
The man.
Is become as one of us? Somebody tell me where I'm supposed to look. Which were which chapter John 19 and five.
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3rd of Genesis and 22nd verse, 22nd verse. There it is.
This is what the Trinity are talking about.
And they say, behold the man. Now that was what they were called in the 5th chapter. Adam, behold the man.
Is become as one of us. The knowledge that God has of good and evil has been acquired through sin without the power to control, and it's a catastrophe and the whole world explains it.
But God at that time to know good and evil. Now God put the stop the things, lest he put forth his hand and take hold, take also of the tree of the life, and eat and live forever. He put cherubim to guard that place.
What a horrible thing it would have been in this world if everybody that was born and raised the center still lived. You couldn't. It couldn't be. God wasn't going to let it happen, so.
Man acquired the knowledge of good and evil and conscience, and I think our conscience is the proper entrance of the truth into our souls to give us light to know how we should be.
Truth needs to get into our consciences and stir us up.
And perhaps we needed every day. Well our 14th verse of John of Hebrews 2 again.
For as much then as the children, that's the children of Adam, I suppose. Here are particulars of flesh and blood. He also himself liked part of the saying. He became a real man, life of flesh and blood.
That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them so.
Satan has lost that power.
Of death.
He brought life an incorruptible bullet to light through the gospel.
Speaking of the occasion in Genesis 3, and what a beautiful picture shows up there. Because at that very time when man sinned and lost his innocence, God immediately steps in. And here's what he says. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed, and her seed, and it as Christ shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heels.
Think of it. Genesis 3 God. Of course we know that it was long before this, that the thought, the intent of God was already established long before this. But he brings it out in the very first part of the book, that there is going to be one who will come up of the woman, the seed of the woman who is going to redeem man.
You also made a statement that it had to be in the 14th verse, for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same. It had to be. And don't we get the proof and evidence of that in the garden, father, if it be possible?
That just cut fast from me.
But it wasn't. It wasn't possible. It had to be. It had to be.
And he was given a body. A body was given to him for the express purpose of going to California. You could almost say that for Christ to gain the victory, there was no shortcut. He had to go that road, become a man.
That could die.
And that would because it was in God's mind, it was in God's plan to save.
Their own grace.
But one perfect man.
The only one he became a man.
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And he walked steadfastly to the cross. The first man was tested as a full grown man.
The second man had to be tested as a full grown man.
But he had to grow up from childhood to be a faithful and merciful high priest in things pertaining to God so they could make reconciliation for the people and feel the feelings that we passed. Jesus knows what a what a baby is. He knows what a boy is, what a 12 year old is.
Was that 30 years old man was and when he was full grown, he entered into his ministry.
And was allowed to be tested of Satan and conquered Satan with the word of God.
But there in Luke, I think it was tested. Says he departed from him for a season.
And perhaps what you referred to as the Garden. Is that so, David, that St. was allowed to get back to the Lord again and impress upon him the horrors of death.
I'm sure that it was in view of the.
Cross that we find him in the garden in view of the scene of what was going to take place.
Which he knew very well, if it be possible. Amazing statement.
He tasted death, as none of us will ever taste it, and it was through death that he destroyed him that had the power of death. The devil. Beautiful picture in the Old Testament. And David and Goliath when David used the sling and the stone and Goliath fell on his face. But then it is.
He pulls Goliath's sword out of his sheep and cuts off his head with his own sword. It's a picture of the Lord Jesus.
Defeating Satan with that which Satan himself had used to keep in captivity, those that were all their lifetime subject to ******* through fear and.
It's interesting, the new translation reads. There, in First Samuel 17, he killed him completely.
And that's what the Lord Jesus did at the cross. He completely destroyed him that had the power of death.
What a victory we stand in brethren. We will never taste death like Jesus tasted it. Death may touch these bodies, but really, truly death. We will never die in the sense that the Lord Jesus face to death for us.
51St have reference primarily to the Old Testament states.
Thinking as an example.
As high as the 38th chapter of Isaiah here to die, you know, even though he was a man in face.
Ruben, I believe you're absolutely right. The Old Testament Saints, the more godly they were, the more they feared death.
They stepped from a life Into Darkness. They did not step into light. They went from this life Into Darkness. They did not know what we know. They didn't have what we have in first Thessalonians. 4 They didn't know that. And so the more godly they were, the more they knew that God hated sin and had to judge sin. And they didn't realize. And you know, Martha was a picture of that, wasn't it? She says. I know that there will be the resurrection of the dead at the end.
The age or the end of the time and the Lord. Jesus had to correct her on that. I am the resurrection of boy Second Timothy two or Second Timothy 110 has been quoted. Maybe it'd be good to read that again, because really deals with exactly what you're talking about.
Reading from the ninth verse, it says Second Timothy 19, who has saved us and called us with unholy calling, not according to our works.
According to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death and hath brought life and incorruptibility to light through the gospel. In other words, the Lord Jesus going into death brought.
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To light.
Brought to light, life and immortality through the gospel. So not only is him who had the power of that annulled destroyed, but death itself is abolished. Isn't that wonderful? The place of the Lord Jesus has brought us to. I'd like to read two other scriptures in connection with that.
In Romans 8.
Verse 38 Connection with Death. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I am persuaded that that death cannot separate us from his love. And then in First Corinthians 3.
Verse 21 Therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours. And hear Christ's and Christ is God's death to the Christian is not the king of terrors.
With nothing but a big black hole behind it. To the unsaved. I mean it's it's a king of terrorists. It's not that the Christian it's a door of entrance into the presence of the Lord. And it's not to be feared. It's it's something which Paul says in Philippians I have.
I have to choose, If I had to choose, between remaining here in the body or departing and being with Christ, which is far better, he'd rather depart and be with Christ. But he said it's necessary, for your sakes, that I remain so He stayed here a bit longer to help the Saints on. But death is not something the Christian fears at all. It's it's it's his servant now ushering him into the very presence of the Lord. That's very precious.
When Mark checked in First Corinthians 15. Another thing about death at the end of the 54th verse.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
I'd like to read. I'd like to read 2 notes in the Darby translation on verse 14. Now you're going to have to listen very carefully to get this.
Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, and he has a note for partake coin O'Neill, which is the word fellowship, communion, that is, they are in that condition.
They are in that condition.
Partake.
As their common lot, the children, we all partake of flesh and blood. That's the condition.
Only way we can come. There's no other way we can come. But then it goes on to say.
He also in like manner took part in, took part in. Now that's a different word and the note says it's he's got 3 words in English to describe the one word in Greek took part in. And he says there is an intended difference here between the words for partake Connell and took part in Matecho verse 14.
The first.
The first referring to the children, is a common equal sharing of the nature. The 2nd referring to Christ means he took a part in it, and refers always to something outside myself which I take or take apart. In the first word refers to a joint participation in that which belongs to me, or to known fellowship.
That's what the children partake of the second is used in chapter 513 Partakes of Milk, 1St Corinthians 910, where the Reaper gets a share in the flowers. Hope First Corinthians 10/17 where we partake of the loaf.
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And that's that. I'm not going to read any more of the note, but yeah, that's going to be well worth it. Read the notes and understand those notes are very, very precious and give you an insight.
I I get questions all the time, and a person asks a question and I say to myself, when they're they don't ever read the new translation. If they read the new translation, they know the answer to that because it's right there. But it takes diligence, doesn't it? And study, and the reward is wonderful.
Hey, you've read that. Tell us simply the difference. Well, we we, we we commonly share the flesh and blood. That's the only way that's common to us. That's natural to us. He took a part in it from without. He was outside of that sphere of existence. And then he entered it by grace and takes a part in it and becomes a true man. But he wasn't. He wasn't in that state originally.
He the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, so he took a part in it.
And He came to where we were. That's the only way He could save us. That's the only way He could reach us, is to become one of us and take a part in the very basic nature that is ours, sin apart. And He did that. He did, by grace, take a part in it, something that we have no control over. When we're brought into the world by birth, we're just we just partake of it as a common lot of mankind. But He an infinite grace.
Became a servant and took a part in that.
Which we are so that he could he could reach us, he couldn't save us any other way.
Similar thoughts in some of the verses we've already read.
Referring to.
John 114 The Word was made flesh or became flesh.
And dwelt among us full of grace and truth, and there in Genesis 322, where we are reading.
The Trinity looked at the first man and they say.
Behold, a man is become, he hadn't been before, as one of us to know good and evil is become.
But man could not control that.
That knowledge of good and evil.
And went on to sin, which brought great remedy, great pain in this world for these 6000 years.
But the victories gained by Christ.
And to deliver them who through fear of death, were all their lifetimes subject to *******.
Fear of death.
It's everywhere. We have life that's given to us and we want to keep it.
It belongs to God.
And we wanted and it's right that we should want it, but sin works in US.
Those old timers Methuselah lived between 969 years old. God let them live a long time. Then well they let the earth get filled up and he shortened alive because of the corruption and sin in the world. But last of all Christ came and think of the victory. He has abolished death. The sting is gone because he gives eternal life.
When we get eternal life, we shouldn't fear death.
Not that we want to die. I would say circumstances we want to get out of. But as Chuck has said, it's a possession. For us, death is a possession. The worst thing that death can do to a believer is to usher him into the presence of God, a messenger to get us there. These are right thoughts about these things because crisis gained the victory.
Well, why did he? Why in this 14th verse? Why did he take a part in the same that through death? The only way he could go into death, the only way he could die, is to become a man. If he had become an Angel, he couldn't die. He couldn't have reached us. He would have been a descent from deity, an infinite descent from deity to become any kind of a creature. But the only way he could save us and deliver us from the power of Satan and destroy Satan in his power, which is the power of death that he has over man, is to become a man himself and to die.
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And to die, go into death. That's the stronghold of Satan's power. He went into the very stronghold of Satan's power. And he he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Ephesians 4 He went right down into that power and came out victorious in resurrection. And Satans power was vanquished and destroyed there. Interesting what it says in Leviticus.
The life of the flesh is in the blood.
And I have given it to you upon the altar, for it is the blood that make it an atonement for the soul that expresses what Chucks been saying. The Lord had to put away sin.
So he took the life that we have.
And died in that life, and arose victorious in an eternal life, and gives that to us.
All these things are involved in these verses. The depth of the plan of God, the deliverance, the victory is just tremendous.
In Romans 8 and three we get.
The measure.
To which the Lord Jesus Christ came, and partaking of the same for what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.
There, one brother has said about that is as close as the human mind can conceive.
Of that holy man becoming like us. But he did take real humanity, and as far as a human mind can conceive, it was in order that he could be a sin offering to accomplish what all of the order under Judaism could not accomplish. You know, law never brought a soul to God and never had.
If there had been a law that could have given life, and Christ died in vain, but here is that plastic one who came as near to us as to be made in the lateness of our flesh, and through death annulled the power of death. Annulment is making something as though it had never been.
Divorce and separation. It's common in this world to hear.
Well, it's only human descent. It's only human to fail, because man doesn't know humanity in any other state but the fallen sinful state that we're in, that man is in. But we're going to spend eternity as men and women. Well, I don't know how it's going to be. I'm not going. I don't know. We're going to spend eternity with the Lord in bodies redeemed and glorified, and we'll be perfectly human.
But we'll never sin, never sin. Humanity, apart from sin was the Garden of Eden. And we're like, well, we'll be not in an innocent state, but in a holy state for all eternity. And it's not necessary to attach sinfulness to humanity. The Lord was a true human, but He was sinless. He was. He was, you might say, more human, according to God's thoughts of humanity than we are, because we're in a sinful state. And that's never that was never God's intention, was it?
That was never God's design in the 1St place. He didn't create man a Sinner. He fell.
The Son of God was manifested to undo or annull the works of the devil. He brought in sin.
But here comes the last Adam, the 2nd man, the Son of God.
Out of heaven, to undo and to deliver.
It's deliverance that we enjoy, beloved, because the Lord Jesus Christ's heel was crushed in the language of Genesis 3IN crushing the head whose heel was bruised, and crushing the head of him who had the power of death, he died. But he, being the infinite person that he was, death had no claim over him. He burst the bonds of death. He brought himself forth again out of that borrowed tomb and has LED.
Those who were in captivity.
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In triumph we are delivered from the consequences of sin. The wages of sin is death. He died and annulled the power of him who had that authority and set us free.
And in the last book, Revelation, in the first chapter in the 18th verse. I think we've quoted it before, but we'll quote it again, Jesus the victor.
Stating I am.
His title he that liveth.
Eternal life and was dead.
Impossible for him to live, to die as God.
But he wanted us. So what did he have to do? He had to take on our limitations, our natural body. The life of the flesh was in the blood. He acquired that body. It was prepared for him. He lived in it, and he died in it. And he drove. He arose in the same body, but with a different life. I noticed Bob this morning mentioning that.
That he has a body.
Of flesh and bones doesn't say anything about.
That's what he says in the end of one of the Gospels. Handle me and see where spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have a real body. We can't understand that. But the life of that new body is not blood, it's spirit.
Resurrection life. Resurrection life. What a marvelous thing, that.
God didn't look down and if we were to read other scriptures like Jude and other and.
Genesis and other places we'd find that there were fallen angels, but God didn't look down upon them and send a savior for them. He looked upon a man in his fallen state.
And as John 316 tells us, that he.
For God so loved the world. That's not the world physically, that's the world as humanity.
And what a marvelous thing he passed angels by. He came down far, far, far lower than angels, down to where you and I were, and met us in our need. That's what we have in that 16th verse.
God said to Abraham, and thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. So he laid hold of the seed of Abraham, had a call to our attention, the son of David and the son of Abraham there is the Jew and the Gentile brought in, but here it's the seed of Abraham, so that every man who will simply trust the Lord Jesus Christ can be brought into this blessing portion that we've been considering.
He didn't espouse the cause of angels, so he didn't take hold of angels by the hand. That's a literal rendering of that 16th verse and an undertake for them. No. He espoused the cause. The seed of Abraham, Seed of faith, those that have faith. Abraham was the man of faith, isn't it?
God had prepared you.
Man. And he prepared the earth.
Poor man.
And the poor first race was deceived.
God looked at that.
Deception.
And found the guilt, I think in.
Who wanted to take over and have the world in his power in the fallen state?
But no God had another plan.
And it was to make himself known in three ways.
Lord makes himself known in this book.
And he makes himself known as the eternal God.
And then he makes himself known as God is light.
And then he makes himself known as God is love.
I don't think there's more that we can know about God. He is the eternal, He is light, and he is loved not to make himself known as love. He's done that in four ways, and we often speak of that. And the first one is easy, and we love it. That's John 316. That's his love of compassion. He was his creature.
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Deceived and groveling down here in this world.
And groaning and dying.
Oh, he came down in compassion. That's his love of compassion.
But then, and we've been having it in these verses, there's the love of relationship.
Now you and I were all children to start with, and our parents, if we knew them, loved us. And we begat children and we love them.
God makes himself known in that relationship. That love is the love of relationships. And in that we get some testing. By God, it's the 12Th of Hebrews. You might just turn to it a little bit because.
It's part of the way of knowing God.
In relationship.
We'll start with the fifth verse.
And he had forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, that starts children.
My son, despise not the allocationing of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. Now notice what it says. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth. Oh, he works with his children to train us up. He loves us as children. That's a that's a love of relationship. So we know a little bit more about God and God of love and compassion now in relationships.
Then.
If we go to John.
I have to look at the chapter.
John, perhaps it's 14.
1St is the love of compassion, then the love of relationship, and then the love for obedience. And it's worth it. Jesus says, Therefore doth my father love me? Which chap is that? John 10. All right, now we got the place 17.
It's a love for obedience.
Read a few verses here.
We always start with the other sheep in verse 16 because that refers to us Gentiles.
Another sheep I have which are not of this old them also I must bring in their who is working to get us.
And they shall hear my voice, and there shall be 1 flock and one shepherd. Then the Lord says this therefore, that my Father love me because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. But he could say, I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Therefore does my father Let me? What do you think about? Doesn't say, Well, didn't God love that perfect Son? Of course he did. Always. He loved him perfectly.
But the son gave the father an added reason to love him.
Because he went into death is an added cause obedient unto death, the love of God has made known perhaps greater there yet.
But then there's another one, and that's love of communion, and that is in the 14th of John. I just state these four ways in which the love of God is made known in John 14.
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There are two verses to read.
21.
And 23 John 1421 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me now he that loveth me shall be loved of my fault. There's the love of God the Father coming out towards you the obedient. 1.
He that keeps his commandments, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Now the 23rd verse, practically the same. Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loved me, he will keep my words. The proof of our love is obedience.
Then what? And my father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him, brethren. That's right now in the beginning of this chapter 14.
The Lord talks about going away and coming again.
He shall see me well here, as it were, The heart of God of love, who loves his children, loves obedient children, does not want to wait until he gets the family into heaven.
But it comes to us in communion. The love of communion is enjoyed as we contemplate the love of God toward us. So the love of God is made known in compassion, in relationship, and for obedience and for the joy of communion. The Father and the children are the Lord and the children, the Lord and his brethren.
The love of God.
We've been talking about the.
Death of Christ.
And when we look at that scripture in John 10.
Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
The end of the 81St?
I will read the 18th verse between. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down on myself. I have power to lay it down. I have power to take it again, this commandment.
Have I received of my father.
This was something that took place back in eternity.
They haul.
Purpose of God bringing a world into being and putting man upon it.
Was to have a right for his son, I believe.
And God was never taken by surprise.
Was never caught short, never caught flat footed, as we say. And in eternity, before this world was ever made, we have this John 1017 and 18.
And therefore does my Father love me, because the whole purpose of God in bringing this world into existence and having man upon it.
Was to apply for his son a bride and the only way it could be done was this.
The Lord Jesus coming and giving himself. I'd like to ask you a question on that point is that?
The substance or the sense of the 6th chapter of Isaiah.
For you, half Holy, Holy, holy. That's the Trinity.
Maybe we should look at that. It's not so well known, but I'm kind of asking a question. But I've enjoyed it myself in the sense that David's giving us here.
It's more than Isaiah himself.
It's typical of the Trinity and their plan for us, the year that is. I had died.
That looks at it as the end of the flesh.
I saw the Lord standing, sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Look where the setting is.
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The Lord sitting upon his throne high and lifted up, And his train filled the temple, and above it stood the Seraphim. Those are the angels that guard.
Or there, which had six wings.
With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
That is, the created beings, when they're in the presence of God, seek to hide themselves.
Cover themselves up.
But they're useful between the diplomats.
And one cried unto another, and said.
Holy, holy, Holy, that's the Trinity, is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of his glory. They look on to that time. Perhaps it's always there.
The post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried and the house was filled with smoke then, the Prophet says.
Woe is me.
For I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips. I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
One of the Seraphims flew unto him, having a cold, live cold, with his hand, which he had taken with tongs from off the elder, and fleeted upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this has touched my lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is purged. Now this is definitely the Prophet being prepared to carry his message.
But then it says also I heard a voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and who shall go for us? That's the plural of the Trinity, Holy, Holy, Holy. There was another thought.
Who shall go for us then? Said I. This is the voice of Christ in the past of eternity. Here am I. Send me. So he came. The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
What about Bruce? Is that?
There is a thought that I would like to add in a general way to something that has already been expressed here on more than one occasion.
And it is that has been expressed, That which has been expressed is the Excellency and the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I would like to add to that, especially in this book of Hebrews, the superiority of Christ.
We have him set forth in all the Excellency and glory, but is in order to prove his superiority to every facet, for every aspect, for every element of anything that was.
In the Jews, in the history of the Jewish religion, here he is his superiority.
Just a general comment that applies to the entire book of Hebrews.
I'd like to comment a little more on the excellent that are in the Earth going to the.
16th Psalm, where we have definitely the Lord Jesus has the perfect.
Dependent Man.
He's the model in Psalm One, but here it goes a little farther.
And brings in the excellent that are in the earth. And that's us by reason of what he has done in our chapter to bring us there, like in the 16th Psalm, just a few verses at the beginning.
Preserve me, O God, for indeed do I put my trust. Now. That's Jesus, the perfect dependent man. He wouldn't make one move without getting a word from his father.
Then he says, O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord.
Thou art, my Lord, my goodness extendeth not unto thee, but.
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To the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent in whom is almighty light, we've had the fact that God wanted sons, and He brings them in life is all His plan.
Well, there was one son.
As we had it yet, the mount of Transfiguration.
This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased that comes out in Matthew 3 as well.
But I like the language of this 16th song.
Because.
Yet finally, says almighty life, and I believe, brother, as God's heart had extended to us in the same love that he had for his only begotten Son, to bring us in there like him. So the language here is the dependent man.
He didn't get the goodness of God the first time he came. He must delivered by the determinant council on foreknowledge of God to go into death to redeem us. But he's getting us by the grace of God. He's got us if we're saved. And so he looks at us and he says.
My goodness extendeth not to thee, that's to the Lord. He went into judgment.
Where does his goodness extend to the Saints, And what does He call them that are in the earth? The Saints to the excellent. Don't be afraid of that. It's God's words about his children. He calls the Saints. He says they're excellent, they're in the earth, and it fills up God's delight to get the whole family in there. Behold, I and the children which God hath given me. That goes, go ahead. That goes with Hebrews 217.
Go ahead with that where wherefore in all things it behooves him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation in uttering for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered. Being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
Beautiful in all things. It behooves him to be made like unto his brethren. And now he's our merciful and faithful high priest on high ever living to intercede for us. And he's made propitiation for our sins. And now he can soccer us and and bring us through the temptations and trials of the wilderness journey. That's that's the way this chapter ends, doesn't it? Beautiful.
We're Speaking of.
God wanting children. Let's read in John I John 1 Epistle, John and the first verse.
3rd Chapter Behold, what manner of love the Father hath to spill upon us, that we should be called, that should read children of God. Therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not Beloved. Now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be, But we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. We're going to be just like him.
Comment was made earlier about As he is, so are we in this world.
He is basking at this very moment in the love and.
In the presence of a holy God, he's basking in his father's presence and all the love that is being bestowed upon him as He is. So are we, this one. We come under that same banner of love, and in that datacom, we're not going to be any different. We're going to be like him. I know we're not going to be gods. No, that's not the thought here at all. But we're going to be beloved as he is beloved.
Isn't that wonderful, Brethren, that he in the mean time, as we are passing through a wilderness where there is temptation on every side, he is a merciful and faithful high priest He became, and part of the reason he became flesh and blood partook of it was that so that he could become a faithful and merciful He understands.
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The path that we are passing through. He knew what it meant to be tired. He knew what it meant to be hungry, thirsty. He knew what it meant to be alone.
It's a lot of lonely people in this world, and sometimes there's people that are in the middle of a big group of people and they're still lonely. He knew what it means to be alone. He knows what it means to be alone. And I love that 18th verse in that he himself hath suffered being tempted. He is able to succor them that are tempted.
Are getting through the wilderness pathway is not a question of our own strength.
It is a question of that man who intercedes our cause at God's right hand.
In the Spanish translation it reads in verse 18, he is powerful to help those that are tempted. There is no situation you or I will ever get into in the pathway of faith, but that he is able to keep us in that situation. He gets so such a consolation as we go through.
Situations.
Of life here that are difficult, brethren. Again, it is because of the power of his intercession that we can go on. When Moses in the wilderness told Joshua to take men and fight with Amalek, Moses stood on the hill and held up his hands.
And Aaron on one side and her on the other, held up his hands.
So that Joshua could undo Amalek.
Joshua might have thought that it was his military tactics down there that gained the victory, but really it was another person that was involved in it. It was that man that was holding his hands up. Moses hands were weary.
Our great high priest hands will never be weary. They're up, brethren, and we can trust in him. He is able.
To succor them that are tempted, let's sing #64.
Like Jesus, in that place of light and love supreme once man of sorrows, full of grace, heavens blessed and endless theme. That's hymn #64.
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We have.
No.
I can't hear you.
And when I was believing.