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Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast our desire is for the word of God spread throughout all me know join is now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church located in Kernersville, North Carolina 64 when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swear by himself saying, surely blessing I will bless the and multiplying I will multiply the and so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

For men verily swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them and end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, that's us, the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. There's our word, hope, notice were given a strong consolation and you know we get a work console means to comfort. We have strong consolation we lay hold on the hope that is set before us, and then he describes it little bit better. In verse 19 goes a little further.

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which interest into that within the veil whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, so you know we were talking about here, made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. I am I want to lay some groundwork today so that next week. In a sense, as we draw this all you can understand especially the end of this passage. How this all just comes together how it glues everything together for us to understand is what is were going to this journey of life that it is so easy for us to let circumstances and things knock us off course and I want you to listen to just just use your brains this morning. Open your hearts and minds and I want to be a help to you.

Let's pray Lord I love you. Thanks for all you've done. Thank you for the music, how it's been encouraging. Thank you for our people had been so faithful today.

Lord I pray that you bless and I'm Lord, I pray you to bless your word as we have some brief moments here. Lord I pray that you help me to not only rightfully divide your word, but to be clear and concise and Lord to get the message across that you laid on my heart in Jesus name we pray. Amen. The anchor of hope. So in order us to understand this passage is so much in here you say are predraft. There's a lot of fancy big words here.

What are we talking about.

Let's laid out make a very recent point number one want you to notice the first thing in the course we don't know the author, for sure, of Hebrews, I believe it to be Paul, but that's just my opinion. A lot of people believe that, but that's not like if I'm wrong, that on not going to heaven okay we just we don't know for sure, but I just for sake of you negotiation allied office and I believe Paul here says notice the first thing that is brought up the covenant from God. What is a covenant.

A covenant is a binding agreement, a promise we get review in verse 13. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swear by himself. So what is you say preacher, K, what is the covenant from God mentioned in this passage.

It's a promise that God gave to Abraham and whenever God promises something that is a binding agreement.

It means you can count on it. So let me ask you this automatically okay so what was the problem. Notice he says here in verse 13 that God said because I could swear by no greater, he swear by himself. Milligan is what you get this.

That means this. How do we know what work on a guaranteed.

We have on this covenant. Well, God said, because there is nothing greater that he could laid out as a guarantee other than his own name. God laid down his own name as a guarantee for this promise he could swear by no greater then himself. So he swore by himself. He made an oath he made a promise and he basically used his name as collateral. If I ever let go or do not honor this promise, then my name is no longer powerful. I'm no longer God and we know God like a let that happen right so first thing he brings is the company say alright so what was the covenant notice. If you would, as he says here in verse 14. Saying, surely I will bless or blend blessing I will bless the and multiplying I will multiply the this was God's covenant to Abraham. He said I'm been a bless you and I will multiply your seed now because God gave this promise to Abraham. This covenant it applies to us. We are of the seed and lineage of Christ, who is of the lineage of line of Abraham, and this is handed down to us at the covenant that God made with us that to his children. I'm gonna bless you, and I'm gonna multiply you by the way, either. Still verses in the Bible is that where God says, my grace is sufficient.

That's his blessing. There still were. He says I will never leave thee, nor forsake the that is God blessing his children. God has made a covenant with us and he's lay down his very name as the collateral and the promise was that I'll bless you and all multiply you now let me ask you that she would ask this question. All right, how was that covenant accomplished, how did it happen will notice with passage says look at verse 15.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Look at what you get this God makes a covenant with Abraham and when God makes his covenant with Abraham. He lays down his name is the collateral in this passage says all right. The way that promise was fulfilled is that Abraham endured, and because he endured to the end. He received the promise everybody got that now you say are a preacher so so what is your whole what what is your point here. You understand, in a covenant that there is always God giving the promise and there is always an interval period of time between when God gives the promise and when God fulfills the promise it means there's the promise and there's always a time. And then that promise is performed everybody with me so far. So God made a promise to Abraham and because Abraham in duel word that time. Between the promise and between God performing it because Abraham indoor because he stayed faithful God performed the promise that he had given his everybody in the same page of notes up you got understand is her body good salmon so the understand all right got another question is a okay so soaps are preacher what are you trying to say look at what you and I have to understand is that in our life as God's children. God has given us promises but we don't know sometimes a short period of time sometimes is a long period of time. But whenever God makes a promise, there's always a period of time where we must endure where we must honor him and trust him, serve him and then comes the promise when that is fulfilled so we have the promise.

We know that's where were going, but we have to be faithful and we have to endure to the end where we receive that prompt everybody with me so far. Notice the second thing he brings up not just the covenant from God. But notice. Secondly, the councils of God that is a I preacher and I don't really understand this deliver 70 wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, that's us, the immutability of his counsel counsel. What is the word immutability me it means unchangeable. So God made a covenant, and because he wanted to show and prove that it is unchangeable that he means what he says. It says this in this verse that God wanted to show the immutability of his counsel. Now you say alright what are they councils of God. But notice were 17 God wanted to show the immutability of his counsel so he confirmed it. This passage says we were 17.

At the end by an oath was that mean means this and I look at God made a covenant made a promise and he wanted to prove that promise is so binding and so lasting that he proved it with his counsel.

So God, through his counsel made a covenant and he prove that covenant with his counsel and he proved his counsel with his covenant. Are you confused yet we put it this way when you get this. We have the covenant of God, and we have the councils of God.

So we know a covenant is what are the councils of God now want to get this the covenants of God or his promises are all founded upon his counsel said don't really understand and listen to me, the councils of God are the product of God's omnipresence.

God's omnipotence and God's omniscience. That means this God is not going to make a promise unless he knows he can fulfill the promise and the way God knows he can fulfill a promise is because he is omnipresent, which means he's everywhere. He is omniscient, which means he knows everything. He is omnipotent, which means he can do anything he wants to do so because God knows the past. He knows the president he already knows the future because God is not only here but he's there and he's everywhere God has a whole lot of knowledge and a whole lot of wisdom that you and I don't have an because his counsel is, is binding. It's unchangeable. He is therefore able to make covenants or promises that he knows he can keep Ari with me so far.

We get a couple more statements if I can. God's councils is literally the sum total of God's wisdom God's will and God's word.

It is literally everything God knows everything that God has given to us and every purpose that God wishes to accomplish. He has all knowledge he knows everything. That is the councils of God. The counsel of God is literally God the father, God the son God the Holy Spirit, who have settled on something, and God is his counsel now that means this public you and I need the counsel of God. So where do we find the counsel of God and the covenants of God as a preacher what you mean, get this notice. If you would. Verse 18 we were stating that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, so here Paul says this God's given his promises he's given those promises based on his counsel and God is given to things that are unchangeable in order for us to get from point Dana wasn't working to get all this in a second, in order to get from point A to point B, where the promise is given and the promise is fulfilled in order for us to get from there to their we need something we can count on. So God has given his counsel and his covenant is unchangeable. It's immutable that you can count on it is never going to change. It is not to go up and down with circumstances or with culture or with anything else. God's promise that you can count on it and God promised that because of his wisdom and his word and is will so you can count on that in order for most to get the point A to point B. God has given us two things that are unchangeable and guess where both of those things are found in the word of God is in need of God's organize everything. That, of all days. We have this ministry in the show how God is preserved. His work look at what you get this I need something to get me from point A to point B as I serve the Lord, were not even there yet. The passage, so God says all right, here's what I meant to give you to give you my promise, my covenant, I'm gonna bless you I'm in a multiply so that when times get tough. From point A to point B. I've got some promises that I can go to and I know I can count on his promises because I can count on his will. Because I can count on his wisdom because he would've made the promise to be didn't already know he could keep it because he's already seen the future and he knows how everything's going to turn out so he made a promise, knowing he could keep it there by God. So this fancy word immutable means unchanging and so literally who I believe Paul here he is saying this that literally God gave Abraham promise and Abraham endured so Abraham receive that promise. So God has given you and us promises and in order for us to receive those promises. We have to be faithful enough to indoor and the way you and I are faithful enough to endure is the fact that we count on.

We stand on. We trust the counsel of God and the covenants of God and both of them are in God's word and I know you like… A metaclass yes at the son is going to hurt all these things announce it and here it is that there's too much I can and are missing the third thing was start applying right only got a couple minutes left. What you look if you would if you don't mind and I know you don't labor stating that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have Milligan verse 18 we might have God's given us because we know we need to endure to the end we might have. What is it say a strong what consolation to this what God is brought up the covenant on God, the councils of God and the consolation from God that were consolation is comfort.

It's the things that literally encourage you as you were trying to endure from point A to point B. So God's given you consolation Ellis look at before we apply the conversely verse 18 who have fled for refuge. That's us to lay hold upon the hope so. In order for me to get from point A to point B. I've got a lay hold of something that gives me hope and when I lay my hands on something that gives me hope that gives me consolation. It helps me to keep going even though it's tough. What is a Salic verse 19. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.

Now the majority of this when I can get to today hope you come back next week. You really understand it all, or there some good things in these last couple versus wow. Let me explain if I can.

I believe Paul creates a scenario here and he says this that God gave Abraham a promise when God gave Abraham the promise. There's always a time. For that promise is performed and why Abraham ended up receiving that promise is because he endured through that time. That's what we call life. God's given us promises from his word and we are on our where on our way where so we are a ship and what is he say it's an anchor to the soul. So our soul is the ship. The no why is it our soul preacher well that the soul are a bit, which is this is a picture of our life, our soul has cargo that we carry another words as I serve the Lord. Let me show you this, just as part of one of the things my almost drowned in that water there.

One of the things that they are not a swim.

You know so one of the pieces of cargo that our soul as a ship I need in my soul for me to get the point A to point B is comfort that means this I need to be able to lay a hospital and even when my body cannot be comforted anymore. My body is diseased in pain and suffering. Whatever I might not have a medicine I can take. There might not be a surgery that a doctor can do there might be some physical things that I can't do anything about. But I need my soul to be comforted.

You see on as God made the promise.

I go to prepare a place for you and what if I if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am very maybe also that's a promise. But it hasn't been performed yet and sometimes as I'm in my little boat heading to heaven. I need comfort because if I can get comfort on the request. This is the word about this little piece of cargo ever try to get through a day without these, some of you have been through months without peace stuff and make you want to get out of church makes you want to quit reading the Bible which you want to give up this in our soul needs peace.

You see, there is times in my life that my life could have chaos, but my soul can have peace. So I need an anchor to the soul about this site you know if I can just another little piece of cargo. How about how about joy. In order for me to go my journey to get from here to there. Guess what I am going to stop and I am going to quit if I don't have joy. PCI my soul can have joy even when my body has pain. My soul could have joy even when my emotions have been crushed by a person. My soul can have joy even though we got that phone call on Wednesday set right in the front row on Friday with Ms. Barbara Raker enjoy Moorefield obscene weird to sit there and it is weeping. Read him some versus just try to come from little bit you.

What I found listening limitation of there's nothing to say. This can be able to bring Wayne back. I can't do that from point A to point B.

That's just out of my pay grade. But what I can do is give them an anchor of hope that brings joy to the soul. So here's what Paul says I literally God made a promise.

Abraham indoor so you and I be given a promise of somehow we have to indoor and so in order to be able to indoor God has given us two things that are unchangeable. His counsel and his covenant and both of them are in the word of God and the picture he is painting is that our soul has been given a promise we are on our way to have a look at me.

Our body does not go to heaven. Our mind is a good heaven, but our soul does.

Aren't you glad we have an anchor, not to the mind will have a negative body we have an anchor to the and as I'm trying. I'm heading my way to have look at me when you get this. There's gotta be a whole bunch of things that are going to come against me to try to knock me off course everybody got that so far, renascent storm soda pop up bigamy a whole lot of things are to come against us, there's can be a whole lot of lightning and when that's going to try to knock around our little boat, and the more things happen that knock around our boat and where unstable and removed by every circumstance in our life. Guess what happens.

Joy falls off the side that precious cargo of peace expectation comfort pitfalls over the side. Now were hereby trying to get from point A to point B. We don't have joy we don't have comfort. We don't have peace of our soul is confused in our soul is at unrest and before long.

Guess what happened. I mean if you go through life's storms call trials there in a fight against your soul to come at you about this. One of opposition and persecution and what we spritz couple weeks ago. God says there will be persecution there will be persecution enough to come against you know brother William is on his will talk about some of these men. The preserve Lord God were killed because you think that would not garage a little boat a little bit about this one. Afflictions, disease, sickness, things that come at you mentally about this temptations PR hey God, give me a promise that I'm serving God it and here I am going all of a sudden Satan shows up and knows where to push the button.

Then we mess up then we feel guilty.

Now our joy is gone now, or peace is gone and we think latte what I just blown it up done so bad, why even keep trying and we put down the OR and we just let things go. So Paul says for us to get to this journey were hidden to the dock of heaven. That's where I for our destination, and here we are and were trying to go but our little boat is going to get tossed and turned, because were human were flesh and and where where nature. That way, so Paul says we need an anchor of hope to the soul now next week.

To find out at this water spilled. I'm sorry that I missed the water you find out next week. A whole lot about our anchor to just Come back. Paul says, if only to make from here to hear here's what I need I need an anchor of hope and notice what Paul says, in a sense in which you get he says literally that I need an anchor of hope for the sole Jesus is our rock. The Bible says so that means is I am going from the promise that God is made to me and I'm going to the performance of that promise.

I got storms, lightning win trials circumstances disease I meet all kinds of things coming at me, and it is just minutes is knocking my boat back and forth and not every day or every other day I was enjoying, you know, here comes a week and elusive peace during that we can here comes this and I lose trust and not lose confidence in God and all these things so I got to stay anchored to something that doesn't move. Not you you've heard people say that Jesus is blank or not.

According to this passage Jesus is the rock that we are anchor to look at me. So what is the anchor that he mentions in this passage, the anchor are the covenants and councils of God.

The promises that you and I can hold onto by hope that keeps us anchored to Jesus, but getting when I began to lose trust in God's promises when I begin to doubt God's counsel that I am not anchor to Jesus.

That's when life begins, the just not me here and there, tossed to and fro with the wind is the Bible sense a double minded man is unstable in all his ways, but if I keep my focus and say you know what God gave me these promises he made a covenant God said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you.

And God would have made that covenant if he didn't know what was going to happen. Look at me when you get this God's covenants God's counsel is never changing, because there will never there will never anything come up in your life that he has already seen. There's nothing that can happen in your life that would change anything with God because he's already seen it. He already knew it was there he was there before you were even born.

So because he knew it before you are being born, his covenant, his counsel is unchangeable because it's not dictated by your circumstances. Because he already saw your circumstance. It's not dictated by your failures because he's already seen your failure so the way I am. My little ship of my soul, the only way I stay stable with all the storms come in at me as I'm trying to get to my destination when I'm trying to get to the fulfillment to the performance of my promise. I've got to stay anchored to the rock. I've got to stay connected to Jesus on. Gotta put every bit of my trust. My confidence everything that I have got a lead on Jesus and the only way I can do that is if I believe his promises and his count, you can trust get this before close consolation is the continuous application of God's covenant in God's counsel.

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