To the Uttermost - Hebrews 7:23-25 - The Heart of Jesus

Know sometimes we can have fears that come up in our lives because we wonder if God's love is going to eventually run out on us right out of the believer. For very long, but if you have probably experienced this at some point in your life where you know is true in your mind right when once saved always saved, we come to understand that, but we wonder if the gas tank soon so to speak of God's love is actually something that maybe one day not quite have enough juice to get us there were to talk about this we give you a copy searching signal turn with me to Hebrews chapter 7 is you guys are Farnese, whichever so that all of our campuses. I want to just go ahead and bring the whole world down into two groups of people. Okay, when it comes to driving their people in the world who understand what it's like to run out of gas okay you on the side of the road at some point your life. Of course the other group of people and probably there's a good mix in here are the people that cannot fathom in any universe, I could ever happen to somebody okay and what's funny is, those two usually end up marrying each other so I could see it here right now. They're like yeah I don't understand at all. I'm not going to throw rocks okay in and give you were on that I run out of gas or the once in my life. Okay that is shocking. I am a very prepared individuals think about Mike my home all right. It's like now boys got a gas tank generator food supply, like the zombies, ready okay so I'm ready but at the same time I can get very distracted. Not thinking about it and I'm kind of a planet that has happened to me before. If you've ever been, and that situation right or even close.

You know the exact feeling that I'm talking about your gripping the wheel right white knuckles are you are you are looking at the E is just of the little theater wonderment. I got this many miles and try to crunch numbers and am I gonna make it.

You know it when you start going downhill. He was going to shift into neutral. Okay you're trying to save every little you don't talk about rights and that is not fun is not joyful and you're wondering, then am I getting end up coasting and make it make it home on fumes or my can end up even all the way out or just try to roll right into the finish line. And sadly, there going to be believers all across our campuses at Mercy Hill this very weekend that are thinking about their Christian life and that way and what you're thinking right now is meant is God's gas tank does.

He got enough to cover because I've been messing up right does he have enough to get me there or my to be coasting on fumes into that final, stretch what I'm barely making it, in because of God's great love.

I know, but man I have messed up so much in my life and I just don't know if I'm to get there, guys this week and we want to engage the fact that here's the big idea listen when Jesus saves you he saves you all the way and for all time there there there is none of this idea about man is there enough gas in the tank when he saved you before the foundation of the world. He knew this person is going to be 12. I'm gonna die for. When he applied his blood in your life and you accepted him by faith when his grace came into your life.

May he saved you all the way and for all time. We don't have to wonder if we are going to make it and here's the deal. That is not a very fun way to live the Christian life is wonder if a lot of us think you know MMM you raise this way. I don't know. We think the way to live the straight and narrow Christian life is to be very afraid that one day that Gathings gonna run out to God can kick me out or not quite make it. And I can produce short-term behavior modification but lasting change in our life that fuels our Christian growth and maturity actually comes from the exact opposite from understanding that God knows everything.

We were ever to do and yet his grace was greater still and also we get into in Hebrews chapter 7.

This we can use know I do. I want to talk to you about the applied work of Jesus Christ. 24 seven 365. What is he doing, how is he applying his work on the cross, his blood, his resurrection in your life and I hope that were to see that as far as you can see on the whole horizon. That's about as far as the love of Christ goes deep in our life and going for all time in eternity arrived here is really really jump. It is only couple versus the were to look at this we can okay Hebrews 7 verses 23 through 325 but it's if it's a very rich text. We got a come to break all way down to write some and spend most my time just got a verse by verse really go through here make sure we understand what's going on. By the time we get to the end of this summer to try to pull out three rocks that are like any of this is what we need for this weekend and hopefully man were to walk out here with great assurance men and more in love with the Savior, who is in love with us. Hebrews chapter 7 starting in verse 23. The former priest were many in number because they were prevented by death from continuing in office. Okay, that's a little odd way to say that the basically when you die, you can't keep doing your job anymore okay and so because of death, they were able to continue being priest got verse 24, but he'd talk about Jesus holds his priesthood permanently because he continues forever. Consequently, as a result of because of okay consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost that is such an important word. Okay, not for the most part, but to the uttermost. He saves to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives.

He always lives because he's not prevented by death from holding his office forever. You understand he is always living. He always lives to make intercession for them. Now let's let's work all the way through this okay heartless about the book of Hebrews were just one minute right.

Hebrews is a book that is written in here is that the shortest, thesis.

I can give you on the whole book.

This is not a study in the book of Hebrews were looking at the heart of Christ. Different passages, but also break down the book of Hebrews, I would say like this. Hebrews Jesus Christ is greater. Greg greater than what greater than at all. He's greater than angels.

It is if you did resulted all book he's greater than the priesthood right he's greater than any type of Old Testament ceremony.

He's a greater sacrifice. He's greater than in the Old Testament institution.

He is greater, the book of Hebrews is written to a group of people who are suffering and persecuted, to remember, do not move on from Christ because he is greater than whatever else you're gonna turn to for salvation.

If you want to turn back to your works of Jesus is greater. If you want to turn back the ceremony and do a lot of religious things and practices. Jesus is greater. This is the whole book of Hebrews out what he says is this look at verse 23 again.

The former priest were many number because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently because he continues forever now.

I did this is you know this is pretty deep stuff Matata break it down, but basically what the writer of Hebrews is doing is he is contrasting the many that came before Christ with the one that is going to be an eternal okay so mortality produced many but immortality and eternity has produced one write and produce one what one priest. What is a priest I'm not a priest. Okay, what we currently call me a preacher I why because I'm doing is is expounding the word I'm leaving.

You know, but I'm not a priest was a priest to a priest represents the people to God and a priest represents God to the people we see a priesthood in the Old Testament. These were a group of people who implemented a sacrificial system and the idea was myth that is always been a problem always since the garden way back in Genesis and the priesthood was what God instituted to say listen, this is a group of people who will do a sacrificial system so that what we will have is a I symbolic substitution that I will not be angry over sin because an animal stands in for the people said there's only one way to pay for sin and at his death, but this animal will stand in until I bring you the ultimate true sacrifice. It was a symbol in this priesthood that when they would get us to the greater priest and as were to see this weekend to the greater sacrifice as well, but that is what the priesthood was about, and the writer of Hebrews now is saying, hey there used to be a lot of priests because they hello José, there were prevented from holder office because I did they die they were mortal.

Every time one of them died. You needed a new one.

It's like it's like this the right of Hebrews try to get us to see him talk about what priest do more in a minute okay let's talk about how long they do it for quite the Pres and their generation would represent the people God and God's, the people in their generation. You need many priests for many generations, but now something in Christ has switched something in Jesus has changed the game and now the game is not many trees for many generations but one priest for all generations.

One priest for all eternity. And this is what Christ has done many of us know much of the Christian story right talk about this in the very intro of our sermon series on Easter.

Many of us have the parts but do we have the heart we have the scenes but do we have the whole story okay and the whole story tells us we can understand what God was doing there is something he is doing in the life and the death and the resurrection of Christ that really matters for us. Jesus the son of God takes on flesh. He lives a life that we didn't live were to get into that right.

He dies on the cross. But then three days later he was raised from the dead. I would wonder in a room like this on our campuses, even those of us that have been believers for a long time.

How many of us right now if I just said hey put you on the spot.

Why did Jesus have to die. We would say what he died for sin got it.

Why did he have to raise from the dead. Some of us might some of my building again.

I am pretty confident dying part for me. I get the substitution right but I've tried it. Maybe I don't quite understand the resurrection part will why did Jesus raise from the dead. There's a lot of answers to.there's a lot of good answers to.

That is a lot of good things that come from the resurrection we could get into some of those but one of the things that we have to understand is that in different reading death. We end up with an eternal priest.

He is a priest who defeated death once and is not going to have to do it again and that is important in the argument of Hebrews chapter 7 because in doing so I may not know this stuff is a little deeper. We got a just, try to make sure were hanging on.

In doing so, Jesus Christ ends up with what Hebrews 7 calls and in destructible life.

It means that he defeated death once because I have to do again what ever it is my point. Whatever it is that the priest do. Jesus is going to do it for all time.

All all with returning these docket have a time where he has to go off the scene and a new one has to come on and in so doing eczema because of her the same before he steps in line in the order of a priest in the Old Testament and King named Melchizedek arrived. Melchizedek was a character in the old testament. He was a king and a priest. We see him working with different people. We see them show up with Abraham we see a few things that happen in his life for the point is that in Psalm 110 are the psalmist points to the fact that Melchizedek is one who doesn't have a genealogy and doesn't have a death that there's something about Melchizedek that points to like this idea of an indestructible life. We don't know what he was born on when he died and and and that is the order of Melchizedek, the writer of Hebrews picks up on 90 since hate just like Melchizedek from the Old Testament. Jesus Christ has an indestructible life.

He will be doing whatever it is that priest do he will do that for all time. Because were not looking for another one. Look with me at verse 15 in chapter 7 and will be owners on the screen. They do have a copyright in front of you. This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek. The likeness of Melchizedek will what was Melchizedek like who has become a priest, not on the basis of legal requirement concerning bodily dissent because Melchizedek wasn't a priest for that reason, but by the power of an indestructible life, for it was witnessed of him, you are up, this is quoting from Psalm 110 no okay you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, not argumentative. Melchizedek is there's a lot of different opinions on this, but the point of Melchizedek is an indestructible life and that is something that Jesus steps into in his resurrection. The basic argument is simple through his resurrection, Jesus is a forever priest I verse four that that's what St. verse 24 actually called him one of part he called impermanent. He called him forever. Okay, not so because I do know where I got two boys and they're both growing the baseball mullet haircut. Okay, you don't talk about.

I am so proud okay and I and I tell him I wasn't either. They wanted all flowed out of the back of that you note the negative the ball With her pitching on 11 okay, but I told him guys in a narrow moment until you get a perm on the back you got permit you don't you don't talk about right and in one of them. So once a perm and I said what you know and I try to start explaining it and they said no what it what is termed mean nothing. I don't know. So I asked innocent what is permit. She said will permits is short for permanent that's what the actual hair thing and it was called skull terminals like you gotta go get it done every six months Colorado it will only be determined if he believed literally the opposite of permanent right you, but the idea of permanence actually should be. I don't gotta go back and do every six months right perm permanent means like it goes unless we said in verse 24. It's permanent.

It's forever. Whatever priest do Jesus has stepped into this order and he is going to be doing it for all time. There's this song on the radio right now that talks about how things get validated if Duracell batteries in a Maglite old pair jeans you know they give out truck gives out after 300,000 miles on the radio. The idea is nothing last forever.

Well, Jesus last forever. Jesus is that disappointed.

Hebrews 7 Jesus is the priest forever.

His energy for being a priest, given what priest do okay but his energy for being a priest is not the gas tank. The sputter and spit and not serve will make you we doing this work for all time what what is the work right greater priest. Let's look at greater sacrificing verse 25. Consequently, not just anything about that in Oregon because of you know, but because we seen that concert as a consequence of being a forever priest. He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. He has a forever priest that lives to make intercession.

He wants people to be able to draw near to God through him, that's the work of a priest. I represent people to God.the people. There's something about the priest that mediates this relationship what he saying is this priest something about this priest allows people to actually draw near to God forever and he lives for this man at every service at every single campus made their folks who are just beginning to check Christianity out of Mercy Hill and I know sometimes it can, it can feel like drinking out of a fire hose.

Sometimes a good feeling that I'm trying I'm trying to find my way, but let me ask you question your one of those people. This weekend will.

Where do you go to draw near to God because what Hebrews 7 says is there's one way to go yet you go through him through the eternal priest through Jesus to get to got where you go when you go to your works out to be a better person on the stop instant Jim start giving them a work at the local nonprofit.

I will be a good person that we are going are you going to religious ceremony lot people in the South show the church and I'll be there early or stay late. I will make sure I don't make sure I get near to God. Somebody, do the church thing or whatever then maybe it's something like that. Maybe it's the others there's a guy the gym that I go to them and now been, you know, men praying halfway try to engage just look for spots in identical conversation with him the other day theological things charge God and deliver this opportunity with them and he begins to talk about man might not mommy got out nature of Niigata. While I don't need to go to church. I Niigata walk Sunday God in nature. All I can listen all these things are that mention are good there all their all good things. The problem is they are not be prescribed path that God has called us to write like you and and and this is this is was like leave it up to our generation to decide where and when we will meet the God of the universe who created us anything about that. We we have decided what God will just meet me were on my terms God is me me wherever I decide to go.

Like if I decide this is the path that'll be the path but the Scripture segment up we come to God through Christ we can only come to God by following his prescribed path.

Doesn't this just makes sense to us. How many of us in the world would invite someone over to our house living to pick the child up for sports or maybe it's a door – a thing people are bringing you dinner, or whatever, and when the front door – person because you hey what's your address.

You only my address you just go wherever you like and I'll be there all magically just be there is like that that makes absolutely no sense. If we are going to go we go through the pathway that God has given us his address so to speak.

If you want to say like that is right here in the Scripture, and it is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ sorted holes in John 14 six I am the way the truth and the life. If you want to go to God the father you come through me. Not one way, the way in Ephesians 2 says the same thing. Actually these checks are very very similar what they say about draw near to God. For by grace you have been saved through faith that this is not of your doing is a gift of God not a result of work so that no end, no man can boast. Okay then skip down to verse 13, but now in Christ Jesus you who once far off have been brought near that's the same idea of drawing near.

We have been brought near by the blood of Christ. This is what we need to see today that Jesus son okay Jesus is greater that fevers right yes he's the greater priest because he will die, but is also the greater priest because he himself has created the way you know what that way was it was through him sacrificing on an animal the blood of bulls and rams is never sufficient for actual salvation, but he was the sacrifice himself. Jesus wasn't just a greater priest.

He was the greater sacrifice himself.

Jesus stood and for us on the cross. He took what we deserve in our sin we deserve to be alienated from God. We deserve to be cast out forever, but Jesus Christ came and took on death so that we didn't have to experience eternal that now this is it is interesting here because the Bible a lot of times doesn't get into this and CS Lewis talk about this again near Christianity is like.

Sometimes the mechanics of the gospel, we want to live at all. It linearly and everything that I'm not drinking. I got to get it all exactly right when sometimes we just accepted by faith. When we do we grow. But he does in Hebrews 7 actually get in a tiny bit to the mechanics here. I'll give you another question.

Why is it that you ever thought about this. Why couldn't some altruistic priest from the Levitical priesthood in the Old Testament, read through that the lines and decide actually know what guys, I just to sacrifice myself if it was just merely the blood of bulls and rams that will do it, but human blood will do it. What if I just sacrifice myself will not take away the sins of all the people of you ever thought that before what the writer Hebrews engages it. Look what he says skip down verse 26, for it was indeed stating that we should have such a high priest, you talk about Christ again listen holy, innocent and stained separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens. What he's getting at here.

Hang on some kind of everything on by thread just grip a little longer. Okay just hang on what is he saying Jesus was different than the other priests he was in the center. He was separated from them. He was holy he was unstained and that matters. Why listen, he has no need, like those high priest to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself meant some great priest wants to sacrifice himself will blood your blood was what required for your sin anyway your shadows and if I cannot I sacrifice myself for everybody in the note, your blood was what required just for your sins, but what Jesus Christ has done in being the one that never said he didn't have to sacrifice for himself and then for everyone else. His sacrifice was for us all, for all time.

The greatest priest. The greatest sacrifice. And now look at what he does so. Cal.

I love this but the question is so good. What is Jesus doing right now.

Okay I was almost like one okay I know what he did in the Bible.

No, like this very second right now is where here is. You guys are the campuses. What is he doing because as verse 25.

He's able say to the uttermost member that doesn't mean for the most part the uttermost as far as the eye can see, both in us and in time, those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. This is a priest who sacrificed himself to save us to the uttermost that is intentionally ambiguous language does it mean death or doesn't mean the length of time and the answer is yes he save all of you for all time to the uttermost. What is he doing right now this very moment he is making intercession for us. He is our advocate. He is our intercession intercessor. Intercession is what that's kind of a theological word. Intercession is, it just means this approaching someone on behalf of others.

Okay, so back in like elementary school, third or fourth grade if you get your buddy to take a note that says do you like me check yes or no to your your for you know your girlfriend or whatever right and you you have the kids do that it's your body going on behalf of you I think about a better example my kids, my older kingdom are our youngest daughter which I told you sometimes that song great celebration awaits my favorite songs were seals ever done because I just have a picture of her worshiping, you know, and using words and language and is just a beautiful picture because mama we sing the song right now. She doesn't talk. She's five years old.

She doesn't really have a lot of words, and minerals are big prayer cluster 20, 21 going to be a big prayer cluster .22 okay Millward I keep ran a circle nothing and I will what happens is you know signs and stuff like that and so what happens is sometimes my kids mother kids have to act as an intercessor on her behalf right so if she's in a school setting are sorry or churched out here or I or sometimes with it with a babysitter or something like that. They have to say hey she's asking to go outside her. Hey she's asking to eat something or hate. She wants to sit down or hate. She wants to watch cocoa melon again.

Okay, so I know some agency on their you guys it is young parents I been on the Kokomo thing to what a young kid home but that didn't show. Should she. They have to go in on her behalf, is the point right it's a third-party entering in so that we can broker this thing okay. That's what Jesus is doing for us. He is intercessor linkable.

What what is intercessor. What is the what is he doing he is intercession for us, saying, my blood covers that sin. My blood covers you that you are my you know why I said the beginning of this sermon series I submit, I don't don't envision Jesus pointing a finger at you and us truth is not pointing a finger you the scalp, face, but he deftly is point a finger you sometimes sent that one is mine is my child that's my child that sin is covered. I went to the cross for them.

Not my to the blood atone for that since he's doing it 24 seven 365 and will never stop for all eternity. He is the intercessor intercession applies with the atonement accomplished. One pastor said it that way.

May they send again. He's the intercessor they send again. My blood covers them is great news for us today.

It's a glorious truth to know this. You know, Kirk Franklin has a song is called intercessor and is intercession.

I love it.

Here's what it says it sets up this picture and he said he says the song God sees me, but he hears him he see he sees me, but he hears Jesus saying that one's mind that one's mind that was mine that was one of we put our faith in Christ we are saved all the way and for all time. Now three takeaways that I take from this passage that I want to give to our church this weekend by way of application number one is a little more just super practical. How do we read the Bible.

How do we read books like he was one of to say this. Okay number one read the book, read the whole Bible with Jesus, salvation for us in view. Okay I wanted I wanted everything on this but just give me a minute here.

This is important for mercy, especially in a time of fast growth level of new people coming around.

Love you maybe haven't been exposed to what we call gospel centered preaching out of your church background. I don't know anything about where you're coming in from her or all that but mercy want you to understand that we deeply believe in the very core of who we are that the Bible is not a collection of moral tales with a gospel twist at the end that's not what it is instead what the Bible is is a story of a bride and groom coming together who will live for all eternity. The Bible starts at the wedding and into the wedding right and what is happening is that we are to be the ones who are presented to God and live with him for all time forever, and the earliest stories of the Bible.

Point us to this and I point to Christ and the whole Bible. Is this what works pointing to what God will do it is a gospel book from cover to cover, is important that we understand it that way. So, so, for example. Okay David and Goliath is not a story about a young kid's courage K it it honey. Can we take something from that yeah IIII suppose what it is.

It's a story about a servant king who faces certain death so that he can win the hand of the king's daughter did this is what the stories of Daniel and the lion's den is not a story that is primarily about the courage you know of Daniel and and even the faith to trust God as we are those good moral lessons. Yes, should we say then were told the stories absolutely, but at its core. Know this story is about God's servant who goes down to the grave into the darkness of certain death and is sealed with a rock one day that rock is rolled away and he emerges that this is what were supposed to get. We gotta go a little deeper is what I'm getting at. The Old Testament stories of sacrifice are not just, wrote stories of a system that helped out a little bit with our sin. Actually it shows us the reality of our sin and it points us to the perfect Lamb who would have to come to try to take our sin away know my question is, when we read the Bible like that or really going into the note was Polish but think about the kids of our church guys last three weeks. This awesome across all of our campuses that we seen this constant happening. The last three weeks have been the highest three weeks of attendance with kids that we have ever had in 10 years at Mercy Hill and I praise God for that. Okay, we can we get that we live in the camps as well. Praise God for that. Why men are all little arrows. All right it where there were minute were to help shape them help parents shake them. One thing I'll say about this. You got children that are that are here and these campuses. One of things I would tell you over and over and over. If you listen to nothing else in parenting, lock them in to a group of friends in these ministries and let them ride for about 10 years.

Their life will be forever changed right but along the way. When we go do their work within the money every single week.

Artificers will be doing Bible Bible Bible story story stories. Why is not just to teach them to be good little citizens is unceasing to be good little boys and girls managed to teach them to see that the Scripture is a love note for them is dripping with gospel truth from cover to cover and we get all the stuff in one day they will begin to see it that way for themselves.

Number two write number two through October to trust Jesus for salvation. Look some of the guys I knew at Mercy Hill and again I have no idea what type of preaching or if any you have ever heard. But maybe you're coming in and you have been taught or have always thought that sin is a dysfunction that needs a therapeutic solution that might be where you're at this weekend and I don't want to be too confrontational. Thou I do want to confront you with the truth and I just want to say that it's it's it's not a dysfunction that needs a therapeutic situation instead what the Bible says is that our sin was so great that the son of God needed to come and die a brutal death on the cross in your place to remove the old you and allow a new one to be reborn and then for all time and forever intercede for you so that every time we sin, he says that one's mind, he's mine. She's mine. The blood covers that not bigger than the cross, my grace is sufficient and does this for all time. My question for you this weekend. Maybe if if you're not a believer, I Artie said it was limited on the screen where you going to draw near to God.

Men are you deciding where you will meet him, don't we understand if we just decide exactly who God is going to be and we just decide out of our own mind exactly what were going to do to meet him. We have fallen into what I said last week, SGS small God syndrome okay because a small God. Yes, maybe you get to dictate to him exactly how you come in exactly what he's gonna think about this issue that issue, but if there's an actual God in heaven he created us in his name and his image, not the other way around. The maybe we ought to perk up when we think about the idea of his prescribed path. We gotta realize we are the products, and Jim see you guys are the products of sort of a postmodern generation AAA a people that really brought wholeheartedly into the idea that truth is yours or its mind and it can be both of ours is not real its identity emanates from eyes. She gets all the philosophy that produced this. This is maybe where we are.

Sometimes we gotta see if there is a true God in heaven. Maybe there is a truth that is outside of us may be, if there is a God, there is actually what Francis Schaeffer called a true truth that is outside of us that we don't dictate your armor one time very early on a Mercy Hill very rodeo like the first year or something.

We went, me and Pastor Bobby and I God it was a costume then in the cost of later Clay. We went out to the mountains and where we were hiking up around some of the rural Western North Carolina mountains I don't. We saw bear okay and that it was it was it was no good tobaccos, coolers, scaring them already were not enough. You like mud you know you probably been there, North Carolina. But do this dear just shows up by this this big black bear and unibody discount Rosie legacy condos what it was like Mamacita those go on, you know, Clay was like without filling try to get a pocket knife out like without Autodesk to do so you not I can actually grab two rock sounds like.

Makes me feel better.

I don't know so anyway bear.

The bear mosey all my kids and the love in a story okay that you know they were little entire community was probably two years old. How shows like yours or something that they were, they really are. They loved that story until about the barrel one day AP jumps up in my bed that early in the morning and comes up and he said that he tell me stored on the brown bear and and had chosen her to asset was a source of but you know the bear was bragging black and he said no it was brown and I said no it was black.

Actually, in a and he's like no it was brown acid, but I was there. You were there. Okay I was there. It was a black bear and how you Joe four years old she she she steps in and she says daddy.

The bear can be black for you and it can be brown for him. I promise you I set up I turn the light on up at both of them right here eyes right here and I said that is postmodern relativistic philosophy and were not happening in this house okay that's only PSA blood. The bear was black and that's all I want to hear about it right.

We we love the idea of constructing our own truth only do you know the coexist bumper stickers most prideful thing of everything in my life. Prideful to look into, say, all these religions basically say the same thing when every single one of them tells you explicitly, we are not saying the same thing. What is trying to do is construct a truth. Think about this with me. If you're not a believer in Aqua harping on it. If you're not if there is a God what you need to come to him through his prescribed path that we can play around with creating our own truth and all, but when it actually push comes to shove, we start talking about life and death. We start talking about why were in the universe we start talk about is there a God or is there not a God that we gotta realize is, there probably is a true truth, and we might need to conform to it rather than continually conforming it to us what the Bible says here is that Jesus Christ is the way meant that there is a way at all is mind blowing. Thinking about our sin in his holiness right but there is a way we come to Christ, which put your center believe was on the cross and confess him as the Lord of your life. He is gracious and merciful and ready to forgive sin today all of our campuses. There's a prayer team. We love you to come forward and jump into that thoroughly and finally as I close all right in Christian hey would you take joy in your salvation what David Sansone 51 restored to me.my salvation, the joy right of my salvation, member's restore to me something that I have lost God in your mind that the gas tank is sputtering. I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it. I don't know if God's love is to make our sin again. I messed up again. There's this thing in my life. I keep going back to it.

Maybe his love is not going to cover me this time that I think what you need to do is to go back to this passage and realize greater priest greater sacrifice making intercession for you for all time all time. When he does he lives to make intercession for and would you see his heart for part of Christ we see his heart for you in that. What I don't have the last six months was the big lesson was the one or two hour episode you wish you could erase no-name sure this was fostered again when when brother Sam James was coming. I look for that we can for 10 years he was getting here on Thursday on Wednesday had not been feeling good for three days. The brothers 97 years old. I would not have that on me. I had to go get test okay top cooktop positive for coven. Now I was like minimum on them and miss, miss the whole weekend with Sam James, the founder of the church that there are those legendary missionaries have about two hours I was meant I was not good and how it was lovely it was. It was mad you know it was just human. It was didn't want to come in the house and outside the bar just humans walking pace and knowing there was an episode man was it was like a preteen who just had a birthday party cancel it was just it was just it was just ugly. You know you know that Jesus Christ was interceding for me in that moment in that moment I don't know what is in your life you wish you could raise Alaska if you're a believer now not believing you trust Christ as applied to any put your faith in him as you are believer and he lives to make intercession in your life. What is Jesus Christ doing right now we see when is he hit the streets of gold on a heavenly Harley okay what is he doing is eating at the bowling is mortal. Okay, I don't know what is he doing right now and he is interceding for you believer must take joy in their and I think about it like this. Good quote to close from another pastor is what he says our eternal salvation depends on his eternal intercession in church we have that father we come before you this weekend and I would just ask that you would give us joy our salvation. Knowing that you are interceding your son cries every single every single one of our sins, he is in assessing for us thing down was on me. My blood covers the stores our relation to father, we thank you for this Trinitarian work in our life.

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