Alfred Norris – Class 4 – Our Great High Priest

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Talk #4 is entitled Our Great
High Priest.

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By Brother Alfred Norris,
Alfred.

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In order to keep the.
Last address short, I mean not

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more than two talks long.
I did cut out one piece of

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material which really.
Shouldn’t be left out.

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And only referred to it to the.
Extent that I spoke of that

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object that Hezekiah destroyed,
but.

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He destroyed.
Moses serpent in the wilderness.

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And called it a piece of brass.
But it’s too important to be

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dismissed with only that simple
illusion.

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So I wonder if you’d begin by
turning to John Chapter 3, when

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something which is printed as
part of Talk Three will now find

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its place in Talk 4, John
Chapter 3, verse 14.

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Well, against the background of
the words, we.

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All know so well God so loved
the world that he gave his only

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begotten Son.
That whosoever believeth in him.

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Should not perish but have
eternal life.

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We have words which are similar
to that and the Lord says or

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John says for.
Him And as Moses lifted up the

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serpent in the wilderness, Even
so.

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Must the son of man.
Be lifted up that whosoever

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believeth.
May in Him have eternal life

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reading the revised version.
And there the Lord.

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Deliberately compares what is
now going on in his actual

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redemptive Mission, but that
which had gone on to provide an

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active type.
In the days when Israel sinned

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in the wilderness.
You know that story well enough.

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I’ll just remind you it’s basic
facts.

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Israel spoke against God.
God.

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Was angry and sent.
Fiery serpents to punish them.

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They could do nothing to.
Repel the pirate serpents or

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cure their bites.
And so, in their desperation, as

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people will.
They called to God for help, and

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God said to Moses.
Make us up in the bronze.

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And put it on a pole that.
Those who look at it.

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May live.
And so they did.

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Later, as we have said, it
became a mere object of

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idolatrous worship.
It had been stood.

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Up in holy places, and they
brought it out and made.

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Alive and I’d love it.
And Hezekiah says that’s the end

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of that.
We won’t have the objects

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anymore and he destroyed it, but
the Lord.

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Made use of the occasion.
Nonetheless, he didn’t need.

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The image for that purpose and
said that’s what Moses did and

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it would be like that again.
Now would you like just to look

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at the notes?
I haven’t referred you to them

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before at page 8, which is part
of Talk 3, ostensibly.

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And see the.
Parallel drawn on.

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Line 7 and downwards between.
What happened when?

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Moses raised up his serpent.
And what?

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Was to happen to the.
Lord.

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The words are almost all.
Taken from John 314.

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They begin with the Lord saying
as Moses lifted up.

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Which is to be compared.
With so must there be lifted up

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then?
The Moses story, The Serpent and

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the parallel is the son of man
and.

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Then it was that any man who
looked upon that serpent, and

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the parallel is that whosoever
believed in him.

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The Son of Man.
And finally he lived and the

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parallel is may have eternal
life.

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He’s a very close.
Parallel obviously deliberately

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worked out.
By the Lord and intended to be

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pressed in its every detail.
So the lifting up of Moses.

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Serpent is like the lifting up
of Jesus.

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Just concentrate on the lifting
up.

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I suppose what Moses did was
cast this snake secure.

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It to a wooden stake, and see to
it that.

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The stake was itself secured.
In a socket of the.

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Ground and the.
Lifting up would be placing of

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it high.
Enough for people to see it.

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In the case of the Lord Jesus.
Christ, he uses that word.

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Lifted up.
Three times about himself.

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This one.
And when you have lifted up the

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Son of Man, then you shall know.
That I am he in John chapter

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eight, I think.
Then the.

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Last one in chapter 12.
I, if I be lifted up from the

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earth, will drop all.
Men unto myself.

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And at that point John explains
what Jesus meant.

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This he spake, signifying what
death he would die, so lifting

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up his crucifixion.
In the case of the Lord, what is

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tempted to do on the?
Weather, perhaps, there may

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have.
Been a local gruesome

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vernacular, which they speak of
lifting up as we would speak of

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strung up being a means of
execution, But that’s just a

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guess.
The certain thing is that.

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The Lord is comparing the
erection to view of Moses

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serpent with the.
Exposure to view of.

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Himself upon his cross.
The next point I’ll just differ.

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For a moment, because it’s the
most difficult and in some ways

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the most important, actually
comparing the Serpent with the

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Son of Man, line 2 of this
comparison, line 3 is plain

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enough, I think.
Any man who?

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Looked upon the serpent is.
Compared with whosoever

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believeth in.
Jesus but whoever looked upon

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the serpent?
By the serpent bit.

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The snake bitten.
The same bit the people.

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Who couldn’t cure themselves of
their disease?

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What did they look at?
The evidence that God could do?

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What?
They couldn’t.

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A picture of a serpent,
defeated, executed on the pole.

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Held before them to show God’s.
Victory over it.

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And so those who looked.
At it did what they said.

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And I’m badly bitten and I’m
dying.

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But if I trust in God, God has
shown that what?

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I and my healers and all my
recommencers can’t do, he can

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do.
He’s still able to.

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Conquer my sin and the power of
it, and believing in that, they

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were healed of their snake bites
just locally the snake bites, I

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expect.
They went on being sinners

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almost as much as ever.
Before they don’t seem to have

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reformed much, but in the
parallel they recovered from

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their sin bite and lived.
And of course the last bit of

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paranoid is lived I I went on
for a long time under the

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illusion that what the the.
Numbers Passage really said.

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Was that they?
Were healed.

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But it doesn’t really really.
Does say they lived, they were

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dying people and they.
Lived and the Lord.

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Says that whosoever believeth in
him, Jesus.

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Lifted up, may have eternal.
Life, you look upon the.

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Cross of Jesus and you live.
To Thy cross we look.

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And live we have those.
Words I can book, don’t we?

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So whoever looked on that, he
lived.

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A slight digression which could
make the 4th talk 4 talks long.

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There’s a slight.
Digression about that he lived.

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The word life in the New
Testament is a very distinctive

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word.
It sometimes just means the kind

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of life you and I live.
Whosoever a lot of his.

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Life shall lose it.
But it can be the kind of.

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Life that you and I want to live
without doing.

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And without Christ I am living
a.

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Life which is a living death,
There’s no.

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Meaning in it no.
Purpose for it, it just ends

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where it began with.
Christ, there’s a new kind.

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Of life that doesn’t end like
that.

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And John’s Gospel in particular
calls it eternal life.

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He doesn’t mean a life.
Which from now on goes on and

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on, physically enjoyed forever.
He doesn’t mean immortality in

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those contexts.
He means that you passed.

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From one kind of living which
isn’t worthy of the.

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Name to another kind of living
that is Parallels.

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Let the dead bury their own
debt.

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That goes out publish abroad the
Kingdom of God.

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This my son.
Was dead and is alive again.

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Was lost at this time.
You have a Quicken who were

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dead.
In trespassers sins.

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Thus the name of thou.
Live us and not dead.

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More parallel cases where what?
We call.

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Life is.
Called in the Bible.

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From God’s point.
Of view a living death.

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And the Lord says, I haven’t
come either to perpetuate death

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or to bring it about.
I’ve come to.

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Give life the thief cometh.
Not but to steal, and to kill

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unto destroy.
But I have come that.

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They might have life whosoever.
Believeth in the Son of God

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shall not come into
condemnation, but he’s passed

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out of.
Death into life, says John in

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chapter 25.
Sorry, chapter 5, verse 25

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quoting the words of Jesus.
So those who believe in the.

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Lord, and see him exalted upon
the cross, and see the meaning

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of it may pass out of the living
death, which is the death of the

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unregenerate into the life which
belongs to the servants of

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Christ.
I.

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Picture the way in which.
Life is spoken of in John’s

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Gospel, something like this.
God has all life, all the time.

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He is immortal, of course.
And the true.

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Life of the ages belongs.
To him.

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Only he can share it if he
chooses.

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From time to time he has dipped
down.

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Upon the earth with his
messengers, and they have

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revealed.
The life that.

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Belongs to God, never more so.
And when as John’s. 1st letter

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puts it.
We have seen the.

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Life, the eternal life which was
with the Father and was

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manifested unto us.
And he’s talking about Jesus.

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So when Jesus said he.
Hath the son hath the life he

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hath not.
The Son hath not the life, we

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are being told.
See the life of God, come down

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from heaven and create a pool of
illumination upon the ground and

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step.
Inside it and stay there and you

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have the.
Life of God.

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Step outside in all in darkness
again, or let God take away his

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life and it’s gone.
The believers in God walk in the

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light of life.
They’re no more immortal in the

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fleshly sense than ever they
were.

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Not till.
After the sleep of death, if

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that it must be, when the
resurrection comes, and eternal

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life merges in immortality to
the life which he now live, we

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live by faith, the faith which
is of the Son of God, as I said

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earlier, as Paul said, who loved
us and gave himself up for us.

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So to look at Moses.
Snake transfixed offered life

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from death by snakebite.
And look at Jesus Christ

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transfixed of undergrass offers
that life that belongs to God

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instead of.
Death by human sinful mortality

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and looking upon Jesus crucified
is what does it.

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That’s a difficult bit looking
on.

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Jesus crucified.
As Moses lifted up, so must be

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lifted up.
The Serpent, the Son of Man.

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The Serpent and the Son of Man
on a parallel.

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Line.
The anti title of the serpent

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being the son of.
Man, does that make sense?

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To think of the Lord.
Jesus Christ as in any way

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comparable with the serpent.
His life was altogether lovely.

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Who did no sin, neither was
guile pounded his mouth.

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Can you dare you dare I?
Think of the Lord.

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Jesus Christ on the cross.
As in any.

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Way linked with the serpent,
Yes, it looks as though I can

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and we can and we all should see
that there is a parallel there.

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Would you look to a very well
known verse of Scripture please

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in Hebrews chapter 2,
Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 for

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as much then as the.
Children are partakers of flesh

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and blood.
Jesus also himself likewise took

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part of the same that through
death he might destroy him that

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had the power of death.
That is the devil.

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Just pause for a moment.
Notice the apostles insistent

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emphasis.
Jesus also himself likewise, but

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there’s no doubt about it.
He rubs it in, doesn’t it?

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And he can’t mistake it.
It’s actually about Jesus be

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talking, Jesus also himself.
Likewise, some of you might know

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this story, but there was once a
brother who was lecturing in a

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nearby towns of my own in
England, and he wanted to

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emphasize the fact of Jesus
Christ coming back.

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And he said.
And I’ve never forgotten.

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This Jesus Christ second return
back to the earth again.

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Second, return back again, but
you missed.

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You didn’t miss.
His point didn’t mean his eighth

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return.
He made his second beyond the

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doubt.
But here you have here.

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Jesus also himself likewise took
part of the same.

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So then Pallows, did you and I
have a certain kind of nature

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called flesh and blood?
Because.

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Of that.
Jesus also himself likewise took

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part of the same there.
Is a necessary link.

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Between our pleasant blood
nature and our Saviour having

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the same.
If it were not the same, the

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equation will collapse.
The two are tied together.

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My flesh and blood.
And his flesh and blood.

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Why so that?
Because he was.

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In that flesh and blood.
Nature by death he might

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destroy.
Him that hath the power.

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Of death, that is the devil.
Now they will believe in an

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immortal.
Distinct separate devil have an

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awful trouble with these verse,
this verse.

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I don’t see how they can ever
explain it.

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But we who believe that the Lord
Jesus Christ, Son of God, that

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he.
Was yet bore our nature.

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And who know that after he?
Had died, He was perfected.

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Can see, can’t we, that when
that Christ in that nature hung

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until he died upon his cross,
all that was in that nature was

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put to death, and only the
purified, refined, perfected

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Christ would be raised?
He put away.

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Sin.
Yes, that’s a quotation from the

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same book.
Now once in the old end of the

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world hath he appeared to put
away sin.

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By the sacrifice of himself.
He partook of pressure and

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blood, but his death.
Might destroy the devil.

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Destroy.
The devil and put away.

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Sin become parallel terms, and
all made possible because the

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Lord partook of that same.
Flesh and blood.

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Nature that you and I have.
So if then we can say that the

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Lord’s death destroyed the
devil, then we can say it.

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Destroyed the devil because the
Lord’s death put away.

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Once and for all.
Of all that.

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Might have been unacceptable to
God had it been exercised, but

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it wasn’t.
The Lord didn’t sin.

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And now?
He demolished even the power to

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sin by causing his pleasure and
blood nature by his own will to

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die upon the cross What Moses
brazen serpent signified, and

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the breast taker got no say in
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You molded it and you stuck it
there.

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So the Lord Jesus Christ’s
death.

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Accomplished in that.
By his own free will, laying

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down his life.
He calls to be set up for all to

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see upon the cross the defeat of
sin.

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He did no sin, neither was guile
found in his mouth.

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But he died that the source of
sin might be removed, I don’t

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know whether.
This will.

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Appeal to you or not?
But you will know we all have a

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sort of a.
Problem with the fact that the

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temptations in Matthew chapter 4
and in Luke chapter four are.

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Described in terms of a.
A confrontation between Jesus

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Christ and the Devil or Satan or
the evil 1.

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And if that were being?
Acted as a drama, you’d have to

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have the Lord Jesus Christ
engaging in discussion with a

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second party outside himself
called the Devil.

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There’s one other place in
Scripture where something

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similar but rather more shadowy
is done.

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That’s when the Lord, talking
about his pending death, said

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henceforth.
I will not speak much with you,

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my disciples.
For the Prince of.

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This world cometh and hath
nothing in me, and I see a

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picture before my eyes.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ hanging

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upon the.
Cross dying.

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And along comes the Prince of
this world sees Jesus there

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dying, shakes his head suddenly,
and goes away.

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There’s nothing left for me.
That’s done me.

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In that death of Christ upon the
cross.

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So if we see the Lord Jesus
Christ as we must.

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Not just.
Going through what he went.

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Through as a willing servant.
Enduring and enjoying and

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submitting.
To carrying out the will of God.

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But somebody doing it for you
and me?

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Then nothing the Lord did is a
fight between him and any one

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other person.
No victory he won is just a

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victory over the sin he might
have committed but didn’t is yet

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one more nail in the coffin of
your devil and mine.

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He fights that fight for us.
He is fighting our sinfulness.

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He’s winning our victories and
the seed of.

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The woman shall bruise.
The seed of the serpent is

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fulfilled in him, and to see
him.

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Defeating the Wiles.
Of the devil in a pictorial

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presentation of his temptations
in Matthew 4 is to see him going

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so.
Far the devil’s got nothing

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left.
He’s on the.

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Verge of total defeat, and as it
were in a dramatic picture, he

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comes and takes a look.
The Prince of this world cometh

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enough nothing in me and knows
he hasn’t a hope.

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The Lord has effectively at
that.

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Point destroyed.
Him that had the power of death.

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That is the devil.
And all this is possible because

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the Lord did share our nature
and wouldn’t have been possible

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if He hadn’t.
And would not have been possible

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had the Lord.
Been and still was eternal God,

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or a mere man forsaken by God.
He was Jesus in his own person,

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carrying out the war against the
devil and bringing it to a

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successful conclusion.
For as much as you and I are per

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take us of pleasure and blood,
Jesus also himself likewise took

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part of the same nature.
His death might destroy well for

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him as of all for us more
protractedly the devil, Our sin,

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too, must yield to that victory,
if we will let it.

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But now let’s look about and see
where we have got you and I in

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our Christian living, if we have
understood the message of the

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previous.
Talks, particularly the last

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one.
Then we don’t resist the cross

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of Christ.
We join it.

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We don’t try to stop Him being
crucified.

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We expect to be crucified
ourselves, not physically, but

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spiritually, in our own
rejection of the old man and his

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deeds.
We consent to be crucified with

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Christ.
We see ourselves side by side

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with Him.
We.

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Appeal to him for help.
And so we want the old man to

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stay dead.
Now we’d like to live a faithful

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life in your sight.
All that is made possible by

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seeing the picture of the Christ
upon the cross and taking up our

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cross and following him.
But Paul in Romans chapter 6 has

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got to that point.
Please show us that we’re all

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under sin in the first few
chapters.

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Exemplify to us what it means to
trust in God by the faith of.

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Abraham in chapter 4 spoken.
Of the goodness of God in

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bringing Christ to the birth.
For us.

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For it was God’s work in
bringing Christ to the birth for

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us, and has commended his.
Love told us in that while.

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We were yet sinners.
Christ died for us in Chapter 5.

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Leaving up to the point where he
says the worst to sin, the

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greater the.
Opportunity for the grace of

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God.
What I sinned about grace did

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much more about.
Than he faces the inevitable.

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Question which we may not ask in
words, but we’re always asking

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in our lives.
If the grace of God is so big,

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if there’s no sitting too great
for it, then why don’t we sit a

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bit more to give His grace more
opportunity if God likes coping

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with?
Problems.

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Let’s give him.
Plenty.

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Shall we continue in?
Sin that grace may abound.

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God says, Paul says in Romans
chapter 6.

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The answer is perm and
uncompromising.

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No, we will not.
How should we do our dead?

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To sin there any longer than it,
know ye not the to whomsoever ye

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render.
Yourself servants to obey his

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servant, ye.
Are to whom?

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Ye obey whether of sin.
To death or of.

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Obedience and to righteousness.
You haven’t thrown away.

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All shackles, Paul says.
When you believe in Christ,

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you’ve cast off the ball and
chain of bondage to human sin.

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You’ve consented of your own
freedom to be yoked to the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
You’re not your own.

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Masters any more than you ever
were, but where the wages of sin

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was death, the gift of God
through Jesus Christ to His

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servants is eternal light
through Jesus Christ our Lords.

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So don’t think you can go away.
And live as you like, now that

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God has shown how great His
forgiveness is, but recognize.

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That you’ve thrown all that.
Over.

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And now you shouldn’t willing to
be going on doing that anymore.

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How shall we that are dead?
Unto sin live any longer than

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it.
So no, there is no excuse for

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continuing sinfulness.
For those who are in.

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Christ.
And then Paul takes a candid

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look around in the 7th chapter
of Romans at Creation, including

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himself, and he considers how he
wants to obey the law of God.

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And doesn’t do it very well.
So that way of God, which he.

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Delighted in his mind, his
members refuse to cooperate

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with.
And all along he finds himself.

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Lapsing into sin, he even.
Goes through his previous.

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Record of Jewish goodness, which
has a very good record.

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And is it where he goes through
the 10 commandments?

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That’ll have no other God
beside.

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Me.
He ticks himself off.

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I’m just like that.
That’ll make no given.

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Images he.
Didn’t do that either.

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That’s not Take the name of the
Lord thy God in vain.

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Not guilty.
All of the Sabbath day.

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And keep it holy, Not guilty.
A breach of that?

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All of thy father and thy
mother.

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He says he’s not guilty and we
must.

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Believe him that should not.
Steal not in the accident.

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Sense he hadn’t done that, that
will not.

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Kill not guilty that will not
commit adultery, Not guilty that

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shall not speak false witness.
Well, I think he would have had

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second thoughts about that one,
but he says anyway that even

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that one I’m not presently
troubled about because I’ve.

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Come to a.
Point where I can’t escape.

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I had not known sin, except the
Lord said, Thou shalt not covet

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when that commandment sin
revived and I died.

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Just think, you’re not to steal
your neighbours ox, but you

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might want to.
You’re not to corrupt your

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neighbour.
‘S wife and it might be a very

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attractive.
Thought if only you could do it

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and get away with it.
Coveting is the one sin before

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which almost everybody must say
guilty.

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That, says Paul, was me.
He seems to say that even my

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allegiance to the law of Christ
has not made.

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That uneasy matter to deal with
and.

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Having laid down as a law that
we must not.

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Continue in sin.
He looks at the thoughts that go

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on in his own mind, and he says,
oh, wretched man, that I am, who

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shall deny me from this body of
death?

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Christ might have died.
For me and I might.

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Have put away the past, but it’s
the.

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Present I’m concerned with and.
I’m not even succeeding there.

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The atonement is not employed.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m

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still a sin and I can’t help
myself.

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That’s what he seems.
To be saying in his dramatic

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presentation of the futility of
Fleshy’s claims in Romans

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Chapter 7.
And then all of a sudden.

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There bursts out of the.
Black darkness, the words I

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thank God through Jesus Christ,
my Lord, What the Lord could not

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do in that it was weak through
the flesh.

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God sending his own Son in the
likeness of sins flesh and

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forcing in the flesh condemned.
Sin and hope revives again and.

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He sees the Lord Jesus Christ as
being not.

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Just the dire for sins.
But the one who?

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Lives.
Did you go through Romans 8?

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You’ll see that he is now
proceeding from the cross to

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beyond the cross.
It is Christ that died.

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00:26:14,920 –> 00:26:19,920
Yeah, rather that.
What was your said to complete

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00:26:19,920 –> 00:26:22,440
that sentence?
It’s Christ.

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That dies and he’s coming back
again of.

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00:26:24,320 –> 00:26:27,800
Course he is.
That isn’t what Paul says.

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00:26:27,800 –> 00:26:30,920
Not here.
That’s not his immediate

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00:26:30,920 –> 00:26:34,800
purpose.
It is Christ that died gay.

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Rather, that he’s risen again.
And is sat down at the right

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00:26:39,960 –> 00:26:44,440
hand of God making intercession
for us.

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The atonement is not over, the
work is still going on.

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The Lord is not taking a 1900
years sleep between his

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ascension and his return.
How little do you understand

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00:27:03,920 –> 00:27:06,160
what he’s doing it?
How he’s doing it, that he is

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doing it, is not in doubt.
There’s a risen Christ up there.

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Looking down on your need and.
Mind ever living to make

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00:27:16,600 –> 00:27:21,120
intercession for us, and it
marks the.

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Facial between.
Failure and triumph with him.

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00:27:23,280 –> 00:27:25,280
There we need not.
Go wrong.

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It is Christ that died, yeah.
Rather, that he’s risen again.

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00:27:28,720 –> 00:27:31,120
And is set down at the right
hand of God, if God.

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Before.
Us who can be against us, who

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shall separate us.
From the love of.

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Christ shall angels or.
Heights or depth, or

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principalities or power, I am
persuaded that.

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Nothing can do that says.
Paul, but the heartfelt.

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Cry, nobody can help me.
The Romans Chapter 7 that

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emerges.
Nobody can stop me of Romans

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00:27:51,120 –> 00:27:56,800
chapter 8.
If God be for us, he gives us

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00:27:56,800 –> 00:27:59,960
and we just look at this, a
little panorama of what God

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started to do, is going on doing
and he’s going to finish doing.

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Romans chapter 8, verse 28
Romans 8 verse 28 And we know

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00:28:19,320 –> 00:28:21,880
that all things work together
for good to them that love God

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to learn that are called
according to his purpose.

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00:28:25,440 –> 00:28:27,440
For he did.
For no he also for.

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Ordained to be conformed to the
image of his son, that he might

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be the first one among many
brethren.

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And then we for.
Ordained then he also.

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Called to be.
Called and we also.

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00:28:39,120 –> 00:28:43,200
Justified and we justified, then
we also glorified?

483
00:28:43,960 –> 00:28:46,800
And then what should we say to
these things if God before us,

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who can be against us and he
goes from start to finish, a

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finish that hasn’t happened yet.
He foreknew he foreordained.

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00:29:00,200 –> 00:29:05,600
He called he justified.
And in some way we’ve all got as

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00:29:05,600 –> 00:29:07,480
far as that at.
Least our justification is

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00:29:07,480 –> 00:29:12,240
proceeding.
If God be willing but glorified.

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No, that is yet to come, but
securely to come it won’t.

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Fail for those who are.
Justified and made righteous in

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00:29:20,440 –> 00:29:23,280
Christ, God is.
In control of everything that

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00:29:23,280 –> 00:29:25,240
will.
Happen to the faithful believer,

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00:29:25,520 –> 00:29:30,600
and if it is left in his hands,
reposed in his hands, and if we

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00:29:30,600 –> 00:29:33,960
cooperate with him, all things
work together for good.

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So in Romans 8, it isn’t just.
Christ did done.

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00:29:39,400 –> 00:29:45,200
That is, the solution to our sin
problem is that Christ did die

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00:29:45,200 –> 00:29:47,800
and we agreed to die with him,
and we have formally.

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00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:49,720
Put away our.
Old man, and we don’t make a

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00:29:49,720 –> 00:29:52,640
perfect job of what we have set
about doing, but help is at

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00:29:52,640 –> 00:29:57,680
hand.
The Lord is still there to help.

501
00:29:58,960 –> 00:30:01,800
He wants to finish off
successfully that which he began

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00:30:02,280 –> 00:30:06,560
so effectively in his death.
He ever liveth and maketh

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00:30:06,560 –> 00:30:11,560
intercession for us, and that’s
where Hebrews comes back into

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00:30:11,560 –> 00:30:13,880
the picture again.
So could we turn to the chapter,

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00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:17,360
which we looked at a few minutes
ago in chapter 2 and read on

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00:30:22,160 –> 00:30:31,120
Hebrews 2?
We’ll reread verse 14 for AS.

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Much then, as the children.
Are partakers of flesh and

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00:30:33,440 –> 00:30:36,160
blood.
Jesus also himself likewise took

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00:30:36,160 –> 00:30:38,200
part of the saying that through
death he might.

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Destroy him that hath.
The power of death that is the

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00:30:40,160 –> 00:30:43,240
devil, and deliver.
Them who through?

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00:30:43,240 –> 00:30:46,000
Fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage.

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For Verity he took now.
In the nature of angels that he

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took on him the seed of Abraham.
Wherefore in all things it

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behold.
Him to be made like unto his

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brethren.
That he might be a.

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00:31:00,320 –> 00:31:05,120
Merciful and Faithful High
Priest in things pertaining to.

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00:31:05,120 –> 00:31:08,200
God to make reconciliation for
the.

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00:31:08,200 –> 00:31:11,600
Sins of the people.
For in that he himself had

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00:31:11,600 –> 00:31:14,960
suffered.
Being tempted, he is able to

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00:31:14,960 –> 00:31:20,160
succor them that are tempted.
So there are two.

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00:31:20,160 –> 00:31:23,160
Interconnected reasons why
Christ needed to be like us in

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His nature.
The one was to suffer.

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00:31:27,800 –> 00:31:34,240
And conquer sin in his dying,
and the other was to be a.

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00:31:34,240 –> 00:31:39,440
Merciful and faithful High
priest it always when we look up

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to the one who is seated at the
right hand of.

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00:31:41,560 –> 00:31:46,000
God, we say he’s just like us.
And in the sufferings he had,

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00:31:48,120 –> 00:31:53,040
he’s just like us in the battles
he fought more than we are in

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00:31:53,040 –> 00:31:56,720
the victories he won.
But he did it from our baseline.

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00:31:57,880 –> 00:32:02,600
He’s been through it all, and we
know he feels what it’s like.

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We know he knows what travel we
have in doing battle with our

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00:32:10,120 –> 00:32:13,840
sin, and we know he still wants
to help.

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00:32:15,760 –> 00:32:20,600
He who willingly died for our
sins is willing now to do all

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00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:24,640
that he can to help us be
successful in our battle against

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00:32:24,640 –> 00:32:28,560
the sinfulness which remains.
Wherefore in all.

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00:32:28,560 –> 00:32:31,360
Things it beholds him to.
Read like unto his brethren,

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00:32:31,480 –> 00:32:33,440
not.
Just to die, but to continue

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00:32:33,560 –> 00:32:36,440
that he might be a merciful and
faithful high priest.

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00:32:36,920 –> 00:32:39,640
In things pertaining to God, to
make.

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00:32:39,640 –> 00:32:43,640
Reconciliation for the sins of
the people, for he’s been

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00:32:43,640 –> 00:32:47,080
through it himself.
In that he himself hath suffered

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00:32:47,080 –> 00:32:51,600
being tempted, he is able to
succor them that are tempted.

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00:32:55,200 –> 00:32:56,720
The same point he’s.
Taken up and expanded.

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00:32:56,720 –> 00:33:01,760
A little in the 4th.
Chapter Hebrews Chapter 4, verse

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00:33:01,760 –> 00:33:07,560
14.
Seeing none that we have a great

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00:33:07,560 –> 00:33:11,720
High Priest, that was the title
of our talk, Our Great High

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00:33:11,720 –> 00:33:15,280
Priest.
Seeing that we have a great High

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00:33:15,280 –> 00:33:17,280
priest that he’s passed into the
heavens.

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00:33:18,200 –> 00:33:20,800
Jesus, the Son of God.
That has hope past our

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00:33:20,800 –> 00:33:24,720
confession, but we have not a
high priest.

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00:33:24,720 –> 00:33:26,280
That cannot be.
Touched with the feeling of our

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00:33:26,280 –> 00:33:29,840
infirmities.
We will not have been in all

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00:33:29,840 –> 00:33:32,600
points tempted.
Like as we are yet without sin

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00:33:34,520 –> 00:33:36,000
that has therefore.
Drawn near with.

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00:33:36,000 –> 00:33:39,640
Boldness unto the throne of
grace, that we may receive

556
00:33:39,640 –> 00:33:44,760
mercy, and may find grace to
help us in time of need.

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00:33:47,280 –> 00:33:50,000
We have not a high priest that
cannot be touched with the

558
00:33:50,000 –> 00:33:55,240
feeling of our infirmity.
There have been high priests

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00:33:55,240 –> 00:33:58,560
like that.
There have been.

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00:33:58,560 –> 00:34:01,160
Callous office, seeking high
priests.

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00:34:02,600 –> 00:34:06,200
Priests who were only in it for
the money as they were priests

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00:34:06,200 –> 00:34:08,159
who couldn’t care less about
those administered for.

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00:34:08,159 –> 00:34:14,280
But we’re doing their job for
the reputation, the position and

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00:34:14,280 –> 00:34:18,880
the security and the wealth.
It might have brought care, but

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00:34:18,880 –> 00:34:20,400
I should think was such a high
priest.

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00:34:22,560 –> 00:34:26,159
Who could say to his palaces
with utter disregard of all

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00:34:26,159 –> 00:34:30,280
human feeling, you know nothing.
At all neither consider that it

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00:34:30,280 –> 00:34:31,760
is expedient.
That one man died.

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00:34:31,760 –> 00:34:36,920
For the people Innocent thought
he be, and that the whole nation

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00:34:36,920 –> 00:34:40,880
perished.
Not What a high priest.

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00:34:41,080 –> 00:34:42,880
I wouldn’t like to find myself
in his hands, would you?

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00:34:44,080 –> 00:34:46,280
A man who?
Cheerfully gave away Innocent.

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00:34:46,280 –> 00:34:48,600
Lives to.
Pursue the ends, he.

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00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:50,800
Thought were?
Either desirable for the.

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00:34:50,800 –> 00:34:52,719
Nation.
Or for his Casper, For himself.

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00:34:54,320 –> 00:34:56,120
He was one who couldn’t be
touched with the feeling of our

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00:34:56,120 –> 00:35:00,400
infirmities at all.
Who couldn’t quote, care less

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00:35:01,440 –> 00:35:03,240
about the feeling of our
infirmities.

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00:35:06,280 –> 00:35:11,240
So let’s see how far that went
when they brought about the

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00:35:11,240 –> 00:35:15,040
death of Jesus.
There no function against hiring

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00:35:15,040 –> 00:35:19,320
a traitor to deliver him.
He gave Judas his thirty pieces

582
00:35:19,320 –> 00:35:21,800
of silver.
They don’t.

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00:35:21,800 –> 00:35:24,440
Come against bribing.
Witnesses to testify falsely

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00:35:24,440 –> 00:35:27,040
against.
Him they suborned and.

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00:35:27,160 –> 00:35:29,800
That means they bribed
witnesses.

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00:35:31,880 –> 00:35:34,240
They didn’t mind.
Throwing on one side all their

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00:35:34,240 –> 00:35:37,080
Jewishness to get Pilot to agree
with them.

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00:35:37,160 –> 00:35:41,040
We have no king but Caesar,
which in other circumstances

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00:35:41,040 –> 00:35:45,440
they would have bitten off their
tongues rather than say, and

590
00:35:45,440 –> 00:35:47,600
they didn’t mind taking.
One of the worst.

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00:35:47,600 –> 00:35:52,080
Characters around and giving him
his freedom instead of the

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00:35:52,080 –> 00:35:55,560
innocent Christ.
There was a man called.

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00:35:55,560 –> 00:36:03,240
Barabbas, who was a robber?
Who was a rebel who had

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00:36:03,240 –> 00:36:05,040
committed?
Murder in the Rebellion.

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00:36:07,240 –> 00:36:09,800
And there was Jesus Christ
there, who had done nothing.

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00:36:09,800 –> 00:36:13,440
Wrong at all.
And pilot with more.

597
00:36:13,440 –> 00:36:17,480
Than a hint of his tongue in his
Roman cheek, put the two side by

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00:36:17,480 –> 00:36:19,800
side, as it were before them,
and said, Now, which would you

599
00:36:19,800 –> 00:36:23,360
like to have this wreck of
humanity?

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00:36:23,640 –> 00:36:24,080
Who?
No.

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00:36:24,080 –> 00:36:26,520
Good can be found.
There’s every action we know

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00:36:26,520 –> 00:36:30,880
about his.
Evil or the sinless son of God,

603
00:36:30,880 –> 00:36:33,520
Pilot wouldn’t have called him
Son of God, but nevertheless the

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00:36:33,520 –> 00:36:35,440
sinless man who claims to be
your king.

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00:36:38,120 –> 00:36:43,280
And they said not.
This man but Barabbas, or as

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00:36:43,280 –> 00:36:47,800
Peters are telling me, puts it,
you denied the Prince of.

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00:36:47,800 –> 00:36:52,360
Life and ask for the murderer to
be granted unto you.

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00:36:53,880 –> 00:36:55,760
Let the.
Murderer live, Let the life.

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00:36:55,760 –> 00:36:59,760
Giver, die.
Or if you’d like to use some

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00:36:59,760 –> 00:37:02,600
other language for it.
We don’t want Abel, we want

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00:37:02,600 –> 00:37:07,120
Cain, who was that wicked one
and slew his brother.

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00:37:09,080 –> 00:37:11,280
And all that under the
leadership of their existing.

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00:37:11,280 –> 00:37:15,760
High priest till they occur to
me actually just about now, that

614
00:37:15,960 –> 00:37:19,200
that kind of bad example could
have been in the right the mind

615
00:37:19,200 –> 00:37:22,280
of the one who wrote Hebrews
when he said we have not an high

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00:37:22,280 –> 00:37:27,760
priest that cannot be touched.
For the Lord is so different.

617
00:37:29,320 –> 00:37:32,120
Not just because He’s righteous
and wouldn’t do anything that

618
00:37:32,120 –> 00:37:36,520
was wrong.
Not just because He’s just and

619
00:37:36,520 –> 00:37:45,280
wouldn’t acquit the guilty and
condemned the innocent, but also

620
00:37:45,280 –> 00:37:49,800
because He’s merciful has been
through it before.

621
00:37:51,480 –> 00:37:53,680
And though now he lives above
it.

622
00:37:53,720 –> 00:37:57,600
All his glory still realize how
he got there.

623
00:37:59,480 –> 00:38:01,280
And knows.
What a battle it was and can

624
00:38:01,280 –> 00:38:03,360
have compassion with our
intermities.

625
00:38:04,240 –> 00:38:07,800
For we have not a hype.
That cannot be touched with the

626
00:38:07,800 –> 00:38:10,720
feeling of our.
Infirmities, we wonder, have

627
00:38:10,720 –> 00:38:13,040
been at all.
Points tempted like as we are

628
00:38:13,200 –> 00:38:18,320
yet without sin, let us.
Therefore, draw near with.

629
00:38:18,320 –> 00:38:23,240
Boldness unto the throne of
Grace, that in our needs and our

630
00:38:23,240 –> 00:38:28,800
failings and our apprehensions
about the future, His help may

631
00:38:28,800 –> 00:38:33,640
be made available to us, and
that we may find mercy for

632
00:38:33,640 –> 00:38:38,120
things committed and grace to
help in time of need for

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00:38:38,120 –> 00:38:42,640
dangerous threatening.
Let’s do that, the apostle says,

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00:38:43,640 –> 00:38:45,680
as part of our Christian
pilgrimage.

635
00:38:46,000 –> 00:38:48,840
As an indispensable part of our
Christian pilgrimage.

636
00:38:48,840 –> 00:38:54,280
I don’t want to beat any drums
or ride any hobby horses.

637
00:38:56,480 –> 00:38:58,120
There’s one thing that.
Stands out quite.

638
00:38:58,120 –> 00:39:02,200
Clearly from this passage on the
other one and many another it is

639
00:39:02,200 –> 00:39:05,680
that by means we may not know
God is not inert in your life

640
00:39:05,680 –> 00:39:10,240
and mine the.
Our future does not depend only

641
00:39:10,280 –> 00:39:11,760
upon our diligence in reading,
though.

642
00:39:11,760 –> 00:39:15,600
We must do that or in continuous
in fellowship.

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00:39:15,600 –> 00:39:19,040
Though we must do that.
Or efforts to live?

644
00:39:19,080 –> 00:39:22,800
True to our profession that we
must do that too, but is also in

645
00:39:22,800 –> 00:39:26,160
his hands.
If you need the record test and

646
00:39:26,160 –> 00:39:31,200
who doesn’t, go and ask.
And in the ways that only.

647
00:39:31,200 –> 00:39:34,480
God may know, he will not
betray, nor let you down.

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00:39:36,360 –> 00:39:41,680
Ask and it shall be given unto
you.

649
00:39:41,680 –> 00:39:44,920
Knock and it shall be over unto
you.

650
00:39:46,480 –> 00:39:53,080
Seek and ye shall find.
And without.

651
00:39:53,080 –> 00:39:56,440
Being able at all to sound the
depths of James’s words, that

652
00:39:56,480 –> 00:40:01,480
eminently practical, down to
earth, Man James, he says, if

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00:40:01,480 –> 00:40:10,200
any man like wisdom and who
doesn’t let him ask of God who

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00:40:10,200 –> 00:40:16,800
give it to all men liberally and
deny it somehow if we mean it.

655
00:40:18,560 –> 00:40:21,120
If in our prayers.
We go in our destitution to our

656
00:40:21,120 –> 00:40:29,360
God and say please help, the
Lord will not say no nothing.

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00:40:29,360 –> 00:40:33,080
To do with claiming gifts,
nothing to do with exalting.

658
00:40:33,080 –> 00:40:35,520
Human powers nothing to do with
wanting to work wonders.

659
00:40:36,920 –> 00:40:39,560
We’re asking, Lord, we have
heard that if we work.

660
00:40:39,560 –> 00:40:41,760
Out our salvation with fear and
trembling.

661
00:40:41,880 –> 00:40:44,560
It is thee that thou that
workest in US, both to will and

662
00:40:44,560 –> 00:40:46,240
to do with thy good pleasure.
Please.

663
00:40:47,000 –> 00:40:51,400
That’s what we like.
So one doesn’t stand alone in

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00:40:51,400 –> 00:40:55,880
the battle against sin.
It is God that is willing to

665
00:40:55,880 –> 00:41:01,440
work, the High Priest who is
willing to mediate, and the One.

666
00:41:01,440 –> 00:41:03,840
Who had been through?
It all who is willing to help

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00:41:07,480 –> 00:41:10,280
One Tale Piece.
Responding to a question that I

668
00:41:10,280 –> 00:41:15,680
was asked just before this
session began, I was referred to

669
00:41:15,680 –> 00:41:17,600
a passage in Hebrews in chapter
6.

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00:41:22,120 –> 00:41:24,600
Where?
We might usually start reading

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00:41:24,600 –> 00:41:32,000
at verse 4.
But it is impossible for.

672
00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:34,800
Those who were once enlightened
and have tasted of the heavenly

673
00:41:34,800 –> 00:41:37,400
gift and.
The may partakers of the Holy

674
00:41:37,400 –> 00:41:39,880
Spirit and tasted of the good
Word.

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00:41:39,880 –> 00:41:43,240
Of God, of the powers of the
world to come, if they shall

676
00:41:43,240 –> 00:41:45,880
fall away, to renew them again
into repentance.

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00:41:45,880 –> 00:41:48,400
Seeing their.
Crucify to themselves the Son of

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00:41:48,400 –> 00:41:51,640
God afresh, and put him into an
open shame.

679
00:41:54,920 –> 00:41:57,000
That crucify to themselves the
Son of God.

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00:41:57,000 –> 00:42:00,000
Afresh is the one occasion where
the Word in the introduction to

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00:42:00,000 –> 00:42:03,280
these notes is used.
The unasked our Oh crucify.

682
00:42:03,280 –> 00:42:09,160
Again, the Apostle uses it only
here for those who reject the

683
00:42:09,160 –> 00:42:10,800
way of life.
And turn back.

684
00:42:10,800 –> 00:42:14,880
To the calling they are supposed
to have Forsaken may be guilty

685
00:42:14,880 –> 00:42:18,600
of crucifying the Son of God
afresh and putting into an open

686
00:42:18,600 –> 00:42:21,640
shape what I was asked might
that mean?

687
00:42:23,360 –> 00:42:25,080
And I wasn’t asked.
But it would be just the same

688
00:42:25,080 –> 00:42:31,640
kind of question if we turned
over to chapter 10 and read

689
00:42:31,640 –> 00:42:41,720
verse 26.
For if we sin willfully after

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00:42:41,720 –> 00:42:43,000
that we.
Have received the knowledge of

691
00:42:43,000 –> 00:42:44,520
the truth that he.
Made of no.

692
00:42:44,520 –> 00:42:47,760
More sacrifice for sins, but a
certain.

693
00:42:47,760 –> 00:42:50,640
Fearful, looking for.
A judgement and fiery

694
00:42:50,640 –> 00:42:52,920
indignation which shall devour
the adversary.

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00:42:54,720 –> 00:42:58,080
He despised Moses.
Law died without mercy under two

696
00:42:58,080 –> 00:43:00,960
or three witnesses.
And how much?

697
00:43:00,960 –> 00:43:04,280
Sorer punishment suppose ye.
Shall he be thought worthy who

698
00:43:04,320 –> 00:43:06,160
has trodden?
Under foot, the Son of God.

699
00:43:07,960 –> 00:43:09,560
And had counted.
The blood of the covenant where

700
00:43:09,560 –> 00:43:13,720
when he was sanctified an unholy
thing, and had done despit under

701
00:43:13,720 –> 00:43:17,040
the spirit of grace.
For we know.

702
00:43:17,040 –> 00:43:19,600
Him that that said, vengeance
belongeth unto me, I will

703
00:43:19,600 –> 00:43:22,000
recompense.
That the Lord and again the.

704
00:43:22,000 –> 00:43:26,680
Lord shall judge his people.
It is a fearful thing to fall

705
00:43:26,680 –> 00:43:28,360
into the hands of the living
God.

706
00:43:31,800 –> 00:43:38,800
Now there are two passages of
solemn shuddering warning as to

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00:43:38,800 –> 00:43:40,840
what could be or could have
been.

708
00:43:40,840 –> 00:43:44,600
The fate those who threw their
enlightenment.

709
00:43:44,600 –> 00:43:47,120
To the winds and wilfully turned
back to darkness.

710
00:43:47,760 –> 00:43:49,640
Who, amongst other things,
forsook the assembly of

711
00:43:49,640 –> 00:43:53,520
themselves together.
And went back to the Temple, or

712
00:43:53,520 –> 00:43:56,840
to Jewish worships, or to old
customs, and left the Church and

713
00:43:56,840 –> 00:43:58,840
the ecclesias of the faith in
the lurch.

714
00:44:01,640 –> 00:44:04,320
The apostle warns those in that
position that there could.

715
00:44:04,320 –> 00:44:07,520
Be a certain fearful looking for
of judgement.

716
00:44:09,320 –> 00:44:10,840
And the possibility of renewal
of.

717
00:44:10,840 –> 00:44:15,320
Repentance, because they would
be guilty of crucifying to

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00:44:15,320 –> 00:44:19,920
themselves the Son of God,
afresh, treading under foot the

719
00:44:19,920 –> 00:44:23,960
Son of God.
Counting the blood of the

720
00:44:23,960 –> 00:44:24,920
covenant, where would there
have?

721
00:44:24,920 –> 00:44:30,280
Been sanctified.
An unholy thing and the picture.

722
00:44:30,720 –> 00:44:34,240
But the right of draws is almost
unbearable to see in one’s mind.

723
00:44:36,200 –> 00:44:42,680
Can you picture yourself taking
a big hammer and driving nails

724
00:44:42,680 –> 00:44:44,000
into the hands and feet of
Jesus?

725
00:44:44,000 –> 00:44:49,280
Again, that’s crucifying.
It’s not a lot of trash, isn’t

726
00:44:49,280 –> 00:44:52,680
it?
Can you picture the Lord Jesus

727
00:44:52,680 –> 00:44:55,800
Christ then taken down?
From this cross that you have

728
00:44:55,800 –> 00:44:58,720
prepared for him and stamping in
his face.

729
00:45:00,080 –> 00:45:02,040
I trembled under foot.
The Son of God.

730
00:45:04,840 –> 00:45:07,440
Can you see yourself dabbling in
the blood that flows from him,

731
00:45:07,760 –> 00:45:09,440
counting the blood of the
covenant, where we are

732
00:45:09,440 –> 00:45:15,000
sanctified and unholy thing?
It seems to me the Apostle was.

733
00:45:15,000 –> 00:45:19,360
Deliberately overdrawing an
awful situation to warn us that

734
00:45:19,360 –> 00:45:21,280
Christ died once and for all
and.

735
00:45:21,280 –> 00:45:23,240
Though there.
Is infinite mercy to those who

736
00:45:23,240 –> 00:45:27,480
seek to continue in Him.
And infinite mercy, too, for

737
00:45:27,480 –> 00:45:29,640
those who, having lapsed, draw
back in.

738
00:45:29,640 –> 00:45:32,640
Time.
There may.

739
00:45:32,640 –> 00:45:34,960
Be none for those who.
Draw away and won’t.

740
00:45:34,960 –> 00:45:43,280
Come back and lose themselves in
the world again in this 6th

741
00:45:43,280 –> 00:45:47,920
chapter, in that 10th chapter,
in the parts of Matthew and Luke

742
00:45:47,920 –> 00:45:49,640
that deal with the sin.
Against the Holy Spirit.

743
00:45:49,640 –> 00:45:53,640
That hath no forgiveness.
In that part of the 1st letter

744
00:45:53,640 –> 00:45:55,360
of John which speaks of the sin
unto death.

745
00:45:58,040 –> 00:46:00,120
There is, in all cases, I
believe, a picture of the

746
00:46:00,120 –> 00:46:04,760
wilfully impenitent.
Who have wanted for all thrown.

747
00:46:04,760 –> 00:46:10,160
Away the offer of salvation and
refused to have it back and

748
00:46:10,160 –> 00:46:14,920
won’t accept mediation or
restoration That says the

749
00:46:14,920 –> 00:46:21,360
apostle, is like crucifying
Christ again by one who once

750
00:46:21,360 –> 00:46:23,040
said he was willing to be
crucified with him.

751
00:46:26,840 –> 00:46:28,440
I don’t want to dwell upon that
anymore.

752
00:46:28,440 –> 00:46:34,480
Except to say that we mistake
the situation if we suppose.

753
00:46:34,480 –> 00:46:36,400
That there isn’t.
Christ is beyond all feeling

754
00:46:38,440 –> 00:46:44,320
that the suffering is over and.
The tenderness of heart has.

755
00:46:44,320 –> 00:46:46,520
Gone and the victory?
Having been won there.

756
00:46:46,520 –> 00:46:50,120
He is secure, happy, satisfied
not to be hurt.

757
00:46:52,760 –> 00:46:56,000
It’s not true.
The scriptures tell us he can be

758
00:46:56,000 –> 00:47:02,360
touched with the feeling of our
infirmities, and I would take it

759
00:47:02,360 –> 00:47:03,400
that if.
We decide, we don’t.

760
00:47:03,440 –> 00:47:05,480
Want him to be touched, He can
be hurt by it.

761
00:47:08,480 –> 00:47:10,400
He stands to make.
Intercession for us.

762
00:47:10,400 –> 00:47:14,520
And that must mean his feelings
are there with joy when we

763
00:47:14,520 –> 00:47:21,800
respond with grief or we don’t.
If there is more joy in the

764
00:47:21,800 –> 00:47:24,040
presence of the angels of heaven
over 1 Sinner that.

765
00:47:24,040 –> 00:47:27,480
Repenteth than over 90 and 9
just persons that need no

766
00:47:27,480 –> 00:47:28,960
repentance.
How do the angels?

767
00:47:28,960 –> 00:47:30,520
Feel about 1 Sinner that won’t
repent.

768
00:47:33,760 –> 00:47:39,200
If the Lord is made happy by our
compliance, isn’t it necessarily

769
00:47:39,200 –> 00:47:41,320
made unhappy by our refusal to
comply?

770
00:47:42,800 –> 00:47:46,720
Our God is very vulnerable.
Do you know you can make your

771
00:47:46,720 –> 00:47:49,000
creature wretched?
Creature, your creator Wretched.

772
00:47:51,120 –> 00:47:54,040
And do I know that too.
We have an awful power in our

773
00:47:54,040 –> 00:48:00,840
hands to take away a measure of
bliss from our own God if we

774
00:48:00,840 –> 00:48:05,040
don’t respond to Him, and a
wonderful opportunity of making

775
00:48:05,040 –> 00:48:10,240
him happy if we do when.
Saul was at his worst.

776
00:48:11,280 –> 00:48:14,080
He said Saul, Saul.
Why President, is thou me?

777
00:48:16,000 –> 00:48:19,000
And you can see the Lord feeling
the bruises when Stephen has the

778
00:48:19,000 –> 00:48:25,240
stones hit him.
We can see the Lord saying you

779
00:48:25,240 –> 00:48:27,760
left me shivering in the cold
when you wouldn’t help my

780
00:48:27,760 –> 00:48:31,720
brother.
I see the goose flash on the

781
00:48:31,720 –> 00:48:38,080
Lord’s purse, but we can see the
Lord saying I was.

782
00:48:38,080 –> 00:48:39,080
Hungry.
And you gave me.

783
00:48:39,080 –> 00:48:41,160
Food I was.
Thirsty.

784
00:48:41,160 –> 00:48:42,160
And you gave me.
Drink.

785
00:48:42,600 –> 00:48:44,200
I was naked and you gave me
clothing.

786
00:48:44,360 –> 00:48:46,120
I was sick.
And in prison and you visited?

787
00:48:46,120 –> 00:48:48,800
Me in as much as you did it, as
one of the least of these, my

788
00:48:48,800 –> 00:48:54,560
brethren, you can see the Lord
rejoicing for the care His

789
00:48:54,560 –> 00:49:02,040
Saints give one to another in
His name, And this is our high.

790
00:49:02,040 –> 00:49:06,840
Priest so vulnerable in his.
Greatness who can be touched

791
00:49:06,840 –> 00:49:08,640
with the feeling of our
infirmities?

792
00:49:10,480 –> 00:49:12,280
To whom we are exhausted, as it
were, by the mercies of.

793
00:49:12,280 –> 00:49:18,320
God to go and repay we can’t
repay but show appreciation of

794
00:49:18,320 –> 00:49:25,640
His sacrifice and seek His help
and get His blessing and rejoice

795
00:49:25,640 –> 00:49:30,520
his heart and wait for the day.
When the joy will be plain in

796
00:49:30,520 –> 00:49:32,240
his.
Face when he sees us before him.

797
00:49:35,280 –> 00:49:38,800
I think when the Lord.
Says depart from Yechurst.

798
00:49:40,720 –> 00:49:45,320
It will be a misery.
For him to do so when he says,

799
00:49:45,320 –> 00:49:49,240
Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the Kingdom prepared for

800
00:49:49,240 –> 00:49:52,400
you from the foundation.
Of the world that.

801
00:49:52,400 –> 00:49:57,680
Will be his supreme joy when
thou shalt make his soul, and

802
00:49:57,680 –> 00:50:04,720
offering for sins as I 53 again
he shall see his seed, he shall

803
00:50:04,720 –> 00:50:08,120
prolong his days.
And the pleasure of the Lord

804
00:50:08,120 –> 00:50:09,680
shall.
Prosper in his hand.

805
00:50:10,920 –> 00:50:16,600
By his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many

806
00:50:21,440 –> 00:50:25,080
the only reservation I have.
But what I’ve tried to say to

807
00:50:25,080 –> 00:50:30,000
you, especially in this last
talk, is that such a long way to

808
00:50:30,000 –> 00:50:34,400
go myself to be as true?
To that office of the.

809
00:50:34,400 –> 00:50:40,840
Lord, and that graciousness, as
I exhorted you to be just to try

810
00:50:40,840 –> 00:50:46,440
to help each other all the time,
shall we together in one, till

811
00:50:46,440 –> 00:50:49,160
the Lord comes and sees us as
the body of His bride.

812
00:50:51,080 –> 00:50:56,400
The wedding feast now complete.
Back to the earlier talks, not

813
00:50:56,400 –> 00:51:01,800
just guests.
Nor a feast, nor a bridegroom.

814
00:51:01,800 –> 00:51:03,840
Above all, not a bridegroom
taken away, but a bridegroom

815
00:51:03,840 –> 00:51:07,480
come back.
And the wedding properly

816
00:51:07,480 –> 00:51:12,120
furnished, When the bride comes
arrayed in fine linen, clean and

817
00:51:12,120 –> 00:51:15,560
white, of the Lord’s washing,
they washed their robes and made

818
00:51:15,560 –> 00:51:21,000
them white in the blood of the
lamb, and fulfills, it is only

819
00:51:21,000 –> 00:51:23,880
eternal joy that for which he
came and lived and died.

820
00:51:24,920 –> 00:51:26,880
Who for that?
Joy that was set before him,

821
00:51:27,760 –> 00:51:32,960
endured the cross, despising the
shape, and is now set down at

822
00:51:32,960 –> 00:51:34,080
the right hand of God.