Take your Bibles and turn with
me to Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 8. Hebrews chapter 8. We'll begin our reading in verse 1.
And this will be our text this evening. Now of the things which we have
spoken, this is the sum. We have such a high priest who
is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the
heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which
the Lord pitched, and not man." The title of the message this
evening is, The Sum of All Things. The sum. The apostle here, in
the beginning of this chapter, gives pause. He has gone over
many things. From the first chapter, he has
shown how Christ is above better than angels, better than Moses,
better than Joshua, better than Aaron. And now he has entered
into the priesthood, how he is better than Aaron's priesthood,
how he was a priest after the order of Melchizedek. Many things
he had gone over. And as a wise pastor, he is now
taking time to pause. ALLOWING THE INFORMATION, THE
MESSAGE THAT HE HAD BEEN PREACHING TO SETTLE IN. AND IT'S GOOD FOR
US, IT'S GOOD FOR A PASTOR TO TAKE A BREATH. WE PREACH A LOT,
WE PREACH A LONG PERIOD, BUT WE WANT THIS TO TAKE HEART, WE
WANT THIS TO GET TO YOUR HEART. to your mind so you can understand. So he pauses here, seeing the
greatness of his subject and the necessity of his message. He is a good minister of the
gospel, makes a summation, a summation of all that went before. He seeks to impress this upon
the minds and hearts of his hearers. which is the goal of every gospel
preacher. It is our aim always. It is my
aim always to hit your heart. It's not just to tickle your
intellect, but it is aimed at your heart. We have somewhat, one pastor
once said, we as preachers have an impossible task to take the
message that God has laid upon our heart and put it into your
heart. Who's sufficient for such things?
Yet this is our aim, this is our goal, that it be plain. And so we preach with such plainness
of speech. We preach so that you may understand. You may understand what we say. Therefore he starts this message
and he says now Now the things which we have spoken, this is
the sum. What is the sum? It is the addition. All of the parts put together,
everything that he had gone before, now has come to its pinnacle. And he is going to tell you exactly
what went. If you didn't hear the first
seven chapters, now you should hear the whole of the matter.
Here it is. We have a high priest. This is the message. We have
a High Priest, Jesus Christ. You want to know the sum? Here
it is. Jesus Christ. That's the sum. The sum of the whole matter. Paul says to that church in Corinthians,
he says this, I came not with excellency of
speech or with man's wisdom, but I determined not to know
anything among you except what? Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Why? That is the sum of our message. That is the whole of our message. It is the person and the work
of Jesus Christ. That is the message we preach.
Now if we were to go back to the beginning of this epistle
that Paul had spoken, that he had written, the sum of this
whole, what is the sum? What is the whole of it? The
person and work of Christ. It is the intent of every gospel
preacher to do one thing, exalt Christ, abase man. Why? That is exactly what the
Scriptures do. It's exactly what the Scriptures
teach. Abasing man and exalting Christ. You know, religion has
it opposite. They want to exalt man and abase
Christ. Or at least they want to be on
the same level. That's not our message. That's
not our message. Our message is to exalt Christ
That's what Paul has done in this book. He has exalted Him
better than angels, better than Moses, better than Joshua, better
than Aaron. His covenant is a better covenant
than that of the Law. Why? Because His covenant is
one of grace. His salvation is one of security. His salvation is one of comfort.
It teaches us that salvation, that salvation without the Law. salvation without the law Romans
3 and verse 21 it says now now is the righteousness of God revealed
manifest without the law without the law being witnessed by the
Law and the Prophets. This is what Paul has been teaching.
All of those Old Testament types and pictures were a pattern. As a matter of fact, look in
your text here in verse 5. He said, "...who serve," those
priests, "...who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly
things." This is what Paul has been saying throughout the book.
The sum of it is the law was only a picture. It only prophesied
of the righteousness of God. But now it's revealed. Even the
righteousness of God which is by the faith of who? Jesus Christ. The faith of Christ has accomplished
righteousness. And that righteousness is given
to us through faith. It's imputed to us. It is imparted
to us in the new nature. He said in the beginning of this
book, God has spoken in sundry time and in divers manners. He
spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, but hath now
spoken how? His Son. So what is the sum of
all Paul is saying? The Son. The Son. The Son. Christ. Paul declares that Christ is
the fulfillment of all the prophecies, the types, and shadows, and promises
of the Old Testament law. And if anyone, if anyone would
benefit from the preaching or the study of God's Word, If any
sinner will be saved and have eternal life and peace with God,
he must be made to see and believe on Jesus Christ alone. Alone. That He alone is the sum and
the theme of all the Word of God. You remember on the road
to Emmaus. Our Lord Jesus Christ saw those
two, came to those two disciples and they were murmuring, they
were weeping, they were lamenting. And Christ, you remember, rebuked
them on that road. Now why did He rebuke them? Because
they failed to see. They failed to see that the sufferings
and death of Christ was not a failure, but rather victory. They failed
to notice that all of the Old Testament prophets had spoken
of His death and His victory. And He said this, "...ought not
Christ to have suffered and entered into His glory?" He said, didn't
you know that? Have you not read in the Scripture?
Have you not read the Old Testament prophecies that Christ ought
to suffer? This should have been known of
you. And He rebuked them because they didn't know. And so what did He do? He expounded
unto them the psalm. He expounded the sum of this,
of all things. He expounded unto them, beginning
at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all
the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. What's the sum? What is the sum? It is the Son of God. Christ
is the sum. Friends, Jesus Christ, in Him
crucified, is the only Gospel message of Holy Scripture. It
is the only message that the men of God are called to preach,
because this is the only message that saves sinners, and it is
the only message that comforts, strengthens, and encourages the
believers. That's it. No other message will
do that. Other messages may tickle your
ears. It may even give you emotion. It may make you feel good for
a moment, but it will not comfort you. It will not strengthen you.
Only the gospel of Christ will do that. That's it. Therefore, all the stories of
the Old Testament, all the prophecies, all the promises, all the law
is summed up in Christ. that God in sovereign grace chose
the people, that God in free mercy gave those people to His
Son. And His Son, in love for them,
became a surety of a better covenant. A surety of a better covenant. Covenant of grace. And He came
into the world as a man in order to be our priest. priest and being found in fashion as
a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death
even the death of the cross even to bear your iniquity, your sin,
in His own body on the tree. And what was the result of His
death? Total, absolute victory. Complete success. Perfect acceptance
with God wherefore God hath highly exalted him and given him a name
Which is above every name that at the name of Jesus Every knee
should bow every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord to the glory of God the Father So what's the sum of this? Christ Everything is about Christ. All things were made by Him,
and what? For Him. And this book is all
about Him. It's all about Him. And our message,
our psalm to sinners is, Behold. Behold Him. Believe on Him. For there is none other name. You got that? That's pretty narrow,
isn't it? narrow none other name given among men whereby we must
be none of the name so we preach none of the message we preach
none other message than the one God has given And so then every
message we preach, every study we make in the Holy Scripture,
what is the sum of them? Here it is. We have an High Priest. We have an High Priest. You know,
one of the things that the Jews at this time, they made fun of
the Christians, they mocked them. because the Christians didn't
have a physical high priest. They said, look, we have the
high priest in the temple. We have the high priest that
goes and offers the sacrifices. Where is your high priest? And
Paul said, uh-uh, we have a high priest. Make no mistake, you
cannot go to God except by a priest. You got that? That's important.
It is necessary for you to have a priest in order to offer a
sacrifice to God to be accepted. And Paul says, we have an high
priest. Notice, who is set? Paul looked over there at the
temple and he could see the high priest, and they were just moving
about. You see the priest moving, they're moving, they're moving.
Never stopping, never stopping, always working, always working.
And Paul says, you know what's wrong with your priest? They
never sit down. Our high priest is set down in the heavens at
the right hand of the majesty, the right hand of God. Now, first
of all, I want you to notice this. Notice this. How the Apostle makes the Gospel
message very personal. Notice this, he said, we have
an High Priest. We. We. As we have seen before, no man
can approach unto God without a priest. When God created Adam,
Adam had full fellowship with God. He had full communion with
God. He walked with God and communed
with God daily. But when Adam sinned, when he
rebelled, all of that communion failed. And because Adam was a representative
man All of His race, when He sinned, we all sinned in Him. When He died, we all died in
Him. And when He died, He lost communion
with God. His sin separated Him from God. So what then can reconcile man
to God? God tells us this by His coming
to Adam. When He came to Adam, what did
Adam do? Adam ran from God. Isn't this
what men do? They run from God. By nature,
men run to the trees and hide themselves in confusion. You
ever try to talk to someone about the simple gospel of Christ?
What do they want to do? Well, what about this? What about...
What are they doing? They're hiding in the trees.
They're trying to hide in the trees. They can hide from you
and me, they can't hide from God. When God finds them, they
won't hide. And then they try to cover themselves
like Adam did. He covered himself. And that's
what they do with religion. Man by nature covers himself
with his own works. And that works only until God
comes. And when God came to Adam, He
exposed his sin. And then He preached a message
to him. He said, the seed of the woman
shall crush the head of the serpent. He gave him the gospel. Christ
should come. There should be a man to come.
And that man will crush the head of the serpent. He will put away
sin. He will make you acceptable to
God. what he said and then he showed
them in that picture he took the innocent animal he slew the
animal and covered their nakedness what a picture of Christ that
is it is a picture of Christ who should offer as a priest
himself to God so as to cover our nakedness so we can have
communion with God this was the purpose This is the picture that was
established. This was the picture that Abel, his son, followed.
Because Abel, as a priest, offered a sacrifice to God. You remember
in Genesis when Isaac was going up that mountain, Moriah, with
Abraham, his father. Now at that time, the law hadn't
been given, so it wasn't the tribe of Levi that were priests.
It was usually the head of the household that was the priest.
So Abraham, in this scenario, was the priest. And Isaac said,
Well, there's Dad. He's going to offer it. Here's
the wood. Here's the fire. Where's the
lamb? If you're a priest, you've got
to have what? A sacrifice. And so he knew. This is how you approach God.
You approach God through a priest, through someone to offer a sacrifice
in your stead. This is a principle. And what
did Abraham say? He said, My son, God shall provide
himself a lamb. Isn't that what Christ
did? Provided himself to be a lamb. He, as a priest, had a sacrifice. We have a high priest, and our
high priest offered the sacrifice of himself. So behold, the high
priest of God, behold his sacrifice. For his sacrifice alone was sufficient
to please God. Only his sacrifice pleases God. See, we have a high priest to
boast about. You want to boast about a priest? They boasted
in their priest. But Paul says, we got a better
priest than that. We got a better priest than that. Why? Because
we have a priest that offered a better sacrifice. One only
that was accepted by God. You see, all those others were
only pictures. Go to Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10
and look at verse 5. Paul tells us this in this chapter
as well. Wherefore, when he cometh into
the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,
but a body hast thou prepared for me. You see, all of those
other sacrifices did not accomplish what they pictured. They did
not accomplish what they pictured. He said sacrifice and offering,
you don't want that. It's not pleasing to you. This
is why thou hast prepared me a body, so as I could offer a
sacrifice that is acceptable. And he said, Lo, I come, verse
9, to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first and
establishes the second. By the which will we are sanctified,
listen, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ.
How many times? Once for all. Once for all. Oh, we have a high priest. We
have a high priest. Better than any other high priest. But let me ask you a question,
and I'm going to get personal. What good is a high priest in
his offering if he's not your high priest? If Christ is not your high priest,
then what good is his offering to you? IF HIS OFFERING WAS NOT FOR YOU,
THEN WHAT WILL YOU DO? WHO WILL BE YOUR HIGH PRIEST? Listen, there are many priests
upon the earth. There were many priests under
the Law of Moses, and I tell you, there are many priests in
the Catholic Church today, are there not? There are men running
around calling themselves priests. They wear their collar backward
and wear a sharp black suit or a white robe, and they smell
really nice. They got that perfume they go
all over the place with. They look pretty. But I tell you, there are many
preachers who will not say they are priests, but by their false
gospel they act like priests. What do they say? If you want
to be saved, come to the what? Altar. But now what a priest
does, tell you to come to the altar. And what are they coming
with? If you come to an altar, you've
got to come with what? A sacrifice. That's what an altar's
for. What is the sacrifice of this
generation? It is decision. It is will. They are coming with the sacrifice
of their decision themselves. They say, you need to give your
heart to Jesus. What are they doing? They are
offering the sacrifice of their heart to Jesus. He don't want
it. It's no good. It's no good. So what's the difference
between a Baptist and a Catholic? Nothing. If that's their doctrine,
if free will works religion is their doctrine, there is nothing
different between Catholicism and Protestantism or Baptist
or anyone else. Church of Christ, what is their
sacrifice? Their sacrifice is the baptismal pool. That's their
sacrifice. They're offering themselves to
the baptismal pool and saying, well, that does it. That solidifies
it. So are those that want to keep
the law. That's their sacrifice, keeping
the law. So then, in effect, they become their own high priest. But what's the result of these
priests? The result of every one of these priests is the same.
Their offerings cannot save them. Not all their decisions, altars,
priests, popes, not all the baptismal waters, the wine and bread of
all the world and offering to God can remove one sin or cleanse
one stain. Not one. So what good are those
priests? They are no good. They may make you feel good,
But they are of no value to your soul. They are of no value. What value will they be in that
day when Christ comes? You remember, there is a day
coming in which He will separate all men. Christ will separate
all men. He will separate the sheep on
His right hand and the goats on His left. And you remember
the reply of those that are cast away, those that are cast into
hell. What is their reply? Lord, when did we not do all
of these good things for You? When did we not offer these sacrifices
to You? You know, He doesn't say anything
at all about their works, about what they think they did. He
said, Depart from Me, you that work iniquity. I never knew you. So what good are those priests
in that day? They're no good. Behold then our gospel, the sum
measure of our gospel, because there is only one high priest
that is set on the right hand of the majesty in heaven Jesus
Christ the righteous this high priest alone was ordained by
God to be the surety of his people and Jesus testified of this in
John chapter 6 go over to John chapter 6 our Lord testified
of what he came to do as our priest and John chapter 6 and verse 37. Well, if I get the right book,
it would work out. He said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven not
to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And
this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all he
hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again
at the last day. And this is the will of him that
sent me. that of every one which seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up
at the last day." Friends, our Lord Jesus Christ as a priest
has a people. His sheep were given to Him.
And He came to save them so that none of them should be lost.
He offered His blood and died to redeem them from all their
sin, to make them holy and without blame before God. Which He'll show you shortly
as the proof of His success. He is risen from the dead. But what is the common thread
that binds these elect people, these that Christ is a priest
of? What binds us together? What is the common thread that
binds us together? It is this, we come to Christ. That's the common thread. All
that the Father giveth me, what's the thread? Shall come to me. I'll tell you this. I was not
there when he wrote or when he determined. When I say when,
I mean that's an eternity past. God purposed to save us in eternity. I was not there when our names
were written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I was not there. How
do I know that that's my high priest? Because I have come to
him. That's it. There's the evidence
that you have such a high priest. Have you come to Him? Have you
believed on Jesus Christ? They all shall come to Him by
faith. They all by nature are sinners,
even as others. They will not by nature come,
yet in grace God will draw them all and teach them all their
great need and show them His great Savior. They will all come. And how many of them will be
lost? How many for whom Christ died
shall be lost? Not one. Not one. They will all come to Him. All
that the Father giveth me, all that the Father giveth me, shall
what? Come to me, and I will lose none
of them. I will raise them up again at
the last day. This is His sworn promise. If Christ is the surety for His
people, He will lose none. And to preach
such foolishness as universal atonement is blasphemous and
denies the very words of Jesus Christ in that text. Denies it. Universal atonement says, I do
not believe the very words of Christ. They have to. But behold, we have such a high
priest, a high priest who is no failure, a high priest who
is successful, victorious, who has finished the work of his
priesthood, and is what? Set down. You see, we have a high priest
that's not running about. The false Christ of the world
is doing this. The poor thing, he doesn't know
who's going to come. He has no clue. He's just hoping
somebody would be willing. After I gave my son, surely somebody
would give me a break. Somebody would pity them. That
God needs to be pitied, not worshipped. Now, we have such a high priest
who is sat down at the right hand of the throne of the majesty
on high. Is this your priest? Is that your priest? Is my priest? That's my priest who has sat
down. It is if you believe on him alone. Do you need a higher priest? Do you need one to make you acceptable
with God? Are you such a sinner as by no
means of the flesh, by no offering of your hands can you be made
acceptable to God? Then look! Behold, a high priest! Jesus Christ, a high priest. For He came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance. Sinners listen, the law is unchangeable. The law is unchangeable and firm. Why will you argue? Isn't that
what men want to do, argue? Why? You're not changing that
law. You're not going to change it.
God demands absolute perfection and he doesn't bend. You just
don't. The way of the Lord, this is
what the people of Israel said in Ezekiel. The way of the Lord
is not equal. It's not just. It's not right. I can't obey the law. I've already
broken the law. That's not fair for God to demand
of me righteousness that I can't provide. No, God says your way is not
equal. Your way's unequal. Your way's unjust. You want me
to be like you. And He ain't gonna be like you.
He's not gonna be unjust. They say it's not fair that God
has chosen a people, redeemed them in Christ. Isn't that what
Paul said in Romans 9? He said, you'll say to me this,
is there unrighteousness with God? Is God unrighteous because
He chose one and not the other? He said, Well, if God has chosen,
then what do we do? You know, we can't do anything.
God's already done it. So, you know, I guess there's
just no hope for me. Well, who are you to reply against
God? Cannot God do with you as He
pleases? Matter of fact, you better get used to this. God
will do with you as He pleases. You should bow to it. Arguing with God is of no avail. For God hath declared a way.
God has shown the sinners a way that He can be saved. Yet men
will not come. Therefore God says, Your way
is not equal. Your way is unjust and rebellious. For God declared to sinners in
Ezekiel 33 and verse 11, He says this, As I live, saith the Lord
God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked should turn
from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil
ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel? Listen, if you die
in your sins and burn in the fires of hell for eternity, do
you realize this? God's never going to be satisfied
with that. He has no pleasure in the death
of the wicked. It doesn't benefit God in the least that the wicked
die and burn. But you listen, if you die in
your sins, it is all on you. It is because you have rebelled.
You would not turn. God said, turn ye, turn ye from
your ways. And He's not saying turn from
this sin or this habit, turn from your whole life, turn from
your whole self, turn from your whole religion and turn to Christ. That's what it is. Turn. Turn, confess your works and
religion to be done and cling to the righteousness of Christ
alone. The sum of our faith, the sum
of our hope, the sum of our salvation is this. We have a high priest
that's sat down. We have a high priest that's
finished the work. Why will you die? Is that the most foolish
and ignorant thing in all the world for a man to die in his
sins? When I've just told you that God has provided all you
need. Now consider the sureness then
and the confidence of us who do believe. Consider our joy,
our peace, our hope is in this. Christ has finished the work.
The work is finished. In this world, believer, we are
surrounded with uncertainty. Surrounded with it. The events of time seem random. One minute. We are at peace. We have joy to the full. Our
hearts are calm. All seems well. Communion with
Christ seems real and precious to our souls. But suddenly, tragedy
strikes. Sorrows multiply. Sin overwhelms
us. We are taken in sin and our faith
begins to fall. Our communion with Christ seems
broken. Our tears begin to fall. Wave
after wave after wave overwhelms our hearts and minds. Our conscience
convicts us. Satan's darts strike deep into
our souls and cause us to doubt our salvation. We're made then
to question, do I believe in Christ? I'm going to ask a rhetorical
question. Have you ever been there? If you're a believer in Christ
for any amount of time, you've been there. David said this,
My soul is vexed, but thou, O God, how long? How long will you vex
my soul? In another place he said, How
long will thou forget me, O God? Forever? How long will you hide
your face from me? What's the remedy? What is the
remedy for such a place? The same remnant, the same one
who feared to be cast off said this, but I trusted in thy mercy. You know what the remedy is?
Trust. Faith. We have a high priest that sat
down. Trust. Stop looking at the things around
you and look to Christ, the sum of the matter. Look to Christ. Our Savior's work is done, is
finished, accomplished, therefore all thy sins forever have been
removed from us. Paul says in verse 4, in your
text, He says in verse 4, For if he, our priest, were on earth,
he should not be a priest. If you could see your priest,
he wouldn't be a priest. Why? Because he wouldn't have
been accepted. If the tomb is not empty, your
faith is vain, and you have no priest. But our priest is sat
where? On the throne. The priest is set down on the
throne of God. So you don't have just a priest.
You have a king. A king. A king. The tomb is empty. Our king is
set down on the right hand of the majesty on high. Therefore, believer, in the very
teeth of your strife, in the very jaws of your pain and death,
we shall not fear, for all our sins are removed. We are granted
continual, perpetual access to the throne of grace, seeing Jesus
ever liveth to make intercession for us. Our priest is not only a priest,
he is a king. This testifies to us that Jesus,
who loved us, laid down His life for us. He says this, I am not
ashamed to call them brethren. You know what the king says about
me? He said, I'm not ashamed to call that one my brother. I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed of you. He said,
I'm not ashamed. The king is not ashamed to have
you in his presence. You're ashamed. He's not. Why? Because as your priest,
he removed all your sins. Why should he be ashamed of you?
If you have no sin, why should he be ashamed of you? Make no
mistake, our Lord rules the creation of this world with a rod of iron,
and all He has purposed He will do. And none can stay His hand
or say unto Him, What doest thou? Believer, we have such an High
Priest that is set down as the King and Sovereign over all things. Is there trouble? Is there grief?
Is there sickness? Is there death? Who did it? The
King did it. Deuteronomy 32, verse 39 says,
I am God. And there is none else. I kill,
and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. Who did
it? Scripture says in Amos 3, it
says, "'Tis there not evil in the city, and the Lord hath not
done it." What then is His purpose of all
things? What is He doing as King? I want
you to know this. Go to John 17, and we'll start
to close. John 17. John chapter 17, this is the
high priestly prayer, what is the King doing? Look at this,
in verse 1, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father,
the hour has come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son may glorify
Thee. As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, here's
what He's doing, that He should give eternal life to as many
as Thou hast given Him. What is He doing? He is giving
eternal life. How is He doing it? Through the
means of the preaching of the sum, Jesus Christ. He is giving
eternal life to His people. Secondly, the King rules over
all things for the protection and good of His people. Look
at verse 6, I have manifest Thy name unto them which Thou gavest
Me out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest
them Me, and they have kept Thy word. Now, they have known that
all things whatsoever Thou hast given Me are of Thee. For I have
given unto them the words which thou gavest Me, and they have
received them, and have kept them, and known surely that I
came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst
send Me. Listen, I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but
for them which thou gavest Me. For they are thine, and all mine
are thine, and all thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.
Now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world. And
I come to thee, Holy Father. Listen to what He prays. Keen through thine own name those
who now has given me that they may be one So what is the king
doing? We have an high priest sat down
on the throne of God doing what saving his people keeping his
people Thirdly our high priestly king His will is that we preach His
word. In verse 17, He says, Sanctify
them through thy truth, thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me
into the world, even so I send them into the world. Do what?
Preach the truth. Declare the truth. This is the
will of our King. And the will of our King and
priest is that we be one, even as He and the Father are one. He said in verse 21, I pray that
they might be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that
they may also be one in us, that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me. Believer then, let us love one
another. Let us forgive one another. Let
us serve one another. How? Even as our priestly king
has served us and loved us, we should love one another. Why?
That's the command of the King. Is that a difficult command to
understand? No. We should love one another. We who are saved by grace should
love one another because we are one. We are one. So what's the sum of these things?
Jesus Christ in crucifixion. What's the sum we have? Who? We who believe have an High
Priest. An High Priest who is what? Set
down, finished. An High Priest who is set on
the throne of God doing His own will, which is to save us, keep
us, to cause us to love and encourage
one another, and to intercede for us forever. May God ever give us eyes to
see Him. Praise Him. Worship Him. I pray that God would bless this
to you. Give you eyes to see it. Let's stand. We'll be dismissed
in prayer.