HEBREWS CHAPTER 3 HEBREWS CHAPTER
3 THE TITLE OF THE MESSAGE JESUS CHRIST GREATER THAN MOSES KEEP
IN MIND THE APOSTLE IS WRITING TO THE HEBREWS AND THEY HELD
MOSES IN THE HIGHEST ESTEEM They was always talking about Moses
and the law given to them by Moses. Moses, they said, gave
us manna in the wilderness. Remember what they said that
to the Lord? He said, Moses didn't give that to you. My father in
heaven gave that to you. Moses didn't have that kind of
power, but they said Moses gave us that bread, that manna in
the wilderness. They thought so highly of Moses
and now HE'S GOING TO SET JESUS CHRIST OVER MOSES. You see, the Apostle here, he has spoken of Christ being
greater than the prophets, greater than the angels, and now greater
than Moses. WHAT HE'S HAVING THEM TO DO AND
US TO DO IS SET OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS UPON THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST ABOVE ALL ELSE. WE SHOULD NEVER THINK OF ANYTHING
HIGHER THAN WE THINK OF OUR LORD. HE'S THE HIGHEST THOUGHT WE CAN
HAVE, YOU KNOW THAT? CHRIST IS THE HIGHEST THOUGHT
WE CAN HAVE. and our aim the aim here of the
apostle is that we would seek him and set him above all else
and all others the lord jesus christ is the mark Paul said,
I pressed toward the mark for the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus in Philippians 3. Christ is the mark. He's our aim. He's our aim. And we are to set our hearts
upon Him. And if we do, if God enables us to do this, we will
not be disappointed. But if we don't, I promise you,
We will come to disappointment but we will not be disappointed
if the Lord Jesus Christ is our aim, our mark, our life, our
all in all. We will not be disappointed. It is written in Isaiah 26 3,
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on
thee because he trusteth in thee. You want to have a peaceful mind?
Set it on Christ. the Prince of Peace. If you want
to have a peaceful mind and a quiet conscience, set it on Christ because we have the promise of
God here. This is God's promise, Thou wilt
keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee. And the
way that we grow in grace and in knowledge of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the way we do this, And this is very important to me
as your pastor because I have a lot to do with this. I have
a lot to do with you growing in grace and in knowledge of
Christ by me always preaching Christ and always setting Christ
forth before you every week, every week. And the way we grow
in grace and in knowledge of Him is by setting our minds upon
Him. THINKING UPON THE LORD, MEDITATING
UPON THE LORD, STUDYING HIM. He said, Take my yoke upon you
and learn of me. Learn of me. And by always SEEKING
HIM in prayer, in this service, this is what we are doing. Are
we not doing this in this service, seeking the Lord? Lord, speak. Lord, be with us. Lord open your
word to me, open your word. This is how we grow in grace
and acknowledge in Christ. Now you'll notice here he says,
wherefore holy brethren, this is not to everyone, this is not
to every person, this is to the Lord's people, holy brethren. LET'S NOT TAKE WHAT'S WRITTEN
TO GOD'S PEOPLE AND APPLY IT GENERALLY TO EVERYONE. IT DOESN'T
WORK THAT WAY. IT'S TO THE HOLY BRETHREN. AND
THIS DESCRIBES ALL GOD'S CHILDREN IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. EVERY
ONE OF YOU IN CHRIST WHO BELIEVE ARE HOLY. I DIDN'T SAY YOU FELT
HOLY. I DON'T FEEL HOLY. DO YOU FEEL
HOLY? YOU DON'T FEEL HOLY. YOU FEEL LIKE I DO. YOU FEEL
YOUR SINS. David said, My sin is ever before
me. Can you relate to that? I can
relate to that. But I also know this by God's
Word, and I've learned this, and I told this to a young lady,
young, she's Jason's age, she grew up with Jason, gone through
a lot of trouble. She sat down and talked to me
at Jeremy's wedding, I mean, she's gone through some deep,
deep valleys and she's talking about how hard it was. And I
said, remember this, feel and real are not the same. Feel has
a lot to do with flesh. Real is God's word. I told her,
I said, stand on God's word. That's what's real. God has never
broken a promise. He's never broken a promise.
He will do exactly what He said. Feeling real, we're not the same.
And here He calls them holy brethren, though we may not feel holy,
we are. In Christ we are holy, all of God's children are holy
in Christ, and you're partakers, partners, your participants, that's what
that word means, of the heavenly calling. You're made partakers
of God's family, you're part of God's family. That's one of
the reasons I preached and baptized my grandson and it was the most
emotional I've ever had or ever had to experience in all my preaching. I've got to be careful now to
even talk about it. you know it's uh i tell you when
the lord saves your children your grandchildren it's uh i
mean it's just unspeakable the blessing is unspeakable it's
like everything's okay now whatever happens doesn't matter everything's
all right everything's all right because i looked it out there
and i looked at him and i looked at my my madison and i thought
THEY ARE PARTAKERS OF THIS HEAVENLY CALLING WITH THEIR GRANDPA AND
THEIR GRANDMOTHER AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD, THEY ARE PARTAKERS,
THEY ARE PARTICIPANTS. Oh, as Henry said, it makes you
want to walk softly before God. You are partakers of the heavenly
calling, this call is from above, this call is not from a preacher. It's from God. God's called you,
and I promise you this, if God's called you, you're coming. If God's called you, you're going
to follow Him in baptism, you're going to take the Lord's Table,
and you're going to follow Him through the rest of His Word.
You're going to follow Him the rest of your life. You're going
to follow Him. If He's called you effectually,
you're going to follow Him, and you're coming. You're coming. No pressure has been put on you
who believe. Has anybody put any pressure
on you to make a decision? No pressure has been put on Madison
or Cole? None at all! Wasn't nobody grabbing
her by the shirt collar and, No, no, I just preached the gospel,
no pressure put on Matthew. It's an effectual call. There's
nothing earthly about it. NO EARTHLY CALL IN IT, IT?S A
GOD! GOD CALLING FROM HEAVEN! Think about that, GOD CALLING
FROM HEAVEN, AND HE?S CALLING YOU, AND HE?S CALLING YOU PARTICULARLY! HE?S CALLING YOU BY NAME! Was it Samuel? Was it Samuel?
He?s in there when he was just a boy and he thought Eli was
calling him. He went in there and he said,
?Here I am!? He said, Didn't call you go back to bed. He goes
back in there and Lord called him again and Samuel and he went
back in there to Eli and he said here I am and it's like I Didn't
call you But now you go back this time if you and you hear
that call you say Lord Here I am speak. I'm That's not verbatim. But that's what he said you go
back in there and this time you hear that call He says the Lord
speaks And He did. Now God doesn't call us audibly
like that. You know He doesn't. He calls
us by His Spirit, calls in our heart, but yet He uses the pastor. He uses His preacher, everyone
whom God saves. I promise you this, God is going
to send that person a preacher. And that preacher is going to
preach. When I heard Henry preaching, I mean it was POWER, it was speaking
to me. God was speaking to me and He
was speaking to me through my pastor. And He was speaking to
me through His Word and by His Spirit. And if God's going to
call you, that's how it's going to happen. This call's from God, it's from
Heaven, it's from above, it's not earthly, and it's effectual. It's effectual. And it's a call
from darkness to light. It's a call, listen, it's a call
from DEATH to LIFE. It's a call from death to life,
from darkness to light, from sin to righteousness. It's a
call to come to Him, to come to Him. That's what it is. And He says
here, and this call here, listen, partakers of the heavenly calling
consider And when God calls you, I promise you, when God calls
any sinner, that sinner is going to consider Christ for the first
time. For the first time you're going
to think upon the Lord Jesus Christ. For the first time you're
going to find yourself having an interest in Jesus Christ. And that interest is of God.
It's of God. Consider, one writer said this,
to consider means to meditate upon so as to arrive at a fuller
knowledge of. Brethren, we will never, never,
never exhaust the knowledge of Christ. Christ is the wisdom
of God. Can we exhaust infinite wisdom?
Who by searching can find out God? IF GOD DOESN'T REVEAL HIMSELF,
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO KNOW HIM. AND IF GOD REVEALS HIMSELF, WE
CAN STILL ONLY KNOW HIM IN PART IN THIS LIFE. WE WILL SPEND ETERNITY
KNOWING GOD. BECAUSE EVERYTHING ABOUT GOD
IS INFINITE. UNMEASURABLE. YOU CAN'T FIND
THE END OF IT. THERE'S NO END TO THAT MEASURING
TAPE. IT'S INFINITE. Now he says here, Consider the
apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. They
knew what that meant. They knew something about the
high priest. It really meant something to them. Now when we
get over to chapter 5, we're going to see that Christ is greater
than Aaron. Now it's Moses. In a little bit
it'll be Aaron. But here he says, To consider
this, meditate upon this, so as to arrive at a greater knowledge
of this, the apostle. Christ is an Apostle. He's called
an Apostle because He's the messenger sent of God with the message.
He said, As I hear, I speak. The message is not something
He made up. He said, As I hear, I speak. There's no office in
the church that Jesus Christ is not the head of. HE'S THE
HEAD OF IT, HE'S THE HEAD APOSTLE! HE'S THE HEAD APOSTLE, HE'S THE
CHIEF APOSTLE! THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS, AND
HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST, AND BOTH OF THESE HAS TO DO IN REFERENCE
TO HIS HUMANITY, BUT ALSO TO HIS DEITY. We'll see this as
we go. But He's the High Priest, He's
the Mediator between God and man, there is no other. You know, you see these Catholics, and
they've got their priesthood and their voodoo stuff going
on and they're waving incense, trying to copy, trying to have
some kind of a copy of the Old Testament. Jesus Christ is our
High Priest and that old priesthood is done away with. We don't need
none of this incense waving and we don't need none of this garbage they've got going on.
Jesus Christ is our High Priest. He said every High Priest over
in Hebrews 5 there, every High Priest is chosen from among men.
Jesus Christ, God's Son, became a man and He was chosen of God
to be the High Priest to represent us before God. We have a representative before
God. We have a man who is God who represents us. It doesn't
get any better than that. Aaron wasn't like that, Aaron
made a calf! But not our high priest, not
our high priest. No, he's FAITHFUL! We'll see
here, he's faithful to God, faithful in the house of God, he's a faithful
high priest in things pertaining to God. HE'S OUR HIGH PRIEST. HE OFFERED
UP HIMSELF AS A SACRIFICE FOR HIS PEOPLE. HE INTERCEDES FOR
THE PEOPLE. I JUST PRAYED. DOUG PRAYED BACK IN THE STUDY,
BUT OH, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST INTERCEDES FOR US. FATHER, I
PRAY FOR THEM. I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD. HE
DOESN'T PRAY FOR EVERYBODY. HE DOES NOT PRAY FOR EVERYONE.
I HEARD SOMEONE SAY YESTERDAY, I PRAY FOR EVERYBODY. Well, I know Jesus Christ didn't.
He said, I pray not for the world, but for them that thou has given
me now has given me. I pray for them. I've had people
ask me many times to pray for, for, uh, people have nothing
to do with the gospel. And, um, MY PRAYER IS LORD IF
IT BE YOUR WILL TO SAVE THEM. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PRAY FOR.
IF I PRAY FOR THEM TO GET BETTER, TO HEAL THEM AND THEY'RE STILL
LOST, I JUST CAN'T. MY PRAYER IS THAT
IF IT BE THE LORD'S WILL THAT HE'D HEAL THEIR SOUL. SOMEONE
ASKED ME NOT TOO LONG AGO TO PRAY FOR SOMEONE THAT THEY WERE
SICK AND THEY DON'T KNOW THE GOSPEL, DON'T BELIEVE ON CHRIST
OR ANYTHING. And my prayer was, Lord, if it be your will to heal
this person's soul, healing his body ain't gonna be worth anything
if he doesn't heal his soul, you know that? If God doesn't heal my soul,
healing my body just gonna, it's not gonna do any good. I'm
trying to be careful with what I'm saying. I try to be more careful with
not talking off the top of my head and try to say things that
are appropriate. But Jesus Christ here is the
High Priest of God for the people of God. He's our Leader as He's
called over in chapter 2, the Captain of our Salvation. And
then He speaks here of His faithfulness in verse 2, who was faithful
to Him that appointed him. God the Father appointed his
son in that covenant of grace to be a high priest, to be our
high priest. As also Moses was faithful in
all his house. You find that, I believe it's
over in Numbers. It might be Numbers 21. I know
the verse is seven. That's when Miriam and Aaron
was complaining against Moses and God spoke on behalf of Moses
and she turned into a leper for at least seven days. And Moses
prayed to the Lord but healed her. He said, Moses is my servant,
he's faithful in all my house. WE GOTTA BE CAREFUL TALKING ABOUT
ANY OF GOD'S CHILDREN. MY SOUL, WE OUGHT TO BE FEARFUL,
FEARFUL OF SAYING ANYTHING AGAINST GOD'S CHILDREN. If they confess Christ and they
believe on Christ, I tell you, a servant will stand before his
own master, he'll stand or fall before his own master. And I'm going to leave it there.
I'm going to leave it to His Master. But here He's FAITHFUL
to Him who appointed Him. You know, it says it's required
of a steward to be found FAITHFUL. Paul said that God counted him
FAITHFUL, putting him in the ministry. The Lord Jesus Christ
was FAITHFUL to God who appointed Him. He kept EVERY PRECEPT of
the law. Do we have any idea what that
was? Adam couldn't even keep one commandment
when he was innocent, when he knew no sin, he couldn't keep
one commandment. The Lord Jesus Christ kept every jot and tittle
perfectly, every one of them. He believed God perfectly. He
never doubted. He never doubted his father,
never doubted God at one time. He loved God perfectly. He provided
the sacrifice that God required. HE PROVIDED THE BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
THAT GOD REQUIRED? HE'S FAITHFUL! HE'S FAITHFUL! Now the apostle here uses some wisdom when he speaks
of Moses because he knew what they thought of Moses, he knew
that. They thought very highly of him. You see, Moses was Moses
was a unique person in the word of God. He's a unique person. You know his birth, you know
what it was. all the infants were being killed and his mother
put him in a basket and then Pharaoh's daughter found him
and took him and let his own mother raise him for a little
while then he was raised up in Egypt he was educated in Egypt
and then he goes to the back side of a desert and God's instruction
teaches him back there and then God brings him back as a deliverer
of Egypt and brings all those plagues on Egypt but delivers
Israel out of Egypt brings all those plagues on Egypt Moses
was greatly used of God, greatly used of God. The law was given
to him on Mount Sinai and he gave it to Israel, he gave them
the law. But he's saying here, the Apostle
is saying, but Christ is greater, Jesus Christ is greater, there's
no real comparison. You see, Moses was born with
a sinful nature. Jesus Christ knew no sin. He
knew no sin. Moses led Israel, God's people,
through the wilderness. Jesus Christ is leading God's
people to GLORY, the REAL PROMISED LAND. the LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE
ONLY PERSON WHO HAS HELD ALL THREE OFFICES, PROPHET, PRIEST,
AND KING. NO OTHER EVER HELD THOSE THREE
OFFICES AT THE SAME TIME. Now notice in verse 3, I m only
going to go through verse 6. For this man, and he s going
to point out the manhood of Christ, This man was counted worthy of
more glory than Moses. I can just hear some of them
gasp. It's like they just have a gasp.
Really? More glory? This man, this Nazarene,
this one that was crucified? This one that was despised and
rejected of men has more glory than Moses? Absolutely. Absolutely! He has more glory
than Moses as much as the man who builds the house has more
glory than the houses that he built. You know, when you see a beautiful
house built, I mean, you know, you see just a beautiful house,
you say, I wonder who built that? Don't you? It didn't build itself. No house built itself. And you
think, man, the person who built that house, what a craftsman,
what a master craftsman he must be. And what he's saying here
that the Lord Jesus Christ built the house, God's house, God's
house. And that's evident that the one
who builds the house has more honor than the house. You see,
the house Moses was over and a servant in was a house of flesh. But the house Jesus Christ is
over is made up of LIVING STONES. It's made up of LIVING STONES. You know, this building is not
made up of LIVING BRICKS. You know, the drywall here and
the framing, it's dead! It's dead! The tree was cut down, the wood
was dried, it's dead! It's not growing, it's not sprouting,
it's dead! But the house Jesus Christ is
building is made of LIVING STONES! And that house is able to actually
praise God! It can praise God. Moses was
a servant in the house, Jesus Christ is a son over the house. And Moses didn't choose the house,
but Jesus Christ did choose the house. For every house, listen,
is built by some man. As I said, no house built itself,
but He that built all things is God. NOW HERE IS A CLEAR REFERENCE
TO THE DEITY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. IT SAYS THERE IN CHAPTER 1 AND
VERSE 2, BY WHOM HE MADE THE WORLDS. OVER IN COLOSSIES IT
SAYS BY HIM ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM AND FOR HIM. ALL THINGS. EVERY HOUSE IS BUILT UP BY SOME
MAN, BUT HE THAT BUILT ALL THINGS IS GOD. THE CONNECTION HERE IS
MADE WITH CHRIST BEING GREATER BECAUSE OF THIS ONE REASON, HE'S
GOD. God walked on this earth in the
flesh. God is building the house and that house is made up of
believers. You're the house, we are the
house that God's going to live in WE ARE THE HOUSE. And Moses verily was faithful
in all his house as a servant, now it comes down to Moses being
a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be
spoken after him. He changes to Moses being a servant
in the house, but our Lord is the Lord over
the house. But here's what he's saying.
For a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after,
everything Moses did in type and picture was a testimony to
the Lord Jesus Christ. It was a testimony to the tabernacle.
It's a testimony to Christ. The Lamb, testimony to Christ. The Passover Lamb, testimony
to Christ. The priesthood, testimony to
Christ. over in John 5 46 the Lord said
had you believed Moses you would have believed me for he wrote
of me all those types of pictures Moses
wrote of and and God gave to him to to do and to build and
to establish were pictures of Christ but Christ in verse 6
and I'll wind it down but Christ as a son over his own house HIS
OWN! HE OWNS THE HOUSE! Moses didn't
own the house. Moses was a servant, he didn't
own it. Christ owns it. You're bought with the price.
The house is bought with the price. I realize this more and
more as I have grown older. I have been bought with the price.
I'm not my own. I'm not my own. It's not, it
is NOT what do I want to do, it's Lord, what would you have
me do? What would you have me do? Christ is the Son of God, it's
His house, it's a spiritual house for God to dwell in. It says
in 1 Peter 2 verse 5, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up
a spiritual house and holy priesthood OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES
ACCEPTABLE TO GOD BY JESUS CHRIST. YOU KNOW WHAT THOSE SPIRITUAL
SACRIFICES ARE? WELL, PART OF IT WAS THE SINGING
WE DID EARLIER, SINGING HIS PRAISES, THANKSGIVING. THOSE ARE SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES
THAT WE GIVE NOW, IT'S THE HEART, PRAISING GOD, THANKING Whose
house are we? We are God's house. You know,
God's house is not made up of wood, hay and stubble. It's made
up of sinners born of God. Saved by the grace of God. Turn
over to Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians chapter 2, look in
verse 19. NOW THEREFORE YE ARE NO MORE
STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS
AND OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD. and are built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the
chief cornerstone, in whom all the building fitly framed together
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord, in whom ye also are
built together for habitation of God through the Spirit." You are in habitation of God
through the Spirit. whose house we are, IF we hold fast the confidence and
the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Paul said later
on in Hebrew, We are not of them who draw back, but we are of
them who believe to the saving of the soul. THOSE WHO DRAW BACK
AND LEAVE THE GOSPEL NEVER HAD IT. THEY NEVER BELIEVED GOD,
NEVER! Paul is warning us, and I m going
to use Paul throughout this epistle because I think he wrote it,
but I m going to say his name because I m going to struggle
if I don t. But Paul is warning us not to make the same mistake
Israel of old made. THEY BELIEVED THEY WERE GOD'S
CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY WERE CIRCUMCISED AND THEY THOUGHT BECAUSE OF THEIR
CONNECTION TO ABRAHAM IT WAS AUTOMATIC IT WAS AUTOMATIC THEY
BELIEVED THEY WERE GOD'S CHILDREN THEY BELIEVED BECAUSE OF THEIR
CONNECTION TO ABRAHAM THAT THEY WERE AUTOMATICALLY IN THE COVENANT
BUT HERE'S WHAT THEY DID NOT DO THEY DID NOT BELIEVE GOD We'll
see this later on in the chapter. They could not enter into the
rest, God's rest, because of unbelief. They died in the wilderness. They died. Turn over to 1 Corinthians. 1
Corinthians chapter 10. This scripture came to my mind
before coming out here. And this, you know, the Word
of God does not allow us to presume upon the grace of God. Chapter 10, verse 1, Moreover,
brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that
all our fathers were under the cloud. and all passed through
the sea, and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in
the sea, and did all eat the same spiritual meat, manna, and
did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that
spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.
But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were
overthrown in the wilderness." Now these things were OUR EXAMPLES
TO THE END TEMPT WE SHOULD NOT LUST AFTER EVIL THINGS, AS THEY
ALSO LUSTED. NEITHER BE YE IDOLATERS, AS WERE
SOME OF THEM, AS IT IS WRITTEN, THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT, DRINK,
AND ROSE UP TO PLAY. NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION,
AS SOME OF THEM COMMITTED, AND FELL IN ONE DAY TWENTY-THREE
THOUSAND. NEITHER LET US TEMPT CHRIST,
AS SOME OF THEM ALSO TEMPTED, AND WERE DESTROYED AS SERPENTS.
NEITHER MURMUR YE, AS SOME OF THEM ALSO MURMURED, AND WERE
DESTROYED OF THE DESTROYER. NOW ALL THESE THINGS HAPPEN UNTO
THEM FOR IN SAMPLES OR TYPES AND THEY ARE WRITTEN FOR OUR
ADMONITION UPON WHOM THE ENDS OF THE WORLD ARE COME. WHEREFORE
LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL." Is He
trying to get us to doubt our salvation in Christ? No, but
don't presume upon the grace of God. Don't presume upon the
grace of God. The Word of God holds out no
hope for those who quit and turn back. And because of the trials
that many of them are going through, we can read of it in Hebrews
11 when we get there. But because of the trials, I
mean real trials now, real trials, and the heartaches, some of them
would be tempted to quit. The journey's just too hard.
And he's telling me here, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't turn back. Because I know
trials are tough, but listen. Remember this. Don't give up
the future for the present. DON'T GIVE UP THE FUTURE FOR
THE PRESENT. THERE'S NO HOPE FOR THOSE WHO DRAW BACK. AND
THE WORD OF GOD NEVER ALLOWS US TO PRESUME UPON THE GRACE
OF GOD. 2 Peter 1.10 WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE DILIGENCE
TO MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE. FOR IF YOU DO THESE THINGS,
YOU SHALL NEVER FALL. GIVE DILIGENCE. PUT YOUR HEART
AND SOUL INTO IT. seeking the Lord and to grow
in grace and knowledge of Him. And in closing, what are we to
hold fast to? He says here, the confidence
and rejoicing of the whole firm to the end. You believe that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, hold to that confidence. Don't
you lose that confidence. You believe that the Lord Jesus
Christ died TO SAVE SINNERS, THAT BY HIS BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
YOU ARE SAVED. Hold that confidence. Or I can
just use the word faith instead of confidence. Hold that faith.
Steady as you go. Steady as you go. You be steady. You be steady
in your walk. You be steady in your faith.
You be steady following the Lord no matter how hard it gets. you
be steady because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and
forever he doesn't change the gospel doesn't change salvation
doesn't change our hope in Christ doesn't change and don't you
lose the the confidence of that and don't you lose the hope of
your rejoicing of the hope you know as long as you have
that hope before you you will rejoice because hope makes you
rejoice Hope will cause you to rejoice, it will. Rejoicing in
the hope, rejoicing in the hope we have of eternal glory, eternal
life in the Lord Jesus Christ. The hope of the resurrection,
of coming out of the grave, coming out of the grave. The
hope of being in heaven. As the Lord said to that thief,
Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. There is such a place
called paradise. It's where HE is. It's where
our Lord is. Joe Terrell told me, and I close
this, but Joe Terrell told me once he apologized to Bonnie. We're dragging her all over the
country. They lived in two or three different places or more. She said, I apologize for that.
She said to him, home is where you are. Home is where you are. I told Joe, I said, you hit the
jackpot, buddy. You hit the jackpot. Home is where you are. Home is
where Jesus Christ is. All right.