2nd Hebrews. I was looking at 2nd Timothy
before coming out here and I got that on my mind. So turn to 2nd
Hebrews. Chapter 2. Hebrews chapter 2. THE TITLE OF THIS MESSAGE, THERE
IS A NEW WORLD COMING. BOY, IVE ENJOYED LOOKING AT THIS.
THERE IS, NOW THIS IS A REALITY. THERE IS A NEW WORLD COMING. WELL SEE THIS HERE IN A LITTLE
BIT. BUT AFTER THE WRITER OF HEBREWS
had drawn some attention to the seriousness of the things which
we have heard, and that we are not to neglect them, lest at
any time we should let them slip, slide away. What we hear, I can't put a value on it. I can't tell you how important
it is that when the Word of God is preached YOU HAVE THE WORD
OF GOD OPEN IN YOUR LAP, HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO LISTEN, TO
GIVE ATTENTION TO GOD'S WORD, AND NOT LET THE THINGS YOU HEARD
TONIGHT OR ANY OTHER TIME THAT YOU HEAR THE WORD PREACHED, DON'T
LET IT SLIP. GO HOME AND ASK THE LORD. you
learn this as you get older. Go home and ask the Lord to open
your understanding to what you heard, to give you something
to think upon, to apply the Word to your heart. So after making that impression
upon the Hebrews, the Apostle now returns to Christ and His
superiority over the angels, but now now it's in connection
with the world to come. Do you see that in verse 5? For
unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come. There's a new world coming, it's
coming, going to be established I was talking to Vicki about
it today, and I said, The Lord is going to do away with this
one. We learned that in the first chapter, didn't we? He's going
to fold it up like a vesture and put it away, this one. But
there's going to be a new one in its place. He's not going
to leave it void. There's going to be a new heaven
and a new earth. That's going to happen. And what He's doing
now, He's talking about the Lord Jesus Christ and His superiority
over the angels in connection with this world to come, but
as a man. As a man. You see, there's a
new world coming and Christ is the King of that new world. And
everything is going to be put under Him, under Him. It's going to be in subjection
to Him, not to angels. but to the Lord Jesus Christ
and He only is going to be worshiped. And ultimately, ultimately through
the man Jesus Christ, the representative man, man is going to be saved. Not every man, humanity is going
to be saved. Not every human, but humanity
is going to be saved. THIS IS WHY WE ARE TOLD TO SET
OUR AFFECTIONS ON THINGS ABOVE. THIS ONE IS PASSING. WOULD YOU
SET YOUR AFFECTIONS ON A BURNING HOUSE? WOULD YOU GO TO THE BANK
AND BORROW MONEY AGAINST A BURNING HOUSE? YOU WOULD BE THE BIGGEST FOOL
ON EARTH TO DO THAT, WOULDN'T YOU? AND I WOULD TOO. THIS IS
A BURNING HOUSE. THIS WORLD, THIS EARTH IS A BURNING
HOUSE. And I believe it's just about
to change. But this is why we're told to set our affections on
things above, not on the things of this earth. That's what he
says in Colossians 3. If you then be risen with Christ,
if you're risen with Christ, then don't set your affection,
your mind, your heart on the things of this earth. I know
we live on it. I know we have to work and get
an education and get a good job and pay bills and it's not free. The only thing that's free is
salvation. Everything else you've got to
work for, everything else. But he says here, If ye then
be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where
Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your mind and heart
on those things. We are told to lay up treasures,
where? In heaven. Lay up your treasures
in heaven where moth and rust cannot touch it and thieves can't
break through and steal. It is written in Hebrews 11.
Let's turn over to Hebrews 11, we're close to it. Listen to Hebrews 11, look in
verse 10. This is concerning Abraham. You see, Abraham, when he was
called to go out to a place which should afterward receive for
an inheritance, verse 8, he obeyed and he went out, not knowing
whether he went. And by faith he sojourned in
the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles
with Isaac and Jacob. He didn't dwell in a beautiful
home, he dwelt in a tent. Abraham dwelled in a tent with
Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked
for a city. Are you looking for a city which
hath foundations, who builder and maker is God? Is that what
we're looking for? Is our hearts and minds set on
that and not on these things? looking at verse 16 but now well
let me read a few verses before that these all died in faith
verse 13 they all died in faith not having received the promises
but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and
embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims
on the earth we have no continuing place here do we Henry said one
time, and I just, there's so many things he said, I just,
it stuck with me. He said, don't drive your tent
pegs too deep. Don't drive them too deep. We're
just pilgrims here.) For they that say such things declare
plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful
of that country from which they came out, they might have had
opportunity to have return. But now they desire a better
country that is a heavenly. We desire the heavenly country. It's a country, it's going to
be a new earth, it's going to be a new place. WHEREFORE GOD
IS NOT ASHAMED TO BE CALLED THEIR GOD, FOR HE HATH PREPARED FOR
THEM A CITY. God's prepared this for us. Are
we looking for it? I say to myself, John, are you
looking? Is this what you're looking for? What are you looking
for? Are you looking for retirement? Is that what you're looking for? My I was talking to Maddie the
other day and other night was talking about retirement. She
asked me about retirement I said when I die, that's it. That's
my retirement when I die We're looking for a city who'd
build her maker's garden now he says in verse 5 I FOR UNTO
THE ANGELS HATH HE NOT PUT IN SUBJECTION, THAT NEW WORLD, THAT
WORLD TO COME IS NOT SUBJECT TO THEM." It's not in subjection
to them. "...HE HATH NOT PUT IN SUBJECTION
THE WORLD TO COME, WHEREOF WE SPEAK." You see, the world to
come is a very real world, it's very real. This one is passing
away, as stated in chapter 1, but the one coming is going to
replace this one, and it s not going to pass away. That s eternal! It s eternal! Revelation 21. And I saw a new heaven and a
new earth. John saw this. He had a vision. God gave him a vision to give
to us. This is for us. That wasn t just
for John. That was for this John too. and
for you too. This is what He saw, this is
what's coming. I saw a new heaven and a new
earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. It passed away, it's gone, dissolved
by the brightness of His coming and there was no more sea. And
then verse 5, And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold,
I make all things new he's not going to renovate this one this
one's going to be done it's going to be done with it has served
its purpose and we'll see that here in just a little bit he said i make all things new
now the angels have no rule over the world to come it was not
designed for them it's not given to them it's designed for the
man jesus christ and for all those in christ It's designed
for THEM. It's designed for them. In the
Old Testament, angels were used a lot to reveal the will of God. Three angels met Abraham. One
of them was the Lord. An angel spoke to Joshua. An
angel stopped Balaam. The angels did a lot, but not
here. Not here. And many of the writers Many
of the writers say this world to come starts with the gospel
dispensation and that the angels are not used in it. I don't think
that's what it means. He's talking about that world
to come, that new world, that new heaven, that new earth. New
earth. Angels are spoken of a lot in
the book of Revelation. They open all these different
vows. You go read the book of Revelation and all these angels
are used. But in this world to come, it's not subjected to them, it's
given to us. It's given to us. There man fulfills in this new
heaven and new earth, man fulfills God's original purpose which
he purposed in Christ before the world began. You see, the
first Adam was a type, he was a picture of the second Adam.
And all this is a type and a picture, except now man's fallen. He's
fallen. But look here in verse 6, But
one in a certain place, and he reaches back to Psalm 8, where
David speaks of God's glory. Look over here in Psalm 8, I've
got it marked. I marked it here just a minute
ago. Because when David, it says here in Psalm 8, Oh Lord, OUR
LORD, HOW EXCELLENT IS THY NAME IN ALL THE EARTH, WHO HAS SET
THY GLORY ABOVE THE HEAVENS. OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND
SUCKLINGS, THOU HAST ORDAINED STRENGTH BECAUSE OF THINE ENEMIES,
THAT THE ALMIGHTY IS STILL THE ENEMY AND THE AVENGER. WHEN I
CONSIDER THY HEAVENS, IT'S LIKE HE WAS STANDING THERE LOOKING
UP INTO THE HEAVENS AT NIGHTTIME. THE WORK OF THY FINGERS just
the work of His fingers. The moon, the stars which Thou
hast ordained, and all their greatness. David said, But what
is man compared to God s glory, and God s power, and God s wisdom? What is man that Thou art mindful
of him, and the Son of Man that Thou visit him? THOU HAST MADE
HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, AND HAS CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY
AND HONOR. YOU MADE HIM TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR
HANDS, YOU'VE PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET. ALL THE SHEEP
AND THE OXEN, HE'S TALKING THERE ABOUT ADAM. HE SAID YOU PUT EVERYTHING
UNDER MAN'S FEET ORIGINALLY, ORIGINALLY. ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE, AND YOU
KNOW HE'S WRITING TO THE HEBREWS HERE, I DON'T THINK HE HAD TO
BE CONCERNED ABOUT QUOTING Psalm 8 or saying David wrote in Psalm
8, THEY KNEW IT! THEY KNEW THE SCRIPTURES! He
says, One testified, What is man? you are mindful of him,
the son of man, that thou visitest him. What was man before the fall? Would you have liked to have
seen Adam and Eve? Would you have liked to have
seen, I would have liked to have seen Adam and Eve in the Garden
of Eden? He would be very interesting
to see that and see them in the original creation. But what we're
going to see is far greater and far superior. But Adam was God's
chief creation. What was man? He said, What is
man? He's God's chief creation. Nothing in creation was created
in the image of God except man. Nothing. It doesn't even say that about
the angels, it says that about man! He's created in the IMAGE OF
GOD! And the scripture is not talking
about a physical likeness because God is SPIRIT! He's talking about
ATTRIBUTES! He's talking about CHARACTER!
You see, no other creature was given the intelligence MAN was
given! He named all the animals, Adam
did. He could reason, he could love,
he could express his thoughts, he could speak, he could be joyful,
he could plan. You know, it's impossible to
know what Adam was very capable of, it's hard to know. God CREATED
him, can you imagine that? God CREATED Adam, and He created
him in His own IMAGE. You can only imagine what he
was capable of. You can only imagine the glory of Adam and
Eve. Adam was king over all creation,
as he says there in Psalm 8, Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things under
his feet, all sheep, oxen, yea, the beast of the field, the fowl
of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through
the path of the sea. They're all under the dominion
of Adam, a man. all under His dominion. He s
the KING! He s the KING! Nothing in creation was off-limits
except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That was off-limits. Adam was created upright, pure,
innocent. He knew no sin. He knew no sin. There was no flaw in No flaw
in the creation of Adam. God didn t create a flaw in him.
He had fellowship with God like none of the rest of creation
had fellowship with God like Adam did. None of them. And God came into
the garden and visited him. He ENJOYED God. He enjoyed God. BUT THEN HE FAILED. PERFECTLY INNOCENT, RIGHTEOUS,
FREE TO CHOOSE, AND IT'S AMAZING HE CHOSE TO REBEL AGAINST GOD. But I tell you, when you just
study the Word of God, you start seeing the picture clear up more
and more and more. It's like those old cameras that
used to take a picture and you could watch it develop. And reading
this today and yesterday and the day before yesterday, it
was like watching it develop. God made man, God created him
in His own image, He put him over everything, and then he
fell. SIN ENTERED THE WORLD, AND DEATH
BY SIN. AND NOW THIS MAN WHO WAS CREATED
IN THE IMAGE OF GOD BECAME A FOOL. HE BECAME A FOOL. THE FOOL HAS
SAID IN HIS HEART THERE IS NO GOD. THERE IS NO BIGGER FOOL
THAN THE ONE WHO DENIES GOD. A PERSON WHO WILL NOT BELIEVE
GOD IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST FOOLS IN THE WORLD. TO NOT BELIEVE GOD WHO CANNOT
LIE? DO NOT BELIEVE YOUR OWN CREATOR! Man's a LIAR now! He's a LIAR! Romans 3, verse 4, God forbid,
yea, let God be true in every man, a LIAR! That's the human
nature, that's what we've become, a bunch of liars. Well, I tell you what now, the
Bible's tough on the flesh because it's the TRUTH! It's the TRUTH! Man now is ENMITY against God! He doesn't love God. There's
an inbred enmity in every human being. And Romans 8 said, Because
the carnal mind, which is what every one of us are born with,
is enmity against God. A deep SEEDED HATRED OF GOD. That's what it is. And man is sin. David said, Behold,
I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive
me. Paul, when God saved Paul, and Paul was a Pharisee, Paul
was of the strictest sect there was. He was outwardly moral and
kept the law, he thought. And then God saved him. He said,
Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body
of death? I thank God through Jesus Christ.
That's who, that's who. And then man, if you go back
to Genesis 2, 7, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground, this body is nothing but dust. That's what it's made
from. THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST NOT
MADE FROM DUST. NOT THAT MAN. GOD FORMED THAT
MAN AND GOD SPOKE HIS BODY INTO EXISTENCE WITHOUT SIN. HE DIDN'T MAKE IT FROM DUST. HE SAYS OVER IN GENESIS 3.19
FOR DUST THOU ART, AND INTO DUST THOU SHALT RETURN. I can quote
that scripture over every funeral I preach. If you watch these old westerns,
they quote that every time somebody's shot and laid in the ground. It's true and man is darkness
and he loves darkness. Now when I say man is that, I
said man he's an enmity, he's a liar, he's made of dust. I
just explained me and you by nature. Let's be careful when
we think of man and we're thinking about somebody out there. It's right here. It's right here
standing in front of you. But this man, he says here, Thou
madest him a little lower than the angels. You know, angels
have great power. You know, they can just go from
here to across the universe if God tells them to in a heartbeat. We are trapped in a body, aren't
we? We are trapped in a body, we
are weak, we are frail. It doesn't take anything to kill
us. If God didn't keep us alive, we'd die at birth. We're so weak and frail and fragile
and yet the angels are so powerful. But He says here, You made man
a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and
honor. You sent him over the works of Your hands. You honored
him. You honored him. And You made
him a little lower than the angels. Listen, for a little while. That's
what that means. For a little while. Because God has something greater
in store. The story of redemption. The
chiefest of God's glory is His redemptive glory. God has a greater purpose in
creation for man than He created. And it's going to be THROUGH
the man, the Lord Jesus Christ. That purpose is fulfilled in
Christ, the man, Christ Jesus. Thou hast put all things in subjection
under his feet. That is, we see that in Adam,
that s why he s talking about the original creation. For in
that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that
is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things
put under him. Well, he failed, he failed, he
failed. WE SEE NOT YET ALL THINGS PUT
UNDER HIM. HOW DEVASTATING WAS THE FALL. GOD PUT ALL THAT UNDER
HIM AND HE LOST IT ALL. HE LOST IT ALL. LIKE SOMEBODY
GIVING ALL THEIR MONEY TO AN INVESTOR AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN
WHAT? HE GOES COMPLETELY BROKE, IT'S BAD, IT'S ALL GONE. BUT NOW WE SEE NOT YET ALL THINGS
PUT UNDER HIM. HOW DEVASTATING WAS THE FALL.
everything now look now look at creation everything like adam
is in rebellion the animals eat you up go you have to protect
yourself the animals have turned on us the beast of the field
have turned on us all of creation has turned on
us creation turned on adam and adam's turned on creation rebellion
is what it is it just rank rebellion But all is not lost. Now the story
is going to turn around. Now the picture is going to start
to clear up. It s going to start to clear
up. God created man. He made him a little lower than
the angels. He fell. WHAT GOD CREATED IN ADAM WAS
NOT REALIZED IN ADAM. IT WASN'T REALIZED. BUT WE SEE JESUS. NOW THE PICTURE
STARTS TO CLEAR UP. WE SEE THE MAN CHRIST JESUS WHO
WAS MADE A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS. THAT IS, FOR A LITTLE
WHILE HE WAS MADE A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS FOR A LITTLE
WHILE AS A MAN. And here's why. For the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honor. Now we know that he went to the
cross, he suffered, went to the cross, died, buried. And then
he's crowned with glory and honor. And he, by the grace of God,
should taste death for every man. That's everyone he represented. THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S ETERNAL
PURPOSE FOR MAN IS FULFILLED IN THE MAN JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S WHY IT ALL HAPPENED. THIS
IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. GOD MADE MAN, HE MADE MAN A LITTLE
LOWER THAN THE ANGELS FOR A LITTLE WHILE. MAN ON THIS NEW WORLD
IS COMING. THIS NEW HEAVEN, NEW EARTH. YOU
AND I ARE NOT GOING TO BE BELOW THE ANGELS. WE ARE NOT GOING
TO BE SUBJECT TO THEM IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. WE ARE GOING
TO BE MORE POWERFUL. One of the writers said, DO YOU
NOT KNOW THAT WE SHALL JUDGE THE ANGELS? WE SEE JESUS IS WHAT HE SAID,
BUT WE SEE JESUS. WE SEE JESUS. WHO IS THIS MAN?
You see, this man, unlike the first man, is the LORD from heaven. That's what the Word of God says.
The first man was of the earth, it says earthy. He was made of
dust. God breathed in his nostrils
a breath of life. The man became a living soul.
But this man is the LORD from heaven. The second Adam is the
LORD from heaven. He's the man that shall reign
over all now, and all things will be in subjection to him.
Right now, he is subduing all things right now. HE IS SUBDUING
ALL AUTHORITY RIGHT NOW. HE IS GOING TO DELIVER IT ALL
UP TO THE FATHER IN I CORINTHIANS 15. HE IS GOING TO DELIVER IT
ALL UP. THIS MAN, THE SECOND ADAM. THIS
MAN, THIS IS THE MAN WHOM GOD ORIGINALLY PURPOSED TO REIGN
BEFORE THE WORLD WAS. THIS MAN. LISTEN TO ROMANS 5.14
NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES. even over them
that had not sinned after the similitude or likeness of Adam's
transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." Adam
was just a figure, and God made him a little lower than the angels
and let him fall that the Lord Jesus Christ come into this world
that God the Son come into this world as a man and redeem His
people from their sins and put sin away there'll be no sin on
that new earth no sin on that new earth there'll be no sin
no sadness no sorrow no satan no demon no pain no rebellion,
no temptation, no it's all gone. And this is the original purpose
of God in Jesus Christ. Adam as I said who's just a figure
of Him that was to come. Now the Lord Jesus Christ it
says was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering
of death. This is why He was made little
lower for a little while for the suffering of death now we
see why man was originally made lower than the angels it has everything to do with
the god man dying redeeming sanctifying a people to populate that new
earth with And on that new earth, he's gonna reign as king and
you and I are gonna reign on that new earth. The angels are
not gonna be more powerful than we are. They are now. They are now. But they won't
be then. They will not be then. You know
what they'll be? Ministering spirits sent forth
to minister to those who are heirs of salvation. They'll still
just be ministering spirits. BUT WE'LL BE RAINING ON THAT
NEW EARTH AS KINGS AND PRIESTS. THIS IS WHAT GOD'S GOING TO DO.
THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING. THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING. AND WHEN
GOD SAVED YOU AND WHEN GOD SAVED ME, SINCE THAT DAY, FROM THAT
VERY DAY, HE'S BEEN WEANING US FROM THIS WORLD. HE'S BEEN CONFORMING
US TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. HE'S BEEN SETTING OUR
MIND ON THINGS ABOVE WHERE WE'RE GOING. AND NOT ON THE THINGS
OF THIS EARTH. I THINK I CAN SAY THIS. I THINK
LESS OF THIS EARTH NOW THAN I EVER MIGHT HAVE IN MY LIFE. I THINK
LESS OF IT. MY MIND IS ALL THE TIME THINKING
ABOUT HEAVEN. IT'S THINKING ABOUT BEING WITH
THE LORD. IT'S THINKING ABOUT BEING WITH THE SAINTS OF GOD.
IT'S THINKING ABOUT BEING OUT OF THIS CORRUPTION AND ALL THIS
FIGHTING AND ALL THIS I said to Vicki the other day,
I said, I wish the Lord would come and put an end to all this
corruption. It's just so sickening. It's so sickening. Oh, he was made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death. But now listen, when
he was made a little lower than the angel, he never ceased to
be God at any time. He never ceased to be God. But
as God only, he couldn't die. So what did God do? A body hath
thou prepared me. God prepared himself a body of
a man. He took not on him the nature
of angels, it said, but the seed of Abraham. This chapter, I tell you, this
chapter just gets better and better. NOW THIS MAN IS CROWNED
WITH GLORY AND HONOR RIGHT NOW, HE'S SEATED AT GOD'S RIGHT HAND
AND HE'S RULING, HE'S RULING THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH RIGHT
NOW, HE'S NOT WAITING TO RULE, HE'S RULING. THEY'RE HIS, THEY'RE
ALL HIS AND HE'S RULING THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. THERE'S A MAN IN GLORY SEATED
AT GOD'S RIGHT HAND, THE SECOND ADAM, THE SECOND ADAM. from above. He sees that God's
right hand and He's ruling everything, including the angels. And they
are SUBJECT, the angels are SUBJECT to that man. You know, angels
are not subject to me and you, are they? I can't tell an angel
what to do. I've never seen one, let alone tell one what to do.
But they'll be subject to us in that new world. You see, that new earth, He said,
will be in subjection to us. to Christ and us in Christ as
heirs of Christ or joint heirs with Christ. This man is everything God purposed
for man to be, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. This man is exactly what God
PURPOSE WHEN HE SAID, WHEN GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR
IMAGE AND AFTER OUR LIKENESS. HE DID IT WHEN HE CREATED THE
MAN JESUS CHRIST. AND US IN CHRIST ARE EXACTLY
WHAT GOD MADE US TO BE. WE ARE WHAT HE MADE US TO BE
IN CHRIST. NOW WE DON'T REALLY SEE THAT NOW BUT WE WILL. I MEAN
THIS THING OF WALKING ON THAT NEW EARTH AND LIVING THERE IS
JUST SO REAL TO ME! IT'S REAL TO ME, IT'S LIKE I
CAN ALMOST STEP INTO IT! I'M TELLING YOU THE TRUTH! IT'S
LIKE I CAN ALMOST STEP INTO IT! THROUGH THIS MAN, NOW LISTEN,
HERE'S SOMETHING HERE, THROUGH THIS MAN, THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENED HERE
IN CHRIST THAT CAN NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IN ADAM. I THOUGHT ABOUT
THIS BEFORE WRITING THIS DOWN. THROUGH THIS MAN WE ARE MADE
PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE. THAT COULDN'T HAPPEN IN ADAM,
MADE FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND. ONLY THE LORD FROM HEAVEN CAN
MAKE US PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE BECAUSE THAT WHICH IS
BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. You see what a higher level we're
on? And it says, and I'll close,
that he tasted death, that he by the grace of God. Adam didn't taste death by God's
grace. You know how Adam tasted death?
By rebellion. And we taste death by his rebellion
and our own rebellion because we are born dead in sin. But Jesus Christ, the man, he
himself did nothing to die. He said, no man takes my life
from me. I lay it down of myself. I lay
it down of myself. He did nothing of himself to
die. But what he did do, it was not forced. He did it by the
grace of God. Jesus Christ, you look at that
mutilated man hanging on that cross. He's hanging there by
the grace of God. For me. And you who believe. and all who believe, and all
the hosts of heaven, however many there may be, innumerable,
by God's grace that one man tasted death for everyone he died for,
for everyone he represented. It was by the grace of God that
Jesus Christ tasted death. The death of Christ was an act
of pure grace on His part and on God's part toward us. and that's and let's not get
confused it says here that he he by the grace of god tasted
death for every man now we know if that represented every human
being they'd be saved wouldn't they yes they would but if you
if you keep it in its context if you keep it in its context
then you'll understand what he's talking about look in verse 13 AND AGAIN I WILL PUT MY TRUST
IN HIM, AND AGAIN BEHOLD I AND THE CHILDREN WHICH GOD HATH GIVEN
ME. THOSE ARE THE ONES HE TAKES TO
DEATH FOR, FOR AS MUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN ARE PARTAKERS OF
FLESH AND BLOOD, HE ALSO HIMSELF LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME.
THAT THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM THAT HAD THE POWER OF DEATH,
THAT IS, THE DEVIL, AND DELIVER THEM, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, WHO
THROUGH FEAR OF DEATH WERE ALL THEIR LIFETIME SUBJECT TO BONDAGE." Henry has a good message on this,
don't be afraid to die, don't be afraid to die. The Lord has taken the sting
out of it. And as soon as you close your
eyes, I close my eyes, we're gonna wake up in a new world,
in a beautiful world, paradise, he called it. And that thief,
today shall thou be with me in paradise. Anybody wanna go to
paradise? Well, that's not a good motive for being saved, because
I just wanna go to paradise. I wanna be safe from my sins,
that's my motive. I want to be safe from my sins,
and I want to have fellowship with God, my Creator. All right.