you so so We welcome you to the service
this morning. We invite you to take your hymnal Turn to hymn number 69, Old 4,000
Tongues to Sing. Let's stand as we sing. Old 4,000
tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise The glories of my God and King,
the triumphs of His grace. My gracious Master and my God,
assist me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad
the honors of Thy name. Jesus, the name that charms our
fears, that who bids our sorrows cease. His music in the sinner's
ears gives life and health and peace. He breaks the power of canceled
sin, He sets the prisoner free. His blood can make the foulest
thing, His blood availed for me. Hear Him be deaf, His praise
ye dumb, Your lucent tongues employ. Ye blind, behold your Savior,
And leap, ye lame, for joy. Thank you may be seated. As we
take our voice in him. Christ is the way I see. We sing the verse and chorus
to the first and then we change the course on the last verse,
as you say on the boat, and some to the tune of the cleansing
way. Lord, I saw no way to God for
me, and, Lord, I stumbled on that path unable God to see. But God in mercy came to me. His word revealed to me, Christ
is the way, Christ is the way. I thought at first that I must
go to Moses and his fall, And in them find a starting place,
but never one I saw. But God in mercy came to me And
gave me sight that I might see There in His Word revealed to
me Christ is the way, Christ is the way I looked within my
troubled heart while searching in my care, But all I found was
sin and shame, no way to God was there. But God in mercy came
to me and gave me sight that I may There in His Word revealed
to me, Christ is the way. Then all at once before His Word,
I heard a herald say, Behold the Lamb, the bloody Lamb, this
Jesus is God's way. But God in mercy came to me And
gave me sight that I might see There in His Word revealed to
me Christ is the way, Christ is the way And even now when
I believe My eyes too often stray And wonder to some earthly mean
That I would fall away But God in mercy comes to me And gives
me sight that I may see There in His Word reveals to me Christ
is the way, Christ is the way Well, we welcome everyone on
this very beautiful day, a wonderful day. We thank the Lord for his
mercy to us. As we pray this morning, we want
to remember those who are sick. Remember to pray for Ree. She's
having an eye problem and also typical sinus infection that
so many are plagued with right now, sore throat and such as
that. Remember to pray for my daughter,
if you would, Stephanie, as she recuperates. Remember Les Tardy,
pray for him. Remember Christian, Betty's granddaughter,
to pray for her as she continues her treatment. Remember Shelby's sister, Donnie, and pray for Brandon and his
family as they depart from us in this coming week to go and
to transfer to Arizona. We pray the Lord's rich blessings
upon them and maybe they won't forget us entirely. We pray that
the Lord would bless them and continue to aid them. For our reading this morning,
I want you to turn to Hebrews chapter 3. Hebrews chapter 3. And I'm going to begin reading
in Hebrews 3. at verse 12, and read on down through chapter
4, Hebrews 3, 12. Take heed, brethren, lest there
be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from
the living God. but exhort one another daily
while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through
the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of
Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto
the end. While it is said today, if you
will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts as in the provocation
that is in that generation that was brought out of Egypt. For
some, when they had heard, did provoke, albeit not all that
came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved
forty years? Was it not with them that had
sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness, and to whom
swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them
that believed not. So we see that they could not
enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear lest a
promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should
seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached
as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit
them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we
which had have believed do enter into rest. As he said, As I have
sworn in my wrath, they shall enter into my rest, although
the works were finished from before the foundation of the
world. For he spake in a certain place
of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh
day from all his works, and in this place again, if they shall
enter into my rest. Seeing, therefore, it remaineth
that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first
preached entered not in because of unbelief. Again, he limiteth
a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time,
as it is said, Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest,
then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. therefore
a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his
rest, he also hath ceased from his works, as God did from his. Let us labor, therefore, to enter
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief. For the word of God is quick
and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart. Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and
opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Seeing then
that we have a great High Priest that is passed into the heavens,
Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession, for
we have not a High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities, but it was in all points tempted, like as
we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need. May we pray. Our great God and heavenly Father, we bow before you this morning
and ascribe to you all majesty, glory, righteousness, holiness,
sovereignty, We ascribe to You all things
that we find in Your Word, all perfections, all grace, all mercy,
all salvation. And we by faith view those things as they are especially manifest
in the man Christ Jesus. We thank you for that salvation
that is in Him. We desire to know more of Him
and His glorious perfections. Help us this day to behold afresh that which He
is. And not only that which He is,
but that which He has done in all the things that you purposed
in your grace to give Him for your people to accomplish. We pray this morning that you
would forgive us, that we would be humbled in your sight in the
knowledge of what we are as sinners and how we have failed and are
in such need of a Savior such as Christ. We in our weakness
bring before you again these that are sick. These that are
weak, troubled of heart. These with afflictions that kill
the body. These that have heartaches that
trouble the soul. And we pray not only for these
that we have named, but we pray for all your people wherever
they might be in this world. And we pray, Father, as we have
read, that we might not be as those in the provocation, that
we might look to Christ, that we be filled with that gift of
faith that you give, that we might believe your word, that
we might cease from our own works, that we might find that blessed
rest for our soul in Christ. We pray, Lord, this morning that
everywhere your gospel is truly preached and everywhere your
people are according to that choice of your grace in Christ
before the world began, everywhere that they are in this world,
that you might pour out blessing upon blessing that you might
reveal to them the mercies of Christ, the salvation that comes
through his blood and through his righteousness. Help us, Lord,
to behold you in your glory, to know more of your word, to
see more of your Son. We pray that you would in all
things keep us and help us, guide us, and give us strength. And
Lord, especially that you would come to my rescue this day with
strength and aid to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ. Help us to, as John decrees,
that Christ might increase. We pray that you would help us.
We thank you for the gift of motherhood. We thank you for
these that have borne us from the womb and these who have been
as mothers to care for us many times in our life. We thank you
for them. We praise your name and give
you thanks in the name of Christ. Amen. In your hymns once again, 248. 248. Grace greater than our sin. Brother
Tim, if you'll wait on the congregation. God bless America. God bless
America. God bless America. God bless America. God bless America. God bless America. God bless America. God bless
America. Praise, praise, God's praise.
Praise the Lord, alleluia. Praise, praise, God's praise. Praise, praise, God's praise. Praise to the refuge of mighty
God. Praise, praise, God's praise. Praise evermore. praise praise praise praise praise you. we live. You who are longing
to see his face, Will you discover his grace, we see. Grace, grace, God's grace, Grace
and power and grace, Praise that is greater than all
the world So... the the the the Yeah. you Lord, my shepherd, I'll have none Who makes me love
this pasture's green? I will trust in You, Father. Your goodness can lead me home. He guides my ways in righteousness,
And He anoints my every woe, And like a bill of forgiveness, My peace on His pure divine I
will trust in You I will trust in You For Your endless mercy
follows me Your kindness relieves me Of the darkest clouds I will
not fear the evil one You are with me and you know I am strong
I will have what I need from you I will trust in you I will trust You, yes, I will
trust You For Your endless mercy follows me The turnpoints will
lead me It was wonderful. He was getting a prize, isn't
he? He was going to get a prize. I thought about it as they were
singing that. She was singing that sweet part. That's the way it is in life
with us men. We need that sweetness, that
added blessing. Thank the Lord for them. Turn back with me to the book
of Hebrews. Back to chapter 4. Hebrews chapter 4. I'm just going to read, first
of all, one of those verses that we read. That is the 14th verse. Seeing them. And that seeing is the seeing
of faith. which is contrasted to the unbelief
of all those that came out of Egypt but died in unbelief in
the wilderness. The apostle writes to believers
and he says, seeing then that we have a great high priest
that is passed into the heavens Jesus, the Son of God, let us
hold fast our profession. The Old Testament priesthood, under that mosaic economy of
the Old Testament, ended at the coming of Christ. Nevertheless, there have been,
and are to this day, many who take that name, many who claim
that office. How do they come to their office? Well, false religion pronounces
them priests. Men call them priests. They call themselves and claim
to be priests. But look back and think at how
those Old Testament priests became priests. You find it in the book of Exodus
in chapter 28 when God says to Moses, And take thou unto thee
Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children
of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office,
even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's
sons." The Old Testament priests that
we read about in the scripture, they were appointed by God. God told Moses who to appoint
and what they were to do. Look down in chapter 5 in verse
4. Hebrews 5 in verse 4. And no
man taketh this honor unto himself. Nobody just went into this priesthood. But he that is called of God,
as was Aaron. And then he says this, So also
Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest, But
he that said unto him, Thou art my son, today have I begotten
thee. As he saith also in another place,
Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. God appointed those Old Testament
priests and God appointed his son the priest. And many in this hour who claim
to be holy men, who go about parading in special
garments that identify them as so, who participate and lead in various
rituals and ceremony who claim to speak for God. They claim to be able to absolve
sins and pronounce things that only
God can pronounce. They call themselves priests. and sadly to say, many under
the guise of being preachers of the gospel. In the name of
Christianity, they do very much the same things. They uphold idolatry. They hold on to icons of religion. and they call themselves reverends. Well, what according to the scriptures
does a priest do? We only know what priests are
to do by what we see God commanding those priests to do in the Old
Testament. And they are, as priests, not
only to represent men before God, but every Old Testament
priest, everyone ordained and appointed of God, they represented
a particular people before God. They represented Israel. Typical of Christ's church. typical of God's elect, God's
people, His children. And as so, they offered up sacrifices
to God. They represented God's people
and they offered up sacrifices pleasing to God. Those which
were ordained of God. And they were said to be anointed
for this. When you go to the Old Testament,
you find three offices that God said the men were to be anointed
for with that special anointing oil. One was the King, God's
King. And the other was God's prophet. The prophet was taken and anointed
with this oil. And the third was the priest. The priest. And when you come
to the Lord Jesus Christ, His very name of Christ, Thou art
the Christ. You are the anointed. That's
what that word means. Anointed of God. He's God's anointed
priest. But what the apostle is saying
here is that even though the Old Testament priesthood is no
more, and even though these false priests are not really priests,
we do have a priest. There is a great temptation,
I think, in this flesh to be enamored or amazed at these who
go about parading as priests of God. We see there with the
eye their garments and their claims and their titles and their
icons and all these things. There is a great temptation of
the flesh to be a little bit jealous as if we didn't have
a priest. But what the apostle is telling
us and reminding us of over and over again is that we do have
a priest. Look back at that 14th verse. He says, seeing then, and it
is only as I said that seeing of the eye of faith, we behold
with the eyes of faith. We behold through the Word of
God. We see Him whom God has given. Seeing then we have a great high
priest. We come not behind in anything. All that we have, rather than
being inferior, to man-made religion, everything we have is superior,
especially our priest. Because he is the great high
priest. That's what it says here. He
is the great high priest. Even in Israel there were many
priests, but there was only one great high priest, who once a
year went in before the holy place of God in the tabernacle
and offered up that blood that was prescribed of God. There
was only one that was appointed of God, showing that the Lord
Jesus Christ, the Savior, the Messiah, the Christ, would just
be one. There are not many saviors, or
many priests, or many faiths, there is but one. And in our
day especially, if it's one thing that men hate and despise, especially
in religion, is so narrow a gospel. They want choices, they want
opinions, There were all these other things, but there was but
one and is but one great high priest. These Old Testament priests,
they ministered on earth. And these false priests do also. But notice the distinction that
is made of Christ. Our priest ministers, where does
it say? He's passed into the heavens. He doesn't go in some ornately
designed and built building. He does not go before gold and
other icons and such as that. But he entered into the heavens. He's passed into the heavens
before the throne of God. And these priests of the Old
Testament and these of today were and are just simply sinful
men like we are. They're just sinners who must
have sacrifices offered for their sins. They were never anything
in themselves special, just the contrary They were sinners, but
God used them to picture and typify the Lord Jesus Christ. Our priest is the Son of God. You see that? Seeing then that
we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens. Jesus,
the Son of God. Jesus, the Son of God, who is
none less than God, manifests in the flesh. You see, only God
can satisfy God. Only God can offer that which
God requires. Only God can give that which
is necessary. It's not simply a man going in. It's the God-man who is God in
flesh, absolutely sinless, and perfect and holy, harmless and
undefiled, as it says here, tempted as we are, yet without sin, and
compassionate to sinners. Look in verse 15 of chapter 4. Listen to this. For we have not
a high priest which cannot be touched, with the feeling of
our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin. We don't come to our priest and
ever find a cold shoulder, or a closed ear, or an uncompassionate
manner. He is always receiving us and
blessing us and helping us is touched by the feeling of our
infirmities. But what do these modern earthly
priests do? They parade in great pageantry. Oh, you say the priest of Catholicism,
the priest of various heathenistic religions, they do all these
things. That's exactly what preachers
in our day do. They want to be called by these
titles. They want to be recognized by
these things. They want to engage in all these
things. They want to be something to
all these people, which is what you do when you don't preach
the gospel. They swing their censors of insects. They tell men to do penance.
They promote saints and idols. They pray to a God who cannot
save. They preach a God who is not
God. They proclaim salvation, at least
in part, by some work and call upon men to do that. And they
offer assurance of salvation. based on human doing. They give their invitations.
They make their offers for God. They issue bargains with God. But what does our priest do?
What did our priest do? It says in verse 1 of chapter
5, For every priest taken from among men is ordained for men
in things pertaining to God. Not just the church, but in things pertaining to God
that He may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. I swore to the priest that. You see, Christ tells us in John
chapter 10, these words, speaking of his very life, this perfect
life. He said, no man takes it from
me, but I lay it down of myself. I have the power to lay it down. I have the power to take it up,
take it again. This commandment have I received
of my Father. He's a willing. He's an appointed
priest. Look over in Hebrews chapter
9. This is why I know that men in
our day are not talking about this priest. Because when they talk about
the priest that they call even Jesus, they tell of him in such
a manner to make everything that is accomplished really dependent
on the sinner. Alright, Hebrews chapter 9 and
verse 7. But into the second Second Baal
with the high priest alone once every year. This high priest went by himself
into the Holy of Holies, into the presence of God. He went
into the Holy of Holies once a year and him alone. but not without blood, which
he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people. The
Holy Ghost thus signifying that the way into the holiest of all
was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was yet
standing, which was a figure for the time then present in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not
make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the
conscience." Here's this early priest. He
goes in once a year. But he goes himself, he's a sinner. He goes in and the sacrifice
he offers does not put away sin, never did one time. Any sacrifice
of blood that were offered by these Old Testament priests never
did put away one sin. And they were sent, they were
given, they were commanded to do this to show or to typify
the way which God puts away sin, he says, which stood only in
meats and drinks and diverse washings and carnal ordinances
imposed on them until the time of reformation. They were to do it because God
commanded it. They were to do it because of
what it typified and showed. But it never did accomplish the
work of atonement or the putting away of sin. But he begins verse
11 with that word, but. In other words, to contrast them. But Christ, being come and high
priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
and neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption. for us. My friend, that's an accomplished
work. That's a finished work. That's
a work that was performed in the holiest of holiest of all. And he says it's not by the blood,
not by these rituals, not by these ceremonies, not by anything
but our great high priest of things to come, good things to
come in that perfect place, that perfect tabernacle, but he there
offered what? Himself. You see, sometimes we fail to
recognize that all of these things they speak of Christ. The altar, the priesthood. So here is this priest who is
entering into the Holy of Holies once a year. He's entering into
that place and he's typifying Christ in the doing so but he's
not only the He's the sacrifice that the priest offers. It's all of Christ. It's all
of His work. It's all of His blood. What did He do? He obtained. And that word really
can also be translated manifested. He obtained that eternal redemption
for us. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctify
to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without
spot to God. There are some that say that
Jesus actually became a sinner. I don't think they understand
the ramifications of such a thought. But they say that actually Christ
actually became sin. No. It says that he offered himself
without spot to God. That's what God requires. Not a sinful sacrifice, but a
perfect sacrifice. Who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without spot, just like that lamb without spot
or blemish. Without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God. You say, well, all those Old
Testament sacrifices and the offering of them, that was just
dead works. Yep. But not only were those things
did worse, these things that we do in order to appease God
or to have God's approval or any of these other things that
religion prescribes for us to do if we want to go to heaven. Every gift we give, every deed
we do, Everything that this flesh touches, every motive, everything
that is, is before God a dead work because it ends in spiritual
and eternal death. It cannot satisfy for sin. Why? Because a sinner did it. If I could quit being a sinner,
then maybe I could do something that God would accept. But everything
I do, everything I touch has that taint of sin upon it, just
like those Old Testament priests, just like those blood of animals
and goats, but only Christ offers to God, gives to God, renders
to God what God requires. the perfect sacrifice. And then these Old Testament
priests, and those who have since sought
to carry it out and take an office such as this to themselves, all
those Old Testament priests, they died. And all these others will die
too. They die. But this one is the one we read about in verse 21 of chapter 7. This
is what said of him all throughout this book of Hebrews. Chapter 7, verse 21. For those priests were made without
an oath, but this is an oath by him that said unto him, that
is God the Father, the Lord swear and will not repent thou art
a priest forever. After the order of Melchizedek,
what does it say of Melchizedek? He had neither beginning of days
or end of days. You're not a priest like Aaron.
All those priests lived and died. But you're a priest forever. He has to be because he was raised
from the dead. He has to be because he's God
manifest in the flesh. He's a priest. By so much was
Jesus made a surety of a better testament and they truly were
many priests because they suffered not to continue by reason of
death. Why'd they need so many priests? Why'd they need one in Abraham's
day, in Isaac's day, in Jacob's day? Because they died. And they truly were many priests
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death,
but this man, because he continueth ever, has an unchangeable priesthood." You know, not so many days hence
I'll die. every preacher of the gospel
will die. Where will you be then? In other words, is your hope somehow in me or in some other preacher? People are really prone to call some men
their favorite preachers. I don't want to be that. I don't
want to be your favorite preacher. I want to be the man that told
you about the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, when I lay down my head
for the last time, when any gospel preacher lays down in death,
which we all are, this priest will be just beginning. He'll be still the priest. Don't ever have to
worry about what happens in the church or what happens to the
preacher or what happens to this one and that one. He's still
going to be. the priesthood of his people. He's still going to be the living
God. He's still going to be the one
in whom there is eternal salvation. This morning when I woke up,
the first thought, I mean the first thought that entered into
my waking mind was what was said about the manslayer. You remember
the manslayer in the book of Numbers who killed a man accidentally? And it was the law in Israel
that if he fled to one of the seven cities of refuge that he
would be safe in that refuge. The avenger of blood would not
be able to follow him into that place and kill him and take his
life and avenge that blood? But the thought came to my mind,
how long would he be safe there? How long does the scripture say
that that man fleeing from the avenger of blood, if he got into
one of these cities of refuge, how long is he going to be safe
for him? as long as the high priest lives. Christ himself is the city of
refuge, but he's also the priest of that city, and all who flee
for refuge to him are saved forever because our priest lives for
them. What a wonderful thought. Our
priest died as a sacrifice for our sin, but he lives as our
priest and bears the sacrifice of himself before the throne
of God. That says in our verse, we have
a great high priest. God's people don't have to say,
well, we had a good thing, but no. Well, you say Jesus died. Yes,
he did. He died. He laid down his life
for his people. He shed his blood. He freely
and favorably to God poured out his life on the cross. He was
put in that tomb. He was buried. But he rose. And he ever lives. He'll never die. So we have a
great high priest. Well, what's he doing? Well,
as our living eternal priest, as a resurrected Lord. He's seated at the right hand
of the throne of God. I said He was living. This is what He's doing. He was
and He is. seated at the right hand of God. And what does it say? He's making
intercession for us. I don't know about you, But that's a good thought to
me in these days. Things are not out of control. Things are not going to happen
to me and mine beyond the will and purpose of God, who's absolutely
sovereign, sitting on a throne. When I fail, when I sin, when
I do despite God's goodness and grace. He's not going to cast
me away. He's not going to reach out with
a stick and beat me down, make me pay for my sin. He's ever living and making intercession
for us. He's able to save us, it says
in Hebrews 7, 25. He's able to save us to the uttermost
for one reason too, because He ever lives to make intercession
for us. You ever had an experience where
you just wish you had somebody that go to battle for you? Maybe it was a pinch in court.
Maybe it was a situation that you needed to be reconciled to
somebody, but they wouldn't even listen to you. He ever lives
to make intercession for us. We have a high priest. He's the Son of God. He's seated
at the right hand of the Father and He ever lives to make intercession
for us. It's just as much His pleasure
to make intercession for His people as it was for Him to come
and die for His people. Let me read you a verse out of
Romans 8. Verse 33 says, Who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect? Many persons, many devils would
do that if they could. But he says, it is God that justifies. Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even
at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for
us. That E-T-H on the end of that
word maketh means a continuing thing. He's making intercession. for us. If you turn over to the book
of Exodus, chapter 17, this is to me a great picture
of what intercession Praise. Exodus chapter 17 and verse 8. Then came Amalek and fought with
Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose
us out, men, and go and fight with Amalek Tomorrow I will stand
on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand." So
Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses and Aaron and Ur went
up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass when Moses
held up his hand that Israel prevailed, and when he let down
his hand Amalek prevailed, but Moses' hands were heavy, and
they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat thereon. And Aaron and Ur stayed up his
hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side,
and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun, and
Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people. with the edge of
the sword. You see Joshua, he's down there
in the valley with the soldiers and they're battling Amalek. Here's Moses up on the top of
the mountain and when he holds up his hands, holds up the Then Joshua wins. People win. When he lays down his hands, they lose. They're being beaten. That's a great picture of intercession. Christ, at the right hand of
the Father, with a hand that never tires, never weakens, intercedes for his people. It's
amazing, there's two types here. That one Joshua, he's a type of Christ in the
midst of his people. And here's that man on the mountain,
type of Christ interceding for his feet. And he'll never drop his intercession. He'll never weaken. He'll never
tire. He ever lives to make intercession
for us. And when you come to what Paul
says, if he's the writer in Hebrews chapter one, He calls us to this. He says, holy brethren, wherefore
holy brethren, that's those who are holy in Christ, who have
hope in Him, wherefore holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high
priest of our profession. Crossy considering consider our priests. They got all these priests who
died. All these priests who never put away one thing. These priests
were never ordained priests of God. These priests that that
failed so many ways these priests who can't help you in any way
that pray to God that cannot say but consider our priest. We have a great high priest. And it's when we consider by
faith our priest that we show ourselves to be
among that kingdom of priests that God speaks of in the book
of Revelation. He says, And he hath made us
kings and priests unto God and his Father, and to him be glory
and dominion for ever. Again, And he hath made us unto
our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth What do we have to offer as priests? Hebrews said, by Him, by our
great priest, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. That is the fruit of our lips,
giving thanks to His name. He didn't say be about all these
doings. He says, offering up this one
thing, the fruit of our lives, thanking and praising God, thanking
him for this priest that we have. Not that we're going to get one
day. Not that I'll ever fail or die. Not that God will ever
refuse his offering and sacrifice. But this priest who lives forever. Father, we praise you for this
priest. For our great high priest. for our great God-priest, for
the sacrifice of our priest, for the blood of the Lamb, for
the imputation of his righteousness to us, and for his precious continual
intercession. We have a priest. Like Noah. And He's all our hope. And we
pray in His name. Amen. Good morning, thank you very
much.