Good morning. We're going to be in Hebrews chapter 1. But before we look at that, I'd like to ask you to open your Bibles, if you will, to 1 Timothy chapter 2. 1 Timothy chapter 2. It's good to have Henry and Trish a band or crawl with us from Ontario. Uh, they drove all the way down.

I guess you all started yesterday and drove yesterday or no day before Friday and drove Friday and Saturday to be here with us today. Uh, dear, dear friends, you remember I was up there. When was that? I don't remember what month that was, uh, preaching for them.

And, um, we're we're just Glad y'all are here. Also, Henry and Carol, not Henry, Bo and Carol Kazar were here with us last summer, or last winter. I'll get this all straight. And Carol, if you remember, was actually baptized last year when they were here. And they're back here with us for a couple of months. So I'm thankful for them.

One other announcement, if you look on your bulletin, you'll notice that there's an announcement on the bottom of one of the pages as to the dates for our conference next year. We've changed them. So I wanted you to take note of that and notice that we're going to meet, I think it's the last weekend of February instead of January. All right, you have your Bibles open with me to 1 Timothy 2.

And I want to preface this by saying that there are a lot of religious spokesmen, I guess we should call them, who will try to interpret what's happening in Iran and Israel right now in light of some prophecy of scripture. Be careful listening to that sort of thing. We don't try to fit historical events into prophecy. That's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy. That can be done with any event. You find what you're looking for in the Bible. That having been said, we have been a call of God to pray for our leaders. Let's read these verses together. First Timothy chapter two verse one.

I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men. I remind you that the church would have been under extreme persecution by the governing authorities when these words were penned by the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And the believers would have been prone to have great resentment toward the governing authorities as a result of what they were doing to them. And so the Lord's reminding them, for kings and for all that are in authority, why?

That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior. Let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father, first, we thank you for providing us a place, a time, and a desire to come together for worship. Thank you for your word.

Lord, how hopeful we are that you would be pleased this hour to send your Holy Spirit in power to enlighten the eyes of our understanding, to reveal your glory and your grace in the person of thy dear son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, might he be lifted up? And we know that if he's lifted up, that you will draw us unto him. Lord, might that be our experience here today?

Lord, we do pray for our governing authorities. We asked Lord that in this hour of great conflict that you would provide wisdom, that you would provide good judgment. Lord, we pray for our men and women that are on the front lines, and we ask that you would provide protection for them, that we might live quiet, and peaceable lives. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. All right, let's open our Bibles to Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 1. Hebrews chapter 1.

I remind you that the Holy Spirit is revealing the glory of Christ as the fulfillment of all the types and shadows of the Old Testament. And that the word that summarizes the theme of the book of Hebrews is the word better. You'll notice in chapter one at verse four, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is seated at the right hand of the majesty on high, in verse 3, who by himself has purged our sins, put them away. Verse 4, being made so much better than the angels, so much better than the angels. The word that summarizes the book of Hebrews is the word better. The message this morning will focus on this better, so much better than the angels. What is the significance of that?

We looked last, a few weeks ago, at the betters of the book of Hebrews. We have a better hope in Christ. We have a better covenant based on better promises we have a better sacrifice and we look forward to a better country and so the Lord is telling us that the incarnation of the Son of God the Lord Jesus Christ coming to this world is better than all the manifestations that were given by angels in the old covenant. The Lord Jesus has revealed himself in many types and shadows and we love We love going to the Old Testament and seeing these pictures of Christ and interpreting them in light of the revelation that God has made in the fullness of the New Covenant.

We go all the way back to the very beginning in the garden when God slew an animal and shed blood and took the coat, the skin of that animal and clothed Adam and Eve in the garden. The fig leaves that they had made for themselves were not sufficient. Only that fleece that comes from the lamb can cover our nakedness before our all-seeing God. Cain and Abel. Cain brought the works of his hands Abel brought a blood sacrifice. God had respect for the sacrifice of Abel, but not for Cain.

All through the Old Testament, that sacrificial system, the Passover lamb, when the children of Israel were brought out of Egypt, the rock that Moses smoked with a rod in the wilderness out from which flowed the rivers of water, the manna that came down from heaven, everything, all of these pictures are of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then we see also in the Old Testament how many of the characters in the Old Testament point us to Christ. We're reminded of that with Moses, when the Lord said that I will send a prophet like unto you, that Moses bringing the children of Israel to the bondage of Egypt, so the Lord Jesus brings his people out of the bondage of sin. We see a type of Christ in King David, a man after God's own heart, the sweet psalmist of Israel, the prophet, the shepherd, the king, so many types and shadows of our Lord in the character of King David.

We see that in the life of Joseph, Joseph who went before his brothers to provide salvation for them and how the Lord Jesus has gone before us into heaven to provide for us a place, how Joseph had the keys to the storehouses. And if any man was to receive any benefits, he had to go. The king told, you remember, Pharaoh told them, you go see Joseph, he's got the keys. He's the one that distributes the gifts and the goods. And so many glorious pictures.

We also see the Lord Jesus pictured in the Old Testament in the form of a man, not just in these types and shadows of often innate things, but in the form of a man. When in Genesis chapter 18, the man meets with Abraham at the door of his tent, And Abraham goes and gets a sacrifice, and Abraham makes worship of this man. That man was none other than a pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ. When Abraham paid tithes until Melchizedek. Melchizedek, without father, without mother, and without descent. was a pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ.

When Jacob wrestled with the man, you remember, and he was left with a limp in the hollow of his hip, and Jacob asked the man what his name was, and he said that his name was secret. and he blessed Jacob. That was Christ. That was none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. When Joshua brought the children of Israel across the Jordan into the promised land, Joshua saw a man with a drawn sword and asked him, are you for us or are you for them? And the man said, I am the Lord of hosts. That was a pre-incarnate appearance. of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, all of those appearances of Christ do not compare in number to the times when the Lord Jesus appeared as the angel of the Lord. Fifty times in the Old Testament, we have a reference to the angel of the Lord. Looking at that, it's easily understood how the Jews would confuse the Lord Jesus with a created being. And that's what's being cleared up here in Hebrews chapter 1. The point of Hebrews chapter 1 and Hebrews chapter 2 is that the Lord Jesus is much better than the angels that we see in the Bible, but he is the same as the angel of the Lord.

In Genesis chapter 22, when Abraham took Isaac, up on Mount Moriah, God said to Abraham, take thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest. And what a glorious picture of the gospel that is. And when Isaac asked his father Abraham, Father, here's the wood and here's the fire, but where is the burnt offering? Where's the sacrifice? And what did Abraham say to Isaac?

God will provide himself a sacrifice. God provided himself as the sacrifice in the person of Christ. God provided the Lord Jesus to his father, he provided the sacrifice to himself. So this sacrifice was for God, and it was none other than God himself. And God did the providing. God did all the providing.

Now, in Genesis chapter 22, the Lord Jesus is called the angel of the Lord. It was the angel of the Lord that talked to Abraham. It was the angel of the Lord that Abraham worshiped and followed. In Exodus chapter 3, when Moses was at the burning bush, what another glorious picture of Christ. The bush was on fire, picturing the fiery wrath of God's judgment on the Lord Jesus as our sin bearer and as our substitute at Calvary's cross. The bush wasn't being consumed, and the voice of God came out of the bush, and the scripture says that that was none other than the angel of the Lord.

It was the angel of the Lord. There are times in the Old Testament when angels are just that, created beings. They are angels. And there are times in the Old Testament when the Lord Jesus Christ reveals himself in a pre incarnate person as an angel. So forget the idea that that men have of angels. Angels are not little fat cherubs and angels are not little flirting fairies. Angels are powerful beings. And whether the Lord Jesus came as the angel of the Lord or whether it was a created angel that appeared Every time an angel appeared to men, it struck fear in their hearts.

I remind you in the book of Revelation, the apostle John. John is on the Isle of Patmos. John is 90 years old. John was a young man when he walked with the Lord in the flesh. John has written the gospel of John. He's written first, second, third John. Now he's been given this revelation on the Isle of Patmos in heaven. And in that revelation, John encounters an angel.

You would think at this point in John's life that he would be able to discern the difference. between the Lord Jesus Christ and an angel. But that angel struck such fear in John's heart that John fell at his feet on his knees and worshiped him. And the angel said, don't worship me. The angel had to tell him, I'm your fellow servant. Get up, John. You worship Christ.

I wanted to kind of take a few minutes to go through all of that in order to put Hebrews chapter one and Hebrews chapter two in context. Because when the Lord is telling us that he is so much better than the angels, he's telling us two things. He's telling us, first of all, he is not a created being. He is the eternal self-existent Son of God. He's also telling us that what he did in his incarnation, being made of a woman, being made under the law, was the only way that he could successfully redeem those of us who are cursed by the law. And so his incarnation in the flesh is certainly so much better than those created angels in the Old Testament and in the New for that matter. But he's also telling us that what the Lord Jesus accomplished in his fleshly body as a God-man, as our mediator, was better than all the revelations that he made of himself as the angel of the Lord in the Old Testament.

Now that's the context of the book of Hebrews. In light of Hebrews, the letter was being written to Jewish believers, Hebrews. They would have been very familiar with everything that I just said. And it would have been easy for them to not be able to make a clear distinction between the angel of the Lord and the angels and the Lord Jesus.

So, verse four. being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. He has an inheritance given to him from God. That name is a name that is above every name. It is the only name given under heaven whereby men must be saved. It is the name, Lord of Lords and King of Kings. It is his name, Jesus, for he shall, he shall accomplish the salvation of his people.

No angel, no angel could claim that. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, thou art my son, This day I have begotten thee. And again, I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son." Now this is quotes from Psalm 2 and quotes from 2 Samuel chapter 7. Which of the angels did God ever say that about?

No, none of them. There's something very unique about the Lord Jesus that causes him to have preeminence, power, and excellence that no angel ever had, no created being ever enjoyed. And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, and let all the angels of God worship him. Now, every Jew knew that angels were not to be worshiped, to worship Anything, anything other than God Almighty is idolatry, just pure idolatry. And the Jews knew that. And so what is the Lord saying to me and you? Jesus of Nazareth, born of a woman, lived a sinless life, died a vicarious death, on a Roman cross, he's no angel.

He's God. He's God. He's the one worthy of worship. He's the one that the father has singled out and said to you and me, this is my beloved son. In him, in him, I'm well pleased. We have nothing less. We have nothing less than a full manifestation of the grace and the glory of God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The disciples had to be taught that even after being with the Lord for so many years, just before he went to the cross. Lord, show us the Father and it sufficeth us. We'll be satisfied if you'll just show us God. Oh, Philip, have I been with you so long that you don't know if you've seen me, you've seen the Father, for I and the Father are one?

Verse seven, and of the angels he saith, who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire. Yes, there are angels, but those angels are ministering spirits and they will be used of God to bring judgment against this world. It'll be the angels that God will send with the sickle to bring into the barn God's harvest and to bring a fiery wrath and judgment against the rest of this world.

These angels are fearful beings. But as fearful as they are, as powerful as they are, as great as they are, as much as they're able to do, they are created beings and they depend upon God for everything. We have one who stands independent of all things. one who is self-existent, one who is immutable, one who is sovereign, one who is omnipotent. That's the point of Hebrews, of the whole book, of the Bible, you could say, but especially Hebrews chapter one and two, as the Lord is showing us the excellence and the preeminence and the glory of Christ over any angelic being, however powerful they might be.

Yeah, they're ministering spirits and they're flaming fire. But, verse eight, unto the Son he saith, unto the Son he saith, thy throne, O God. God the Father is speaking. He's speaking of his Son. Thy throne, O God, is forever. Psalm 45, a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.

The Lord Jesus is called Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord our righteousness. He's the only one who established righteousness before God Almighty. No angel could do that. No angel could present himself in the presence of a holy God as perfectly righteous. We see the most exalted angels in Isaiah chapter 6, and they're hovering over the throne of Christ, according to John chapter 12, and they're crying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts.

And with two wings, they covered their eyes. And with two wings, they covered their feet. Why did they cover their feet? Well, we refer to man's feet as having feet of clay. It's our connection to this world, to this earth. It's a reminder of where we came from. We came from the dust of the earth. We're created beings. He is the uncreated one.

Verse nine, thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Now what is the oil of gladness? It is the anointing of the spirit of God. The angels came in the power of the spirit of God. The prophets came in the power of the Spirit of God. The priest ministered in the power of the Spirit of God. The kings had, some of the kings had the anointing of God's Spirit. We have an anointing of the Holy One.

It is the Spirit of God that brings conviction of sin. It is the Spirit of God that reveals the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Spirit of God that regenerates us. It is the Spirit of God that gives us faith to rest all the hope of our salvation in the one who is himself perfectly righteous. The Lord Jesus came in the full power.

We have the Spirit of God You remember that woman who had an issue of blood and she saw the Lord Jesus, if I could just touch the hem of his garment, I would be made whole. And she crawled through the crowd and just made contact with the hem of his garment. And in the Old Testament, when the oil was poured on Aaron's head and it went down his beard and down his robe, it dripped off the hem of his garment. And there we have a picture of you and I. crawling on our hands and knees, receiving a drop of the Holy Spirit.

It's all we need. All we need. The Lord Jesus came in the fullness of his power. That's what Christ means, the anointed one, the Messiah. That's who he is. That's what our Bible is is revealing, whether it be through all the types and shadows and characters of the Old Testament.

In the fullness of time, in the fullness of time, God revealed his glory in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, God, who at sundry times and in divers manners had spoken to our fathers through the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, by His Son, the Sovereign One. Now, the Son of God, some would say, well, in the human realm, Sons are the byproduct of a father. So when the Bible refers to the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, some might think, many do think, that the Lord Jesus is nothing more than a byproduct of God the Father. That is not what the Bible means when it refers to the Lord Jesus as the Son of God. of all the times we find the Son of God referred to in the Bible. Only once in the Old Testament does the term Son of God is used. And it is a pre-incarnate revelation of none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.

You remember Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel chapter 3? And they refused to bow and to worship Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was wroth and he told his servants, you heat up the furnace seven times hotter than normal and take these Hebrew children and cast them into the fiery furnace. And the servants, Nebuchadnezzar picked the most bold, courageous, servants that he had, the strongest servants that he had. He said, you cast them in.

Those servants were killed when they got close enough to the furnace to cast Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in. The heat of the furnace came out and killed them. And then Nebuchadnezzar from a distance looks down into the fiery furnace. And he says, did we not throw three men into the fiery furnace, bound hand and foot?

And they said, yes, King, that's what we did. Well, I see four men walking. And the fourth is like unto the Son of God. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fiery furnace. There was not a hair on their head with singe. There was no singe marks on their clothing. and the smell of smoke was not on them. And Nebuchadnezzar immediately wrote a decree to all the world and said, if anyone says anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, let him and his house and his children and his children's children be burned and destroyed for no God can deliver like their God.

The fourth man walking in the fiery furnace was none other than the Son of God. When the Bible refers to the Son of God, you're not referring to the offspring of God. Referring to one who himself is able to deliver, from the fiery wrath of God's justice, the only one that can do that. Only God can save us from God. The Jews knew. You remember when the Lord asked the Pharisees, what think ye of Christ?

Whose son is he? And The Jews quickly said, well, he's the son of David. He's the son of David. And the Lord Jesus, quoting from Psalm 110, said, and if he be the son of David, then why did David say, the Lord, God the Father, said unto my Lord, sit thou here at my right hand until I make thine enemy as thy footstool. How is it that God said to Christ, Sit thou here at my right hand. If he be David's son, the Lord Jesus said, then how is it that David called him God?

And the scripture says that none of the Pharisees were able to answer him. And that's in Matthew chapter 22. And never did another man ask him any more questions. When the Lord Jesus came revealing himself as the Son of God, who is so much better than the angels and so much better than all the revelations made in types and shadows of the Old Testament, the Jews knew what he was claiming.

Turn with me to John chapter 10. John chapter 10. Look at verse 32. Jesus answered them many good words. They've taken up stones to stone him in verse 31. In verse 30, he said, I and my father are one. They knew what that meant. He wasn't saying, well, we're just kind of together on this thing. like perhaps the Mormons or the Jehovah's Witness might, or the Muslims next door to us here. They honor Jesus Christ as being a prophet. They honor him as being involved with God, but they claim that he is a created being. He is not God. They deny the full deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord said to those Pharisees, I and the Father are one. The Jews took up stone to stone him. Jesus said, many good works have I stoned you, have I showed you from my father, for which of these works do you stone me? The Jews answered him saying, for a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy because thou, being a man, makest thyself God. The only charge they ever came up against our Lord was that of blasphemy.

He's claiming to be God. The devil knows what the Son of God means. You remember after the baptism of the Lord and the Holy Spirit drove him into the wilderness for 40 days and at the end of that 40 days, the devil came to him and said, if thou be the Son of God, turn these stones into bread. And the Lord Jesus said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out the mouth of God. The second, if thou be the son of God, cast thyself off the pinnacle of the temple and the angels will catch you and you'll not dash your foot against the stone, thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God. Satan is saying, if you are really the son of God, in all of his glory, in all of his power, you've got the power to do these things. And he took him up on a great mountain and said, I'll give you all these kingdoms. He already had them. He's not giving me anything, I've already got them.

We gotta look at this, I'm sorry. Isaiah chapter 14. Isaiah chapter 14. I know we're covering a lot of ground here. Maybe we'll have a chance to go back and listen to some of these things again. But this is so important to get the whole gist of what the Lord is telling us. And this thought also is going to go into the next hour when we look at John chapter 10. but it's so critically important.

If the Lord Jesus is who he claimed to be, and he's pleased to reveal himself to us, number one, we will worship him. We will bow before him and yield and surrender, Lord, whatever. Whatever you say, whatever you do, Lord, you're God. You're God. You need me for nothing. I need you for everything. And if you are who you say you are, there's no way that you could fail in doing what you came to do.

If you came being anointed with the spirit of gladness above your fellows, if you came in the full power of the spirit of God, and you are none other than the Son of God Almighty, than to suggest in any way that you were a failure and what you came to do is blasphemy.

Satan has always had one objective. It's the reason why he was cast out of heaven, and his agenda has not changed. It is to exalt himself over the Son of God. Simple. Look, Isaiah chapter 14, look at verse 12. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? How art thou cut down to the ground? which didst weaken the nations.

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation and the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the cloud. I will be like the most high. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit.

You don't have to be a Muslim or a Jehovah's Witness or any other religion that denies the deity of Christ. Every, in the world's eyes, legitimate form of Christianity says that they believe that Jesus Christ is God. They honor Him with their lips. They would say, yes, everything you're saying is true. Jesus Christ is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He is the one to be worshipped.

And yet, out of the other side of their mouth, They have denied the very essence of deity by making Jesus Christ dependent upon something that they do in order for him to be able to save them. And it is nothing less than demonic. It is man setting himself up on the throne of God. It is what Satan has always wanted to do, exalt himself above the most high.

Any message of salvation that suggests in any way that Jesus Christ needs anything, whether it be my decision-making or whether it be my works or whether it be my understanding, he's depending on me to make some contribution to my salvation in order for him to be able to save me, renders Jesus Christ as not God. It denies him as being God. The gospel of God's free grace in the glorious person and accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ is the only message of salvation that says clearly and simply and consistently, Jesus Christ is God. Jesus Christ is God.

He's so much better than the angels. God has given him by inheritance a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that he is Lord, that he is God. Whom do you say that I am? The Lord asked the disciples. Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. Jesus Christ is God.

Period. He gets all the glory. He's done all the work. We bow to Him. We worship Him. We look to Him. We follow Him. We depend upon Him. We believe on Him. Can I take five more minutes? There's a couple of verses I want us to look at in closing. The first one is found in 1 Timothy 2. We read from this at the beginning of the service. 1 Timothy 2.

If this verse means what those who hold to a freewill works gospel think it means, then Jesus Christ is not God and the rest of the Bible is not true. I'll say that again. If this verse means what those who hold to a freewill works gospel believe that it means, then Jesus Christ is not God and the rest of the Bible is not true. I stopped early when we were reading this passage. I stopped with verse three, look at verse four.

Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth? God wants everybody to be saved. Bless his heart, his hands are tied. He's dependent upon man to let him, save him. But he really wants everybody to be saved. He's in the heavens wringing his hands, wishing men would let him have his way. He's voting for you. The devil's voting against you. You get to break the tie. That's what most people think this verse means.

Now in the context of the previous verses we've already read, The Lord is admonishing them to pray for even those kings that are arresting them and putting them to death. Pray for your enemies. Pray for those that you think are completely outside the reach of God's grace. For God would have all men to be saved. What does that mean?

Well, in Acts chapter 10, when Peter was about to be commissioned, be called of God to take the gospel to Cornelius. And a great sheet came down from heaven and it was full of unclean animals. And God said, take and eat. And Peter said, I've never eaten anything that was unclean. And God said, don't call that unclean, which I've called clean. Speaking of Cornelius, he's a Gentile, but I've made him clean. I've called him out. You're going to take the gospel to him.

The scripture says in that sheet were all manner of animals. That's how it's interpreted in Acts chapter 10. Exact same word in our text. Here, it's just the word all. In Acts chapter 10, it's all manner of. It means the same thing. God is saying to us, don't count anyone out. God would have all manner of men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. There's no one outside of his reach or his grace. Doesn't matter where they are or what they've done.

That's what this verse means. And if it means, I say again, what the free willers say it means, then Jesus Christ is not God, and the rest of the Bible is not true. Now, turn with me to 1 Peter. Just these two verses. These are their favorites. These are their favorite verses. 1 Peter chapter three. 2 Peter, I'm sorry. 2 Peter chapter three. In 2 Peter chapter 3, the context is that the promise of the coming of Christ. Believers were dying, first generation believers. These believers, they anticipated the coming of Christ every day, as we ought.

And we have more reason to believe that he'll come in our day than they ever had in theirs. But now, Believers are dying and the Lord Jesus has not yet returned. And there were scoffers that were saying, they've been talking about the coming of Jesus for years, ever since he ascended back into heaven and the angels came and said, this same Jesus, which has taken up from you is gonna come again in like manner. You go back into Jerusalem and you're gonna be my witnesses. They've been saying he's coming back. We've been waiting. and they scoff at the second coming of Christ. And so verse chapter 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 2, where is the promise of his coming?

For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God, the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of water and in water whereby the world that was then being overflowed with water perished.

God promised he was going to destroy the world during the days of Noah. The people didn't believe it then, but it happened. It happened. And just like God was faithful to his promise then, God is faithful to his promise now. But the heavens and the earth, which are now by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men. When the Lord Jesus comes, when he comes the next time, oh, might it be today, when he comes, this whole world's gonna be consumed by fire, and God's gonna send his angels to reap his harvest. Believe it, brethren, believe it.

God is faithful to his promise. Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, That one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise. The Lord is not slack, brethren. As some men count slackness, but is long suffering to us-ward. Is long suffering to us-ward. Brethren, keep looking, keep believing, keep anticipating, keep waiting. with hopeful joy and expectation of the coming of Christ. For he is not slack, but he's long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

The only reason why he hasn't come yet is because there are some yet that have not come to repentance. He's faithful to usward. If he was not, you've heard it. If this verse, like the first Timothy verse, means what they think it means, then Jesus Christ is not God, and the rest of the Bible is not true. If God's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, and his will's not fulfilled and not completed and not perfected because he lacks the power to do it, then Jesus Christ is not God. Plain and simple.