0 (0s): Good morning if you're on the patio or you're at home, would you also stand as we worshiped 1 (21s): I 0 (21s): Was lost, but he brought me in no, his, his I was asleep to, since Jesus died. 1 (1m 4s): There's 0 (2m 59s): A place. Yes. 2 (3m 12s): Because as we worship you, we are your children. We thank you that we get to worship you this morning church. We're going to sing a new song this morning. And in that song, we declare that we believe in the word of God. We declare that he is true and that we sing this out with that. 0 (3m 37s): Do your speed. Can see being Christ. Jesus I believe in the resurrection that will, we will rise. 0 (4m 22s): Ah, I believe in resurrection when Jesus I believe in God. 0 (7m 5s): I believe in Christ 1 (8m 17s): we cry. 1 (10m 23s): We cry. 3 (10m 51s): Thank you, Lord. You are indeed. Holy And by your grace, you have imputed holiness to us. It's incredible. You have forgiven our sins washed us, made us as white as snow pure and your sites because of the shed blood of Christ on our behalf. We thank you, Lord, that you are holy and you have made a way for us to ensure into your holy presence by forgiving us, redeeming us. This promise, this process of sanctify sanctification. You're sanctifying us Lord. You're doing such wonderful and profound and powerful things in our lives. 3 (11m 37s): Lord God, I pray God that we would God find a firm foundation. God, for those of us who have been waffling questioning, wondering doubting Lord, I pray that we would set our feet on a firm. The, the firm foundation, who is Christ the Lord, and that we would stand firm, that the truth of the scripture would anchor our lives. Anchor our souls. Lord, the revelation of God would be sufficient for us for our lives. We love you. We trust you, God. We believe you. And we praise you in Jesus name. 3 (12m 17s): Amen. Amen. Hey, go and turn around and greet and neighbor and we'll come right back here in just a moment. I'll get it. I got it. 1 (12m 26s): my back. 3 (13m 53s): Come on back. Good morning. We're in Hebrews chapter seven. Today you can be seated and turns you Hebrews chapter seven. I'm just going to warn you up front. I got a ton of material to go through today. I got a ton of stuff. So for historical context, we'll be looking at well, we look well steady all the way through Hebrews chapter seven, but we'll be looking at chapter six, chapter eight and chapter nine as well, just to kind of lay some groundwork. But before that, we'll just kind of go through some information. And the title of the message today is Jesus is absolutely enough. 3 (14m 36s): He's absolutely enough. And we walk with Jesus for any length of time, whether we're brand new and cry in the Lord, or I've been doing this walking with the Lord for decades, we realize that Jesus is absolutely enough, but then, but then circumstances happen. Sometimes we begin to waffle in that we begin to wonder about that. We begin to question that. And so really that's why Hebrews has been written to reaffirm, to believers in the Lord. Jesus Christ, that he is absolutely enough. That station is to fall back into an old way of thinking old system of believing a way of working things out with the Lord where the truth is. He's absolutely not for this life. 3 (15m 17s): He's come that we might have life and life abundantly, but then also for our eternal life. So we have a hope in Christ for this life and for the next this life. And for the next it'd be a total bummer if we didn't have hope in this life as well. But God by his grace has given us a bundle of mercy and goodness and gifts and favor for this life. And then it just carries on into eternity. God is absolutely good. I just want to cover a few things before we get into our text today. Some of us wonder because of maybe background experiences, choices we've made is God sufficient. 3 (15m 58s): Is he absolutely enough to save me, to redeem me? And I just want to tell y

0 (1s): Good morning. Would you stand and worship with us? If you're out on the patio, would you stand there as well? If you're at home, would you stand and would you rate lift your hands as we worship you this morning? God, we thank 1 (12s): You, father. Praise you. 0 (15s): And we lift your name. Hi 1 (17s): . 1 (4m 33s): Hi, the phrase go up. 1 (12m 30s): 2 (14m 13s): Thank you, Lord. It's a good day. It's a good day to be in the house of the Lord. And we bless you today. Thank you for the opportunity to gather with friends and family. Lord, we are so, so thankful for church and so thankful for where we live and for what you're doing in our midst. Lord God, it's a new year. And with new year comes new opportunity and hopefully a refreshing renewing of our hearts and minds, Lord, and we pray God that 2022 would be amazing. And God that we just continue to be grateful for all that you're doing in our lives. 2 (14m 55s): Lord God, as we open up to Hebrews chapter six today, instead of your word, we just pray God that your word would penetrate our hearts and minds. Lord that you gave me the grace to communicate truth. When your hearts and with your mind Lord, at the end of the day, Lord God that we would have heard something from you, receive something from you and that we'd be encouraged by you, Lord God, because you're good. And so thank you for this time. Thank you for this day in Jesus name. Amen. Hey, turn to Greg grease. Somebody next. See you before you sit down. Good job. 1 (15m 35s): Beautiful water. Beautiful. Jesus. 1 (16m 1s): 2 (16m 29s): All righty. Come on in. We will be wrapping up Hebrews chapter six. I was told that before we get into the message, I was told that I should re-introduce myself cause I've been gone for a couple of weeks. So my name is pastor Steve. I was told that some new people have joined the church in the last couple of weeks and they don't know who you are. So I am pastor Steve, one of the pastors here at the church. And so it's a pleasure to be back I, so three weeks ago for each I wasn't feeling good, but I took a COVID test and it was came back negative. And so I preached, and then a couple of days before our Christmas Eve service, I was feeling pretty lousy, again, pretty gnarly. And so I took another COVID test and it came back positive. 2 (17m 9s): So I decided that I would stay home and get better. And so I called Ron pastor Ron D and said, Hey, you're on for Christmas Eve. And so he preached on Christmas Eve and then I think Jeremy priests the next day or on the 26th and then last week Ron was scheduled to preach. So he preached and anyway, so I'm, I'm happy. So happy to be back. It feels, it feels like a long time, right? You Ms. Church and family and friends for two weeks and it's just really, really good to be back and I'm feeling so, so, so much better this real quick, what a year 20 well, 20, 20 and 2021 just crazy last couple of years. 2 (17m 52s): And now we're already in 2022 and we posted something on social media, just about all of the things that God did in 2021. And so I just want to recap that and just as a way to be reminded all that God had done and to appreciate our, our, our church, our staff, our elders pressures, it just takes an army to do all of the stuff that God has called us to do. And we're so excited. And so I just kind of going through my, we, we baptized 36 people last year. I don't think we've ever baptized 36 people in the same year. So that was incredible. 2 (18m 33s): We tried something new and because of COVID, we decided to just to have our Easter service, we always do an outdoor Easter service. And so typically it's out in the park and we're going to be back out in the park by the way, this year 2022. So we'll be back at the heritage square park there. And, but we did our Easter service on the back lot and it doesn't seem very big, but we set it up with tons of chairs and lots of people showed up and it was just an incredib

0 (2s): Good morning. 1 (4s): Let's all stand together. Sing 4 (14m 19s): Lord. It is always a privilege and a joy to gather together as brothers and sisters in Christ. For the purpose of lifting up the name that is above every name, the name of Jesus. So Lord, we choose to just humble ourselves before you today, but we know that there's a lot more growth that we need in our lives personally. And we just want to be open to the voice of your spirit. Holy spirit, I pray that you would, as you are faithful to do all the time, just a touch our hearts, help us to understand and, and be touched by you. And Lord, we ask you father, just to rule and reign in our midst today in our lives today, we just counted a joy. 4 (15m 7s): We counted a joy to walk before you, and to know you in Jesus name, we pray God's people said, Hey, man, go ahead and please be seated. Thank you so much. Worship team. I Heather Hosanna. Good to have you guys here. So of course the first thing I have to say is happy new year. My name is Ron, and actually Steve asked me if I would share this morning, maybe a month ago or so. And so what I'm going to be sharing with you, something that's really kind of been on my heart for the last couple of months. And I, I want to tell you sort of ahead of time that parts of it are a bit serious. 4 (15m 52s): So maybe sobering, I guess, just cause of, of where we are and in time and in our nation. But I want you to know this. I am super grateful and thankful and joyful about all that God has done in 2021. It's been a great year that we just finished up and I am so optimistic and so encouraged by 2022, knowing that God has great things for us in our future. And so in the midst of, of sometimes what looks like challenging circumstances or trials and tribulations, or, you know, we face God is good all the time and he's going to press us in, move us forward, fill our hearts with joy and peace and just confidence in who we are in Christ and the things that he is doing in our lives personally, and, and what he's doing in the world, you know, in America and in the, in the world. 4 (16m 53s): So what I'll be talk about today, here's the title of the message. The title is love. God hates sin, love God hates sin, and it comes out of two scriptures. I'll give you the verses today. We won't be having the scriptures up on the monitors. Sorry about that. But I would encourage you if you have your Bible with you, go ahead and open up to the scriptures. I'm about to give you, or if you have a device, you know, get it keyed up. So we're going to be looking at Jeremiah chapter nine, Jeremiah chapter nine verses 23 and 24 and also Proverbs chapter six verses 16 through 19. So again, that was Jeremiah 9 23 and 24 Proverbs chapter six, 16 through 19. 4 (17m 35s): If you're a note taker, I'll be given out some various scripture references. Feel free to write them down if you want to. All right, Lord. Yes. We ask you to anoint your word today. Lord, your word tells us that you watch over word to perform it and it will not return void, but it will accomplish what you please thank you that your word is living. It is powerful. It is dynamic and we invite your word to have your way in us today. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. So as we grow in our walk with the Lord, we're on all on this journey just year by year, day by day, month by month, where, you know, kind of growing in our walk with the Lord and our understanding of who God is. 4 (18m 21s): One of our main goals is to learn more about the things that God loves and also to learn about the things that God hates. And in the process, we are meant to experience transformation. That's kind of that one word sort of explains the Christian experience. It's it's a life of transformation coming to love the things that God loves and hate the things that God hates. We're being conformed into his image. So I want to be very, very clear from the start. God does not hate people. God does not hate people

1 (2m 12s): I give my whole life to honor this. Who was, say crown him for 0 (2m 35s): she . 1 (10m 54s): Jeez, His mercy and the Jeez, we cried the whole. 1 (12m 39s): Thank you God, for your holiness. Thank you for the gift Of salvation. Thank you for the gift of 0 (12m 50s): Just 1 (12m 52s): Covering for our sentence. Lord, I can be made right with you. 2 (13m 42s): All right. You may be seated. Well, good morning. Glad to see so many of you here. We had a debate among staff. How many people would come the day after Christmas? So it's glad to glad to see you all. I love about you, but why am I driving this morning? And just seeing the sun on the green Hills was just amazing. Anybody else see that and enjoy that. Nice to see that fresh grass, you know, starting to grow. And just seeing that as I was driving in, reminds me of the road trips that I used to go on. 2 (14m 24s): We haven't been able to go on as many road trips with our girls and they tend to get car six, where I'm looking forward to the age where we get to go on road trips as a family. I can remember all the road trips growing up, going to Yellowstone or driving out to Minnesota with a family. It was just a good time. And I think over the years, road SERPs have changed in my mind a little bit. They've changed because now we use Google maps or different or car navigation systems to get there. I can remember the day before the days when, when you had to write out the directions on a piece of paper or have a roadmap next to you. So you knew where you were going, which road to take or intersection or highway. 2 (15m 5s): And, and I think we've lost a little bit of the road trip. The fun that comes with that kind of a sense of adventure as you're going out there. And I think we were more focused too, because I can remember like, okay, need to turn on, need to turn on this highway and you have to be focused. Okay, don't pass that highway. Cause there's no, there's no nothing that pops up a red light that says, you've, you've missed your exit. You've missed your exit. And so I just, over the years, going on this road trips, you, you look for the intersections. You look for the fork road, the forks and the rows of the change in highways. And now we kind of set the program and our car just yells at us, which way to go and which way to turn if only life was that easy. 2 (15m 53s): If only there was a big right-hand turn right in front of us, that says, you need to go this way. Now, if only life was that easy, it also makes me think of something that was very, very popular twenty-five years ago, twenty-five years ago, the Christmas and Thanksgiving season that the tickle me Elmo doll was the hot ticket. Does anybody remember the tickle me Elmo doll? Yes. Okay. I was, I was in high school, so I, I didn't get a tickle me Elmo doll, but it's this doll that you, you, you, you touched her, you squeeze the nose and it would say Elmo would laugh. And he would make funny noises. 2 (16m 34s): It sold for 29, 28, 99 in the store. But for whatever reason, that year, 25 years ago, it went bonkers. They sold out nearly of the 400,000 Elmos that they made. And it's reported that that doll began to scalpers were selling them for $1,500. Each there's a report that in Denver, one was sold for $7,100. Over $7,000 was paid for this Elmo doll. It was the gift for that year's Christmas season, 25 years ago, there's even a report that on December 20th, there was a raffle charity that had one and it was purchased for $18,000. 2 (17m 20s): This is how hot the tickle me Elmo doll was a man at Walmart. Working at Walmart was injured by a stampede of 300 people trying to get to the tickle me, Elmo dolls, all for this doll that you squeeze his nose or tickle on it. And it laughs and giggles. And it's programmed to do that. The next year they made a doll that was called love me, Elmo. And you, what that Elmo does is when you squeezed it, when you push the button, it said, it would say

1 (4m 54s): Jeez. 1 (6m 17s): When Christ was for 0 (6m 22s): Choose 1 (6m 41s): Is, is Fall on your knees. 1 (8m 38s): on 2 (9m 25s): Hello. We're so thankful that we get to gather together and honor, and acknowledge what you accomplished over 2000 years ago in bringing Jesus Christ, our savior, the Messiah into the world. And Lord, as we think about that, we pray that our hearts would be open a fresh to the, the living work that you're doing in us. Lord, we thank you that what you're doing in our lives it's, it's growing, it's constant, it's dynamic. And so Lord that each one of us here today, each one of us here tonight would just have our hearts open and ready to receive all that you have for us. Lord, bless our time together. Thank you that you promise it where we gathered together in your name that you are here in our midst, the Lord, we welcome you. 2 (10m 9s): And we thank you. And we bless you in Jesus name. We pray and God's people said, amen. Amen. Go ahead and have a seat, please. All right. So in addition to what Curtis shared earlier in welcoming you, I also want to welcome you because what typically happens either at Christmas and Easter time is a lot of people wind up coming to church that don't normally come to church. So if that's you, thank you so much for being here tonight and maybe a friend invited you a family member. We're just so delighted that you're here with us. We, we hope that you do really sense and experience the love of God in our midst. 2 (10m 53s): What I'm going to do tonight is actually actually going to read a, a children's book to you in just a minute. But before I get to that book, I want to introduce you to a good friend of mine. And so I gotta, I gotta go get him. All right. So here's my friend. All right, his name, his name. I'll pick it up so you can all see his name is brownie. I gotta get out of here where everybody over here. So I'm looking at the monitor up on the wall. So hopefully you can all see it and, and people online as well. This is brownie. So I'm going to give you a little background on brownie. You might think to yourself, well, why, why in the world would pastor Ron bring a bike with him to, you know, Christmas Eve service? 2 (11m 38s): The answer is it's a prop and it gets your attention and it makes you want to know why that, why did he bring that? Well, let me give you a little history on brownie. So, you know, in our family growing up, there's, there's four kids. And so it was my, my oldest sister, her name is Ruth and the year was about 1960. And my mom and dad figured, okay, it's time for my sister to learn how to ride a bike. So my dad went down to Ken's bike shop on Monterey street and found a used bike and the bike he bought his brownie. So that was right around 1960. So you do the math help me out here was that 61 years ago. 2 (12m 19s): And it was used then. So what, what's the history of, of brownie? So my, my sister Ruth learn how to ride a bike on brownie as well as my other sister, Trina. And I learned how to ride a bike on brownie as well as my brother, Gary. So somehow I wound up with brownie and my family. So DJ and I have four kids. So guess what? Jamie, Bethany, Leah and Seth all learned how to ride a bike on, on brownie right here. So Leah, our third daughter, she's kind of the personality where she thought in the neighborhood where we were living at the time, she thought, well, I'm going to teach all the neighborhood kids how to ride a bike too. 2 (12m 59s): So she'd gather up all the kids in the neighborhood that didn't know how to ride a bike and she would, would teach them how to do it. So think about it, parents, moms, and dads, grandmas, and grandpas. Think about it. Do you remember when you would get your child for the first time on a bicycle and you'd grab the seat and then you start running behind them and you're holding on holding on and you're encouraging them all the while you're saying something like, you know, you c

0 (22s): I was lost, but he brought me a book. Here's the book. thank you. 0 (3m 15s): That we are your children and that we get to wish like you, we love you, father. We thank you. 0 (3m 43s): . 0 (7m 2s): Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. That you say thank you for stopping that you are here. 0 (7m 34s): so that's 1 (11m 24s): Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Lord king of Kings. We worship you. We are gathered because of you only because of you. Jesus. Do we have the capacity, the access, the ability that desire for death worship you in spirit and in truth. God refresh us in that revelation. Lord God, that truth your word, Lord, help us never to get far from that truth, Lord God, but to keep it in our sites and build our lives upon it. Lord, thank you God. 1 (12m 5s): Holy God. Thank you for what you're doing today, Lord for you will do today as before we just avail ourselves to you. Holy God. You're king oh king Lord king. Lord. Help us to live as though you're the king submitted humble, grateful worshipful dependent Lord. Thank you, Lord God. As we get into your word today and Hebrews chapter six, God, we want to grow in our understanding of the word and our understanding of you. 1 (12m 48s): We want to take steps forward, build upon a foundation of truth and grace Lord, but beyond the foundation, Lord God, we want to build something of glory for you, Lord out of our lives. And so Lord give us the grace and the wisdom to do that. Help us. We pray. Lord. We love you Lord in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Go and say hello to your neighbor. We'll come back just a moment here, neighbor. Thanks Barry. Love you buddy. 0 (13m 48s): so 1 (15m 2s): It's refreshing to just watch the people of God connect and fellowship together and just smile and love on each other. So I didn't want to interrupt that. It's it's good. It's part of God's plan. That's why God tells us not to forsake the gathering together of the saints. We need each other. We needed that encouragement, that connection, that love that, that is shared. We need that. And we're going to see a lot of people potentially this Christmas season that we don't see for a while and that we don't see typically during the, the year. And, and so take that a little bit of that with you and just bless people with that fellowship and watch what God will do. 1 (15m 50s): We're in Hebrews chapter six and we titled the message today. Spiritual maturity is not optional. If you want spiritual victory, spiritual maturity is not optional. If you want a spiritual victory, the two go hand in hand, a little five-year-old boy was in his kindergarten, his Sunday school class. And they were in the class talking about the creation, how God created the heavens and the earth and sort of guy Johnny was particularly intrigued by the fact that he was created from one of Adam's ribs. And a few days later, a little Johnny was in his bedroom and he was laying down kind of rubbing, you know, holding his side. 1 (16m 36s): And his mom said, Johnny, what's going on? And he said that my side really hurts. I feel like I'm going to have a wife. Sometimes we just don't understand spiritual truth. We hear something and we'd go in all the wrong directions. And spiritual maturity is not optional. If we want spiritual victory, the end of Hebrews five, the writer wrote about spiritual maturity to his readers. You wrote to the Jews who had read it then. And he writes to us now he called the people and he was kind of car. She called them spiritually Dole, spiritually Dolan. 1 (17m 19s): He said, you don't just, you just don't seem to listen. They had been believers long enough that they should be teaching others, but instead they needed others to teach them again. The basics of the faith, the writer said that they're like infants still on milk. They'd never pressed on and desired spiritual meat, graduating to solid food because of their stunted growth, because of there's tons of growth. They lack the skill needed t

1 (3m 26s): We worship you. Jesus. We thank you that we will praise your name forever and we praise your name today. 2 (11m 33s): Gotcha. Thank you. That's your name is powerful Lord and yeah, we invite your powerful name to move in our midst, Lord, God, you've already begun and we just pray that that would continue. God. I pray that there were where, where there is a disconnect between us and you corporately or individually, Lord God that there would be in Jesus name. I pray God that we would connect to you in a fresh and powerful way where we need to repent of our sins. I pray that we would repent of our sins, God, where we need to acknowledge that we have separated God, that we would acknowledge that and draw close to you. God, that we would allow your spirit to dwell in us on hindered God that we would be convicted of sin and of righteousness, God of your presence, Lord God, that we would honor you all the days of our lives. 2 (12m 25s): God, that we would dwell in you and that you would dwell in us. God, thank you that you do inhabit the praises of your people. I pray that we would always be a people who worship you in spirit and in truth, God, that we would be available to you 24 7, God, that we would be humbled before you grateful for you. God, that we would always understand who you are and who we are in light of your grace in our lives. Lord DOD. So God keep us humble. Keep us filled with the love of God, the grace of God, the compassion of God, or give us, give us the desire to love people in our community. 2 (13m 5s): To love you wholeheartedly, Lord, God, God, we just invite your presence all over this campus Lord. And for whoever's watching online, God, we pray God that you would download grace and truth and supernatural power to us. God that we would be different as a result of this gathering, this corporate gathering of worship today, God, that we would be impossible for us to leave the same, but that there would be change and transformation in our lives because we've gathered, we've prayed together. We've worshiped together. We've looked at the word and studied the word together. We declared that we will submit ourselves to your spirit and your word, Lord God. 2 (13m 47s): So God to change me, change us, transform us where we need to be transformed. Lord God, be glorified in this process. We pray. Thank you for what you're doing. We love you Lord in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. You may be seated. You may be seated. We're going to be in Hebrews chapter five today. Hebrews chapter five. We'll be looking at the last part of Hebrews chapter four as well. Thank you, Amanda. And so we'll be in a couple of different chapters looking again at the last few verses of chapter four, but then unpacking all of Hebrews chapter five. So if you have a Bible and you would like to turn in your Bible to those chapters, that would be great if you don't and they're going to be up on the screen. 2 (14m 29s): So, so that's going to be really good. I'm excited about what God wants to do today. I was up around my property, walking and praying this morning. And as I was praying and walking, I came upon this, all of this debris up on the highway. We live on highway one up on, on the Mason and our house is down about 150, 200 yards off of highway one. And I, as I walked up to the highway, she's me not how be one, but Willow. As I walked up to Willow, I noticed all of this debris everywhere and I was up there to pray, but I see all of this debris. So it's like somebody took a newspaper and just chucked it out the window. And it just went everywhere as well as a bunch of other trash and I'm OCD. 2 (15m 11s): So anytime I see trash, I got to stop and pick it up. I don't like trash. And so I stopped to pick it up and I was reflecting on the trash. I was like, why, who would do this? Why, why throw your trash out on the road on somebody else's property? Who does that? You know? So I was just kind of, kind of frustrated in my soul. And

0 (1s): It was a great celebration last night. How many made it last night? It was good. Good, good stuff. The live nativity, the tree lighting, the Christmas carols. We just had a wonderful time. Last night, I think last night was the 17th annual Christmas parade. And when that, that Christmas parade first started, it was so small that they didn't even close down the streets. And, and then it has just grown over the years. And for a number of years, pastor Mark Valdez, and I have been announcing the parade right in front of the church. And it's just been delightful to see God grow that thing. 0 (41s): And we pulled into town about three o'clock prayed, started at five. We got here about three and we see every, all the trees are lined with, or streets are lined with chairs and people getting ready for the festivities. It was just really, really cool hundreds and hundreds of people showed up. It was really, really fun. So thanks to all of our team who worked to pull everything off tech teams, children's ministry, youth, just everybody behind the scenes working to make it beautiful. And I'm always nervous. Yeah. When Santa does the countdown, 10, nine, I'm always nervous. First of all, we couldn't find Ron he's flipped a switch and a, so Santa is out there and I'm like, where is Ron? 0 (1m 22s): Ron is he's missing an action. You know? So it turns out Ron was right where he was supposed to be. So I was, I did, I forgot what I thought it was going to be switched somewhere else. So, so anyway, the countdown happening when we lit the tree and it was just delightful. So good job, everybody. It's been such a crazy holiday season, a crazy year. So far with everything going on at 1 0 2 and little update with 1 0 2 are, I want to choose our new worship center, just up the streets. That's about one minute walk from here. And we've been praying for a building permit six months into our project there. And on December 1st we got a Christmas miracle and we got our building permit. 0 (2m 5s): So that was really, really great. We've been working on it for six months. And so we've done all of the rough electrical, plumbing, mechanical, all that kind of stuff, new HVAC system, all kinds of stuff is in. So we, we called for an inspection. So Tuesday we'll get all of that inspected and hopefully we pass muster and they'd give us the permission to kind of begin to insulate everything and drywall everything and do all the, all of the finishing touches. So we had originally planned to get it done pretty quick. And then as these things go, they it's taken longer than expected. And so thank you for your patience. I, I think we'll be in by Easter. 0 (2m 45s): Of course, then we usually have an outdoor Easter service. So I don't know if we'll be in for Easter or not, but that's, that's probably the deal. So anyway, it's been super busy. And so we're, we're going to be talking about rest today. As we get into Hebrews chapter four, it's it's, it's timely for this seasoned. A lot of us were here late last night and then early this morning, getting ready for things. And with Thanksgiving events happening, it's just been a, it's been a, it's been, it's been very, very, very much a busy time of year. I, I got up earlier this week and I got up early to do some work and about nine o'clock in the morning, I told my wife, I said, you know, I think I need to nap 9:00 AM. 0 (3m 27s): She said, okay, go ahead. So I crawl in bed and in my defense, I had restless dreams at that night, all that night. I hadn't been fighting in my dreams. I haven't had a fight since like junior high school, but I was fighting in my dreams and I kept waking up and kept saying stuff out loud. And my wife was nervous. You know? She's like, Hey, are you okay? You're okay. But I was like in a real fist fight in my dream. You just had dreams like that. Fist fights. No. Okay. Whatever. I don't know where it came from. Either dreams were odd, but anyway, so I had got some pretty rest

0 (0s): Okay, man. Well, welcome. Welcome. My D who read the most recent headline. Did you guys read the headline that about the post Thanksgiving inflation? Did you guys read about it? It's mostly in the midsection, but it's, but it's definitely, definitely happening. Nobody else read about that? Just curious. How many eight, wait, how many ate way too much during the holidays? Holy cow. I'm still stuff from yesterday. We had Thanksgiving on Thursday, like most people and I'm at my in-law's house. And then we had a double birthday party at my house yesterday with two of my grandkids to my grand boys. 0 (41s): And then, huh, Friday, Friday. Thanks. And then Saturday I'll get it straight eventually. And then Saturday we were at my mom's house. If 30 people doing more food. And so I'm just totally stuffed. So I'm ready to stop eating for a few days. I probably won't. I mean, let's be honest. It's a good, but Hey, we're in Hebrews chapter three, I'll be reading out of the new living translation today. They were answering the question. What do we do with Jesus? What do we do with Jesus? I mean, that's really the challenge that the writer of Hebrews is issuing. He's challenging these believers, these are Jewish believers, beat people who are Jewish, but believe that Jesus is the Messiah. 0 (1m 29s): And yet in their belief, they begin to waffle and have a second thoughts and second guessing their, their decision to, to really serve Jesus wholeheartedly. And so we're, we're going to work today on answering that question. What do we do with Jesus? Number one in your notes, we're going to see this in Hebrews chapter three, verse one. I'm going to ask you to think carefully about him. Think carefully about Jesus. Why? Because in Hebrews three, one, it says this. And so dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and our partners with those called to heaven, the writer says, think carefully about this Jesus, whom we take glare to be God's messenger and high priest. 0 (2m 16s): So the writer again is speaking to believers. If you look at the English standard version or the king James version, it inserts the word holy. And so the writer is speaking to a holy group of people, brothers and sisters in the Lord. People made holy by the work of Jesus on the cross. And we're going to celebrate communion at the end of service today, celebrating that work that Jesus accomplished on the cross. He made possible for people to, he made it possible for people to be made holy by his sacrifice. And so the writer of Hebrews is speaking to God's people he's speaking to his church. 0 (2m 56s): So he's speaking to them then, and he's speaking to us now. So what do we do with this Jesus, he's admonishing us to think carefully about this Jesus, whom we declared to be God's messenger and high priest. Maybe some of us are here today, and we need to rethink about this Jesus about this person, about the work and miracles in life of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Maybe we need to rethink because maybe like he's Jewish believers, we're waffling in our connection to and commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ. And so maybe the answer for us is to rethink, to reevaluate, to reconsider who we believe Jesus to be last week, the writer of Hebrews instructed his audience and Hebrews chapter two. 0 (3m 49s): So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it Hebrews two one. So we've got to think and listen, and be reminded about what we believe about Jesus in the thinking and being reminded and listening to the truth. We will be refreshed in our spirits as followers of the Lord, Jesus Christ. So in thinking carefully about him, we ask killies Jesus, who is Jesus, this person that we're going to celebrate here at Christmas time, the person that we celebrate at Easter, his birth, and then his resurrection, who is this Jesus. 0 (4m 31s): Well in our study, Hebrews chapter one actually outlines that information for us and tells us very

3 (12m 37s): You are indeed the everlasting. God, God, you changed not your you're immutable. You're faithful. You're good Lord. Thank you for the opportunity to gather and worship your name, Lord, and that God has. We focus our attention on the word this morning. I pray that you would speak to us. Lord, you've got eternal truth that you want to communicate to us. It's it's eternal and yet pertinent to our lives today right now in this moment. So Lord, I pray that we would, that myself included that we'd just be open and available to your truth, Lord God, that he would encourage us and build us up and challenge us where we need to be challenged. Lord God, that it would just be strong truth for us today. 3 (13m 19s): Encouraging and gracious truth for us today. We love you, Lord. We thank you for this time in Jesus name. Amen. All right, turn around and greet somebody that you've never ever met before. I appreciate you brother. Thanks, sir. I appreciate you buddy. See you next round. Thanks Jim. Let me buddy. I wasn't sure if I was ready. 2 (14m 19s): Alrighty. 3 (14m 23s): Hebrews chapter two, somebody told me that I should tell the Hebrews joke about how, you know, the Bible tells us that it's the man's job to make coffee because of the book of Hebrews. But I said, I'm not going to tell that Joe is not going to do it for this response right here, because it's just not as funny as it used to be. So I'm not going to tell you the Hebrews Joe, we're going to skip that all together. Amen. Hey, we are in Hebrews chapter two, though. Somebody even said, you should say Hebrews too much coffee because you're in Hebrews two. 3 (15m 4s): And I said, no, I'm not going to tell that joke. I'm not going to go to that. I'm not going to go down that road. So I'm not going to talk about coffee and that sort of thing today, we're going to be talking about. And in fact, we've titled the message, a warning against drifting away, a warning against drifting away. For thousands of years, it's been a temptation of the followers of God to drift in their faith, to drift in their conviction, to drift as followers and become more and more like the world. Instead of like saintification, it's supposed to do is supposed to, we're supposed to become more and more like Christ and less and less like our old man, less and less like the world I was in Hawaii, about 10, maybe 12 years ago, something like that and flew in for a pastors conference. 3 (15m 49s): And I knew it was just going to be a crazy busy week. And so if I was going to get into the water, I knew that I needed to get into the water right away. So I get to the hotel, unpack stuff, go down to the beach and rent a board. And I go out surfing and I'm out there for probably, I don't know, maybe a couple hours, something like that. And it's time to come in. And I, I come into the shore from the water. I'm like, where am I? I, I was looking for the place to return my board, but it was nowhere, nowhere in sight. And so I'm asking, Hey, where do I return my surf board? And they're looking at all the boards are kind of marked with stickers or colors or something like that. 3 (16m 30s): So they can, you can identify where you return. It. There's a lot of places to rent boards down there. So I, I finally find out and they said, Hey, you're about a mile up the beach. You got, you you've drifted and you didn't realize, but you gotta, you gotta take that board about a mile up the beach. And somebody recommended that I get back in the water and paddle over. But for whatever reason, I decided just to walk it over. And, but it's interesting. That's how life is. If we don't have a point of reference, like for me, I should've kept an eye on a point of reference so that I didn't drift, but I didn't do that. I just got out there and I just was having fun and I drifted and didn't even realize it. So the same is true for us as followers of the Lord, Jesus Christ. 3 (17m 12s): We actually have to have a point