 So that, you know, we're in chapter one was intending to take you through the first chapter I thought well, you know, I'll just do one of those just touch this and touch on that So we're gonna go through three verses tonight kind of shows you where I was where I ended up We're gonna do the first three verses We'll pick up at verse four next time and going through the rest of the chapter But I want to give you an introduction today and give you a foundation for the book of Hebrews in the first few verses today So let's read together here in Hebrews chapter one at verse one. We'll read to verse three and we'll get into our study Hebrews chapter one verse one through to verse three the writer writes God who at various times and In different ways spoken time pass to the fathers by the prophets Has in these last days spoken to us by his son Whom he has appointed heir of all things through whom also he made the worlds Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and Upholding all things by the word of his power When he had by himself purged our sins Sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high So let's begin here in our study of the book of Hebrews with a basic introduction One the most obvious thing I can point out is the authorship is unknown for sure Notice how he begins without an introduction It simply begins in the English Translation by saying God who at various times and in different ways spoken time past to the fathers by the prophets There's no introduction and therefore the authorship is unknown for certain other various theories as to who perhaps wrote this and The various names have been postulated over the centuries in the history of the church Obviously the One candidate would be the Apostle Paul and there are many many scholars who believe that Paul wrote the book of Hebrews Others would say that it would have been Apollo since some say Barnabas Some say it's possibly was Luke others would say Silas and and others would even say Philip All of these men have been postulated as the ones who God used to write this But the fact is as we look at this particular book the author remains Unknown to us now that doesn't mean that the author was unknown to those whom he sent the letter to because he actually Sent the letter to those who knew him. How do we know that? Well, it says it in chapter 13 at verse 23 in Hebrews chapter 13 23 It says no that our brother Timothy has been set free With whom I shall see you if he comes shortly And so there the readers of Hebrews in the first century knew exactly who it was who wrote to them But we don't know today because the authorship is not declared to us So many believe it was Paul and that's not a bad guess But we really don't know for sure the time of the writing has been placed between the years 64 and 68 and the reason very simply is this this is a book that is written to Jewish readers And yet the temple and its destruction is not mentioned in the book Now if this was written after the destruction of the temple, we know that temple was destroyed in 70 AD It would have been mentioned because this is a book written to Hebrews. It was not mentioned and therefore Conservative scholarship says that it was written before the destruction and many would believe Probably around the year 64 up to the year 68 Now there is a reason for this book to have been written and you find that reason in Hebrews turn with me for a moment to chapter 5 I'll show it to you right from the beginning Why was this book written? We'll see in a variety of ways why it was But one of the reasons that you can find chapter 5 beginning at verse 12 Let's us know it says in chapter 5 verse 12 Following though by this time you ought to be teachers you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God and You have come to need milk and not solid food for Everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness for he's a babe But solid food belongs to those who are of a full age That is those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil in chapter 6 verse 1 He says therefore leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ Let us go on to perfection that word perfection speaks of maturity Let's leave the basics and grow and so the purpose of the writing the reason that this was written was to bring the readers to spiritual maturity and So that's a great book for us as a church to read because I desire to become Spiritually mature and I'd like us to together become mature and therefore reading and studying this book is going to help us in that way Now as you go through Hebrews, you're going to note something with me Throughout this letter the author wants the reader to know that Jesus is better if there's a key word in the book of Hebrews it is the word better the word better is used 13 times in 13 chapters and so he wants us to know that Jesus Christ is better the word better the There means excellent or useful or or giving you an advantage Jesus Christ is more excellent and gives you an advantage in life He wants the Hebrews to know that because they're drifting back the Hebrew Christians are drifting back into Judaism They're returning some of them are longing to return to two different ways because as Christians They're being rejected as Christians are going through hard times times that they didn't suffer as Hebrews in all and so they're drifting back and so so the writer wants them to know listen Jesus is better He's better than the lies better than the temple. He's better than everything. He's better than everything that you had before He's better than the prophets. He's better than angels. He's better than Moses. He's better than the priesthood He's better than the law. He's better than Malchizedek. He brings a better hope a better testament a better promise a better sacrifice He gives us a better country a better resurrection in every in everything Jesus Christ is better So don't abandon him for the law And so that's what we're going to be seeing as we go through the book of Hebrews how that Jesus Christ is better And you see this almost immediately as we go into this particular letter Let's begin now at verse one and we'll look at the first three verses here in Hebrews And then next time we're together picking up at verse four and move on through the book But at verse one again, he says god who at various times and in different ways Spoken time past to the fathers by the prophets Now the author launches into his letter without an introduction Of course, this is one of the reasons why many scholars doubt that paul wrote this epistle Paul when he wrote his letters would always identify himself and as you study the epistles of of paul You will note that he always begins by saying paul and perhaps referring to himself as an apostle Or always as an apostle he will speak to us and identify himself in this particular book There is no introduction of a name and so that's the point many think that he might not have written this but The fact is is that god is not remaining silent And the point he's making is that god has consistently revealed himself to man over time What he's speaking about in verse one when he says at various times and in different ways He's spoken time past of the fathers by the prophets is he's speaking of of a special revelation When you read your bible, you're going to note that god reveals himself in a variety of ways We're going to look at those some of those ways in just a moment But you have what is called special revelation and you have what is called general revelation General revelation can be broken into two basic categories though. There are others but two basic ones When you have a general revelation one would be your conscience, you know because everybody has a conscience And you know when you do right you knew know when you do wrong and and paul would argue concerning that as being Part of the way that god has created us to help us to come to him when he wrote to the romans He also speaks concerning creation Creation speaks of the reality of someone who created all things every house is built by some man He who built all things is god And so creation that that existence that we have has to speak of somebody who is a Primary mover the first cause of all things. And so you have creation and you also have conscience But you also have what is called a special revelation And and that is when god breaks into history and and gives to us insight concerning himself And that's what with the writer is speaking of here in Hebrews chapter one He's telling us that god in various times and in different ways spoke and therefore is speaking concerning revelation Special revelation now the reason that he has to give to us or is not so much that he has to but he chooses to give to us Special revelation is very simple. It's because if he did not reveal himself to us We could never know him Is that simple if god doesn't say I am here We would not find him I mean if the god of the universe chooses to hide himself Who here can play cosmic hide and seek and find him not a single one of us can He's not like my grandson Josiah my grandson Josiah is really getting into hide and seek for some reason now And he was doing that the other day. I'll tell him hide Josiah hide because the wicked witch is coming another name for his mom Hide and Just the other day He was sitting on my lap my Josiah And I could hear my daughter Korean his mama coming into the room And I had him sitting on my lap and I'm behind my screen And so my Josiah is sitting on my lap and I said hide Mama's coming hide from her and he says okay, and he puts his hands over his eyes And just sits there and he is definitely sure that she does not see him And uh and she comes walking in the room and he's got and she doesn't notice where he's at It's not that she doesn't see him But my other daughter comes and begins speaking to her and Josiah just can't take it I mean he waited quietly all of 10 seconds and he begins to scream Here I am you know well god doesn't do that You know he he doesn't do that if god chooses to hide from us Then man will never find him we need to understand that makes sense to me If he chooses to hide himself Man cannot find him. That's why isaias says of the lord surely thou art the god that hide it thyself unless you choose To reveal yourself to us Man by searching cannot find you out There's no way and so god chooses and this is what you find in scripture from from uh genesis to revelation God chooses to reveal himself to us because we couldn't by searching find him In in first timothy in in chapter 6 verses 15 and 16 Paul said God the blessed and only ruler the king of kings and lord of lords who alone is immortal and who Lives in unapproachable light So we couldn't approach him we could not discover him were he not to reveal himself to us But this god who has created all things and reveals himself to us chooses to do so in a variety of ways Notice again at verse 1 god who at various times and in different ways Spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets and so god at various times in different ways spoke At various times is another way of saying and this is literal in many portions or by many portions That would speak of god revealing himself not in one Immediate revelation, but piecemeal over time It may be that he's referring to The 39 books of the old testament how you put those together to get a revelation of god But there are a variety of ways that he's chosen to do so because he says in verse 1 that he's done this in different ways And so god has revealed himself through a variety of means he used dreams He uses visions when you study old testament there's angelic visitations. There are various events. There are symbols There are signs and ultimately he communicates through his prophets And that's what he says he spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets Now when he speaks of the fathers, that's another way of speaking of what would be referred to as the old testament patriarchs the ancestors Of the readers of this particular letter the jewish nation And god would reveal himself and he did so to the patriarchs and he used the prophets In numbers in chapter 12 verse 6 it says God speaking listen to my words When a prophet of the lord is among you i reveal myself to him in visions I speak to him in dreams And so god is saying when I reveal myself I do so through prophets who reveal to you what they have seen Now ultimately these prophets of god these men whom he he refers to Were used by god to write for us what we have in our hands This bible god gave to us a revelation of the word of god and the prophets gave to us this message The bible says above all you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man But men spoke from god as they were carried along by the holy spirit Men spoke as they were carried along by the spirit of god. That's second peter 120 and 21 That's the revelation of god god has given to us Through the prophets the revelation of the word of god And he spoke in a variety of ways which includes the revelation through the words the prophets gave to us Now in verse 2 continuing he says he has in these last days spoken to us by his son Whom he has appointed heir of all things Through whom also he made the world And so no prophet ever had in the old testament the entire revelation of god God revealed himself but he did so in a progressive manner Now we know that the old testament is without error But yet it was pointing to the future it was pointing to a time When god would take upon himself human flesh And so god through various things in the old testament revealed himself But in the new testament has revealed himself perfectly through jesus christ Now this progressive revelation was to prepare people for the sun And his full and his perfect revelation awaited the coming of jesus christ If you take notes john chapter 1 verse 1 says it this way When john was writing his gospel He said In the beginning was the word and the word was with god And the word was god Then he went on in verse 14 of the same chapter to say the word became flesh and dwelt among us We beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth The word of god became human flesh and dwelt amongst us that's called the incarnation Incarnation is actually a latin word two words Incarnate in flesh the incarnation is god taken upon himself human flesh in the old testament He used wonders he used symbols he had miracles that occurred He he revealed himself in a variety of ways through the written written word the witnesses of the of the prophets in the new testament He gives to us a full revelation of himself That gives to us insight into the difference between the christian faith and all man made Our religion God reveals himself to man Man does not find god by man's own efforts All you need to do is spend a little time looking at the variety of world religions And there's so many hundreds of thousands that would be impossible to really do so in a lifetime But the major systems all of them look at them very closely And you will notice that they work out their own salvation Actually, they work for their own salvation, which makes it different than christian faith See the bible says work out your own salvation if you're in trembling But in other religions it is work for your own salvation And there is a world of difference and in matter of fact the world is the difference between those two isms christianity Believes and teaches that god took upon himself human flesh and dwelt amongst men and we we beheld him He was filled with grace and truth and he revealed to us a way of the father He is that way and we enter into the kingdom of god through faith through jesus christ That's christianity all other religions in the world say that you have to do something in order to gain that knowledge You cannot find god god reveals himself to you That's the whole point of the introduction here is to remind the readers that that yes, you understand that your old testaments contain Information concerning god and how god revealed himself to your fathers you understand that But you need to understand that the final revelation came through the son Jesus christ who is the word taken upon himself human flesh and dwelling amongst men Man cannot find god god reveals himself to man In john chapter 1 verse 18 john said it this way No one has ever seen god But god the one and only who is at the father's side has made him known In matthew 11 27 Jesus said all things are delivered to me by my father and no man knows the son but the father Neither knows any man the father except the son and he to whomever the son will reveal him So jesus will draw me to a relationship with his father He reveals the father to me and in doing so I have a relationship with god That's what he brews chapter 1 is speaking about Now notice how he says in verse 2 that he has in these last days spoken to us Now he speaks of the last days the last days can be also a synonym for the days of messiah The last days that we are living in now Actually began at pentecost when the holy spirit fell on the 120 in the upper room as they were awaiting the promise of the father The bible tells us that when that occurred Peter had stood up and began to preach and and in the book of acts if you take notes chapter 2 verses 16 and 17 This is what the apostle said he said this is what was spoken of by the prophet joel In the last days god says i will pour out my spirit on all people Your sons and your daughters will prophesy your young men will see visions your old men will dream dreams That was on the day of pentecost and yet the apostle peter identified that event as the last days So we are living in the times of the last days the days of messiah In first peter 120 and 21 He was chosen before the creation of the world but was revealed in these last Times for your sake and through him you believe in god who raised him from the dead and glorified him And so your faith and hope are in god We are living in these last times these last days and so he says in verse 2 has in these last days Spoken to us by his son Whom he has appointed heir of all things through whom also he made the worlds And so this is the final revelation jesus christ. He's a final word to man. There's no more revelation coming There's no new way coming to man You can know that beyond a shadow of a doubt Listen, this is very practical at this point. Um, that's one of the reasons why I as a believer do not recognize Any other prophet other than those revealed in the old and the new testament That's one of the reasons is matter of fact that it's the main and Central reason why I don't believe that uh men like muhammad were prophets of god A believer will not do so and cannot do so Because he came several centuries after jesus christ And we know that jesus is the final revelation. He is the last word to man He says it this way in revelation 22 13 He says i am the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end the first and the last And we know in colossians 2 3 that in jesus are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge There is no need for future revelation There is no need for somebody else to come and give us what we don't have because we have all that we need in jesus christ And so he's pointing that and he's making it very clear that he has spoken to us in these last days by his son now At this point he gives to us a seven fold description of jesus christ a seven fold description We'll look at each one of those briefly and notice with me what he says concerning him In verse 2 he says has in these last days spoken to us by his son Whom he has appointed heir of all things through whom also he made the worlds Who be in the brightness of his glory the express image of his person Upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high First he's appointed heir of all things He is appointed heir of all things that word appointed means established or ordained he has been ordained To be the heir as the son over all things that exist In psalm 2 verse 8 it's an interesting scripture It says ask of me and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance And the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession I will give you the heathen And you know who the heathen were us When jesus christ died on the cross He actually inherited us especially as we gave our hearts to him And as we gave our hearts to jesus christ, he now owns all things including us And the bible makes it very clear that we are a chosen generation. We are a royal priest priesthood. We are a holy nation We are his own special people that we may proclaim the praises of him who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light So one he's been appointed heir of all things to Through whom also he made the worlds When it says he made the worlds the word worlds means the eons the created universe of space and time All things that you see that exist exist through him Jesus christ created all things and john 1 verse 3 it says all things were made by him without him was not anything made That was made in colossians 1 16 it says by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth Visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created through him And for him so jesus christ is is the one who is the creator of all things Now the third thing he is the brightness of his glory When it says who is in the brightness of his glory that word brightness Literally is radiance it speaks of sending forth light The point he's making is jesus is the visible manifestation of god Even as the sun's radiance reaches the earth god's glory has shown on the hearts of man through jesus christ is the point that he's making In him was life that life was the light of men and that light shines in the darkness But the darkness has not understood it. He is the brightness of his glory A fourth thing we see in verse 3 is that he's the express image of his person When it says the express image of his person it is his nature the nature of person or thing the word there Speaks of character the character or exact Expression of any person or thing. It's a precise reproduction in every aspect in other words All that god is in human flesh jesus is jesus is god in human flesh There's an interesting story. It's found in the gospel of john chapter 14. I'd like you to turn there with me for a moment I want to show it to you interesting john chapter 14 One of the more powerful portions of scripture Beginning at verse one Let not your heart be troubled You believe in god believe also in me In my father's house are many mansions If it were not so i would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you to myself That where I am There you may be also And where I go, you know And the way you know Now in context, this is the last night that jesus is with his men Jesus has been giving them final instructions. He is there at the table with them and they've been celebrating Passover Even as they have been celebrating Passover the Lord Jesus Christ has been instructing them concerning who he is and what they're to do The bible tells us in chapter 13 that that jesus knew that it was time for him to To leave to depart and therefore he gave them final instructions And and one of the things that jesus intended to do is to instruct them concerning how they were to live and what they were like What they were to be like and all and so that's when jesus got up and he began to wash the disciples feet With that basin of water and and that's when he dried their feet off And you know the whole story we've gone through it many times Now that the apostle peter got upset at him for doing so and told him you will never wash my feet And jesus had said to him if I don't wash your feet, then you have no part of me And he said then give me a complete bath because I don't want to be separated from you And after jesus had finished doing that he sat down and began to instruct them and as he was instructing them He spoke to them concerning many things One of the things he began to speak to them about was the fact that he was going to depart that he was about to leave And they didn't want to hear that they didn't like the idea as a matter of fact When he was beginning to speak concerning betrayal and all and how that one of them would betray him The apostles got extremely upset over that and especially the apostle peter Though I'll deny you I will never deny you I would even die for you the apostle peter had said And so said the rest of the apostles They couldn't fathom the idea that one amongst them one of the 12 would actually be able to be a betrayer Somebody who would actually take jesus and sell him out couldn't believe that whatsoever But of course we know the story and we know that there was one amongst them that man named judas well judas has departed and as Judas has departed the people are still the men are still upset They're still upset because jesus christ is speaking concerning departing and all and that's why he says in verse one Don't let your heart be troubled you believe in god believe also in me And I want you to know that in my father's house are many mansions and i'm preparing a place for you if it weren't so I would have told you But he says I want you to know that i'm doing this and then he says in verse four where I go You know and the way you know now how do you how are you supposed to know that well All the way up in the gospel of john all 13 chapters when you look at the life of christ and the teachings of the lord He's been making it clear to them the whole time where he's going He's let them know So many times And yet it would seem to me that spiritual lessons aren't learned the first time you hear them And I've discovered that to be true generally in in just learning in just learning things I don't learn things the first time I hear them Perhaps you do and you may have one of those great memories and all that once you hear something You just got it down the very first time I'm not like that at all never have been it took a year before I knew that when my mom said david Took a year for me to understand she was talking to me I didn't even know that was my name of course for the first year I had other names later on that I recognized and david was one of them But the bottom line is Is we don't learn the first time do we I mean the first time the lord speaks to you and says this is what I want You to do you might think what is that going on? What is that that I hear? It's kind of like when samuel was there as a young boy after hannah his mother had had Dedicated him to the lord and he was there in the service of elie the priest and And there he is there's a little boy laying in bed And he hears the voice of the lord say samuel and he gets up and walks into elie's room and he says you called me and he says No, I didn't call you go back to your bed And so goes back to bed and once again He hears the voice of the lord samuel and he gets up and walks once again and says elie Did you call me here? I am he says I didn't call you go back to bed Finally when it does it again He realizes it comes in and says did you call me and that's when elie the priest says look at the lord Is speaking to you so when god speaks next time say i'm listening The very first time he heard he thought it was elie the second time he heard he thought it was elie Ultimately he discovers it's not the voice of elie It's the voice of the lord speaking to him and that's kind of how it works That's why jesus said to them what i'm doing to you now you do not understand But you will later on The things that i'm declaring to you right now are not things that you understand initially or immediately But if you act on the first few things that i give to you i'll give you experience or begin to understand My ways and know my voice so that i can speak to you more clearly in the future and that's what jesus is saying So he's saying listen you're troubled you're troubled because i have told you these things You're troubled because i've told you all of you will forsake me and flee this night I you're troubled because i i told you that i'm being betrayed into the hands of wicked men I've been preparing you for this all through my ministry I've told you several times that that was going to take place i've told you i'd be betrayed i told you I would die i told you i'd be buried but i also have told you on the third day I'd be raised again from the dead but you're not listening to me let not your heart be troubled Have courage and where i'm going you know and the way you know well thomas verse five said to him lord I like this man thomas i really do because you know the other guys are thinking this He spoke up lord. We don't know where you're going and how can we know the way? You know jesus said to him i am the way the truth and the life No one comes to the father except through me If you had known me you would have known my father also And from now on you know him and notice and have seen him You know philip said to him lord will show us a father and it is sufficient for us And then jesus says it's incredible word verse nine have i been with you so long And yet you have not known me philip He who has seen me has seen the father so how can you say show us the father? I've been with you ministering to you revealing myself as who i am to you for all of this time I've been with you so long and yet you haven't known me How do I illustrate that? I wonder if when pastor chuck smith who is my pastor and I love him very much Respect him extremely I wonder if when His kids were growing up I wonder if they knew that he's pastor chuck smith Nope, they saw him as dad I wonder if franklin graham and the rest of the graham family Knew that billy graham is billy graham Probably not they knew him as dad But somewhere along the line They came to realize this man is my father But this is a man who is used mildly by god too You see in my marriage with my own wife marie Um, I am her husband and I am her friend I am with her the father of our children And I have a variety of hats that I wear But I am also her pastor I am not just her husband. I am not just her friend I am not just the father of our children. I am Her pastor She knows me in other words as not simply being Uh, david the guy that i'm married to She knows me as the guy that god uses in her life to help her to understand the ways of the lord And there is a moment that comes when you realize that this person Is more than simply what I see them to be And here the lord jesus is asking that question in a cosmic sense When he says have I been with you so long and yet you have not known me Have you gone to church for so many years and still Haven't seen him for who he is There are so many people who go to church Hear bible stories Who never really put into practice The things that are being taught and as a result The lord is not manifesting himself completely to them because they don't see him Notice in the same chapter here john 14 notice with me at verse 21 Look in john 14 21 where jesus says He who has my commandments and keeps them it is he who loves me and he who loves me Will be loved by my father and notice and I will love him and manifest myself to him Verse 22 judas not as scary it says to him lord How is that that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world jesus answered and said If anyone loves me he will keep my word and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home With him How will I manifest myself to you you will recognize me for who I truly am And in doing so you will obey me and as you obey me you will see me for who I am You will recognize me for being god in the flesh Have I been with you so long and you have yet to know me going back to hebrew's chapter one continuing The fifth thing he speaks about is upholding all things by the word of his power Well, he made all things and he also keeps them together. He maintains and supports everything He is the preeminent power. He's the sustainer of the universe He is before all things and in him all things hold together Colossians 117 What keeps the world together and jesus christ He's the one who keeps us together too by the way I remember a little boy who was getting on his mama's nerves. He was about five years old and he was very bored and she had nothing to do That keep him occupied and so she had a magazine and as she was going through the magazine She she found a picture of the of a globe and and so she took it and she pulled that that picture out of the magazine And she cut it up like that into small pieces and made a little jigsaw puzzle out of it And it was very complicated. I mean it was a picture of the world and this little boy was was just not old enough And sophisticated enough to really be able to to put that puzzle together again So mama knew that's going to take some time for this little guy to get this done And she could finish a lot of housework and things she needed to do before he'd be through So she put all the pieces on a table. She sat him there and she said son put the world back together yet And she walks out to do something but about 10 minutes later. He comes walking in the room and he says it's done She says this is impossible. You couldn't have done that He said no, it's done mama and she walks in and she sees the world and the globe is once again Pieced together perfectly and she says how in the world did you put that together like that? And he said it was easy mama. He said on the other side of that Of the world was a picture of a man and and when I put the man together again The world was put back together again. Well, isn't that how it works? When you put the man together again and hold him together the world can be brought back together again And that's how it works and jesus is the one who puts all things together He's the one who causes all things to consist and to subsist He upholds all things by the word of his power The sixth thing it says here is by himself. He purged our sins By himself he purged that word purge means to cleanse in other words by himself We do not need any other savior No other person can do what has already been done And jesus did this without help jesus did this by himself jesus did this Alone and the way that he did it is when he died on that cross for us Alone even as he had stated to his beloved disciples all of you will forsake me and flee He died on that cross For us and he did it by himself and therefore we need no other savior because he paid the price for us In first john chapter one verse seven If we walk in the light as he is in the light We have fellowship with one another and the blood of jesus christ his son Cleanses us from all sins he purged us And finally he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high It's interesting that phrase or those two words right hand the right hand of majesty right hand of god is used some 100 times in scripture It speaks of the place of authority and power And jesus christ is seated there at the place of power and authority in mark 16 19 It says after the lord jesus had spoken to them He was taken up into heaven and sat at the right hand of god In romans 8 34 the question is asked who is he who condemns Christ jesus who died more than that who has raised to life is at the right hand of god and is also interceding For us so he has been seated He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high his work is now complete And all we do now is enter into the rest that he has He has finished the work and he has been seated Hebrews chapter 10 verse 12 says But he having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time sat down at the right hand of god one time for all time Is there anything else that needs to be done? The answer biblically is no Is there anything else any new revelation any new prophet? Is there any new sacrifice? Is there anything else that we need to have in order for us to be totally satisfied in relationship with god and the answer is Nothing Is everything made possible for us? Do we have Everything provided for us that is necessary for life and godliness it pertains to it And peter would say you already have all of that because in him you have fullness You see as a christian i came to the belief in the understanding that that that jesus christ when he satisfied fully his father's righteous requirements When he took upon himself my sin And voluntarily bore that sin dying on that cross When i understood that and i realized i could not add to it There's not a single thing that i can do to to increase its effectiveness And that what he was calling me to simply do is in in faith By grace just receive when i finally was able to do that i entered into the salvation rest that was provided for me by jesus christ I didn't have to do anything to earn it. It was given to me freely It's something that i obtained because it was through through faith in him it was given to me And i received it And sometimes people see the blessings in your life and they'll say how did you get all those things? You must be very disciplined at all and there is a certain discipline to christian life, of course But they've been flooded these blessings have been flooded upon us. They've been given to us by our father who's provided it for us I remember hearing the story of a man who was a very wealthy man and somebody asked him a question How did you gain all your wealth? He says you want to know how we become a millionaire. He says yes, how did you become a millionaire? How did you gain all of this wealth? He says well, it's very simple. He said when i was about six years old He said i decided to start a business for myself So i went outside and i and i started selling lemonade He said and so i went and i picked some lemons from a tree in my backyard cut them up made some lemonade I sat there and i was selling the the lemonade for a nicola glass He said and after i sold all the lemonade i put that money away then the next year next season He said i invest that into some other things. He said i continued to do so I started selling lemonade for 10 cents a glass and the money that i made i put it away and i started to save it and said And i started to do that for a number of years and the guy said and so that's how you became a millionaire And he says oh no no i became a millionaire because my dad died and left me millions of dollars, you know That's how i became a millionaire You know sometimes we try to take the the credit When in reality the credit is given to the lord Everything that we have has been provided for us by jesus himself. It wasn't by works of righteousness Which we have done it's according to his mercy. He saved us by the washing of regeneration And the renewing of the holy spirit. It's god working in us It's god providing for us and this all comes because of jesus christ And even as the writer is going to be telling us as we go through hebrus It's because jesus is better Because he is all That we need