 Okay, Aaron would you like to pray? Yeah sure, please go ahead. Let me pray. Lord we give all glory and honor to you for blessing this another new day, another new week Lord. Lord help us all to see the incredible hidden word from your word, from your wonderful word Lord as we dive in in your word Lord. Lord help each and every one of us to to understand and experience your love and our Lord transform us so that Lord Father we will enable to share your wonderful word to others and comfort them Lord. So Lord, I bless everyone and I submit rest of the day, rest of the session into your loving hand. Jesus name I pray, Amen. Amen, thank you Aaron. We will we were looking at Hebrews chapter 12. So let's continue from there and today we should be able to complete Hebrews and I'm hoping we can start first Peter. So we saw how we had Hebrews 11 where there was the lives of several men and women of faith recorded for us and that is our encouragement. The writer of the Hebrews encourages the struggling Jews and tells them that they can take courage from those who have finished their race by faith and he and he encourages endurance among the believers and we saw how endurance refers to employing patients in our trials or difficult situations and making sure that we don't give up, but we reach to the end of the race and then he adds there that not only should we look to good life stories of men and women, which is wonderful, but our greatest example is that of the Lord Jesus Christ. So in verse 2 he says looking unto Jesus. Jesus is our focus. So that we must not change. You know when we look at the lives of men and women, I'm sure there will be aspects of their life where maybe they had failed early on in their walk with the Lord. So there are weaknesses that we observe, but when we look at the life of Jesus, we see that he always overcame. So the life of Jesus is a perfect life and which is why looking at the life of Jesus is the best thing that we can do. And he says we can draw our strength from there. He is our he's the author and the finisher of our faith. So in other words, he is the source of our faith and he says that Jesus endured a lot on the cross because he was looking ahead. He had an eternal perspective. He was not just focused on the events that were unfolding before him, but he knew that God had a purpose and that God is going to redeem mankind through his sufferings. So that is the reason Jesus went through it. So he had an eternal perspective and we are also encouraged to have an eternal perspective when it comes to going through trials and sufferings. Now we saw that Jesus despised the shame because there was a lot of shame associated with the cross. We know that he was put down verbally. He was beaten physically through a crown of thorns was put on his head. He was called names. So many things happened to Jesus. So the whole experience of being on the cross was shameful to say the least. But he was not occupied or consumed by the natural occurrences. Instead, he chose to focus on what God was doing. And similarly, when we go through some of the trials and tribulations that can be shame associated with it, persecution, opposition from people. When we want to do what God has called us to do, or you can also call it as run the race when we are running our race the way Jesus ran his race. But we must be like Christ who completed the race anyway and he sat down at the right hand of God. Thus far, we have taken courage from these words. We've seen how Jesus endured hostility and, you know, he overcame and keeping him as our focus is always something that will strengthen us. So now coming to the next section here in Hebrews chapter 12, I'm at verse five. There is, you know, there is how this instruction where the believer is told that God is also someone who chastises us. So to understand chastisement, what we say is it is correction that is brought about as nurturing. So as part of nurturing when correction is spoken over someone that is known as chastisement. So chastisement can be understood well when we look at how parents correct their children. Parents always want their children to do well. They want their children to excel in life. So as children grow up, if they are being disobedient or if they are being careless, there are times that parents will spank them or give them a nice rebuke or, you know, different ways in which they correct and bring chastisement. But in a parent's chastisement of a child, the aspect of love is always there because a parent does not want to destroy the child and his or her future. What they're doing is building them up by teaching them what is right. So that is chastisement. And in the same way here, the writer encourages the believers. You know, sometimes not all trials that we go through are chastisement, but sometimes there can be certain trials we are in which is like God correcting us as a parent. So when that happens, we as his children should not despise or, you know, like just neglect the work that God is doing in our lives. And we should not be discouraged when God rebukes us because we are told that for whom the Lord loves, he chases and scourges every son whom he receives. So God does this act of correction because he loves us. And because he considers us sons and daughters. Now, if we were not sons and daughters, then, you know, there is really no need for God to be so involved in our lives. Now, moving forward, verse 7, we notice that if you endure chastening, so we've understood God corrects us at times and some trials are because God's correction is unfolding in our lives. Now, when that is happening, we're not supposed to despise it and we are supposed to endure it. And we've already seen that endurance is bearing up under pressure. So when there's a lot of pressure around us, we must maintain our courage. We must maintain the focus, the way Jesus endured the cross. He looked at the joy set before him. He looked at the eternal perspective. Imagine where we go through our trial, even one of chastening and look ahead at the things that God has kept for us. Now, whenever we endure chastening or correction from God, we must think that God is dealing with me as a son or a daughter. Now, imagine if a parent does not correct their child. That's not proper parenting. There's always instances in parenting where parents have to teach the child right from wrong and it may involve doing it in a strict sort of a way. And only then, a parent is fulfilling their responsibility. Now, if the parent does not do that, they are not helping the child understand everything they require to lead a righteous adult life. So, it's preparation. Chastening is actually preparation. Now, if God does not correct us, again, we will not be fully developed in our character. So, we are told here in Hebrews for what son is there whom a father does not chase in. So, every good father will correct and shape their children. So, in the same way, because God considers us sons and daughters, he does the chastening. But as I told you, what if the parents don't chase in their children? Now, a very strong statement is made here that, but if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. So, it generally doesn't happen in the parenting scenario because parents love their children and they make sure that they bring some sort of a correction in their journey, in the child's journey. So, if a parent is not interested, that's unfortunate. And let's say in the case of a child who does not really have their own father or mother, that kind of love is lacking in some cases. And so, it's as if they are not fulfilling their responsibility as a parent and that, you know, if that parental love is there, that bond of father and son is, you know, it exists and that's why they are correcting you. But in the case of, you know, what's mentioned here illegitimate sons, it's a strong way of saying that only when that real parental love is lacking, one is okay to let the child grow however they like. Then they're not bothered whether the child is going to suffer in the future and, you know, go through all kinds of difficulties. But God is not like that because he cares for us because he wants to see us developed in our character. There are times that we may go through correction from God. Now, again, you know, I'm just pointing out that it's like a parental love and nurturing. No parent will harm a child to the extent where, you know, their spirit is broken or, you know, they are badly hurt. Now, we do know that in some instances where, you know, the parent is mentally ill or, you know, doesn't recognize or realize that they are doing that to their child, they end up hurting children, but that's not the right way. In general, a parent will always have the safety of the child in their minds. So they will beat, yes, but you know, it's like they want to protect. They don't want it to leave a deep scar in the child's heart. Their only intention is correct yourself. That's all. It's not any deeper than that, the hurt that a rebuke of a parent should inflict on a child. So in that way, God also corrects us. We must see, you know, people look at the challenges that they go through and they might say, okay, you know, this is God's chasing, but God doesn't put sickness on us. That's not chasing. We are quite clear because in the nature of God, we've seen that he's a healer. So if he's a healer, he cannot put sickness on us. So in the name of God chasing us, we shouldn't include things that God has already clearly defined as the works of the devil. Because 1 John 3-8 says that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. So there are also the works of the devil that can inflict pain and suffering on us. We shouldn't confuse the two. That's my point. God's chasening is a nurturing chasening where, you know, yes, there is a rebuke, yes, there is a correction, but it is meant to build us and never meant to break us. And our response to the chasening is equally important. Verse 9, we see, we have had human fathers who corrected us and we paid them respect because as children, maybe while growing up, we didn't understand. We thought, oh, why is this happening? But when we grew up, we recognized, oh, if my father would not have taught me that, or if my mother would not have taught me that, I wouldn't know how to live my life. So in the same way, when we look at God correcting us, we must have greater reverence that, oh, God is so interested in my life that I'm going through a training or an equipping into righteousness. So it really, the chasening of God is a good thing because we are receiving God's love through the chasening. So if we paid respect to our parents who corrected us when we were children, you know, we are told that we should not neglect God or we should not reject what God is doing in our lives. We must embrace, okay, God, if you are allowing this chasening in my life, I'm sure there is something you want me to learn from it. I will learn to have a good attitude and a positive attitude while going through that trial. Again, there's a lot of comparison of parents. The father, they chasened us for a few days as it seemed best to them. But God is doing this for our profit. It's not like God wants something out of this, but he knows we are going to benefit out of it. And you see the results of chasening. You know, when we go through correction from God, what is it going to produce in us? See, I pointed out when parents correct us, discipline, okay. We learn right from wrong. So those are all the outcomes of chasening. When God corrects us, you know, the result is holiness, that we may be partakers of his holiness. You see, God is not only interested in, we earlier said, run the race, finish the race, you know, don't give up, end your look on to Jesus. He's not just interested in what we can do, but he is so interested in who we become. He wants us to become like him and we know that God is a holy God and he wants us to be holy and through the work that God is doing in our lives, you know, in various ways. What happens when you engage in the word sincerely? You have faith in the word, apply the word, live the word, speak the word. You are becoming, you and I are becoming holier and holier. Yes, God has already done the work of redemption on the cross. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, but we have to live it out. So in the living out, we are becoming more like Jesus. So even the chastening of God will heal the fruit of holiness in our lives. Now, chastening, we are told, is not joyful. Anyone who enjoyed a spanking that you got from your dad or mom, I don't think so. So in the same way he's saying, when we go through trials, that is really chastening from God, it's never joyful. In the present, it is never joyful, but how is it? It is painful. However, again he points to the outcome and he says, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. So what should be the outcome of responding favorably to the correction of the Lord? Holiness, peaceable fruit of righteousness. So it's what God is working towards. We know that the five-fold ministry offices, they have been appointed by God to equip the body of Christ for what? To be mature, to come to the fullness in Christ Jesus, to become the perfect man. So everything is tending towards perfection in the work that God does. And what is this perfection? The perfection that we are looking for is the very character of Jesus Christ. So the believers are encouraged and they are told, come on. Some trials are the works of the devil. He is bringing it against us. But there can be some trials which are the chastening of the Lord. But when it is a trial that is a chastening of the Lord, remember that it's a very loving correction. God is not going to break our bones and put us down and totally crush us. That's not how God works. But there is an element of going through pain. What is that pain? The pain is the rebellion of our flesh. We don't want to change. We don't want to change our standards to the standards of God's word. So our flesh is crying out. That's the pain that we are talking about. But when we yield to it, the outcome is becoming more like Jesus, maturing, holiness, righteousness. So that is the result. So we must yield to it and that's what he is saying. That he again encourages them and he says, strengthen the hands which hand down and feeble knees. These believers are not just them. Even us in our journey with the Lord, our faith journey, sometimes we can become very weary or tired. So it's nice to listen to a word like this where there is, come on, strengthen yourself, encourage yourself. It's a word like that to just pat them on the back and say, come on, you can do it. So here the writer is just giving them that element of encouragement and he says for you to finish the race, you have to make sure that your members or your body is strong. So strengthen your hands, your feeble knees, make it stronger, make straight parts for your feet. So you make sure that you will be able to complete the race. It's like talking to a real runner who will ensure that they are maintaining all fitness and they have cleared out everything in their path so that they can complete the race. So believer, you make sure that you are strong and you are able to complete God's assignment for your life. But what if you don't do that? He's saying that these weak hands and feeble knees, what will it lead to? Lame-ness, it will make the person lame and also if you're not careful enough in this case, he says let it not be dislocated or just making us more dysfunctional from running in the race. So we shouldn't allow that to happen to us but rather be healed. So even if you have gone through a bout of discouragement, you rise up, you read in the Bible, David encouraged himself in the Lord and sometimes we sit and wait around, let the pastor come, let them encourage me or let my family member encourage me or church elder, let them encourage me. No but don't wait. If you and I are in the race to maintain those high spirits and excitement of running the race, it's our responsibility. So I have to do whatever it takes to become strong in God and keep looking. There are people who have gone through difficulties but they finish the race. Jesus finished the race. I can finish the race. So strengthen myself how spiritually, emotionally, physically. I know what it takes to complete the journey. So that is the attitude believers need to maintain. Then he continues. Now a little bit about the community living. How should the believers be? So you will see that from Hebrews 12. His thought process is changing from topic to topic. So don't get confused. Just follow along. So now he says, pursue peace with all people. So how should we live in community with people? Peace is a very, very critical element. There are believers who will maintain, you know, who have, you know, we have tips with people. We don't get along. We break relationships. So that happens in, even among believers, but as far as possible, the Bible says, yes, I'm sure that, you know, every individual, each one of us here, we don't perfectly gel with, you know, 100% of the people in our lives, but that doesn't mean that we should clash with them or, you know, we should break relationships with them. That's not what it is, but in a peaceable way, you know how you can live in a peaceable way with everyone. You do your best. You do your best now. If they are the ones who don't no longer want to, you know, be in that brotherly relationship with us and we can't help it. But, you know, we can do our part, live peacefully with people, maintain that shalom. Don't create trouble to risk relationships. That's the point here. And as God's people, it says peace, pursue peace with all people. So do your part to be at peace with all people. So that's about our horizontal relationship. And it says, and holiness, holiness is vertical relationship. Holiness, without holiness, you know, we can't see God. Without purity of heart, we can't see God. And we know that God is worshiped in the beauty of His holiness. So the primary attraction of God is He's a holy God. That is what draws us to Him. And if we don't imbibe the same character of holiness, it's when we offer worship to God. You know, it's not the kind of worship that God wants. He wants holiness in our lives. He wants holiness in our worship. He wants us to acknowledge His holiness and follow after His holiness. And that's the call for us. So in our vertical relationship with God, maintain holiness is what we are told. And again, He says, without which, without holiness, no one will see the Lord. So because sin, you know, it clouds our vision of God. When there is sin, we're not able to fully grasp who God is. So it's so important. Holiness is very, very important. Then He says that we just have to be careful about our spiritual life, looking carefully, unless anyone falls short of the grace of God. So don't ever fall short of God's grace. So what should we do in order to have God's grace? We already know that God gives grace to the humble. So walk in humility. And when God gives us grace, you know, through the grace, He gives us gifts. So we have to also use the grace that God has given us. And that is the way in which we honour the grace of God over our lives. Put it to use and, you know, let it be a blessing to the kingdom. Let it be a blessing to, you know, God himself. God will be so proud. Oh, wow. I bless them with this. You remember the parable of the goods to it. You have one talent given to that person. He didn't put it to use. So the master was so upset. He really wants us to use whatever He has given us. So let's put it to use for the glory of His name. So don't ever, you know, fall short of God's grace and we can talk about grace in many angles and say that in this way, you know, His empowering grace is the redeeming grace, whatever in all this, don't ever fall short. Let any root of bitterness bring up cause trouble now. In the community life, He is now mentioning a very key thing and that is bitterness. You know, sometimes what happens, we have community of believers and there are people get offended. Anyone who does not want to get offended, you know, I'll tell you the best ways don't have, don't relate with people. That's the only way to be safe. But when we relate with people and especially when it comes to the kingdom of God, it's not to live alone. We cannot live alone. We are meant to work with others, worship together with others. So there is community. There are people that God has put in our lives. You can't escape it. I can't escape it. So do not be offended or experience something, you know, that puts you off with other believers. If you don't want those things to happen, you should be a lone ranger. You have to be alone, lock yourself up in the room. But that's not happening. Here in the world, we have to step out. But when we do interact with people, we are in the heart of forgiveness. So that is the best way to do community life. Now, if we don't have that attitude of forgiveness, even when we bring correction as leaders or when we speak the truth in love, that's what we are told. We are not called to, you know, harm others, put others down, break their spirit. Even God doesn't do it when He is chasening His children. He does it like a father. And so, same thing applies to the leaders in the church. The heart of forgiveness is what is required from the believers of the church. Now, if they are not walking in forgiveness, they end up having, they can develop. Now, there is a progression, isn't it? The unforgiveness turns into resentment. It can then become bitterness, jealousy, all the other, like, you know, stronger, stronger attitudes of the heart, stronger negative attitudes of the heart. So, He is warning the community of believers, don't ever let bitterness spring up because what will it lead to? It will lead to trouble, cause trouble. So, He says root of bitterness. So, that's also interesting because as leaders, when we observe that bitterness has started, that is, it has taken root. Still, you didn't get a big tree. You have to quickly chop it off. You have to uproot it immediately, otherwise it will happen. It will become a big tree. It will cause chaos in the church, division in the church. There are so many instances where churches were destroyed because of fights and strife and, you know, things that believers are, the way in which believers are behaving and that is very sad and we should never let that happen. Let's begin, let us begin with us first and as leaders, we must ensure that it doesn't take root in the community. It's very dangerous to have bitterness and then He says, by this many became defiled or it corrupts the entire community. So, be careful and then He says, let's there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau who for one morsel of food sold His birthright. So, again, He points out to an attitude where, you know, you don't take the call of God seriously. That's the example of Esau. What did He do? God, He was rightfully the elder child but when He was hungry, He sold His birthright. How careless! God gave a beautiful position to Him but He sold it in a moment of weakness. So, which means that He did not value what God gave Him and when God, especially in the Kingdom, there are spiritual blessings that God gives us, callings that God gives us, gifts, inheritance that He gives us when we don't value it that displeases God and that is why there is a strong word used for Esau's attitude. We, in what is given in the Bible, we don't see Him as a fornicator. Fornicators are people who indulge in immoral sexual relationship outside of, actually without marriage. People are not married and still they are engaging in sexual activity. That is fornication and it is displeasing to God. So, about Esau, the term used is fornicator but what did He actually do? He rejected spiritual inheritance and that was as good as fornication in God's sight. So, something for us to learn that God gives us to embrace our spiritual blessings and inheritance. Because He rejected it and He did not repent with the right heart even though later on He came back and sought it with tears. It was never given back to Him. So, it's a warning for believers. Don't play around with what God has given us. If we just treat it very lightly, God is not happy with that. Now, we are once again encouraged to come to God because now the new covenant that we are in after what Jesus did and we studied so much about Jesus making the way for us to enter into the presence of God in the book of Hebrews. So, don't you think it is so much more welcoming for the New Testament believer as compared to the devoted person under the old covenant. So, our access is a lot easier. So, the following passages from verses 18 to 21, that's what we see. We are told that you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire because we know that's how God appeared to Moses. He would come upon Mount Sinai with fire and people would see that and tremble. Not just the people, even from Moses, he was afraid to enter God's presence when God showed up in that manner to blackness and darkness and tempest and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words so that those who heard it beg that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. So, that was the scene of how God came to meet with his people under the old covenant. So, we've understood that. So, let's just skip real move to verse 22. So, we've understood the scenario. Now, how is our path to the Lord? But you have come to Mount Zion. So, remember that. We have come to Mount Zion and we have already seen this. We've seen this earlier, the comparison of what this Mount Zion, we are Mount Zion, how God accepts us as his people and we are redeemed. So, we have seen what this Mount Zion represents but now he calls Mount Zion the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. And he says that there are innumerable company of angels to the general assembly and the church of the first born who are registered in heaven. So, our citizenship, we are Mount Zion, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are the new Mount Zion. Now, this is not to neglect the promises, the many promises that God has for his own people the Jews and for Israel. So, we're not talking replacement theology. That's not what we're taking, talking. But we also know that in a spiritual sense the believers in the Lord Jesus, we are the new Mount Zion and you see here that the church of the first born who are registered in heaven. So, where is our citizenship? Where is our real membership? We are members of local churches here and we see the value of local churches here on the earth but our true membership is in heaven. That's what we registered in heaven. To God, the judge of all, the spirits of just men made perfect. And then he talks about the new covenant. To Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than the blood of able soul. Now, we are now in the presence of God which looks different from the way it was under the old covenant. There was fear, trembling and people hesitated but they didn't want to die because it was that awesome as they looked at it. But now because of what Jesus has done we have that grace. God is still awesome, he is still mighty but we are covered under grace and we have an entrance into God's presence because the blood of Jesus forgives us since and we have received the mercy of God. It's like I'm remembering Esther. Do you recall there was a rule that you can't enter the king's presence without his permission. If you enter, then death is certain because that was the punishment but Esther took a risk. There was one way the person entering without permission can be safe and that is the king should extend his scepter. He had a scepter in his hand and he should touch that person and say you are permitted, I give you permission and that was very rare. But he did that for Esther. He extended the scepter and said you are permitted to be in my presence so it's like that. What the Lord Jesus has done for us it's very difficult to enter the presence of such a holy God it's like Jesus extending that scepter to us and saying I have covered you, I have permitted you you can come, you can enjoy this holy God and receive from this holy God. So that's our privilege as new covenant believers. Now coming to verse 25 we are encouraged to respond to God. So he says see that God refused him who speaks for if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven whose voice then shook the earth but now he has promised saying yet once more I shake not only the earth but also heaven. So it's again encouragement intertwined with warning again you know encouragement instruction so it's going all over the place here. So again he's reminding the believers that just now just because I talked about grace that you can enter God's presence and enjoy him come to Mount Zion and all that he says don't forget that he's still an awesome God he's a mighty God he's a just God and when God is we have this invitation for faith you know faith journey we have you can't reject it if you reject it then it's sort of you know you're rejecting almighty God so don't forget that don't forget that and remember that he is one who is able to shake not only the earth but also heaven. So he's that mighty and verse 27 now this yet once more indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken as of things that are made that the things which cannot be shaken may remain and I'll go ahead with verse 28 also therefore since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire so you know we are told here that everything is subject to God he's the ultimate authority we see in scripture that he is seated you know and he rules over all the nations so this earth is not permanent we saw that even in Hebrews 1 the earth and even the heavens he'll roll it up like a like a cloak so everything on the earth and like even heaven you can see that it can be shaken and God is also talking about a shaking which is coming he says removal of those things that are being shaken as of things that are made that the things cannot which cannot be shaken may remain so there are this world is temporary in other words simply put some things can be shaken and they will not be there and we know that heaven and earth will pass away but God's word will remain so there are some things that are temporary they can be shaken there are some things that are permanent which will not be shaken and God's word will not be shaken you know God will not be shaken he is eternal immutable God and we are told that we are receiving a kingdom what kind of kingdom is he giving us is it an earthly kingdom which can be shaken and which can be easily destroyed no but we have to rejoice because you all have done in second year kingdom of God kingdom builders what kind of kingdom are we building see here receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken isn't that amazing so amazing that God's kingdom the kind of kingdom that we are a part of it is an unshakable kingdom that in itself you know must bring us a lot of encouragement so even when we see the world around us you know shaking trembling so many things are happening what will happen you know will this world survive whatever it is we now those who believe in the Lord Jesus we have this comfort and encouragement the kingdom which we have it is an unshakable kingdom so we are confident and so you know come on believer keep serving God you know keep yielding to the to the voice of God don't reject his voice that's what we are being told here he says let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably so serve God continue to serve God how to serve God serve God on his terms not on our terms acceptably acceptable to God with godly reverence reverence and godly fear you see again it's about our relationship with God these are all the elements holiness reverence godly fear we need that you know we can't just do it like okay just whatever I will do anything God is okay nobody is watching me that's not the right attitude for us to serve this unshakable kingdom which we are receiving instead our attitude is wow you know I must honor God in every way he's a holy God I will serve him with holiness I will serve him with reverence reverence is it's a good kind of a fear you're an again awe of this mighty God so you're doing things in in an honorable way to glorify this God so reverence godly fear that's the manner in which we should serve him for our God is a consuming fire God and the work that he does it is seen in various ways it's explained in many ways but here you see another way God is a consuming fire he his presence is like a refining powerful presence and that is why we are told your God is a consuming fire and if you remember there were times in the Old Testament when people would come to the altar and make an offering to God okay and what would happen you know the it'll just be like a fire will come it'll consume you know Elijah God sent his presence like the fire came down and it consumed Solomon gave God an offering and which was consumed by fire so that's our God he receives our offering as a holy God as a pure God so that's what we see so alright class let's go for a break now we have completed the Hebrews chapter 12 we will also finish Hebrews 13 in the next hour and let me see you know if we can go to 1 Peter and cover some portions of that so just a minute or two left here any thoughts any questions from your side I thought that was a you know very beautiful chapter very encouraging okay great so Kiran everyone saying clear I'm happy to know that please to go back meditate we're all here to serve God and that's how we must we've understood what Jesus has done in great depth and we know that because of the way Jesus has prepared the way we have access but that doesn't mean that we take that access lightly we are supposed to serve God holiness with reverence with godly fear because our God is a consuming fire okay so let's take a 10 minute break class we'll come back at 10 o'clock and resume with Hebrews chapter 12 so bye for now