Bible Study: April 7, 2021

Okay, I thought, you know, I've had a few requests about the Book of Hebrews. We finished the Book of Hebrews a couple weeks ago, and we've talked about some unleavened bread topics the last couple weeks, the Psalm 51, and the wave sheep offering, and the last couple weeks. But before we move into the Book of Acts, I think it is good that we would take some time and go over this review sheet that, in several weeks on the Book of Hebrews, we don't want to lose what we learned in these Bible studies.

And a review is a good way to maybe cement it in our minds what we have learned. So I thought if you have your sheet in front of you, if not, I can put it up on the screen. I should have mentioned it yesterday. I didn't go on me until this morning, so I was in the midst of some other meetings and sent it out along with the review questions. I can post that up, too, if you want.

And then I thought we'd go through, and as we go through some of the questions, if there's questions about it, we can talk about the scriptures that refer to that, or just that you'll have kind of an answer key there, too, if you want to keep that and later on review Hebrews again. So does anyone need me to put this up on the screen? I kind of do.

Okay, let's do that, and then I may have to... Okay. If it's a problem, don't worry about it. I know. I'm just wondering if I still have it up in my... Yeah, here it is. Okay. There it is, right? You can all see that? Great. Yes. Thank you. Okay, well, let's just go down. You know, and I can't see you or hands, so as we go through these, I'm going to...

I'll just kind of read out the... I'll read out the question. Someone could just yell out the answer, and if there's any discussion on that or any questions on what the answer is, let's talk about it. Okay, number one. The book of Hebrews was probably written after the destruction of the temple. True or false? False. False. Okay. How do we know that? Because Hebrews never mentions it. In fact, the book of Hebrews was written to a people who were maybe beginning to lapse about a little back into Judaism with the temple still there.

So we know the temple was written or destroyed sometime after the book of Hebrews was written. Okay, number two. There is little doubt that the Apostle Paul wrote the book of Hebrews. False. False. Yeah, no one knows, and deliberately so, I think, from God who wrote the book of Hebrews.

We know he is the author of every book in the Bible, and so that's good enough for us. The book of Hebrews is... Hold on just a minute. Okay. Let's open here. Okay, number three. A primary reason the book of Hebrews was written was...

Someone just yell out one of those rather than me reading all the options. I'll wait. I need to... Yeah, see. To demonstrate the supremacy of Jesus Christ. The early chapters of Hebrews, that's what it keeps recounting over and over and over again to make us mindful of the importance of Jesus Christ and his superiority to everything, everything, everything else that came before. Okay, number four. The book of Hebrews says that Jesus is greater than... Yes. All the way above. Again, you can go through the early chapters of Hebrews and you'll see God specifically mentioned.

Jesus, I mean, the Jews held Moses and all these men in high esteem. Jesus is greater than all of them. Okay, and again, if there's any discussion, if anyone disagrees or just wants to talk about it a little bit, feel free to open up. This is what it's about. It's a time for us to just discuss about anything that anyone might have a question about. Okay, number five. Hebrews 1.3 describes an express image, which is what, a precise reproduction or a similar representation? Precise. Yep, precise. Yeah, Hebrews 1.3 is talking about Jesus Christ and how he is an express image of God the Father.

He is a precise reproduction of God the Father and he's exactly exactly like him. Okay, number six. True or false? Jesus Christ in the flesh was the mind and character of God in human form. Sounds true. Okay. Agar. says true. Anyone and everyone agree with that? Yes. Okay. Number seven. All angels are ministering spirits sent to minister that we serve human beings. True or false? Correct. True. True. Everyone agree with that? Tells us that in Hebrews 1, right? Yes. The beginning of Hebrews 1.14. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

Okay. Number eight. Hello. Yes. Yes. On number seven, I put false down because it said all angels and I didn't think that all were actually had that job. That's true. We have different types of angels, right? We have 24 elders. We have the others that are mentioned in the Bible. But in verse 13, it says, To which of the angels has he ever said, Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool?

And then following in verse 14, he says, Excuse me. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? That's human beings. So that's where that's from Hebrews 1.14 that that question comes from. Not every heavenly body is an angel, right? There are angels, there are elders, and others. Does that all make sense? Wayne? Yes. Okay.

Number eight. Angels. Were created to be servants, serve people in God now by doing God's will, may have a great variety of duties, assist in carrying out his plan for mankind, all of the above or none of the above. Letter E. Letter E. Any discussion on that? Everyone agree? I'm going to pass on to the next one. Let's see what angels do. Okay. For the time being, human beings are made A, perfect in God's eyes, B, a little lower than the angels, C, better than the angelic realm, all of the above or none of the above.

That's a direct quote from the Bible as well. For the time being, human beings are made a little lower than the angels. We know A is not correct, and we know that today we were not better than the angelic realm. David wondered, what is man, blank, blank, blank, who can fill in the blank. That you are mindful of him? That you are mindful of him. Anyone know what psalm that is quoted from? That's what he said. Actually, he's there in Psalm 8 verse 4.

Okay. I was on a meeting this morning. We were talking about bringing many sons to glory. Not in context with this Bible study, but another thing out of the home office. When he speaks of bringing many sons to glory, it means God has given us a lot of love. God is creating spiritual children. We're going to heaven. We're not given in marriage in the kingdom.

What is the best answer to number 11? Right. God is creating spiritual children. God sees you and me as his spiritual children today, as long as his Holy Spirit is in us. As long as we continue to progress and let his Holy Spirit develop us, grow us, and guide us, he will bring us to glory, bring us to eternal life.

Okay. Number 12. Speaking of Melchizedek, it is correct to think of Melchizedek as the pre- incarnate Christ. Yes. True or false? True. True. True. True. How do you remember the week of Melchizedek as mentioned in Hebrews? You could just name some of them out. Someone wants to mention some of the things he says in Hebrews about Melchizedek, some of the things you might have listed on your paper there.

No mother, no father, no beginning or end. In righteousness, King of Peace. Yeah, I think it is. Yep. What chapter are some of those characteristics mentioned in? Okay, verse 7. Yep, very good. Okay, anything else? Okay, number 14. True or false? Jesus Christ...

There's a word missing there. Jesus Christ is today the same as the high priest Melchizedek mentioned in Hebrews. I think he said high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

Okay. Jesus Christ is the same as the high priest Melchizedek mentioned in Hebrews.

True. True. True. I think we could... actually, on that one... anyone want to disagree with that? That all? I think actually, I think either one of those, if you answered it true or false, given what your explanation of the reason for your answer is, would be true. Jesus Christ is after the order of Melchizedek. He is the eternal high priest, but we know that Jesus Christ today is...

there's not an English word to describe it. Jesus Christ today is not the same as the Melchizedek mentioned in Hebrews, who appeared to Abraham back in the Old Testament times, because he has grown. He has lived as a human being. He has completed the commission made possible to him. He knows what our faults and weaknesses are. He sacrificed himself. He's become more, if you will, if we can... again, keep that context that Jesus Christ... I mean, Melchizedek was perfect, right? It tells us that in the Hebrews 7, he was Jesus Christ and God then. Today, even God grows because of the things that they experience and what Jesus Christ has done for us. So if you said true, I'd say that would be correct, because he is of that order of Melchizedek. But he isn't the same, because he's been through so much more, and that kind of leads us into question 15.

Is that what he's saying today and forever?

Jesus Christ is saying yesterday, today, forever. Okay, yeah, that's...

okay, that's a good point. That's a good point. And also, Jesus Christ, as the person, did have a mother. So he's not without father and without mother. He had a father, and he had a mother. And the father, of course, was God to the Holy Spirit, but still it says he had a father and a mother, and he was born of a physical mother. Yeah, good point. So it says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. I mean, it means that he stands for the same thing. He's got the same beliefs. He's still that one with God yesterday, today, and forever. Because certainly, you know, when he was human, he was Jesus Christ, and he was... he was human, and he was, as you said, God was his father. But he wasn't the same as he was in Melchizedek, because he was in human form. So, that's what I said. I think that question I put in, and that I should generate some question, and just, you know, some... just appreciation for who Jesus Christ is, what he has become, and then an explanation, a little bit, of what that verse in Hebrews means when it says he was made perfect through suffering. He was already perfect, but the Bible tells us in a few places he was made perfect through suffering. So, that pauses us and lets us know that just as God wants us to grow as we fulfill what his purpose in our life is, so Jesus Christ did the same thing as a human. He wasn't just born as God and did nothing. He accomplished a lot, and is... and is our complete Savior today in every sense of the word because of what he went through. He grew in his appreciation for the human condition. Yep. Yep, and if he hadn't lived as human, all of us could say, you have no idea. You have no idea what it's like, and nor, and none of us can say ever to him, you have no idea what it's like because he suffered and experienced so much more than you and I ever have in our lives that it's daunting when you think about it. So, he certainly is our high priest, Savior, and those other names, we'll talk about in a little bit, that Hebrews gives to us for him.

Sometimes that word perfect is used also in the sense of complete. Complete. I think that may be the application there that now Jesus, since he can understand the trials and temptations that the human nature is more complete in that sense. Yeah, I'd say that's a good translate because that's what God is doing with us, right? I mean, he is going to make us perfect. He will forgive all our sins and we will have perfect righteous character when he resurrects us in spirit beings, but he's making us spiritually complete. And Jesus Christ, he was made complete for the commission that he came to earth for. Yeah, I would add to that. One of the things that I think we sometimes overlook or maybe don't is that it was almost like God put Jesus on here to prove that that even though he was born a human, you can overcome Satan. And his way does work. And even though we're all centered, but it gives us that image or that model that we can continue to strive for, even though that we will stumble, but it still gives us that it can be done. It's not impossible. And by doing that, it proved that his way is right.

If that wouldn't have happened, then there's still that doubt that Satan can cast that it's impossible to live like God. But God said, no, it is. And I approved it through my son, sending him on this earth to suffer, but he was able to do it in a perfect way. Yep. Very good. That's the thing we always have to remember. Jesus Christ did it. And because he did it, God gives us the same spirit in him that was in Jesus Christ. We can do it. We just have to be focused and learn. We're not perfect. We have to learn. And as we fall, sin, we repent, and move forward and ask God to perfect us or to work with us. Yep. Without Jesus Christ, we have absolutely no hope. There is no hope. None of us could overcome Satan. None of us could even overcome ourselves. You know, it takes Jesus Christ and what he made possible for us to even have the hope of eternal life or even the hope of overcoming. So.

Okay. How about number 16? If there's no more discussion on 15? Number 16. True or false? We wouldn't specifically know Christ as our high priest without the book of Hebrews. True or false?

It's false. Okay. True or false? Okay. Let's hear some reasons.

Dolly, what would you say false? Psalms 110 verse 4. Okay. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. Okay. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. That's Psalms 110 verse 4. Okay. One ten verse 4. Good point. Lord has sworn and will not relent. You are a priest forever. I are according to the order of Melchizedek. Okay. I heard someone say true.

Well, I actually took this one from the ABC, ABC class on Hebrews, and they answer it as true without explanation. But I threw it in there. I threw it in there because the book of Hebrews does specifically tell us that Jesus Christ is our high priest. I agree with what Dolly is saying. This is another one that you could probably answer true or false. If you knew what Psalm 110 verse 4 meant, I guess the question would be, do we understand what Psalm 110 verse 4 means if we didn't have the book of Hebrews that specifically takes us from the physical high priest of the Old Testament to the eternal high priest to the eternal high priest who is Jesus Christ. Actually, Hebrews shows us that was Melchizedek, the order of Melchizedek, who was without beginning, without end, who had no genealogy, no mother and father, who was there. He was the high priest to Abraham and to Jacob, and the others as they had a high priest. God then instituted an earthly high priest, beginning with Aaron at the time there. Israel came out of Egypt. That earthly high, that human high priest was imperfect. That's why every time when he went into the Holy of Holies, he had to offer sacrifices for himself because he was the sinner. His family was a sinner, and he had to sinner, and he had to cleanse himself before he could go in and and offer the offerings to cover the sins of Israel. And then with that Old Covenant, when Jesus Christ died, he became the perfect, the perfect eternal high priest, if you will, that we follow today. So the book of Hebrews does take us from ancient times before Israel through Israel and the Old Covenant to the high priest we have today. So mankind has always had a high priest. At one time it was the earthly high priest, but as we came out of the Old Covenant into the New Covenant, today we have a high priest. And so we do, you know, we honor him as such. He's of the order of Melchizedek, not the order of the human form, but a high priest nonetheless. So I think that's why in the ABC class with that question, they called it true because the book of Hebrews specifically leads us through that process of who it is and helps explain, you know, for instance Psalm 110 verse 4.

Yeah. Does that make sense to everyone? Any discussion on that?

Zechariah 613, I believe it is.

Zechariah 613.

It is he who will build the temple of the Lord and he will be clothed with majesty and will sit and rule on his throne and he will be a priest on his throne.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You know, we can see those Old Testament verses the, you know, the New Testament helps us understand what those prophecies are and to see their fulfillment. But it's certainly there who Christ would be. And again, it helps us understand that we have to have the entire Bible and the entire history and the Old Covenant, you know, to help us understand the New and vice versa. So, okay. Any other discussion on that? Any everyone? I mean, it's good for us to kind of remind ourselves of some of these things. So, well, then you have Genesis also, Genesis 14. I think it's verse 18-20.

I guess these allude to Christ is going to be the high priest. And so there's, it doesn't, obviously it spells it out much more thoroughly in Hebrews.

Then Melchizedek, king of Sanam, brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God.

Yeah. So, yeah, again, Melchizedek is mentioned there, so we look at him, but the book of Hebrews helps us understand who Melchizedek is and was. Both in the same, both in the same breath there. So, yeah, it's not that, not that Christ and a high priest isn't evident there.

The book of Hebrews is that the book that helps us bridge the old covenant to the new covenant. The book of Hebrews does help us understand things that, that's why it's such a key book in our understanding of the Bible that God has provided for us, because it helps us tie the old and new together and understand where we are and where we're going and everything. So, okay. Well, those are good, good points. We'll come back to Genesis 14, Dolly, you're in a little bit too. So, they're just, they allude to Christ, certainly. And that, you know, Christ is going to bring salvation. So, you can, you can take that from the Old Testament. Yes, yes, you can see it. Everything, yeah, we can see who Christ was going to be. If we were living in Old Covenant times, I guess, I guess the way, would we understand what that meant? They didn't even understand Jesus Christ was going to come back a second time. And so, did they understand all that? But, but everything you say is correct. So, I think we're in agreement on that. But the book of Hebrews helps us to know we have a high priest today, just like the people of the Old Covenant, Jesus Christ is our high priest. And so every, every honor and every, and our leadership, you know, our spiritual leadership comes from Him. He is, He is the head of the church, as the Bible tells us. Okay, anything else? Okay, let's, let's look at number 17. It talks about Hebrews 7 too, and this, this change, if you will, from Melchizedek priesthood to physical priesthood to eternal, Jesus Christ as eternal priesthood. The change of law mentioned that Hebrews 7 is the change from the Levitical priesthood back to the Melchizedek priesthood.

I would say yes, but I'm not sure, honestly. That's kind of a defense on that one. Yeah, I think it's, anyone else have any comment on that?

I, you know, I, yeah, that's, that's true. And it's, you know, people will look at change of law when they look in the book of Hebrews and they think, oh, God said the law was too hard, and therefore then they use that to say the law was done away with. The law was never the problem in the Old Covenant. It was the people. But God did change the law in that respect of what, what, what he could do. We, he did have a physical priesthood that was there in the Old Covenant times. And in Hebrew 7, we learned that that physical priesthood, there's still a high priest, but now it's Jesus Christ. It's a change back to the Jesus Christ who's after the order of Melchizedek. So maybe I wouldn't have been clear if I had said back to the priesthood that is after the order of Melchizedek. And that's the change from the Old Covenant to the New, from the authentic earthly human high priest back to a high priest who's after the order of Melchizedek.

But the instinct in that is, is any change in law that the, that Hebrews might mention is not a change in the Ten Commandments or the law of God of how we live. It is a physical administration, the same overall, the same overall principle. There's, there's a high priest, you know, in this period of time, for this several thousand years, there was a physical high priest. Today it's our eternal high priest is Christ. That makes sense?

Yes, I was like to think of it as like, it's the same, same method, different methodology.

Yep, just like we, yeah. I was gonna say, I was gonna liken it to a company, but I don't want to do that. You can't liken anything to God. Those, there's both, there's changes of directions in some places, you know, in companies or even in the church. You have a physical leader one day and and then not another day, but here it was just a matter of earthly back to eternal. Jesus Christ is our priest forever and ever and ever. He will be always the high priest from for eternity. So also kind of a change from the letter of the law to the spirit of the law, right? So yeah, because the New Testament is, you know, we still observe the physical, but we add to it the spiritual application of the law and the way we live our lives.

Okay, how about number 18? As someone's thinking about things and they want to come back to one of these questions, that's okay. Just, just let us know. Okay, verse chat or, well, question or number 18. The first warning to Christians found in the book of Hebrews is that we must give more earnest heed to the things we have heard lest we drift away. Drift away, exactly. I think it's notable that that is the first warning in the book of Hebrews. There's actually five different warnings in the book of Hebrews to people who are reading it. That's the first one and probably the most danger to all of us because we could find ourselves, especially living in good times, we could easily drift away, you know. I think we're staying close just by doing certain physical things and lulling ourselves to sleep, thinking, as long as I do this, as long as I do this.

Meanwhile, spiritually, we could be drifting into who knows what, allowing the cares of this world to take us away all the while, deceiving us all the while. We deceive ourselves thinking that we're doing what God wants. It is a warning for us today as it was for who this book was written back in the first century AD. Talking to someone on this at services back when we're going over this, you know, they mentioned, I think it is true, one of the bigger things that we have to keep aware of is the self-deception that we could all enter into because we're very good at lulling ourselves to sleep and thinking, well, at least I did this, at least I did this.

You know, God is pretty specific on what he wants us to, and our goal is to love him with all our hearts, minds, and soul, and that takes a lifetime. A lifetime to do that and to come out of the world as mentioned here in Hebrews a few times as well. So, okay, about number 19. True or false? It is not necessary to blatantly disobey any specific command. Our salvation could be at risk by nothing more than neglect. True or false?

That's true. That's true. We don't have to go out and murder someone. We don't have to go out and steal from someone. Our salvation simply by taking things for granted and neglecting what God tells us to do, we could, you know, we could find ourselves lost. Again, remember that analogy that God, he gets such a beautiful word picture and that drift away and neglect. If we, just like the boat that's drifting away from the dock, it happens. There's those noise. There's no alarm bells that go off saying, it's drifting, it's drifting. All of a sudden you look up and it's so far gone. How do you retrieve it? And that's the same thing that can happen to us if we're not always, always aware of where we are and what we're doing and mindful of what our our calling is.

Okay, number 20. A forerunner. Remember, we talked about this in a sermon. Three names, three names of Jesus Christ that appear in the book of Hebrews. For the first time, all three of them together, a forerunner, it's the Greek prodromos, refers to one who stands still and waits on the salvation of the Lord. True or false? It's false. False. Why would you say that's false, Argyardo?

Because the definition of the forerunner, actually it's someone who's moving ahead is the one that kind of trailblazes or goes before the king of the dignitary.

Exactly. He is the one that goes ahead, sort of scouts it out, shows the way, shows where the dangers are, and is able to lead them through, lead the people or the armies through the course to get to the destination. So Jesus Christ was that for us. He was here, he lived as human, he knows exactly what our weaknesses, trials, the temptations, the allures of earth, the world, he knows all that, and yet he was able to navigate from childhood to death, to God resurrecting him from the dead. He's been there, he knows the way, he can lead us through the way if we just follow, if we just follow him. He's done it, and we need to follow him. He's the way who knows the way. He was the forerunner. Okay, I guess I answered number 21 there. So who's known as the forerunner is Jesus Christ. I think that's in Hebrews 6. Yeah, Hebrews 6 verse 20.

Verse 19 says, This hope we have is an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the presence behind the veil where the forerunner has entered for us, and it names him, even Jesus, having become high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. That's Hebrews 6, 19, and 20.

He'd also be our forerunner because he's the first fruit and also our big brother. Yep, he is the person of the first fruits, and that's what we're all to be. Very good. Okay, number 20, number 22. According to Hebrews, this is impossible.

This is impossible for the blood of bull and goats to remove sin, to renew to repentance those who have fallen away, to please God without faith, or for God to leave. Number 22, which is impossible.

All of the above, none of the above, or one of those first four.

All of the above. Yep. We could turn to specific scriptures, I think, on each one of those. If you want to write them down, they come right from the book of Hebrews. Hebrews 10 verse 4 tells us it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sin. It's Hebrews 6-6. It tells us it's impossible to renew to repentance those who have fallen away. Also, it plays into Hebrews 9 and 10, where it says Jesus Christ was sacrificed once. There is no second sacrifice for sin if we fall back and go back to the world. Hebrews 11-6 tells us it's impossible to please God without faith.

And Hebrews 6-18 tells us it's impossible for God to lie.

Okay. You remember the book of Hebrews? We talked about some of the Sabbath. Some people will use Hebrews 4 and try to convince themselves and others that we don't have to have a physical keeping of the Sabbath anymore. It's just a spiritual keeping of the Sabbath. We talked about tithing as well. It showed where those were predated Israel coming out of Egypt. In Hebrews 4 verse 9, we talk about the rest that people enter into. In Hebrews 4 verse 9, the word that is translated rest in that verse is actually Sabbathismos. Anyone remember what the meaning of the word Sabbathismos is in the Greek? The keeping of the Sabbath? Keeping of the Sabbath. Very good.

So when you use that correct translation in Hebrews 4, it makes the command very, very simple to understand. Therefore, there remains, therefore, a keeping of the Sabbath for the people of God. We certainly keep it spiritually and in a way different than the Jews did, but we know there is a physical keeping of the Sabbath in accordance with the fourth commandment and the commandments that will be in existence as long as there's human life and a physical earth. Any discussion on that? Everyone sure understands that.

Okay, verse number 24. I kind of answered that ahead of time, but number 24. Sabbath was part of the physical Old Covenant, and the physical keeping of the Seventh-day Sabbath is not relevant for New Testament Christians. True or false? Utterly false. Utterly false. Absolutely. We must keep the physical Sabbath just as Jesus Christ did, just as the early New Testament Church did, and just as it instructs us throughout the Bible to keep that day of rest. It is a tie between God and His people. You know, all the times He says in the Old Testament about how it's a sign between God and His people, and it's a blessing for us to keep it. We have to keep that in mind, too, and keeping that Sabbath in the way that God orchestrated or instructed us to keep it.

Okay, number 25. Properly observing the Sabbath gives us a proper grasp of the ultimate rest God has planned. True. True. Yes, true. If we keep the Sabbath in the way God instructs us, and as we read in the Bible, and if we dedicate that 24 hours to Him and keep the world out of it, keep our activities out of it. I wish we could all just put our cell phones and our computers away for that day, too, and just focus on the Word of God and focus on being with one another and the fellowship we have with one another. God would lead us into that Sabbath, and the peace, the rest, and the understanding we would have as we're in that time when we're completely devoted to Him.

Okay, so I would like to say something about that, about the Sabbath. Let's see, Isaiah 58 13 is just one of my absolute favorites to remember, and as I'm going to sleep, I repeat it, and it sinks in deeper and deeper. Basically, God's saying, if you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, so what He's saying is, take your foot off my Sabbath from doing your pleasures on my holy day, call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord honorable and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, finding your own pleasures, nor speaking your own words. Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord, and the blessing comes. I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. I mean, how strong is that about God's Sabbath, you know? So yeah, on the Sabbath, you start thinking about other things. You said, whoops, my foot is on the Sabbath to get it off, you know? I just love 58 13. Yep, no, you are you are exactly right. That is a very instructive verse, and I think we all have a ways to go in that, and how do we properly observe the Sabbath? But those those verses tell us a lot in there, like you said. It struck me, as you said, if you take your foot from the Sabbath. I guess, as we probably are all watching the news today, and we have this thing going on with George Floyd up there, and was it the foot? The foot on his neck? Yeah, I guess, you know, that life as that foot was there, that oh, his knee. But you know, when we put our foot on the Sabbath, when we let our own cares and concerns and all these foibles and all these little instruments we have from the world kind of crowd into the Sabbath day, you know, we're taking away from the life of the Sabbath day, too. It would be real life to us if we were totally separate, if the things from the world were totally away from us, including all those little gadgets, gadgets that keep us tied to things. Yeah, I think the Sabbath we have yet to understand how beneficial it would be if we if we were keeping it the way that God intended. So that's very good, very good, Debbie. That is a good, good thing to turn to. Thank you.

Okay, number 26. Israel's physical rest in the Promised Land is symbolic of a true Christian spiritual rest from sin in... Anyone? The kingdom of God. The kingdom of God, exactly. He was bringing them into the Promised Land. He promises us a time of spiritual rest, you know, for eternity from sin in the kingdom of God. So...

Okay, number 27. True or false? Tithing began with Moses and ancient Israel.

False. False. Anyone? Number 28. I think Dolly gave us one. Anyone remember a couple places in the Old Testament before Israel that shows us that people before Israel were tithing to God as part of their worship of Him? Abraham and Abel.

Abraham and Abel. That's your shape. You can go back to Cain and Abel on that too. Okay. So we have Genesis 14. Genesis, are we talking about Cain and Abel or the offerings that they brought to God? Who was... Yeah, who mentioned Cain and Abel?

I did. I'm over here with the Bereans today. Okay. Okay. No, no, I just... You want to explain that? That's all I was... I know you must be going back to Genesis. Genesis 4 there. Yes, when both of the brothers were putting out their tithes, their grains, and of course Cain got a little bit jealous of what Abel was doing there.

Yep. And when you were first born, it may well be that that was the first tithe, right? Tithe of the animals that Abel was working with, tithe of the field and the produce that Cain... And we can see the attitude difference between the two. One very willing to bring it to God, one very not at all happy to bring it to God. So, okay. We also have in Genesis 28 the incidence of Jacob, you know, that he said he would give a tenth of everything he has to God. So we know that tithing was something that God instituted as a means for us humans to give back to him and to remember to honor him with our substance. There's a proverb, we didn't write that proverb down, it says specifically that. Just like we will honor God by giving him of our time on the Sabbath day, we honor him with our substance by paying a tithe to him of the increase that he provides for us. So that that existed from the time man was there, exists right on through. You know, we see Abraham giving a tithe to the high priest in ancient and Old Covenant times. They paid a tithe to the temple, the high priest. Today we pay our tithes to our eternal high priest.

Okay, any any further discussion on that?

Okay, number 29. Physical sacrifices. The physical sacrifices, a. Define sin for Israel, b. Brought complete forgiveness of sin, c. Had negligible connection to Christ, or d. Were to be a reminder of sin?

Yep, just to be a reminder of sin. We know from Hebrews that the sacrifice of animals could not bring forgiveness of sin, and God clearly defined sin in the laws that he gave Israel.

Number 30. The problem with the Old Covenant, leading it to be done away with, was the law.

True or false? And give me a scripture that supports that. False.

Hebrews, that's specific. Anyone remember that scripture?

Intense.

Look at Hebrews 8.

Okay, we're giving you the verse 7.

If that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

Because finding fault with them, God says, Behold, the days are coming when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, with the house of Judah. So the fault tells us there the fault was with the people. They didn't obey God, and indeed they couldn't obey God because we are powerless over sin. We are powerless over ourselves. We're powerless over Satan. We're powerless over the influence of the world without God's Holy Spirit. So Jesus Christ, His death opened the door for the comforter to be given to us, as he said in John 14 and 15. Now, with His Holy Spirit, and only with His Holy Spirit, can we overcome the things that we need to overcome in order to please God and have a place in His kingdom?

Okay, if there's no discussion on that, let's look at number 31. True or false? To go on to perfection means we must become perfect to qualify for the kingdom of God. Seeking perfection.

False. False. He can't make it perfect.

Yeah, that gets back to... I would say that's false. Matthew 5, I think it's verse 48, God says, Christ says, become ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. Keyword there may be is become, right? That's what we're working toward. And 1 John 3 and 3, that's what we spend the rest of our physical lives is letting God perfect us, but we won't become perfect in this lifetime. We will continue to strive. We will continue to be at war with ourselves, with the world, with the influences, with the things that God continues to bring to our minds that we need to weed out. Not just sin, but the attitudes, the little feelings of resistance that we can get from time to time when we realize that's that old carnal nature that is telling us, oh, I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that. Or I don't have time for that today. I want to get on to something else, even though we know we should be doing what, you know, what God says to do first and putting him first. So yeah, going on to perfection means we are striving for perfection. That's what every day of our physical lives are dedicated to, to become more and more like him.

Everyone agree with that?

Yes. Okay. Number 32 is of fill in the blank. The New Covenant is what the the Old Covenant, according to the book of Hebrews? Better or superior? Better or superior. We keep reading that throughout the book of Hebrews. Jesus Christ is better than angels, or I should say superior than angels, superior to the earthly ministry. The New Covenant tells us is superior to the Old Covenant.

It provides better promises. We have a better high priest, and we have God's Holy Spirit. Hebrew 719, right? Very good. Hebrew 719? Better hope is introduced, right?

Better hope, yes. Yeah, Hebrew 719, there is the bringing in of a better hope through which we draw on here to God. Okay. Number 33, what are the two immutable things mentioned in Hebrews 6?

Actually, if you want to look it up, it's there in Hebrews 618. Got it.

Okay, Hebrew 618 says that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, okay, we might have strong consolation for that flood for refuge to lay hold of the hope before us. And Hebrews 617 tells us the other thing. He confirmed it by his oath. He can swear by nothing greater than himself that the hope that he has for us and the promises that he makes for us. So his oath, his oath, and the thing that is impossible for him to lie are the two things mentioned there in Hebrews 617 and 18.

Okay, like I say, every chapter in Hebrews really has a lot to offer. There's just a ton in every one of these chapters. I've made the comment before that people who give a sermonets, you can pick out just about any scripture in Hebrews, and you got a sermonette that you could expound on and explain because they're all very rich with a lot of meaning. Okay, chapter chapter number 34 takes us back to the beginning of Hebrews 6. The elementaries, Principles of Christ, do not include which of those five that are listed there? Did they do? Yeah, the elementaries of Principles of Christ, they do include repentance, right? They do include laying on of hands, baptisms, and the resurrection of dead. We see that in chapter 6 verses 1 and 2.

Tithing isn't mentioned there. The elementary Principles of Christ, those foundational Principles, and you know, verse 35, we would say those are some of our fundamental beliefs. Tithing isn't our fundamental belief because we believe we honor God through that, but when Christ mentions it, he defines the elementary Principles as going on to perfection, repentance from dead works, faith toward God, baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. So tithing is not in his fundamental belief, even though it is a law that expects us to live by, and a principle of living by his way. Okay, kind of answer number 35 as we discussed that one. Number 36, the Atonement of the Old Covenant did not totally remove sin. True or false?

True. It's true.

I believe that. Yeah, Leviticus 16, Aaron went through that entire ritual every day of Atonement. It was there to remind people of sins, to go through all those things that we talk about on the Day of Atonement, but none of it led to the forgiveness or the removal of sin. It was just a reminder, a shadow, I guess, or a forerunner, a foreteller, I guess, of Jesus Christ who would come and be the one who would die for our sins. And then the head and sins. Hold on just a minute. Okay, I'll get whatever's in my throat out of it. Okay, so they tell me the Old Covenant, nothing, none of the blood of any of the animals or all the total of some animals.

So all the animals sacrificed or ever could be sacrificed would never remove sin. Only the blood of Jesus Christ. True. Okay, verse 30 or chapter or whatever. Number 37 says, life is in the blood, as it tells us. There must be a shedding of blood to rid us of sins. True.

Okay, true. True. In Hebrews 9, I believe, right? Almost everything. Yeah, verse chapter 9, verse 22, according to law, almost all things are purified with blood. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission. Okay, number 38. How many people and how many times a year could someone approach God in the Holy of Holies under the Old Covenant? I praised once a year. I praised once a year. Yep, just one person, just once a year. It's kind of amazing when you think about that. Just one person, just one time a year. This is number 39. The average person could or did not have access to God until he established, uh, was until he established the New Covenant. That's a big thing. That's true, I guess. That's true. They didn't, right? They, they, it was Aaron, it was Aaron who was doing it for them as he went into the Holy of Holies. Only he could approach God and come to that mercy seat one time a year.

Verse 12 or number 40 there, what happened that allows Christians to now have access to God's throne any time of day or night? Christ's sacrifice. Christ's sacrifice. When he died, when the veil was drawn into, that opened access to everyone to have, uh, have access to God's throne day or night. Something people in the Old Covenant times did not have. Sacrifices of Christ. Okay, everyone agree with that? Yes. Yes. Okay, 41. What two chapters of Hebrews does it speak of the unpardonable sin? I think we've looked at, at one here. Maybe not yet. Okay, Hebrews 6. Hebrews 6 mentions it.

First verse of chapter 6, and Hebrews says, it is impossible for those who are once enlightened. That means God has called, they have responded, da-da-da-da-da, for it is impossible for those who are once enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come if they fall away to renew them again to repentance since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put him to an open chain. I don't know how to get rid of that. So in Hebrews 6, when it says it's impossible, that's the unpardonable sin, we begin to walk down, we understand God, we have this Holy Spirit, but for some reason, some reason, whether it was we drift away, just become neglectful of the things of God, we go back to our old ways of life, our old way of life, God says it's impossible to renew them at that point because they had trampled God under foot the second time. So we have rejected him and can reject him just through the neglect, the neglect that we would show him. Also in Hebrews 12, it talks about that. In Hebrews 12, I'm sorry, it's not Hebrews 10, it's Hebrews 12, Hebrews 10.

Hebrews 10 verse 26, if we sin willfully, that means we turn against God with purpose, if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, they're no longer amazed to sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment do you suppose will he be thought worthy? Who has trampled the Son of God under foot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, notice he was, by the covenant by which he was sanctified, a common thing and insulted the Spirit of grace. So when we neglect what God says, when we make choices to choose our own way, our own wants rather than what God wants, you know, we're in danger of going down a road that could lead to the point where we would neglect and turn our backs fully on God and go back to choosing ourselves to be the determinant of what we will do and what is right and wrong rather than letting God be that determinant. So I understand. What did you say those verses were again? Yeah, Hebrews 6 and Hebrews 10, 26 through 29.

Hebrews 6 was verse 4 through 6.

Oh, you said Hebrews 6 verse? Versus 4 to 6. 4 to 6. Okay, thank you, sir. Okay, number 42. The unpardonable sin is intentionally, deliberately. Oh yeah, I learned this over later, realized I left some words out. The unpardonable sin is when someone intentionally, deliberately hardens himself against God's Spirit and the power of the Spirit, fully choosing to reject God by going back to the ways of the world.

True. Yeah, we may not do it deliberately as in just one day we sit down and say, you know what, I'm absolutely just going to reject God. I'm just not going to do it. Maybe some people do that. Maybe, aside, it's just not worth, they just don't want to do it anymore. They'll go back and suffer the consequences. With most people, it happens because of the way God warns us against in Hebrews, just allowing ourselves to become closer and closer and closer to the world. Just like that, you know, when it says in 1 Peter 5, 8, you know, Satan, Satan's like a lion who's just waiting. And when you know how, how lions, they just wait for their prey to just get farther and further from the flock. And then they're able to spot the one that's gone far enough away and boom, they just can bite and devour them at that time. The same thing can happen to us if we wander too far from the flock and give ourselves too many permissions to go against what God said and think it's okay, we're still okay. All of a sudden, one day, we can just snap and Satan will take the opportunity to devour us. Okay, this is in chapter 12 and 43. Hebrews 12 talks about chastening. Chasinging in Hebrews is not connected with which of these? We have training in education, punishment, teaching, correcting mistakes, instruction, encouraging good and eliminating evil. Is it not connected with all of the above or is it not connected with none of the above or any one of those specifically?

Let's say H.

Okay.

Actually, okay, anyone else on that? It's like a double negative. Yeah, it's a double negative.

Deliberately so, actually. So I know someone had mentioned that way back after I said it first at the set, I thought, oh, I should have said it is a double negative. Makes you think and focus on it a little bit. And that's why I wrote it that way. Actually, I answered that B. I, you know, looking through Hebrews 12 versus 5 through, you know, down through 11 or 12 there, you know, chastening. Well, let me ask for it for anyone remember what the Greek word translated or yeah, translated chastening is as in that series of verses in Hebrews 12, 5 through 12?

Is the system that the Greeks used to? Yeah, there was a Greek word. We've talked about it a few times, what the Greek word was and how it was used in Greek culture. That's that word, pia-dia.

That's the training program that the Greeks would put in their youth in. That was a whole body, mind and soul experience where they wanted to train those exceptional youths to become pillars of society, examples of society, and the ideal members of society. So it was a rigorous training program that hit all areas of life, you know, not just intellect, not just body, not just mind, but all of them. So when God talks about chastening here, you know, it really is the discipline program that he has you and I in. He is perfecting us, molding us into who he wants us to be because he wants us to be leaders in his kingdom. And through that time, you know, the chastening as he talks about it in 12 through chapter 12, 5 through 12 is an encouraging thing. He says, don't become weary under it. You know, our fathers, our physical fathers might have chastised us for punishment. But what God is doing, he's training us, he's educating us, and sometimes he has to have us go through some tough times to get us the to have us have the experience and to focus on what he is doing with us. You know, it always goes back to the trials that we endure and the things we go through in life. They're all for our good. You know, so I put punishment in there. And I guess I would probably accept if you put B or none of the above, because, you know, God does chasten us sometimes. And part of our chastening is because we do wrong and God is getting our attention. But overall, the chastening that he gives us is positive. He wants us to become. He teaches, he trains, he corrects our mistake, he instructs us, and he is there working with us as we just talked about as we listen to the days of Unleavened Bread, you know, to eliminate the evil from our lives and to put in the good and the unleavened bread that we eat from here on out. So that's kind of what the purpose of those verses are.

So if you put down B, that's fine. If you put none of the above, that's fine as well.

So as long as we remember what chastening that God is talking about, what it really is, it is a positive for you and me. And not all it's going to be a pleasant experience, but it's all positive as God works with us. You know, sir, if you could just also look at it as, you know, also look at it as, you know, if we do take heed to that chastening and go through that way of life, it literally keeps us from that punishment. That's a good way to look at it. Yes, if we heed what God is saying, if we pay attention, you know, it gets down to one of the things we'll come up here. If we kind of, as Christ says so many times, listen to what I say. Don't become dull of hearing. Listen to the words that are given to you. We really listen, if we're really focused on what God is working in our lives, you know, we will be paying attention to that, being attention to what it is and allowing Him to direct our lives day by day. Okay, number 45. This is talking about Esau in Hebrews 12 and verse... where is that? Hebrews 12 verses 16. When Esau realized his foolish choice, that was when he, you know, chose the lentil stew over the birthright, when Esau realized his foolish choice and turned to God, he was rejected because it was just too late.

False? Yeah, why would that... why might that be false? Does it tell us? Yes, he was more sorry than repentant, I think. Yeah, he sought it, you know, in Hebrews 12. You know, it's a tremendous lesson for us. You know, it says, you know that afterward when he wanted to inherit the blessing, never thought about it really until Jacob and his mom conspired to take the blessing from him, know that afterward when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. So he cried and he was sorry, and he wanted the blessing, but he had no respect for the birthright that he had been given. He was willing to sell that and trade it for... well, I'm gonna give it to number 46 here. He was willing to trade in his birthright, being the firstborn, and the tremendous advantages that it has, he was willing to turn that in for just a bowl of soup because he was hungry. And of course, the spiritual lesson for us is what we read in verse 46. The example of Esau, which we are advised not to follow, could be defined as trading away God's lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. You know, we could be guilty of the same thing in Esau. We might look at him and say, how could you have traded away the birthright just because you were hungry? All you had to do was wait a few more minutes and you would have been able to eat something and ever. But we could do the same thing if we are not conscious of what God has given us. He tells us to be a first fruit is better than being in the second resurrection. He says that in Revelation 20. If we're not conscious of the birthright we have, we could trade it away too for the world. We could say, well, this is important. I got to do this. These are things and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We could find ourselves as guilty of doing the same thing Esau did. Trading away our birthright for something physical and then not even realizing it until it's time for the blessing to come when people would be made perfect. When they resurrected and at the time of Jesus Christ's return. There are those many that are there who have to have their robes washed white in the tribulation because they just didn't count their birthright as important enough to deny self and deny the physical things. Okay, any discussion on that? It doesn't matter. He didn't repent. He didn't truly repent. He cried.

Crying. He was sorry, but he didn't do the repentance of the Bible. He never sought God and he never turned back to God. It's the occasion of so many times when we read of people who are sorry, even Judas. Judas was sorry that he betrayed Christ, but he didn't repent. He was just sorry he did it and he was sorry for the consequences of it. So he was just remorseful, but not repentant. Correct. Yep. Okay, who are number 47? Who are the great cloud of witnesses mentioned in Hebrews 12 verse 1? The people there are mentioned in chapter 11? Yes, all those of faith who are asleep now waiting for the first rears of erection.

You know, Christ says, look at, you know, has God inspired the Bible here? Look at what these people look at everything that they did. And they went before us. Look at their example. Look what they had to suffer. And they all died without having obtained any of those promises. And we're surrounded by them. And now we know we can see, you know, the promises. We understand Jesus Christ. We understand his mission. We have access to God's throne. All these advantages of being alive in New Testament times and in the same time that we have that they didn't have, we should be even, you know, closer to God and willing to, willing to endure to the end with him. Question. Yes. Since we mentioned Hebrews 11. So this question I'm asking is for all the Debra's out there.

So I don't know if anybody's ever wondered about this, but Hebrews 1132. And what more shall I say but the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak? Well, Deborah was the one that was behind Barak. So why is his name mentioned and not Deborah? And Samson, J.Peth, also David, so forth. I think I know the answer, but I have read that and I thought, well, what about Deborah?

Well, you know what, why don't you tell us what you think? I hadn't really thought about that, but yes, I see what you're saying. Well, you're not a Deborah, so you wouldn't have.

By Mary took Deborah, so she would be interested. Okay, well, and then reading it again, and then reading verse 33, who through faith subdued kingdoms. So he actually subdued the kingdom. Deborah was behind him, pushed him, had to go with him, but maybe because he actually subdued a kingdom with, you know, being the commander and of the forces, that's the only thing I can think of. Okay, you know, that makes sense, but I think it shows the tremendous power that a woman can have. She was the one who worked with him and encouraged him to do that, that he did that. Without her, would he have done that? And I think it shows the power of women in our lives, too. They can, you know, sometimes if we're spiritually weak, the woman, you know, the woman, our wives, or those in church can step up and say, you know, this is how God would have it done. This is the way we need to do it. There's nothing wrong with speaking up and, you know, maybe not in an assembly, because that would be, you know, that would be contrary to what God's laws are. But Deborah was the one who, she was the strength. None of the men were willing at that time to stand up on their own. It took the woman to, took the woman to help Barak do what he needed to do. So that's why I was just wondering why his name was mentioned. Of course, it's God's business and he knows then Deborah, but anyway. I think she's probably implicit. She's probably implicit in that. I think you're right, because Gideon, Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, they were all conquerors. It was, it was those men who did that, but she was the, she helped. She was there as behind him on that, so.

Hello. Oh, yes, that's good. Thank you. That's my husband hollering for lunch. Oh, okay, okay. Someone else was trying to join him. Okay, okay. So it is those, you know, as we read through Hebrews 11, we should be inspired by what those people did and inspired to do even more, you know, become even closer to God. Okay, verse 48. This is, this is one to be aware of, too. That's why I put this one. What is the attitude or condition we are warned against? It's in Hebrews 12 by which the Bible says, many are defiled. Not a few, but many are defiled. Bitterness.

Say that again. Bitterness. Yeah, bitterness. Yeah, you know, that's one, right? Hebrews 12, 15. That one always strikes me. It says, looking carefully, lest anyone fall short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness, you know, it could go back to the stump and the roots that we're supposed to be taking out of our lives, right? And sometimes these little roots that are beginning, we want to pull them up before they become oak trees in our lives. Looking carefully, lest anyone fall short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up, cause trouble, and by this many become defiled. Now we have to, it all goes back to forgiving one another, bearing with one another, reconciling with one another, talking these things out, using the Bible as our guide, and understanding that God's will for us is, and we all learn it. We all have to learn how to work with one another. None of us, none of us are perfect. None of us are perfect relationship people. We all learn. We learn it in marriage. We learn it in our doings and our, our, you know, interactions with one another, and when someone is offended or someone, or we offend someone, our job is to go back and work it out. We don't want in any relationship to let, and when we feel that little root of bitterness beginning to creep up, rip it out, rip it up, get rid of that weed, don't let it become a tree because it's so much harder, you know, so much harder to dig up the stump and dig up all the roots that are along with it. You know, how many marriages have died because of bitterness that developed between the two parties? How many friends relationships have developed, you know, bitterness? How many people have left the church because they're bitter over something? So when God says, many are defiled, it's a warning to you and me, don't let that become part of our lives. Do what He says in Matthew 18, verses 15 to 18. Do what He says in Matthew 5, 23. Let's work together and build the relationships with one another and not allow Satan to use that tool, you know, to separate any of us.

Okay, verse 4, chapter 48, number 49. What are the two conditions?

And actually, there's three, I think, as I think of it now. What are two conditions? And if you've listed two, what are two conditions of ancient Israel that New Covenant Christians are admonished not to repeat?

We talked about these as we went through the book of Hebrews and...

One unbelief? Yep, a heart of not having a heart of unbelief. We talked about that any time Christ mentions something or God mentions something two or three times in a chapter. You know, something we need to be aware of. And He does mention a heart of unbelief in Hebrews 3, verses 12 and 19, I have written down here. So we, you know, we can say that we believe, we can say that we believe, but in verse 12, He says, beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and departing from the living God. And then He said, He repeats it down to verse 19, they, Israel, couldn't enter in because of unbelief. They just didn't believe God that He could deliver that promised land to them. They were relying on their own resources. And do we, maybe, by some of the things that we do, kind of let God know, well, we don't really believe you can do that. So we'll, we'll kind of use the human reasoning in it. That's one of them. What's another one we might talk about? Would it be idolatry? Yeah, idolatry is one of them. Sabbath breaking and idolatry, you know, He doesn't mention that so much in Hebrews, but certainly in Ezekiel, those are two sins of Israel that repeats over and over and over again that we need to be aware of. Sabbath breaking and idolatry. And we know, you know, idolatry is alive and well today. But in the book of Hebrews, it's also there in chapter three, He talks about hardening our hearts. And He mentions it twice in chapter three and once in chapter four, He says, don't harden your hearts as in the rebellion and the day of trial in the wilderness. Later on in verse 15, He says, today, if you will hear His voice, right, the other one is, you know, Christ will talk about many times becoming dull of hearing. You'll hear the words, but you don't let them seek in. And He mentions that in chapter five, verse 11 here of Hebrews, don't become dull of hearing. Listen to the words. Don't get, you know, pay attention to them. Today, if you will hear His voice, don't harden your hearts as in the rebellion. It doesn't mean that we would initially like immediately harden our hearts against God, but we say, I just don't want to do that. I just don't think I have to do that. I don't want to hear it, right? If you hear it, and we're not doing it, we may want to kind of yield ourselves to God, repent, and say, okay, I, this is part of denying self. This is part of giving up me to become what you want me to be and not hardening our hearts and saying, it's okay, it's okay, God, God doesn't care if I, as long as I do it this way. Again, we don't want to become people like Adam and Eve who choose that will define the way of God. He defines it for us, and our job is to yield to him and allow him to, you know, to lead and guide us. So I actually have three when I went back through and answered these myself. Again, I had the hardened heart, dull of hearing, and a heart of unbelief.

Okay, well, I hope this has been helpful. It looks like we took the entire Bible study. I will just give a little bit of a thing on Acts 1 here, but number 50, what are three names for Jesus Christ found in the book of Hebrews that define part of his role in working with two Christians today?

We talked about one of them. We talked about the floor runner. What are two other names we run across for Jesus Christ and Hebrews that help us to know, to understand his role in working with us today as he leads us toward the kingdom? High priest. Okay, well, high priest. Okay, that's not, that's not, I mean, he's called high priest, that. Okay, and he has called that a lot in Hebrew, so I'll give you that one. There's another one, though, that is a title that we use commonly in society today. The act of our salvation. Yes, he's the leader. If we follow him, he's the one who can lead us to the kingdom and help us through the battlefields that we find ourselves in. And the other one that he mentions is where he will intercede with us. What was it called? That he will go on our behalf to God and, you know, kind of use this experience here. Yeah, someone said it, I think. Mediator, right? Mediator. It calls him a mediator. He's a mediator between us and God. Not that God doesn't have mercy, but Jesus Christ can say their lives are really difficult. Their lives are really difficult. I've been there. And, you know, especially as he sees us repent and trying and continually trying, Jesus Christ is there to help us every step of the way. And God is merciful and patient with us as he brings us, you know, all of us, I hope, to glory. Okay, any comments on that? We took, I kind of thought maybe that would take, but I hope that was a helpful review for everyone. If you have any questions or anything that you want to talk about later, you know, you can call me anytime, email me anytime, or if there's anything anyone wants to go back and talk about a little bit, we can do that now. Let me get this off of the screen and yeah, I'm just gonna go. Okay, I'm still here, crossing buttons, okay. Okay, let me, anything else?

Yes, you mentioned we'll be going into the book of Acts probably next week. Yes. Um, keeping in line with what we're doing now for the spring holy days, will this Bible study have a lot to do with Jesus's walk on earth for 40 days until we get to Pentecost? Actually, yes, that was what I had planned to talk about today. When we look at Acts 1 verse 1, you know, there, Acts 1 verse 1, you know, Luke, who records this, says a lot in verse, in verse 1, and so I was going to talk about that a little bit in the introduction to Acts and go back and talk about what Jesus Christ did after he was resurrected, leading up to Acts 1, because it was Luke who actually wrote the gospel of Luke who talks about those things in some detail. And, you know, many, many of the Bible scholars say they think that the book of Luke and the book of Acts at one time was one document. It's a continuation of his time from resurrection all the way through, you know, the New Testament church. So we were going to talk about that a little bit as well as we go into the book of Acts.

Good! So that's like for Lloyd and I starting, you know, the spring holy days to the beginning, this will take us what Jesus was doing all the way through. Exactly. Awesome! That's exactly what the plan was to do that. We'll be looking at the time. We'll do that next week, though. We're going to walk with Christ through those 40 days through the book of Acts. Given I'm going to have to be in Cincinnati here later on in the month of April, the first week in May, you know, right as we come to Pentecost, we'll be talking about, I always am amazed at how God works things out, you know, we're talking about some of the events of Pentecost as we come to that time as well as we go into progression right here in the time of year that we're in. So we will plan to begin that.

We will begin to plan that next week, I guess. So and then one more question. I always felt like the main reason Jesus walked for 40 days after his resurrection was that so that people could actually see him and they could have actual belief in him because they saw him and they...

Yes. That's one of them. He need to be seen so that they could see. You know, as we go through those 40 days, there's another primary purpose, you know, as you read through the last part of the book of Luke there, you see that as he walked with him, he opened the scriptures for him so that they began to see, oh, these are the scriptures that prophesied his, you know, his death and his resurrection. So that was part of what he was doing with the disciples during those 40 days before he ascended into heaven. So okay. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Okay. Excellent. I will study Mr. Shaby. Pardon? Excellent Bible study. Okay. Well, I hope it's profitable. I had kept forgetting and people kept reminding me, you know, that we haven't done the review on Hebrews yet. And I thought, well, do we need to? But I'm glad we did. I think it was good. It was good for me, too, to go back through Hebrews. I hope we all remember that book of Hebrews and use it as the inspirational book that it is as we go forward. So okay. Well, then let me say, if there's nothing else, I'll remind you in Jacksonville, let me say Jacksonville and Orlando Winter Services this week. They are at 1130 1130 am in both Orlando and Jacksonville. So okay. If nothing else, then thank you. Thank you for joining with us today. We'll see many of you on Sabbath and hopefully the rest of you will see back here next Wednesday. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Mr. Shaby. See you, everyone. Bye, everybody. Take care, everyone.