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Shalom, holy scriptures

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and Israel is

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a ministry designed

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to share with

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the Jewish people

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the good news

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of the Lord

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Jesus Yeshua the

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Messiah and to

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instruct Christians on

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the Jewish roots

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of their faith.

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teaching God's word

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from a Hebrew

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messianic perspective, here

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is Gideon Levitam. The

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study of Hebrews chapter 1.

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By the way, again, this

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is a quotation from song

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45. Again, he always take

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them to the Hebrew

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scripture, to the Tanach,

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to show them that

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whatever he's saying is

0:52

based upon scripture. And

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what about the divine nature?

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Is Jesus God or no? Well

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that is important. You know

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what? I don't believe anybody

1:04

can be saved. I don't believe

1:06

anybody can be saved

1:08

unless he or she understand

1:11

that the Lord Yeshua the

1:13

Messiah is God. You cannot be

1:15

saved without acknowledging the deity

1:17

of the Messiah. It is

1:20

so sad. To hear people talk

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about Jesus decent, all kind

1:24

of expression about the Lord

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Jesus, but when you ask them,

1:29

do you believe that you sure that

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Jesus, the Lord Jesus is

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divine? They say, oh no, no,

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no, he's a great angel, you

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see, he's a great creature, God

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have created him at a certain

1:41

point in time in history, some

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even believe that he is Michael

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the angel, that Jehovah witness?

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I don't know if you have those people who knock

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at your door and they're going to

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tell you everything about the future, they have

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everything, all kind of information, but the moment

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you ask them the simple, all of bet

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is we... say it in Hebrew,

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the APC, do you believe

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that yeshua is God? Oh

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no, they say. Well, my Bible

2:08

teaches me, teaches us, that

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God, the Father, call him

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God. Thy throne, O God, is

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for how long, is for ever

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and ever, is not a

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temporary throne, is for ever,

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is for ever and ever.

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It's not a temporary throne,

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is for ever and ever.

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A scepter of righteousness

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is a scepter of

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thy kingdom. He's divine.

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The whole New Testament

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is filled with this

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expression. John 1.1, in

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the beginning was the

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word and the word

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was God. He's divine.

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Collotion 3, tell us

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verse 15 that he's

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divine. We read verse 1516

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and other passages teaches us

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of his divine nature He

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is God You remember Thomas?

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In John chapter 20 Thomas was

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not at the upper room after

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the resurrection of the Messiah He

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was not at the upper room

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and everybody told him,

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you know, we have seen the

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Lord And he said I would not

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going to believe until I

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rust my hand into his

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side And the following

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week came, we read in

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John chapter 20, the following

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week came to pass and

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we find out that the

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Lord had appeared to Thomas

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and you notice the expression

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that Thomas is using there

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in this chapter, Thomas said

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to him in verse 28, he

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says, my Lord and my God.

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That's what Thomas is saying.

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When Thomas realized... that this was

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the one the Messiah that died

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once and was buried in resurrection

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and appeared to the disciples in

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the upper room he was amazed

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and you recognize that yeshua

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is the Messiah that's why

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he said to him my

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lord and my god there's

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another verse that I need

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to read in first John

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again it is John who

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speaks about it in first

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John chapter 5 and verse

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20 we read and we

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know that the son of

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God has come and that

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he has given us an

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understanding that we may know

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him that is true, that

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we are in him that

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is true, even in his

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son, Yasua the Messiah, Jesus

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the Messiah. This is the

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true God, an eternal lie.

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For me, when I have

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heard about the fact that

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the Lord Jesus is a

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divine person, it really changed

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my whole perspective. with regard

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to the knowledge of salvation

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to the truth of salvation

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I realize now now now

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I can see that I

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can trust in him because

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only God can save men

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cannot save angel cannot save

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the best of us cannot

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save only God can become

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my Savior and He sure

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did when God became a

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man He was born to

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a virgin Miriam, the Hebrew

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Virgin. There was no sin

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in him at all because

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he was born in a

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supernatural way. The Holy Spirit

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of God had placed in

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the womb of this woman

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by the name of Miriam.

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That person, that seed, then

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brought forth this man into

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this world. Not only a...

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perfect man but the eternal

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son of God enter into

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this world in a human

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flesh and that is an

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amazing truth to grasp so

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Hebrews, the writers say, why

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I want you to continue

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on following the Lord Jesus,

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the Messiah, the Messiah, I

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know you are being persecuted,

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I know I'm part of

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you, I know the experiences

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that you go through, but

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I'm telling you that there

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is no answer. other than

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the person of the Lord

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Jesus, the Messiah. He is

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superior than the angels, in

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that he has a better

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name than them. He is

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being worshipped, he is served,

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and he is divine. He

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is God. Even though you

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get discouraged from your families,

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your brethren, even though you

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see the sacrificial system continue

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on, and the sacrifices have

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been offered at the temple

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in Jerusalem, Hebrew, believers, and

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yeshua, the Messiah, move on.

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Continue on! That's the promise

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Messiah that our forefathers are

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spoken about! He came! Even

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the rest of the nation

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haven't accepted him. Yet you

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move on. Trust him. Follow

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him. Continue on. Even in

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spite of rejection, misunderstanding, a

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persecution. Now he continued, beloved.

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A couple more points here.

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We have in the next

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verse, in verse 10. in

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verse 10 he takes them

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to song 102 and in

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verse 10 he showed them

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that he is the creator

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while the angels are only

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creatures you know that the

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angels have been created by

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God but he is the

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creator he said in verse

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10 thou lord in the

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beginning has laid the foundation

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of the earth and the

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heavens are the works of

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thine hands. You see, yeshua

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is the one that have

7:51

laid the foundation of this

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earth. That's the man that

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you and I are occupied

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with. He is the Creator

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God to have made heaven

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and earth. He have laid

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down the foundation of this

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earth. The heavens are the

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works of his hands. By

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the way, we can take

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other verses in connection. New

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Testament passages in connection with

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it. Collotion 1 and John

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1. Those passages from the

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New Testament established the fact

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that he is the Creator.

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But the Psalmus already have

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told us. He has laid

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the foundation of this earth,

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and the heavens are the

8:34

works of his hand. You

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see, heaven and earth? Genesis

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1.1. In the beginning, God

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created the heavens and this

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earth, where both of them

8:45

is the work of his

8:47

hands. He has spoken a

8:49

word, and everything came to

8:51

pass, is the creator. And

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as a creator, we've discussed

8:55

this before, he made us,

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he made men. He made

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the human race. In acts

9:02

we mentioned before, in him

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we move and live and

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have our being. He's a

9:08

creator. He gives us breath,

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gives us life. The world

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that we live in, this

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beautiful world that we live

9:17

in, the trees, all the

9:19

planets, and all what we

9:21

have in this world is

9:23

his own creation. He has

9:25

given to us to enjoy.

9:27

He's the creator. Why should

9:30

we? worship or be occupied

9:32

with a creature when we

9:34

can be occupied with the

9:36

creator. And that's why he's

9:38

telling those Hebrew believers encouraging

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them that yeshua is truly

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not only that he has

9:45

a better name, he's been

9:47

worshipped, he's been served, he's

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God, but he's also the

9:51

creator of heaven and earth.

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The heaven is the work

9:55

of his hand and he

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laid the foundation of this

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earth nothing was done without

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him. Nothing was done without

10:04

his word. And then there

10:06

are a few more things

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that he is telling them

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now in verses 11 and

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12. You know, they were

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troubled on every hand. They

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were persecuted those early Jewish

10:19

believers. They had a lot

10:21

of pressure and then he

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is telling them now in

10:25

the next verses, verses 11

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and 12, that he is

10:30

unchanging person. Look at this.

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He is saying now in

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verse 11 and 12, speaking

10:36

about the heaven and earth,

10:38

they shall perish, but you

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remain. They all shall wax

10:43

old as doth a garment,

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and as vesture shall thou

10:47

fold them up, and they

10:49

shall be changed. But thou

10:51

are the same, and thy

10:53

years shall not fail. He

10:56

has another encouraging passage

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to this Hebrew believers.

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He says, you know

11:03

what, brethren, everything changes

11:05

here in this world.

11:07

But he changes not.

11:09

Everything fall apart. Even

11:11

the heavens and the

11:13

earth, which you and

11:15

I enjoy today, is

11:17

that they shall perish.

11:19

But God, but the

11:21

Son, but the Messiah,

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remain the same. Don't

11:25

you feel that brothers and sisters

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in your life, there are some

11:30

days that we are up on

11:32

a mountain, but there are other

11:34

days that we are down in

11:36

the valley. Some days we are

11:38

going for God, we're going to

11:41

be good, we're going to live

11:43

a good life, live for the

11:45

Lord, and other days we are

11:47

so far for where we should

11:50

be. We made commitments and promises

11:52

and we said I'm going to

11:54

do this and I'm going to

11:56

keep that and then things change

11:58

and we change But

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he never changed. He

12:03

never changes. The same

12:05

writer later on going

12:07

to tell them in

12:09

chapter 13, yeshua, the

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Messiah, the same yesterday,

12:13

today, and forever. Do

12:16

you know when sometime

12:18

our relationship with the

12:20

Lord is growing dull?

12:22

Do you know the

12:24

person that moved is

12:26

not the Lord, but

12:28

it's always us? Always

12:30

sin that come into

12:32

our lives? Disobedience that

12:34

come into our lives?

12:36

Selfishness that come into

12:38

our lives? Or that

12:40

we allow to get

12:42

the control over our

12:44

lives? We change, but

12:46

he never changes. Never

12:48

changes. The less book

12:50

of the Old Testament

12:52

scripture, the Tanakh. In

12:54

the book of Malakai.

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Let me read this.

12:58

to you Malakai chapter

13:00

3. Almost the last

13:02

part of the Tanah.

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We read about the

13:06

promise of God. Look

13:08

at this, chapter 3.

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Malakai 3. We read

13:12

this in verse 6.

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I am the Lord.

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I change not, God

13:18

said to his people

13:20

Israel. Therefore ye sons

13:22

of Jacob are not

13:24

consumed. You see,

13:26

God is unchanging. And if

13:29

he would change, Jacob will

13:31

be totally consumed. Do you

13:33

know if the Lord Jesus

13:36

the Messiah will change? The

13:38

church will be totally consumed.

13:40

Because of the failure and

13:43

the sin, the coming to

13:45

our lives. The disobedience, the

13:48

change that is going through

13:50

our life, we are not

13:52

steady as we should be.

13:55

But he is telling those

13:57

Hebrews. was, you know, beloved

13:59

brother and he's saying to

14:02

them, he says, the heavens

14:04

will perish. The earth will

14:07

perish. Everything will wax old

14:09

like garment. You know, garment

14:11

clothes that we wear. We

14:14

wear it again and again

14:16

and again and after a

14:18

while it gets old. It's

14:21

wrinkled, it's not nice anymore, it's

14:24

not clean anymore, you washed it

14:26

so many times, and it's at

14:28

the end you have to cast

14:30

this away. That's what happened to

14:33

this world. Look at the world

14:35

in which we live in. Look

14:37

at the fact that it's like

14:40

a garment that's been used and

14:42

used and used and many times

14:44

abused by us. But he says,

14:46

but now are the same. And

14:49

I years shall not fail. When

14:52

things go wrong and bad

14:54

in our lives, it's such

14:56

a comfort to know that

14:58

we can always trust the

15:00

Lord Yeshua the Messiah. We

15:03

can always lean on him.

15:05

He never changes. He's remaining

15:07

the same. His love for

15:09

us. Hebrew believers in first

15:11

century never changed. He loved

15:13

them when they were persecuted

15:16

and troubled. On every hand,

15:18

his love towards them never

15:20

change. I know sometime we

15:22

feel like he loves us

15:24

less when we have problems

15:26

in our lives. But I

15:29

tell you beloved brothers and

15:31

sisters on the basis of

15:33

the word of God, that

15:35

his love towards us never

15:37

changes one bit because of

15:39

his person, he never change.

15:42

For God so loved the

15:44

world the world the world.

15:46

that he gave his only

15:48

begotten son. That's the beauty

15:50

of the love of God.

15:52

We read in the prophet

15:55

of Israel that I have

15:57

loved you. Jeremiah with an

15:59

everlasting love, his love to

16:01

Israel, had never changed, never

16:03

changed. And what about the

16:05

love for the church? For

16:08

the Messiah loved the church

16:10

and gave himself for her.

16:12

The love for the believers

16:14

in this present day have

16:16

never changed because of the

16:18

person that he is. Everything

16:21

changes, but he remains the

16:23

same. And you notice why

16:25

we compare it to the

16:27

angels? Do you know why?

16:29

Do you remember what happened?

16:31

When the angels have been

16:34

created, they have been created

16:36

to serve God. But you

16:38

know what happened. Even Lucifer,

16:40

that had been a privileged

16:42

angel, he was not satisfied

16:44

with this place. He wanted

16:47

to get a higher position.

16:49

He wanted to dethron God.

16:51

and to place himself to

16:53

be as God. And God

16:55

cast him down. And then

16:57

there were angels who would

17:00

follow after him, which we

17:02

call them today, demons. You

17:04

read it in the book

17:06

of revelation, one-third of the

17:08

angelic bean followed after the

17:10

serpent, after Satan, and became

17:13

what is known today as

17:15

demons. They changed. But he

17:17

never changes. He remaineth the

17:19

same. Now quickly, let's go

17:21

down to the next verse,

17:23

in verse 13. We are

17:26

just about at the end

17:28

of chapter 1. In verse

17:30

13, again he emphasized the

17:32

fact that yeshua is superior

17:34

than the angels in the

17:36

fact that he had finished

17:39

his work and he seated

17:41

at the right hand of

17:43

the majesty on high. Notice.

17:45

verse 13 but to which

17:47

of the angels See it

17:49

said, at any time, sit

17:52

on my right hand until

17:54

I make thine enemies thy

17:56

footstool. Do you know, he

17:58

again quoting Old Testament scripture,

18:00

the Tanakh, is quoting some

18:03

110 in verse one way,

18:05

it says, the Lord saith

18:07

unto my Lord, sit down

18:09

on my right hand until

18:11

I make thine enemies, thy

18:13

footstool. He said down. He

18:16

finished the work. See, the

18:18

angels, they have to work.

18:20

They have to serve. They

18:22

have to continue to minister.

18:24

They have to do the

18:26

beating of God. That's their

18:29

job. That's their service. But

18:31

him? He finished the work.

18:33

When he died for us

18:35

on the tree. That's why

18:37

he says to none of

18:39

these angels he ever said

18:42

to him, sit down. On

18:44

my right hand, until I

18:46

make the enemies, I footstool.

18:48

To the Lord, yeshua, the

18:50

Messiah, he said, sit down.

18:52

And why it is important

18:55

here the word sit down?

18:57

And I told you this

18:59

before, why is it so

19:01

important to these Hebrews? See,

19:03

a person in North America

19:05

or any place in the

19:08

world, they will never understand

19:10

the importance of sitting down.

19:12

Why? Because the Jewish people,

19:14

to whom God had given

19:16

the tabernacle in the temple.

19:18

Every time that they have

19:21

gone to the temple or

19:23

the tabanaka, throughout the history,

19:25

they never found a chair

19:27

there. There is no seat

19:29

in the tabanaka. There was

19:31

no seat in the temple.

19:34

But he sat down. How

19:36

could he sit down? A

19:38

person that sit down, like

19:40

when I'm going to do

19:42

something, when I'm going to

19:44

finish here, I'm going to

19:47

sit down. A person that

19:49

sit down is a person

19:51

that finished something to do.

19:53

The Lord Jesus the Messiah

19:55

finished the work on the

19:57

cross. You remember Matthew Chopin?

20:00

27 and John chapter 19

20:02

he says it is finished

20:04

he yielded up the spirit

20:06

gave up the spirit and

20:08

he he finished the work

20:10

it is finished John 17

20:13

yeshua said father I have

20:15

finished the work which you

20:17

have given me to do

20:19

now glorify me father with

20:21

the glory which I had

20:23

with you before the foundation

20:26

of the world he finished

20:28

a work That means

20:30

that our salvation is secure.

20:32

Our sins have been dealt

20:34

with once and for all.

20:37

We are not getting saved

20:39

one day and getting lost

20:41

the other day. We are

20:43

saved for sure forever throughout

20:45

eternity because he finished the

20:47

work on the cross, on

20:49

the tree. And that's why

20:52

it says sit down on

20:54

my right hand. Until when?

20:56

Well, until I make your

20:58

enemies your foot stool. There

21:00

are many enemies that oppose

21:02

the work of the Lord,

21:05

saying we will not have

21:07

this man to rule over

21:09

us. We don't want him

21:11

as our Lord, we don't

21:13

want him as our Savior,

21:15

and God says wait for

21:18

the day that all your

21:20

enemy is going to be

21:22

underneath your foot. And there's

21:24

coming a day when those

21:26

who will reject the Messiah

21:28

will have to recognize who

21:31

he is the Lord. Jesus

21:33

the Lord Joshua is the

21:35

one that is sitting down

21:37

and he has many enemies

21:39

that eventually will have to

21:41

be under his foot soon

21:43

at his coming. And then

21:46

he closes this chapter by

21:48

saying to us about these

21:50

angels. Angels are ministers to

21:52

the ones that are heirs

21:54

of salvation. You notice the

21:56

less verse of this chapter.

21:59

for or are they, that

22:01

is the angels, are they

22:03

not all ministering? spirits. For

22:05

who? Why? To whom? Why

22:07

itself? Sent forth. They are

22:09

sent forth by God. To

22:12

minister. To whom? To them

22:14

or for them who shall

22:16

be heirs of salvation. You

22:18

see the angels have been

22:20

sent by God to minister

22:22

to the people of God.

22:24

They are ministers. They are

22:27

servants. They

22:29

are to minister to the

22:31

people of God. Now there

22:33

are four things. You can

22:35

write these verses in your

22:37

own Bible or in a

22:39

piece of paper. There are

22:41

four things that angels do

22:43

as ministers. The first thing

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they do, you find it

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in Ecclesiastes 5 and verse

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6, angels observe what we

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say. Do you know that

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angels know what we are

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saying and they observe what

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we say? If you say

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something bad about another, they

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observe, they know that. They

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see, they watch you. They

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watch us. The Lord watch

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us also. But he says

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here, if you read in

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the book of Ecclesiastes, you'll

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find out that angels observe

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what we say. Ecclesiastes, chapter

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5, and verse 6. I

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mean, I read this word.

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Suffer not thy mouth to

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cause thy flesh to sin.

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Neither say... Thou before the

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angel. That it was an

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error, wherefore should God be

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angry at thy voice, and

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destroy the work of thine

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hand. Suffer not thy mouth

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to cause thy flesh to

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sin. Neither say you before

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the angel. It's an Old

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Testament passage. Be careful what

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you say because angels listen

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to what you say. They

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are not God. They are

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not superior than the law

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because the law is superior

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than them. But they are

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servants who minister to God

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and they observe what we

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say. The next thing, in

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First Corinthians 4 verse 9,

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angels observe us when we

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suffer. Do you know that?

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Then when we go through

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suffering the trials in our

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lives, they observe. They see

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that they see that they

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see that they see the

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trials in our lives in

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our lives. They observe. They

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see that they see that

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they see that they see

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that they see that they

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see that they see that

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they see They're servants of

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God. They're observing the sufferings

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that a person may go

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through. They observe and God

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may use them to do

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something for the benefit of

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the people of God. Again

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another thing, angels observe what

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we wear. Do you know

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that in first Corinthian 11

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verse 10? The women in

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assembly is called to cover

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her head. Why? You read

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it, ladies, read it in

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first Corinthian 11 verse 10.

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It's not what I say,

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it says that for the

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angel's sake, why? Because there

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is order in creation. God

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is set an order in

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creation. God, the Messiah, the

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man, the woman, not because

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the man is better, but

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the woman is to cover

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her head. And the head

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is the man, is her

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head. And we, the man,

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our head, is Christ. And

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we are to uncover us.

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Head because Christ, the Messiah,

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is to be revealed. We

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are not to be revealed.

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That's why the woman covered

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her head. But the Messiah

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has to be revealed. That's

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why men is not to

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cover his head. First Corinthians,

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chapter 11 and verse 10.

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And finally, angels observe and

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serve by escorting believers to

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heaven. You know that? In

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look 16, we read, when

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Lazarus died, he was carried...

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by the ages. When

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the rich man died, we

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don't read that he was

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carried by an angel. Look

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16, you read it. Lazarus

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when he died, he was

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carried by the angels. Angels

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are ministering spirits as we

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have here in verse 14.

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They are to minister to

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those that are going to

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be the heirs of salvation.

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This is the believers. But

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how great the angels are.

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The Lord yeshoo, the Messiah,

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is superior than they because

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he has a more excellent

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name. He is worshipped, he

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is served, he is God,

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he is a creator, he

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is unchanging, he is the

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same, and he is seated

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at the right hand of

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the majesty on high. And

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we are going to worship

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him throughout eternity and we

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better start here. And now,

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can we say

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amen to that?

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