WEBVTT 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:15.039 Welcome to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W. 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.480 Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of Delant, Florida. 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:31.280 Our prayer is that these half-hour Bible study programs will bring the lost to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and enable the saved to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Savior. 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.159 Now here's your host, Pastor James W. 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:34.960 Knox. 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:56.399 Here. 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:02.880 I greet you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:07.200 This is the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast. 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:09.359 Happy that you tuned in today. 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:10.799 Hope you can stay with us. 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:13.680 We've got a great chapter sitting in front of us. 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:18.799 We've been studying the Bible book of Exodus together, and some of it's been a bit difficult. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:34.480 We started out running with all that Pharaoh and Moses and plagues and miracles and Passover blood and Red Sea crossing, but we've bogged down just a little as we've run into these instructions for the building of the tabernacle. 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:52.719 And I think we would do well to suggest that if we learn something from the Bible, it's that it's far more exciting to read about what God is doing for us than it is to read about what God has asked us to do for him. 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.920 There's probably a great lesson to be found in that. 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:11.840 But as we come to the 28th chapter of Exodus today, Exodus chapter 28, we begin to look at what the Bible has to say about the high priest and the high priesthood. 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:17.120 And I trust that you'll be able to stay with us as we enjoy this material together. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:19.039 Now, Exodus 28:1. 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:44.000 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eliezer, and Ithamar, Aaron's sons, and thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:57.199 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:06.240 Now, in the New Testament church, everybody is a priest, and so our ministers don't wear special garments and costumes. 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.360 We are all one in Christ Jesus. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:21.759 But in the Old Testament, the nation of Israel, they had a high priest that was separated from and elevated above his brethren, and he was identified as such by special garments. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:28.800 Sad that so few people understand the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament, but we thought we'd have to point that out. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:34.800 You see a man running around in fancy clothes to identify himself as a minister. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:36.879 He's saying, I'm above you. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:48.000 And in the New Testament, Jesus put a uh took a towel and girded himself and got down and washed his disciples' feet and said, We're not doing it that way in the New Testament. 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:50.719 But a lot of people don't understand that. 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:51.919 All right, verse 4. 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:59.840 And these are the garments which they shall make, a breastplate and an ephod and a robe, an embroidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle. 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:06.479 And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.439 And they shall take gold and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen. 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:16.879 And they shall make the ephod of gold of blue of purple of scarlet of fine twine linen with cunning work. 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:25.439 It shall have two shoulder pieces thereof, joined at the two edges thereof, and so it uh shall be joined together. 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:36.000 And the curious girdle, the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof, even of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, fine twine linen. 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:49.279 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, engrave on them the names of the children of Israel, six of their names on the one stone, the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:56.240 With the work of the engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:06.399 Thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold, and thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of a memorial unto the children of Israel. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:12.639 And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial. 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:13.279 Okay. 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:16.560 So there's eight items in all. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:18.800 We'll read about the rest of them in just a moment. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:20.560 Just take a little break from the reading. 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:27.680 There's the miter, that's the uh hat piece, the head piece, with its plate. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.079 There's the breastplate. 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.800 There's the ephod, that's the uh outer garment. 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:40.000 There's the robe of the ephod over top that outer garment. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:51.040 There's the turban wrapped about the head, there's the girdle to uh uh hold the garments in place while uh the priest is ministering, offering sacrifices. 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:58.319 There's the breeches, that's the uh pants underneath, and there's the coat, uh, topping it all off. 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:18.879 Now this was worn, this ephod of gold, or an ephod was worn by Aaron the priest, Samuel the prophet, 1 Samuel 2.18, and David the King, 2 Samuel 6.14, the three offices which speak of the Lord Jesus Christ, our prophet, priest, and king. 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:23.519 Notice the names of the tribes were born upon the shoulders. 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:28.879 That's the place of strength, the place of strength. 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:57.120 Verse 13, and thou shalt make ouches of gold and two chains of pure gold at the ends of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreath and chains to the ouches, and thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work, after the work of the Ephod, thou shalt make it of gold, of blue, of purple, of scarlet, a fine twine linen shalt thou make it, four square it shall be, being doubled, a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof, and thou shalt set in it settings for stones. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:59.680 Four rows of stones. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.519 The first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle. 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:04.720 This shall be the first row. 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:28.560 The second row should be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond, and the third row a Lyger, an agate, and an amethyst, and the fourth row a burl, an onyx, and a jasper, and they shall be set in their enclosings, and the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:36.399 So collectively the names were born on the shoulders, the place of strength. 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:43.839 Individually they were worn on the breastplate over the heart, the place of love. 00:07:45.759 --> 00:08:12.000 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreath and work of pure gold, and thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate, and thou shalt put the two wreath and chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate, and the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod before it. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:19.360 Okay, let's uh let's stop for a minute and think about this high priesthood. 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.800 There are two great priests in the Old Testament. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:31.120 Melchizedek, he ministered to the Gentiles. 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.559 He was the first and last of his order. 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:36.399 Hebrews 7, verse 12. 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:38.720 There's none before him, there's none after him. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.600 The second of the two great priests was Aaron. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:50.480 He ministered to Israel, the nation, and his order continued through the sons born unto him. 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.679 Now the Levites were given to Aaron and his sons to minister to them. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:57.440 Numbers 3, 9. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:02.559 And so Aaron's sons are set forth as one unit with their father. 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:06.639 Did you notice the uh unusual wording in verse 1? 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:14.240 Aaron and his sons with him, that he may minister unto me. 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:21.039 So there is one priesthood, though the sons participate. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:34.799 Now the list of the sons which follow links them with the high priest and sets off a series of types or pictures that speak of the believer's union with the great high priest. 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:51.360 Now keep in mind, Aaron, the high priest, pictures Jesus Christ, whom Hebrews 2, verses 11 and 12 says is our great high priest. 00:09:51.840 --> 00:10:16.080 The New Testament is very, very clear on this, that we no longer have a family line of Israelite priests who minister at a Jewish altar for one nation on the earth, but we now have a great high priest who ministers in the presence of God the Father for all saved men and women everywhere. 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:17.759 Hebrews 2. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:20.639 Sorry, let's read three first of all. 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:22.080 Hebrews 3, verse 1. 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:39.519 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:51.679 For this man, Jesus Christ, was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honor than the house. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:57.840 So Jesus Christ is clearly our great high priest. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:12.320 Hebrews 12, 11, and 12, for both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren. 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:17.039 In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:23.039 So Jesus is our high priest, as Aaron was Israel's high priest. 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:37.440 We have union, believers, born-again Christians, we have union with our high priest, just as Aaron's sons had union with him, as he served as the high priest. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:44.879 Now, Aaron, like Jesus, was chosen of God. 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.240 Hebrews chapter 5, verses 1 and 4. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.159 He didn't take the honor to himself, it was given to him by God. 00:11:52.320 --> 00:12:03.120 So Jesus Christ is not the great high priest because he opted to take that honor to himself or to wrest it from someone else. 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:08.960 That place was given to him by God the Father. 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:16.320 Then we see that Aaron was anointed to be the representative of the people. 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:21.039 And so was Jesus Christ. 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:45.360 In Hebrews 2.17 and Hebrews 5.1, we read that of Aaron's anointing and that of Jesus Christ, and you'll recall at his baptism in Luke 4.19, when God the Father sent God the Holy Spirit, descending upon Jesus like a dove, said, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:50.159 And so Aaron and Jesus are both anointed to be representative of the people. 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:55.840 Third, Jesus is our perfect representative. 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:59.919 He sorrowed with us. 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:02.000 Isaiah 53. 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:07.279 He died with and for us, Romans 6. 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.360 He rose with and for us, Ephesians 2, 5 and 6. 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:14.559 He intercedes for us. 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:16.320 1 Timothy 2, 5. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.600 He doesn't live for himself. 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:21.360 Oh no. 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.279 No, he lives for us. 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:28.559 Now, the priest has to have something to offer. 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:35.759 And so our great high priest offered himself. 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:38.720 Think about that. 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:44.080 He didn't offer the blood of a bullock or a ram. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.320 He didn't offer grain or meal. 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:49.919 No, no, no, no. 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:51.759 He offered himself. 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:52.960 Listen to this. 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.960 Hebrews chapter 8 and verse number 3. 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:02.080 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices. 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:11.200 Wherefore it is of necessity that this man, Jesus Christ, have someone also to offer. 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:12.799 Well, what would that be? 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.080 Hebrews 7, verse 27. 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:30.720 Who needeth not daily as those high priests offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the peoples, for this he did once when he offered up himself. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.200 How about that? 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.279 Hebrews 9 12. 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:37.279 Let's start at verse 11. 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:53.440 But Christ being common high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood. 00:14:54.480 --> 00:15:01.519 He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:14.879 And then in Hebrews 10, verse 10, the scripture says, by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:21.279 So he offered himself, Hebrews 7, 27, his body, Hebrews 10. 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.759 Now, this offering was sinless. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:40.639 The Bible says in Hebrews 7, verse 27, or 26, I'm sorry. 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:51.679 For such is an such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:57.919 Therefore, his offering was perfect. 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.480 Listen to this, his offering was perfect. 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:02.960 Hebrews 9 25, nor yet. 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:09.519 That he should offer himself often as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:24.000 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world, but now, once, in the end of the world, hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:41.840 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:50.720 Therefore, his intercession is prevailing, and his priesthood is unchangeable. 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:52.320 Unchangeable. 00:16:52.559 --> 00:17:05.119 Hebrews 7, verse 23, and they truly were many priests, Aaron, his sons, their sons, and they just kept dying because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death. 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:14.240 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:21.519 So, out of all the people of the earth, God chose that nation of Israel. 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.200 Out of all the people in that nation, God chose a tribe, Levi. 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:45.279 Out of all the Levites, God chose a man, Aaron and his sons, and said that that one man would minister in the Holy of Holies, in the presence of God, on behalf of God's chosen nation, the children of Israel. 00:17:45.599 --> 00:18:29.519 Now, in the New Testament, Jesus Christ the Lord, one man, chosen, anointed, ordained of God, to minister in the presence of God on behalf of the people of God, not an earthly people, not a physically generated nationality, but a spiritually generated church, and we don't have popes, and we don't have high priests, and we don't have fathers and rabbis and masters. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:35.200 We have one Lord Jesus Christ. 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:46.319 And listen, Aaron, the high priest, he could go in once, once each year, and stay briefly. 00:18:46.640 --> 00:19:03.119 But Jesus Christ, he entered once, and he ever lives, he ever abides, he never leaves the presence of God the Father, and there where he lives, he ever lives to make intercession for us. 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.440 What a marvel that God should care so much. 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:17.440 What a marvel that God should make such a way for us to be saved and for us to fellowship with himself. 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:18.559 Just incredible. 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.640 Just just a wonder to ponder. 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:32.079 Now moving from the high priest, just for the time being, we read about those stones. 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:42.559 The twelve stones on the breastplate of the high priest bearing the names of the tribes of Israel upon his heart. 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:48.400 That's Sardis, it's an onyx of a fleshy or yellowish color. 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:50.640 Topaz, yellowish. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:54.160 It's uh pellucid, it admits the passage of light. 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:58.720 It's not clear, you can't see objects through it, but light and color can come through it. 00:19:59.039 --> 00:19:59.759 It has green eyes. 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:01.119 Blue shades. 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:03.920 The carbuncle, deep red or scarlet. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:11.440 When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge and becomes exactly the color of a burning coal. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.920 The emerald is rich green. 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:18.880 The sapphire, pure crystallized alumina. 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.279 It's white with a bluish tinge. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.839 The diamond, crystallized carmine. 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:28.720 That carbon's generally clear, sometimes colored, even black, but rarely. 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:32.400 The ligure is a hard transparent gem. 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:38.319 Agate is an uncrystallized quartz, various tints, different colors. 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.839 It can be arranged in stripes or bands. 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:46.960 The amethyst, the blue violet color, the burl, green or bluish green. 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.880 The onyx, parallel layers of different colors. 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:55.759 The jasper, opaque. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:00.000 Can be red or yellow or another color, but it's a it's a dull color. 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.839 The sardonyx, reddish yellow, nearly orange stone. 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:07.599 Chrysalite, glassy grain compound. 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.400 It's a mineral of pale green to bottle green. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:17.200 Then there's the massive quart that uh Chrisphus. 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:20.400 Uh you read about that in scripture. 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:24.720 Has little luster, it's grayish or leak green in color. 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:26.079 There's adjacent. 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:37.359 That's the uh red variety of uh zircon, and then there's chalcedony, translucent quartz, whitish, wax-like in luster. 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:39.359 God made all these stones. 00:21:40.240 --> 00:22:06.720 You know, uh our God, he he could have made one type of rock, and he could have made that rock all one color, and we would have been compelled to marvel at the strength and the majesty and the texture and the uh just the wonder of that rock that God made, that that type of rock. 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:31.039 And as we looked upon the color of the thing and realized that uh there's no way that man could have made something like that, or accident or chance could have resulted in something like that, we we would give glory to God for the one type of rock that God and only God could make, and for the one color with which he colored that rock as only God could do, and we would praise his name. 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:56.480 But my friend, when you consider the countless varieties of rocks, their different strengths and textures, and uh the composite nature of this one and the and the fantastic uh preparation of that one, and then you see all the different colors. 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:04.960 Have you ever been to a museum where they display rocks, the different types of rocks and mineral? 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:16.640 Why it's beyond description in its beauty and and the the varied textures and so forth. 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:18.319 That's our God. 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:20.240 And you know something? 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:27.119 All you've seen is just a little tiny display of his handiwork. 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:31.839 Just a few little places we've been on one little planet. 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:38.799 So much to be seen, so much to behold, so much to fill our hearts and minds with wonder. 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.519 I'll tell you, I'm glad I've got eternal life. 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:44.880 I'm glad I've got that glorified body to look forward to. 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:54.319 I'm glad I get to spend forever and ever, not just praising God, but seeing ever, ever new reasons to praise Him. 00:23:54.880 --> 00:24:05.920 Think of all the different fish, all the different plants and trees, all the different flowers, all the different birds and animals, all the different insects, all the different rocks. 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:17.680 Those are the things that you can see with your mortal eye in one short lifetime in one little corner of God's vast creation. 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:32.160 Oh, what glory, what glory awaits the saved child of God when we step from this temporary scene and into that life everlasting. 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:39.200 What a what a thrilling, what a thrilling thing to ponder our future. 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:43.039 Now, uh just to read a few more verses here, we've got a little bit of time left. 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:55.839 Thou shalt put the breastplate of judgment, the Urim and Thummim, and they shall be upon Aaron's heart when he goeth before the Lord, and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually. 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:59.200 There's our Savior Jesus Christ. 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:01.920 Do you know what he does? 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:05.519 He goes in before the Lord. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:08.799 Do you know what he does when he goes in before the Lord? 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:13.359 He bears the judgment of his people. 00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:17.359 Do you know where he bears the judgment of his people? 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:20.160 He bears it upon his heart. 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:25.920 And do you know in whose presence he bears the judgment of his people upon his heart? 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:29.039 In the presence of the Lord. 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:32.079 And do you know how long he will do that? 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:35.759 He will do it continually. 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:37.039 Think of it. 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:39.599 Jesus Christ, are you saved? 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:41.119 Do you know the Lord is your Savior? 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.519 Have you trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior? 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:47.440 You know what the Bible says? 00:25:47.759 --> 00:26:26.240 That he, he, goes in before God the Father, and there he bears your judgment that pleads your cause, speaks on your behalf, acts as your advocate, he bears your judgment there before the Lord, because he has you upon his heart, and this is not a momentary passing emotion, it is the continual activity of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:33.759 It is the continual condition and desire and working of his heart. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:35.839 Glory be to God. 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:39.359 What a friend we have in Jesus. 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:54.079 All our sins and griefs to bear, and what a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer through our great high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:54.880 Do you know him? 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:57.119 He died to pay for your sins. 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:01.759 He was buried, and three days and three nights later he rose from the dead. 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:06.640 He has the power and the desire to give you everlasting life. 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:09.440 But you must 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