Hey, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the daily Bible podcast. And let me be the first to say, Merry Christmas. Wait a minute. But it's not yet. But I feel like that's not any time of the week leading up to Christmas, but that's not fair because it is fair. You can't be the first one to say it before. It's like calling shotgun while you're still in the, in the house. You can't do that. I already did it though. So there's that. And everyone's saying it, everybody everybody's doing it. So I revoke your Merry Christmas. You can't do that. I can. I can't your pastoral authority does not extend to my usage of Merry Christmas shirt. It does. You try to extend your pastoral authority to when people can or can't listen to Christmas music. And I think that's kind of a bit of an overreach, but I let that one slide. This one, I am going to go to the mats. Okay. That's it. That's it podcast over and we're done. Hope you guys enjoyed this experiment. Bye Broca just on that off. Yup. Yeah, today is oh, so I found this website national today.com and reading off all of the days I've been reading. So today, December 21st. Is national December 22nd, actually. No, it's December 21st. Nevermind. You're right. No, it's December 22nd. Cause we're recording because we're recording. Ah, yes. Okay. I'm a little, I'm a little bit off switcher days. So, okay. National today.com today December 20 seconds is national cookie exchange day. Okay, so that sounds like a good day. I did not. Uh, it's national short person day. So, you know, anyone who's short today. December 22nd. awareness or honor. Watch out for them for sure. It says here's what the caption says on national today. Dot com. It says great things come in. Small packages. National short person day is on December 22nd. Whether you're tall or have short people in your life. Or you yourself are short. It's a time to celebrate is what it says. Celebrate the short people. Okay. I can get behind that. Cause I've got C4 people in my life. Yeah, me too short people that I want to appreciate celebrate. Yeah. It's also mathematics day. I like that. Okay. Uh, I don't know. Do you like math? That's your thing, right? I like when it works, cause it's nice and neat and clean and it just, is it. It's not open-ended, it's not like, well, it could be this or it could be something else. Uh, math proves the existence of God. I'm just gonna say it. I've heard that. In there. Yeah. Uh, Gavin. Gavin did a thing on that recently, too. Yeah. Um, Gavin Newsome. Portland. Yeah. The other Gavin. Uh, yeah, mathematics, broods got, I think quite elegantly. So, yeah. Uh, and his national date, nut bread day today as well. Excuse me back up. Say that again. Date nut bread day today. Nut bread day. Yes. I've never had a date nut bread, but based on the caption, based on the picture that is. Uh, it looks like it looks like banana nut bread, which I love. I love a good banana shirt, right. Sure. This is national date, nut bread day. Who gets to decide these things? I don't know. National was. The day.com will tell you though. Uh, which ones are decided. I think we should. We should create a national compass Bible church day on August 6th. That sounds like a good day to create one. We'll declare it. And we'll just tell these people that that's the day. That it's happening. Declare August 6th. To be national. Compass Bible church, north, Texas. We should take it to the city and see if they'll honor that. And then we'll just keep on expanding until we get it on the register. I do declare. It's done. It's done. It's there you go. National campus Bible church, north, Texas. Don't think it's reflected on this website though. So maybe somebody will buy us a star. You know how you can do that too. You can go buy somebody, a star and named after them. Yes, you can. And then they get like a email that says, this is where your star is. It's like a cool. Except here. We wouldn't be able to see it. I can see a few stars out where I live, but not, not too many. Not that many. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Hey, speaking of stars, the star of the show today is the Bible, because that's what we're here to talk about. So we're going to jump into Hebrews chapter 7, 8, 9, and 10. He reached after seven. Is a lot about this guy named No, because the deck was introduced to us. Uh, end of chapter six, actually earlier in the book as well, but, and the chapter six. We learned that Jesus is a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. So here's the longest short of it. That is what's broken down in chapter seven. The author is writing to show and set up the fact that Jesus is a better high priest. With a better high priestly ministry. And to do that in order for Jesus to be a better high priest, he has to be a high priest of a different order because the Levitical priesthood, the author's argument was not good enough. To hold up to what the requirements were. The high priest had to be exchanged because they died. And so you had to elect a new one and he had got appointed that new one. All of these things, it couldn't do what it needed to do. Now it's going to get into much more detail of that in chapters 8, 9, 10, but here he needed to have a different lineage. And this is where Milkis. That comes into play. Milk is a deck is named literally transliterated means king of righteousness. He's also the king of Salem, which is king of peace. So he's the king of righteousness, king of peace. There's been a lot of confusion about this guy. Some have said, Hey. Uh, this is a pre-incarnate Christ, but I don't think so, especially here because Jesus is a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. And that would be weird to say he's a high priest after the order of himself. So I think this has to be just, it's a person. It's a unique person. It's a special person, but this is not, um, this is not the pre-incarnate Christ. This is not a. Uh, uh, Member of the Godhead in any sort of capacity, but he's unique. And he holds a different priesthood of a different order and that order holds their priesthood permanently. And so death does not put an end to that priesthood. And so this is why Jesus is qualified to be our great high priest. For forever without end and save us to the uttermost as chapter seven says, because he's a high priest after the order of milk is a deck and not after the order of Aaron or Levi. Uh, which were the figureheads of the priesthood that, that failed. And couldn't bear up under the responsibility because death prevented them from continuing in office death. Doesn't prevent Jesus. And that's why he's able to save us to the uttermost. Thoughts on chapter seven past rod. Anything more on that? Because it's a good chapter. Yeah, I would agree. All right. Chapter eight, then we get into the concept of covenants because the law is connected to the covenant. You think the mosaic covenant. And the mosaic covenant is what governed the, um, the, the Levitical priesthood that RONIC priesthood. Uh, you had the, the, the. Offerings and sacrifices. And his point in chapter eight is essentially looked at the mosaic covenant, just like the Levitical priesthood. Not good enough. Couldn't do what it needed to do. So Jesus. Is not only a better high priest, but as a better, a high priest, he's the better high priest of a better covenant. And that is going to be this new covenant. And that's what he quotes at length in chapter eight. And that it comes from Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 31 through 34, the new covenant language. And so Jesus is the high priest of that covenant. It's a different covenant, a better covenant. It works out a lot better for you and I. And so chapter eight, Jesus is the priest of the better Kevin. Which is a big deal. I mean, Th you think about he's quoting Jeremiah 31 here. Uh, not that these guys wouldn't have known this, but this is an astonishing claim. We're saying that the, the new covenant that Jeremiah promised fulfilled in Jesus Christ, this is massive. Yeah, huge, huge. And, and, and we see that even as Jesus in the upper room says, this is the blood of the covenant. This is the blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for you. And so that's the inauguration of that. From here. He goes on to talk about for a little bit there, the, the earthly holy place that the temple, the tabernacle, the. In the old Testament then became the tabernacle, the temple in the old Testament. And then there, there was still the, the Jewish temple, which again, this is why we believe that this was written pre 78, because I think here's a perfect place for him to say, look, the temples. Destroyed. Uh, and, and yet he doesn't, and he's talking about that. That was great in all. And yet it was simply a copy of what was going to be even better that. That the redemption that was secured by Jesus when Jesus entered into the most holy place, not by means of blood and bowls and goats, but by means of his own blood. He secures this eternal redemption. And so chapter nine is about the better blood of Jesus. Any talks here about death? Uh, being necessary and that the death had to occur in order for the. The forgiveness of sins to take place. Verse 22, without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. What Jesus was there to shed his own blood. Entered into the holy places. Verse 24, not made with hands. Which are simply copies of the heavenly things, but into heaven itself. Now he's before the presence of God on our behalf. So the, the early high priest. And went into the earthly, holy of Holies. And he was in the presence of God in the sense that God. Uh, chose to make his presence do well there. And, and it was there on the day of atonement. The priest would go in and he would be allowed in there for a brief amount of time. And what the writer of Hebrews is saying is Jesus is better because Jesus is not entering into an earthly high. Holy place, but he's entering into the actual physical literal holy of Holies in heaven as he is before the very father. And he's bringing not the blood of bulls and goats, but his own blood securing a better redemption for us there. Yeah, I liked the way he says it here, but as it is, he says in verse 26, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. So he's not sacrificing bulls and, and go to sacrificing his own blood, which is valuable because it's perfect and precious. And given his person as being God and man, this is the atoning work that was once for all. And I love this. It's a beautiful picture of what Christ has done for us. And that's where he goes in chapter 10 as well. And he talks about the same sacrifices that are Contin. Continually offered every year that are unable to make perfect. Those who draw near verse one. Uh, and then he says, otherwise they would not have, have ceased to be offered since the worshipers having been once been cleansed would no longer have any conscious for sin. So he says, look, the fact that the sacrificial system is still going on. Points to the fact that this doesn't actually do what you need it to do. The law can't perfect. The sacrifices can't perfect. But. Jesus sacrifice has done that. And so that's what he's talking about in chapter 10, the better sacrifice, the better offering verse 12, just like you just read it from chapter nine. He re reiterated this in chapter 10, verse 12, but when Christ had offered for all Timmy single sacrifice for sins. He sat down. At the right hand of God, that that's important because to sit down was to symbolize that it's done to tell a style, as he says on the cross, it is finished. That the sacrifice is fully offered and, and this is where. Are Catholic. Uh, friends, I'm not going to call them brothers and sisters, but our Catholic friends that we may have. This is one thing that, that we would say is a massive problem in there. They're teaching and in their understanding of, of communion. They believe and they teach. That the, the body and blood of Christ are being continually offered. Every time communion is observed. Every time community has taken that it's an ongoing application of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and his death on the cross. Uh, this contradicts the understanding that is communicated here in Hebrews and also by Jesus himself from the crossing. It is finished. There is no more ongoing sacrifice of Jesus for our sins. That sacrifice is done. And that's his point in chapter 10? He's saying, look, it's done. Therefore, the rest of chapter 10 now let's live in light of that. Let's draw near and full assurance. Let's have our, our, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience. We're going to hold fast to the confession of our hope. We're going to stir one another up towards love and good deeds. In other words, we're going to. Live together corporately in light of this great reality that we have, that Christ has provided that once for all sacrifice. And now we are forgiven. And then he warns again with another warning passage at the end of chapter 10, saying basically, Hey, don't neglect this, don't treat it flippantly and casually. Don't go on sinning deliberately, because if you do hit you no longer have a sacrifice for sin, but a fearful judgment of God awaits you. And this is speaking to the one that's self deceived. That's thinking to themselves, man. I've gone to church my whole life. I'm fine. I'm a good person. I'm fine. I'm not as bad as this person over here. I'm fine. And there continued to entertain sin that they haven't died to sin through union with Christ. So chapter 10, Jesus sacrifice is better like a good pastor to good preacher. He offers a lot of application as he prepares for another, uh, another part of a sermon. Or he develops the idea of faith, which we'll cover tomorrow, but here he says, lots of led us. I don't want you to miss those verse 22. Let us draw near. Uh, a restaurant near with a true heart and full assurance. He says in verse 23, let us hold fast. The confession of our hope verse 24, let us consider how to stir up one another. So you see a lot at, let us is in light of what you've just read. And you'll notice that the tenor of the new Testament is always going to be toward responding to what God has done. True grace. It is not what, just, not only what God has done for us, but also what God expects to do through us in response to his word. So you'll notice this all throughout the new Testament as we read. In fact, the old Testament too, as we read, you'll see, here's what God has done. Here's what the right application is. Here's what the right response is. You'll notice that for the Christian. There's always a bias toward action. Um, and that action is not legalism. It is right response to what God has done for us. Yeah. And in that idea, It's one of my favorite. Verbs in the new Testament to stir one another up. It it's literally provoke somebody be annoying. The concept there. It's be the bird in the saddle, the pebble in the shoe. Towards your brother and his sister and Christ towards love and good works in one way, church that you can do that. It is the simple questions of, Hey, have you been spending time in the word? Have you been praying recently? Those are two great questions for us to be asking each other. Those are good things for us to stir one another up towards love and good deeds that we were just talking about that recently as a staff, as, as pastor Ron and I, and mark were. We're sitting down and talking together just about our desire for our church to be characterized by people that love the word and love prayer. Th those are, we talked about the bread and butter of your relationship with the father. I mean, if you take away the word of God and you take away prayer, then what you're basically forfeiting is hearing from the Lord and talking to the Lord and in think of any relationship that you have on this earth, that is better because you stopped talking to somebody, you stop listening to them. And there is no relationship is better because of that. And so as we think about stirring one another towards love and good works, I mean, let's, let's make encouraging one another to be in the word. And that's our heart behind this podcast, by the way, is to drive people to the word. And in help you in your study of the word, this is not meant to be a substitute for the word. So if you're listening to this and not reading your Bible, Hey, stop. Uh, stop listening to us, get back into the word of God and then turn this back on after you develop that routine and that habit. This is not meant to supplant your time in the word. This is meant to be a supplement to it and get you back into it. So, Um, anyways, let's start one another up towards loving a deeds towards that end. Let's let's make 25 the year that we really grow in our understanding of, of the word and through our prayer life, maybe prayer is such a crucial part of that as well. We don't have the daily prayer podcasts, but maybe. Maybe that's coming down the road. When we get a little bit more bandwidth now. I don't don't make promises. We can't cash, man. That's why I said maybe it's like, when you tell your kids maybe. Anyway, let's pray. God make us a church like that. A church that loves your word and loves praying to you. Um, W we desire that we need that and it needs to be true of all of us and certainly. As pastors, we need to be men of prayer and men of the word. And we want to grow in that even more as we think about this next year, this next season of ministry that we're going to step into. And we just want that to be true of every single person that calls compass Bible church home. Uh, there's nobody that doesn't need your word in our church. There's nobody in our church that doesn't need to be praying to you bearing their soul to you, hearing from you. Uh, that that is, is such a key part of a relationship with you. That's part and parcel of what it means to have a relationship with you for, without those things. We have no relationship with you. So again, make us a praying church, a church in the word, a church steeped in the word all because of what we just read about what Jesus has done for us, our great high priest, the one who offered the sacrifice that's sufficient for all the one who said it is finished. The one who is sitting right now at your right-hand Lord. Because of what he's done for us. We need to be men and women to the words. So make that true of our church. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Are. All right. Y'all keeping your Bibles tonight again tomorrow for another edition of the daily Bible podcast, folks.