09/22/2021 | Beyond the Veil | Bishop J. E. Myers

i have been sort of touched by this bible lesson and i want to share it with you how the lord has touched my heart on this and throughout this week and even weeks before that and when i was thinking a lot about it and this is concerning the veil that was rent when jesus died on calvary and i want to talk to you about it and show you some things that i feel like that god has impressed me with if you have your bibles and would go with us on number one here this is when jesus was on the cross and darkness was over his let me get a little bit better focus there and uh jesus was on the cross and uh darkness was over all the earth for three hours i'm going to read the verses of scripture here to you and when jesus died on calvary darkness came over the earth for three hours look at verse 45 of matthew 27 now this is recorded in also in mark it's also recorded in luke but i've chosen matthew here they all say about the same thing 45 says now from the sixth hour the sixth hour is from 11 it's from uh the 11 to 12 noon now the hours go from like about six o'clock about six to seven seventy eight eight to nine nine ten so forth right on down and the sixth hour would be about from 11 o'clock a.m to noon time so from about 11 o'clock or 12 there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour the ninth hour would be between two and three pm the jewish times system the hours were from about six on down to about 6 p.m and then the watches were at night three hours would make up a watch and four watches through the night i won't get into detail on that that's immaterial but i just want to let you know here what this is referring to here when it talks about these hours uh john whose gospel book was written after matthew mark and luke's were written and after the temple and jerusalem were destroyed in jerusalem in 70 a.d his gospel was written in 90 a.d 20 years later the the the clock system of the jews nobody followed it anymore they followed what was done by the romans and so the romans had theirs like we have ours today same thing starting at midnight the first hour was from 12 from 12 to 1 the second hour from one to two and you know the story goes down through like that so that by daybreak you're at six o'clock where with the jews they were just starting out with their hours the first hour second hour you understand what i'm saying so when you read john he talks about darkness being over the earth and he talks about jesus being on the cross his hours are different and i've had people say oh you see there's a contradiction in the scriptures no there wasn't no contradiction except the only difference there is that john's following the roman time system and matthew mark and luke was following the jewish time system everybody understand what i'm saying here all right i'm going to move on here because this is what happened when jesus was on the cross and darkness came over all the earth from that period of time verse 46 and about the ninth hour this is about the end of that period of time about the three o'clock somewhere between two and three o'clock in the afternoon and about the ninth hour jesus cried with a loud voice saying eli eli lama sabachthani that is to say my god my god why hast thou forsaken me and this was jesus whenever he was giving up fixing to die on the cross and he cried out in that fashion because he died the death of taking your sins and my sins upon himself in other words he did not die to feel like he was entering into glory he died as though he took all of our sins upon himself and he cried out my god my god why hast thou forsaken me and he said it in pure hebrew pure hebrew not aramaic in the new testament they spoke aramaic which was a conglomeration of of hebrew it was arabian and greek a little bit of greek in that and also the uh chaldean so these languages was a picture and this is what they spoke in the new testament in palestine was called aramaic so whenever he cried that they didn't know what he was saying they said somebody said oh he's calling for eli but jesus was speaking pure hebrew and he was speaking it because in psalms 22 1 this is what was prophesied that he would say on the cross and i'll show you that in a few moments but jesus was on the cross he cried eli lamas bach thanai that is to say my god my god why has thou forsaken me now uh down in verse 50 jesus when he had cried again again the second time now with a loud voice yielded up the ghost that is he gave up the spirit and behold the veil of the temple was rent and twain from the top to the bottom and the earth did quake and the rocks rent now i just want to say this that whenever these were these things happened and jesus died on the cross the centurion the roman centurion of the roman army that was crucifying him he looked at that and saw all of these things and he said oh my god he said surely this was the son of god but it's strange that the hebrews who had tried him and said crucify him you know we'll take bravos you crucified jesus and all the the high priesthood and all of that none of them seemed to pick up that this had to be of god all this darkness that came over the earth and the shaking and the trembling and so forth all these things happen and the strange thing about it is that it was prophesied and spoken of over in the old testament and was prophesied that it would happen whenever the messiah would die in this fashion i want you to go with me to isaiah 53 for instance look at isaiah 53 this is the way that you would have seen calvary he's prophesying here now in 53 the way you would have seen calvary and if you were standing there looking at it and if you were on the ground observing it this is the way it would have been it would have happened it says here in 53 3 he is despised and rejected of men i am reading right here let me move that down the sufferings of christ are prophesied uh in isaiah here he is despised and rejected of man a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet he did esteem we did esteem him stricken smitten of god and afflicted but he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisements of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed jump into verse 7 here just save time he was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth all of this is true he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as sheep before his shearers is dumb so he opened out his mouth he was taken from prison and from judgment and he was and who shall declare his generation for he was cut off that means he was killed he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken verse nine i'm going to conclude here and he made his grave with the wicked that is joseph of armithia put him in his own tomb he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his the rich in his death i mean there's joseph the wicked were those who died on the cross with him especially the one who would not acknowledge that he was the messiah but one of them said you are the messiah and he said this day you shall be with me in paradise one of them received salvation by his acknowledgment of christ of jesus being christ and the other one did not this is what it's referring to his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he was buried in rich man's tomb and uh because he had done no violence neither was any deceit in his mouth that this is a prophecy in isaiah the crucifixion of jesus now i'm going to also go to psalms here for a moment psalms 22 is where it says my god my god why has thou forsaken me 22 1 this 22 psalm is how jesus felt on the cross in in isaiah 53 is how it would be if we were sitting there looking at him and seeing the whole picture but whenever you go to psalms because it's written by david and david was it was a prophet as well as a king but he was also to be the the forefather of jesus christ the man christ jesus you would be born born of mary so anyhow this goes on to say my god my god why is thou forsaken me this is the words that he said whenever he was on the cross looking down at verse six here just to save time 22 6 of psalms but i am a worm and no man a reproach of men he's talking about himself now it's his feelings on the cross and a reproach of men and despise of the people all they they see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip they shake the head saying he trusted on the lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him and this is all stated you know in like in matthew 27 43. i know you don't have to show it or anything but this is what was done they laughed at him mocked him scoffing and this prophesied right here in psalm 22 that all that would happen and they laughed him to scorn and so forth and he said he was an approach of men and also strangely enough in psalms 109 uh in in psalms 209 25 it prophesies that they would laugh at him mock him and scoff him in this fashion and they would do that so it's prophesied in psalms 109 as well now moving very quickly here just to wrap all this up in psalms that is about his crucifixion verse 16 for dogs have come past me the assembly of the wicked having enclosed me they pierce my hands and my feet and this is psalms now they're prophesying of the crucifixion of jesus verse 17 i may tell all my bones remember it's all in first person jesus feeling that on the cross they tell all my bones they look and stare upon me verse 18 they part my garments among them which they did do and cast lots upon my vesture which they did to the roman soldiers as you well know now i'm just pointing out to you here how that in two major places and is found also in other places in the bible talks about jesus's crucifixion it talks about his sufferings on the cross but the darkness i'm going to go a little bit further here but the darkness and the earthquake are prophesied in psalm 18. look in psalms 18 if you would i'm going to psalm 18 here now to talk about the darkness this part of the crucifixion not his sufferings and not him doing it for the sins of the people but the sufferings i mean the darkness that came upon the earth whenever he did this look at verse 4 the sorrows of death compassed me and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid verse 6 in my distress i called upon the lord and cried unto my god he heard my voice out of his temple and my cry came before him even unto his ears then the earth shook and trembled the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth for jumping to verse 9 he bowed the heavens also and came down and darkness was under his feet and this is speaking about god almighty as a spirit and jesus christ now god did not die on the cross the man christ jesus died on the cross when jesus was on earth he was both god and man you well know that he was both god and man and it was the man christ jesus that died on the cross but the spirit praise the lord god the mighty spirit cannot die it is forever it is eternal and so forth but the man christ jesus died and the man christ is in his death prayed unto the spirit just like he did in the garden of gethsemane before he went to the calvary now i'm going to move on a little bit further here because it speaks here about the darkness covering the earth and i want to go to number two here this is interesting because we're going back to matthew 27 and verse 5 50 here matthew going back to matthew 27 uh this is where it all happened now we read verses 45 and 46 where he cried eli lambert sabotage and i white my god my god why is that for a second going to verse 50 now look at this closely jesus when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost this is where he died and behold the veil in the temple was rent and twain now take hold of this because this is going to be the basis of our lesson here tonight the beyond the veil the veil in the temple was rent and twain into from top to bottom and the earth did quake and the rocks rent notice they went from top to bottom so that you know that god ripped the veil it wasn't like pulling the men on the bottom pulling it up to the top this was done in the temple of herod's temple it would rent the veil that goes into the holy place of the temple of god that was on the temple mount all of that happened when jesus died both the veil that was going into the temple and the veil that went into the holy of holies was rent into and those things happened and i'm going to talk to you here about it so i'm going to go here right now to uh what is behind the veil what's behind the veil and i want you to go with me here to hebrews chapter 9 we're going to talk about the veil being rented to now i'm going to the book of hebrews because the book of hebrews speaks about many things that jesus christ tried to bring to the hebrew people now it did we do not know who wrote the book of hebrews but most bible scholars believe it was paul even though it doesn't start out like paul always started out his epistles it doesn't start out that way but when you see the end of it the way it wraps up is the way paul always wrapped up his epistles also paul understood the law he understood everything about the old testament and he compares things to help the hebrew people to understand that jesus christ fulfilled everything under the law and he fulfills it in himself and he wants us to walk through that veil and go into the presence of god and to have what god has for us and this is what this whole hebrews book is all about one step after another he makes paul he makes jesus or he doesn't make him he brings out that jesus was this and jesus was that and jesus was this all the elements of the old testament jesus fulfilled them and and paul in his writings in hebrews points all that out i'm going here to chapter uh nine and uh i want you to look at this chapter nine and verses two through eight look at this very closely with me here and follow me now closely i'm getting into my real subject here at this time for there was a tabernacle made the first wherein was the candlestick and the table and the show bread which is called the sanctuary and after the second veil the the the the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all now before i go any further let me give you a picture here of what the tabernacle may have looked like this is an artist's drawings and this is taken out of a out of a particular book that i use we'll come back to their chart here later but i want you to look at this this is a picture of the tabernacle how it possibly could have looked and if you were to have gone through the gate here this was this was uh this is 90 feet long 30 feet gate 30 feet on each side 30 30 and 90 all together when you walked inside this was a it was a burnt offering this is where all the sacrifices was made before there was a temple it was only a tabernacle the tabernacle wasn't that big it was a little tent actually in the wilderness this is a picture of it by the artist's drawing of it this is his drawing of it but in the front of that church or that tabernacle was the altar and where which all the sacrifices now people this gate was opened in the morning the priests would come in and people would bring their animals there to be offered over sacrifice for repentance for offerings of thanksgiving or various reasons they would bring their sacrifice to the lord and they would be offered here on the on this altar here beyond that was a a veil of water and in this water veil here was water that was put there and the purpose for that was for the priest who would go into the tabernacle they would wash themselves first they'd wash themselves and then they would go into this tabernacle where the presence of the lord was and i'm pointing this all out because they all did that it was a very physical thing they did it they did it for for thousands for a couple thousand years there in that old testament from the time moses uh 1500 years i think all together is what it boils down to be but they did this and followed that and then later on it was it was developed of course into the temple now here is another chart it's about different artists but it shows you the overall picture of how it may have looked this is the tabernacle here is the interest of the gate these are the people inside this is the the altar of sacrifice the labor of water is right here you can't hardly see it it's very dark there i'm sorry that you can't see it any brighter than that but here was the tabernacle and in the tabernacle there was the candle of uh there's a the seven candlesticks right here there was a table of gold here this was made out of pure gold everything inside under this covering this is covered cut away as you can tell everything inside was of gold this out here was all brass everything out here brass these posts were all brass but inside of this tabernacle here everything was gold and this uh this tabernacle here was 45 feet long it was 30 feet from this veil back to this entrance of this veil and then beyond this veil there was a another room that was called the holy of holies or the holiest of all excuse me and it was where the ark of the covenant was made of gold the ark of the covenant was what they always carried by the priest in that ark of the covenant was the ten commandments that was written on stone given unto oh moses by god that was also aaron's rod that budded and there's also a pot of man a golden pot of manna that had been preserved and god kept that it was put inside and it stays in it and he left that then there was golden angels formed put a terrible angels put off top of that and every once a year a high priest would go through here then he would touch all of these pieces of furniture he'd take it off this altar it was a goat that he called sacrifice on the day of atonement touch all of these go inside touch all of these and go inside and sprinkle it on this mercy seat golden mercy seat like this table here sprinkle it all over then he would come out he would come out of that place and that shekinah glory of god from up in heaven would come down and consume the blood off of that mercy seat and god they would people would know that god had accepted their sacrifice for sins for one year for one year and now this is what they had it was a very powerful thing that they experienced and those inside now these things had representations this alter represent a repentance when we come to god it's an altar is where we die out to sin this brazen altar altar of this water here rather represents uh the labor of water the labor of water where represents baptism repentance baptism and we enter into the church of god into the kingdom of god and in the kingdom of god there is the light which is the spirit and then there's a table of showbread which represents the word the word is the bread the bread represents the word this represents light and the spirit that gives light to understand the word we have to have the spirit of god to rightly and properly comprehend and understand the word of god everybody hear me that's very important people that don't have the spirit of god and they try to try to decipher how what the word means they get into all kinds of situations but the spirit of the holy ghost the bible says will lead and guide us into all truth so that it would help us to understand the word of god in this design for that then there was this veil just in front of this veil i didn't mention it was a third piece of furniture it's called the altar of incense the priests when they would come into this this room here they would set this bread every morning they would put the the candlestick out in the morning and light it again at night so it'd burn all night and then they would take the the next day to come back and replace the bread 12 loaves of bread each loaf represents 12 tribes of israel and they would put there was changed daily and this veil that hung here in front of it was an altar of incest this represented repentance coming to the lord being baptized in his name this altar here represented consecration in other words folks when we get saved it's not enough just to say okay i'm saved i'm in the church now but we have to consecrate our lives this is the altar that we go to when we seek god for a deeper walk in the lord when we want to get closer to him we want to draw nigh unto the lord this is what all of this is all about here let's go through the veil because when the veil was read in two at jesus died on the cross and the veil was rent that means we have access to all of that we have access to god's spirit we have access to god's presence we have access to a consecrated life before god we have access praise the lord to his very presence amen and the shekinah glory that would come once a year we can feel that come upon us in our worship services as we come together in the name of the lord praise the lord so i'm showing you here how that this tabernacle plan as it was given praise the lord uh by you know by men who are artists that make it up today for us it helps us to understand how it may have looked and this is another artist's drawing of how herod's temple may have looked here's templar here of course is the this is the this is the court of the gentiles court of the women this is the court of the men and then court and then there's a court of the priest could go beyond here into the into the temple and that was where design so gentiles could come this close and they could worship from a distance women jewish women could come even closer and then the men could come inside and bring their sacrifices and so forth down i'm going to go a little bit they could the women could come to the altar and i was as far as they go let me go a little bit further here though i want to talk to you here about this temple here this temple here this doesn't have a cutaway here but this is the way herod's temple possibly could have looked we know that possibly by josephus's writings and what he had to say about it so i want you to notice here how big it is solomon built solomon's temple at about 1000 bc it was destroyed in 588 bc destroyed burned to the ground by the by the babylonians it was rebuilt by zerubbabel who was another forerunner of jesus christ the descendant of david he was 14 generations before the coming of christ but zerubbabel came back from babylon rebuilt the temple uh in in jerusalem and it was uh wasn't that spectacular and uh along the years as the years went bad they kept refurbishing and refurbishing and rebuilding it and herod put a lot into that refurbishing that temple because he wanted the favor of the jewish people herod the great as you know who tried to kill jesus when he was born that herod uh he was half edomite he was not all jew and the jews did they sort of rejected him so he tried hard to please them and make them all happy and one of them was that he refurbished that temple made it very elaborate this is why when jesus in the 24th chapter of matthew when jesus and his disciples were walking out and they're going over on the out of the temple mount into the cross kidron valley over on to the uh the mount of olives they said look how beautiful the temple is see they were telling him how beautiful they were jesus said now one stone shall be left upon another and this temple absolutely was destroyed just 40 years later after jesus had said that 40 years later he was destroyed by the romans when they came in and it also destroyed jerusalem as well again now i'm pointing this out to say here to get back to our subject here the lord wants us to walk through the veil and i'm going to talk to you about that a little bit praise the lord i'm going to move these pictures off here because we pretty well understand here that you've got to go past the veil and uh the jewish people symbolically would not go past the veil they still hung to that old testament law and we cannot do any more have any more than what moses gave us but paul in writing in the book of hebrews tried to tell them and in doing so tells us that we can walk now past the veil because when jesus died on the cross the veil was rented too not from the bottom up like some man could have poured to pull it apart but and it's a temple remember that's a high high place they had to be from the top to the bottom it had to be of god and so the veil was rent from top to bottom and everything it gave us access into the holy place so that we have access to the presence of god of the spirit of the lord and the light of god and also we have access therefore to the word of god by the light giving us that light in the word so we can understand it and then going into the holy of holies we have access then to the presence of god now i want you to look with me in hebrews chapter 9 verse 2 because we're in hebrews here there is a statement that i'm going to talk to you about here a little bit and it says let us let us and all through the book of hebrews paul in writing and i'm going to use paul's name because i believe he was the the author of the book paul in writing to the hebrew people was saying okay since this has happened that's happened now let us now go further we have that opportunity we have that privilege we have that right to go further into god to know god to have god to have the blessings of god the benefits of god and all these kind of things and what god would have us to be and what he would have us to do praise the lord so i'm going to start here with hebrews 9. he says for there for there was a tabernacle made well we just talked about it the first wearing was the candlesticks the second the table of showbread which is called the sanctuary and we showed you that and after the second veil the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all which had the golden censor and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold wherein was the golden pot that had manna and aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant we told you about that that was inside of that ark of the covenant it was a very precious piece of furniture and over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat they were on each side and they bent over and their wings and so forth and i won't go into detail about that over at the chairmans of glory showing the shadowing the mercy of which we cannot now speak particularly and when he says this he means that the ark of the covenant was now now not among them because they don't know what happened to it this is where they made movies about it that indiana jones stuff the ark of the covenant you know certainly all that that's because that nobody knows what happened to the ark of the covenant when the babylonians took all that stuff away they they destroyed the temple did they bring it back was it brought back was it not brought back if it was what happened to it did the jewish people hide it someplace a lot of them think they hid it down in those caves and caverns down under the temple or down in some caves someplace you know that they've gone down in the dead sea they've gone in those caves and they've looked for that stuff and there's movies been made about all that but i'm just trying to tell you here folks that it's because of this ark of the covenant was the most valuable piece of furniture that the that israel the jewish people had with him i can show you a scripture over in the book of revelation where it talks about there was the the temple of god in heaven and the ark of the covenant was there so i don't know if that was speaking of the real bell or whether it was a type of or another or a vision that john had i don't know but anyhow it does mention it there let me get to my point here this is what he says here uh which we cannot particularly have now look at verse 6. everybody's still with me now when these things were thus ordained the priests went always into the first tabernacle accompanying the service of god where they went in and they would do what they had to do inside this sprinkle incense on the altar of incense they'd light the candles and put the show bread and all these kind of things they would do but until the second went the high priest alone he went only by himself once a year uh he went alone once every year the day of atonement not without blood he took blood with him that the blood of the sacrifice that was made outside on that brazen altar which he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people the holy ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest in other words you couldn't go there before not just with a preschool once a year that was it and then the priest came out and chicago glory came out and the people felt forgiveness of the lord and they felt okay and the next year they did it all over again because it had to be done once a year wild as the first tabernacle was just standing now look at verse nine which was a figure of of the of the time then present now let me just say this here the bible tells us here that we come to the place where that we have to sort of move on let's go behind the veil let's go beyond the veil the veil has been opened up and so we have to walk through it now i'm going to have you go to a scripture in the revelations here for a moment i want to show you something just using this sort of out of setting here to give you where i'm going with this look at revelations 3 7 to the angel of the church of philadelphia this was the perfect church of all the seven it had no flaws in it it never reports any flaws here until the angel of the church of philadelphia writes these things saith he that is holy he that is true he that hath the key of david he that openeth and no man shutteth and shed it that no man openeth i know thy works behold i have set before thee an open door notice that phrase that's what i'm pointing out here i've set before thee an open door and no man can shut it for thou has a little strength and has kept my word and has not denied my name now i want to talk to you here about a phrase and uh we're looking here at this part of the scriptures here let us go beyond the veil looking under jesus our lord revelation now look at see here entering into his presence we just got through with with hebrews chapter 9 look at verse 10 chapter 10 verse 1 here for a moment now this is talking about that tabernacle in the temple that was in the old testament up to the days of christ verse 10 for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices that is animal sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make the comers thereof perfect those sacrifices couldn't make you perfect verse 4 down to verse 4 in chapter 10 for it is not possible that the blood of goats of bulls and goats should take away sin so the lord is letting us know here that it's impossible for all these things to help us or to do anything for us now going over to the 19th verse i'm going to verse 19. hebrews 19 i mean uh yeah i think it's 19 hebrew i'm sorry hebrews 10 verse 19. everybody with me all right verse 19. having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of jesus everybody understand where we are here the veil has been read in two and we have now we have the right to enter in and the writer of hebrews here is saying now having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of jesus not by the blood of animals and goats and things but by jesus's blood when he shed it on calvary and the veil was read verse 20 by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh so his flesh being rent you know like he at the last supper he broke the bread and said that this is my body that's broken for you this body was broken on calvary red the veil was rent it's a type of his flesh now look what happens look at verse 22 and having an high priest over the house of god jesus was also likened unto the high priest by the writer of hebrews in an earlier chapter we won't get into that one now look at verse 22 here's where i'm going let us draw near now here's what he's encouraging us let us now because the veil is open to us let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water that's baptism praise the lord and then he starts using this phrase let us let us i want you to notice here how many times i say that let us let us hold fast he goes on to say in verse 23 i think is verse 23 let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering you notice here what he's saying now it's time for us to do something god has provided for us now let's do it you know sometimes we can say oh the lord paid it all on calvary i don't do anything i come to church i sit here i listen to the preacher preach yeah okay you know i don't do anything because it's all been done no no no the writer is saying now we need to we need to do some things it's time for us to act upon the veil being rent calvary praise the lord jesus shedding his blood his body broken for us it's time for us to act upon it so here's what he says here verse 23 he says let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering in other words what god has given you hold fast to it down in verse 22 he said let us draw near verse 23 he says let us hold fast professing our faith without wavering for he that is faithful as promised look at verse 24 let us consider one another let us be concerned about each other and that phrase led us is found in the book of hebrews 13 times which is an implication that god wants us to take an active role in our walk with god in other words start doing things praise the lord because the lord wants us to do it i'm going to read a little further there 24th verse and let us consider one another to revoke unto love into good works provoke means to admonish to encourage to sort of encourage them to do it live for god serve the lord walk with the lord and provoke them to good work verse 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together notice that in other words let's try to help each other to come to church let's try to be together more and he's talking about consider one another here and then he goes on to say in verse 25 i'm going to read that first part again verse 25 not forsaken the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as we see the day approaching that's the day of the coming of the lord and that's what we're seeing today so god wants us praise the lord to push ahead to push forward thank god and to help people come to the lord and be saved we want to help them to do the same let us hold fast let us consider one another verse 24 and then in verse 4 here uh hebrews let's see i didn't read the 23rd let me read the 23rd verse all right i read the 24th verse now let me let me have you go to hebrews 12 1. look at this before i do let me say this that hebrews chapter 11 is all about the old testament people living by faith but never receiving the promise like we have received it we have received the promise of this eternal life the veil being rendered over and turned and opened up to us we can have the presence of god but he's saying here in this 37 this this 11th chapter that these all walk by faith there's a whole list of of these people that i won't go in all the detail but the 11th chapter of hebrews is one of the most one of the most outstanding chapters you'll ever read in the entire bible now i'm going to jump to 12 very quickly here because when he gets through talking about all of these people in the old testament all the way from abraham and even enoch right over way on down right on down to the to the prophets he says in chapter 12 and verse 1. wherefore seeing we also are compassed about was so great a cloud of witnesses as those people are let us you see that let us now it's time for us to do something let us lay aside every weight and sin which does so easily beset us beset means things that war against you like for instance if a city had a wall around it in the army an enemy army came up and tried to capture city they would beset the city surround it and try to bombard it and so forth and he uses that word here let us lay aside every weight every weight the things that will hold us back things that hold us down from living for god for walking with god folks praise the lord live for god live for him don't hang on the old stuff if you're smoking on the side quit it i don't think anybody here is i don't know if anybody is live for god holy keep the word of god live in holiness holiness is is valuable the bible teaches us to be holy the only for the lord said be holy for i am holy he wants us to maintain holiness in our lives there's all kinds of things that we should abide by but lay aside every weight and the sin the sin you know don't look at pornography guys don't don't ever mess with that mess this crowd i know you're not i guess i should be talking to this to another crowd but not you because i know you guys don't but i'm just trying to say here these are things that should be laid aside and the bible tells us that where he said let us lay aside every weight and the sin that which does so easily beset us it may be that every one of us can have a sin that besets us individually and maybe speaking about that and let us run another let us let us run with patience the race that is set before us then here he likens it unto the olympics that they had where they would run races and so forth and so let's run the race and of course this is brought out pretty heavily in ephesians 6 13 about the race and also as mentioned in first corinthians chapter 9 verses 2 24 rather now i'm just trying to point out these things to you here that the lord is trying to instruct us that he wants us to go further in him everybody say praise the lord so and then i'm going to jump over to chapter 13 chapter 13. this is the one right here chapter 13. look at verse 12 wherefore jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the gate or outside the gate jesus was crucified outside the city the city of jerusalem they they took him outside the city on a road that led away from the city and crucified him out on the outside of the city on the north side wherefore jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered outside the gate now here's what he says in verse 13 let us go forth therefore unto him excuse me outside of the gate let us go with outside the camp it says bearing his reproach in other words jesus was under reproach when they took him outside the city they said oh we got to take him out of the city because this is he's a sinner and all that and they took him outside the city not sick sid is too sacred for jesus or some sinner to be crucified on so they take him outside the gate and he's saying here let us go outside now everything may be fine and hunky-dory with us today but folks there may become a time whenever people are all against you for being a christian in some countries they are some countries they are and people have to bear their reproach praise the lord and so paul is saying here if that's the case let's be willing to go outside the gate outside of the encampment outside of the world outside of what's the norm that i might love god worship god walk with god my son's been in china he's been your pastor he has been in bangladesh he's been in some of those countries where this either possessed by communism or possessed by uh sometimes mohammed ism very strictly and the people have to do everything in secret that's doing hiding especially under communism they got to do things in hiding and they they will hide and they'll be in service everything so sometimes it's a case like that but still i'm going to walk with god if i have to do that i'm going to serve the lord i'm going to live for god i'm going to walk with him i'm going to believe in him with all my heart praise the lord everybody say praise the lord now it's not in your notes here but i'm going to have you go with me too and finish this up wrap it up i want to have you go to hebrews chapter 4 with me for a moment he uses this word let us hear also because the book of hebrews in general was us going beyond what they had in the old testament to what god has for us today look at me look at this very closely here as i go into this chapter four verse one let us for one let us therefore fear lest a promise be left of us of entering into his rest his rest and he talks about how the holy ghost will give us rest in the soul now i could spend a little time on this and i don't have the time to do it but let me just say this today to all of us here folks sometimes when you're vexed you're perplexed you're weary you're tired and the world's upside down just draw close to god get close to the lord talk to the lord and rest in him the lord can give you a peace that'll come all over you you can you can walk into this church with all kinds of troubles but you can come down to this altar or just be in the presence of god in the service and feel that peace of god come over you i've experienced it i know it'll just come all over you i don't know how it's going to all turn out but god is with me and i feel peace about everything as long as you're doing right and you're walking with god but he says them let us therefore fearless a promise being left of us of entering to his rest is rest he wants us to rest in our souls praise the lord and all the way down i don't have to i can't read all this uh but he all the way down through chapter four here he talks about this rest that is in the holy ghost we can have that and he gets on down verse 9 i'm just going to read this and wrap it up here there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of god there's a rest in the holy ghost verse 11 let us labor therefore to enter into that rest again let us praise the lord and then finally he goes on to say here i'm going to read 14 and 16 to us here if you look at these verses here verse 14 seeing them that we have passed into heaven into the heavens jesus the son of god let us hold fast our profession what you believe folks hold on to praise the lord this is what the lord wants us to do for us to do you understand here that let us is not saying well the lord did it all therefore nothing for me to do no no these are things we do we press forward we hold on we seek out his rest and so forth so he goes on to say here let us hold fast our profession verse 16 let us therefore again let us that is for us to do therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need and uh i'm going to read this verse in 13 and i want to go back to hebrews 13 for a moment here there's one thing i want to finish off here with and this is uh where he talks about worship here he said i have this is 13. well i'm in the wrong place i'm sorry yeah i'll get there i'm looking at uh 13 15. look at this very quickly here with me by him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to god continually that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name and i want to wrap this up by saying folks above everything else let's worship god let's praise the lord don't let anybody take away your worship don't let anybody dampen it don't let anybody put any kind of dapper on it and praise the lord and thank the lord thank the lord be thankful unto the lord praise the lord i don't have time to go to it but if you read if you're on the screen if you go to ii timothy chapter 3 and verse 1. look at these verses with me for a minute chapter timothy ii timothy chapter 3 in verse 1. this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come keep going verse two for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers that's our day like we're living today in the last days disobedient to perils this is not something unthankful that's a characteristic of our day to day whatever you do be thankful to the lord when you pray just say jesus i thank you thank him for your home thank you for for your wife if you're a man thank him for your husband if you're a woman thank him for that thank you for your children thank you for each individual well thank you for your grandchildren if you've got grandchildren thank you for your job thank you for your car thank you for your clothes thank you for the shoes on your feet thank you for the health you're in thank you praise the lord just thank god just go on and on and say god i am thankful and thank god and praise and worship him folks and don't let the enemy ever take it out of your heart and soul let's go on let's go forth praise the lord let's do it amen and we'll do those things god will bless us and he'll be with us and he will never forsake us let's stand together and give god the praise hallelujah you're a good audience here god love you appreciate you so much let's just worship god together jesus we love you lord we thank you for your presence your power your spirit your grace your goodness god thank you for your people thank you for our brothers and sisters in christ thank you for each other lord that it helps us to live for you and to walk with you lord thank you for our building that we can come together and worship you in thank you for your presence whenever we come together lord we thank you for all things that we glorify you in the precious and holy name of jesus we pray amen and let's keep on going beyond the veil amen jesus rent it open for us and let's do it god love you amen

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Published: Thu Sep 23 2021