Having The Best - Part 5 (Hebrews 2:1-4)

[Music] hey shalom everyone it's amir salfati in just a few days behold he comes bible prophecy conference is going to take place here at calvary chapel of chino hills i can't wait to see all of you there if you want to have an online access to the behind the scenes of this conference as well as to the actual teachings please swipe up or click on the link in the comments below and you won't regret it we can't wait to see you there god bless you as we've been going through hebrews obviously slowly obviously in a very very line-by-line way the words become very important and uh what i love about that is you know there's debates about words well it's what i said i didn't mean it or people will say words matter i i think you agree words matter you can pull out your tongue and cut somebody apart and destroy them it'd be it'd be easier if you punched him in the face and said nothing versus opening your mouth and using words to destroy someone's life think of it or you can turn around and speak life into someone's existence and i think in this century or perhaps in this millennia that we're in we've gotten away from viewing and understanding the power of what we say according to the book of james you and i have got the power with our tongue to say things that will incredibly be powerful for the negative or powerful for the positive think about it in your own life right now for a second don't think too much but growing up what did you hear growing up you know that what you heard growing up had a lot to do with shaping the way that you view the world today and how you grew up hearing what you grew up for some maybe for most we've had to apply the word of god constantly to that battle of what it was that was instilled within us and i'm as a pastor i've heard it all the things that i have heard i i i don't know if it's post-traumatic stress syndrome or what but sometimes the the thoughts of what have hap what's happened to some of you that you've shared with me stresses me out and yet you're the one that lived it and then there's some of you who i know and i rejoice in where we didn't have that growing up your life your dad your mom they just built you up they encouraged you and they gave you opportunity and they put you in impossible situations standing with you and behind you knowing you know that you need to be pushed and we're here for you versus some who have said you'll never amount to anything and so words matter and when god gives us his word church every single word of the bible needs to be studied and is true and when you and i come to the bible and if we don't get it or if we don't understand what we're reading listen wait on the lord regarding that word i encourage all of you and we all do this when you're reading through your bible and you come to something that you just don't understand what's being said circle it mark it down and ask god to show you the meaning of it what it's about and watch what happens as god begins to answer you regarding those things it's absolutely epic because his word is alive and his word is alive because you're alive and you are the church and he wants to equip you and he wants to strengthen you we're going to be talking about that because that's the nature of verse 4 of hebrews chapter 2. it says there looking in your bibles god also bearing witness both with signs and wonders with various miracles and gifts of the holy spirit according to his own will what is he saying in those previous verses he's announcing that it is god who is spoken by the prophets to the fathers in these last in these ancient times but in these last days he has spoken to us by his son jesus christ he's telling us that the word of god is the eternal truth and it is the ultimate judge it is the factor it is the standard that word notice this the word of god the bible says became flesh thank god that the law did not become flesh imagine that the law was embedded right in stone the ten commandments holy just pure no doubt perfect but as i've mentioned before it never spoke it never embraced you it never encouraged you it's the law and it has no ears it has no hands it says thou shalt not and those are good things by the way those things will keep you alive those are the guard rails for living and and how to live with others but the word of god became flesh the ten commandments it's the word of god but it was to announce the fact that you and i are a lost people and need salvation jesus comes along and he is the word of god manifested and he not only shows us miracles he not only performed them the bible is the documentation source of this in the gospels but the fact of the matter is that the word of god reached out and touched lepers the word of god reached out and as we talked about on sunday picked up from the ground right a woman who was caught in the act of adultery it was the word of god that brought food bread and fish to a lonely crowd and so as we look at this i want to set this up for where we're going in the weeks ahead and i am praying i am trusting that it has a major effect in your life so watch this when it says here in verse 4 god also bearing witness god is announcing my word goes forth and my word goes forth with power somebody say amen to this my word goes forth with power god says i'm going to make sure you understand that and it is going to be a witness to you so when he makes the statement that god also bearing witness god bringing forth listen i love this god is bringing forth god has brought forth the evidence of the power of his word and what is it its miraculous powers it says right here signs wonders with various miracles the gifts of the holy spirit according to his own will so the number one thing in our lives today when we hear about miracles and miraculous powers when we hear about signs and wonders we have this temptation to recoil to step back and wait a minute and i totally get it the reason why we are cautious about these kinds of things is because of abuses would you agree especially those and i'm not beating you up it's just true you can wear it it's true it's a reality this is how we're going to get over it but on one side the pendulum swings and it's the hyper-pentecostal movement those groups where if you don't speak in tongues you can't be saved nowhere in the bible does it say that that is cranked up by the promoters of that kind of stuff it's not in the bible you just need to know that well if you performed a miracle if you haven't performed a miracle then you you're doesn't say that either there's a group you know in fact i grew up in a church uh where pastor chuck smith used to say god doesn't matter how high you can jump in your experience what matters to god is how straight you walk after you land and that's a good word so man we went to church last night oh man we were jumping up and down running around sweating up a storm god was in this place well what happened we ran around we got sweaty and jumped up and down and the emotionalism is thrilling the music is amazing i'm not knocking it but that's not the criteria to determine that god was in the place it's nothing i guess it's not wrong to go to a gathering of believers and you know sweat i guess and but you cannot assume that it's a work of the holy spirit but i want to be honest and fair people always try to by the way i'm going to i'm going gonna get in trouble which is beautiful about this because i get labeled on both both ends both sides will label me okay so i guess if both sides attack me then i guess i'm in somewhere in a good spot so i'm i i believe that our god the creator god of the universe i believe that he is in experiences i don't think he's stoic i think god is in experiences so long as they're biblical and they glorify god and that's the criteria i don't believe that the god of the bible wants you to walk around as some theologian that is wrapped in black and stoic and you look like you've been sucking lemons all day you say oh i don't know i don't know pastor no listen the joy of the lord the bible says is your strength it says in scripture that you and i should have a song in our hearts think about that there should be a sanctified holy spirit beauty to our lives that causes the world to at least be curious especially in these dark times we should be more beautiful than ever to the world so some will say oh pastor no no no experience bad how can that possibly be because daniel encountered god and he had an experience what about jeremiah what about john what about paul it seems to me that everyone who's had some form of an encounter with god you could even call it a faith crisis i'm very fond of of saying faith crisis i believe that every true believer has to have a faith crisis some people believe because their friends believe their dad believes their mom believes i think you need a faith crisis i think you need to be shaken to the core to find out if what you believe is what you believe because it's been revealed to you by god don't believe because somebody says so you don't really believe what you want to believe is what scripture declares and you've experienced enough to know wow god spoke to me god is moving and so i believe that as i'm following god and serving god that i'm going to experience god now what does that mean i don't know because god relates to me always through his word but he causes his word in my life to be applied so many times by experience and i see god move in an experience when for example i go to the store or i might be taking uh the walk or or whatever it might be you find him in those places and you should be expecting him to move in those places and so i think that god relates to us and often with experience the problem becomes friends when the pendulum swings too far and that's all you're living for is for the experience and so you wind up being in a church where oh man come come on we just you got to come it's just all signs and wonders now that gets to be really really scary because number one your experience with god is solely based upon how you felt in the service and then you know you're in a bad spot when somebody you maybe you went to such a service and you're saying things like this in such a service what did you get out of it what did you feel be careful if you're in a church and people begin sampling each other what how did you feel when what did you get out of it that's a breeding ground for error for danger you should experience god it will be based on scripture it will glorify the lord jesus christ it will always be done according to the scripture in order decently that's the way god moves he's a perfect gentleman but the other pendulum swing is this that no you guys who are looking for experience nope it's it's it's dry it's boring following god is is a big yawn and you just have to endure this until it's all over okay i'm so happy that you are so wrong the truth of the matter is if you want to put on your sandals and experience god as it were and you walk as it as it was in the first century era wouldn't you see god doing things let's be honest he said well that's because jesus was walking around excuse me guess what jesus said he said in john chapter 14 and john 16 i gotta go i'm going back to the father and it's really good for you that i leave because if i don't leave the holy spirit will not come isn't that amazing come in the disciples thinking this is awesome he's risen from the dead he's back this is great are you going to restore the kingdom now and jesus says i'm leaving now what do you mean you're leaving you just busted the grave we're on a roll jesus and he could have said you're correct we're on a roll it's just starting to roll and here's how it happens i leave i go back to heaven and i'm gonna speak to my father and he's going to send you the holy spirit and when he comes you are going to have power and you're going to take this message and the power of the gospel and you're going to take it to the ends of the earth you're going to start in jerusalem you're going to advance into over to judea and samaria and you've got to see these guys samaria that far huh and then he goes under the ends of the earth and here's what's cool about this that's exactly what happened and here you are tonight because of acts chapter 1 verse 8 being fulfilled and all of that has been by the work of the holy spirit and it's in power so as we look at this i want you to be asking yourself over the course of the next few weeks if i'm a believer i'm not saying like if like i'm questioning your salvation i'm asking you to ask yourself this so if or since i'm a believer how is this verse being activated in my life as a believer and i'm praying that all of us have some form of an encounter with god whereby we are transformed into what he wants us to do next in our lives because here's the good news not one of us in this room have arrived at being the person that god created us to be we're closer but we've not arrived would you agree okay please cause if you think you've arrived we're all going to go home with you tonight to see just how much you've arrived i would assume that you're out on a midweek like this because you want more of god yes that's what i thought so when he says that this witness is established that god has established a witness that he provides he does so with signs and with wonders mark this down first things first signs and wonders must be biblically qualified why do we say that because jesus and the apostles warned that in the last days the great deception would take place by false prophets and false teachers who will bring to you what false signs and wonders so much so jesus said they're gonna do false prophets and false teachers that they're gonna do signs and wonders so amazing that if it were possible even the very elect of god would be deceived that is that is amazing deception think of it we gotta you just gotta you gotta think about that you gotta get your armor on you gotta clear your eyes and just so get ready because this is just and i'm i'm look i am going to imagine something right now that is in no way shape or form even close to the magnitude of deception that jesus warned us about because there's if it's he said it's so bad that if the very elect could be deceived then i can't even imagine it so you should imagine this that your child is sick your child's got coveted wait kids don't get coveted do they okay your kid fell off their bike they're you know they're messed up your kid's dying and and the the paramedics are there and you it it's over i mean you're watching your kid expire and somebody comes up and says it's okay it's okay it's okay i'll just touch him and this person touches your kid and your kid stops bleeding your kid stops spasming and convulsing and your kid gets calm his eyes open up and he stands up and your kid this the big bump or the crack of the head goes away and the kid stands up and he's completely fine what would you do what would you do come on think just play with me for a second what would you do if that happened what happened what happens if you have cancer tonight and somebody in the parking lot says hey listen um let me let me pray for you and you're gonna be healed so here we go and they pray for you and you go to the doctor tomorrow and they say your cancer is completely gone you're going to want to find out who's this person what power did this and so when such things are done people ask questions of course we do isn't that what we see in the bible who healed you we demand an answer uh i don't know i was blind and now i can see his name was jesus and i'm i'm fine now someone's going to come on the scene and jesus said there's going to be many of them where they're going to do miracles and they're going to say i don't i i i performed this miracle i did this by the power of by the power of something [Music] oh yeah they'll probably say god remember that i hope this church is smart enough to know that if you believe in god that means nothing because we live in a culture where we have to ask the question exactly marcel god who and so we need to dig down because well wait a minute i don't care what i don't care what that guy believes in i don't care what he preaches my son was dying and now he's perfectly fine and i'm going to follow that guy jesus said that's the days that are coming why falsehood you have to have true for true to be counterfeited and satan knows that bad representations of truth deceive people trick people people are suckers for the experience that in some way shape or form brings an immediate answer to the tension to the pressure what if you've been praying for six years that your marriage would get better and it's not but you go see some some person with a crystal ball and a turban on their head and they throw some dust in the air and wave a chicken foot and oh and you go home and your husband has baked a cake for you and he massages your feet you would you would say whoa i'm gonna go back to that shaman right now let me pick up some extra bucks if you don't have a biblical grounding in a biblical foundation you will be swept away yet at the same time the bible speaks about signs and wonders and the bible speaks about the gifts of the holy spirit the workings of miracles and we relegate them down to things like this in the 21st century because you know we're so refined we're so highly educated that what do you mean by this these things cannot be explained that's right that's why they're called miracles a miracle listen is done and i have to look let's just talk about in the god context first according to the bible a miracle is when god the god of the bible who has the ability to alter his creation a miracle is what violates natural law it'd be a miracle we'd all love this i had a dream like this just the other night i just now i'm remembering it it's wonderful where i climbed up on my house i got to the top of the roof and i don't know if you have dreams like this i have i love these dreams and i i don't know why it's my t-shirt i take my t-shirt off hold it over my head and i step off the roof and just soar all over the neighborhood skimming over trees it's so cool okay but i don't know why i just shared that with you by the way my mind just went somewhere and so i honestly forgot what i was talking about on that but when when there's these things where science is defied it freaks us out and yet god defies science he made science he's the engineer of science he's the inventor of it he can alter it but according to the bible the spirit realm powers of darkness can do the same and we don't like that but what happened when moses encountered the magicians of pharaoh those demonically satanically powered spiritual people spiritists performed what looked like to everybody standing miracles but they were of demonic origin moral of the message you always want to judge the message that is connected to the miracle against the bible did you get that everybody this could save your life take the message that is an association with the miracle or the sign or the wonder and apply it to make sure it's bible and i mean bible but you're going to need to know your bible and so when he says here that there's gifts of the holy spirit notice the word gifts here it's plural not gift we're not talking about the fruit of the spirit we're talking about the gifts of the spirit and the gifts of the holy spirit according to his own will by the way the grammar demands this that god also bearing witness both with signs and wonders with various miracles and gifts of the holy spirit this is who the holy spirit who according to his own will this is amazing it's not the will of the son and it's not the will of the father it's the will of the holy spirit get your finger ready i need to get you get your index finger up and ready come on you can do this where where is the where's the holy spirit in your life where does this go go ahead and move it and let's just go like this okay it's kind of cute i don't know if it's this is it here is it it doesn't matter my body your body is the temple of the holy spirit if you ask the little ones across the way they're going to go like this you're going to ask them where's the holy spirit and they're going to go some of the class will go like this and some of the class will go like this you can even ask them about jesus ask them about where's jesus some of the kids will go like this and most of the kids or some of the kids will go like this same with you same with us both are accurate by the way both are accurate so think about this here the bible says in hebrews 2 4 that the holy spirit who by the way is inside of you is the one who distributes gifts for signs and wonders and miraculous works why to establish the witness of god okay and he does that through the believer so in many dark places of the world where there's no bibles there are missionary accounts by the way again the muslim world reports this often where muslims who don't have a bible they've never heard about the real jesus jesus is reaching them by miraculous signs you say oh i didn't that didn't happen to me that's because you have a bible read it it's not that he's not going to do a miracle because you have a bible the truth has been provided to you read it and i got to tell you and please if you disagree don't tell me this don't disagree with me just disagree with me because i love it i don't need to see the blind eyes open if that's what god wants i will pray and i'll pray in faith believe me when i pray for people i expect something to happen right on the here and now and sometimes it does okay but here's the deal i don't need to see it because i've put myself out there it's nothing noble i've just put myself out there because and this is not sad it's a good thing i have nothing else to live for i mean that in a good way i have a beautiful family i've got grandkids don't get me wrong i have you i mean there's a lot in my life but the beautiful thing is i don't have to see anything like that because when you put yourself out there god will use you you're easy for you to say you're the one standing up there this has not always been that and i was asked last night on a tv program did you always want to be a pastor the answer was no if you knew me go ask lisa and my kids i did everything to avoid it i'm not i'm not kidding you and i asked the home group that was growing some of them are sitting over there right now tonight i don't want anything to do with this thing it was god's work well the thing is put yourself out there what do i do that's the beautiful question that's up to him to determine because you know what you're going to find out next few weeks on wednesday nights he has gifted every true believer with at least one gift many of you have multiple gifts of the holy spirit it's required it's a must if you are in the church of the living god he's given you a gift that it's not a talent so i can play the piano beautiful that's not a gift of the holy spirit it is something that is not physically native to you the holy spirit will do it he'll get all the glory you get all the blessings you freak out because whoa can you believe this just happened and you can't act like that in public you have to act like you do pastors are such liars we we teach the word and god does a miracle and heals this marriage and the things that we hear are amazing and then we act yes of course inside we're going god you're amazing it's so true i'm just confessing that for every pastor in the universe we should when when you say oh my goodness we came to the bible study in my i had to drag my wife in she was like her heels were dug in so his claws are on the car she wouldn't come in and she could and she got saved she got saved and then and come on pastor goes well praise the lord brother the pastor is going i can't believe that happened why because we're seeing miracles those are miracles jesus said that when i leave and i send the holy spirit he's going to come and he's going to do works through you that are greater than the works that i've done jesus said it wait a minute don't you think raising somebody from the dead is pretty great according to god a life transformed is greater and that's what we all get to do so i was going to go down the list of those gifts we don't have the time now tonight to do that i want you to but i want you to get excited especially those of you who are like oh christianity's so boring i mean i believe in jesus but it's just so boring okay i'm especially praying that god would just run you over with a steamroller and and get a hold of you and you get to start living life once that happens for him well hey thanks for listening and uh we appreciate you and of course we do in this time and in this age us being together and linking up together to get the word of god out is actually ministry 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Length: 33min 53sec (2033 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 02 2021