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Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from ONE in la. If you haven't been the One, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to one the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.
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Hebrews, chapter 9, verse 11. They gonna make that. See you. Stay right there. But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come. Can I stop right there? High priest of the good things to come. That means there's never gonna stop being good things to come because he is eternally our high priest. He is the high priest of to come. How can we walk into the room down distressed, heavy, oppressed, when we serve the high priest of good things to come? Get your good thing on your mind. What's your good thing for some of you is being somebody's good thing. Get your good thing on your mind. That house, that job, that relationship, being healed, your body being better, your mind being quiet. That mental illness reversed. How many people got a good on their mind? We declare nobody like you. Nobody like you. Nobody like you. We declare nobody like you. So we came as a high priest of the good things to come. I'm trying with the greater and more perfect tabernacle. Not made with hands. Glory to God, y'. All. Give me something cuz I'm already sweating. Come on. Not made with hands. That is not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood. Oh, we gonna get into that. With his own blood he entered the most holy place once and for all, having obtained eternal redemption. Skip to verse 15. And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant. How many people ready to break a generational curse today? Ok, it can't follow. You see, that's old covenant. We gonna get there. That those who are called. Anybody called. I know I'm called. May receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Sit down. Lord bless your word. Amen. Huh? Listen, we in here. We know why we're in here. We in here to celebrate Jesus. And I love to get the treat you on Easter Sunday because we get to tell a story that we know. And it's important for families to get together and tell their stories. I am black American and an indigenous American. I come from two oral cultures. We tell stories. Y' all know something about that. So you know when you go home for Thanksgiving or back to the res for powwow, you're gonna ask the oldest family member tell us that story again. And so Big Mama says, okay, baby, I'm gonna tell the story. Big Mama's here. I'm about to tell y' all the story. Now, you know the story, but don't nobody tell the story like Big Mama tell the story. So I'm gonna tell the story. And you know, you got the little kids who get tired of hearing the story. They fall asleep. That's okay. As they get older, they will come to appreciate the story. Because one day, Big Mama goes home. Jesus, I'm 50 something years away from that. But when she does, somebody else will pick it up and tell the story. And so we gather on the day that we celebrate his resurrection to review the story. And you know how when folks tell a story, they tell a little bit different every time they add something. So this year, we're going to tell it about our high priest, our high priest of good things to come. Now, why do we need Jesus to be our high priest? Well, in ancient Israel, they had a high priest. And the reason that they had a high priest was for that person to be able to go into the tabernacle once a year and bring blood for the redemption of their sin or the forgiveness of their sin. The tabernacle was set up. It had three areas. It had an outer court, and then it had a holy place, and then it had a holy of holies. So the way it was set up, the outer court was like the lobby. So imagine if y' all couldn't come past the lobby. You could see and hear that the presence of God was definitely moving in that place. But you weren't allowed. Only the priest could go into the holy place. And then once a year, one of them, the high priest, went to the holy of holies. And it was behind a curtain. So imagine one of these curtains. The high priest would walk back there once a year to take blood from the sacrifice to get everybody's sin forgiven, because you couldn't talk to God for yourself now. Why not? Well, you know, everything began in the beginning. So let's go back to the beginning. Genesis. Y' all know the story. God created the heavens and the earth in six days. And on the seventh day, he rested. Genesis 1. And in Genesis 2, he created humanity. He tells the story again of how men and women were created. And then he says, after he created the man, and then he created the woman after that, and he put them in a garden. So Eden was a big place, but he planted a garden on the east side. Anybody from the east side? I ain't saying nothing to my west side people. I'm just saying he planted that garden on the east side. And so he planted the garden. And then it says there he put the man and the woman that he made. So they were in a special area. And in the garden, God liked to hang out. That was where he liked to walk around and see things in the cool of the day, admire the good things he made, and commune with the people he made. So the garden was the original holy of holies. It was a place where God dwelt. Can you imagine hearing God coming? I sit in my house and I can hear if somebody's coming to my door, because they got to come down two flights of steps to get there. By the time they hit that second flight, my dog is like. And I look up, he hears it first, and then I'm second, and I know somebody's coming. Could you imagine just sitting in your house and hearing God coming? That was how close they were with God. They had direct access, no interruptions. And then they messed it up for all of us. A woman listened to a serpent that she shouldn't listen to. Boundaries. She obviously didn't know about boundaries. She hadn't seen her therapist. She hadn't done the work, so no boundaries. She let the serpent change her mind about trusting what God said. And she bites a fruit that she's not supposed to from the tree of not of good and evil. We didn't need to know all of that. Now our minds are overwhelmed. Ah, Jesus. We can't stop consuming information even when we try, because we're desperate to know things until we can make a decision about what's right and what's wrong and what's good and what's evil. We are recommitting that sin every single day. It's like we can't get enough. And that's what sin does. Sin's insatiable. No matter how much you feed it, it won't Be full. So she bites this fruit and then she takes it to her husband and he eats the fruit. And the Bible says in Genesis chapter three that once he ate the fruit, both their eyes were opened. It's important to note how important relationship is because when she ate the fruit, their eyes weren't open. The fall didn't happen. It wasn't until they both did it because they were so much the same person that until two did it, one didn't do it. That kind of unity. Anyway, that's how God created them. It says that he called them Adam. He even gave them the same name. They didn't have a different name. Adam named her Eve. So anyway, they eat the fruit and we know what happens. Their fall happens. They are changed by sin. And they realize when their eyes open up that they're naked. I can remember moments in my life when I found out that I was naked. It's the vulnerability that lets us know we're naked. They found out that there were parts of their bodies that were more fragile than other parts. But they didn't recognize it because they were in a safe place with their creator. And I think those things happen to us. The first time that somebody lies to you, I mean, look you in your eye, bald face, lie, and you believed it. And then you find out later they were lying to the nth degree. That's a nakedness moment. I just found out I can be deceived. Maybe the first time somebody touched you in a way that a child shouldn't be touched, maybe your friends were smoking a thing and they seemed fine, but you tried it. And 10 years later, 20 years later, you're still in and out of rehab because you found out you had a vulnerability that someone else didn't have. And it's not just the thing, because the thing is over. It's the way it changes how you see it, see who you are. It changes your sense of safety in the world, inside your body, around other people. With God, everything feels different. It's like being naked. And so they realized that they were naked. And so they ran and did what we still also run and do, which is cover themselves with big fig leaves and try to pretend like nothing happened. And so there they are in their self protective state in this garden that had been the holiest place. And it says in Genesis chapter three that they heard God walking in the garden. It's important to note that he was heard walking. I won't read it, but it's Genesis 3. 8. Because the Bible also says that no one has Ever seen God? He is invisible. So they didn't see him, but they heard him coming. There is a level of closeness and access to God that we were created to have. I want to be in that space so bad that you can come by my house to visit. And while we're talking, all of a sudden the atmosphere shifts and you say, did I hear somebody walking down your hall? Is somebody here? Oh, that's just God. Because we done sanctified this place so good. I've called his name so much. I've kept sin out of this space so deep that it shifts on. See, we are underestimating the kind of communion we were created to have with divinity. We just want to feel a little better. But, baby, there's a higher bar. We had full access to the God of the universe who uses the earth to put his feet up. And then they messed it up for some information. And so when God gets there, he says, where are you? Because, of course, they didn't come running towards his presence like we do staying home from church when we know how we acted on Saturday night. I watch him. I watch on. Oh, lost the earring. The devil want to fight with me and Will because he knows how to get us in a shame space. And so when God came, they were hiding instead of running out to see him. And so he said, where are you? That's what he says. He doesn't say, like, where you at? That phrase that's translated from the Hebrew to where are you? It's not anywhere else in Scripture. It's a grief statement. Say, where are you? Where are my babies? My people? They disappear where you've left. He felt the distance and the access, the relational aspect, access that we had to. The Creator of the universe was broken. And so because of that, they had to leave the holy of holies that was the garden. Because the Bible says in Genesis, chapter three. Let's go to verse 15. I say, the Bible says, and I need y' all to trust me, but I'm gonna read you some verses, too. In verse 22, it says, Then the Lord God said, behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put his hand out and take also the tree of life, which was there all along, and eat and live forever. Therefore, the Lord God sent him out of the garden. So this was a protective measure, because God didn't want us living forever in that broken state. And so he says, they have to leave the garden. So God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So he drove out the man and he placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the Tree of Life. So they still have access to Eden, but they've been kicked out of the garden, the holiest place, where they communed with God with unbroken access. And so the reason then that we ended up with a high priest. Fast forward back to where we started is because priests came into play in ancient Israel as mediators between God and man, because we could not get straight to God. And so there was a chosen tribe, the Levites, and they were chosen to be the mediators. So now in the tabernacle, as I said, you could only have stayed out here in the lobby. The priests were in here with bread and incense and they were in the presence of God. And you would have had to just sit out there and be like what he said. What are you doing? Can you tell him this for me? Because there was separation. And then again, once a year, that high priest went behind the curtain, the veil. But let me tell you something about the veil. In Exodus 26, verse 31, it says that God told them, in making the tabernacle, you shall make a veil woven of blue, purple and scarlet thread and fine woven linen. It shall be woven with an artistic design of cherubim. Why put cherubim on the veil? Because it represented the cherubim blocking the garden. And reminder that we are no longer in the garden, the holiest of holy places with God. And so not just the priest, but only the high priest could go behind the veil. And only once a year. And when he did that, he would make. They would make a sacrifice, means they'd kill an animal out there in the lobby. Then he would bring the blood and go behind the veil to make offerings to God for the sins, himself and the people. He had to be in a pure state. He had to be clean. He couldn't have been sinning and breaking laws. Because, honey, if he went in there in a way he wasn't supposed to, he would literally drop dead. That's how powerful God's presence was. Look at how we get to just come in here and God meets us. Thank God he don't have us dropping my God. Cause many of us would be being carried out of here. But glory. And so that was re established, that garden that covering the cherubim on there. And so then Jesus comes along as the high priest because it is God's intention that his son would make it Possible for us to be back in direct relationship with God. So we don't need a middleman. See, the high priest was a middleman. It's like a lawyer. When you go to court, you're not supposed to talk. The lawyer is there to talk to the judge for you and try to get you off the hook. And if you start talking, they will say, ma', am, sir. And sometimes people say, well, I want to represent myself. We do not recommend that. You do not know what you're dealing with. There's too many laws, too many loopholes. And your enemy, your opponent knows way too much for you to be in here trying to fight on your own. And so you had to have somebody. Somebody. You had to have somebody else. And then imagine it's like customer service. You know when you call customer service and you've been on the phone with the customer Service agent for 25 minutes and you think, not fixed. I want a supervisor. Well, hold on, ma'. Am. Let me go ask my supervisor. No, I want to talk to him. No, ma', am. I'm supposed to ask them. I will be back. Then they put you on hold and you are mad. And then they finally come back, you want to hang up because you mad. But you know if you hang up, you have to wait. So you stand on the phone, but you're mad, and then they come back. Supervisor said that we can't do that. I want to talk to supervisor myself. I have another question. Hold on, ma'. Am. I'll go to the super. And you know how that makes you crazy. And when you finally get to the supervisor, the problem be solved like this in five seconds. Because when you tell the supervisor, the supervisor answers, right, and now we solved the problem, but you couldn't get to the supervisor. That was the holy, of course, holies. And so Jesus was being sent so that you didn't have to have no middle person, that you can go directly to God and God comes directly to you. But I don't want you to underestimate that, because, again, this isn't just a God that makes me feel better. He is the creator of the heavens and the earth. One of the things I pray you leave with today from this message is the pursuit of the presence of the creator of the universe. Not just somebody to get your needs met, to get a bill paid, to get yourself, to get over the flu. Honey, the creator of the universe, if I have direct access to him, what else do I need? And so Jesus was chosen to be the high priest. Hebrews, chapter 5, verse 5. So also Christ did not glorify himself to become high priest. But it was he who said to him, you are my son. Today I have begotten you. We don't volunteer to be the high priest. We're chosen. And he chose his son and said that he would be the high priest, the high priest of good things to come. And so when Jesus hit the earth, he turned into. He turned 30 and his ministry started. He started acting like a high priest right away. And for the last few weeks here, we've been teaching you about how Jesus showed up as high priest. I told you several weeks ago about a paralyzed man that Jesus healed. And when he healed him, he said, you, sins are forgiven. And he healed them to go on his way. And the religious people got very mad because only the priests can say, sins are forgiven. But Jesus said, oh, I did it on purpose. I knew you would be mad. I did it to let you know I have authority from God to forgive sin. You not the only one. I'm the ultimate one. And so he forgave that sin. And then I taught you a sermon about a woman who had an issue of blood and that she found her way through a crowd having heard that Jesus heals people and that he talks to women and that he doesn't follow the rules that break people apart. He's giving people direct access to him. He talks to Samaritans, to women, to touch his lepers. And so she crawls through there. I don't know if she crawled. I think she walked. But then she gets down and she touches the hem of his garment. Now, here's the thing. The priest also was in charge of standing on the line between pure and impure. And for the high priest to go behind the veil, the high priest had to be in a completely ritually pure state. And if someone impure touched him before he went behind the veil, he had to go through the whole process again to be purified. Because he could not go behind the veil, impure, because impurity taints purity. But when a woman who was ritually impure for 12 years put her hands on Jesus garment, her impurity did not suffer flow to the priest. His purity flowed down to her, healed her body and changed her life. She left as a daughter. She came kneading. She left as a daughter. And so Jesus, oh, I'm the high priest. You can't dirty me. I clean you. There's nothing I can do to change how God sees me. There's nothing I can do to change what Jesus wants to do. For me, there's nothing I can do to disrupt his love that he wants to flow from himself to me. There's nothing I can do to make him not want the power that's in him to flow out of him to me. If I just reach for the high priest. See, she hadn't been able to go to the synagogue in a deck in 12 years because she was ritually impure. But she no longer needed to make her way to the synagogue to stand outside while somebody asked her sins to be forgiven. She just met the high priest in the streets. That's my Jesus. And then we talked about 10 lepers. Anybody remember that? 10 lepers that Jesus healed. If you weren't here that Sunday, go back and listen to his sermon called First Move that he sees 10 lepers, they cry out to him, heal us. Lepers can't live with people. They are separated. Again, this is always about Jesus bringing you back into connection and community. He wants nothing more than for us to be together under the banner of his love with his Father. And so he sees these lepers, they call out to him, have mercy on us. He tells them they're healed, go show themselves to the priest. They had to go show themselves to the Jewish priest to confirm that they were clean. But one of them comes back and he thanks Jesus for healing him. But it turns out he's a Samaritan, so he couldn't have gone to the Jewish priest because the Jewish people hated Samaritans bad. Like they wanted Christ fire to burn them up every time they had a chance. And the Samaritan comes to Jesus and Jesus says, not only are you clean, I make you whole. Because the Samaritan did not have access to the priest in Jerusalem or among the Jewish people, but he had access to Jesus. Jesus, as the high priest of good things to come, is here to break down every ethnic barrier, every socioeconomic barrier. There is no vulnerable, marginalized population that Jesus didn't come to. And not only did he come to him, but he came to him first because he went out of his way. The religious people will tell you who is worthy and who is not. The religious people will tell you who can be saved and who is not. The religious people will look at someone and say, I can look at them and tell that they're not saved. But Jesus, if you have received him as your Savior, you are His. And don't let anybody tell you that you don't belong to Jesus. Because you don't have to stand in the lobby and wait for somebody else to affirm you, you have the scriptures to read yourself. He broke down that barrier. And then Pastor Charles came. Was anybody here on the Sunday that Pastor Charles came and told us about Lazarus being raised from the dead man? I tell you, that word was powerful. And Jesus showed off as high priest again. Because not only has Jesus now proven that he can forgive sins, heal bodies, be free from impurities of anything around him, that he has power over that, but now not only is he getting rid of sin, he's getting rid of the consequences of sin. Because death is a consequence of sin. And so in calling Lazarus out of the tomb, he said it wasn't about forgiving his sin. The consequence of the fall means death for all of us. But he said you don't even have to pay the consequences. Why is that important to you today? Because some of you follow Jesus, but you are still accepting consequences. I did it to myself and did. But that doesn't mean you have to live with what you did. Well, I was out there. I got hooked on drugs. It's on me that I have a record. It's on me that I have this std. It's on me that I'm not in a healthy relationship. I made these decisions. And so you're willing to live for God, but still entrenched in the consequences of what you did in the past. I'm telling you today that if you stand flat footed and look the devil in the eye and let him know you belong to Jesus and you don't have to live the rest of your life in the consequences of the sin he washed away on the cross, he can heal you, he can change it, he can reverse it, he can restore the years. You have to stop being willing to just live with the consequences. Oh, I don't have to. Oh, I'm gonna stay here for a minute because I feel. Yeah, you had the abortion. That doesn't mean that your current infertility is a curse from God because you have to live with what you did. Yeah, you got herpes and it's incurable, but you don't have to live with what you did. I still believe that the blood heals bodies. But you haven't asked God to heal you because you feel like you did that to yourself. You're settling in toxic relationships because you feel like you don't deserve better based on your own past. Well, my mom didn't do better. My dad didn't do better. This is a little better than that, honey. He didn't come for my incremental deliverance. He came for my victory. And so every generational curse that has ever touched my life is broken off me all at once. I don't gotta wait five more generations to see it get better a little bit at a time. I serve the high priest. High Priest of good things to come. You're serving a high priest that's still making sacrifices for the mess in Eden. He was making sacrifices for generational curses. We are all descended from there. And as long as you stay. Well, I'm as long. It's like you just. I'm taking care of it. I'm taking care of it. It's like paying off that loan for 75 years. You don't even think about it no more. Just let the payment go out. When he came to pay the debt. My God. Do you hear where I'm at? You have to change your entire mindset to follow this. Jesus. He came and took over the consequences of death. He called a man out of the grave consequence of sin. He called a man out of the grave. And then one more story. Pastor E.B. came and talked about an alabaster box. About a woman who came and broke the box. She let expensive oil fall all over Jesus. Did you know that priests had to be anointed with oil? So not only was she preparing him for death, but she was also anointing the priest. Here's the very interesting moment. See, the priests would kill, sacrifice the bull, the goat, the sheep. They would kill the sacrifice out there and then bring the blood to go in there. The priest. Priest and the sacrifice were two separate entities. But right here, we're about to find out that not only is he the high priest, but he's also the sacrifice. And so he gonna be the priest that offers himself. Rip his own body open, get the blood out, deliver the blood. He's everything we ever needed. You ain't got to bring nothing to this cookout. This dinner invitation don't require your side dish. Jesus is the priest, the king, the sacrifice. He is everything we could possibly need. And so he's showing off. And the religious people got so mad. They got so mad when he raised Lazarus from the dead, that's when they decided to kill him. And so they out there following him around, watching to see what he's gonna do. And they get him crucified. And they think they're winning. See, they were playing checkers, but my God was playing chess. See, they thought, okay, checkers is reactive. He did this, we do this. You do that, I do this. And so they were following Jesus around All those months trying to argue with him. Well, well, I saw you broke the Sabbath. I saw you heal somebody. I saw you over there and touch this one. I saw you talking to him. And they're trying to figure out what to do. And when he raised Lazarus from the dead, they were like, okay, if he gonna do that, we gonna kill him. And so they're just being reactionary. Baby, they were playing checkers. They didn't realize that my God was playing chess. And so by the time he gets into Jerusalem and he is being crucified, oh, now the devil shows up and he thinks he's got it. If I can get him dead, the situation will be over. I don't know why he was that stupid. I don't know why he was that stupid, but he tried it anyway. And so go straight to Jesus hanging on that cross. Matthew chapter 27, as Jesus dies. Verse 50, it says, and Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. Why was Jesus in position to make this move? See, chess is a strategic game. You gotta start from the beginning and be thinking several moves ahead in order to win at chess. And so what happens in chess, for those of you who don't play or you don't know, the goal is to destroy, take over, overthrow the king of the other person. If they get your king, you're done. If you get their king, they're done. So this is my king of kings against the prince and the power of the air who thinks he's a king. And they out here playing this game. But whoever makes the first move is most likely to win the game if they are strategic. And Jesus and his father made the first move. Genesis, chapter three, verse 15. After everybody got in trouble for the fall, you know what happened? Everybody got a whooping. The serpent, the woman, the man. God says, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel in the garden. God made the first move. He put Jesus seed inside that woman so that all those steps later, it looks like he was making unrelated moves. But Jesus was on the board from the beginning. He made the first move, right? And so now he's hanging on the cross and he dies. And he's like. So when you're playing chess like this, okay, so if you move to a spot where the king is in danger of direct attack, we call that a check. You ever see people playing and they move and they go check, and then the person tries to move, they get their King away. So they do something else. Check. Okay, you got it. So he's hanging there, and all of a sudden the first check, it says, then behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Jesus has shown himself as the high priest who can forgive sins. Jesus has shown himself as the high priest who can get a sacrifice and get the blood out. Jesus has shown himself as a high priest who can overcome death. But there's one more element that the high priest was holding on to, the earthly ones. And that was that curtain. They could still go behind that curtain. That was their only job. And they were the only people who could go. So they still had something over you. That's how the devil is. He will let you go on. You go to church, you worship the Lord, you stop drinking, you stop smoking, but he's still holding something over your head. He's still trying to hold that one thing that says you can't get all the way to God. You can't walk your whole ministry out because you don't deserve it. And when Jesus said, it is finished, the veil ripped from top to bottom, he snatched the whole thing open and he said, check, baby, check. Your king is in trouble. But he didn't slow down on the devil because it says, after that, he said, the earthquake and the rock split. The whole ground shook. People's houses are toppling over because he said, it is finished. He ain't even rose from the dead yet. People's houses are shaken. And so now you got some people running over there trying to get the curtain closed. You got other people running over there trying to rescue their house because the earth is shaking and God is just standing there checking. And before they could Recover from that one verse 22 says, 52 says, and the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. Do you understand what just happened? Dead people started getting up on their own. He didn't call them out of the grave like he called Lazarus baby. Once he ripped that veil off, the power and access of resurrection came flooding out to you. And they just got up. I don't think you hear what I'm saying. You don't have to wait to be called out of your mess. Just get up. Just get up. Dead people are now roaming around the city alive, talking to people. I feel like we skip over this part of the story who didn't know that a whole bunch of dead people got up and started walking around. See, we skipped this part. Just him finishing the work and ripping that veil open. Meant that the access directly to the power of God was returned to the people. Power to rip that veil. Power to shake the earth. Power for dead stuff to get up because you decided to stop being dead. Check. See, let me help you out. Because some of y' all don't play chess. So let me change it to the black version. Who gonna check me? Who going check me? You think you killed me? Who going to check me? Veil Rip Chow to check me? Dead people jumping out they grave. Who going to check me? All over now you understand it? Okay, y' all been playing chess. He said, you can't check me. Dead people walking around. And then, this ain't even a double check or a triple check. This is a quadruple check. Those don't even exist. What was the fourth thing that happened? It says in verse 54, when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly. And what did they say? Truly, this was the Son of God, baby. The people that just killed him had to turn around in five minutes and say, truly, this is the Son of God. You think they not gonna say my name, try to check me. Jesus did all of that because he is the high priest of good things to come. But it's not over. It's not over. And so the women followed you who had followed Jesus from Galilee. They were there. They take his body and they go and bury his body. And so then, wow, he's dead. Jesus takes the time to go underground. The Bible said he went to the depths. He went and preached to spirits that were in captivity. I'm not even gonna get in that theology today. We think we understand what's happening, baby. We don't understand the spirit realm. It's too much for us. He went and preached to them. And then it says he took the keys from hell and death. And so now he has the keys. Which means nobody else can make a decision against me except Jesus. He's got the keys to the door. Check if I got the keys. Who gonna check me? You can't lock me in, you can't lock me out. No door you open. No door you try to shut. The keys belong to my Jesus and nobody else. You can talk about me. You can tell me I made to look bad. You can tell me I'm gonna fail. But what he opens, you can't close. And what he closes, you can't get it open. And then he rises from the dead and we know what move that was. Checkmate. Absolutely. Absolutely. He rises from the dead himself, and he is risen and he lives. But then he has the nerve to take a victory lap. Because the Bible says, let's go back to the where I started. Hebrews 9:11. But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle. Not made with hands. His body was the tabernacle rebuilt not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood. He entered the most holy place once and for all, having obtained eternal redemption. Jesus goes to heaven, the most holy place, puts his blood up there and sits down next to his Father. And the Bible says that he is forever making intercession for us. And so we don't need anybody in between us. I don't need to go to mass and tell you what I did. You don't need to go to the prophetic conference and give them a hundred dollars so they give you a word. I said it, and I'm a prophet. But if I ever tell you, give me some money and I'll give you this word, please never listen to me again, because that's not how it works. Access has been restored. Access has been restored. And so he is sitting in heaven interceding for us. We're able to go straight to God. He won this match hands down. So what do we owe him for that? What does he want from us? Stand to your feet. I'm finished. Second Corinthians, chapter three. Oh, my God. Actually, do I want to go there? Let me see. I don't preach my time. A little fun. I done had a little fun. Glory to God. Let's go to Hebrews 10, starting at verse 19. This is what we owe him. Don't you want to be a blessing to Jesus for what he's done for us? It says, therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus, I can go straight to the presence of God. Because of the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he consecrated for us through the veil that is his flesh, his body became a veil ripped open for us. And having a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, that means shame and bad intentions and not the right way of doing things. And our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. For he who promised is faithful. Do you know how you can bless the Lord's heart for what Jesus did? Stand in faith without Wavering. All he's asking is that we would come with our hope and our faith in his promises. He's asking, just believe in what I promised you. Stop giving up so fast. Stop acting like you can't imagine life that good. I serve the high priest of good things. This is why he must be able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think. Because we stay too low. We stay so low because it is hard for us to look at our past and imagine that our future could be that good. Because anxiety tells you that another shoe is going to drop. Because anxiety says every time something good comes to you that you can't trust it. You're waiting to see when things go wrong. You're holding your breath a little bit. The good thing is right in front of you, it's saying, I'm here for you and you don't believe it. It's too scary for you to let down your guard. Embrace what the pre high priest of good things is offering you. And you know what? I don't even have to believe I deserve it. I'm just gonna find out that I do under the blood of Jesus because of his blood. I have it. You gotta lay some of that deserve it down. We love those affirmations. I deserve good things. Maybe I don't. That's not the point. When he gives me the good things I don't deserve, how much better is it for me to be in love with this God? I want you to stand in faith for his promise. For he who promised is faithful. The next thing he asked, let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works. He said, just be good to each other. Have you ever considered that when you're good to others, you are thanking him for these sacrifices? Assemble. Be good to one another. Love and good works. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much more as you see the day approaching. What did he ask in that last one? Come to church. Don't just assemble here today. I'm so glad to see y'. All. But come next week and the next week and the next week. This is all he's asked us, is to love one another, be good to one another, hold fast to his promises, expect the good things he said and come together. You know how good it feels when your whole family is finally together after a long time. You know how good it feels when the friend group finally gets out the group text and actually takes the trip And y' all see each other in person. It thrills the Lord when all his people are together. Would you commit to giving him that gift all year long? It means a lot to Him. When we gather, that's all he's asking for. Amen. If you don't know Jesus. Jesus, man, you will really want to know this guy. The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 3 that some of us are still blind and deaf to God. It says that there's a veil covering our hearts. That's the only veil left. You have access to God, but we're born with a veil over the heart. But when we invite Jesus in, we he will rip it open. You can't even open that veil on your own. You've tried to let your guard down. You've tried to have faith. You've tried to believe in Jesus. You've tried it. It just doesn't seem to work for you. You don't have to try it. He. You don't try him. You come to Him. Is there anybody that wants to come to him today? Let him rip open the veil of confusion that has made it hard for you to understand how a God like this could exist and love us. If you would just take a step toward him, he'll rip the veil open. Is there one? I know we come to church to celebrate Jesus. So a lot of Christians are in church on Sunday morning, but Easter morning. But is there one who doesn't know Jesus? Hey, you, come in. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If you want to come, you can, but you don't have to. Is there another one or you're watching online? I like to say it this way. If you don't know the date, the day, the month, the day and the year that you gave your life to Jesus, let it be today. Just because you grew up in church or going out with your parents and you loved God, you always believed in Him. But if you can't remember that moment that you said, I'm giving my whole grown life to Jesus, let that be today. Is there one who wants to? Besides, we have one. Is there another? All right, let's pray together with Him. Hey, I see you. Hey, I see you. Everybody pray with them. Lord, thank you for Jesus. We believe that Jesus was your son. We believe he died for us and rose from the dead. We believe he ripped open the veil and gave us direct access to you. So we're coming to you, asking you, rip the veil off our hearts and let us be in relationship with you forever in Jesus. Name. Amen. That's it. Just like that. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Is there anyone that wants prayer today for to grip onto the good work? Some of you may know Jesus, but you don't feel like you really got your hands on an expectation of the good things. Your faith for his promises has been a little weak. Does anybody just want prayer for strength? Today I see so many of you. Father. Strengthen these move in their lives in ways that remind them viscerally that you are who you say you are. Let the joy of the Lord pierce dark spaces. Let pain in their body disappear. Let difficult relationships unravel and work themselves out. Let the sleep they can't seem to find find them in a way that will mean the most to them. Because nobody knows them as well as you do. I ask you to move in their lives this week to remind them that you are who you said you are and you will do what you said you will do. You are the high priest of good things to come. And your prayer promises are yes and Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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