September 3, 2025 • 44 mins
The profound mystery of Christ's redemptive sacrifice unfolds through an illuminating study of Isaiah's ancient prophecy. Isaiah's vivid portrayal of the Messiah as "a tender plant" and "a root out of dry ground" reveals both Christ's divine origin and human nature. Though possessing no extraordinary appearance to attract followers, His mission carried an extraordinary purpose. The prophecy details how He would be "despised and rejected," with people turning away as they might avoid an unpleasant stranger—a heartbreaking foretelling of humanity's response to divine love.
What makes Christ's sacrifice truly remarkable is its voluntary nature. Scripture emphasizes that "he poured out his soul unto death" willingly, bearing "our griefs," "wounded for our transgressions," and "bruised for our iniquities." This wasn't reluctant martyrdom but a deliberate choice made with full awareness of its cost. The magnitude becomes staggering when we consider its scope—not merely for believers but "the sins of the whole world."
Through exploring Hebrews, we contrast the temporary Levitical priesthood with Christ's eternal priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek." Unlike temple priests offering repeated sacrifices, Jesus made one perfect sacrifice "once for all." His perfection—being "holy, harmless, undefiled"—made Him the only suitable sacrifice, establishing a "continual and perpetual intercessor" for believers.
Our response to this sacrifice should be overwhelming gratitude, compelling righteous living. To continue in willful sin after understanding Christ's work is to "trample on His blood." Yet for those who stumble, genuine confession and repentance bring cleansing through His blood—covering not just past sins but future failures of the truly repentant heart.
The choice remains simple: accept Christ's payment and live accordingly, or reject it and face judgment. The magnitude of His sacrifice demands nothing less than complete devotion. How will you respond to the one who willingly bore the weight of all humanity's sin?
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j - Jesus M. Ruiz (00:04):
The vision received was that of blood cells
traveling throughout the body,supplying the much-needed oxygen
and other nutrients to thediffering members of the body to
fulfill their purpose.
Once the blood cells are spent,they must return back to the
heart to be refilled beforebeing sent out again and fulfill
their purpose.
Let's see more in Isaiah 53.
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Timon, if you'll read verse 1and 2, please.
Tymon Smith (00:43):
Who hath believed our report and to whom
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (01:04):
Please, oh, just one and two?
Yeah, thank you.
Who hath believed our report,who hath believed this prophecy
of the Messiah To whom is thearm of the Lord been revealed to
.
He's speaking of the man JesusChrist.
He's speaking that he's goingto grow up before him like a
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tender plant.
When we plant a tender plant,do we not care for it, do we not
protect it, do we not take careof it?
Was not the man Jesus Christprotected to the point where
Herod couldn't touch him?
He even went into Egypt andthey still couldn't touch him.
And when they wanted to stonehim, he just disappeared.
They couldn't touch him.
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And when they wanted to stonehim, he just disappeared.
They couldn't touch him becausethe father was looking upon him
, was protecting him and makinghim untouchable like a tender
plant.
Ain't nobody going to hurt you,ain't nobody going to harm you.
And then he says and as a rootout of dry ground.
And I began to understand thatthat had some meaning.
It spoke of two things the rootout of dry ground, the dry
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ground refers back to Adam.
Adam was fashioned out of thedry ground and he was given the
breath of life.
So he's referring that thisroot is going to be a human.
He's going to be a man of theground, a man of the clay, a man
of the earth, a human of theclay, a man of the earth, a
human.
But what does the root speak of?
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Well, before you can get a rootin the ground, don't you have
to be a seed, doesn't?
The seed get planted in theground and then its casing
breaks open and then the rootstarts searching in the ground
and creating its root right.
Well, the seed is the word ofGod and it says the word became
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flesh.
He was talking about what hewas going to do.
No wonder the prophets didn'tunderstand this stuff.
We didn't understand this stuffuntil we realized the Lord of
glory had come in the flesh.
But the root is that He.
It also says He is the root andthe offspring of David.
He not only came from David, Hewas before David.
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He was before Abraham.
He was I am.
So the root in essence, refersto his beginning, his essence,
and remember he said I am theroot and the offspring of David.
This human that I am prophesyingto you of would not have an
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attractive appearance physicallythat would call any undue
attention to himself.
I told you the Lord of glory,and we sing it you're so
beautiful, you're so marvelous,you're so wonderful, you're so
glorious.
Well, he took all of that gloryoff and he wasn't anybody that
we would be like, wow, he's sohandsome, he's so large and in
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charge, he's like a Hollywoodstar.
No, he would be the last personyou would think.
Why do you think hardly anybodybelieved him, because man
judges by appearance.
He wasn't anybody that youwould think he's all that?
No At all At all.
Verse 3.
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Allen, same chapter.
Allen Cook (04:27):
He is despised and rejected of men, a man of
sorrows and acquainted withgrief, and we hid, as if were
our faces, from him.
He was despised and we esteemedhim not.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (04:41):
When Jesus reveals Himself to us, we see
his face, in other words, we seehis glory, we understand that
He is and He has our attention,and we have his attention and we
bask in His presence.
We bask in that attention thatHe's now given us, for He's
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revealed himself to us, but whenhe came unto his own, his own
received him.
Not, they didn't look at him,they didn't give him his
attention.
No, they rejected him.
They ignored him, like youwould probably ignore someone as
you walk down the street andsome beggar.
That's just disgusting andfilthy.
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You would just turn your eyesand say yeah and you'd walk away
.
That's how they treated him.
I don't want to have nothing todo with you.
We paid him no reverence.
We paid him no respect.
We rejected the king of glory,the father who, in love, created
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us to be loved by him.
Glenys, would you read 4, 5,and 6 of the same chapter?
Amen.
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We just read in Isaiah 22 abouta nail that's fastened in a sure
place, and that sure place itwas going to be removed from
that sure place.
It says that it would be cutdown and fall, and the burden
that was upon it shall be cutoff.
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In these verses that Glenysjust read, we start to
understand what was the burdenplaced upon that nail Our griefs
, our sorrows.
He was wounded for ourtransgressions.
He was bruised for ouriniquities.
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He was stricken with whipswhere he had stripes all over
his body because the iniquity ofus all was placed upon him.
This was the burden of thatnail.
Remember it said that nailwould be removed from the sure
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place.
I still haven't figured out thesure place until I continued
reading.
Lina, would you read 7 and 8?
Lina Cook (07:52):
He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened
not his mouth.
He is brought as a lamb to theslaughter and as a sheep before
her shearers is dumb, so heopeneth not his mouth.
And he was taken from prisonand from judgment.
And who shall declare hisgeneration?
For he was cut off out of theland of the living For the
transgression of my people.
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Was he stricken?
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (08:14):
This man was afflicted and oppressed to such
a high degree and he didn't saya word, he did not defend
himself, he willingly gavehimself up.
It says he was cut off from theland of the living.
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There's that word cut off.
That sure place that the nailwas put in was the land of the
living.
And when it says he was goingto be cut off, like in the midst
of the week he was cut off,that's referring to his death.
He would no longer be living.
And he did that for thetransgression of the people of
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God.
This is why he was beaten.
This is why he was bruised.
Apparently, this humanwillingly..
.
I think that's the key thatcauses us to appreciate the love
that this man had because hedid it willingly.
He willingly gave himself upand bared the brunt of the sins
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of all of God's people and diedfor it.
The nail was fastened in asecure place.
He was in the land of theliving.
But here we see the nail beingremoved and it being cut off
from the land of the living.
But it said the burden would beremoved from him.
Rocky, could you read 9, 10, 11, and 12?
Rocqui Cook (09:57):
and he made his grave with the wicked, with the
rich, in his death.
Because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth.
Yet it pleased the Lord tobruise him.
He hath put him to grief.
When thou shalt make his soulan offering for sin, he shall
see his seed, he shall prolonghis days, and the pleasure of
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the Lord shall prosper in hishand.
He shall see of the travail ofhis soul and shall be satisfied
by his knowledge.
Shall my righteous servantjustify many, For he shall bear
their iniquities.
Therefore, I will divide inproportion with the great and he
shall divide the soil with thestrong, because he hath poured
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out his soul into death and hewas numbered with the
transgressors and he bared thesin of many and made
intercession for thetransgressors.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (11:00):
He paid that price.
Even though he had done noviolence, there was no guile in
his mouth, there was nothingwrong that he had done to
deserve the treatment that hehad received.
And remember, this is prophecy,this is before it happened.
But notice it says thou shaltmake his soul an offering for
sin.
The Lord looked at this man andwhen all of the sins were
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placed upon him, it pleased theLord because redemption was
taking place.
The justice for the injusticesthat he has seen throughout the
earth, throughout the annals oftime, is being taken care of.
It's not that he's a sadisticGod.
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It's that He's trying to savemankind and somebody has to pay
the price.
Somebody has to go down and bethe scapegoat, and the only man
worthy to be the scapegoat is aninnocent man.
So when He saw all that He hadbared, He looked upon him.
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He was satisfied.
He saw the travail of the soulof the man, of Jesus and all
that He took upon himself, andHe was satisfied that he's
making the payment.
It says my righteous shalljustify many.
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The dying of that one man willjustify countless numbers of
others.
He shall bear the iniquity ofall those others.
Here's the promise to the man,Jesus, because it says in verse
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12, he poured out his soul untodeath.
He did it.
The man willingly poured outhis soul to die.
And here's the promise to theman.
We don't understand that.
The man had revelations of whatGod promised would happen to
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him.
He says, therefore, because Isee the travail of his soul and
I am satisfied because he'sgoing to bring righteousness to
many and He bears theiriniquities, I will divide him a
portion with the great.
He shall divide the spoil withthe strong.
Because he poured out his soulunto death.
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I promise him that I will givehim a great inheritance.
That inheritance was spoken ofbefore.
I will give him the glory of myfather's house and he will then
divide it amongst his own.
It says he bore their sin and hemade intercession.
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Now I'm going back to Samuel.
He made intercession with thatact of sacrifice for the
transgressors.
The man poured out his soulunto death.
The stripes and the griefs andthe sorrows and the
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chastisements and the rejectionand the transgressions and the
iniquity and the sin of all thepeople of God, all the people of
God from Adam to today and tothose in the future.
All them, all of them.
Have you considered thecountless numbers of people when
I say all of them?
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This man did it willingly.
That's what makes his love sogreat.
That's what makes his love soawesome.
He wasn't forced to do it.
He did it willingly.
He was willing to lay down aninnocent life, a life that
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didn't deserve his treatment.
It didn't even deserve death.
He never sinned, and if henever sinned, he should have
never died.
He should have lived forever onearth.
But He was willing to take onthe sins of the world to save.
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The man realized that God waslooking at him as the
sacrificial lamb.
He was looking out to and frothroughout the earth, but his
own arm brought salvation and byhis own righteousness he stood.
God was willing to bear theiniquity of all man to give them
an opportunity to be saved.
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I keep saying the man, JesusChrist, and there's nothing
wrong with that.
But you have to have theunderstanding that the man Jesus
Christ was none other than Godhimself in the flesh.
And he decided I will die forthe sins of the world.
I will take it on Me, holy andpure and without sin.
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I will take it on as if I didit.
We've delivered the message inthis house that the spirit of
Christ was the spirit of Godthat rested on all of the
prophets of old.
Did we not say that?
We said it in 1 Peter 1, 10 and11.
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Of which salvation the prophetsinquired and searched
diligently?
Who prophesied of the gracethat should come unto you,
searching what or what manner oftime the Spirit of Christ which
was in them did signify, whenit testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ and theglory that should follow All
these prophecies that we read ofin the Psalms by David, in the
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Proverbs in Ecclesiastes, inEzekiel, in Jeremiah, and these
all messianic propheticscriptures, is because the
Spirit of Christ it didn't saythe spirit of God was on the
prophets of old.
It said the spirit of Christ,the man, Jesus Christ.
You begin to hear his soulbeing poured out through the
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prophets of old, before it hadever happened, because in God's
eyes he had already done it.
The lamb was slain before thefoundation of the world, and so
his soul had already experiencedit and he was sharing his heart
with the prophets of old,Letting them know this is what
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I'm going to suffer for you, andI know you're not going to
understand it in the day thatyou see it or even speak it for
me.
One example Psalm 7-5.
Kyra, could you read Psalm 7-5?
David wrote this and if you readit and you don't have any
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revelation from the Lord.
You're going to think, well,it's just David talking about
his life and all of the thingsthat he struggled with.
Kyra Henderson (18:28):
Let the enemy persecute my soul and take it,
Yea let him, put down my lifeupon the earth and lay mine on
the ring of death.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (18:40):
David said that and we think he's talking
about himself.
And I say that the Spirit ofChrist was on David and was
speaking through him the thingsthat He had decided.
Let the enemy persecute me.
Let the enemy persecute my soul.
Let the enemy take it.
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Let him tread down my life uponthe earth and lay down mine
honor in the dust.
That is Christ speaking throughhim of what he was willing to
do, to lay down his life.
Let the enemy have his way withme.
I'm willing to pay thesacrifice.
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He said in John 10, 15,.
Jesus said as the father knowwith me, even so, know I, the
father, I lay down my life forthe sheep.
He said that he didn't say Godis going to lay down my life.
He said I do it, I'm the onethat's going to lay it down, I'm
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the one that's going tosacrifice it.
He said it later in 17.
This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life
that I might take it again.
He's alluding to his who hereally is.
He's alluding to his who hereally is.
He's God, but disrobed of allof his glory.
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Hebrews 7, verse 14.
Jordan, if you will read 14, 15, no, just 14 right now.
Jordan Harris (20:21):
It is evident that our Lord sprang out of
Judah, of which tribe Moses madenothing concerning the
priesthood.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (20:28):
The author of this book is starting to give a
revelation and an understandingthat there's a change that has
taken place.
And he refers back to the lawand he says that our Lord, this
man, Jesus Christ, was not aLevite.
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He came out of Judah.
Remember, I told you about thetabernacle of David.
David did something, not as aLevite, he was of the tribe of
Judah.
He was a type of what Jesus wasgoing to do.
There was a transfer, there wasa changing of an order that God
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had done through the Mosaic law.
Moses didn't speak of anythingconcerning a priesthood through
the line of Judah.
Dante read 15 and 16, please,and it is yet far more evident
for that after the similitude ofMelchizedek, Melchizedek the
arsonist and another priest whois made not?
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after the long carnalcommandment, but after the power
of an endless life.
So in these two verses thisauthor is talking about what I
told you about the tabernacleDavid, that there's some sort of
transfer, there's somethingthat is changing what was
previously done through the law.
There ariseth, remember theword Eliakim, God raises up
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there ariseth another priest, myservant, whom God raises up,
the inheritance of my portion,is made a priest, not through
the Levitical line, through theline of Judah, because of the
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power of an endless life.
Please read 17, 18, and 19.
Patricia Ruiz (22:36):
For he testifies, thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek, forthere is verily a disannulling
of the commandment.
God had declared the law in theearth, not for salvation.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (23:07):
He declared the law that man would know
their failures and their sins,because the law did not have the
power to save.
It has the power to convict butit doesn't have the power to
save.
And the word of God declaredyou are a priest according to
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the order of Melchizedek.
He spoke that propheticallyconcerning the man, Jesus Christ
.
You are a priest after theorder of Melchizedek because
there's a disannulling of thecommandment, because it was weak
, it couldn't do what I requiredof it to do.
It could not bring about thejustice that I wanted to see
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amongst the world of injustice.
The law made nothing perfect.
It made no man perfect, it justmade them more and more sinful.
But God brought a better hopeand this is the way that we draw
close to God, ashley, if youread 20 and 21.
Ashley Henderson (24:14):
For those priests were made without an
oath, but this was an oath byhim that said unto him the Lord
swear and will not repent, thouart a priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (24:28):
By so much was Jesus made a certainty of a
better time.
Jesus was made a priest by theword of God.
He literally just simply spokeit over him.
You are a priest according tothe order of Melchizedek.
It had nothing to do with thelaw and Jesus was the guarantee
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of this better testament, thisbetter covenant In 23 and 24,.
Murray, could you read 23-24?
Murray Fox (25:03):
Yes, sir, and they truly were many priests, because
they were not suffered tocontinue by reason of death.
But this man, because hecontinued forever at an
unchangeable priesthood,wherefore he is able also to
save them to the uttermost thatcome unto God by him seeing.
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He.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (25:29):
In the law.
You had a priest after priestafter priest after priest after
priest, because they were sinful.
None of them were perfect.
They not only had to make asacrifice for all the people of
God, they also had to make asacrifice for their own sin, and
so it never really got takencare of, because the law could
not.
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But then a man came, this arm ofsalvation whom God raised up
because he continueth forever.
Well, god, continue withforever.
He has an unchangeablepriesthood and he is the one
that is able to save them to theuttermost.
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That will do what come to Godby him.
Jesus said in the days of hisflesh no man cometh unto the
Father.
But by me he's only affirmingwhat Jesus said, because he ever
liveth to make intercession forus.
I thought that interesting,because when we believe in the
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Trinity, you say, well, god isthere and you got Jesus over
here at his right hand, and he'sjust constantly praying to the
Father and making intercession.
Kyra 26 and 27.
Kyra Henderson (26:55):
I'm going to see what this really is about.
Go ahead Reception.
High priest became us, who isholy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners, and madehigher than the heavens.
We need him not daily as those.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (27:15):
He who was holy, who was harmless, who was
undefiled, who was separatedfrom sinners, who was made
higher than the heavens.
This high priest, he became us.
It says it, he became us.
And what he did was done once,once and for all men, once and
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for all time, they say and it istrue, he does not need to offer
himself up again and again,millennia after millennia.
He was perfect, he was holy, hewas blameless, he was undefiled
.
And in verse 28, it says Forthe law maketh men high priests,
which have infirmity, whichhave sickness, sin high priests
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which have infirmity, which havesickness, sin, but the word of
the oath, which was since thelaw, make it the son consecrated
forevermore.
Now we're talking about theoffice of the son of God.
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We talk about offices.
They hold a particular officeor position a pastor, a bishop,
an elder.
Those are offices.
The Son of God is an office ofGod, and what does it refer to?
It refers to redemption.
It is the office of God inwhich he brings about the
redemption of mankind.
So the office of God, the Sonof God, stands, and what He did,
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His work as the Son of God,stands as a continual and
perpetual intercessor,advocating for the people of God
.
That's why we cry out the blood, the blood, the blood, because
the blood is always covering andprotecting us.
It's not like he had to dietoday to cover us today and he
had to die tomorrow to cover ustomorrow.
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That one act covers usperpetually for the rest of the
eons, for the rest of the ages.
This act of redemption by theman, Jesus Christ, stands
perpetually as the agent ofintercession for the people of
God who will do as Samueladmonished them 3,000 years ago
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when he said and we read this inthe beginning only fear the
Lord and serve him in truth,with all your heart.
Samuel said that he stood as atype of the intercessor, and
that word is clearly spoken tous today.
The sins have been taken careof For all the people of God.
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Only fear the Lord and servehim with all of your heart.
John the Baptist saw Jesuscoming and said Behold the Lamb
of God that did what that takeaway the sins of the world.
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I've only said he dealt withthe sins of his own people.
No-transcript.
Do you realize the gravity ofwhat Jesus did?
He didn't just take uponhimself the sins of the people
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of God, He took upon himself thesins of the whole world.
Can you imagine the countlessnumber of people that have ever
lived and all of their sins wereplaced upon him?
Have you ever sat down toconsider that every one of our
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sins was paid for by a man whowillingly died and paid the
penalty of death for us?
Have you just sat down andthought about that?
Can you fathom?
Can you even fathom, the weightof not just carrying one man's
sin?
Well, you know, some people,unrighteous people, might say,
well, I love him so much, I'lldie for him, but they're both
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sinful and you give up your lifefor that person.
Can you imagine this one man?
Do you know how many peoplelive in the world today?
At least six billion.
That's not talking abouthistory, that's talking about
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presently.
There's six billion people.
Well, jesus Christ died for sixbillion people and all the
others before, from Adam totoday.
I don't think we fathom thatbecause the number is so great,
it's so large.
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Personalize it.
Try right now to think of sinsthat you've committed.
You know you've committed.
Just think about it for amoment and you're just one
person and think about all thesins you've committed and you'll
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probably, if I ask you tonumber it, you would not be able
to number it Because you justit's too much.
It'll just start to overwhelmyou, and one man's sin
overwhelms you your own and yethe did it for six billion plus
people, plus, however many livedin the annals of time.
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Think of your adultery.
Think about the fact that Jesussaid if you lust in your heart
after a woman, you've alreadycommitted adultery.
Now you just thought about allthe things that you ever did.
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What about all the things thatyou ever thought?
Now that multiplies it evenmore.
That compounds the issue evenmore, because that was always
the issue, the issue of theheart.
It doesn't mean that OldTestament people never sinned
when they lusted in their heart.
They didn't realize that theywere already lusting and sinning
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in their heart when theythought about it.
So we commit adultery when wethink about things Fornication,
any type of sexual perversion,anything that you've ever done
that was sexually perverted.
Think about how many times youdid it.
Think about how many times youthought about it.
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Just thinking about it was anact of sin.
Any impure physical or moralact.
I'm literally going down thelist of the sins and the works
of the flesh uncleanness, anyimpure physical act,
lasciviousness, filthy words,unchaste body movements.
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And then we watch MTV and we'reentertained by the dancing and
the bop bop of the bum and thebreast and everything.
We're entertained by that andhe calls it lasciviousness,
idolatry.
Did you realize that the veryact of your stubbornness to
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maintain your own ways is an actof idolatry, witchcraft?
You know that the very act ofrebellion is witchcraft.
We're thinking magic and we'rethinking sorcery.
When you rebel, you are walkingin witchcraft.
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Hatred, variance, emulations.
When you're debating andquarreling and strifing, it's a
work of the flesh.
When you have extreme jealousyor envy, or indignation, wrath,
passion and fierceness, you'veever got so angry that you did
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something that you regretted inthe moment?
That's wrath, that's sin.
You lost control.
When you create factions, whenyou create contention amongst
people, you've never done that.
I see kids do it all the time,especially the young kids.
Bishop Harris has always saidyou can't have three girlfriends
because two are always going topair up.
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Always one gets left out.
You get creation and division,contention.
You do it when we were children.
Heresies, envying, murders,drunkenness.
How many times have you beendrunk?
How many times have you everstarted some sort of riot Not
(36:20):
like we see where they'rebreaking windows and stuff?
How about you ever stole?
Theft, covetousness, deceit youever, ever, ever been deceitful
?
Evil eye where you look atpeople and you think how can I
get them?
Mischief, ill will toward others, blasphemy, speaking evil
(36:46):
against God or others, pride,foolishness, even foolishness.
Imagine not just you, but everyperson who ever lived and will
live on the face of this earth.
He died for their foolishnessand pride and blasphemy and
(37:10):
their evil eye and their deceitand their covetousness and theft
and revelings and drunkennessand murders, and their envy and
their hatred and their evil eyeand their deceit and their
covetousness and theft andrevelings and drunkenness and
murders, and their envies andtheir hatred and their
emulations, and all of theirwitchcraft and all of their
idolatry and all of theirfornication, whether they did it
physically or in their heart.
He took it upon himself.
He left no stone unturned.
(37:30):
He left no leaven not dealtwith.
A man took it upon himselfbecause the purpose of that man
was to reconcile the world toGod.
God was in Christ, reconcilingthe world to himself.
(37:54):
He did not take the time toimpute and count your trespasses
against you.
That's not His purpose.
It's twofold I've come to savethem which are lost.
I've come to make righteousthose that are unrighteous.
But if there comes a time whenI will come in the second half
(38:16):
of my ministry and I will takevengeance on them that know God,
that do not know God and do notobey his gospel, now we are the
ambassadors of Christ.
We understand, we appreciatethis message, although some of
us to very less degree thanothers, but we appreciate the
message of what he has done forus and we begin to walk in a way
(38:40):
that is righteous according towhat he's done for us, because
we realize that he was made thesin that we committed, who knew
no sin, that we might be madethe righteousness of God in him.
You see, the choices are verysimple.
(39:02):
One you accept his act ofsacrifice as payment for your
sins and you live accordinglyfrom now on, by his example, in
work and in word.
Or two you don't accept hispenalty, his payment for the
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penalty for yourself.
It's your choice.
In 1 John 2, 1 and 2, john theApostle said my little children,
these things.
I write unto you that ye sinnot.
And if any man sin, we have anadvocate with the Father, jesus
(39:47):
Christ the righteous.
He is the payment, thepropitiation for our sins, and
not for ours only, but also forthe sins of the whole world.
You remember what Samuel saidto the people of God?
(40:07):
He said but if you shall dowickedly, ye shall be consumed,
both ye and your king.
So whoever you decide to servetoday, whoever you yield as
members of righteousness orunrighteousness, you and that
(40:29):
person you serve if it's not God, will be consumed in the fire
of his wrath and his vengeanceserve.
If it's not, god will beconsumed in the fire of his
wrath and his vengeance.
To this end, we should have anappreciation for the work of
redemption that we should becompelled.
We really should feel obligatedto honor the work that he's
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already done with our life ofsacrifice, doing his will above
our own, living righteously allthe rest of our days, because to
do otherwise is to slap Him inHis face.
To do otherwise is to trampleon His blood.
Wherewith you were sanctified,wherewith you were made holy.
(41:13):
In Hebrews 10, 26 he says if yousin willfully, there remaineth
no more sacrifice for sin.
You are lost to think that youcan walk however you want after
everything Christ did for you inhis act of redemption as the
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Son of God.
But I'll end on a high notebecause a lot of us, even when
we come into covenant, we end upstumbling.
We make bad mistakes, we makebad decisions and I say we made
them because we did.
And then the devil made me doit.
(41:56):
We did it.
I want to end on this high notebecause he says if we confess
our sins and walk in them nomore, because repentance is just
understood, after what Hebrews10, 26 said about if we sin
willfully, so even though inthis particular scripture, after
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what Hebrews 10.26 said aboutif we sin willfully, so even
though in this particularscripture 1 John 1.9, it just
simply says if we confess oursins, he is faithful, he is just
to forgive us our sins andcleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
Didn't say anything about andrepent.
But it's understood, folks, youcannot continue walking in your
sins and think that the bloodis going to cleanse you from
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that unrighteousness.
You have to repent.
You cannot fall in that anymore.
But if you do and you confessit and acknowledge it and remedy
the situation by walkingrepentantly contrary to the
wickedness.
He is faithful and he is justto forgive you.
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In other words, the blood isnot just for your past sins,
it's also for the sins thatyou'll make in the future.
He's got it covered.
Just don't take it for grantedand walk in a manner unworthy of
what he's called you to walk inAmen.
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The vision received was that of blood cells
traveling throughout the body,supplying the much-needed oxygen
and other nutrients to thediffering members of the body to
fulfill their purpose.
Once the blood cells are spent,they must return back to the
heart to be refilled beforebeing sent out again and fulfill
their purpose.
Let's see more in Isaiah 53.
(00:28):
Timon, if you'll read verse 1and 2, please.
Tymon Smith (00:43):
Who hath believed our report and to whom
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (01:04):
Please, oh, just one and two?
Yeah, thank you.
Who hath believed our report,who hath believed this prophecy
of the Messiah To whom is thearm of the Lord been revealed to
.
He's speaking of the man JesusChrist.
He's speaking that he's goingto grow up before him like a
(01:24):
tender plant.
When we plant a tender plant,do we not care for it, do we not
protect it, do we not take careof it?
Was not the man Jesus Christprotected to the point where
Herod couldn't touch him?
He even went into Egypt andthey still couldn't touch him.
And when they wanted to stonehim, he just disappeared.
They couldn't touch him.
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And when they wanted to stonehim, he just disappeared.
They couldn't touch him becausethe father was looking upon him
, was protecting him and makinghim untouchable like a tender
plant.
Ain't nobody going to hurt you,ain't nobody going to harm you.
And then he says and as a rootout of dry ground.
And I began to understand thatthat had some meaning.
It spoke of two things the rootout of dry ground, the dry
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ground refers back to Adam.
Adam was fashioned out of thedry ground and he was given the
breath of life.
So he's referring that thisroot is going to be a human.
He's going to be a man of theground, a man of the clay, a man
of the earth, a human of theclay, a man of the earth, a
human.
But what does the root speak of?
(02:29):
Well, before you can get a rootin the ground, don't you have
to be a seed, doesn't?
The seed get planted in theground and then its casing
breaks open and then the rootstarts searching in the ground
and creating its root right.
Well, the seed is the word ofGod and it says the word became
(02:49):
flesh.
He was talking about what hewas going to do.
No wonder the prophets didn'tunderstand this stuff.
We didn't understand this stuffuntil we realized the Lord of
glory had come in the flesh.
But the root is that He.
It also says He is the root andthe offspring of David.
He not only came from David, Hewas before David.
(03:13):
He was before Abraham.
He was I am.
So the root in essence, refersto his beginning, his essence,
and remember he said I am theroot and the offspring of David.
This human that I am prophesyingto you of would not have an
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attractive appearance physicallythat would call any undue
attention to himself.
I told you the Lord of glory,and we sing it you're so
beautiful, you're so marvelous,you're so wonderful, you're so
glorious.
Well, he took all of that gloryoff and he wasn't anybody that
we would be like, wow, he's sohandsome, he's so large and in
(03:59):
charge, he's like a Hollywoodstar.
No, he would be the last personyou would think.
Why do you think hardly anybodybelieved him, because man
judges by appearance.
He wasn't anybody that youwould think he's all that?
No At all At all.
Verse 3.
(04:22):
Allen, same chapter.
Allen Cook (04:27):
He is despised and rejected of men, a man of
sorrows and acquainted withgrief, and we hid, as if were
our faces, from him.
He was despised and we esteemedhim not.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (04:41):
When Jesus reveals Himself to us, we see
his face, in other words, we seehis glory, we understand that
He is and He has our attention,and we have his attention and we
bask in His presence.
We bask in that attention thatHe's now given us, for He's
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revealed himself to us, but whenhe came unto his own, his own
received him.
Not, they didn't look at him,they didn't give him his
attention.
No, they rejected him.
They ignored him, like youwould probably ignore someone as
you walk down the street andsome beggar.
That's just disgusting andfilthy.
(05:26):
You would just turn your eyesand say yeah and you'd walk away
.
That's how they treated him.
I don't want to have nothing todo with you.
We paid him no reverence.
We paid him no respect.
We rejected the king of glory,the father who, in love, created
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us to be loved by him.
Glenys, would you read 4, 5,and 6 of the same chapter?
Amen.
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We just read in Isaiah 22 abouta nail that's fastened in a sure
place, and that sure place itwas going to be removed from
that sure place.
It says that it would be cutdown and fall, and the burden
that was upon it shall be cutoff.
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In these verses that Glenysjust read, we start to
understand what was the burdenplaced upon that nail Our griefs
, our sorrows.
He was wounded for ourtransgressions.
He was bruised for ouriniquities.
(07:22):
He was stricken with whipswhere he had stripes all over
his body because the iniquity ofus all was placed upon him.
This was the burden of thatnail.
Remember it said that nailwould be removed from the sure
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place.
I still haven't figured out thesure place until I continued
reading.
Lina, would you read 7 and 8?
Lina Cook (07:52):
He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened
not his mouth.
He is brought as a lamb to theslaughter and as a sheep before
her shearers is dumb, so heopeneth not his mouth.
And he was taken from prisonand from judgment.
And who shall declare hisgeneration?
For he was cut off out of theland of the living For the
transgression of my people.
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Was he stricken?
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (08:14):
This man was afflicted and oppressed to such
a high degree and he didn't saya word, he did not defend
himself, he willingly gavehimself up.
It says he was cut off from theland of the living.
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There's that word cut off.
That sure place that the nailwas put in was the land of the
living.
And when it says he was goingto be cut off, like in the midst
of the week he was cut off,that's referring to his death.
He would no longer be living.
And he did that for thetransgression of the people of
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God.
This is why he was beaten.
This is why he was bruised.
Apparently, this humanwillingly..
.
I think that's the key thatcauses us to appreciate the love
that this man had because hedid it willingly.
He willingly gave himself upand bared the brunt of the sins
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of all of God's people and diedfor it.
The nail was fastened in asecure place.
He was in the land of theliving.
But here we see the nail beingremoved and it being cut off
from the land of the living.
But it said the burden would beremoved from him.
Rocky, could you read 9, 10, 11, and 12?
Rocqui Cook (09:57):
and he made his grave with the wicked, with the
rich, in his death.
Because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth.
Yet it pleased the Lord tobruise him.
He hath put him to grief.
When thou shalt make his soulan offering for sin, he shall
see his seed, he shall prolonghis days, and the pleasure of
(10:19):
the Lord shall prosper in hishand.
He shall see of the travail ofhis soul and shall be satisfied
by his knowledge.
Shall my righteous servantjustify many, For he shall bear
their iniquities.
Therefore, I will divide inproportion with the great and he
shall divide the soil with thestrong, because he hath poured
(10:42):
out his soul into death and hewas numbered with the
transgressors and he bared thesin of many and made
intercession for thetransgressors.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (11:00):
He paid that price.
Even though he had done noviolence, there was no guile in
his mouth, there was nothingwrong that he had done to
deserve the treatment that hehad received.
And remember, this is prophecy,this is before it happened.
But notice it says thou shaltmake his soul an offering for
sin.
The Lord looked at this man andwhen all of the sins were
(11:25):
placed upon him, it pleased theLord because redemption was
taking place.
The justice for the injusticesthat he has seen throughout the
earth, throughout the annals oftime, is being taken care of.
It's not that he's a sadisticGod.
(11:47):
It's that He's trying to savemankind and somebody has to pay
the price.
Somebody has to go down and bethe scapegoat, and the only man
worthy to be the scapegoat is aninnocent man.
So when He saw all that He hadbared, He looked upon him.
(12:11):
He was satisfied.
He saw the travail of the soulof the man, of Jesus and all
that He took upon himself, andHe was satisfied that he's
making the payment.
It says my righteous shalljustify many.
(12:35):
The dying of that one man willjustify countless numbers of
others.
He shall bear the iniquity ofall those others.
Here's the promise to the man,Jesus, because it says in verse
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12, he poured out his soul untodeath.
He did it.
The man willingly poured outhis soul to die.
And here's the promise to theman.
We don't understand that.
The man had revelations of whatGod promised would happen to
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him.
He says, therefore, because Isee the travail of his soul and
I am satisfied because he'sgoing to bring righteousness to
many and He bears theiriniquities, I will divide him a
portion with the great.
He shall divide the spoil withthe strong.
Because he poured out his soulunto death.
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I promise him that I will givehim a great inheritance.
That inheritance was spoken ofbefore.
I will give him the glory of myfather's house and he will then
divide it amongst his own.
It says he bore their sin and hemade intercession.
(14:03):
Now I'm going back to Samuel.
He made intercession with thatact of sacrifice for the
transgressors.
The man poured out his soulunto death.
The stripes and the griefs andthe sorrows and the
(14:27):
chastisements and the rejectionand the transgressions and the
iniquity and the sin of all thepeople of God, all the people of
God from Adam to today and tothose in the future.
All them, all of them.
Have you considered thecountless numbers of people when
I say all of them?
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This man did it willingly.
That's what makes his love sogreat.
That's what makes his love soawesome.
He wasn't forced to do it.
He did it willingly.
He was willing to lay down aninnocent life, a life that
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didn't deserve his treatment.
It didn't even deserve death.
He never sinned, and if henever sinned, he should have
never died.
He should have lived forever onearth.
But He was willing to take onthe sins of the world to save.
(15:40):
The man realized that God waslooking at him as the
sacrificial lamb.
He was looking out to and frothroughout the earth, but his
own arm brought salvation and byhis own righteousness he stood.
God was willing to bear theiniquity of all man to give them
an opportunity to be saved.
(16:01):
I keep saying the man, JesusChrist, and there's nothing
wrong with that.
But you have to have theunderstanding that the man Jesus
Christ was none other than Godhimself in the flesh.
And he decided I will die forthe sins of the world.
I will take it on Me, holy andpure and without sin.
(16:25):
I will take it on as if I didit.
We've delivered the message inthis house that the spirit of
Christ was the spirit of Godthat rested on all of the
prophets of old.
Did we not say that?
We said it in 1 Peter 1, 10 and11.
(16:48):
Of which salvation the prophetsinquired and searched
diligently?
Who prophesied of the gracethat should come unto you,
searching what or what manner oftime the Spirit of Christ which
was in them did signify, whenit testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ and theglory that should follow All
these prophecies that we read ofin the Psalms by David, in the
(17:13):
Proverbs in Ecclesiastes, inEzekiel, in Jeremiah, and these
all messianic propheticscriptures, is because the
Spirit of Christ it didn't saythe spirit of God was on the
prophets of old.
It said the spirit of Christ,the man, Jesus Christ.
You begin to hear his soulbeing poured out through the
(17:37):
prophets of old, before it hadever happened, because in God's
eyes he had already done it.
The lamb was slain before thefoundation of the world, and so
his soul had already experiencedit and he was sharing his heart
with the prophets of old,Letting them know this is what
(17:58):
I'm going to suffer for you, andI know you're not going to
understand it in the day thatyou see it or even speak it for
me.
One example Psalm 7-5.
Kyra, could you read Psalm 7-5?
David wrote this and if you readit and you don't have any
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revelation from the Lord.
You're going to think, well,it's just David talking about
his life and all of the thingsthat he struggled with.
Kyra Henderson (18:28):
Let the enemy persecute my soul and take it,
Yea let him, put down my lifeupon the earth and lay mine on
the ring of death.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (18:40):
David said that and we think he's talking
about himself.
And I say that the Spirit ofChrist was on David and was
speaking through him the thingsthat He had decided.
Let the enemy persecute me.
Let the enemy persecute my soul.
Let the enemy take it.
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Let him tread down my life uponthe earth and lay down mine
honor in the dust.
That is Christ speaking throughhim of what he was willing to
do, to lay down his life.
Let the enemy have his way withme.
I'm willing to pay thesacrifice.
(19:22):
He said in John 10, 15,.
Jesus said as the father knowwith me, even so, know I, the
father, I lay down my life forthe sheep.
He said that he didn't say Godis going to lay down my life.
He said I do it, I'm the onethat's going to lay it down, I'm
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the one that's going tosacrifice it.
He said it later in 17.
This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life
that I might take it again.
He's alluding to his who hereally is.
He's alluding to his who hereally is.
He's God, but disrobed of allof his glory.
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Hebrews 7, verse 14.
Jordan, if you will read 14, 15, no, just 14 right now.
Jordan Harris (20:21):
It is evident that our Lord sprang out of
Judah, of which tribe Moses madenothing concerning the
priesthood.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (20:28):
The author of this book is starting to give a
revelation and an understandingthat there's a change that has
taken place.
And he refers back to the lawand he says that our Lord, this
man, Jesus Christ, was not aLevite.
(20:49):
He came out of Judah.
Remember, I told you about thetabernacle of David.
David did something, not as aLevite, he was of the tribe of
Judah.
He was a type of what Jesus wasgoing to do.
There was a transfer, there wasa changing of an order that God
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had done through the Mosaic law.
Moses didn't speak of anythingconcerning a priesthood through
the line of Judah.
Dante read 15 and 16, please,and it is yet far more evident
for that after the similitude ofMelchizedek, Melchizedek the
arsonist and another priest whois made not?
(21:38):
after the long carnalcommandment, but after the power
of an endless life.
So in these two verses thisauthor is talking about what I
told you about the tabernacleDavid, that there's some sort of
transfer, there's somethingthat is changing what was
previously done through the law.
There ariseth, remember theword Eliakim, God raises up
(22:07):
there ariseth another priest, myservant, whom God raises up,
the inheritance of my portion,is made a priest, not through
the Levitical line, through theline of Judah, because of the
(22:28):
power of an endless life.
Please read 17, 18, and 19.
Patricia Ruiz (22:36):
For he testifies, thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek, forthere is verily a disannulling
of the commandment.
God had declared the law in theearth, not for salvation.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (23:07):
He declared the law that man would know
their failures and their sins,because the law did not have the
power to save.
It has the power to convict butit doesn't have the power to
save.
And the word of God declaredyou are a priest according to
(23:28):
the order of Melchizedek.
He spoke that propheticallyconcerning the man, Jesus Christ
.
You are a priest after theorder of Melchizedek because
there's a disannulling of thecommandment, because it was weak
, it couldn't do what I requiredof it to do.
It could not bring about thejustice that I wanted to see
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amongst the world of injustice.
The law made nothing perfect.
It made no man perfect, it justmade them more and more sinful.
But God brought a better hopeand this is the way that we draw
close to God, ashley, if youread 20 and 21.
Ashley Henderson (24:14):
For those priests were made without an
oath, but this was an oath byhim that said unto him the Lord
swear and will not repent, thouart a priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (24:28):
By so much was Jesus made a certainty of a
better time.
Jesus was made a priest by theword of God.
He literally just simply spokeit over him.
You are a priest according tothe order of Melchizedek.
It had nothing to do with thelaw and Jesus was the guarantee
(24:51):
of this better testament, thisbetter covenant In 23 and 24,.
Murray, could you read 23-24?
Murray Fox (25:03):
Yes, sir, and they truly were many priests, because
they were not suffered tocontinue by reason of death.
But this man, because hecontinued forever at an
unchangeable priesthood,wherefore he is able also to
save them to the uttermost thatcome unto God by him seeing.
(25:27):
He.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (25:29):
In the law.
You had a priest after priestafter priest after priest after
priest, because they were sinful.
None of them were perfect.
They not only had to make asacrifice for all the people of
God, they also had to make asacrifice for their own sin, and
so it never really got takencare of, because the law could
not.
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But then a man came, this arm ofsalvation whom God raised up
because he continueth forever.
Well, god, continue withforever.
He has an unchangeablepriesthood and he is the one
that is able to save them to theuttermost.
(26:13):
That will do what come to Godby him.
Jesus said in the days of hisflesh no man cometh unto the
Father.
But by me he's only affirmingwhat Jesus said, because he ever
liveth to make intercession forus.
I thought that interesting,because when we believe in the
(26:34):
Trinity, you say, well, god isthere and you got Jesus over
here at his right hand, and he'sjust constantly praying to the
Father and making intercession.
Kyra 26 and 27.
Kyra Henderson (26:55):
I'm going to see what this really is about.
Go ahead Reception.
High priest became us, who isholy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners, and madehigher than the heavens.
We need him not daily as those.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (27:15):
He who was holy, who was harmless, who was
undefiled, who was separatedfrom sinners, who was made
higher than the heavens.
This high priest, he became us.
It says it, he became us.
And what he did was done once,once and for all men, once and
(27:42):
for all time, they say and it istrue, he does not need to offer
himself up again and again,millennia after millennia.
He was perfect, he was holy, hewas blameless, he was undefiled
.
And in verse 28, it says Forthe law maketh men high priests,
which have infirmity, whichhave sickness, sin high priests
(28:03):
which have infirmity, which havesickness, sin, but the word of
the oath, which was since thelaw, make it the son consecrated
forevermore.
Now we're talking about theoffice of the son of God.
(28:27):
We talk about offices.
They hold a particular officeor position a pastor, a bishop,
an elder.
Those are offices.
The Son of God is an office ofGod, and what does it refer to?
It refers to redemption.
It is the office of God inwhich he brings about the
redemption of mankind.
So the office of God, the Sonof God, stands, and what He did,
(28:51):
His work as the Son of God,stands as a continual and
perpetual intercessor,advocating for the people of God
.
That's why we cry out the blood, the blood, the blood, because
the blood is always covering andprotecting us.
It's not like he had to dietoday to cover us today and he
had to die tomorrow to cover ustomorrow.
(29:12):
That one act covers usperpetually for the rest of the
eons, for the rest of the ages.
This act of redemption by theman, Jesus Christ, stands
perpetually as the agent ofintercession for the people of
God who will do as Samueladmonished them 3,000 years ago
(29:36):
when he said and we read this inthe beginning only fear the
Lord and serve him in truth,with all your heart.
Samuel said that he stood as atype of the intercessor, and
that word is clearly spoken tous today.
The sins have been taken careof For all the people of God.
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Only fear the Lord and servehim with all of your heart.
John the Baptist saw Jesuscoming and said Behold the Lamb
of God that did what that takeaway the sins of the world.
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I've only said he dealt withthe sins of his own people.
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Do you realize the gravity ofwhat Jesus did?
He didn't just take uponhimself the sins of the people
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of God, He took upon himself thesins of the whole world.
Can you imagine the countlessnumber of people that have ever
lived and all of their sins wereplaced upon him?
Have you ever sat down toconsider that every one of our
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sins was paid for by a man whowillingly died and paid the
penalty of death for us?
Have you just sat down andthought about that?
Can you fathom?
Can you even fathom, the weightof not just carrying one man's
sin?
Well, you know, some people,unrighteous people, might say,
well, I love him so much, I'lldie for him, but they're both
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sinful and you give up your lifefor that person.
Can you imagine this one man?
Do you know how many peoplelive in the world today?
At least six billion.
That's not talking abouthistory, that's talking about
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presently.
There's six billion people.
Well, jesus Christ died for sixbillion people and all the
others before, from Adam totoday.
I don't think we fathom thatbecause the number is so great,
it's so large.
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Personalize it.
Try right now to think of sinsthat you've committed.
You know you've committed.
Just think about it for amoment and you're just one
person and think about all thesins you've committed and you'll
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probably, if I ask you tonumber it, you would not be able
to number it Because you justit's too much.
It'll just start to overwhelmyou, and one man's sin
overwhelms you your own and yethe did it for six billion plus
people, plus, however many livedin the annals of time.
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Think of your adultery.
Think about the fact that Jesussaid if you lust in your heart
after a woman, you've alreadycommitted adultery.
Now you just thought about allthe things that you ever did.
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What about all the things thatyou ever thought?
Now that multiplies it evenmore.
That compounds the issue evenmore, because that was always
the issue, the issue of theheart.
It doesn't mean that OldTestament people never sinned
when they lusted in their heart.
They didn't realize that theywere already lusting and sinning
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in their heart when theythought about it.
So we commit adultery when wethink about things Fornication,
any type of sexual perversion,anything that you've ever done
that was sexually perverted.
Think about how many times youdid it.
Think about how many times youthought about it.
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Just thinking about it was anact of sin.
Any impure physical or moralact.
I'm literally going down thelist of the sins and the works
of the flesh uncleanness, anyimpure physical act,
lasciviousness, filthy words,unchaste body movements.
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And then we watch MTV and we'reentertained by the dancing and
the bop bop of the bum and thebreast and everything.
We're entertained by that andhe calls it lasciviousness,
idolatry.
Did you realize that the veryact of your stubbornness to
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maintain your own ways is an actof idolatry, witchcraft?
You know that the very act ofrebellion is witchcraft.
We're thinking magic and we'rethinking sorcery.
When you rebel, you are walkingin witchcraft.
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Hatred, variance, emulations.
When you're debating andquarreling and strifing, it's a
work of the flesh.
When you have extreme jealousyor envy, or indignation, wrath,
passion and fierceness, you'veever got so angry that you did
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something that you regretted inthe moment?
That's wrath, that's sin.
You lost control.
When you create factions, whenyou create contention amongst
people, you've never done that.
I see kids do it all the time,especially the young kids.
Bishop Harris has always saidyou can't have three girlfriends
because two are always going topair up.
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Always one gets left out.
You get creation and division,contention.
You do it when we were children.
Heresies, envying, murders,drunkenness.
How many times have you beendrunk?
How many times have you everstarted some sort of riot Not
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like we see where they'rebreaking windows and stuff?
How about you ever stole?
Theft, covetousness, deceit youever, ever, ever been deceitful
?
Evil eye where you look atpeople and you think how can I
get them?
Mischief, ill will toward others, blasphemy, speaking evil
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against God or others, pride,foolishness, even foolishness.
Imagine not just you, but everyperson who ever lived and will
live on the face of this earth.
He died for their foolishnessand pride and blasphemy and
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their evil eye and their deceitand their covetousness and theft
and revelings and drunkennessand murders, and their envy and
their hatred and their evil eyeand their deceit and their
covetousness and theft andrevelings and drunkenness and
murders, and their envies andtheir hatred and their
emulations, and all of theirwitchcraft and all of their
idolatry and all of theirfornication, whether they did it
physically or in their heart.
He took it upon himself.
He left no stone unturned.
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He left no leaven not dealtwith.
A man took it upon himselfbecause the purpose of that man
was to reconcile the world toGod.
God was in Christ, reconcilingthe world to himself.
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He did not take the time toimpute and count your trespasses
against you.
That's not His purpose.
It's twofold I've come to savethem which are lost.
I've come to make righteousthose that are unrighteous.
But if there comes a time whenI will come in the second half
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of my ministry and I will takevengeance on them that know God,
that do not know God and do notobey his gospel, now we are the
ambassadors of Christ.
We understand, we appreciatethis message, although some of
us to very less degree thanothers, but we appreciate the
message of what he has done forus and we begin to walk in a way
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that is righteous according towhat he's done for us, because
we realize that he was made thesin that we committed, who knew
no sin, that we might be madethe righteousness of God in him.
You see, the choices are verysimple.
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One you accept his act ofsacrifice as payment for your
sins and you live accordinglyfrom now on, by his example, in
work and in word.
Or two you don't accept hispenalty, his payment for the
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penalty for yourself.
It's your choice.
In 1 John 2, 1 and 2, john theApostle said my little children,
these things.
I write unto you that ye sinnot.
And if any man sin, we have anadvocate with the Father, jesus
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Christ the righteous.
He is the payment, thepropitiation for our sins, and
not for ours only, but also forthe sins of the whole world.
You remember what Samuel saidto the people of God?
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He said but if you shall dowickedly, ye shall be consumed,
both ye and your king.
So whoever you decide to servetoday, whoever you yield as
members of righteousness orunrighteousness, you and that
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person you serve if it's not God, will be consumed in the fire
of his wrath and his vengeanceserve.
If it's not, god will beconsumed in the fire of his
wrath and his vengeance.
To this end, we should have anappreciation for the work of
redemption that we should becompelled.
We really should feel obligatedto honor the work that he's
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already done with our life ofsacrifice, doing his will above
our own, living righteously allthe rest of our days, because to
do otherwise is to slap Him inHis face.
To do otherwise is to trampleon His blood.
Wherewith you were sanctified,wherewith you were made holy.
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In Hebrews 10, 26 he says if yousin willfully, there remaineth
no more sacrifice for sin.
You are lost to think that youcan walk however you want after
everything Christ did for you inhis act of redemption as the
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Son of God.
But I'll end on a high notebecause a lot of us, even when
we come into covenant, we end upstumbling.
We make bad mistakes, we makebad decisions and I say we made
them because we did.
And then the devil made me doit.
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We did it.
I want to end on this high notebecause he says if we confess
our sins and walk in them nomore, because repentance is just
understood, after what Hebrews10, 26 said about if we sin
willfully, so even though inthis particular scripture, after
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what Hebrews 10.26 said aboutif we sin willfully, so even
though in this particularscripture 1 John 1.9, it just
simply says if we confess oursins, he is faithful, he is just
to forgive us our sins andcleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
Didn't say anything about andrepent.
But it's understood, folks, youcannot continue walking in your
sins and think that the bloodis going to cleanse you from
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that unrighteousness.
You have to repent.
You cannot fall in that anymore.
But if you do and you confessit and acknowledge it and remedy
the situation by walkingrepentantly contrary to the
wickedness.
He is faithful and he is justto forgive you.
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In other words, the blood isnot just for your past sins,
it's also for the sins thatyou'll make in the future.
He's got it covered.
Just don't take it for grantedand walk in a manner unworthy of
what he's called you to walk inAmen.
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