Jesus asked the religious rulers, "Have ye not read?"—not because they lacked Scripture, but because they lacked spiritual discernment. They knew the letter of the law but were blind to the truth standing before them. Dead religion exalts ritual and condemns grace, while God honors the heart that discerns Him.
When David ate the shewbread, he broke the law—but was not condemned. David, a type of Christ, acted with spiritual understanding. The parallel between David's actions and Christ's authority reveals how discernment sees beyond religious blindness to the mercy and purpose of God.
This is a call to reject outward formality without inward faith—and to seek the discernment that only comes from the Spirit of God.
When David ate the shewbread, he broke the law—but was not condemned. David, a type of Christ, acted with spiritual understanding. The parallel between David's actions and Christ's authority reveals how discernment sees beyond religious blindness to the mercy and purpose of God.
This is a call to reject outward formality without inward faith—and to seek the discernment that only comes from the Spirit of God.
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00:00I pray that you'd give me the gift that I need tonight to minister in the office that you've placed me
00:06Our Heavenly Father to fulfill fulfill the obligations that I have on my shoulder. I pray for wisdom from Scripture
00:12I pray that I don't lead people wrong and astray
00:16The father I pray that what I speak
00:18I speak it as the oracles of God that you've given us in the Word of God in thy name. I pray. Amen
00:24All right. Now. I want you to turn away the Bible tonight in the book of first Samuel
00:30First Samuel chapter number 16
00:36First Samuel chapter 16 and verse number 14
00:46First Samuel chapter number 16 and verse 14
00:52Scripture says the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him
01:00Saul's servants said to him behold now an evil spirit from God trouble of thee
01:04But our Lord now command thy servants which are before thee to seek out a man who is cunning player on a harp
01:11And shall come to pass that when the evil spirit from God is upon thee
01:15That he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well Saul said to his servants
01:20Provide me now a man that can play well and bring him to me
01:26then
01:27Answered one of his servants behold
01:29I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehem height that is cunning and playing a mighty valiant man
01:36man of war prudent in matters a comely person the Lord is with him
01:41wherefore Saul
01:43Said sent messengers to Jesse and said send me David thy son
01:48Which is with the sheep
01:51Father bless your word now in your holy name. Amen
01:55So now we're introduced to David and we find here something that's very important to understand
02:04That God has set aside a man in the Bible unlike any other. There's only one David as I've mentioned to you before
02:13There's only one man in the Bible named David can't find another one so that makes him unique
02:19He's the second king of Israel. The first one was Saul
02:23He's the second king of Israel, but he's the only king Israel ever had that united them together
02:30as 12 tribes and
02:33Upon his passing his Solomon was his son Solomon was instrumental in breaking it up
02:39David built quite a kingdom while he was in there and his son his son Solomon was instrumental in breaking that up
02:47David was never concerned about wealth
02:50What he wanted to do is serve the Lord he wanted Israel to be a nation that was faithful to God
02:56His son Solomon whose heart was moved by the many wives and concubines and so forth that he had in his harem
03:03moved him away from the God of Abraham Isaac and Israel and
03:07Because of that he brought apostasy into the land that stayed with him all the way to the Babylonian captivity
03:12It never left and so the fruit of
03:15Solomon is
03:17Was there with him all the way into Babylon
03:20But when Sam when when David was anointed as the king of Israel
03:25He was anointed three times
03:28God set him aside
03:29The first time he was a young man. He was it's a lot of controversy as to how old he was
03:36Anywhere from 8 15 years old somewhere along in there. He was young a teenager and
03:41we read about that in 1st Samuel chapter number 6 and
03:45Verse number 7 8 9 and 10. You'll see that
03:52Samuel
03:54Anoints David as
03:56the king of Israel
03:58He anoints him in private
04:01It's not before the people. It's not in public, but it's a private anointing
04:06In verse number 12 of the book of 1st Samuel chapter number 6. It says that he sent and brought him in
04:12He was ready with all of a beautiful countenance
04:15goodly to look to him and
04:18The Lord said arise
04:21anoint him
04:22for this is he and
04:24then Samuel took the horn of oil anointed him in the midst of his brethren and
04:28The Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Rama
04:35Two great men meet face-to-face here
04:39One is David the greatest king that Israel ever had and the other was Samuel the greatest judge that Israel had ever had
04:46far and away and the judges ended with Samuel and
04:50So we have one here there who is
04:53Undisputed no one ever questioned Samuel and his place and walk with God
04:59When he came into a town the elders of the town would quake
05:03They would shake they would wonder what's happening here. Here comes that long white haired man
05:09Samuel and we know who he is. God is with him. So why has he come?
05:15but of course God uses him to anoint David as
05:18the king but now he is anointed the second time in 2nd Samuel chapter number 2 and
05:24Here he is anointed
05:28To be the king of Judah the southern tribes
05:32Not all 12, but just the southern
05:35Then in 2nd Samuel chapter number 5
05:38Finally, it says this verse number 1
05:42then came all the tribes of Israel to David and to Hebron the word Hebron means fellowship and
05:48Spake saying behold. We are thy bone and thy flesh
05:52also in time past when Saul was king over us thou wast he that let us out and brought us in Israel and
05:58The Lord said to thee thou shalt feed my people Israel and thou shalt be a captain over Israel
06:04so all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron and
06:09King David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord. They anointed David king over Israel
06:17David was 30 years old when he began to reign and he reigned 40 years in
06:24Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years six months and in Jerusalem. He reigned 30 and three years
06:31Over all Israel and Judah and he lived to be 70 years old and then the Lord took him
06:38from this earth
06:40It's the type of Christ these three anointings of David
06:45It has been pointed out that the first one when he is anointed in secret
06:50Is when he was crowned with glory and honor as a man while he was here 2,000 years ago
06:56You remember the Lord said to his disciples who do men say that I the son of man am at Caesarea Philippi
07:04Yes at Caesarea Philippi at the headwaters of the Jordan River
07:08Some say Moses some Elijah some Jeremiah's one of the old prophets the Lord said who do you say that I am?
07:15Who do you say and that's the difference between us in here and the folks out there
07:21Who do you say that he is? Do you know who he is?
07:24If we do not know who the Lord Jesus Christ is we are blind as a bat
07:30But of course we know him we know who he is and we know him and we know him on our soul
07:37He is the Son of God
07:40But he will also reign over the house of Israel
07:43Like he did over over over Judah, he'll reign over the house of Israel when Israel acknowledges him as
07:51their king and they'll look upon him whom they've pierced and
07:55They'll mourn for him as they is one morning for his only son and they'll ask him where he got the nail prints
08:02That's gonna be quite a thing. He told them he will tell them I got them in the house of my friends
08:09That's quite a testimony to friendship don't you think and they had him nailed on a cross
08:14but the third time that he's anointed is when he's anointed by all of Israel and
08:20the reference the
08:21Comparison to that in the New Testament will be when he becomes the king of kings and Lord of lords
08:26when he's king over all the earth and over all the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God and
08:31The kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ
08:36This is one of the reasons that I am premillennial because I do not believe he's reigning now
08:41And I do not believe that the kingdom of heaven is on this earth and that the earth is being converted
08:47Gradually by the preaching of the gospel. If anything the earth is converting the church
08:52And it's certainly by no means the church is in apostasy. And so but he will be
08:59Anointed and he will come and he will be king of kings and Lord of lords
09:05He will come and rightfully take what will never be given to him
09:09But he will come and take the kingdoms of this world now look at Matthew chapter number 12 and verse number 3
09:16And I want to show you some some of the things that the Lord said while he was here
09:21In Matthew chapter number 12 and verse number 3. He liked to use the term. Have you not read?
09:27He said have you not read what David did when he was in hungered and they that were with him
09:35This is in reference to healing on the Sabbath day
09:38Doing something that on the surface of it was breaking the law
09:42He told them that there must be something or there is no must be there is something greater than that law
09:48Something greater and he's saying to them
09:51Are you able to look past something that is written and realize that there's a spirit that is much greater and much higher
09:58Than what's written. I want you to think about this now
10:02Melchizedek that he's that was a type of Christ was ministering on this earth
10:091,900 years before Christ there was no priesthood. There was no temple. There was no tabernacle. There was no Bible
10:17There was no law
10:19Yet he's a priest. So what did he minister? We'll come back to that in a moment Matthew chapter number 12 and verse number 5
10:26He says this
10:27Have you not read in the law?
10:29How that on the Sabbath days the priest and the temple profaned the Sabbath and are blameless
10:36Boy, in other words, they're breaking the Sabbath law and yet they are blameless. How does this work?
10:42Matthew chapter 19 and verse number 4
10:44He answered and said unto them have you not read here we are quoting scripture
10:49He said what do you want to talk to me? If you've never read my word?
10:52Have you not read that?
10:54He which made them at the beginning made them male and female
10:58This is for your transgender friends
11:03This would be a good one to take them to
11:07Yes, but in Matthew chapter 21 and verse number 16 look at this
11:12Matthew 21 16 and said unto him hearest thou what these say and
11:18Jesus saith unto them. Yea, have you never read?
11:21Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
11:24Thou has perfected praise
11:26There are things about God that are very simple
11:29very simple
11:31The problem is a lot of times because of our vanity
11:35We'd like to jump into the complex things the meat
11:38We'd like to jump into the complex things the meat when we haven't even been weaned on the milk
11:46We haven't learned the first oracles of the first principles. God don't know the milk yet
11:51Yet because of our vanity because we think we're so smart
11:55We want to jump right into the meat and you're not ready for meat
11:59In Matthew chapter 21 verse number 42 Jesus saith unto them
12:04Did you never read in the scriptures?
12:06The stone which the builders rejected the same has become the head of the corner
12:11This is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes
12:15one reference to that stone is the one cut out of a mountain without hands and it smites the image on its feet and
12:23The fall of it is absolute complete catastrophic and immediate its falls and this is what's going to happen at the times of the Gentiles
12:32It started in 606 BC
12:34The times of the Gentiles will not gradually fade away
12:38The times of the Gentiles will come when all the armies of the Gentiles and all their power and all their force
12:44comes arrayed against God and
12:47They will come crashing down
12:50in a moment
12:52Matthew chapter number 22 verse 31
12:57Listen to what he said here, but it's touching the resurrection of the dead
13:01Have you not read?
13:03That which was spoken unto you by God saying I am the God of Abraham the God of his Isaac and the God of Jacob
13:11God is not the God of the dead but of the living. So what does he imply here? What's he saying?
13:16He is saying in order to be the God of Abraham Isaac and Israel or Jacob. They've got to be alive
13:23Well, if they're alive, that means that they're not sleeping in the grave. No, that means that he's the God of the resurrection
13:31That's right the living
13:33So all of these though have the same thing. Have you not read? Have you not read?
13:39Have you not read and two on the road to Emmaus he opened them
13:44to hear
13:46Understand and receive the Word of God
13:49So what we have here in the Bible, I'm trying to bring out tonight somehow or another stutter around try to do it is
13:56That there is something going on in the spirit world that we need to understand
14:01and if we can understand that then we can understand how David could go into the
14:06Into the tabernacle of Nob and he could eat the showbread
14:10Uzziah walked into the temple and tried to offer a sacrifice and he was smitten with leprosy
14:17So what's the difference a lot of it has to do with the motivation?
14:22Uzziah was exercising a
14:25Presumed authority a usurped authority
14:28He was taking authority and the priest said don't do this
14:32You can't do this. And of course he overruled them and he paid dearly for it
14:39David on the other hand was hungry
14:41He needed something from God. He needed food and the priest that was there that day
14:47Reluctantly said all right, you can eat the showbread and let them eat that
14:52Did they die from it? No the Sabbath day my dear friend was not created as a burden
15:01the Sabbath day was created as a blessing a
15:04time of freedom a time of peace and a time of rest
15:09You see but religion always takes something that is given by the grace of God freely to us
15:17Takes control of it and then uses it to control us
15:22religion's basic foundation of religion is control
15:26control
15:28That's what it's about control. That's why purgatory was created. There's no purgatory in the Bible
15:34But Johann Tetzel and indulgences which they made money for Rome and he was selling them. This is what made Martin Luther some ad
15:41He sells the indulgences so that people can buy their loved ones out of purgatory
15:47So what is purgatory purgatory is a man-made made-up thing that is used to control people
15:55and
15:56Take money from them
15:58So, how do we minister we are ministers able ministers of the New Testament
16:04Don't you think that's important?
16:06Yes, I do. I think it's very important now. Let's take David for example
16:12He's unusual in the fact that we find David in all three offices of the Old Testament
16:19prophet
16:20priest and King
16:23But what's what's important is how we find that?
16:27How that opens up to us what it tells us what we see in it
16:31Look at with me in the book of Psalm chapter number 22
16:37Now here are some stats
16:39David is named as the author of 75 Psalms and I know how many Psalms there are total
16:46It's right 150
16:49150
16:50David is specifically noted at the beginning of the psalm
16:5673 times that he wrote that psalm now, that's a lot plain words. He wrote half the psalms
17:02David a
17:04king
17:05Do the psalms have any prophecy in them?
17:08Look at the 22nd Psalm verse 1
17:12My God my God
17:14Why has thou forsaken me and then it continues on and it is the classic Psalm in the Old Testament of crucifixion
17:23We all know that you've heard that preached a thousand times and rightfully so
17:28Good preaching comes from the 22nd Psalm about the crucifixion who wrote that
17:33David so what is happening? David is writing about something that Israel didn't do Israel didn't crucify people and
17:41Yet he's writing about a death of someone who's going to be crucified
17:45Matthew chapter 27 in verse number 46 the publican
17:49Matthew the publican quotes this that Christ said
17:53Verse number 46 about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice
17:57Saying it lie it lie Lamar suboxonee. That is to say my God my God
18:03Why has thou forsaken me? Who's he quoting?
18:08He's quoting David, right? What's he saying?
18:11He is saying David prophesied that he would say that and he said it
18:16so what does that make David a
18:18prophet
18:19Look at Psalm 16 verse number 8
18:22The 16th Psalm verse 8 there's only two there are many more but for the sake of time just use this as an illustration
18:30Psalm 16 verse 8 I have set the Lord
18:33Always before me because he is at my right hand. I
18:37Shall not be moved. Therefore. My heart is glad my glory rejoiceth
18:43My flesh shall also rest in hope
18:46For thou will not leave my soul in hell
18:49Neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption
18:54Did David understand all that that might have meant? I don't think so, but it's not necessary
19:00It's not necessary. The Apostle Peter told us that when they prophesied they didn't necessarily understand what they were prophesying
19:06But it wasn't for them to know it. It was for us
19:09That's what Peter said
19:11But look at what it happens in Acts chapter number 2 in verse number 25
19:15We have that scripture quoted and we have it applied they apply it to someone
19:20Acts chapter 2 verse 25 for David speaketh concerning him. I
19:26Foresaw the Lord always before my face for he is on my right hand that I should not be moved
19:32Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad
19:37Moreover, also my flesh shall rest in hope because thou wilt not leave my soul
19:43In hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption
19:50the Apostle quotes
19:53David and
19:55Says this is exactly what David said. So these are only this only two references, but these are two
20:03Powerful references of prophecy
20:05So there's no question that David was a prophet
20:08So there's no question that David was a prophet
20:11Wrote half the Psalms and I gave them to you. He was also a priest
20:15But it was a different kind of priest and this is the part right here that I want you to get in with me
20:19now look at Matthew chapter number 12 and
20:22verse number 3
20:25We've already showed where he was a prophet
20:28Now let's look at his priesthood
20:34Matthew chapter number 12 and verse number 3
20:37but
20:42He said unto them
20:43Have you not read?
20:45What David did when he was in hunger and they that were with him?
20:51How he entered into the house of God and did eat the showbread
20:55Which was not lawful for him to eat
20:58Neither for them which were with him, but only for the priest had explained that because he broke the law
21:04You hear people say all the time nobody's above the law
21:10They've just arrested a judge
21:13no doubt had
21:15Ministered the law many times
21:17Who thought she was above the law?
21:21And they put the handcuffs on her and took her away. I wish the best for her but a point was made
21:30Here's the point
21:32When you unleash the gates of hell
21:35You may be able in the beginning
21:38To unleash the gates of hell and bring up the demons or whatever it is that you want to unleash against someone
21:45Be careful
21:47That once they're finished that they don't turn on you
21:53They very careful with what you're doing be very careful be very careful
22:00Because the scripture is pretty clear about some things
22:04When David ministered he was ministering in a much higher authority and higher attitude
22:11Than the law would allow
22:13the law would never have allowed him to go in there and do what he did right and
22:17So for those of you who love the law
22:20And you want to drag the law into grace today? I've got a warning for you
22:25If you don't keep it, and you break it you'll pay for it
22:30That's another one of those demons that you can unleash
22:33The scripture says plainly they that live, but keep the law live by the law die by the law
22:41The Gentiles which have not the law
22:43Do by nature the things contained in the law what's that? That's a spiritual law I?
22:49Hope I'm not confusing you tonight
22:51Hope I'm not confusing you tonight
22:54What I'm trying to say to you tonight is that God?
22:59Before the law was ever made
23:01Had one of the strongest relationships with a man on this earth
23:05Who was such a type of Christ that the writer of the book of Hebrews says over and over and over and over again?
23:12That Melchizedek
23:14Melchizedek the two Hebrew words that are translated Melchizedek
23:19Melech is king Hamel. Eck the king Sadek is righteous or righteousness
23:25so
23:27Melchizedek is the king of righteousness now. That's quite a quite a quite a title. Don't you think?
23:35How many times have I told you that?
23:37When the Lord Jesus Christ came 2,000 years ago
23:41That he created by his sinless life
23:45Righteousness that did not exist
23:47Remember, he tell you that no man
23:50but ever walked the face of this earth ever lived a sinless perfect life like him and
23:56Righteousness is not holiness
23:59Although they may complement each other holiness in its basic meaning is to be apart
24:05Holy things apart into God. Holy. Holy. Holy is the Lord God apart apart apart
24:11apart
24:14Jericho was holy unto the Lord you remember
24:18But there wasn't anything about Jericho that was righteous or right, but it was separate unto God
24:24Righteousness is something that has to be lived out
24:27It's a representation of what you've done
24:30You're righteous because of how you live you're right standing with God
24:35So the Lord Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago lived a sinless perfect righteous life
24:41That righteousness and that righteous life is now seated at the right hand of the father
24:48Now think about this for a moment
24:52The Lord Jesus Christ never prayed a day in his life till he became a man
24:58Yet he communicated with God day in and day out
25:01We've quoted scripture to show you there Psalm 110 places like that 45 where the Godhead is communicating within itself
25:10Talking, but that's not prayer
25:13That's not prayer not until he became a man
25:17Could he pray?
25:19Because only men can pray
25:23Angels don't pray
25:24Cherubim seraphim don't pray what is prayer prayer is a mystical thing
25:31that gives you access to God in a way that nothing else can and
25:37that is fellowship and
25:40There's nothing else that can have fellowship with God
25:43But a man and if you're not having fellowship with him tonight, it's because you're being robbed of it
25:49How do you have your fellowship with him tonight? Your fellowship with God is based on the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ
25:58Now let that sink in for a moment
26:00If you think you can have fellowship with God because of a good life that you've lived you are deceived
26:08You're living in deception
26:10If you think you can have fellowship with God tonight because you live a sinless life you are e I mean you are nuts
26:19When a man says he has no sin, what does he do?
26:23He's calling God a liar
26:25If you say you have not sinned you deceive yourself
26:29So how do you have fellowship with God?
26:31The only way to have fellowship with God is through his son the Lord Jesus Christ
26:35And the reason you have fellowship with the father through the son the Lord Jesus Christ is because of the sinless perfect life
26:42He lived his righteousness that you apply to yourself. You plead his righteousness
26:46You cover yourself with his righteousness you call upon his name the one who did lived perfect where you failed
26:53He said he didn't fail. He never failed
26:56All right. Now that's the principle of Melchizedek
26:59That was before the law ever showed up there was no law folks 1900 BC
27:04Now I realized that that when we come to moral laws and things of that nature
27:07They're eternal sure understand that is it relates to man, but it's still it's not written down
27:12Job couldn't quote the law because there was no law
27:16Written there was no law who wrote the law by the way. I'll just give you a little little test here tonight
27:22And give me the date who and when did he write it?
27:26What this brother says 1500
27:301400
27:32Somewhere in that time period let's let's do it this way the way the Latins did it circa 14 1500
27:40What does circa mean?
27:42Circle around around 14 1500. All right, the law was written. So we're looking at 500 years
27:50before the law
27:52So, how is he righteous?
27:55How was Melchizedek the king of righteousness before the law was ever written
28:00We're listening
28:01You think about stuff like that?
28:04Does that make you think?
28:06Don't you think that's interesting? I think that's interesting. Don't you?
28:11The bottom line is
28:13that the only man in that Bible called the king of righteousness was called the king of righteousness before the law was ever given and
28:21Nobody that ever lived under that law was ever called righteous
28:25Because nobody ever kept that law
28:27except the Lord Jesus Christ and
28:30The Apostle John in 1st John 2 says he's the righteous one
28:34Okay. All right. I beat that to death. Let's move on with me. Look at Matthew chapter number 12 in verse 5
28:42Matthew 12 5 have you not read in the law?
28:47How that on the Sabbath days the priest in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless
28:53But I say to you now watch this
28:56That in this place is what?
29:00One greater than this temple
29:04That you're talking about
29:06If you'd known what this meant, I will have mercy and not sacrifice
29:12Ye would not have condemned the guiltless for the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day
29:20Yes, yes Sabbath day doesn't please God what pleases God belief and faith and trust in him
29:28Well pretty sure if I keep the law, I'll please God
29:31No, a lot of people trying to keep the law tonight that are full of themselves
29:34So self-righteous you can't witness to them and they've they built a road. They built a wall around them. It's hard
29:40It's hard to get a self-righteous man saved folks. You got to get a man lost to get him saved
29:45He's got to understand. He's a sinner
29:47before you'll ever get him, right and
29:49When you have a man who's like that Pharisee said I thank the Lord. I'm not as other men
29:54Well, he's been gone for two. No, he's still here
29:58He comes to church every Sunday
30:00He never misses a servant. Amen service. Yes, I thank the God
30:06So the Lord Jesus Christ is the one greater than the temple and here's another thing that it says about him
30:10He's the end of the law
30:13Says that about him. So what does that mean? Well the law
30:17Up until Christ. All right was a ruling factor a guiding thing to bring men to Christ
30:24The Apostle Paul who wrote the book of Galatians says the law was given as a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ
30:32Yes, that's what's the purpose of it was never given to save anybody
30:35It was Lee is given to lead us to Christ show our lost condition show our need for Christ and then point to the Lord Jesus
30:42so now
30:44Matthew chapter number five and
30:47Verse number eight. I
30:50Want to look at three places in Hebrews that mentions Melchizedek
30:54And we'll try to put this together
30:56Matthew chapter number five and verse eight
30:59Though he were a son
31:01Yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered and being made perfect
31:07He became what?
31:09The author of what?
31:11Eternal salvation to all them that obey him
31:15called of God and high priest after the order of
31:18Melchizedek he is eminently qualified
31:22folks
31:24To know what the to know what life on this earth is like
31:29He's eminently qualified
31:31If a sinner ever had a friend, it's the Lord Jesus Christ
31:36he's the friend of sinners a
31:39sinner needs somebody that
31:41Can speak to their need he can a sinner needs somebody?
31:46Who won't beat around the bush, but he'll come to the point
31:50He can a sinner needs somebody who he really believes
31:56understands him
31:58sinner needs somebody who he really believes
32:02understands him
32:03Does Christ understand the sinner?
32:07Yes, he does folks. Yes, he does a
32:10sinner needs someone who is able to stick with him through the tough times the bad times the good times the times when he
32:19When he's victorious, but a time when he fails
32:23Can Christ do that?
32:25Yes, he can
32:26This is why the Bible says that he's able to save to the uttermost
32:31Uttermost what does that mean? That means complete salvation?
32:34Body soul and spirit. I've known a lot of Christians down through the years
32:39I don't doubt it for a minute that they love the Lord
32:42They did and I watched them worship in this house and I've watched them worship in freedom a real heart real worship
32:50Not man-made not will worship
32:53That's a different study, but I think you know what will worship is
32:55He talks about that in Colossians
32:58There's a vast difference between will worship where you have to be led, you know
33:02And you get your flesh worked into something and you think you're worshiping God and you're not it's just a bunch of made-up nothing
33:09But I've seen on the faces of people whose heart is really poured out to God and they worship, but I watched him fall
33:17And have you ever seen that I watched him fall. So what do you do?
33:21Well, you pray for them if you know them and you're associated with it
33:24But keep this in mind even though they fall that doesn't mean that their friend is going to forsake them
33:32Their friend will be there for them
33:35He'll know where to find them
33:37He'll know how to bind up their wounds and he'll know how to call them back to where they ought to be
33:43like the 99 he'll leave them and he'll go after that one sheep and
33:47He'll find you if you're listening to me tonight
33:50You're sitting at the bar somewhere and you've been broken
33:53Somebody's stabbed you in the back in church
33:55You don't think God loves you anymore and you served him for decades and now your whole life is torn all to pieces
34:02Let me tell you something. You got a friend and he may be sitting right there next to you
34:08And he'll never leave you he'll never forsake you and if you know him
34:14He'll speak to you in that tone and that language that you know, you've heard before
34:20Once you know the voice of the Son of God, you'll never forget it. How many how many heard me?
34:27Once you know that voice you'll never forget it
34:30That's right. That's right a
34:33sinner needs a friend
34:34He's the friend of sinners
34:36Now a friend can be one who can be a friend to you before you really know him
34:42How many of you think that he might have?
34:45Actually intervened in your life before you were ever saved
34:50I got knocked out of my boots on Clinton Highway. I want a motorcycle
34:54That motorcycles laying on the side of the road and my boots were still in it now
34:58I figure that one out and I remember sailing through the air
35:03And I remember coming down and hitting the car and bouncing off the side listen
35:08Many people have been killed
35:10With a lot less lick than I took that day
35:14Yes, sir. I mean I got knocked off of that motorcycle folks. I didn't skid and fall
35:19I mean, I I got ejected and
35:23God was with me. Was he a friend to me that day?
35:26Of course he was he was a friend to me and you see now that I'm able to look back on it
35:32And it's been a long time ago understand that I can look back at places where I know good
35:36And well the hand of God was there in my life
35:39Even though I didn't acknowledge him. He was my friend
35:42He's a friend of sinners
35:44Yes, he is. So what does that tell you? Well, that tells you that you may be breaking the law
35:49You may be doing the wrong thing. You made me all messed up. You've been warped. You may be taught wrong
35:56There's a lot of people out there want the reason they teach certain things
35:59They want to control you some people have the idea if you send one time after you're saved you're going to hell
36:04You'll never hear them preach a message from first John
36:07No, you won't I dare him. I
36:11Dare him I double-dog dare him. They wouldn't touch first John with a 10-foot pole. No
36:19Because it's as plain as it can be if you say you have not sinned you deceive yourself
36:24As I've said before to folks what should the attitude of a sinner be toward a sinner?
36:32Did you get that a
36:34Lot of churches you go to oh, yeah, that's a sinner right over there, buddy
36:38Yes, sir. We're not going to get around. They're not going to date my kids
36:43We're not going to have anything to do with that. That's a sinner over there. What are you?
36:48What are you
36:53The point is it's not so much as the fact that you are or are not a sinner
36:58It's how you fellowship and you relate to the Father and the Son
37:02Do you fellowship with him?
37:05Hebrews chapter number 6
37:07verse 9
37:08We'll start with verse 13 when God made promise to Abraham because he could swear by no greater
37:14He swear by himself
37:15No higher authority by this. This is it
37:18This is this is way above the Supreme Court
37:21This is by the authority of God himself his own character who he is. You don't go any higher
37:28He says surely
37:30Blessing I will bless thee and multiplying. I will multiply thee
37:35Whither verse 20 the forerunner is for us entered
37:40Even Jesus made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek
37:46He's a pioneer
37:49He's the author
37:51That word author he is literally he's like James Fenimore Cooper when I was a kid. We've memorized all those authors
37:58they had a card cards they called the authors and
38:02He wrote a he wrote a poem called the Pathfinder
38:06The Pathfinder the one who finds the way you see the Lord Jesus Christ came to the earth lived a sinless perfect life
38:13Then he had to leave this world and he had to go through all the powers of hell
38:18as he ascended to the right hand of the Father and
38:21you can believe that they wanted to drive him down and keep him here and
38:27They would have if they could have but they couldn't do it because he was already victor over death hell in the grave
38:33so
38:34The forerunner is for us entered as Melchizedek as Melchizedek. He's the author of eternal salvation
38:41And then as Melchizedek first chapter 7 of Hebrews verse 14 is evident
38:47that our Lord sprang out of Judah of
38:49Which tribe Moses spake concerning?
38:52Spake nothing concerning priesthood. What tribe did the priest come from? It wasn't Judah. Which one was it?
38:59pardon
39:00Yeah, so and
39:03Look at this and it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of Melchizedek
39:09There ariseth another priest
39:12Who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life
39:20So the fact that he lives forever
39:25Then he's able to save to the uttermost
39:29Let me give an indication of this now, you know, they had six cities of refuge. How many remember them?
39:35Remember the cities of refuge in the Old Testament
39:38Three on the east of Jordan three on the west of Jordan
39:42Strategically placed throughout the country where if somebody you know, if you if the Avenger of the Brethren
39:48Like in the book of Ruth you kill somebody and it was an accident and the Avenger was after you and if he found
39:56If he caught up with you, then he put you to death if you fled into that city of refuge. He could not cross
40:02That line if he crossed that line he would forfeit his own life
40:07Until the death of who?
40:14So the authority to save that person and keep them saved was based solely on how long
40:20That high priest would live
40:23right
40:24So what you just read here in Hebrews chapter number seven is that the Lord Jesus Christ?
40:30Lives an endless life
40:32See that and he's able to save to the uttermost forever
40:39Because my life is not built upon me living
40:42My salvation is based entirely upon him living and he'll live forever
40:49Now that's a higher law than the law
40:52That's a blessed thing
40:54You get plugged into that and you will know you've got eternal life and it cannot be taken from you bless his righteous name
41:01Amen father. Thank you Lord for your word
41:04Bless it to our hearts
41:06Lord may it take root in our soul. May it become part of us. Oh
41:11That we would love it that we would memorize it that we'd use it as a guide into our feet paths
41:18Lord that it is your word that we live upon we meditate in it day and night
41:22Father may it be to us
41:24sweet sweet to the soul
41:27Bless for the I bless I pray blessing for the folks that are listening tonight those in the house those that are watching
41:32Those that'll watch it later and those are the listen later and whatever. However, you get it out. I
41:37Pray you'd bless it now help someone help them in Jesus name. Amen