Hebrews 8 Trusting in the New Covenant

The speaker starts by reminiscing about a humorous bingo story. Then, they discuss the seven attributes of Melchizedek and Jesus Christ as priests of the Most High God. They elaborate on how Jesus is superior to angels, humans, Moses, and provides a better hope, priesthood, covenant, and temple. They explain how Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice and high priest, residing in the heavenly temple, offering salvation and interceding for believers. The speaker emphasizes the significance of Jesus as the ultimate priest and sacrifice, surpassing all previous practices and beliefs. Good morning to you all. Good. Let me get this thing up here. Thanks, sir. Can you hear me okay? Everybody hear me okay? So I can turn the pages in. I get the pages wrapped up in that microphone, I won't be able to see what I'm saying. I remember growing up as a kid, a lot of things, but Eddie Spike, a memory of a story I heard about bingo. He said, we're going to be playing bingo at our party, okay? These two guys were in a stockhold during the war, and mortars were going off all around them. And one of them looked at the other and said, you know what? With all these mortars falling around us, I think we ought to pray. He said, can you pray? He said, no. He said, can you? He said, yes. You know, I grew up near a Catholic church, and I can pray. He said, okay, let's pray. They bowed their heads and said, under the nine, number... Under the B, number nine. Okay. Last Sunday morning, I ran out of time. One of the few times... I ruined that story. One of the few times I ran out of time, I did run out last week. I did have an opportunity last week to tell you all about the seven characteristics of Melchizedek. And I was getting ready as time ran out last week to finish up with the seven attributes of the Lord Jesus Christ, both of whom in the scripture were identified as priests of the Most High God. And the only two people in scripture, the entirety of the Bible, who were identified as priests of the Most High God. And so since Melchizedek has seven attributes that I shared with you in last week's lesson, I also had this seven attributes, actually seven attributes of Christ in here as well. And so I wanted to give them to you first and then get into chapter eight, because chapter eight is one of the shortest chapters in the book of Hebrews. It's only about 13 verses. And so maybe I'll be able to get through it, but there's a great deal in there I'd like to share with you. If you look at your paper, there are seven major attributes which belong to Jesus Christ, who, like Melchizedek, was in the order of Melchizedek as one of the people who was named as the priest of the Most High God. And here are the seven magnificent attributes of Jesus. Number one, he is great because of his divine appointment. He's great because of his indestructible life. He lives forever as we do. He is great because of the oath of God. None of the other priests received an oath from God. Only Jesus received an oath from God, which made him the high priest of the Most High God. He is great because his work was based on a better covenant. It wasn't the covenant of the Old Testament, which was in the blood of bulls and goats and animals, but it was in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was based on a better covenant. He is great because of his perpetual priesthood. All of the earthly priests were dying. At one time or another, they would die. And there would be the need for another high priest. And they would just follow each other, follow each other, each of them dying. But Christ was great because he was a perpetual high priest. Number six, he's great because of his absolute salvation. It is totally complete. If you be in Christ, you are a new creation. All things passed away. Behold, all things new. So he is absolute salvation. And number seven, he is great because of his personal qualifications. Because the psalm says, I will make you my son. You are the son of the Most High God. I will make you king, and I will have you, and you will follow me. Christ Jesus is the son of the Most High God. So those are the seven attributes which I had last week, and I wanted to share them with you. So I repeated them this week so that you could have them and look at them again. Now, chapter eight is an interesting chapter because in chapter eight, we come to understand something about ourselves which you have known, but which you don't know. I didn't know it either. And I found it out several years ago, and it has been a blessing ever since. And I hope before we finish today, I can share that blessing with you because I want you to know what God said in chapter eight. Now, there are ten things which are spiritually active in the kingdom of God, which the book of Hebrews says in Jesus Christ, each of these ten is better. Now, you remember in the beginning, we said that Christ was sovereign to the angels. He is sovereign above the angels. You remember, and the reason all of these things are identified is each of these ten were major contributions and major points of the Old Testament scripture. And the Jewish people believe completely in these ten points, which in the book of Hebrews, the writer to the Hebrew people is going to tell them that each of these ten has been replaced with a better. In fact, the entire book of Hebrews could be called the book of the better promise because it is a better promise than the one that was made in the Old Testament. So let me just read these ten to you. I don't have them on your paper. So I wrote them on my paper. But I want to read them to you. Number one, he is better than angels. And that is from chapter one. The reason he's better than angels is the Jewish people believe that angels were the most wonderful things in the entire kingdom of God. Because if you read the book of Exodus, you'll find out that it was angels who brought the law to Moses. And the Jewish people believe sovereignly in angels. But Jesus is sovereign to the angels. So he's better than the angels. Number two, he is better than any man who ever lived because he is Emmanuel. And in the book of Isaiah, it says, and you shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us. He was the God man. So he was better than mankind because he was God man. Number three, this one is really a kick. He is better than Moses because Moses, although he met I am at the bush, he met Yahweh at the bush. And although Moses was a great leader of the Hebrew people, Christ Jesus was superior to Moses. Now, that is a real problem for Jewish people to swallow, to know that Christ is better than angels, to know that Christ is better than Moses. But also, number four, he has given us a better hope. Now, the Old Testament gave the Jewish people hope, but the hope was in the individual sacrificing that had to go on day after day after day after day. And they had to sacrifice continually in order to continue in the hope. Christ Jesus gives you hope because he was the sacrifice. So Christ Jesus is better than hope. He is better than the priesthood. He is much better than the Levitical priesthood. He is the one of two who was called the priest of the most high God. So he's better than the priesthood of Levitical. He is better than the covenant. Now, that is the old covenant. And he's better than a covenant that was written in the blood of bulls and goats and animals. But he is the covenant that was written in his precious blood. So he is better than the old covenant. He is better than the temple. Because God dwelled in the temple and God dwelled in the temple until Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple in 586 B.C. And if you read the book of Ezekiel, chapter 11, you'll find out where the presence of God lifted itself out of the temple. And in Ezekiel, the 11th chapter, when the presence of God lifted itself out of the temple, it never came back from 586 B.C. until. Because Nebuchadnezzar took the Ark of the Covenant and all the implements of the temple, and they never came back. I have a book in my library. I gave one to Brother Jimmy. And it is all of the Feast of Israel and how they were performed during the period of time. And during the period of time, Jim, you remember in that particular performance of the of the Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, this book says the priest went into the Holy of Holies and there was nothing in there but a fire pan. The Ark was gone. It had been gone since Nebuchadnezzar. And since the Spirit of God, likewise, at the same time, left the temple in Ezekiel 11, it was gone as well. It never came back. Because there was nothing to come back to. If the Spirit of God came back to the temple, he had to come back to the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant is not there. The Ark of the Covenant never came back. However, he did come back to the temple one day. And John wrote it this way. And we beheld his Shekinah glory, even as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And ladies and gentlemen, when Jesus came, he brought the Shekinah glory of God back to the earth and to us. Let me say that again. The Shekinah glory of God lives in each one of us. When that Spirit moved into your heart, when you said, Lord Jesus, I'm a sinner, I cannot save myself, there's no way that I can get into your kingdom unless I believe in your beloved Son. Lord Jesus, I want to trust you as my Master, my Lord, my Savior, my King. And I believe in you with all my heart that you died for the redemption of my sin. And Lord Jesus, I give my life to you. Please come into my life. Shekinah glory came in. Now, before we finish this lesson, you're going to find out something that you are. And it's mentioned here in the book of Hebrews. Not only is he a better temple, but he's also a better high priest. Because the high priest here dwelt in a temple made with hands. Jesus, as Brother Jimmy will tell us next week in chapter nine, is dwelling in the temple of God in heaven behind the veil. And he's in the temple of heaven, or the tabernacle, whichever you choose to call it. In fact, the book of Hebrews calls where God is the tabernacle. And I'll tell you something that he said God did in order to make it a tabernacle and why God is dwelling there and why Jesus is sitting at his right hand, making intercession for us. So, you know, Jesus is a better temple. He's a better high priest. He's also a better sacrifice. It's not the kind of sacrifice that you have to do every day, every week, every year. It's not a Yom Kippur once every year. You don't get new birth every year. Now, let me pause just for a moment and remind you of one thing. When Jesus looked at Nicodemus and he said to Nicodemus, Nicodemus, I have just told you about new birth. I told you, Nicodemus, for my father so loved this world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Nicodemus, I am he. I just got through telling you that I am the new birth. Nicodemus, do you not realize that every day at Yom Kippur, every time at Yom Kippur, on that day when that little lamb dies and you have prayed and all of your sins are spiritually put on that little lamb, do you not realize that when that little lamb falls off a cliff and dies that your sins die with him and on that day you have annual new birth? They got new birth every year at Yom Kippur. You got it one time. You got an eternal new birth. Brother Jimmy will tell you about that next week because that's in chapter 9. I won't get there. Okay, number 10. He gave us a better faith. Let's face it, folks. Okay? He gave us a better faith. It's not a faith in what we can do, how we can perform. It is not a faith in who we are. It is a faith in who he is. Not who he was because he never is going to be a was. It is who he is. And he still is the Redeemer of the entire world. And so since he still is, we have a greater faith than the faith of the Old Testament that caused those people in the Old Testament to have to recount. Now, when we get to chapter 11 in a couple of weeks, and Brother John does chapter 11 for us, you're going to find a beginning like this, For by faith, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And in that chapter, you're also going to find out a statement that says, For without faith it is impossible to please God. Now, Jesus gave us an eternal, redeeming faith. Now, those are the 10 things that the book of Hebrews is changing around. And every one of these chapters changes one of them. Angels in the first chapter, Moses in the second chapter, the law in the third chapter. Now, this time we're going to start talking about the high priest, Jesus Christ. Now, it's kind of interesting. In chapter 8, I want to read chapter 8. It's only 13 verses, but I want to read it because I want you to hear something. And what I want you to hear is I want you to hear who you are. Now, when I read it, you won't know it, but when I'm finished, you will have it. Now, this is the main point of these things that we are saying. We have such a high priest who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. Now, he's talking about we have a better high priest. A minister of the sanctuary of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, not man. We're talking about a tabernacle that's in heaven behind the veil. The veil is where we go through to get to heaven. It was that kind of thing that separated man from the ark of the covenant, that veil. And so it says, and he says in verse 3, for every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is necessary that this one, Jesus Christ, this one, Jesus Christ, also have something to offer. And he did. For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest. Since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law, the Torah, who serve the copy and the shadow and the heavenly things as Moses divinely instructed them when he was about to make the tabernacle. For he said, see that you make all things according to the pattern shown at the mountain. So now you can get a shadow and a copy. Talk about that in a few minutes. That's Greek. That comes from a couple of Greek philosophers. And so it says in verse 3, but now, right now, Jesus, he has obtained a more excellent ministry inasmuch as he is also mediator of a better covenant. Now, all of this better stuff, you hearing it? Everything he's doing is better. Of a better covenant and also establish a better promise. For if the first covenant had been faultless, why do we need a second one? If the first one was working, why do we need a second one? And because finding fault with them, he says, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord. Now listen to these next few verses. This is critical. Let me tell you why it's critical. God is moving out of anything that's called a sanctuary that's made by the hands of God, of men. And he's getting ready to move into a temple that is not made by man. Hang on. He says, because finding fault with them, I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt because they did not continue in my covenant and I disregarded them, says the Lord for this new covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. Here it is. I will put my laws in their mind and I will write them in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people. None of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brother saying, no, the Lord for all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawless deeds. I will remember against them no more. He just described us. Now I'll show you what I mean in a moment. Okay. Then he says in verse 13, in that he says, a new covenant, he has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Paul wrote in the book of Romans, Jesus, Romans 10, Jesus Christ is the end of the law relational to righteousness. The old law is passing away. The old law has become obsolete and Paul wrote that Jesus in the book of Romans and he wrote, he said, for I am Jesus is the end of the law relational to righteousness. I didn't say it's the end of the law because the 10 commandments are still very important. They're wonderful platitudes. By the way, I don't know about you, but there's 613 laws in the old, in the Torah. 365 of them are negative. 283 are positive. 613 laws in the old Testament. Every Jewish Pharisee had to be able to keep all 613. I have trouble with 10. What about you? They had 613 that they had to keep both positive and negative, and they had to keep them perfectly and they couldn't do it. Every time they tried to keep it perfectly, they failed. That's why it says a new covenant. I'm getting ready to establish. Okay. So let me tell you four things about Jesus and then we'll move on. Jesus, God's son made the perfect sacrifice. He made the perfect in the presence of God. He is perfect as the only way to God. And he is perfect and permanent, open to us forever. Those are the four major items you need to take away from this lesson. Jesus is perfect. You know what the word perfect means? That's why it's so difficult sometimes when we hear that scripture says, be ye perfect, even as I'm perfect. Wait, what? I'm supposed to be perfect as Jesus is perfect. Yes. Because we have a different definition for perfect. We mean that it is absolutely without any kind of problem. It's perfect. That's not what this word means. It means complete in Christ. Ladies and gentlemen, our redemptive life is complete. There is nothing outside him. Where are you going to go if you don't go to him? So in Jesus Christ, we are complete. By the way, you meet a young Jewish person who has been saved and has become a messianic believer in Jesus Christ. He will say to you, he will not say, I have been saved. He will say to you, I am complete. That's what you will say to you. If he's been redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ, he will not tell you he's saved. Although he is, he will tell you what he really is and what you and I really are. He will tell you in Jesus Christ, I am perfect. I am complete. That's what he says to you. So let's talk about Jesus. First of all, as the high priest, we know that he was a perfect high priest and the perfect son of God. And he now sits at the right hand of God. And in that fact that he sits at the right hand of God, he can be a priest for us forever. Brother Jimmy, next week, we'll tell you a great deal about the priesthood of Christ in the heavenlies behind the veil in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in a tabernacle that was built in heaven by eternal God. I'll tell you something about that in a few moments. And so we're talking about in the first part of this chapter, Jesus Christ is the complete high priest and being the complete high priest, Christ's human experience and accomplished what he did for us. He did it by one little word. The Old Testament, you had to get this kind of human experience by works. In the New Testament, you get this kind of experience by grace. Amen. You see, the Old Testament, the old Torah, the old law was totally by works. In the New Testament, works are eliminated. It is totally by grace. In fact, the scripture says, not by works, which I have done, but according to his spirit has he saved me and washed me and regenerated me by the power of the Holy Spirit. None of what you have is by your works. None of what you have is by your own choice. Jesus Christ is grace. Grace, beautiful little definition, unmerited favor. In the Old Testament, you had to earn your way. In the New Testament, it was given to you. We're getting ready to celebrate Christmas a little bit and all of us are going to get a gift of some kind. Might be an apple or an orange, but it'll still be a gift. What did you pay for that gift? Nothing. You see, if you pay for it, it's not a gift. It's a purchase. Jesus is the one who purchased. We are the ones who received. Not by works of righteousness, which I have done, but according to his spirit has he saved me and you by the washing and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. And he cleansed your heart and he gave you salvation for God so love the world that he gave. I'm going to jump to the end of this lesson for just a minute, because the end of this lesson I said, how do they know that we are Christians? By our love. By the way we give. By the way we love. And they'll know that we are Christians by our love. By our love. See, we too give. Because Christ gave, we give. Now then let's talk about these verses that talk about you and I being a temple. In fact, the writer of the book of Hebrews says this is the most important part of this chapter and in my paper I put the point the writer is going to make is this conclusion. The sum of the matter, but better the capstone of the matter, but better the chief point of the matter, but better the capital of the matter. The main thing of the matter is this. Christ is doing now what he needed to do in the heavenly tabernacle. He is now sitting where? The right hand of the sovereign of God, majesty of God. And he is now behind the veil. Oh, by the way, do you know that on the Feast of Firstfruits, which is the Sunday, Monday after Passover, which the Jewish people don't even celebrate anymore, because they don't have a temple. But the Feast of Firstfruits was an extinct feast. The Jewish male had to go into his produce, whatever it was, field, animals, whatever he was producing, grain, you know, bananas, coconuts, whatever. And he had to gather some of them up and he had to bring them to the temple on Firstfruits. That's why it was called Firstfruits. It's the early part of spring. And on the day of Firstfruits, he took them to the priest and he and the priest waved these things in the presence of God. It's called waving these produce in the presence of God. And if this Jewish male did it right on Firstfruits, the promise of God was 50 days later, you will have a great harvest. Now, watch. Jesus has arisen. He's walking around in the garden and there's a lady there by the name of Mary. It's foggy, can hardly see. She sees a figure thinking him to be the gardener. She says, Sir, Sir, if you will tell me where you took my master, I will go and get him and bring him back. Go read the scripture. Mary said, I'll go get him. I'll bring him back if you tell me where he is. And then the figure said to her, Mary. She recognized. The scripture says she fell on his feet and grabbed his legs and said, Oh, my Lord, my savior. Now watch what Jesus says, Mary, do not continue clinging to me. Don't you know that today I must go to my father and to your father, to my God and to your God. It's the day of Firstfruits. I got to get there to see if what I did two days ago is satisfactory. I got to go check with my father to see if my crucifixion worked. Mary, don't keep holding on to me. I got to go to the father. You know what happened 50 days later? Pentecost. You know what happened on the first day of Pentecost? How many thousands? Second day of Pentecost? Jim, how many thousands? Four days later after Pentecost? There were hundreds of thousands of people were saved on the first four days of Pentecost. Would you call that a great harvest? Did Jesus do it right behind the veil in the presence of the father on the day of Firstfruits? Okay. So when the temple was destroyed in 586 BC, the Ark of the Covenant never came back. The temple never again had the presence of God into it until Jesus came and John said, we beheld his glory. The temple was just a building. Finally in 70 AD, totally destroyed, absolutely put away by the Romans. And now we have the writer of Hebrews telling his people, here's what God did. Listen. He says in verse 10, for this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel. I will put my laws in their mind and write them in their hearts. I will be their God and they shall be my people. None of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brother saying, know the Lord for all of them shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawlessness. I will remember no more. I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts. Now ladies and gentlemen, it's kind of interesting this little word that's written in here. Temple. Temple. The word temple has several different words in the Greek language. One of the most beautiful words in the Greek language for temple is, now hang on, mikhashmeta. Mikhashmeta. M-E-H-E, like meet, met aunt. It means little temple. Little dwelling place of God's people. Ezekiel writing to the captives in Babylon chapter 11. Writing to the captives in Babylon chapter 11, he says to them, don't you know that God is going to put himself in you and you are going to become a mikhashmeta, a little temple. What does first Corinthians say about that? First Corinthians 6.19. Paul writes to the Corinthian church, do you not know that your body is the... That word is translated temple there. I went to the Aramaic, although Aramaic is a corrupt Hebrew. Even in the Aramaic, in chapter, in first Corinthians 6.19, that word temple is mikhashmeta. Do you not know that your mikhashmeta, your body, is the mikhashmeta, the temple of the Holy Ghost, who dwells in you, and you are not your own, you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body, which is his. Now the whole point of what I'm getting at, ladies and gentlemen, is the writer of Hebrews is trying to tell the Jewish people, don't keep putting stock in what's not there anymore. Don't keep putting stock in the law and the Torah. Don't keep putting stock in a building that's there and it's empty. Now he's talking to the captives. This is about 400, this is about 75 years before they get to go home. And Ezekiel's writing to them, and he's saying to them, don't put your stock in that building. That building is empty. Oh, in passing. In my childhood, I was taught that in the church that I worshiped in, the presence of God was there all the time. We called it a sanctuary. The little church that I attended was a sanctuary. You see, we have bird sanctuaries, we have animal sanctuaries. A sanctuary is a place where what? Something dwells. That's why I've always been at odds with my Baptist friends who want to call their church a sanctuary. Because at one o'clock this afternoon, when this place is empty, and there's not a human Baptist who's been saved in this place, God's spirit is not here, folks. The only time God's spirit is here is when you and I are here. We are the temples of the Holy Ghost. We are the Nikash Miachot. That's what he says here. I will put my laws in your mind, I will write them in your heart, I will be their God and they shall be my people. I'm going to make each one of you a Nikash Miachot. Aren't you glad you're a Nikash Miachot? Aren't you glad you're a little temple? No, you're not that your body is a little temple? Same word in Arabic, Nikash Miachot, of the Holy Ghost that lives in you. You're not your own, you've been bought with a price. Folks, you never worship a building. You never worship a place, I call it a sanctuary. Because if the people of God are not there and the spirit of God is not there, it's just a big old empty building. It's no better than a warehouse. So remember, in you and in me dwells Shekinah Glory. He said, I'm going to put my laws in your mind. I'm going to write them in your hearts. And because you're going to be my Mishkah Miachot, I am going to be your God and you will be my people. Wow. Is that not cool? Is that not cool? Is that not cool? See what God did for us in Jesus Christ? Now it's kind of interesting, in next week's lesson when Brother Jimmy talks about God being in the tabernacle in heaven, this particular chapter talks about God putting the pegs down for that tabernacle in heaven. In fact, he even gives us the word for pegs in Gemara. He said God built the tabernacle in heaven. He put down the pegs. If you've got a tabernacle, you've got a tent. If you've got a tent, you've got to have pegs to hold the ropes. And this scripture says that God put down the pegs. He established the tabernacle in heaven where he and Jesus Christ are sitting now and Jesus is at the right hand of God making intercession for us. And the most important part is, please know who you are. You are the little temples of God. You know why he said that to the captives in Ezekiel? In fact, did you know that the synagogue rose in Babylon captivity? That the first gathering, which was later called the synagogue, the gathering place, the first of those that we know of were formed in Babylon. You see, a synagogue can be formed by 10 Jewish males. In any city, if you have 10 Jewish males and they come together and want to form a synagogue, they can form a synagogue. And the word synagogue, are you ready for this? Although a synagogue, and it means a tent of meeting, which actually tabernacle means tent, and they call it the synagogue, the tent of meeting, it also is mikash biyot. It's not the big temple in Jerusalem. It's not that big thing we call ha-hekel, holy building in Jerusalem. It is the synagogue, these few people worshipping, loving me, it's called mikash biyot, little temple. Oh, by the way, do you know why many Jewish churches or many Jewish synagogues have the word temple in them? My best friend was Isidor Garcik, who was the rabbi at Ahava Shalom over in Fort Worth on Heulen. That building is called Temple Ahava Shalom. Many of the Jewish synagogues call their name temple because they want to remind the people that we still have a temple. But it's not the big building, it is a mikash biyot. It's a smaller building. And Jesus took that, and Paul took that, and the writer of Hebrews took that, and he brought it down to us in Corinthians, and he brought it down to us in chapter 8, and he said, you are little temples. Mikash biyot. Not only that, verse 13 ends the chapter. Now, a new covenant I'm going to give to you. And in this new covenant, I'm going to tell you something about what's going to happen. I'm going to make the old covenant of Hebrew life in the Torah obsolete. And now what's becoming obsolete is growing old. And what is growing old will vanish away. So the writer of Hebrews, who was a Hebrew, writing to Hebrews, is trying to get them to understand, don't put your stock in a building in Jerusalem. Because, although this was before 70 AD, and Hebrews was written before 70 AD, the writer of the book of Hebrews is saying to them, don't put your stock in this rebuilt second temple that was built by Ezra and Nehemiah. Don't put your stock in that building. There's no Ark of the Covenant in that building. Don't put your stock in that building. Because that building is vanishing away. That's part of the old, and it's obsolete, and it's vanishing away. Don't put stock in that building. Put stock in Jesus Christ. And he becomes your king. And he becomes our temple. And we become his temples. For I will be merciful to the unrighteousness, and their sins, and their lawless deeds, I will remember against them no more. Now, they can talk about a third temple. They can predict there will be a third temple. They can hope for a third temple. But there will never, ever be again the Shemotah. The kind of glory of God there. Now, I close. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth coming down from God out of heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard the voice of God say, Behold, watch, the tabernacle of God is with men. And I will dwell with them, and they shall be my people, and I shall be their God, and I will wipe away their tears from their eyes, and I will take care of them. Look at Revelation 21. And I saw a Miach, Miach, and God dwelt in the tabernacle. Folks, that puts a lot of stock in us. Not only does it put a lot of stock in us, it also puts a lot of pressure on us. Not only does it put a lot of pressure on us, but it helps us to understand that because that pressure comes, we have no power to take care of it. Therefore, if we're going to work with it, we have to work with He who put it there. And since Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, put the Shekinah glory in you, He, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, dwell in us. Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which dwells in you? Second Corinthians 517. If any person be in Christ, he is a new Miach, Miach, is a new creation. All things are obsolete. All things are passing away. All things are no more important. He has made all things new. We are new in Jesus Christ. And so we say, Heavenly Father, for the fact that you trust us enough, because on that day when we invited your wonderful Holy Spirit, Son, and yourself to come into us, you came into our lives, you filled our minds and our hearts with your word, you filled us with yourself, you invested your Holy Spirit in us, you invested your Holy Spirit in us, He lives and dwells and abides in us, and we have within us the Shekinah glory of God. And because of that Shekinah glory of God in us, we are His holy buildings. We are little temples filled with yourself. Help us, Father, to fill our hearts and minds with your words and to fill our lives with your giving and to fill our hearts with your deeds. And we thank you and glorify you for the writer of the book of Hebrews who gave us such a wonderful thought, you are a little temple. Live like it. And we pray that in Jesus' name. Amen. Brother Jimmy will take care of you next week. He's got chapter 9 and 10 coming.